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

It’s a new month

thank god there's no penis in this thread title

where's the Epstein files?

WITAOD?????

Whiney can make GLOCK puns now

Was hoping we’d have ‘Every day another wonderful secret’ as the title.

lmao

well, hey, we found a different moron to quote for this month's title, so hey!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is gone.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.

For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

CPB informed its employees today that the majority of staff positions will conclude with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. A small transition team will remain through January 2026 to ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations. This team will focus on compliance, final distributions, and resolution of long-term financial obligations, including ensuring continuity for music rights and royalties that remain essential to the public media system.

“Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison said. “We are deeply grateful to our partners across the system for their resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to serving the American people.”

it just keeps getting more bleak and depressing. fuck. that logo is burned into my head from my earliest memories.

well, hey, we found a different moron to quote for this month's title, so hey!

idgi

infuriating.

xp - ha, just some self-deprecation, this month's title came from my post about not wanting to stare at a Trump quote all month

Did we miss Donald’s appointment of a registered sex offender to a council on youth fitness and sports?

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lvbylarrky2x

I liked yr post jon

appreciate it! also glad to not have "penis" in the title for a month!

hey! what about free speech?

Aug 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in regions near Russia in response to threats from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,” Trump said in a social media post that called Medvedev’s statements highly provocative.He said he ordered the submarines moved “just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.”

please read thread title

Trump has written a long screed on Truth Social calling for the firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. That should fix the economy!

Putin nodding, wishing Uncle Joe was here to see it.

500,000 new jobs per month incoming xp

That Truth screed is both par for the course, but also completely unhinged and weird.

Imagine getting fired via Truth.

He used to pull shit like that on Twitter all the time.

So it's official, she's gone. Just comic-book dictator stuff here.

yeah but now I feel more confident about the economy

august job report going to be lit

next up: fire both Dow & Jones on social media

yeah can't imagine the stock market is jazzed about getting fake job numbers moving forward

august jobs report gonna be announced live by that "are you ready to rumble" guy

no weather data = no climate change
no price data = no inflation
no jobs data = no lost jobs

winning!!

no weather data = no climate change Hope
no price data = no inflation Cash
no jobs data = no lost jobs Jobs

can he fire Vance?

history being rewritten, live:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian/

this shit is just so nakedly transparent and just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

'the most transparent administration in history'

Soon they will have an exhibition about how he won the 2020 election.

lol Andy

if it can happen there...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/world/americas/el-salvador-bukele-term-limits.html

uhh, that should be on the August Salvadoran politics thread I think

he literally wanted no covid testing because it showed people got covid

Good morning!

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs/

^ nobody in the cabinet is going to stop him, but if the above is right then someone in say, the military, will have to take the nuclear button away from him in the next three years.

feels a bit of a sympathetic take to say that he's not determinedly lying

Lying comes as easy to him as breathing, but the dementia layers in the extra spice that turns his lies into a bizarre slurry that is completely unmoored from meaning and reality.

Age or some early stage of possible dementia may be some form of amplifying factor, but I don't think there's a sea change at all. It's always been the case with him, that he makes up his own reality. Whether it has "tangible benefit" or not is incidental, lots of people do things that seemingly don't benefit themselves all the time, or don't make any sense. There are no lies because there is no truth.

If it seems to be getting worse, I think this is due to emboldenment not diminishment

Also the idea that someone in the military will remove him seems nonsensical. If he is to be removed, it will be via palace coup when the opportunity arises. The Trump administration won't always need Trump, and if he becomes a liability to the project, the 25th amendment is there. This is something Miller, Vance, Thiel, will surely have contingency plans for

Palace coup is way more of a nonsense than what I am actually saying which is a plan ought to he drawn up (like I am sure its lying about) and possibly put into action should a situation arise where there isn't enough time to remove him.

But anyway think that piece showed too much compassion and yeah it might be overrating these possibilities. He pretty much is sticking to his interests: tariffs, racism, corruption, property development..

The Hill is a pretty right-wing outlet; I'm surprised they published that.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs🕸/

^ nobody in the cabinet is going to stop him, but if the above is right then someone in say, the military, will have to take the nuclear button away from him in the next three years.

Xpost He was so big he was 4 people

YMP - I miss dumb Cold War humor, it kinda helped relieve the tension

When Trump dies it'll be 30 days before anybody will admit it.

JD Vance will bring his corpse from hospital to hospital after Walter Reed pronounces him dead and threaten to revoke federal funds from any facility which won't hook up his corpse to life support.

Finally after they can hide it no longer, his body will be shown on national TV, resembling an old rotten chicken fricasee in a dumpster outside an abandoned Bill Knapps.

And someone in Arizona will stay say they saw his lips move

*still

ok i think he may actually be dead

https://i.imgur.com/sirlTn2.png

Which ones the dog

Only one is a bitch.

Who's running the country?

Why are you still posting cute pictures of him? He's a monster. And he's not dying, you can stop fantasizing about that.

You guys all continue to be so flip about him, but that appeals court ruling allows all of those tariffs to continue for now and maybe forever. The courts are no bulwark against him and he will continue to get away with his damage to this country

In my most black mood I think maybe he will fire the Fed governors, arbitrarily reduce interest rates causing a borrowing and debt crisis and world chaos, and send us into a recession with high inflation and stagflation

Yes you are the only one who sees him for who he is, congrats. You are also the only one feeling despair or suffering

Why are you still posting cute pictures of him?

it's not cute it's fucking insane gibberish!

