Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 5493267 times)

kingv · « **Reply #24480 on:** September 26, 2018, 05:49:09 PM »

Pretty fucked up they let that guy teach middle school.

agrajag · « **Reply #24481 on:** September 26, 2018, 05:59:44 PM »

Quote from: kingv on September 26, 2018, 05:42:05 PM

I hope he starts doing these every week. He’ll be gone in 6 months.

Bro, he could have a full on schizophrenic LSD trip on live television and Ryan, Lindsay and Mitch will rationalize it somehow.

Boogie · « **Reply #24482 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:01:35 PM »

holy shit, this presser is still going on?

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #24483 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:04:06 PM »

this is incredible. Trump just pulled an 'i don't know her' about Kavanaugh lol

Mandark · « **Reply #24484 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:06:45 PM »

I get why Republicans need to project a certain image of Trump, but can you imagine having to act like he's smart and sane? That seems like it would be exhausting.

james · « **Reply #24485 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:30:20 PM »

Interesting article

“I remember thinking, ‘Ugh, this is bad’”: Scenes from teenage party life in the ’80s

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/i-remember-thinking-ugh-this-is-bad-scenes-from-teenage-party-life-in-the-80s/2018/09/26/dba546e2-c0d7-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.792a22f3f86e

kingv · « **Reply #24486 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:32:25 PM »

It’s interesting the amount that he is treated as “not quite President “.

Like they try to hide him, ignore him, and build up a pseudo-image of him that would be blown apart pretty quickly if they uncaged him to give a presser once a week.

He says a lot of dumb shit at rallies, but those aren’t really covered anymore.

Mandark · « **Reply #24487 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:48:29 PM »

Senate probing new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh

agrajag · « **Reply #24488 on:** September 26, 2018, 06:57:09 PM »

Well Miss Lindsay did say if you're a sexual predator you don't just do it once and stop..

james · « **Reply #24489 on:** September 26, 2018, 07:09:18 PM »

1998 huh?

LOCK HIM UP

kingv · « **Reply #24490 on:** September 26, 2018, 07:09:49 PM »

“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true justice Anthony Kennedy

“Hit ‘Er in the shitter” Justice Brett Kavanaugh

james · « **Reply #24491 on:** September 26, 2018, 07:13:01 PM »

At the rate things are escalating, there will be a video of him raping someone in an alley by Sunday night

Mandark · « **Reply #24492 on:** September 26, 2018, 07:23:36 PM »

Been pretty remarkable seeing how many GOP politicians and pundits have talked about the accusations as if they're clearly, undoubtedly false. Along with various Republican senators saying they'd keep pushing Kavanaugh through, which carries that implication.

After the last year of #metoo and everything that's happened, they don't even feel obligated to pretend that this is serious to them.

agrajag · « **Reply #24493 on:** September 26, 2018, 07:29:37 PM »

They're willing to sacrifice some House seats for a lifetime SC confirmation.

agrajag · « **Reply #24494 on:** September 26, 2018, 08:27:43 PM »

Check out @Ocasio2018’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1045048084676456453

YAS QUEEN SLAY

james · « **Reply #24495 on:** September 27, 2018, 10:24:53 AM »

Quote from: Dufus on September 27, 2018, 03:21:18 AM

that yas queen bullshit was so annoying with hillary stans

total opposite with AOC

OCASIO IS MY ABUELA

Maiden Voyage · « **Reply #24496 on:** September 27, 2018, 10:42:23 AM »

For those who care:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/brett-kavanaugh-hearing/

https://www.c-span.org/event/?451895/judge-kavanaugh-professor-blasey-ford-testify-sexual-assault-allegations

I'm stuck in meetings all day so it'll be the 538 liveblogging for me.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #24497 on:** September 27, 2018, 10:47:14 AM »

https://politics.theonion.com/kavanaugh-scores-keg-for-christine-blasey-ford-testimon-1829348970

team filler · « **Reply #24498 on:** September 27, 2018, 02:59:27 PM »

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #24499 on:** September 27, 2018, 03:26:33 PM »

Quote from: filler on September 27, 2018, 02:59:27 PM

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wow you're hilarious

Kunai With Chain · « **Reply #24500 on:** September 27, 2018, 03:49:58 PM »

https://twitter.com/MJGWrites/status/1045082053010550785

Wtf? He really does find a way to out do himself every day.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #24501 on:** September 27, 2018, 03:55:08 PM »

Yet he says China is rigging the midterms against him.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #24502 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:02:19 PM »

Quote from: Lindsey Graham

If you can ignore everything in this record, look in [sic] an allegation that’s 35 years old, that’s uncertain in time, please, date, and no corroboration—if that’s enough for you, god help us all as Republicans. ‘Cuz this happens to us, it never happens to them.

