US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

what's amazing about all this is that many people say that trump is the last racist person you've ever met

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:36 PM (three days ago)

you can just impersonate the dumb things that the thinks and says, and then, he'll just say them almost verbatim. he has like 25 things that he says, over and over.

gotta admit though, i'm having trouble thinking of anyone who is less of a racist than donald trump

there's an old burlesque routine about 'the Shithouse Quartet' that i will not have sullied by this ongoing shitstorm.

the overton window ain't gonna move itself

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, January 14, 2018 6:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amen

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/the-curse-of-bipartisanship

bipartisanship exists because without it america isn't governable as a democracy.

unfortunately at this point america isn't governable as a democracy with or without bipartisanship.

People who used to say there could never be a liberal Infowars clearly didn’t see the 2016 election coming https://t.co/Dq6a9UJChU

— derek davison (@dwdavison9318) January 15, 2018

lmao the Chelsea Manning campaign for senate - assuming it goes forward - is gonna expose a lot more very bad opinions

DRAIN THE SWAMP

How dare anyone object to rubber-stamping of RussiaRussiaRussia incumbents

at this point it might be easier just to enumerate the very few things in american public life which aren't sinister russian plots

ice cream

ice cream is cold

russia is often cold

try again u obvious putin stooge

ice cream is for Kremlinologists.

ice cream -- 2 scoops for me, 1 for you

it's a rocky road

"Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream?"

(can't believe you guys forgot that)

"How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

Clearly the more apt comparison to Infowars are the Wikileaks/Intercept conspiracy axis. That mail-job was textbook conservative hysteria.

The Intercept? Are they so far gone?

Not yet, but they're better proof of the lefts conspiracy-ness than some nobody from Montana.

The nerve of some folks:

On MLK day, I like to read his Letter From Birmingham Jail, which still resonates: “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away... and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation...”

— James Comey (@Comey) January 15, 2018

‘i like to read his letter from birmingham jail and then go straight back to doing nothing at all, in either my personal or professional life, to help achieve his vision’

perhaps you missed his tweet

something something white moderate

Other fun posts:

OPINION: Please stop politicizing Martin Luther King Day. It's a day for national unity, not political division https://t.co/MiE83UYlG0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2018

ah yes, the famously unpolitical mlk, who made rousing speeches about just like chilling out and enjoying the status quo iirc

we just want a day off why you gotta ruin it

"shithouse" was involved in a political scandal when then Governor Schaeffer called the Eastern Shore of Maryland a shithouse. It's not a great defense.

certainly nothing political at all about fox news opinion pieces asking the nation to unify around doing nothing to combat injustice, inequality or racism

what a deplorable shithouse news network

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away...

These kind of quotes are the most popular now, because they are the most innocuous. Certainly, people who are in the midst of a fierce battle against oppression and terror, with plentiful deaths and thousands of casualties, require hope for the future or they'd never lay their life and their bodies on the line. But hope was not the end goal, just the fuel that drove the unimaginably hard work the movement was doing.

jfc that Paul Ryan picture

I'm not the biggest fan of Biden but I'm forever appreciative of the 2012 debate where he demonstrated that the correct response to Paul Ryan is to laugh at him and refuse to ever take him seriously.

idk I think the correct response involves more kicking

"is russia a 'shithouse' country, mr. speaker?"

Now, now, there’s plenty of time for both the kicking and the laughing

ah yes conservatives trying to adopt the legacy of MLK ("he was Republican you know!!!") is always delicious. can't tell you how many christian conservatives i heard growing up screeching about his extra-marital affairs and dirty socialism.

maybe Sam Bee isn't cool anymore(?) but her twitter account today is doing a p good job of roasting all these saggy GOP fucks tweeting about King.

first they came for the undocumented

wait hold on just one minute here the author of fox's mlk piece is called jeremy c. hunt? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjH4arIn-80

fox news: 'stop politicising mlk day!'

also fox news: 'some Americans have given up on Dr. King’s dream and have begun to advocate a form of toxic identity politics that abandons colorblindness as an ideal.'

.@newtgingrich: It would be a colossal mistake to give up on Martin Luther King's dream https://t.co/Q2NBftzyHX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2018

Prominent civil rights advocate Newt Gingrich

Interesting if true...

BREAKING: #Haiti held emergency high court session that resulted in an agreement to unseal and release information within ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's indictments relating to #MoneyLaundering via Trump Tower condo.

More background here → https://t.co/Wb4iLQMgm9 https://t.co/I1TU2uMBqE

— Bandit Aléatoire (@BanditRandom) January 15, 2018

On very related note, check out Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America is a great recent book that covers, among many things, how ‘70s “colorblind” policy still managed to jail a far larger portion of black folks.

to unseal and release information within ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's indictments relating to #MoneyLaundering via Trump Tower condo.

This would be an interesting development if every country the idiot badmouths just opens up the file cabinets to dump all records on related business dealings.

It won’t change the polls, of course, but hopefully it would add more avenues of investigation.

here is something you can't understand -- how i could just be a republican and expect deferential treatment, man

This is a rather interesting combination of report and outlet.

U.S. counterintelligence officials warned Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch https://t.co/5vPc0aMnY1

— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) January 15, 2018

fuck yeah let’s all get paranoid about china and russia now