US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots

this will probably be the same as the Trump retaliatory missile strike, he will do one thing that makes it look like he's addressing the problem and as unperson states, will think that is enough.

"I asked Sessions to look into it, Democrats weren't willing to bargain on common-sense legislation!"

Yeah, I have zero hope that Trump will do anything worthwhile on this or any other issue. Continue to ignore the meaningless shit that burbles out of his useless mouth, particularly if his words seem to indicate that he'll do something mature that might improve the world in some way. It's all nihilistic bloviation, even (perhaps especially) when it flatters your worldview.

Democrat Linda Belcher has won the Kentucky House District 49 seat by a massive margin in a district Trump won by 50 percent. It's the 37th legislative flip since Trump's inauguration. https://t.co/0foXOhxa8M

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) February 21, 2018

Wow!

I figure he had a vagrant thought that saying that about bump stocks would sound presidential and play well among a really big group of people, maybe even get him more than a 50% approval. The temptation was too much. As soon as he realizes that a lot of his biggest fans will hate him saying it he'll deny he ever said it.

Holy moly xp that is good news

This was likely the biggest contributing factor, coupled with the fact Belcher had served before.

The seat, located in Bullitt County, just south of Louisville, was vacated in December after former Rep. Dan Johnson, committed suicide just two days after being accused of molesting a 17-year-old girl. His widow, Rebecca, who has denied the allegations about her former husband, decided within a day to run for the seat.

yeah, that whole article was fucked up

ah—the ol' "hanging Chad" victory

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A Florida woman who ran a Trump supporters page that unwittingly promoted a Russian-coordinated event on Facebook says she doesn’t believe that she was influenced by Kremlin-linked trolls https://t.co/DmgDRFRwyn pic.twitter.com/OAz5julCyA

— CNN (@CNN) February 21, 2018

Heh, “Linda Belcher”

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xp that woman now believes she has first hand experience of fake news and will tell all her friends about it

yeah, i was thinking the same. also the unfortunate connections to mccarthyism. she is a doofus but it doesn't seem like she actually meant to "help the russians", from her perspective, there's a reporter on her lawn asking a modern day version of "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"

ty c. grisso :)

Being a GOP activist should be considered twice as bad as being a communist ever was, though, so how can anyone be surprised at that?

So many GOPers are going to claim that they just didn't know and it's going to be like stalinists claiming that nobody knew about the gulags.

Just watching the news with dinner and spat chunks to see Jared Kushner sitting at the UN table as the appointed negotiator for Middle East resolution. With respect to my US colleagues, the country is becoming a farce and a laughing stock.

Tony Blair sat in that chair so it’s not like it’s a particularly illustrious cushion.

With respect to my US colleagues, the country is becoming a farce and a laughing stock.

'becoming'

The US has had many people as ludicrous as Kush sitting at the UN, they were just more "professional."

Yeah, the woman in the CNN clip I posted, she's pretty much generic Old Person That Forwards Shit on the Internet, which is a big bullseye for predators and propagandists alike. But just as she probably has no idea how the internet works and how people take advantage of people like her, I agree that she likely has no idea what the reporter is talking about. "Russians? They weren't Russia. They looked and talked just like me. They were Trump supporters all the way, and didn't sound the least bit Communist."

Bruce Springsteen, yes.
A very deep, political thinker.
He's a communist, isn't he?

No, he's from New Jersey.

oh man i've lost 1000s of followers

Apparently, Twitter banned thousands & thousands of Russian bot accounts tonight, and now all the Trump supporters are complaining that they're being "censored" since many lost a majority of their following… 😂 #TwitterLockout

— William LeGate (@williamlegate) February 21, 2018

I am delighted to discover that the dozen or so Lynch-loving commies who follow me are, in fact, apparently real

j/k don't have a twitter account but it's about god damn time they did this

in maybe related nerd news new york magazine's comment section troll regulars have gone eerily quiet in recent days

Twitter is very brave, this is a very brave thing to do. Maybe they can ban the Trollbot-in-Chief next. That would be very brave. I'm going to hold my breath while I wait.

first they came for the bots....

Deleted all bots or just russian bots

considering Jack Dorsey follows a bunch of alt-right goons, I'm always surprised when they take any positive measures at all

I lost a few followers today, but I think it's because I tweeted something bad about Robert Pattinson.

Jesus Fred you really don't fuck about do u

oh man the r-patz mob is intense, I've noticed

I went down about 100 or so over night, which is def not usual, only tweet was about hearing Scorpions at a pho space if ppl don't want to hear that I don't need em

I know I had some bots for sure

only tweet was about hearing Scorpions at a pho space if ppl don't want to hear that I don't need em

Block you like a hurricane

A+

that florida lady was like maxine the shoebox greetings woman with a lobotomy. also people of a certain age have zero idea have facebook works because they’re way too trusting of the idea that anything their feed not labeled an ad is from someone they “know.”

every time i see something like that clip i think of the time my mom shared a picture of a cute dog... that had originally been posted by britain first.

CNN is hosting a "town hall" with students from Parkland...and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch.

The students should withdraw en masse. There's no reason they should have to be in the same room with Dana Loesch.

she's going to get roasted beyond belief

it's like putting the families of lung cancer victims in the same room with a tobacco exec

It should be interesting to see what happens when an NRA spokesperson drops their talking points on a group of people who are recent victims of the NRA's talking points.

maybe they'll tear her apart with their bare hands to finally prove once and for all that people kill people

I just got lost in a momentary reverie, thinking about the possibility of an NRA shill actually being swayed by a roomful of teenage victims of gun violence, but, well. I keep optimistically recalling all of these points in history when people were convinced, however slowly, to relinquish or ease up on their indefensible ideologies and then I shake it off and remember that the only ideology held by most of the awful people of today is 'intransigent tribalism'.

dana loesch should be arrested for terroristic threats on the basis of those lunatic nra psas

it's like putting the families of lung cancer victims in the same room with a tobacco exec

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It should be interesting to see what happens when an NRA spokesperson drops their talking points on a group of people who are recent victims of the NRA's talking points.

Hollow talking points, talking hollow points

Best laugh I've had in days.

Gateway Pundit says founder Jim Hoft was banned from CPAC panel because of his site's attacks on the Parkland survivors pic.twitter.com/748DTdgj1P

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 21, 2018

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Is this Gallup map real? I've only seen it on Twitter.

Texas is competitive?