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

imo go full rotten.com on it

never do that, it's not worth the cost to your soul

i want to do something that singlehandedly destroys her chances. i want to be like elizabeth warren to bloomberg last night

write a diss track

i feel like nathan fielder should just do this

Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, in a disclosure that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html

holy shit, russia is interfering in the 2020 elections? that can't be right...trump directly asked Putin if russia interfered in 2016, and Putin said they didn't! what am i missing!?!?

oh well!

*stares blankly*

cool headline on my homepage, "Trump fears Dems will exploit report on Russian meddling", so the story isn't about the fact that a foreign power is (again) trying to fuck with our elections, but rather, as always, "how does Trump feel about all this?"

I'm so sorry he feews bad

I sure hopes him doesn't get a tummy ache and shit himself to deaf!

look vladdy daddy told him it wernt no thing, and he could see no reason it would be a thing, so...

it’s over, LOSERS! *slams locker*

^my unfunny there reflects my feeling that this while bullshit is acted out like a shitty john hughes hs scene.

https://i.imgur.com/pCA0JYr.jpg

we're in that age of journalism where you have to read the headlines in a sarcastic voice in order for them to make sense

huge if true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrP6U6JjAUg

Pareene:

Democrats are furious that a shady conservative PAC has begun spending money to boost the candidacy of a liberal candidate (Erica Smith) in the Democratic primary for North Carolina’s upcoming Senate election over the more moderate front-runner. ...

It would be one thing if Smith were a kook—a Vermin Supreme–style stunt candidate or a LaRouche follower or a libertarian—but from what little I know about her, she seems to be a very normal state politician. She is in her third term, she has been an engineer and an educator, and she lists endorsements from seemingly normal Democratic politicians on her website. I see no obvious red flags—except that, apparently, she has less access to the Democratic fundraising network than Cunningham....

In other words, Cunningham is a product of the Democratic candidate-selection machine that above all values the “right” biographical details (moderates with military backgrounds are ideal), along with the ability to pass what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee calls the “Rolodex” test (candidates are asked to go through their phone contacts and add up how much money they could raise from everyone in it). Smith clearly failed the Rolodex test.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156629/gops-silly-attempt-boost-liberal-democrat

I personally think it's great that Mitch McConnell's shady conservative super PAC is running attack ads against a Democrat in North Carolina.

Guess Pareene's due diligence ("what little I know about her") didn't include noting that Smith has denounced the ads.

that doesnt matter if it doesnt matter

Good afternoon!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign/2020/02/21/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html

good spring, summer, fall, and night, this is going to be a shitshow

i see the Clintonite Homo blog chorus is unanimously asking Sanders to drop out

it's going to bring out the most idiotic responses from all sides. bernie's supporters will be constantly accused of being russian plants, and his own supporters might being fighting internally as they try to identify them. meanwhile conservatives get to tell themselves a new story: sure, russia wants to help trump. both they want to help democrats too. both sides, not just trump

sorry, imagine those sentences with fewer typos and more insight

re the bernie brief, well yeah

Fuck this. It’s a ploy to kneecap him—leaking the brief to the press so they can report on it.

People support Bernie because they have seen family members crushed by medical debt and student loans. Or they got dicked over in the financial crisis when they mortgge tripled overnight. He is not a random outsider who serves only to disrupt the system like Trump—he’s offering solutions to problems that have been roundly ignored for decades

yes fuck this shit

Putin just wants everyone suspicious, frightened, confused and fighting with everyone else over what the truth even is.

expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed, particularly in America

Aimless otm. inasmuch as Bernie interest is in disrupting the system and Putin's interest is in fomenting dissent, Russia promoting both him and Trump makes perfect sense.

er not dissent, more like confusion

I dont care at all what putin wants. Its such a dumb obsession.

I dont care at all what putin wants

lol ok

I’ve been thinking about drafting a facebook post — because it‘s really only relevant to facebook — advising friends about how to spot questionable groups/sources because a few who are less online keep reposting liberal content mill crap.

