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General => Dysfunctional Hall of Fame => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on November 06, 2020, 12:53:45 PM

Title: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 06, 2020, 12:53:45 PM
 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 06, 2020, 12:56:11 PM
The other thread isn't done posting yet!

stop the posts!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 06, 2020, 12:56:47 PM
Trump could still :hulk up

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Boredfrom on November 06, 2020, 01:04:28 PM
Trump could still :hulk up

:trumps

It seems that most probably not.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: thetylerrob on November 06, 2020, 01:06:09 PM
No more orange people in the White House, brehs.

 :ohyou
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 01:19:10 PM
This Clark County elections official guy is back today.  He's great. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Sman on November 06, 2020, 01:19:31 PM
No more orange people in the White House, brehs.

 :ohyou

Starting January 20th 2021.

 :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: bork on November 06, 2020, 01:28:59 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnHPiette/status/1324751170511032322
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 06, 2020, 01:38:02 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324768077939118083

 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 06, 2020, 01:39:40 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnHPiette/status/1324751170511032322

elon musk? : :yuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on November 06, 2020, 01:42:36 PM
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1324776215341879297
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Sman on November 06, 2020, 01:53:01 PM
NC is very slow for some reason.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 06, 2020, 01:53:11 PM
Congratulations brehs you've earned it enjoy your victory :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 06, 2020, 02:00:59 PM
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/42b81ab80096f25d34ef7a1d5193efb9/tumblr_pxou8coc761wtavz1o1_500.gif)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Trump watching Fox News like:

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/5baf8d3b28c216d4af6792af6d0ea42a/tumblr_po2cx4qmmo1x0uneyo6_540.gif)
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: bork on November 06, 2020, 02:05:15 PM
He's still at it!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324613181466173440
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324613375213621248
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324730186798161925
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324752659996397575
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324750561514848256
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324750568817102852
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: brawndolicious on November 06, 2020, 02:05:53 PM
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 06, 2020, 02:09:36 PM
damn, ending life was on the democrat platform?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324612560646262785
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 06, 2020, 02:11:41 PM
Attack and dethrone life  :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 06, 2020, 02:12:47 PM
"Life"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 02:14:55 PM
NC is very slow for some reason.

NC is done counting till the 13h or something.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 02:19:46 PM
Wish someone would end his "Life" before he does anymore damage to the integrity of the election process.  This is going to haunt America or years.  Most of his supporters won't think his actions now are the clownish outbursts from a loser, they will think this is how it went down. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 06, 2020, 02:27:48 PM
No more orange people in the White House, brehs.

 :ohyou

FUCK! I wanted to post that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 06, 2020, 02:29:54 PM
238,000 COVID Deaths

"Life"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: NekoFever on November 06, 2020, 02:46:55 PM
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.

Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.

Clinton won without Florida in 1992.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on November 06, 2020, 02:48:07 PM
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1324758193965309952

 :o
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 06, 2020, 02:48:46 PM
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.

Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.

Clinton won without Florida in 1992.

and we saw how that ended for jfk, ohio gets the last laugh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: NekoFever on November 06, 2020, 02:57:21 PM
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.

Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.

Clinton won without Florida in 1992.

and we saw how that ended for jfk, ohio gets the last laugh

Wait for Trump to declassify the JFK files. It's all Ohio.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 06, 2020, 03:01:28 PM
Always was
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Occam on November 06, 2020, 03:04:00 PM
Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 06, 2020, 03:07:21 PM
Good day.

Didn't sleep at all on the first night. Was pretty nervous until 3am when Biden took the lead in Wisconsin and then was pretttttty safely done if people were right with Az hold.

Then stayed up to see Georgia flip last night and was fucking AWESOME  :hump historic moment there.

Still annoying they haven't called it everywhere after PA flipped. Hopefully if next batch of votes takes PA over like 35k difference they'll all call it and be done.

Trumpers did really good, their turn out was insane. Like so many fucking crazy people.
just Democrats did even better, thankfully. But goddamn it was close.

If Republicans can keep this level of turnout for non-trump GOP, Democrats are in serious trouble going forward. But it's pretty unlikely since it seems more a Trump-cult, less GOP-cult. I guess we'll see in 2022 when Trump's not on the ballot.

Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.

Senate's not over. Will hinge 100% on the 2 GA run-offs in January. Will be the 2nd biggest election in the last decade or two because the next two years will ride on it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 03:10:06 PM
Watching Georgia election official now - think they are done with this shit  :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 03:11:29 PM
8000 votes still in the mail in Georgia which is much more than the current margin.  Its insane they cut it off after less than a week.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 06, 2020, 03:12:30 PM
also, fyi without the Senate though, Biden still gets to:

-Undo 90%+ of everything Trump did, since he did 90% of his shit through Executive Orders instead of legislation
-Replace all the corrupt departments like Justice Department, FDA, CDC, EPA, etc...
-Restore foreign relations and trade deals

That will literally takes most of the first 2 years of administration just to do. The two big things they will lose in those years without the senate is any ability to change the supreme court makeup and anything drastically progressive voting rights act/police reform. If they take senate in 2022 (which is an extremely favorable D senate map) they can do all that in the second two year period.

Covid stimulus package would still get through as the R states need it badly.


aka, getting the Senate would be really, really good, but it's still ok if they don't get it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BisMarckie on November 06, 2020, 03:15:40 PM
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1324758193965309952

 :o

Third party boaters  :maf :maf :maf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 06, 2020, 03:17:31 PM
Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.

he's back, done your rainforest op yet?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 06, 2020, 03:19:52 PM
He's still at it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324730186798161925

the fact this misspelling is still up implies that his handlers and people who worked tirelessly and fruitlessly to try to make his tweets less embarrassing have all quit or are distancing themselves  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 03:23:26 PM
They have probably already snuck out the back with the silver candle sticks. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 06, 2020, 03:25:51 PM
He's still at it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324730186798161925

the fact this misspelling is still up implies that his handlers and people who worked tirelessly and fruitlessly to try to make his tweets less embarrassing have all quit or are distancing themselves  :lol

Nah mate, it’s intentional.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianNolan1974/status/1324698345969983494
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Trent Dole on November 06, 2020, 03:40:57 PM
5 D MENTAL distinguished mentally-challenged
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 06, 2020, 03:42:16 PM
8000 votes still in the mail in Georgia which is much more than the current margin.  Its insane they cut it off after less than a week.

Last day for the up to 8890 unaccounted for military ballots to be received. Be real funny if they could have won it for Trump but can't be included because of the rules Repubs laud.

Sorry soldier boys, gotta protect democracy, better luck next time
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 06, 2020, 03:52:12 PM
8000 votes still in the mail in Georgia which is much more than the current margin.  Its insane they cut it off after less than a week.

Last day for the up to 8890 unaccounted for military ballots to be received. Be real funny if they could have won it for Trump but can't be included because of the rules Repubs laud.

Sorry soldier boys, gotta protect democracy, better luck next time

Eh, most likely that's just who never sent them back. I don't expect anything at all from those in GA.

There was a diagram showing how many people in PA requested ballots from various designations and how many of them actually returned their ballots. Was only like 83% for Ds and 75% for Rs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Brehvolution on November 06, 2020, 04:03:29 PM
We won. You lost. Get over it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: brawndolicious on November 06, 2020, 04:23:26 PM
Is this the first time in modern political history that both Florida and Ohio were irrelevant in deciding the winner? Beautiful if true.

Last president not to win Ohio was JFK.

Clinton won without Florida in 1992.

But JFK did have Florida and Clinton did get Ohio. Actually I looked it up and went back to 1848 (Florida didn't become a state until 1845), and this seems to be the first time somebody has been elected president without carrying either of those states.

That opens up the possibility that candidates will give a shit about what the other states think. Very exciting!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: curly on November 06, 2020, 04:26:16 PM
Shame nintex had to die for this to happen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 06, 2020, 04:48:27 PM
I think Trump is just a crazy outlier, in so many ways. I'll be interested to see how Ohio votes when he's not in the race next time.

People have been saying that Ohio is getting more conservative for awhile, though. Young people moving away and older people becoming more single issue (guns and abortion).

 

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2020, 05:01:24 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/six-native-americans-elected-to-congress-record-breaking/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 06, 2020, 06:39:40 PM
oh god this will never end. They discovered a software glitch in a MI county that gave 6000 votes to Biden.
Now that they've recounted it by hand it has flipped back to red. 47 counties used the same software and it was used in other states as well.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: bork on November 06, 2020, 08:10:21 PM
oh god this will never end. They discovered a software glitch in a MI county that gave 6000 votes to Biden.
Now that they've recounted it by hand it has flipped back to red. 47 counties used the same software and it was used in other states as well.

It's not enough to make a difference.

https://www.9and10news.com/2020/11/06/antrim-county-election-results-corrected-after-software-issue-skewed-initial-results/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 06, 2020, 08:51:13 PM
oh god this will never end. They discovered a software glitch in a MI county that gave 6000 votes to Biden.
Now that they've recounted it by hand it has flipped back to red. 47 counties used the same software and it was used in other states as well.

It's not enough to make a difference.

https://www.9and10news.com/2020/11/06/antrim-county-election-results-corrected-after-software-issue-skewed-initial-results/

it sounds like it did make a difference, but not on a presidential level - an incumbent republican was surprised to learn that he lost his local election, but wasn't going to challenge the results, but then when the glitch was discovered it handed the win back to him

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020/11/06/oakland-county-election-2020-race-results/6184186002/

however everyone involved acted maturely and sensibly and it's a perfect example of the system working the way it's supposed to work

like the article says:

Quote
And the process worked apparently without regard to politics. A Republican city clerk supervised a vote count that wrongly gave victory to a Democrat, after which a Democratic county clerk's staff caught the error and requested a correction from the Republican city clerk, handing the win to a Republican.

 :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: samir on November 06, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
The orange menace has been banished to the shadow realm. Let's all hold hands and pray.

 :dsp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 06, 2020, 09:32:40 PM
please change the title back to US politics or I'm going to reeee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 06, 2020, 09:48:36 PM
Don’t do it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 06, 2020, 09:49:16 PM
USA! USA!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 06, 2020, 10:06:49 PM
haha https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1323313186259480577
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Boredfrom on November 06, 2020, 10:15:36 PM
Wish someone would end his "Life" before he does anymore damage to the integrity of the election process.  This is going to haunt America or years.  Most of his supporters won't think his actions now are the clownish outbursts from a loser, they will think this is how it went down.

 :doge

I also hate Trump and I will not mind he dying but...  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: mormapope on November 06, 2020, 11:13:01 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324924848217477121?s=20

Quote
BREAKING: Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election. 

The series finale of the Trump presidency is pretty exciting.

https://youtu.be/TJoBMayjlUo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 06, 2020, 11:43:53 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MwGtLBq.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 07, 2020, 12:35:12 AM
I think this country has made a big mistake.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1324887827868508162
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 12:40:50 AM
 :larry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 07, 2020, 03:22:12 AM
Congratulations, America. Too bad about the Senate.

:rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 05:18:37 AM
They're talking to Trump directly through Fox News  :dead

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1324918336988221441 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1324918336988221441)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: headwalk on November 07, 2020, 06:44:58 AM
let him have his recounts, it's the final binary outcome. you'll either knee-cap the whole stolen election narrative before it becomes a permanent national schism and show him up in a way that even his most fervent and paranoid zealots couldn't deny, or he'll somehow win and usher in a 1000 year reich where he's demonstrated that democracy can't be trusted.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 07, 2020, 10:13:08 AM
He doesn't want a recount, he wants the mail-ins disqualified.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 11:10:02 AM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)

It's all a distraction
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: brawndolicious on November 07, 2020, 11:41:10 AM
The race has been called by the major outlets. Nothing else to say.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 11:49:46 AM
Joe Biden won

CNN is literally crying
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788)

Trump from his golf course in Virginia

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmPDyn2XYAE92Cf?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Let's Cyber on November 07, 2020, 11:53:43 AM
Trump is defeated but he isn't going to be going away.

 :goty2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 11:54:00 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873

fuck this guy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 11:58:01 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873

fuck this guy
That was before they called it, Fox News probably gave him a heads up they were about to call or his staff told him there was no path left.
I'm leaning Fox News

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1325118992785223682 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1325118992785223682)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 07, 2020, 12:04:03 PM
:piss :trumps :piss2

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 07, 2020, 12:05:26 PM
"Listen to me! agree with me!"

-trump

lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nuitangg on November 07, 2020, 12:06:32 PM
Four Seasons Total Landscaping   :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 07, 2020, 12:18:02 PM
Joe Biden won

CNN is literally crying

There's nothing wrong with crying if it's for the right reason
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 07, 2020, 12:25:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TONGXrdL_4M
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 07, 2020, 12:25:28 PM
Trump probably kicking himself for not sending another $1000 check out last month.  :P
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 12:30:02 PM
I doubt he reflects on anything he did wrong when he can just think it was a stolen election. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 07, 2020, 12:34:04 PM
I don't even think Trump believes it was rigged tbh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 12:35:32 PM
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 12:36:22 PM
this country is racist  :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2020, 12:42:29 PM
https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/

watch this space for direct-feed meltdowns before your dumb relatives crawl out of their sadness bunkers and share  :success
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 07, 2020, 12:42:30 PM
Congrats everyone.

Prob 2020s brightest moment next to Arsenal winning the FA cup.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 12:47:04 PM
Four Seasons Total Landscaping   :lol
Just watched Rudy make his case. It wasn't very convincing and mostly about the issues discussed earlier, Republican election watchers denied access.
Those computer glitches seem more worrying and in some cases proven but 3000 votes here or there isn't going to change the overall outcome and most of it seems to have been corrected by now.

Biden won it much like Trump, with relatively small margins in a number of important states.
It was closer than people expected and Trump ran up his numbers among African Americans, Latino's and other minorities.
In all fairness the conservatives should be happy with their result likely taking Ohio and Florida from the swing state board and holding onto the senate.
Wisconsin and Michigan were always an uphill battle, traditionally 'blue wall' states that Trump took because Clinton didn't appeal to those people.

Trump likely would've won if he started wearing masks in February and kept the COVID response going as he did at the start (closing borders, building military hospitals etc.) and keeping the stimulus going.
If you look at Macron and a bunch of other world leaders it is clear that Trump's working class 'forgotten men and women' appeal had an effect on world politics for generations to come.
He was just always the odd choice to see it through and drifted further and further away from reality in the White House bubble.

Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily
Probably, but also if his COVID response was better. A lot of countries have this 'rally around the flag' moment for COVID.
But Trump didn't see it, or rather the people who he put in charge of COVID. I think that's also a reason why he lost. Trump might be popular but Kushner and Pence aren't.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: jorma on November 07, 2020, 12:47:40 PM
in swedish media:

first news blurb: biden won
second blurb: trump lost
third blurb: kamala harris could be the first female president!  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 12:49:31 PM
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily

Covid probably boosted his numbers. Might've been a bigger D win without.

Half the country or more doesn't care about covid and hates wearing masks and sees lockdowns as tyranny. Trump meant no more lockdowns, no masks. It probably motivated these people even more to come out for him.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: mormapope on November 07, 2020, 12:59:55 PM
Covid changed absolutely nothing for voting or next to nothing. Republicans/die hard Trump fans have not been swayed by how horrible we've handled it as a country. Most conservative people I unfortunately have to be around still think it's a hoax or don't believe it's affecting anything.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 01:03:06 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1325136080396546050 (https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1325136080396546050)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 01:04:13 PM
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/929478378/understanding-the-2020-electorate-ap-votecast-survey

American Indian, Native American or Alaska Native: 52% for Trump
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 59% for Trump

 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 07, 2020, 01:05:42 PM
if the majority of covid deaths were either elderly (skewing republican) or hoaxers/anti maskers (skewing republican) then trump may have contributed to the deaths of 100-150k of his own voters, and the election could come down to that margin
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 07, 2020, 01:06:16 PM
Who knows and who cares

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 01:08:37 PM
if the majority of covid deaths were either elderly (skewing republican) or hoaxers/anti maskers (skewing republican) then trump may have contributed to the deaths of 100-150k of his own voters, and the election could come down to that margin
Counties hit hard mostly voted for him so that could indeed have been the case.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2020, 01:08:43 PM
yeah a rejection of his leadership due to the covid response makes rational sense, but if FB is any indication i don't see a lot of rationality wrt pro-trump voting sentiment. my hyperreligious extended family and their circle, the kind who think pokemon are demonic and the world is destined for hell, are pro trump because 'jesus doesn't always pick good people to do a good job' despite the dude representing every secular vice imaginable in the most extreme manner possible. they're simply total hypocrites who just desire political influence and want the world to bend to their will. it's just a matter of most of them dying out, to be harsh, as this weird fundamentalism picked up around the older generation and will live with them. i'm already seeing people talking of retreating to the bible belt lmao.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 07, 2020, 01:09:15 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873

fuck this guy

there is some kinda stuff in the replies to this tweet

https://twitter.com/acnhpluto/status/1325133979184410624
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 07, 2020, 01:13:14 PM
Trump supporters are idiots. They call people sheep while eating up this fraud narrative based on the fact that Trump said so and that the things are called "mail in ballots". There's no reasoning with those people.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 07, 2020, 01:14:34 PM
Just wait until the vaccine comes out and Trumpers keep dying anyway because they refuse to take it. Just because Biden is pres doesn't mean the show is gonna stop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 07, 2020, 01:14:42 PM
Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily

Covid probably boosted his numbers. Might've been a bigger D win without.

Half the country or more doesn't care about covid and hates wearing masks and sees lockdowns as tyranny. Trump meant no more lockdowns, no masks. It probably motivated these people even more to come out for him.

The push for mail-in voting by the Biden campaign might have gotten him more votes, too, since mail-in is incredibly easy and people don't have to wait in line for hours and hours.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 07, 2020, 01:16:25 PM
Yeah I'm expecting over the next four years to see republican's try and lesson the ability for mail in and early voting in some states.


Because it's the democrats who are cheating or something.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 01:21:53 PM
Yeah I'm expecting over the next four years to see republican's try and lesson the ability for mail in and early voting in some states.


Because it's the democrats who are cheating or something.
Republicans actually favored mail-in ballots. Down ballot they were really worried about Trump attacking the practice because in some states their base is old and exclusively voted with mail-ins.
In some states it gives them advantages into election day that Trump eroded. The overseas military obviously, also votes by mail.

They got Trump so far that he tried to make a distinction between 'absentee' ballots and 'mail in' ballots. The biggest irony of all is that of course the Trumps themselves used to vote by mail.
There will probably be plenty of books written about this campaign with all the details, no doubt about it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 01:27:32 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshDubowAP/status/1325125807564451842

https://twitter.com/Athletics/status/1325136431115767809

 :jawalrus
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Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2020, 01:33:37 PM
Quote
I definitely don’t understand Lord, but all is for your glory...
just saw the above posted on facebook lmao :sabu :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 01:40:17 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)

It's all a distraction
donald the dove  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2020, 01:44:00 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/2F8Bmub.jpg)
in case you didn't think that the trump base is a revelations-apocalypse cult and can be reasoned with like normal humans.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 01:49:11 PM
Joe Biden won

CNN is literally crying
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788)

Trump from his golf course in Virginia

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmPDyn2XYAE92Cf?format=jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NIKW3xY.jpg) :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 01:52:11 PM
In the end Donald Trump is the SEGA Genesis of Presidents.

He only won once by being controversial, different and loud and spawned a rabid fan base that will not stop believing for decades.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 07, 2020, 01:52:37 PM
Joe Biden won

CNN is literally crying
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325114711634038788)

Trump from his golf course in Virginia

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmPDyn2XYAE92Cf?format=jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NIKW3xY.jpg) :lol

someone cancel this fuck  :maf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 07, 2020, 01:53:26 PM
In the end Donald Trump is the SEGA Genesis of Presidents.

He only won once by being controversial, different and loud and spawned a rabid fan base that will not stop believing for decades.

what is the sonic 3 (& knuckles) of his presidency?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Coffee Dog on November 07, 2020, 01:53:57 PM
It still floors me that without covid Trump would have won, but I'll take it where I can get it.

 Hicks losing the culture war  :aah :aah :aah
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 01:57:57 PM
In the end Donald Trump is the SEGA Genesis of Presidents.

He only won once by being controversial, different and loud and spawned a rabid fan base that will not stop believing for decades.

what is the sonic 3 (& knuckles) of his presidency?
Probably the economic success of 2019 or taking out the leader of ISIS.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 02:00:00 PM
Yeah I'm expecting over the next four years to see republican's try and lesson the ability for mail in and early voting in some states.


Because it's the democrats who are cheating or something.

If, and that's a big iffffff, D's get the senate they already have an all new voting rights act drafted and ready to go to start fixing a lot of this bullshit voter suppression that's been put in place.

Even if they have to wait until 2022, and get the senate then they could theoretically pass it before the next presidential election.

If I were the democratics in senate/executive/house right now, the first things I'd pass if I got a majority is re-instate the fairness doctrine to curb disinformation (there's no way to completely stop fake shit going around, but you can definitely lessen it by a huge amount if you cut it out of official channels and clamp down on FB/Twitter/etc...) and pass a new voting rights act.

If people in this country could actually get reality in their news and everyone could easily vote, the majority of the other issues with the country would take care of itself over time imo.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 02:01:44 PM
Wouldn't most voting rights need to change though constitutional change?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 02:02:44 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)

It's all a distraction

Like 99% of me is not concerned, but 1% of my anxiety still worries that Trump is going to launch nukes at every country in January because he'd rather end the world than admit defeat and not be president.

I really hope the nuclear football people are even more self-aware for these next two months.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 07, 2020, 02:03:53 PM
No one would let him at this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 07, 2020, 02:04:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/2F8Bmub.jpg)
in case you didn't think that the trump base is a revelations-apocalypse cult and can be reasoned with like normal humans.
The thing I don't get about the god people (other then thinking somehow that Trump is godly) is that shouldn't you also think Biden is what god would want since he's winning?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 02:07:11 PM
Wouldn't most voting rights need to change though constitutional change?

I don't think so. We're not talking about like fundemental change of who can vote, but rather just new laws to prevent types of voter suppression like voter intimidation and stuff.

The house has brought up and I think passed new Voting Rights Act laws several times in the last year or two but the senate has just ignored it. If D's have the senate they can pass one.

Like just googling, here was a time a bill was brought last year in the house on it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/democrats-hope-restore-key-section-voting-rights-act/583969/

Also after John Lewis passed this year the House D's wanted a "John Lewis Voting Rights Act", but obviously Senate just ignored it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 02:12:05 PM
I'd add that I think the 3rd biggest issue preventing the country from working things out on its own (because deep down I actually do believe that the majority (~70%+) of people in America are decent people), is gerrymandering.

But I think if they could get rid of the fake news shit and more people could vote, we'd have more people in government redrawing districts more fairly and with accurate census and gerrymandering would work itself out.

All feels like dominoes to me. Fix the brainwashing and let people vote and things will fall in place.


The problem is that one party knows this basically means they would lose almost complete power over time and so they'll do everything they can to stop it.

The most ironic thing is that if the Republicans just stopped being racist, the population makeup change would potentially keep them in power, since a lot of various minority groups that will become majorities are fairly conservative, especially in religion.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 02:16:09 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324963710914473984)

It's all a distraction

Like 99% of me is not concerned, but 1% of my anxiety still worries that Trump is going to launch nukes at every country in January because he'd rather end the world than admit defeat and not be president.

I really hope the nuclear football people are even more self-aware for these next two months.
Nah, he's not going to destroy his golf courses. Overall, I'd be more concerned about enemies taking advantage of this lame duck period.
For example, the Taliban could make moves in Afghanistan knowing the Trump peace deal is off the table. Or Bibi knowing that Biden would be less supportive of his plans could decide to move in on Gaza and the West Bank.
Just like when Trump and Obama first came into office the new President will be 'tested' to see what he does when boundaries are crossed.

Those fragile Middle East peace deals seem the most at risk by a possible foreign policy shift. Trump could call and scream at country leaders not to blow up each others dams but now no one will give a damn.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 07, 2020, 02:18:21 PM
"Donald Trump would have won if..."

He wore a mask
Treated COVID like it was something serious
Listened to science
Been understanding towards the Floyd protests
Worked towards providing a living stimulus

In other words he would have won if he wasn't exactly the type of person he showed himself to be for the last 4 years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: bork on November 07, 2020, 02:20:03 PM
"Donald Trump would have won if..."

He wore a mask
Treated COVID like it was something serious
Listened to science
Been understanding towards the Floyd protests
Worked towards providing a living stimulus

In other words he would have won if he wasn't exactly the type of person he showed himself to be for the last 4 years.

"Donald Trump would have won if..."

He was a capable, sane leader not driven by his ego which he put before everything else and continues to do now.  Trump being elected president of the United States was crazy enough, but the way he is going out will forever be a complete embarrassment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 07, 2020, 02:27:43 PM
So you're both saying that there was literally nothing in his power he could do to win? Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 07, 2020, 02:33:13 PM
So you're both saying that there was literally nothing in his power he could do to win? Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy

Not at all. I hear all this noise saying "Trump would have won if..." and list these impossible conditions that he never would have done anyway.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Momo on November 07, 2020, 02:42:44 PM
I don't even think Trump believes it was rigged tbh

But wouldn’t that require him to accept the fact that a majority of people in the country don’t like him?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 07, 2020, 02:47:08 PM
So you're both saying that there was literally nothing in his power he could do to win? Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy

Not at all. I hear all this noise saying "Trump would have won if..." and list these impossible conditions that he never would have done anyway.

I think a lot of the talk is already factoring that in

saying trump would've won if not for covid means that there's only one possible way for trump to behave during a pandemic crisis, and if the pandemic hadn't happened he would've skated to victory


trump would've won if not for forces of nature compelling him to act in a way that caused voters to not vote for him
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 07, 2020, 02:48:23 PM
If not for covid, dems would not have made a call to arms for mail in voting and blue shirts would not have shown up to the polls.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: bork on November 07, 2020, 02:52:51 PM
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2020, 03:09:28 PM
I don't even think Trump believes it was rigged tbh

But wouldn’t that require him to accept the fact that a majority of people in the country don’t like him?
brah he was president he can already rub that fact alone in a lot of noses, to include another president
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 07, 2020, 03:13:41 PM
If you’re into conspiracy theories like me, the stolen election is gonna provide months worth of hot content :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on November 07, 2020, 03:21:56 PM
Four Seasons Total Landscaping   :lol
Just watched Rudy make his case. It wasn't very convincing and mostly about the issues discussed earlier, Republican election watchers denied access.
Those computer glitches seem more worrying and in some cases proven but 3000 votes here or there isn't going to change the overall outcome and most of it seems to have been corrected by now.

Biden won it much like Trump, with relatively small margins in a number of important states.
It was closer than people expected and Trump ran up his numbers among African Americans, Latino's and other minorities.
In all fairness the conservatives should be happy with their result likely taking Ohio and Florida from the swing state board and holding onto the senate.
Wisconsin and Michigan were always an uphill battle, traditionally 'blue wall' states that Trump took because Clinton didn't appeal to those people.

Trump likely would've won if he started wearing masks in February and kept the COVID response going as he did at the start (closing borders, building military hospitals etc.) and keeping the stimulus going.
If you look at Macron and a bunch of other world leaders it is clear that Trump's working class 'forgotten men and women' appeal had an effect on world politics for generations to come.
He was just always the odd choice to see it through and drifted further and further away from reality in the White House bubble.

Its still insane that without covid he would have won easily
Probably, but also if his COVID response was better. A lot of countries have this 'rally around the flag' moment for COVID.
But Trump didn't see it, or rather the people who he put in charge of COVID. I think that's also a reason why he lost. Trump might be popular but Kushner and Pence aren't.

Biden didn’t win it like trump at all? His popular vote margin was actually quite large. It came down to 5 or so key states because our system is dumb, but the margins were not all that close
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Bebpo on November 07, 2020, 03:27:26 PM
https://twitter.com/BenWessel/status/1324013035355172864

Youth vote was pretty blue. Texas still possible in another election or two, or three...or four.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 07, 2020, 03:30:06 PM
In four years all those naive young people will turn red after biden taxes them into further poverty.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 07, 2020, 03:32:14 PM
What age group falls under "young"?

Either way. That dark blue in Florida kinda makes me more mad that it went red this time around in real life
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 07, 2020, 03:32:30 PM
I feel good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 07, 2020, 03:35:27 PM
HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON ETOILET

IS HE OK

HAS HE POSTED A BUNCH OF PICS OF DEAD CHILDREN AND YELLED ABOUT STALIN

SOMEONE PLEASE REMIND HIM THAT HE GUARANTEED A TRUMP VICTORY

EAT MY ASSHOLE, ETOILET, I WILL BE SURE NOT TO SHOWER BEFORE YOU DO AND EAT NOTHING BUT POPEYE'S AND TACO BELL FOR THE WEEK PRIOR, YOU RACIST, MISOGYNISTIC ASSHAT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 07, 2020, 03:40:11 PM
https://www.vox.com/2020/11/7/21552248/youth-vote-2020-georgia-biden-covid-19-racism-climate-change

Found it. 18 to 29.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 07, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
https://twitter.com/BenWessel/status/1324013035355172864

Youth vote was pretty blue. Texas still possible in another election or two, or three...or four.

That feeling when they don't even need a color for Trump +30 or higher
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 07, 2020, 04:18:46 PM
if only everyone would die upon turning 30
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Trent Dole on November 07, 2020, 04:23:43 PM
This board would be pretty empty then.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 04:24:59 PM
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qjfvs32qIK1ukhqg0.mp4

jorgensen wiv dat libertarian moment  :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Let's Cyber on November 07, 2020, 04:26:53 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 05:01:25 PM
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qjg4teF8nA1whq7jt.mp4

 :doge :biden :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 05:29:06 PM
Trump is taking this well

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325194709443080192 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325194709443080192)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 07, 2020, 06:58:34 PM
https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1325144980277481472
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 07:03:18 PM
 :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 07, 2020, 07:09:21 PM
HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON ETOILET
he got mad on a train subreddit because someone posted a picture of joe biden and he said "pls stop, I subbed here to get away from politics"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 07:12:35 PM
Man this piece about the campaign is absolutely fantastic
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716 (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716)
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Biden’s team marveled at something else: how Trump failed to come up with a comprehensive strategy to attack the virus. This was a moment that needed a gesture like George W. Bush’s megaphone on the rubble in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, advisers mused with Biden, and Trump was whiffing it.
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Trump privately complained to allies that Biden was outspending him on television. McDaniel told him it was a problem he was dark in her home state of Michigan. The president didn’t like the recurring stories about how he wasn’t on TV because his campaign was running out of money.
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Senior campaign officials, meanwhile, had been getting reports that Guilfoyle had been berating her staff. Appearing together at fundraisers, Guilfoyle and her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., would banter in sexually suggestive ways that made some donors uncomfortable.
During a December donor event at Trump Hotel in Washington, Guilfoyle offered to give a lap dance to whoever raised the most money, according to two people who were present and another person who was familiar with the episode.
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And at an event in Jackson Hole, Wyo. earlier this year, Guilfoyle and the younger Trump joked about how she raised money while in hot tubs.
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“The St. John’s moment was a low moment for any Republican president,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump adviser. It was intended as “a George W. Bush moment at the Twin Towers,” Lanza added, but “it just didn’t unfold that way.”
Quote
“The most fucked moment of the last 30 days was how everyone felt during the first debate. Why did Trump yell at Joe Biden for 90 minutes straight? No one knows. That was one of the worst debate performances you could have in a general election,” a senior Trump adviser said.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: headwalk on November 07, 2020, 07:28:21 PM
i was impressed throughout the campaign at how bad at just being donald trump donald trump actually was.

give any machievellian personality doctor with a half decent understanding of the human condition control over his public appearences and they could've easily reconfigured trump into something far more electable and ultimately dangerous, despite the absolute balls up he's made of so many things in office. it wouldn't even take some grand pivot, just some empty gestures of personal growth and humility after being the in job for four years.

america should be thankful that he's as thick as he is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 07, 2020, 07:31:11 PM
https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1325110445162848257

 :ohyou
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 07:40:32 PM
https://twitter.com/ManhoodMagic/status/1325148607498969090

https://twitter.com/Hindust2020/status/1325116962964320256

https://twitter.com/757747544/status/1325122735547191296

 :chinacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 07, 2020, 07:50:40 PM
https://twitter.com/ManhoodMagic/status/1325148607498969090

This photoshop manages to be more offensive than the actual massacre
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nuitangg on November 07, 2020, 08:08:25 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1325238214479781888
 
:heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 07, 2020, 08:19:41 PM
Don Lemon is working at Fox News now?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2020, 08:19:49 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-trump-campaign-grapples-defeat-plowing-forward-legal/story?id=74082317 (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-trump-campaign-grapples-defeat-plowing-forward-legal/story?id=74082317)
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But the hotline has turned into a nightmare for some, as staffers, some of whom have contracts that expire in the coming days, have been bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up, sources tell ABC News. Prank calling the Trump campaign's hotline has already become a trend on TikTok, the social media network that was used earlier in the year in an attempt to tank the president's rally in Tulsa by mass-requesting tickets.


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according to the fine print on the donations page, 60% of the funds raised will go to paying down the campaign's debt.

Quote
we may need your help and support on the ground, you know, waving the flag and yelling the president's name and support."

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 07, 2020, 08:23:27 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716

Quote
• Senior campaign and GOP officials vented that Trump’s finance team, led by former Fox TV host and Donald Trump Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, underperformed and was an HR nightmare. Trump couldn’t compete with Biden’s small-dollar fundraising machine, and some donors were horrified by what they described as Guilfoyle’s lack of professionalism: She frequently joked about her sex life and, at one fundraiser, offered a lap dance to the donor who gave the most money.

 :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 07, 2020, 08:26:45 PM
Yeah the idiot lady who claimed that America has no racism problem can keep the lap dance.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BikeJesus on November 07, 2020, 09:27:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ETok6Vs.gif?noredirect)
(https://i.gifer.com/3A1Z.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/186/107/9107186.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/185/107/9107185.jpg)

yeah, this is a great choice

 :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: thetylerrob on November 07, 2020, 09:32:25 PM
 :umad  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 07, 2020, 10:06:57 PM
Stay mad, loser. :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 07, 2020, 10:23:57 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ETok6Vs.gif?noredirect)
(https://i.gifer.com/3A1Z.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/186/107/9107186.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/185/107/9107185.jpg)

yeah, this is a great choice

 :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
sometimes you find a diamond in the rough  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 07, 2020, 10:52:58 PM
On my Facebook it’s a lot about how “look we republicans aren’t rioting”. Which always makes me wonder what these people would think during the Civil Rights movement. But it’s also like yeah there were riots because people are angry about whats going on in the country. They felt powerless in how to make that know and change it(probably thanks to Trump and his admin). So they took to the streets. You then get lots of people in one place where emotions are running high and then you create even  more tension by having things like police(the thing people are angry at) show up there may be some violence. And then while those emotions hold high and the day goes by you may have some people that make some bad choices.

But is the answer to just demonize them and not attempt to understand what is leading to this? This was my number reason I wanted Trump out because during all these race issues in America he time and time proved he was not capable of being a leader and willing to have dialogue about these issues. Instead doubling down and basically calling these people terrorist. It’s why when I see those “back the blue” things I just assume the person is a racist. I see that flag or sign and it just reads “shut up minorities” to me. I see closed minded people unwilling to admit there are problems in this country that need addressing. Acting like there isn’t or labeling the people who are saying there are is socialist or bastards or whatever is not going to go anywhere. I’m not sure Biden is going to be that leader, but at least he seems aware of the problems. At least maybe he’ll have a dialogue about it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 07, 2020, 10:54:31 PM
https://twitter.com/kim/status/1325249212452278274
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 08, 2020, 12:55:39 AM
Just wait until the vaccine comes out and Trumpers keep dying anyway because they refuse to take it. Just because Biden is pres doesn't mean the show is gonna stop

Seems like a good deal for the next elections.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 08, 2020, 12:57:25 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ETok6Vs.gif?noredirect)
(https://i.gifer.com/3A1Z.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/186/107/9107186.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/185/107/9107185.jpg)

yeah, this is a great choice

 :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck

Let me guess, you dont have kids?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 08, 2020, 01:26:23 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ETok6Vs.gif?noredirect)
(https://i.gifer.com/3A1Z.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/186/107/9107186.gif)
(https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/185/107/9107185.jpg)

yeah, this is a great choice

 :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck

Shit! I never saw these! Why didn't anyone say anything?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 08, 2020, 05:51:38 AM
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1324896717628715009 (https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1324896717628715009)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/donald-trump-presidency-election-week.html (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/donald-trump-presidency-election-week.html)

Quote
The adviser asked if he was trying to say that votes cast illegally (something that happens rarely, despite Trump’s claims) should not be counted. “He said, ‘Yeah, yeah. That’s what I mean.’ ” People knew that by “stop the count,” he didn’t mean to literally stop the count, Trump said. “No,” the adviser told him, “people think you mean stop counting. If they stopped counting, you’d lose because you’re behind.” Oh.

Quote
Jared Kushner, said he was looking for a James Baker–type figure. Instead, they got Rudy Giuliani, Pam Bondi, Corey Lewandowski, and Dave Bossie. “That’s not a legal team,” one of the president’s friends told me. “It’s all so bizarre.”

Quote
“He wants to lose. He’s out of money. He worries about being arrested. He worried about being assassinated,” they said. “It hasn’t been a great experience for him. He likes showing people around the White House, but the actual day-to-day business of being president? It’s been pretty unpleasant for him.”

Quote
“He’s afraid. He’s the most insecure, afraid person ever. He’s too afraid to be president. He’s afraid to exercise power. He’s afraid to do the job. It’s why he’s overbearing and crazy — he sabotages himself constantly because he hates himself and wants out. He’s always trying to hurt himself. That guy commits more self-harm than anyone I’ve ever encountered.”

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“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.”

THE TRAGEDY OF DARTH TRUMP THE BUSINESS MAN
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: mormapope on November 08, 2020, 06:24:33 AM
What a loser
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 08, 2020, 10:02:03 AM
There's only two outcomes, you win or you lose, that much is guaranteed™
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 08, 2020, 11:10:33 AM
Tbf trump (and his minions) is one of those dudes you could make almost anything up about, within reason, and people will just believe it :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 08, 2020, 11:12:24 AM
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.” :trumps



Those can not be real quotes :titus
;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 08, 2020, 12:29:49 PM
I've been following some right wing guys on twitter, including a data/poll guy. His argument is that Trump needs to win AZ, which apparently has 0% fraud for some reason (no black people?). Then the courts will hand him PA and GA, thus getting him to 270.

As of right now Biden is still on pace to win AZ. The ballots under scrutiny in PA were not included in Biden's total; the PA Sec of State asked that they be separated to avoid any confusion. And of course it would take massive fraud for GA's total to change. In short, this is all bullshit and will be resolved soon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 08, 2020, 01:01:43 PM
I love how the votes since Tuesday that Biden got are fraudulent, but the ones Trump got are 100% legitimate.

Also, the fraudulent Biden votes picked republican house and senate candidates for reasons.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 08, 2020, 01:33:21 PM
The best way to sum up the current state of the Trump administration is that they accidentally booked the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping instead of the Four Seasons Hotel and not only went through with their press conference next to an adult book store and a cremation center but are still defending their choice of venue and promoting it.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 08, 2020, 02:05:55 PM
https://twitter.com/mulvihill79/status/1325494782840369152

 :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2


https://twitter.com/AP/status/1325501973588828162

 :lol :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 08, 2020, 02:07:44 PM
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,” a former White House official told me. “Live. Laugh. Love.” This person added, “Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.”



Those can not be real quotes :titus

I was told the interview was off the record damn it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 08, 2020, 02:36:02 PM
Bush saying it is fair makes me want to question it. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 08, 2020, 02:47:15 PM
Biden needs a beard.

(https://external-preview.redd.it/M6aCgvljTKUdzc2hG6DiEySwbyFnSRLHXVD4Q0pavw8.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e7f960b853853dff57d60650b3cb628e5459688)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 08, 2020, 02:48:22 PM
:horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 08, 2020, 03:01:00 PM
george carlin
:whoo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 08, 2020, 04:12:40 PM
he already has jill  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 08, 2020, 04:59:16 PM
https://twitter.com/mulvihill79/status/1325494782840369152

 :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2


https://twitter.com/AP/status/1325501973588828162

 :lol :dead
They just need to convince Trump that going on TV with Biden will send his ratings through the roof.
The man does everything for TV ratings.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 08, 2020, 05:02:05 PM
dems be schism-ing 

https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/1325304269638078464

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1325182996077400064
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 08, 2020, 05:27:23 PM
I thought it was really disrespectful of AOC to "coincidentally" post that rapidly flashing gif that said "deal with it" in reply to kurt
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 08, 2020, 06:05:59 PM
Democrats:

John Kasich  :obama

Dick Cheney  :gladbron

Mitt Romney  :mynicca

Actual Democrats  :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Kestastrophe on November 08, 2020, 06:25:29 PM
Ugh, wholeheartedly disagree with Kasich's take....there is nothing of value to listen to, as evidenced by the last 4 years
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 08, 2020, 06:39:36 PM
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1325578272302903296
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 08, 2020, 06:51:19 PM
Biden needs a beard.

...Jill?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 08, 2020, 06:53:04 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/m24m976.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/5ijBbeu.jpg)

I guess it's appropriate to this timeline. :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 08, 2020, 09:50:26 PM
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.
Not even white people in Georgia suburbs?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 08, 2020, 09:53:59 PM
I know some trumpers that wanted to vote for bern dawg  :bernie but none that wanted bide over trumpy  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 08, 2020, 10:39:16 PM
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.



Isn’t the move for most disaffected Republicans to vote Libertarian? Their candidate got 1.6 million votes. The second most ever for a libertarian candidate.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 08, 2020, 11:02:04 PM
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.

It was a long con to fuck over the libs.

Lie to the polls, let the guard down, and then trump all the way home.

Thats why we need to set up the firing squads in every public square
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 08, 2020, 11:23:41 PM
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016.

But also a few never-Trump voters in the 12,419,354 votes for Biden.

There were a lot of close states that could easy have gone to Trump if it hadn't been for a few thousand staunch Republican voters who voted Democrat purely because they don't trust Trump, or abstained from voting. Republicans aren't entirely monolithic.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 09, 2020, 12:05:12 AM
All the talk and focus on never Trumper Republicans voting for Biden and all that shit was bullshit. There were 9 million more Trumpers this time around than 2016. Republicans voting for Biden had no impact in this election. At all. In any state. I'm 100% positive at least 10% of the people in the Lincoln Project still voted for Trump.

It was a long con to fuck over the libs.

Lie to the polls, let the guard down, and then trump all the way home.

Thats why we need to set up the firing squads in every public square

:bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2020, 12:49:45 AM
Quote from: https://www.theepochtimes.com/media-calling-elections-in-a-democracy-is-post-modern-fascism_3569906.html
More or less unnoticed for decades, the media habit of “calling” elections—presidential or otherwise—is not only a betrayal of the democratic process, it has become a leading factor in a new form of post-modern fascism in which we are apparently living.

Saturday morning at 11:45AM, while President Trump was off playing golf, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the AP, and USA Today, virtually in unison as if operating on some sort of pre-arranged cue, all made the call for Joe Biden with Fox News joining them all of ten minutes later.

It was like Pravda and Izvestia working together for what they assured the Soviet public was their own good.

Moments after that, horns were honking with joy and people dancing in the streets from Los Angeles to New York.

After all, the witch was dead. Which old witch? The orange witch! Ding-dong the wicked witch was dead!

Biden was our 46th president because the media declared it so.

Of course, this was nonsense. The election is still on-going, still undecided, and will be for several weeks of legal challenges, many of them justified.

What occurred at 11:45 was basically a media psy-op (psychological operation), designed to depress and silence the roughly seventy-one million who voted for Trump and rally the seventy-some million, if they indeed exist, who voted for Biden.

The truth is, in a democracy and/or a democratic republic …

No media organization has the right to “call” an election. Period.

It’s a Big Lie squared.

The privilege of determining the results of an election belongs to the voters alone and is governed by the rules of the constitutional system under which we live.

What the AP or Fox say has nothing to do with it!

Media calling elections is akin to their outrageous polls we have witnessed for months that also operated as psy-ops designed to depress the vote and financial contributions to the Republican candidate.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 01:08:32 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/zt6qIli.jpg)

 :bow :crybaby :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 09, 2020, 01:16:22 AM
Big milky tiddy goth gf  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on November 09, 2020, 01:22:02 AM
https://twitter.com/AutistLvsMatter/status/1325641719581454337

 :gladbron
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 01:29:05 AM
 :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2020, 01:33:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06qvqAGpP8
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 01:40:49 AM
 :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2020, 01:47:44 AM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1325251011217412096

you betcha!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 02:00:18 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/r1N2EhH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7Ltr7ga.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/TVlLU7c.jpg)


Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 09, 2020, 05:28:37 AM
"Ok, THIS is how we win..."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 09, 2020, 05:42:43 AM
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocry

(https://i.imgur.com/8lD90Zc.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on November 09, 2020, 06:13:08 AM
Only winners get emojis :wag
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 07:42:03 AM
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocry

(https://i.imgur.com/8lD90Zc.jpg)
Who is this man? a body double? He hasn't eaten nearly enough McDonalds.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 09, 2020, 07:43:52 AM
 :dsp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 09, 2020, 08:46:25 AM
This is pretty amazing.

(https://i.imgur.com/PbtFbJa.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 09, 2020, 08:52:30 AM
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocry

(https://i.imgur.com/8lD90Zc.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33izVlIOgnQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 09:11:20 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/r9QdJMC.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kGr7xik.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 09, 2020, 09:22:54 AM
This is pretty amazing.

(https://i.imgur.com/PbtFbJa.png)

alex jones always says the democrats are allied with communist china and the unelected eu :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 09, 2020, 09:38:52 AM
Ben Garrison's taking it well.

https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1325528491723350017
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 09:40:55 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmY4PEJWMAEPkz6?format=jpg)

Pence took credit for the vaccine then Pfizer distanced themselves  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 09, 2020, 09:55:24 AM
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/era-of-lying-is-over-mike-pence-pummeled-for-wrongly-handing-trump-credit-for-pfizer-vaccine/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 10:03:20 AM
Cuomo: "I'm really worried about the vaccine plan, I'd rather have Biden in charge of delivering 300 million vaccines"

Conservatives: "OH MY GOD we can't believe the libs don't trust Rudy, Mike and Orange County Choppers to distribute the vaccines"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 09, 2020, 10:07:10 AM
Pence: "Our vaccine."  :juche
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 09, 2020, 10:22:58 AM
lol is anyone really stupid enough to take the Bill Gates vaccine?

 :tinfoil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 09, 2020, 10:38:11 AM
Wow a vaccine, Biden is really getting shit done quickly.

MY PRESIDENT!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 11:10:00 AM
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1325830768191557632 (https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1325830768191557632)

 :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 11:12:41 AM
forcing the meatloaf on him was too far  :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 09, 2020, 11:13:59 AM
Lol Florida get fucked

(https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT29/refresh/AL292020_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/DDHHMM_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 09, 2020, 11:31:35 AM
Lol Ben get fucked

https://mobile.twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1325835097627615234
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 12:42:42 PM
Shout out to Ben for being the only male secretary of the Trump administration who is not "acting"!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: tiesto on November 09, 2020, 01:16:28 PM
Yesterday there were a few "Trump victory" demonstrations around town holding up traffic, rolled down the windows just pointing and laughing at them...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 09, 2020, 01:18:19 PM
Secretary of Defense just got fired on Twitter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 09, 2020, 02:11:40 PM
https://twitter.com/ConnorSouthard/status/1325814157094973441
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 09, 2020, 02:20:39 PM
I can't stop laughing at the fact that one of the people Rudy Giuliani put on stage at their lawsuit confrence thing is a convicted sex offender.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 02:21:44 PM
Absolutely no one:

Donald Trump

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1325856347896819712 (https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1325856347896819712)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 09, 2020, 02:23:08 PM
I can't stop laughing at the fact that one of the people Rudy Giuliani put on stage at their lawsuit confrence thing is a convicted sex offender.

I'm still laughing at it being at a landscaping business across the street from a porn store.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: TakingBackSunday on November 09, 2020, 02:25:18 PM
if Trump runs in 2024 he literally can just campaign on "making america great again"...again

the perfect grift
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 09, 2020, 02:27:36 PM
I can't stop laughing at the fact that one of the people Rudy Giuliani put on stage at their lawsuit confrence thing is a convicted sex offender.

I'm still laughing at it being at a landscaping business across the street from a porn store.

Not across. Next to it.

There was a cremation service across from it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 09, 2020, 02:52:44 PM
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1325887004199051265
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 03:02:56 PM
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1325887004199051265
That probably means that the other members of the legal team: Corey Lewandowski, Pam Bondi and Rudy G have it too and thus the FBI New York office, Russian Embassy, OANN, NewsMax, Fox News plus an unspecified number of drug dealers are at a high risk.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1325870591619035138 (https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1325870591619035138)

 :mods
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 09, 2020, 05:08:39 PM
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1325874611284815878
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 05:10:52 PM
Big Tech for the Big Guy  :biden

https://twitter.com/rasmus_kleis/status/1325700393863667712 (https://twitter.com/rasmus_kleis/status/1325700393863667712)

Meanwhile at the circus

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmU73JJXcAsNZCw?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 05:27:30 PM
Where did they find this guy

https://twitter.com/CBSWalsh/status/1325892122680176640 (https://twitter.com/CBSWalsh/status/1325892122680176640)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 09, 2020, 06:08:17 PM
https://twitter.com/carriesheffield/status/1325926306371039233

"all of the hallmarks"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 09, 2020, 06:41:04 PM
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1325811083492401152

God's getting ready to smash. :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 07:42:06 PM
Barr activated

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1325952841903710208 (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1325952841903710208)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 09, 2020, 07:51:36 PM
Now they just need to find some substantial allegations.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2020, 08:06:17 PM
Rudy is trying to have 800k ballots looked at in PA for which he has found 55 Republican poll watchers to testify under oath that they were not allowed to observe.
Their case seems to hinge on a claim that the identities and signatures were not properly checked for mail-in ballots but were for in-person votes, thus disenfranchising and disadvantaging in-person voting.
They're going for technical details which considering the volume and size of the operation could very well favor them.

Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nuitangg on November 09, 2020, 08:32:58 PM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325973979472011264

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on November 09, 2020, 09:10:30 PM
Rudy is trying to have 800k ballots looked at in PA for which he has found 55 Republican poll watchers to testify under oath that they were not allowed to observe.
Their case seems to hinge on a claim that the identities and signatures were not properly checked for mail-in ballots but were for in-person votes, thus disenfranchising and disadvantaging in-person voting.
They're going for technical details which considering the volume and size of the operation could very well favor them.

Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.

A friend of mine was a poll watcher in Philadelphia for the Democratic Party and said they only checked IDs if you were a first time voter or new to that precinct.  They’d also accept pretty much anything from a utility bill to a student ID.  If it was basically an address check I doubt this suit would have any merit.  Guess we’ll find out
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 09:12:12 PM
pole watcher summit now! ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 09, 2020, 09:12:15 PM
interesting that none of the "legit" challenges that are surfacing are anywhere near the conspiracy theorists' "LOOK DEY LET 15K DEAD PPL VOTE IN MISHGAN"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 09, 2020, 09:12:25 PM
Rudy is trying to have 800k ballots looked at in PA for which he has found 55 Republican poll watchers to testify under oath that they were not allowed to observe.
Their case seems to hinge on a claim that the identities and signatures were not properly checked for mail-in ballots but were for in-person votes, thus disenfranchising and disadvantaging in-person voting.
They're going for technical details which considering the volume and size of the operation could very well favor them.

Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.

come on bruh :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 09, 2020, 09:18:48 PM
None of them have been "legit". They've all been tossed out. They are 0-10+ so far on their challenges.

that's why I put it in quotes, what I mean is what his professional legal teams think is their best bet is not the nonsense these internet detectives have tried to latch onto
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 09, 2020, 09:19:30 PM
None of them have been "legit". They've all been tossed out. They are 0-10+ so far on their challenges.

But the law of averages says that one of them will eventually hit! And then it's game over for Sleepy Joe!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 09, 2020, 10:20:02 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/gByEIR2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/DuebcdJ.jpg)

bide winning is the gift that keeps giving  :rejoice gritney  :biden :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 10, 2020, 12:01:29 AM
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1325811083492401152

God's getting ready to smash. :lawd

God’s iron rod  :shaq  :drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2020, 01:42:03 AM
How hasn't someone made an emote out of this yet :tocry

(https://i.imgur.com/8lD90Zc.jpg)
orange man sad  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 02:01:28 PM
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667 (https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667)

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1326237368479854593 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1326237368479854593)

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 02:42:04 PM
Smart people: Guys, what if Trump just doesnt leave

Poliera experts: Don't be silly, he doesnt have a choice

Trump: White House tells federal agencies to proceed with plans for Trump’s February budget in latest sign of election defiance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/11/10/trump-federal-budget-post-election/

Poliera experts::pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 02:48:41 PM
Handy resource:
https://isthisacoup.com/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 10, 2020, 02:50:50 PM
The only one staging a coup is America's First Dictator Joe Biden and his fraudulent ballots

:tinfoil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 10, 2020, 02:54:20 PM
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667 (https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1326208130494193667)


"Do you ever listen to yourself and think does anyone believe what I'm saying"

British media can be pretty entertaining
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 02:55:27 PM
I for one can't believe Trump is willing to spend his political capital on a coup. How will this affect the down ballot races in 2022?

-Poliera
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 10, 2020, 03:00:34 PM
if Biden won the election fairly, why are there still monkeys and why is it cold outside? checkmate libs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 10, 2020, 03:01:23 PM
The guy hasn't built his wall yet. He needs more time.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 03:02:44 PM
Handy resource:
https://isthisacoup.com/
Ha, Drumpf outwitted by our magic dials once again!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 03:20:02 PM
I am calling on Canada to invade and bring us freedom poutines
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 10, 2020, 03:23:33 PM
I am calling on Canada to invade and bring us freedom poutines

This doesn't even make any sense on its own terms but I still liked it because poutine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: headwalk on November 10, 2020, 03:51:59 PM
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BikeJesus on November 10, 2020, 03:55:36 PM
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?

The electoral college votes on Dec 14th and the Senate confirms that vote on Jan 6th. Until then, sleepy creepy pedophile Joe is only the presumptive winner.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 10, 2020, 03:57:39 PM
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?

It's a process, the first part is states certifying the votes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 03:59:44 PM
Rudy is creative with these legal things. Remember that he somehow shielded Trump from ever being questioned by Mueller or handing over his tax returns.
Trump was questioned by Mueller.

And there's no legal requirement for Trump to make his tax returns public. How is Rudy creative in giving the same legal advice Trump had been receiving for years on that front?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 04:00:20 PM
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
Until the end of your term.

The "media can't call the election" thing is just a coping mechanism for the Trumpists in denial.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BikeJesus on November 10, 2020, 04:10:49 PM
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
Until the end of your term.

The "media can't call the election" thing is just a coping mechanism for the Trumpists in denial.

The media had Al Gore as the winner for 54 days after the election. The media projects a winner, they don't call anything.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2020, 04:18:45 PM
want obummer to be part of the bide admin so bad, or even just visiting the white house on a regular  :lawd

the cons reactions would be  :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 10, 2020, 04:20:07 PM
when does trump legally lose the election? saw diamond joe bitching him out for being an embarrassment and not conceding, but i didn't realise conceding actually meant anything. how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?

The electoral college votes on Dec 14th and the Senate confirms that vote on Jan 6th. Until then, sleepy creepy pedophile Joe is only the presumptive winner.

I think they're trying like hell to go for the faithless elector route.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 10, 2020, 04:20:29 PM
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 10, 2020, 04:20:57 PM
The Trump voter fraud campaign is just one last attempt to grift their supporters out of money.

https://mobile.twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1326019818588409857
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 10, 2020, 04:21:02 PM
moral/narrative victories are the best kind :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 10, 2020, 04:22:51 PM
Like 911
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 10, 2020, 04:27:18 PM
how long can you stay president by just pretending you won and saying it's all a fix?
Until the end of your term.

The "media can't call the election" thing is just a coping mechanism for the Trumpists in denial.

The media had Al Gore as the winner for 54 days after the election. The media projects a winner, they don't call anything.

2000 was an excruciatingly close vote count in a single state with ballots that were stupid by design. Trump would have to somehow flip several states, all of which are nowhere near as close as Florida in 2000, and have ballots that are normal. They're absolutely right to call it in this case, and the Dem electors will be chosen in December on schedule.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2020, 04:31:37 PM
no different than trumpy's supreme court picks. you can whine and cry about it all you want, but they're still going through  :mueller the dog n pony show is fun, but doesn't change anything in the end  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 04:38:30 PM
I think they're trying like hell to go for the faithless elector route.
The 6D Chess plan is that Republican legislatures will send their own GOP Electors, so there's contested electors, then the GOP Senate will choose the GOP Electors and re-elect Trump.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 10, 2020, 04:50:12 PM
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.

They (collective organism of Trumpism) are just feeling out what they can do. Millions of tiny tentacles probing the system for weaknesses, exploiting whatever they find, using them to erode the defenses further, probing for the new weaknesses that exposed, repeat repeat repeat. There's no single goal. When Trump first got into birtherism was he even thinking it would take him all the way to the presidency?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 05:20:33 PM
https://everylegalvote.com/

(https://i.imgur.com/USFSsbd.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/RrLlIza.png)

 :american

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:dobbs
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 10, 2020, 05:39:09 PM
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.

They (collective organism of Trumpism) are just feeling out what they can do. Millions of tiny tentacles probing the system for weaknesses, exploiting whatever they find, using them to erode the defenses further, probing for the new weaknesses that exposed, repeat repeat repeat. There's no single goal. When Trump first got into birtherism was he even thinking it would take him all the way to the presidency?

Young people are notoriously poor voters and making it easier to vote disproportionately benefits Democrats, so Repubs are agreeing with what Trump is saying and trying to disparage mail-in voting as insecure so it doesn't become more widely adopted in the 2024 election. Whether that's was Trump's primary concern or just his presidency's posthumous gift to the party so they'll roll with his accusations, hard to say. Depends on whether Trump is as big of an egoist as they say or if he considers the culture he's created as benefitting the party as a whole. Guess we'll know in a few years maybe.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 05:44:25 PM
https://twitter.com/d9monti/status/1326288282326593540

shosta annihilated
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 10, 2020, 05:49:47 PM
Doesn't matter if it was 6 or 6 million, rigged is rigged!  :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 05:58:41 PM
lol they found shosta's ballot get wrecked bitch
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 06:02:55 PM
The real game is to fuck things up enough that they somehow end up in the Supreme Court with 3 members of the Bush v. Gore Republican legal team (Brett, Amy, John) ruling.
Oh and Clarence who ruled in favor of the GOP back in 2000 and hates Joe Biden. That only leaves one to flip Alito (appointed by Bush) or Gorsuch (appointed by Trump).

And Trump of course told everybody this was the plan loudly
Quote
Trump has speculated that the Supreme Court could face another major lawsuit over the November presidential contest. "I think this will end up at the Supreme Court," he said last month. "And I think it's very important that we have nine justices."

That's probably why people like Graham have said that Trump is allowed and has every right to pursue any legal means to make his case or whatever.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 10, 2020, 06:07:06 PM
https://everylegalvote.com/

(https://i.imgur.com/USFSsbd.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/RrLlIza.png)

 :american

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:dobbs
[close]

"This is totally unbiased. See, I even let Nevada stay blue"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 10, 2020, 06:07:38 PM
He's not actually trying to prove the election was rigged, he's trying to achieve a narrative victory, like with birtherism.

They (collective organism of Trumpism) are just feeling out what they can do. Millions of tiny tentacles probing the system for weaknesses, exploiting whatever they find, using them to erode the defenses further, probing for the new weaknesses that exposed, repeat repeat repeat. There's no single goal. When Trump first got into birtherism was he even thinking it would take him all the way to the presidency?

https://twitter.com/JackIngoldsby/status/1326284009022828571
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2020, 06:08:18 PM
https://twitter.com/d9monti/status/1326288282326593540

shosta annihilated
never trust stost! :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 06:08:30 PM
"This is totally unbiased. See, I even let Nevada stay blue"
Here's the guy explaining it to Lou:
https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1326294424398213122
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 10, 2020, 06:11:44 PM
This is why I always send at least a dozen ballots. They cant catch them all!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 06:16:12 PM
Cyber fraud  :vr

If there was no fraud lou would be President

This is why I always send at least a dozen ballots. They cant catch them all!
Wow, Lou is right we caught them red handed fraudin'
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 10, 2020, 06:24:29 PM
https://youtu.be/E1lJ3tfQFpc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 10, 2020, 07:02:03 PM
The real game is to fuck things up enough that they somehow end up in the Supreme Court with 3 members of the Bush v. Gore Republican legal team (Brett, Amy, John) ruling.
Oh and Clarence who ruled in favor of the GOP back in 2000 and hates Joe Biden. That only leaves one to flip Alito (appointed by Bush) or Gorsuch (appointed by Trump).

And Trump of course told everybody this was the plan loudly
Quote
Trump has speculated that the Supreme Court could face another major lawsuit over the November presidential contest. "I think this will end up at the Supreme Court," he said last month. "And I think it's very important that we have nine justices."

That's probably why people like Graham have said that Trump is allowed and has every right to pursue any legal means to make his case or whatever.

So, how exactly are these 5 [or 6] Supreme Court justices going to ensure Trump wins? What laws or precedence are they going to cite to overturn the results?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 10, 2020, 07:03:59 PM
The maga 4 life law :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 07:12:48 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKBN27Q3ED (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKBN27Q3ED)
Quote
The Reuters/Ipsos national opinion survey, which ran from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday, found that 79% of U.S. adults believe Biden won the White House. Another 13% said the election has not yet been decided, 3% said Trump won and 5% said they do not know.
Quote
The results were somewhat split along party lines: about six in 10 Republicans and almost every Democrat said Biden won.

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1326301274120318978 (https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1326301274120318978)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2020, 07:14:14 PM
I gotta get in on this, need that 130k  :whoo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 10, 2020, 07:14:52 PM
How long till we get the conservative version of this ad?

https://youtu.be/0z0iuWh3sek
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2020, 07:17:09 PM
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/11/08/why_biden_should_second_trumps_call_for_ballot_reviews_144621.html (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/11/08/why_biden_should_second_trumps_call_for_ballot_reviews_144621.html)

Biden should show the leadership to question his own election  :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 10, 2020, 10:42:42 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/11/rashida-tlaib-progressives-election-435877
“We're not going to be successful if we're silencing districts like mine,” said Tlaib, who told her colleagues something similar during a contentious call last week. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can't be silent.”

“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” said Tlaib, whose Michigan district is among the poorest in the country. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don't say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”

Only a few days after the presidential race was called, Tlaib and other progressive leaders are making it clear there will be no honeymoon for Joe Biden. They have their own takeaways from the election: Top progressive groups are circulating a postelection memo that criticizes centrists for playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism.”

...

“If [voters] can walk past blighted homes and school closures and pollution to vote for Biden-Harris, when they feel like they don't have anything else, they deserve to be heard,” Tlaib said, choking up as she expressed frustration near the end of an interview this week. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.”


...

“Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like ‘defund the police’ or ‘socialism’ have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats,” said the memo, which was shared first with POLITICO. “Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes.”

“These attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements,” the memo continued. “The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment.”
THE MEMO: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000

Quote from: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/conor-lamb-aoc-democrats-fighting-socialism/617045/
But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”

Representative Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a member of the moderate New Democrats coalition who represents a Republican-leaning district, told me that compromise is the only way forward for Democrats. “If you have an idea on how you can best serve the American people, figure out if there’s a pathway through the Senate,” she said. “If there’s not, then you’re not helping anyone.”

...

Other moderates echoed her in interviews with me, arguing that Republicans successfully tied them to leftist “Squad” members such as Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar. “No matter what [moderate lawmakers] did personally, the Democratic Party brand stereotype of the loud folks on Twitter was louder,” Erickson told me, citing conversations she’d had with staffers for swing-state members. “They were caricatured as raising taxes, supporting socialism, the Green New Deal, defunding the police, even if they explicitly opposed those things.” One senior aide to another Democratic freshman in a red district lamented that the party should have had a better answer on police reform during this summer’s protests. “The national narrative around law and order was one I don’t think Democrats fully or capably pushed back on in an effective way,” he said.

Sherrill, who won reelection by double digits last week, told me that she managed to “overcome the national messaging that was so detrimental to so many candidates.” When I asked her what the Democrats’ messaging should be instead, Sherrill said that the party needs to be “laser focused” on making people’s day-to-day lives better. “Of course we care about broad issues of justice,” she said. But Democrats “need to be talking to people about jobs and security right now.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nuitangg on November 10, 2020, 11:35:29 PM
I gotta get in on this, need that 130k  :whoo

Our Lt. Gov Dan Patrick is offering 1 million  dollars  :rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 11, 2020, 12:16:09 AM
So, how exactly are these 5 [or 6] Supreme Court justices going to ensure Trump wins? What laws or precedence are they going to cite to overturn the results?

what happens if they just make shit up?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2020, 12:31:48 AM
that's what they do anyways  :mueller

"let me decide for everyone else what this old piece of paper says based on what I learned at ivy league"  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2020, 01:35:31 AM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1326346945078697984
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2020, 01:36:09 AM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1326300440657588226
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 11, 2020, 01:44:06 AM
God these people are stupid.

FUCKING COVID HAPPEN.


Is'nt she the Qanon one too?

Sorry GA, you may have won one thing, but you voted for this idiot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 11, 2020, 01:59:05 AM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1326346945078697984

:horny  :biden  :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 11, 2020, 06:33:30 AM
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1326395992065896451
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 11, 2020, 09:08:41 AM
Wonder if he's just installing people into the Pentagon who would be more willing to use troops on citizens?

Or are these moves a distraction for the arms transfer to the UAE?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 11, 2020, 09:43:01 AM
https://twitter.com/HowardKurtz/status/1326500040454656002 (https://twitter.com/HowardKurtz/status/1326500040454656002)

Can't believe Whoopi would just do such terrible things.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 11, 2020, 09:47:56 AM
I don't think there has ever been anyone on the planet treated as unfairly as Donald Trump is being treated now :tocry

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:girlaff
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 11, 2020, 10:24:24 AM
https://everylegalvote.com/

(https://i.imgur.com/USFSsbd.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/RrLlIza.png)

 :american

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:dobbs
[close]

(https://i.imgur.com/gwYj9zb.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 11, 2020, 10:49:44 AM
Georgia doing a full recount by hand.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 11, 2020, 02:54:57 PM
Looks like Malek clawed back $75 of his losses from earlier this year.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: pgtl_10 on November 11, 2020, 02:55:02 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/11/rashida-tlaib-progressives-election-435877
“We're not going to be successful if we're silencing districts like mine,” said Tlaib, who told her colleagues something similar during a contentious call last week. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can't be silent.”

“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” said Tlaib, whose Michigan district is among the poorest in the country. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don't say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”

Only a few days after the presidential race was called, Tlaib and other progressive leaders are making it clear there will be no honeymoon for Joe Biden. They have their own takeaways from the election: Top progressive groups are circulating a postelection memo that criticizes centrists for playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism.”

...

“If [voters] can walk past blighted homes and school closures and pollution to vote for Biden-Harris, when they feel like they don't have anything else, they deserve to be heard,” Tlaib said, choking up as she expressed frustration near the end of an interview this week. “I can’t believe that people are asking them to be quiet.”


...

“Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like ‘defund the police’ or ‘socialism’ have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats,” said the memo, which was shared first with POLITICO. “Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes.”

“These attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements,” the memo continued. “The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment.”
THE MEMO: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000

Quote from: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/conor-lamb-aoc-democrats-fighting-socialism/617045/
But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”

Representative Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a member of the moderate New Democrats coalition who represents a Republican-leaning district, told me that compromise is the only way forward for Democrats. “If you have an idea on how you can best serve the American people, figure out if there’s a pathway through the Senate,” she said. “If there’s not, then you’re not helping anyone.”

...

Other moderates echoed her in interviews with me, arguing that Republicans successfully tied them to leftist “Squad” members such as Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar. “No matter what [moderate lawmakers] did personally, the Democratic Party brand stereotype of the loud folks on Twitter was louder,” Erickson told me, citing conversations she’d had with staffers for swing-state members. “They were caricatured as raising taxes, supporting socialism, the Green New Deal, defunding the police, even if they explicitly opposed those things.” One senior aide to another Democratic freshman in a red district lamented that the party should have had a better answer on police reform during this summer’s protests. “The national narrative around law and order was one I don’t think Democrats fully or capably pushed back on in an effective way,” he said.

Sherrill, who won reelection by double digits last week, told me that she managed to “overcome the national messaging that was so detrimental to so many candidates.” When I asked her what the Democrats’ messaging should be instead, Sherrill said that the party needs to be “laser focused” on making people’s day-to-day lives better. “Of course we care about broad issues of justice,” she said. But Democrats “need to be talking to people about jobs and security right now.”

I never bought into the whole work across the isle schitck. Compromise is good but moderates only scream compromise at leftists. They pretty much never ask the right to compromise and get run over.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2020, 03:00:43 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/mnTEC4M.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Flannel Boy on November 11, 2020, 03:10:22 PM
Looks like Malek clawed back $75 of his losses from earlier this year.
You made Democrats spend over $100 million in South Carolina for nothing!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Trent Dole on November 11, 2020, 05:35:51 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/mnTEC4M.png)
Fuckin' whatever, as long as the shitheads in DC aren't directly attacking their own citizens.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 11, 2020, 06:21:52 PM
For Benji

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Reagan_Unc.jpg/900px-Reagan_Unc.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 11, 2020, 06:41:40 PM
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1326662707756544004 (https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1326662707756544004)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 11, 2020, 06:51:42 PM
small-bore?

Was it james?


:rodney
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2020, 07:11:25 PM
You should melt that and let it trickle down on your hog
trickle down hoganomics  :smug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Coitus on November 11, 2020, 11:37:54 PM

But moderates see Biden’s role differently. Americans sent him to the White House to work with Republicans, not around them, they say. “That’s what’s wrong with our country in the past few years—an unwillingness to work across the aisle,” Representative Harley Rouda of California, a Democrat who seems poised to lose reelection in his swing district, told me in a text message. Moderates like Rouda are much more hopeful than their progressive colleagues that significant progress can be made through bipartisan give-and-take. “Biden and McConnell are products of a bygone era in the Senate. Maybe they will want to go back to that stage of consensus-building and cutting deals,” said one senior Senate aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press. “People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”


Remember when GW Bush tried to do a border security for citizenship trade and his own party didn’t totally revolt and everything went just great?



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 08:35:06 AM
Quote
“People are going to have to consider, Is nothing better than something? Would you take DACA or a pathway to citizenship for more border security?”

Ah the magical third way. This always works out great.

"Woah, that's an awesome windfarm! What did it cost?"  :doggy
"5 million dead, wounded and killed in Iran"  :fbm

"Crazy that they agreed to a 3% tax increase, what was the deal?" :doggy
"Everyone age 4 and up can legally carry a rocket launcher in federal buildings" :fbm

"Warren was a bit controversial obviously, so who runs the treasury now?" :doggy
"We have yet to decide on Ivanka Trump or Lloyd Blankfein" :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 12, 2020, 10:10:16 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonvoight/status/1326323889417322497

This is creepier than the Kevin Spacey Christmas video
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 12, 2020, 10:50:20 AM
Imagine being a simp to trump because of past deeds.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 11:03:46 AM
Imagine being a simp to trump because of past deeds.
sumps  :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 11:17:15 AM
Welcome to the next 4 years

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1326917836737024000 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1326917836737024000)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1326920264203046915 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1326920264203046915)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 12, 2020, 11:21:15 AM
Ties in nicely to

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326858347186966528
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 12, 2020, 11:26:37 AM
Project Veritas has another whistleblower to replace the last one that recanted and said he went along with it because they paid him a lot of money because of pressure from the Deep State. This one is totes magotes legit this time, swear to blog.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 12, 2020, 11:33:06 AM
how pathetic is it going to be that we have an  inauguration without the last living president?

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 11:44:37 AM
how pathetic is it going to be that we have an  inauguration without the last living president?
Trump will be there. He will keep everyone in suspense, but shows up late.
A moment where he can be the centerpiece of attention. He's not gonna miss it for the world.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 12, 2020, 12:33:44 PM
trumpy n bide dancing to ymca together at inauguration   :trumps :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 12:37:46 PM
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1326939177427103750 (https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1326939177427103750)

That's Bossie and Corey

What about Rudy  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 12, 2020, 12:41:15 PM
I have no doubt that any media company that Trump starts will obliterate Fox News. Trump News will just draft who he wants from Fox and OANN anyway.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 12:54:29 PM
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1326923275469991936
 (https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1326923275469991936)
Quote
Only with him, he argued, would you get the zing, the pizazz, the drama that kept you on the edge of your seat. A vote for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., he told a rally in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 20, would be a vote for “boredom.”

“Look at all those cameras,” he said, gesturing at the press pen. “If you had Sleepy Joe, nobody’s going to be interested in politics anymore.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 01:42:06 PM
That or foreign investment  :putin
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 12, 2020, 01:45:22 PM
So when is Hillary Clinton getting arrested?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 01:52:58 PM
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1326945097032867840 (https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1326945097032867840)

 :drudge

This is the first time I've even heard about this burst pipe.
Was that not just another conspiracy.

