The Deuce: oh, yeah, I missed the Trump font *

Week of August 11th politics thread - VIV August 11, 2025, 8:47:53

I’m an old fart who’s been driving in DC since the Marion Barry years - Tortillini Today, 22:25:39
- Well Markwayne is notoriously chickenshit, so.... - KingTalkyTiki Today, 22:41:14
BLS Job Description: Need to have experience: A) Fudging numbers B) Storming Capitol - UofIL6 Today, 20:47:28
Kids on the street, kids on the beat, BEAT KIDS! - OB25 Today, 19:38:34
Shocking/unsurprising: every single VA medical center in America is severely understaffed - complainant Today, 17:37:34
- VA going full MAGA. - illinijohn Today, 18:07:47
- It’s a damn disgrace. * - VIV Today, 17:53:34
  - It’s what republicans want. Metallica had it: Disposable Heroes.* - ATL Today, 20:41:37
Fvck it. Let’s go with 300 basis point cuts* - timmer Today, 16:11:28
- nm* - timmer Today, 17:54:06
- Hell yes!* - Warrin'_Illini Today, 16:54:24
  - Send it IN Jerome!* - Tortillini Today, 19:29:46
  - But we added eleventy billion new jobs* - timmer Today, 17:54:45
Stephen Miller, mayovore - Tortillini Yesterday, 18:41:51
- Does that make her an Elonvore?* - SurfTheBoneyard Today, 18:48:40
My neighbor owns a local grocery chain. He says that they are eating all tariffs ATM, but... - Stu Yesterday, 16:29:44
- never go ATM* - Sammich Yesterday, 16:32:44
  - Those fees. It’s like getting tariffed twice!* - timmer Yesterday, 16:33:44
    - I don't think that's the acronym he had in mind* - Sounder Yesterday, 16:34:30
      - This place has gravitated more and more toward old man humor* - Stu Yesterday, 16:49:16
- they're eating the dogs, they're eating the tariffs* - Sounder Yesterday, 16:31:46
I love that Grok vacillates so wildly between Mechahitler and truth teller - ATL Yesterday, 15:36:25
kind of weird to hang an artwork of a Nazi battleship behind you - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 15:03:18
- It's the fucking Bismark. - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 16:23:51
  - 3500 Royal Navy sailors lost too. What a Nazi asshole.* - SurfTheBoneyard Today, 19:28:40
  - Never forget. * - doubledown Yesterday, 18:11:50
- "Antoni"? That sounds a bit...ethnic.* - Sammich Yesterday, 16:18:06
  - So does "Mussolini."* - complainant Yesterday, 18:15:05
    - Yeah, and look what happened to him as soon as he was no longer useful!* - Sammich Yesterday, 21:37:19
- It’s not that weird if you remember that he works at the Heritage Foundation. * - doubledown Yesterday, 15:06:06
15 year old special needs student put in cuffs at gunpoint for going to High School orientation - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 13:18:14
- That sucks. Sounds like an honest mistake though * - jjlocke923 Yesterday, 14:05:21
  - Your parents choice to not abort you was an honest mistake* - Sounder Yesterday, 15:05:30
    - (nm) * - jjlocke923 Yesterday, 15:11:48
  - But they are intentionally negligent and don’t bother trying to avoid mistakes - DT Yesterday, 14:53:28
  - Do you ever gag - doubledown Yesterday, 14:49:36
  - Who can be expected to tell those people apart, right?* - ATL Yesterday, 14:19:20
Donnie gonna sue Powell? - Mrap24 Yesterday, 12:37:52
- it's the only tool in his belt* - Sammich Yesterday, 12:47:13
Federal agents sweeping through black neighborhoods asking for papers and - doubledown Yesterday, 11:57:31
- The fact that you aren’t a fan of him shows why Democrats will probably lose again* - JeffFrank Yesterday, 12:16:58
  - A fan of who? * - haighter Yesterday, 12:20:01
    - That was supposed to be in response to Turki on Newsom* - JeffFrank Yesterday, 13:17:25
    - David Duke* - Herman Blume Yesterday, 12:44:08
      - or this guy - ATL Yesterday, 12:54:18
        
        Does this guy have thoughts on Ambient World Disorder...and who might be the cause of that?* - LWillhite Yesterday, 13:14:50
        
        Expressing full throated support for broken windows policing in 2025 is quite a choice. - doubledown Yesterday, 13:13:38
        
        Bring back community policing. Baltimore has its lowest homicide rate in 50 years thanks to it. - ATL Yesterday, 13:18:29
        
