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

how about the ISISisters

btw here's what president fuckface had to say this morning

'The “Squad” is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart. They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left, and were against humanitarian aid at the Border...And are now against ICE and Homeland Security. So bad for our Country!'

Trump continued: "In fact, they said literally 100%, this never happens, I think it was close to 100, but 100% of the island itself was watching. They liked those pageants. I've had a great relationship with Puerto Rico. I'm the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 22, 2019

hope you die very soon!

i have no idea what that's about, but i agree. natural death, come quickly.

they asked him about Puerto Rico and his response was about the Miss Universe pageant he did there and how much everyone loved it

unbelievable

i mean obv not really, but...unbelievable

and they sure loved those paper towel rolls!

i mean...do they WANT impeachment proceedings going on in summer/fall 2020? is the thinking that all republicans will be in lockstep against it, most democrats will be for it, therefore it'll obliterate all other issues (including pesky progressive initiatives supported by the squad + sanders/warren, if they're the nominee) and turn everything into a referendum on trump, and they see that as a situation that likely ends up with the democratic nominee winning, no matter who it is?

That's how I see it, yes. Not because they want it to drown out progressivism, but because they (correctly!) see the American public as having a very short attention span. They may not think they can spin this out into 18 months of "Trump is a crook" leading the news cycle, and if they feel they can get six months of that, they want those six months to be May-November 2020. Now you may say "why CAN'T they make "Trump is a crook" the headline every day for 18 months, since he is, in fact, a huge goddamn crook," and I get that, but I do think that once the Senate votes not to convict, which they will, lots of swing voters are going to see the matter as settled, and the last thing Democrats want is to have that happen in like February 2020.

https://giphy.com/gifs/trump-crowd-paper-FNHMSbm9QYpGM

do you think the national attention span will absorb 6 months of "Pocahontas" if EW is nominated?

as with most things in american politics, i would say that about 1/3 of the voting public would be intensely absorbed with it, another 1/3 would want to punch the first 1/3 in the face, while the remaining 1/3 would be standing there with their mouths wide open, clayton kershaw style

as for myself, i plan on standing there with my mouth wide open, clayton kershaw, while pondering a ben garrison drawing of Ilhan Omar holding a scimitar with the word "Bigotry" underneath her

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-foodstamps/trump-administration-pursues-rule-that-would-remove-3-1-million-people-from-food-stamps-idUSKCN1UI0AH

starve the poors to death before heatstroke or drowning can take them, v smart move

U.S. President Donald Trump has argued that many Americans now using SNAP do not need it given the strong economy and low unemployment, and should be removed as a way to save taxpayers as much as $15 billion.

“Some states are taking advantage of loopholes that allow people to receive the SNAP benefits who would otherwise not qualify and for which they are not entitled,” USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters on a conference call on Monday.

SNAP provides free food to some 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the total U.S. population.

ah yes, that strong economy and low unemployment which nonetheless somehow fails to provide enough food to one in ten americans

Okay, cool, so hopefully this is the thing that will finally rile people up enough to rip him apart in the street.

Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

— "Mr" Eats The Sticker on the Apple (@BronzeHammer) October 2, 2016

Presidents Jeb! and Rubio would also have gone after SNAP.

well, yeah

Anyone who wants to fuck with SNAP (et al) should be forced to go through the process of getting a card and then living off of it for a number of months.

Now you may say "why CAN'T they make "Trump is a crook" the headline every day for 18 months, since he is, in fact, a huge goddamn crook,"

seriously jesus christ

Anyone who wants to fuck with SNAP (et al) should be forced to go through the process of getting a card and then living off of it for a number of months.

this times 4 billion

good luck usa btw

August 2019 Harper's Index perfectly captures US perceptions of declinism and exceptionalism. pic.twitter.com/K5JrP5Ai8B

— Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) July 19, 2019

TBF, they don't specify the metric by which we judge the US to be the best.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/triumph.jpeg

this is the best of all possible worlds...too bad it sucks

Reminds me of the 2nd stage in bubsy 3D

Those poll results really say so much about where we are as a country (world?). It's like bitching about how you can no longer walk on the injured foot you left untended for so long that it's become a swollen, gangrenous mass, occasionally interrupted by hallucinatory paeans to a nonexistent yesteryear induced by your impending death from sepsis.

ppl dont wanna be nuked; NYT:

Afghanistan demanded a clarification on Tuesday of President Trump’s comments a day earlier that he could have had the country “wiped off the face of the earth” but did not “want to kill 10 million people.” In a sharply worded statement, the government of President Ashraf Ghani noted that Afghanistan expected its relationship with the United States to be “grounded on common interests and mutual respect.”

Wow, so lame of them to get all _offended_ by that. It was obviously a hilarious joke, lighten up Afghanistan jeez

"I have plans on Afghanistan..."

Citizens of the US can't expect their relationship with the government to be grounded in common interests and mutual respect, but good luck, Afghanistan.

is there a different turning point usa i'm not aware of or

Leaving for Turning Point USA. Will be speaking to some of the greatest and smartest young people on the planet. See you there!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2019

incredibly depressing to have a president making the sort of "jokes" I'd hear as a kid about how we could just nuke the middle east

incredibly difficult to be an adult and realize due to a past you've inherited, you're always going to have some obligations or

donald probably walks into a room with his kids and wishes he could just remove them from the planet half the time, too, though

Other human beings are not real to Donald Trump.

incredibly depressing to have a president making the sort of "jokes" I'd hear as a kid about how we could just nuke the middle east

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos

It's just such a flippantly violent statement; hard to wrap my head around.

xp I didn't mean to imply this sort of dipshittery was new, but doing so publicly and brazenly

(please do not link the McCain "bomb iran" riffing)

both were "jokes"....this guy is not making a joke

he clearly gets off on contemplating & then announcing he's been contemplating these sort of "plans"

I do occasionally feel a glimmer of sympathy for his spawn when I imagine what fun it must've been to grow up with that thing as your father. Casual threats to sell them off to human traffickers if they don't clean up their room, etc.

as if he's ever stepped foot in their room or was involved in any kind of parenting .

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking of with that one. I forgot that he just showed up at their dorm rooms occasionally to deck them in front of their friends.

that's not totally true, he clearly took an interest in Ivanka once she hit 13

He was interested in improving her self Epstein

ew

Oh shit sorry- typo.

*his

I get typos in my zingers all the time. nothing is worse. NOTHING

One of the best things about Trump is that he has largely proven impotent when it comes to implementing his worst plans...https://t.co/uB5tvTkNU3

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 23, 2019

xxp It sort of worked either way?

TRUMP: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."

(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.) pic.twitter.com/qIFP1AbHw6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019