US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

is that why the haircut is so bad

They had to keep each hair six feet apart

Good morning!

look at this hardman in north carolina who needs to bring a giant wooden gun on his meatball footlong run

meanwhile, black men get shot and killed by the police for carrying cell phones that get mistaken for a gun.

"mistaken"

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/opinions/why-dont-editorial-boards-call-for-trump-to-resign-lockhart

also here's a contender for worst URL of 2020:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rosie-odonnell-reveals-shes-helping-michael-cohen-with-his-spicy-trump-tell-all-book

so, #obamagate is a thing that we're going to have to hear about for a while. possibly a long while.

don't think it's a scandal? that's because you read the fake news, and that means you aid and abet the enemy of the people.

stupid white people are the kindling that's set America on fire

Wish they themselves were on fire

The problem with Obamagate is that it's impossible to explain to anyone who doesn't have brain worms. If the DOJ attempts any kind of real action, I would expect it to blow up in their faces very quickly.

wtf is obamagate?

It's a bullshit attempt to paint the Obama administration as the real criminals based on ???

Because it was OBAMAGATE, and he and Sleepy Joe led the charge. The most corrupt administration in U.S. history! https://t.co/PTzFvvITh3

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2020

wasn't just obama! was also biden! leading the charge!!!

sleepily

definitely what the american people need right now

while talking to my mom last night she mentioned how she initially fantasized shooting DT, which then evolved into him just having a massive stroke so as to prolong his misery That's my mama!

he's also tweeted OBAMAGATE about 30 times today and yesterday

christ what an asshole

And he hasn't even gotten around to the "leaked" audio of Obama calling his (Trump's) COVID-19 response a disaster, or whatever phrase he used. I guess that'll be next week's fixation.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly why he's doing it now

At this point I'm less pissed about Trump making this shit up than I am the legions of maga-idiots that will not stop talking about it and the media that will start reporting on it as if it's actually a thing. Predictable and obnoxious.

yeah I'm already seeing the "Trump accuses Obama of biggest scandal in political history" headline in a few places, either these idiots never fucking learn or they're all in the tank for him

it's just unacceptable that this is the president

What are the odds that the Coronavirus task force was dissolved ahead of the media learning that there was an outbreak in the WH?

christ what an asshole

^epitaph

not to get all sic here but there's no need to share his tweets

A reminder that may not be obvious: amplification on social networks has monetary value. Twitter’s algorithm counts it as engagement even if you shared a tweet to criticize it or mock it, and uses that signal to amplify the tweet further. Only RT what you would pay to promote.

— Anil Dash 😷 (@anildash) March 1, 2020

Do not reply to, retweet, or quote a tweet from a fascist unless you would give them your money. Apparently some people would rather make that gift than change their behavior online, and I don’t know what to do about that.

— Anil Dash 😷 (@anildash) March 1, 2020

how hard is it to take a screenshot and include it in an image, that's what i do when i can't resist the urge to dunk on one of these bozos

sorry ya'll

i have been trying to do the 'copy + paste the text of the tweet only' thing lately, but every once in a while in the heat of the moment i loose my cool and BLAMMO!

I don't think that Dash argument really applies to someone as famous as trump, but definitely for the bottom-feeding chem-trails enthusiasts that he retweets

pre-emptive defense of calling any attention to trump's tweets, via embed or otherwise:

...sometimes the news he is making is ON twitter, so i'm interested in what he actually said. there's a separate discussion to be had (which probably has been had many times here) about the importance of what he says on twitter. should it be completely ignored? most of the time, yes. every once in a while, though, he does publicly command his army of trolls and non-journalist media to carry out an attack, and i don't think we should pay attention to it

every once in a while, though, he does publicly command his army of trolls and non-journalist media to carry out an attack, and i don't think we should pay attention to it

uuuuugh, i meant we SHOULD pay attention to it, on occasion

i'm just going to dangle my legs out of the Self-Own trashcan, where i belong

i'm just tired and hate his stupid face and all of the stupid things he says which add nothing of value to my experience of life

^now that's an irrefutable argument

leadership

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXwoLNaXsAA6EEJ?format=png&name=large

lol

they used to say he was a germaphobe?

once a month, I think about how I learnt of Donald Trump as a kid from an American newspaper comic strip which featured him semi-regularly as a fatuous, incurious, repugnant, destructive, acquisitive, bloviating, stupid oaf with no capability for respecting other beings, who was utterly contemptuous (if not abusive) of women, and whose primary characteristic above all else was a massive, misplaced confidence in his own judgment

i'm just tired and hate his stupid face and all of the stupid things he says which add nothing of value to my experience of life

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, May 11, 2020 11:02 AM (one hour ago)

yeah

how about this added value:

"transition into greatness"

I don't think that Dash argument really applies to someone as famous as trump, but definitely for the bottom-feeding chem-trails enthusiasts that he retweets

― dip to dup (rob), Monday, May 11, 2020 1:56 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

well it doesn't apply now. could have done with it around july 2015.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-ends-coronavirus-briefing-female-reporters_n_5eb9c144c5b6a0e85a758f36

Can't spell snowflake without white supremacy.

Can't get to that huffpo page in plain link, private browsing, or via Outline - what's the salient issue?

I posted The Guardian's report to the rolling 'is this racist?' thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/11/you-should-ask-china-trump-terminates-press-conference-after-clash-with-reporter-video

Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don’t ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium.

It must infuriate him that nobody else cares about his insipid obamagate tweetstorm