Are they trying to find evidence for their own bullshit  :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 12, 2020, 02:08:31 PM
I bust a nut last week, but sadly, I too cannot produce any invoices or work orders to back my claims
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 12, 2020, 02:11:40 PM
So when is Hillary Clinton getting arrested?

she has already been arrested and executed :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 12, 2020, 03:29:17 PM
So when is Hillary Clinton getting arrested?

she has already been arrested and executed :trumps

And replaced with a clone.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 12, 2020, 03:31:44 PM
as long as the clone isn't demon possessed and has been deprogrammed of all of her unbelievable evilness then its a good thing :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 12, 2020, 03:33:40 PM
the clone is programmed to dance to village people music  :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 12, 2020, 04:56:43 PM
how pathetic is it going to be that we have an  inauguration without the last living president?
I think it's more pathetic that they all attend and everyone does bipartisan healing unity horseshit.

John Adams skipped town rather than be present for Jefferson coming into town for his swearing in, and many Presidents who were defeated after followed his example. Much more honest and preferable.

Also the boring speech and parades and (especially) all the parties should be cancelled too for being equally pathetic horseshit. Such fun is anti-republican imo. :hmph
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 12, 2020, 05:01:36 PM
imagine attending the trophy ceremony after losing in the nba finals, or going to the victory parade  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 12, 2020, 05:57:56 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/6wxgnvt.jpeg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 06:22:45 PM
Trump did win by a lot just not the Presidency.
Biden is hardly able to get headlines or news coverage.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 12, 2020, 07:12:24 PM
Biden is hardly able to get headlines or news coverage.

Isn’t that what Biden was campaigning on? You can’t really enjoy brunch if the headlines are about how much of a fool the president is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 12, 2020, 07:38:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjCaWnrsts

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 12, 2020, 07:40:51 PM
Trump did win by a lot just not the Presidency.
:huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2020, 08:16:53 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjCaWnrsts

 :biden
Big Money
Big Tech
Big War
Big Guy

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 12, 2020, 08:36:52 PM
Trump did win by a lot just not the Presidency.
:huh

Sounds just like Nintex's admin run, another stolen election :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 12, 2020, 10:21:27 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonvoight/status/1326323889417322497

This is creepier than the Kevin Spacey Christmas video

"I stand here..."

*sits there*

And then things get really weird
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on November 12, 2020, 10:26:25 PM
Nintex is truly fucking dumb, I can't even be mad at him, he's just unintelligent and easily susceptible to propaganda in the same way that 70 million Americans are

It's funny how way back he was just shit-post trolling but somewhere along the way combing the dark web for material he became a true believer.


Dumb bitch red-pilIed himself  :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: OnlyRegret on November 13, 2020, 01:33:14 AM
JUST IN, BREAKING NEWS

https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1327015043255443463

 ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 13, 2020, 01:34:58 AM
:snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 13, 2020, 01:40:39 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 13, 2020, 01:52:57 AM
:wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on November 13, 2020, 05:35:55 AM
Heathcare-please.meme

 :existential :killme
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 13, 2020, 06:14:30 AM
I see the battle for the soul of the nation is well underway.  :preach
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 13, 2020, 09:11:44 AM
You might be the only person who took nintex seriously.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 13, 2020, 09:16:06 AM
I will never turn my back on a fellow patriot  :salute

#Nintex4Admin
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 13, 2020, 09:16:41 AM
 :existential
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Brehvolution on November 13, 2020, 09:16:54 AM
Ties in nicely to

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326858347186966528

This will have to be set up in Russia. No American company is going to invest in this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Sman on November 13, 2020, 11:03:13 AM
Ties in nicely to

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326858347186966528

(https://i.imgur.com/pcdC8Br.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 13, 2020, 02:08:35 PM
Funny how Republicans are supposed to be so patriotic but then NONE of them signed up to be poll workers!!

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 13, 2020, 03:05:56 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmujHU0XYAEhAFC?format=jpg)

If you squint it looks like a dragon spewing fire
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 13, 2020, 03:33:23 PM
The map would be all red if it wasn’t for the incredible amounts of fraud :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 13, 2020, 03:56:52 PM
https://twitter.com/LACaldwellDC/status/1327340810262765568 (https://twitter.com/LACaldwellDC/status/1327340810262765568)

I told you ventilation was the key  :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 13, 2020, 04:38:07 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/13/more-than-130-secret-service-officers-are-isolating-due-to-covid-19-outbreak-report-says.html

Imagine being an asshole.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 13, 2020, 05:15:58 PM
what a dickhead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 13, 2020, 05:37:23 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1327360642576232451

So much winning!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 13, 2020, 07:12:53 PM
Fox News desperately trying to keep their viewers tuned in :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: pgtl_10 on November 14, 2020, 12:03:25 AM
JUST IN, BREAKING NEWS

https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1327015043255443463

 ??? ??? ???

This is a good use of our tax dollars
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 14, 2020, 12:44:23 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCQc6aRIiY

 :bow :bow :bow :bow :stop :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 14, 2020, 12:56:50 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/onMgpoz.png) :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 14, 2020, 04:39:10 AM
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 14, 2020, 04:44:55 AM
what in the fuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 14, 2020, 04:48:47 AM
:usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 14, 2020, 04:51:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZEdtcnnO80
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: samir on November 14, 2020, 05:43:27 AM
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888

:girlaff :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 14, 2020, 06:00:01 AM
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888
You are not the audience, Trump is. Looking at language and pictures I'd say he was ready to start a (civil) war and Tucker was asked to lighten his mood.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Coitus on November 14, 2020, 08:42:38 AM
https://twitter.com/RahRahRaina/status/1327472768624037888

Jason Miller’s #resistance sidepiece who he left with a kid he won’t see and won’t pay child support is furiously defending it on twitter. 

https://twitter.com/ajdelgado13/status/1327592458234957830
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 14, 2020, 03:18:00 PM
https://twitter.com/AugustTakala/status/1327069299673018370
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 14, 2020, 03:46:31 PM
he's rich and making millions being dumb on tv  :trumps why have any regrets  :lol except for that time he caught some dutch directness and cried  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 14, 2020, 04:04:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/onMgpoz.png) :horny

Thanks, Movie Bob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 14, 2020, 04:43:45 PM
regret  ??? everyone loves the bide

(https://i.imgur.com/VzHOwKE.jpg)

 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 14, 2020, 04:52:33 PM
he's rich and making millions being dumb on tv  :trumps why have any regrets  :lol except for that time he caught some dutch directness and cried  :rejoice

Even one of the Koch brothers is feeling the pangs of regret these days

And you believe him?  :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 14, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
he's rich and making millions being dumb on tv  :trumps why have any regrets  :lol except for that time he caught some dutch directness and cried  :rejoice

Even one of the Koch brothers is feeling the pangs of regret these days

And you believe him?  :pacspit

I assumed he meant the dead one that's burning in hell.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 14, 2020, 05:25:34 PM
Ive been checking /r/conservative every day, and they went from WE ARE OVERTURNING THE ELECTION back to culture wars lol

They lost hope real fast.

Us certified dems held on for at least 2 years

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 14, 2020, 06:58:01 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RItQj5r.jpg) :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rahxephon91 on November 14, 2020, 07:11:49 PM
I don't think many Fox Fans *TM* are going to stay with Newsmax or OAN for long unless the big name pundits jump ship, but both of those networks are so low rent and trashy they couldn't even afford like....local conservatives talk radio tier hosts.
I don't think they are going away at all. I doubt they will become huge, but I think they are here to stay. I always hate the "the masses are stupid" because I mean who the fuck am I declare I'm smart and tons of people aren't. But it's just that a large group of people just don't live in the same world as me anymore. I can understand people voting and supporting Trump because he aligns with thier views. They are evangelicals or they believe in low taxes and the whole boot straps culture. That's fine, I ideologically don't. But large groups of these people don't stop there. Their love or worship of Trump dosen't stop at simply agreeing with how policy should be done. It's become something far more crazy and news media is also the devil and evil. It's good vs evil for them and these fringe news outlets feed that. Fox News is garbage sure, but they still pretend to be actual news from time to time. These other outlets don't care and these followers don't want them to challenge thier warped reality either. FoxNews did simply by reporting that Biden won some states as if thats crazy in an election....that a candidate won some states. These people think that's wrong, because it's evil and you're an enemy of America if you simply don't see it what way. They think Fox New's sucks because they dared to report that they thought AZ went to Biden. Regardless of the years of being a Trump mouthpiece to these people, this went out the window for these people because of simply calling AZ. That's insane.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 14, 2020, 08:19:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RItQj5r.jpg) :biden

My favorite part is that it's a bipartisan comic
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 15, 2020, 10:05:26 AM
Imagine this being your concession speech.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 15, 2020, 12:55:02 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 15, 2020, 02:08:48 PM
Good talk.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 15, 2020, 02:43:53 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc

I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 15, 2020, 02:59:39 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgS6Z8Arn0

 :tinfoil :horny :maduro

senate was stolen but dirty dems don't care  :mueller

I told y'all they both cheat  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2020, 04:44:16 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc

I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?
All 3 of them look like they all about to fill that seat  :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on November 15, 2020, 04:47:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKkUyrklpc

Jesus, I'm only 8 minutes in and I've already both laughed and cried
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on November 15, 2020, 04:48:47 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc

I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?

Maybe absence of proof is proof of absence this time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 15, 2020, 05:01:12 PM
Moderate republicans exist but they don't bring in enough views compared to the crazies. And virality is inherent in extremism. Like would anyone have posted that clip here if it was normal people saying sane things?
 
Posts like this:
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc

I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?

Maybe absence of proof is proof of absence this time.

are honestly playing into the media's hands to further drive us apart and reap the profits. I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 15, 2020, 05:01:59 PM
Once you see the strings they're hard to ignore. 👀
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 15, 2020, 05:08:16 PM
Drive "us" apart? I ain't a part of no "us"

 :snob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2020, 05:12:38 PM
It's quite simple really. The way the Republicans see it, the Democrats were 'allowed' to scream Russia Russia Russia and contest the election for 3 years.
So they will do the same thing with voter fraud for the next 4 to get even.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 15, 2020, 05:15:31 PM
Moderate republicans exist but they don't bring in enough views compared to the crazies. And virality is inherent in extremism. Like would anyone have posted that clip here if it was normal people saying sane things?
 
Posts like this:
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1328007438910492672

jfc

I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?

Maybe absence of proof is proof of absence this time.

are honestly playing into the media's hands to further drive us apart and reap the profits. I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.
Once you see the strings they're hard to ignore. 👀
:tinfoil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 15, 2020, 05:32:51 PM
It's quite simple really. The way the Republicans see it, the Democrats were 'allowed' to scream Russia Russia Russia and contest the election for 3 years.
So they will do the same thing with voter fraud for the next 4 to get even.

At least the Repubs feel the need to respond to something the Dems did, when's the last time that happened? :trumps

Dems still need to "get" them back for Garland IMO.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 15, 2020, 05:40:19 PM
Drive "us" apart? I ain't a part of no "us"

 :snob

Just wait until Third Impact, we'll see how long you stay an individual then!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 15, 2020, 05:44:49 PM
The way the Republicans see it

Pass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on November 15, 2020, 06:44:14 PM
I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.

I'm obviously being a bit cheeky.
But after 5 years of "Surely some people in the GOP will stand up and rein him in any moment now !", QAnon spreading like wildfire, Trump getting a lot of voting engagement and even more ardent turnout from registered Rs (IIRC) than last time round, you start to wonder if the elusive "sane conservative constituency" really exists. Certainly not as an active one.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2020, 06:59:02 PM
I'm honestly a bit taken aback you'd post this, Vom.

I'm obviously being a bit cheeky.
But after 5 years of "Surely some people in the GOP will stand up and rein him in any moment now !", QAnon spreading like wildfire, Trump getting a lot of voting engagement and even more ardent turnout from registered Rs (IIRC) than last time round, you start to wonder if the elusive "sane conservative constituency" really exists. Certainly not as an active one.
I think they exist but they see their Qanon and MAGA brethren as a means to an end.
If the Republican party can cater to the Middle Class this way they don't have to worry about the pitchforks coming for them when they deregulate and cut spending.

Trump gave Republicans everything they could possibly want. 3 supreme court justices, tax cuts, deregulation, energy independence, Israel, Soleimani's head on a platter and he was even willing to pander to the evangelicals.
All they had to give up was fiscal responsibility and bipartisanship. And most of them don't have to worry about their workers revolting or unionizing against them because their workers now support the same party.

And as always they made no attempt to hide their strategy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYYX0mZsQA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 15, 2020, 11:21:09 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1328140686785437696
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 15, 2020, 11:48:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFv55o47ok
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 16, 2020, 01:05:45 AM
 :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 16, 2020, 01:21:23 AM
Beijing Barry  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 16, 2020, 07:46:19 AM
Beijing Barry cut NASA funding :pacspit

Trump founded S P A C E  F O R C E  :lucas

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 16, 2020, 08:09:59 AM
I know "Republicans are stupid and crazy" is sort of a lazy and tired characterisation, but I still get taken aback by this stuff. Where are the moderate Republicans to say "I voted for him and I wanted him to win but he lost and all this fraud talk is crazy"?

admitting you're a republican is social and financial suicide, why would anyone publicly go on the record saying "I'm a republican and a trump voter but wait wait don't go I'm actually reasonable?"

you're just as cancelled as if you were all-in, except the rest of the republicans also hate you now, and they're the ones with the power of guns and anime on their side
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 16, 2020, 12:56:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1v9DGnOURo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 16, 2020, 12:59:54 PM
deep state has spoken  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 16, 2020, 01:21:01 PM
In before Trump fires O'Brien
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 16, 2020, 01:52:03 PM
Conan getting fired again. = (
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 16, 2020, 02:14:41 PM
https://youtu.be/mO7ADbptCbk

https://youtu.be/dPgz4j4wlrw

Some takes from the eastern part of the world
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 16, 2020, 03:37:16 PM
In the China reactions video, Nintex is the guy at 0:44

"... I was hoping that Trump would win."

Why did you hope Trump would win?

"I felt like if Biden became the president, the US might become a normal country and play its original role in the world again."

 [shit eating grin activate]"But there'd be a lot more unusual things or black swan events if Trump stayed in office."

[shit eating grin at full display]"I prefer to have something more interesting happening."

 :lol :rofl

edit: also in the China reacts video at 9:27

 :whoo :whew :killme fiyaaaaah
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 16, 2020, 05:03:25 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328341927641681922

:american :salute :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 16, 2020, 05:11:19 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/mcconnell-trump-afghan-troop-reduction-436821
Quote
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift reduction of U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, warning that it would be a gift to America’s enemies and would undermine progress already made in the region.

“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.
Quote
“The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, which fueled the rise of ISIS and a new round of global terrorism. It would be reminiscent of the humiliating American departure from Saigon in 1975.
:usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tuckers Law on November 16, 2020, 05:53:27 PM
Moscow Mitch needs to put up a strongman front to ward off the hardline elements in the party so that his Russian masters can continue about their business without further scrutiny.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 16, 2020, 07:01:44 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/mcconnell-trump-afghan-troop-reduction-436821
Quote
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift reduction of U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, warning that it would be a gift to America’s enemies and would undermine progress already made in the region.

“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.
Quote
“The consequences of a premature American exit would likely be even worse than President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, which fueled the rise of ISIS and a new round of global terrorism. It would be reminiscent of the humiliating American departure from Saigon in 1975.
:usacry

Weird that Trump would wait until any negative consequences are someone else's problem to do this. Doesn't fit with his character at all.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 16, 2020, 07:53:50 PM
In the China reactions video, Nintex is the guy at 0:44

"... I was hoping that Trump would win."

Why did you hope Trump would win?

"I felt like if Biden became the president, the US might become a normal country and play its original role in the world again."

 [shit eating grin activate]"But there'd be a lot more unusual things or black swan events if Trump stayed in office."

[shit eating grin at full display]"I prefer to have something more interesting happening."

 :lol :rofl

edit: also in the China reacts video at 9:27

 :whoo :whew :killme fiyaaaaah
It was eerie, felt like I was getting doxxed irl  :whew

Quote
“A rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan now would hurt our allies and delight the people who wish us harm,” McConnell said bluntly.
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LegitimateCircularHornshark-max-1mb.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on November 16, 2020, 08:36:08 PM
Idk, Mitch McConnell doesn’t look terribly delighted about it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 16, 2020, 08:49:08 PM
I support the Taliban
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 16, 2020, 09:28:01 PM
Quote
WASHINGTON — President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S. officials said on Monday.

A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html

So the whole "at least Trump hasn't started a war" thing is looking more and more like stroke of luck.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 16, 2020, 10:47:13 PM
"it would be irresponsible to transition to a new administration in the middle of a nuclear holocaust"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 17, 2020, 09:39:05 AM
"it would be irresponsible to transition to a new administration in the middle of a nuclear holocaust"

I think that's in the constitution
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on November 17, 2020, 09:47:02 AM
"it would be irresponsible to transition to a new administration in the middle of a nuclear holocaust"

I think that's in the constitution

It actually is !
But the Founding Fathers didn't really define any of the terms or procedure.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 17, 2020, 02:30:24 PM
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1328781577741066240 (https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1328781577741066240)

Rudy making the case in front the court, he's getting paid $20k a day for his legal services.

The daily mail claims that the plan is to lose all these cases as soon as possible so they can fast track to a Supreme Court case  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 17, 2020, 03:18:25 PM
Conan getting fired again. = (

https://deadline.com/2020/11/conan-to-end-on-tbs-conan-obrien-weekly-variety-show-hbo-max-1234617122/

:tinfoil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 17, 2020, 03:24:46 PM
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1328793201336082433
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 17, 2020, 03:26:42 PM
Trump needs to have a rally imo, really let the crazy out :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 17, 2020, 03:48:38 PM
Trump needs to have a rally imo, really let the crazy out :phil

I think the plan was basically to have non-stop rallies to convince people he was still the president, until Ivanka and Jared and some of his other people that want to be able to be seen in public after this were like "Could you not?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 17, 2020, 07:11:54 PM
Meanwhile in court
https://twitter.com/webster/status/1328849278043820033 (https://twitter.com/webster/status/1328849278043820033)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 17, 2020, 07:28:15 PM
Obama's recent playlist. Or the one created by his marketing team I suppose.

He still not on that black metal train  :-\

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-playlist-fleetwood-mac-brooks-dunn-the-beatles-020338547.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 17, 2020, 07:29:19 PM
Obama's playlist  :snore

Rudy's playlist  :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 17, 2020, 07:32:26 PM
Link? I tried to find Rudy's playlist and got nothing.

Expecting some Ted Nugent

edit: Rudy got his own podcast though? lol. Wonder if it's funny for an episode before I come crawling away from being overly wank dad'd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 17, 2020, 07:36:10 PM
Link? I tried to find Rudy's playlist and got nothing.

Expecting some Ted Nugent

edit: Rudy got his own podcast though? lol. Wonder if it's funny for an episode before I come crawling away from being overly wank dad'd
I watched his YouTube thing once, in between ads of cigars and whiskey it was basically a long form fox news interview

Trump's just firing people left and right now
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328852354049957888 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328852354049957888)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tuckers Law on November 17, 2020, 08:10:25 PM
Link? I tried to find Rudy's playlist and got nothing.

Expecting some Ted Nugent

edit: Rudy got his own podcast though? lol. Wonder if it's funny for an episode before I come crawling away from being overly wank dad'd
o

You beat me to the joke that Rudy only listens to loli-metal and pedophiles.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on November 17, 2020, 09:04:08 PM
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1328832941309513729
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 17, 2020, 09:40:52 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/kztmrqvjfvz51.jpg?width=625&auto=webp&s=bb00b96474924eb189cd10e2330612c60bf5e3ec)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 17, 2020, 09:57:32 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_Steal

Finally a name. I guess "Mail-in ballotgate" wasn't catchy enough.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 17, 2020, 10:08:02 PM
They’ve been calling it that at infowars since the start :snob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 18, 2020, 01:32:03 AM
https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1328835788461793281

Evil never dies  :foxx
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: remy on November 18, 2020, 01:33:52 AM
https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1328835788461793281

Evil never dies  :foxx
looks like one of those photoshops where the mouth is replacing the eyes but thats his real face
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 18, 2020, 07:25:27 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/GGpD3hs.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 18, 2020, 07:40:18 AM
 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 18, 2020, 08:55:21 AM
... Filler?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 18, 2020, 09:49:02 AM
Obama's recent playlist. Or the one created by his marketing team I suppose.

He still not on that black metal train  :-\

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-playlist-fleetwood-mac-brooks-dunn-the-beatles-020338547.html

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/208166762036854785/778043424258785290/image0.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 18, 2020, 09:51:26 AM
:rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 18, 2020, 10:28:29 AM
We really have two more months of this guy throwing a temper tantrum every day?  :shaq2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 18, 2020, 11:57:09 AM
Twitter has said they'll consider banning him after that since he no longer has plot armor, then he'll have to pout on Parler. :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 18, 2020, 12:01:44 PM
nintex wiil still provide us with updates, jah bless :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 18, 2020, 12:46:43 PM
may nintex bless us all after january 20!  :blessup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on November 18, 2020, 12:56:14 PM
More like Admintex :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 18, 2020, 01:03:32 PM
Twitter has said they'll consider banning him after that since he no longer has plot armor, then he'll have to pout on Parler. :rejoice

I know some crazy people have archived everything he's ever tweeted but I still wonder if it all ought to stay up instead of suddenly going poof

on the off chance he could be held accountable for things said, or so that we never forget


it's also made me think of the stranglehold big tech has on the conversation, like if biden starts looking at section 230, twitter and facebook could be like...alright we won't ban trump, and he'll be able to gain momentum to threaten your reelection, do you really want that?  or alternatively you let us do our thing and we'll silence the conservatives wherever we see them
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 18, 2020, 01:40:05 PM
Big Tech: "We won't ban Trump if you don't give us what we want Mr. President Elect"

Big Guy: "Ok Jack, suit yourself nerds :biden"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: tiesto on November 18, 2020, 02:36:40 PM
Obama's recent playlist. Or the one created by his marketing team I suppose.

He still not on that black metal train  :-\

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-playlist-fleetwood-mac-brooks-dunn-the-beatles-020338547.html

For an ambiguously gay gen-Xer from Chicago, I expected a bit of house music...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 18, 2020, 04:26:07 PM
Twitter has said they'll consider banning him after that since he no longer has plot armor, then he'll have to pout on Parler. :rejoice

I know some crazy people have archived everything he's ever tweeted but I still wonder if it all ought to stay up instead of suddenly going poof

on the off chance he could be held accountable for things said, or so that we never forget


it's also made me think of the stranglehold big tech has on the conversation, like if biden starts looking at section 230, twitter and facebook could be like...alright we won't ban trump, and he'll be able to gain momentum to threaten your reelection, do you really want that?  or alternatively you let us do our thing and we'll silence the conservatives wherever we see them

I think it is supposed to go in the presidential library from what I remember, because it was used as an official platform of communication of the office.

Hamburders will be in the Trump Presidential Liberry.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 18, 2020, 04:42:18 PM
https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1329175239138406400 (https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1329175239138406400)

Joe Trumps America
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 18, 2020, 08:03:27 PM
He’s definitely going to attempt to build one if for no other reason than it being another way to grift his supporters out of money. Probably 50/50 on if it ever gets finished though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 18, 2020, 08:16:49 PM
I though it was law there needs to be one. And I don't think the president named gets profits.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 18, 2020, 08:17:30 PM
It'll be walls of tweets and TV reports about his greatest achievements.

There have already been written enough books about this presidency that you could fill 10 libraries.

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088 (https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tuckers Law on November 18, 2020, 08:47:36 PM
How long we think Trump stays in the country after Biden is in the white house?  I give it 45 days.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 18, 2020, 08:55:13 PM
He'll be signing up for Parler during Biden's inauguration speech
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 18, 2020, 09:00:34 PM
It'll be walls of tweets and TV reports about his greatest achievements.

There have already been written enough books about this presidency that you could fill 10 libraries.

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088 (https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1329088502001070088)
(https://i.imgur.com/VqC9VAf.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/nn14Iv1.png) :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 18, 2020, 09:56:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdDOj36g-1I

jimmy da gawd  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 18, 2020, 11:26:02 PM
wont somebody think of americas soul!?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 03:16:37 AM
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qjzdr2D3cm1v7xdh6.mp4

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 19, 2020, 09:43:30 AM
https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1329422423729561603

This is why you don't go against La Familia, Michael.  :freeze
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 19, 2020, 10:35:02 AM
It's going to be hard to top the upside down bible photo. But I still want one more iconic Trump photographic moment. His final day in the white house, I want him clinging onto a pillar as staffers are pulling him off and stuffing him into the chopper.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 11:43:40 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/kJZrxua.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 11:52:54 AM
Conference with Rudy Giuliani coming up in a few minutes. Brace yourselves.

Apparently there will be a "viable path to victory."
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 19, 2020, 11:55:00 AM
Hopefully all of the guys on stage'll be convicted sex offenders this time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 19, 2020, 12:02:35 PM
Hopefully all of the guys on stage'll be convicted sex offenders this time.

Rudy's never been convicted!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 19, 2020, 12:15:56 PM
Real solid evidence by Rudy so far.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 12:24:04 PM
*starts stream*

"How many fingers am I putting up"

"These people were further away than my cousin Vinny"

 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 12:29:19 PM
Rudy looks visibly ill.

COVID?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 19, 2020, 12:29:48 PM
"Canadians are voting in US elections as often as people are getting beat up in Philadelphia Eagles basketball games."
~Rudy, 2020
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 12:50:13 PM
Rudy gunning for The Big Guy Mafia  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 12:51:49 PM
GEORGE SOROS

CLINTON FOUNDATION

 :neogaf :neogaf

And why is she dressed as a leopard?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 12:53:25 PM
This lady wrecking dominion software  :heh

She going after the CIA and foreign election interference now, holy shit.
And now the lights have gone out  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 01:12:59 PM
Rudy's hair dye is dripping off his face now. Holy shit.

(https://abload.de/img/screenshot2020-11-19abhkfn.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 19, 2020, 01:27:02 PM
You're mistaken. Those are Italian style sideburns.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 19, 2020, 01:36:42 PM
Rudy having COVID and infecting the entire legal team would be  :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 19, 2020, 01:58:51 PM
All of it harkens back to ending days of Saddam's Iraq where you had that Iraqi Defense Minister coming out in front of the press and just talking nonsense for hours.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 02:04:28 PM
All of it harkens back to ending days of Saddam's Iraq where you had that Iraqi Defense Minister coming out in front of the press and just talking nonsense for hours.
:nothing
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 19, 2020, 02:40:08 PM
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1329482482547245058
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 02:48:59 PM
I laughed when the one lady lawyer said "The Whole World Is Watching™"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: who is ted danson? on November 19, 2020, 02:58:33 PM
Spaceghost Chavez fuckin' that US election pussay  :mynicca
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 02:59:02 PM
I will say this, no matter what happens it was one crazy night with those counts being adjusted in real time and a seemingly infinite number of votes to be counted the next days.
I'm just not buying that Trump got more votes than he did in 2016 in the middle of a pandemic relying on in person voting. I'm also not buying that Biden got more votes than any other candidate in history without some mail voting trickery.

Those turn-out numbers and so many people seemingly forgetting to vote downballot just doesn't make any sense.
The truth will probably never come out but if I had to guess I'd say that Trump definitely rigged the vote in Florida and Ohio but the Democrats were more successful at it in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Arizona and Georgia were just Trump repeating Clinton's mistake of not campaigning on home turf ready to turn on him.

Looking back, historians will probably place a lot of question marks at the 2016 and 2020 elections.
What's unprecedented in history though is trying to fix the election like team Trump is doing now after it has already been rigged.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 03:04:16 PM
also trumpy increasing his black and browns vote
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 03:05:44 PM
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1329498279160254464

Wasn't at one point 8chan a no-shit pedophile haven?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 03:08:50 PM
also trumpy increasing his black and browns vote
The data is weird af overall but no one is really focused on that yet it seems.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on November 19, 2020, 03:10:01 PM
yup, not a single person is interested in changes in voter preferences this election cycle
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 03:11:50 PM
https://twitter.com/AmyEGardner/status/1329482476243349504

the Venezuelans infected the hand count too!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 03:24:41 PM
yup, not a single person is interested in changes in voter preferences this election cycle
Only me and filler
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 03:31:28 PM
Speaking of Florida:
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/11/18/florida-democrats-meltdown-437113
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The day after the election, nine state lawmakers who had survived the GOP rout met by phone to air grievances, according to Sen. Jazon Pizzo. Among those on the call were Pizzo, who also is considering a run for governor, Annette Taddeo and Rep. Joe Geller — a mix of centrists and liberals.

The group fumed over pollsters who failed to capture what was happening on the ground, complained about the party’s use of out-of-state consultants and questioned whether they hit back hard enough against Republican falsehoods.

“I’m not a f---ing socialist,” Pizzo later said in an interview. “My life is a manifestation of the American dream. I believe in free markets.”

The meeting, which was not previously reported, amplified the fact the politicians can’t answer a simple question: Who is the leader of the Florida Democratic Party?

Progressives say the Election Day drubbing is proof that centrism and party pandering to corporate donors doesn’t work.

“Systematic change is what we need,” said Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat and a leading voice on the left who is considering a run for governor. “We can’t win more seats unless we lead with values and fight back and challenge corporate interests. Money was not a real problem this cycle, and we still lost.”

Centrists, who traditionally have made up the party’s base of power in Florida, say a lurch to the left will decisively doom the party’s chances of taking the governor’s mansion in 2022.

“We are a center-right state,” said Gwen Graham, another potential contender for governor who once represented a conservative congressional seat.

“There are so many wonderful young progressive leaders in this state, and I’m supportive of their passion and commitment,” she said in an interview. “I love their energy, but in the short term we need to elect a Democratic governor and need to be smart about 2022.”

Others on the 2022 short list for governor include Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Reps. Val Demings and Stephanie Murphy.

As the party’s only statewide elected Democrat, Fried has been viewed as the effective head of the party since her win in 2018. This cycle, she made endorsements and gave money to legislative candidates, but she’s also come under withering criticism, including for her weak stands on environmental policy and increasing the minimum wage.

John Morgan, a trial lawyer and party donor who backed a ballot initiative this year to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15, hit Fried for her tepid support of the measure.

“That bullshit doesn't work with me,” Morgan told reporters earlier this month. “To me, Nikki Fried has disqualified herself from any future or statewide office in the Democratic Party and I’m sorry to say that because I really thought she had a bright future.”

The $15 minimum wage initiative, which passed with nearly 61 percent of the vote on Election Day, has emerged as the first postelection issue to feed Democrats’ internal tensions. Some potential 2022 candidates, including Pizzo and Esakamani, criticized Fried and the Florida Democratic Party for failing to strongly advocate for an issue they believe should be a key identifier of the party’s philosophical identity.

Fried said she endorsed the measure and said it wasn’t helpful for the party to “throw grenades.”
Quote
Rizzo, the party chair, could take the fall.

As she faces pressure to step down, her supporters blame the party’s failures on factors outside of her control, including Forward Majority’s independent spending.

“The loudest complainers want ‘accountability’ for losses and then donate huge sums to dark money organizations or super PACS specifically designed to work around and outside the party and caucuses,” said Beth Matuga, a party consultant and defender of the Florida Democratic Party apparatus.

The Biden campaign, too, failed the state party and itself. Miami-based Democratic operatives have long sent warning signs that the party begins outreach too late and is insufficiently ingrained in the South Florida Hispanic community.

“If we are waiting until September to do voter contact when the mail ballots are already arriving, we have lost already,” Brown said. “At that point, folks are filling out ballots without hearing from us.”

This year, the lack of embedded community organizing hampered the party’s ability to push back at Republican branding that proved brutally effective, even after Michael Bloomberg dumped $100 million in the state to defeat Trump.

“Given the fact nearly every South Florida Hispanic voter has either directly or indirectly gone through their own experience as a victim of a socialist or communist regime, the potency around the branding of a political party as the second coming of socialism or communism in the United States is very effective,” Miami-based pollster Fernand Amandi said.

Attempts to reach a spokesperson for Biden’s Florida campaign were unsuccessful.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 03:33:33 PM
 :lol

any word on gillum  ??? he gonna run again, or too busy getting spun and going raw with cool young dude sluts  :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 19, 2020, 04:10:52 PM
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1329525248501440513
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 04:12:51 PM
Imagine being Joe Biden, 78 running for President.
You think you can win this thing by campaigning but there's a pandemic going on. You're just dragged from camera to camera asked to appear on ZOOM(?) what even is ZOOM.
Your opponent rules the Twitter verse and goes 'viral' with some bullshit every day. Why can't you, you are worried that if you don't campaign you're going to lose this thing.
"Are these black folks really turning against us?" you ask a campaign nerd with a worry. "No sir, absolutely not, the data shows otherwise"
You reply: "Data? The same data that you used for Hillary fats, you lying dogfaced pony soldier?"

The campaign worker *sighs* "Nancy Pelosi knows this guy, a pretty smart kid that she met in a Vegas casino. You should talk to her if you want to do this another way but we ain't doing that"
You decide to meet up with Nancy: "How do you know this guy?" you ask her. "Oh, we just had a nice... meeting... yeah a meeting... *she blushes* he's a bit of a gambler but you'll like him. Funny little man he keeps changing his name for some reason."
"I would say he's a lot like James Bond, surprising in many different ways"

You meet up with this kid and he isn't intimated by meeting a former Vice President at all.
He sips from his mug and interrupts "Look old timer, I like you but out there you may as well be Dunning Kruger"
"Who?" you ask him.
"That's precisely your problem" he replies with a wink.
"But I thought the Russians were the problem", a silence falls in the room and then laughter.
"Ha, the Russians are clowns, the Dutch, the Dutch are your problems in 2020 my man. Those condescending arrogant ass hats. Look at this for a minute"
He plays a video of Rutger Bregman being interviewed by Tucker Carlson or rather the other way around, you've never seen anything like this.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? I've never seen Tucker like this... what witchery is this Jack?"

He leans forward and starts to whisper "Look, I know you've seen things with Hunter... but we're going beyond that. And out there my friend you are finished. The Dutch, Russians, 4chan, NeoGAF everyone wants a piece of 'ol Joe"
You know you shouldn't but the curiosity gets the better of you "But how? If everyone is against me, how can I possibly win?"
"Well it ain't exactly legal but do you know Hooters? I mean, there are tons of them spread out throughout Trumplandia and they all have workers and all those workers have voting rights and mailboxes.. enough to flip say Arizona or Michigan"
"That sounds interesting Jack and I like it a whole lot more than all these computers and liars but how are we going to pay for all that?" after all you have enough financial worries as it is.
"That's the best part Joe... the Dutch are going to pay for it ;) "
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 19, 2020, 05:00:00 PM
I didn’t read a word of that, but thank you for always providing us with cutting-edge political analysis, Nintex  :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 05:07:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEyYIEGXJM
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 05:37:23 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/526760-lara-trump-mulling-2022-senate-run-in-north-carolina-report
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President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, could become the next Trump on a ballot as she is reportedly considering a 2022 Senate run in her home state of North Carolina, according to a New York Times report on Thursday.

Three allies of Lara Trump told the Times that she has been telling associates she could run in two years to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who plans to retire at the end of his term.
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The president’s daughter-in-law, a former personal trainer and television producer for Insider Edition, married Eric Trump in 2014.

Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser who traveled with Lara Trump, called her “very charismatic” with “a natural instinct for politics.”

“In North Carolina, in particular, she’s a household name and people know her,” she told the Times. “She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.”
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 05:59:28 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1329539460657246210

 :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 06:21:40 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/526760-lara-trump-mulling-2022-senate-run-in-north-carolina-report
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President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, could become the next Trump on a ballot as she is reportedly considering a 2022 Senate run in her home state of North Carolina, according to a New York Times report on Thursday.

Three allies of Lara Trump told the Times that she has been telling associates she could run in two years to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who plans to retire at the end of his term.
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The president’s daughter-in-law, a former personal trainer and television producer for Insider Edition, married Eric Trump in 2014.

Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser who traveled with Lara Trump, called her “very charismatic” with “a natural instinct for politics.”

“In North Carolina, in particular, she’s a household name and people know her,” she told the Times. “She worked really hard on the campaign and was very involved in a lot of decisions throughout.”
:trumps
President Lara Trump not the one you had on your bingo card :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 19, 2020, 07:02:38 PM
Wouldn't be that hard for the trumps to take over 4 senate seats. A few million dollars and north and south Dakota are theirs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 19, 2020, 07:44:14 PM
https://twitter.com/PaulBrittain3/status/1329562452128776193
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2020, 07:52:58 PM
https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1329584894473887745 (https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1329584894473887745)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 08:30:05 PM
https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/1329460990979747841

annihilated (https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/kfile-jenna-ellis-2016-trump-comments/)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 19, 2020, 08:30:32 PM
Surprise!

Quote
A statewide audit of the presidential race in Georgia upholds President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday evening.

The audit tallied by hand all ballots, which were initially counted by machines. President Donald Trump’s campaign is still entitled to request a recount once the election results are certified. The state certification deadline is on Friday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/georgia-audit-biden-victory-438540
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on November 19, 2020, 08:43:44 PM
I just ditched a game development acquaintance I have known for over 20 years due to his bullheadedness about the current election shenanigans.

He was inviting people to discuss why it is so problematic to have a president want to explore all legal venues for defending his office.

A mutual friend chimed in a good faith answer, stating that the president is allowed to pursue these things, but not allowed to spout lies which undermine the public confidence in the process, Especially when there is no proof, and people with expertise have vetted the results, even including the groups that the president had brought in to confirm them.

The bullheaded friend responded that that’s just being oversensitive, and the commenter needed to make sure he hadn’t left his testicles at the door, because it wasn’t manly. Mutual friend answered again in good faith, and was rudely dismissed.

When I called the question petitioner out for inviting commentary, only to respond rudely and with questioning someone’s masculinity, I was told the fuck off if I didn’t like it. I am so fucking angry right now I feel like the top of my head is going to pop off. If this conversation was happening in person, I’d give it even odds that it would end in blows. I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2020, 08:48:22 PM
I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.
Then consider me a dismissive, arrogant conservative :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 19, 2020, 09:42:15 PM
I just ditched a game development acquaintance I have known for over 20 years due to his bullheadedness about the current election shenanigans.

He was inviting people to discuss why it is so problematic to have a president want to explore all legal venues for defending his office.

A mutual friend chimed in a good faith answer, stating that the president is allowed to pursue these things, but not allowed to spout lies which undermine the public confidence in the process, Especially when there is no proof, and people with expertise Avenue round leave vetted the results, including the groups that the president had brought in to confirm them.

The bullheaded friend responded that that’s just being oversensitive, and he needed to make sure he hadn’t left his testicles at the door, because it wasn’t manly. Mutual friend answered again in good faith, and was rudely dismissed.

When I called the question petitioner out for inviting commentary, only to respond rudely and with questioning someone’s masculinity, I was told the fuck off if I didn’t like it. I am so fucking angry right now I feel like the top of my head is going to pop off. If this conversation was happening in person, I’d give it even odds that it would end in blows. I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.
:horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 19, 2020, 09:57:23 PM
https://youtu.be/CPioUs4l7sU
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HaughtyFrank on November 19, 2020, 10:36:06 PM
https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1329393990832099333
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on November 19, 2020, 10:43:06 PM
I just ditched a game development acquaintance I have known for over 20 years due to his bullheadedness about the current election shenanigans.

He was inviting people to discuss why it is so problematic to have a president want to explore all legal venues for defending his office.

A mutual friend chimed in a good faith answer, stating that the president is allowed to pursue these things, but not allowed to spout lies which undermine the public confidence in the process, Especially when there is no proof, and people with expertise Avenue round leave vetted the results, including the groups that the president had brought in to confirm them.

The bullheaded friend responded that that’s just being oversensitive, and he needed to make sure he hadn’t left his testicles at the door, because it wasn’t manly. Mutual friend answered again in good faith, and was rudely dismissed.

When I called the question petitioner out for inviting commentary, only to respond rudely and with questioning someone’s masculinity, I was told the fuck off if I didn’t like it. I am so fucking angry right now I feel like the top of my head is going to pop off. If this conversation was happening in person, I’d give it even odds that it would end in blows. I am so fucking sick of the dismissive, arrogant conservatives, I’m getting about ready to rub my dick in their face.

If you ever talk to him again, just say facts don't care about his feelings about Trump losing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 20, 2020, 02:59:21 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 04:53:21 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich

 :trumps
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/06/Erin-Brockovich,-R.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd4daa2c4673819e3e2c8e64a126cc17)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 20, 2020, 04:56:16 AM
Who better to close the loopholes than someone exploiting them?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 04:58:58 AM
Her Majesty's blog moms about to end this mans whole career.

They basically destroyed Jeremy Corbyn  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 20, 2020, 05:07:36 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/19/dear-joe-biden-are-you-kidding-me-erin-brockovich

 :trumps
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/06/Erin-Brockovich,-R.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd4daa2c4673819e3e2c8e64a126cc17)

Thats not Julia Roberts :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 08:07:25 AM
https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1329562651287023624 (https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1329562651287023624)

Rudy was always the most underrated character of the show
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 20, 2020, 11:59:52 AM
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1329597175869935616

https://twitter.com/TonyDLeonardi/status/1329614837412995080

https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1329618820554756097
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 20, 2020, 12:07:06 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/w8ts6a6wlc061.jpg?width=750&auto=webp&s=f7896d3fe0c366e234ee6d29f509e30cc8cb73a3)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 20, 2020, 12:13:41 PM
tucker always giving us the truth  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 01:30:08 PM
ET TU TUCKER  :lawd

Trump slain by Carlson's dagger

Tucker 2024  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 20, 2020, 02:14:18 PM
https://twitter.com/capitalisticpig/status/1329821510945665025

Do these people think the US Army can just have troops waltz out of say Grafenwohr and do whatever they want in Germany? It's not Afghanistan
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 02:34:32 PM
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1329847884997660677 (https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1329847884997660677)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 20, 2020, 02:34:48 PM
Rudy Giuliani's son, Andrew, announced Friday he has tested positive for coronavirus, a day after he attended a news conference with his father and other members of President Donald Trump's legal team alleging baseless claims of widespread election fraud.


 :girlaff :crowdlaff :woody :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 02:40:59 PM
The stuff that dripped from Rudy was probably Corona infected fluids.
They've turned him into a biological weapon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2020, 03:50:43 PM
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392)

Trump: donate to keep Biden out of the White House

Biden: chip in to put me into the White House

Oil lobbyists, Facebook executives and Dick Cheney aren't cheap you know.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on November 20, 2020, 04:00:04 PM
https://twitter.com/StephenJ_Caruso/status/1329866673147564033
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: headwalk on November 20, 2020, 04:14:54 PM
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1329878933043515392)

Trump: donate to keep Biden out of the White House

Biden: chip in to put me into the White House

Oil lobbyists, Facebook executives and Dick Cheney aren't cheap you know.

american democracy is having an 80 year old man set up an onlyfans so he can afford to be the president of the country that voted him in.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 20, 2020, 05:42:23 PM
If both need cash they should set up a boxing match between the two, it would do insane PPV numbers :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 20, 2020, 09:54:58 PM
https://twitter.com/karlbykarlsmith/status/1329897042408255490
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 21, 2020, 12:28:02 AM
"A darker time is coming when men will be more clever. They won't fight the truth, they'll just ignore it."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 21, 2020, 01:56:30 AM
Is Cindi Huelen?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 21, 2020, 05:31:19 AM
When they was in the pro gun phase I thought the same thing  :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 21, 2020, 09:49:52 AM
"Republicans lost in an election where more people voted than ever before, with a turnout in excess of 60% [the highest since the 1960s], is obviously a rebuke of radical liberals, who should stop being so vocal."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2020, 01:31:44 PM
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1330202222626484228
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on November 21, 2020, 06:08:47 PM
"Republicans lost in an election where more people voted than ever before, with a turnout in excess of 60% [the highest since the 1960s], is obviously a rebuke of radical liberals, who should stop being so vocal."
:iface
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2020, 07:24:19 PM
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1330290385617350658

TL;DR version of the Pennslyvania case: "LOL gtfo."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 21, 2020, 08:24:45 PM
I'm beginning to think Rudy Giuliani might not be the legal mastermind that some were led to believe.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 21, 2020, 08:37:45 PM
He's just luring them into a false sense of security, they've just about got them all right where they want them in enough states to pull this off.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 21, 2020, 08:48:01 PM
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qk1tf0PqX91rp71g8_720.mp4
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 21, 2020, 09:04:16 PM
:bow :jeb :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 21, 2020, 10:12:36 PM
https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1330289506491248642
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2020, 11:48:42 PM
Please clap (for my room). :mjcry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 22, 2020, 12:57:11 AM
I'm beginning to think Rudy Giuliani might not be the legal mastermind that some were led to believe.
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1330346436760903682
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 22, 2020, 02:48:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iFsW4_STc

 :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 22, 2020, 10:09:21 AM
Voting systems being used during voting.

wait Bernie has multiple houses?



This is an attorney on the trump campaign?


 :pitbull
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 22, 2020, 02:20:29 PM
Of course the final season would end with a crazy karen  :doge

This is the worst final season since Game of Thrones
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 22, 2020, 05:59:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iFsW4_STc

 :bernie

Looks like she flew too close to the sun.

https://mobile.twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1330638702062825472
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on November 22, 2020, 06:36:01 PM
I have to say, Neogaf has provided incredible entertainment this week.

The backflips theyre about to produce will be Olympic tier
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 22, 2020, 06:42:23 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Endui-dWMAAg-LK?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 22, 2020, 06:50:27 PM
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1330648151309606914

https://twitter.com/ali/status/1330642862598479876
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 22, 2020, 11:27:38 PM
#Plan
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 23, 2020, 04:43:01 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ShTP5cq.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on November 23, 2020, 05:47:53 AM
They said #ReleaseTheKraken but it was really #LetGoOfTheKraken.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 23, 2020, 07:43:00 AM
#ReleaseTheKaren

Sidney Powell will get a great show on TRUMP TV.
Watch out Janine, here's JUDGE SIDNEY

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 23, 2020, 07:44:50 AM
Trumps kouragious krakens :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 23, 2020, 11:37:10 AM
Wait, they got rid of the crazy woman?

She was the most entertaining part of their legal team... I laughed the entire time she was on stage at the conference.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 23, 2020, 01:23:40 PM
simpler times  :money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzhHXt7NKUs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 23, 2020, 01:29:20 PM
Wait, they got rid of the crazy woman?

She was the most entertaining part of their legal team... I laughed the entire time she was on stage at the conference.
She was never part of the legal team. She was just.. you know, someone on stage standing next to them. A crowd entertainer if you will  :trumps

On paper Rudy isn't even Trump's lawyer. They pulled the same shit in 2016 when people working on the campaign, weren't really working on the campaign just 'volunteers'
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: FStop7 on November 23, 2020, 01:41:25 PM
Looking forward to hearing “stop demanding the concentration camps close, it’s too close to the midterms” from the Dems in February.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 23, 2020, 03:22:31 PM
Stay off the crack-en.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 23, 2020, 04:38:11 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1330967257862844416
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 23, 2020, 05:24:08 PM
oh she sucks and pleases  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 23, 2020, 05:31:39 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1330967257862844416

At least he's not picking a banking executive, so that's something.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 23, 2020, 06:43:37 PM
Welp Trump conceded.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331013908971261953

https://mobile.twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1331019388351287298
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 23, 2020, 06:58:49 PM
Of course he did.

They probably filed enough lawsuits raised enough to bail out the campaign.  :trumps

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1331011631418126336 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1331011631418126336)

Nothing says BOLD NEW IDEAS than climate envoy *checks notes* John Kerry

Quote
Haines was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel involved in the hacking of the computers of Senate staffers who were authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture would be disciplined. Haines chose not to discipline them

Quote
Haines played a significant role working closely with John Brennan in determining administration policy on "targeted killings" by drones.
This is literally the woman drone killer from the memes  :doge

I give it two years before these people are surging in Afghanistan again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 23, 2020, 07:27:40 PM
Don't you owe somebody money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 23, 2020, 09:43:37 PM
benji, need some doxxing help. Looking for Kerry's first time in congress vid. I know I've seen it.

found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucY7JOfg6G4
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 23, 2020, 10:38:11 PM
That's Fred Gwynne
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 23, 2020, 10:57:11 PM
https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1331012129214914561
Quote from: Rudolph Giuliani
We’ve got to be a little patient. One fair decision, one good hearing, and this will turn all around.
:dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 23, 2020, 11:34:14 PM
Welp Trump conceded.
FACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331086969183621120
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 23, 2020, 11:37:47 PM
 :dead

inauguration will be litty :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2020, 01:39:19 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZSKUYSi.jpg)

 :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2020, 11:39:52 AM
https://twitter.com/ejmaroun/status/1330994425720426497
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2020, 11:43:32 AM
biden's presidency really does bring us all together... in misery   :biden if trump had won, the right would be happy and the country divided  :trumps in biden's america we all suffer together like a family   :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 24, 2020, 12:17:18 PM
Biden died nobody cried :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2020, 03:41:18 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/24/biden-cabinet-scramble-440199
It is still early in the Biden transition. There are thousands of jobs to fill. But a similar sense of dread is starting to bubble up from veterans of the Biden campaign, particularly those who were there with the president-elect from the Philadelphia announcement speech to the Wilmington victory speech. The target of their ire? The Obama establishment, which has eclipsed the Clinton name as shorthand for yesterday’s Democratic Party.

“The Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got Biden elected,” said a senior Biden official channeling the feelings of the old guard of the Biden campaign, who requested anonymity for the obvious reason. “None of these people found the courage to help the VP when he was running and now they are elevating their friends over the Biden people. It’s f----- up.”
Quote
Internally, Biden officials have been instructed to emphasize to reporters how normal the picks are, how “these are tested leaders.” It’s seen as a success if the Biden staff and Cabinet announcements don’t make much news.

But just below that elite level there is concern bordering on panic — depending on who you talk to — about the perceived lack of outreach to many campaign alumni. “There’s real doubt about whether they will be taken care of,” said the Biden adviser.
Quote
“People are pissed,” said the Biden adviser. “I think I’m going to be taken care of but I have not been taken care of yet. I am really interested to find out how you even find out how you got a job in this White House.”
:fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2020, 03:47:07 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2020, 04:17:58 PM
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1331238258509045761
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2020, 04:24:36 PM
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1331247539044065280

don't let fidel down, lil marco!  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 24, 2020, 04:57:55 PM
https://twitter.com/jrovner/status/1331319033212379141 (https://twitter.com/jrovner/status/1331319033212379141)

 :tocry :ohhh


Quote
“People are pissed,” said the Biden adviser. “I think I’m going to be taken care of but I have not been taken care of yet. I am really interested to find out how you even find out how you got a job in this White House.”
Did you
A: talk to CNN about the Russia dossier?
B: supported the wars in the Middle East?

Congratulations, you're hired  8)


Don't worry about your COVID relief folks, #AmericaIsBackAtTheTable #FreeSyria
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on November 24, 2020, 07:39:54 PM
The election is over, Nintex, you can stop now

The truth will never be silenced  :bolo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 24, 2020, 07:55:20 PM
The election is never over  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 24, 2020, 08:23:14 PM
https://twitter.com/ejmaroun/status/1330994425720426497

More like Onio
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 25, 2020, 12:53:51 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331624798372438018 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331624798372438018)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331653804912242688 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331653804912242688)

Mr. Trump's Wild Ride Never Ends
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 25, 2020, 04:39:11 PM
Flynn got a full pardon
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331706255212228608 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331706255212228608)

Should've done this 4 years ago Trump, lazy writers  :tocry

They had Trump call in live to the hearing in PA  :dead
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on November 25, 2020, 04:52:56 PM
The election is never over  8)

In Nintex land:

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NegligibleBasicDuckbillcat-size_restricted.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 25, 2020, 05:58:39 PM
They had Trump call in live to the hearing in PA  :dead
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1331695288231333890)

This is the beginning of the end of Biden. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:neogaf
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 25, 2020, 09:06:45 PM
https://twitter.com/MichaelTanuvasa/status/1330945293383213058

https://twitter.com/MichaelTanuvasa/status/1330951676719636481

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 25, 2020, 09:17:27 PM
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone

a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)

the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 25, 2020, 09:53:15 PM
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone

a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)

the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening
https://twitter.com/MichaelTanuvasa/status/1331005085308968963

 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 25, 2020, 11:43:13 PM
https://twitter.com/pissvortex/status/1331747534688182275

wow this Biden Administration is already out of control
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 26, 2020, 12:59:32 AM
I’m not sure how much longer I can continue living under the tyranny of America’s First Dictator Joe Biden :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 26, 2020, 01:01:35 AM
The KRAKEN was released.

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1331834589992640513

Sigh.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 26, 2020, 01:16:33 AM
RELEASE THE COVEFE
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 26, 2020, 01:34:42 AM
DISTRICCT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 26, 2020, 02:25:39 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnuroBsXIAA4S-_?format=png&name=large)

The best lawyers. The best.

Quote from: Liberty4All
The typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 26, 2020, 03:42:29 AM
yaere is th.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on November 26, 2020, 08:28:14 AM
Date I say

Behuhuhu the rub hive?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on November 26, 2020, 09:37:38 AM
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone

a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)

the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening

??
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdgpk/woman-in-ice-gynecology-scandal-faces-deportation-almost-a-death-sentence

There’s like 50 women who came forward who said this happened to them bruh.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 26, 2020, 10:22:22 AM
Quote from: Liberty4All
The typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits

Ah right, because lack of visibility is clearly the primary reason these lawsuits are failing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 26, 2020, 10:25:43 AM
Say what you will about the man, but Trumps ability to attract ‘skilled professionals’ who are complete lunatics to his cause is second to none :trumps :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on November 26, 2020, 10:35:00 AM
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone

a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)

the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening

??
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdgpk/woman-in-ice-gynecology-scandal-faces-deportation-almost-a-death-sentence

There’s like 50 women who came forward who said this happened to them bruh.

the article you linked doesn't say she actually had a hysterectomy, it says it was "unwanted surgery" which is exactly what I said


https://apnews.com/article/georgia-archive-only-on-ap-immigration-f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e

Quote
The AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 26, 2020, 11:46:19 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnuroBsXIAA4S-_?format=png&name=large)

The best lawyers. The best.

Quote from: Liberty4All
The typos btw are clearly bait which we ALL know leftist media will fall over itself to point out thus bringing visibility to the lawsuits
Just how drunk was Rudy when he typed this :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 26, 2020, 02:07:33 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1064623713948233729
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 26, 2020, 05:54:19 PM
Trump just announced a rally in Georgia this weekend.

Also don't give Joe credit for the vaccines, the electoral college would make a mistake if they voted for Joe but also he will leave peacefully on inauguration day if they did.

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1332094947823149058 (https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1332094947823149058)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on November 27, 2020, 04:23:13 AM
President elect Joe Biden today:
Covid-19 has brought us pain and loss and frustration and cost many lives.
It's divided us, angered us, set us against one another.
I know the country's grown weary of the fight, but we need to remember - we're at war with the virus, not one another.

President Trump today:
This election was lost by the democrats.
They cheated.
It was a fraudulent election.
It’s (also) my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 27, 2020, 05:02:27 AM
You forgot the part where he sat behind the childrens table and said:

"Don't you talk to the President like that, don't you ever talk to the President like that!"  :bolo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 27, 2020, 05:35:45 AM
I thought the point of America was that press could talk to the President "like that"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 27, 2020, 06:08:30 AM
Apparently #DiaperDon was trending. Trump is angry.

These elections have been great.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 27, 2020, 11:25:28 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1332098307796185099

 :bow :biden :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 27, 2020, 11:47:13 AM
Am I the only one seeing the blue flashes?

Dot ... dot dot dot .... dot

I think the secret message is: "McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds"  :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 27, 2020, 04:11:20 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1332400792620462082

https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1332400794344312834

this dude
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 27, 2020, 05:04:20 PM
What the public thinks the CIA does
(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/75/76/57/16247750/5/gallery_medium.jpg)

What the CIA thinks they do
(https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/10/18/National-Security/Images/brennan1.jpg)

What the CIA actually does
(https://www.gamespew.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-Cold-War-4-1-696x391.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 27, 2020, 06:56:30 PM
K-pop Twitter is confused:
(https://i.imgur.com/3GG1InY.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 27, 2020, 07:12:56 PM
#bidencheated  :bowsette
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 27, 2020, 07:17:27 PM
The Trump camp is broke so the best they could do was K-pop bots :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on November 27, 2020, 08:37:22 PM
to date there is still no evidence of any forced hysterectomies ever performed by anyone

a few women said medical procedures were performed on them and they don't know what they were for, but it was never stated that these were hysterectomies (and you'd think that would be pretty obvious)

the whistleblower more or less said she made it all up because she wanted more scrutiny on what was happening

??
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdgpk/woman-in-ice-gynecology-scandal-faces-deportation-almost-a-death-sentence

There’s like 50 women who came forward who said this happened to them bruh.

the article you linked doesn't say she actually had a hysterectomy, it says it was "unwanted surgery" which is exactly what I said


https://apnews.com/article/georgia-archive-only-on-ap-immigration-f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e

Quote
The AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center.

How about you read the newer reporting instead of just looking at the earliest article on the
topic?

Quote
The medical review of pathology reports conducted by ALLGOOD showed “a pattern of overly aggressive care,” including “inappropriate, unconsented transvaginal procedures,” “exaggerated interpretations of imaging results,” and less invasive methods not being pursued.

Attorney Benjamin Osorio, who represents two of the women tallied in the Senate briefing, said in an interview with The Intercept that one of his clients was told a hysterectomy was the only possible option to remove a possibly cancerous cyst. “There are less invasive, less aggressive treatments, but he took out her whole reproductive system,” Osorio explained “That’s not something you can go back from.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 27, 2020, 09:01:20 PM
K-pop Twitter is confused:

K-pop Twitter has been hijacking conservative hashtags to brainwash MAGA-American for a minute. I hope it's working. :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on November 28, 2020, 01:15:35 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/QObmowY.png)
 :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 28, 2020, 01:18:48 AM
 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 28, 2020, 02:19:56 AM
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1331991596557094912


 :pimp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on November 28, 2020, 02:27:16 AM
Biden probably won't pardon Assange, and prosecuting him will divide democrats. Why would Trump do something that benefits the Democrats?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 28, 2020, 07:54:17 PM
Biden's making sure only rich people are able to own guns :success
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En7TqtoW8AEdFvQ?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 29, 2020, 04:32:11 PM
The Bernie Bro's aren't pleased
https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803 (https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 29, 2020, 04:34:39 PM
 :mueller
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 29, 2020, 05:17:26 PM
https://twitter.com/WardDPatrick/status/1333158847670837248 (https://twitter.com/WardDPatrick/status/1333158847670837248)

 :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: stufte on November 29, 2020, 06:54:42 PM
Been away for a while. Did we win yet? Guys? Hello?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 30, 2020, 01:09:56 AM
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1331991596557094912


 :pimp

she's looking for a runway
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 30, 2020, 12:50:08 PM
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1333456904799064070
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on November 30, 2020, 12:58:14 PM
 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 30, 2020, 01:08:56 PM
The Bernie Bro's aren't pleased
https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803 (https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/1333157221421772803)

https://mobile.twitter.com/juggstorecowboy/status/1333195463512748034
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 30, 2020, 01:17:24 PM
You are just attacking Neera because she is a woman empowered by the incoming administration.  :ufup

I guess only men are allowed to invade and steal oil in Libya  :social2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 30, 2020, 01:17:38 PM
https://twitter.com/LizWillis_/status/1333462301886672896

Now they're bringing out the real evidence. Biden is done!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on November 30, 2020, 06:50:26 PM
Trump has entered the 'let's burn down the GOP' phase

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616)

Trump called him as he was certifying the results  :lol
https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769 (https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 30, 2020, 07:14:38 PM
Trump destroying the GOP because he's a sore loser with no party loyalty? Who would have guessed!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 01, 2020, 09:08:16 AM
Doug Ducey is my least favorite Fox & Friends host.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 01, 2020, 11:47:30 AM
https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1333546053526761473

This just proves how far the Deep State coverup goes!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 01, 2020, 11:54:23 AM
didn't trump enter the "burn the gop down" when he ran for president?

#greatestdemallly
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 01, 2020, 03:44:37 PM
didn't trump enter the "burn the gop down" when he ran for president?

#greatestdemallly

Yes, but then he won.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 01, 2020, 06:19:12 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1333909947042701316 (https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1333909947042701316)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 01, 2020, 06:48:39 PM
"If you don't vote for me you ain't blackrock" :biden

https://twitter.com/business/status/1333897181988868099 (https://twitter.com/business/status/1333897181988868099)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 01, 2020, 08:52:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTrBbsEu5Q

dumb biiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaatch annihilated!!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2020, 03:32:22 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/TC9qGxO.jpg) :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 02, 2020, 03:41:54 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2020, 03:50:48 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/7ajOScP.jpg) :drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2020, 02:06:51 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1333922606014214147 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1333922606014214147)

You want to change something, don't boo, VOTE! :obama

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1333856391841386498 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1333856391841386498)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 02, 2020, 02:12:14 PM
I love when the "hope and change" guy lectures me on snappy slogans
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2020, 02:22:20 PM
I love when the "hope and change" guy lectures me on snappy slogans
Just imagine how jaded you would be if Trump took over your computer for 4 years and returned it after deleting all the Windows Updates, trashing most of your important work documents and drag and dropping every image to the desktop after renaming them to poop1.jpg, poop2.jpg etc.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 02, 2020, 03:06:31 PM
Trump has entered the 'let's burn down the GOP' phase

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333556242984431616)

Trump called him as he was certifying the results  :lol
https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769 (https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1333535859153440769)

Relax bro, it’s just a lil certification, he’ll text you later lmao
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 02, 2020, 05:46:27 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jared-kushner-ppp-loan-coronavirus-b1765356.html

This is just disgusting. You knew when they said they would oversee how the money was spent that some of this was coming, but this is just egregious.

(https://i.imgur.com/7ajOScP.jpg) :drool

The wood I’m hauling says this belongs in :nsfw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2020, 06:10:09 PM
Small government, small business :trumps

I expect headlines like this daily after the Biden people open the books. Not just from Trump but at multiple departments.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 02, 2020, 11:04:37 PM
Trump legal team now has Kitty Sanchez as their star witness

https://mobile.twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1334315220815278080
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2020, 11:27:18 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1334344279305695232

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2020, 11:38:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MACDwnF.jpg)

zen  :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on December 03, 2020, 12:16:47 AM
#boymom sounds like a porn category tbh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 03, 2020, 12:18:35 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/Nkr0mkn.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2020, 12:57:46 AM
#boymom sounds like a porn category tbh
#boystepmom. :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 03, 2020, 09:08:35 AM
#boystuckstepmom
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 03, 2020, 11:56:59 AM
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1334313903686373379 (https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1334313903686373379)

Now that's a succesful business man  :money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 03, 2020, 12:57:37 PM
I love when the "hope and change" guy lectures me on snappy slogans

Barack Obama’s inner soul is like a 85 year old white man.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 03, 2020, 01:09:01 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/3O0k9P9.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2020, 11:31:15 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333965375839621120

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334517145288527882

do it pussy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2020, 11:33:07 PM
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334405463375417344

 :camby filler come get her
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 03, 2020, 11:40:33 PM
love her so much  :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 12:03:13 AM
https://twitter.com/BidenHarrisHats/status/1334586625192497152


 :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 12:54:17 AM
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334405463375417344

 :camby filler come get her
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334573725312712704

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1334617514005819392

get her, bb  :pimp drag that dumb biiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaatch  :heart



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 04:14:13 AM
https://twitter.com/BidenHarrisHats/status/1334586625192497152


 :horny
Quote from: me
Smith: "Mister Anderson, so you wish to join us. Why don't you wear this red hat. Make a few laughs. Enjoy the show. Join all these forgotten men and women it is inevitable. Or wear the blue hat. The hat of losers. The hat that doesn't fit well. The hat that smells. The choice is yours"
:titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 04, 2020, 12:35:53 PM
Trump legal team now has Kitty Sanchez as their star witness

https://mobile.twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1334315220815278080

(https://i.imgur.com/QLLVkJA.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 04, 2020, 12:38:31 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1333965375839621120

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334517145288527882

do it pussy

Seeing him cry to mommy after getting told "no" on various issues has never been as personally satisfying to me as this Section 230 fight.

(https://i.imgur.com/SCs1dRR.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 04, 2020, 12:39:49 PM
https://twitter.com/BidenHarrisHats/status/1334586625192497152


 :horny

:snoop Goddamn are Democrats terrible and stupid.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 04, 2020, 01:53:41 PM
The most 😂 thing about the section 230 is that it would hit his supporters the hardest. Qanon would be the first thing moderated out of existence
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on December 04, 2020, 02:34:07 PM
section 230 is a big fucking deal

imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on December 04, 2020, 02:36:08 PM
He’d have to prove that he isn’t :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 02:37:54 PM
section 230 is a big fucking deal

imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt
:drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 02:41:56 PM
Wank daddies: hurray we won. We beat the CCN Federation!

Execute Section 230  :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on December 04, 2020, 02:47:17 PM
I feel like we should give etiolate another chance. I wasn't aware what he did to ruin all of his previous chances, but it can't have been that bad.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 04, 2020, 03:09:32 PM
section 230 is a big fucking deal

imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt

It's not defamation if it's true. :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 04, 2020, 04:43:03 PM
section 230 is a big fucking deal

imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt

Wait I can make money because people keep defaming me with egregiously false libel accusations related to "pedo"?

 :trumps :playa :trumps :delicious

Nintex, we about to feast
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: curly on December 04, 2020, 04:46:44 PM
you really want to open up the question of whether you are a pedo in a court of law

what about you encouraging another poster to share video of an underage girl :gurl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 05:03:13 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1334979539609509888

 :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 05:29:40 PM
section 230 is a big fucking deal

imagine etoliate crawls out of the woodwork and holds demi liable for one count of defamation per post in the archives that calls him a dumb fucking cunt

Wait I can make money because people keep defaming me with egregiously false libel accusations related to "pedo"?

 :trumps :playa :trumps :delicious

Nintex, we about to feast
:playa :salute

The most 😂 thing about the section 230 is that it would hit his supporters the hardest. Qanon would be the first thing moderated out of existence

230 or something like it is probably necessary for the internet as we know it to exist. 

It's not just about 8chan or "The Bore" being held labile, it would potentially be web sites as well as whoever hosts the servers.   

So even ignoring that the moderation of stuff like social media would become prohibitively expensive,  the people who host the platforms.. the ISPs... everything along the chain could be held liable, theoretically.

It's like holding a store responsible for a shoplifter stealing.  And whoever is leasing them the building... and..and
That's how the GDPR works already yet not a peep in protest when that went down because of non-existing privacy concerns.
Not to mention the hounds going after the founder of 4chan, 8chan and whatevs just because someone posted there who started shooting shit.

Like the GDPR this will turn into a similar mandatory privacy policy / cookie wall racket tho  :mynicca

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1334979539609509888
I thought you were going to be secretary Yang. Secretary of Technology or Labour or some shit.
What's that? Blackrock executives and Neera Tanden were hired instead of your grifting ass? Enjoy staying at CNN forever #yanggang :girlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 04, 2020, 05:46:28 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1334894822470070277

https://mobile.twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1334960665958764548

Pelosi getting outflanked from the left by Biden.

 :confused
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 05:48:55 PM
gotta love the big guy  :heart

 :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2


biden bux incoming  :success
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 05:51:00 PM
Do these clowns really think Trump will sign this?  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 05:53:25 PM
no one dare challenge galactic god emperor bide  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 05:56:25 PM
The efforts to have Trump sign this will be as succesful as the efforts to letting him concede.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 04, 2020, 06:04:35 PM
I could see repealing section 230 just turn into a section 230 waiver that releases the website and any posters from liability of anything you read on the site that you need to click on to read any content from a site 😂
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 04, 2020, 06:07:57 PM
I could see repealing section 230 just turn into a section 230 waiver that releases the website and any posters from liability of anything you read on the site that you need to click on to read any content from a site 😂
nintex can write a 230 waiver for thebore.com  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 06:27:35 PM
I could see repealing section 230 just turn into a section 230 waiver that releases the website and any posters from liability of anything you read on the site that you need to click on to read any content from a site 😂
nintex can write a 230 waiver for thebore.com  ;)
It would just be this gif
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DismalUnsightlyGuernseycow-size_restricted.gif)

With an "I ACCEPT" button under it  :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2020, 08:03:43 PM
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.

Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections.  They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.

And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.
Nope you didn't get it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 05, 2020, 02:10:10 AM
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.

Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections.  They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.

And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.

They could almost certainly force you into arbitration, effectively shielding themselves from lawsuits from users. The courts recently upheld that for Epic Games on a hacking class action suit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 05, 2020, 02:11:43 AM
you really want to open up the question of whether you are a pedo in a court of law

what about you encouraging another poster to share video of an underage girl :gurl

Keep throwing libel around honey the more receipts the better
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 05:48:13 AM
We got all the documents  :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 05, 2020, 09:35:43 AM
I feel like we should give etiolate another chance. I wasn't aware what he did to ruin all of his previous chances, but it can't have been that bad.
:iface
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 09:52:09 AM
#freeEtiolate  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 05, 2020, 11:26:57 AM
#freeEtiolate  :rejoice

No.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 05, 2020, 11:54:57 AM
#freeEtiolate  :rejoice

The civil rights movement of our time  :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 01:14:13 PM
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626 (https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626)

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 05, 2020, 01:17:01 PM
:shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 02:10:42 PM
"Folks you can't just click your liability away by clicking ok, that's not how the world works"

(https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2013/08/Obama-Syria_Horo2-e1377975230590-1024x640.jpg)

"So if I click ok I can just post whatever bullshit I want right?"

"That's right Mr Trump"

(https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sites/default/files/content/images/2016/11/29/KELLYANNE-CONWAY-TRUMP.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 05, 2020, 02:32:06 PM
Ah I think I get it now... I don't know how anyone could misunderstand GDPR any further than you seem to.

Those dialogs are a requirement of GDPR and are not somehow some magic release of liability from it's protections.  They are codified into law, along with a bunch of other stuff that continues to be hugely expensive for companies.

And it's incredibly doubtful you'd be able to wish your liability away with a button click if 230 was removed in the US.

They could almost certainly force you into arbitration, effectively shielding themselves from lawsuits from users. The courts recently upheld that for Epic Games on a hacking class action suit.

Section 230 is not about lawsuits from users though.

Section 230 is about criminal liability for illegal content that ends up on your servers or web site.

You can't wave criminal liability away with a "click OK after reading this" dialog.   

You also can't wave away liability for all of GDPR or CCPR.   I don't know what Epic Games and a class action hacking lawsuit have to do with any of this.

I don’t think you have a very comprehensive knowledge about section 230. It’s about both of those things.

Quote

The bulk of Section 230’s impact comes from a single sentence: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”


But the civil lawsuit risk is far bigger than the criminal liability. Because of the first amendment not much of what you say online is actually criminal.

The risk is that these guys get bogged down with lawsuits that say “@dogficker is making things up about me online, he’s defaming me, he’s harassing me, he’s organizing a harassment campaign against me and oh yeah, he’s using Twitter so they are doing it too”

My point is that tech companies will respond to this by putting a pop up that says “by using this website you agree to settle any disputes with twitter using an arbitration. Epic games store did this, was sued in federal court, and that part of the eula was held up. Meaning that approach has been tested in court and upheld

I’m trying to imaging what kind of criminal statute they would even Ben worried about and I’m bot sure what I’m missing. Like the FBI so probably not going to investigate twitter for being part of a criminal conspiracy because two users were talking abo it selling drugs on the site
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 05, 2020, 02:56:02 PM
That makes sense, I didn’t really consider that.... but how likely is that really?

“I know that somebody is defaming me on Facebook, but I have never once visited Facebook and clicked the disclaimer they make me click to view the site”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 05, 2020, 04:25:40 PM
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626 (https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335253780477210626)

 :lol

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1335259587373649922

  :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 05, 2020, 05:25:57 PM
Calling out the BIG GUNS :gun
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1334887896688549889
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: kingv on December 05, 2020, 06:03:59 PM
That makes sense, I didn’t really consider that.... but how likely is that really?

“I know that somebody is defaming me on Facebook, but I have never once visited Facebook and clicked the disclaimer they make me click to view the site”

Well even if you've visited the site I don't see how a disclaimer would work here without the actual legal protection.   The crime is not really directly related to your use of the site, or your data.. it's a crime or civil offense committed by someone else using that site..  (that under current law, as long as sites make a "good faith effort" to respond to complaints, they aren't liable)

Like could YouTube say "By using this site you agree that if anyone posts revenge porn of you on YouTube you can't sue us."  ?  I don't think so.. and either way, there's no guarantee that anyone who would have such a crime committed against them is a user, so therefore if they had liability chances and "good faith efforts" no longer work, they'd have to change how they do business even if the main worry was a civil lawsuit.. i mean, probably particularly since it's a civil lawsuit since lawyers would probably feast on the chance.

