The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

Jesus don’t move him away just let him hang there ffs

Oranje manbad

― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Monday, September 2, 2019 3:28 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

(un)Kurious Oranj

Oranje manbad = Man Boned a Jar

Not to be out done by Trump's Twitter beef w/Debra Messing, Ted Cruz has been trading barbs w/Alyssa Milano.

#DumbestTimeline

Undercard: Tom Cotton v. Valerie Bertinelli

washington really is hollywood for uggos

so true

more accurate to say it's hollywood for the talentless

https://i.imgur.com/8wovabz.jpg

“The President is where he needs to be” pic.twitter.com/CjzjdO76ef

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 3, 2019

VP arrived in Ireland yesterday . So glad everybody's taking the hurricane seriously.

Pence thinks Dorian is a little too lavender a name, had to leave country.

panic at Newark last night

For anyone who cares, a 1 word false alarm (“evacuate!”) caused 300 of us at #newarkairport to dive behind desks, crash through glass, and sprint for our lives to the nearest exit. All instinct. America 2019 is constantly being prepared for a maniac with a gun to blow us away.

— Josh Berman (@JoshBerman19) September 3, 2019

Trump suggested that Mike Pence stay at his Irish golf club on an official trip funded by taxpayer dollars, Pence's chief of staff told reporters. https://t.co/h57V5UZESu

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 3, 2019

this would've been a massive scandal at any point in our country's history but right now

drain it

EPA says it is no longer accepting #FOIA requests by email. #Transparency for Americans ... not so much

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 3, 2019

lol. i used to work in the same cuberhood as the guy who ran that program

of course, it was very different during the obama era, when they were working to IMPROVE foia transparency

good owning!

@realDonaldTrump
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The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday. Many Pols exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive). President Obama would fly to Hawaii. Kahn should focus on....
knife crime,” which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets. He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!
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Analysis: Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion https://t.co/8gbd9pdTQw

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 3, 2019

feel like the POTUS skipping the WW2 memorial to monitor the hurricane and then going golfing at his own resort on the taxpayer's dime instead should probably be a bigger story but oh well

BREAKING: In a massive 357 page opinion a North Carolina Court has struck down the State's legislative districts as partisan gerrymanders. New districts to be in place for 2020 elections.

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 3, 2019

Yeah, but it was "very fast" and "very inexpensive," so nothing to see here. xp

Oh and also, yay North Carolina! Need to read about this.

Wow. And that's a finding on state Constitution grounds, which should mean that, as in Pennsylvania, there's no appeal to SCOTUS.

I truly love when judges issue tome-length opinions

http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/Emg9qPKR5hquI/200.gif

lol owned

fuck wrong thread

not really

Ted Cruz, on FB yesterday, requesting a tin foil beard covering of some sort:

The Deep State is hard at work, working to prevent this admin from dismantling the Iran nuclear deal completely...The Obama-Iran deal was a disaster when Obama implemented this policy & if the Deep State prevails they will have deceived POTUS into making the same mistakes.

Chris Hayes has an interview with Ted Cruz being aired at the end of the month. Scheduled to be recorded on the 28th September during a live Why Is This Happening tour.

Sounded like an odd choice for a live interview. unless giving him the best part of an hour's airti9me is supposed to be giving him enough room to hang himself.

Would love to have one of these absolute ding dongs sit down and explain at length what they mean by 'deep state', like who is its constituency exactly, how does it function, from where does it derive its operating funds, etc. I mean this is shit that a not particularly bright six-year-old could pick apart without much effort.

amusingly when they do they are basically describing the Trump administration

good morning!

Mike Pence expected to arrive in Doonbeg shortly. Hopefully gardai can manage the large crowds. pic.twitter.com/2eIQG5FGFC

— Ian Begley (@IanBegley_) September 3, 2019

More like Mike Ha'penny amirite

this is a pretty loaded image

https://i.imgur.com/dyxsKP8.jpg

so not gonna happen

BREAKING: Trump just told reporters Dow stock index would be "10,000 points higher" if he hadn't started tariff war with China.

— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) September 4, 2019

Yes, and in more general terms, many other things in the world would be vastly improved if you had been bound and gagged for your entire adult life, Donald. Many many things.

this is the final straw; pelosi has no choice but to impeach

The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward Alabama so he didn't have to admit he was wrong in a tweet. https://t.co/i0CJcYV4yq pic.twitter.com/pR57IL6WfT

— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) September 4, 2019

It's fun to have a president who ceaselessly provides all-new reasons to ask 'no, seriously: what the actual fucking fuck is wrong with you?'.

I was surprised to see the NC republicans aren't appealing the decision, abandoning their playbook of doing literally everything possible to obstruct until the fat lady sings.

We all know what's wrong with him; this issue is what's wrong with the people who voted for him

hilarious and sad. could he be any more DSM-y??

I mean anyone with functioning sense organs and passable critical faculties knows what's wrong with him. It's just astonishing that there are seemingly an endless number of novel ways in which his damage manifests.

