The paragraph about the guy looking at photos of his penis: US POLITICS, JULY 2025

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good dooming!

what does thraed title refer to?

NOEM: We Love Everybody. We Do.

TRUMP: Not Everybody.

NOEM: Well, Yeah.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lsw3ejfrrc2g

The paragraph about the guy looking at photos of his penis.

July thread title

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, June 19, 2025

The hate budget (untold billions for secret police and concentration camps, all coming out of Medicaid and other social programs) has passed the Senate 50-50 with Vance breaking the tie.

Collins, Tillis, and Paul voted no.

fucking Murkowski

We can’t give you health care but we’ll give you the gulag

Tillis is absolutely right... the Dems are gonna campaign on the Medicaid cuts from here to eternity (or at least til the midterms)

I hope so but frankly I doubt it, that would be too effective

They will probably campaign on: We Denounce the Following Members of Our Own Party

the massive increase to ICE funding is also extremely worrying. for one it'll be better funded than the Marines and the entire Ukrainian army. on its own, it would be the 8th largest military in the world. for two the puds they got in ICE already seem like incompetent, evil cowards, and those were the *good* applicants, I can only imagine the caliber of person they'll have to turn to now that they need to hire thousands more

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― WmC, Tuesday, July 1, 2025 11:15 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

xpost might have to start recruiting immigrants

I guess a lot of the current ICE kidnappers are pulled from other agencies like ATF etc

Given the incompetence and greed common to all things Trump, there is gonna be so much grifting going on. So many "contractors" getting massive, multi-million-dollar ICE contracts for equipment that never shows up or doesn't do what it's supposed to do, etc., etc. I can't wait to see the bidding process open up.

So are the ICE guys always masked? Is Anonymous still around? I don't know what good it would do but doxing those bastards would be nice.

Apparently a lot of the masked guys are agents that aren't usually doing this kind of abducting and are freaked about being filmed and identified, per an ex-FBI director

Poor things.

This might be a topic worthy of its own thread but I'm just curious if any of y'all have a personal tipping point for fleeing the country. I never thought I'd even consider it but things are getting bad fast and I'd like to at least have some kind of criteria and a plan bc right now I feel like a frog in boiling water.

Apparently a lot of the masked guys are agents that aren't usually doing this kind of abducting and are freaked about being filmed and identified,

Snowflakes

This might be a topic worthy of its own thread but I'm just curious if any of y'all have a personal tipping point for fleeing the country.

So much of what's going on is invisible if you don't pay attention to the news. I was in Los Angeles a few days ago and it certainly didn't feel like a city under siege by marines.

This might be a topic worthy of its own thread but I'm just curious if any of y'all have a personal tipping point for fleeing the country.

I don't know about a tipping point, but my wife and I are having conversations and doing research. We think we've spotted an exit route, we just want to do it in a way that doesn't fuck ourselves over too much financially speaking. We just bought a car last year and in ordinary circumstances would be making payments on it until 2028, for example.

The ICE officers in the Bay Area are off-duty parole officers and sherrifs making massive bank on overtime, from what a little birdy in municipal funding oversight told me.

_Apparently a lot of the masked guys are agents that aren't usually doing this kind of abducting and are freaked about being filmed and identified,_

Snowflakes

It’s hilarious because they’re public servants,we have a right to know who they are.

Fuckin Elon was mentioning on X the names and titles of all the random government bureaucrats he wanted to fire. But we had to give the DOGE kids their privacy!

My wife and I had another one of our periodic discussions about “what if we wanted to leave the country?” I don’t remember which things set it off, probably the Supreme Court rulings. But realistically, we don’t particularly have the means, nor the desire. Moving to another country is hard in all sorts of ways, and also other countries all have their own problems. I have a hard time loving America, but I’d have a harder time leaving it.

(I also do love lots of particular Americans and lots of particular things about America.)

Moving to another country is hard in all sorts of ways, and also other countries all have their own problems.

Both these things are true, but honestly, unless you were planning on moving to a former Soviet republic, the US is becoming dramatically worse than pretty much any other industrialized country with incredible speed. I mean, we now have a government that is deliberately making its people sicker and forcing them to abandon clean energy.

