US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[shosta]

We're also terrorists

[james]

Seems like the standard Democrat response had been

'i would do the same exact thing but better vote for me'

Fucking imbeciles

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https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1213168223127949313

your fave's could never 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1213194198054293504

 

[OnlyRegret]

 

[OnlyRegret]

my 3 faves, just missing General Love in this  

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1213164624423608320

Edit:
she up there with them too

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1212942072229040128

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warren is with the neolibs  and she'll keep voting to fund trumps military too 

[jorma]

Seems like the standard Democrat response had been

'i would do the same exact thing but better vote for me'

Fucking imbeciles

And when Iran responds (it seems Swedish geopolitical experts are of the opinion that Iran pretty much has to respond with violence), everyone in america will go "blood for the blood god" all over again and Bernie will be fucked 

[Tasty]

my 3 faves, just missing General Love in this  

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1213164624423608320

Edit:
she up there with them too

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1212942072229040128

Maryanne's tweet is basically Warren's, prove me wrong.

[benjipwns]

when do security briefings start for candidates? Is that not until after the nominations?

Some of them are already receiving them due to their current positions. Biden won't officially get them again until after he wins the nomination. I'm sure like fellow patriots John Brennan and James Clapper he is not relying purely on news reports though.

[benjipwns]

Jesus Christ the Republicans defending this and accusing Democrats of "defending Iran"

This has been the party line on Iran for 15 years or more now.

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1213168223127949313

your fave's could never 

I literally don't care what she has to say now.

She lost all credibility when she acknowledged Trump's complicity in wrong doing but still didn't vote impeach.

Now weeks after she's talking about shit when the president she refused to impeach ordered an assassination.

Fuck her

[benjipwns]

Jeez, you're acting like she voted against instead of Present.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/tperry518/status/1213212105249296384

Bloomberg realizes that means he's fair game as well?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/tperry518/status/1213212105249296384

Bloomberg realizes that means he's fair game as well?

Hard to target a single person in an open office space 

[Himu]

Like most Americans be doesn't think the ideas and policies he sets up could ever be used again next him.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/asifintoronto/status/1213196559141130241

Mike Pence:

[VomKriege]

At least Trump is not engaging in reckless adventurism overseas.

[benjipwns]

I like how it's yes.... if they're senior officials. But what happens to the junior officials when they become seniors

That was the problem with Obama taking out Osama. Now it wasn't so easy to just take out the #2 guy over and over as he moved up in the org chart.

"Khalid, congrats, Osama says you are now second in command."
"I quit. I contractor now if you need me."

/joke probably made a million times by now

[benjipwns]

2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination   
The Hill/HarrisX   

Biden 28
Sanders 16
Warren 11
Bloomberg 11
Buttigieg 6
Yang 2
Klobuchar 2
Booker 2
Gabbard 2
Steyer 2
Castro 2
Delaney 2
Williamson 1

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https://twitter.com/RevolutionLA_/status/1213214959947042819

 

[Kara]

I'm waiting for the Red Guards LA endorsement myself.

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[benjipwns]

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dat 5D backgammon

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1212780063961124864

Hillary is getting out of Dodge.

[Kara]

Move to Norn Iron when the Tories plan on going even deeper on breaking the Good Friday Agreement, brehs.

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1212780063961124864

Hillary is getting out of Dodge.

We're not sending the UK our best, folks.

[benjipwns]

Jar Jar elects another immortal Sith Lord to Chancellor.

[shosta]

She's getting them ready to become the 51st state

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1212780063961124864

Hillary is getting out of Dodge.

Good that means she's not running. Maybe.

[nachobro]

move in with the irish catholics to get easy access to kids

[benjipwns]

 

ATTENTION THIS IS AB NEWS:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-ex-fox-news-reporter-courtney-friel-claims-donald-trump-urged-kiss-20200103-rslx5jyrdzce5dtvb7lseezv6m-story.html

She says Trump told her she was “the hottest one at Fox News”

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1212780063961124864

Hillary is getting out of Dodge.

Yaaaas queeen?

[benjipwns]

Former vice president Joe Biden claims that the nearly year-long assault on his record has been entirely unsuccessful, showing that he can take a pummeling and keep fighting. Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg has absorbed shots on his fund-raising practices, his record on race and his experience. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) showed on Medicare-for-all that she had a glass jaw. Goaded into presenting her far-fetched funding scheme, she then retreated via a go-slow implementation plan. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was put through the ringer over her management style.