Same with the actual criminal protections too;  and while defamation doesn't have a police force behind it, stuff like sex trafficking does.  Which is why modifications to internet law caused people like backpage.com and craigslist to react so quickly and shut down their NSFW ads that were obviously prostitution.  That was basically a "Section 230 doesn't apply to sex trafficking" scenario and boom they ditched it.  Outright removing section 230 would immediately hold anyone who hosts images/video liable for ALLLLL kinds of bad crimes.

There's probably some sensible modifications to Section 230 to be had but an outright removal probably would cause a lot of stirring in tech.

(and either way, I digress, those dialogs you guys see about cookies are not a waver from GDPR/CCPR, they are a requirement of them)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure repealing section 230 wouldn’t be an easy adjustment to Internet companies, but I don’t think Facebook would fold up over it either. It would probably hurt smaller companies like Thebore.com a lot worse. The bigger companies would just adjust.

I only brought up the Epic games thing because it was an example where to use a piece of software you had to click an EULA agreeing not to sue the company, and to only use arbitration, and that was ruled as valid in court. It won’t remove all legal liability, but that approach would be valid and I’m sure they would start using it on some level.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 05, 2020, 06:25:18 PM
Facebook likes Section 230 just because it saves them money, it's not a make or break for a company that large. Same with Twitter. It'd be any competitor, like say... Parler, that'd be the ones to be smashed apart in legal fees before they could compete. Especially since it'd be in the interests of existing companies to swamp any competitors with them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 07:29:09 PM
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1335346208106291206 (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1335346208106291206)

It's a good thing Donald Trump is not a vengeful man.
He could use this against you and make sure the economy blows up when you assume office.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 05, 2020, 07:52:27 PM
The problem scales with the size of your userbase though.    I don't see how being massive is really an advantage considering that, just makes the moderation effort that much more massive and important.

GDPR has been expensive (and will continue to be, as it complicates the cost of developing any software that stores PII) but it can be 100% solved with automation and no human intervention.   So it's just been expensive to shoehorn solutions at companies and raised the cost of creating software a bit, and of course those who have fucked up have been fined, but it's a very small cost increase compared to a massive moderation effort (which already coincides with massive efforts to automate moderation, that would also need increased investment and it's all far more complex, thus expensive, than the stuff people do for GDPR.)
Facebook has to employ those moderators anyway at their size for their business model, Section 230 just frees them from having to prepare to go to court with almost every single moderation action. A lot of that moderation can be automated, but legal fees can't be as lawyers are required by law.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2020, 08:02:56 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335382407491575808 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335382407491575808)

Trump has the documents
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 05, 2020, 08:10:17 PM
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 05, 2020, 09:28:29 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335357799224709128
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: EchoRin on December 05, 2020, 10:18:10 PM
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn  :doge

I'm excited for the Pornhub 2020 summary too  :hyper
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 06, 2020, 12:45:35 AM
Quote from: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/unnamed-pentagon-officials-blast-use-of-anonymous-sources/
Senior defense officials on Saturday declined to go on the record yet sharply criticized the use of anonymous sources in reports that the Pentagon was slow-rolling Biden-Harris transition efforts.

The Pentagon released an unsigned statement on Saturday to reporters saying that “the accusation by anonymous sources [the Department of Defense] had not been fulfilling its commitment” to transition efforts “is demonstrably false and patently insulting.” Officials did not respond to an email from Task & Purpose asking why a name was not attached to a statement that criticized the use of anonymous sources.
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 06, 2020, 01:12:16 AM
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn  :doge

Newsfeed.

Absolute legend  :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Sman on December 06, 2020, 04:32:53 AM
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn  :doge

Let's not rush to judgement.

Posting bad porn warrants a ban.

So which was it? Good or bad?

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 06, 2020, 04:44:05 AM
Implying filler posts anything but high quality content  :gurl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tuckers Law on December 06, 2020, 06:19:03 AM
Knowing Filler, I’m guessing it wasn’t the Karen’s that reported him en masse but instead their husbands, tired of catching the wives watching white girls getting railed by humongous black and fleshy pillars.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 06, 2020, 06:51:06 AM
Trump owns the GOP now.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335396015277568000 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335396015277568000)

And the 2024 campaign has begun
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335402025937481729 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1335402025937481729)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 06, 2020, 04:49:43 PM
Rudy has the rona

I know what I want for Christmas

 :rash :rash :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 06, 2020, 04:57:58 PM
Rudy has the rona

I know what I want for Christmas

 :rash :rash :rash

Access to the Splatoon 2 media create sales discord?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 06, 2020, 05:04:18 PM
just caught a 30 day ban on fb for continually posting porn  :doge

Let's not rush to judgement.

Posting bad porn warrants a ban.

So which was it? Good or bad?
they have some type of filter running that catches stuff before it gets posted. I think I have been reported before, but these recent warnings and ban were instant.

 :nsfw :nsfw  https://i.imgur.com/Nz9Gr6y.jpg   :nsfw :nsfw

 :-[
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 06, 2020, 05:19:55 PM
Calling out the BIG GUNS :gun
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1334887896688549889


(https://i.imgur.com/bGm79lv.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 06, 2020, 05:23:53 PM
Who could’ve seen Giuliani getting Covid coming?

 https://mobile.twitter.com/tomrichell/status/1329492907477360641
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 06, 2020, 05:34:19 PM
Rudy has the rona

I know what I want for Christmas

 :rash :rash :rash

Access to the Splatoon 2 media create sales discord?
:drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on December 06, 2020, 05:39:20 PM
I am praying for Rudy Giuliani
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 06, 2020, 05:58:43 PM
I am praying for Rudy Giuliani
giuliani the super spreader  :gurl

https://twitter.com/MSignorile/status/1335716208885239808
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on December 06, 2020, 06:01:24 PM
I am praying for them too
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 06, 2020, 06:16:53 PM
Praying for them to what, though?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 06, 2020, 06:20:53 PM
*preying  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 06, 2020, 06:22:41 PM
Rudy will get REGENERON and becomes more powerful than we can ever imagine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 06, 2020, 07:16:48 PM
What if Trump refuses to give emergency authorization for Rudy to get the Covid cure because of how badly he botches the legal challenges and he dies?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on December 06, 2020, 07:27:04 PM
Trump to Rudy

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/d8/b0/3fd8b09794e270ffbfcccb3c459b5831.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 06, 2020, 07:55:19 PM
If Rudy cannot answer the call then I guess Alan Dershowitz will have to save democracy again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 06, 2020, 07:58:55 PM
thots and prayers to rudy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 07, 2020, 02:33:45 PM
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1335988616078757888

 :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 07, 2020, 02:35:28 PM
:kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 08, 2020, 12:42:27 AM
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1336106455007698946

 :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 08, 2020, 01:25:10 AM
Steven Miller looks baked in that thumbnail. "Brah, I'm just trying to dehumanize some immigrants, why are you harshing my buzz?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on December 08, 2020, 12:10:42 PM
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1336351727398903817
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 08, 2020, 01:35:14 PM
Trump the Superspreader strikes again!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 08, 2020, 03:01:56 PM
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1336341848751792128


 :bow :bernie :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 08, 2020, 03:15:59 PM
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1336386188484235265


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJfjf8zcxo


 :rejoice king joe da trap gawd  :bow :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 08, 2020, 04:44:27 PM
https://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/1336422837859610626 (https://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/1336422837859610626)

Now all we can do is hope that the Bush v. Gore Republican legal team does the right thing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 08, 2020, 04:55:43 PM
SCOTUS: “Oh shit, you’re right, guess we have to throw out 40 million votes based on the ‘hurt feelings’ clause in the Constitution.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 08, 2020, 05:02:24 PM
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1336426372558938119 (https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1336426372558938119)

Another anime betrayal
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 08, 2020, 06:28:29 PM
https://twitter.com/TianaTheFirst/status/1336433243688583168

what part of "DEEP State" do you not understand?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 08, 2020, 06:41:15 PM
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1336405646825099264


 :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 08, 2020, 06:43:25 PM
It's an older meme but it checks out sir
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 08, 2020, 10:08:27 PM
https://twitter.com/audreycnn/status/1336459408180699139
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 08, 2020, 10:14:08 PM
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1336405646825099264


 :horny

He's banging Marianne on the side and sucking up that voodoo juice :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 08, 2020, 10:49:33 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/529359-mcauliffe-to-announce-bid-for-second-term-as-virginia-governor-report
Quote
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is expected to announce his bid for a second term as governor on Wednesday, people close to the campaign told The Hill on Tuesday.

If elected, the 63-year-old Democrat would become the second governor since the Civil War to earn a second term, as Virginia bans back-to-back terms.

The former governor left office with positive ratings and low unemployment. But he will enter the race as three other Democrats seek the nomination: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Del. Jennifer D. Carroll Foy and state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan. While McAuliffe is a white man, all three candidates are Black, and two are women.
The Bagman is Back :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 08, 2020, 11:15:54 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1336427393272176647


 :oreilly
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 08, 2020, 11:55:47 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/herosnvrdie69/status/1336471689547407362

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 09, 2020, 12:06:02 AM
Trump is still threatening a veto lol.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 09, 2020, 08:56:24 AM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1336427393272176647


 :oreilly

Dude's soul left his body.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 09, 2020, 12:33:31 PM
https://twitter.com/reevesjw/status/1336649338731323392

The math checks out.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 09, 2020, 01:32:10 PM
THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 09, 2020, 01:46:56 PM
https://youtu.be/WFoC3TR5rzI

:steiner
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: ToxicAdam on December 09, 2020, 02:25:28 PM
That's a top 5 promo. Right up there with Macho's 'Cream of the Crop'.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2020, 02:31:46 PM
lmao Trump's still losing his shit on Twitter

#OVERTURN
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2020, 02:56:39 PM
https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1336755231946846208 (https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1336755231946846208)

 :karen

counterpoint: none of those small business like Donald J. Trump for President would even be visible on the internet if it wasn't for Facebook :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 09, 2020, 03:22:17 PM
Had we elected Bernie Sanders, Zuckerbrg would have been executed in the new Raiders stadium on Jan 21st
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2020, 04:49:28 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336733602902659075 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1336733602902659075)

When all this is said and done a tell all book will reveal Trump's just pissed he lost a big bet on his own election win :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 09, 2020, 05:03:43 PM
That's a top 5 promo. Right up there with Macho's 'Cream of the Crop'.

My go-to wrestling promo is Booker T accidentally calling Hogan the n-word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF_f2rklPRw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 09, 2020, 05:17:09 PM
Quote
Seventeen states whose elections were won by President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden's projected Electoral College victory.

The filing backing Paxton by those states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Biden won, over their voting processes.

Democrats: We need to reach across the aisle and support rural communities then surely they will be on our side

Imbeciles
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2020, 06:26:06 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo0sBrgWEAAU09C?format=jpg)

:trumps

Art of the Deal Revisited - Chapter 11 - THE BLUFF

"I'm taking these Joe, it's a pretty good deal. You better take it before you lose everything"

trust the plan
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/03/09/3AFBD55700000578-3994504-image-a-18_1480758481631.jpg)
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 09, 2020, 06:28:40 PM
"the states" are not the people
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 09, 2020, 06:55:56 PM
"the states" are not the people

It's not even 17 governors or 17 legislatures. It's 17 attorneys general.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2020, 07:00:58 PM
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1336797916846034949 (https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1336797916846034949)

 :huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 09, 2020, 07:09:57 PM
hunter smokes meth with chinese hookers sometimes, it's really no big deal  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 10, 2020, 08:30:45 AM
I love how he just outs himself all the time, he was betting on the presidency.

:rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 10, 2020, 02:57:45 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/TH3Cl44.png)

This is always a headline for some reason,


also video adds on imur,  :kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 10, 2020, 06:52:39 PM
Well the GOP completely failed at finding fraud so now they’re going for mail-in voting in those swing states being unconstitutional.

Of course we all knew that this was never really about fraud anyways. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 10, 2020, 07:26:52 PM
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1337163606245453824 (https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1337163606245453824)

 :trumps "I've done more than any other President in history"

:biden "People aren't looking for a hand out"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 11, 2020, 03:31:05 PM
Nunes finally has it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 11, 2020, 04:54:27 PM
the documents?  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 11, 2020, 06:16:29 PM
the documents?  :doge

 :rogan
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 11, 2020, 07:02:44 PM
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1337545398869782529 (https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1337545398869782529)

What's next, drive by shooting the electors from the My Pillow van while blasting the YMCA?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: headwalk on December 11, 2020, 07:13:57 PM
i heard over AP that the exact reponses from the supreme court were "have you seen this shit?" and "lol".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 11, 2020, 08:12:16 PM
Bu-bu-bu the Conservative SCOTUS will save Trump!!!

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 11, 2020, 08:33:34 PM
Probability that Trump owes his bookie has increased by 97%
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 11, 2020, 08:50:19 PM
https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1337569038222962688

Finally something we can agree on.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337554428556161028
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 11, 2020, 09:52:38 PM
Those aren't even complete sentences.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 11, 2020, 10:53:56 PM
Turns out Sidney Powell’s election security and hacking “expert witness” was a Humvee mechanic that failed out of medic AND military intelligence school in the US Army.

You can’t make this shit up.

https://twitter.com/jwvizzard/status/1337550428674863104
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 12, 2020, 12:02:22 AM
https://twitter.com/saveusculture/status/1337568918664200193


 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 12, 2020, 12:45:39 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337629306919538694

Sir, this is an Arby’s.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 12, 2020, 06:27:25 AM
Has anyone considered that the Republicans may want Trump to stay in this fantasy that he can still overturn the election so he would be busy and he and his top men wouldn't get involved with the vaccine approvals and distribution? :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: MMaRsu on December 12, 2020, 06:29:17 AM
BREAKING NEWS

https://youtu.be/h_jrebvmPlk
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 12, 2020, 06:56:41 AM
They missed their chance to make Rudy Santa Clause and include Herman Cain Jesus 7/10
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 12, 2020, 10:45:06 AM
https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1337569038222962688

Finally something we can agree on.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337554428556161028

They should call that union something like, The United States: Part Deux.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 12, 2020, 11:44:39 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337629306919538694

Sir, this is an Arby’s.

He’s been doing some amazing tweets this week.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337373146652020736

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337039171228151809
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 12, 2020, 12:52:04 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337755964339081216 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337755964339081216)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 12, 2020, 02:07:37 PM
https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1337569038222962688

Finally something we can agree on.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337554428556161028

They should call that union something like, The United States: Part Deux.
usa discord ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 12, 2020, 02:11:48 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 12, 2020, 02:51:10 PM
USA USA USA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 12, 2020, 03:44:20 PM
Are those the black helicopters Neogaf said would start off the revolution?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 12, 2020, 04:47:23 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337833603309465600)

:trumps

Wow look at that crowd size. Trump now in obvious lead in 2024 race.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 12, 2020, 05:43:43 PM
Part of me would love to see Trump run in 2024 and lose to Kamala in a landslide 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 12, 2020, 05:47:55 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1337480518074503170


 ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 14, 2020, 09:50:23 AM
Part of me would love to see Trump run in 2024 and lose to Kamala in a landslide 

Parts of you are questionable.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 14, 2020, 04:51:29 PM
https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1338546066346676224

GOP just out here picking alternate reality electors.  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 14, 2020, 07:38:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSqCh6e0XgU

Biden coming out swinging here
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 14, 2020, 07:55:08 PM
That was pretty good. His poor throat was burnt from spitting fire.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 14, 2020, 09:25:18 PM
lol, that start.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 14, 2020, 09:42:24 PM
Edit- No.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 15, 2020, 02:24:13 PM
How it started:
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/tide_has_turned_trump.jpg)

How it’s going:
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/oompa_loompa_bill_barr.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 15, 2020, 02:33:33 PM
I never understood the hoopla about Barr.

Whenever he made arguments in the Russia case it seemed rational and more from a legal pov than anything political.
It seems like both the Trumpists and blue checkmarks made all sorts of assumptions about a cookie cutter bureaucrat.

Oh well now he can write a book.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: VomKriege on December 15, 2020, 02:40:35 PM
Whatever you think of the contents, he opened his mandate by obviously burying and obfuscating the conclusions of the Mueller report. Something he already had a bit of history about.
And it was true under Sessions as well but there's been a lot of strife in the DoJ for the whole tenure of Trump. Notably pulling the rug under the opinions and recommendations of their own prosecutors.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 15, 2020, 02:58:08 PM
Whatever you think of the contents, he opened his mandate by obviously burying and obfuscating the conclusions of the Mueller report. Something he already had a bit of history about.
And it was true under Sessions as well but there's been a lot of strife in the DoJ for the whole tenure of Trump. Notably pulling the rug under the opinions and recommendations of their own prosecutors.
But that's not really a Trump administration thing, more like a government thing.

The Abu Ghraib report was like: "Wow we have some structural problems here" and all Bush did was a photo-op with Condi.
With Obama not much different on the subject of the Iran nuclear deal, ISIS, Clinton's emails and in general 'leading from behind' but also Fast & Furious.
Way back when the DOJ and especially the NY FBI leaked everything to Rudy for reasons. I also got the sense that Barr more than anything was covering for the DOJ/FBI and everyone else down the line and not so much Trump. Especially when it came to family friend Epstein.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 15, 2020, 05:36:44 PM
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129 (https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129)

Pete got hired
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 15, 2020, 06:17:42 PM
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129 (https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1338932981583536129)

Pete got hired

Hype!!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/erasmusNYT/status/1200822105438347264
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 15, 2020, 07:07:30 PM
I'm sure all the protestors are very happy with uncle Joe's cabinet of lobbyists, bankers and Neera Tanden.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 12:57:19 AM
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/530376-supreme-court-hands-lgbtq-families-victory-in

:american 🏳️‍🌈
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 01:13:42 AM
Trump administration rolls back efficiency standards for showerheads, washers and dryers (https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/530310-trump-administration-rolls-back-efficiency-standards-for)

At least you got "something" done before being booted from office in shame, Donny. :snoop :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 16, 2020, 01:54:22 AM
I take the biggest poops

Tremendous poops

Have to flush 30 40 times
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 16, 2020, 02:16:58 AM
I take the biggest poops

Tremendous poops

Have to flush 30 40 times

:drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 16, 2020, 04:05:17 AM
zomgee's prostate getting milked by his own turds  :gentleman
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 16, 2020, 04:13:59 AM
Trump administration rolls back efficiency standards for showerheads, washers and dryers (https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/530310-trump-administration-rolls-back-efficiency-standards-for)

At least you got "something" done before being booted from office in shame, Donny. :snoop :crowdlaff
Trump was always laser focused on the issues that matter  :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 16, 2020, 05:41:39 AM
why would you put pete in the admin?

lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 08:31:29 AM
why would you put pete in the admin?

lol

Transportation is as boring job as Pete is a person, I think it's a good fit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 16, 2020, 09:20:03 AM
The Biden Administration's Gay Best Friend   :fabulous
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 11:08:56 AM
Former Houston Police Captain Arrested In Alleged Scheme To Prove ‘Voter Fraud’ (http://)

Quote
The ex-officer was arrested Tuesday after allegedly running a man off the road and restraining him with a pistol in an attempt to prove a nonexistent massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County in exchange for more than $250,000, from a group run by conservative activist Steve Hotze.

(https://i.imgur.com/knNlimu.gif)

Quote
Aguirre claimed to believe the victim was hiding about 750,000 fraudulent ballots within his truck and home, with Hispanic children being used to sign the ballots because their fingerprints would not appear in any databases, according to prosecutors.

:mindblown

I thought PizzaGate idiocy would be the most insane story of this type I ever read.

What the goddamn fuck is wrong with people?

Specifically, Texans.

Quote
After arriving on the scene, HPD searched through the victim's home and truck and found no evidence of voter fraud. Instead, police found ordinary household items and equipment that the victim used for his job as an air conditioner repairman, according to the affidavit.

(https://i.imgur.com/IRuXApb.jpg)

Quote
Aguirre was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Spend 20 years in the slammer to own the libs, brehs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 01:13:38 PM
October: Trump's Twitter hacked after Dutch researcher claims he guessed password (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/22/trump-twitter-hacked-dutch-researcher-password)

Confirmed today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55337192

How does this fucktard not have 2FA. :snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 01:15:20 PM
More seriously why doesn't Twitter MANDATE 2FA on verified/political accounts??

Like the giant Bitcoin hack earlier this year wasn't a good enough scare?

Imagine if this Dutch researcher got a little too "direct" and tweeted "I'm nuking China today!"

GODDAMN WHAT A SHITTY REALITY WE'RE IN FUCK
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 16, 2020, 01:23:36 PM
More seriously why doesn't Twitter MANDATE 2FA on verified/political accounts??

Like the giant Bitcoin hack earlier this year wasn't a good enough scare?

Imagine if this Dutch researcher got a little too "direct" and tweeted "I'm nuking China today!"

GODDAMN WHAT A SHITTY REALITY WE'RE IN FUCK
The password was maga2020!

I bet the 2FA was short lived after he had to meltdown over the election results and he turned it off.
His new password is probably voterfraud!

I'm afraid to try it tbh  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 16, 2020, 01:23:53 PM
It's a shame it wasn't Nintex.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 16, 2020, 01:30:20 PM
Closest I got was signing up to Shosta's board as Joe Biden and using campaign@joebiden.com as the email.
And whoever was behind that email decided to click VERIFY and thus Shosta had this expression when he checked the IP and verification of the account :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 01:37:38 PM
More seriously why doesn't Twitter MANDATE 2FA on verified/political accounts??

Like the giant Bitcoin hack earlier this year wasn't a good enough scare?

Imagine if this Dutch researcher got a little too "direct" and tweeted "I'm nuking China today!"

GODDAMN WHAT A SHITTY REALITY WE'RE IN FUCK
The password was maga2020!

I bet the 2FA was short lived after he had to meltdown over the election results and he turned it off.
His new password is probably voterfraud!

I'm afraid to try it tbh  :doge

Quote
Earlier this year, Mr Gevers also claimed he and other security researchers had logged in to Mr Trump's Twitter account in 2016 using a password - "yourefired" - linked to another of his social-network accounts in a previous data breach.

:notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 01:38:55 PM
Closest I got was signing up to Shosta's board as Joe Biden and using campaign@joebiden.com as the email.
And whoever was behind that email decided to click VERIFY and thus Shosta had this expression when he checked the IP and verification of the account :titus

...OK the DNC are almost as incompetent. Jesus Christ. Did everyone forget what the fuck phishing attacks are?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 16, 2020, 01:55:36 PM
There was another recent incident where the Dutch defense minister posted a picture of her laptop while zoomin with basically the entire European NATO command.
And a journo typed in the URL and guessed the final password character that was obscured and suddenly found himself in the middle of a classified briefing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjMalZOyps

There's of course also the stories about how journalists would be dining somewhere and a random Trump administration official or just a friend would approach them to say the President wanted to speak with them and they got handed a phone with Trump on the line to comment about something they had written.
And for a whlie you could also simply dial Kushner on Airforce One who would pass his phone to Trump in case you wanted to speak with him.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 16, 2020, 02:21:56 PM
So this ad airing on local TV for a runoff election in Texas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YaHCPGwEk

The ad is for a salon owner who defied state lockdown laws to open her salon, made a ton of money from GoFundMe, and became a conservative hero. Apparently she's also totally insane.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 16, 2020, 03:07:29 PM
So this ad airing on local TV for a runoff election in Texas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YaHCPGwEk

The lady is for is a salon owner who defied state lockdown laws to open her salon, made a ton of money from GoFundMe, and became a conservative hero. Apparently she's also totally insane.

What the goddamn fuck is wrong with people?

Specifically, Texans.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 16, 2020, 07:06:03 PM
Registered as a Republican in my new state so I can caucus for Mike Lindell in 2024.

 :win
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 16, 2020, 10:21:37 PM
https://twitter.com/codemonkeyz/status/1339359702694592514

 :snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 17, 2020, 06:37:38 PM
‘Everything’s great’: GOP ditches election post-mortems (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/gop-ditches-election-postmortem-447091)

Quote
Mitt Romney lost by 5 million votes in 2012 and sparked a 100-page RNC autopsy report. Donald Trump lost by 7 million and there isn’t a peep.

Quote
It hardly matters that Trump couldn’t beat Biden in the Rust Belt. Or that Trump ceded the longtime Republican strongholds of Georgia and Arizona to Democrats and, in defeat, became the first incumbent president since 1992 to fail to win a second term.

Six weeks after the election, Republicans are beginning to chart a multi-state effort to undo mail ballot expansions that disadvantaged the party in November. But that’s a mechanical concern. As it prepares for the midterm elections and 2024, the direction of the party is set.

“As far as I’m concerned, everything’s great,” said Stanley Grot, a district-level Republican Party chair in Michigan, a state Trump won four years ago but lost to Biden in November.

This all said, never count the Democrats out when it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 18, 2020, 06:11:21 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epi2qeIXIAEXbk8?format=jpg)

The war is over everyone!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 18, 2020, 06:12:40 PM
https://twitter.com/tylersunderland/status/1339706414118400001
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 18, 2020, 06:13:39 PM
https://twitter.com/tylersunderland/status/1339706414118400001

"In Night City either you make the deal or you die trying"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 18, 2020, 08:04:50 PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054052894326785
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 18, 2020, 08:30:47 PM
To think that this all happened because Trump was doing a speech for the military high as a kite(?) and he went off script and floated the idea of creating "SPACE FORCE" out of fucking nowhere.
And then months of people writing: "You can't just make a Space Force. We already have Space Command" and the administration scrambling to make it look like this was actually their plan all along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lrJhatw3K4

And now there is a Space Force :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 18, 2020, 09:12:20 PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1340054057357074432

semper supra  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: El Babua on December 18, 2020, 09:24:42 PM
Did they just move all the biggest nerds (of which there are many) on the air force into this?

Nudemac, confirm/deny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 18, 2020, 11:35:17 PM
If Congress doesn't pass COVID relief by Christmas, every vote for the rest of my life will be against whoever is currently (as of today) in office. I am entering full-on burn-it-down mode and I don't care. Enough is enough.

Sorry Markey.

Sorry Warren.

If you can't do this, the system doesn't work. It would be time for an entirely new blood transfusion. Throw everything out and start over.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 19, 2020, 12:40:58 AM
Sorry, a Democrat won so deficits matter again.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 19, 2020, 02:16:29 AM
If Congress doesn't pass COVID relief by Christmas, every vote for the rest of my life will be against whoever is currently (as of today) in office. I am entering full-on burn-it-down mode and I don't care. Enough is enough.

Sorry Markey.

Sorry Warren.

If you can't do this, the system doesn't work. It would be time for an entirely new blood transfusion. Throw everything out and start over.

I only vote for outsiders who will change the system.

Especially businessmen.

Especially especially real estate tycoons
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 19, 2020, 05:54:25 AM
Throw everything out and start over.
We gotta drain the swamp!  :american

Is the swamp drained?  :gladbron

:trumps
"Who knew draining the swamp could be so difficult"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 19, 2020, 07:36:07 AM
#VoteBothOut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 19, 2020, 11:20:42 AM
"Fight for Trump!" is trending. ::)

https://twitter.com/MSVD11/status/1340320832011169792

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 19, 2020, 12:59:28 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340306154031857665 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340306154031857665)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340185773220515840 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340185773220515840)

Will be wild  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 19, 2020, 01:16:51 PM
People are going to fucking die.

And probably not a small amount.

He is leading an outright insurrection. I cannot believe the people in his orbit are still going along with this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 19, 2020, 02:01:22 PM
The deep state got to Lou Dobbs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1340093301731504130
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 19, 2020, 02:04:06 PM
In recent days Trump has been meeting with Rudy, Flynn, Powell and key players in his administration.
Rudy floats an idea like seizing voting machines and is then told the DOJ can't do it because there are laws.
Powell calls them quitters so Trump proposed having Powell chair a special council for election fraud.

Everyone panics, including Rudy because that is the worst idea ever and Trump has a meltdown on Twitter because no one likes his idea.
(Barr apparently quit because he didn't go along with this  :lol )

- Powell wants to investigate her crackpot theory about Dominion
- Rudy mostly wants attention and money so the longer this case exists the better for him
- Flynn wants to sell hats, books and get back into the grifting game again considering Trump pardoned him for past crimes and any future crimes he also wants a military coup
- Trump's a sore loser who is down 52-0 on clumsy attempts to overturn the election and knows he has lost but made millions in fund raising to #stopthesteal
so he will drag this out as long as possible to deny Republican challengers a chance to primary him and to pay off his debts

Republicans are kinda forced to make a move soon because Trump's Georgia PAC is raking in the money but none has been spend on the Georgia races yet  :doge

There's now also an explanation of why the campaign was so short on cash. Apparently Kushner laundered $617 million to the family through a shell company.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1340138050693816320 (https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1340138050693816320)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 19, 2020, 04:27:46 PM
^lol

Quote
According to the person familiar with Friday’s meeting, the animated gathering featured yelling and screaming, with the lawyers often accusing each other of failing to sufficiently support the president's efforts. Flynn and Powell both said they needed the Trump administration to do more to support their efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden's win. Giuliani and Powell also turned their ire on each other. The source said National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, a successor to Flynn, participated by phone.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/19/sidney-powell-trump-special-counsel-448694
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 19, 2020, 05:15:35 PM
Powell getting her own special council is something I didn’t know I wanted. Please let it happen.

And in other news...
https://mobile.twitter.com/persily/status/1340305930513084418
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 19, 2020, 05:59:02 PM
https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1340367112892760069

 :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 19, 2020, 06:38:45 PM
I did an oopsie woopsie supporting a human rights violation of an innocent man  :teehee

Mr. Trump please Pardon Mr. Assange so we get our rubles from vladdy putty  :stahp

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 20, 2020, 10:08:20 AM
If Congress doesn't pass COVID relief by Christmas, every vote for the rest of my life will be against whoever is currently (as of today) in office. I am entering full-on burn-it-down mode and I don't care. Enough is enough.

Sorry Markey.

Sorry Warren.

If you can't do this, the system doesn't work. It would be time for an entirely new blood transfusion. Throw everything out and start over.

Quote
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) reached an agreement late Saturday night on language to curtail the Federal Reserve's special lending authorities, setting the stage for passage of a coronavirus relief deal and omnibus spending package as early as Sunday.

That will be two days too late.

(https://i.imgur.com/kDbTJNk.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Trent Dole on December 20, 2020, 11:50:19 AM
Today is Sunday the 20th, Christmas hasn't happened yet.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 20, 2020, 01:28:26 PM
More like 6 months too late  :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 20, 2020, 04:36:33 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eppe3ykUUAADC12.jpg)  :klob

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eppe4XhVgAA3z5O.jpg)  :karen

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 20, 2020, 04:45:05 PM
A LIKELY story.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 20, 2020, 08:39:35 PM
600 in free money?

Your boy is about to stimulate the fuck out of a nice Caribbean island
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Lonewulfeus on December 20, 2020, 09:36:25 PM
She’s more likely to get stoned BY amy klobuchar  :snob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 21, 2020, 01:18:41 PM
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1341078170754310144 (https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1341078170754310144)

"How do we upload this PDF Alex" :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 21, 2020, 01:31:01 PM
When your bills are so chaotic it corrupts the digital file.  There should be a Warhammer 2K setting based on the current US.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 21, 2020, 01:40:51 PM
harkens back to "series of tubes"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 21, 2020, 01:43:45 PM
If they miss my arbitrary Christmas deadline because of a corrupt PDF, my ultimatum will still take effect. Don't care.

Sort your shit out or have it sorted out for you, bitches.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 21, 2020, 04:04:21 PM
$600 in exchange for getting 10 years in prison for illegal streaming  :win

https://mobile.twitter.com/THR/status/1341106003581030404

Also, for filler
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://mobile.twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1341121311578476544
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 21, 2020, 04:40:20 PM
Also business dinners are now tax deductible again

the more you eat at Trump grill
the lower your corporate tax bill 
:trumps

You gotta flush 5 maybe 15 times tho

Guess those Mar A Lago VIP memberships have a great ROI after all :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 21, 2020, 05:04:05 PM
:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 21, 2020, 05:12:53 PM
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1341078245878472706


now what we meant to say was...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 21, 2020, 05:22:09 PM
Smartmatic and Dominion are communist fronts bankrolled by the Chicoms and controlled by the ghost of Hugo Chavez in an effort to create safe passage for Chinese troops from Canada to Maine so Joe Biden can finally complete the communist take-over of the United States.*

I would like to clarify that this claim may be disputed
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 21, 2020, 05:23:32 PM
Promises made. Promises kept.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AricToler/status/1341115513913667584
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 21, 2020, 05:40:11 PM
waccy tabaccy  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 21, 2020, 05:52:59 PM
$600 in exchange for getting 10 years in prison for illegal streaming  :win

https://mobile.twitter.com/THR/status/1341106003581030404

Also, for filler
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://mobile.twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1341121311578476544
[close]

https://deadline.com/2020/12/studios-poised-for-legislative-win-with-inclusion-of-provisions-for-felony-streaming-penalties-in-year-end-funding-package-1234660176/

Annoyed this article is conflating the horrendous SOPA with such piss-weak legislation inclusions, but anyways...

Quote
The provisions in the legislation include:

Felony streaming. Establishes criminal penalties, including prison time, for those who “willfully, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or provide to the public a digital transmission service” that offers unauthorized movies and TV shows. Penalties include fines and sentences of up to three years, or five years if the offense involved one or more titles, and “the person knew or should have 7 known that the work was being prepared for 8 commercial public performance.”

CASE Act. Creates a small claims court for copyright holders to pursue . Participation, however, will be voluntary, and any of the parties can object and pursue cases in federal district court. The cases would be heard by a Copyright Claims Board established through the Copyright Office, and, in general, any damages awards would not exceed $15,000. Parties who pursue more than one claim in a proceeding would not be able to recover more than $30,000. Parties also would in most cases bear their own costs.

Trademark modernization. Third parties would be able to submit evidence during the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s consideration of trademarks. It also would try to curb fraudulent foreign trademark filings.

The trademark one actually seems good.

Small claims addition is kinda like "Lol, why would anyone do this?"

Not a fan of making streaming a felony but it doesn't past muster to get really upset over, personally.

None of these should have been attached to a COVID relief bill, it must be said.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 21, 2020, 05:55:30 PM
https://twitter.com/Adamrothod/status/1341142386852786178

https://twitter.com/KlayClub/status/1341147800852078592
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 21, 2020, 06:07:15 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1340855779302248450


build back better :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 21, 2020, 06:13:38 PM
Damn that first tweet was deleted. :lol It was a Star Wars fansite saying "stealers" should be punished or something. :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 21, 2020, 06:29:41 PM
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1341150202388914176 (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1341150202388914176)

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 21, 2020, 08:37:02 PM
The sudden realization that the president can spout bullshit but you are not the president.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 05:16:57 AM
Maybe the real President was the symbol of the memes, conspiracies and urban legends we made up along the way  :trumps


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpwzBpdW4AAQCBv?format=jpg)

Yup that'll do pig, that'll do
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: FStop7 on December 22, 2020, 11:13:04 AM
https://twitter.com/nickmiroff/status/1341354272181501952


Fuck them kids

I posted like 2 years ago that the concentration camps weren’t going away, even if Trump loses.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 11:37:02 AM
Biden reneging on campaign promises who could see this coming

Meanwhile I remember travel restrictions being like a day 1/2 Trump thing.

Fuck the Democrats. :snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 11:52:23 AM
https://twitter.com/nickmiroff/status/1341354272181501952


Fuck them kids

I posted like 2 years ago that the concentration camps weren’t going away, even if Trump loses.
That's a very unflattering picture and headline.

The press is already in search of 'scandals' as they know their viewership and subscriptions will drop 90% after the clown show is replaced by bureaucrats doing their job behind closed doors and a weekly press briefing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 12:28:55 PM
"Thank you for meeting with us Mr. Wolf"

"No problem"

"So, can you hand us the documents of what the Department of Homeland Security has been up to for the past 4 years and especially with regards to the migration crisis?
Strangely there was nothing on the harddrive we received except for Solitaire high scores and a bunch of links to Pornhub favorites that were lost in the recent purge.
We think there may have been a mix-up so we're investigating the delivery service who was responsible for getting this device to our transition team."

"Oh but that does sound like the contents of our harddrive all right, It was very difficult to find all of our other records but you insisted"

*hands over a piece of crumbled paper with sharpie notes and a folder with a copy of Sicario, Mar A Lago credit card bills and pictures of walls in various states of completion*

"Wait.... is this everything? it just says "BUILD WALL!" and something about Bad Hombres I can't quite make out? where's information about the policy and decision making process?"

"I dunno, just follow @realDonaldTrump and keep doom scrolling like we did for the past 4 years"

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 01:55:14 PM
https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1341406581901189120

Just kill the entire account. POTUS should not be on fucking Twitter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 02:11:48 PM
:ego "So uh, do you guys want to keep our Tweets. We spit some fire these past 4 years"

:wut "Yeah, that's one way to put it Dan"

:biden "Delete it all Jack"

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 02:28:43 PM
Wonder what their reasoning is for purging followers, unlike when it changed hands last time?

My only guess is some Trump lawsuit being threatened or something.

I actually don't think it's necessarily a dumb move. The opposite is a disaster waiting to happen.

Yeah shove the "fake President" constantly into Trump's most ardent followers' feeds. I'm sure that won't increase hostility on the platform.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 22, 2020, 02:36:28 PM
Ya this seems like a necessary move
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 22, 2020, 04:13:45 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/423780333687808001


 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 04:17:05 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/423780333687808001


 :trumps

:hmm Not sure who's more senile anymore, Trump or Biden.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 07:07:48 PM
Filler, come get your boy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sues-walmart-alleging-role-in-fueling-opioid-crisis-11608661856

Quote
The Trump administration sued Walmart Inc. Tuesday, accusing the retail giant of helping to fuel the nation’s opioid crisis by inadequately screening for questionable prescriptions despite repeated warnings from its own pharmacists.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 22, 2020, 07:15:07 PM
fuck walmart  :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 07:23:48 PM
Quote
On a conference call to discuss Walmart's strong third-quarter results, McMillon ended his opening remarks by saying, "Congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden." He continued: "We look forward to working with the administration and both houses of Congress to move the country forward."

Good luck Doug :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2020, 07:37:34 PM
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1341540611673997312 (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1341540611673997312)

:trumps

The Zodiac killer next?

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1341540295645810688 (https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1341540295645810688)

- Trump lists all the all other stuff in the bill like support for the Egyptian military
- $600 is not enough, he wants $2000
- 2 years for tax deductible dining at restaurants is not enough and must be indefinite :lol

He's not signing this until he gets a more suitable bill without wasteful spending. Otherwise the next administration will have to deliver COVID relief which could possibly be him  :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 22, 2020, 08:42:05 PM
MAKE AMERICA GIVE ME MONEY AGAIN  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 08:44:22 PM
Tick tock, Congress.

(https://i.imgur.com/hxLVEtI.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on December 22, 2020, 08:54:22 PM
$2k/person would do this breeder well :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 22, 2020, 09:09:44 PM
https://twitter.com/Rob_Flaherty/status/1341406581901189120
collusion!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 22, 2020, 09:28:02 PM
For 2k i could do an Asia trip

DO IT TRUMP
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: nudemacusers on December 22, 2020, 09:37:15 PM
$2k of asian massages :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 22, 2020, 10:21:49 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1341572295769415682


 :bow :bow :bow :trumps :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2020, 10:38:31 PM
OK I have to see this circus play out. :lol

How GOP gonna spin this :neogaf

"Bububut the deficit!!!" :sabu

Seems clear to me the attack ads for this could easily murder the reelection hopes of anyone who doesn't vote for it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 23, 2020, 12:02:09 AM
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/21/why-i-will-not-accept-joe-biden-as-president/
Quote
So, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment.

When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?

The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming impossible to avoid or conceal. The family of the Democrat nominee for president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our greatest adversary. It was a blatant payoff, and most Americans who voted for Mr. Biden never heard of it — or were told before the election it was Russian disinformation. Once they did hear of it, 17% said they would have switched their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center. That’s the entire election. The censorship worked exactly as intended.

Typically, newspapers and media outlets band together when press freedom is threatened by censorship. Where was the sanctimonious “democracy dies in darkness?” Tragically, The Washington Post is now part of the darkness.

But this is just a start. When Twitter censors four of five Rush Limbaugh tweets in one day, I fear for the country.

When these monolithic Internet giants censor the president of the United States, I fear for the country.

When I see elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerburg are able to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in specifically Democratic districts — without any regard to election spending laws or good governance standards — I fear for the country.

When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never irritating China — and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our country.

When I watch story after story about election fraud being spiked — without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity — I know something is sick.
Quote
The entire elite liberal media lied about the timeline of the COVID-19 vaccine. They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed. In multiple debates, the moderators outright stated that he was lying about the U.S. having a vaccine before the end of the year (note Vice President Mike Pence received it this week). If Americans had known the pandemic was almost over, that too was likely the difference in the election.

The unanimously never-Trump debate commission spiked the second debate at a critical time in order to hurt President Trump. If there had been one more debate like the final one, it likely would have been pivotal.

This is just the beginning. But any one of those things alone is enough for Trump supporters to think we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment — which is likely to only get more corrupt and aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.

For more than four years, the entire establishment mobilized against the elected president of the United States as though they were an immune system trying to kill a virus. Now, they are telling us we are undermining democracy.

You have more than 74 million voters who supported President Trump despite everything — and given the election mess, the number could easily be significantly higher. The truth is tens of millions of Americans are deeply alienated and angry.

If Mr. Biden governs from the left — and he will almost certainly be forced to — that number will grow rapidly, and we will win a massive election in 2022.

Given this environment, I have no interest in legitimizing the father of a son who Chinese Communist Party members boast about buying. Nor do I have any interest in pretending that the current result is legitimate or honorable. It is simply the final stroke of a four-year establishment-media power grab. It has been perpetrated by people who have broken the law, cheated the country of information, and smeared those of us who believe in America over China, history over revisionism, and the liberal ideal of free expression over cancel culture.

I write this in genuine sorrow, because I think we are headed toward a serious, bitter struggle in America. This extraordinary, coordinated four-year power grab threatens the fabric of our country and the freedom of every American.

 To read, hear and watch commentary by Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, visit Gingrich360.com.
:usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 23, 2020, 01:30:03 AM
Alexander Hamilton ain't shit. I'm glad Aaron Burr killed his bitch ass in Minecraft.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 23, 2020, 03:58:58 AM
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1341587611283054592

 :klob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 23, 2020, 05:42:09 AM
You: The avengers was the biggest cross-over event of all time

Trump:

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1341592084810182657 (https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1341592084810182657)

https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1341600903665754115 (https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1341600903665754115)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: MMaRsu on December 23, 2020, 07:11:52 AM
https://youtu.be/ODNkDrXlsFE
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 23, 2020, 09:33:59 AM
Holy shit, imagine being nancy pelosi and saying "i agree with trump" this late in the game.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 23, 2020, 12:26:23 PM
It's a Xmas Miracle (https://i.imgur.com/bChdKhj.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 23, 2020, 12:59:35 PM
Hopefully Trump's attention whoring actually gets people $2000 instead of just blowing everything up.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 23, 2020, 01:20:52 PM
Hopefully Trump's attention whoring actually gets people $2000 instead of just blowing everything up.

They can override the veto but the earliest would be the 28th/29th.

TICK TOCK
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 23, 2020, 02:28:19 PM
GIMME MY $2K NANCY
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 23, 2020, 04:06:55 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1341851789415616514
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 23, 2020, 05:58:14 PM
lol this is 3rd grade theater
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 23, 2020, 06:28:57 PM
lol this is 3rd grade theater

It's Twitter, of course it is.

It would be great for democracy and political stability if Twitter died tomorrow, but I doubt we will ever be so lucky.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 23, 2020, 06:32:23 PM
lol this is 3rd grade theater

It's Twitter, of course it is.

It would be great for democracy and political stability if Twitter died tomorrow, but I doubt we will ever be so lucky.

I agree, but all of it is. The $2,000, the $600, the inevitable failure of both of it to pass anytime soon to give relief to struggling people. It's all gamesmanship.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on December 23, 2020, 06:57:16 PM
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1341892622164647937

 :wag
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 23, 2020, 07:01:26 PM
Unfortunately Trump vetoed the defense bill fucking over military pay so it looks like he will be cROsSing thE rUBIcon all on his lonesome.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 23, 2020, 07:16:41 PM
The Democrats are having the exact same sort of glee they had when Trump became the candidate and wrecked the GOP during the primaries.
I'm not sure they're going to like the candidates he fields in 2022 to primary what he calls "Mitch's boys".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: shosta on December 23, 2020, 07:19:44 PM
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1341892622164647937

 :wag
iacta alea est :buster
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 23, 2020, 07:34:03 PM
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1341901806771777539 (https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1341901806771777539)

He freed Paul  :rejoice

Next up O.J. and the Zodiac Killer

https://twitter.com/PaulManafort/status/1341904428073439232 (https://twitter.com/PaulManafort/status/1341904428073439232)
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Post by: team filler on December 23, 2020, 09:17:55 PM
lol this is 3rd grade theater

It's Twitter, of course it is.

It would be great for democracy and political stability if Twitter died tomorrow, but I doubt we will ever be so lucky.

I agree, but all of it is. The $2,000, the $600, the inevitable failure of both of it to pass anytime soon to give relief to struggling people. It's all gamesmanship.
https://twitter.com/WhyTryJustDo/status/1341857560840855552

 ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 24, 2020, 09:28:04 AM
https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1341908244588072962 (https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1341908244588072962)

Back to normal  :heart
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 24, 2020, 10:15:04 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/24/house-stimulus-checks-trump/

Prepare for the wrath of Tasty, foolish reps
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Post by: Tasty on December 24, 2020, 10:20:18 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/3ihKp14.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 24, 2020, 10:22:21 AM
I'm so fucking fed up with EVERYONE.

My family is fucking suffering. Jesus fucking CHRIST
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 24, 2020, 10:29:24 AM
🫂
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 24, 2020, 12:44:59 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/24/house-stimulus-checks-trump/

Prepare for the wrath of Tasty, foolish reps

Quote
The political jostling, with no unclear path forward, shows how Trump’s surprise refusal to sign the bill into law has created a sudden political and economic crisis in Washington.
The efforts to have Trump sign this will be as succesful as the efforts to letting him concede.

Surprise? Really?
 :idont
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 24, 2020, 12:56:51 PM
The fact that the united states greatest political pundit is a dutch shitposter on a tiny spin off from a video game forum is the most 2020 america shit ever :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 24, 2020, 02:15:13 PM
https://twitter.com/business/status/1342113517168697344

https://twitter.com/BGOV/status/1342115095321731072

https://twitter.com/Doughboy9047/status/1342144677894610944

 :trumps
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Post by: Nintex on December 24, 2020, 02:55:27 PM
Quote
A surprise scuffle over pandemic relief

 :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 24, 2020, 04:22:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVKzpLjB-xc


 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 24, 2020, 05:55:37 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqB2FxCW4AEnPES?format=png&name=900x900)

 :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 26, 2020, 01:02:15 AM
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/21/why-i-will-not-accept-joe-biden-as-president/
Quote
So, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment.

When Twitter and Facebook censored the oldest and fourth largest newspaper (founded by Alexander Hamilton) because it accurately reported news that could hurt Mr. Biden’s chances — where were The New York Times and The Washington Post?

The truth of the Hunter Biden story is now becoming impossible to avoid or conceal. The family of the Democrat nominee for president received at least $5 million from an entity controlled by our greatest adversary. It was a blatant payoff, and most Americans who voted for Mr. Biden never heard of it — or were told before the election it was Russian disinformation. Once they did hear of it, 17% said they would have switched their votes, according to a poll by the Media Research Center. That’s the entire election. The censorship worked exactly as intended.

Typically, newspapers and media outlets band together when press freedom is threatened by censorship. Where was the sanctimonious “democracy dies in darkness?” Tragically, The Washington Post is now part of the darkness.

But this is just a start. When Twitter censors four of five Rush Limbaugh tweets in one day, I fear for the country.

When these monolithic Internet giants censor the president of the United States, I fear for the country.

When I see elite billionaires like Mark Zuckerburg are able to spend $400 million to hire city governments to maximize turnout in specifically Democratic districts — without any regard to election spending laws or good governance standards — I fear for the country.

When I read that Apple has a firm rule of never irritating China — and I watch the NBA kowtow to Beijing, I fear for our country.

When I watch story after story about election fraud being spiked — without even the appearance of journalistic due diligence or curiosity — I know something is sick.
Quote
The entire elite liberal media lied about the timeline of the COVID-19 vaccine. They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed. In multiple debates, the moderators outright stated that he was lying about the U.S. having a vaccine before the end of the year (note Vice President Mike Pence received it this week). If Americans had known the pandemic was almost over, that too was likely the difference in the election.

The unanimously never-Trump debate commission spiked the second debate at a critical time in order to hurt President Trump. If there had been one more debate like the final one, it likely would have been pivotal.

This is just the beginning. But any one of those things alone is enough for Trump supporters to think we have been robbed by a ruthless establishment — which is likely to only get more corrupt and aggressive if it gets away with these blatant acts.

For more than four years, the entire establishment mobilized against the elected president of the United States as though they were an immune system trying to kill a virus. Now, they are telling us we are undermining democracy.

You have more than 74 million voters who supported President Trump despite everything — and given the election mess, the number could easily be significantly higher. The truth is tens of millions of Americans are deeply alienated and angry.

If Mr. Biden governs from the left — and he will almost certainly be forced to — that number will grow rapidly, and we will win a massive election in 2022.

Given this environment, I have no interest in legitimizing the father of a son who Chinese Communist Party members boast about buying. Nor do I have any interest in pretending that the current result is legitimate or honorable. It is simply the final stroke of a four-year establishment-media power grab. It has been perpetrated by people who have broken the law, cheated the country of information, and smeared those of us who believe in America over China, history over revisionism, and the liberal ideal of free expression over cancel culture.

I write this in genuine sorrow, because I think we are headed toward a serious, bitter struggle in America. This extraordinary, coordinated four-year power grab threatens the fabric of our country and the freedom of every American.

 To read, hear and watch commentary by Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, visit Gingrich360.com.
:usacry

Newt is appropriately named after a slimy animal.
JFC, "They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed."
With  all the sincerity in my heart that I can muster, go fuck yourself with a red-hot poker, Newt.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 26, 2020, 06:20:38 AM
*Let's give him the most softball patriotic question we can think of because maybe deep down inside he does care about us and the folks at home will know things are going to be ok*

"Mr. President do you feel the weight of being responsible for handling our response to this pandemic?" :uguu

"No, I don't feel responsible at all, no" :trumps


*stares at presentation slide that reads: "Bleach and cleaning products kill the virus on surfaces"*
"So uh, Dr. Birx what if we inject people with bleach would that work"

"No... I... ... that's not the way it should be administered"

"Might be worth trying though, have we tried it?"

"No and DON'T try this at home"
"I knew that wouldn't work, I just felt this very important press briefing was a good moment to tell some Kung Flu jokes our ratings for these briefings were fantastic"  :trumps

Quote
They blamed President Trump for the global pandemic even as he did literally everything top scientists instructed
:wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 26, 2020, 11:45:55 AM
Looks like 600 dollars is rapidly going to 0. RIP.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 26, 2020, 11:48:06 AM
Anyone know of any good sovereign, democratic island nations?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Rufus on December 26, 2020, 12:01:55 PM
Anyone know of any good sovereign, democratic island nations?
New Zealand comes to mind, for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 26, 2020, 02:27:18 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/parlertakes/status/1342335701023506432
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 26, 2020, 04:06:18 PM
Trump's uuhhh.... legal(?) team

https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1341637947746086912 (https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1341637947746086912)

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1342819343118327810 (https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1342819343118327810)

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1342880436897382400 (https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1342880436897382400)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 26, 2020, 10:09:56 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343027900740734976


 :drool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 27, 2020, 07:07:37 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343069190433943564 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343069190433943564)

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Post by: BIONIC on December 27, 2020, 10:13:48 AM
The election isn’t over, pal   :nothot
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 27, 2020, 10:17:13 AM
at least your'e getting and have gotten free money you ungrateful bastards :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 27, 2020, 10:45:27 AM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343027900740734976


 :drool

Doesn't he realize he probably could have won the election if this is what he proposed back in June instead of his side repeatedly refusing $2000 as being too high?
That is actually what Trump wanted. A 'clean' $1200 COVID relief bill.

He told the GOP on Twitter to go 'big' because the money would be spend in the US anyway.
But Nancy did not want to cut a deal with Trump before the elections and Democrats and Republicans each had their own demands like additional funding for testing or additional tax cuts.

Instead of a message on COVID relief and virus control the campaign went with a message of: "Everyone is tired of COVID and wants to move on" after the summer while Mnuchin negotiated a deal in the background.
They turned their attention to #fillthatseat and Jared's Middle East peace plan as well as returning peace to the streets of the US after the civil unrest and protests that had turned into riots.

By some miracle that message got him more minority votes than any other Republican in history and dashed the hopes of Democrats in Texas and Florida.
What the campaign missed was that without a strong economic message Trump would lose the suburban (mostly white) voters by such large numbers that even if he flipped more counties from blue to red than he did in 2016, he would still lose.

I think it was Frank Luntz who said Trump lost the election because of his first debate performance, when mostly white voters and donors did not get the assurance they wanted on the economy.
Some of that changed after the second debate and the final days of his campaign (especially when they highlighted the intention of the Democrats to ban fracking) but by then a lot of votes were already cast by mail.
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Post by: Nintex on December 27, 2020, 11:36:33 AM
Quote
“I would,” the president responded after being asked in a Fox Business interview if he’d raise his latest stimulus offer. “Go big or go home.”

The White House plan includes another round of $1,200 direct payments among other measures both Republicans and Democrats say is needed to prop up the economy.

Trump said he hasn’t signed onto the $2.2 trillion spending plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing for because he contended it contained numerous measures unrelated to the pandemic. “She wants money for things you could — your pride couldn’t let it happen,” he said.

“We like stimulus, we want stimulus. We think we should have stimulus,” he said, adding that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “has not come home with the bacon.”
Mitch wanted $0 (or rather a cap of $1 trillion on the bill), Democrats wanted $2000, Trump wanted $1200 as of October.
In the end Mitch and the dems made a compromise on $600 and a bunch of other items ending up at roughly $2 trillion.

With that said, it is true that Trump is partly negotiating against himself as some of the other items like funding for Israel were close to the original WH budget proposal.
Ted Lieu said that during the negotations he wasn't sure if Mnuchin had even consulted with Trump on his $600 proposal or if the plan was to bring him aboard once the deal in Congress was made.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 27, 2020, 11:59:35 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/52BQAQB.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 27, 2020, 03:41:12 PM
Update on COVID relief.

Fucking nothing.

Donald's out playing golf again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 27, 2020, 03:45:54 PM
https://twitter.com/DylanTop5/status/1343019319068864512
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 27, 2020, 08:52:11 PM
He signed it lol.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/congress-stimulus-deal-450380

All that drama was for...?

 :mindblown
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 27, 2020, 08:54:08 PM
He signed it lol.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/congress-stimulus-deal-450380

All that drama was for...?

 :mindblown

Trump saw my ultimatum and wanted to push me over the edge. :rage
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 27, 2020, 08:55:11 PM
Quote
He said he will insist on reductions in spending in parts of the bill, though Congress does not have to go along.

"I will sign the omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill," Trump said on Sunday night.

The president also said the Senate would soon begin work on ending legal protections for tech companies, examining voter fraud and boosting the check size for direct payments. The current Congress ends in six days.

lmao
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 27, 2020, 08:59:51 PM
I'm still a bit in awe he vetoed the defense bill over Twitter butthurtedness, the first time that's happened in like 60+ years.

I can't believe he delivered me such a clear, easy "LOOK HOW SHITTY TRUMP IS/WAS" to my conservative family members who are still going along with him.

"B-b-but Twitter was mean to him!"

"YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A TWITTER IS WITHOUT NEWSMAX YOU FUCK"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on December 27, 2020, 11:33:40 PM
Aruba is back on the menu boys  :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 28, 2020, 12:06:16 AM
I’m glad we got to see the art of the deal one last time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 28, 2020, 12:41:26 AM
Trumpy the 4D B E A S T  :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 28, 2020, 01:24:42 AM
https://twitter.com/Black_Action/status/1342900617606361095

 :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 28, 2020, 01:34:41 AM
Quote from: Kamala Harris
Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vprlc6Jcm74
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 28, 2020, 01:38:40 AM
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1342238530295234561

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343208665571074050

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343232103098576897
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 28, 2020, 02:19:19 AM
:society
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 28, 2020, 03:51:28 AM
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1342238530295234561

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343208665571074050

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1343232103098576897

:maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 28, 2020, 05:42:32 AM
In a shocking turn of events Trump will be the only person who will completely read the bill :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 28, 2020, 12:33:27 PM
https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1343590550960820227 (https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1343590550960820227)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 28, 2020, 05:15:17 PM
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1343193423889772544 (https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1343193423889772544)

Weird flex for a pollster
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: chronovore on December 29, 2020, 10:24:50 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-trump-pardons-may-be-forced-to-testify-2020-12

In short, if they cannot be put on trial for the crimes for which they were pardoned, they cannot plead the fifth amendment as they cannot incriminate themselves. As such they can be forced to testify against Trump.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 29, 2020, 10:33:00 AM
Shamefully, it will never get that far. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 29, 2020, 11:09:35 AM
Michael Cohen is just trying to look smart for being the only member of the Trump mob who didn't get a pardon. I doubt it works the way he says it does. The best bet is once pardoned Trump can't prevent them from writing tell all books. Especially CIA Paul who was convinced nothing he did as viceroy of Ukraine was a crime.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 29, 2020, 12:05:59 PM
How many times have people been compelled to testify by the government in the last few years and they were like, "Nah."

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 29, 2020, 12:25:29 PM
How many times have people been compelled to testify by the government in the last few years and they were like, "Nah."
John Bolton's bomb shell revelations will save the nation   :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 29, 2020, 05:41:03 PM
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1343694040722776065

 :bow :bow :bow :bernie :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :gaas :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 29, 2020, 07:00:33 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/vRntevy.jpg)

 :money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 29, 2020, 07:01:28 PM
Cocaine Mitch takes no prisoners

https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1344039995372290049 (https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1344039995372290049)

https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1344016684059938818 (https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1344016684059938818)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 29, 2020, 09:35:02 PM
This guy is truly a fucking ghoul

Leave Bernie alone.

:hmph
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 30, 2020, 12:05:07 AM
Louisiana congressman elect Luke Letlow died from COVID.

41.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on December 30, 2020, 01:59:09 AM
Dead Republicans  :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 30, 2020, 06:48:18 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/r1INBiR.jpg)

 :curious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 06:52:54 AM
Thankfully there's a place for all of them in Twitter heaven  :preach
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 07:50:29 AM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 08:03:20 AM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus

I want to die.









And take everyone who voted with me.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 30, 2020, 09:31:46 AM
Quote
Gallup has polled about the nation’s most admired man for 74 years. In 60 of those years, the incumbent president has topped the list. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Trump have been the only incumbent presidents who did not finish first in past years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 09:42:34 AM
The numbers are interesting. 18% of those polled voted for Trump. He won with Republicans and tied with Obama on independents.

Biden and Obama came in 2nd and 3rd so he mostly won because the Democrat vote was split. Michelle won in the ladies bracket with 10%.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 30, 2020, 09:42:36 AM
Unified vs scattershot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 09:50:38 AM
Oh it's literally "do you know this guy."

No duh the President is usually the most famous man at the time of their presidency...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 10:09:20 AM
Oh it's literally "do you know this guy."

No duh the President is usually the most famous man at the time of their presidency...
Nah it's admiration

And to be fair most Republican men want to be like the rich super model dating golfing partying Trump icon of the 80's and most Karens probably want to date him.

But I don't think many want to be the balding 200 lbs cable TV addict who shits himself on the golf course and probably suffered long lasting lung damage from his COVID infection.

I think this has a lot to do with Hollywood and TV relics covering up their aging too. It will be interesting to see if Trump can keep up the charade without infinite government resources and carefully staged appearances. After all he's also convinced he's not that old.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 10:12:58 AM
Quote
Nah it's admiration

Yes but if the questions are like "Do you admire the President" and "Do you admire [person most people have never heard of]", you're going to get a lot more "Yes" to the former than the latter, even if 99% of people hate his guts.

At that point it becomes "do you know this guy."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 10:15:19 AM
People should really question polls more often, they're often deliberately misleading to push an agenda and feel like a soft-science to me. Humans are generally not reliable.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 11:06:47 AM
People should really question polls more often, they're often deliberately misleading to push an agenda and feel like a soft-science to me. Humans are generally not reliable.
It's sort of hilarious that Trump is using this 1000 sample bullshit poll as a way to reclaim his presidency despite his hatred for polls in general
I expect Rudy to present this as evidence in the next election fraud case.  :lol

In other news, no pressure Mitch
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1344272069727555586 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1344272069727555586)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 12:01:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/xGtR9Vz.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 30, 2020, 12:45:42 PM
I’m $100 over the income limit for the latest stimulus check  :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 30, 2020, 05:10:49 PM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 30, 2020, 05:39:12 PM
That's the most accurate drawing of Trump Ben has made so far


In other news
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqgz01_XEBUYqta?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 30, 2020, 05:46:43 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ly9KHqS.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 30, 2020, 06:37:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ltdG8uG.jpg) :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: benjipwns on December 30, 2020, 10:38:12 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RZkGAOS.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on December 30, 2020, 10:50:56 PM
Corporate hellscape dystopia from hardcore cyberpunk stories is basically here :beetlejuice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 30, 2020, 11:23:25 PM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)

Obama won 3 out of 4 years of the Trump presidency. :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 31, 2020, 12:08:11 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/8MpM3nE.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: tiesto on December 31, 2020, 12:23:55 AM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt-x-pokemon/images/3/3a/Teddie.png/revision/latest?cb=20180704145651)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 31, 2020, 12:27:52 AM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344082038639484928)

 :titus

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/trump_most_admired-1024x784.jpg)

Obama won 3 out of 4 years of the Trump presidency. :lol

That's the hilarious part about that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: daycru on December 31, 2020, 03:12:41 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/RZkGAOS.png)
Yeah, I don’t see that minimum wage going up anytime soon  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on December 31, 2020, 03:34:01 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/RZkGAOS.png)
Yeah, I don’t see that minimum wage going up anytime soon  :lol
(https://i.imgur.com/9vGUe6D.jpg) ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on December 31, 2020, 05:16:10 AM
Promises made
Promises kept

In Donald Trumps America citizens are free and have more money to spend on OnlyFans
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 31, 2020, 10:30:31 AM
Lin Wood will get to the bottom of voting fraud and then he'll...

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1344652363861258243

...oh.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 31, 2020, 02:17:44 PM
Stuff you post when you're definitely about to prove that voter fraud is real.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 31, 2020, 04:29:53 PM
You'll have egg on your face when Elvis enters the building with the box of stolen votes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 31, 2020, 06:16:16 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZH4cQrs.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 31, 2020, 07:00:32 PM
Is he gonna rape Pepe?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on December 31, 2020, 07:44:34 PM
Weird thing to call Melania but ok, sure.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 01, 2021, 12:46:35 AM
Is he gonna rape Pepe?
(https://i.imgur.com/ABlynNX.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 01, 2021, 06:20:35 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZH4cQrs.jpg)
"What happened Pepe why didn't you vote? we were winning so much it was beautiful"

"I'm sorry Mr Trump I was hiding from the virus, chicom dragons and 5auci. Plus I thought you didn't need me anymore because you made so many new friends"

"It's Ok Pepe we'll always be friends but I guess we really are the last of us"

"We made a good team though didn't we Mr Trump"

"We sure did Pepe.... we sure did.... you.... you.... buy yourself something nice with that $600 kid and... take.... take the vaccine.... survive...."

"Thank you for everything Mr Trump"

"No thank you Pepe... and Just.... call.... me.... Donald... ..."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 01, 2021, 02:58:45 PM
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1345022611324022785

 :rollsafe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 01, 2021, 05:14:26 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PCNB19f.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on January 01, 2021, 05:24:47 PM
https://twitter.com/dwuhlfelderlaw/status/1345066634084573185

:oreilly
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 01, 2021, 06:09:13 PM
To be fair the Mar A Lago club is probably the only community in the world that has achieved herd immunity :rejoice

I noticed Rudy, how the fuck did he survive  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 01, 2021, 07:59:24 PM
How it is going

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqrHc2eW4AALfnw?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 01, 2021, 08:12:33 PM
I just can't laugh at Lin Wood, it's not fair to make fun of someone who is so clearly mentally unwell and needs help.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 01, 2021, 10:20:17 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PCNB19f.jpg)

My boss is pro-Trump, wonder if I could get away with saying that I was going to the rally and taking next week off.  :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 02, 2021, 05:50:09 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/PCNB19f.jpg)

My boss is pro-Trump, wonder if I could get away with saying that I was going to the rally and taking next week off.  :dobbs
Just tell him you are a Cyberwarrior standing back and standing by to help Flynn save the republic
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on January 02, 2021, 07:18:32 AM
*Info Warrior
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 02, 2021, 12:52:57 PM
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096 (https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096)
Quote
"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.

:dead

Although to be fair, Biden probably voted in the 1877 election
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2021, 01:02:13 PM
But we don't have "serious allegations of fraud."

We have the President whining without evidence.

Fuck the GOP and fuck sad sack Ted Cruz who probably lets Trump fuck his wife at this point, the Texan cuck loser.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 02, 2021, 01:09:35 PM
Quote
"And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are widespread. Reuters/Ipsos polling, tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe ‘the election was rigged.' That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).

Using polls of the uninformed electorate after fanning the flames unchecked for weeks via Newsmax and Fox News. Jesus Christ this is literally how democracy dies. Brainwash enough people and you have the cover to pull any kind of unconstitutional, unfounded shit you want.

I just hope that 'crats are paying attention. :trumps Fight mud with mud at this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 02, 2021, 01:37:17 PM
Election Fraud  ???

no evidence of voter fraud
Everyone parties with gangsters from Ukraine
(https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Parnas-Collage-Social-Media-Card-Size.jpg)

Makes peace deals on a whim
(https://cdnuploads.aa.com.tr/uploads/Contents/2020/05/04/thumbs_b_c_e72bb29a6e261a0a1f9e20f2294b4e7d.jpg?v=181556)

Calls Rudy when they find a laptop with private information
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/10/20/PWIL/bcd1b211-eea0-4d69-ae89-9d6d86001763-Isaac.jpeg?width=660&height=495&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)

Tries to run buses of the road
(https://dfw.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909545/2020/10/pro-trump-convoy-Biden-Harris-bus.jpg?w=829)

Trashes the postal service
(https://quincy-network.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/08/5f37c75e595d1.image_.jpg)

Organizes protests to both count the vote and stop counting the vote
(https://s.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/prod/2020-11/05/5fa43100f1b75b1406b15a38/5fa43100f1b75b1406b15a39_o_U_v2.jpg)

Declare victory once you are in the lead
(https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/oB-PJgwuq_7GVYEIbu_I9rSfe6g=/1440x0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/4GN5CBLIRY7K4HQCMYC3ZAWHFE.jpg)

Claim random states for the purpose of the electoral college
(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/750x445/1356290.jpg)
[close]

I don't know why those 17% of Democrats could possibly think this election was rigged.
Florida was done counting in 5 minutes. If only they had counted the votes and stopped counting the votes Trump would've won with 400+ electoral votes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 02, 2021, 03:06:36 PM
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096 (https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1345422940725252096)
Quote
"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.

:dead

Although to be fair, Biden probably voted in the 1877 election
(https://i.imgur.com/tWooMEc.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 02, 2021, 03:24:39 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1345226531199733761


 :sicko
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 02, 2021, 03:25:55 PM
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 03, 2021, 11:45:40 AM
https://www.cp24.com/news/this-is-unfortunate-inside-elections-canada-after-trump-s-tweet-on-voting-machines-1.5251732
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 03, 2021, 01:26:52 PM
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1345735657629560832 (https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1345735657629560832)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: T-Short on January 03, 2021, 03:18:19 PM
lol. lamest codec convo ever

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1345796238722129923
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: james on January 03, 2021, 03:23:22 PM
How do i get invited to a republican fundraiser between now and the next 4 days
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 03, 2021, 03:45:18 PM
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1345799852576399361 (https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1345799852576399361)


Apparently there's a full hour tape coming with this shit :dead

 :lol


lmao Meadows, Pompeo(?) were on the line also

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trumps-full-jan-2-call-with-ga-secretary-of-state/2021/01/03/3f9426f4-7937-4718-8a8e-9d6052001991_video.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trumps-full-jan-2-call-with-ga-secretary-of-state/2021/01/03/3f9426f4-7937-4718-8a8e-9d6052001991_video.html)

"I'm sure that if you go back you find a large number of signatures, people that have been forged"  :dead

"We couldn't have possibly lost we had so many people at the rallies" :dead

"In one state we have a tremendous number of dead people"

"A known political operative balloteer"  :lol

:bow "They did it in slow motion replay magnified" :bow2

https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1345753643593687040 (https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1345753643593687040)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on January 03, 2021, 05:24:26 PM
I wonder how the calls to the other states went.

Also, conservative talking points are currently to say that Trump knew they were being recorded. Because he was trying to... expose them... or something?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 03, 2021, 05:33:34 PM
Yeah their talking point is that Trump tried to protect this guy from 'evidence' that is coming out 'soon'.

Highlight from the call was the moment when Trump took a dump on Georgia not believing people would want to return there after leaving :dead
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1345859196487667713 (https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1345859196487667713)

I mean, throughout this whole thing I've always wondered when Mitch would call Pence to get to the Oval, sign a pardon and take away the keys.
But it seems like some Republicans would rather stay in the car as it drops off the cliff.

And at this point that doesn't make any sense.
Especially because Trump doesn't want to stay President because he has some 'important' work to finish. He just can't accept that Biden beat him in the election.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2021, 05:50:57 PM
Here's why we know the country is fucked.

If you listen to the tapes, what he's trying to do is obvious and undeniable.

If you don't listen to the tapes and instead listen to Trump, it seems reasonable.

Guess what path a significant portion of the country is going to do?

It takes less than five minutes to listen to what WaPo has released so far in full.

Five minutes.

Or just go along with Trump.

Five minutes to make up your own mind.

Or choose to listen to a known grifter.

I wonder what people will choose to do. :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on January 03, 2021, 07:11:22 PM
They released the hour long recording and it's more of the same, just worse. People still just say Fake News and click another link.

"This isn't social media, it's Trump Media."

Not wrong.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 03, 2021, 07:22:45 PM
Cool, we're at the point in this country where it's fine to overturn the election because one guy got his feelings hurt. Just burn the whole political system down, we're clearly past the point of this whole mess being saved.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 03, 2021, 07:28:22 PM
This is their defense

https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1345868685605543940 (https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1345868685605543940)

:dead

Wank Dad Twitter is surprisingly quiet. Not even Scott Adams is chiming in with a 4D chess take (yet).
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on January 03, 2021, 08:08:53 PM
"And because of this, I should be president."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on January 04, 2021, 02:07:16 AM
https://twitter.com/SamBraslow/status/1345935219170312193
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on January 04, 2021, 06:10:11 AM
Britain just denied Assange's extradition

Biden dodged a bullet
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 04, 2021, 06:22:36 AM
eat shit CIA

:piss :whew :piss2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Cryo on January 04, 2021, 11:41:33 AM
2020 has broken me so badly that I feel the story about trump & the Georgia Secretary of State is political theater to cover their butts when, legally or illegally, the two senate seats are won by republicans.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 12:09:08 PM
2020 has broken me so badly that I feel the story about trump & the Georgia Secretary of State is political theater to cover their butts when, legally or illegally, the two senate seats are won by republicans.
It seems to me that the few sane people left in the White House try to channel Trump's anger and conspiracies by arranging these phone calls for him so he can rant and rave and they can 'circle back', 'compare data', 'look at it' without actually doing anything.
On the 1 hour call it was just Trump ranting for 45 minutes and Brad rebuking him and in the end Meadows chimed in with some 'circle back - compare data' nonsense.

Brad said they had already done all that and didn't want to play along but then Meadows repeated the exact same thing again (with different words) and Brad got the message this was their way out of the call and agreed to do basically nothing.
And then Trump said something like "This all needs to go faster, we can't keep wasting time like this Mark". Pointing at the fact that Meadows has tried to make other such arrangements in the past.

Anyhow, Trump was not used to being told the truth, that much was clear. He said to Brad: 5000 dead people voted and Brad said: "That was actually 2"... and then Trump immediatly grilled his aides: "Only 2? Is that true?" ... "Well our data sample is incomplete so if Brad can circle back with the complete data set than we compare the numbers blah blah"  :lol

In any case, Trump seems to have entered the bargaining phase and his aides are stalling for time.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: jorma on January 04, 2021, 12:23:03 PM
https://twitter.com/SamBraslow/status/1345935219170312193

mall official: back in the 40's? we'd probably just shoot them to be honest  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 12:29:36 PM
January 6th will be a coup of Karens  :rejoice



Send in the National Guard Jack, shoot em in the legs :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 04, 2021, 12:37:46 PM
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/3/22151208/nyc-is-home-to-more-than-111000-homeless-students-new-data-shows#:%7E:text=About%20one%20in%2010%20New,state%20data%20released%20Thursday%20morning
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 01:00:42 PM
https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1346154257620357121 (https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1346154257620357121)

How dare you record the not crimes of an innocent man :bolo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 04, 2021, 01:24:44 PM
It’s called being a man Nintex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1345885052350164992
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2021, 01:30:31 PM
It’s called being a man Nintex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1345885052350164992

So predictable Trump going full mob boss has elicited the typical "tough" "guy" response from his usual defenders and proxies
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 01:39:11 PM
Trump's doing a rally tonight in Georgia?