Yep no argument there. If you’re not rich, the minuses of the US keep mounting.

But President Whitmer will reverse all this foolishness on DAY ONE

every four years we all talk about abolishing the electoral college, then we forget about it for four years, and then it's a hot topic again

Maybe we need to talk about it more often

Smart European countries with aging demographics should be falling over themselves to recruit bright young educated Americans.

I have some friends that are ex-pats in the Netherlands... they've talked about moving back to California but have put that move on hold for now

i try not to make assumptions about class or identity here, but as a lower middle class, mixed-race gay couple, the idea that we would ever have the resources to leave the US is laughable.

i also say: stay here and fight.

(but! to some xposts above: a number of countries are trying to recruit people for work, including New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, and Australia— I know because i have been fed ads related to such).

as a lower middle class, mixed-race gay couple, the idea that we would ever have the resources to leave the US is laughable

People poorer than you have made it here from elsewhere; you could make it out if you wanted to.

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Less of that bootstraps mentality, please. It’s much harder and more expensive to migrate to eg. UK/Europe than it was when I moved.

My situation is this: not wanting to set foot in the US unless a family emergency arises.

Unperson is a part-time coyote

honoured to have my words quoted in the title at this august time for us politics, in july

No, august is next month.

it is awfully hard to move to Europe from the US from what I can tell. Maybe easier to move to other countries in south or latin america.

I did see a Scottish MP was proposing opening up immigration pathways for people from the US.

my American friends in the Czech Republic didn't seem to have that much trouble.

it is awfully hard to move to Europe from the US from what I can tell.

Some countries make it harder than others. Some countries make it very easy.

Just take a slow ride.

I did see a Scottish MP was proposing opening up immigration pathways for people from the US.

I would 100% move to Glasgow or Edinburgh. Love it there.

Which do you recommend: the high road or the low road?

-And if street parking-

Yeah, when I worked for the city we went through a reduction in parking minimums, they were especially making it hard to redevelop old commercial properties along the old neighborhood corridors. The only real fuss as you can imagine came from more affluent suburban neighborhoods, where everyone plans their lives around door-to-door driving and parking. They had kind of a horror of there not being enough parking.

Yes, another drawback of parking minimums is you encourage demolition of historic buildings or keep them vacant.

Have heard good things about Henry Grabar's book /Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World/.

(re: this topic and various related issues)

/Yeah, when I worked for the city we went through a reduction in parking minimums, they were especially making it hard to redevelop old commercial properties along the old neighborhood corridors. The only real fuss as you can imagine came from more affluent suburban neighborhoods, where everyone plans their lives around door-to-door driving and parking. They had kind of a horror of there not being enough parking./

This hits close to home. I am the owner only single-family house in a (semi-blighted) commercial neighborhood currently being redeveloped. While the city is all about housing density, reducing parking, and a kind of liberal do-goodism, they are also sending kickbacks to the only private parking facility in the area.

The housing (condos) they are building cost $425,000/unit, do not come with parking, are not on major transportation, lines, and do not exist in the city that has industry to support being car-free.

As much as I hate cars and love the idea of a pedestrian friendly urban area, the fact means that cars are and will be in necessity for many working class people, and that a car free lifestyle in older neighborhoods is a fantasy of the middle class who wouldn’t live there themselves.

“sending kickbacks” is confusing. What I mean is that the city has a deal that will funnel future parking needs to private enterprise.

/ sorry for all of that. Doing speech to text.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove III, a Trump loyalist whose short tenure in the top ranks of the Justice Department prompted whistle-blower complaints and a storm of criticism from agency veterans, to a powerful federal appeals court judgeship.

Mr. Bove had spurred outcries at the department by directing or overseeing the firing of dozens of employees and ordering the dismissal of bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. According to one whistle-blower who went public, Mr. Bove also told government lawyers that they might ignore court orders in pursuit of President Trump’s immigration policy goals.

Mr. Bove has denied being anyone’s enforcer or henchman, but his nomination to a lifetime appointment one rung below the Supreme Court provoked an intense battle in the Senate. His approval to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which encompasses Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, came by a tiny margin, 50 to 49, with all Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, opposing him.