Yet the “likability” of self-confessed yeller and infamous grumpy guy Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) never gets discussed. When will he go through the vetting that we expect of top-tier candidates?

Sanders is throwing elbows now, accusing Biden of vulnerability because he voted for the original North American Free Trade Agreement. But is Sanders really in a position to cast stones on electability?

...

Somehow, Sanders never takes as much as he gives out. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had a heart attack, promised to release all of her medical records and then only put out letters from her doctor? She would have been under assault for weeks. That’s what Sanders did, but neither his opponents nor the media have pressed him on full disclosure of his health records.

Warren was forced to put out a funding plan for Medicare-for-all. Sanders told my Post colleague Robert Costa he does not have to. “I don’t give a number," Sanders said, “and I’ll tell you why: It’s such a huge number, and it’s so complicated that if I gave a number you and 50 other people would go through it and say, ‘Oh . . .'”

That is an outrageous answer. Frankly, declaring that he will bring us Medicare-for-all without specifying how much it costs and grappling with its political unacceptability is not all that different from Trump saying in 2016 that he had some magic health-care plan he would reveal after getting elected.

Sanders seems to acknowledge that his health-care plan is so costly that people would ridicule it and accuse him of pulling the wool over voters’ eyes. That’s not a valid excuse for refusing to level with voters; it is confirmation that he feels exempt from demands for candor and transparency that other candidates face.

In sum, if Sanders is as viable as his supporters claim and as fund-raising totals suggest, he needs to get the same scrutiny that all top-tier contenders do. That means coming clean on his health records, spelling out his funding schemes, addressing whether he would run for a second term, explaining his tepid support for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and setting out a real foreign policy that is not merely a leftist version of Trump’s “America First.”

If Warren has any hope of recovering from her polling and fund-raising declines, she might want to try pressing Sanders at the next debate. Moderates who understand what a disaster it would be to nominate a self-declared socialist might want to start pressing him to explain why he will not be the American equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn, who ran the British Labour Party into the ground. And, unless the media want to repeat the error of 2016 in failing to seriously vet an improbable front-runner, they might want to begin, however late, their own due diligence.

[Phoenix Dark]

I guess when you reside in a fantasy realm, reality has no impact on you. Facts, history...basic math...none of it matters to Sanders, and eventually people simply give up on trying to hold him to any standard.

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[shosta]

Facts, history...basic math...none of it matters to Sanders

Relax, man, they're just fundraising totals.

[benjipwns]

Imagine if Hillary Clinton had a heart attack, promised to release all of her medical records and then only put out letters from her doctor? She would have been under assault for weeks.

Imagine if she had died on live TV on 9/11 and the media told us it was dehydration?

[benjipwns]

Shut the fuck up and stop trying to divide us, benji, you miserable piece of shit.

Post from your real account, coward.

[kingv]

I think Sanders is smart to not talk about dollars. Look at what happened to warren when she got into the details. She eventually just walked back from Medicare for all and her numbers tanked.

Politically, were just going to do the shit is probably the smart move. It’s worked for Republicans for 20+ years on taxes.

Do we really need specifics to understand that it’s going to be paid for via taxes and debt like everything else the government does?

Edit: that said, I don’t think Bernie’s Supporters would back away from him if he explained it. They just want the Medicare and to tax the rich (for better or worse)

[Kara]

I saw a clip where he said he was going to pass Medicare for All through reconciliation which was pretty humorous considering some of the clowns in the Senate that would ostensibly be on his side.

[kingv]

It could be passed via reconciliation, theoretically.

I don’t think he could find it with the votes, but theoretically it is 100% possible based on what we saw with the tax bill, though it would probably have some weird ass provisions to comply with the rules.

After reading up on reconciliation a lot during the tax bill, you can do a lot with it if the House puts it in the budget instructions.

[Kara]

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play basketball, but you still need a starting five. And a bench. And Phil Jackson.

[Tripon]

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play basketball, but you still need a starting five. And a bench. And Phil Jackson.

Air Bud didn't need no Phil Jackson. 

[Mandark]

I saw a clip where he said he was going to pass Medicare for All through reconciliation which was pretty humorous considering some of the clowns in the Senate that would ostensibly be on his side.

Elizabeth Warren secretly hates M4A but also there are 50 votes for it.

[Kara]

I hope you're right!

[kingv]

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play basketball, but you still need a starting five. And a bench. And Phil Jackson.

