The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

My favorite is the Berkshires part. It's like a Beckett play.

Judges surprise attorneys for Trump’s bankers by asking about his tax returns

The hearing featured arguments over whether Deutsche Bank, Capital One should have to comply with subpoenas from Congress

By Renae MerleAugust 23 at 1:51 PM
NEW YORK – Attorneys for Deutsche Bank and Capital One repeatedly refused to tell a federal appeals court Friday whether the banks have President Trump’s tax returns, citing “contractual obligations” for rebuffing the court’s questions.

Trump is appealing a district court ruling that cleared the way for the banks to hand over years of financial records from the president, his three eldest children and the president’s companies to two House committees.

Toward the end of Friday’s hearing, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit considering the appeal asked the banks’ attorneys whether the documents subject to the subpoenas could potentially include the president’s tax returns.

“I am not asking you for the content of them at all,” said Judge Jon O. Newman.

“We’re not in a position to answer that question,” said Raphael Prober, the attorney for Deutsche Bank, the president’s largest creditor.

“It is a fairly important question in this case,” Newman said.

lol

Very opinionated and speaks subjectively and through anecdotes. Can't say this was the best professor I've had, avoid if you can.

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=561675

A thoroughly unpleasant human being. Obsessed with her own victimization at the hands of forces she believes deserve blame for being victims themselves. Uses anecdotal evidence and uncareful interpretations of social scientific data to support many of her policy prescriptions. Decent instructor when she can just stick to the course content.

are students still using RMP? I'm getting fewer and fewer reviews. I wonder if they just bitch on What'sapp chat rooms.

JUST IN: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent 3 weeks of radiation treatment this summer after the discovery a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. Full statement below (h/t @JanCBS) pic.twitter.com/t7kDQghHVZ

— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) August 23, 2019

*grimace*

ugh

I've looked at SCOTUS as lost since November '16, and the Warren Court as a historical outlier (which it legit is), so.

My MIL had a similar ablation to treat Gallbladder cancer, she never recovered and died shortly after. She was only 57.

Bye bye, America. Bye bye.

she's a human being. let her live out her life in dignity.

lol

_Very opinionated and speaks subjectively and through anecdotes. Can't say this was the best professor I've had, avoid if you can._

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=561675🕸

The endless nitpicking over the word racism is extremely crazy making. Like, we get it, you want to say and a bunch of racist stuff without being called racist. No one is fooled by your rules lawyering.

otm, though I'll take Wax's suggestion and happily call her evil as well

blindly opinionated ignorance accomplishes a lot of evil in the world and she has that in abundance, but evil inheres in specific actions and words, and people tend to be mixed bags of the good, the bad and the indifferent.

No, I think she's probably just evil

A thoroughly unpleasant human being. Obsessed with her own victimization at the hands of forces she believes deserve blame for being victims themselves. Uses anecdotal evidence and uncareful interpretations of social scientific data to support many of her policy prescriptions.

why does this person hate conservatives?? liberal indoctrination via higher ed system clearly already taken hold

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered a like-for-like response to a recent U.S. missile test, which he said showed that Washington aimed to deploy previously banned missiles around the world.

wot a cozy relationship

Chris Hayes is discussing the Ku Klux Klan Act and Enforcement Act, Johnson and Grant, on MSNBC. I'm choking up. This shit is never said aloud.

he made the connection to El Paso and Dayton -- white supremacy as existential threat as much as Al Qaeda.

Yes! I hardly ever catch his show but it’s been on while I’m straightening up the house

I love now

Trump, struggling to speak, cites "somebody who came in the other day" to make a fact-free claim that "tech companies" manipulated 15 million votes in Hillary Clinton's favor in 2016.

He then seems to have a hard time remembering Emmanuel Macron's name. pic.twitter.com/6cau7KqATY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 24, 2019

ugh just die already

that's a great encapsulation of trump as president

has anyone written a feature article on trump's habit of giving press conferences under the roar of the helicopter? aesthetically it is one thing i will always associate with his presidency, the high frequencies of the spinning blades

Ask and you shall receive https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/trump-marine-one-press-briefings-1471629

This is why I pay politico and caek $3/month

this dummy doesn't even get that the helicopter is an excuse to cup your ear and dodge questions, instead it's an excuse to shout inanities

but i will give another $3/month to someone who would write specifically about the sound of the blades and his voice shouting over it, combined with the neverending waves of stupidity and absurdity of what he's saying. i have to say, it is kind of incredible

shades of the club scene in fire walk with me

Trump's tantrums reportedly stem from his Popeye's being out of the new Chicken sandwich

I remember the helicopter shouting first with Reagan, but just as often he and Nancy would mime "can't hear"

I have a question: are Trump episodes of the Aprentice shown a lot nowadays? Are they popular?

I thought the whole purpose of the helicopter speech thing was to be able to say I can't hear and at least give the semblance of trying. It hs presumably been recognised as a playbook move for a while though.
& now seems like he's (presumably) unintentionally destroying that too.

the sound of the blades and his voice shouting over it, combined with the neverending waves of stupidity and absurdity of what he's saying.

I'm already picturing this as a ConferenceCall.biz type piece.

his hair blowing right off his head in the rotor-wash at point which he dissolves into smoke and blows away is a style i like to imagine, but far far below my desire for him to not die before arriving in the dock. for him to avoid it by death would be epstein-levels of justice-denied.

I wouldn't mind a Dawn of the Dead style death by helicopter. That would be a pretty incredible end to his ugly chapter in the history books.

For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Case closed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019

Of course if a (nominal) Republican decides to nationalize industries, that won't be socialism, no sir. Just patriotism (and a very manly display of presidential will).

Can we all please just relax about Justice Ginsburg?

Mitch told us that we don't fill Supreme Court vacancies in election years. We're supposed to wait until the people have spoken.

Unless he was a total lying hypocrite last time, and unless he'll totally forget that sacred historical precedent.

But that'll never happen, right?

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the sound of the blades and his voice shouting over it, combined with the neverending waves of stupidity and absurdity of what he's saying.

I'm already picturing this as a ConferenceCall.biz type piece.

― jmm

kind of embarrassing on my part, but i was curious about this a few months ago so i added it to the doonald website:

http://doonaldjtrump.com/helicopter.html

(warning: i didn't try very hard, the mixing is bad, and it didn't turn out very well)

actually, it does work well with some of the clips, but not so well with others. in the words of teens everywhere, but actually accurate, "it's so random"

But that'll never happen, right?

McConnell already was asked about that during an interview earlier this year and his answer was (paraphrasing here): "Of course I'll act like a hypocrite piece of shit and ram the nomination through right away, because no matter how big an asshole I am I will never get my comeuppance; look at Strom Thurmond for god's sake".

The duplicity is a positive trait for them, there’s no shame.

lmao i'm an idiot. I'm only now realizing the Joe Walsh whose Never Trumper tweets people post on ILX is a former U.S. Rep and not the member of Eagles

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/So_What.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51U8QY93SQL._SX425_.jpg

DON: Well, yeah.

Joe Walsh: Life Ain't Good

chud all night