Exactly

yeah that shit is fucked up and weird, dan- we with u man.

and i been on the “repudiating the us debt is trump’s destiny” suicide alert since last year so get in line

RIP Big guy. Let’s remember the good times.

Donald Trump: Classy or Dead?

Seriously though, I'm missing something here. Is there a reason why this thread and bluesky is filled with death speculation beyond no public appearances for a day or two?

Unlike BlueSky, most of us are half serious

I think it’s a combination of intense wishful thinking on a mass-level, Vance’s recent interview comments about being ready to step in if, heaven forbid, something were to happen to Mr Trump, and Trump’s ankle thing + the skin on the back of his hand…

Lots of us are miserable and wishcasting

also trump weirdly speculating on his chances of getting into heaven a few days back.

also apparently that hand bruising is what we saw with the Queen shortly after her untimely demise

wait. shortly before

before. after. too easy to get confused with QE2. in the case of our president he emits a steady stream of loud blather and noxious fumes, so all we need to do is check to see if the loud blather has ceased for 24 hours and *bing* we'll break out the bubbly.

if he wanted a parade

look they said the president was built like a professional athlete if they're willing to admit something's wrong with him because of his ankles who knows maybe he really is dying

Anna Bower‬
✧@annabo✧✧✧.b✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧‬
· 55m
Trump is definitely alive bc who else would would blast Les Mis in the Rose Garden??

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‪Tim Onion‬
✧@bencoll✧✧✧.b✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧‬
· 1m
I will delete this, but can somebody tell me why everybody thinks he croaked? Is it just the many days off and the weird playlist on the lawn earlier today, plus the references to heaven and the hand bruising that we already knew about? Or is there something else?

(discussion follows here, apparently he also hasn't golfed in two weeks)

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lxlrkqfvuc2z

haha oh wow, pizza watch is on red alert

https://www.pizzint.watch/

now would be a good time to start believing in the power of manifestation

xps He last golfed five days ago, on the 24th:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_made_by_Donald_Trump_(2025)

ty, I was just going off that thread

Mitch McConnell looked one foot out of the grave a year or so ago, and he's still here.

Dan S, weren't you the one who posted this in the Dem Party thread:

The left has just not been strategic in elections. What is the point of ideology if it doesn't get you anywhere? I agree that centrist dems have been tepid and have been outflanked by the right, but I think there are organic groupings of opinions across the ideological spectrum, and we are existing at this moment in a country that is pretty far to the right, not only at the governmental level but also at the voter level. And I think we have to deal with that.

You can rage about how much you hate Newsom and couldn't vote for him or for Buttigieg etc (which is very reminiscent to me of the feelings I've heard about Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris), but that's just prioritizing ideology and feelings over any sense of strategy. Strategy is key in elections.

Who's the one wishcasting?

He’s probably gone to Serbia with Jordan Peterson to be put in a medically induced coma

X-post re appeals ct decision on tariffs-

Court votes against Trump :

. But the appellate judges delayed the enforcement of their order until mid-October, allowing the tariffs to remain in place so that the administration can appeal the case to the Supreme Court

the dog post is fake btw:
https://www.threads.com/@xiolablu75/post/DL6E5lpt0aw/i-fell-for-a-fake-truth-social-page-i-thought-i-was-accessing-his-official-page-

Tariffs must stay in place long enough to full wreck the economy. How else would we know that they worked?

good posts from Kelly Hayes

‪Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart‬
✧@mskellymha✧✧✧.b✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧‬
· 2h
I'm thinking about how Trump insisted on going on that bizarre car ride when he was hospitalized with COVID.

I didn't really think he was dead, but believed and still believe that he isn't well. He's so reactive to public opinion, he would have trotted out to talk to the press by now to prove he's fine and call bullshit on all of the speculation if he could. I don't think he's well enough to.

My guess is that the "golf outing" was a compromise that was reached because he kept insisting on talking to the press or some shit, and the people around him knew he couldn't handle it, so they slapped a baseball cap on him and walked him to a car in front of some cameras.

and later:

I don't think they will actually hide it for very long if he dies. Vance will be eager to seize the wheel. What would be rougher for them is a messy in-between stage of him decompensating, clearly unable to function, but of course unwilling to yield power.

He golfs every weekend and he went to golf this morning

barely!

Don’t harsh our buzz

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lxpageq56k2n

"They Are Picking Up Trash" for September Thread Title.

I went to the Defend the District rally in DC Saturday with bouncebeat go-go band TOB playing bouncebeat versions of Bill Withers , Roberta Flack and more, and activists and speakers including DC councilmember Robert White talking. Only about 150 there. Labor Day Monday there are some 5051 organized anti-Trump, pro-labor events in DC burbs - Arlington, Alexandria, Bowie, Silver Spring

From the WH pool this morning:

Trump left for an “unannounced location” at 9:27 a.m. His motorcade then drove to his golf club in Virginia, arriving at 10:02 a.m. “There was one person in a car who gave the motorcade the middle finger as it drove by,” the pool report states.

Weird!!

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lxppbjg3ss2n

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<TRILLIONS OF $$$$>

That Tariff Shelf must be somethin'

RTFTT

With children already loaded onto planes, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.

From NY Times - this was earlier this morning

"Is He Dead Yet?": US POLITICS, SEPTEMBER 2025

For posterity: I would prefer if we avoided direct quotes from that moron, but..AUGUST US POLITICS thread