The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

I can’t find what the speech restrictions she would have been placed under were, but it seems reasonable that she might refuse if they were exclusive to her & no other visiting politicians

He’s actually getting worse

https://giphy.com/gifs/trump-disability-mocks-lF5li31f8WdKo

Idk how you can be disappointed in Tlaib for her reaction when the nation of Israel was asking a woman of color in a position of political power to be a Good Girl and not make waves

agreed

I'd say Israel's case as a "tolerant democracy" (per E Warren) isn't even worth laughing at.

my apologies - i somehow missed the part about the restrictions on her speech israel was demanding.

heard audio clip of Tlaib weeping about her decision

The scene at Steve King’s town hall today in Grundy Center, Iowa. Photo by Brenna Norman pic.twitter.com/PEtHkmmaFN

— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) August 17, 2019

am i the only one who didn't know (until NOW) that stephen miller got his start in washington in 2007 as the press secretary for michele bachmann, then in her first term?

I didn’t know that but I know he tried to get David Horowitz to speak at his high school and then at his university

That is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMydq6vGW8

spoiler, you don't learn much, you're just pretty much "wow you fuckin' prick" at the screen a bunch until it's over

judging by that screen cap if just a couple of butterflies had flapped their wings differently he’d be the most ruthless rockabilly promoter in arizona right now

Good morning!

km otm
how does that guy look ten years older than me but he's ten years younger than me

White Supremacy Does Crack

Ogruf Miller is pretty much immune till Trump leaves office (if he does). After that, he's toxic, and will have to find a job pumping gas (the less toxic kind).

no, he'll remain a prominent member of the GOP establishment, like he was before trump was elected.

new levels in looney tunes

Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch

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

Ah! Already creating doubt about the 2020 results, I see.

lol is he saying Judicial Watch was a Clinton supporting group?

i'd love an election about climate change and zoning laws and antitrust but this does feel about right

Most of the left thinks this is sad but elections are referendum on incumbents. Trump's weird, angry and lazy tweets do make him look bad. Any strategy talking about things Trump does that people dont like will probably "work" reasonably well. https://t.co/N2DonLJEl3

— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) August 19, 2019

Dem strategy should be "aren't you tired of this shit?" because a majority of voters are tired of this shit

it's exhausting

yeah the problem is an election on those issues would be extremely tiring!

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Yeah. A one-note election fought daily over whatever Trump tweeted that morning will be excruciating.

It's a winning strategy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrX3Ql31URA

steadfastly clowning Trump for being the lazy, ineffectual Twitter Prez doesn't seem like a bad tact. would certainly drive him insane. on Twitter no less.

I'd love to see a dem campaign that evokes or responds to him as little as possible. Just pose a more attractive vision than the world of diseased ejaculations we currently inhabit. It shouldn't be that hard.

Yeah. A one-note election fought daily over whatever Trump tweeted that morning will be excruciating.

I don't think that's the tactic they're proposing. I think the tactic they're proposing is a combination of Warren's "I have a plan for that" and periodically mentioning, "Hey, did you ever notice that Trump hasn't actually accomplished any of the shit he promised four years ago, but he still has time to tweet like 15 times a day? What's wrong with him, anyway?"

Some blowhard on MSNBC remarked the other day that evidence shows many of the indies whom he lost in 2018 did so precisely because they were sick to death of him.

his supporters don't care that he lies all the time and they love the fact that he's an unrepentant racist, but they do seem to have trouble defending how lazy/obviously dumb the guy is, choosing to always deflect to the time Obama said "57 states" or whatever. I keep hoping some interviewer or debate moderator is gonna nail him by just asking him to explain something any middle schooler would know but they haven't really done that yet. Actually they kinda did a bit in 2015 but the other GOP candidates would step in to take a bullet for him

his supporters don't care that he lies all the time and they love the fact that he's an unrepentant racist, but they do seem to have trouble defending how lazy/obviously dumb the guy is, choosing to always deflect to the time Obama said "57 states" or whatever. I keep hoping some interviewer or debate moderator is gonna nail him by just asking him to explain something any middle schooler would know but they haven't really done that yet. Actually they kinda did a bit in 2015 but the other GOP candidates would step in to take a bullet for him

― frogbs, Monday, August 19, 2019 2:23 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I fantasized about that happening in the last election. However, if this happened he would just trail off into some rant that has nothing to do with the question.

Hypothetically, the only way to get him on it is to give him misleading "clues" that will cause him to BS around what information he thinks you're giving him rather than what he's actually supposed to know. Helps if you appeal to his lingo and the way he compartmentalizes things.

"Can you name all of the branches of government that you believe are doing the best jobs, and all of the ones that could be working even harder? What does each one do and what could they be doing? What could their top leaders be doing better? Many people are saying there are too many. How many are there?"

Something like that.

what if we just hire a seven-year-old to kick him in the shins every time he tries to talk

I like this plan

a seven-year-old kicking a seven-year-old

Seven-year-olds with freakin' LAWNMOWERS...

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/368/192/3b9.jpg

his sense of humor is really fucked up. there's a reason he never laughs. he has no idea what is funny. like, he doesn't get that this is exactly what he would do:

I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019

Goldland

what if we just hire a seven-year-old to kick him in the shins every time he tries to talk

It would be beat if there were a way to hurt him using money, like by throwing heavy coins at his teeth, or giving him papercuts with the edges of large bills

I would be like a Burroughs cut up piece am I right

The only time I’ve seen him laugh is when someone at one of his rallies suggested they shoot refugees

People should start teasing him because he doesn't have a pool full of gold coins to dive into like Uncle Scrooge.

WASHINGTON — Days after a pair of deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, President Trump said he was prepared to endorse what he described as “very meaningful background checks” that would be possible because of his “greater influence now over the Senate and over the House.”

But after discussions with gun rights advocates during his two-week working vacation in Bedminster, N.J. — including talks with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association — Mr. Trump’s resolve appears to have substantially softened, and he has reverted to reiterating the conservative positions on the gun issue he has espoused since the 2016 campaign.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday as he departed from New Jersey and returned to Washington, Mr. Trump said he was “very, very concerned with the Second Amendment, more so than most presidents would be,” and added that “people don’t realize we have very strong background checks right now.”

He also echoed the standard response to mass shootings delivered by the N.R.A., which since 1966 has pushed the government to focus on the mental problems of the gunmen rather than how they were able to obtain their guns. “I don’t want people to forget that this is a mental health problem,” Mr. Trump said. “I don’t want them to forget that, because it is. It’s a mental health problem.”

Is he still talking about guns there or did he revert back to talking about himself?

At a rally in Manchester, N.H., last week, he noted that “it is not the gun that pulls the trigger, it is the person holding the gun,” paraphrasing a decades-old bumper sticker slogan from the gun rights group.

it is not chlorofluorocarbon gases in aerosol sprays and refrigerator coolant that decides to float up into the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer, it's humans that decide to use those products. but yet, we just banned the fuck out of most CFCs and the problem was (largely) addressed. in retrospect, i guess we should have kept the CFCs and instead addressed the important problem of humans who choose to use them. (good bumper sticker idea!!!)

maybe we can figure out a way to get the guns to also pull the trigger, and then we'll all feel ok about banning them

yeah, it's time we let all of those innocent guns out of prison.

President Play-Doh takes on the form of the most recent mold he was squished into, more at eleven.