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

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.

It seems weird here too tbh.

Why can't they just shout the f-word in private, at their kids, like normal people.

A reporter should ask him what the f-word is

ah more sweet, sweet projection

his latest "Israel" spasms must mean Adelson has even more dough coming thru this election

maybe this will be the thing that finally causes him to stroke out. these women are not going to back down, and I feel like it's impossible for Trump to back down either unless someone in his orbit manages to find a way to distract him.

How many hours until there's a Politico article about how unnamed House Dems feel frustrated that they have to defend the Squad

Just watched the squad response video this morning and my goodness, AYANNA PRESSLEY DID NOT COME TO PLAY.

I mean they were all good in that clip but her delivery is A+++ would subscribe to her newsetter.

referring to them as "the Squad" is an intentional ploy to make them seem high schoolish, right? I can't imagine a group of male reps being referred to in this way.

I'm pretty sure they started calling themselves the Squad but it's impossible to verify at this point

AOC is definitely leaning into it on Twitter.

oh yeah here it is (from November):

New progressive members of Congress posted photos on social media on Monday celebrating the diversity of the freshman class headed to Washington, D.C.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a photo of herself with fellow Democratic representative-elects Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, aptly captioned: “Squad.”

right on...as you were :)

All this hubbub the last couple days has knocked the Epstein/Acosta/Trump connections right out of the headlines, as was intended. If Dems don’t treat “Trump was friends with a pedophile” as the “But her emails” of 2019-2020, they are complete idiots. They should be smearing Trump with this stuff right up to accusing him of being a pedophile himself.

It’s not like he will sue for defamation and it would be great for Dems if he did!

Can you think of a possible rightwing response to “Trump was friends with Epstein”?

Hint: they are mildly obsessed with the Clintons

in a better world the Epstein scandal would rid us of both forever

Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show “weakness” and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat.....

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

.....Congresswomen, who I truly believe, based on their actions, hate our Country. Get a list of the HORRIBLE things they have said. Omar is polling at 8%, Cortez at 21%. Nancy Pelosi tried to push them away, but now they are forever wedded to the Democrat Party. See you in 2020!

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

Oh, ok. I guess that settles it.