At the risk of stating the obvious, the July 2019 US Politics Thread is horse-sh*t

many people have offered up defenses A, B, C, and D for what is said to be a racially divisive remark by the president. which of those do you support, and do you have any new ideas for why he didn't do anything wrong?

NYT notifications on my phone:

"President Trump's insult against congresswomen showed that when it comes to race, he plays with fire like no other, our correspodent writes."

"Today is Amazon Prime Day. Here's how to avoid getting sucked into buying gear you'll regret"

https://i.imgur.com/TcaBctV.jpg

remember when AOC said straight up that Trump was racist and Anderson Cooper's reaction was "how can you say that??"

Do you, a thoroughly-unobjective person who is ideologically aligned with the subject of inquiry and who will thusly twist himself in as many rhetorical knots as possible in concocting a response which is both butthurtedly hyperdefensive and disingenuous as fuck, believe that the president said something racist?

the pellucid analysis of Peter Baker

And now we go to the chairman of the Republicans are not Racist Committee for Free Tradw for comment

love that the response of some GOP folks like brit hume is basically 'the real tragedy is people calling other people racists'

Have any 'moderate' Republicans condemned yesterday's trio of racist tweets? Be it only in sheepish terms?

Will Hurd and one other guy, apparently. that's it so far.

the only black Republican in the House xp

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) on Monday became the first GOP lawmaker to publicly condemn recent tweets from President Trump as “racist.” Speaking to CNN host Christiane Amanpour, Hurd not only said Trump’s tweets were “racist” and “xenophobic,” but also labeled them “inaccurate.”

“The four women he is referring to are actually citizens of the United States, three of the four were born here,” Hurd said. “It’s also a behavior thats unbecoming of the leader of the free world.”

OH Rep Mike Turner said it was racist and Trump should apologize

Have any 'moderate' Republicans condemned yesterday's trio of racist tweets? Be it only in sheepish terms?

susan collins weighed in with a principled, courageous take:

Susan Collins weighs in: “the President’s tweet that some Members of Congress should go back to the ‘places from which they came’ was way over the line, and he should take that down.” pic.twitter.com/NKRaZPx3iB

— Emily Cochrane (@ESCochrane) July 15, 2019

way over the line man

Take that down, you naughty man.

the interesting part about the first 2/3 of her statement, which focuses on all the things on "the far left" that she disagrees with, is that it implies that her opinion on the views of the far left has anything to do with whether or not it's right or wrong to say racist things

Verily, she will be remembered as a valiant dissident.

well, Susan Collins responded, I'm satisfied.

"Delete your acc... well, not your account, just that one problematic tweet."

although i prefer bicycles to scooters and think it's generally much cooler to ride a skateboard than a scooter, even though i've never been on a scooter, and i haven't had any experience with the scooter-share pilot program going in my city, i must say that it is wrong for your dog to be shitting all over thanksgiving dinner

HOORRAY!!!! THE CONSCIENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WEIGHS IN

Trump did not name who he was attacking in Sunday's tirade but earlier this week he referenced New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when the President was defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Asked Monday who he's talking about, Trump said: "You can guess."

he's such a fucking chickenshit

While whatever a man and a woman choose to do within the boundaries of holy matrimony is entirely up to them, I find it difficult to reconcile President Trump's assertion that Melania was screaming "Do it Donald" as opposed to "Don't do it Donald," (which is what the tape certainly appears to show) and must vigorously disagree with the President's decision to shave his wife's head on the front lawn of the White House. Nevertheless, Speaker Pelosi's demands that the First Lady should be properly attended to while she is chained to the stairs are offensive in their suggestion that our President is an inattentive husband. President Trump claims the tarp over her is extremely comfortable and Ms Trump has made no effort to move it; it doesn't take a genius to understand that this personal matter is being played for political gain. I urge our colleagues across the aisles to take a long hard look at themselves and question why they feel continually compelled to demand that the first lady needs water when the tarp clearly collects the morning dew to be funneled through the mouth-size hole at its center. This is just the sort of witch hunt the American people are all too tired of.

Responding to this one tweet as if it's an unfortunate outlier is like tutting about the crudely-rendered dick spraypainted on your mailbox by the miscreant who's spent the last few years methodically destroying and otherwise defiling your home.

in Trump's second term he's gonna recreate "the brownout"

@realDonaldTrump notes today on @AOC and @IlhanMN flipped and rotated #for your viewing pleasure. pic.twitter.com/42sdbsRivQ

— Jabin Botsford (@jabinbotsford) July 15, 2019

He actually wrote the words "some people" at the top of the page! He has to be reminded of one of his most common pieces of rhetorical punctuation! His brain really is a wheel of cheese melting in the sun...

Al Caida

ALCAIDA. Becasue no fucking way is he writing a Q without a U.

omg is that what it was supposed to be?

new coke failed in part because of the 1985 equivalent of reporters seeking out trump supporters in diners

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/

so if I don't like it here, where can I easily immigrate to that's really open, anyway?

he thinks "aim higher" comment from Graham means he should sling racist insults at people in higher political offices

Just got to that moment in the press conference. Amazing.

"What am I supposed to do, just wait for senators?"

holy shit the women are killing it at the press conference

Streaming? Or is it over?

It's over.

You can watch it here:

LIVE: @NBCNewsNow: Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib respond to President Trump's racist tweets. https://t.co/kkAkBN6Ypxhttps://t.co/8V0ubgOZDU

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 15, 2019

Thanks!

Alcaida Some People
Next thread title ok

ALCaiDa if you're going to spell it correctly, thanks

Seeing several hilarious "I must sorrowfully now conclude that the president is in fact a racist" statements.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-conway-trump-is-a-racist-president/2019/07/15/b13c0bd4-a740-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?utm_term=.0fdc0195e4fd

when you've lost LGM

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/07/dems-in-legitimate-disarray

I'm in the comments section!

I'll note, though, that the president, that masterful political strategist, has united the Dem caucus again. And, as importantly, most of the country doesn't care about Dems in Disarray.

most of the country cares about their phones, period.

deep

pro-terrorism & pro-swearing!!!

The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

.....shouting of the F...word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

From this side of the Atlantic it's weird how being anti-Israel seems worse than being anti-USA.

They go hand in hand iirc.