Key signs: most of the content is sourced from other sites or memes, the profile links to a website with spurious content and “petitions” that seem to be the same form as their “sign up for our email newsletter” form, and a handful of other indicators that there’s nothing of substance there.

I expect most of these pages to flip to selling diet plans when the politics grift gets old

I think linking a totally normal presidential campaign to russian spies sows confusion

Putin wants some prime shoreline and oil priced in rubles and not euros or us dollars iirc

the eternal dream of warm-sea ports

sounds idyllic tbh

iirc it's long been an iowan strategic priority as well

we’re busy spitefully ruining the mississippi delta by dumping nitrogen in the river

Typically good piece by David Roth, here on how reactions to both Trump and Sanders highlight the institutional failures of both the GOP and the Democratic party establishment.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156639/bernie-sanders-no-donald-trump

A similar transparency is fundamental to Sanders’s pitch; he pushes for the ambitious policy goals that Democrats have long claimed to want but leaves out the signature Democratic caveat that those things are of course impossible and anyway must be negotiated with an opposition that is by now quite open about not just its unwillingness to do any such thing but its belief that the Democrats are inherently illegitimate. Again, this only looks like a parallel where the candidates are concerned—Sanders deals in the universal “us,” where Trump governs by pointing to increasingly large tranches of Americans and sneering “not you.”

From the perspective of the institutional parties and their aligned media organizations, though, the parallel is cleaner. People who have made their living by defining and describing the scope and scale of the possible naturally resent being challenged on that sort of thing; party insiders, just by dint of their vantage point, do not take kindly to the sudden presence of uninvited masses. In nominating and then electing Trump, Republicans made obvious the extent to which they were no longer playing what one side persists in thinking is a gentleman’s game. The president oversees prisons with children in them and often “jokes” about remaining in office for the rest of his natural life. Only one side of that once-polite binary is even alarmed by this. It’s somehow the same one that keeps playing as if the old rules were still in effect.

Acronym—the well-capitalized, well-connected, deliberately opaque “venture-style” outfit headlined by veteran Democratic campaign types that built the busted app that helped turn the Iowa caucuses into a tragicomic shitshow—is precisely the sort of failure that would result from a political establishment disappearing up its own metaphorical ass. Whether that organization is deliberately scammy or just a low-utility gambit executed with slapstick amateurism is, at some point, immaterial.

sorry, imagine those sentences with fewer typos and more insight

Nu borad description

Did we already cover this?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-prosecutors-lay-out-case-against-julian-assange-extradition-n1141366

Assange’s legal team insists the American case against him is politically motivated. His lawyers say they will present evidence that the Australian was offered a pardon by the Trump administration if he agreed to say Russia wasn't involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails that were published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Assange’s lawyers say the offer was made in August 2017 by then-Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who claimed to be acting on behalf of President Donald Trump.

The White House has called the claim “a complete fabrication and a total lie.” Rohrabacher acknowledges discussing the Democrat leak with Assange, but denies offering a pardon from the president.

Rohrabacher acknowledges discussing the Democrat leak with Assange, but denies offering a pardon from the president, saying "I was very careful to make no explicit offer of a pardon; all I did was drop a few broad hints and wink at him vigorously."

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CloudyNegligibleBergerpicard-small.gif

"That Pam Anderson, she's a real goer, isn't she?"

the Democrat leak

It drives me bonkers that mainstream news organizations have picked up this garbage verbal tic.

Ginni Thomas unleashed!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/clarence-thomas-wife-among-conservative-activists-leading-trump-efforts-to-compile-deep-state-hit-list

Clarence and Ginni seem like a well-matched couple. I'd wonder what their dinner conversation sounds like, if I thought Clarence ever said anything.

"Is that a ..."

Nah, I won't.

Ginny dressed like this once:

https://cdn.talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ml28atfg8ybgtsi8me6l.jpg

Ginni Thomas unleashed!

unleashed, muzzled, brought to curb

let's neuter all this dog talk!