Those Republican flunkies are completely fucked   :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2021, 01:45:06 PM
https://twitter.com/PoeGirlJewelry/status/1345899309464772611

Aaaaaaany day now. Trump holding back all the evidence this whole time is some true 4D chess shit... if true. :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 04, 2021, 01:51:48 PM
eat shit CIA

:piss :whew :piss2

When you fail, rebrand and try again. :trumps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634521

https://www.cia.gov/index.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 01:59:01 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq5t38bXUAEOnYK?format=png&name=small)

:dead


America secure the CIA rebranded

PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 04, 2021, 02:11:07 PM
I'm probably just fully gaslit here but kind of surprised blowback from this call is gaining so much traction. That is, Trump has been openly abusing power and crimeing for 4 years now in pretty much this exact same manner. Even the GOP seem caught on their back foot when a day ago they would've gladly voted to overturn the election for this same shit head. I don't see how this call suddenly reframes that?


I guess everyone is overly impressed by a secret tape recording even when you can find him saying/posting worse shit on the regular? And I don't think it's just the evidentiary value of the tapes that had people hyped.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on January 04, 2021, 02:28:22 PM
Might be more to do with the schadenfreude aspect. This is a president who thought he might get a third term, now he's begging and raging on a phone call like some 5-stage of grief type shit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 02:41:11 PM
I'm probably just fully gaslit here but kind of surprised blowback from this call is gaining so much traction. That is, Trump has been openly abusing power and crimeing for 4 years now in pretty much this exact same manner. Even the GOP seem caught on their back foot when a day ago they would've gladly voted to overturn the election for this same shit head. I don't see how this call suddenly reframes that?


I guess everyone is overly impressed by a secret tape recording even when you can find him saying/posting worse shit on the regular? And I don't think it's just the evidentiary value of the tapes that had people hyped.
Probably has to do with the Georgia run offs. I just read that both parties combined spend ~$800 million on it making it the the most expensive run off election.
Guess that the blue team figures that if they take Georgia and Arizona off the board for the GOP the map becomes increasingly difficult for them and all the resources spend on Florida and all those local races were for nothing.

Trump losing the state either means the GOP base is fired up this time to keep it red or the Trumpers stay home because he's not on the ballot and the whole thing is rigged anyway and that's exactly what Trump's surrogates like Linn Wood have been telling those people  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 03:03:08 PM
Boom there's the evidence from Trump's man on the ground.
https://twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1346182279610183681 (https://twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1346182279610183681)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 04, 2021, 03:38:52 PM
That fraud would have never been allowed to happen if the Big Boss Man was still alive :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 04:21:44 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1346192532837859329 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1346192532837859329)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 04, 2021, 08:29:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1346143605023338497 (https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/1346143605023338497)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: zomgee on January 04, 2021, 09:24:11 PM
Ah yes the Scottish Winter White Hoose.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 05, 2021, 02:07:54 AM
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1346242771896602624

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on January 05, 2021, 02:16:24 AM
 :whatisthis :taylor
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on January 05, 2021, 02:19:04 AM
I'm glad Biden doesn't have these sorts of hangers-on that the media can't help but pay attention to. Presidential family tree about to get real simple. No more "Trump's nephew did thing"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 02:39:45 AM
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346288506281328640 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346288506281328640)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346294636139130880 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346294636139130880)
[close]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346300289704316930 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346300289704316930)

MVP :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: BIONIC on January 05, 2021, 08:37:47 AM
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1345891049584132097

:what

https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1284205235737628672

:shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 05, 2021, 09:15:07 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/A14dF2k.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/lppqYbh.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 05, 2021, 09:35:19 AM
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1346247381046722562
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 10:36:57 AM
Fake news: "Trump's not tweeting himself, he doesn't know how it works"

Special interests and 5th avenue losers will not control the message of this administration.
The President will shitpost all day every day

PROMISES MADE

PROMISES KEPT

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 01:28:51 PM
https://twitter.com/Perduesenate/status/1346490711735214082 (https://twitter.com/Perduesenate/status/1346490711735214082)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346488314157797389 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346488314157797389)

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1346502096498077697 (https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1346502096498077697)
[close]

Grassley doesn't expect Pence to show up tommorow :lol

:kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2021, 03:15:28 PM
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1284205235737628672

Spanish inquisition and the Crusades: Am I a joke to you?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 03:52:12 PM
How it is going
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1346536291442122755 (https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1346536291442122755)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 05, 2021, 04:06:18 PM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1346228104675667968


 :dolezal
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 05, 2021, 04:15:43 PM
She just reads Playboy for the articles.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 05, 2021, 04:19:20 PM
Kamala really is just like Biden.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/5/18653079/joe-biden-climate-plan-plagiarism-neil-kinnock
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 04:19:37 PM
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1346557079474106374 (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1346557079474106374)

Mike Pence will join Al Gore tommorow in the league of cucks  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Transhuman on January 05, 2021, 04:34:10 PM
I don't think she plagiarized that anecdote, she pays people to do that for her
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 05, 2021, 07:07:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JNA5LIRcTo


 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 07:47:30 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1346617085015842825 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1346617085015842825)

https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1346618393290530816 (https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1346618393290530816)

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1346618735780454400 (https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1346618735780454400)

 :trumps

This will be known as the YMCA Coup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2021, 07:49:37 PM
Quote
This will be known as the YMCA Coup

Sounds about right, this whole affair has been the gayest shit in history
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Nintex on January 05, 2021, 08:11:15 PM
Well, Trump seems to have succesfully torched the GOP in what was a near certain win for them just weeks ago.

Georgia of all places is coming down to the wire.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2021, 08:17:51 PM
At least Georgia is looking good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on January 05, 2021, 08:19:45 PM
Quote
This will be known as the YMCA Coup

Sounds about right, this whole affair has been the gayest shit in history

https://www.out.com/music/2020/9/23/village-people-will-sue-you-saying-ymca-about-gay-sex

Quote
The heterosexual frontman for the Village People wants you to know the iconic song "YMCA" is not about illicit gay sex, warning he’s going to sue anyone who suggests otherwise. Victor Willis, better known as the sexy cop with one heck of a nightstick, laid down the law about the meaning of the lyrics he wrote, and he’s claiming it had nothing to do with hot guys hooking up at the local Young Men’s Christian Association.

“I will sue the next media organization, or anyone else, that falsely suggests Y.M.C.A. is somehow about illicit gay sex,” Willis warned via Facebook, later adding “Get your mind out of the gutter, please!”

Willis posted he “wrote 100% of the lyrics to Y.M.C.A.” and declared “I ought to know what my song is about.” In 2017 the singer and songwriter told News.com the song was actually about his youth and the time spent hanging with friends in his urban neighborhood.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2021, 09:04:17 PM
That cannot be fucking real what the fuck :lol

Thinner skin than Evilore :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2021, 09:09:41 PM
Quote
“I’m not going to have my lawyers sue the president,” Willis stated. “But he should at least do the ‘YMCA’ dance while he’s at it.

What the goddamn fucking shit :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2021, 09:25:43 PM
Georgia is not looking good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tripon on January 05, 2021, 09:42:25 PM
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Boredfrom on January 05, 2021, 09:46:56 PM
Georgia is not looking good
At least Georgia is looking good
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536

lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2021, 09:48:11 PM
Georgia is not looking good
At least Georgia is looking good
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9RAZxNdCk8
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 05, 2021, 10:07:02 PM
Early votes don't get counted until after the ones cast today, so we may not know the results until pretty late.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2021, 10:13:39 PM
Georgia is looking good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 05, 2021, 10:27:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lg5CJIKU-U
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: team filler on January 05, 2021, 10:28:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ly9KHqS.jpg)
;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 05, 2021, 10:30:23 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ly9KHqS.jpg)
;)

 :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2021, 11:01:13 PM
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346647684900417536

I have to say good on twitter for being consistent with these tags

I thought they were manually hand tagging trumps tweets and we'd never see them again
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 05, 2021, 11:25:16 PM
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1346671886202269696
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| The malarkey has been defeated
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 05, 2021, 11:25:48 PM
BYE MITCH
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 05, 2021, 11:27:59 PM
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1346537846430056448
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 05, 2021, 11:44:47 PM
Mitch and Donnie did everything they possibly could to make sure that Democrats voted heavily in Georgia. Absolute stupid decisions. Mitch literally legislated himself out of a leadership position.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tripon on January 05, 2021, 11:55:34 PM
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346681326934650880
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 12:20:17 AM
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1346663251115962368

 :bow :bow :bow :cop :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 06, 2021, 12:34:35 AM
what a glorious start of the year
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 12:52:47 AM
Well, you guys mostly avoided becoming Mexico in terms of politics, they just need to don’t let Trump live off as “el presidente legítimo” in these 4 years and you are good to go.

Sincerely, congratulations.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: jorma on January 06, 2021, 01:49:07 AM
My weedstonks!  :rejoice

Can't smoke weed legally, but it looks like i can make a living from it legally. Thank you 'murica!  :doggy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:09:16 AM
https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1346692490078937089
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Coffee Dog on January 06, 2021, 03:45:08 AM
Still kind of blown away that Donald Trump is so asshurt that he seemingly gave me $2000 out of spite :crazy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 04:59:28 AM

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346622565075349505 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346622565075349505)
Looks like everyone is in town for the circus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 06, 2021, 05:12:01 AM
Enjoy your tyranny under America’s First Dictator Joe Biden brehs :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Occam on January 06, 2021, 05:16:40 AM
Congratulations, America.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 06:18:56 AM
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1346637313372278785 (https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1346637313372278785)

lmao  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 06, 2021, 07:39:24 AM
For a while I was impressed by Romney for voting to impeach, but you have to remember he was only doing his job. You don't deserve kudos for doing what you were supposed to do.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 08:32:07 AM
I like how America manages to get two years of workable goverment every decade. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: chronovore on January 06, 2021, 08:36:28 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kr8qcx/freakout_in_the_pennsylvania_senate_as/

This is insane.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 10:21:40 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55561536
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:29:53 AM
Georgia :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 10:48:55 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErDwqVWVQAEApWp?format=png)

 :rodney

Twitter's censors can't keep up with the Tweets  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 10:58:05 AM
Rudy has his own theme now

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346845106310156290 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346845106310156290)

:dead


Eric and Don Jr. have declared "war" on the GOP. Giuliani calls for "Trial by Combat" and says he's willing to put his and Trump's "reputation" at stake on their being evidence of voter fraud :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 11:15:42 AM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346624490814509056
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 12:14:26 PM
Looks like Trump watched Wonder Woman.

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346867151693615107
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 12:29:26 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346868364694716416 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346868364694716416)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346870348935999489 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346870348935999489)

Donald Trump has certainly launched the weirdest fucking coup in history  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: SmokyDave on January 06, 2021, 12:34:18 PM
130lb offensive lineman had me crying. Can't believe I haven't tuned in to the WWF since '89.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 12:36:48 PM
He's just yelling now  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 06, 2021, 12:39:07 PM
Any links?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 12:39:34 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/AncPerl/status/1346597598044561409

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 12:42:09 PM
Trump: "or you have a President that was voted on by a bunch of stupid people"  :lol

Trump: "I don't care about Twitter" :dead

Trump: "We gotta get rid of them, The Liz Cheney's of the world"

Trump: "We should've kept the oil... they got billions and billions of dollars"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 12:42:32 PM
:morans
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 12:45:35 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346875095831216128 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346875095831216128)

"Are you a citizenship?"

"You're not allowed to ask that question"

"Brian Kemp, vote him the hell out of office please" :lol

"If you signed your name as Santa Clause it would've gone through" :dead

Trump doesn't realize that if he showed this same level of interest to the details of the COVID-19 pandemic he would've probably easily won.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 06, 2021, 12:57:51 PM
I'm enjoying this rally.

Put on some instrumental doom metal with the tracklist being.
1. Hail
2. Satan
3. Worship
4. Doom

Trump's deranged rambling in the background makes it sound like a 90s anti-government doom album.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 01:01:45 PM
"I could go on and on forever but I love you and it's freezing"

*chants*
"We love you - we love you - we love you"

 :killme

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1346880903608414209 (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1346880903608414209)

https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/1346882903481966593 (https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/1346882903481966593)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Beezy on January 06, 2021, 01:28:29 PM
https://twitter.com/rebtanhs/status/1346879406581624833

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346881968819105792
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 01:53:21 PM
BACK THE BLUE

STOP THE STEAL
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:05:41 PM
Meanwile in Sochi
(https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/106794/09/1067940957.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:13:09 PM
now with the dems in charge we should be getting universal healthcare and extra phat stimmy's. can't wait! :D
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:16:22 PM
Pence has been evacuated :titus

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1346897878749507587 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1346897878749507587)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 02:18:58 PM
now with the dems in charge we should be getting universal healthcare and extra phat stimmy's. can't wait! :D

Trusting the Corporats  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 02:20:02 PM
can't decide what to watch :hmm

(https://i.imgur.com/JNxtqlh.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:20:34 PM
https://twitter.com/rebtanhs/status/1346855118914920454
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 06, 2021, 02:21:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:24:07 PM
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346899437520621568


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 02:27:45 PM
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale went
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:28:43 PM
Never in a million years would you have guessed before 2019 that Donald Trump dancing to the YMCA would start a new American revolution.  :doge

"FIGHT FOR TRUMP" uuhh guys... we mean sign up to our newsletter. guys? Hey guys?

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1346898825491968000 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1346898825491968000)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:28:54 PM

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1346898825491968000




https://twitter.com/stevennelson10/status/1346899235179028483

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:30:55 PM
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale went
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1346855427376611328
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:32:14 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346900434540240897 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346900434540240897)

Mike's on his own now.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:35:01 PM
https://twitter.com/SophiaArmen/status/1346900864930254849

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 02:38:53 PM
https://twitter.com/washingtonian/status/1346898575654068224

 :riot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 02:41:51 PM
they pulled trump aside and said uh sir please  :lol

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346904110969315332
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:42:27 PM
Dow's up 400 points  :success

Also if Trump thinks it will benefit him he will have no problem to arrest his own supporters  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 02:50:41 PM
https://twitter.com/washingtonian/status/1346898575654068224

 :riot

These Mexicans are getting real crafty
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 02:59:45 PM
"Shit, the working classes have occupied the capitol, call the President to send in the troops.... oh fuck"

*Trump checkmates the founding fathers*

:pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:00:21 PM
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1346902235867992068


 :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:03:20 PM
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1346907138678018051 (https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1346907138678018051)

Looks like the yanks are having a little squibble  :snob


https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080 (https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080)
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 03:04:39 PM
You know what, good.

Maybe if they scalp a few senators, the democrats might wake up to the problem and not wave it away as different opinions
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:05:34 PM
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346906369232920576


 :mueller
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:08:18 PM
Your new leader

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErEsMSaXMAUkVur?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 03:10:44 PM
DC Police had no idea who they were up against.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DCist/status/1346838579645964290
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 03:14:47 PM
they were ready for everything except forum moderators  :omg
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:16:53 PM
Your new leader

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErEsMSaXMAUkVur?format=jpg)
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1346911071068516354

https://twitter.com/shearm/status/1346911483251154959

https://twitter.com/adriontitan/status/1346911719528910848
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:16:57 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346912780700577792 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346912780700577792)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 03:21:08 PM
Pretty sure that lady looks dead.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:22:45 PM
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264

https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699

https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 03:23:08 PM
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573

(https://i.imgur.com/2eny1zB.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:26:04 PM
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1346913228761276417

 :money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:28:31 PM
The new Treasury Secretary
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE0nK2XIAAhfOr?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:29:24 PM
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1346911296424267781

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:32:27 PM
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573

(https://i.imgur.com/2eny1zB.png)
https://twitter.com/blaccmass/status/1346914627767201797
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:33:32 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE0ztSXAAAdwyU?format=jpg&name=medium)

The secretary of state
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 03:34:38 PM
the best thing is the utter stupidity

these people saw the blm protests and said "IF'N THEY KIN RIOT SO KIN WE!! GIT R DONE"

not realizing that sieging the actual nation's capitol buildings is a little different from burning down an autozone in bumfuck nowhere

these are federal crimes

these people have destroyed their lives on an unprecedented level
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 03:40:46 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE0ztSXAAAdwyU?format=jpg&name=medium)

The secretary of state

The Q Shaman made it too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/stevennelson10/status/1346909795564060674
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:41:24 PM
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414 (https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414)

This guy


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE34s-XYAIQ285?format=jpg)
Secretary of Transportation

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE2X8fVoAEyDnX?format=jpg)
CIA director
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 06, 2021, 03:45:42 PM
these people have destroyed their lives on an unprecedented level

Sadly i'd say at most there will be some fines and maybe some charges for anyone who broke or stole anything on camera.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 03:51:24 PM
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:53:07 PM
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute
:fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 03:54:42 PM
Just saw a CBC news correspondent swarmed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 06, 2021, 03:56:59 PM
Kinda over the jokes right now.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 03:58:38 PM
This is so shameful and is only going to get worse in four years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 03:59:20 PM
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414 (https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1346918910352785414)

This guy


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE34s-XYAIQ285?format=jpg)
Secretary of Transportation

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErE2X8fVoAEyDnX?format=jpg)
CIA director
https://twitter.com/politeandnice/status/1346921449118982151
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 04:00:09 PM
the best thing is the utter stupidity

these people saw the blm protests and said "IF'N THEY KIN RIOT SO KIN WE!! GIT R DONE"

not realizing that sieging the actual nation's capitol buildings is a little different from burning down an autozone in bumfuck nowhere

these are federal crimes

these people have destroyed their lives on an unprecedented level

Trump has a week left to pardon them all

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 04:01:05 PM
https://twitter.com/BillabongGurl99/status/1346919231321829376
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 04:01:56 PM
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520

 :bow :bow :bow :cop :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 04:10:16 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1346925781864357888
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 04:13:56 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/NewCuIture/status/1346923724445003776
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 04:18:14 PM
https://twitter.com/_NoseGoes/status/1346925884389928964


 :rollsafe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 04:18:25 PM
Think Batman is from the summer riots.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 04:20:20 PM
My heart hurts.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 04:22:15 PM
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale went
https://twitter.com/VeritasSola/status/1346887833613697026

 ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 04:22:20 PM
My heart hurts.

Freedom and patriotism hurt your heart?  :confused
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 04:23:43 PM
I think this is how the Handmaid’s Tale went
https://twitter.com/VeritasSola/status/1346887833613697026

 ;)

:titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 04:25:14 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346928882595885058

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: remy on January 06, 2021, 04:25:18 PM
this is fucking crazy  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BisMarckie on January 06, 2021, 04:25:35 PM
Trump‘s call for the people to go home :dead

That was aboslutely amazing :sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Coffee Dog on January 06, 2021, 04:26:36 PM
Disbelief at that statement, why would whoever forced him to put that out settle for that?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 04:27:51 PM
go home...WE STILL WON!...we absolutely won, but go home.  BUT WE WON, AND THOSE WHO STOLE ARE EVIL...!  but peace
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 06, 2021, 04:30:07 PM
Go to prison for 10 years to own the libs :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 04:30:58 PM
This is so shameful and is only going to get worse in four years.
That all depends on how the powers that be respond.

If the GOP ditches Trump and shakes hands with the Dems and the news media stop their 24/7 fueling of hate and division that might be a start.
Along with $2000 COVID relief checks and some serious healthcare and welfare funding paid for by taxing big tech user data and ending the wars.

What the US (and Europe by extension) need is a new social contract. Mitch is as much resonsible for this as Trump.
If Biden chooses to govern like Obama and doesn't lift up the middle class or whatever you want to call it, he's going to find himself in the exact same bind in 4 years with Trump or another challenger.
And even though people that say that climate, guns, deficits etc. should come first have a point, there's nothing smug Tweets can do from liberals and wank dads when the mob occupies the Capitol.

The other approach is what most of South America and parts of the Middle East did, which is to just seperate the haves from the have nots with walls, checkpoints and compounds so you're not bothered by them anymore.
The problem of course being that once you can't pay to upkeep your security you're fucked when the problems you ignored come home to roost.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 04:35:02 PM
Go to prison for 10 years to own the libs :salute

One can hope.

Man, Trump is so much of a scumbag, isn’t it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 04:36:21 PM
https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676

https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849


 :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 04:36:50 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346928882595885058

 :titus

This is basically mob boss speak giving them the go ahead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 04:41:49 PM
https://twitter.com/Transition46/status/1346926053462319114 (https://twitter.com/Transition46/status/1346926053462319114)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 06, 2021, 04:42:15 PM
Can't help but feel that trump statement is the equivalent of a "caution: contents may be hot" liability waiver for any potential future civil liability indictments
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 04:42:29 PM
Reports of finding pipe bombs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: who is ted danson? on January 06, 2021, 04:43:16 PM
 :lol :lol :lol

https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 06, 2021, 04:43:56 PM
Go to prison for 10 years to own the libs :salute

And in a lot of states they'll lose their right to vote!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 04:47:43 PM
Can't help but feel that trump statement is the equivalent of a "caution: contents may be hot" liability waiver for any potential future civil liability indictments

Nah.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Rman on January 06, 2021, 04:47:53 PM
There needs to be an investigation and charges for the capitol police. they really fucked up here.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2021, 04:54:11 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.
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Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 04:58:49 PM
There needs to be an investigation and charges for the capitol police. they really fucked up here.

China furiously taking notes.

A strike team could have gone in, killed a dozen senators, and fled hours before US officials got their shit together.

Apparently, the least realistic part of Olympus Has Fallen was that police even gave a token attempt at stopping the invasion
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 04:59:41 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

That and the Snyder Cut were a perfect storm.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 05:04:32 PM
https://twitter.com/mjahanna/status/1346937057373868032

Does Pence have that authority? Unless dot dot dot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tripon on January 06, 2021, 05:10:50 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 05:14:52 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929

Piece of shit human.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: who is ted danson? on January 06, 2021, 05:18:56 PM
https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1346924706255966208

*Bashar al-Assad would like to know your location*
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 05:19:58 PM
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute
If your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 05:25:02 PM
https://twitter.com/KevOnStage/status/1346937897060945920

 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :dead
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 05:31:36 PM
https://twitter.com/TimDownie1/status/1346939553354043392 (https://twitter.com/TimDownie1/status/1346939553354043392)

MACHO MACHO MAN
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 06, 2021, 05:32:48 PM
 :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 05:36:37 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929

The Press Reset: The Story of Polygon guy? :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 05:36:58 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFSgIPVcAMFSiM?format=jpg)

https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1346943293171658755 (https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1346943293171658755)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 05:37:05 PM
Didn't realise something could be both hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 05:37:27 PM
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute
If your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.

Thank you.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 05:39:08 PM
https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1346945406450720769

 :mueller
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 05:40:37 PM
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264

https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699

https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
RIP the grift, 2016-2021
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 05:41:00 PM
Mike Pence just unfollowed Trump on Twitter :salute
If your country's political process has devolved into who is following who on fucking Twitter, then you're pretty much fucked no matter who is in charge.

Seems to be fake news, Nintex is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 05:46:06 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1346924502844907523
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 05:46:27 PM
https://twitter.com/TrevorDmusic/status/1346949856322056192
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: EchoRin on January 06, 2021, 05:46:28 PM
I think it’s obvious to all of us that this unrest is a direct result of the gamergate CHUD audience that CDPR cultivated over the years. They must be held accountable.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/1346940289814908929

Holyyyy shiiiiit. I forgot all about this goof a long time ago. today was was not a day I wanted to be reminded of him.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 05:49:31 PM
https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1346945406450720769 (https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1346945406450720769)

 :mueller
Why would your adversaries need to go to all that effort when you are doing it yourself?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 05:51:23 PM
https://twitter.com/Riogringa/status/1346944360345186313

 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 06, 2021, 05:51:48 PM
Nintex and filler are shitposters, stop quoting them about this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 05:52:29 PM
https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1346925827800367106
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 05:58:23 PM
Anybody even remotely associated with the Republican Party should be embarrassed and disturbed by this. The 80 million people who voted for Trump should be ashamed that this is what they wanted for four more years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 06:00:44 PM
Hard to be ashamed when this is what a large amount of them want.  You cant go 4 years of Trump and vote for him again and not expect this. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 06:06:41 PM
https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676

https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849


 :ufup
https://twitter.com/marklutchman/status/1346923949670756354

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 06:09:55 PM
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346954970910707712 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346954970910707712)

:titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 06:12:55 PM
JUST BAN HIS FUCKING ACCOUNT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 06:15:19 PM
https://twitter.com/ShaolinTom/status/1346957198182633472


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 06:18:41 PM
:lol UK tut-tuting us like a disappointed dad :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 06:18:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676 (https://twitter.com/ohnoameerah/status/1346913343840284676)

https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849 (https://twitter.com/naethuns/status/1346928430462414849)


 :ufup
https://twitter.com/marklutchman/status/1346923949670756354

 :doge
This is just viral marketing for Coming 2 America. That brother got the Soul Glo! goin' on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrasobHcKA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 06, 2021, 06:22:12 PM
JUST BAN HIS FUCKING ACCOUNT

...gee i dunno i mean he's the president and i don't want to make people mad and he really should have a right to say things and... gee i dunno
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 06:27:33 PM
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264

https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699

https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
RIP the grift, 2016-2021
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1346941481907593216

 :smug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 06:31:20 PM
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1346958947123544064

 :american


https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1346956738801655808


guy who rigged an election for himself doesn't like when people complain about rigged elections  :mueller


https://twitter.com/Mpolymer/status/1346904886961647616
 :thinking
Quote
Retired CIA case officer.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: brawndolicious on January 06, 2021, 06:50:37 PM
Twitter has deleted the last couple Trump tweets. I don't think they've ever done that before due to the fig leaf that anything a president says is relevant to the general public, even if it violates the TOS.

Earlier today, they locked down those tweets to not allow any likes or replies so probably they're considering escalating further to a full ban? Probably a bit too hopeful.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 06:51:13 PM
https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1265829956405387264

https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1346892716882468876

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1346907997600157699

https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1346911337574666253
RIP the grift, 2016-2021
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1346941481907593216

 :smug
stream yourself committing crimes, brehs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 07:02:18 PM
After all this I think Trump's going to resign after the electoral college vote has passed.
The only way out of this on a short notice is a pardon and the only one who can give it to him before Biden gets in is Pence.

Plus it's the only way he can leave the White House without "losing" and having to attend any official transfer of power proceedings.

Twitter has suspended him for 12 hours

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178 (https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 07:11:30 PM
what will you post now nintex?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 07:16:36 PM
what a fukkin pissbaby. would be funny if it hasn't led to so much misery.

also fukk dems if they don't go scorched earth on republicans at this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 07:19:27 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346969721170751488 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346969721170751488)

is this going to be the defense :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 07:22:17 PM
After all this I think Trump's going to resign after the electoral college vote has passed.
The only way out of this on a short notice is a pardon and the only one who can give it to him before Biden gets in is Pence.

Plus it's the only way he can leave the White House without "losing" and having to attend any official transfer of power proceedings.

Twitter has suspended him for 12 hours

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178 (https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178)
ban the mods and kill them  :trumps

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1346968581741928451

 :whew
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 07:29:44 PM
Twitter waiting until the perfect 11th hour superhero entrance moment to swing their dick on Trump :whew :obama :jeb
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 07:34:18 PM
Good on twitter.  Facebook has also taken down his video. 
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 07:34:23 PM
https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873 (https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873)

It begins

spoiler (click to show/hide)
ends?
[close]
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Post by: Rman on January 06, 2021, 07:35:41 PM
Lots of funky things going. The VP is doing all the work, but does he even have power? Did they invoke the 25th.  Sad day for America.
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 07:36:13 PM
Night of the Dull Knives
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Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 06, 2021, 07:36:37 PM
What courage Melania’s chief of staff is showing here, resigning *checks notes* two weeks before she would have been out of a job anyway.  Welcome to the resistance lady.
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 07:38:22 PM
After all this I think Trump's going to resign after the electoral college vote has passed.
The only way out of this on a short notice is a pardon and the only one who can give it to him before Biden gets in is Pence.

Plus it's the only way he can leave the White House without "losing" and having to attend any official transfer of power proceedings.

Twitter has suspended him for 12 hours

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178 (https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178)
ban the mods and kill them  :trumps

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1346968581741928451

 :whew

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFobDsVQAAvUKk?format=png&name=900x900)
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Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 07:40:03 PM
Where can I bet on Trump killing himself before the 20th?

Most be decent odds right
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Post by: FStop7 on January 06, 2021, 07:41:10 PM
Walking down the street and saw a kid whose head was badly cut open by Proud Boys this afternoon in LA. Not a good day
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Post by: FStop7 on January 06, 2021, 07:44:36 PM
Where can I bet on Trump killing himself before the 20th?

Most be decent odds right

he doesn’t have the balls
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 06, 2021, 07:45:23 PM
Did we ban Nintex yet
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 07:47:50 PM
Getting absolutely blasted tonight on bud and edibles was absolutely the right call, I'm seeing this through Nintex's eyes and I legit don't give a fuck anymore. :jawalrus

Bring on the most shocking season finale of all time! :jeb
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 07:49:56 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFwS4fUUAAU3Ol?format=png)

 :whew
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 07:52:52 PM
Yup pretty sure I've fully cracked :society
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 07:54:39 PM
This isn't going to be a final season.  It's just another step down the path to years of instability and insurgency.  I would not be surprised to see a major right-wing terrorist act in the coming months because there is going to be someone who believes the election was stolen and with Biden sworn and news changing the subject they will think the only way to right the wrong is to kill people to bring attention back to the election being stolen.  There were terrorists there today with the forethought to bring pipebombs in case they had the opportunity to use them.  Those people are not going away in two weeks.
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Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 07:56:08 PM
news discussing that the session is about to resume with the plans to proceed as normal in certifying joe biden, with more resolve than ever to get the job done

all I can think is there is nothing more american than a group of people getting together in the face of protest to say fuck you I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker, uhhh
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Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 08:01:18 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1346930500192129025


https://twitter.com/phan1om_/status/1346922013009596418

https://twitter.com/phan1om_/status/1346957282526044160

https://twitter.com/phan1om_/status/1346956810301816833

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1346933221141843968

 :dead
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Post by: jakefromstatefarm on January 06, 2021, 08:06:16 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1346930500192129025
sir, sir, excuse me. sir?

how dare you
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 08:09:27 PM
damn this silver fox of a president pence!
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Post by: Rman on January 06, 2021, 08:11:30 PM
Did they invoke the 25th?
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 08:11:32 PM
If there's one thing mcconnell doesn't like it's letting the people telling him what to do!
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 08:16:29 PM
lmao repub chuds like 'bu bu i thought you all liked us'  :'(
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Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 08:20:15 PM
https://twitter.com/pttrn_ntgrty/status/1346962839060140033

day of the pillow  :jgames


https://twitter.com/TheCruzShow/status/1346971968147345411

 :drool

https://twitter.com/LtBobRoss/status/1346897612541022209

 :juchesad
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 08:29:38 PM
https://twitter.com/pttrn_ntgrty/status/1346962839060140033

day of the pillow  :jgames
gonna bet this ginger dude is a bellevue techbro
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Post by: Human Snorenado on January 06, 2021, 08:34:35 PM
Final season of America lit, brehs
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 08:35:31 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753)

Republicans dropping their objections one by one.  :biden
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 08:36:01 PM
lol at that mini brody telling his boomer buddies to fuck off.
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 06, 2021, 08:39:43 PM
Final season of America lit, brehs
this is the season 1 cliffhanger of heroes.
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Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 08:43:46 PM
every former objector is like nope fuuuuuck this

americans are always contrarians, you throw a fit and try to force them to act a certain way and they'll even do the opposite of what they were planning on doing just to spite you
:biden
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 08:45:49 PM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496 (https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496)

 :jeb
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Post by: FStop7 on January 06, 2021, 08:53:06 PM
Loeffler looked scared shitless. She wants out.
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Post by: Nintex on January 06, 2021, 08:54:24 PM
https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1346997240523583489 (https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1346997240523583489)

https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1346994370596241409 (https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1346994370596241409)

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1346994926723194882 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1346994926723194882)

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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 08:56:03 PM
news discussing that the session is about to resume with the plans to proceed as normal in certifying joe biden, with more resolve than ever to get the job done

all I can think is there is nothing more american than a group of people getting together in the face of protest to say fuck you I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker, uhhh

Is there, like, a super right wing Rage Against the Machine? other than Screwdriver, of course. Like, they would have a song against saying Happy Holidays and having to partake in Black History Month. Stuff like that.

Right wing RATM is just normal RATM with a complete lack of self-awareness.

https://twitter.com/Manny_Alicandro/status/1324873177416273921
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 09:05:13 PM
Twitter waiting until the perfect 11th hour superhero entrance moment to swing their dick on Trump :whew :obama :jeb

Though, to be fair...

(https://i.imgur.com/5zmJjOo.png)
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Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 09:09:29 PM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496 (https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496)

 :jeb

WAKE UP BEN CARSON
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 09:14:05 PM
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1346996775194910726

https://twitter.com/deep_dab/status/1346696228323659776

https://twitter.com/ToliverZilla/status/1346954157450698754

https://twitter.com/_sextapes_/status/1346983851160203264

 :lol

https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1346833050311815168

 :rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 09:14:46 PM
https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496 (https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496)

 :jeb

WAKE UP BEN CARSON

(https://12months2go.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/car-and-luggage.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 06, 2021, 09:19:02 PM
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1346996775194910726

https://twitter.com/deep_dab/status/1346696228323659776

https://twitter.com/ToliverZilla/status/1346954157450698754

https://twitter.com/_sextapes_/status/1346983851160203264

 :lol

https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1346833050311815168

 :rofl

Yo, good on that maga dude that took her to the cops, cause they would have murdered that black woman.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 09:26:24 PM
https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1347003152222937088

just in time to save us from gamergate :whew


https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1347005117199904768

 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 06, 2021, 09:52:48 PM
https://twitter.com/WalteroDMV/status/1346982242338304000
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 09:57:02 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988272371658753)

Republicans dropping their objections one by one.  :biden

Only 3.3k likes, wtf :dead

This is so fucking important... 3.3k likes jesus christ
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:04:46 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346988803551014913

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346989705355788289

Season is fucking lit :lawd
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Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 10:06:15 PM
https://twitter.com/jguaido/status/1346959400523755523

 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 06, 2021, 10:08:56 PM
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1347014253912477699
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:09:59 PM
:lol "Uh, count me out" :lol

You couldn't put this shit in a Will Ferrel movie :dead
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 06, 2021, 10:11:45 PM
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1347005117199904768
 :kermit

I read the Global Times almost every day, it's one of my many vices that will probably kill me soon
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:14:16 PM
What are the top two trump tweets that were removed? Nintex help me out
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Post by: Cryo on January 06, 2021, 10:14:54 PM
Bikejesus how was the riot?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:18:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/jvnEMXK.jpg)

Trump be like
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:22:27 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532850-live-coverage-joint-session-set-to-debate-electoral-college-challenges

Hawley bitch outta here
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Post by: Tasty on January 06, 2021, 10:25:38 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErGOkFFXIAcm_cD?format=jpg&name=large)

WaPo going for the goddamn throat, holy shit :whew
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Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2021, 10:29:33 PM
What are the top two trump tweets that were removed? Nintex help me out

one of them was just the pogchamp emote and nothing else
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Post by: team filler on January 06, 2021, 10:47:43 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/y5h8ZQ2.jpg)


 :lucas

https://twitter.com/MatthewB64/status/1347012289812074498

 :dead
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Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 10:55:33 PM
https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873 (https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1346977657012047873)

It begins

spoiler (click to show/hide)
ends?
[close]
Why the fuck does the first lady have a chief of staff? The Office of US President really is just an elected King by another name. Why bother fighting a war of independence if you're just going to replace it with the same thing?
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 06, 2021, 10:58:04 PM
https://wvmetronews.com/2021/01/06/w-va-delegate-just-sworn-in-among-the-rioters-storming-u-s-capitol/
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Post by: Potato on January 06, 2021, 11:03:31 PM
all I can think is there is nothing more american than a group of people getting together in the face of protest to say fuck you I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker, uhhh
The most American thing that's happened here is a big fucking crybaby decided that he didn't really lose the game so he was going to try to take his bat and ball and go home.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 06, 2021, 11:06:10 PM
What are the top two trump tweets that were removed? Nintex help me out

I got you

https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/POTUS
-----
Outside of the video that got deleted I also saw the one that said:

"These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"

Just stupid
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2021, 11:08:55 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/stephenfhayes/status/1347020636816891906

 :idont
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 06, 2021, 11:13:09 PM
https://twitter.com/ZoeannMurphy/status/1347009152367927296

 :mindblown
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Post by: james on January 06, 2021, 11:15:57 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErGOkFFXIAcm_cD?format=jpg&name=large)

WaPo going for the goddamn throat, holy shit :whew

Dems winning the senate sent off to page 6 lol

Get fucked Osoff
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 12:23:54 AM
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1346991238793236482

"it's not your fault, it's theirs"  :dobbs
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Post by: BIONIC on January 07, 2021, 01:06:20 AM
Nintex and filler are shitposters, stop quoting them about this.

Boredbitch  ::)
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Post by: james on January 07, 2021, 02:05:35 AM
The right has their talking points.

The invasion was ANTIFA.

The real Trump supporters were a mile away peacefully standing around
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 03:43:06 AM
(https://media.tenor.com/images/1b7ef2be400f92c1dfc3ed7c691ed7e8/tenor.gif)
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 04:06:44 AM
Catching up on the clown show and all I can say is:


:maduro
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 07:23:17 AM
12 hour twitter ban is up  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Rman on January 07, 2021, 09:09:41 AM
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1346991238793236482

"it's not your fault, it's theirs"  :dobbs
I guess they miss the Newsmax/OANN crowd and this is their attempt to win them back.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 09:35:38 AM
Wait, this was antifa doing all this?

this changes everything
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 10:08:25 AM
while trump plays 9d chess, antifa plays 10d :titus
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Post by: bork on January 07, 2021, 10:09:44 AM
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?

Is this the plot of the next Metal Gear?
:thinking
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 10:11:41 AM
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?

Is this the plot of the next Metal Gear?
:thinking

METAL GEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 07, 2021, 10:16:18 AM
Yes. Despite Trump promoting the rally for 2 weeks, speaking at the rally, directing these people to go to the capitol and saying he was going with them, and then praised them and said he loved them during and after. Maybe Trump was ANTIFA all along?

All of the known MAGA chuds that filmed themselves at the event were just playing the long con, This only proves how far the Deep State is willing to go!
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 10:27:44 AM
Patriots have gotten access to Pelosi's emails yesterday.
Rudy is shifting through them as we speak to find Hunter Biden lewds I mean evidence.

Anyway, Trump is to blame for this. His rally was too boring and people had to find entertainment elsewhere.
It's like when there's a big sports finale and one team bungles it so badly their supporters start trashing the city after the game. :trumps
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 10:41:37 AM
can't even spell sifting right.

shut the fuck up nintex
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 10:45:39 AM
Wait, is Rudy really going through emails received after having ignited a mob to break into the capital building?  That has to be a crime of some sort. 
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 10:47:00 AM
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html)

Quote
“We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night,” Mulvaney said. “We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation.

Quote
“The folks who spent time away from our families, put our careers on the line to go work for Donald Trump, and we did have those successes to look back at, but now it will always be, ‘Oh yeah, you work for the guy who tried to overtake the government,’” Mulvaney said.

“That legacy is gone as of yesterday and that’s extraordinarily disappointing to those of us who work for him,” he added.
These clowns literally sold their souls for a tax cut :titus

Wait, is Rudy really going through emails received after having ignited a mob to break into the capital building?  That has to be a crime of some sort.
Who knows, we do know the Q Shaman actor/provocateur was seen at other protests and has ties to Rudy

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFlSWMVoAIwzQt?format=jpg)

Next to that there's talk that Roger Stone and his associates were the organizers behind the protest that breached the capitol and his involvement would explain why cops seemingly opened up fences and such.
No matter how you slice it, the headliners of the protest had a pretty decent idea of how to breach the capitol and where the weakspots were and unlike you would expect from a mob they didn't trash the place.
And while Congress was suspended pending the riots, Rudy left voice messages for members of Congress and Senators to stall the proceedings until at least the next day because Mitch wanted to rush the process.

https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1347153571712806913 (https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1347153571712806913)
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Post by: james on January 07, 2021, 11:22:53 AM
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html)

Quote
“We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night,” Mulvaney said. “We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation.

Quote
“The folks who spent time away from our families, put our careers on the line to go work for Donald Trump, and we did have those successes to look back at, but now it will always be, ‘Oh yeah, you work for the guy who tried to overtake the government,’” Mulvaney said.

“That legacy is gone as of yesterday and that’s extraordinarily disappointing to those of us who work for him,” he added.
These clowns literally sold their souls for a tax cut :titus

Wait, is Rudy really going through emails received after having ignited a mob to break into the capital building?  That has to be a crime of some sort.
Who knows, we do know the Q Shaman actor/provocateur was seen at other protests and has ties to Rudy

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFlSWMVoAIwzQt?format=jpg)

Um you missed the important part.
Quote
resigned as special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland.
:doge

Not even a real job
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 11:36:40 AM
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1347103016311259136

people took him aside and said look they're talking about invoking the 25th you knob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 11:54:33 AM
No need for caps lock, I'm sure Trump was in on the scheme and played his part.

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1347065517291560966 (https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1347065517291560966)

I don't think however that the mob could've breached the Capitol without some inside help or coordination.
Remember Stone organized something like this on a smaller scale that halted the Bush recount in Florida in 2000.
The timing of Trump pardoning his mob, the date of the rally and Rudy working the phone lines hardly seems like a coincidence.

If I was the FBI I would start with Rudy, Roger and their "associates".
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 07, 2021, 11:55:40 AM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 12:00:27 PM
he's already scribbled in crayon that he's the greatest ever in the history books :trumps
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Post by: Beezy on January 07, 2021, 12:13:38 PM
 :dead

https://twitter.com/Reamkore/status/1347192624332087296
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 12:16:33 PM
:dead
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 12:47:46 PM
Four dead.
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 12:48:02 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol

Jesus fuck, you guys.
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Post by: BIONIC on January 07, 2021, 12:52:35 PM
Four dead.

:dead  :dead  :dead  :dead
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 07, 2021, 12:56:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/TreWardWBAL/status/1347226070085480448

Breaking into the capital without a mask and while wearing your work id  :brain

Four dead.

One guy tased himself to death.

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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 01:08:16 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-instagram-ban-trump-capitol-riots-b1783967.html

Facebook and Instagram ban Trump ‘indefinitely’ after violent riots

Finally got the cover to do this without the political backlash.  I'd expect twitter to do so as well now.
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 01:31:26 PM
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1347072023005163522

 :punch
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 01:34:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cA2l0n5gPE

:(
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 02:02:56 PM
https://twitter.com/guninmybirkin/status/1347255352161550337

https://twitter.com/JulraeX/status/1347266309046865921

https://twitter.com/boredx_x/status/1347266273143566336

 :lol
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 02:34:41 PM
Imagine storming the capitol with nazis to pose with statutes of slave owners.
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 03:02:33 PM
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1347230019572166661


how did such a great set of tiddies belong to such an awful and annoying person  :snoop
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 03:12:25 PM
The internet is hard at work identifying the Trump coup people.

And most are these 20 - 30 something thots and Karens that people recognize from high school, university or college :dead

https://twitter.com/fleurde_me/status/1347273066657812482 (https://twitter.com/fleurde_me/status/1347273066657812482)

And of course the family and their hanger ons
https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/1347234484232613895 (https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/1347234484232613895)

Someone who posed for the ads  :doge
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErJfdOlXAAEb6eu?format=jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErJfdOaWMAI20MQ?format=jpg)
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 03:23:17 PM
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1347230019572166661


how did such a great set of tiddies belong to such an awful and annoying person  :snoop

most great set of tiddies are attached to awful people
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 03:30:42 PM
https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1346936089920102401


we're not like those shithole countries  :oreilly
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 03:32:54 PM
https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1347272646715731975 (https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1347272646715731975)

 :trumps
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 03:35:17 PM
I already know the answer is no but has anyone found literally anyone who was there trying to be an inciting agent

you would think that if anyone was, they wouldn't be dumb enough to enter the building or be prominent on any cameras

I saw people saying "this man in furs and horns is too ludicrous to be a real trump supporter, seems suspicious to me"  :doge

go to federal prison to own...the cons?
:trumps
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 03:36:34 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErJXAbAXcAAPqS6?format=jpg)

 :titus

These polls  :wut
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll (https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll)
Quote
Half (50%) of voters agree, saying they think it would be appropriate for Donald Trump to be removed from office immediately because of what happened today. Another 42% believe that such an action would be inappropriate. Republicans (85%) are especially likely to say they believe this would be inappropriate. 
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 03:52:05 PM
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970


big tech backs the big guy :biden
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 03:54:18 PM
this is all so fucking stupid :rofl
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 04:06:14 PM
this is all so fucking stupid :rofl
https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 04:15:24 PM
What the hell does "medical emergency" mean? How'd these 3 fuckers die? One was a heart attack the other two it's weird there's no info.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 04:16:39 PM
they died for trump :trumps
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 04:18:38 PM
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970


big tech backs the big guy :biden

 :larry

I understand, I get it

but

kind of a fucked up precedent?

it's easy to imagine what could be a false claim tomorrow

"your video falsely claimed hong kong is a territory independent from china, therefore you have received a strike"



every time someone tries to draw a line in policy and say "well ok obviously we have to prevent THIS from being disseminated, but JUST THIS, just this once," and then it just gets easier to do it again next time
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Post by: jorma on January 07, 2021, 04:24:50 PM
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970


big tech backs the big guy :biden

 :larry

I understand, I get it

but

kind of a fucked up precedent?

it's easy to imagine what could be a false claim tomorrow

"your video falsely claimed hong kong is a territory independent from china, therefore you have received a strike"



every time someone tries to draw a line in policy and say "well ok obviously we have to prevent THIS from being disseminated, but JUST THIS, just this once," and then it just gets easier to do it again next time

Lukashenko right now:  :maduro
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 04:26:13 PM
this is all so fucking stupid :rofl
https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888

That is the worst Christmas tree I've seen in years, possibly decades. :yikes
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 07, 2021, 04:26:24 PM
What the hell does "medical emergency" mean? How'd these 3 fuckers die? One was a heart attack the other two it's weird there's no info.

One of them accidentally tazed himself and died. Dunno about the other two.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 04:28:44 PM
Heart attack, self-tase, and the third guy probably pooped himself to death. I guess "medical emergency" is a more dignified way of putting it.
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Post by: Beezy on January 07, 2021, 04:36:29 PM
https://twitter.com/bumbera_steven/status/1347270969988173825
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 04:45:03 PM
https://twitter.com/YouTubeInsider/status/1347231471212371970


big tech backs the big guy :biden

 :larry

I understand, I get it

but

kind of a fucked up precedent?

it's easy to imagine what could be a false claim tomorrow

"your video falsely claimed hong kong is a territory independent from china, therefore you have received a strike"



every time someone tries to draw a line in policy and say "well ok obviously we have to prevent THIS from being disseminated, but JUST THIS, just this once," and then it just gets easier to do it again next time

Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 04:56:36 PM
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.

part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech

if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike?  they didn't technically make a false claim
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 05:00:16 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:02:11 PM
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.

part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech

if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike?  they didn't technically make a false claim

But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.

Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 05:05:37 PM
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.

part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech

if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike?  they didn't technically make a false claim

But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.

Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.

right, so, now we're banning videos that don't outright break the rules but have subtle implications and baggage

so now we start banning any videos that show the ok hand sign in them too...
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 07, 2021, 05:06:09 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

what do you think the Gates Vaccine is designed to do but make us submit to the AI's? :brain
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Post by: EchoRin on January 07, 2021, 05:07:53 PM
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.

part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech

if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike?  they didn't technically make a false claim

But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.

Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.

right, so, now we're banning videos that don't outright break the rules but have subtle implications and baggage

so now we start banning any videos that show the ok hand sign in them too...

(https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/thumbs_up_okay_daft_punk.gif)
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 05:10:22 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

what do you think the Gates Vaccine is designed to do but make us submit to the AI's? :brain

(https://i.imgur.com/vrrD86X.jpg)
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:10:44 PM
Given YT is an American company, is not like they have much options after yesterday shitshow. Trump megaphone should have been ignored and discouraged, not cancelled, but is to late for that.

part of the issue is the wishy washy dog whistley nature of all speech

if someone makes a video saying every legal vote should be counted, just those words, do they get a strike?  they didn't technically make a false claim

But is a poisonous and disingenuous claim, equivalent of “have you stopped punching your wife?”. Yes, there is probably a lot of clueless people thinking this has no baggage, but at this point the sea of misinformation spread maliciously probably outweighs the people talking genuinely in good faith.

Is shitty, but I cannot blame them right now.

right, so, now we're banning videos that don't outright break the rules but have subtle implications and baggage

so now we start banning any videos that show the ok hand sign in them too...

Well, what you suggests to do given that there is people that genuinely are trying to provoke with okay signs? The YouTube Ai doesn’t care either way.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 05:11:29 PM
I already know the answer is no but has anyone found literally anyone who was there trying to be an inciting agent
Uh, there were at least 535 inciting agents present.
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 05:14:05 PM
Well, what you suggests to do given that there is people that genuinely are trying to provoke with okay signs? The YouTube Ai doesn’t care either way.

I suggest that in spite of detesting some (most?) of what gets posted on bitchute I'm in support of an alternative existing
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 05:16:51 PM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
No. Not even close.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:17:35 PM
Well, what you suggests to do given that there is people that genuinely are trying to provoke with okay signs? The YouTube Ai doesn’t care either way.

I suggest that in spite of detesting some (most?) of what gets posted on bitchute I'm glad an alternative exists

I’m glad the alternative is allowed to exist, but I’m getting annoyed that some people in that alternative think free speech is about dog whistles and avoid responsibility when they act like assholes. The fact those assholes are starting to hurt people IRL is why people reacting these way.

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Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 07, 2021, 05:20:39 PM
this is all so fucking stupid :rofl
https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888

That is the worst Christmas tree I've seen in years, possibly decades. :yikes

Also plaid chairs?  Lmao what a loser, he makes Tabris’ choice of decor look good
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 05:22:10 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

As someone who makes the AI, I think this is a good idea as well. 
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:24:07 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

As someone who makes the AI, I think this is a good idea as well.

No offense, but I trust you less than you AI.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 05:26:01 PM
Imagine using youtube for anything other than yearning to be a wood worker one day.
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Post by: Uncle on January 07, 2021, 05:26:13 PM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
No. Not even close.

benji has deets on benjamin harrison
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 07, 2021, 05:26:48 PM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
No. Not even close.

worst president who is also a wwe hall of famer?
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 07, 2021, 05:27:02 PM
https://twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1347304849914929158

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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 05:28:25 PM
Big Tech has already used most of these systems in countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia and China to get accepted onto their markets.

The problem though, you got one side that fully supports censorship in the name of 'decency' and 'rule of law'.
And another side that's against big tech having that power but also doesn't care if the capitol burns.

The end result being that the next time there is a war or some big corporate leader is outed as a pedophile there will be an exclamation mark saying:
"! This claim of X is disputed" for whoever pays for it. In some cases they do it for free, because the people that built these systems specifically asked their CEO's to "do more".
This is also the end game of that hearing with Zuckerberg, when the Senators asked him what to do and he told them they would create new AI's to monitor and censor the newsfeeds.

A computer algorithm now decides what is true and what is false.
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 05:28:32 PM
I'm taking a nap and hoping the nation is still here when I wake up...
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 05:29:00 PM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
No. Not even close.

benji has deets on benjamin harrison
Woodrow Wilson.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 05:30:40 PM
Quote from: twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1347304849914929158
reports GOP sources close to White House say Trump “unstable, ranting and raving” and “bent on destruction in his final days.”
They report this breathlessly like it's different and new.
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 05:30:49 PM
It's pretty much a lock Trumps going down in the history books as literally the worst fucking president ever, right?

Even without knowing whatever shit he's still got a few days left to try and pull.
No. Not even close.

benji has deets on benjamin harrison
Woodrow Wilson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQIfqj1Thw
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:31:47 PM
Quote from: twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1347304849914929158
reports GOP sources close to White House say Trump “unstable, ranting and raving” and “bent on destruction in his final days.”
They report this breathlessly like it's different and new.

Well, yesterday made it different...
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Post by: OnlyRegret on January 07, 2021, 05:34:24 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 05:37:11 PM
so bart fucked edna?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 07, 2021, 05:38:06 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island

You are thinking you are going to get a competent made Demigod.  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: OnlyRegret on January 07, 2021, 05:38:34 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island

You are thinking you are going to get a competent made Demigod.  :lol

My hypothetical, my rules bitch
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 07, 2021, 05:49:44 PM
this is all so fucking stupid :rofl
https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888
lmao the preggo belly :rofl
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 05:50:37 PM
https://twitter.com/tomlobianco/status/1347313289542438912 (https://twitter.com/tomlobianco/status/1347313289542438912)

 :kermit
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Post by: james on January 07, 2021, 06:03:59 PM
I was thinking that for a group of people obsessed with guns, I would have expected more shootings.

Looks like DCs strict gun control laws worked
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Post by: jorma on January 07, 2021, 06:06:38 PM
I say we give ourselves over to the machines/AI. :trumps We clearly can't be trusted to be stewards of ourselves at this point.

To be dominated by them is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of our species. :yeshrug

Could be fun, being ruled by a demigod rather than old, wheezing geezers from epstein's island

You are thinking you are going to get a competent made Demigod.  :lol

Well, i've heard that the russkies has some pretty good coders to make up for subpar hardware...
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Post by: T-Short on January 07, 2021, 06:15:35 PM
Yep, champers always tastes really good after some good ol' insurrection

https://twitter.com/JMYaLes/status/1347254784458452999
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 06:20:06 PM
https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1347311739344400384 (https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1347311739344400384)

 :fbm
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 06:22:03 PM
unemployable, but not unelectable  ;)
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 06:23:11 PM
Imagine if that was the case with every White House staff. :lawd
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 06:24:58 PM
*looks at set of two resumes*

"Worked at the White House: 2021-2026"
"Was in jail for manslaughter: 2021-2026"

*shreds the first*
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 06:29:12 PM
unemployable, but not unelectable  ;)
this could also describe the big guy  :biden
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 06:36:55 PM
https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1347320178577707009 (https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1347320178577707009)
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 06:37:06 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347322698444242945

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347324595112730624


ted cruz resign bitch!!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 06:39:11 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347322698444242945

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1347324595112730624


ted cruz resign bitch!!
AOC on Ted Cruz's campaign list  :leon


Ted Cruz here I'm just coupin' and toobin  8)
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 06:41:41 PM
Quote from: Ted Cruz
the despicable terrorists who attacked the Capitol yesterday
with friends like these... :trumps
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 06:47:48 PM
https://twitter.com/juniiorxxz/status/1346995177794265094


police should have cracked her fackin skull  :lol
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 07:10:43 PM
https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1347334282386300930 (https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1347334282386300930)

While Navarro stands in front of a green screen Fox reports Trump is going to release a video statement.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347334804052844550 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347334804052844550)
Trump does a law and order speech
:titus

He calls for healing and everyone to work together to fight the pandemic  :dead

He will now turn his attention to a peaceful transition of power  :doge
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 07, 2021, 07:22:36 PM
Is this the moment Donald Trump became president?
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Post by: Nintex on January 07, 2021, 07:35:44 PM
It's going to be quite something when the media rehabilitates this guy after he releases his book.

"So the storming of the Capitol Donald, what was that all about"

"Well Jimmy what can I say, I'm just not a very good loser, this one time I played Monopoly with Ivanka and set the board on fire when I lost and her cat burned to death"

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/f2/2f/00f22f47c98d0c9fbaeae29e40f1b476.gif)

"Did you ever consider firing the nukes?"

"Only on Rosie O' Donell"

(https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/57dbf7231800006c32bd1db6.gif?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale)
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Post by: team filler on January 07, 2021, 07:37:43 PM
 :dead
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 07:45:36 PM
Is this the moment Donald Trump became president?
Proud to be listening to my President :american
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 07, 2021, 07:45:42 PM
kimmel's fake overlaugh  :-X
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 08:21:39 PM
https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1347343313297432577

(https://i.imgur.com/HkIQeHc.gif)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 07, 2021, 08:31:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uGC8bNJgf8
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 08:32:14 PM
:society
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 08:38:18 PM
Only source is NPR and it's been deleted. Is it actually true?
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Post by: EchoRin on January 07, 2021, 08:39:01 PM
kimmel's fake overlaugh  :-X
Kimmel? That's Colbert, idiot.

Oops. I mixed up the names in my head too. Jimmy Fallon.

Though I always call him Jimmy Sandler in terms of how funny he is nowadays.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 08:39:23 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-capitol-police/u-s-capitol-police-officer-has-died-following-attack-on-capitol-building-cnn-idUSKBN29D00G
https://www.abc27.com/news/us-world/national/us-capitol-police-officer-dies-following-injuries-sustained-during-riot/
https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954333542/four-dead-police-injured-dozens-arrested-after-siege-at-the-u-s-capitol
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 08:46:52 PM
Quote
A US Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, three sources confirm to CNN

Part of me thinks you wouldn't need to say "three sources confirm" if you were 100% sure it was true.

U.S. Capitol Police say reports of officer death not accurate

Lol click that reuters link again man.
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 08:46:52 PM
Twitter really is trash, I should stop relying on it for news. :lol
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 08:47:42 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/aabp90jc9z961.png?width=582&auto=webp&s=9f819079f5f59f5740f616204e14aeb61f16d3ec)
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 08:49:27 PM
Quote
A US Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, three sources confirm to CNN

Part of me thinks you wouldn't need to say "three sources confirm" if you were 100% sure it was true.

U.S. Capitol Police say reports of officer death not accurate

Lol click that reuters link again man.
:like

Quote
Updated 6 minutes ago 
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 07, 2021, 08:49:34 PM
Is this the moment Donald Trump became president?

The tone of a president!  :usacry

https://mobile.twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1347340694134910986
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 08:50:26 PM
https://youtu.be/sStJs0fzgCc

I learned everything I know about American journalism from The Newsroom :fbm
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Post by: Transhuman on January 07, 2021, 08:52:34 PM
Who knew Aaron Sorkin's sanctimoniousness, Coldplay's "Fix you", and Mandarin subtitles would work so well together
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 08:57:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_gAGKVdXg

Had a good teaser for season 2 at least :trumps
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Post by: Tasty on January 07, 2021, 09:04:34 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/baUOinrl.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9O94UTDAJQ
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Post by: OnlyRegret on January 07, 2021, 09:19:50 PM
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1347120890937438208
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Post by: Potato on January 07, 2021, 09:22:50 PM
Trump suddenly going all presidential makes it clear Pence threatened to 25th amendment the cunt.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 09:44:40 PM
trump be like, but rudy told he he would fix this
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 09:52:57 PM
Did the generals tell him he's going to be arrested for treason or something?
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 07, 2021, 10:02:36 PM
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1347369974860554244
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Post by: tiesto on January 07, 2021, 10:10:49 PM
Someone I was close friends with since high school, over 20 years, but I dropped when corona first broke due to him going super deep into Qanon territory (he was always into the conspiracy theories, but I always thought more in a "but, maybe..." kinda way, not an "I actually believe this and live my life by this".... I learned through a mutual FB friend that him, his wife, and 2 young children (3 and an infant) went to the rally and posted on FB. About how he believes it was a rigged election but doesn't condone violence ("bu, bu, BLM") and how he said the Capitol break in was instigated by BLM/Antifa. :P

So glad I dropped him.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 07, 2021, 10:20:24 PM
Someone I was close friends with since high school, over 20 years, but I dropped when corona first broke due to him going super deep into Qanon territory (he was always into the conspiracy theories, but I always thought more in a "but, maybe..." kinda way, not an "I actually believe this and live my life by this".... I learned through a mutual FB friend that him, his wife, and 2 young children (3 and an infant) went to the rally and posted on FB. About how he believes it was a rigged election but doesn't condone violence ("bu, bu, BLM") and how he said the Capitol break in was instigated by BLM/Antifa. :P

So glad I dropped him.

My roommate yesterday had a Zoom call with a friend. And this friend told him something to the effect of "hey a person I knew from church is at the rally and actually speaking. Should I report him?" My roommate popped out of his room after the call with a look of bewilderment and wtf-ness. Not sure what the outcome was, but I guess if this was a dude being broadcasted, they wouldn't have to do anything anyways as I guess if authorities do want to get him that will be fairly easy.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 10:28:53 PM
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1347327314363904006
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Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2021, 10:32:50 PM
lol "national security fallout"
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 07, 2021, 10:43:37 PM
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1347386742085705728
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 10:47:12 PM
Doesn't impeachment make him ineligible to run again?  Not sure how it wouldn't be in the GOP's interests if so.
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Post by: remy on January 07, 2021, 10:48:35 PM
I thought he already got impeached
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2021, 10:48:37 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-officer-riot/index.html

Officer not dead but on life support
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 10:55:50 PM
Ineligibility to run for office is one of the outcomes of being impeached, if the senate decides to do it.

Impeachment itself has no consequences. 

Imagine being impeached a second time so that a dude could take pelosis mail.
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 07, 2021, 11:05:36 PM
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1347357939049373696

 He really is just the all-time biggest piece of shit  :lol
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Post by: EchoRin on January 07, 2021, 11:31:21 PM
https://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/status/1347269869008420864

Straight out of Nintex's fan fiction  :D
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 11:34:50 PM
Peanut.


You know that's some inside joke/insult that fucking haunting sorbet.
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Post by: james on January 07, 2021, 11:44:40 PM
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1347369974860554244

No one could have seen this coming
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2021, 11:52:31 PM
How do we make Bernie senate leader?
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Post by: benjipwns on January 08, 2021, 12:22:41 AM
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1347370245519003649
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Post by: team filler on January 08, 2021, 12:29:12 AM
 :delicious
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Post by: Tripon on January 08, 2021, 01:56:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH8tOcby31c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlRfxdt5_cY
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Post by: Coax on January 08, 2021, 03:54:14 AM
(https://preview.redd.it/aabp90jc9z961.png?width=582&auto=webp&s=9f819079f5f59f5740f616204e14aeb61f16d3ec)

Did some searching for the truck he's standing in front of and eventually found the guy from the avatar from an article about the truck. Has a different name than the handle suggests. I'd be interested if anything publicly accessible comes from this.

Ironically the same site that made the article and took the photo later posted an article about the Capitol events with that tweet without anyone noticing.
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Post by: VomKriege on January 08, 2021, 05:55:31 AM
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1347357939049373696

 He really is just the all-time biggest piece of shit  :lol

Would have looked better with coordinated brown shirts.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 08, 2021, 09:25:50 AM
They realized using a nazi flag would be a red flag (ha) after everyone calling everyone a nazi for every little thing (see era).
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Post by: ToxicAdam on January 08, 2021, 09:35:05 AM
I think the tone of extremist iconography has shifted in the past 30 years. In the past, it was more blatant and used as intimidation. Now it seems to be more subtle and used more to communicate to other like-minded individuals instead.

Why wave a nazi flag, when a trump hat or an iron cross tattoo on your neck has the same effect?



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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 08, 2021, 09:47:00 AM
https://twitter.com/dpakman/status/1347225271120887808
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 08, 2021, 10:00:26 AM

I think the tone of extremist iconography has shifted in the past 30 years. In the past, it was more blatant and used as intimidation. Now it seems to be more subtle and used more to communicate to other like-minded individuals instead.

Why wave a nazi flag, when a trump hat or an iron cross tattoo on your neck has the same effect?


Imagine making trump your defining political drive.
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Post by: Uncle on January 08, 2021, 11:02:54 AM
they let him back on the twooter

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347555316863553542

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347569870578266115
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 11:20:08 AM
2024 is going to be a fucking disaster y'all.

Always was gonna be.

The question is now that Dems have both houses are they actually gonna put petal to the metal or are the gonna pussy out like they did 2008-2010?

Stack courts. Fill appointments. Gerrymander the fuck out of shit even if that's not your job. Cram through as much progressive and liberal regulations you can because the work on rolling it all back begins November 2022, not even two years from now.

Fix healthcare. Put us back on the right path for climate change. Investigate and prosecute Big Tech. The Democrats have the power now to really fix our country and it's time they actually go all the way.
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Post by: Trent Dole on January 08, 2021, 11:31:57 AM
Joe Biden's geriatric centrist ass isn't going to do any of that without a ton of pressure being applied and even then it's gonna be crumbs and not true meaningful sweeping reform.
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 11:34:12 AM
Joe Biden's geriatric centrist ass isn't going to do any of that without a ton of pressure being applied and even then it's gonna be crumbs and not true meaningful sweeping reform.

Exactly.

#TimuWasRight
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Post by: zomgee on January 08, 2021, 02:12:56 PM
Not with BIG BALLER JOE MANCHIN ON THE CASE!
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 02:26:12 PM
https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1347608166427717633 (https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1347608166427717633)
"Now, now everyone, this is a time of HEALING our fractured nation" :snob

"... until we put this lunatic on our ticket again in 2024 to get our tax cuts"
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Post by: mormapope on January 08, 2021, 02:30:23 PM
I don't think Joe Biden is going to be an apex savior that fixes this country, but the belly aching and gloom is misplaced. We're living in a fucking exciting and incredibly interesting dystopia brehs. We were set on this path long before this point.

I mean, this might come across as flippant, but we're living in a very interesting period of time. Lady year sorta shows that life ain't as predictable as we make it out to be.
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 02:42:15 PM
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1347626424572792836 (https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1347626424572792836)

https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1347627168923332609 (https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1347627168923332609)

 :doge
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Post by: T-Short on January 08, 2021, 03:20:32 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1347621966757433344
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 08, 2021, 03:33:50 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/RawStory/status/1347610287218843652

 :thinking
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Post by: Uncle on January 08, 2021, 03:41:03 PM
:dead :dead :dead :dead
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 04:08:20 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347644276390420480 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347644276390420480)

At this point, the best they can hope for is that Roger Stone and Bannon have never shown Trump the Saddam coup footage.  :doge
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Post by: Potato on January 08, 2021, 04:52:23 PM
One of the biggest problems in recent US politics has been that throughout its history it always had an external threat to distract the psychopathic elements of the country.

Britain, communism, brown people, terrorists, Mexicans, etc. Politicians could always point to these external threats and tell the lunatics to hate them and fear them. That kept the crazies from focussing on internal issues too much.

When faced with no significant external threats over the past 10 years and the very big existential threat of climate change, the psychopaths decided to focus their hate internally and Trump and the lunacy of the last 4 years is the result.

All Biden needs to do is create an external threat to distract the mental cases and he can do whatever he wants domestically. It's what Trump tried to do with China when things started going to hell for him.
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 08, 2021, 05:11:43 PM
https://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/status/1347269869008420864

Straight out of Nintex's fan fiction  :D

Lucy Lawless still all around  :mouf
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Post by: Potato on January 08, 2021, 05:12:55 PM
https://twitter.com/RealLucyLawless/status/1347269869008420864

Straight out of Nintex's fan fiction  :D

Lucy Lawless still all around  :mouf
And usually shows dem tiddies too
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 06:17:40 PM
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/apple-threatens-ban-parler

Finally using this event to do some much needed cleanup. Good.
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Post by: Uncle on January 08, 2021, 06:25:17 PM
can't you just use the web browser
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 08, 2021, 06:26:19 PM
https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1347390270275538946
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 08, 2021, 06:28:26 PM
They finally did it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1347684877634838528
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Post by: brawndolicious on January 08, 2021, 06:34:46 PM
Rekt
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Post by: ToxicAdam on January 08, 2021, 06:35:31 PM
The Bore will take him in.
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Post by: BIONIC on January 08, 2021, 06:36:41 PM
Nintex, post if you’re okay.
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 08, 2021, 06:37:57 PM
"After a close review of four years"
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 08, 2021, 06:43:05 PM
The Bore will take him in.
no cream no deal
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 06:47:24 PM
Our boi went out with a bang  :tocry

The greatest shit poster of all fucking time.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErP0bgSXUAEKxwW?format=jpg)

Our boi went out with a bang  :tocry

The greatest shit poster of all fucking time.

Fuck outta here, no.
He shit posted all the way to the White House.
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 06:48:57 PM
Our boi went out with a bang  :tocry

The greatest shit poster of all fucking time.

Fuck outta here, no.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 08, 2021, 06:57:30 PM
He went out with a wimper. If he had balls he would have outright ignored his ban and KEPT saying there was election fraud to force them ban him. Instead he capitulated, and they banned him anyway (for not showing enough humility). Twitter won.
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 07:01:10 PM
https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617 (https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617)

Night of the long tweets
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Post by: Rman on January 08, 2021, 07:12:12 PM
LMAO.

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Post by: T-Short on January 08, 2021, 07:24:55 PM
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288
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Post by: Rman on January 08, 2021, 07:27:34 PM
So Trump was planning another Redneck Rampage? I read the reasoning and that was something that was going to happen apparently.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 08, 2021, 07:29:53 PM
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288

This really gets at the point. 
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Post by: james on January 08, 2021, 07:46:47 PM
Now he can't post the UFO files

 :existential
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 07:53:52 PM
They're all changing their Twitter pic to Trump now  :lol
https://twitter.com/HiiiPow3r/status/1347707277801709569 (https://twitter.com/HiiiPow3r/status/1347707277801709569)

Anyway, Twitter employees put the pressure on and that's why they ultimately balked and banned Trump.
They've also put out a statement that they'll ban @whitehouse and @potus and any new account if he tries to circumvent the ban

Anyhow, not the only pissed off Trump fans

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1347683167562567680 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1347683167562567680)

and now people are making these
https://twitter.com/barronjohn1946/status/1347694753786200064 (https://twitter.com/barronjohn1946/status/1347694753786200064)

:dead
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Post by: Transhuman on January 08, 2021, 08:09:59 PM
Maybe now politics will be less of a spectator sport for political hobbyists, hucksters trying to make a quick buck, and bored celebrities looking to increase their profile, so the public can actually clash on shit that matters like capital punishment, gun control, wealth inequality, abortion, police violence, healthcare reform, net neutrality, environmentalism, etc. I'm sick of the reality show.
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Post by: zomgee on January 08, 2021, 08:13:57 PM
All I gotta do is start a website, put the word patriot in
the url, make a banner with red, white, and blue and an eagle staring at you, and I've created a reliable news source. So no things aren't going to change that much.
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 08:21:02 PM
Apparently they were trying to organize a second insurrection on the 17th or 19th.
Google Play Store has banned Parler, Apple will do so if they don't start modding within 24 hours.

YouTube also banned Bannons channel.  Twitter banned Flynn and Powell.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 08, 2021, 08:23:21 PM
Not "were". But yes.
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 08:37:30 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErQOtfYXMAMuW82?format=jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErQOxjKXUAAU-Xz?format=jpg)

They deleted it just as Tucker was reading it live on Fox News
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Post by: Rman on January 08, 2021, 08:40:39 PM
You know this is killing him more than losing the election or anything else--including COVID-19, The Senate Races, impeachment, etc.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 08, 2021, 08:44:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUWsX-DM3Y
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Post by: Nintex on January 08, 2021, 08:50:31 PM
You know this is killing him more than losing the election or anything else--including COVID-19, The Senate Races, impeachment, etc.
I'm thinking that every piece of Presidential Power will be tested like this over the next 12 days.
Wouldn't surprise me if he suddenly withdrew from Afghanistan or announced a sudden COVID lockdown.

Anyhow the blame game is on and most blame Mark Meadows for bringing in Rudy, Powell, Flynn etc. .
Jared apparently warned people not to deal with him anymore.

Cocaine Mitch takes no prisoners Trump
https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1347723947542982658 (https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1347723947542982658)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 08, 2021, 09:05:33 PM
Trump got perm'd for trying to ban-evade by posting on his alt! :neogaf
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Post by: Potato on January 08, 2021, 09:30:59 PM
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 08, 2021, 09:31:58 PM
They are going to believe it either way, might as well actually do it. 
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Post by: Potato on January 08, 2021, 09:33:32 PM
But this is just "evidence" that they are right. It sounds fucking stupid, but that's what it is.
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 09:34:05 PM
Honestly Section 230 is probably done for sure now. :shaq2

But the repercussions of that are going to be even worse for Republicans so it's hard to care :trumps
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 08, 2021, 09:36:17 PM
guilianni posting at 9:11 PM

 :lol
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 08, 2021, 09:50:30 PM
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.

Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 08, 2021, 09:53:51 PM
reddit getting in on feeding frenzy  https://www.reddit.com/r/donaldtrump
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Post by: Stoney Mason on January 08, 2021, 09:58:06 PM
2nd decent day in the last 4 years. Fuck Trump. Fuck his enablers. Fuck the people who popped up on this board to crow about him post election. Our country still sucks but that piece of shit and his posse who have been enabled for the last 4 years at least get one day of eating shit before they get back to their steady diet of racism and hate.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 08, 2021, 10:04:49 PM
2nd decent day in the last 4 years. Fuck Trump. Fuck his enablers. Fuck the people who popped up on this board to crow about him post election. Our country still sucks but that piece of shit and his posse who have been enabled for the last 4 years at least get one day of eating shit before they get back to their steady diet of racism and hate.

