US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

the anger seemed to be leaking out of her pores

not surprisingly, Fox is one of the few networks that is only focusing on Trump's handshake snub and pretending the 'rip' didn't happen

disgusting

otm, but the business side of journalism will always rewards this behavior. it is simple to produce in large quantities, attracts a good sized audience of sensation seekers who don't want to think hard about politics, and is a low risk for alienating advertisers.

Just absolutely neurologically tip-top. The healthiest president in history.

"He direderd the December dersalt" pic.twitter.com/wZ0Dy5OsCR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2020

he's just old

pelosi is that old, she fucks up in the same ways all the time.

they're all fucking old

generally, you don't get to be a leader in this country unless you're about to die. you peak in power and then you make no sense and die

sometimes, you even make no sense and then peak in power long afterwards, it hardly matters

trump not shaking the hand and then pelosi ripping up the speech was like

trump: yaaargannn!

pelosi: ....torrrsssssaaalll!!

trump *DEVASTATED* pelosi!!

pelosi *HUMILIATED* trump!!

one wiffleball to the shin and either one's leg would shatter

Pelosi is not clinging to the podium to forestall physical spasms that she knows are a frequent occurrence, which coincide with her inability to form words. She's also not constantly snorting because she has to rack up to make it through an hour or two's public appearance.

(I don't want people as old as Pelosi or Bernie or Warren to be in government generally! But there's a difference between being old, and being so medically *checks legal diagnostic terms* shitfucked that offsiders scream at children to clear the room as soon as you lose physical control of your tongue at a prayer breakfast)

Anyway I know we're way too jaded to bother paying attention to insanely fucked up things this administration does anymore*, but as well as giving Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal Of Freedom on live TV during the State Of The Union Address today, Trump also excluded Customs & Border Patrol from FOIA requests

and the National Archives have approved ICE to destroy all records from 2017, and

It’s not just ICE. The Department of the Interior and the National Archives have decided to delete files on endangered species, offshore drilling inspections and the safety of drinking water. The department even claimed that papers from a case where it mismanaged Native American land and assets — resulting in a multibillion-dollar legal settlement — would be of no interest to future historians (or anyone else).

Virtually all the papers of the under secretary of state for economic growth, energy and environment are also being designated as “temporary,” despite the incredibly broad responsibilities of that office — from international aviation safety to foreign takeovers of American firms.

Archivists have a tough job even when they are adequately supported. They somehow have to predict what records future historians will judge to be truly significant. But now the State Department is cutting archivists completely out of the process: Instead, it will start using machine learning algorithms to separate the “historic” from the “temporary.” Going forward, it is not even planning to turn these records over to the National Archives — a clear violation of the Federal Records Act.

Karl I've never seen Pelosi slur words or seem me disoriented like Trump does frequently, do you have examples?

current CNN headline:

Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union

looks like someone who got purposefully excluded from yesterday's press lunch is angling to get invited to the next one. simply outstanding.

Sorry to self-c+p but

pretty much every ''''journalist'''' with a nationwide reach needs to be immediately jettisoned into the airless vacuum of space

Am I wrong for feeling that pretty much every ''''journalist'''' with a nationwide reach needs to be immediately jettisoned into the airless vacuum of space, if only to encourage the prospective journalists of the future to think twice about being useless muckraking douchenozzles whose only apparent goal is to spray gasoline on the last smoldering remnants of civil society?

“dazzling”

All issues of asslicking, barely-concealed partisanship aside, I definitely take issue with that descriptor, as well. Trump has never been 'dazzling'. 'Vajazzling' maybe but never 'dazzling'.

'The president's rhetoric at times had a quality not unlike a splay of garish genital rhinestones.'

grab em by the vajazzle

So we're onto rimming

it will start using machine learning algorithms to separate the “historic” from the “temporary.”

lmao I would love to hear someone describe to me how this works holy crap

But now the State Department is cutting archivists completely out of the process: Instead, it will start using machine learning algorithms to separate the “historic” from the “temporary.” Going forward, vernacular can only be created for temporary materials (with the help of vernacular specialists) and can't be replicated or used for reproducing the original language.

As an aside: After a long hiatus and a lot of fightback (including from native-speakers), the (two-year-old) "Minority Title" initiative has now abandoned its "one language, one picture" claim, instead focusing on "ancient materials and databases on the historical importance of a particular language."

And so an entirely new language for the US

When in doubt, ask Transformer.

this seems like a plum contract for some vastly overvalued software company founded by the coked-out scion of an inbred republican dynasty, can't wait to see what their algorithm decides is worth preserving for future generations

Breaking: Contents of the National Archives to be replaced wholesale with printouts of Trump tweets.

