The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

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.