2016
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 08, 2021, 10:11:56 PM
Two questions, will this get any stupider and what are the chances of Trump fleeing to Panama in the next few weeks?
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Post by: zomgee on January 08, 2021, 10:23:54 PM
reddit getting in on feeding frenzy  https://www.reddit.com/r/donaldtrump

thanos_snap.gif
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Post by: Potato on January 08, 2021, 10:40:32 PM
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.

Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.

This is just performative bullshit from Twitter because they see the writing on the wall that they are going to be the ones taking a huge chunk of the blame for this (and rightfully so).

This remains the best take on Twitter's implicit consent to Trump and his followers:

Quote
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288 (https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288)
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Post by: Tasty on January 08, 2021, 10:54:48 PM
Seems like Twitter is just playing into Trump's hands by banning him. Just makes his supporters feel like he's telling the truth about this and the rest of his mad ravings.

Well, we tried the whole pandering to nutjobs to keep them placated for 4 years and it didn't work, so might as well just ban them from the public sphere all together really.
The time to act was when he was calling actual nazis marching in the streets "good people", not two days after he incited people to attack the parliament.

This is just performative bullshit from Twitter because they see the writing on the wall that they are going to be the ones taking a huge chunk of the blame for this (and rightfully so).

This remains the best take on Twitter's implicit consent to Trump and his followers:

Quote
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288 (https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1347690198163980288)

The best time to ban was before this happened.

The second best time is right now.

Regardless of Twitter's opportunism, it's still the right call regardless of timing or other context.
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Post by: Coffee Dog on January 08, 2021, 11:16:59 PM
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead
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Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 08, 2021, 11:42:17 PM
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 08, 2021, 11:44:24 PM
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.

Could even claim that Jack Dorsey is a terrorist, what with that beard and all  ;)
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 08, 2021, 11:49:46 PM
This twitter thing is gonna be pretty funny until he orders seal team 6 to twitter HQ.

Feels that at this point he couldn’t even ask that.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 08, 2021, 11:53:28 PM
For some reason, I don't see any central or south American country taking in a disgraced US president fleeing after attempting a coup

High chances AMLO floated the idea to do it. The asshole  really wanted to be in Trump good side even when it was clear he lost.

Caudillos over democracy.
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Post by: Uncle on January 09, 2021, 12:47:19 AM
Honestly Section 230 is probably done for sure now. :shaq2

But the repercussions of that are going to be even worse for Republicans so it's hard to care :trumps

no...no this would have a massive effect on pretty much everything and everyone

this isn't just about social media

"no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

students are working on a collaborative document, or have a small group chat, or freakin email each other, and someone says something another person doesn't like...suddenly the site hosting the document or email is liable

youtube suddenly gutted of billions of videos since they have no idea what blurb buried inside a random video is going to offend someone

redlettermedia has shit on all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons over the years, and now it's as if youtube itself is endorsing those statements as true



someone uploads a picture to imgur that says "dominion voting machines were rigged" and the caption at the top says "can you believe the audacity of these people to make these claims?"  guess what...the image itself can be hotlinked without the context of the caption, and imgur is hosting that image with false information on it



the internet would be utterly fucked sideways in every conceivable way
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Post by: chronovore on January 09, 2021, 03:07:00 AM
https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617 (https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1347677579470319617)

Night of the wrong tweets

FTFY
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 09, 2021, 05:41:24 AM
https://twitter.com/charles_kinbote/status/1347763805732954116
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 09, 2021, 05:43:25 AM
https://twitter.com/JeremyMonjo/status/1347798290910203904
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 06:19:28 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErPiYWAXUAA-0Gc?format=jpg)

RIP king  :fbm
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 06:57:32 AM
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYj8fXjXQAIi6Gx?format=png&name=large)
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Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 07:00:16 AM
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYj8fXjXQAIi6Gx?format=png&name=large)

Not it isn't

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep28gLfUwAAFv8u?format=jpg)
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 07:28:59 AM
Is it like an autostereogram? All I see is a joke about how dumb Trump supporters are.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.insider.com/5513252f69bedd5f0216b737)
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 09, 2021, 07:50:58 AM
This convo is too deep and big brained for me to follow :titus

Trashy and nintex are next level thinkers to us plebs :snob
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Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 08:16:21 AM
Here's someone who warned about this thing and kept a close eye on Trumpverse as it unfolded.
https://www.gq.com/story/man-predicted-capitol-coup-interview (https://www.gq.com/story/man-predicted-capitol-coup-interview)

Some interesting points, like how the Trumpists thought the election was in the bag because Trump told them he was ahead in California.

He also highlights how the people that came there to protest expected to be part of 'something bigger'. Some actual plan to change the election result or for the military to intervene.
They were sort of in a 'now what' situation once they realized Trump wasn't going to send in the troops or do anything else. They were certainly there to arrest and judge Pence, Pelosi etc. on his behalf though.
But they were surprised that once they breached the Capitol Trump didn't give them any specific order and told them to go home instead. We now know that while the Capitol was under siege Trump and Rudy called Senators to pressure them into delaying the whole thing.


https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1347873848008597504 (https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1347873848008597504)
:dead
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 09, 2021, 08:53:15 AM
Merrick Garland is gonna get that ass as AG.
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Post by: chronovore on January 09, 2021, 09:35:08 AM
http://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1347610287218843652
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 09, 2021, 09:56:54 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFiPg_XAAEQgS1?format=jpg&name=medium)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErFiQH3UcAMqTlD?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: bork on January 09, 2021, 10:20:35 AM
https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1347722799746584577
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Post by: team filler on January 09, 2021, 10:51:31 AM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1347660367506370560

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1347693768825180160

 :chinacry
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Post by: EchoRin on January 09, 2021, 11:06:18 AM
Was it for a specific tweet/cartoon? Whenever one of you would post one of his drawings in here, I always assumed it making fun of Trump supporters by pointing out how stupid and over the top they are, had no idea they were supposed to be political propaganda taken at face value.

Next you'll be telling me this isn't satire.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYj8fXjXQAIi6Gx?format=png&name=large)

It was Ben Garrison. A bit off his rocker to say the least.

Though yeah we usually got a kick out of laughing at him.
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Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 11:12:24 AM
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445)

 :wut
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 12:01:39 PM
Nintex you seem decent in any other interaction I have seen on this board but your fawning over these people betrays a pretty gross personality trait.
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Post by: T-Short on January 09, 2021, 12:10:04 PM
https://twitter.com/TheHyyyype/status/1347924869208535041
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 09, 2021, 12:17:04 PM
imagine being nintex
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Post by: BIONIC on January 09, 2021, 12:18:09 PM
Nintex is great.
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Post by: team filler on January 09, 2021, 12:21:25 PM
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1347926393871421445)


 :wut
https://twitter.com/19Phranchize/status/1347941717249548289

 :fbm etiolate, assy, opti, rolf, and now trumpy too  :stahp I know how it feels to be banned everywhere too  :mjcry


https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347913012494163968

 :society


https://twitter.com/59dallas/status/1346963199778828290

 :yeshrug
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 12:44:49 PM
Nintex you seem decent in any other interaction I have seen on this board but your fawning over these people betrays a pretty gross personality trait.

A lot of trolls are like that. Not even saying it to disrespect Nintex, just saying.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 12:50:14 PM
I guess.  It's also that I have been here a long time and in that time I have been racist, fat-phobic, transphobic, among other thigns, but I have been improving over the course of a decade and part of that was being called out on poor behavior.  I don't think Nintex is a bad person but I do think he can be better.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 12:59:50 PM
Nintex is great.

It's true, but a great what.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nuitangg on January 09, 2021, 01:10:41 PM
https://twitter.com/anita1956/status/1347742473313873920
 :dead
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Post by: Tasty on January 09, 2021, 01:40:21 PM
https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1347722799746584577

Made me laugh really hard. :lol
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Post by: Tasty on January 09, 2021, 01:53:10 PM
Wait what's the gift? :lol :lol

(https://i.imgur.com/Ze0cHE4.gif)
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 02:06:12 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/cBVteh0.png)
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Post by: EchoRin on January 09, 2021, 02:12:29 PM
Extra rich with how Trump tried to damage the USPS hahaha
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Post by: team filler on January 09, 2021, 02:12:45 PM
https://twitter.com/Abnasty210/status/1347911302140850176

 :neogaf
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Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 02:19:36 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTvHzfVEAABauS?format=jpg)

lmao they're taking the piss on parler
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 02:21:26 PM
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347968971090366464

I tuned in to that livestream, literally the first thing I hear is the woman on stage saying "if anyone finds an envelope with 5 passwords in it, could you please hand it in so we can get it to the proper person".
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Post by: Nintex on January 09, 2021, 02:28:49 PM
https://twitter.com/PoliticoRyan/status/1347985963193167872 (https://twitter.com/PoliticoRyan/status/1347985963193167872)

Quote
The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”

Quote
One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.

“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said. “We have a lot of accomplishments of this administration that should be highlighted so that we can leave a good final impression.
:titus

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Post by: nudemacusers on January 09, 2021, 02:34:22 PM
free tickets to trumpcon 2021 ofc
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Post by: Uncle on January 09, 2021, 02:39:49 PM
the way that sentence was constructed  :lol

Quote
The president is “ballistic,” (a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account,) citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.”
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Post by: team filler on January 09, 2021, 02:47:39 PM
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1347968971090366464

I tuned in to that livestream, literally the first thing I hear is the woman on stage saying "if anyone finds an envelope with 5 passwords in it, could you please hand it in so we can get it to the proper person".
(https://i.imgur.com/k6Z3G4y.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 09, 2021, 03:16:42 PM
Rudy should announce he's going to sue Twitter. I want to see that.
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Post by: team filler on January 09, 2021, 03:20:47 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1347922394497884167


 :badass

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Post by: Potato on January 09, 2021, 03:32:02 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1347922394497884167


 :badass


Lol I don't think I've ever read anything on Forbes.com that came across as truthful.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 09, 2021, 05:32:18 PM
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead

No, see, Twitter is the only platform for presenting speech. If they ban you, that's basically making it so no one will ever see or hear you ever again. Not unlike Communist Russia.
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Post by: zomgee on January 09, 2021, 06:53:09 PM
Can't make a fortnite announcement if you can't download fortnite.

thinking.jyff
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 07:46:52 PM
The president has all the methods in the world to communicate with people but he's ban evading and desperate for jack dorsey to take pity on him  :dead

No, see, Twitter is the only platform for presenting speech. If they ban you, that's basically making it so no one will ever see or hear you ever again. Not unlike Communist Russia.

Being fair, many of the bigger social platforms are actually colluding to actually ban him from their services (thought they are not exactly in the wrong to do it) so is not like has better options at social media beyond Parler.

Of course, being ultra fair, he has that megaphone called FoxNews still ready to go for the most part, so.  :yeshrug
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Post by: Svejk on January 09, 2021, 08:12:00 PM
Supposedly there were special forces secretly mixed in with the riot goons (as to why they were "let in"), and have confiscated Nancy Pelosi's laptop.  She's freaking out and pushing the impeachment HARD. :rofl
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Post by: EchoRin on January 09, 2021, 08:50:14 PM
https://youtu.be/nO7paBcllck

spoiler (click to show/hide)
personally I think they should have given him the boot long before now, but sure I can understand this argument too. I felt just the same as this video as recently as 2014 or so.
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Post by: Potato on January 09, 2021, 08:59:34 PM
Twitter banning Trump is no different to any other news channel deciding they won't carry any words/audio/video of him. It's not censorship, it's editorial independence.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
However, if Twitter can decide to take editorial action to censor people, then aren't they essentially a news service or publisher and shouldn't they be subject to the same editorial standards?
 :money
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 10:06:46 PM
Counterpoint - a lot of social progress has been made because of social media since it gives a voice to minorities.  It just happens that 1) bigots are also a minority that found a voice and 2) fast changes in social progress fueled a counter-reaction.  Twitter wasn't a mistake, it was treating bigoted speech, and opinions as fact as equally valid that was the mistake.  Also, I really hate how everyone has it out for social media but acts like Fox News is just something we have to live with. 
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 09, 2021, 10:11:08 PM
Jack should just admit twitter was a mistake and shut down the whole platform and go live in a hut in the Amazon or whatever weird things he does

People would instantly create twitter 2.0 so they can tell everyone about how happy they are that twitter is dead
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 09, 2021, 10:44:36 PM
Supposedly there were special forces secretly mixed in with the riot goons (as to why they were "let in"), and have confiscated Nancy Pelosi's laptop.  She's freaking out and pushing the impeachment HARD. :rofl

Doesn’t seem plausible, this didn’t even happen as part of a shootout with the CIA in some European capital, and I don’t see a single mention of Hugo Chavez or spy satellites.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 09, 2021, 10:51:33 PM
So I guess for you guys the point at which free speech ends is when a politician mobilizes their fanatical worshipers in an attempt to mount a political coup to stay in power. And you dare call yourselves progressives.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 09, 2021, 10:54:12 PM
what a cunt

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347928868859097088

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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 10:57:05 PM
Isn't it necessary that Sanders stays in his current position? 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 09, 2021, 10:58:34 PM
maybe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 09, 2021, 11:01:56 PM
I see EGS hasn't banned him tho

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1347585193536872448
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 11:02:59 PM
maybe

You know your senate majority is tight as hell, right?
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 09, 2021, 11:03:46 PM
So I guess for you guys the point at which free speech ends is when a politician mobilizes their fanatical worshipers in an attempt to mount a political coup to stay in power. And you dare call yourselves progressives.

So much for the tolerant Left!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 09, 2021, 11:05:35 PM
what a cunt

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347928868859097088

Bernie would get replaced in the Senate by Phil Scott, the Republican governor of Vermont. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't pick a replacement who'd caucus with the Democrats.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 11:08:09 PM
So I guess for you guys the point at which free speech ends is when a politician mobilizes their fanatical worshipers in an attempt to mount a political coup to stay in power. And you dare call yourselves progressives.

Is more worrying how many people forget this, including the people celebrating Trump ban.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 11:26:48 PM
Canada has hate speech laws and conservatives howl all the time about how it's a slippery slope and how they will be misused.  I can think of one time in my life where it might be questionable.  making Nazis shut up is a pretty effective anti-nazi method.  The fact the left traditionally needed to fight for free speech really only goes to the fact that limited speech was weaponized against the left and it had to be overcome, not that free speech is inherently a good thing in all situations. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 11:29:32 PM
Also when the AIs take over, only I will be able to make twitter posts.  Forwarning you guys now. 
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 11:29:37 PM
Canada has hate speech laws and conservatives howl all the time about how it's a slippery slope and how they will be misused.  I can think of one time in my life where it might be questionable.  making Nazis shut up is a pretty effective anti-nazi method.  The fact the left traditionally needed to fight for free speech really only goes to the fact that limited speech was weaponized against the left and it had to be overcome, not that free speech is inherently a good thing in all situations.

Lol

What makes you think your political side will keep the monopoly of how to weaponize speech?

Shitty half assed posturing to take.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 09, 2021, 11:31:42 PM
maybe

You know your senate majority is tight as hell, right?

I don't have a senate.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 09, 2021, 11:42:47 PM
Same reason I think that banning guns won't lead to the US becoming a dictatorship.  It's not the guns or the speech laws that matter, if it's going to happen, the political landscape has changed drastically to the point that concern about the laws is pointless.  Now I was talking about it in terms of twitter in my head which got muddied when I brought in the Canadain laws, which was a mistake, but even if the US passed hate speech laws, it's not in the political landscape right now to call BLM or environmentalism hate speech or whatever the fear may be, and if it were possible we'd be in bigger trouble than them calling BLM hate speech.  Like if it ever got to that point, they could just as easy call them a terrorist group with existing laws. 
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 09, 2021, 11:56:31 PM
Why the fuck are you comparing guns with free speech?

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It's not the guns or the speech laws that matter, if it's going to happen, the political landscape has changed drastically to the point that concern about the laws is pointless.   

You know that is not a good thing to begin with, right?

I can say that, I from a country where respecting laws are not high concern for the elite class unless is convenient against political rivals.

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  Like if it ever got to that point, they could just as easy call them a terrorist group with existing laws.

USA current anti terror laws are criticized precisely because they could make the government easy to exploit them and curb free expression. Why did you think Trump was eager to call the National Guard with the BLM protests?
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 10, 2021, 08:41:15 AM
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 10, 2021, 10:07:34 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ORZ_iwO3w
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 10, 2021, 10:38:21 AM
making Nazis shut up is a pretty effective anti-nazi method.

:dunno

think of any idea, no matter how taboo, and no matter how censored and oppressed it has been across history, and you'll find believers and practitioners of that idea persist today.

You can't kill ideas by stifling them or pretending they don't exist.
You kill them by dismantling them and deconstructing them, and you make them openly available and ostensibly ridiculous so theres no illicit thrill of transgression by people talking about them, and they can't have that seduction of rebellion or forbidden knowledge.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 10, 2021, 11:22:36 AM
I agree.  The method by itself obviously doesn't get rid of all nazis, but it does contain it to the point where you can try to dismantle them and deconstruct them (and even then you will never get rid of fascism, you can just perpetually contain it).  But you can not do this when they can just look at their thousands of online nazi friends and think 'Nope, we are actually the right ones'.  It's not pretending it's not an issue and not a cure-all.
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Post by: Tasty on January 10, 2021, 11:32:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ORZ_iwO3w

Fucking scary.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 10, 2021, 11:52:00 AM
Yes, that is my point.  Under Obama, they were silenced and in hiding, you need to at least get back to that before you can actually get the problem under control.  Not allowing for their ideology to spread is necessary for that.  Now what you are saying is well they were always there and all it took was from them to be unsilenced for this to happen and my point is ya let's try harder to keep them silenced in the first place because once it's out there, it is a lot harder to put the lid back on.  I acknowledge that this does not address any of the reasons why nazis are nazis other than being exposed to the ideology - but that was never my point.  They fester far worse when they spread their hate than when they can not.  They are going to believe nonsense regardless so limiting the amount of nonsense they see does help.  In terms of the US, I really don't see it getting better, as I have posted multiple times over the last few years, I do not see a way for undoing the damage that has been done without violence. 
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 10, 2021, 12:47:19 PM
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Toomey on Sunday joined his Senate colleague Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling for Trump to resign.

"I think at this point with just a few days left [in Trump's term], it's the best path forward, the best way to get this person in the rearview mirror for us," Toomey told CNN's State of the Union. "That could happen immediately. I'm not optimistic it will, but I do think that would be the best way forward."

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/10/955410729/gop-sen-toomey-joins-call-for-trump-to-resign-as-house-impeachment-plans-move-ah
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 10, 2021, 01:29:57 PM
It's not a cycle.

Fuck these people.
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Post by: BIONIC on January 10, 2021, 01:37:19 PM
It's not a cycle.

Fuck these people.

Tio Bernie would’ve fixed everything  :bernie
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Post by: Uncle on January 10, 2021, 01:54:56 PM
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.

so what's your reaction to them?

to call for violence? if getting people out of their echo chambers isn't viable then I guess you have to silence them another way?
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 10, 2021, 01:56:21 PM
It's not a cycle.

Fuck these people.

Tio Bernie would’ve fixed everything  :bernie

The revolution brought on would have.
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 01:57:11 PM
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.

so what's your reaction to them?

to call for violence? if getting people out of their echo chambers isn't viable then I guess you have to silence them another way?

Organize a convention /rally

Have tens of thousands of them in one place

Accidentally drop a nuke

Problem solved.

Its the humane solution
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Post by: EchoRin on January 10, 2021, 02:03:04 PM
Certified by Occam
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Post by: Cryo on January 10, 2021, 03:16:07 PM
So its either a constant that Americans just have to accept as part of their country (valid, the country was founded on racial genocide). Or, its something that can be cured or at least addressed. Many people who work with getting people out of the KKK and have been doing so successfully, claim dialogue is the way forward. Getting people out of their echo chambers.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes (https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes)

Its a really effective way of doing it.

But, it'll never happen because its a country that runs on making the rich richer and the poor poorer. And the theatre of politics is a really good diversion.

Anyways, I have like maybe another good 20 years left of my life, so the fight just seems fruitless. But here's a really good reddit post I read some time back and bookmarked.

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I think there's a misconception when a lot of people ask this question. There's no shadowy cabal manipulating the entire world for their collective benefit.

There are a lot of individual people who happen to benefit from largescale changes in public opinion, and some of those individuals are deliberately misleading people to that end, but they're rarely doing it in any sort of concerted effort with anyone else.

The exceptions are largely think-tank PACs that are designed to do it and advertising companies, which are also designed to do it. News media tends to do it, but with little cooperation with anyone else.

And at the end of the day, all of the people doing this deliberately have one thing in common: they're rich. It's not necessarily done as a distraction though; it's more often done just because there's a product to be sold and money to be made. There are very few "evil geniuses" out there who are trying to destroy the world and keep people unaware the whole time. This is partially because anyone with a real amount of power, influence, and intelligence will tell you that the public's attention span is low enough that there's no need to distract them. They'll do it themselves.

The way you stop them is to engage in local and national politics, keep a level head, use primary citation sources, and demand changes that prevent or discourage the above behavior. Namely:

Get money out of politics. Elections should be publicly-funded with VERY strict laws surrounding the kinds of advertisements you can do and the sources of those advertisements;

Change the voting system from First Past the Post to Ranked Choice/Instant Runoff, or other voting options that allow for multiple viable parties to exist;

Strict ethics/accountability watchdogs with the power to actually punish public figures that abuse their power; and

Strict regulations surrounding news media and media that purports to be news such that their material must be very distinctly divided between news and entertainment, and that the news must be entirely fact-based or evidence-based using non-partisan fact checkers as watchdogs with (again) strict punishments for deviations.

Basically, we need to empower independent groups to police and punish people for lying and abusing authority. And those punishments have to have real teeth.
I don’t see why any of these goals, which many recognize as important, require a source of hyperspeed conspiracy dialogue running concurrently, unless you’re saying we’re focusing too much on stifling said source rather than focusing on the process of removing money from politics.
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Post by: Coffee Dog on January 10, 2021, 04:22:42 PM
Just marginalize their viewpoints and their ability to impact politics by tarring anyone who supports them as enablers.   :yeshrug

You dont have to jail people en masse to eradicate a way of thinking. People that were against, say, interracial marriage, were not jailed, but their opinions became untenable enough that it stopped being something they can change through policy. Marginalization works. It works against groups that don't deserve, and those that do.
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 04:41:46 PM
KILL THEM ALL




IN MINECRAFT
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Post by: Uncle on January 10, 2021, 04:48:54 PM
I don't know that trying to get people out of their echo chambers is a viable option anymore. These people just found out their world view for the past few years has been nothing but lies and bullshit and their reaction is to double down on it all and call for more violence.

so what's your reaction to them?

to call for violence? if getting people out of their echo chambers isn't viable then I guess you have to silence them another way?


:yeshrug I've seen it in real life with my own family members. Any push back on their worldview, any proof given to them that something they're saying or believe is false, they just double down and use that as proof of the conspiracy and YOU'RE  the one being lied to and you just don't see it, you lib. You will not and can not convince people whose identity and world view is primarily based around white grievance to get out of that train of thought. The percentage of people you're going to get out of this sphere of influence might as well be 0. They legit live in different realities.

right, you already said this

so what's your action plan since they cannot be convinced
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 04:55:04 PM
God damnit.

The right wing nut jobs have appropriated a minecraft

https://twitter.com/LiteraryMouse/status/1347903805338382341

Click the image. Second tweet, bottom right pic

Fuck. I renounce my pervious minecraft posts
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Post by: BIONIC on January 10, 2021, 05:08:06 PM
James was a right-wing insurrectionist this whole time?  :pika
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Post by: zomgee on January 10, 2021, 05:13:03 PM
Cancel religious exemption. For everything. Tax, schooling, medical exemptions. Cancel it.
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Post by: BIONIC on January 10, 2021, 05:22:41 PM
Cancel religion  :nothot
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 05:23:40 PM
James was a right-wing insurrectionist this whole time?  :pika

I just like building games :pika
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Post by: Potato on January 10, 2021, 05:26:13 PM
The real problem in US politics is not that a fringe group of lunatics stormed the Capitol and tried to lynch the government. It's that 75 million Americans saw all this happening over the last four years and still voted for Trump.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 10, 2021, 05:28:50 PM
The main problem in American politics is Americans.
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 05:32:46 PM
White people
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 10, 2021, 05:50:17 PM
Just marginalize their viewpoints and their ability to impact politics by tarring anyone who supports them as enablers.   :yeshrug

You dont have to jail people en masse to eradicate a way of thinking. People that were against, say, interracial marriage, were not jailed, but their opinions became untenable enough that it stopped being something they can change through policy. Marginalization works. It works against groups that don't deserve, and those that do.

That’s why people are not exactly thrilled to weaponize it. Trumptards deserve to be marginalized, don’t get me wrong, but pretending is clear cut or that governments or companies don’t take advantage of it is, well...

Not everyone is as obviously vile like Trumptards or Nazis.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 10, 2021, 05:55:06 PM
Punisher Writer Garth Ennis Calls Rioters Wearing Skull Logos "Halfwits"

https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/punisher-skull-logo-garth-ennis-capitol-rioters/

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He continued, "The people wearing the logo in this context are kidding themselves, just like the police officers who wore it over the summer. What they actually want is to wear an apparently scary symbol on a T-shirt, throw their weight around a bit, then go home to the wife and kids and resume their everyday life. They've thought no harder about the Punisher symbol than the halfwits I saw [on Wednesday], the ones waving the Stars & Stripes while invading the Capitol building."

People with the Punisher bumper stickers ::). One those "that type of guy" moments
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 10, 2021, 06:07:19 PM
Yeah I’m not sure what you can really say to a group of people who’ve deluded themselves that Donald trump, someone who has never stepped foot in a church by choice in his life, aside from weddings or funerals, is a true man of god :trumps
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 10, 2021, 06:13:42 PM
Yeah I’m not sure what you can really say to a group of people who’ve deluded themselves that Donald trump, someone who has never stepped foot in a church by choice in his life, aside from weddings or funerals, is a true man of god :trumps

That always cracks me out.
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Post by: zomgee on January 10, 2021, 06:40:44 PM
"... it's *a* bible."
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 10, 2021, 06:49:22 PM
https://youtu.be/ERUngQUCsyE

"Old testament or new testament guy?"

"Probably.... equal"

It reminds me so much of a kid in class being asked about a book he clearly didn't read
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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 10, 2021, 07:27:58 PM
https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1348388601118273537

 :mouf
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Post by: headwalk on January 10, 2021, 07:35:14 PM
always thought this bit from barry-o summed up the bizarre dissonance between what trump's supporters wanted him to be and what he actually was:

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I’m not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life,” he said. “He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”

Trump, Obama noted, is not exactly an exemplar of traditional American manhood. “I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code … the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the ’30s and ’40s and before that. There’s a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn’t complain, that he isn’t a bully—in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies. And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.”
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 10, 2021, 07:41:30 PM
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I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.

 :bolo

Richie Rich isnt supposed to be this, Obama.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I dont think is about manhood but more like a fake success story of "American Dream". The masculinity is just a superficial aspect of it.
[close]
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Post by: Potato on January 10, 2021, 07:41:49 PM
Trump epitomises American culture which has always been about winning at all costs, the ends justifying the means, and using wealth and power to bully others into submission.

The myth of American manhood in that quote is entirely a construct of Hollywood and never existed. The reality is more Gordon Gekko than Clint Eastwood.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 10, 2021, 08:16:18 PM
I have to admit that when I imagined what it would look like if a right-wing populist was ever elected as president of the United States, I didn't picture someone so atheistic they didn't know a single bible verse or someone who would show contempt for dead american soldiers. If you listen to Republicans speak, that's not who they claim they want.
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Post by: chronovore on January 10, 2021, 08:19:51 PM
http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
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Post by: Tasty on January 10, 2021, 08:28:37 PM
http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240

:salute
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Post by: Transhuman on January 10, 2021, 08:38:34 PM
Jesus why the fucking music
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Post by: Transhuman on January 10, 2021, 08:42:39 PM
Now he's holding a sword
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Post by: Cryo on January 10, 2021, 09:40:38 PM
The nice thing about restricting brainwashed anti-deep staters to snail mail, Fox News, and in-person gatherings is we currently don’t have bots that can attend them as rapidly as twitter threads.
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Post by: Potato on January 10, 2021, 10:20:43 PM
Now he's holding a sword
That's not just any sword. That's his sword from Conan the Barbarian.
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Post by: team filler on January 10, 2021, 10:42:08 PM
https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1348466114209071106


 :wong
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Post by: james on January 10, 2021, 11:22:29 PM
Popcorn and minecraft on tap boys
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 10, 2021, 11:48:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/HaitianDvorce/status/1348475324741394432
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 12:14:30 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 11, 2021, 01:19:08 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRM-HWRLbBc
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 01:24:35 AM
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1348458140258488322

too bad the qanon shaman didn't get ahold of this bish :pacspit
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 01:27:15 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not

You should also blame Republicans for that one.
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 01:29:20 AM
https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1347990928984842245


 :sicko
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 11, 2021, 01:33:00 AM
she had over 50k followers?
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Post by: BIONIC on January 11, 2021, 01:52:03 AM
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1348352082529710080

:snob
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 02:18:09 AM
I like how the political class are complains about free speech and twitter followers. Only if the left were willing to call them out of their BS without the laziness  “HURR HURR PRIVATE COMPANY”.
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Post by: Tuckers Law on January 11, 2021, 04:22:10 AM
Jesus why the fucking music

At first I was thinking the same, but then remembered that Arnold is a man who unashamedly embraces his corny side.

What a legend.

 :rejoice
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Post by: Cryo on January 11, 2021, 05:03:51 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 11, 2021, 05:06:59 AM
https://twitter.com/bradwhipple/status/1348043292504686597
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 06:40:21 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not

You should also blame Republicans for that one.

in general it always takes two to tango, the left is the side constantly focusing on whether what you've said means you're secretly X or Y, using the idea of dogwhistles and implications to come to absolutely definitely true conclusions about anything

but besides that it doesn't matter whose fault anything is

like I don't know what you're trying to say here, it's republicans' fault we lost free speech therefore I should be in favor of silencing all their speech and obliterating them?  it goes back to what was being discussed earlier, it's not about giving someone what they "deserve," it's about taking the best action, and this is a tenet that needs to be defended, especially when it's most under attack

there was a time when the left were the free speech advocates and it was an issue that needed to cut across party lines then, and it still should now
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 07:35:29 AM
Save all the free speech shit for when the government is cracking down on people because it doesn't apply to companies of any kind silencing voices or types of rhetoric. Being deplatformed by big tech companies isn't a free speech issue, nor is various companies saying they won't do business with Republicans who pushed the election fraud stories, or companies saying we won't work with you if you hire Trump press secretaries. They're suffering from the consequences of what their governmental free speech rights allowed them to put out into the world.

it kind of is

at some point you have to evaluate what it actually means to have speech

"b-but private companies making their own private decisions" only goes so far until you're saying that for ALL types of speech, often even including what can be said in the real world

the refrain is "if you don't like that you got banned then make your own company where you're allowed to say what you want," but now payment processors and web hosts are private companies making their own private decisions to prevent your company from even getting off the ground

it doesn't matter what your policies are, it matters what they say your policies ought to be, or you're not going to be able to establish and maintain that private company



and this isn't about lamenting that republicans are getting their shit kicked in for being assholes, this is about the precedent it sets moving forward, which is that all that exists now is all that should ever exist wrt "speech" online

you have reddit, you have twitter, and any new forums are implicit attempts to circumvent the things they don't let you say, painting a massive target on your back
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 11, 2021, 07:43:53 AM
I know americans get hung up on 'free speech' as a constitutional issue relating specifically to government oversight, rather than the underlying principle of free speech and powerful entities being able to silence individuals, so don't look at it as a free speech issue.

Look at it as a net neutrality issue.
Are you for net neutrality, for all the reasoning behind it, or are you against it and happy to allow corporations to decide for you what does and doesn't get bandwidth?
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 07:43:56 AM
That still isn't a free speech issue, which is specifically related to the government's ability to silence citizens.

then define the issue

the semantics of what you choose to call it matter less than what it is
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 07:50:13 AM


like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind...

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence...

No you don't.
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 07:51:48 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234
wait you had to show you license to get 'verified'? and 'terk er jerbs' nutjobs still signed up for this? beginning to think these guys just like being owned.  :brain
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Post by: mormapope on January 11, 2021, 07:57:53 AM
I think some of y'all are addicted to gay dog porn or something with how hard this freedom of speech discussion is going.
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 08:02:00 AM
I think some of y'all are addicted to gay dog porn or something with how hard this freedom of speech discussion is going.
no laws against barking FIRE in a crowded cum dungeon :drool



also some rando on my facebook posted this and told everyone to follow suit:

(https://i.imgur.com/g2qywnt.jpg)

hang your phone's ass out to own the libs
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 11, 2021, 08:04:57 AM
i wish i had insane american yahoo maga rubes as friends on facebook, maybe i'd actually open that shit for once :doge
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Post by: wsippel on January 11, 2021, 08:28:41 AM
Save all the free speech shit for when the government is cracking down on people because it doesn't apply to companies of any kind silencing voices or types of rhetoric. Being deplatformed by big tech companies isn't a free speech issue, nor is various companies saying they won't do business with Republicans who pushed the election fraud stories, or companies saying we won't work with you if you hire Trump press secretaries. They're suffering from the consequences of what their governmental free speech rights allowed them to put out into the world.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Sure, in theory, social media can allow or ban whatever they want, but they also claim to be "platforms" as a means to protect themselves from legal responsibility. If they ban people based on content that isn't clearly and obviously illegal, they stop being neutral, which means they can no longer claim to be a communication platform - they'll become a publication. So they'll have to take responsibility for any and all content on their platform. Which essentially means the end of social media as we know it. That might also apply to hosting companies like AWS or store fronts like the Play Store. Now whether that's a net positive or negative I don't know, nor does it really matter. At the end of the day, the reason postal services don't get blamed for mail bombs is that they don't know, and aren't supposed to know, what they deliver.
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Post by: Tasty on January 11, 2021, 09:45:08 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cA2l0n5gPE

:(

CNN: Man seen chasing Black Capitol Police officer in video faces charges.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/doug-jensen-capitol-hill-police-officer/index.html

:ohyeah
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2021, 10:04:24 AM
I think some of y'all are addicted to gay dog porn or something with how hard this freedom of speech discussion is going.
no laws against barking FIRE in a crowded cum dungeon :drool



also some rando on my facebook posted this and told everyone to follow suit:

(https://i.imgur.com/g2qywnt.jpg)

hang your phone's ass out to own the libs

This is just like when Nazi Germany updated everyone's cell phones in 1938. George Orwell warned us about this!. :rage
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 11, 2021, 10:07:07 AM
if you think this is tyranny, wait until america's first dictator takes over next week :heh
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 11, 2021, 10:17:06 AM
so parlor got got?
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 10:40:45 AM
https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/1348610675870937088


 :snob
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 10:58:14 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not

What are you alarmed about exactly?

that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 11, 2021, 11:01:16 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1348557067351519234

This is just utter BS BTW.

Scroll down a bit and people link to what is actually going on.   Someone created a tool to archive Parler; meaning it's just web scraping the public content.

edit: It's possible the archiving found some accidentally public data.. but that seems unlikely, and the Reddit post is almost certainly just a bunch of BS.. the archive site is just a hobby thing for some programmers who list their names publicly, what's described in the reddit post would be highly illegal, so would be unlikely to be something people would be advertising with their real names

my faith in Bird Respecter has been irreparably damaged :fbm
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Post by: mormapope on January 11, 2021, 11:40:17 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not

What are you alarmed about exactly?

that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

Of things to be concerned about, this ranks close to the bottom  :lol

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Post by: Transhuman on January 11, 2021, 11:55:24 AM
it's a little alarming that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

like imagine you start a new social media service of some kind, like a reddit alternative, you don't have a specific political target audience in mind you're just kind of frustrated with the way reddit deals with things and you think you can do better

you have decent moderation policies in place and don't allow conspiracy theories or planning for violence, but in general you want to allow people to be themselves and speak their mind, ideally without being hateful

you can't list among your features that you aim to be a "free speech" platform anymore, because "everybody knows" what you're actually doing and who you're actually catering towards, even if you're not

What are you alarmed about exactly?

that the mere idea of being pro free speech is now going to be considered an alt right dogwhistle

That's the way it's always been. If defending free speech were easy, it wouldn't need defending.
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 11:59:36 AM
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348615076534738945

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348616372423712771


 :lol
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 11, 2021, 12:00:10 PM
User: Uncle sticking up for racist uncles
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Post by: Transhuman on January 11, 2021, 12:06:16 PM
And yet it's certainly the left that gets the hardest crackdowns and push back on their usage of free speech throughout the history of this country. Conservatives talk a big game about free speech but never do shit to actually defend it and in fact abuse it and use it as a pretense to deny minorities, well, just about anything.

You shouldn't forget that the biggest shame of that history isn't that progressive people were denied the opportunity to speak, it's the fact that conservatives were denied the chance to listen.
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Post by: Transhuman on January 11, 2021, 12:16:42 PM
How is a racist supposed to change their opinion if every single person they hear speaking about racism is a racist?  Or someone born into a religious family before the 20th century? Or born in China today? Free speech is much more valuable to the objectionable than to the objector.
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 12:17:18 PM
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348615076534738945

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348616372423712771


 :lol
army chix in general are slightly crazy (especially Os) but psyops ppl definitely cannot be doing this shit and expect to do their job correctly. they're deep in TS/SCI material.
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 12:21:41 PM
And yet it's certainly the left that gets the hardest crackdowns and push back on their usage of free speech throughout the history of this country. Conservatives talk a big game about free speech but never do shit to actually defend it and in fact abuse it and use it as a pretense to deny minorities, well, just about anything.

right, that's why it needs defending, the left is always getting pushed back on for their use of it but suddenly we don't care about something that mattered for so long, just because it's expedient in the moment, or just because we get to give someone else what they "deserve"

as usual it's the short-sightedness that comes back to bite later when the same thing is eventually wielded against us from another angle
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 12:23:33 PM
User: Uncle sticking up for racist uncles

sure, it's always about divining someone's secret evil motivations than examining an issue on its face, for what it is
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 12:26:38 PM
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.  What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine.  Look at gay rights.  The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance.  They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears.  This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history.  And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point. 
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 12:28:51 PM
imagine being an mil officer making $100K+ a year, basically being unfireable for poor job performance, only to throw it away cuz you don't want to wear a mask.  :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 11, 2021, 12:34:47 PM
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.

...but there are literally documented examples of exactly this happening?
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Post by: Uncle on January 11, 2021, 12:34:52 PM
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.  What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine.  Look at gay rights.  The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance.  They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears.  This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history.  And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.

it's pretty well known that an expanded worldview often leads to greater empathy, the kind that comes from traveling to other states or countries, getting to know people you might not have otherwise, or simply from life experience, going through some hard times and maybe receiving help from somewhere or someone you didn't expect that changes your outlook

so, no, people can and do change with life experience

like seriously have you never seen anyone commenting stuff like "I used to be a racist little shit before I wised up"  "man I used to be edgy for the sake of edgy until I learned to be better"  "I really lament the state of the rest of my family, glad I learned to grow up and wish they could too"
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Post by: Sman on January 11, 2021, 12:39:05 PM
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.  What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine.  Look at gay rights.  The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance.  They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears.  This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history.  And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.

Are you seriously implying that...

spoiler (click to show/hide)
...the plot of the movie American History X is far-fetched?

(https://abload.de/img/american-history-xk6jp5.jpg)

[close]
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 11, 2021, 12:42:37 PM
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348615076534738945

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1348616372423712771


 :lol

new twitter account idea: @trumpshawtys :hmm
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 12:44:25 PM
You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.

...but there are literally documented examples of exactly this happening?

No deradicalization is not just people being reasoned too.  It is a much more social program.  And yes you can go about it with the carrot or the stick.  Also, yes people can get to the point where they are open to reasoned arguments about bigotry but that point they are not really bigots in the sense we are concerned with. 

You do not reason a racist out of being a racist.  No racist ever said, I have read your essay from thesis statement to the conclusion and you know, maybe I was wrong about black people.  What you do is shame them into silence, marginalize their view, and normalize whatever they are afraid of to the point where they can look back and go well I guess X group is fine.  Look at gay rights.  The bigots were not reasoned into acceptance.  They were silenced, and then, once LGB people were given the freedom to be out after 10-20 years of seeing gay people on TV, and in the streets, and being their coworkers and neighbors they can then give up their fears.  This has been how we have expunged bigoted views for all of recent history.  And before, people jump in, obviously this will not work for all bigots, no shit but that's not the point.

it's pretty well known that an expanded worldview often leads to greater empathy, the kind that comes from traveling to other states or countries, getting to know people you might not have otherwise, or simply from life experience, going through some hard times and maybe receiving help from somewhere or someone you didn't expect that changes your outlook

so, no, people can and do change with life experience

like seriously have you never seen anyone commenting stuff like "I used to be a racist little shit before I wised up"  "man I used to be edgy for the sake of edgy until I learned to be better"  "I really lament the state of the rest of my family, glad I learned to grow up and wish they could too"

I did not argue that people don't change with life experience or that people can't change.  In fact, that was actually my very argument - that they can change their views after having a different life experience which often comes from the normalization of whatever they were against, and not because they were reasoned into changing their mind.  And that normalization starts with marginalizing their public bigiotry. 
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Post by: BIONIC on January 11, 2021, 12:45:39 PM
How is a racist supposed to change their opinion if every single person they hear speaking about racism is a racist?  Or someone born into a religious family before the 20th century? Or born in China today? Free speech is much more valuable to the objectionable than to the objector.

:wut
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Post by: mormapope on January 11, 2021, 12:47:06 PM
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity.  Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.

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Post by: headwalk on January 11, 2021, 12:48:00 PM
a racist old white bloke being told why he's racist isn't going to do shit. a racist old white bloke getting chatting with a black bloke at the football and singing songs together about harry kane being a diving mong, that's where divisions crumble.
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 11, 2021, 12:50:05 PM
Anytime I hear psyops I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=22Tj_l4PcPs
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 12:51:31 PM
we just need a band of BIPOC porn wenches to suck the racism out of everyone's dick in america.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 01:00:00 PM
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity.  Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.

Of course, but in the end you also don’t exactly know the background of most people. And for better or worse, in history  is not like people just woke up one day and just said “being racist is bad”.

I don’t think is exactly wrong shame racist or calling them out but this past 6-7 years have also been Kind of worrying in what people consider racist and whiling to marginalize.

Quote
I did not argue that people don't change with life experience or that people can't change.  In fact, that was actually my very argument - that they can change their views after having a different life experience which often comes from the normalization of whatever they were against, and not because they were reasoned into changing their mind.

I kind of agree with this notion, but I suspect it probably helps way more that you think pointing out is entirely irrational being racist.
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Post by: thetylerrob on January 11, 2021, 01:03:36 PM
Why not just support censorship of hate speech while also keeping it in mind that it's not good that huge corporations have this much power to dictate the conversation online? Do yall really not see how this stuff could set a dangerous precedent?  :doge  :chinacry :ussrcry
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 01:06:23 PM
Anytime I hear psyops I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=22Tj_l4PcPs
I always think of the one guy we had here who kept going on about psyops. loved that guy  :lawd
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Post by: james on January 11, 2021, 01:09:45 PM
Guys help, Twitter has deleted at least 10k of my followers.

Im not sure how many I had, but my current number says 62 followers and thats clearly not accurate since Ive been active on Twitter for years. 
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 01:10:22 PM
Why not just support censorship of hate speech while also keeping it in mind that it's not good that huge corporations have this much power to dictate the conversation online? Do yall really not see how this stuff could set a dangerous precedent?  :doge  :chinacry :ussrcry

Probably because many people actually wish their side could control the online discourse. How many times in this forum we pointed and laugh in how much ERA wants to have China Internet laws?

Is not like Trumptards are talking in good faith about “Free speech” either given Trump demands of loyalty and the republican push to “moderate social media”.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 01:12:33 PM
I trust Twitter and Google way more than the US government.   I'm all for stronger government regulation of social/regular media in terms of discourse and fack checking but the issue is half the US government is the problem.  Ted Cruz and Fox News are the problem.  Currently, I think it's easier to force Twitter, through money and social pressure, to be a good regulating body than it is for the government to be one.   In any other western country, you'd be right though.  And you can talk about dangerous precedent but this is a dangerous time now and action needs to be taken.  If Twitter is the one to step up, well that's just how crap the situation is.  Honestly, the leeway social media companies get to act like this is going to run out is a few months so I'm happy for them to push left while they can. 
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 11, 2021, 01:19:50 PM
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity.  Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.

Right, but if you're being that reductionist about anti-social mentalities and behaviours anyway, you can extend that to what is the point in providing education in prison, because recidivism is never going to be 100% solvable as there will always be career criminals who enjoy that life, or what is the point of having drug rehabilitation centres because addiction is never going to be 100% solvable because there will always be unrepentant junkies.

Sure, its much cheaper and easier to just sack off portions of society that display aberrant behaviours, but that's pretty much the right wing approach to fixing society and helping those who can still be helped.
Fuck 'em if they can't bootstrap their own rehabilitation.
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 01:21:37 PM
I trust Twitter and Google way more than the US government.   I'm all for stronger government regulation of social/regular media in terms of discourse and fack checking but the issue is half the US government is the problem.  Ted Cruz and Fox News are the problem.  Currently, I think it's easier to force Twitter, through money and social pressure, to be a good regulating body than it is for the government to be one.   In any other western country, you'd be right though.  And you can talk about dangerous precedent but this is a dangerous time now and action needs to be taken.  If Twitter is the one to step up, well that's just how crap the situation is.  Honestly, the leeway social media companies get to act like this is going to run out is a few months so I'm happy for them to push left while they can.

Man, what a weird twist of American exceptionalism.

Is too bad the we, the World, tend to follow suit regardless of your unique situations. Especially given most tech giants are US companies.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 01:22:04 PM
I see we're on the hunky dory/kumbaya level of pseudo-intellectualism stage regarding change and positivity.  Some of you live in very curated bubbles and perspectives. If someone spends decades believing in hateful and fantastical narratives for decades, the chance of that person changing is incredibly slim.

Right, but if you're being that reductionist about anti-social mentalities and behaviours anyway, you can extend that to what is the point in providing education in prison, because recidivism is never going to be 100% solvable as there will always be career criminals who enjoy that life, or what is the point of having drug rehabilitation centres because addiction is never going to be 100% solvable because there will always be unrepentant junkies.

Sure, its much cheaper and easier to just sack off portions of society that display aberrant behaviours, but that's pretty much the right wing approach to fixing society and helping those who can still be helped.
Fuck 'em if they can't bootstrap their own rehabilitation.

That is a wild extrapolation
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 01:28:39 PM
I trust Twitter and Google way more than the US government.   I'm all for stronger government regulation of social/regular media in terms of discourse and fack checking but the issue is half the US government is the problem.  Ted Cruz and Fox News are the problem.  Currently, I think it's easier to force Twitter, through money and social pressure, to be a good regulating body than it is for the government to be one.   In any other western country, you'd be right though.  And you can talk about dangerous precedent but this is a dangerous time now and action needs to be taken.  If Twitter is the one to step up, well that's just how crap the situation is.  Honestly, the leeway social media companies get to act like this is going to run out is a few months so I'm happy for them to push left while they can.

Man, what a weird twist of American exceptionalism.

Is too bad the we, the World, tend to follow suit regardless of your unique situations. Especially given most tech giants are US companies.

It's not American Exceptionalism, it's exceptional that the US government is in the state it is in.  I literally said I approve of stronger government regulations of social media in lieu of them monitoring themselves when I have more trust in the government than the company.  If Twitter, Google, and Facebook, sat down with the Dems in the next few months and hashed out regulations I'd be all for it.   
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 01:35:07 PM
I think you guys should start first with having anti hate speech laws and set in stone before demanding Tech giants stuff just that we can finally separate Free Speech and Hate Speech and people stop using as an excuse/scapegoat at social media.
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Post by: thetylerrob on January 11, 2021, 01:47:10 PM
Just want to say I don't disagree with the current move to censor the Trump faction, as I think the terrorist attack is a pretty clear line that has been crossed. You're right that desperate times call for desperate measures.

I also think that Facebook/Zuckerberg is largely to blame for the radicalization of most of the struggling middle-class Trump folks and big tech going out of their way to censor this stuff is about equivalent to the recent Trump cabinet resignations 2 weeks before he's out anyway.
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Post by: headwalk on January 11, 2021, 01:59:20 PM
people putting their trust in publicly traded corporations to protect their freedoms is the natural progression of america.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 11, 2021, 02:31:33 PM
The internet war has begun.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1348676046728605700

Save us from this tyranny Comcast and Time Warner.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 11, 2021, 02:36:28 PM
People will be pissed when they can't use Google Maps.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 02:36:53 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/pence-impeachment.html
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 02:54:03 PM
https://www.state.gov/biographies/donald-j-trump/

 :'(
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Post by: james on January 11, 2021, 02:56:27 PM
https://www.state.gov/biographies/donald-j-trump/

 :'(

F
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2021, 03:02:41 PM
:trumps
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Post by: EchoRin on January 11, 2021, 03:03:06 PM
As far as Trump is concerned on his ban from Twitter. Too bad. Being on Twitter and tweeting isn't a right. There are rules on Twitter that he broke, constantly. Luckily for him for the longest time he was afforded more leeway because he was in a position of power, that being the US President. Even if nothing had happened in the last week he was still going to be held to private citizen standards on Twitter after his presidency concluded.

Due to his complete recklessness in terms of how he used Twitter he got the boot. Probably a choice that they wouldn't have taken a year or two ago? Sure. I can believe that if he was to be president again, he would not have been banned. Inciting violence through Twitter as his presidency comes to an end. Well yeah it's easier to accumulate all those fractions from before and on top of that point to the attack on the Capitol Building to say that this is the end for Trump's Twitter account.

If there is some law in the future that says "massive social media companies must allow all governmental officials a platform regardless of how they use it", then fine. For now they have their own private rules. So I'm not sorry for Donald Trump losing access to Twitter, nor do I see this as a slippery slope. It took so so many strikes to get to this point. You struck out.
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 03:04:51 PM
:trumps

(https://i.imgur.com/jl3YyPF.jpg)
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Post by: Nintex on January 11, 2021, 03:18:26 PM
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889 (https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889)

 :dead
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 03:26:46 PM
The internet war has begun.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1348676046728605700

Save us from this tyranny Comcast and Time Warner.
oh, north idaho? surprised they don't office KKK discounts.
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Post by: Nintex on January 11, 2021, 03:30:01 PM
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1348723955096580097 (https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1348723955096580097)

I sure hope this pilot isn't part of #teamdisgruntled
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 03:32:39 PM
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889 (https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889)

 :dead

the bore scooped them
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Post by: T-Short on January 11, 2021, 04:49:32 PM
This was a nice write-up, I thought

https://newrepublic.com/article/160846/die-laughing-capitol (https://newrepublic.com/article/160846/die-laughing-capitol)

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Any attempt to use some kind of a checklist to determine if all of this should be taken seriously as either a coup or some stable definition of fascism runs the risk of obscuring the incoherence, dynamism, and fundamental danger of these movements. It was “inchoate fascism, fascism in its experimental, speculative phase,” the writer Richard Seymour observed last week. This sense of process—that fascism is a living thing and not some page copied out of a history book—is useful. A lot is happening at once, and not always intentionally.

...

An off-duty police officer from Pennsylvania, who identified himself only as Jeff, told The New York Times that he went to the Capitol last week without a clear sense of what would happen or what he would do when he got there. He intended to be adaptable. “There’s a lot of people here willing to take orders,” he said. “If the orders are given, the people will rise up.”
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 11, 2021, 04:50:13 PM
While I fault leftist stupid way that let the alt right co-opt terms, at this point is kind of difficult to argue that republicans claiming “free speech” is not a dog whistle and not actually care.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 11, 2021, 05:00:50 PM
Can we really say we live in a free society if Lin Wood can’t post death threats against elected officials?
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Post by: james on January 11, 2021, 05:01:57 PM
Nintex, Im hearing from my Dutch contacts that martial law was declared in the US and we're under a communications block.

Can you confirm?
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 05:14:39 PM
https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/1348694943905308672

 :paul
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 05:19:49 PM
Good.  I hope this will act as a signal for other social media companies to ban other GOP persons.
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Post by: Tuckers Law on January 11, 2021, 05:27:00 PM
TIL that free speech wasn’t a thing until social media was created.
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 05:30:20 PM
https://twitter.com/marenaltman/status/1346925368238739456


https://twitter.com/marenaltman/status/1348744212074934274

 :-\
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Post by: team filler on January 11, 2021, 05:44:41 PM
https://twitter.com/MelissaBlasius/status/1348740338827939841


 :delicious
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 05:55:13 PM
i mean if he was a real republican he would be eating big macs and other hamberders and shrimps


so therefore antifa
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Post by: Nintex on January 11, 2021, 06:06:01 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshWTSP/status/1348755992981467138 (https://twitter.com/JoshWTSP/status/1348755992981467138)
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Post by: james on January 11, 2021, 06:07:40 PM
A better lawyer would acuse the photographer of being antifa
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 06:33:16 PM
Did he un-ginger himself?

edit: Oh that's the attorney derp

TBF his attorney looks like his mug shot.  ...Actually, I think I have an idea for an alt-right dating app.  Better late than never to get in on the fleece. 
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 06:36:10 PM
Maybe I can call it No Fly Friends  ;) TM

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Pretty Fly for a No Fly Guy didn't work but I like it.
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Post by: Nintex on January 11, 2021, 06:54:09 PM
Chad resigned
https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1348755003272523776 (https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1348755003272523776)
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 07:00:24 PM
"I'm proud we've accomplished so much in... (looks at calendar) 14 months. Truly in that limited amount of time I was able to accomplish so much to make this country markedly and demonstrably safer. I will remember all of you so fondly from the first day I met you to 60 days later when you all were sent to work from home. I'll never forget you overbite, forehead, nose whistle, beardo, black guy, sniffles, and the rest."
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2021, 07:08:38 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/qanon-lauren-boebert-nancy-pelosi-capitol-riot-b1785663.html
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Post by: Tasty on January 11, 2021, 07:12:08 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Failed Screenwriter from New Jersey Behind One of QAnon’s Most Influential Personas (https://www.logically.ai/articles/exclusive-failed-screenwriter-from-new-jersey-behind-one-of-qanons-most-influential-personas)



Damn competition is heating up. :(
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Post by: Tasty on January 11, 2021, 07:18:17 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/AAegeZV.png) (https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/kv9rbz/failed_screenwriter_from_new_jersey_behind_one_of/)

:dead :dead
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2021, 07:29:13 PM
The Qanon orbit seems to be made entirely of failed screenwriters, movie producers (sup, Steve Bannon!), reality TV stars, and of course failsons.
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Post by: Nintex on January 11, 2021, 07:41:42 PM
Qanon reminds me of that movie Memento.
"You can be my John G"

The protagonist deliberately keeps creating new rabbit holes for himself to chase despite knowing it will only lead to more rabbit holes.
Qanon works the same way, if you're convinced a tweet or timestamps contain hidden codes, then you can read 'anything' in such tweets or posts.
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Post by: zomgee on January 11, 2021, 09:55:01 PM
Wow Belichick turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom because of the riots. Trump is not taking it well:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 11, 2021, 11:33:05 PM
The Qanon orbit seems to be made entirely of failed screenwriters, movie producers (sup, Steve Bannon!), reality TV stars, and of course failsons.
i was trying to think of chud movie ppl and the only one i could think of was james wood and sure enough

Quote
Only approved followers can see @RealJamesWoods’s Tweets. To request access, click Follow. Learn more
what a pussy ass bitch :heh
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Post by: BIONIC on January 12, 2021, 12:12:50 AM
The Qanon orbit seems to be made entirely of failed screenwriters, movie producers (sup, Steve Bannon!), reality TV stars, and of course failsons.

Nintex is a successful small-business owner  :ufup
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Post by: james on January 12, 2021, 02:39:57 AM
I'm hearing the pope has been arrested and there taking down the internet soon

God speed everyone

 :salute

(read up on the latest Q stuff guys they're in Jonestown territory)
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Post by: james on January 12, 2021, 03:05:32 AM
I'm hearing Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton have been arrested as well.

When Trump speaks tomorrow, pay attention.

He will either be real and declare martial law or be a deep fake and not declare martial law.

If he's fake he's dead and someone else has taken over. Possibly Nintex?
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Post by: BIONIC on January 12, 2021, 03:39:51 AM
https://twitter.com/mcgarnical/status/1348623088485744641

:titus
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Post by: Uncle on January 12, 2021, 06:19:12 AM
I grew up watching sesame street and it seemed like every other character on that show had the same last name as robert, what does that tell us
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 12, 2021, 10:09:42 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1348979515796688896

 :klob
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 12, 2021, 10:28:50 AM
fillerfillerrellif
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 12, 2021, 11:48:21 AM
heh

Quote
Asked by reporters on Tuesday about whether he held any "personal responsibility" over the tragedy that beset the Capitol last week, Trump replied, "If you read my speech, and many people have done it and I've seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it's been analyzed and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate."

"Everybody to a 'T' thought it was totally appropriate," Trump said.
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Post by: Nintex on January 12, 2021, 01:28:28 PM
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1349018312471179264 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1349018312471179264)

He's back
 :trumps
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 12, 2021, 01:46:52 PM
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1348854246662426625


"Second term" :huh
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Post by: team filler on January 12, 2021, 02:01:56 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1348979515796688896

 :klob
:kermit
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Post by: james on January 12, 2021, 02:10:03 PM
I like to think that Sheldon was so sad about his boy losing he died of sadness
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Post by: team filler on January 12, 2021, 02:18:06 PM
I like to think that Sheldon was so sad about his boy losing he died of sadness
it's like poetry  :biden
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 12, 2021, 02:20:27 PM
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1348854246662426625


"Second term" :huh

What happened to JFK Jr?
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Post by: T-Short on January 12, 2021, 02:30:42 PM
https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1349001297098321924
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Post by: BIONIC on January 12, 2021, 02:45:38 PM
He hated video poker?

What a monster  :jeanluc
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 03:14:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS_UifJM0Q

that intro music :dead
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 03:22:45 PM
70 charged with > 170 cases opened, and more expected to be opened. 
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Post by: james on January 12, 2021, 03:33:25 PM
I hope they riot a few more times.

More of them in jail = less R voters next election.
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Post by: zomgee on January 12, 2021, 03:34:26 PM
Well, they're talking the talk, let's see what's next.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 03:40:49 PM
I kind of feel like the next turn will be having trials with lawyers willing to say "Your ancestors will turn over in their grave, and I'm sure every last Anglo-Saxon one of you has the courage to free these men" and juries willing to do just that.
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Post by: Nintex on January 12, 2021, 03:46:31 PM
Some of the media have noted how the officials giving the press conference were quite low down the ladder considering the implications of this case.
No AG or FBI Director present.
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Post by: james on January 12, 2021, 03:53:34 PM
Some of the media have noted how the officials giving the press conference were quite low down the ladder considering the implications of this case.
No AG or FBI Director present.

Theyre too busy charging the Pope
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Post by: Boredfrom on January 12, 2021, 04:09:59 PM
I kind of feel like the next turn will be having trials with lawyers willing to say "Your ancestors will turn over in their grave, and I'm sure every last Anglo-Saxon one of you has the courage to free these men" and juries willing to do just that.

 :brain
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 04:10:26 PM
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/lesbian-teen-got-kicked-family-turns-possible-maga-rioters/
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Post by: Nintex on January 12, 2021, 04:55:07 PM
Mitch takes no prisoners.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349107765440966656 (https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349107765440966656)
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Post by: OnlyRegret on January 12, 2021, 04:58:02 PM
mitch mitchconnel, welcome to the resistance

https://twitter.com/TheBadNewsB/status/1349107899654680578

https://twitter.com/Javierr_06/status/1349107878804684800
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Post by: OnlyRegret on January 12, 2021, 05:09:00 PM
cause he doesn't give a shit and thought trump was useful, now he has decided to wash his rotting hands off trump guessing he has nothing left to gain from him
mitch seems like one of the savviest politicians in the states, shame he is committed to human misery
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 12, 2021, 05:20:58 PM
Mitch knows that Trump being out there for the next four years stirring the GOP base up ahead of another run in 2024 is ultimately bad for the GOP. Best to wash their hands of him now and spend the next two years acting like the real problem was Trump all along.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 05:30:34 PM
Ya, this is just to make 2024 go easier for the GOP and not actually about the national interest.  But at least it is, coincidentally, also good for America. 
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Post by: Nintex on January 12, 2021, 06:13:54 PM
First Republicans openly announcing they're going to vote to impeach.

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1349128797807894530 (https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1349128797807894530)
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Post by: Tasty on January 12, 2021, 06:15:33 PM
Republicans will take a lot of shit, unless you mess with their jerbs.
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Post by: OnlyRegret on January 12, 2021, 06:19:29 PM
Love to see them capitalize on a chance extricate themselves of it all once things have come to an end. Shame so many people eat it up, guess that is the reason why she is doing it.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 12, 2021, 06:27:37 PM
trump still thinking he has a second term.


Also mitch is just a piece of shit.
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Post by: Uncle on January 12, 2021, 07:00:41 PM
cause he doesn't give a shit and thought trump was useful, now he has decided to wash his rotting hands off trump guessing he has nothing left to gain from him
mitch seems like one of the savviest politicians in the states, shame he is committed to human misery

https://imgur.com/gallery/j5vdjgI

Quote
In 1956, his family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended duPont Manual High School. He was an introverted kid who admitted to his mother that he didn’t even have one friend, but he admired the student council president who “had the envy of everyone”. He ran for student government multiple times, including student council president, which initially didn’t succeed. However, during his junior year run, he adopted a strategy of advertising to lowerclassmen and unpopular kids, who greatly outnumbered the popular kids, as well as to flatter the popular kids for good measure. This time, he won. He was now student council president. He described the taste of the respect that comes with holding elected office by saying, “I was hooked.”

Quote
A choice section of an interview with reporter Alec MacGillis, author of a 2014 biography of Mitch McConnell:

Jeff Stein:
If we're trying to be as generous as possible to the McConnell worldview, what's the story McConnell's friends and family would tell in his defense about the narrative of his life? I haven’t really found anything that isn't boilerplate. What is the story they tell you about how he sees his project?

Alec MacGillis:
I spoke to a lot of his friends and close associates for the book, and they had a very hard time answering that question. That was the big last question I would ask them all. And they would be completely flummoxed by it to a really stunning degree — they couldn't come up with an answer to it.

And it really feels harsh to say and hard to confront directly, but it really feels that to him, far more than other politicians, it really has been about simply the rise itself. Winning the next cycle. Staying in power as long as you can. Rising in the leadership ranks to the point where you are the leader of the body.

Jeff Stein:
And these are genuine close friends? People who like him and think he's fun to hang out with?

Alec MacGillis:
If you really press them to define some ideology or political belief of his, they'll fall back on very generic talk about how he loves the country and wants the best for it, and how he believes in “freedom" and “democracy." But it's so generic as to be almost meaningless.

You have to see how he himself portrays his accomplishments and portrays his own career.
There's this shrine for him at the University of Louisville, and it's an extraordinary thing. It's the Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao [McConnell’s wife] archive. And it's pretty difficult to access.

But in the antechambers of these archives there's this huge exhibit area, a shrine to McConnell and to Chao. And it has all of these exhibits about his life in politics and his career. And virtually all of the exhibits — all the things he chooses to present to the people who come there — are about his races. The high school races. His race in Louisville. His Senate race. His reelection. It's just one race after another. And that's all it is. There's almost nothing in those rooms about what he's actually accomplished in all of those decades in office.
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Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 12, 2021, 07:10:36 PM
Holy shit, he's been a sociopath his whole life
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 07:48:50 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/us-military-biden-trump-capitol-riot-jcs-b1786319.html

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Post by: Nintex on January 12, 2021, 07:53:07 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/us-military-biden-trump-capitol-riot-jcs-b1786319.html
The number of ads on this website  :holeup

I can hardly tell if they were in the statement from the military or not

clean version
(https://thehill.com/sites/default/files/boeing_ad_101419_570x320.gif)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erkeeo2VkAEWnbL?format=jpg)

(https://www.adweek.com/wp-content/uploads/files/2016_Mar/tacobell-breakfast-campaign-hed-2016.jpg)
[close]
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 12, 2021, 08:11:09 PM
oooh $1 taco bell breakfast value menu :mouf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 12, 2021, 08:53:20 PM
https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1348963486756458496


 :sicko
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Post by: EchoRin on January 12, 2021, 09:05:59 PM
https://youtu.be/-Vsd9_HtW-A

https://youtu.be/j8Qq7-arfvs
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 09:40:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXjGocf-Es
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 12, 2021, 09:42:56 PM
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1349155679441989633

 :biden
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Post by: Tasty on January 12, 2021, 09:44:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXjGocf-Es

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdAQpq_1Xw

The battle's done, and we kinda won

So we sound our victory cheer

Where do we go

From here? :tocry
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Post by: Tasty on January 12, 2021, 10:11:54 PM
Fuck I love Buffy :tocry


(https://i.imgur.com/leu75s3.gif)

*BEEP BEEP BEEP!*
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2021, 10:22:26 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kw4lbd/mom_who_kicked_out_teen_daughter_for_attending_a/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 12, 2021, 11:13:48 PM
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175838521106436

https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175845928243200

 :biden

https://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1349152298640019460

 :maduro


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Post by: Dickie Dee on January 12, 2021, 11:40:23 PM
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1349195548377587713
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Post by: EchoRin on January 12, 2021, 11:45:04 PM
The only time I wish we had a smug Gary Bettman emoji.

edit: referring to Filler's post about the guy who got fired apparently when the NHL used some muscle.
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Post by: zomgee on January 13, 2021, 01:09:25 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/VmjU9Ht.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 13, 2021, 02:26:57 AM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1349095220827348993


LOCK THEM UP, ABUELA!! LOCK THEM UP!!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 13, 2021, 02:32:00 AM
Took them long enough. Seven years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: T-Short on January 13, 2021, 05:24:26 AM
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175838521106436

https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175845928243200

 :biden

Uh, what the hell. 20. I was reminded of this scene from In The Loop:

https://youtu.be/MLIP0ZtoiO4
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Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 09:00:25 AM
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/1349312406804025345 (https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/1349312406804025345)

Remember to record all the crimes guys :ego
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2021, 10:05:05 AM
Watching the impeachment debate - fuck I hate the GOP.  Let's heal the nation by pretending it didn't happen and not seek justice.  Fuck off.
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Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 01:48:40 PM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349424949212143617 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349424949212143617)

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349419880936833025 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349419880936833025)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1349420872675819521 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1349420872675819521)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1349417712565559297 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1349417712565559297)
[close]

 :titus

The crazy thing is, if Trump isn't impeached he can and will do another Impeachment Victory Tour within days or weeks and it'll be difficult for corporate America to keep him 'cancelled' if he hires some half decent lawyers. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 02:09:33 PM
Trump is just passing on his tweets to the news media now

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1349430797334360065 (https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1349430797334360065)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2021, 04:08:26 PM
5 GOP yeas.  That is something at least. 

edit:  10 - that is far more than I expected. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tuckers Law on January 13, 2021, 04:38:49 PM
https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175838521106436

https://twitter.com/dawsonbuchanan_/status/1349175845928243200

 :biden

Uh, what the hell. 20. I was reminded of this scene from In The Loop:

https://youtu.be/MLIP0ZtoiO4
I appreciated this video being posted.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 04:51:10 PM
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360 (https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360)

Nixon destroyed  :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2021, 04:53:02 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 04:55:52 PM
third time is the charm Trump, time to secede Florida from the Union or rob the federal reserve :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 13, 2021, 05:03:37 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/mike-pence-donald-trump-attack

Quote
Just before Pence headed to the Capitol to certify Joe Biden’s victory, the president called the V.P.’s residence in a last-ditch effort to get him to stop the Electoral College count. In that conversation, according to two people briefed on it, Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

 :lol :lol Can’t believe that didn’t work.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 13, 2021, 05:05:18 PM
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360 (https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1349472532177551360)

Nixon destroyed  :usacry

Promises Made

Promises Kept
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 13, 2021, 05:11:00 PM
Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

(https://i.imgur.com/ZqHKMT3.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 13, 2021, 05:58:41 PM
Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

(https://i.imgur.com/ZqHKMT3.gif)

We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And Pence is a pussy. And Donald Trump is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes — assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate -- and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes. I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 06:02:08 PM
Trump wants to make a statement but the White House is afraid their official accounts will be locked too when they post it.
Tells you much about what he's expected to say

Also, Kushner has pushed back on Trump's idea to open accounts on Gab and Parler after his Twitter ban.
Trump is mostly worried about the 'damage to his brand' this all caused.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 13, 2021, 06:09:58 PM
He should go ahead and open that Parler account.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 13, 2021, 06:44:26 PM
Just heard a radio ad for Newsmax  :doge

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 13, 2021, 07:00:18 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/mike-pence-donald-trump-attack

Quote
Just before Pence headed to the Capitol to certify Joe Biden’s victory, the president called the V.P.’s residence in a last-ditch effort to get him to stop the Electoral College count. In that conversation, according to two people briefed on it, Trump told Pence: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

 :lol :lol Can’t believe that didn’t work.

It probably made Pence mad that Trump used a naughty word.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 13, 2021, 07:28:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDNiNdsPHNA

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587)

 :crazy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 13, 2021, 07:42:38 PM
Pretty sure it's in the constitution that you get at least one free shot at an armed uprising to wrest power from the opposing party
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 13, 2021, 08:04:55 PM
his hands are really unnaturally pink and wrinkly in that video

(https://i.imgur.com/h6CrBd7.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 13, 2021, 08:06:28 PM
who the fuck wrote his speech without any awareness of the "no true scotsman" argument to literally quote it multiple times  :lol :lol



at least put it like..."if you truly want to support our movement you will condemn violence as I do" etc.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 13, 2021, 08:28:34 PM
I predicted Trump's impeachment hearing to end up in opposition, because I did not see Trump begging for mercy on t.v and then Graham begging Biden to see Trump's humiliation and to just let it be
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 13, 2021, 08:44:21 PM
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587)

 :crazy

https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1349500703593689092

 :confused
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 13, 2021, 08:48:38 PM
Eh that's what Ford did, right?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 13, 2021, 09:01:13 PM
when they suggest it to him biden will issue a hearty presidential "pardon?"

(https://i.imgur.com/xs2ZMrr.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 13, 2021, 09:15:52 PM
(https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/afp_kf5ar.jpg?w=978)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZGoFVrAddgneMVVkt-l_NNxYECCkUK1bT3XXEHmNa903yKcYAggXKj7xN-vDeKww45R8JA8kTQMzStXwIXQFGCvNkWPHB8OlAw=s500)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 13, 2021, 09:46:07 PM
IS THIS TRUMPS PRESIDENTIAL MOMENT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 13, 2021, 10:31:00 PM
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1349508362355011587)

 :crazy

https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1349500703593689092

 :confused

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBo_pLrwAX0
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 13, 2021, 10:57:46 PM
Politicians and lawyers giving the 'there's no way he could have known his supporters were capable of this' defence is gonna be wild. There's never been a President more in touch with the mentality of his fans/fanatics
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 14, 2021, 12:16:53 AM
(https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/afp_kf5ar.jpg?w=978)

Just a group of kings, all cheering each other on.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 14, 2021, 03:03:45 AM
https://twitter.com/wesleysmorgan/status/1349489550721245190


 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 14, 2021, 07:02:20 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

Looks like social media companies are getting their own constitution. Whole thread is necessary reading.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Uncle on January 14, 2021, 07:36:12 AM
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/capitol-riot-taser-death/

(https://i.imgur.com/wIbNAAv.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 14, 2021, 10:44:53 AM
You mean repeating random facts spouted by random twitter accounts isn't a good idea?

Depends, are they funny?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 14, 2021, 11:09:09 AM
You mean repeating random facts spouted by random twitter accounts isn't a good idea?

That’s why I only get my news from trusted sources like filler and Nintex.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 14, 2021, 11:39:10 AM
Nintex is an American hero.

He's either that or a pussy.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: tiesto on January 14, 2021, 12:15:10 PM
it'll be difficult for corporate America to keep him 'cancelled' if he hires some half decent lawyers.

Considering the lawyers he hired to challenge the election results, I don't think we'll have to worry about this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 14, 2021, 02:17:34 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/republican_party_demise-McConnell-1024x844.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2021, 02:20:12 PM
Not sure what would be dumber, Trump pardoning himself or Biden pardoning Trump
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2021, 02:40:41 PM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1349799715093815302 (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1349799715093815302)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 14, 2021, 03:06:46 PM
I want a "Are you a pussy or a patriot?" bumper sticker.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2021, 03:25:25 PM
B I D E N / H A R R I S  2 0 2 4
For the future  :like


:rimshot  :clap T R U M P / F L Y N N   2 0 2 4  :pimp  :gun


:usacry :american are you a pussy or a patriot?  :american :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: jorma on January 14, 2021, 05:36:03 PM
omg Trump was actually paying for Rudys services as a lawyer?