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Graham then issued a bizarre threat, saying, “Let me tell you my Democratic friends—if this is the new norm, you’d better watch out for your nominees.”

Somebody find Linsdey his fainting couch.

zomgee · « **Reply #24503 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:04:38 PM »

"Unless it was Al Franken because he TOTALLY DID THAT."

team filler · « **Reply #24504 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:16:44 PM »

Quote from: Stro on September 27, 2018, 03:34:38 PM

Quote from: TakingBackSunday on September 27, 2018, 03:26:33 PM
Quote from: filler on September 27, 2018, 02:59:27 PM
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wow you're hilarious

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gif look like kavaugh, maybe it's the real guy that did it

team filler · « **Reply #24505 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:21:45 PM »

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #24506 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:22:37 PM »

Quote from: filler on September 27, 2018, 04:16:44 PM

Quote from: Stro on September 27, 2018, 03:34:38 PM
Quote from: TakingBackSunday on September 27, 2018, 03:26:33 PM
Quote from: filler on September 27, 2018, 02:59:27 PM
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wow you're hilarious

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gif look like kavaugh, maybe it's the real guy that did it

Kavanough does remind me of an Eastbound and Down character.

Mandark · « **Reply #24507 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:27:22 PM »

Did that dude seriously say he never blacked out, he just "fell asleep"?

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #24508 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:35:05 PM »

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Leahy asks Kavanaugh if the character “Bart O’Kavanaugh” who appears in Mark Judge’s memoirs refers to the nominee.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #24509 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:38:28 PM »

Blackout brett so triggered rn.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #24510 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:40:54 PM »

Still going to be confirmed. Fuck this country.

Mandark · « **Reply #24511 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:42:05 PM »

The idea of American meritocracy taking a real beating today.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #24512 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:48:22 PM »

uh oh - Lindsay's hitting the fainting couch

Brehvolution · « **Reply #24513 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:56:56 PM »

His unhinged, partisan screed should be more damaging to him than anything else that happened today.

gop doesn't care because that is just what a normal conversation sounds like to them.

Mandark · « **Reply #24514 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:58:29 PM »

Kavanaugh admits that "Beach Week Ralph Club" is a reference to throwing up, but that it's cause of his "weak stomach," not from drinking too much.

Of course it was from drinking, IT WAS BEACH WEEK. What's the alternative, he ate too much funnel cake? Nobody who went to high school in the DMV could pretend to believe him right now. I'm irrationally irritated by this.

curly · « **Reply #24515 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:59:03 PM »

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1045406173753757696

lol

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #24516 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:08:59 PM »

Quote from: curly on September 27, 2018, 04:59:03 PM

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1045406173753757696

lol

Nothing he said was about convincing the American public [or Democrats in the Senate] that he should be on the SCOTUS, but rather in convincing 51 Republican Senators [actually just 3, since that's how few there are who would ever even consider voting against a conservative judge up for the SCOTUS] to vote Yes.

shosta · « **Reply #24517 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:09:52 PM »

Are any of the alleged victims going to testify to congress?

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #24518 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:12:02 PM »

https://twitter.com/HunterDK/status/1045417457660252160

Akala · « **Reply #24519 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:13:56 PM »

I flipped on for some of the Kav questions, but it was unwatchable. Discourse in this country is ~~irreparably~~ still fucked, everything is entirely partisan regardless of actual value or benefit.

Wondering how close this is to the Clarence Thomas sessions back in the day in tone and content, but not enough to actually look into. I'm sure someone will put something together.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #24520 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:16:31 PM »

Today is the angriest I've been since the Charlottesville Trump press conference.

I'm probably going to be even angrier tomorrow.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #24521 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:16:35 PM »

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1045420473633394688/video/1

This guy is, like, just a mass of congealed white man entitlement.

Mandark · « **Reply #24522 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:23:37 PM »

https://twitter.com/Ali_Gharib/status/1045422649692827649

2018, everybody!

