US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.

NY times has updated headline from Trump does "freewheeling " speech to : Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-speech-ohio.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.sir9.UmpIP0xdPxeb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Trump called migrants "animals" in Dayton, Ohio speech yesterday

Trump began that rally with a call to stand up and salute the "great patriots" "the January 6 hostages.”

his appeal must surely be growing more selective

lol

Freewheeling = no brakes

nah I think it's true, the Jan 6th stuff is a real liability, obviously a lot of voters will bear it and vote for him anyway but there's a lot of evidence that it's lost him a lot of support in the center. but he can't exactly disown them because then he loses support from the crazies. a skilled politician could probably thread the needle somehow but Trump is in way too deep and also I suspect his brain doesn't work anymore

Increasingly freewheelin'

He can't disavow them without letting of the RIGGED ELECTION stuff. What he's forcing all Republican voters to do is to some degree ratify that claim. Especially if he actually wins this year, he will insist on that being the real story — the unjust rigged ouster, followed by righteous restoration. He's built a mythology that he's trying to make manifest, and weirdly enough he has a reasonable chance of doing it.

Oh god if he wins he’s going to pardon all those PB and 3 percenters and let them run wild in the streets.

he'll embolden them like they've never been emboldened before

they'll be whatever the opposite of increasingly isolated is

warmly embraced?

excruciatingly coddled

Hell, they'll end up on his payroll, through a layer or two removed natch, to do his dirty work.

that eyepatch fuck will be attorney general

Crenshaw? Trump hates him I think.

No, isn't there a Proud Boy type with an eyepatch too? A real piece of shit?

Got like, 18 years in the clink for Jan. 6?

and for being a real piece of shit?

A piece of shit with an eyepatch.

Shot his own eye out?

Oath Keeper (lol) leader Stewart Rhodes. I forgot about the Oath Keepers!

They should at least take an oath to use firearms responsibly.

Oath Keepers were especially active in recruiting police. You have to figure most of their members are still in place, but laying low for now.

"stand back and stand by"

So how is it that Peter Navarro goes to jail but not Bannon?

bannon secretes an oil that allows him to slide between the bars

https://i0.wp.com/bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hobo-with-a-shotgun-review.jpg

Hell, they'll end up on his payroll, through a layer or two removed natch, to do his dirty work.

The silver lining in this scenario is that we know Trump would never actually pay them

I’ve gotta a pretty firm rule that I never celebrate people showing up for prison. And it’s because it’s a terrible (which isn’t to say it’s wrong or unnecessary) thing to see, even when it’s right and deserved. But this dude is really straining my system. I mean stfu already. https://t.co/ayeMAvmDdM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 19, 2024

He looks like he's been in prison for decades

In a sense he has.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/politics/alabama-dei-bill.html

Alabama Republicans pushed through a sprawling measure on Tuesday that would not only ban state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public universities, local boards of education and government agencies, but also limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race, gender and identity.

The bill passed with broad support in the State Legislature, but faced vehement opposition from student groups, civil rights advocates and Democrats who said it was a chilling attempt to undercut free speech and diversity efforts, especially given Alabama’s history of educational segregation and racism.

The bill also forbids public universities and colleges from allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity...
....
With the legislation, Alabama lawmakers join a broad, right-wing campaign that has targeted D.E.I. programs and initiatives, and has sought to roll back or limit efforts to expand racial diversity on college campuses across the country.

The prohibitions are largely focused on the teaching of “divisive concepts,” which the bill defines in part as assigning “fault, blame or bias” to any race, religion, gender or nationality. Other examples of divisive concepts include teaching that a person is “inherently responsible for actions committed in the past” or that a person should “accept, acknowledge, affirm or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity or a need to apologize” based on their race, religion, gender or background.

All of these anti-DEI bills ought to be shot down on basic 1st Amendment grounds because they are 100 percent content-based prohibitions. But who knows what to expect from the courts anymore. It’s just, how much more blatant could it be than fucking Alabama passing laws basically saying you can’t say anything about race that will make white people feel bad. The Confederacy ain’t dead.

Florida's initiative is basically dead because the courts stopped it.

I know this is an unpopular thing to say, and why it is, but it’s almost like many states in this country just don’t want me to ever visit them, spend money there, etc.

I feel like this kind of undermines the Biden impeachment effort, but maybe James Comer can explain how it actually helps

former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas: "From shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019, to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you: The American people have been lied to by Trump, Giuliani, & various cohorts of individuals in govt and media positions." pic.twitter.com/q5aHzAk0HL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

nah the New York Times will

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/17/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-gridiron-club-and-foundation-dinner-march-16-2024/

Of course, the big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president. One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other is me. (Laughter and applause.)

Look, I’m running against the same guy that I beat in 2020. But don’t tell him. He thinks he’s running against Barack Obama. (Laughter.) That’s what he said.

And another big difference between us: I know what I value most. I’m Jill Biden’s husband, and I know her name. (Laughter and applause.)

he's a senile loser + they want to raise the retirement age seems like the right angle to me

I feel like this kind of undermines the Biden impeachment effort, but maybe James Comer can explain how it actually helps

our "conservative" friends are as emotionally mature as fifth graders, and "impeaching" joe biden is basically no different than trying to stigmatize him as a nerd who deserves to be bullied because popular "rich" kid trump says so. what a fucking country

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/congress-spending-bill-shutdown.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.eU0.cwqo.iiE_5czKbAcf&smid=url-share

Democrats and Republicans both highlighted victories in the painstakingly negotiated legislation. Republicans cited as victories funding for 2,000 new Border Patrol agents, additional detention beds run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a provision cutting off aid to the main United Nations agency that provides assistance to Palestinians. Democrats secured funding increases for federal child care and education programs, cancer and Alzheimer’s research.

and a provision cutting off aid to the main United Nations agency that provides assistance to Palestinians.

yep and it lasts until March 2025 for extra ghoulishness

it's also just insane that funding cancer research is a concession to the Dems. I know "GOP = death cult" got thrown around a lot during the height of Covid but sheesh they're really leaning in

the border stuff is also dismal. I genuinely don't see what the Ds have to lose taking a humane and compassionate stance on immigration, asylum, and refugees

(yes, I know they don't control the House)

People are already starting to come in through the northern border, I assume that will accelerate with these new border provisions

People are already starting to come in through the northern border, I assume that will accelerate with these new border provisions

Immigration leapfrog!

It always strikes me how, when US conservatives say they want to "close the border" they never mean the Canadian border or international flights into the USA. Just the border with our brown-skinned-majority neighbors.

One of the largest group of 'undocumenteds' are Canadians who overstayed their visas

But Trump did the “Muslim Ban”, which included airports. Anyway Republicans don’t get cancer cause they have an immune system, haw haw.