US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

someone tell John Kennedy (R-La.) about findom

this is gonna get spun into NYC being the problem, not trump.

trump is from nyc, check and mate

Trump learned that his close friend

huh. hoax. i don’t believe trump has any close friends and i also believe his own belief system is that he has no real friends, only useful inferiors, useful contacts, and family.

Asshole turned the daily coronavirus briefing into some jabbering nonsense about drug cartels.

Hey guys, what better time than mid-pandemic to launch a war against the drug cartels? No better time, that's when.

infrastructure week vs. drug warz FITE!

trump: why not both etc

War on drugs and threat from the Middle East. Someone's feeling the pressure in an election year.

That drug cartel stuff was bizarre. Even if you are doing that right now, maybe just do it and not talk about it. Consulting the ghost of Nancy Reagan's astronomer or something.

Jesus just slap JUST SAY NO on the intro screen to arcade games

who was that woman that just asked a question? the one that editorializes during them? she asked a question about killing children (abortions :)) during the pandemic the other day.

nevermind, she works for One America News Network. (???????????)

the new fox news!

the self-oann i presume

her question was crazier than you can even imagine the other day. i don't want to quote it here but you can find it online because anti choice groups loved it.

i saw it in real time because i have been punishing myself by watching these things and i just

the lovely reporter you are thinking of is chanel rion xp

i think her questions are planted

this is one of her questions from last week:

“Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels and they work right here out of the White House with direct access to you and your team?”

“It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” Trump replied with a grin, before going on a tirade about all the media outlets he feels have been critical of him.

"questions"

Mr. President, some people are saying you're the greatest president in a century. Others are saying you're the greatest of all time. So, which is it?

I almost posted about that abortion question a few days ago--it was so bizarre, it was like "Did I really just see that?" She's also the one that asked if Chinese food was a racist term.

Shit, that wasn't even a softball, she just handed the ball to him and let him toss it to himself

you could say these are t-ball questions

wow, i noticed one of her awful questions the other day and wondered what her deal is. this is just sad, even by missouri standards:

Chanel Rion might be an accomplished illustrator and Harvard graduate, but her husband-to-be is adamant she be home before six to prepare his dinner. Rion is the fiancee of Missouri outsider senatorial candidate Courtland Sykes. Sykes, a Republican in the mould of Donald Trump, released a bizarre statement on January 23. The press release said, in part, “I want to come home to a home cooked dinner every night at six. One that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives – think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned.”

The statement began with Sykes saying that he favors women’s rights because his fiancee “has given him orders to” but adds “obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway.”

Sykes is vying to become the Republican nominee to face Democrat Claire McCaskill in November 2018’s U.S. Senate race. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a political science lecturer at St. Louis Community College, described Sykes’ campaign as “Trump-inspired populism on steroids.”

i'm sorry that i'm linking to heavy.com

https://heavy.com/news/2018/01/courtland-sykes-fiancee-chanel-rion/

Courtland and Chanel Show going to be lit

Rion writes on her website that she and her family fled the U.S. in 1996 after President Bill Clinton won re-election. The bio says that, “Clinton was the last straw, so dad picked up stakes and moved us out of the country. I think he wanted us to see what a debauched idea socialism was and that socialism was what the Clintons stood for. He wanted us to see what socialism did in the real world—how it destroyed people and human happiness in practice.”

🤪

honestly, i don't believe that quote from her husband -- that she needs to cook dinner by six every night -- and i also don't believe her parents went to south korea to flee the clinton.

i think that republicans are liars and self-mythologizers.

So........again, I don't want to yuck anybody's kink here but can we pleeeeeeeease acknowledge the BDSM roleplay in the room. Except for the incesty bit, we can yuck that.

follow me, my children. i will take you to my worst nightmare, so that you can understand the real world is going to be that bad someday.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

I perfectly recall how Bill Clinton's ended "welfare as we knew it", just so he could destroy people and their happiness with heaps and heaps of socialism.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

One who will never break kayfabe in front of the rubes, though.

Ms. Rion went to Harvard. She is smart, understands precisely what her career path in the 'news' media entails, knows what her talents are, what audience she plays to, and how to cast herself in the necessary role. There is no naivety there. She will make good money.

she's definitely a plant, the first time I saw her she was asking something about since the term "Chinese food" isn't racist why is the liberal media saying that "Chinese virus" is racist

Forget it Dan. It's Tiger King Town.

lol

"There exists no proof that Rion actually attended Harvard College, much less graduated from it."

I trust everyone filed their census.

welp. it’s finally come to this. i finally accidentally read a Haberman tweet so egregious I had to share it.

Listening to the WH briefings over the last two days, the portrait of how long the measures to stop the spread will last is growing starker, and longer. With so much focus on NY/NJ, folks lose sight of what happens if it rolls through the rest of the country.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 1, 2020

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Marvel%27s_What_If...%3F_logo.png

guilty lol

Imagine if there was a world beyond the asshole where my head is lodged, wow

there is a mountain above the mountain

Then there is

You must forgive Maggie. She was more than half in the bag when she wrote that.

Uh, you say she wasn't two sheets to the wind? Sober, or mostly?

WTF, Haberman, what hole have you been hiding in? Ain't no ifs ands or buts involved. This is going to roll through every city, town, village and hamlet in the US and the whole freaking world. Damn, girl, u out of your mind?

You know, it occurs to me that I've never seen a picture of Haberman. Does she slather on the full-bore Barnum & Bailey grease paint or is she one of those more minimalist commedia dell'arte clowns?

whoops bye chanel https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/oan-white-house-correspondents-coronavirus-160598

I'm not sure what was egregious about that tweet

she said "if" instead of "when"

ok

capitol.

Because they might be used as weapons.

Happy May Day! Burn the motherfucker down.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/rent-is-due-today-but-millions-of-americans-wont-be-paying

The White House is preventing Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from testifying before the House next week, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee said on Friday.

Top Democrats on the panel had wanted Dr. Fauci to testify as part of an in-person hearing led by Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, who oversees the subcommittee responsible for funding health, labor and education agencies and programs. But when the committee asked for Dr. Fauci to appear, the Trump administration denied the request and the committee was told by an administration official that it was because of the White House, according to Evan Hollander, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.

At the first official briefing by a White House press secretary in 417 days, Kayleigh McEnany promised journalists, "I will never lie to you."

McEnany proceeded to say a bunch of things that weren't true.

Beginning with "I will never lie to you." I'm not even sure why she'd feel it was worth saying that--who is she speaking to? Not anyone in the room, and not to herself.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/mcenany-first-briefing-fact-check-may-1/index.html

Good morning!

I will never lie to you, as a new feature of this Presidency.

she proceeded to do it afterwards anyway though.

"I will never lie to you," she lied.

i think she was quoting Amos from The Expanse.

maybe take the halo off this hack-in-the-making

In this essay on "American leadership," Stacey Abrams manages to squeeze in anti-communism and anti-China nationalism & whitewash pretty much the entirety of US empire. And she doesn't once mention the US sanctions and wars making this pandemic far worse. https://t.co/vlW30wHHiD

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) May 1, 2020

She doesn't think America is the worst country in the world? Clearly, she is unfit to lead America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM

Have the new monthly threads been furloughed?

She doesn't think America is the worst country in the world? Clearly, she is unfit to lead America.

Correct.

US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.