Boredfrom · « **Reply #24523 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:24:50 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on September 27, 2018, 05:14:48 PM

Quote from: Akala on September 27, 2018, 05:13:56 PM
I flipped on for some of the Kav questions, but it was unwatchable. Discourse in this country is ~~irreparably~~ still fucked, everything is entirely partisan regardless of actual value or benefit.

both sides, you guys

Nah, if Democrats are still unwilling to play hardball after this shit show... the guy is a scumbag that is infuriating that they still playing ball.

Mandark · « **Reply #24524 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:29:44 PM »

This reminds me of the ACA repeal, where everything was so blatantly, egregiously fucked up (in terms of process, policy, public opinion, everything) yet there were only ever 3 or 4 Republican Senators in play, and we all just accepted that 90% of their caucus was a lock regardless.

The only chance Kavanaugh isn't confirmed depends on two women holding out against pressure from the rest of the caucus.

shosta · « **Reply #24525 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:35:47 PM »

It's tough because Kavanaugh is extremely valuable as a rubber stamp for federal overreach. If they just wanted a right leaning justice, they could just get this over with by voting him down and nominating any of the other conservative justices out there, but nobody out there is as special as this guy.

agrajag · « **Reply #24526 on:** September 27, 2018, 05:41:55 PM »

Quote from: Shostakovich on September 27, 2018, 05:09:52 PM

Are any of the alleged victims going to testify to congress?

Huh? They didn't even entertain any of the other women that came forward besides Ford.

agrajag · « **Reply #24527 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:16:06 PM »

Who's down for getting boofed tonight and participating in a good ol fashioned devil's triangle?

Akala · « **Reply #24528 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:19:13 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on September 27, 2018, 05:14:48 PM

both sides, you guys

??

One side is obviously more in the wrong in this case, all signs point to the dude being a scumbag and he should have been shut down pretty much immediately. It's just gross seeing people I know that are in most facets I guess decent people doing the mental gymnastics to be ok with rallying behind someone so shitty, and I wish it wasn't the case.

Propagandhim · « **Reply #24529 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:21:14 PM »

Dude, what's the url

Nintex · « **Reply #24530 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:55:12 PM »

Quote from: Stro on September 27, 2018, 06:53:16 PM

I can't believe this dude wouldn't be disqualified for his behavior and outbursts today, not even the yelling at senators and threatening "what goes around comes around" against Dems, refusing to answer questions and asking a senator who just was talking about her father's struggles with alcoholism if she had a drinking problem.

This dude was literally screaming for the first hour.

The Republicans are about to confirm General Hux to the Supreme Court without blinking an eye.

Mandark · « **Reply #24531 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:57:55 PM »

Quote from: Stro on September 27, 2018, 06:53:16 PM

I can't believe this dude wouldn't be disqualified for his behavior and outbursts today, not even the yelling at senators and threatening "what goes around comes around" against Dems, refusing to answer questions and asking a senator who just was talking about her father's struggles with alcoholism if she had a drinking problem.

This dude was literally screaming for the first hour.

This thing feels like it was scripted by an SJW trying to illustrate their points about privilege and patriarchy in the most obvious, ham-handed way possible.

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that description also applies to basically every day of the Trump presidency, so

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Boredfrom · « **Reply #24532 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:10:22 PM »

lol All this stuff reminds me of Mexican politics... and that is not a good sign for you guys...

Boredfrom · « **Reply #24533 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:13:29 PM »

Quote from: Stro on September 27, 2018, 07:11:40 PM

Quote from: Boredfrom on September 27, 2018, 07:10:22 PM
lol All this stuff reminds me of Mexican politics... and that is not a good sign for you guys...

Wow you just made the most valid point for building the wall

Is Donald Trump a secret Mexican?

Maiden Voyage · « **Reply #24534 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:16:53 PM »

Quote from: TakingBackSunday on September 27, 2018, 05:16:31 PM

Today is the angriest I've been since the Charlottesville Trump press conference.

I'm probably going to be even angrier tomorrow.

Same here. This is outrageous.

agrajag · « **Reply #24535 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:22:31 PM »

He doesn't have the temperament

agrajag · « **Reply #24536 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:36:39 PM »

Watch Joe Manchin vote yes.

curly · « **Reply #24537 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:57:57 PM »

this is such a stupid shitty country

curly · « **Reply #24538 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:58:43 PM »

also the sjws are right, white men are garbage

agrajag · « **Reply #24539 on:** September 27, 2018, 08:03:52 PM »

#notallwhitemen

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