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

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.

It is of course entirely possible that he's one those fake Irish Irish Americans that seem to proliferate in the USA.

xpost Also while simultaneously claiming to be a victim of racial discrimination. It's just wheels within wheels.

Omar. I took a terrorism class in college and every time my professor said Al Qaeda, he raised his shoulders," " You wouldn't do that if you say America or Britain, or the Army" She seemed so proud of Al Qaeda. Not so proud of America or of our Army. But Trumps a Racist.

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) July 15, 2019

Mash the keypad on your jitterbug if you smell burning toast

— Mass for Shut-ins (podcast) (@gin_and_tacos) July 16, 2019

dying

chuck woolery's galaxy brain is a thing to behold

LBJ DID IT AND DEMOCRATS LOVE HIM. Don Cheadle: ‘Trump Could Call Somebody N***er and Wouldn‘t Lose Voters‘ https://t.co/wM67uVkwHn via @BreitbartNews

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) July 17, 2019

they taught Terrorism classes when Chuck Woolery was in college?

lol Chuck Woolery (who I forgot even still existed,) Scott Baio, Victoria Jackson... I just figured out why they're Trump fans, he's going to bring the conservative entertainment industry back for them just like the coal mines.

James Woods and Jon Voight starring in...BRAINWORMS

hmmm I wonder why Democrats could look upon LBJ more favorably than Trump *cough* Civil Rights Act *cough*

Also it's not like LBJ is some unimpeachable figure that Democrats find completely unproblematic!

yep praise for LBJ is pretty limited in scope from what I've seen
xp

truly think it's difficult for them to grasp that liberals can have mixed feelings prominent liberals

^about

Also it was fifty years ago, and also the alternative to Johnson was freaking Goldwater.

vocabulary shocker for Texan born in 1908

the replies to Chuck's LBJ tweet making fun of Don Cheadle for being a celebrity with an opinion on politics, seemingly unaware that they are cosigning another celebrity's opinion on politics...

people are thicker than shit

"truly think it's difficult for them to grasp that liberals can have mixed feelings prominent liberals"

this is def true. Their main response to Trump/Epstein is "But Clinton". I don't know any liberals who are defending Clinton / Epstein.

well, LBJ was our last liberal president

Chuck Woolery is embroiled in controversy in 2019? I would not have thought that possible. Up next: Warner Wolf.

Glad Gene Rayburn isn’t around to see what’s become of Chuck Woolery.

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 16, 2019

so, according to DOJ policies, a sitting president can't be indicted

and according to Mueller's logic in his report, he can't recommend charging a sitting president for a crime, because doing so would be unfair to the president because they wouldn't have a chance to defend themselves in a court of law (because they can't be indicted). (99.959345204% of people in this dim country do not understand this)

and also, according to some rule of decorum in the house of representatives, no one can say that the president is racist, either directly or by citing others who have done so, or by pointing out that something the president said is literally the textbook definition of racism.

finally, trump is the most unfairly treated president in history

Think of how bad you'd have to be at politics to not have ads featuring this footage on loop from now until election day 2020 https://t.co/MXlpvNSFAT

— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) July 17, 2019

calling someone racist is against the rules but being racist is not , welcome to America