The reconciliation rules are dumb. If you’re smart you can use it to do damn near anything as far as I can tell, especially if it reduces the deficit.

[shosta]

Elizabeth Warren secretly hates M4A

source pls

[Mandark]

I think Kara's point is that you still need the votes and until you can whip 50 of them the parliamentarian isn't the choke point for passing M4A.

[Mandark]

Elizabeth Warren secretly hates M4A

source pls

https://www.twitter.com

[nachobro]

dobbs is back from vacation today

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1213258069586657280

[shosta]

https://www.twitter.com

when does the hazing stop

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1213282430330773504

 

[Kara]

I think Kara's point is that you still need the votes and until you can whip 50 of them the parliamentarian isn't the choke point for passing M4A.

Yes, thank you for translating. 

[Nintex]

"Iran is controlled by religious fanatics"

USA: "Hold my diet coke"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1213217312574185479

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1213282430330773504

 

https://www.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/373743492151136256

[Great Rumbler]

Remember when Trump kept going on about how Obama would start a war with Iran to get reelected?

[nudemacusers]

https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1213282430330773504

 

The client always picks the worst option, this is design 101.

[Tasty]

I was gonna say exactly that.

[Nintex]

THE TRANSCRIPT
Dec 31st
"Mr. Pompeo, I'm done with the PowerPoint. Sanctions, Negotiations and Troop Deployments right?"
"Yes! Good job Lisa, but remember the President always wants more than 3 options and add lots of pictures of the American flag too"
"Ok... Ok... what's the 4th option sir?"
"To be fair, he usually stops reading at number 2 and never picked 3 or 4. I'm heading out to the dinner party. So I'll trust you to come up with something, be creative Lisa!"
"Ok, Mr. Pompeo see you on Monday, I'll email you the final version so you can discuss it with the President"

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January 1st
"Fantastic Presentation Mike! Fantastic! Can you send me that picture of the flag? It looks.. somehow better than the one we're using now"
"Certainly, Mr. President, I'll pass on the compliments to our intern Lisa. now for Iran... as you can see we've prepared 4 options in response to the embassy raid"
"Is Lisa hot?"
"Well Mr. President... I..."
"HI DAD"
"Eric! How wonderful you could make it for the party. Pick a seat we're picking options for Iran and Mike has a hot new intern. I'm just teasing you Mike, you have to be all professional, I get it believe me I get it"
"Cool dad!"
"Mike, I'm thinking number 1... sanctions, big sanctions, the biggest sanctions, how would that work"
"That would be a great choice Mr. President I'll draft some legislation it shouldn't be too hard to get the votes"
"Dad... what about option 4?"
"What... what is option 4 Eric?"
"It says: "Drone strike on Iranian General Giuliani" I didn't know uncle Rudy had infiltrated that far into their leadership"
"That's Soleimani Eric... Soleimani... he's the most powerful general of Iran. His nickname is the 'Lion' . He's responsible for perhaps reshaping the entire Middle East post our invasion of Iraq"
"Ok Mike, sounds good. That's why I keep you around, you know these things better than anyone except for me maybe"
"...Sir?"
"I'm with Eric, drone strike this Solindra guy. Wasn't he the one who swindled Obama with those solar panels? Can you believe it, such a thing won't happen with me here"

January 2nd
"Rudy... RUDY put your phone down, we're eating"
"Mr President... we've located the target. We're ready to take him down on your orders but this is a very high risk operation"
"Oh hey Mike, what's up, how's Lisa doing. We're just about to serve ice cream"
"Do you think I should do it? Melania what do you..."
"YEAH DAD OPEN UP A WHOLE LOT OF WHOOP ASS ON THIS GUY"
"Ok Eric we'll do it already jesus christ settle down"
"Go ahead Mike, kill this motherfucker"
"Mr. President, we found them on satellite but they're in friendly territory at Baghdad International Airport it might upset Iraq too, maybe we can make it look like an accident by..."
"Just do it already [inaudible] fuck this guy"
"We have a confirmation that the missile struck its target sir, what message should we send to our allies and the Iranians?"
"Don Trumpeone sends his regards"
"Dad, I thought 'Yippiekayee motherfucker' was your better line"
"It's no longer Christmas Eric, you still have a lot to learn if you want to be President"

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[Kara]

Remember when Trump kept going on about how Obama would start a war with Iran to get reelected?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408

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He has a tweet about Dwight Howard playing with Kobe leading to great things too.

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