Still, the confirmation of Mr. Bove provided at least a tacit Senate endorsement of the president’s efforts to bend the justice system to his will. Most Republicans shrugged off concerns that Mr. Bove, 44 and a defense lawyer for Mr. Trump in his Manhattan criminal trial last year, had undermined the traditional independence of the Justice Department or aided in Mr. Trump’s standoffs with the courts.

From NY Times

What I mean is that the city has a deal that will funnel future parking needs to private enterprise.

What form will that take? Private lots?

I hate the privatization of parking in general. All of our downtown parking meters now are app-only payments to one of the big parking app companies. I hate it, everybody hates it, I feel bad for people like my parents who would never in a million years figure out how to use it.

It's definitely true that we can't wish cars out of existence, but we can also just let people figure out where to park. A big part of the parking management argument is that making it too easy to park has a lot of other bad effects.

Also Emil Bove is going to be on the Supreme Court before Trump's done, and then he'll live to be 150 because just look at him.

He’s only 44! Imagine what he’s going to look like at 70

That's what I mean, I don't think there's much left in him to die. He'll just get more skeletal.

He'll look fine after his regular dose of virginal blood.

I rode by a nearby local v nice ranch for sale w a maybe med size neighborhood plot, i’m guessing .7 acre, with the sign boasting its 8 car garage. an extreme outlier but

cancel med size that would be a large plot there it cannot be that big i think

"he's so good on TV" "he's a great attack dog on the TV" "maybe we should give him another chance at the nom"

how about hell the fuck no. transphobic piece of shit.

https://www.them.us/story/pete-buttigieg-trans-sports-participation-comments-fairness

yep, reprehensible

He’s only 44

I looked up his age this morning, probably off the back of some suspicion that he was inexplicably but inevitably much younger than he looked.

a tiny margin, 50 to 49, with all Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, opposing him.

Just stop the charade, you two

thank fucking god Kamala isn't going to run for CA governor.

Probably means she’s going to run for President again though.

Her statement reads, in part, "For now, my leadership - and public service - will not be in elected office."

You won’t have Harris to kick around anymore.

"Hit me up with those board seats"

she's too busy sending me daily fundraising emails

A key Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would bar members of Congress, the president and the vice president from trading stocks, after its Republican sponsor changed the bill to ensure that a divestment requirement included in the measure would never apply to President Trump.

From NY Times

lmfao

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lv7hqwor7s2b

"Very much like SABOTAGE!" for August thread title.

Eh, I would prefer if we avoided direct quotes from that moron, but..

President Lefsetz

Second-tier Josh is a solid handle

lmfao

is this still all because of Trump's widdle ego getting hurt at the 2011 white house correspondents dinner?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/sen-ron-johnson-says-sending-obama-to-guantanamo-has-been-referred/ar-AA1JvSjE

Trump went all TACO re: Mexico tariffs

"Gone Taco" my favorite George Harrison single.

good news, everybody!

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/31/politics/white-house-ballroom-construction

What

Leavitt characterized the new construction — which she said will be funded by Trump and other private donors — as a necessary addition [...]

can he take it with him when he leaves office

he's already made the oval office resemble a french whorehouse.. I can't imagine what this is gonna look like

you do a disservice to French whores and their houses by associating them with such scum

In a better world, this should absolutely be his "let them eat cake*" moment that kicks off the revolution, especially in light of the poll showing even many Republicans blame him for the current high cost of living. But.... *sigh*

* - yes, I know this is historically dubious, but everyone understands the intended reference

Don’t worry, on the economy thread the administration is going to juke the inflation statistics. Problem solved!

new thread?

Sorry, I meant there was an article someone posted in the US Economy thread about the partially deliberate debilitation of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

no I got ya, sorry for confusion

Senator Slotkin says of the CIA: "These are good, corn-fed people who just want to help their country." pic.twitter.com/ApFhXE4E3J

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 31, 2025

Nomination for August thread title: These are Good, Corn-Fed People

Not bad. I was thinking "Justice Brett Kavanaugh is probably reading this." https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-00487536

These are threads about the Corn Belt and some of the people in it, or on it

I made a new thread
I would prefer if we avoided direct quotes from that moron, but..AUGUST US POLITICS thread