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

love em to death, esp vs bloggers

Sharpton is a con man, so game recog game

stop the ride I want to get off

President Trump is proud to announce the nomination of National Security Adviser John Bolton for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for his tremendous efforts in bringing peace to Iran, Venezuela and Israel. @AmbJohnBolton @realDonaldTrump @NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/6aEjK7h0M5

— White House Press (@OfficialWHPress) July 28, 2019

Tom Lehrer is still alive, what can he give up this time?

good luck to john, he deserves it

wait a sec that's a parody account

god damnit it's so hard to tell these days

i stand by my previous statement

I could nominate Dr Morbius for the Nobel Peace Prize, probably stands as much of a chance as John Bolton.

I think the distinction between truth and parody was obliterated some time ago, so your confusion is understandable.

in a world where obama has a peace prize who are we to say that john bolton doesn't deserve one too

When asked about a Washington Post columnist “calling Mitch McConnell a Russian asset,” the president replied “I think the Washington Post is a Russian asset.”

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 30, 2019

He's literally reduced to "I know you are but what am I" at this point.

He also claims to have received emails, calls and letters from people in Baltimore who support him, but of course none of the assembled reporters asked him to produce one of these letters.

TBF it is illegal for the president to lie to his constituents so you just gotta trust the system.

love my big senile president and also america's completely supine press corps

good morning!

TRUMP: "The African American community is so thankful. They've called me and they've said, 'finally somebody is telling the truth.'" pic.twitter.com/NTECr7MlGD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2019

hello, it's me
the african-american
community

First thing they teach you in j-school iirc is to open wide when the president unzips.

xp at bg we really need a poll for biggest sham of a nobel peace prize tbh

going to be really hard to beat kissinger

xpost Also to never challenge the president when he claims to have received a call from an entire group of people or when he's perceived a facial expression someone made on the other end of the line or when he claims to have spent the evening chatting on the phone with a boat or a can of tuna.

trump's skintone is particularly vivid today, really sets off the slopping tongue lolling around in his mouth as he bellows a handful of syllables at a time at the media

kissinger's the obvious big beast of that poll but aung san suu kyi is looking pretty problematic in retrospect, i'm sure there's plenty of others

one of his staffers called him and did the Donkey voice from Shrek

so, regarding the ridiculous thing about Trump commenting on and signing printed versions of tweets..

a friend of mine used to work for a local free weekly publication and did a "12 places Donald Trump could go out to eat in our city if he runs for president" jokey article in 2012

he received an email message shortly after with a scanned image of the article he'd written, with "We'll see!" handwritten on it, signed by Trump

The president’s remarks have been matched by strident rhetoric on the Chinese side. At a news conference on Monday, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called the United States “capricious, arrogant and selfish” after the Trump administration challenged China’s claim to a special status for developing countries at the World Trade Organization.
“There is a catchphrase that got popular just recently in China: ‘Don’t do things like the U.S. does.’ I hope some people of the U.S. side can deeply reflect on it,” she said.

A catchphrase in the US that is catching on is “our president is the dumbest person in the entire universe”

a lot of people are saying it

A heckler disrupted Pres. Trump's speech at Jamestown today.

The sign read “deport hate” and “reunite my family.” A third message said “go back to your corrupted home.” The man was led out of the speech site as some members of the crowd chanted “Trump, Trump, Trump.” pic.twitter.com/fO1QsHOkSm

— ABC 13 News - WSET (@ABC13News) July 30, 2019

He's literally reduced to "I know you are but what am I" at this point.

At this point?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVWRetR4jg

I know we're in hellworld and everything is normalized but even still, this is insane

Trump just retweeted a meme from @LYNNTHO06607841 (who?) calling the opposition party "THE TRUE ENEMIES OF AMERICA!" pic.twitter.com/fWEkSGhkPO

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2019

Holy shit. The account the president of the United States just retweeted (@LYNNTHO06607841) posted a meme 5 days ago accusing the Clintons of "torturing and sacrificing children" and then consuming their secretions. pic.twitter.com/ujmrhGb6QJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2019

i can't believe that @LYNNTHO06607841 would post those lies

President Trump defends Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from "Russian asset" charge: "Mitch McConnell is a man that knows less about Russia and Russian influence than even Donald Trump and I know nothing" pic.twitter.com/3ZWfxVmvJF

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 30, 2019

"I know nothing" - Donald Trump

president klink

Schultz, keep your Nazis straight.

as Hitler said to Rohm

protestor in Jamestown has been ID'd

The protester is VA 86th delegate Ibraheem S. Samirah, who was elected this year. https://t.co/9JIHiOQQrT

— Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) July 30, 2019

lmao the Pizzagater that Trump retweeted has now been suspended

Even Trump acknowledging there’s no strategy behind attacking Cummings, via pool: , "There’s no strategy, I have no strategy, there’s zero strategy…There’s no strategy, it’s very simple.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 30, 2019

ah, the ninth dimension

Oh, so he's a...racist?

The saddest/stupidest part is that journalists - including Haberman - will continue writing about his "strategy" until he wins re-election or the earth is swallowed by the sun, whichever comes first.

It’s really strange when he accidentally tells the truth

just speaking from (under) the hood

You love to see it

NEWS ... Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway is retiring after 15 years in Congress. This is the fifth retirement in two weeks.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 31, 2019

The GOP is losing some of its most well liked members. Roby. Mitchell. Conaway. Brooks. Olsen.

Retirements are again a problem for the House GOP

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 31, 2019

Are people in the GOP retiring because they don't think they can change anything inside the party?
I'm assuming shrinking to fit the orthodoxy of Trump enabling if that is what is happening may also be shrinking the voting base to some degree.
Not great anyway, if it means that GOP progressively loses an ability to correct itself. Though whatever currently represents GOP probably thinks it's perfectly right already and the rest of the country needs to get in line with it.

"Mitch McConnell is a man that knows less about Russia and Russian influence than even Donald Trump and I know nothing"

The art of the meal..y mouth

I wish the phrase "people who like their health insurance" would fucking die. People who "like" their health insurance have Stockholm syndrome.

If you take away their insurance, they die. Win-win!

people like their doctors, not their insurers. I guess candidates are wary of promising that everyone would get to keep their doctor since we all remember Obama said that and it was the Great Lie that blots out the 10,000 lies Trump tells every single day.

WOW! #Trump's prompter often contains phonetic spellings because he knows so little and is such a bad reader. Today, George Wythe was spelled "With" for him. He just pronounced the name of this historical figure correctly and then, inexplicably, read out the incorrect spelling. pic.twitter.com/Hss0WPUE4c

— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) July 30, 2019