no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

is axios an elaborate joke?

The handheld cameras on that kushner interview were an elaborate joke, holy shit. Like watching the blair witch project, starring an empty vessel

the GOP should subpoena G. Gordon Liddy and we can get to the bottom of this Watergate hoax

Good morning!

is axios an elaborate joke?

Mike Allen and a guy I think was Jim VandeHei sat next to me at a cocktail bar over here. I didn't know who they were at the time, but I tried to make light conversation with Mike Allen. He noticed me but deliberately ignored me. Then I saw all the Axios stickers on his macbook and did some googling, found out it was him.

Kind of a dick.

hi American thread 👋🏻 the Queen secretly owning Trump discourse is like shit Christmas

Speculating on whether or not famous/powerful people are subtly owning Trump in their interactions with him is QAnon for liberals https://t.co/SKtcuComS2

— Paul Blest (@pblest) June 4, 2019

This is making the queen seem way more favourable than the reptile she really is tbh :-/

anyone looks good next to a creepy psychopath

No way to talk about the heir to the throne.

lol

WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him.

Mr. Trump’s latest threat — 5 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico, rising to as high as 25 percent until the Mexican government stems the flow of migrants — has riled Republican senators who fear its impact on the economy and their home states. They emerged from a closed-door lunch in the Capitol angered by the briefing they received from a deputy White House counsel, Patrick F. Philbin, and Assistant Attorney General Steven A. Engel on the legal basis for imposing new tariffs by declaring a national emergency.

“I want you to take a message back” to the White House, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, told the attorneys, according to people familiar with the meeting. “You didn’t hear a single yes” from the Republican conference. He called the proposed tariffs a $30 billion tax hike on Texans.

Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said he warned the lawyers that the Senate could muster an overwhelming majority to beat back the tariffs, even if Mr. Trump were to veto a resolution disapproving them. Republicans may be broadly supportive of Mr. Trump’s push to build a wall and secure the border, he said, but they are almost uniformly opposed to the imposition of tariffs on Mexico.

“The White House should be concerned about what that vote would result in, because Republicans really don’t like taxing American consumers and businesses,” Mr. Johnson said.

Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, fretted, “We’re holding a gun to our own heads.”

just wait til they figure out that the China tariffs are ALSO paid for by american people consumers

They also apposed the national emergency five months ago -- remember that bill? Then they caved. Veremos.

spending this wild tuesday night checking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director

am i the only one who never realized that pat buchanan was communicators director for reagan from 1985-87?

also, from april 1987 to july 2017, there was never a gap between the tenures of communications directors - one would start the day the other finished. trump has had several multi-week gaps already: 16 days between the mooch and hope hicks, almost three months between hicks and bill shine, and now almost 3 months since bill shine left.

i'm not expert, but it seems like it would be important to have a communications director.

i'm not an expert!

Twitter makes that unnecessary.

watch this to die instantly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEy7LRpuv9A

How far does Piers manage to get his tongue up Donnie's b-hole?

i don't know, i didn't watch because i didn't want to die instantly

the inhuman centipede

lol:

We did it! https://t.co/rx6ZKGyVBD

— Guy Endore-Kaiser (@GuyEndoreKaiser) June 5, 2019

hahahaa

the very definition of an open goal from ivanka there

I would bet a substantial sum of money that the significance of what she wrote is completely lost on her.

I thought "Jared" would be sound, solid entertainment in January 2017.

“First of all, I didn’t know anything about it, but I’m not even sure it happened,” Trump told Piers Morgan on “Good Morning Britain.” “I hear it’s fake news. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But again, I don’t talk about John McCain unless someone asks me about it.”

oh so it didn't really happen .

Destined for Bartlett's Quotes. Trump: “China, India, Russia, many other nations, they have not very good air, not very good water, and the sense of pollution. If you go to certain cities, you can’t even breathe, and now that air is going up. They don’t do the responsibility.”

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 5, 2019

reading that in the voice of prime Jerry Lewis

Reading that as if it were the final gaseous emissions from a dying horse's suppurating asshole.

pollution: it’s real and bad in other countries but fine in the usa

We do the responsibility here

His words on the border in Ireland were similarly nonsensical. If we have time left for hindsight, its gaze upon this era will be withering.

they don't have the freedom molecules, and that's why they resent us

i really hope whoever ends up debating this oatmeal-brained fuck treats his utterances with the proper level of incomprehension and exhaustion. but of course you know they won't, they'll just act like a totally normal grown adult has just said a totally normal grown adult thing and not "they don't do the responsibility"

fucking hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQxn1yYE7VU

Candidate One: (stomps on whoopee cushion filled with mayonnaise while firing off two airhorns)
Candidate Two: With respect, the assumptions underscoring my opponent's position are baseless, for the following reasons...

I fucking wish

En route to The Hague! 🇺🇸🇳🇱#GES2019

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 5, 2019

46.1% of american voters: i like the mayo man that makes fartz
48.2% of american voters: ... we are in hell

*mix it all up with a little electoral college*
the mayo man wins!

^ the succinctest encapsulation of the current predicament I have yet seen

reading that in the voice of prime Jerry Lewis

omg

No one understands borders like big brains in the corner.

“The Senate won’t remove him” is a terrible argument for why the House shouldn’t hold Trump accountable. And the politics of forcing the Senate to vote to protect Trump are good - here’s Trump’s approval in the states we need to take back the Senate: https://t.co/ahLIlLA7Kz

— Adam Jentleson 🎈🐢 (@AJentleson) June 5, 2019

46.1% of american voters: i like the mayo man that makes fartz
48.2% of american voters: ... we are in hell

*mix it all up with a little electoral college*
the mayo man wins!

― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:03 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow attacked rn

lmao

lmayo, tbh

if you were wondering what all the soldiers deployed to confront the evil caravans at the southern border are doing

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-to-spend-a-month-painting-border-barriers-to-improve-aesthetic-appearance/

painting >> shooting

if i were the CO i'd order everyone to use paintball guns. painting AND shooting training. two birds with one stone. also, to pick up any dead birds they find by the wall (because builds kill many more birds each year than wind turbines. fun fact to mention next time your crazy ass uncle is going on a tirade about wind energy because he suddenly cares so much about the livelihood of birds). three birds with one stone.

Dodo's D-Day speech sounded like it was done thru a prompter

(earpiece i mean)

He does that thing where he lisps and, like a two-pack-a-day smoker, inhales deeply

NEWSFLASH: After Normandy speech, Trump now "presidential", according to MSDNC's Andrea Mitchell.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 6, 2019

So they're cutting activities (including legal aid) to kids at the border...