The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

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

at least he didn't sign the hurricane map, one step at a time folks

Conservative operative Jacob Wohl is wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California, a development that could hamper his spree of bizarre, blundering political schemes.

lmao securities fraud same thing that got Martin Shkreli

goes to show if you're a white conservative you can commit as many crimes as you want so long as you don't fuck with rich people's money

This has been known for years, though

Some might argue that this marks a radical departure for conservative operative Jacob Wohl, but to this reviewer, there's a seamless continuity between a felony arrest warrant and the earlier bizarre and blundering work of this budding auteur.

admittedly I'm still shocked he didn't get anything for trying to gin up an obviously fake sex scandal against Mueller

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please stop doing that you tiresome self-parody

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459943-trump-displays-map-with-dorians-original-path-extended-toward-alabama
trump's big map that he found with a sharpy circle extending to Alabama

jesus, sorry for repost

I humbly apologise for being curious to read Steveo's link but also for not wanting to fund a company that is actively undermining free elections around the world

the Irish Times?

Unsurprisingly, fears of Brexit have been a positive for foreign direct investment in Ireland, as the preferred English-speaking portal to Europe.

the Irish Times?

Facebook, if I'm parsing that argument correctly

yes but stevo's link is from the Irish Times

Post the link without the tracking hash. Then people can use what you post rather than thinking your posts suck?

ah now I get it

Laura Loomer coming off like a C-Team Kardashian in that pic upthread.

Post the link without the tracking hash. Then people can use what you post rather than thinking your posts suck?

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.