I had read that. Good thread.

When Trump says “merit-based” remember that he determines merit with reference to ideas like “all Haitians have AIDS” and “Nigerians will never go back to their huts once they see America” and “Why can’t we have more people from Norway?” “Merit-based” immigration policies are a terrible idea anyway (by all means let’s…

cool

As your article makes abundantly clear, there is nothing “additional” about the spying powers this renewal of an already-on-the-books law would give to this President (and, of course, all of his successors.)

Tucker, doing what he does best, courageously knocks down another strawman.

I don’t totally agree. I agree that his argument is sometimes allowed to function like just one about vulgarity and that’s convenient for him; but I actually think he’s making a far grosser point. When he says “this is how people talk” he is not just saying “people are crude ” - he is actually saying “people are…

I starred this in hope ... I think you’re right ... I hope ...

Really? I’ve been in plenty of bars where people wouldn’t hesitate for a second to call every country in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean a shithole. (And be real - if you’ve been in enough bars in New York or San Francisco you’ve heard someone call someplace in America like Mississippi or Arkansas a…

Don’t shoot me either but I actually think lobster is pretty bland and it’s ridiculous that it’s marketed as a luxury food. Dungeoness crab (which is the only crab worth a damn) is a hundred times better.

Four words into the headline I did not see the story being about Turkmenistan

Watters’ reaction to this particular story was about the same; basically “lots of American rednecks are racists so it’s good that our President is.”

shocked and surprised are sometimes different things.

[In response to accusations of being a troll]:

i think you misunderstood

You guys should save this headline, it could come in handy again every day again ever

how so?

And here’s the White House staff, reveling in their boss’s racism as shrewd politics. Call the whole fucking enterprise racist, because it is.

Not only does Shah’s statement not deny the President’s racist comments - it tacitly confirms them. Trump’s preferred immigration policy is to “welcom[e] those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy, and assimilate into our great nation.” It is beyond obvious that this means “white people from other…

The story is getting more confusing. Either someone has outed herself as the creator or someone is perpetrating a hoax outing someone as the creator or several women are falsely outing themselves as the creator in a kind of “I am Spartacus” moment, ... or something weirder I haven’t thought of. I’m not linking to…