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

fuck!! CNN in the background with voters from Ohio praising trump's bullshit and eating up the lies on immigrants taking ALL their jobs!!

"he says stuff like real americans,i like that, I want may country back" xp

my*

(bitcoin babies right now getting a lot not-richer)

psyched for everyone save native americans to self-deport

New report from DOJ & DHS shows that nearly 3 in 4 individuals convicted of terrorism-related charges are foreign-born. We have submitted to Congress a list of resources and reforms....

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

....we need to keep America safe, including moving away from a random chain migration and lottery system, to one that is merit-based. https://t.co/7PtoSFK1n2

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

fUCK THIS FUCKING NARRATIVE IS SO INFURIATING .

and of course completely untrue

be interested to know exactly how many individuals have been convicted of terrorism-related charges in this stat he's citing

https://qz.com/1180762/trumps-dhs-and-doj-are-overcounting-foreign-born-terrorists/

Charles Pierce is not pleased with Chelsea Manning's running

Look, I have no problem if Manning wants to run. Everybody who wants to run should be able to run. That’s why I’m in favor of campaign-finance reform and easy access to the franchise. Also, as my grandmother used to say, everyone’s entitled to go to hell in their own way.

And, generally, I’m in favor of vigorous primaries. They sharpen people up for the general election and, occasionally, the debate creates momentum for a policy or an issue that’s been lost in the general hurly-burly. But I also believe that, in a proper primary, both candidates should agree on exactly the office for which they’re running. Ben Cardin is running for re-election to the United States Senate. Chelsea Manning seems to be running to be Natalie Portman’s stunt double in V For Vendetta II: The Vendetting.

If I had my own military intelligence establishment, and I was trying to run candidates to screw up the government of the United States, this is exactly the kind of campaign video I would run. I also would point out that there’s a very old and racist joke involving the Lone Ranger and Tonto that Manning’s rather profligate use of the first-person plural brings immediately to mind.

“’Terrorism-related’ is not a term that appears in the US criminal code,” said Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute. “It’s pretty meaningless.”

His own analysis, which counts foreign-born terrorists convicted of planning or committing a terrorist attack in the US, found 154 cases from 1975 to 2015. That’s almost 250 fewer than the Trump administration’s count over a longer period of time. The White House and the Homeland Security department did not respond to requests for comment.

trump administration in 'total bullshit' shocker

(thx for the link doc c)

First, the list excludes homegrown extremists, who have become the US’s biggest terror threat.

basically they're including people who were convicted of whatever non-terrorism crime, if the investigations/prosecutions in some way arose out of a terrorism investigation... and NOT counting "domestic" terrorism like vegas, charlestown etc. so basically the remit for the report, which was called for in the muslim ban EO, was "manufacture evidence to support the muslim ban EO."

xpost

the level of incompetent mendacity on display would be funny if it wasn't so likely to help trump get what he wants

If I had my own military intelligence establishment, and I was trying to run candidates to screw up the government of the United States, this is exactly the kind of campaign video I would run.

cause if there's one thing we all love it's the government of the United States as it is currently structured and operated

Flake’s speech is going to compare trump’s treatment of the media to Stalin (for real - there were reports about it from early transcripts the other day)

wait, so the military intelligence establishment is backing the campaign of someone who infamously blew the whistle on that same military intelligence establishment in order to tilt the us government on its axis... for some reason?

the 'chelsea is a russian stooge' take seems sane by comparison

Flake’s speech is going to compare trump’s treatment of the media to Stalin (for real - there were reports about it from early transcripts the other day)

oh cool so now the right's gonna stan for stalin the way they've been stanning for hitler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mnv3WcQPk

'i strongly condemn the president's shameful words and actions, and i will continue to vote in support of his policies the overwhelming majority of the time'

oh cool so now the right's gonna stan for stalin the way they've been stanning for hitler

tbf he probably killed more communists than anyone else

when #nevertrump GOP dudes end up in gulags for, oh let's say at least six months, I'll buy this comparison, with a side of popcorn.

oh cool so now the right's gonna stan for stalin the way they've been stanning for hitler

― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara),

my thought too

The part of Pierce's post on Manning that Alfred quoted is not the important part. This is:

I would like one person to explain to me how any of the following would improve if Chelsea Manning were the senator from Maryland instead of Ben Cardin.

1) The national government;

2) The lives of the people of Maryland, and,

3) Any progressive policy not drawn up with spray-paint on the side of an abandoned factory.

And please, show your work. Also, any answer containing the phrase, “neo-McCarthyism” is automatically disqualified.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation extending a government program established to gather information from foreigners overseas has cleared a key Senate hurdle.

The Senate voted 60-38 to limit debate on the six-year reauthorization of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s vote to limit debate got supporters to the threshold needed for the Senate to move to a final vote.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had pushed Democrats to oppose limiting debate, saying lawmakers from both parties should get an opportunity to offer amendments.

here are the 18 senate democrats who got it to 60 votes:

Tom Carper (Del.), Bob Casey (Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Doug Jones (Ala.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Mark Warner (Va.), Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.).

my boy Bill Nelson

MORE POWER FOR THE MAD GOD-KING

so much for my tentative endorsement of Duckworth

so tired of Dems doing this shit under the guise of "bipartisanship" or w/e

primary them all

Yeah, I know Duckworth is a military vet and that probably affects her vote but jfc

wonder if they would have voted down the Shithole Intelligence of Surveillance Act

“Ugh, here we go” for next month’s thread title plz

http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/stormy-daniels-describes-sex-with-trump-in-cringe-worthy-detail-ugh-here-we-go-please-dont-pay-me/

digression i suppose but charles pierce is the most unreadable writer who evidently puts a lot of work into their sentences this side of james wolcott

Chas Pierce can gtfo

“Ugh, here we go” for next month’s thread title plz

modern life gets snrubbisher

3) Any progressive policy not drawn up with spray-paint on the side of an abandoned factory.

lol what a dumbass, this is literally how you tell if they'll work

This strikes me as not a smart move

#BREAKING: White House told Bannon attorney when not to respond during House interview: report https://t.co/dRTRatkQDr pic.twitter.com/TPpRS5ofkE

— The Hill (@thehill) January 17, 2018

Also, all kinds of fun in here

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election

Yeah, just saw that:

US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.

here's one improvement over Cardin: not fellating Netanyahu

assuming some busybody editor made him cut the brilliant menckenesque epithet he'd prepared for chelsea manning, but while we're here, they're worse than trump's

Bankers flagged it to the US government as suspicious in part because the transaction, MARKED PAYROLL, didn’t fit prior pay patterns.

hahaha

assuming some busybody editor made him cut the brilliant menckenesque epithet he'd prepared for chelsea manning, but while we're here, they're worse than trump's

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12

I've wanted to poll these for a while, suspect that Big Chicken and Huckleberry Butchmeup will win.

be sure to list each of the options 9000 times

digression i suppose but charles pierce is the most unreadable writer who evidently puts a lot of work into their sentences this side of james wolcott

― mark s, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:21 PM

He's terrific when he remembers he was a reporter and writes like one.

Woke Axl Rose is still something to contemplate

Now we know what the W. stands for, huh

well played, sir

Huckleberry Butchmeup

what does this mean