Pressley and AOC boycotting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pelosi's sour grapes-looking speech rip

don't care really

Karl I've never seen Pelosi slur words or seem me disoriented like Trump does frequently, do you have examples?

not slurring, but just the typical things that happen as people get really old. but that wasn't even my point. i was really drunk last night (big surprise - this whole fucking world BLOWS for everyone except for people with rich families who can afford to take subsidized vacations on a monthly basis to get away from living hell, so all one can do is take yourself out of it whenever possible) and failed to make my point, which was that this whole obsession with trying to prove trump's impending/current dementia is MADDENING and COMPLETELY USELESS. i don't even care if it's true or if it could be true, it's just the spectacle of being so completely OWNED by the dumbest people and a venal corrupt political party that all we can do is maybe just hope that the president has actually lost his mind and maybe people will realize that and cart him off to a hospital or whatever. it's just sad, this is the crap we're left with, it's pathetic

He direderd the December dersalt.

Goost my Japenese spice and hent mee your day,

Ween me that, both I and oure love gon,

Nedels, mee dat thou tel, thou hast never saide."

"Yea, he hende her and drew mee,

In the best of werkes, lefte my cryes."

"Thou madest 'cause that the Queene

Was gone away fro this place,

The pestilence deepe, and at home,

And to thee hou sheeldid be,

Where'es we cannae set his knave a-qu

sorry. i'm just mad at myself. i did poorly in a job interview last night, in an attempt to find some other shitty job that will pay marginally better than my current one so i try to dig myself out of shitdebt mountain.

it's hard to pivot from that back to susan collins

the obsession with trump's dementia really does drive me batty though

don't care really

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:56 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

idk, the fact that people are just talking about Pelosi ripping up the speech seems fine to me? Trump's approval is at an all-time high, he's about to get acquitted, the economy is peaking yet again, the Iowa shit was a disaster for Dems, it's not a bad thing that people are focusing on a BrEaCh Of Decorum instead

I agree with your point and also as applied to rest of the desperation that fuels resistance-porn discourse.

xps

Pelosi ripping the speech annoyed me. Not her fault—she did try to impeach him, but that failing it felt like an empty gesture, aimed at exciting #resistance idiots on twitter

it was her version of killing soleimani

IDC that much about the speech rip either.

Obsession with Trump's "dementia" is just another flavor of obsession with his "stupidity" "unfitness" "indecency" or whatever, as though there's some invisible, objective arbiter of presidentialness and if only we can make a strong enough case the judgment will be rendered from above. So long as Trump helps the Republican party and their goals more than he hurts them, he will have their unwavering support. Some resistance folks just CANNOT stop banging their head against this wall though, it's like a reflex.

speech rip will accomplish precisely nothing

like most of Grancy's career

FWIW, I don't mean for those quotation-marked things to all be in the same category. I think the reflexive "haha he misplaced Kansas City" tweets are a lot worse and more harmful than, e.g., reminding people of his abhorrent behavior towards women, which should be repeated. It's just the expectation that if only we can find the right "he went too far" item it will somehow flip enough "decent conservatives" to chang ehte political winds that makes me lose it.

ah now morbs i'll be sarcastically clapping while we drown in seawater

ahh yes, only actions that singlehandedly bring down the throne of Trump are worth discussing. it's so easy, any of us could do it. why aren't we the speakers?

. I think the reflexive "haha he misplaced Kansas City" tweets are a lot worse

Yep, because this is why his fans love him.

either you liked it, you hated it, or you didn't care, but it ain't gonna fuckin' hurt anything, so not exactly worth writing a thinkpiece about

I don't suspect many people actually gaf about the KC thing as much as enjoyed trolling because by now we all know he and his ilk will never admit he's wrong and will find hilarious ways to double down.

I mean...there is no convincing his base, and beyond that, most lifer Republicans, so maybe we can stop pretending that's our goal. it's always been about more moderate Republicans, Independents, and mobilizing our own vote for the Democrats.

She should have spit in his face.

that I might have given a standing O for

Pelosi ripping the speech annoyed me. Not her fault—she did try to impeach him, but that failing it felt like an empty gesture, aimed at exciting #resistance idiots on twitter

― treeship., Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:34 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was her version of killing soleimani

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes)

i loled

Yep, because this is why his fans love him.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:41 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

And we've been here before! We did the exact same thing through two terms of W, except there was no twitter.

the idea that the KC tweets or any of this "lol look how stupid he is" posts are harmful at all is offtm. a waste of time? ok, sure. but there aren't massive scores of potential convert voters scouring Twitter and saying "y'know, these guys mocking Trump are jerks, I'm gonna vote for him in 2020".

yeah, we can all be devoting 20 hours of every day focusing on the more substantive terrible things he does and exposing everybody to them (and most of us do), but sometimes people are just tired and wanna have a cheap Nelson Muntz "haha" laugh. these things aren't mutually exclusive. focusing on them is almost as pointless as the original "haha KC" tweets themselves.

He really does deserve it. The Ukraine thing isn’t what I would have staked the impeachment on, but it really was jaw-dropping that he dangled 400 million of taxpayer money over a foreign leader’s head in exchange for (manufactured) oppo (he knew there was nothing to the burisma stuff or the crowdstrike stuff)