US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

I only said "drug abuse" but sure I'll concede that specific trait is more niche (fwiw I have never done it myself)

Adderall is an evil substance imo

that's a bad o

I don’t fully feel that way i guess. I didn’t enjoy feeling dependent on it.

If it helps people then good for them—i wouldn’t want to disparage that

Yeah, an important metric to measure now is how many people think it's cool having a criminal for a president.

Well he didn't commit Crimes like minorities do, such as stealing a cigarette or attempting to cross a line on the map. He committed ""crimes"" like smart rich white guys do.

they weren't even real crimes, he was just being sarcastic

Fox News Quietly Ditched Trump-Loving Sheriff David Clarke

The one-time Fox News regular, who was previously considered for different senior posts in the Trump administration, was effectively “banned” last year by the network, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

The decision was more sweeping than the “soft bans” that Fox has imposed on other guests or contributors, such as former White House official Sebastian Gorka, who was barred from Fox’s “hard news” programming but regularly appeared on opinion shows like Hannity.

And Fox News isn’t the only organization to apparently part ways with the demagogic lawman.

Two knowledgeable sources confirmed that Clarke is also no longer a senior adviser and spokesman for pro-Trump super PAC America First Action, where he landed in late 2017 after he resigned as sheriff and was repeatedly blocked from getting a position in the Trump administration. (For instance, Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon wanted to hire Clarke as a White House official, primarily to make TV appearances and take on members of the media.)

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It’s not totally clear why Fox News hasn’t welcomed Clarke back on its air in more than a year.

“His rhetoric became crazier and crazier and most shows refused to use him,” one source familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast.

Another Fox source suggested that it probably didn’t help that the loud-mouthed sheriff repeatedly bashed high-school-aged Parkland shooting victims—at one point accusing them of being funded by George Soros to “spew anti-gun talking points”—at the same time Fox News was attempting to tread lightly after its primetime star Laura Ingraham faced a massive ad boycott for mocking the students.

So the people running things at Fox, like producers - do these people recognize their hosts and guests as clowns and crazies?

remarkable that mocking the parkland victims and survivors is only one *possible* explanation and does not, by itself, seem like an open-and-shut reason for fox to cut him loose.

i dunno. you'd think they would have declared him to have crossed a line years ago.

seems more likely that clarke and/or gorka took a shit on the green room floor or something

xposts

remarkable that the president of the united states was the leading face of the birther movement, and still promotes the idea in the oval office

tough words from a board that embraced "gucci gucci" with open arms

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, March 5, 2019 2:09 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was an excellent lol thank you dc

clarke is like those early nazis who were too crazy for hitler and goebbels etc. once the party had to get down to the business of running a country

like Julius Streicher

House Dems postpone vote rebuking Omar amid pressure from left

What a stupid situation. Dems get a little of power and spend it all getting derailed by this bullshit.

of course

I will keep on saying it because it seems increasingly likely: party's gonna split at some point in the not-too-distant future, probably once it slowly dawns on us that the wheezy rasp in the GOP's hate-filled respiration has developed into an unmistakable death rattle.

love a schism

I will keep on saying it because it seems increasingly likely: party's gonna split at some point in the not-too-distant future, probably once it slowly dawns on us that the wheezy rasp in the GOP's hate-filled respiration has developed into an unmistakable death rattle.

― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:00 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's way optimistic. people were saying this in 2015/16, look what happened. fascism is resilient.

people were saying this in 2015/162008

true!

2015/16 is better example given relevant events. But yeah people say it all the time

The survival of the GOP at this point depends largely on a life support system of cheatery and flim-flammery that is, admittedly, still pretty robust. The more power the dems gain and the more dems in power focus their attention on eg redistricting and voter rights legislation and campaign finance legislation, the less viable that life support system is going to become. Having a criminal for a president and a slew of GOP-ers who've hitched their wagon to him certainly doesn't hurt.

unless they just go full autocracy which they are clearly working toward

speaking of focusing att'n on eg voter rights legislation: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/6/1839953/-House-Oversight-Democrats-announce-investigation-into-Georgia-s-war-on-voting

evergreen

At one point, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a close Pelosi ally, pleaded with Democrats: “Everyone stop tweeting!” https://t.co/268pnsXAkm

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 6, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ay6he2/my_failed_selfie_attempt_with_the_president_of/

I cant find it now but there was an article (not sure if recent or old), re demographic change and saying that with increasing urbanization by some point in the future (2030? 2040? 2050?), 70% of the population will live in 15 states (and only 30 senators between them). I hadn't actually though about how internal migration would effect that quite so much before (not sure what the figures are now)

I've been hearing the Repugs are dying for 20 years

I will keep on saying it because it seems increasingly likely: party's gonna split at some point in the not-too-distant future, probably once it slowly dawns on us that the wheezy rasp in the GOP's hate-filled respiration has developed into an unmistakable death rattle.

The GOP is more uniform today than ever and old white people aren't going to die off en masse.
Even the 'demographics are destiny' stuff only matters to national races - a uniform GOP can control the state governments and Senate seats of half the country for decades to come unless people start building communes in the Dakotas and shit.

If 30% of the pop can have 70% of the senators, GOP death seems a long way off

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the system was raping me all over again.”

The Arizona Republican, a 26-year military veteran who retired as a colonel, made the disclosure at a Senate hearing on the military’s efforts to prevent sexual assaults and improve the response when they occur. Lawmakers also heard from other service members who spoke of being sexually assaulted and humiliated while serving their country.

i can only assume that her colleagues, like susan collins, believed that she had in fact been assaulted by someone but did not believe that it was by a superior officer

old white people aren't going to die off en masse.

Fentanyl's pretty cheap; the DSA could make some real progress toward this goal if they'd just get their heads in the game.

good morning!

when did the u go missing

The midterms i think. Fixed everything iirc

wheres those tax retuurns

Whither the qualmsey in the eye of our American tempest, whither

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the system was raping me all over again.”

McSally in Oct 2018: “But let’s make sure that people are not susceptible to false allegations, that just because someone says something doesn’t make it true.”

It’s grim. She wasn’t seated yet for the kavanaugh vote, but I’m assuming she would have voted for him. Every single senator must personally know many people who have sexually assaulted, if they weren’t assaulted themselves. I’m a complete nobody and I know of many, inside and outside the family. I cannot understand how nearly every single one is so completely hypocritical on an issue that is so intensely personal and direct and emotional.

I've heard that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

NEW: House Democrats are wary of targeting Trump’s adult children, fearing that it could backfire.

Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings is among those who is wary of zeroing in too hard on them.

Story w/ @BresPoliticohttps://t.co/r6kXWq6hN3

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) March 6, 2019

xp She SAID she would have voted for him, unless you take that as, "I have to say this for my base but luckily I don't have a vote so it's immaterial," which is possible.

Everything, literally everything, they do makes sense when you remember that 90% of what animates Dem leadership is fear of white suburban petite bourgeoisie backlash. They think they lost the Kavanaugh hearings because America loves its boys so much. https://t.co/BPpdJDIQun

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 7, 2019

lol

Louie Gohmert says he’s voting against the anti-hate resolution.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 7, 2019

you laugh now but the pro-hate wing of the GOP will clean up in the 2022 midterms

BREAKING: Paul Manafort has been sentenced to less than four years in federal prison. The guideline range was 19 to 24 years. https://t.co/MFlViwSU84

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 8, 2019

a preview of future sentencing downgrades