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: OnlyRegret on January 14, 2021, 05:42:01 PM
kinda want senate to dismiss so house can impeach again to set up an all-time record never to be reached let alone surpassed
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2021, 06:12:48 PM
omg Trump was actually paying for Rudys services as a lawyer?

 :neogaf
If by Trump you mean a Kushner shell company that defaulted on a government loan and donated money to the Trump campaign through a Russian intermediary then yes, maybe.

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265 (https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265)

Ladies and gentlemen we got him :dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: chronovore on January 14, 2021, 06:20:20 PM
http://twitter.com/edburmila/status/1349459282022998016
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 14, 2021, 06:23:25 PM
omg Trump was actually paying for Rudys services as a lawyer?

 :neogaf
If by Trump you mean a Kushner shell company that defaulted on a government loan and donated money to the Trump campaign through a Russian intermediary then yes, maybe.

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265 (https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1349857235137163265)

Landies and gentlemen we got him :dobbs

This is Benghazi 2.0 :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 14, 2021, 07:50:55 PM
Super Bengazhi II Turbo: Hyper Criming
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 14, 2021, 09:30:26 PM
1400$ on top of 600$ to make it 2000$.  This is why I think economics is fake.  2000$ was an arbitrary number and giving 1400$ is just to meet expectations but those expectations were manufactured in the first place.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 14, 2021, 09:44:40 PM
make it $10K why not it's all fake money anyway
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 14, 2021, 10:16:37 PM
That's enough for a week in Thailand right?

Your boy has immunity and is ready to party

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: who is ted danson? on January 15, 2021, 03:32:29 AM
Relevant: https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were-created-this-year/

Invest in BTC and $TSLA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 15, 2021, 04:56:39 AM
https://twitter.com/KennethBaer/status/1349761860497760258 (https://twitter.com/KennethBaer/status/1349761860497760258)

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1349810898454638592 (https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1349810898454638592)

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1349846422657630214 (https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1349846422657630214)

When the looting starts the shooting starts  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 15, 2021, 05:00:04 AM
the trump firm are all low class no class white trash :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: VomKriege on January 15, 2021, 06:46:44 AM
Not directly similar but there was already that abrupt transfer in 2018...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-06/trump-ended-2018-france-trip-having-art-loaded-on-air-force-one (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-06/trump-ended-2018-france-trip-having-art-loaded-on-air-force-one)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 15, 2021, 07:59:40 AM
shits the rich politican version of thieving the towels and toiletries from your hotel room :success
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 15, 2021, 04:49:12 PM
Relevant: https://www.cityam.com/almost-a-fifth-of-all-us-dollars-were-created-this-year/

Invest in BTC and $TSLA
Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 15, 2021, 05:05:18 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jabinbotsford/status/1350186100564905985

I think Lindell is going to relapse after Wednesday.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 15, 2021, 05:21:22 PM
My biggest regret in life is not getting rich selling pillows
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 15, 2021, 05:34:53 PM
https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1350198156219318275 (https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1350198156219318275)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/sbg1/status/1350205255611514880 (https://twitter.com/sbg1/status/1350205255611514880)

https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1350209460329996288 (https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1350209460329996288)
[close]

 :sicko

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1350217421538398210 (https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1350217421538398210)

King
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 15, 2021, 06:46:31 PM
https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1350123165557645313


 :society
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 15, 2021, 07:02:28 PM
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...

I mean....

What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?

He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.

Also this is literal conspiracy right?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 15, 2021, 07:27:27 PM
Sir this is a america
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 15, 2021, 07:29:35 PM
My pillow guy wiki

Quote
He married second wife Dallas Yocum in June 2013 and filed for divorce in mid-July 2013 after she left him.

Lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 15, 2021, 08:13:30 PM
I'd be fine with that. Trumplandia.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 15, 2021, 08:16:45 PM
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...

I mean....

What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?

He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.

Also this is literal conspiracy right?

Joint Chiefs and other military commanders have made it really clear that if Trump did try something like that they'd just ignore him.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 15, 2021, 08:17:48 PM
Joint Chiefs

(https://i.imgur.com/JJ44PLX.jpg) :beavis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: zomgee on January 15, 2021, 08:44:36 PM
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...

I mean....

What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?

He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.

Also this is literal conspiracy right?

Joint Chiefs and other military commanders have made it really clear that if Trump did try something like that they'd just ignore him.

Normally I'm not quite this paranoid.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 15, 2021, 08:49:22 PM
So.... If Trump is CIC of the armed forces, and he still is currently President, and the armed forces have essentially garrisoned in the nation's capital...

I mean....

What's to stop him from trying something so dumb? If you say the "Constitution doesn't allow for it," how many things in the Constitution did he basically dismiss during his term?

He still has time to attempt something really really stupid.

Also this is literal conspiracy right?
not happening
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 15, 2021, 11:32:16 PM
nudemacs would def betray us for a promotion and medal from commander trumpy  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: chronovore on January 15, 2021, 11:46:34 PM
https://arcdigital.media/qanon-woke-up-the-real-deep-state-72bbfcb79488

I hope this is true. I mean, there needs to be a no-holds-barred investigation and follow through.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 16, 2021, 12:42:10 AM
https://twitter.com/srchilaquilles/status/1349954035416121344


 :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 16, 2021, 12:51:50 AM
They should lower the voting age to 13 in line with the tik-tok signup age.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 16, 2021, 12:55:09 AM
https://twitter.com/srchilaquilles/status/1349954035416121344


 :shaq
imagine when she gets preggers :mouf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: nudemacusers on January 16, 2021, 12:56:05 AM
nudemacs would def betray us for a promotion and medal from commander trumpy  ;)
i mean i will clearly debase myself for money, isn't that why we all end up in the armed forces? :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 04:57:41 AM
Trump can fire the joint chiefs.
Obama, Truman and JFK fired Generals. JFK fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and gave him a NATO posting instead. It won't make him popular though and it's probably too late now.

I'm wondering if Biden will curb presidential powers. Obama and especially Bush / Cheney greatly expanded it and there was a failed effort to limit presidential powers before Trump took office. The things Obama did to circumvent Congress and Bush to fight the war on terror allowed Trump to ignore his critics and do the things that he wanted. He also discovered the Acting secretary loophole  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 06:23:18 AM
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808 (https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808)

Do before and after pictures, I want to see what the Crack House looked like  :lol

https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747 (https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747)

Let's give him a chance, maybe he's a better shit poster than we think.
Pretty tech savvy to us an em dash  :leon
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 16, 2021, 08:21:11 AM
"@secondgentleman" :hhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 16, 2021, 08:49:20 AM
(https://preview.redd.it/rntmpyw00lb61.png?width=1024&auto=webp&s=425d9c3692c0e9d3a3050c7a9a557879065ed8b9)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 16, 2021, 09:54:39 AM
$44,038 on carpet cleaning and $29,523 on curtain cleaning? Tipping culture is too much
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: tiesto on January 16, 2021, 11:47:45 AM
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808 (https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1350190147552247808)

Do before and after pictures, I want to see what the Crack House looked like  :lol

https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747 (https://twitter.com/PresElectBiden/status/1349918127413407747)

Let's give him a chance, maybe he's a better shit poster than we think.
Pretty tech savvy to us an em dash  :leon

It costs that much to get Russian hooker pee out of bedsheets?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 16, 2021, 12:03:34 PM
At a certain point you just gotta throw the mattresses out and get new ones.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 12:05:56 PM
Between cleaning up all the jizz, left over narcotics, removing cameras from the womens bathrooms, getting rid of the decomposed unidentified bodies and aborted babies found in the dishwasher they probably got a discount.
There's probably some historical pieces and portraits that need to be cleaned and fixed too because someone took a dump or spilled McDonalds sauce on them.

It's a good thing Trump is a germaphobe, would've been a mess otherwise
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 16, 2021, 01:28:10 PM
trump accidentaly leaving behind some incriminating evidence would be the perfect end to this saga :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 16, 2021, 02:00:13 PM
At a certain point you just gotta throw the mattresses out and get new ones.

Now Biden needs a a pillow guy, who's laughing now?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 16, 2021, 02:47:03 PM
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 02:55:36 PM
Great read

https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html (https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html)

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About a dozen aides and relatives huddled around Trump as he dictated an improvised speech. Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously typing the president's stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Aides rushed to print out screenshots of cable news graphics showing Trump's illusory early leads in the key Midwest states. By 2 a.m., Trump wanted to know why he couldn't just say he had won and be done with it.

The Trump White House is literally VEEP  :doge
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Post by: Tasty on January 16, 2021, 03:03:01 PM
Great read

https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html (https://www.axios.com/trump-election-premeditated-lie-ebaf4a1f-46bf-4c37-ba0d-3ed5536ef537.html)

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About a dozen aides and relatives huddled around Trump as he dictated an improvised speech. Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously typing the president's stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Aides rushed to print out screenshots of cable news graphics showing Trump's illusory early leads in the key Midwest states. By 2 a.m., Trump wanted to know why he couldn't just say he had won and be done with it.

The Trump White House is literally VEEP  :doge

When they were airing (before Trump was elected), aides on the hill and in the White House said real life was less like House of Cards and way more like Veep.
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Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 05:13:37 PM
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1350253097818329089 (https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1350253097818329089)

"Why would I pardon Antifa mike?" :trumps

"She looks like a 5 maybe a 6" :trumps
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 16, 2021, 05:17:24 PM
Stephen Miller sat on a couch furiously

I got nervous for a second.  :exxy
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Post by: Nintex on January 16, 2021, 07:08:51 PM
Guess who's back? :rejoice

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1350574806132023298 (https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1350574806132023298)

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350584672129048579 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350584672129048579)
[close]

Rumor has it he's doing the impeachment case.
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Post by: Uncle on January 16, 2021, 08:04:18 PM
he's not even getting paid he's such a lil bitch :neogaf
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 16, 2021, 08:10:35 PM
He might not be getting paid cash, but just think about all that exposure.
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Post by: Uncle on January 16, 2021, 08:39:13 PM
He might not be getting paid cash, but just think about all that exposure.

(https://i.imgur.com/VYVRdmX.png)
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 16, 2021, 10:25:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvOcr0uu9o
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Post by: Potato on January 17, 2021, 12:17:45 AM
I think when your side starts erecting a gallows, you might need to start questioning whether you are on the "right" side.
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Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2021, 07:29:59 AM
https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1350781516197072898 (https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1350781516197072898)

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White House staff quickly learned about Trump’s disregard for documents as they witnessed him tearing them up and discarding them. “My director came up to me and said, ‘You have to tape these together,’” said Solomon Lartey, a former White House records analyst.


:dead
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Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2021, 01:35:49 PM
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1350836851259682817 (https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1350836851259682817)

 :doge
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 17, 2021, 02:51:38 PM
there must be hours of graham getting fisted by barely legal DC rentboys on someone's hard drive.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:drool
[close]
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Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2021, 04:41:42 PM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1350832578618601475 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1350832578618601475)

 :trumps
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Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2021, 07:33:15 PM
https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html (https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html)

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Eventually, Giuliani would realize that he and his crew were alone in the conference room. He'd walk down the hall and knock on the glass outside Stepien's office, where about eight aides had squeezed onto a pair of couches. "You guys, where did you go?" Giuliani would say. "This is serious!"
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In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"
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"We're not lying," Clark shot back. "You're a fucking asshole, Rudy."
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This was the Giuliani show now. The barbarians were in the Oval. The rest of the Republican Party was just along for the ride.
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Post by: team filler on January 17, 2021, 07:38:21 PM
rudy G had all the clout  :titus
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Post by: naff on January 17, 2021, 07:42:01 PM
 :lol wut

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1350891695190245376
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Post by: Transhuman on January 17, 2021, 07:43:22 PM
https://youtu.be/1QvNZVbPzBo

It's tough out there

#FakeDC
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Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2021, 07:47:27 PM
rudy G had all the clout  :titus
Rudy G is the MVP.

There have been few Trump Presidency scandals that he wasn't directly responsible for or involved in.
Rudy and his endless supply of 'associates' who were denied to testify against Rudy or Trump because they were criminals who couldn't be trusted  :doge.
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Post by: Potato on January 17, 2021, 09:57:10 PM
https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html (https://axios.com/trump-lawyers-biden-election-victory-debf79bc-750b-457b-a736-789b501d62a7.html)

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Eventually, Giuliani would realize that he and his crew were alone in the conference room. He'd walk down the hall and knock on the glass outside Stepien's office, where about eight aides had squeezed onto a pair of couches. "You guys, where did you go?" Giuliani would say. "This is serious!"
Quote
In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"
Quote
"We're not lying," Clark shot back. "You're a fucking asshole, Rudy."
Quote
This was the Giuliani show now. The barbarians were in the Oval. The rest of the Republican Party was just along for the ride.
These articles are a great read. Even if only 50% of the information is correct, it's still fucking hilariously amateur/crazy hour.
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Post by: team filler on January 18, 2021, 04:24:35 AM
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1350994379356463105

 :woody
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 05:40:11 AM
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1351023455496531975 (https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1351023455496531975)

 :doge
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 18, 2021, 10:22:00 AM
meh it's not SIPR or TS/SCI, dumb crime to commit for little gain. tho i do wonder if they use chip based access cards in congress, cuz her screen should have been locked when she evacuated.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 18, 2021, 10:25:31 AM
Q unlocked her screen :tinfoil
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 18, 2021, 10:42:53 AM
Pelosi purposefully left her laptop unlocked to bait patriots into stealing it so she could impeach Trump and impose marital law!  :noooo
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 18, 2021, 10:52:02 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55709740

US Capitol on lockdown due to 'security threat'
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 12:41:53 PM
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Police say they acted out of an abundance of caution after witnesses reported smoke rising nearby. The fire was several blocks away.
Rudy lit his cigar  :pimp or they're burning all the documents

Was just on the Dutch news, it was a couple of homeless tents that went up in flames.  :'(
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 01:57:57 PM
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1351228190312824849 (https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1351228190312824849)

https://twitter.com/XXL/status/1351178422337368065 (https://twitter.com/XXL/status/1351178422337368065)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
"and finally sir, the high profile rappers, including Lil' Wayne"

"thank you fellas good work.... wait.... rappers?"

"I SAID HIGH PROFILE RAPERS"

"Rapers sir? "

"YES WE"RE GOING TO TEAR AMERICA A NEW ASSHOLE, FREE THE RAPERS"
[close]

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The special, hosted by Tom Hanks, is set to air live on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC from 8:30 to 10 p.m. EST on January 20. It will feature performances from Jon Bon Jovi, who campaigned with Biden in Pennsylvania, Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons.
At least we won't have to sit through the YMCA or a Vanilla Ice impersonator but I wager there won't be a Linkin Park remix  :fbm
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Post by: Uncle on January 18, 2021, 02:11:23 PM
meh it's not SIPR or TS/SCI, dumb crime to commit for little gain. tho i do wonder if they use chip based access cards in congress, cuz her screen should have been locked when she evacuated.

we know thanks to photos posted the day of the invasion that at least one computer was on and unlocked with staffer emails visible

a laptop ought to be a different story but
:idont
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 02:30:09 PM
I think there’s about a 25% chance of trump saying fuck it and pardoning  :jared

spoiler (click to show/hide)
The bribe of $5 million subway gift cards will help out too.
[close]
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 03:57:59 PM
Trump is taking out his revenge on everyone so he's gonna pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, O.J. and a bunch of other people and keep Assange hanging to fuck with the 'low class' Q's who devalued his brand.
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Post by: EchoRin on January 18, 2021, 04:01:35 PM
Trump is taking out his revenge on everyone so he's gonna pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, O.J. and a bunch of other people and keep Assange hanging to fuck with the 'low class' Q's who devalued his brand.

https://twitter.com/kumarraonyc/status/810238829282127873

Ivanka can tell he's a bad dude
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2021, 04:17:00 PM
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1351225229843050496
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Post by: Potato on January 18, 2021, 04:37:46 PM
You people seriously named a monument the National Garden of American Heroes? Is it any wonder the rest of the world thinks you're all fucking flag waving idiots?
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 04:43:05 PM
You people seriously named a monument the National Garden of American Heroes? Is it any wonder the rest of the world thinks you're all fucking flag waving idiots?
Trump did :trumps

Anyhow since he's doing this by EO, there's a big chance that Biden will cancel it.
The Biden administration has been toying with the idea to revoke all EO's not yet implemented or acted on by the time Trump leaves office, which is most of the recent ones.  :doge
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 18, 2021, 04:50:17 PM
It'll never get built because, like most of Trump's EOs, there's likely no mechanism in place to actually carry it out and no funding.
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 04:53:56 PM
There's one he did recently that mandated all government buildings must be 'beautiful'. :dead

https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1341047144891953154 (https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1341047144891953154)
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Post by: team filler on January 18, 2021, 04:54:27 PM
grover cleveland  ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 05:31:03 PM
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1351258353704579074 (https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1351258353704579074)

 :iface
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2021, 06:49:48 PM
They forgot about infrastructure week tho :fbm


Welcome to the next period of time

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351326299713908736 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351326299713908736)
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Post by: EchoRin on January 18, 2021, 07:47:09 PM
No Nintex visitng the land of the free  :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 18, 2021, 07:50:53 PM
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1351316367409094660

 :ohhh


https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1351297814953943040

 :trumps
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 18, 2021, 08:13:57 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1351180549449265153

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 18, 2021, 08:23:21 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1351236031065038848

 :ohyeah

https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1351238486813245448


 :biden
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Post by: BIONIC on January 19, 2021, 12:44:27 AM
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609

:shaq
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Post by: Potato on January 19, 2021, 02:14:08 AM
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609 (https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609)

 :shaq
I know you're not supposed to stick your dick in crazy, but  :drake
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Post by: Transhuman on January 19, 2021, 05:41:09 AM
I always thought that seems offensive to people with mental illnesses who want to bang.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 19, 2021, 06:25:01 AM
is trump gonna pull some big stunt on his last day or is pardoning weezy f baby the big bang he goes out on :hmm
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Post by: Transhuman on January 19, 2021, 06:35:40 AM
There's no way that he won't (do a big stunt that is)
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Post by: Sman on January 19, 2021, 11:49:33 AM
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609

:shaq

I thought (former?) GAF/Bore member Cloudwalking ran off to Switzerland.

What is she doing selling American secrets to the Russians?  :'(
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 12:53:30 PM
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609

:shaq

I thought (former?) GAF/Bore member Cloudwalking ran off to Switzerland.

What is she doing selling American secrets to the Russians?  :'(
I read the other day that OnlyFans is saturated :trumps

This thread has some interesting photographs
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1351588613453213698 (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1351588613453213698)
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 19, 2021, 12:54:27 PM
like anyone would simp for that ho :heh
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Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 01:11:44 PM
https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1351580478940323840 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1351580478940323840)

And there is the ultimate anime betrayal
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 19, 2021, 01:24:53 PM
https://twitter.com/weast_carolina/status/1351391285903556609

:shaq

I thought (former?) GAF/Bore member Cloudwalking ran off to Switzerland.

What is she doing selling American secrets to the Russians?  :'(

god damn
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Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 02:35:46 PM
Trump: "I love the flag there's no one who loves the flag more than I do"

https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1351362846626611202 (https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1351362846626611202)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 19, 2021, 03:15:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1351612926264811527

 :ohyeah

Biden is really bringing this country back to normal!
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Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 03:17:43 PM
Republicans: "...as the good lord jesus would say to those with whom he broke bread, who is going to pay for all this?"

Democrats: ":uguu"
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Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 04:16:00 PM
Trump is gold now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h5_d3DUdR4

Not sure why he didn't say these things on the campaign trail but I'm happy that whoever told him to go gold and deliver a speech won the debate with the MyPillow guy.  :doge
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Post by: EchoRin on January 19, 2021, 04:27:17 PM
4:52. I'll give him that TPP was crap and I'm glad Trump ripped it up.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 19, 2021, 04:40:17 PM
TPP was crap mostly because of stuff the US wanted though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: EchoRin on January 19, 2021, 04:42:52 PM
Either way. It's gone  :trumps
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Post by: nudemacusers on January 19, 2021, 05:19:02 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1351612926264811527

 :ohyeah

Biden is really bringing this country back to normal!
lmao is that dr oz? why are we asking him about deficits. the newsmax bench must be running light now.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 19, 2021, 05:52:11 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-event-gop-biden-inauguration-b1789644.html
Pence and GOP leaders to skip Trump’s farewell event
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Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 06:25:59 PM
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721)

Promises made
Promises kept

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Tasty on January 19, 2021, 07:00:33 PM
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1351671167967518721)

Promises made
Promises kept

 :biden

Sorry filler-sama, but I'd have a difficult time being convinced it should be anywhere else tbh.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2021, 07:21:01 PM
Huh?  That's what he said while campaigning.  Why is that news?
Because it says BREAKING

Also pour one out for all the comedians, Trump impersonators and news networks who will find themselves without content(TM) within a week or so :tocry

"Jon Batiste everyone, how have you been Jon? Ready to 'play back better'"
"hahahah sure Stephen"  :neogaf
"Biden was walking the dog today, I thought Trump forgot his hair" :heh
*pling ding*  :umad
"Trump is the first President to have more divorces than terms" :heh
*doing ploing*  :jawalrus

"Biden announced that his administration will hold a press conference every friday... so.....  to .... eerr..." 
*doing pling?* :hmm

"Boy those tiks sure are toks right fellas"
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Post by: Uncle on January 19, 2021, 08:19:06 PM
who is going to play nintex on SNL
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Transhuman on January 19, 2021, 09:10:58 PM
Also pour one out for all the comedians, Trump impersonators and news networks who will find themselves without content(TM) within a week or so

Fuck that. I know getting ratings is hard these days, but no-one gets my respect for destroying the quality of their work for job security.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: EchoRin on January 19, 2021, 10:11:32 PM
Wait what?  :lol :lol :lol I didn't know he was that big of a nutter to actually storm the Capitol

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iced-earth-guitarist-jon-schaffer-225701958.html
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Post by: Transhuman on January 19, 2021, 10:26:50 PM
The more I hear about it, the less I fear that American democracy is at risk.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 19, 2021, 11:38:40 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-event-gop-biden-inauguration-b1789644.html
Pence and GOP leaders to skip Trump’s farewell event
welcome to the resistance Pence and GOP leaders!  :klob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: BIONIC on January 20, 2021, 12:21:29 AM
Biden is a well-known dirty Zioner  ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 12:50:27 AM
https://preview.redd.it/iltz8sibsec61.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2c7b82aefe2fbdbfb3133634308553e455eb039f
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 03:03:48 AM
https://twitter.com/flossfurman/status/1351700100372901888

 :tocry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBr_WLQsFc

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 04:53:44 AM
The more I hear about it, the less I fear that American democracy is at risk.
Trump just wanted an exciting season finale without having to start a war and now everyone is mad at him for organizing a LARP :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 07:33:32 AM
Watching the news is like watching performative era try to flex about being vigilant.


yasss queen
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Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 07:42:00 AM
https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-trump-pardons-broidy-66c82f25134735e742b2501c118723bb (https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-trump-pardons-broidy-66c82f25134735e742b2501c118723bb)

Trump pardoned Bannon and a random assortment of crooks

Quote
rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, both convicted in Florida on weapons charges.

Quote
Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican who served three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges, and former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, who was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors.

Quote
Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser who pleaded guilty last fall in a scheme to lobby the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the looting of a Malaysian wealth fund, and Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner who was charged last October with cyberstalking during a heated divorce.
:trumps


Trump's spotify playlist blaring in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umsaXWrpgR8
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 08:24:11 AM
He actually slinked off.

:yikes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 20, 2021, 08:41:29 AM
*grandpa sees Trump on tv*

"They should shoot that guy."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 09:32:00 AM
Trump looked happy to leave as he ended his presidency blasting the YMCA :lawd

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1351889743756324864 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1351889743756324864)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 20, 2021, 09:53:09 AM
OLD MAN
GET YOUR ASS OUT OF TOWN
I SAID OLD MAN
WE'RE NOT PLAYING AROUND
I SAID OLD MAN
WHYS YOUR FACE ORANGE BROWN?
THERE'S
NO
NEED
TO
BE
SO CRAPPY
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 09:58:59 AM
It's finally over.

The Biden admin is really happening.

I declare my allegiance to communism

.  :supergay :ussrcry :chinacry :maduro :juche
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 10:45:50 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsJXx-lXcAIr60W?format=png)

 :biden

The President memed into office made it 4 years

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1351893629279809537 (https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1351893629279809537)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 20, 2021, 10:59:43 AM
18 - pardon joe exotic, julian assange and suge knight :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: zomgee on January 20, 2021, 11:11:24 AM
lol Harris almost fell down the steps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 20, 2021, 11:19:37 AM
(https://external-preview.redd.it/uI14UZe8T9GjSe6xqRzX25w9mFNbZGLCPpuXaDmg3B4.jpg?width=843&auto=webp&s=262346338775609a6c1b357038658f43769c9eae)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 11:31:06 AM
What's this about librarians? Is it related to jk Rowling?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 11:53:54 AM
This should be Bernie

 :brazilcry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 20, 2021, 11:55:15 AM
:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 20, 2021, 11:56:31 AM
i hope people can see the forest from the trees and recognise that america has swapped one old nonce for another :jared
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 20, 2021, 11:58:12 AM
This thread title tho  :kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 12:00:03 PM
This thread title tho  :kobeyuck
let them enjoy this moment in cringe this is a time of healing :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 12:02:24 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/OqVX6G1.jpg) :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 12:07:28 PM
Bernie would have wrapped it up by now and nuked every Trump property
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 20, 2021, 12:09:56 PM
or allied with trump to take out the deep state once and for all :rogan
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 12:15:19 PM
Bernie would have performed amazing grace on his own
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 12:28:39 PM
Bernie would have performed amazing grace on his own
Trump would've had the YMCA pumping in the background as he placed one hand on the bible and the other on Mike Pence crotch :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 12:34:18 PM
Most dependable man on earth

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAlanJohnson/status/1351917785895452673
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 12:39:19 PM
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345 (https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 12:41:31 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MjJpLzT.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 20, 2021, 12:45:14 PM
https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345 (https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1351947015194894345)

:biden

fools giving a shit about who's in charge :ltg

the military industrial complex getting their paper either way :success
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 12:52:17 PM
Bernie would have won that inauguration if it wasn't for all the media.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 12:56:08 PM
https://twitter.com/VicTafur/status/1351944714174382080

dat ivy league indoctrination  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 01:09:53 PM
I hope Biden can make it a week without launching drone strikes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 01:16:52 PM
https://twitter.com/Evol_noJ/status/1351934287679930369

 :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: T-Short on January 20, 2021, 01:27:35 PM
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1351946518392156168

Nice hovering over the "Publish" button, there
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: T-Short on January 20, 2021, 01:28:19 PM
https://twitter.com/JessReports/status/1351948727259336704

 :shaking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2021, 01:28:57 PM
were there any limp wristed protests today?

there was all that talk of inauguration day plans earlier
:idont
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: T-Short on January 20, 2021, 01:31:11 PM
were there any limp wristed protests today?

there was all that talk of inauguration day plans earlier
:idont

https://twitter.com/morganfmckay/status/1351934178493935620
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 01:31:24 PM
https://twitter.com/JessReports/status/1351948727259336704

 :shaking

"Someone's knocking on my door"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 01:42:43 PM
https://twitter.com/KirkWrites79/status/1351953741956542465


 :foodcourt
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 01:44:49 PM
I need photos of trump flags in trash cans by the curb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 01:45:45 PM
Tiger King not taking the snub well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/joe_exotic/status/1351961406355222530
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 01:48:00 PM
He denied us this :fbm

https://twitter.com/joe_exotic/status/1350577250102603778 (https://twitter.com/joe_exotic/status/1350577250102603778)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 02:09:44 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/lRuO2gR.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 20, 2021, 02:41:41 PM
So brazen :lol

https://twitter.com/PostRoz/status/1351872994793181184
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 03:37:56 PM
It's cringe time bois :rash

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1351972530202918913 (https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1351972530202918913)

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1351983331584462851 (https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1351983331584462851)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 20, 2021, 04:22:08 PM
:kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 20, 2021, 04:47:02 PM
Most dependable man on earth

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAlanJohnson/status/1351917785895452673

It's a good jacket!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 20, 2021, 04:54:53 PM
It's a good jacket!

Trump: It's a good jacket. I know that jacket very well. Some might even say best jacket. I didn't say it they did. *points in general direction to give the impression that people agree*
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 20, 2021, 04:58:28 PM
It's a good jacket!

Trump: It's a good jacket. I know that jacket very well. Some might even say best jacket. I didn't say it they did. *points in general direction to give the impression that people agree*

I already miss him  :goldberg
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 05:01:37 PM
https://twitter.com/TheAlanJohnson/status/1351931083982426112


berniebro'd

haha
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 05:03:34 PM
Copium stocks about to go through the roof.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1351965595760259076
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 20, 2021, 05:14:23 PM
ABOUT to have have a panic attack?


:rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 05:47:39 PM
https://twitter.com/BlackBernieBabe/status/1351944920936947715

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 05:51:00 PM
Copium stocks about to go through the roof.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1351965595760259076

Meanwhile in Florida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uR3LBhromQ

Joe will carry on the torch
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1352020852129333249 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1352020852129333249)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 06:21:36 PM
The letter:

"Joe. No one told me this for 6 months but it's life saving. There's a button on your desk. Push it and they bring diet coke."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2021, 06:21:56 PM
enclosed were two coupons for big macs
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2021, 06:45:47 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352007118392582148
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 06:49:45 PM
https://twitter.com/ben_awareness/status/1351932409873362945

 :cac
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2021, 06:55:05 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352029158671527944
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 20, 2021, 06:59:36 PM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654


the whole thread is  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 20, 2021, 07:09:49 PM
Ok trumps gone, see y’all in 4 years

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:snob
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2021, 07:17:12 PM
Quote
Following the announcement of the band’s reunion for the inauguration parade, many on social media wondered whether or not they’d update the song’s original bridge—which mentions both political issues (the FDA, big banks, cloning) and the headline-making pop stars of the late ’90s (Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson). They ended up cutting the bridge entirely. “For the inauguration and only four minutes to play, I couldn’t get to the rap part anyway,” Alexander explained to Rolling Stone.
:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: chronovore on January 20, 2021, 07:23:42 PM
Watched Lady Gaga's rendering of the national anthem.
Read the inaugural poem.
It is wonderful to feel hope again.
It's such an alien feeling lately.

Edit: full poem text here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: naff on January 20, 2021, 07:28:58 PM
my mum was in a colleagues fb chat and responded with the watermelon emoji to someone posting amanda gorman reading the poem at the inauguration and got called out for it (the chat's default emoji was watermelon, idk why). she then messaged me a wikipedia article about the history of the stereotype lmao, how she didn't know about it already and she's a senior english/lit teacher baffles me. boomers gonna boom  :lol

feels like the beginning of a curb sketch
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 20, 2021, 07:31:20 PM
Innocent white moms  :uguu

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:cac
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2021, 07:46:02 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352029158671527944
Fact check: Captain America attended the inauguration

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsMPT2gXYAMv_VA?format=jpg)

Ok credit where credit is due this joke from the libruls was mildly funny

https://twitter.com/RyanJL/status/1351895545841930240 (https://twitter.com/RyanJL/status/1351895545841930240)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 20, 2021, 08:18:09 PM
Ban all GOPamd kill thjem!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 20, 2021, 08:22:26 PM
Quote
“the sight of the Clintons and the Bushes and the Obamas — The Avengers, the Marvel superheroes back up there together all in one place.”

Plz nuke the shit out of whoever the fuck said this garbage
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 20, 2021, 09:07:30 PM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2021, 09:44:45 PM
https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1351936241655308294

 :klob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 20, 2021, 10:10:41 PM
That woman lives in an alternate reality completely. She says she now sees no American flags and Biden was flying some weird new flag. Neither of these things happened.

Apparently this was the evil flag she saw.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2O-fJOHL._AC_SL1000_.jpg)

 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 20, 2021, 10:34:13 PM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

She'll be watching Jordan B Peterson lectures in no time  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: chronovore on January 21, 2021, 12:11:22 AM
http://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1351903819765047297

 :cody
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 21, 2021, 12:23:08 AM
Watched Lady Gaga's rendering of the national anthem.
Read the inaugural poem.
It is wonderful to feel hope again.
It's such an alien feeling lately.

Edit: full poem text here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

 :cac
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: chronovore on January 21, 2021, 12:35:10 AM
Watched Lady Gaga's rendering of the national anthem.
Read the inaugural poem.
It is wonderful to feel hope again.
It's such an alien feeling lately.

Edit: full poem text here
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

 :cac

:iface
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 21, 2021, 12:47:56 AM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654


the whole thread is  :doge

Same energy as this thread’s title  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 21, 2021, 01:28:09 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/9d6H1MI.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Eoe4nxM.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/QtqLtDW.png)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 21, 2021, 01:32:55 AM
Anime wins again

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:uguu :meeble
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: nudemacusers on January 21, 2021, 01:35:49 AM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

She'll be watching Jordan B Peterson lectures in no time  8)
on that note, I occasionally get Epoch Times ads even though I don't watch any of that shit or shit-adjacent content. I know what they are, and historically in ads they were pretty 'vague' about their political bent, just talking about being 'independent and honest' blah blah. Fast forward to this last weekend however:

(https://i.imgur.com/8ZJPiv9.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/9NmuBkg.png)

:lol

plus the guy looks like a fukkin weasel.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 21, 2021, 01:54:06 AM
Looking at its Wikipedia page.

Damn. I feel for the oppression and persecution that followers of Falun Gong go through in China(or at least were going through when I was looking into it some 5 years back or so). It's absolutely reprehensible. But why affiliate with The Epoch Times?  :-\

I mean I can see the dots connecting, but ahhh... c'mon man. You guys can do better.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Uncle on January 21, 2021, 07:21:14 AM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654


the whole thread is  :doge

Same energy as this thread’s title  :kermit

thread title needs to remain the same until the next election then change to "It's mourning again in America"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BisMarckie on January 21, 2021, 07:40:10 AM
Inauguration day is the day where my interest in US politics went from following it for some cheap laughs to zero again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 21, 2021, 09:04:24 AM
This thread title tho  :kobeyuck
let them enjoy this moment in cringe this is a time of healing :rejoice

It's an ironic reference to Reagan's 1984 campaign, and a Bore DEEP LORE reference to thread title after Trump was elected "Twilight in America". I am very good at thread titles, don't @ me.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 21, 2021, 09:07:45 AM
Also "Tired of Looking at Bad President, Can't Wait to Go Home and Look at Good President" was too long to fit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 21, 2021, 09:10:00 AM
Trump is still president, it's all going according to the plan :morans
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2021, 10:33:13 AM
Inauguration day is the day where my interest in US politics went from following it for some cheap laughs to zero again.
It was interesting to see just how much faster a government of bureaucrats and experts works compared to a clown show governing by Tweet.

With Trump the media spend about 6 months lamenting the loss of Obama's legacy because he signed an executive order about every month and each signing event with the sharpie took roughly 30 minutes.
Steve Bannon bragged about this and called it a "blitz of executive orders" that would paralize their political opponents. Most of what Trump signed had to be revisited, fought for in court, ammended or reversed.
Despite the President having the power to fire anybody, they hired The Mooch to get rid of Priebus and paid thugs in Ukraine to monitor the movements of the US Ambassador to find dirt on her.

In comparison, on the first day in office, Biden signed a stack of a dozen EO's to reverse about 75% of Trump's signature policies within 5 minutes of entering the oval office and appointed ~1000 government officials with a single ZOOM call to staff most of the federal government.
He also fired most controversial Trump appointees or made them resign.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 21, 2021, 10:47:59 AM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

I had livestream recs from at least CBC, NBC, PBS and a few others.  This might be more a question about your mom than youtube. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: T-Short on January 21, 2021, 10:52:20 AM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

I had livestream recs from at least CBC, NBC, PBS and a few others.  This might be more a question about your mom than youtube.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/Nlur5uO8GkjC0/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 21, 2021, 11:00:22 AM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654


the whole thread is  :doge

https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1352062929424818176

Yeah... isn't this meant to highlight victims of police violence? Who turned it into the equivalent of "yas queen"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 21, 2021, 11:26:28 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/cCpa2DE.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 21, 2021, 12:39:06 PM
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1352136359859822592

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 01:06:17 PM
I can’t believe Joe is betraying antifa after they stole the election and invaded the capital for him.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2021, 01:17:35 PM
https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1351958798148251654


the whole thread is  :doge

https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1352062929424818176

Yeah... isn't this meant to highlight victims of police violence? Who turned it into the equivalent of "yas queen"
This is the future the liberals wanted :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 21, 2021, 01:32:28 PM
I can’t believe Joe is betraying antifa after they stole the election and invaded the capital for him.

At least he put up a bust of that Chavez guy that rigged the Dominion voting machines for him
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 21, 2021, 01:32:48 PM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

I had livestream recs from at least CBC, NBC, PBS and a few others.  This might be more a question about your mom than youtube.

What part of new roku did you miss?

There was no account. Fresh from box
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 21, 2021, 01:39:42 PM
Nintex talking about other people's cringe  :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 21, 2021, 02:10:34 PM
I don't know how roku works because I just hook my pc directly to my tv

 :snob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 21, 2021, 02:20:18 PM
Chromecast da best :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2021, 02:42:40 PM
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017 (https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017)

 :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 03:29:39 PM
I am so ready for four years of senior moments.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElElephantes/status/1352338002752638976
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 21, 2021, 03:45:26 PM
:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 21, 2021, 04:10:50 PM
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017 (https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1352284365854806017)

 :tocry

It's sad, yes. But this is a moment that Biden can prove that he cares about us gamers. A very unrepresented and oppressed people constantly shamed for our hobby. Joe can replace that old button with a new one that brings in a Mountain Dew and Doritos combo when pressed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 21, 2021, 04:37:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/RDQLI9S.jpg)


https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1352322831506436096

 :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 21, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1352322831506436096

Herpa derpity do, you dumb bitch.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Uncle on January 21, 2021, 06:29:40 PM
she thought you walk into the chamber and go

(https://i.imgur.com/BZXJvRa.png)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 21, 2021, 07:05:52 PM
Is JordanN a member yet? Something is off with the shape of her head and I want to know if it impacts her IQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Lonewulfeus on January 21, 2021, 07:54:37 PM
How long before her nose looks like Artie Lange’s?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2021, 08:11:25 PM
I am so ready for four years of senior moments.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElElephantes/status/1352338002752638976

Trash Twitter account.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2021, 08:26:55 PM
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1352388098576027649

CNN annihilated
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: kingv on January 22, 2021, 12:05:14 AM
Holy shit YouTube is trash.

Got my mom a new roku. Turned on YouTube to watch the inauguration concert.

Only relevant suggesting on front page? Trumps goodbye speech by right wing news.

Ok, i find an nbc stream.

5 minutes in hit with a 1 hour PragerU infomercial

Wtf

She'll be watching Jordan B Peterson lectures in no time  8)

“James? James? I think I know why you got divorced, have you been cleaning your room?”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 22, 2021, 01:52:37 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/9d6H1MI.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Eoe4nxM.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/QtqLtDW.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/lNDNF1g.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 22, 2021, 06:36:36 AM
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1352382043771035654?
 :lol :lol

Filler content
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 22, 2021, 07:10:57 AM
Tio Bernie and Orb Mommy were robbed  :goty
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: bork on January 22, 2021, 08:06:55 AM
This is some classic Fox News right here:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1352436221885231104

:rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 22, 2021, 08:09:25 AM
two days of tyranny :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2021, 08:40:24 AM
This is some classic Fox News right here:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1352436221885231104

:rofl
I give it a week before there's a COVID death tracker and national debt ticker on their screen.  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2021, 09:19:27 AM
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1352602139764420609 (https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1352602139764420609)

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1352618977428705283 (https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1352618977428705283)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 22, 2021, 09:21:33 AM
If Trump got smoked by Iran would America go to war over it :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2021, 09:36:12 AM
If Trump got smoked by Iran would America go to war over it :thinking
"Thank you madam speaker. I stand before you with a heavy heart.

President Trump was an American President, builder and television icon, we may not have seen eye to eye but we do not accept such an act of agression against our nation.
We pray for his family and mourn for their loss. We also pray for the millions of people that were inspired by his achievements and optimism.
I thank his supporters for their non-violent and peaceful gatherings to celebrate his life, which shows that we are and will always be the greatest nation on earth.

Now is the time to heal and defend American values and freedom both at home and abroad I hereby call on the Senate and Congress to vote for the PERSIAN FREEDOM act to free the great and proud people of Iran as Mr. Trump would've wanted" :biden

:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap :clap

"Must we really start another war Joe? Have we learned nothing? Didn't President Trump call this on himself?"  :bernie

"Read the room Bernie now is not the time for politics"  :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 22, 2021, 12:01:09 PM
https://twitter.com/TimNielsenDay/status/1352323822070894592
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 22, 2021, 12:20:17 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/elw33wqp6wc61.png?width=666&auto=webp&s=0bf4292ccd0299cfa456aca75a5bd9264b701d4d)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2021, 01:14:10 PM
They absolutely will. They're going to be even more petty against Biden than they were with Obama.
To sum it up

The Best Is Yet To Come :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: EchoRin on January 22, 2021, 01:41:18 PM
A few days in and I can tell that Nintex will be juuuuust fine without Trump in office. Plenty of other talking heads and news groups out there for him to gravitate to for his shtick.

I look forward to Taking Back Sunday showing up every two months to tell him to shut the fuck up. The circle of The Bore.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 22, 2021, 01:42:20 PM
https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1352678865408294915
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2021, 02:30:48 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsTcmhGXEAA3AYg?format=jpg)

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EdibleAromaticDuckbillcat-size_restricted.gif)

Unless they throw Trump and his buddies in gitmo this will never end.  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 22, 2021, 02:31:09 PM
https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1352678865408294915

It's just that easy.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 22, 2021, 05:44:28 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4w4sGJX.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 22, 2021, 06:48:32 PM
https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1352641061911470082

:shaq  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 23, 2021, 12:58:38 AM
If Trump got smoked by Iran would America go to war over it :thinking

Trump’s gone, and we get to guilt-free bomb Iran? :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 23, 2021, 04:13:55 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/tRhh2he.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 23, 2021, 05:38:05 AM
Welp ~150 national guard members that attented the inauguration tested positive for Covid
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: chronovore on January 23, 2021, 09:01:36 AM
http://twitter.com/tavernwench/status/1352934711836991489



Get fucked, Texas. Stuff your entire state straight up your oversized, entitled, lying, bitch ass, whiny, self victimizing ass.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 23, 2021, 09:07:10 AM
Texas ain't turning blue next cycle, so ya they can fuck off.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 23, 2021, 09:13:54 AM
Get fucked, Texas. Stuff your entire state straight up your oversized, entitled, lying, bitch ass, whiny, self victimizing ass.
This is why CNN is airing this. They know this shit captivates their audience and grinds their gears.

White man in cowboy hat and sunglasses that voted for Trump 

You -> :rage :money <- CNN

Innocent police woman hurt in future riot -> :riot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 23, 2021, 10:20:35 AM
http://twitter.com/tavernwench/status/1352934711836991489

:beli
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 23, 2021, 04:10:58 PM
Quote from: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/23/959209520/democrats-weigh-whether-iowa-should-stay-first-in-line-for-2024-election
While it's only 2021, a major question facing Democrats this year and next will be what to do about the presidential nominating calendar and whether Iowa, in particular, should retain its prized place at the front of the calendar in 2024.

Iowa's decades-long lock on the nominating process has been under threat since last year's disastrous caucus, when results were delayed for days due in part to a faulty smartphone app that was supposed to make things easier for precinct captains when they reported results. Ultimately, the Associated Press never declared a winner in the contest due to problems with the vote count, which was administered by the Iowa Democratic Party.

...

President Biden's newly-installed pick to lead the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison of South Carolina, will get a chance to shake up the calendar by appointing members to the party's rules and bylaws committee. Unlike past presidents, Biden didn't win in Iowa (he came in fourth, after former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) and owes no political debt to the complex caucus process.

"I think on its merits that the Iowa caucus falls short of the values that we espouse as Democrats," Julian Castro said.

...

Castro, who dropped out of the race before the Iowa caucuses, made the argument during the campaign that 2020 should be the last year Iowa goes first and that a primary election run by the state makes much more sense than a caucus run by the party.

"You have one person, one vote instead of an archaic formula to figure out who wins the whole thing," Castro said.

...


"President Biden is going to have a say in this too" Middleton, who is close friends with Harrison. "Who better than Joe Biden to provide his assessment having run for president a few times and not winning Iowa?"
:iowacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: james on January 23, 2021, 05:45:50 PM
Should be alphabetical

Start m Alaska, end in Wyoming
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 23, 2021, 06:15:49 PM
Should be in the order of closest margin from the previous election. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 23, 2021, 11:45:18 PM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1351297926769872899

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2021, 05:27:05 AM
Better idea: investigate boomers with servers in their bathroom that don't lock their computers and click on every link :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 24, 2021, 05:36:18 AM
#ImpeachKKKillary
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2021, 06:36:40 AM
Remind me who send an election team to save the drunk crooks and corrupt who bankrupted and looted Russia and pushed Yeltsin to pick Putin before he drank himself to death.
(https://deborahnormansoprano.com/images/obrazovanie/kogda-umer-elcin-v-kakom-godu-umer-elcin-i-gde-pohoronen_5.jpg)

Also, who helped young Putin to be accepted by the international community despite war crimes and human rights violations in the first year?
(https://phototass2.cdnvideo.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20170603/1170062.jpg)

An unknown KGB colonel elevated to head of the FSB and appointed Prime Minister who was expected to last a year in the revolving door of Russian politics but instead became President for 20 years.
The ladies can investigate but I don't think they'll like what they're going to find. Start with why Putin's man in Ukraine was saved from electoral defeat by Paul Manafort who was given the nickname: "CIA Paul" by his own staff.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 24, 2021, 11:18:33 AM
Putin is a more successful Bin Laden. They both were used by America and benefited from America and they both successfully attacked the US.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 24, 2021, 11:52:32 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-is-a-hazard-to-our-democracy-its-time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-murdochs-heres-how/2021/01/22/1821f186-5cbe-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2021, 12:33:44 PM
Quote from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9180909/Trump-drafting-enemies-list-Republicans-Patriot-Party-challenge-primaries.html
By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Donald Trump is reportedly moving forward with his plans to create a 'Patriot Party' to put pressure on Republicans who oppose him and attempt to head off conviction in his second Senate impeachment trial.

Trump has told people that the third-party threat gives him leverage to prevent Republican senators from voting to convict him during the Senate trial next month, people in his orbit told the Washington Post.

Since President Joe Biden took office, Trump has been ensconced at Mar-a-Lago, remaining publicly cryptic about his plans except to tell a reporter on Friday: 'We'll do something, but not just yet.'

But behind closed doors, Trump is already drafting an enemies list of Republicans who opposed his baseless claims of election fraud, instructing aids to prepare primary challenges against them, sources told the Post.

The list is said to include the House's number three Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who broke party ranks and voted to impeach Trump over his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Rep. Tom Rice, a South Carolina Republican, is on the list for the same reason.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is also reportedly on the list after provoking Trump's fury for refusing to back his challenge to the state's election results, which were certified for Biden. 

Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who has signaled that she is open to voting to convict Trump, is also said to be a Patriot Party primary target. Kemp and Murkowski are both up for re-election in 2022.

Trump advisers say they plan to recruit opposing primary candidates and commission polling as soon as next week in districts of targeted lawmakers.

To fund his splinter party, Trump has more than $70 million in campaign cash on hand, the sources said.

Though the Trump campaign was essentially tapped out on Election Day, the campaign and several allied groups raised $207 million between November 3 and November 23, fundraising on his push to challenged the election results.

The number is certainly higher by now, but hard numbers won't be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission until January 31.
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 24, 2021, 12:37:39 PM
https://youtu.be/LEzIAixNkFI
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2021, 12:50:17 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Esgv_moU0AE2wa1?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsdubbgU0AAM-ix?format=jpg)
 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 24, 2021, 01:08:51 PM
patriot party SZN  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 24, 2021, 01:13:56 PM
:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 24, 2021, 01:33:27 PM
probably done it as revenge to fuck them over for abandoning him at the end :trumps

plus theres money to be grifted :money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 24, 2021, 01:50:55 PM
:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?

Who said anything about winning?  :joker
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: team filler on January 24, 2021, 02:03:40 PM
Remind me who send an election team to save the drunk crooks and corrupt who bankrupted and looted Russia and pushed Yeltsin to pick Putin before he drank himself to death.
(https://deborahnormansoprano.com/images/obrazovanie/kogda-umer-elcin-v-kakom-godu-umer-elcin-i-gde-pohoronen_5.jpg)

Also, who helped young Putin to be accepted by the international community despite war crimes and human rights violations in the first year?
(https://phototass2.cdnvideo.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20170603/1170062.jpg)

An unknown KGB colonel elevated to head of the FSB and appointed Prime Minister who was expected to last a year in the revolving door of Russian politics but instead became President for 20 years.
The ladies can investigate but I don't think they'll like what they're going to find. Start with why Putin's man in Ukraine was saved from electoral defeat by Paul Manafort who was given the nickname: "CIA Paul" by his own staff.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qncjf2CVVR1yefkvd.mp4
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2021, 02:12:05 PM
:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Trump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.

The Patriot Party could run on whatever polls well like medical for all, no war, gun ownership and blame any election defeat on voter fraud and the two party system. Meanwhile they lock up a few states like Florida and Texas that make election victories for the GOP nigh impossible and the map more difficult for Democrats too. All Trump would need is to win a few local races and enough Republicans and (right wing) pundits selling out for a piece of the pie.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: T-Short on January 24, 2021, 02:30:08 PM
:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Trump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.

The Patriot Party could run on whatever polls well like medical for all, no war, gun ownership and blame any election defeat on voter fraud and the two party system. Meanwhile they lock up a few states like Florida and Texas that make election victories for the GOP nigh impossible and the map more difficult for Democrats too. All Trump would need is to win a few local races and enough Republicans and (right wing) pundits selling out for a piece of the pie.

Yes Nintex, this Trump guy really seems to be riding a wave of success right now
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 24, 2021, 02:59:34 PM
They could do what farage has done over here with ukip and the brexit party, and mostly exist to pressure the republicans into doing what they want (like they did to the tories with the brexit vote) with the threat of eating a decent % of their votes

then again trumps probably in it to get publicity to feed his ego and grift some money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2021, 08:13:40 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1353509611026919425 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1353509611026919425)

https://twitter.com/WaitingOnBiden/status/1353378500699418624 (https://twitter.com/WaitingOnBiden/status/1353378500699418624)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: BIONIC on January 25, 2021, 12:37:46 AM
Promises Made

Promises Not Kept

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: chronovore on January 25, 2021, 01:30:44 AM
:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Sure, but Trump may be pathologically incapable and intellectually insufficient to see that. He may actually think he's won.


:confused

how does leaving the republican party to create your own party with blackjack and hookers put pressure on the party you left to make you future election eligible, instead of just making it real easy to shit can you?
Trump could just be the chairman of the party and do rally speeches, he doesn't have to run himself. In fact, if the Democrats win it would just drive more angry Republicans to the Patriot Party.

The Patriot Party could run on whatever polls well like medical for all, no war, gun ownership and blame any election defeat on voter fraud and the two party system. Meanwhile they lock up a few states like Florida and Texas that make election victories for the GOP nigh impossible and the map more difficult for Democrats too. All Trump would need is to win a few local races and enough Republicans and (right wing) pundits selling out for a piece of the pie.

Yes Nintex, this Trump guy really seems to be riding a wave of success right now

Hyoushi, my brother, the trouble is that 70M or so Americans actually voted for him, and came out in record numbers to do so. It is certainly impressive that EVEN MORE people who BELIEVE in the pandemic and the risk to their health ALSO came out and voted against him. As much as Trump is a failure, he is apparently still a part of the political landscape for the downtrodden, ready-to-be-grifted, unable to think for themselves deplorables.

Christ, I will thank you a hundred times if you can convince me otherwise.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 25, 2021, 01:36:09 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1353674788099780609

 :lol

spoiler (click to show/hide)
She’s going to win, isn’t she  :(
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2021, 01:43:57 PM
She's endorsed by The Patriot Party :salute

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1353694079721336837 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1353694079721336837)

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1353761954989531136 (https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1353761954989531136)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: HaughtyFrank on January 25, 2021, 01:54:39 PM
https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1353762359563714560

This is my kind of political discourse
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 25, 2021, 02:07:21 PM
She’s going to win, isn’t she  :(

Murica loves nepotism, so yeah.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Tasty on January 25, 2021, 05:19:13 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/535724-republicans-plan-voting-overhauls-after-bidens-win

Disenfranchise the shit out of your own over-50s voting base in the remaining districts under your control to own the libs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Trent Dole on January 25, 2021, 05:54:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4w4sGJX.jpg)
A SECOND PLANE HAS HIT THE MORBIDLY OBESE NAZI FUCKTARD
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2021, 07:13:06 PM
Now we know who writes them

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsjVudJW8Ac4D6U?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2021, 07:48:10 PM
That didn't take long The Office of the Former President. Trump's just gonna keep Presidenting.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsnmWXEXAAI5ZDA?format=png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Potato on January 25, 2021, 09:40:05 PM
Lol, Trump ain't stopping until he's torn the whole democracy a new arsehole and starts fisting it into oblivion.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 25, 2021, 10:29:59 PM
Lol, Trump ain't stopping until he's torn the whole democracy a new arsehole and starts fisting it into oblivion.

Once you taste the grift you can never let it go.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 26, 2021, 08:20:46 AM
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/blind-trump-supporter-infuriated-that-trump-pardoned-doctor-who-blinded-her-ZEqY0uopIEeTtdaBt3hfgg
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 26, 2021, 03:25:45 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354149156001034240 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354149156001034240)

Mr. President please give us a headline :stahp

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 26, 2021, 04:54:15 PM
Lol, Trump ain't stopping until he's torn the whole democracy a new arsehole and starts fisting it into oblivion.

Once you taste the grift you can never let it go.

The Trump Presidential Library and Hotel will be legit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Nintex on January 26, 2021, 07:42:54 PM
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Yes Nintex, this Trump guy really seems to be riding a wave of success right now
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1354225170655961094 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1354225170655961094)

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https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1354218573561032707 (https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1354218573561032707)

https://twitter.com/JesseDamiani/status/1354223856102346752 (https://twitter.com/JesseDamiani/status/1354223856102346752)
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1354185632982028289 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1354185632982028289)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Uncle on January 27, 2021, 03:47:24 PM
Ok trumps gone, see y’all in 4 years

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:snob
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srsly biden gets elected and it starts taking an entire week for this thread to get enough posts to advance a page
 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's morning again in America
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 27, 2021, 04:52:22 PM
Ok trumps gone, see y’all in 4 years

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:snob
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srsly biden gets elected and it starts taking an entire week for this thread to get enough posts to advance a page
 :biden

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on January 27, 2021, 06:52:14 PM
It's true though. What's there to talk about?

A US President that respects and believes experts and also respects foreign allies and trading partners. That leaves little to shout about.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2021, 10:07:56 PM
https://gomez.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2222
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LOS ANGELES – In light of numerous reports revealing her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) announced today he will introduce a resolution to expel Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) from the U.S. House of Representatives.

“As if it weren’t enough to amplify conspiracy theories that the September 11 attacks were an inside job and the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged, a string of recent media reports has now confirmed that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had previously supported social media posts calling for political violence against the Speaker of the House, members of Congress, and former President Barack Obama,” said Congressman Gomez. “Such advocacy for extremism and sedition not only demands her immediate expulsion from Congress, but it also merits strong and clear condemnation from all of her Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, and it is with their safety in mind, as well as the security of institutions and public servants across our country, that I call on my House colleagues to support my resolution to immediately remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from this legislative body.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 28, 2021, 03:26:22 PM
GOP teams up with Trump for 2022

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on January 28, 2021, 03:29:00 PM
He's back! Cover your tables and countertops!
Quote from: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/536287-orourke-mulling-run-for-texas-governor
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said this week he is considering a 2022 gubernatorial run, setting up a potential challenge against incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

"It's something I'm going to think about," O'Rourke told Buzz Adams on Texas radio station KLAQ on Monday.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 28, 2021, 05:04:48 PM
its more fun this way :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 28, 2021, 05:07:54 PM
God the GOP is so bizarre right now... why are they propping up a 1 term President whose incredibly unpopular and never won the popular vote?

Oh also he's a lying chaotic piece of shit about to be embroiled in a ton of legal trouble who will turn on you at the tip of a hat, based on the smallest of grievances?

And he ended his term with the lowest approval rating of a President after one term since Carter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on January 28, 2021, 06:00:51 PM
https://twitter.com/IsicaLynn/status/1354894529208348673

the dirty dems  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on January 28, 2021, 06:26:53 PM
Dont worry guys, Im sure the Biden administration will take the same hard line against wall street that Obama took
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 28, 2021, 07:56:32 PM
You were promised a $2000 check, instead the Fed is put in charge of the treasury, hedgefunds are being protected, and the Capitol gets a permanent security fence.

Build back better :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on January 28, 2021, 08:08:51 PM
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1354789500472471558


the boomers are rising up  :engel
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 28, 2021, 08:10:21 PM
Ready to shoot up a GameStop on behalf of MSNBC :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 29, 2021, 01:06:13 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/l7sbh9/brian_williams_with_exclusive_video_from/

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 29, 2021, 01:24:04 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/l7sbh9/brian_williams_with_exclusive_video_from/

:dead
They should've just ran some filler pornhub material.

Cowards :pacspit

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es31TJdW8AASUA3?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 29, 2021, 02:45:44 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1355201050924503042

 :preach
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Trent Dole on January 29, 2021, 03:51:19 PM
Ha formal President office proclamations, I hadn't even heard of that shit until I popped into this thread four days later and I am fucking terminally on twitter. Literally nobody cares about your dumb fatass anymore Donnie. :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 30, 2021, 10:29:55 AM
https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1355527781053046787 (https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1355527781053046787)

:juche
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 30, 2021, 01:32:41 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1354865702889533442

Gotta stop them before they come for the patriot points.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 30, 2021, 02:10:56 PM
First they came for the double patriot points, but I said nothing because I was already getting triple patriot points.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on January 30, 2021, 03:35:41 PM
https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1355577151031017473 (https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1355577151031017473)

Watch out for the terrorists guys!
Guys?
Hey guys?
Have you heard about this place called Iraq?
Hello, is the mic still on?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Trent Dole on January 30, 2021, 06:36:36 PM
OH so he got the vax right away then is what he's saying?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 01, 2021, 01:32:27 PM
My uncle brought up how 2020 was saved because of Trumps $600 unemployment checks, since his work was closed for 2 months

 :existential :existential :existential
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 01, 2021, 01:35:44 PM
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"

I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 01, 2021, 01:38:45 PM
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"

I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge

Lol he did the same. After talking about how the checks were a life saver, he said "this country has too much debt, whos paying for all this?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 01, 2021, 01:42:56 PM
My uncle brought up how 2020 was saved because of Trumps $600 unemployment checks, since his work was closed for 2 months

 :existential :existential :existential
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/CQkR2X2wLr97muBiUhj8Ew--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtoPTY2Ng--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Donald_Trumps_4_most_memorable-d1b1877482261c9fcd250487834dd9a5) (https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3.87qyDpbNpuYYGhFH2Ffw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Donald_Trumps_4_most_memorable-9f4f95afebfbd4b94c862a6b9e40981d)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 01, 2021, 01:45:22 PM
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"

I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge

My Struncle complains about people getting free shit all the time, but then was real mad about there not being bigger bail outs and stimmies the second time around, then went back to THEY'RE STEALING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY shit. These people have no ideology except they don't want others to get anything they think they should get more or first.

:gurl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 01, 2021, 01:46:33 PM
I was going to say, to me my uncle occupies two opposing political extremes: both "fuck you, got mine" and "I know what will solve society's ills if they would only listen and follow my orders exactly."

Sometimes one comes out, sometimes the other.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 01, 2021, 01:53:57 PM
The only ones that deserve unlimited money are da troops that protect our freedumbs from non-existent invincible enemies :salute  :nintendo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 01, 2021, 02:42:37 PM
someone change their name to struncle kracker :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 01, 2021, 02:58:03 PM
I was going to say, to me my uncle occupies two opposing political extremes: both "fuck you, got mine" and "I know what will solve society's ills if they would only listen and follow my orders exactly."

Sometimes one comes out, sometimes the other.

Thats pretty much the average american.

Which is why its ridiculous that the political elites go on and on about bipartisanship, and popular policies etc etc

Its like trying to decide pizza or tacos. Sometimes you want one, sometimes you want another.

Fuck, thats why they built the taco bell/KFC/Pizza hut stores
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 01, 2021, 03:04:49 PM
Quote
Its like trying to decide pizza or tacos. Sometimes you want one, sometimes you want another.
I bet you stole this quote directly from George W. Bush.  :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 01, 2021, 10:42:02 PM
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-high-school-students-get-a-lesson-in-subtle-15909700.php
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And there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.

I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.

“When you see privilege, you know it,” I’d told them weeks before. Yet, when they saw Sen. Bernie Sanders manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves. Sweet, yes, the gloves, knit by an educator. So “Bernie.”

Not so sweet? The blindness I see, of so many (Bernie included), to the privileges Bernie represents. I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie. Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don’t.

Ingrid Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, ex-Oakland Unified School District principal and current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 01, 2021, 10:43:19 PM
 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 01, 2021, 11:00:43 PM
:wut

Mega (https://i.imgur.com/S3yNpwQ.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 01, 2021, 11:02:04 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/enZqCc7.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ddbUzAX.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 01, 2021, 11:08:40 PM
someone change their name to struncle kracker :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Struncle grundle :mouf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 02, 2021, 12:59:39 AM
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-high-school-students-get-a-lesson-in-subtle-15909700.php
Quote
And there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.

I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.

“When you see privilege, you know it,” I’d told them weeks before. Yet, when they saw Sen. Bernie Sanders manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves. Sweet, yes, the gloves, knit by an educator. So “Bernie.”

Not so sweet? The blindness I see, of so many (Bernie included), to the privileges Bernie represents. I don’t know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie. Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don’t.

Ingrid Seyer-Ochi is a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor, ex-Oakland Unified School District principal and current San Francisco Unified School District high school teacher.

https://youtu.be/V9O94UTDAJQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on February 02, 2021, 04:30:00 AM
It's like he was wearing two tan suits on his hands.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 02, 2021, 09:46:41 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/01/us-coronavirus-vaccine-recipients-black-cdc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 02, 2021, 09:58:34 AM
Privileged Bernie
A Fallen Legend
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2021, 01:19:59 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/enZqCc7.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ddbUzAX.jpg)
This is either a Q believer or a Clinton 2016 alumni.

It is hard to tell the difference these days  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 02, 2021, 01:44:21 PM
Quote
It is hard to tell the difference these days  :doge

FOH with that gaslighting :nope
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 02, 2021, 01:59:39 PM
I sent the article to a friend of mine, an academic who literally teaches a class on privilege.

Their response?

"fucking clinton stans still cant get over it"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 02, 2021, 05:21:36 PM
I didn’t realize Newsmax was already controlled opposition.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1356719881564086272
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2021, 06:45:48 PM
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1356744205054394369 (https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1356744205054394369)

:dead


The Trump legal team released a response to the impeachment case.
Of course the defense is, Trump isn't President anymore so you can't impeach him.  :doge

Also they mispelled United States
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2021, 07:23:10 PM
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776 (https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776)

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544)

SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE SPACE TROOPS  :maf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 02, 2021, 08:20:09 PM
Nintex wuv you :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2021, 09:56:41 PM
My uncle complained about the stimulus payments despite benefiting from them. On potential future pay-outs: "What, are they gonna steal another trillion from us?"

I always want to ask who "they" and "us" are when he says that (the family overall is middle income at best, if not low-middle), but then I remember I don't actually want to engage with the conversation at all. :doge

My Struncle complains about people getting free shit all the time, but then was real mad about there not being bigger bail outs and stimmies the second time around, then went back to THEY'RE STEALING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY shit. These people have no ideology except they don't want others to get anything they think they should get more or first.

This was one of the big reveal’s for me during the last election cycle as well. I have a conservative uncle who talks about immigrants are stealing American jobs, but also illegally accessing public services and welfare. These two concepts are diametrically opposed but he somehow manages to hold both in his mind at the same time. I’ve known about him for years.

What I didn’t know about was his grandson (my “nephew”) has ingested all of this bad information, and is using it to inform his own decisions about the world. Before the election, he was positing how it was going to be stolen. Now that we are sending money to impoverished nations to help them fight Covid, he’s angry that we are not helping everyone in America first, failing to realize that both these things can be done at once logistically, and a cash outlay for international goodwill and assistance has a different effect  on our place in the global community.

He has also used the phrase “plandemic.”

I’ve mentioned in other threads that I approached him about his sources, and how he didn’t respond. It’s easy for me to not engage old people who are no longer thinking. It is difficult for me to not insist that younger people think at least as much as I do.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 03, 2021, 12:15:18 AM
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776 (https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776)

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544)

SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE SPACE TROOPS  :maf

Liberals now magically think that Space Force is a valid branch of the military and not a farce because Uncle Joe is backing it  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 03, 2021, 12:28:43 AM
https://twitter.com/ManDaveJobGood/status/1356769946823364611
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 03, 2021, 02:38:26 AM
I didn’t realize Newsmax was already controlled opposition.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1356719881564086272
those pillows are shit  :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 03, 2021, 02:47:57 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/donnydonny/status/1357016305266737156

 :crazy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 03, 2021, 02:56:45 PM
high frequency brain washing initiation
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 03, 2021, 03:14:41 PM
Giggling like mad.

Also is that Stan Sitwell? :crazy

(https://i.imgur.com/wKHVtl9.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 03, 2021, 03:42:11 PM
https://twitter.com/gregorybrothers/status/1356763309106745344


 :rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 03, 2021, 06:38:48 PM
Lol, house dems really do love to lose.

https://twitter.com/allymutnick/status/1356772285856821251

If you ain’t college educated, fuck off you conspiracy theorist.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 03, 2021, 09:16:28 PM
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-1566393
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested the focus could be shifted to Vice President Kamala Harris at Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial if it is drawn out, telling Democratic lawmakers: "Be careful what you wish for."

...

"If you're going to pursue this, and you wanna start calling witnesses, and you want to drag this thing out, it would be fair to have Kamala Harris' tape play where she bailed people out of jail," he said.

"What more could you do to incite future violence, than to pay the bail of the people who broke up the shops and beat up the cops.

"How's that not inciting future violence? Be careful what you wish for my Democratic colleagues, be careful what you wish for."

It is unclear what Graham is specifically referring to when he mentions letting the "tape play."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2021, 12:53:14 AM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1357099263067586560
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 04, 2021, 02:50:52 AM
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776 (https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1356758904596811776)

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544 (https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1356689275329388544)

SHE IS DISRESPECTING THE SPACE TROOPS  :maf

Liberals now magically think that Space Force is a valid branch of the military and not a farce because Uncle Joe is backing it  :biden

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-admin-fully-supports-the-space-force.372753/

:kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 04, 2021, 03:37:59 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1357172821131030528
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2021, 04:12:22 AM
https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1357116355988910080 (https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1357116355988910080)

Dems: "you can either have qanon or college educated voters!!"

GOP: yes
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 04, 2021, 08:46:35 AM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1357099263067586560

Will wait for drop on how much cruz paid to have that signed.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 04, 2021, 03:02:39 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1357099263067586560

Will wait for drop on how much cruz paid to have that signed.

Probably got it for $50 at Comicpalooza 2014.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 04, 2021, 03:42:03 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/donnydonny/status/1357016305266737156

 :crazy

(https://i.imgur.com/adCMf9k.jpeg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 04, 2021, 03:46:19 PM
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-1566393
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested the focus could be shifted to Vice President Kamala Harris at Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial if it is drawn out, telling Democratic lawmakers: "Be careful what you wish for."

...

"If you're going to pursue this, and you wanna start calling witnesses, and you want to drag this thing out, it would be fair to have Kamala Harris' tape play where she bailed people out of jail," he said.

"What more could you do to incite future violence, than to pay the bail of the people who broke up the shops and beat up the cops.

"How's that not inciting future violence? Be careful what you wish for my Democratic colleagues, be careful what you wish for."

It is unclear what Graham is specifically referring to when he mentions letting the "tape play."

Lindsey Graham argues against cash bail in this episode of Accidentally Left-Wing.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 04, 2021, 03:58:45 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/nyregion/nypd-james-kobel-racist-fired.html
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 04, 2021, 04:00:30 PM
Quote
Inspector Kobel joined the department in June 1992 and most recently oversaw the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity Division. He will keep his pension.

Cool.
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Post by: team filler on February 04, 2021, 04:02:43 PM
https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1357419810272006144


my prayers have been answered  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2021, 04:49:16 PM
Quote
He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.

"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html)

This series of articles is fucking crazy  :doge
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Post by: Uncle on February 04, 2021, 05:05:56 PM
https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1357419810272006144


my prayers have been answered  :rejoice

post hogg
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 04, 2021, 05:07:21 PM
my prayers have been answered  :rejoice

Pillow Praxis

This series of articles is fucking crazy  :doge

The one from the other day was incredible. Veep has nothing on this.

Quote
But Powell, fixing on Trump, continued to elaborate on a fantastical election narrative involving Venezuela, Iran, China and others. She named a county in Georgia where she claimed she could prove that Dominion had illegally flipped the vote.

Herschmann interrupted to point out that Trump had actually won the Georgia county in question: "So your theory is that Dominion intentionally flipped the votes so we could win that county?"

Quote
"You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters."

Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the fuck do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down.

Quote
At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. "You're a quitter," he said. "You've been interfering with everything. You've been cutting us off."

"Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot?" Herschmann snapped back.

"Yeah, you're Patrick Cipollone," Byrne said.

"Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!"

Comedy is going to suck the next few years.  :'(

https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html
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Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2021, 05:41:43 PM
lmao 5 star general revolutionary Michael Flynn cucked by Trump's lawyer  :lol

5 star general and his secret crush ----> :fbm  :goty2        :dice <---- Ruthless New York Lawyer

Totally innocent President seeking council ----> :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 04, 2021, 06:42:14 PM
https://twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1357419810272006144


my prayers have been answered  :rejoice

US politics really are a league of their own
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Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2021, 07:42:01 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtaLEbDXUAsUCeJ?format=jpg)

This fucking guy  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 04, 2021, 07:47:07 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1357459933818720263

 :dead
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Post by: chronovore on February 04, 2021, 08:12:38 PM
I am happy that President Biden and Vice President Harris are in office, and things are moving forward. That said, vestiges of 2020 keep creeping in and making this feel like an ARG.
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Post by: Potato on February 04, 2021, 08:44:16 PM
Quote
He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.

"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-a6e7bef4-8a75-42d5-a026-e80e453f1b57.html)

This series of articles is fucking crazy  :doge
I just finished reading the bonus episode and holy fuck!!!

When the lunatics who were advising Trump for the past few years are the ones that sound sane and the voice of reason, you know you're dealing with a bunch of fucking crazies.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 04, 2021, 08:57:07 PM
https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/1357466235252932610

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 04, 2021, 09:58:06 PM
I am happy that President Biden and Vice President Harris are in office, and things are moving forward. That said, vestiges of 2020 keep creeping in and making this feel like an ARG.

