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

having a cabinet of secretaries that actually hate the field they’re representing is a thing

it takes dedication

I just binged Robert Evan's It Could Happen Here podcast, so I'm of the mind just about anything is possible WRT the Squad's personal security.

I wouldn't mind if the eventual Democratic nominee dispensed with abstractly coded hopeful slogans like "Change we can Believe In" or "Stronger Together", and just went with the bluntly judgemental "We're Better than This."

President having a normal one on Twitter today

just went with the bluntly judgemental "We're Better than This."

How about "Beat the Klan Shitheads"?

there are now _three_ "Radical Left Congresswomen"

we are NOT better than this. not on the whole. we have to acknowledge what we're dealing with

heh, the top story on the NYT website is still "Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase", even though he didn't even disavow when supposedly disavowed yesterday (he said he was "a little bit sorry" iirc, which is a just a motherfucker thing to say in any context), and especially not after he had his little tweet breakdown this morning

tweet tantrum. that's better. tweet tantrum.

good morning!

Thomas “the Chin” Friedman, a weak and pathetic sort of guy, writes columns for The New York Times in between rounds of his favorite game, golf.

but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen...

Wait, what happened to the 4th?

From one of this morning's tweets: "Foul Mouthed Omar." I immediately got a vision of Rip Torn's Artie pausing and then looking up at Trump like only Artie could: "Good nickname."

http://phildellio.tripod.com/nickname.jpg

have I missed Omar cursing? because I don't recall her doing that. Is he mixing up his brown people again?

I think she quoted him calling African countries shitholes, ergo ...

He is mixing up his brown people again. All instances of Ilhan Omar swearing are quotes of 45’s words.

so he didn't say "shithole" just like "grab em by the pussy" obv

look fwd to the day he denies he's president

i think he dropped Pressley from the list because she doesn't have immediate family members from outside the continental US? it's interesting to see him edit his non-racist original remark so that it looks less racist by trimming his list of enemies who aren't white down to the people who have more solid familial connections to other countries, which is not at all racist

i am fairly certain he's confusing tlaib's "impeach the motherfucker" as being said by Omar; at the absolute least he's conflating all of the squad into a single person which isn't racist at all of course

furthermore: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-ilhan-omar-marriage-smear-went-from-an-anonymous-post-on-an-obscure-forum-to-being-embraced-by-trump

Language is meaningless:

Wow. Trump is now back to making a full-throated defense of his fans who engaged in racist chants at his rally.

"Those people in North Carolina -- that stadium was packed. It was a record crowd ... Those are incredible people. Those are incredible patriots." pic.twitter.com/mHrRMl6PiW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 19, 2019

not going to watch that, but there are some excellent expressions going on there.

"...and some of them, I assume, are racists."

Good racists.

"She's lucky to be where she is"--oh, man. That's rather close to the old gardener's "There was a time when I could have had you shot" in...1967's In the Heat of the Night.

alas no one slapped Dumbshit first

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/05/ilhan-omar-death-threat-leads-to-arrest-of-new-york-man/3379387002/?fbclid=IwAR2-xUnEb30JyMHgD73wH3xs5PGmzrsQC1mpPrJ_HX9YldqC-dpbVXYvgco

Aren't the "lucky" Americans those whose mother's uterus just happened to be on US soil when they plopped out of them?

Maybe I smoke too much weed, but it just seems so bizarre to me to "thank" something as abstract as a nation. Who do I send the thankyou card to?

trigger warning: NYT homepage just put up "Trump's Electoral College Edge May Grow in 2020"

I support a coup if the popular loser wins again, no joke

does seem like at some point enough is enough

Yeah our side seems totally capable off overthrowing the government

First government overthrown via strongly-worded censure on the floor of the house.

Throw some tea in the sea, that worked last time.

Good thing the second amendment is still in effect, huh. Tyranny is being countered with firearms by common Americans as we speak.

The article clearly says it isn't saying Trump is a favorite to win in 2020 and that his polling is underwater in states totalling 310 EVs.

All Cohn was saying is the disparity between popular vote and EV could grow, which is possible even in a Trump loss. IE if he got McCain lebel popular vote yet somehow got 250 EVs

alas no one slapped Dumbshit first

propose that Morbs uses this nickname for every single politician so e don't have to spend any time guessing to whom he's referring

fbclid=IwAR2-xUnEb30JyMHgD73wH3xs5PGmzrsQC1mpPrJ_HX9YldqC-dpbVXYvgco

so true

Yeah our side seems totally capable off overthrowing the government

report to yr local range

Yesterday’s Serwer piece summarizing this week and the 300 or so years preceding it is mandatory reading:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/send-her-back-battle-will-define-us-forever/594307/

Just spoke to @KanyeWest about his friend A$AP Rocky’s incarceration. I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky. So many people would like to see this quickly resolved!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2019

"I've got it: 'Send Him Back! Send Him Back! Send Him Back!' They'll eat it up."

xxp thanks, it pains me to admit it but that was a good article published by The Atlantic

they do one every now and then to put some shine on the rest

adam serwer is great

the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden

shockedpikachu.jpg

A bit of news: Raj Shah, the former spokesman in the White House, is joining Fox as a senior Vice President.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 20, 2019

This time it’s gonna work. No, really. pic.twitter.com/s7PT0oD7k8

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 21, 2019

I thought of the retired cop who hangs out at my Starbucks, explaining each detail in the Mueller investigation for almost two years until April happened; he'd pinned more hopes on Mueller than Adam Schiff.

So, I come back from a week in the woods and I see that Infrastructure Week has been permanently shelved in favor of Overt Racism Week.

The Infrastructure IS Racism.

Too real.