US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

ice cream is for Kremlinologists.

ice cream -- 2 scoops for me, 1 for you

it's a rocky road

"Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream?"

(can't believe you guys forgot that)

"How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."

Clearly the more apt comparison to Infowars are the Wikileaks/Intercept conspiracy axis. That mail-job was textbook conservative hysteria.

The Intercept? Are they so far gone?

Not yet, but they're better proof of the lefts conspiracy-ness than some nobody from Montana.

The nerve of some folks:

On MLK day, I like to read his Letter From Birmingham Jail, which still resonates: “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away... and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation...”

— James Comey (@Comey) January 15, 2018

‘i like to read his letter from birmingham jail and then go straight back to doing nothing at all, in either my personal or professional life, to help achieve his vision’

perhaps you missed his tweet

something something white moderate

Other fun posts:

OPINION: Please stop politicizing Martin Luther King Day. It's a day for national unity, not political division https://t.co/MiE83UYlG0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2018

ah yes, the famously unpolitical mlk, who made rousing speeches about just like chilling out and enjoying the status quo iirc

we just want a day off why you gotta ruin it

"shithouse" was involved in a political scandal when then Governor Schaeffer called the Eastern Shore of Maryland a shithouse. It's not a great defense.

certainly nothing political at all about fox news opinion pieces asking the nation to unify around doing nothing to combat injustice, inequality or racism

what a deplorable shithouse news network

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away...

These kind of quotes are the most popular now, because they are the most innocuous. Certainly, people who are in the midst of a fierce battle against oppression and terror, with plentiful deaths and thousands of casualties, require hope for the future or they'd never lay their life and their bodies on the line. But hope was not the end goal, just the fuel that drove the unimaginably hard work the movement was doing.

jfc that Paul Ryan picture

I'm not the biggest fan of Biden but I'm forever appreciative of the 2012 debate where he demonstrated that the correct response to Paul Ryan is to laugh at him and refuse to ever take him seriously.

idk I think the correct response involves more kicking

"is russia a 'shithouse' country, mr. speaker?"

Now, now, there’s plenty of time for both the kicking and the laughing

ah yes conservatives trying to adopt the legacy of MLK ("he was Republican you know!!!") is always delicious. can't tell you how many christian conservatives i heard growing up screeching about his extra-marital affairs and dirty socialism.

maybe Sam Bee isn't cool anymore(?) but her twitter account today is doing a p good job of roasting all these saggy GOP fucks tweeting about King.

first they came for the undocumented

wait hold on just one minute here the author of fox's mlk piece is called jeremy c. hunt? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjH4arIn-80

fox news: 'stop politicising mlk day!'

also fox news: 'some Americans have given up on Dr. King’s dream and have begun to advocate a form of toxic identity politics that abandons colorblindness as an ideal.'

.@newtgingrich: It would be a colossal mistake to give up on Martin Luther King's dream https://t.co/Q2NBftzyHX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 15, 2018

Prominent civil rights advocate Newt Gingrich

Interesting if true...

BREAKING: #Haiti held emergency high court session that resulted in an agreement to unseal and release information within ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's indictments relating to #MoneyLaundering via Trump Tower condo.

More background here → https://t.co/Wb4iLQMgm9 https://t.co/I1TU2uMBqE

— Bandit Aléatoire (@BanditRandom) January 15, 2018

On very related note, check out Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America is a great recent book that covers, among many things, how ‘70s “colorblind” policy still managed to jail a far larger portion of black folks.

to unseal and release information within ex-dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier's indictments relating to #MoneyLaundering via Trump Tower condo.

This would be an interesting development if every country the idiot badmouths just opens up the file cabinets to dump all records on related business dealings.

It won’t change the polls, of course, but hopefully it would add more avenues of investigation.

here is something you can't understand -- how i could just be a republican and expect deferential treatment, man

This is a rather interesting combination of report and outlet.

U.S. counterintelligence officials warned Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch https://t.co/5vPc0aMnY1

— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) January 15, 2018

fuck yeah let’s all get paranoid about china and russia now

Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting. Deals can’t get made when there is no trust! Durbin blew DACA and is hurting our Military.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 15, 2018

once again, i wonder if he's aware that the govt shutdown doesn't mean that the military shuts down

he is not.

exciting new technology allows us for the first time ever to take a glimpse inside the president’s brain

https://www.doctorramey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dontknowdontcare.jpg

has any pundit or politician made an effort to remind everyone that DACA was an executive action, and that if Idiot wanted DACA he could bring it back tomorrow?

another fun-filled day of Trump trying to play Checkers on a Backgammon board

is anyone surprised

WASHINGTON — The most significant attempt to loosen rules imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is underway in Congress as the Senate looks to pass legislation within the next month that would roll back restrictions on swaths of the finance industry.

...The bill would allow hundreds of smaller banks to avoid certain elements of federal oversight, including stress tests, which measure a bank’s ability to withstand a severe economic downturn. Under current law, banks with assets of $50 billion or more are considered “systemically important financial institutions” and therefore governed by stricter rules. The bill would raise that threshold to institutions with assets of $250 billion or more, leaving fewer than 10 big banks in the United States subject to the stricter oversight.

Banks with assets of $50 billion to $100 billion would be immediately freed from those requirements. Financial institutions with $100 billion to $250 billion in assets, such as BB&T and American Express, would no longer be subject to tougher rules after 18 months, although the Federal Reserve would retain the authority to periodically conduct stress tests on those firms.

...The bill that is working its way through the Senate was brokered primarily by Senator Mike Crapo, the Idaho Republican who chairs the banking committee, and moderate Democrats such as Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Senator Jon Tester of Montana, Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. Eleven Senate Democrats are co-sponsoring the bill, making its passage in the Senate likely.

This is why people don’t vote

has any pundit or politician made an effort to remind everyone that DACA was an executive action, and that if Idiot wanted DACA he could bring it back tomorrow?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 15, 2018 7:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This would undermine his stated reason for rescinding the order (that it's not in the purview of POTUS). Not that he wouldn't deny that and anybody would GAF

your Senatorial #Resistance in action on financial regs

One of Vladimir Putin's principal geo-strategic goals has been to get the mighty Ben Cardin out of the Senate. He's been plotting to do this for years, and finally devised the can't-miss scheme: he recruited a young trans woman with felony convictions for leaking to primary him.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 15, 2018

once again, i wonder if he's aware that the govt shutdown doesn't mean that the military shuts down

which expose the whole shutdown thing as bullshit. It's not a government shut-down, it's a government lockout against selected federal employees.

The stupid GOP is constantly harping about the size of government, constantly trying to cut programs, just cut over a trillion dollars from the budget and works for a president whose minions are decimating government agencies across the board. Toss in that DACA can be solved in a second by executive order and yeah, fuck it, who are they to argue against a government shutdown? Bring it on. I just want the Dems to control the message, which should be some variation of the above.

The Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security. The biggest loser will be our rapidly rebuilding Military, at a time we need it more than ever. We need a merit based system of immigration, and we need it now! No more dangerous Lottery.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2018

once again, i wonder if he's aware that the govt shutdown doesn't mean that the military shuts down