The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

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

?fbclid=IwAR1l5w_8YSR9UmtLmaPjJvopujTIhGwR9vuiYCo2OH30POBaLJxEf-aoB8M

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?

I mean let's get real, if we didn't want to be smarmy knowitalls none of us would be here

tombot that's what i said but without the effing and jeffing, please try not to swear.

honest/ignorant question: if you don't have facebook, what does the tracking hash do

I just cut and paste from the address bar. I tend to ignore that guy anyway cos I can't stand the level of utter self righteousness.

Sounds like sic’s theory is that it results in the publisher paying Facebook for the traffic (regardless of whether you’re logged in?).

I’m only tangentially in the industry but my understanding is that is wrong.

It does allow Facebook to report higher traffic numbers but they lie about those anyway so who gives a shit.

I mean let's get real, if we didn't want to be smarmy knowitalls none of us would be here

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:04 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

new board desc for the love of god

I still can't figure out how to change the text of a link and still make it active, though (like, for example, Sanpaku did above). right clicking on it doesn't bring up any "edit link" function for me

my theory is that Facebook sell the data to their own advertisers & other third parties, thus also undermining the entire industry of journalism which they have also already gutted

what the fuck you guys on about?

Dan S - bbcode [ url= ] text [ /url ]

without spaces

Plop

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.