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

Officers in nearby Bloomington then arrested Stella on 28 April after she was allegedly seen by security staff at a Cub Foods grocery store stealing a bottle of tick spray for cats, and placing other items “under her purse so that they could not be seen”.

I think, at a bare minimum, she should seek counseling for kleptomania

(She's the one who stole a former staffer's personal laptop, isn't she?_

Stole/kept, yes.

I'm not sure how things work over there but can anyone just say they're running for Congress? Don't they have vetting procedures or selection committees or anything?

Ah yes the uk, where relatively few criminals are in office.

Anyone can run in the primary (which is what Stella is doing -- she's facing other GOP candidates ATM) provided that they file an application correctly.

As for vetting, that's what the party does when they're looking for a candidate they specifically support (with money, donors, staff, etc.) in a race; an unvetted candidate is basically running outside of the establishment system.

(xp) Not so much the criminality as the 'anxiety around people' and the, er, rest.

just being a conspiracy theorist is worthy of DSM classification imo

will chuck todd or maggie haberman have anything to say about the 'optics' of mitch blocking election security bills on the same day as

Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Report Finds

i mean i hate the 'this is outrageous and should be leading every newscast/paper in america' genre but

xps What Leee said.

Generally, anyone registered with the state elections office as a member of one of the two major parties may pay a fee to file as a candidate for office in that party's primary election. The winner of the primary election becomes that party's candidate in the general election. The exceptions to this are very few and hardly worth mentioning.

Minor/third parties often choose a different method to place their candidates for the general election, often through calling a party convention where the attendees select the candidates.

i'm still slack jawed from the President of the United States responding to the detaining of a Harlem rapper with "Sweden should focus on its real crime problem!"
can't stop being terrified about how impressionable this guy is BY ANYBODY. Guarantee you the first time he had heard of A$AP was via a Kardashian and a day later he's prepared to cause an international incident over him. it's madness.

I'm almost literally holding my breath waiting for the first world leader to respond to him with anything close to "Shut up, you idiot."

Instead, they just gossip about his stupidity at G-7 and G-20 summits whenever he's not in the room.

Oh, that's 100% guaranteed. I just want one of them to do it into a hot mic while he's standing right there.

Merkel's got a great burn book.

Relative to Latinx and people from the Middle East idk if it’s better or worse that Trump has juuuuust enough regard for African Americans to deeply patronize them at every opportunity.

Vote for me, I freed all the rappers! You people love the rap music, right?

xps a lot of states require a petition w/signatures to get on a ballot for many positions

(xp) Not so much the criminality as the 'anxiety around people' and the, er, rest.

― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Thursday, July 25, 2019 7:32 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_O%27Mara

Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft

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

^^^ pmvic

Future heatwave tip: I managed to cool down enough to sleep by holding a frozen water bottle against pulse points (bend of arm, back of knees, inside wrist) which brought near-immediate relief.

Wrong thread, oops!

'Sweden's real crime problem' is absolutely a dogwhistle for 'too much immigration', btw

As a Minnesotan I can safely say Sweden’s done more for America than America has for Sweden.

good morning!

truthbomb

https://i.imgur.com/zQAy0wy.png

Called it:

By Thursday morning, the Turning Point spokesman said, the group had identified the staffer responsible for turning Leazott’s design into a trending topic. He called the incident a last-minute oversight, the result of a quick online search to find a second high-resolution photo of the presidential seal to place behind Trump. He said the mistake was “unacceptable.”

“We did let the individual go,” the spokesman said. “I don’t think it was malicious intent but nevertheless.”

Interview with guy who designed the seal is funny: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/25/meet-man-who-created-fake-presidential-seal-former-republican-fed-up-with-trump/?utm_term=.745d4adb0c42

France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies. If anybody taxes them, it should be their home Country, the USA. We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron’s foolishness shortly. I’ve always said American wine is better than French wine!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2019

take it from infamous teetotaler Donald Trump

TBF I'm sure he'd say the same about books and grooming products and psychotherapy and all kinds of other American goods and services he's never had any use for.

If anybody taxes them, it should be their home Country, the USA.

so nobody's told him what "tariffs" actually are, then

They told him but, what, are you gonna not intently watch that squirrel as it scampers around the White House lawn while a bunch of boring nobodies are blah blah blahing in your ear about something stupid and official-sounding?

I’m, this is the president of the United States we’re talking about here. I think we can be very confident that the president of the United States knows what a tariff is, and that even if he didn’t, at least one member of his circle of advisors/family/television hosts would quietly bring him up to speed, especially considering how central they are to his thinking on international trade and the economy.

Excuse me.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cB-iSmNVCGyO6995qlALPj3KVs6sNKey/view

http://i.imgur.com/9CMc0aq.png

teetotaler who eats expensive steaks burnt to a crisp and doused in ketchup has opinions about wine

well you know what opinions are like, especially his

I'm continually surprised that no one has slipped some hooch into his Mr. Pibb prior to a public appearance.

Days of Wine and Yams

Charles Pierce is nobody's fool, so I wonder about the ripples this would make.

they haven't changed their calculus, they're slow-walking it methodically so that any impeachment efforts line up with the election and are backed by court rulings

DIA analysts say North Korea may have produced 12 nuclear weapons since the first Trump-Kim summit. Wow. https://t.co/tn2mLZSoCU

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 26, 2019

ha.

Why on earth would they not have done that? I'm sure their ICBM program has been very busy analyzing the data they got from all those test launches and designing and building new prototypes, too.

After all, they never made any specific promises not to do that and the US has done little more than demand that they stop, without offering any concessions in return, but instead making empty threats that could only be fulfilled by causing a completely pointless global catastrophe.

aimless, do you know anything about love? trump has fallen in love. he received a letter, and he sent a letter, and now he and Kim are in love. love isn't about numbers or machiavellian or incentives or motives or politics. love is not "trust and verify". love is just trust. also all that news is fake, NK hasn't made any weapons

i'm voting for trump now btw