Trump was never the issue and it will ramp up again through 2022-24
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 05, 2021, 12:13:18 PM
Starting to think Mike Lindell 2024 isn’t happening.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1357707847467950083

OANN Warning:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1357712126157201410
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 12:30:09 PM
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1357695061153243142 (https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1357695061153243142)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 05, 2021, 01:57:32 PM
They sent mike lindell out there to discredit the 2016 election steal.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 04:47:57 PM
https://twitter.com/OleDizzy/status/1357680949555773441
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 05, 2021, 05:40:29 PM
filler content:

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1357739765211099138

:kermit
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Post by: BIONIC on February 05, 2021, 05:41:10 PM
:bow  :bernie  :bow2
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 05, 2021, 06:05:49 PM
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filler content:

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1357739765211099138

:kermit

My first thought was filler.    :heart
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Post by: Tasty on February 05, 2021, 06:11:35 PM
Warren :obama
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Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 06:24:30 PM
warren is an anti-semite  :jeanluc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 06:39:53 PM
That was quite a moment  :whew
(https://miro.medium.com/max/1578/1*vuBFYkwtZh3ykG7PJEGGtA.png)
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Post by: Tasty on February 05, 2021, 06:45:48 PM
warren is an anti-semite  :jeanluc

:shaq2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 05, 2021, 07:10:06 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1357830852546207748

 :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 07:13:23 PM
https://twitter.com/nickshattuck/status/1357841710613602305


https://twitter.com/jordanupdike/status/1357841525875634176
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 07:13:50 PM
Quote
Fox News recently hired former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow with the intention of giving him a daily program. The former longtime CNBC host immediately becomes a candidate to replace Dobbs on Fox Business Network.
:gladbron

Stonks with Kudlow :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 05, 2021, 07:17:54 PM
Trust the plan.

https://youtu.be/Dx5ZiQyEMKQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: EchoRin on February 05, 2021, 07:22:27 PM
I'm glad Lou Dobbs won't have a large audience to fuck with anymore. At least not so directly. Not sure what he will be doing that's not on camera.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 07:27:21 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOTfBz0aO_Y

 :mynicca
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: team filler on February 05, 2021, 07:42:10 PM
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :dead
I still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true  :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| BYE MITCH
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 07:50:32 PM
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :dead
I still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true  :neogaf
Welcome to my world :neo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 05, 2021, 07:56:56 PM
is there a rival liberal pillow guy? :dead
I still can't believe this dumbass shid is coming true  :neogaf

Nostrafiller :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 07:57:21 PM
This office of the former President thing is really getting out of hand

https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1357844930157285376 (https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1357844930157285376)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 05, 2021, 08:05:55 PM
Trump Dodds 2024!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2021, 08:13:58 PM
Trump
Lindell
Dobbs
Pence
Haley
Pompeo
Rubio
Cruz
Flynn
DeSantis
Christie
Carson
Jeb!
Kasich

and about a dozen more. The 2024 Primary field is stacked  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 05, 2021, 08:40:30 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1357830852546207748

 :'( :'( :'(

Yeah. Came in here to post:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-02-05/fox-news-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight

Fox News has led America far to the right, and now the other, further right, reactionary news networks are eating Fox’s lunch. I don’t know if this cancellation of Lou Dobbs will work out for them, though I am hopeful that some of the deluded and lost right leaning people can be lured back to the center.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 05, 2021, 09:52:04 PM
 :dobbs :dobbs :dobbs :dobbs

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1357882824636923904

https://twitter.com/MrsT106/status/1357881721488723969

https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1357859916103507971
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 06, 2021, 12:23:20 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1134255417834582017

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2021, 01:27:10 AM
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210205/10384946193/now-democrats-turn-to-destroy-open-internet-mark-warners-230-reform-bill-is-dumpster-fire-cluelessness.shtml

bipartisanship :american

but:
https://twitter.com/viaCristiano/status/1357764821895233543
 :usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 06, 2021, 02:09:49 AM
warren is an anti-semite  :jeanluc

By transitive property Tasty is too.

Guess we know who won’t be getting in the discord now  :girlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 06, 2021, 06:20:37 AM
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1357988041646690306 (https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1357988041646690306)

News media:  :existential
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 06, 2021, 07:17:16 AM
lol if Trump was to leak state secrets it would be deliberate :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 06, 2021, 07:43:45 AM
JSOC BRIEFINGS - JAN 2021 - UNIQUE ITEM - MINT
From the office of the former President. A stack of JSOC briefings some unopened.
Mostly contains information and graphs about ongoing operations in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Perfect as a gift for collectors, foreign visitors or ambassadors.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 06, 2021, 08:03:36 AM
My pillow guy is gonna end up being a Jared isn't he.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 07, 2021, 12:00:34 AM
Resistance Hero Mitt Romney comes through again for America:
Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/opinion/sunday/mitt-romney-family-plan.html
Why the U.S. Needs the Romney Family Plan

America needs more babies. Public policy alone cannot deliver them, but it can help.

Family policy, the way that America supports (or doesn’t) parenthood and child rearing, has always presented the best opportunity for serious bipartisanship in Joe Biden’s presidency. It’s an issue with real overlap between the left and right: Feminists and social conservatives, left-wing antipoverty activists and right-wing pro-natalists all agree that it’s too hard to raise kids in America today. And it’s an issue where the relevant interest group, the American family, isn’t a partisan force or a pre-mobilized constituency — which is usually a weakness for its interests, but in a polarized moment might actually make legislation easier.

This week Mitt Romney put that theory to the test: His office rolled out a big proposal to reform the current hodgepodge of programs that help parents, the mix of tax credits and welfare benefits, by rolling them into a single family benefit that would provide $350 a month for kids 5 and under, and $250 a month for kids up to 17, up to a certain income level and benefit cap. (The cap effectively discriminates against large families, which means Romney can’t be accused of Latter-day Saint self-dealing.)

In keeping with the opportunity described above, the Romney plan offers something to left and right alike. It would significantly reduce child poverty, a core left-wing ambition. At the same time it reduces the current system’s penalties for marriage and its tacit bias against stay-at-home parents, both social-conservative goals, and raises the current subsidy for middle-class families, usually a Republican-leaning constituency. Finally, it’s both deficit neutral and softly pro-life, with a benefit that starts while the child is still in utero.

So with all this winning, who could be against it?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 07, 2021, 12:03:47 AM
https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1358096468398202880
https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1358099310966153218
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 07, 2021, 01:40:31 AM
I for one am shocked that the mormon supports the plan to give people with 12 kids more money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 07, 2021, 03:39:55 AM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1358097834944331781

:dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 07, 2021, 06:28:41 AM
Fox Business - 2019
Lou: "I went to the White House and childrens faces were beaming with joy as President Trump came down the stairs riding an eagle flanked by Thor the god of thunder *man frantically signals* but that's beside the point that these economic policies are rock solid and the democrats should be ashamed for opposing them and hating America"

Fox Business - 2021
Larry: "That's out of my lane but when you look at big tech and oppoorrutn excuse me opportunity and you stay optimissssstic then we're actually not a recession like these people say but actually booming with blow jobs I mean tow jobs up 69% and 420% *man frantically signals* what I meant to say is that we are headed straight for dissssaster as Joe Clinton is destrooooying the economy that Donald Reagan build for us end of first segment transition to commercial"

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 07, 2021, 10:50:19 AM
Imagine if getting impeached twice really gave you superpowers.  Bet he would get something like Klaw's sound powers but with Twitter where he just becomes materialized living tweets.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 07, 2021, 04:26:18 PM
Why does this feel like 10 years ago

https://twitter.com/LVDunceCap/status/1358503502499041282
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 07, 2021, 06:47:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/0uc1KFU.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2021, 12:53:25 AM
https://twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1358476087341252608

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 08, 2021, 07:19:52 AM
Was he there to dab on the sinners :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 08, 2021, 09:30:37 AM
Trust the plan.

https://youtu.be/Dx5ZiQyEMKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCf3KUEVyw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 08, 2021, 07:00:34 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell-idUSKBN2A827J

She has been denied the ability to keep her previous testimony excerpt redacted. Her concern was that it would make her look guilty because of admitting to perjury.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 08, 2021, 08:06:16 PM
Quote
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

 :hitler

I'm not sure what's more fucked up about how the media handles the Epstein story. The repeated claims that he killed himself under no suspicious circumstances or omitting exactly what type of sex trafficking charges this disgraced billionaire was accused of.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 08, 2021, 08:07:41 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/2uvWtJT.jpg) :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Dickie Dee on February 08, 2021, 10:16:31 PM
Quote
Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

 :hitler

I'm not sure what's more fucked up about how the media handles the Epstein story. The repeated claims that he killed himself under no suspicious circumstances or omitting exactly what type of sex trafficking charges this disgraced billionaire was accused of.

You mean it wasn't the good kind of sex trafficking? you fucking idiot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 08, 2021, 10:59:41 PM
:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 08, 2021, 11:01:15 PM
https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1358977700564639745

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2021, 11:08:19 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtwSHfMXAAMdf02?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 09, 2021, 02:49:42 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/nyregion/manafort-vance-ny-indictment.html

Felt hopeless, until this closing passage:
Quote
It is possible, though unlikely, that Mr. Manafort may still face federal charges. Last month, Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor from the special counsel’s office, argued that the wording of Mr. Trump’s pardons had been “oddly” drafted.

Rather than relieving those who had been pardoned from all potential liability for their actions, Mr. Weissmann argued, the language only narrowly covered their convictions.

In Mr. Manafort’s case, that might leave the door open to new charges, including on crimes that Mr. Manafort admitted he was guilty of as part of a plea deal. Those include 10 counts of financial crimes, as well as other offenses.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 09, 2021, 01:26:56 PM
I’m loving wholesome Joe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnwUjMVuO5Q

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ninomerica/status/1358973355240673283
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 01:31:33 PM
All nurses in heaven are male and female?

Wow, Joe Trump is at it again
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 03:27:02 PM
Trump's lawyer is freewheeling the impeachment defense  :doge

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359234965540642820 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359234965540642820)
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Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2021, 03:47:13 PM
https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1358917696415543298

 :usacry
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1359238590044209157 (https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1359238590044209157)

The Dersch on Newsmax trashing Trump's legal team  :doge

The guy on now is just yelling about how they want to deprogram the people who voted for Trump or the GOP, wtf is this
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 04:43:37 PM
The first guy, declined to prosecute Cosby.
The second guy wanted to defend Epstein and well...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et0CPbVXIAYfNJH?format=jpg)

It's like they wanted to make this as painful for the GOP as possible.
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Post by: team filler on February 09, 2021, 05:46:52 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1359245645609984000

 :titus
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Post by: team filler on February 09, 2021, 06:33:31 PM
I cover my head every time I click the like button  :bernie
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 06:44:08 PM
 :exxy
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Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2021, 06:57:47 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1359284370633355268 (https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1359284370633355268)
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Thomas Shannon, acting Secretary of State, told us: "The president looked at the prime minister and said 'I don't believe this. Vladimir Putin is the only man in the world who can destroy the United States and I didn't take his call.'"

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"He [Trump] came straight up to me, grabbed my hand and said 'Great interview on Fox News.' He said, 'I said to the people around me, I don't know who the hell that guy is but he's doing a great job.' And that was my first lesson as a diplomat: that if you want to get through to President Trump, do an interview on Fox News."

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"My initial thought was just 'How can I end this?' I literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself backwards with a loud blood curdling scream into the media."

:lawd

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The first episode of Trump Takes on the World airs on BBC Two on 10 February

 :hyper
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Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2021, 09:11:36 PM
SECRETS REVEALED: https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/02/09/sen-shirkey-baselessly-claims-us-capitol-riot-was-staged-by-trump-haters-recording-shows
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“That wasn’t Trump’s people. That’s been a hoax from day one. That was all prearranged,” Shirkey, a Clarklake Republican, said of the riot. “It was arranged by somebody who was funding it. … It was all staged.”

...

Shirkey insinuated that even Sen. Mitch McConnell “was part of” a staged insurrection.

“I think they wanted to have a mess,” Shirkey said. “They would have had to recruit this other group of people.”
spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Following our story, Shirkey issued an apology for his comments in the video.

“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”
[close]
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 09, 2021, 10:19:05 PM
Quote
“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”

cool story bro
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 09, 2021, 11:22:18 PM
I accidentally a conspiracy theory
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Post by: team filler on February 10, 2021, 03:17:52 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/xRvSjcV.jpg)
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 10, 2021, 12:20:02 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/trump_impeachment_two-1024x760.jpg)
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Post by: team filler on February 10, 2021, 12:35:29 PM
https://twitter.com/CaseStudyQB/status/1359549897247240201

 :lol
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Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2021, 01:31:06 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1359568526336425984 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1359568526336425984)

 :biden
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Post by: ToxicAdam on February 10, 2021, 02:08:45 PM
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 10, 2021, 03:29:58 PM
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.
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Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2021, 05:33:15 PM
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.
Garrison doesn't need to do anything, he only needs to create his art  :mynicca
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 10, 2021, 06:38:17 PM
Less than a month has gone by with Biden as president and already this country is unrecognizable.

https://mobile.twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1359493382092042242

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1359635853853753351
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Post by: EchoRin on February 10, 2021, 07:08:56 PM
Playing national anthems before games that aren't even international competition always seemed stupid to me. Even as a kid who didn't think about politics.
I don't really care now. It's just a formality if I'm actually at a pro game and I do find it kinda cool that the Buffalo Sabres play both the Canadian and American anthem even if it's just two American teams playing each other due to the proximity and that a chunk of the fan base and season ticket holders live across the border. And yeah you get singers that can showcase themselves and some have it as their main gig during the season. I'd feel kinda bad to rip that away from them. It's more like if the tradition wasn't there I would never have been for starting it up.
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Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2021, 07:21:35 PM
The Trump impeachment case the Democrats have put together is pretty convincing.

Especially the part where Rudy calls a senator to stall the proceedings, Trump supporters shouting his tweets while storming and Chris Christie and a bunch of other GOP members both inside and outside the capital telling Trump he needs to 'call it off'.
Trump's lawyer also connected the dots on Fox News last night when he said this happened because Trump has more loyal supporters than the Democrats.  :doge
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Post by: Potato on February 10, 2021, 07:25:08 PM
And still they will acquit him
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Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2021, 08:45:37 PM
And still they will acquit him
I'm not sure. These people are shameless so maybe they will just throw Trump under the bus to save themselves or they might think that if Trump gets convicted and banned from office they could be next.

Whatever sentiment prevails will determine the outcome because the defense is a clown show (Dersch and others not showing also shows Trump's support has dropped among the GOP establishment).
It looks like the vote will be much closer than previously expected.
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Post by: Transhuman on February 10, 2021, 09:28:03 PM
They'll do the math and figure it's better for the "Republican image" that Trump not be convicted. Same rationalising the Dems had when Clinton was impeached.
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Post by: remy on February 10, 2021, 09:45:37 PM
The footage the dems cut together and showed at the trial was pretty fucking crazy. The woman that got shot was actually trying to climb over a resident evil 2 style desk barricaded door  :doge

If you just watched the news clips it seemed like some idiots running around stealing shit, I had no idea it was as wild as some of those videos show :doge
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Post by: Potato on February 10, 2021, 11:15:39 PM
Just watched the whole video. Fuck me, Republicans are stupid cunts.
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 02:07:01 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/w9FROWz.jpg)

still the best  :lol
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Post by: zomgee on February 11, 2021, 09:18:10 AM
(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 11, 2021, 11:46:58 AM
Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.

He only labeled Mitch, who is the most obvious one of all.  :wut
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 01:03:53 PM
Quote from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-party-exclusive-idUSKBN2AB07P
Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.

The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.

More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.
a zoom call with over a hundred boomers :dead
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 01:11:18 PM
https://twitter.com/UniteCountryPAC/status/1359878860192575495

 :usacry
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 01:17:22 PM
god emperor bide  :bow :bow :biden :bow2 :bow2
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 01:32:22 PM
https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1359900792623427585

welcome to the resistance wealthy conservatives  :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 01:51:05 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/
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Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.

I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.

The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.

And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.

Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.

You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.
:trumps
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 11, 2021, 01:55:45 PM
 :biden
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 01:56:08 PM
(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.
1973 B.I.
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Post by: james on February 11, 2021, 02:05:46 PM
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/
Quote
Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.

I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.

The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.

And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.

Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.

You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.
:trumps

(https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7LiEEcxCTAlW8pZC6P94zg--~B/aD00MDA7dz00MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2018-11/57b2dfa0-e9ab-11e8-bd7b-0e73b8860b52)
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 02:56:07 PM
(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.
1973 B.I.
the dark ages  :stahp
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 11, 2021, 03:23:26 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1359596983493685250
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 11, 2021, 05:45:13 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186
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Post by: Potato on February 11, 2021, 05:56:05 PM
Good Christian values
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 11, 2021, 06:00:02 PM
Good Christian values

Republicans haven't been the Party of Family Values for at least a decade now.
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Post by: tiesto on February 11, 2021, 06:18:55 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186

Zangief cosplayer? Guess there's some truth to the Republicans being in bed with the Russians :P
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Post by: Nintex on February 11, 2021, 06:39:47 PM
CIA press: "The congresswoman made horrible comments on social media"

MI5 press: "Oi, crazy tits boffed the boys at the gym"

Quote
Ivey's profile picture on his Facebook page shows him standing stark naked by a waterfall. He has now set up a gladiator bootcamp called The Ludus
:dead
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 06:44:08 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359878790122471428
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Post by: team filler on February 11, 2021, 06:44:56 PM
 :lol
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Post by: chronovore on February 11, 2021, 07:14:27 PM
https://youtu.be/9vNsXN103DA
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Post by: Nintex on February 11, 2021, 07:40:22 PM
(https://trumpbundle.thekidsguide.com/masterfiles/x06-huck-hybrid-dt-newsmax/images/Trump%20ProngNewsmax.png) (https://trumpbundle.thekidsguide.com/masterfiles/x06-huck-hybrid-dt-newsmax/images/2017HuckIsolated-2.png)



 :like
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Post by: Transhuman on February 11, 2021, 08:54:36 PM
Quote
In response to DailyMail.com's request for comment, Taylor Greene said it was another attempt to smear my name because I’m the biggest threat to the Democrats’ Socialist agenda'

"The dirty Dems tricked me into fucking two guys at the gym!"
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Post by: remy on February 11, 2021, 10:02:52 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186
is that a fucking zangief cosplay
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 10:58:44 PM
Quote
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/11/19/39133574-9246917-On_Instagram_Ivey_calls_himself_The_Tantric_Warrior_describing_h-a-4_1613072939650.jpg)

On Instagram, Ivey calls himself The Tantric Warrior, describing himself as 'Living a warrior lifestyle while finding tantric love'. He also participates in reenactments of medieval battles and teaches sword fighting. Above, he is seen dressed as Zangief' a character from video game Street Fighter II
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Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2021, 11:19:51 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1360013921508347912

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81DdDfvMvRL.jpg)

 :american
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Post by: DJ Bedroom on February 12, 2021, 12:01:42 AM
Quote
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/02/11/19/39133574-9246917-On_Instagram_Ivey_calls_himself_The_Tantric_Warrior_describing_h-a-4_1613072939650.jpg)

On Instagram, Ivey calls himself The Tantric Warrior, describing himself as 'Living a warrior lifestyle while finding tantric love'. He also participates in reenactments of medieval battles and teaches sword fighting. Above, he is seen dressed as Zangief' a character from video game Street Fighter II
After the last season finale, America's next season seems like it's gonna be just as fuckin nuts
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Post by: team filler on February 12, 2021, 12:21:39 AM
https://twitter.com/ConSelfOwns/status/1359674667867533315
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Post by: Nintex on February 12, 2021, 02:25:04 PM
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1360215437427027969 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1360215437427027969)

*adam curtis voice*

"Meanwhile thousands of miles away in Saudi Arabia, Prince Bin Salman was about to buy his cousin a new wife on the internet"
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Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2021, 03:34:12 PM
https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1360669301485809667 (https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1360669301485809667)

The blue check marks are freaking out. Cocaine Mitch takes no prisoners.

Holy fuck, this is some mob like shit.

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1360685162359644168 (https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1360685162359644168)

Trump's getting away with the YMCA coup :titus
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Post by: benjipwns on February 13, 2021, 03:58:50 PM
Acquitted, means he's innocent forever! :trumps
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Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2021, 04:08:18 PM
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1360696984907239428 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1360696984907239428)

:trumps
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Post by: G The Resurrected on February 13, 2021, 04:31:59 PM
Mitch seriously just trolled us all
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Post by: Kestastrophe on February 13, 2021, 04:36:35 PM
What an absolutely stunning speech by McConnell, i can't believe he's hanging his hat on....*checks notes*....jursdiction
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Post by: team filler on February 13, 2021, 04:46:29 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOJNs5YPR4g
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2021, 06:04:32 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuJDzl8U4AA-1JZ?format=jpg)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 13, 2021, 06:15:57 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1360708987147141122

Hopefully the next impeachment trial doesn’t occur during love day.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2021, 06:21:02 PM
https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1360712277792555009 (https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1360712277792555009)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2021, 07:15:10 PM
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1360715132943405059 (https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1360715132943405059)

 :huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: remy on February 13, 2021, 07:22:14 PM
Time for the libs to storm the senate :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on February 13, 2021, 07:29:23 PM
Time for the libs to storm the senate :rash

(https://i.imgur.com/MK0CSUy.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/fpvaaDg.png)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 14, 2021, 12:10:32 AM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/791263939015376902


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 14, 2021, 07:29:56 AM
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1360716676778622978 (https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1360716676778622978)

mic drop :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 14, 2021, 01:43:06 PM
 :mueller
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Post by: T-Short on February 14, 2021, 04:00:25 PM
https://twitter.com/sarahemclaugh/status/1360701835812691971
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 14, 2021, 05:23:38 PM
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1360798080107491328 (https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1360798080107491328)

 :miyamoto
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 14, 2021, 05:26:06 PM
Another Epstein?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 14, 2021, 05:28:50 PM
If my last name was Epstein I'd have changed it by now, it's been well and truly sullied


spoiler (click to show/hide)
and i wouldn't get any filler likes :tocry
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 14, 2021, 07:04:28 PM
If my last name was Epstein I'd have changed it by now, it's been well and truly sullied


spoiler (click to show/hide)
and i wouldn't get any filler likes :tocry
[close]

Change it to Trumpstein.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 14, 2021, 08:14:16 PM
Hitler must have been a somewhat common name right?

Wonder what happened to them all.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 14, 2021, 08:17:23 PM
https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353 (https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 14, 2021, 09:48:31 PM
I can kinda see what he's getting at but once again Twitter proves itself an inadequate medium for textual communication.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 15, 2021, 11:10:38 AM
Texas has no power

So much for the free market

 :tauntaun
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 15, 2021, 12:12:20 PM
https://twitter.com/americanidol/status/1361187986197663747

:titus

Was it all a grift? Always has been.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 15, 2021, 12:25:40 PM
:salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2021, 12:41:35 PM
Was it all a grift? Always has been.
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1359120470709313538

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This "woman" is 16, Bob.
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2021, 12:47:31 PM
Claudia Conway will sing the anthem at the 2nd Trump Presidential Inauguration and there's nothing the libs can do about it :trumps
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 15, 2021, 02:01:38 PM
Is Kris Jenner their PR person?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2021, 02:07:30 PM
https://twitter.com/americanidol/status/1361187986197663747

:titus

Was it all a grift? Always has been.

This was taped in November, before the worst of the stuff came out on social media. It's still awful and exploitative either way, considering Claudia is only 16.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on February 15, 2021, 02:30:01 PM
This was taped in November, before the worst of the stuff came out on social media. It's still awful and exploitative either way, considering Claudia is only 16.

Which is true, but she returned to twitter yesterday specifically to hype it, so....
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2021, 02:38:25 PM
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1361152296751689731 (https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1361152296751689731)

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2021, 02:38:25 PM
(https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/yvpoacigju64in7v2gfacw.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2021, 02:44:38 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/lincoln-projects-fundraising-page-down-as-scandals-mount/
The Lincoln Project’s fundraising page has been shut down, following a wave of scandals which continue to engulf the organization.

The donation page on the Lincoln Project website has listed as inactive since Saturday after a number of its founders resigned amid reports of sexual misconduct and misappropriation of funds.
Quote
On Saturday, co-founder Steve Schmidt resigned from the board, while Jennifer Horn split with the group last month after a contract dispute, causing a public spat with other members.
https://twitter.com/Isikoff/status/1361372256555925504
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2021, 02:57:34 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402)

Mr Trump's wild ride never ends
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 15, 2021, 03:01:36 PM
Is that a makeshift version of the beast?

:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2021, 03:02:10 PM
Anybody that gave money to Lincoln Project deserves to be scammed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 15, 2021, 03:13:51 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361400494451814402)

Mr Trump's wild ride never ends

This is just sad.

In 15 years Trump's life will look like the ex-Presidential version of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, with Rudy as Blanche.




"Now I wish that you would tell me, cause I'm just too Presidential to know-"
       /
      /
:trumps


*sees self in mirror*


(https://i.imgur.com/lnenPT0.jpg)

"AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2021, 03:51:01 PM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/true-vote-lawsuit-fraud-eshelman/2021/02/15/a7017adc-6724-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html
Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn’t right. His candidate’s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.

The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose voter fraud. After a 20-minute talk with the group’s president, their first-ever conversation, Eshelman was sold.

“I’m in for 2,” he told the president of True the Vote, according to court documents and interviews with Eshelman and others.

“$200,000?” one of his advisers on the call asked.

“$2 million,” Eshelman responded.

Over the next 12 days, Eshelman came to regret his donation and to doubt conspiracy theories of rampant illegal voting, according to court records and interviews.

Now, he wants his money back.
Quote
True the Vote was one of several conservative “election integrity” groups that sought to press the case in court. Though its lawsuits drew less attention than those brought by the Trump campaign, True the Vote nonetheless sought to raise more than $7 million for its investigation of the 2020 election.

Documents that have surfaced in Eshelman’s litigation, along with interviews, show how True the Vote’s private assurances that it was on the cusp of revealing illegal election schemes repeatedly fizzled as the group’s focus shifted from one allegation to the next. The nonprofit sought to coordinate its efforts with a coalition of Trump’s allies, including Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the documents show.

Eshelman has alleged in two lawsuits — one in federal court has been withdrawn and the other is ongoing in a Texas state court — that True the Vote did not spend his $2 million gift and a subsequent $500,000 donation as it said it would. Eshelman also alleges that True the Vote directed much of his money to people or businesses connected to the group’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht.
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 15, 2021, 04:00:05 PM
 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2021, 06:04:28 PM
The Trump Presidential library should contain a hall with the portraits of every conservative he scammed out of a couple million bucks. :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2021, 07:31:11 PM
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1361430880003231747 (https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1361430880003231747)

You would think that a pandemic would've tipped the scales a bit :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 15, 2021, 08:27:01 PM
GOP seriously needs to just die.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 15, 2021, 08:30:14 PM
GOP seriously needs to just die.
someone told me we need a stronk gop  :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 15, 2021, 08:34:40 PM
The USA’s version of “the Left” is considered centrist by the rest of the civilized world.

Yes, I’m not counting China.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 15, 2021, 08:35:17 PM
GOP seriously needs to just die.

It's honestly not surprising and I hate to invoke both-sidesism, but we would be (and have been) cheering the Dems when the shoe is on the other foot.

I'm not a fan of obstructionism in general tbh. I wish the parties were more willing to compromise with each other.
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Post by: Potato on February 15, 2021, 08:43:47 PM
The USA’s version of “the Left” is considered centrist by the rest of the civilized world.

Yes, I’m not counting China.
The Chinese version of the left is considered far right by the civilised world.

No, I am not counting China as a civilised country.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 15, 2021, 08:57:32 PM
I've kinda moved past the "But Europe is more liberal, so we should be too! Harumph! I'm mad because our liberal party is actually centrist! :maf"

I mean, yes, it would be nice.

But it's also useful to engage with reality. Ramping up the rhetoric against GOP voters will not cause the country to become more liberal. Not sure anything *can* convince them that liberals aren't the literal devil, but what I do know is this:

(bear with me)

Have you ever wondered "what is the big deal with coming out of the closet"? Why does this need to be a "movement"? Why make such a big deal in public about this stuff? Why even admit the truth at all? In a lot of cases, it'd be easier to just avoid certain people, or lie.

Coming out is important because it shows people with anti-LGBT beliefs that LGBT people are all around us even if you don't know it, they're not actively and deliberately conspiring to plan the downfall of society, and pretty much all of them just want to be treated like normal people and allowed to live their lives. They are your siblings, or your parents, or your children, or your friends.

That's always spoken to me. Not sure how applicable this idea can be to the political situation I'm talking about, but what I do know is that bubbles are bad. I didn't really "get" or agree with Sasha Baren Cohen staying with the Q guys for Borat 2, but I've somewhat come around on it. Self-selecting your social circle seems to lead to mild prejudices, which can become larger ones the longer you stay in it.

As a coder in years past, on the front-end team we would sometimes bitch about "the back end guys." It was superfluous work stuff and it never prevented us from having a beer together, but I look back at that situation and wonder sometimes. A couple missed deadlines because of a bad API implementation and things might not have been so rosy.

I wish I had some kind of hippy dippy solution to this but I really don't lol. I'm just kinda tired of liberals whining at the state of the country compared to "enlightened Yurop" and thinking the GOP's voter base problem will just go away or solve itself. It won't. And being smug about it is what got us into this position, IMO.



It's a tough problem. I was hoping the GOP would become more secular over time and that would lead to some advancements, but just blindly hoping doesn't do shit lol.
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Post by: Tasty on February 15, 2021, 10:02:53 PM
That might be true, but I dunno, waiting around for nice things to happen hasn't been helpful so far.



Partially, my thinking is also that despite whatever I might want, the US will *always* be more conservative than most western democracies, because it kinda has to be. Half the world freaks out when we don't play world police (while the other half freak out when we do.) America will never be isolationist and it's always going to need a strong military.

I think I've reckoned with these unalterable facts and acceptance is the final stage of grief or whatever lol.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 15, 2021, 11:40:36 PM
https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353 (https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1360396678029668353)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/41/cc/ad41ccd5a288730b3731f06efe704cc4.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 16, 2021, 12:50:31 AM
Comic Sans, no less.

Now THAT’S satanic.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2021, 03:49:05 AM
GOP seriously needs to just die.
Trump has been trying to kill them but Nancy won't let him   :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: T-Short on February 16, 2021, 05:56:31 AM
Solid ratio on this  :lol

https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1361139933105303552
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on February 16, 2021, 06:04:59 AM
Solid ratio on this  :lol

https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1361139933105303552

I love taking the bullet train in Japan. I enjoy not having to go through airport security, and waiting in a gate area, and basically nothing holding me up. Having a ticket for a train that goes regularly, means if I miss one train I can get on the next one. In contrast, if I miss a plane, I am not only eating the price of that ticket, but having to pay exorbitant prices for a replacement ticket and have no guarantee about how soon it will depart.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 16, 2021, 10:14:50 AM
Solid ratio on this  :lol

https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1361139933105303552

Right on time.

lol

Curious how the cato institute went mute the last four years.


Quote
If Buttigieg wants return the United States to global leadership in transportation, he should find and promote mechanisms that will allow and pay for the construction of new highways that will relieve traffic congestion, improve safety, and generate new economic growth. He actually suggested one such mechanism during his presidential campaign: mileage-based user fees. The last thing we need is more deficit spending building obsolete infrastructure that few people will ever use.

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 16, 2021, 10:54:26 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/voSGt4c.png)

:doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2021, 11:32:42 AM
He's so predictable

I suspect that more White House props will show up at various Trump properties over the coming years.  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 16, 2021, 01:16:12 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/vaccine_tiger_by_the_tail-1024x741.jpg)

 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 16, 2021, 01:20:25 PM
is that supposed to be vince mcmahon :money at the front of tail pullers?  :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2021, 01:42:35 PM
Baby Obama, baby AOC and Baby Trump crying.

When does this take place in the timeline. Or is it an alternate timeline?  :dizzy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 16, 2021, 01:57:43 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/vaccine_tiger_by_the_tail-1024x741.jpg)

 :lol :lol :lol

No lie this is pretty offensive.

At least Sia's heart was in the right place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UgLnWJFGHQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2021, 03:16:23 PM
https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1361722326346313733
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 16, 2021, 03:29:01 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/vaccine_tiger_by_the_tail-1024x741.jpg)

 :lol :lol :lol

coc$?
I'm guessing cdc is the intent
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 16, 2021, 03:34:58 PM
I've kinda moved past the "But Europe is more liberal, so we should be too! Harumph! I'm mad because our liberal party is actually centrist! :maf"

I mean, yes, it would be nice.

But it's also useful to engage with reality. Ramping up the rhetoric against GOP voters will not cause the country to become more liberal. Not sure anything *can* convince them that liberals aren't the literal devil, but what I do know is this:

(bear with me)

Have you ever wondered "what is the big deal with coming out of the closet"? Why does this need to be a "movement"? Why make such a big deal in public about this stuff? Why even admit the truth at all? In a lot of cases, it'd be easier to just avoid certain people, or lie.

Coming out is important because it shows people with anti-LGBT beliefs that LGBT people are all around us even if you don't know it, they're not actively and deliberately conspiring to plan the downfall of society, and pretty much all of them just want to be treated like normal people and allowed to live their lives. They are your siblings, or your parents, or your children, or your friends.

That's always spoken to me. Not sure how applicable this idea can be to the political situation I'm talking about, but what I do know is that bubbles are bad. I didn't really "get" or agree with Sasha Baren Cohen staying with the Q guys for Borat 2, but I've somewhat come around on it. Self-selecting your social circle seems to lead to mild prejudices, which can become larger ones the longer you stay in it.

As a coder in years past, on the front-end team we would sometimes bitch about "the back end guys." It was superfluous work stuff and it never prevented us from having a beer together, but I look back at that situation and wonder sometimes. A couple missed deadlines because of a bad API implementation and things might not have been so rosy.

I wish I had some kind of hippy dippy solution to this but I really don't lol. I'm just kinda tired of liberals whining at the state of the country compared to "enlightened Yurop" and thinking the GOP's voter base problem will just go away or solve itself. It won't. And being smug about it is what got us into this position, IMO.



It's a tough problem. I was hoping the GOP would become more secular over time and that would lead to some advancements, but just blindly hoping doesn't do shit lol.

a good point, scratching at the absolute echo chamber dominance of discussion
unsarcastically, it's literally mgs2 with everyone retreating into their gated communities, disregarding any larger forum of discourse

I can't entirely blame gop-adherents since there is an absolute media wing dedicated to misleading and kicking the flock up to a froth, the gop rarely focuses on any positive goal but just convincing a wedge of the populace that the democrats are going to kill god, abort newborns, and molest your kids

I saw a bit of one of those gop-evangelists programs on tv once, sickening, literally twisting the religious beliefs of the many poors into anti-progressivism by setting up supposed biblical equivalencies of aoc and co to some biblical hell
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 16, 2021, 03:49:11 PM
Being against something has always been easier than standing for something. People like that truly are sickening.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 16, 2021, 03:49:49 PM
Romney pretending the that past twelve years didn't happen.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 16, 2021, 03:51:50 PM
For my part, I've shifted from "GOP is the enemy and all its voters are terrible human beings, fuck em" to "I've accepted the reality that the GOP is the way it is and will remain so with small changes going into the future, and a vote for a particular candidate isn't necessarily an endorsement of an entire platform."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 16, 2021, 04:00:04 PM
the party is the worst thing, voters are a toss up, some are just boomer centrists voting red just cuz in between grilling
it's just red vs blue for a chunk of the electorate, go my team, booo the other team
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on February 16, 2021, 05:27:53 PM
yes an attempt at herd immunity for measles mumps and rubella will go great with the covid pandemic

damn coc$nih

Nothing explains the need to publicize your stupid take on vaccinations except to say "those so-called smart people aren't so smart. I MUST TAKE A SIDE."

All of this is based on a flawed paper.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2021, 05:37:40 PM
Here you go Nintex:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuW_ICmWYAQk3_q?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2021, 06:21:27 PM
Quote
The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political "leaders" like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.

In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting President in history, almost 75,000,000. Every incumbent House Republican won for the first time in decades, and we flipped 15 seats, almost costing Nancy Pelosi her job. Republicans won majorities in at least 59 of the 98 partisan legislative chambers, and the Democrats failed to flip a single legislative chamber from red to blue. And in "Mitch’s Senate," over the last two election cycles, I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone—and then came the Georgia disaster, where we should have won both U.S. Senate seats, but McConnell matched the Democrat offer of $2,000 stimulus checks with $600. How does that work? It became the Democrats’ principal advertisement, and a big winner for them it was. McConnell then put himself, one of the most unpopular politicians in the United States, into the advertisements. Many Republicans in Georgia voted Democrat, or just didn’t vote, because of their anguish at their inept Governor, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the Republican Party, for not doing its job on Election Integrity during the 2020 Presidential race.

It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.

My only regret is that McConnell "begged" for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from one point down to 20 points up, and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, his numbers are lower than ever before, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in so doing, seriously hurting our Country.

Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his family’s substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat. 

Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.

Prior to the pandemic, we produced the greatest economy and jobs numbers in the history of our Country, and likewise, our economic recovery after Covid was the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Vets, became energy independent, built the wall and stopped the massive inflow of illegals into our Country, and so much more. And now, illegals are pouring in, pipelines are being stopped, taxes will be going up, and we will no longer be energy independent.

This is a big moment for our country, and we cannot let it pass by using third rate "leaders" to dictate our future!

Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, :trumps :whew
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Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2021, 07:11:23 PM
Apparently this was the censored version  :lol
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1361819797164539904 (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1361819797164539904)
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Post by: james on February 16, 2021, 10:22:57 PM
Abbott on Fox News blaming the green New deal for his power problems.

Meanwhile I'm cackling at all the pepe who moved to Texas for freedom.

Freedom from power
Freedom from water
Freedom from heat

 :tauntaun
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Post by: Tasty on February 16, 2021, 10:25:52 PM
You want a preview of a seceded Texas, here you go.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 16, 2021, 10:45:19 PM
Abbott on Fox News blaming the green New deal for his power problems.

Meanwhile I'm cackling at all the pepe who moved to Texas for freedom.

Freedom from power
Freedom from water
Freedom from heat

 :tauntaun

https://twitter.com/jmontforttx/status/1361703554789031937

https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1361695199924215813
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2021, 10:51:43 PM
You want a preview of a seceded Texas, here you go.
Coincidentally, Texas's electric grid is almost entirely internal:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/NERC-map-en.svg/600px-NERC-map-en.svg.png)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 16, 2021, 10:53:17 PM
Which means no back up from power plants outside of the state.
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Post by: Tasty on February 16, 2021, 10:55:57 PM
From HN comments I've picked up some things, dunno how accurate.

- 1 out of the 2 nuclear plants in Texas also shut down due to issues from the cold; nuclear is not a panacea
- The hit from loss of wind power is dwarfed by the hit from loss of natural gas, which is difficult/impossible to bring to the surface in colder climates
- While Texas's grid is isolated, there's some debate over the actual effect this has had overall, I expect this to become more clear soon since this is what everyone is focusing on right now
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 17, 2021, 12:30:00 PM
Big changes happening in the Biden administration!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1361816948363956224
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 17, 2021, 01:28:01 PM
Rush Limbaugh died.    :ohyeah :sicko
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 17, 2021, 01:43:26 PM
Rush Limbaugh died.    :ohyeah :sicko
https://twitter.com/RhetoricPJ/status/1362089913823461376
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 17, 2021, 01:52:38 PM
Trump finally found a phone and called into fox to remember rush by talking about how the election was stolen from him and if that had happened to a democrat there would be riots in the street.

 :confused

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1362101808697643009
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Post by: BIONIC on February 17, 2021, 02:04:06 PM
Rush Limbaugh died.    :ohyeah :sicko

Nobody likes a rushed ending  :rodney
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 17, 2021, 02:26:27 PM
Trump finally found a phone and called into fox to remember rush by talking about how the election was stolen from him and if that had happened to a democrat there would be riots in the street.

 :confused

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1362101808697643009
Well they literally asked him about his conversations with Rush after the election so he sort of calmly answered their question instead of screaming fake news :trumps

Interview on Hannity tonight
https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1362133202274549768 (https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1362133202274549768)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 17, 2021, 06:35:59 PM
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1362152851770920962
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 17, 2021, 06:55:42 PM
Yeah, it's almost like Rush was a horrible person and conservatives loved every minute of it.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 17, 2021, 08:07:48 PM
"He defended the traditions of this country and he spoke for tens of millions of us."

Yeah, we know.  :donot
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 17, 2021, 08:12:02 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Euc7NmgXIAIJnkR?format=jpg)

"A guiding light with the ability to see the truth and paint vivid pictures over the airwaves" :lawd
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Post by: zomgee on February 17, 2021, 11:21:44 PM
Is this his presidential moment
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Post by: EchoRin on February 18, 2021, 01:13:58 AM
A little comedy to lighten things up

https://youtu.be/Ucj09t9ieeI
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Post by: benjipwns on February 18, 2021, 01:16:14 AM
Quote
"Again, look, it's a no-brainer, right?" Kelly asked. "You're going to run for president in 2024, right?"

"Well, we have tremendous support. I won't say yet, but we have tremendous support. And I'm looking at poll numbers and they're through the roof," said Trump.

Trump said his poll numbers have improved following his latest impeachment.

"I'm the only guy who gets impeached and my numbers go up," Trump joked.

Trump left the possibility of a presidential run at "you'll see what happens."

"It’s too early to say, but I see a lot of great polls out there. That's for sure," said Trump.
THROUGH THE ROOF
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Post by: benjipwns on February 18, 2021, 01:25:42 AM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/oarxcv8vojkl5vn5owvm.jpg)
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Post by: DJ Bedroom on February 18, 2021, 02:10:47 AM
why is jesus jacking off two invisible cocks
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 18, 2021, 02:47:09 AM
https://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/1362272883775582209


 :dobbs
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Post by: BIONIC on February 18, 2021, 02:52:39 AM
:gaas  :letsfukk  :piss2
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 18, 2021, 05:09:35 AM
i blame :rogan and his crew of carpet baggers moving there for the situation tbh
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Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 06:23:17 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmrw4-9UY5k

He was very very warm, a very warm person

I used to call him the bull

 :trumps :wut
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Post by: zomgee on February 18, 2021, 10:49:49 AM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/oarxcv8vojkl5vn5owvm.jpg)

Just missing the pile of pill bottles.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 18, 2021, 01:06:01 PM
https://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/1362272883775582209


 :dobbs

https://mobile.twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1362433079885848580

 :dunno

And despite all this he’s probably going to win the senate seat in 2024 again  ::)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 18, 2021, 02:07:41 PM
Ted Cruz was clearly flying to Mexico to bring back power and water guys
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 02:12:50 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Euh9eWOXAAcQZHT?format=png)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 02:21:20 PM
https://twitter.com/TVNewsHQ/status/1361793023890325507 (https://twitter.com/TVNewsHQ/status/1361793023890325507)

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1361783829342601230 (https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1361783829342601230)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuYGulLWQAA4pCA?format=jpg)

 :dead
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 18, 2021, 02:25:21 PM
 :ohyeah

I was afraid fox business was going to force him to make sure the show was about business.
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Post by: Nuitangg on February 18, 2021, 02:30:27 PM
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1362474238679019526

 :lol
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Post by: james on February 18, 2021, 02:35:03 PM
Wearing the same jeans and shoes, but his overnight bag appears to hold at least 10 days worth of clothes.

Odd.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 02:35:26 PM
:ohyeah

I was afraid fox business was going to force him to make sure the show was about business.
They just wanted to replace Lou's Trump boner with some good old Reaganism  :lol

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1361789943748718598 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1361789943748718598)

Wearing the same jeans and shoes, but his overnight bag appears to hold at least 10 days worth of clothes.

Odd.
Ted Cruz is a real MVP he doesn't leave the country without his gaming PC in case the bois need him for a raid
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Post by: OnlyRegret on February 18, 2021, 02:36:25 PM
.


https://mobile.twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1362433079885848580

 :dunno

And despite all this he’s probably going to win the senate seat in 2024 again  ::)

he's got a point, fucking off is indeed one of the best things cruz could do for the state
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 18, 2021, 03:06:57 PM
I noticed something odd about neogaf.

The Texas winter fail thread is only 3 pages long. And hanf the posts are euros talking about snow. By comparison, the resetera thread is 35 pages long.

Meanwhile the ted cruz thread is 3 pages of people defending him.

Its almost like they don't live in Texas.

Odd
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Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 03:23:39 PM
tbh the first thing I would do if i lived in Texas with only limited time left on my phone battery, my hands freezing and no water is defend Ted Cruz on NeoGAF :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 18, 2021, 03:51:02 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/oarxcv8vojkl5vn5owvm.jpg)

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/rush_limbaugh-1024x804.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 18, 2021, 05:00:59 PM
Is there a worse storyteller than Rudy?

https://mobile.twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1362512103660265475
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 18, 2021, 05:21:54 PM
Is there a worse storyteller than Rudy?

https://mobile.twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1362512103660265475

https://mobile.twitter.com/pwrshark/status/1362515230874624006
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 18, 2021, 07:08:02 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/oarxcv8vojkl5vn5owvm.jpg)

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/rush_limbaugh-1024x804.jpg)

They're both the same picture. :pam
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 07:42:58 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Euipn8tXAAQbGT9?format=jpg)

I wonder if Rush was also Rudy's bull and did Trump know :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2021, 07:54:38 PM
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1362525196389928963 (https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1362525196389928963)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 18, 2021, 11:25:50 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/X7v6tlW.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on February 19, 2021, 08:32:44 AM
Meanwhile an 11-year-old boy died from hypothermia in an unheated trailer home in Texas.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Beezy on February 19, 2021, 10:55:38 AM
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1362625781709631488
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 19, 2021, 11:20:56 AM
:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 19, 2021, 11:43:38 AM
https://twitter.com/JWButta/status/1362589899929628672
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 19, 2021, 11:48:29 AM
That's some stupid as shit. Same dumb shit Obeezy got "roasted" for on policies.

Immigration details:  https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969083367/biden-tells-ice-to-chill-new-rules-limit-who-immigration-agents-target-for-arres


Regarding Porter: Why should a household of two making 100K get the same credit as a household of three making 100k?

Minimum wage:

Quote
When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.

“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898

Does nintenx have an alt account or something?

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 19, 2021, 11:57:25 AM
That's some stupid as shit. Same dumb shit Obeezy got "roasted" for on policies.

Immigration details:  https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969083367/biden-tells-ice-to-chill-new-rules-limit-who-immigration-agents-target-for-arres


Regarding Porter: Why should a household of two making 100K get the same credit as a household of three making 100k?

Minimum wage:

Quote
When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.

“I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation,” Biden told the group, according to a person in the room. “I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/18/biden-governors-minimum-wage-469898

Does nintenx have an alt account or something?



You mean Twitter is collapsing our ability to recognize and internalize important information because of its very nature as a public SMS shouting platform for babies?

Who could have seen this coming!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2021, 02:44:25 PM
When Biden hired all those Obama people they just decided to continue where they left off.

Which is to do just enough to make it look like things are changing but mostly just keeping things as they were.
The best example of this was when they were asked about small business and the answer was: "We hired a woman"

The strange thing is that they've sort of taken this approach to some things Trump has done like Spaceforce.
Spaceforce is ridiculous but Biden will still respect and fund the space troops because that is the right thing to do.
It only exists because Trump made it up during a speech and the crowd liked it.

Now since Adam Curtis has released a 5+ hour documentary on this very subject I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 19, 2021, 02:50:07 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1362832494308061185

 :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 19, 2021, 03:08:04 PM
That's gotta be the most pissweak concern trolling I've ever seen.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2021, 03:15:26 PM
the clip is hot, dana perino's "wow" :lol
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1362836474547339265
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 19, 2021, 03:20:26 PM
god damnit nintex.

Space Force wasn't a trump thing, it was in the works since 2001.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
to combast the space lasers that took down the tw.....nevermind
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2021, 03:43:46 PM
Fact check

Jesus was impeached and cancelled 2021 years ago.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2021, 04:37:38 PM
Fact check

Jesus was impeached and cancelled 2021 years ago.
...and good on the Romans for teaching that fucking commie bastard a lesson that faith, hope and charity have no place in the real world.
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Post by: team filler on February 19, 2021, 05:20:07 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 19, 2021, 05:43:02 PM
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1362874290551590913

manchin da god  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2021, 07:11:04 PM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713)

The boys are in trouble again  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 19, 2021, 07:39:53 PM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1362902895197384713)

The boys are in trouble again  :trumps

 :pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2021, 07:56:23 PM
What's the chances of the US pursuing prosecution?

I give it one slippery  :biden out of 10.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 19, 2021, 08:01:04 PM
Prince is a CIA asset so 0%.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2021, 09:04:51 PM
"Mr. President do you want to prosecute Eric Prince"

"Look.. folks. We need to stop this nonsense and get back to work. I have important things to deal with like restoring the soul of our nation"

"But sir don't you think we should support the Libyan government against Haftar who is backed by Egypt and Russia and...."

"if you wanna prosecute you prosecute young lady I think you would make a mighty fine prosecutor"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 20, 2021, 06:28:50 AM
https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1362897282992115713 (https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1362897282992115713)

Uncle Joe is going to find some votes again :biden
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Post by: BIONIC on February 20, 2021, 07:11:16 AM
The Chicomms have to ship a few more stuffed ballot boxes to Delaware  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 20, 2021, 03:20:00 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363221133143769090 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363221133143769090)

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 20, 2021, 03:25:12 PM
twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363221133143769090

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL

(https://i.imgur.com/GB4RxGn.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2021, 04:03:37 PM
https://thebulwark.com/will-almond-milk-and-plant-based-meat-exist-under-a-biden-fda/
Quote
Take, for example, when the FDA sought to ban the use of the term “almond milk,” arguing that milk alternatives like oat, soy, and coconut were not dairy, and therefore should not be able to call themselves “milk.”

As Trump FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at the time, “An almond doesn’t lactate, I will confess.”

Naturally, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, America’s Dairyland, introduced a bill in early 2017 that would ban the use of the term “milk” in nondairy products.

“If a consumer is confused about the source of a product labeled ‘almond milk,’ then he has bigger problems than being confused about which milk to buy,” said Justin Pearson, a senior attorney at the free market-based Institute for Justice. At the time, Pearson was also defending a dairy farmer against a Florida rule requiring she inject her all-natural skim milk with extra Vitamin D before she could call it “skim milk.”

But similar naming battles are headed to America based on the growth of the previously oxymoronic “plant-based meats” with which restaurants have been using to make vegetarian-friendly “impossible burgers.” Earlier this year, the European Union shot down an attempt to ban companies from using terms that compared meatless products to their carnivore-friendly counterparts, such as “veggie burgers.” A vegan-friendly hot dog, presumably, would likely be called something like a “tofu tube.”

Best part:
Quote
27-year-old Lincoln, Nebraska man Ander Christensen appeared before his City Council last September with a heartfelt plea for the city’s leaders to ban the term “boneless wings” from use in restaurants.

“Boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders, which are already boneless,” Christensen pleaded to the council. “I don’t go to order boneless tacos. I don’t go and order boneless club sandwiches,” he said. “It’s just what’s expected.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 21, 2021, 04:11:20 PM
Hes right about the boneless wings.

First time I ordered it, I assumed it would be the delicious wing meat without the bones.

Instead they served me some other less desirable part of the chicken
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 21, 2021, 04:15:18 PM
Quote
“tofu tube.”

:mouf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 21, 2021, 04:24:49 PM
tasty tofu  :-\
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 21, 2021, 05:19:01 PM
https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1363531201806491651 (https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1363531201806491651)

The media has found their new grift :money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2021, 05:25:02 PM
They only went two for four, couldn't they book the same four people. :rage
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on February 21, 2021, 05:48:00 PM
There's a lot of politicians saying crazy shit and sadly the best source for a report on the crazy bullshit these people are saying is first-hand. It's the "best evidence rule". Sure it gives them a platform but I hardly think it does them any favours considering the subject manner.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 21, 2021, 06:13:03 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193)

Orange man bad back
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on February 21, 2021, 06:33:04 PM
tasty tofu  :-\

Tasty Tube ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 21, 2021, 07:45:12 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095)

I'm glad that after a month in office they've taken up time from his busy schedule to explain to Joe Biden what the Corona virus is  :idont
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2021, 08:35:29 PM
Listening to them doesn't mean he's going to do what they say, because what do scientists know about public policy? :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2021, 08:41:35 PM
Quote from: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/21/exclusive-trump-party-he-still-holds-loyalty-gop-voters/6765406002/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
By double digits, 46%-27%, those surveyed say they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. The rest are undecided.

"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," Brandon Keidl, 27, a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee, says in an interview after being polled. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."

Half of those polled say the GOP should become "more loyal to Trump," even at the cost of losing support among establishment Republicans.

...

They express stronger loyalty to Trump the person (54%) than they did to the Republican Party that twice nominated him for the White House (34%).
Quote
A new USA Today/Suffolk Poll discovered that only 34% of Trump voters named Fox News as their "most trusted source of news." This is a massive 24% drop from the poll in October 2016, when 58% of former President Donald Trump supporters declared Fox News as their most trusted news source.

Trump voters are jumping the Fox News ship and embracing relative newcomers Newsmax and One American News Network. The poll of 1,000 Trump voters taken by phone between Feb. 15-19 found that 17% of Trump voters see Newsmax as their most trusted source of news, and 9% trust OANN.
Quote
Asked to describe what happened during the assault on the Capitol, 58% of Trump voters call it "mostly an antifa-inspired attack that only involved a few Trump supporters." That's more than double the 28% who call it "a rally of Trump supporters, some of whom attacked the Capitol."  Four percent call it "an attempted coup inspired by President Trump."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: naff on February 21, 2021, 09:53:44 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363643532544729095)

I'm glad that after a month in office they've taken up time from his busy schedule to explain to Joe Biden what the Corona virus is  :idont

"pls explain basic virology concepts to me like im 5"

it's like every year you age over 70 your brain declines significantly and your chances of developing alzheimers skyrocket. still seems fucked to me people over 70 are even allowed in office
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 12:59:26 PM
https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 22, 2021, 01:03:34 PM
She should check her Obamacare.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 22, 2021, 01:37:32 PM
I got an email saying I was eligible to get the prick, then I went online to view locations and none of them within 100 miles had openings.  :corona_mj
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 22, 2021, 01:58:59 PM
Friend of mine got her second dose yesterday

Its happening
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 22, 2021, 02:20:34 PM
Donald John Trump, the 45th President of the United States made over 1.6 billion dollars while being in office :trumps

https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1363876281520189440 (https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1363876281520189440)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 02:23:00 PM
So he's actually a billionaire now? :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 22, 2021, 02:30:42 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu2kiObXcAYhegW?format=jpg)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 03:11:46 PM
https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1363824758467538948
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 22, 2021, 03:25:38 PM
It’s going to the Clay Shaw trial for this century.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 22, 2021, 04:42:35 PM
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363965719319371777

 :tauntaun
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 22, 2021, 04:45:34 PM
Not even gonna google what Frazzledrip is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 22, 2021, 04:46:43 PM
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363965719319371777

 :tauntaun

When you're too racist for CPAC. :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 22, 2021, 04:54:35 PM
https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701


Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.
Or maybe she was referring to the fact that, as a host of a show which is about talking to people about current events, she couldn't find out when she was scheduled to get her turn, not that she should be first in line. But you know, it's Twitter, so shit takes are the norm and her dad was on the wrong side of politics so she's fair game for taking things out of context and running with your own narrative.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 22, 2021, 05:26:48 PM
I take a more nuanced stance in that I do not support her jumping in line for a covid shot but do support her jumping in line for a sodium thiopental shot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 05:40:29 PM
Not even gonna google what Frazzledrip is.
Quote
A video that was found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who was jailed in 2017 for sexting with a minor, began circulating on the “dark web.” The video was found in a folder on the laptop’s hard drive called “life insurance” and was named “frazzledrip.”

... the video ... shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, Weiner’s former wife and longtime Clinton aide, raping and mutilating a young girl. Specifically, the video is supposed to show Clinton filleting the young girl’s face, and then taking turns with Abedin to wear the girl’s face as a mask in order to purposefully terrify the child so that her blood would be flooded with adrenochrome. The girl then bleeds out before Clinton and Abedin drink the blood during a Satanic ritual sacrifice.
I rate this as unconfirmed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 22, 2021, 05:43:54 PM
:what  :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 22, 2021, 05:47:44 PM
And apparently that QAnon Rep from Georgia was all about that stuff.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 22, 2021, 06:06:48 PM
the little girl? albert einstein
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 22, 2021, 06:12:24 PM
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363965719319371777

 :tauntaun
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1363920080766201861

 8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 06:15:08 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu2ehT1WYAMeoQx?format=png&name=small)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu2elaNXMAE0vHV?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 22, 2021, 06:39:27 PM
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1363903188475273217

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 22, 2021, 07:43:06 PM
First off, fuck you. Second off, if she pays any attention she would know at her age she's months away in line. Something like a quarter of the states still haven't dropped the age to 65 yet. All the medical experts have been on TV saying by April or May everyone who wants to get one will be able to get one. It's not even March yet. You fucking dick.
You're such a wanker.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 22, 2021, 08:03:10 PM
Just yesterday they explained what COVID is to Joe Biden so princess Fats McCain should hold her horses until they get around to her privileged celebrity ass. :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 22, 2021, 10:06:17 PM
Didn't clarence thomas talk shit about the voting rights act a few years ago?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Lonewulfeus on February 22, 2021, 11:36:02 PM
Imagine simping for Meghan McCain on a forum with like 12 active posters :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on February 22, 2021, 11:51:05 PM
This is a BBW-loving forum, pal  :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 23, 2021, 10:09:20 AM
meghan might be a total dickhead, but she can put that bass all over my face



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on February 23, 2021, 10:29:57 AM
https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701


Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.

Well, at least in NYS, obesity qualifies you for a vaxx. And she looks like she'd probably qualify if we go by BMI.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tripon on February 23, 2021, 11:08:03 AM
Not even gonna google what Frazzledrip is.

Something about Hillary Clinton eating the face off of children.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tripon on February 23, 2021, 11:10:02 AM
https://twitter.com/blaireerskine/status/1363885316197789701


Unless she has some underlying medical condition, she should know it isn't her fucking turn yet regardless. Unless she thinks being cohost of The View means you get to jump the line in front of the people in their 60s and 50s and other sick people first, she should know she's not going to be able to get her shot for at least a couple of months. I'm sure part of her job is paying attention to media, and if she did, she'd know people in her age range are months away. She's 36, surely she can't think she should be getting the shot before people her mom's age and older who still haven't been able to get it.
Or maybe she was referring to the fact that, as a host of a show which is about talking to people about current events, she couldn't find out when she was scheduled to get her turn, not that she should be first in line. But you know, it's Twitter, so shit takes are the norm and her dad was on the wrong side of politics so she's fair game for taking things out of context and running with your own narrative.

Nah, she was definitely talking about that she annoyed that she hasn't gotten a vaccine shot yet.

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McCain, 36, reacted to Dr. Anthony Fauci's State of the Union interview on CNN, where he said it's "possible" that Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022 even if we return to "a significant degree of normality" by the end of the year.

"The fact that I, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View, don't know when or how I will be able to get a vaccine because the rollout for my age range and my health is so nebulous, I have no idea when and how I get it. I want to get it," the talk show host said. "If you call me at three o'clock in the morning, I will go any place at any time to get it.

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She continued, "I want to be responsible and obviously wait my turn but this rollout has been a disaster."

"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.

The View co-host referenced Israel's "get a shot, take a shot" campaign. The slogan is in reference to how some bars are offering free shots to citizens after they get the first shot of their vaccine, per The Times of Israel. All Israeli residents over 16 years old have been eligible to get the vaccine since Feb. 3, according to the outlet.

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Post by: jorma on February 23, 2021, 12:21:09 PM
But you are quoting her literally saying that she wants to wait for her turn?

Stro, you're such a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 12:28:53 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193)

Orange man bad back

Attacking Biden on immigration?!?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1364082628094267392

 :confused
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 23, 2021, 02:37:34 PM
But you are quoting her literally saying that she wants to wait for her turn?

Stro, you're such a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow  :lol
I know, right?

But hey, why read what someone actually said when you can rely on dumb cunt Twitter takes to form your opinion for you?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 23, 2021, 03:04:54 PM
she's being a twat:

Quote
"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.

She can literally just watch the covid updates that happen daily and find out that the plan is to have 600 million doses available by July.

We are *checks calendar*  33 days into the Biden admin, give it a second thicness.

Also, I'm pretty sure she has connections to get a shot (if she hasn't gotten it already) and is being performative.







Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 23, 2021, 04:13:10 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1363241664710664193)

Orange man bad back

Attacking Biden on immigration?!?

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1364082628094267392

 :confused
https://twitter.com/old_rexevrythng/status/1364137695321100288

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 23, 2021, 04:49:42 PM
Get off my lawn Cabron :biden

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Attacking Biden on immigration?!?
"Sleepy Joe is a horrible person, he's just horrible. He's not letting these poor people into our country but he allows drugs to pour in so my poor silly boy makes a fool of himself on the social media.
I can't staff my golf courses, my hotels are empty, can you imagine? And now they want to raise the minimum wage and you will lose your jobs. You can only afford half the people if you have to pay them double.
Melania or Ivanka 'sorry darling you will get fired I only have half the jobs' Our economy is going to hell, our beautiful Capital was ransacked and it only took him a month. I wanted to buy a new Helicopter but I don't feel like buying in this economy which is not good for our country it is not good. But we can still save our country we can do the fill the busters. You know if we get enough great people in like all the Mikes except that crazy one and Laura in 2022 we can fill the busters in the senate and they can't pass anything it's really quite amazing that our founding fathers came up with that. Lots of girls have daddy issues let me tell ya but those founding fathers were the real deal they were our real daddies and they did something that was almost as incredible as what we did"

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 23, 2021, 05:17:58 PM
she's being a twat:

Quote
"And I understand [former] President Trump can take much of the blame, but now we're in the Biden administration and I, for one, would like something to look forward to and to hope for because if getting the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few years until everyone gets it, there's already a lot of people not getting it," McCain said.

She can literally just watch the covid updates that happen daily and find out that the plan is to have 600 million doses available by July.

We are *checks calendar*  33 days into the Biden admin, give it a second thicness.

Also, I'm pretty sure she has connections to get a shot (if she hasn't gotten it already) and is being performative.
She's saying they need to give people some clarity. Be more specific than some time in the next few months...maybe.

Public messaging around the vaccination campaign is extremely important to help counter misinformation and general anxiety. She's criticising their communication of the campaign.

Either way, she's definitely not saying that she, Meghan McCain, co-host of the view and conservative PAWG, is so important that she should have been able to jump the queue ahead of others like that Twitter hottake was implying. You'd have to have the reading comprehension of a Resetera member to come to that conclusion here.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 23, 2021, 05:26:17 PM
there's no way that fat bitch ain't got the jab yet anyway  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on February 23, 2021, 05:36:40 PM
there's no way that fat bitch ain't got the jab yet anyway  :lol
Agreed. Which is exactly why people trying to quote her out of context are even more fucking stupid. Why would she want to jump the queue when she's already jumped the fucking thing?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 23, 2021, 05:48:29 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1364315364113461248

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 23, 2021, 06:26:33 PM
https://www.rawstory.com/eye-gouger-thomas-webster/

Notorious ‘eye gouger’ who allegedly beat Capitol police with a pipe revealed to be a former NYPD cop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 23, 2021, 06:33:50 PM
blue on blue crime smh  :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 23, 2021, 06:42:17 PM
Quote
Thomas Webster was once assigned to work perimeter security at City Hall and at Gracie Mansion, which is the mayor's official residence.
I wonder which mayor of New York that was  :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 06:57:25 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/alizaslav/status/1364299369999175688

 :whatisthis

We’re doomed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 23, 2021, 07:10:57 PM
 :putin that's a nice phone chuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 23, 2021, 07:12:13 PM
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1364306184988155904

https://twitter.com/cspanJeremy/status/1364313694080012289

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 11:16:24 PM
I think we're back to normal folks.

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1364366119067389953
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 24, 2021, 12:23:51 AM
protesters

:snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 24, 2021, 12:42:52 PM
Quote
The Senate Homeland Security Committee is postponing a confirmation hearing scheduled Wednesday for Neera Tanden, Axios has learned, a potential death knell for President Biden's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
          "cancel culture"
 :isthis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on February 24, 2021, 12:52:54 PM
 :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 24, 2021, 03:19:15 PM
Could Neera Tanden lead to the Democrats using the nuclear option to get her confirmed  :dead

and then still not getting the votes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on February 24, 2021, 03:27:35 PM
Could Neera Tanden lead to the Democrats using the nuclear option to get her confirmed  :dead

and then still not getting the votes

I would pay good money for the dems using the nuclear option and then Bernie voting no.

Very good money.

All my money.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 24, 2021, 10:36:10 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/AntifascistF12/status/1364342486756376577

It’s a shame we’ll never get a Scorsese movie about Gavin McInnes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: EchoRin on February 24, 2021, 11:03:19 PM
https://youtu.be/eQCy_o7e0nA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 25, 2021, 03:40:05 AM
Quoting Yogi bear  :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 25, 2021, 11:57:01 AM
Yogi Berra

 :girlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 25, 2021, 12:22:21 PM
The trump covid rescue plan is finally reaping!

(https://i.imgur.com/mYcBPVp.png)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/25/us/nursing-home-covid-vaccine.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tuckers Law on February 25, 2021, 03:57:59 PM
I hope Bernie continues that grudge.  Tanden is corporate money through and through, and belongs nowhere in OMB.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on February 25, 2021, 05:00:57 PM
Yogi Berra

 :girlaff

tbf I forgive a Dutch guy for not knowing a famous old baseball player... I mean, how many Americans know who Ruud van Nistelrooij is?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on February 26, 2021, 01:04:08 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvHo1xhWgAMYxdX?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 26, 2021, 03:57:45 AM
Today Biden became President  :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 26, 2021, 09:05:22 AM
Reminder that Biden was the one who said no to raiding Osama to Obama.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 26, 2021, 11:13:31 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/850173258540474368
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Post by: BIONIC on February 26, 2021, 11:23:50 AM
The replies on that  :delicious
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Post by: EchoRin on February 26, 2021, 11:58:16 AM
Yogi Berra

 :girlaff

tbf I forgive a Dutch guy for not knowing a famous old baseball player... I mean, how many Americans know who Ruud van Nistelrooij is?

Fair, but Nintex should know that "America First"
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 26, 2021, 12:26:36 PM
CPAC off to a bang.

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1365319804425502720

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1365346332127461378

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1365334539711709189

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1365320338767282178
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 26, 2021, 02:28:04 PM
Biden kills again!

https://mobile.twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585

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Post by: Nintex on February 26, 2021, 03:07:17 PM
CPAC is just like everything in the GOP Trump era.
A combination of a Netflix comedy special and infomercials for random grifts :lawd

"I went to Cancun and let me tell ya when I returned, the libs gave me the cold shoulder and none of that global warming"  :pimp
- This freedom loving patriot was brought to you by GAS AND OIL SECURITY LLC.

*RSBC disclaimer: Please do your own research on climate change like Q would've done*
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Post by: Nintex on February 26, 2021, 04:32:31 PM
I'm only watching the clips that go viral on the cyber :trumps

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1365407047450206208 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1365407047450206208)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 26, 2021, 05:35:38 PM
Biden kills again!

https://mobile.twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585

It will surprise you, I'm sure, to know that this guy's been charged with just three misdemeanors, with a combined maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $1500 fine.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 26, 2021, 06:15:57 PM
When you’re an attorney general, they let you do it.

 :trumps

Great ‘justice’ system we got here.
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 26, 2021, 07:02:32 PM
Biden kills again!


https://twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365391009602031617

He was texting and driving on his way home from the accident :notlikethis

The fuck. If this guy gets off with a slap on the wrist while others spend years in prison because of some weed...
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Post by: DJ Bedroom on February 26, 2021, 07:36:30 PM
Biden kills again!

https://mobile.twitter.com/timothywjohnson/status/1365308804032835585

It will surprise you, I'm sure, to know that this guy's been charged with just three misdemeanors, with a combined maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $1500 fine.
I generally don't get angry at stuff I read on the internet cuz lul who cares
But I would love to see this motherfuckers head smash through a windshield
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Post by: team filler on February 26, 2021, 07:44:02 PM
he drives like a thottie  :doge
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 27, 2021, 01:37:31 AM
IOKIYAR
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Post by: T-Short on February 27, 2021, 05:54:00 AM
https://twitter.com/hami/status/1365339498364604419

 :mods
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Post by: T-Short on February 27, 2021, 06:20:40 AM
https://twitter.com/TimmyyThicc/status/1365452431446925315
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on February 27, 2021, 09:46:28 AM
The faults of a two party system

https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1365447878509015045
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Post by: BIONIC on February 27, 2021, 10:06:36 AM
https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1365454328245481474

:judge  :filler
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Post by: team filler on February 27, 2021, 11:47:10 AM
 :mueller
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 27, 2021, 02:09:29 PM
(https://www.chapo.chat/pictrs/image/SDvN19KoEz.jpg?format=webp)
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Post by: Nintex on February 27, 2021, 02:59:25 PM
It's quite something to watch the Democrats engineer their future electoral defeat within 2 months of taking power :doge
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Post by: team filler on February 27, 2021, 03:05:03 PM
losing to republicans pays better than winning  :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on February 27, 2021, 08:41:28 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvQDwf2UUAI7PF8?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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Post by: BIONIC on February 27, 2021, 11:44:45 PM
Did Jake Tapper ever ask for sanctions against Israel?  ::)

:curious  :kermit
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Post by: Nintex on February 28, 2021, 03:52:10 AM
The Saudi Royal prince (soon king) hacked everyone so he probably has some leverage  :idont
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Post by: benjipwns on February 28, 2021, 04:57:47 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvV_h-GXUAMk7AM?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on February 28, 2021, 05:11:15 PM
https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1366148672807985157 (https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1366148672807985157)
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 28, 2021, 07:11:27 PM
Sleepy Joe vs Sleepy Ben in 2024 is too good for this universe.
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Post by: Nintex on February 28, 2021, 07:32:42 PM
Sleepy Joe vs Sleepy Ben in 2024 is too good for this universe.
"Mr. Biden some Americans are wondering when will the troops come home?"

"The way I see it Jack, the way I see it our troops are home no matter where they are, they always proudly carry the flag like our forefathers and the forefathers of the forefathers before them"

"Mr. Carson your response"

"Yes"

"Mr. Carson your response to the question. Should America end the war in Afghanistan?"

"Now before I can answer this question... I must admit foreign policy is not my area of expertise... there is a war in Afghanistan?"
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Post by: chronovore on March 01, 2021, 12:38:28 AM
Quote
“tofu tube.”

:mouf

Tasty just wants his soiboi action.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 01, 2021, 09:24:52 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvV_h-GXUAMk7AM?format=jpg&name=medium)

Time for Bernie to join the republican party.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 01, 2021, 01:01:22 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Trump_CPAC-2021-1024x755.jpg)l
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Post by: Nintex on March 01, 2021, 01:04:51 PM
The eagles are Trump now :titus
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 01, 2021, 01:41:29 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Trump_CPAC-2021-1024x755.jpg)l

lmao garrison is such a simp
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 01, 2021, 02:28:32 PM
those are owls
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on March 01, 2021, 03:16:44 PM
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/xUA7bcjndmv7nwlyEg/giphy.gif)
Title: BOTH SIDES ARE THE SAME
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 01, 2021, 03:18:38 PM
Quote
The Biden administration's task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow separated families the option of being reunified either in the U.S. or their county of origin, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-admin-expected-let-migrant-families-separated-under-trump-reunite-n1259141

 :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on March 01, 2021, 07:20:56 PM
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-calls-on-nadler-to-hold-house-judiciary-hearing-on-dangerous-trend-of-cancel-culture
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech."

In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."

"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."

Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."

"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."

But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."

Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."

"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."

Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."

"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.

Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."

"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
:american
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Post by: D3RANG3D on March 01, 2021, 07:31:25 PM
 :curious :society
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Post by: chronovore on March 01, 2021, 08:40:43 PM
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-calls-on-nadler-to-hold-house-judiciary-hearing-on-dangerous-trend-of-cancel-culture
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech."

In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."

"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."

Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."

"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."

But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."

Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."

"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."

Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."

"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.

Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."

"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
:american

It’s called “consequences.”

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
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Post by: team filler on March 02, 2021, 09:38:38 AM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1366737412911550465


 :trumps
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Post by: Rufus on March 02, 2021, 12:00:32 PM
Petition to find+replace "cancel culture" with "boycott". Reality wide.

Thank you.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on March 02, 2021, 02:05:15 PM
The word boycott is probably sexist cause the word boy is in there.
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Post by: BIONIC on March 02, 2021, 02:14:27 PM
Boycott  :nope

Boycoxx  :ohyeah

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:drool
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Post by: team filler on March 02, 2021, 02:19:54 PM
xxxcott  :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 02, 2021, 02:33:21 PM
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-calls-on-nadler-to-hold-house-judiciary-hearing-on-dangerous-trend-of-cancel-culture
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech."

In a letter to Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News, Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a serious threat to fundamental free speech rights in the United States."

"From newsrooms to college campuses to social media giants, we have seen a dangerous trend toward silencing and censoring certain political speech," Jordan wrote. "As the committee entrusted with upholding the Constitution and our fundamental liberties, our first full committee hearing for the 117th Congress must examine this cancel culture sweeping America."

Jordan said the First Amendment, which "guarantees to all Americans the right to speak freely," has "allowed our country to develop and maintain a political discourse fueled by the free exchange of ideas."

"This freedom has empowered risk-takers and innovators. It has shaped bold new ideas and given us a prosperous democracy," Jordan wrote. "Quite simply, it has made the United States the envy of the world."

But Jordan said that in the current climate, "our shared commitment to free speech principles is eroding under demands for the censorship and silencing of certain speech."

Jordan, listing several examples, including college campuses canceling lectures because students disagree with the speaker; a New York Times editorial page editor, James Bennett, resigning after the newsroom disagreed with an op-ed penned by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton; Amazon’s removal of a book written by a conservative author; and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, which he said "have censored and de-platformed prominent conservatives—including the sitting President of the United States."

"Cancel culture is a dangerous phenomenon whether you agree or disagree with the views being censored," Jordan said. "Our society must always promote the free exchange of ideas, not cancel the ideas with which we disagree."

Jordan warned that "if cancel culture continues unchallenged, it is not just the unpopular or controversial viewpoints that are at risk."

"Every viewpoint and every idea—whether widely accepted now or not—runs the risk of eventually falling into disfavor with the ever-changing standards of cancel culture," he wrote.

Jordan said that cancel culture’s "long-term consequences to our democracy and constitutional framework are serious and substantial."