        Why can't we have both? - complainant Yesterday, 17:01:06
        
        "The people who cross the street to avoid black men are right, actually. - Sammich Yesterday, 13:07:51
- all so these seissup can feel safe - ATL Yesterday, 12:01:50
how come no well-known artists are making protest music right now? - Sammich Yesterday, 11:56:47
- Been big on Jesse Welles lately. - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 13:15:17
- My buddy Mike is doing it with Run the Jewels* - longsnapper Yesterday, 12:40:27
- Tyler Childers kinda is. Jason Isbell is too busy getting divorced but did during the first Trump - ATL Yesterday, 12:19:14
No fan of Gavin Newsom... - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 11:17:59
- We know why you aren’t a fan* - JeffFrank Yesterday, 13:21:29
- It's really fantastic* - UofIL6 Yesterday, 11:38:37
  - Hope they keep it up... - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 13:33:53
- He's doing the Lord's work right now* - Sounder Yesterday, 11:26:48
Don’t like the facts, just stop reporting them - Mrap24 Yesterday, 11:17:55
- Quarterly makes sense. The revisions have been ridiculous* - JeffFrank Yesterday, 12:17:48
- can't find the tweet, but saw someone say he looks like a shitty magician at a kids bday party - John Coctostan Yesterday, 11:41:34
  - EJ the Magnificent* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 15:36:06
- they don't gotta cook the books, they just remove 'em* - Sammich Yesterday, 11:35:50
- I can't wait for the next report - Sounder Yesterday, 11:27:51
  - But also the economy is bad and the Fed needs to cut rates* - gvibes Yesterday, 11:39:04
    - What makes you say that? - ghost_of_clt Yesterday, 12:20:28
      - gvibes is referring to Trump's vacillation/flip-flopping/ignorance - Sammich Yesterday, 12:50:02
        
        oh, yeah, I missed the Trump font * - ghost_of_clt Yesterday, 14:56:26
      - Except if you’re looking for work - TarheelIllini Yesterday, 12:40:12
  - It will be the biggest joke in the history of jokes* - Mrap24 Yesterday, 11:36:43
  - Plus revisions to previous month(s)* - timmer Yesterday, 11:35:59
- ...but of course. - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 11:19:39
That is some screen name - UofIL6 Yesterday, 11:08:59
Grok suspended for calling Gaza a genocide. - complainant August 11, 2025, 23:35:30
DC folks, do you feel safer now?* - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:25:46
- I’d feel a lot safer if the feds unleashed Manimal - Tortillini August 11, 2025, 22:39:58
- The gentrification of NE should be near completion, I would think.* - complainant August 11, 2025, 21:26:14
- I drove around NW Saturday evening. - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:47:55
  - Thank goodness the national guard is there for you now * - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:57:00
    - Naturally, violent crime will now rise because of this* - timmer August 11, 2025, 21:20:44
New head of BLS is an NIU grad (hey timmer)* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 20:04:03
- Apparently he has gotten dunked constantly on twitter for being wrong about everything* - gvibes Yesterday, 8:49:48
- The August jobs reports is going to be the biggest joke of all jokes - Mrap24 August 11, 2025, 22:11:28
  - Good jobs report bad for mortgage rates* - JeffFrank August 11, 2025, 23:50:50
  - A billion jobs created! * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 23:00:50
- An economist I know from my think tank days holds him in high regard. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 20:22:32
  - That’s about right for someone from NIU* - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:51:35
- Why doesn’t he list his bachelor degree on LinkedIn? - timmer August 11, 2025, 20:13:06
  - Only wanted to list the most prestigious institutions he attended probably* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 20:16:44
Caption Fun - ATL August 11, 2025, 19:50:47
- Bondi cuts the cheese.* - complainant August 11, 2025, 22:08:02
- And now, Dead Inside!* - PapaDels August 11, 2025, 20:08:02
- Number 1, could you sing the opening to, “I Want It That Way”?* - timmer August 11, 2025, 19:59:40
In the latest episode of weird things that the right wing obsesses about - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:15:50
It's amazing to see a us potus who isn't even attempting to do a good job. It's 100% grievance, - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 16:39:23
- I have to say, it's been quite a bit worse than my very low expectations - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:08:10
  - Same—I was a scare-mongerer and it’s been a lot worse than I thought it would be.* - DT August 11, 2025, 19:04:19
    - He just does whatever the fuck he wants, and there's no rational adults - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:13:06
      - I can’t believe people like us are surprised - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:24:12
        
        A lot of the attacks on rights and erosion of democracy I expected - DT August 11, 2025, 19:35:44
        
        I'm not necessarily "surprised" - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:27:07
        
        Everyone else expected pretty much exactly this. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:29:24
        
        Knew from the jump it was going to be so much worse. - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 21:45:58
        
        Throwsize! * - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 22:14:36
        
        I think all of that was expected - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:29:22
        
        he is going to do so much long term, possibly even permanent damage - Sounder Yesterday, 10:44:52
        
        It’s only gonna get worse until either his heart gives out or he tries to take Stalingrad. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:31:02
        
        Not much will change if Trump dies. The Project 2025 guys are doing most of the damage. Maybe JD - Orangeillini Yesterday, 8:26:27
        
