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

He's always been a moron, and especially so since at least the time when he started entertaining political notions

NB: this was 1987

I knew someone would go there, and it's only natural that that someone would be you, friend.

Okay, political notions that didn't include overtures to Oprah as a running mate.

oh, I thought I was agreeing with you

was this before or after the brain spiders

How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled "Blackish"? Can you imagine the furor of a show, "Whiteish"! Racism at highest level?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014

His political ambitions have always been so thoroughly mixed up with simple self-promotion that even in 2016, after he had the republican nomination, he apparently viewed the election as the world's biggest infomercial on his own behalf.

2016, 2019

he literally sends out emails hawking 2020 campaign merch

(well, the royal "he")

It's just a little stunning to look back at eg that interview that leaked prior to the election where he was praising Hillary Clinton, where he doesn't seem completely incurious or like he was raised in a box and only released into the sunlight for the first time somewhere in his twilight years. Yes, again, he's been a huge blowhard dummy throughout his existence as a public figure, but the erosion in recent years is noteworthy. And not dissimilar to the pre-/post-presidency mental decay seen in GWB.

Parallel lines on a slow decline
collusion witch hoax

Another excellent Eli Valley cartoon:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0w7HNKX0AAkr00.jpg

Anyone post this amazingness?

https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman

Shit, this:

The video is just jaw dropping pic.twitter.com/xRMxo1arwf

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 8, 2019

that fucking family should be put in front of a firing squad

Prince, I discovered, seems to have a Trumpian relationship with the truth. He tried to suggest that a car bomb exploded at Baghdad’s Nisour Square “five minutes” before Blackwater guards shot and killed 14 innocent Iraqis on September 16, 2007. I reminded him that there was no such explosion at Nisour Square. He denied that his current company, Frontier Services Group, is planning to build a “training facility” in Xinjiang, China, where more than a million Uighur Muslims are being held in Chinese detention camps, dismissing a press release confirming the news as a mistranslation from Mandarin. I had to inform him that the press release was issued by his own company, FSG, in English.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/08/erik-prince-trump-mehdi-hasan/

Bold Prognostication: Not gonna be the last time we hear "Maybe the transcript is wrong"

that fucking family should be put in front of a firing squad

― maura, Friday, March 8, 2019 5:46 PM (ten minutes ago)

oh jesus, don't let treeship hear you

intreeshent proposal

Guys we gotta knock this off

The firing squad is going to be mega-overbooked in 2019, we need to give them some weekends and bump a few into 2020

I would be ok with some Katniss archery squads.

These suggestions of utilizing a firing squad against unpopular public figures are just disgraceful. Did you think for one second about how much more satisfying a public stoning would be? For shame.

Can we just put them all on a diarrhea cruise ship for forever.

Wait...is the ship going to be made of diarrhea?

powered by

Helluva way to go

Just everything on the cruise ship gives you diarrhea and everyone on it has diarrhea. And no one is there to clean. It's a diarrhea prison. I have never been on a cruise but this is how I imagine they could go.

poopship destroyer, in so many words, then

glad we got that sorted

that fucking family should be put in front of a firing squad
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 23:46 (yesterday) Permalink

and in re firing squads, i keep thinking that if these people keep parading their inhumanity in public and get rewarded for it, there is going to be a thirst for retribution that hasn't been seen in a long while. like robbespierre type shit.

truth and reconciliation defenestration

Did we catch this? From this weekend's On the Media:

Mexican officials and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are using a secret database to target journalists and advocates at the southern border. This week, On the Media speaks with a reporter on the list who was detained for questioning by Mexican authorities. ...1. Mari Payton [@MariNBCSD], reporter at NBC 7 in San Diego, and Kitra Cahana, freelance photojournalist, on the secret government database of immigration reporters and advocates.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media

I love our new sheriff so much


http://m.startribune.com/hennepin-county-sheriff-endorses-bill-for-driver-s-licenses-for-immigrants-here-illegally/506909692/

if it ends up being Trump v Bernie in the general gonna love the media's wailing and hand-wringing over the ascendant "anti-semitic" left's criticism of Israel being somehow worse than Trump's out n proud "Jews will not replace us" neo nazis & groyper gang.

The fact that Bernie Sanders is Jewish will make absolutely no difference.

republicans being terrible are too dog bites man an angle

i assume some sort of regularly-scheduled satanic rite was involved.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Saturday, March 9, 2019 1:06 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Calvinism + capitalism = monsters like these soulless ghouls

good morning!

that erik prince clip is so deeply satisfying

yeah it really is. but then i think about being alive in a time when half of America's voting public is like "yep, clearly the transcript got it wrong nothing to see here #MAGA" and it's pretty deflating

realDonaldTrump liked this tweet: https://t.co/Gi7GWxwpdI

— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) March 10, 2019

huh

is trump conscious or aware enough of twitter to know what 'liking' things means

almost certainly not

Trump campaign advisor defends White House diversity: “How many black people were in Lincoln’s West Wing?" https://t.co/imYUUn1cez pic.twitter.com/BrinYsqZQq

— The Hill (@thehill) March 10, 2019

Spoiler: It's Katrina Pierson.

'Israel is the nation-state of Jews alone': Netanyahu responds to TV star who said Arabs are equal citizens https://t.co/emzCmPa3cY

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) March 10, 2019

Why is Bibi not in prison yet, I haven’t been keeping up with that story

I believe the NYT suggested some think he is "indispensible" to Israel

meanwhile, icymi while obsessing idiotically over Glenn Greenwald

Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy https://t.co/jXBw2qdecV

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) March 10, 2019