US Politics, June 2018: This is a total goat rodeo.

weird tactical manuver to go after france directly and not tinker around the edges of italy portugal spain or whatever.

he knows who Macron is, probably generally thinks France stands in for all of Europe. no other countries have fries, so they don't count as real.

Come on. France and Europe are two completely different countries. Lots of people are saying it.

Whenever you're trying to assess Trump's thinking, it helps to assume his level of understanding wrt most things is about on par with a dog of medium intelligence.

Like, I'd be genuinely impressed if he could point to Europe on a map without assistance.

trump is an idiot but he has to know who stuttering john is no? he’s been on stern a bunch

Students came to peacefully protest the Idaho State GOP Convention. Rep. Priscilla Giddings took a picture with them and posted it to FB with the following caption: pic.twitter.com/zbjLySRtbP

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 29, 2018

the fuck?

idgi

why would anyone be carrying around an empty shell casing from a cannon, and why would protestors be interested in seeing one

Should I threaten these protesters with implied violence y/n

but civility

I'd told my kids we were going to the march/protest tomorrow, and they didn't really say much (that's just what mom and do every few months). But I learned today that on her own my older kid convinced a couple of her friends to come, too, and they're apparently getting together tonight to make signs. It's a win-win: protest and crafts! Not a bad two-for for summer vacation.

why would anyone be carrying around an empty shell casing from a cannon, and why would protestors be interested in seeing one

Trophy from shooting a man in Pocatello just to watch him die, iirc.

I guess mentioning ammo is implied violence but she's specifically citing a) spent ammo and b) ammo that you couldn't use to shoot anybody anyway, unless you happen to have a military aircraft or a cannon, which is kinda weird in itself

no other countries have fries

Au contraire, mon frere.

Turkey fries: http://www.texas-backyard-bbq.com/turkey-fries.html

I guess one of the kid's signs says artillery? maybe that's what she's referring to. implying that these kids don't know the difference between military artillery (which she apparently carries around in her truck for some reason? to remind her of past military conflicts?) and assault weapons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_mm_caliber

it's a totally weird

it's a me, mario iirc

maybe it's one of those "gotcha!" things where she *wants* people to respond like it's a threat just so she can turn around and say "lol u morans, don't you know what an empty 30mm shell is, I just wanted to show them this cool military souvenir"

i figured it was her letting them know she’d been shot at. a dick move no matter what

she's specifically citing a) spent ammo

Maybe she looked at her reference to a 30mm shell just before posting and thought “I’d better not make it look like I mean anything violent here” and added the word “empty” before it

That round is so big you could hurt someone just throwing it at them.

well it would definitely be illegal for her to be carting around a live 30mm shell. it's the size of a fucking coke bottle.

weird how my dog is several states away and I can still hear it barking

Do you think I should show these girls my bloodstained chainsaw that’s out of fuel?

The statement, like the shell, is empty.

Kinda wish she'd gone through with it. "Look, you naïve anti-gun kids, here's a thing that used to be ammunition! SEE? Now doesn't that change your mind about everything you _thought_ you knew?"

Meanwhile the kids are looking at her, looking at the shell, looking at each other, and going "So what?"

And she's like "But don't you get it? Look! It's a shell! And I even know the proper way to refer to it, which is by its diameter!"

"Um, whatever, lady. We still don't think dying is cool."

"But but but, it's a SHELL. And it was in my TRUCK. Wake UP, sheeple!"

Priscilla Giddings is a stupid fucking troll.

I am going to show these rapey men my fake dick.

^ I'm going with that one.

brb gonna put a pic of nude Newt Gingrich in my Honda trunk, drive to a high school, and threaten to blow up the school with it.

If Nude Gingrich Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Nude Gingrich

Kinda figured this was obvious. Also, interesting story to have surface about now.

Publicly Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein stands by his role in Comey firing. In private it’s been a different story. W/@adamgoldmanNYT https://t.co/jt0amRcgWK

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) June 29, 2018

If Nude Gingrich Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Nude Gingrich

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain),

speaking of, what would Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say about these times?

gee I wonder how our new SC overlords will overturn this one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/06/29/kentuckys-first-in-the-nation-requirement-that-medicaid-recipients-must-work-is-blocked/?utm_term=.2830a5fc3a56

For anyone that believes Robert Mueller knows all, I just saw it reported that the feds were tipped off to the existence of Manafort's storage locker by a journalist.

sort of - AP journos were asking Feds if they knew about Manafort's storage locker, which turned out to be the first time the Feds had heard of it.

first day of testimony in Manafort's trial, bound to be tons of stuff like this coming out

I think that was pre-Mueller, too?

yeah, April 2017, about a month before Mueller's appointment

Mueller's investigators work within a different set of rules than investigative journalists, so it's not surprising a journo could hear things they haven't heard. I'm happy to hear the journo shared notes with them.

that's not exactly what happened (as noted) but the real reason this is significant is because the House GOP has been accusing the FBI of leaking news of the locker (among other things) to AP - when it turns out something closer to the reverse happened.

SCOOP: As Trump fights w/ Merkel on defense spending, Pentagon staffers ordered to analyze the costs of a large-scale withdrawal of American troops from Germany. Word of the move is causing a nervous scramble at European embassies in DC https://t.co/FAjLdW1bLc

— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 29, 2018

@PhilipRucker
Trump was taken aback to learn there were 35,000 U.S. troops in Germany and expressed interest to aides in removing them

Yeah, can't Russia put some troops there instead?

Maybe we just put some troops in one half of Germany and Russia can put some in the other half. Teamwork!

i'm curious about how he finally learned this information

why are we removing troops from germany and south korea but also increasing the defense budget by 150b

to give money to Trump's buddies

to nuke Iran

=|

Cuz we make weapons and sell them?

there are so many things that trump doesn't know about yet. it's gonna be a wild ride

there are so many things that trump doesn't know

― Karl Malone, Friday, June 29, 2018 6:05 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ftfy

sadly, so true. oof.

is there ever a point where congress, republicans, or congress republicans will lift a finger against him? at this point i really do think he could just unilaterally pull the US from NATO while russia simultaneously moved forces in and they would do nothing. maybe when he announces our new military alliance with russia and declares that france and germany are now enemies of the united states? 50/50 odds that they'd do something in that scenario