        I don’t think the coalition holds together if Trump dies - DT Yesterday, 8:59:15
        
        Trump is MAGA, MAGA is Trump - Sounder Yesterday, 12:33:49
- Elites vs. everyone else = revolution bro* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 16:58:27
  - We're too spread out and disorganized. Culture war has won, people who are having - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 17:11:18
    - I understand the despondency, but there are many more of us than there are of them - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:27:34
      - Support for the Nazis in Germany is estimated to have been as low as 35%. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:41:06
        
        And most Nazis were still Nazis in 1946 and 1950 and 1955. They just didn’t talk about it. - DT August 11, 2025, 19:44:12
        
        The only thing that will change their mind is the eventual loss of blood pressure resulting from - doubledown August 11, 2025, 19:52:38
    - OOO - Sounder August 11, 2025, 17:11:57
To no one’s surprise, looks like they’re coming for same sex marriage next. - Toonces August 11, 2025, 15:30:07
- zero chance they actually take the case* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2025, 16:56:07
- Noo! Really? - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 16:43:05
  - Who is “they”? - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 17:53:07
    - Actual Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for one* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 18:47:07
      - It was pretty next level when he listed a bunch of laws he'd like to overturn - Sounder August 11, 2025, 19:00:06
      - And……? - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 18:58:02
        
        And Thomas wrote a separate concurrence specifically saying otherwise - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:13:37
        
        Thanks for schooling his deeply unserious and insincere ass on my behalf Jackie. - KingTalkyTiki August 11, 2025, 21:41:23
        
        Maybe you should take a shot at it. Who is “they”? * - jjlocke923 August 11, 2025, 21:45:55
        
        Yeah but he’s a lying sack of shit. * - ATL August 11, 2025, 19:05:54
        
        If I had a nickel for every time Alito was intellectually honest rather than a partisan hack… - DT August 11, 2025, 19:16:26
        
        Not in this economy!* - Jackie August 11, 2025, 19:24:41
- I think this is part of the lawsuit by the Kentucky county clerk that refused a same-sex marriage - ghost_of_clt August 11, 2025, 16:21:04
  - now there's someone who should be sent to South Sudan* - assassin August 11, 2025, 16:24:42
- Both members of "Gays for Trump" are probably having a bad day.* - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 15:45:31
  - Gay Republicans crack me up - Sounder August 11, 2025, 15:48:52
    - And you're all out of bubble gum. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 15:59:38
    - new signature unlocked* - VIV August 11, 2025, 15:55:00
- I can't imagine they're going to allow bureaucrats to determine on their own which laws to follow. - doubledown August 11, 2025, 15:45:30
- feel like Roberts and ACB, and maybe Kavanaugh, wouldn't be on board for that. perhaps I'm naive* - cpsteine August 11, 2025, 15:40:20
90 day China tariff extension. TACO - Mrap24 August 11, 2025, 14:13:32
Aren’t all trumpers afraid of going to cities? Not sure Donny thought this through.* - Toonces August 11, 2025, 12:31:11
Local pedophile confuses Russia with Alaska - ATL August 11, 2025, 11:55:26
- Putin thinks it's Russia, he's just following suit* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:01:48
Mentally ill man has thoughts on things that didn’t happen - assassin August 11, 2025, 11:48:10
- Charlie Cale where art thou* - Sammich August 11, 2025, 12:45:42
- Is he conflating the national guard/ICE stuff with the wildfires?* - ATL August 11, 2025, 11:54:15
  - Not really, I think his lizard stream of consciousness brain just combined the two - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:02:55
    - What do you think conflate means?* - ATL August 11, 2025, 12:05:46
      - LOL, I thought it meant mixing up the two - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:20:09
        
        we got double digit conflation * - memyselfandillini August 11, 2025, 16:16:16
- "let the water come down"* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 11:51:02
- If Trump has dementia, how would we know?* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 11:49:52
WSJ: "President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever - ATL August 11, 2025, 9:00:08
- The CCP isn’t really a good comparison - DT August 11, 2025, 9:16:08
- Party of limited government* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 9:03:31
  - It’s no longer that - TarheelIllini August 11, 2025, 12:11:53
  - That's been mostly bullshit since at least the 60s. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 9:05:46
    - never let the truth get in the way of a good story* - Sounder August 11, 2025, 12:03:13
Between today’s federalized police state - Sounder August 11, 2025, 8:54:10
- The GOP is out of new ideas - Sounder August 11, 2025, 9:00:27
  - Dots - TarheelIllini August 11, 2025, 9:11:07
  - And the dumb people will fall for it. * - doubledown August 11, 2025, 9:02:25
Nancy was willing to do whatever it took to stop Joe Biden from becoming potus.* - Warrin'_Illini August 11, 2025, 8:50:03
- Trump’s Pelosi truth was pretty messed up - Sounder August 11, 2025, 8:58:24
  - Trump is against the ban on insider trading, so... * - ghost_of_clt August 11, 2025, 9:23:57
    - there must be an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind - Sammich August 11, 2025, 9:27:03

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