I was surprised to see the NC republicans aren't appealing the decision, abandoning their playbook of doing literally everything possible to obstruct until the fat lady sings.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive),

I won't believe it yet!

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article234668747.html

“We disagree with the court’s ruling as it contradicts the Constitution and binding legal precedent, but we intend to respect the court’s decision and finally put this divisive battle behind us,” Berger said in a statement. “Nearly a decade of relentless litigation has strained the legitimacy of this state’s institutions, and the relationship between its leaders, to the breaking point. It’s time to move on.”

*guy shits in punch bowl at a party*
everyone who isn't shitter or friends with shitter: "for fuck's sake man don't shit in the punch bowl, do we really need to make a law against that???"
shitter: "this party has been strained to the breaking point by these anti-shitters. guess it's time for me to bowel move on"

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/miriam-lord-how-mike-pence-shat-on-the-new-carpet-in-ireland-s-spare-room-1.4006979?fbclid=IwAR1l5w_8YSR9UmtLmaPjJvopujTIhGwR9vuiYCo2OH30POBaLJxEf-aoB8M

That's a stormtrooper. They don't use the force. They're just foot soldiers for Nazis.

Which is a bit on the nose, even for you. https://t.co/yMnUycBsSB

— Rachael French (@DrRachaelF) September 29, 2019

post-last-jedi imo it's canon that stormtroopers are as able to use the force as anyone else. trumpists haven't exactly been at the spearpoint of this retcon tho.

i think everyone's point is that they're shitty people

dlh completely misinterpreting the SW canon non-shocker

Anyway I’m excited for today’s Australian headlines explaining how ScoMo got roped into this nonsense. This is finally more fun than the UK politics thread!

All about the dollarydoos.

dlh completely misinterpreting the SW canon non-shocker

tried to do wookiepedia research to correct my doctrinal error but quickly became distracted reading the full biography of the force-sensitive dianoga in the trash compactor

I know I'll need a drink after saying this, but could it be that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was the most honorable member of this administration?

— Post And Shout 📢 (@PostAndShout) September 30, 2019

xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kyqdcwV7IU

Meanwhile my question is about parents who wear formalwear to supervise children who are... playing with toys.

This is clearly the two minutes between coming home from doing evil work, and going out to an evil fundraiser. While an underpaid immigrant watches their childen.

AKA the two minutes of parenting per day that people like them do, like ever.

xp is there for real a whole album of that

never mind I found it. wow

good question posed by that tweet: who is the most honorable person that Trump appointed? Maybe what's his fuck, the oil Secretary of State who bailed, who wasn't around long enough to do anything completely terrible

I don't know, the IG and acting DNI seemed to have largely done the right thing.

maybe it's bs militaristic hype that makes me think this but mattis was OK

could have been much worse!

xxp maybe they did the right thing but I was not impressed by Maguire in his House testimony

I dunno, I guess I thought he did OK. At the very least I understood the legal conflict he was dealing with, which is what happens when you have a corrupt administration.

ok maybe

The bar isn't all that high atm

This is from last week, but it's the best explanation I've seen of the whole CrowdStrike thing: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-ukraine-call-crowdstrike-dnc-russia/.

I know this is just kind of footnote in the larger craziness, but it's a great example of the way closed information systems can generate their own pseudo-reality, and the consequences when that collides with actual reality. It leads to the president of the U.S. asking the president of Ukraine to investigate something that never happened, involving entities with no actual connection to Ukraine.

This kind of stuff makes me paranoid that the actual reality will also turn out to be false, even though I know better.

also regarding CrowdStrike:

https://thebulwark.com/about-that-favor-trump-wanted-from-ukraine/

who is the most honorable person that Trump appointed?

Rick Perry admitted publically that the Department of Energy that he now runs actually does some useful and important work, which surprised him. But he's probably done some evil shit around fossil fuels that I didn't connect to him when it happened, because he keeps his head down.

Just read this on an actual normally-intelligent friend's page:

"Trump has a point! When he calls out fake news he is not always on the wrong side. Trump did not threaten civil war. I have heard this on numerous outlets. He retweeted a message that said “If the Democrats are successful in removing the president...it will cause a CIVIL WAR LIKE FRACTURE from which our nation will never recover.” That is NOT threatening civil war. When news outlets do this it literally rips the higher ground we stand on from
Under our feet. STOP IT!!"

It's takes like this that make me want to live in New Zealand in 2020

sorry, peter thiel took the last spot

meanwhile he is paying to have you ruled by kris kobach

really don't want to see that shit

:((((

i was driving home from work and someone had unfurled a giant banner across the overpass that said "DEMOCRATS ARE THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE". i of course steered the vehicle with my knees in rush hour so i could give them a tremendously exuberant double fuck you, and accidentally honked my horn at the same time

sorry Neanderthal, I’m really anxious about what’s going to happen, it’s hard enough for me to deal with the official news

normally-intelligent friend

Might be time to reassess their intelligence based on new evidence.

New thread!

let's keep the new one free of Star Wars nerdery

US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.