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

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

<NARRATOR VOICE>

it's great to hear news about the next district over from accounts that track the lunatic sewer:

"This GOP Challenger to Ilhan Omar ‘100%’ Stands with QAnon"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/this-gop-challenger-to-ilhan-omar-100-stands-with-qanon/

"Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Republican Challenger Appears to be a QAnon Conspiracy Theorist"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-ilhan-omars-republican-challenger-appears-to-be-a-qanon-conspiracy-theorist

she does not have what you'd call a commanding presence

#DemandFreeSpeech @DemndFreeSpeech #StopHate @HelpStopHate pic.twitter.com/OXrcq3FB5J

— sfthoughtcriminal (@sfthoughtcrime) July 19, 2019

check those replies for:

a) trump dads being horny
b) a screenshot of an arrest report for $2k worth of goods from the Edina Target

Omar's chances of reelection are 100%, except --

her chance of getting primaried is frankly not negligible

and, after today, her chance of getting assassinated is climbing! amazing country, healthy culture

LOOOOOL am shocked that Target was allowed to open in Edina, tone officially low enough to concern Junior League moms.

Dayton's opened Southdale. That store's been there for 50 years.

i'm struggling to think what you could shoplift from Target worth $2,223. did she have a backpack full of makeup?

lmao

Another former staffer for the QAnon House candidate says he's going to call the police if she doesn't give his laptop back. https://t.co/c4fjY16XNm

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 23, 2019

Politico reports:

Delegates to the NAACP’s annual convention voted unanimously on Tuesday to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump, with the group’s president saying Trump is “unfit to serve this country.”

The push to come out against Trump was initiated by Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who has put forth several impeachment measures in the House.

Haha, my congressman!

100% serious here: is that qanon stella woman mentally well? she sounds like she can barely talk.

LOOOOOL am shocked that Target was allowed to open in Edina, tone officially low enough to concern Junior League moms.

― suzy, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 7:09 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Probably snuck in during that brief period hey were selling liberty print home furnishings.