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

You are really looking to suppress the vote of the last 5-10% who have any sort of conscience.

exactly. Hillary's "I should be 50 points ahead" comment felt particularly tone deaf from someone who'd been in public life for three decades - that is simply not the way electoral politics work. whoever said a ham sandwich would get 40% of the popular vote was absolutely right. Trump has no room for error in 2020. pick the issues that actually do drop his numbers a tad and press 'em. even if it's "hey asshole, where's your stupid wall?"

"obstructionist Dems who care more about MS-13 than US citizens & want open borders illegally blocked me from building a great beautiful wall"

This conversation is great, we definitely haven’t done this on every single monthly thread

Relitigate-Gate

Treeeeeshiip where arrrrrre you

just c+p his posts from last month's thread into this one

Can we talk instead about how uncomfortable the next week or so is going to be in the Conway household?

let’s not play into the conways’ fetishes pls

Yes, I feel like their divisive public stances re: Trump is all just foreplay, to be both blunt and gross.

50 shades of trolly cosplay

donald trump doesn't have a racist bone in his body!
he does have a racist brain, tho.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili)

AOC reading the thread

You’re right, Mr. President - you don’t have a racist bone in your body.

You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest.

That’s why you violate the rights of children and tell the Congresswoman who represents your home borough, to “go back to my country.” https://t.co/adlCUO7r0v

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 16, 2019

greetings lurker aoc

Missed chance for kidney hearts. u_u

anything one might say about trump is out of order

Regardless of the content of Trump’s racist statement, Democrats are going to have a hard time not taking down Pelosi’s words.

Jefferson’s Manual literally says you can’t refer to a statement by the President as racist on the House floor. pic.twitter.com/CeIJA24TS9

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 16, 2019

Any teacher recognizes the debate they're having right now as your #1 default out: "I didn't say you're an idiot, I said what you did was idiotic."

stopped clock theory of racism

if you look at the clock a few times and it says it's not quite noon but it's within a certain margin of error, you think hey, I usually only check when it's nearly time for lunch so it's probably running a little slow or fast

if you check it by looking throughout the day and it always says it's around noon, you have a racist clock

Using decades of experience in government to pass a resolution condemning the President’s posts pic.twitter.com/QiUobys05O

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 16, 2019

"shoot someone on 5th Ave" is prob more accurately stated as he could do it, people would spend the next week arguing whether it truly was murder and then it'd be forgotten

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/453383-house-votes-against-striking-pelosi-remarks-from-record

The House voted against striking Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) floor remarks blasting President Trump from the record on Tuesday after the House parliamentarian in a rare rebuke of the Speaker said her comments violated House rules.

The vote on the motion to strike Pelosi’s remarks failed in a 190-232 vote with no Democratic support. Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.

Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.
Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.
Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.
Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.
Every Republican voted in favor of the motion.

“What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism,” said Representative Dan Meuser, Republican of Pennsylvania. “This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation.”

holy shit, is this what it's like to be red pilled. it turns out that everything i knew was wrong. thank so much, dan meuser

It's funny how a lifetime of acting like a racist leads people to believe that you are a racist

Being blatantly racist in an era where racism is cool and wins elections and puts a racist president in the White House is one thing. But being forced to endure months of allegations of racism, that is truly something else. When will the world finally end the suffering of the racist white man being forced to endure these allegations?

I like Swalwell ignoring the parliamentarian (or whoever she was): fuck the House rules. There are no rules anymore.

The House on Tuesday voted to formally admonish President Trump, approving a resolution condemning as “racist” his tweets targeting four minority congresswomen.

The 240-187 vote fell largely along partisan lines, as GOP leaders had rushed to the president’s defense in whipping against the measure.

Just four Republicans, Reps. Susan Brooks (Ind.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), William Hurd (Texas) and Fred Upton (Mich.), broke with party ranks to join every voting Democrat, revealing the extent to which Trump’s incendiary remarks had jarred Capitol Hill and forced even some of his closest allies to denounce his behavior.

that last sentence is hilarious and terrible

revealing the extent to which Trump’s incendiary remarks had jarred Capitol Hill and forced even some of his closest allies to denounce his behavior suckle at his taint.

fixed.

I hate you for planting that image in my head.

get yrself a cool shirt yall (but do NOT under any circumstances ~fuck~ la migra)

Your helping of schadenfreude, featuring Tennessee's disgraced speaker of the house. Money quote:

"Due to his advanced age and the circumstances of his unemployment, it is highly unlikely that Mr. Casada will be able to secure comparable employment."

In 2009, Casada was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit in federal court, Captain Pamela Barnett v. Barack Hussein Obama, which claimed that Barack Obama was not an American citizen and therefore ineligible to be President of the United States. Judge David O. Carter ruled that Casada and other state legislators did not have standing to sue, since the supposed harm they feared was "highly speculative and conjectural."[4]

House resolution included praise for Reagan

fuck that

Chris Cuomo's generally unbearable, and I don't watch him often, but I had CNN on for most of yesterday. This was kind of amazing. You throw the softball question out there to presumably set the interviewee up a for second question, but the second question, whatever it was, becomes unnecessary.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/17/kris-kobach-asked-would-he-support-admittedly-racist-president-trump-cpt-sot-vpx.cnn

That reminded me of Trump's "I've got to find out more about this David Duke guy before I say anything bad about him" answer to Tapper

The Big Wet Boy's gonna be in my state tonight, promising to "talk also about people who love, and hate, our Country (mostly love)!"

Can't wait!

It struck me as I was waking up this morning that one potentially (potentially) effective line of attack is to paint these overtly xenophobic positions and policies as expressions of cowardice. It feels like it could land both because it's true and because there's a fair amount of overlap between bigotry and the importance of appearing RUFF + TUFF. There's obviously a lot more insidious complexity involved in the act of othering, but it occurs to me that proponents of diversity (or let's just use the shorthand of 'dems' in this particular instance) could benefit from consistently framing these turds as a gaggle of nervous nellies who create boogiemen from whole cloth because they can't handle the relatively harmless reality of increasing multicultralism.

That reliably got my brother-in-law's goat when we were on speaking terms, so I like this.

conservatives have larger amydgalas

I think the way Cuomo hammered him was very effective. Obviously Kobach himself is a racist shitbag, but it's good to press him on this and call him out when he doesn't have an immediate clear response.

Like, put them in a spot where they have to choose a side that's either anti-republican/Trump or pro-racist.

“You know, they talk about people of color. I’m a person of color,” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) told Vice News reporter Daniel Newhauser Tuesday as they discussed Trump telling the four congresswomen — Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — to go back to their home countries, even though all four are U.S. citizens and three were born in the U.S.

“I’m white. I’m an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time, but I don’t get offended,” he said.

“Has anybody ever told you to go back to your country?” Newhauser asked.

“Yeah they have actually. With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland.’”

learning about how tough it is for all these rich white guys, it's really been galaxybrain.jpg for me all week

estimated net worth of $17 million, which makes it so difficult for him to understand the plight of the commoners he represents (which is very stressful for him), and on top of that people are always telling him to go back to ireland. but he doesn't complain.

Mike, when they tell you to go back to your home, I think they mean hell. Just fyi.

I’m white. I’m an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time, but I don’t get offended,” he said.

your name is mike kelly dumbass.

Hold one, he's white and Anglo Saxon from Ireland?

SNAP!

Jesus, these people are so dim.

look, mike kelly is feeling extra persecuted recently. please, go easy on him

Granted, operating a racist agenda while simultaneously purporting that racism has long been eradicated in America is mentally taxing.