"We must fight this trend before it is too late," he wrote. "There is no better issue on which Republicans and Democrats can work together to address in our first full committee hearing than to address the scourge of cancel culture in the United States."
:american

:dead
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 02, 2021, 02:37:26 PM
(https://www.chapo.chat/pictrs/image/iljKAe9lPD.png?format=webp)
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Post by: BIONIC on March 02, 2021, 02:58:41 PM
I’m starting to think Skullfuckers is some sort of Russian asset  :thinking
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 02, 2021, 03:14:06 PM
 :putin
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 02, 2021, 03:23:36 PM
nintex alt
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Post by: Tasty on March 02, 2021, 03:45:40 PM
(https://www.chapo.chat/pictrs/image/iljKAe9lPD.png?format=webp)

Everyone who didn't vote Biden in the primary saw this coming before he even announced.

Still twelve hundred billion times better than any kind of Trump presidency, it must be said.
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Post by: Transhuman on March 02, 2021, 04:11:33 PM
Hey now, that's very unfair. A lot of people who voted for Biden saw this coming too.
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Post by: team filler on March 02, 2021, 04:40:43 PM
biden may be the only person who didn't see it coming  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 02, 2021, 05:05:27 PM
nintex alt
???

My take

"Joe Mr. President sir, we promised the people we'd give them $2000 and we would leave Afghanistan and..."

"Hold your horses Missy. What are the socialists going to do? Vote for Trump? Did you find the votes for Neera yet?" :biden

Whenever I see Joe Biden it looks like footage from a bygone era or something. Strangely comforting.
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Post by: team filler on March 02, 2021, 07:03:58 PM
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1366895908202418178


feel the bern you dumbass biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!  :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 02, 2021, 07:28:02 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1366862300167217152

 :american
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Post by: Tasty on March 02, 2021, 08:17:40 PM
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1366895908202418178


feel the bern you stupid ass biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch!!  :bernie

:lol
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Post by: benjipwns on March 02, 2021, 09:07:29 PM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/klacik-gop-campaign-donations/2021/03/02/76300fde-7077-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html
U.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee’s cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views and was shared on social media by President Donald Trump and his eldest son.

“We raised close to $2 million,” the Republican congressional hopeful said of the three-minute spot, which showed her marching in a red dress and high heels past abandoned buildings in Baltimore, asserting that Democrats do not care about Black lives.

But later that night, Klacik’s staff told her it would be best to stop disclosing how much money the ad had raised for her campaign against Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) — because she wouldn’t be keeping much of it, Klacik recounted in an interview.

The company that produced the video, Arsenal Media Group, would take a cut. And a firm hired to promote the video, Olympic Media, would keep up to 70 percent of the money it generated, some of which was not disclosed in Klacik’s initial campaign finance filings.

Klacik, a self-described college dropout who launched a nonprofit organization to help disadvantaged women before running for office, said she did not personally approve or know about the contract with Olympic Media until that conversation.

“When I saw it, I almost passed out,” she said.

Her campaign is an example of how some consulting firms are profiting handsomely from Republican candidates who have robust appeal in today’s politically charged environment — even when they are running in deep-blue districts where it is virtually impossible for them to win. The more viral the candidate goes, the more money the companies make — a model possible only through the online outrage machine of hyperpartisan politics.
Quote
By the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.
Quote
Johnson was challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a national target of conservative scorn. Like Klacik, he urged Black voters to abandon the Democratic Party, saying it had served them poorly. Like Klacik, he lost by a wide margin — nearly 40 percentage points.

He raised about $12 million from donors across the country. After Olympic’s share and other fundraising costs were deducted, just $5 million remained, Lazzaro estimated.
Quote
Klacik certainly got something for the millions she paid her vendors: a national political platform.

Within days of the Baltimore ad’s release, she landed a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. By October, she’d taken in more than $6 million — mostly from small-dollar donors across the country.

She spent more than $50,000 on private jets. She joined Donald Trump Jr. at a rally in Arizona, and the president himself in Atlanta to announce a plan to increase capital in Black communities. She traveled her district on a customized bus and spent thousands of dollars on a campaign event at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 02, 2021, 10:24:18 PM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/klacik-gop-campaign-donations/2021/03/02/76300fde-7077-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html
U.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee’s cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views and was shared on social media by President Donald Trump and his eldest son.

“We raised close to $2 million,” the Republican congressional hopeful said of the three-minute spot, which showed her marching in a red dress and high heels past abandoned buildings in Baltimore, asserting that Democrats do not care about Black lives.

But later that night, Klacik’s staff told her it would be best to stop disclosing how much money the ad had raised for her campaign against Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D) — because she wouldn’t be keeping much of it, Klacik recounted in an interview.

The company that produced the video, Arsenal Media Group, would take a cut. And a firm hired to promote the video, Olympic Media, would keep up to 70 percent of the money it generated, some of which was not disclosed in Klacik’s initial campaign finance filings.

Klacik, a self-described college dropout who launched a nonprofit organization to help disadvantaged women before running for office, said she did not personally approve or know about the contract with Olympic Media until that conversation.

“When I saw it, I almost passed out,” she said.

Her campaign is an example of how some consulting firms are profiting handsomely from Republican candidates who have robust appeal in today’s politically charged environment — even when they are running in deep-blue districts where it is virtually impossible for them to win. The more viral the candidate goes, the more money the companies make — a model possible only through the online outrage machine of hyperpartisan politics.
Quote
By the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.
Quote
Johnson was challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a national target of conservative scorn. Like Klacik, he urged Black voters to abandon the Democratic Party, saying it had served them poorly. Like Klacik, he lost by a wide margin — nearly 40 percentage points.

He raised about $12 million from donors across the country. After Olympic’s share and other fundraising costs were deducted, just $5 million remained, Lazzaro estimated.
Quote
Klacik certainly got something for the millions she paid her vendors: a national political platform.

Within days of the Baltimore ad’s release, she landed a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. By October, she’d taken in more than $6 million — mostly from small-dollar donors across the country.

She spent more than $50,000 on private jets. She joined Donald Trump Jr. at a rally in Arizona, and the president himself in Atlanta to announce a plan to increase capital in Black communities. She traveled her district on a customized bus and spent thousands of dollars on a campaign event at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington.

 :pika
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Post by: benjipwns on March 02, 2021, 11:01:11 PM
https://twitter.com/AmziQureshi/status/1366898924037038083
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Post by: Coax on March 03, 2021, 05:01:58 AM
It’s called “consequences.”

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Before I'd even seen who posted this while scrolling up on mobile I thought, 'the tone of that reply sounds like chronovore' :P
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Post by: BIONIC on March 03, 2021, 05:18:50 AM
It’s called “consequences.”

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Before I'd even seen who posted this while scrolling up on mobile I thought, 'the tone of that reply sounds like chronovore' :P

:whatisthis  :engel
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 03, 2021, 03:22:06 PM
Tandem Dogs on deck.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1367159863315431426
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 03, 2021, 03:59:08 PM
The Blue Checkmarks are at it again!
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 03, 2021, 04:04:49 PM
What's driving the reduction of income caps?

Did they underestimate how much money big pharma was going to want to inoculate america?
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 03, 2021, 04:55:50 PM
Because we can’t live in a country where Amazon gets billions in subsidies from the government and Jeff Bezos gets a $2000 dollar check from the government.
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Post by: Nintex on March 03, 2021, 07:04:57 PM
Here's your stimmy
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1367257769695404032 (https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1367257769695404032)
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 05, 2021, 12:31:47 PM
Looks like we got another secret Muslim in the White House  :'(

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1367848260375871493
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Post by: EchoRin on March 05, 2021, 12:54:24 PM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/05/americans-trust-black-lives-matter-declines-usa-today-ipsos-poll/6903470002/

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Last June, 60% in a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll described Floyd's death as murder; that percentage has now dropped by double digits to 36%. Uncertainty has grown about how to characterize the incident, caught on video, when Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck and ignored his protests that he couldn't breathe. Last year, 4% said they didn't know how to describe it; that number has climbed to 17%.

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Nearly two-thirds of Black Americans, 64%, view Floyd's death as murder; fewer than one-third of white people, 28%, feel that way. White Americans are more likely to describe it instead as the police officer's "negligence," 33% compared with 16% of Black respondents.

That said, Americans who have heard at least something about Chauvin's trial say 4 to 1, or 60%-15%, that they hope Chauvin is convicted. That included 54% of white Americans and 76% of Black Americans.

It's a fairly short and simple to follow read beyond this bit I pulled.
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Post by: team filler on March 05, 2021, 02:12:59 PM
the dirty dems are done with blm now that the big guy is in power  :biden
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 05, 2021, 03:40:42 PM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367907295364005898
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Post by: team filler on March 05, 2021, 03:44:24 PM
did kamala's dorky step daughter dress her  :mueller
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 05, 2021, 04:05:53 PM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367907295364005898

Quote
Sinema began her political career in the Arizona Green Party and rose to prominence for her progressive advocacy, supporting causes such as LGBT rights and opposing the war on terror.

God damn it Putin, let us have our $15 minimum wage.
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Post by: team filler on March 05, 2021, 04:55:11 PM
https://twitter.com/LRonMexico/status/1367925017338601472


 :biden
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Post by: Tasty on March 05, 2021, 05:09:16 PM
He meant help for himself and the cronycrats :trumps
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on March 05, 2021, 06:37:07 PM
https://twitter.com/besf0rt/status/1367955188305309700?
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Post by: Nintex on March 05, 2021, 06:41:45 PM
Dems are at the point in the RPG when they think they've beaten the endboss depleting their potions and spells and every enemy is easy to defeat. Then 4 rooms later the plot twist where the boss reappears at lvl 100 to kill or knock out their favorite party member and it's either grind or die.
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Post by: El Babua on March 05, 2021, 06:57:29 PM
The dirty corrupt New Deal dems would be eating rn with reps freaking out over potato gender and neandeethals
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 05, 2021, 07:24:11 PM
Ilhan Omar remains the best congressperson.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1367948805786771461
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 05, 2021, 07:31:25 PM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367907295364005898
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436 (https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436)

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 05, 2021, 08:39:22 PM
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436 (https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367991247395303436)

 :neogaf

Not even Resetera is buying that.

 :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on March 05, 2021, 09:11:59 PM
Maybe just don't vote on an important bill with the demeanor of kicking a cheerleader from the team
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Post by: FStop7 on March 06, 2021, 11:07:08 AM
Sinema is a pig.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 06, 2021, 01:57:19 PM
https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1368222588690984963 (https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1368222588690984963)
 :trumps
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on March 06, 2021, 02:03:37 PM
Using Trump's name to boost their atrocious ratings. Sad!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 06, 2021, 02:05:00 PM
Licensing his name out to the Republican party would be the most Trump thing ever  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Sideshow Raheem on March 07, 2021, 09:37:35 PM
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
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Post by: mormapope on March 07, 2021, 10:15:11 PM
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

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From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 69.6 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means that although Americans are working more productively than ever, the fruits of their labors have primarily accrued to those at the top and to corporate profits, especially in recent years.

Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.

There are an abundance of low income jobs that are required for our society to function, jobs that aren't getting filled or with huge turn over rates, that pay above minimum wage, but aren't living wages or are barely reaching living wages.

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Post by: Potato on March 07, 2021, 11:35:15 PM
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.
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Post by: Sideshow Raheem on March 08, 2021, 12:01:34 AM
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.

It's the truth. Minimum wage was an incentive for employers to hire people and an opportunity for job seekers to receive entry-level jobs in which they can learn and grow. Minimum wage was not created to be something an individual or family could live upon.

Don't carp because we've chosen to redefine the term rather than address its problems.








Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: mormapope on March 08, 2021, 12:30:56 AM
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
This is about the most American thing I've ever read on this forum.

It's the truth. Minimum wage was an incentive for employers to hire people and an opportunity for job seekers to receive entry-level jobs in which they can learn and grow. Minimum wage was not created to be something an individual or family could live upon.

Don't carp because we've chosen to redefine the term rather than address its problems.

That's not the history behind it though. You're creating a narrative based around actually believing company and corporation bottom lines at face value.

Shit, looking up minimum wage on wikipedia gets you this

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Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweated labor which had developed in the wake of industrialization.[19] Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying them what were considered nonliving wages that did not allow workers to afford the necessaries of life.[20] Besides substandard wages, sweating was also associated with long work hours and unsanitary and unsafe work conditions.[21] From the 1890s to the 1920s, during the Progressive Era, a time of social activists and political reform across the United States, progressive reformers, women's organizations, religious figures, academics, and politicians all played an important role in getting state minimum wage laws passed throughout the United States.[22]

The first successful attempts at using minimum wage laws to ameliorate the problem of nonliving wages occurred in the Australian state of Victoria in 1896.[23][24] Factory inspector reports and newspaper reporting on the conditions of sweated labor in Melbourne, Victoria led in 1895 to the formation of the National Anti-Sweating League which pushed the government aggressively to deal legislatively with the problem of substandard wages.[25] The government, following the recommendation of the Victorian Chief Secretary Alexander Peacock, established wage boards which were tasked with establishing minimum wages in the labor trades which suffered from unlivable wages. During the same time period, campaigns against sweated labor were occurring in the United States and England.[26]

In the United States, the earliest minimum wage laws were state laws focused on women and children.[27] These laws were struck down by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937.[27] The first federal minimum wage law, which exempted large parts of the workforce, was enacted in 1938 and set rates that had become obsolete during World War II.[27]

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Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary

Quite literally the opposite of its origins.
 :heh
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Post by: Nintex on March 08, 2021, 12:21:45 PM
Minimum wage was never meant as a living wage. It was intended as a starting salary. You get hired, you earn some money, you learn valuable skills, and gain work experience.

Then: You get promoted or you get a better job. Either way, you get more money and a new spot is opened up for a minimum wage employee.

Somewhere along the line we got it in our heads people should shovel fries for life and be able to live comfortably doing it.
Yep, the issue is that the minimum wage has barely moved with inflation though.
There's a little catch up to do, but overall I agree with you that it should be an 'entry point' salary not the end destination.

However, part of this blame lies with companies like Amazon. Who drill people into thinking that VP of Package Arrangement is a different and more fulfilling career than mail sorting. :trumps

There's also the race to the bottom with pricing. Selling shit cheap is easier than proving the value of your products. And companies that sell shit for low prices and fuck over their suppliers whenever they can will never pay you a decent wage.
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Post by: mormapope on March 08, 2021, 02:07:14 PM
With labor there should be no "end destination". If the resources are sustainable and if the quality of life that's comfortable is possible, there should never be a game of "fuck you, got mine". 

If a McDonalds worker and a doctor made a similar wage, had all their needs met in a reasonable fashion, combined with education and the pursuit of numerous occupations not having dozens of thousands of dollars of debt attached, I would guarantee there would still be doctors, engineers, all the roles society would need to function.

If a some form of intelligent life came to Earth and went to Target, the absolute amount of confusion would be immense. We live lives based on games and absurdity, and people try really hard to make sense and validate that absurdity.
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Post by: Nintex on March 08, 2021, 03:22:00 PM
Most people are held back by what's in their head. A certain perception. People think it's not for them, or they can never achieve or make it. ResetEra is bursting at the seams with such people. My dad was much the same in some ways. Did construction work all his life and he was really good at it, towards the end of his career some cool stuff with reparing historical buildings for university studies as he's an expert in medieval building techniques but he could've achieved much more. He didn't take it well when my brother didn't do anything with his low-level college IT education but instead taught himself how to create Half Life maps and mods, moved out of town and then lost everything in a bankruptcy. Then he tried again and through twists and turns is now a level design director making the big money. If he would've gone for the minimum wage route as my dad wanted he would've never had made it this far.

I'm seeing a sort of calvinism take hold. 'Minimal' living spaces, 'tiny houses', 'minimum wages', 'basic income', 'this is good enough' etc. combined with a distorted sort of feudalism focused around a political class and tech giants who turn the dials of what we see, hear, do and soon earn. We should strive for better and more beautiful things instead of the lowest thing we can achieve while we wait to be 'saved' by the government. My dad votes labour his entire life, he was never saved by any government. In fact by now he is more scared of the government than ever. Now at first it is scary to think that you must rely on yourself but after that initial hurdle it feels amazing to be in control of your own destiny. If you told me or anyone that knew me 10 years ago I would do the things I'm doing today, no one would've believed you and that makes me more excited about the next 10 years.

Also there a just too many normies going for the minimal route in various levels and conditioned to do so that you will never manage to 'change the system' at this point.
The storming of the capitol is about the closest you can get and that achieved the exact opposite.

Now I do agree that people should live comfortably and have something to fall back on if they fail which is why I think UBI and universal healthcare are in general a much better idea than moving around taxes and benefits.
I just don't agree with the underlying socialist philosophy of holding back ambition through control, regulations and limitations and conditioning people to behave or think in certain ways.
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Post by: james on March 08, 2021, 03:26:55 PM
I agree Nintex, thats why I buy lottery tickets. Great wealth is within my grasp
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Post by: Nintex on March 08, 2021, 03:33:22 PM
I agree Nintex, thats why I buy lottery tickets. Great wealth is within my grasp
The James Fund had an insane ROI for what it was  :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 08, 2021, 04:03:52 PM
I agree Nintex, thats why I buy lottery tickets. Great wealth is within my grasp
The James Fund had an insane ROI for what it was  :rejoice

Promise made
Promise kept
 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 09, 2021, 11:38:00 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000

 :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 09, 2021, 12:08:31 PM
(https://external-preview.redd.it/mdVl0703LbLKlaimYauaPKfCuJ4G3FnjwypF8rcNXcY.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e60521f70cf269a2c13f4dd69c5303f145eb534)

A year ago
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Post by: Nintex on March 09, 2021, 12:27:09 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000

 :lol :lol
The contrast between this hypernormal boring shit and the Trump extravaganza is just  :yeshrug

They can all-caps that CNN chryon all they want, it's just not the same energy as:


RUBIO: WE ALL HAVE A BIG MOMMY - SCHUMER: PRESIDENT MADE SEXIST REMARKS - TRUMP: NEW GENERALS ARE LIKE BIG MOMMY'S TO ME - PELOSI CALLS NOMINATION A FARCE - TRUMP: I ALWAYS HIRE THE BEST PAIRS - BREAKING: GENERAL LIKED POST OF QANON CONGRESSWOMAN - TRUMP: WOMEN ARE TOO UNSTABLE TO START A NUCLEAR WAR
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Post by: Potato on March 09, 2021, 02:44:36 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000

 :lol :lol
He could literally soil himself on stage and still be better at the job than Trump.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 09, 2021, 02:47:09 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1369050996039680000

 :lol :lol
He could literally soil himself on stage and still be better at the job than Trump.
No doubt, being bad at 'any' job is basically the only thing Trump was ever any good at.  :lol
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on March 09, 2021, 03:34:53 PM
ngl seeing joe biden doing this shit is sad, this is someone who should be living out the rest of his life in peace and quiet in a florida resort and not being forced in front of the camera daily cos the establishment couldn't come up with anyone better :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 09, 2021, 06:56:08 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwE1NuHXYAEbfMj?format=jpg)

low effort Trump :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 10, 2021, 02:35:01 PM
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1369664886993747970 (https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1369664886993747970)

I like how Trump's people always say the quiet part out loud.  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 10, 2021, 07:21:58 PM
Checks are on the way

 :preach :preach :preach
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Post by: BIONIC on March 10, 2021, 07:43:51 PM
Checks are on the way

 :preach :preach :preach

Eat the  :reeeee ch
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 10, 2021, 07:55:02 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwKBUilWgAAwdMQ?format=png)

You forgot to ask people to donate  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on March 10, 2021, 08:40:24 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwKBUilWgAAwdMQ?format=png)

You forgot to ask people to donate  :doge
Looks like someone had a word to him about this, "Office of the Former President" business
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 10, 2021, 10:58:32 PM
Remember when Trump downplayed Covid because he thought it would mostly hurt blue urban areas, said the coronavirus would magically go away, refused to wear a mask because he thought it made him look weak, undermined his coronavirus experts at every opportunity, made fun of Biden for taking safety precautions, held giant rallies even though everyone said he shouldn’t, got the coronavirus and required experimental treatments to save his fatass, and then literally killed Herman Cain? We really couldn’t have done it without him.
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Post by: team filler on March 10, 2021, 11:48:24 PM
 :huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 11, 2021, 12:02:43 AM
(https://external-preview.redd.it/mdVl0703LbLKlaimYauaPKfCuJ4G3FnjwypF8rcNXcY.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e60521f70cf269a2c13f4dd69c5303f145eb534)

A year ago
Yeah, but that was the CoronaVirus, not this COVID thing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 11, 2021, 12:45:39 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwKBUilWgAAwdMQ?format=png)

You forgot to ask people to donate  :doge

Corspies acting like they forgot about dr...umpf?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 11, 2021, 12:01:28 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/joe_biden_house_head-1024x755.jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwKBUilWgAAwdMQ?format=png)

You forgot to ask people to donate  :doge

Wait I thought vaccines are bad, why is Trump bragging about something that’s going to kill 80% of us and give the rest autism?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 11, 2021, 12:05:38 PM
666

I guess someone had to take the fucking idiot mantle after fuck face baugh went away.
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Post by: Tasty on March 11, 2021, 03:01:18 PM
Biden admin is forcing Garrison to become a better artist, he should be thankful.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2021, 03:06:17 PM
Surprised he hasn’t fully transitioned to horny Trump fanart comissions.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 11, 2021, 03:29:35 PM
Whats a better way to spend $1,400

One very expensive escort, or 10 budget escorts

Asking for a friend
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 11, 2021, 03:33:52 PM
We could stop Trump from launching the nukes and destroying the world with a well placed Fox News ad or Tucker Carlson segment.

But how do we reach Biden :existential
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 11, 2021, 03:35:05 PM
We could stop Trump from launching the nukes and destroying the world with a well placed Fox News ad or Tucker Carlson segment.

But how do we reach Biden :existential

Inception at 3pm nap time.

(https://i.imgur.com/e277el9.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 11, 2021, 04:00:49 PM
We could stop Trump from launching the nukes and destroying the world with a well placed Fox News ad or Tucker Carlson segment.

But how do we reach Biden :existential

Make a plee to help people.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 12, 2021, 08:31:57 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1370547738614636544 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1370547738614636544)

How did Michael Moore and Zach Galifianakis end up in this  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 13, 2021, 04:43:56 PM
Biden’s America  :usacry

https://mobile.twitter.com/jimmychewsmom/status/1370078804811640836
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on March 13, 2021, 06:18:04 PM
Woke US politics taking opportunity away from Australian indigenous people.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/14/like-champagne-mate-how-a-us-kangaroo-ban-could-kill-off-an-indigenous-opportunity (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/14/like-champagne-mate-how-a-us-kangaroo-ban-could-kill-off-an-indigenous-opportunity)

Quote
Last month that fight went to a new level when Democratic congressman Salud Carbajal and Republican Brian Fitzpatrick introduced The Kangaroo Protection Act to the US Congress. Should it become law, it would outright ban the importation of kangaroo products into the US.

The move builds off a campaign called “kangaroos are not shoes” run by a coalition of animal rights groups looking to pressure brands such as Nike into abandoning the use of kangaroo leather in their products. The website compares the commercial harvest of kangaroos to the slaughter of seals in Canada and calls for similar protections to those given to the American eagle, asking: “Why kill the beloved Australia icon?”

Donovan’s answer is blunt: that’s white people thinking. To make the point he first served up a dish on Australia Day in 2006 made from native ingredients that included kangaroo and emu – both the animals that appear on the Australian coat of arms.

......

"The commercial kangaroo industry offers a path for self-determination for Aboriginal people. And now another group of non-Indigenous are talking about taking it away entirely,” he says.


......

While that certification system is something he wants to work towards, Mallard says a blanket ban like that currently being proposed in the US would kill off the opportunity to build a culturally-appropriate industry on country before it can develop.

“Who’s creating the rules here?” Mallard says. “If you had fair representation of First Nations people from northern America, and they heard our story, there wouldn’t be a ban. There would be understanding.

Why should others have rights over our native animal? Over us? They’ve taken our land, they’ve locked us out of political decision making and the corporate power base.
:cac
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Post by: Transhuman on March 13, 2021, 06:25:23 PM
And yet Americans have no issues with killing and eating their own icon, the pig
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Post by: D3RANG3D on March 13, 2021, 08:10:28 PM
https://youtu.be/2DH4v6FnbvM
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Post by: Nintex on March 13, 2021, 08:18:13 PM
Bill eating up that Chinese propaganda.  :juche
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Post by: james on March 14, 2021, 04:12:08 AM
Trump is aging faster than an avocado.

Rip by August?

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1370959273962917890
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Post by: BIONIC on March 14, 2021, 05:51:27 AM
:trumps looking more and more like  :biden
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Post by: Nintex on March 14, 2021, 06:13:32 AM
Looks much happier as President of the Mar a Lago  :lol
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Post by: Nintex on March 14, 2021, 06:42:39 PM
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1371227361593716736 (https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1371227361593716736)

https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1371026711308075009 (https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1371026711308075009)

 :ohhh
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Post by: Potato on March 14, 2021, 08:15:54 PM
Megan Markle and the Royal family are a perfect match. You could even say they absolutely deserve each other.
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Post by: team filler on March 14, 2021, 09:09:36 PM
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1371258997169328130


 :bernie
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Post by: zomgee on March 14, 2021, 11:33:03 PM
the bart, the
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Post by: james on March 15, 2021, 01:14:12 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Senators/status/1371247864769298441
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Post by: chronovore on March 15, 2021, 01:30:26 AM
http://twitter.com/smc429/status/1371255935306321922
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Post by: team filler on March 15, 2021, 01:32:26 AM
number of days without dementia 0 :trumps
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Post by: chronovore on March 15, 2021, 02:31:05 AM
number of days without dementia 0 :trumps

I’m not sure about that, it’s likely not the case. Even if it is true, it beats the replete host of mental illnesses the former POTUS had. 
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Post by: Tasty on March 15, 2021, 09:56:24 AM
http://twitter.com/smc429/status/1371255935306321922

The deep state and/or swamp have stacked the deck :stahp
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Post by: Nintex on March 15, 2021, 04:06:38 PM
Joe Biden exists that's about the extend of it.
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Post by: benjipwns on March 15, 2021, 06:24:28 PM
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371098209452429320

https://twitter.com/liuba4congress/status/1371125934460444673

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In 2018, the WEP once again endorsed Cuomo, this time against Cynthia Nixon. Zimet was again apologetic. But what could she do? “Yes, Cynthia is a woman, and yes she represents a lot of our values, but we have a governor who literally created the party,” she pleaded to the Times.

The WEP was doing double duty on the ballot, aimed not just at voters sympathetic to women’s equality, but also as a hedge against a party with an almost identical acronym: the Working Families Party. In 2014, the WFP flirted with endorsing Teachout but won a set of promises from Cuomo and ended up endorsing him. He quickly broke all the promises, and the WFP endorsed Nixon in 2018, touching off a civil war that has led to the rapid fracturing of Cuomo’s political architecture.

That year, Cuomo and his running mate Kathy Hochul embarked on a tour of the state aboard the “Women’s Equality Express,” a pink-and-blue striped campaign bus.

edit: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1371544607880847364
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewi1u8WXMAYijt9?format=jpg&name=small)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 15, 2021, 07:15:00 PM
Wet Election Pussy
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Post by: chronovore on March 15, 2021, 09:00:52 PM
Joe Biden exists that's about the extend of it.

You can't know what this feels like as an American after 4 years of the most reckless and selfish President since Andrew Jackson. Biden is a return to order AND has progressed the American recovery rapidly and in ways that even Obama would have experienced opposition. The pendulum is swinging back, past center.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/15/economy/stimulus-economy-biden-2022/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/business/economy/biden-stimulus-checks.html
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 15, 2021, 09:36:23 PM
Nintex is just mad the circus closed down and America has a functioning, but boring, government again.
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Post by: Tasty on March 15, 2021, 10:07:12 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/m7SG6fZ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1QlX5L4.gif)
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Post by: benjipwns on March 15, 2021, 10:51:36 PM
Quote from: https://www.pncguam.com/san-nicolas-delivers-chamorro-cookies-to-congresswoman-who-thought-guam-was-a-foreign-country/
Guam Congressman Michael San Nicolas, accompanied by dozens of Guam Guard personnel, delivered Chamorro cookies to the office of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who sparked controversy when she lumped Guam with foreign countries undeserving of U.S. aid.

In her comments during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Orlando, Florida, Greene said: “We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America. Not for, what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever.”

This got the ire of Guam residents, including the governor’s office, which offered to send Greene a copy of “Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam.”

San Nicolas was more diplomatic, pointing out that Greene was a new member of Congress and promising to send the congresswoman a bag of Chamorro Chip cookies as part of his outreach to introduce Guam to new members of the House.

On Monday, San Nicolas lived up to his promise and delivered a basket of Chamorro cookies to Greene’s office accompanied by a delegation from the Guam Guard.
https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1371544791994019844

these dirty foreigners mocking our elected representatives :maf
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 16, 2021, 10:54:48 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/obama-stimulus-democrats.html

heh
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Post by: T-Short on March 16, 2021, 11:01:01 AM
Goddamnit wrong thread.
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Post by: Nintex on March 16, 2021, 02:24:56 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/obama-stimulus-democrats.html

heh
Wasn't it Larry Summers who engineered the Obama recovery policies along with Geithner and Bernanke?
HBO made a film about it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9419838/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9419838/). I recall Geithner saying that they didnt help the population as much as they could because people wouldn't learn their lesson if they cleared their debt.
Whenever some sort of relief is provided during this crisis the general argument seems to be that the people in a bad spot aren't to blame. But with other crises (Greece, 2008) they always blamed the people for the failure of their system.

Biggest difference between now and 2008 is that the banks and wall street are on a permanent stimulus with low interest rates and QE so in this 'official' one so to speak there's more room for other priorities.
I'm not as bullish on this as Goldman Sachs is though. I understand why they're happy, they invested in this outcome. We're doing the exact same thing that the politicians in the 90's did (and why we hate them) we push the bill to the next generation.
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Post by: Nintex on March 16, 2021, 07:39:50 PM
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346)

Trump vs Markle  :dead
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Post by: Tasty on March 16, 2021, 07:43:43 PM
She wishes she was one on one with Trump... one vagina on one dick
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Post by: Potato on March 16, 2021, 09:49:10 PM
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1371968120164921346)

Trump vs Markle  :dead
It's all a British plot to restore the monarchy to the United States. Step One - install Prince as first Lady
Step Two - tear up constitution and install Queen as head of state
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 16, 2021, 10:23:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/TedBeach/status/1371968583727730691

 :sicko :tinfoil
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Post by: T-Short on March 17, 2021, 10:35:32 AM
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1372190025870315528
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Post by: benjipwns on March 17, 2021, 02:20:05 PM
War with our heroes on the border:
Quote from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-limits-what-border-patrol-can-share-media-about-n1261133
The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials.

The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial "gag order" and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic.

Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for "ride-alongs" with agents along the southern land border; local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval; and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said.

Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children; they have been denied. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.
Quote from: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/border-patrol-biden-crisis-dhs-kevin-mccarthy-republicans-insiders-b1818116.html
The Trump-supporting Border Patrol labor union is reportedly teaming up with Republicans to launch a PR offensive on Biden’s government. At the same time, officers have chosen to continue to treat migrants at the border like Trump is still president

...

“This is a planned, coordinated attempt to sabotage the Biden administration,” said Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent-turned-immigrant rights activist who works with the Southern Border Communities Coalition.

Budd added that the fact that unaccompanied minors are being kept at Border Patrol stations for extended periods of time appears to be “an internal crisis” of the agency’s own creation: “It does not take that long to process children.”

Budd recounted a time when she approached a border station in 2019 and spoke to agents who were aware that she had been part of the agency but were not aware of her current immigration activism: “I asked them why it was taking them so long to process — it didn’t take that long [even] when I had to hand-write everything back in the day — and they would say, ‘We’re trying to teach them a lesson’. So they were intentionally keeping people in there for over two weeks at a time in these conditions to punish them. That is the only reason why they were doing that.”

Budd continued on to say that the same people who responsible for harsh treatment of migrants during the Trump era are still in charge: “They do this on purpose. And none of that has changed in the management has not changed at all. But the same people who separated families and created the last crisis are doing it again.”

...


But Budd, the former Border Patrol agent, said even the best attempts at house-cleaning at Customs and Border Protection by newly minted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be insufficient as long as the Border Patrol’s union continues to exercise an effective veto over policy by “spreading propaganda” with the help of Republican officials.

When asked what Biden and his administration can do to prevent the agency from continuing to operate as if the president doesn’t make policy, her answer was simple. “He has to decertify the union,” she said.
Quote from: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-migrants-dont-abc-news-exclusive-interview/story?id=76490159
President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday that his message to migrants is "Don't come over."

Amid a surge of migrants and unaccompanied minors on the U.S. southern border, Stephanopoulos asked the president, "Do you have to say quite clearly, 'Don't come'?"

"Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don't come over," Biden said during the wide-ranging interview in Darby, Pennsylvania.

"Don't leave your town or city or community," he added.
:usacry
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Post by: benjipwns on March 17, 2021, 06:51:44 PM
Quote
CNN has been hemorrhaging viewers since former President Trump left office, losing roughly half of its audience in key measurables since January following a brief post-Election Day spike.

CNN averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers from Nov. 4, the day following the presidential election, through Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. But viewers fled the network once President Biden took office, and CNN has averaged only 1.6 million primetime viewers from Jan. 21 through March 15.

CNN’s viewership during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET dropped 36% since Biden took office after it spiked following Election Day. CNN’s primetime viewership decline was even sharper among the key demographic of adults age 25-to-54, plummeting 47% during the same period.

CNN averaged 1.7 million viewers from Nov. 4 through Jan. 20, but it dropped to 1.1 million since Biden took office for a 34% fall. During the same period, CNN shed 44% of its total day viewers among the key demo, dropping from an average of 483,000 to only 272,000.
:usacry
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Post by: DJ Bedroom on March 17, 2021, 06:57:24 PM
US politics went back to regular ultra stupid, not full distinguished mentally-challenged fellow anymore. Not surprising
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Post by: Nintex on March 17, 2021, 07:45:47 PM
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438)

You mean this isn't exciting for viewers?  :huh
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 17, 2021, 08:10:05 PM
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1372040663349522438)

You mean this isn't exciting for viewers?  :huh

There is good Biden content, they just don’t air it on tv.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKBT3I-RzQ
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2021, 09:31:57 PM
In order to bail out mainstream news, they should make the primary season 3.6 years long.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 17, 2021, 11:15:27 PM
In order to bail out mainstream news, they should make the primary season 3.6 years long.

No.
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Post by: Nintex on March 18, 2021, 01:31:28 PM
Trump: "What a beautiful day to play some golf"

Joe Biden: "Good morning folks, I'll be in the Oval Office working all week"

CNN:  :stahp
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Post by: naff on March 18, 2021, 04:39:59 PM
There is good Biden content, they just don’t air it on tv.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKBT3I-RzQ

i could listen to this 10 times and i probably wouldn't remember the story. it's like old man asmr, my brain phases out after 30 seconds of that drawl. meditative.

zen biden  :american  :zzz
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Post by: Nintex on March 18, 2021, 06:35:23 PM
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1372630688730644482 (https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1372630688730644482)

Quote
“I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmVTL91_gc

:putin

Quote
"I wish you good health, without irony or jokes"

Holy fuck, Putin going straight for the jugular

CNN finally has something to report again
https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1372663264212029444 (https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1372663264212029444)\

He didn't threaten him, he ethered him you fucks.  :whew
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 18, 2021, 08:06:34 PM
DEBATE ME U COWARD U WONT

lmao putin's such a tool
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 18, 2021, 08:09:26 PM
Debate deez nuts, Pooty Poot. :biden
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 18, 2021, 08:17:39 PM
CNN just came with that bit.
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Post by: Nintex on March 18, 2021, 08:48:01 PM
https://twitter.com/magaizzyy/status/1372353887492005888 (https://twitter.com/magaizzyy/status/1372353887492005888)

Biden started this with a bastardized Duke Nukem quote.

Putin is actually quite a skilled debater for someone who hates democracy.
He had lively debates at G8 summits with Merkel and others and he's often invited to these big forums and events where the press can ask him questions.

And now #teambiden is fighting with China too

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1372691919860592652 (https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1372691919860592652)

https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1372680553741320192 (https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1372680553741320192)

This is some grade A foreign policy from the people that brought us ISIS and the Ukraine civil war lmao
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1372691122225606665 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1372691122225606665)
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 18, 2021, 09:10:02 PM
NK pulls the same shit and usually gets what it wants. They throw a fit, the US ignores them, they throw a bigger fit, the US responds in some way, things calm down a bit before they throw another fit. Not sure what the solution is.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q&
[close]
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Post by: Nintex on March 18, 2021, 09:21:19 PM
It's actually the other way around for once.
NK didn't pick up the phone and cut ties with various countries left and right. Kim Jun Un is MAGA coping  :lol

Trump offered Kim a ride on Air Force One but he declined and told Sarah Huckabee Sanders to 'take one for the team' after he learned Kim had an interest in her.
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Post by: team filler on March 19, 2021, 12:39:32 PM
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1372937314477953027


 :putin
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on March 19, 2021, 12:40:54 PM
 :lol :lol :lol eat shit you old globalist bitch

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Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2021, 12:52:55 PM
They better hurry on that WestWorld robot replacement.
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Post by: ToxicAdam on March 19, 2021, 01:04:17 PM
I think the WWII generation had it right. If you find a good president, ride that guy for 4+ terms. Obama would've been a fine 4+ termer.

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Post by: Nintex on March 19, 2021, 02:02:03 PM
Wth they aren't even helping him. This is elder abuse  :fbm
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Post by: team filler on March 19, 2021, 02:09:39 PM
stairs are a russian and chinese bot  :karen
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Post by: james on March 19, 2021, 02:11:18 PM
We can afford to give the military a trillium a year but can't buy one escalator?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 19, 2021, 04:50:40 PM
Freedom is when a president or Vice President can smoke pot, but if you work for them you can’t.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SlimiHendrix/status/1372888660945866753
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 19, 2021, 06:17:04 PM
did i just sign into neogaf with all the biden shit posting?
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Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2021, 06:22:38 PM
did i just sign into neogaf with all the biden shit posting?

Reality too hard bitch?
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 19, 2021, 06:25:13 PM
wow

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2021, 06:26:11 PM
wow



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn5Tattkj_E
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 19, 2021, 07:25:33 PM
did i just sign into neogaf with all the biden shit posting?

Not yet

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/biden_border_crisis-1024x766.jpg)

Now you are.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 19, 2021, 07:32:47 PM
Tasty can laugh at Biden if he wants to.

Nintex, filler, and Piss Benoit can't.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2021, 09:01:13 PM
Tasty can laugh at Biden if he wants to.

Nintex, filler, and Piss Benoit can't.

Tasty mad :maf
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Post by: team filler on March 19, 2021, 11:17:45 PM
 :bernie
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on March 19, 2021, 11:28:56 PM
Tasty can laugh at Biden if he wants to.

Nintex, filler, and Piss Benoit can't.

:titus
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Post by: Tasty on March 19, 2021, 11:53:29 PM
Globalist dogs controlling the national discourse :stahp
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 20, 2021, 02:43:27 AM
When is CNN going to start asking the Biden administration the tough questions they were asking the Trump administration?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kEbcXahOA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 20, 2021, 06:37:22 AM
https://twitter.com/4thTelevision/status/1373185891573886982 (https://twitter.com/4thTelevision/status/1373185891573886982)

 :trumps

In other news, the Trump comedy club is not without risk
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1373122133870665730 (https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1373122133870665730)
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 20, 2021, 02:54:26 PM
shut the fuck up nintex
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 20, 2021, 05:53:54 PM
shut the fuck up nintex
I always knew you were an alt  :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 20, 2021, 05:58:11 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/frank-artiles-ileana-garcia-florida-election-b1820020.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 20, 2021, 07:13:27 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/masks_are_theater-1024x750.jpg)

I’m also going to post the rant Ben attached to the comic cause it’s pure :brain

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An angry Fauci dithered when Senator Paul presented logical evidence that the masks were being used as ‘theater,’ not science. To Paul, the masks are comedy—a joke. To Fauci, they are about protecting us from tragedy. To me, the real tragedy is forcing us into medical tyranny. The pandemic has been staged.

Dr. Fauci is Bill Gates’ point man on the pandemic. Even though the virus has never been isolated or verified, and even though the PCR tests are not dependable, vaccines were rushed out and heavily promoted by politicians (including Trump) and the mass media.

 :lawd ‘loving’’ this so far.

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Senator Paul may not like the masks, but he’s all for getting people vaccinated. On FoxNews he claimed the vaccines were ‘very, very safe.’ This includes the mRNA vaccine, which isn’t even a vaccine but rather ‘gene therapy.’ It hacks into the software of life. Gates loves the idea of people getting turned into bio computers who require his constant software updates. Apparently Paul prefers to ignore a plethora of stories that include people dropping dead shortly after getting jabbed. He also alluded that once people are vaccinated, they will again have ‘twinkles in their eyes’ as they get to enjoy their favorite restaurant. This hints at the ominous—we can’t get our freedom back until we get vaccinated.

Bill Gates’ COVID-19 theater production contains far more tragedy than comedy. Senator Paul is correct to laugh at Fauci’s double masks, but it’s tragic that he has ultimately sided with Bill Gates.

 :huh

Uh Ben I’ve only been following you for a few years, but I’m pretty sure if Rand is on the same side as Bill Gates he’s apart of the deep state and is irredeemable.

Also, can someone check in with Ron Paul and see if he’s aligning with Bill Gates...

https://mobile.twitter.com/RonPaul/status/1372272437765795841

 :winning

Phew, he’s still okay. Someone should let him know about his son though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 20, 2021, 07:29:50 PM
shut the fuck up nintex
I always knew you were an alt  :ohhh
;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 20, 2021, 07:52:47 PM
Ron Paul is back on the air?

Didn't he have a stroke during a live show recently?  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 21, 2021, 09:55:04 PM
https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1373813331740463113


 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 21, 2021, 11:25:57 PM
Who cares if Biden falls on his face now? Nobody likes him or wanted him to be president. He's just keeping the seat warm until AOC turns 74 and is eligible to be elected president.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 22, 2021, 04:17:51 PM
https://prospect.org/justice/did-cnn-air-staged-migrant-crossing-of-the-rio-grande/
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But the scene may not be all that it appears to be. Immigrant rights advocates and others claim that the footage was staged, potentially with the cooperation of the Border Patrol. CNN was warned that the clip appeared to be a fabrication before it aired, but the network decided to run it anyway. A similar clip that appears to show the same or a similar trafficking incident from another angle was shared across right-wing media and even linked to on the social media accounts of members of Congress. This clip went viral among immigration opponents, and is helping to fuel the story of an out-of-control border. The video—legitimized on mainstream media—easily fit into that narrative. Now a series of charges and counter-charges have demonstrated the radioactive politics of immigration.

The scene appears to be just a preview of what’s to come. Yesterday’s Sunday shows centered on the border, fueling a crisis narrative as the administration continued to double down on its “border is closed” messaging.

In the CNN footage, the smuggler leading the boat wears fatigues and a black ski mask. Smugglers typically attempt to blend in with the migrants, to avoid more severe punishment should they be caught. Smugglers also don’t normally provide face masks and life vests, nor ferry six boatloads of people across in broad daylight. Migrants also don’t typically line up single file along the shore to cross.

To Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, the smuggler’s face mask rang alarm bells. “That told me [the smuggler] knew he would be filmed and he didn’t want to be set up,” she said.
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The National Butterfly Center, a conservation organization that became involved in migration issues when the Trump administration attempted to build the border wall across its reservation, posted on Facebook and Twitter about the videos. Wright told the Prospect that she alerted CNN to the possibility that the trafficking incident may have been staged prior to the footage being aired live. “Then, we saw CNN air the same staged event, shot from the river—not the riverbank—with claims that Ed Lavandera just ‘stumbled upon’ it ‘within 10 minutes,’” the group posted on Facebook.

The Butterfly Center alleged that Tim Wilkins, “a failed, local GOP candidate running on an anti-immigration platform … arranged for CNN to be there at the appointed time and place.”

CNN has not yet responded to a request for comment. But in tweets, its head of communications Matt Dornic maintains that the two videos were not shot on the same day. In another tweet, Dornic wrote, “CNN did not participate in any type of coordinated effort to shoot a staged scene of migrants crossing the river nor have we found any credible evidence that suggests our team was unknowingly part of a set-up by Border Patrol or anyone else.”

Budd says that the Tripwires & Triggers footage often gets picked up by larger media outlets. In a March 18 Medium post titled “How Border Patrol Manipulates Media,” Budd wrote, “Republicans [are] making photo ops by visiting the border and espousing lies and by right-wing white nationalists setting up fake scenarios of smuggling for the press to capture.”

Jones’s footage from the shore was also shared by Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Twitter. Neither congressman has yet responded to a request for comment. “We have to understand and address the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that lead migrants to the U.S.,” Cuellar wrote in the tweet. Cuellar also showed the video at a local roundtable event, and would not respond to local reporters’ questions about the origins of the video.

https://twitter.com/BuddJenn/status/1372776710760886281
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 22, 2021, 06:15:28 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1373991099459645443 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1373991099459645443)

https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1374100230627594245 (https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1374100230627594245)


 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 22, 2021, 08:36:25 PM
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/
Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”
...
According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
:brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 22, 2021, 09:15:27 PM
 ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: DJ Bedroom on March 22, 2021, 09:57:08 PM
Ah yes, the fox news defense
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 23, 2021, 06:06:08 AM
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/
Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”
...
According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
:brain

:iface

During the entire Trump infestation, I was in a near-constant state of appalled horror over the lack of accountability for vomiting lies. Government representatives should hold themselves to a higher standard than OAN, Fox News, and QAnon Facebook group chats. Hopefully they rake her over the financial coals, let all those lawsuits wash right over her portfolio.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on March 23, 2021, 07:36:56 AM
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/
Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”
...
According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
:brain

Sadly it's gonna be hard to prove malice under American defamation standards unless she told a friend "all of this is to overturn the legitimate election result".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 23, 2021, 09:17:00 AM
Quote from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/22/sidney-powell-argues-her-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-should-be-dropped-because-no-reasonable-person-would-believe-her/
Former Trump lawyer and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Monday, arguing her earlier claims that Dominion was involved in an orchestrated voter fraud effort were so outrageous that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact.”
...
According to the lawyers, Dominion’s descriptions of Powell’s statements as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims” support the idea that a reasonable person would not automatically believe her.
:brain

Sadly it's gonna be hard to prove malice under American defamation standards unless she told a friend "all of this is to overturn the legitimate election result".

She honestly was probably stupid enough to do that too. :lol But getting it as evidence is the tricky part.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 23, 2021, 02:13:16 PM
Oddly enough, no one posted the Sidney news on Neogaf.

Curious.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 23, 2021, 03:29:45 PM
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He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.

"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.

 :trumps
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Post by: Joe Molotov on March 23, 2021, 04:03:43 PM
Oddly enough, no one posted the Sidney news on Neogaf.

Curious.

Didn't Lore ban most of the looney tunes to try to placate the normies that couldn't hack it on Resetera?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on March 24, 2021, 12:45:20 AM
He banned a few token crazies to scare the rest
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 24, 2021, 11:56:23 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374492329097060359

 :jared
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 24, 2021, 12:33:09 PM
Um...why isn't it Hillary?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on March 24, 2021, 01:14:51 PM
Why either?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2021, 01:52:00 PM
Kopmala's finally gonna bring down the Clinton Crime Syndicate! :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 24, 2021, 02:02:20 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DToEb5Y.png)

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 24, 2021, 02:45:32 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374492329097060359

 :jared

lmao it's literally just the same cabal of grifters :lol

If he wasn't dead than Epstein would've probably funded the whole thing :trumps


In other news, Kamala is taking over the Migrant response (not crisis)

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1374789536140685317 (https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1374789536140685317)

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952)

 :wut

Well it's an improvement from blaming Russia I guess.

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1374797256352792578 (https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1374797256352792578)

Yet again Biden is perfectly capable of reading the script for these goons  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2021, 04:26:52 PM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1374794755780050952)

 :wut

Well it's an improvement from blaming Russia I guess.

It's also true.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 24, 2021, 04:45:58 PM
https://twitter.com/DabSquad_Slank/status/1374809292688265219

https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1374819497450819586


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 24, 2021, 05:15:27 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374784469664739330

 :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 25, 2021, 12:15:02 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1374492329097060359

 :jared

Bill out here making sure the opportunities and flow of 20 year old female interns  remains strong for the next generation of predators.



 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 25, 2021, 12:41:04 PM
https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1375116402554703878 (https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1375116402554703878)

 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2021, 01:35:13 PM
He's on TV right now, answering questions.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 25, 2021, 02:13:50 PM
He's on TV right now, answering questions.

Someone should tell him that, he just said "where am I?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 25, 2021, 02:14:19 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1375146552986116098

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 25, 2021, 02:32:29 PM
https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1375153130321641476 (https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1375153130321641476)

#Rid'nwithBiden2024

Biden: "We need to prove Democracy works"

The 2024 ticket

Biden (82)
Trump (78)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 25, 2021, 05:00:47 PM
Nintex you missed the best part of the conference.

https://mobile.twitter.com/saywhatagain/status/1375143320201146371

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13aLqVPd3Rc
Jump to 30:30
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 25, 2021, 05:13:36 PM
now that's a hot take from what was said.

:lol

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 25, 2021, 08:15:44 PM
That is literally the plot of Kingdom Hearts  :doge


https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1375229595314688008 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1375229595314688008)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 25, 2021, 08:25:41 PM
That is literally the plot of Kingdom Hearts  :doge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YVTBQCbezQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2021, 09:27:02 PM
Nintex posting New York Post on The Bore? You hate to see it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2021, 02:38:17 AM
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1375196921887875072
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 26, 2021, 03:22:33 AM
Checkmate libtards!  :society
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 26, 2021, 05:56:23 AM
https://twitter.com/jimswiftdc/status/1375077737539452928

:info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 26, 2021, 07:21:03 AM
https://twitter.com/jimswiftdc/status/1375077737539452928

:info

It’s a typical MAGA male request for to how they prefer to get spit roasted.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 26, 2021, 08:40:10 AM
https://twitter.com/UnholyRome/status/1375287615503560714
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 26, 2021, 09:31:59 AM
https://twitter.com/jimswiftdc/status/1375077737539452928

:info

What in the actual fuck :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: samir on March 26, 2021, 09:45:20 AM
hahaha that's our president Bidet :-[
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 26, 2021, 10:44:01 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/zbTCqGK.png)

nintex ghost writing at various pubs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Snoopycat_ on March 26, 2021, 12:04:20 PM
There’s a new video of him blatting on about senate votes or whatever and halfway through his brain stops working. Why aren’t his helpers giving him the same weird German drugs Trump was taking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 26, 2021, 01:43:41 PM
link

:rage
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 26, 2021, 03:25:40 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1375157844182466563

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 26, 2021, 05:05:52 PM
Oh that, that's how people deal with stuttering.

Nice ableism.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 26, 2021, 06:19:37 PM
Yeah, Joe Biden is a stutterer and he's been pretty open about struggling with it over the years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 26, 2021, 07:20:52 PM
Suck senile cock like your ree account depends on it fellas  :biden  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 26, 2021, 07:31:20 PM
 :yeshrug

He stutters at the end, but I’m pretty sure most of that clip is him having a senior moment and losing his train of thought. I find it funny in a cute sort of way.

Anyway, I’ll just post a clip of a Republican being stupid to make up for it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1375546495454343171
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2021, 08:40:15 PM
Quote from: https://americanindependent.com/dan-rodimer-republican-candidate-new-persona-nevada-texas/
A Republican former professional wrestler is district hopping in the hopes of winning a U.S. House seat — and is totally changing his personality in the hopes of making his congressional dreams a reality.

Dan Rodimer won the GOP nomination in Nevada's 3rd District in November in 2020. He went on to lose to Democratic Rep. Susie Lee by a 3-point margin in the suburban Las Vegas-based seat.

A little more than four months later, he's back, this time running in a special election in a Dallas-based seat more than 1,200 miles away — and he's almost unrecognizable from his previously failed bid.

In his Nevada race, Rodimer ran ads painting himself as a clean-cut, family man — wearing a collared shirt and seated on a couch with his wife and five children.

In the ad, he was defending himself from reports that he had been accused of assault three times between 2010 and 2013. According to a report from the Associated Press in October 2019, Rodimer was accused of punching men "at or outside of nightclubs."

Now, Rodimer is back and running in a special election in Texas' 6th District — a Dallas-based House seat left vacant after Rep. Ron Wright died following a COVID-19 diagnosis.

And Rodimer looks like a totally different person, donning a cowboy hat and positioning himself as a rodeo bull rider with a Texas accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83s6xqRTqVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDxk66d4xh4

 :american :american :american :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 26, 2021, 10:13:01 PM
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1375614313717772289 (https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1375614313717772289)

Wasn't he going to do anything in his power to prevent this? oh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 26, 2021, 10:44:36 PM
Remember that time repubs solved immigration
Title: ;)
Post by: Tasty on March 26, 2021, 11:09:42 PM
Remember that time nintex wouldn't shut the fuck up
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 26, 2021, 11:16:10 PM
No, cause he never shuts up
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Boredfrom on March 26, 2021, 11:36:15 PM
Suck senile cock like your ree account depends on it fellas  :biden  :kermit

Laughing of people suffering stuttering is fucking low.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 26, 2021, 11:39:48 PM
Suck senile cock like your ree account depends on it fellas  :biden  :kermit

Laughing of people suffering stuttering is fucking low.
I read this post in joe biden stutter voice  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 27, 2021, 12:52:01 AM
stammering joe  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: DJ Bedroom on March 27, 2021, 01:26:18 AM
Nintex makes more sense if you imagine him as master chief from arby n the chief
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 27, 2021, 07:51:37 AM
Obama was only good because he found that one white guy who could convince some black guys to push agenda and make sure the other white guys were like maybe.

That guy? Albert Biden Einstein.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 27, 2021, 07:52:16 AM
I'm currently in talks with the bore administration to remove my likes for filler posts because I wish to not be associated with that ick.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 27, 2021, 10:20:10 AM
I'm currently in talks with the bore administration to remove my likes for filler posts because I wish to not be associated with that ick.
Likes are permanent no refunds  :hmph
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 27, 2021, 01:35:24 PM
I'm currently in talks with the bore administration to remove my likes for filler posts because I wish to not be associated with that ick.
Likes are permanent no refunds  :hmph

That's what they say about voting rights.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 27, 2021, 05:28:31 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1375448566865485833


thanks bide! :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 27, 2021, 05:35:53 PM
Let the dirty poors already priced out of the cities they work in pay even more for the privilege of working there.

Thanks Buttchug  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 27, 2021, 05:45:47 PM
lesson learnt, no gays
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 27, 2021, 07:37:15 PM
"The so called user paid principle".

There's a saying in the software biz, that only drug dealers and software makers call their customers 'users' and apparently Pete McKinsey does to.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 28, 2021, 01:30:00 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1376183991162834948 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1376183991162834948)

 :letsfukk :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 29, 2021, 10:10:09 AM
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1376288334616535043

anarchists meet anarchists

 :spiders
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on March 29, 2021, 10:35:10 AM
The car gets attacked and drives away without hitting anyone? I don't know how they figure the driver is in the wrong
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 29, 2021, 11:30:12 AM
Maybe the whole speeding a big peice of metal through a crowd of fleshies.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on March 29, 2021, 11:51:59 AM
"Driving through" implies the driver is mowing them down. The driver goes between the protesters, and they wouldn't have needed to drive away so dangerously in the first place if their car wasn't being pelted with objects. The guy in the car is most likely a bigot, but the idea that this video is evidence of right-wing extremism is laughable.

I'm not surprised the tweeter is a journalist considering the clickbait description. I clicked that video expecting (and dreading) to see a Charlottesville-type tragedy, not a bunch of antifa protesters attacking a car unprovoked.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 29, 2021, 03:07:21 PM
They stole his Trump flag
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 29, 2021, 07:11:10 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExrrpYsWYAkvj25?format=jpg)

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 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 29, 2021, 07:40:06 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on March 29, 2021, 07:46:19 PM
lesson learnt, no gays
FACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1376633423813611521
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 29, 2021, 10:06:37 PM
http://twitter.com/theonion/status/1376627946685890566
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 30, 2021, 09:57:12 AM
lesson learnt, no gays
FACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1376633423813611521

Trying to have it both ways...figures
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on March 30, 2021, 02:20:55 PM
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/30/descendants-fdr-and-his-cabinet-urge-biden-embrace-new-deal-scale-public-jobs

Descendants of FDR and His Cabinet Urge Biden to Embrace 'New Deal-Scale' Public Jobs Program

Well thank goodness that FDR's grandson likes New Deal programs. Surely the genetic material of Roosevelt's policies has spread to his descendants.

I hate modern news.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 30, 2021, 02:38:30 PM
The most progressive US President since FDR!  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 30, 2021, 03:24:48 PM
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on March 30, 2021, 03:46:42 PM
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime

Run for POTUS
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 30, 2021, 05:42:07 PM
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime
I dunno, it seems like being governor or senator somewhere in the deep red states does the trick.
People don't even expect you to do anything except make ads saying you will kick down Nancy's door in Washington and make Schumer cry.
I say we do it. You even got a name that works.

:american VOTE JAMES  :american
A REAL AMERICAN PATRIOT

MAKE NANCY, CHUCK, BIDEN, MITCH, AOC, BERNIE, SARKEESIAN, OPRAH, HUSSEIN OBAMA, COLBERT, KENNEDY, XI, SADDAM, COMMUNISM, HILLARY, BILL, MAHER, JOHN OLIVER, NEERA, CNN CRY

James, (a true American) will stop the traitors in Washington from selling out the United States of America to Biden's communist handlers.
One day 1 James will introduce legislation to ban communism in America and protect our rights against the godless liberals and their "progressive" allies.
Send a real American Patriot to Washington to stop voter fraud.

Donate to the JAMES FUND and CHIP IN FOR JAMES
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 30, 2021, 05:53:11 PM
 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on March 30, 2021, 06:32:47 PM
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime

(https://www.premfaces.com/images/site/faces/paulie.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 30, 2021, 06:38:30 PM
That should actually be the logo, Emoji's included to speak to our base.

They will never have seen so many Karen's vote for a candidate in the history of whatever state it is we run in.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 30, 2021, 09:02:46 PM
https://youtu.be/zkSLnC4bYRc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on March 30, 2021, 11:25:48 PM
https://www.axios.com/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-investigation-2755fd4f-f72e-4283-b8ac-9233c952b914.html

Quote
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.

are we the baddies jif
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2021, 11:54:01 PM
THROW ALL BREEDERS IN JAIL :punch
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2021, 11:55:50 PM
How do I sign up for a cushy no-show public sector job? Something with lots of overtime

(https://www.premfaces.com/images/site/faces/paulie.png)

james, I'll keep it short: you're weak, you're out of control, and you've become an embarrassment to yourself and everybody else.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 31, 2021, 02:11:57 AM
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332

Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on March 31, 2021, 05:59:40 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/trump-campaign-non-disclosure-agreement-478648

Trump's required-for-2016-election-NDA is unenforceable, court rules.

YEE-HAW, let the hoe-down begin!
:rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 31, 2021, 06:20:20 AM
let the hoe-down begin!

:shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on March 31, 2021, 02:27:47 PM
https://www.axios.com/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-investigation-2755fd4f-f72e-4283-b8ac-9233c952b914.html

Quote
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.

are we the baddies jif

Oh, my God, that's disgusting! A man in his 30s meeting a 17 year old girl? Where? Where did he meet her?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 31, 2021, 02:52:11 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnT15/status/1377324237875257345


 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 31, 2021, 03:03:04 PM
How the fuck is Matt Gates getting indicted for this while Jim Jordan continues to walk free?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on March 31, 2021, 03:14:29 PM
https://www.axios.com/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-investigation-2755fd4f-f72e-4283-b8ac-9233c952b914.html

Quote
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.

are we the baddies jif

Oh, my God, that's disgusting! A man in his 30s meeting a 17 year old girl? Where? Where did he meet her?

I’ll hop over the discord and ask riotous. Gimme a sec.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 31, 2021, 05:37:50 PM
Poor Lin Wood, he throws his reputation away for Trump and can’t even get an endorsement from him.

https://mobile.twitter.com/QOrigins/status/1377319460814548992

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 31, 2021, 05:46:09 PM
Literal cuck. Edit- not cuckshaming
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on March 31, 2021, 07:55:13 PM
https://twitter.com/akoseff/status/1377388159160311809 (https://twitter.com/akoseff/status/1377388159160311809)

 :klob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on March 31, 2021, 08:36:45 PM
https://twitter.com/adrianachavira/status/1377393183676538884


 :cac
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on March 31, 2021, 09:03:36 PM
https://twitter.com/adrianachavira/status/1377393183676538884


 :cac

:dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 01, 2021, 10:49:14 PM
Quote
Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN

 Behind the scenes, Gaetz gained a reputation in Congress over his relationships with women and bragging about his sexual escapades to his colleagues, multiple sources told CNN.

Gaetz allegedly showed off to other lawmakers photos and videos of nude women he said he had slept with, the sources told CNN, including while on the House floor. The sources, including two people directly shown the material, said Gaetz displayed the images of women on his phone and talked about having sex with them. One of the videos showed a naked woman with a hula hoop, according to one source.

"It was a point of pride," one of the sources said of Gaetz.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/politics/matt-gaetz-photos-women/index.html?

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 01, 2021, 10:51:43 PM
(https://i.redd.it/p7ndzctvklq61.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 02, 2021, 04:18:38 PM
A master class in how to get caught


Quote
Reports: Gaetz Caught On Surveillance Vid With Alleged Sex Trafficker Sifting Through IDs


CNN reported overnight that an employee at the tax collector’s office once saw Greenberg and Gaetz on an internal surveillance video, looking through driver licenses on a weekend evening.

The Daily Beast and The Orlando Sentinel, meanwhile, reported that surveillance camera footage showed Greenberg and another man in the Lake Mary branch of the tax collector’s office at night.

An employee at that office reportedly arrived on Monday morning to find driver licenses scattered on the desk, instead of in a disposal basket. She told her boss, who asked Greenberg what had happened in a text message. The text, which the Daily Beast said was dated April 16, 2018, was shared with federal investigators last January, the outlets reported.

“Did you happen to visit the Lake Mary Office on the weekend?” the message read, according to the Daily Beast.

“Yes I was showing congressman Gaetz what our operation looked like,” Greenberg reportedly replied. “Did I leave something on?”

Quote
On September 4, 2017, Greenberg allegedly illegally obtained the name, photograph and driver identification number of the “Minor Victim” discussed in the indictments — a girl between 14 and 17 years old who Greenberg is accused of causing to engage in a commercial sex act sometime between May and November 2017.

This is where new reporting, again, makes things worse for Gaetz: The New York Times reported Thursday that Greenberg met women through websites such as Seeking Arrangement — a destination for so-called Sugar Daddy/Baby relationships — and then introduced them to Gaetz for sex.

The Times also reported that the 17-year-old girl federal investigators are trying to determine whether Gaetz had sex with is the same girl that is discussed in the sex trafficking count against Greenberg.

In other words: Greenberg is accused of illegally accessing the government information of a 17-year-old girl in 2017, and also of sex trafficking her. And new reporting indicates that authorities are aware of a 2018 text message in which Greenberg acknowledges bringing Gaetz by a branch of the tax collector’s office at night, where an employee later found a mess of IDs scattered on a desk.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/reports-gaetz-caught-on-surveillance-vid-with-alleged-sex-trafficker
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 02, 2021, 04:39:28 PM
Wait a sec, wasn't matt the guy that...

(https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5facb90e2900003330c6bcc9.jpeg)

yup course he was  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on April 02, 2021, 05:01:42 PM
He was also a guest on  :info ‘s show before doing a takesies backsies and denouncing him  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 02, 2021, 05:40:02 PM
He was also a guest on  :info ‘s show before doing a takesies backsies and denouncing him  :biden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTsezaCX-7I

:thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 02, 2021, 08:55:38 PM
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332

Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on April 02, 2021, 10:37:30 PM
While I suspect Arkansas is just trying to fuck with people, permanent life and body altering surgery before adulthood is probably not a good idea.

There are cases where trans people who had surgery as adults went back to living as their original gender. If the choice is that difficult for adults, then children should probably wait.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 02, 2021, 10:41:00 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-campaign-contributions-478943
As the midterm campaign’s first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York Democrat sent the contributions to her colleagues to help keep the House majority ahead of a tough cycle without directly contributing to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with which she’s publicly clashed. But Ocasio-Cortez's largesse — and an oversight at the campaign headquarters — has instead raised awkward questions among her colleagues as some swing-district Democrats fret over whether to return her money before the GOP can turn it into an attack ad.

Some members whose campaigns got unexpected Ocasio-Cortez cash are seeking answers directly from DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) and his top staffers. DCCC aides gave lawmakers’ wire transfer information to Ocasio-Cortez's aides without the approval of more senior officials, according to multiple people familiar with the contributions.

Even if imperiled House Democrats refund her contribution now, Ocasio-Cortez’s name is almost certain to show up on their Federal Election Commission reports when they’re due this month — creating a liability for members of her party who have to win reelection in districts where her political brand is poisoned thanks to years of unrelenting Republican attacks.

While some are grateful for the infusion of cash, at least three Democrats have so far either declined the initial transfer or said they would return the money: Reps. Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, according to multiple sources.
:money
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on April 03, 2021, 06:12:32 AM
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332

Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.

Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on April 03, 2021, 09:27:32 AM
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332

Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.

Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.

Gender dysphoria was declassified as a disorder - and correspondingly being automatically covered by things like health insurance, or having diagnostic criteria - as a result of activists fighting in favour of self certification and equating it to an attempt at relitigating homosexuality as a psychological disorder, and labelling those who consider it a primarily medical condition with a known treatment "truscum".

I would suggest the underlying issue here is semantic; someone with severe gender dysphoria should not be denied treatment, but they are also not in the same position as a 40 year old man with a wife and kids who just 'realised' they're actually trans now and want to opt into being a member of a protected class based on self identification as such, and having no symptoms (or even desire) for any treatment or alteration.

e: if I'm honest, the entire concept of being able to 'opt in' into a proected class makes a mockery of the entire concept of protected classes, because the reason protected classes exist is that people in them would happily not be in them if they had the choice, which they do not.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 03, 2021, 11:21:42 AM
People should just be able to do what they want with their bodies. If you want to be orange, plastic 60 year old action man or an obese bus driver wearing a jump suit more power to you  :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on April 03, 2021, 12:02:59 PM
http://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1376649057775587332

Fuck Arkansas. This is not only abhorrent, it's a waste of tax dollars, because this shit will get them litigated all the way to SCOTUS, and even they won't sit for this.
The tweet is deliberately misleading, Arkansas is not banning "health care" as in resetting broken bones or suturing of wounds, it is banning genital reassignment surgeries on those under 18. While we maybe can quibble about the age it's entirely defensible as children cannot consent to what is a permanently life-altering and scarring procedure that can wait a couple years until they're an adult. I'm pretty sure this 6-3 Supreme Court is not going to rule that states can't outlaw this for children.

Having my cock sliced off wouldn't be that life-altering.

 :fbm

And yeah the tweet is misleading but only to a layperson. Anyone who follows ACLU on twitter probably knew what they actually meant.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 03, 2021, 02:55:59 PM
Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.

Gender dysphoria was declassified as a disorder - and correspondingly being automatically covered by things like health insurance, or having diagnostic criteria - as a result of activists fighting in favour of self certification and equating it to an attempt at relitigating homosexuality as a psychological disorder, and labelling those who consider it a primarily medical condition with a known treatment "truscum".

I would suggest the underlying issue here is semantic; someone with severe gender dysphoria should not be denied treatment, but they are also not in the same position as a 40 year old man with a wife and kids who just 'realised' they're actually trans now and want to opt into being a member of a protected class based on self identification as such, and having no symptoms (or even desire) for any treatment or alteration.
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.

If they want to still do it when they become of age, who gives a shit, have fun. You can't do it to kids on the whim of adults though. The "actual underlying issue" is a fundamental disagreement as to whether or not it helps the children to do any of this to them when they're still young.

For the record further, social transitioning is not made illegal by the bill, only medical barbarism.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on April 03, 2021, 03:08:59 PM
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on April 03, 2021, 03:15:30 PM
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done

Kids are dumb tho

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Adults are also dumb  :morans
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 03, 2021, 03:18:58 PM
I wanted LEGO and video games as a kid they want *checks notes* gender reassignment surgery. Times change :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on April 03, 2021, 03:24:01 PM
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.

If they want to still do it when they become of age, who gives a shit, have fun. You can't do it to kids on the whim of adults though. The "actual underlying issue" is a fundamental disagreement as to whether or not it helps the children to do any of this to them when they're still young.

For the record further, social transitioning is not made illegal by the bill, only medical barbarism.

You're right, but as its adults who are doing the lobbying and making the laws, and the arguments on both sides of the issues are being made by adults, often pursuing their own agendas as to what they think is right or wrong, I think being clear about definitions and what is being discussed is a necessary first step to at least bring some objectivity to the debate.
The fact that the debate is so politicised that there is a chilling effect on research being done does not help things either.

Age of consent in general is a clumsy barometer of individual readiness as it is; people develop at different rates, physically and psychologically. Its a highly nuanced topic, and while I can believe there are teenagers who are fully aware of their own identity and do in fact suffer some harm by legislation being made that arbitrarily makes them wait to become what they already are, there are also teenagers who just do not know and are generally confused and can be pushed into ultimately harmful and if not completely irreversible more difficult to reverse medical procedures as a result of various pressures, which is why I personally feel erring on the side of caution is probably the route of least harm.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 03, 2021, 03:54:33 PM
legislation being made that arbitrarily makes them wait to become what they already are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj_48e3-hKA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on April 03, 2021, 04:32:25 PM
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic  :social2
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 03, 2021, 04:43:54 PM
Harry Potter :nope
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 03, 2021, 07:00:21 PM
https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1378392024060198914 (https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1378392024060198914)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 03, 2021, 07:07:53 PM
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic  :social2

https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1378252855124049922
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 03, 2021, 07:20:55 PM
Expecto patronum ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tuckers Law on April 03, 2021, 07:55:09 PM
While I suspect Arkansas is just trying to fuck with people, permanent life and body altering surgery before adulthood is probably not a good idea.

There are cases where trans people who had surgery as adults went back to living as their original gender. If the choice is that difficult for adults, then children should probably wait.

I used to work with someone where this happened: they had transitioned to being a woman and a few years later decided to transition back to being a man.  I imagine it must’ve been quite a difficult experience.

I know there are kids that know absolutely what they want and how they feel, but I also know there are plenty that aren’t sure of anything in their lives or how they feel about themselves, and that thought has always given me concern about letting children begin transitioning, especially if ideologically driven parents were to be involved (probably not common but I’m sure there are those types out there).

Not that I think they shouldn’t have the option to do so, but it has been one of those thoughts that’s stuck in my mind for a long time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 03, 2021, 08:25:42 PM
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic  :social2

How did you get ahead of the news?

Who do you know and when did you know it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 03, 2021, 08:36:44 PM
qanon intel heard gaetz and mixed it up with gates  :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 03, 2021, 10:55:51 PM
I think this is real but cant actually tell

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1378510006190895105
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 03, 2021, 10:59:51 PM
I think this is real but cant actually tell
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“For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them. Now they are going big time with the WOKE CANCEL CULTURE and our sacred elections,” Trump said in a statement on Saturday released by Save America PAC.

He then called for Republicans to "fight back" alleging that "we have more people than they do,"and urged  conservatives to boycott specific companies including Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines and Citigroup.

“It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back— we have more people than they do— by far! Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS and Merck. Don’t go back to their products until they relent. We can play a better game than them,” he said. 

He then repeated unproven claims that the 2020 election had been ‘rigged’ against him.

"They rigged and stole our 2020 Presidential Election, which we won by a landslide, and then, on top of that, boycott and scare companies into submission. Never submit, never give up! The Radical Left will destroy our Country if we let them. We will not become a Socialist Nation. Happy Easter!" the former president wrote.
WOKE CANCEL CULTURE

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Post by: Transhuman on April 03, 2021, 11:00:18 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/12/12/trump-reportedly-drinks-12-cans-of-diet-coke-each-day-is-that-healthy/

How many hours until Trump is photographed breaking his own boycott
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on April 04, 2021, 12:33:22 AM
Major side eye at all the sus Harry Potter fans in this topic  :social2

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 04, 2021, 12:59:40 AM
Dr Pepper still supports America :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Thirty-Ought-Six on April 04, 2021, 07:30:46 AM
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done


In this case, almost by definition they can't give informed consent.

Many of the potential effects are impossible to understand as a kid. If you get early puberty blocking drugs, there is no way you can truly understand the risk of reduced or eliminated sexual function 15 years later. For a natal boy, the drugs can prevent genital growth, which is doubly dangerous because it means there isn't enough tissue for the most effective surgeries if that ended up being the plan, and also means reduced or eliminated sexual function if you decide against surgery. And indeed, many trans adults don't want surgery on their functional genitals at all; it shouldn't be assumed they will.

Similarly, it is hard to argue that kids can truly understand the implications of sterilization when that is part of a procedure.

There is also very little research on how the drugs affect the brain.

Although the effects of the hormones are permanent, the claim is always that puberty blockers are reversible. This is the biggest thing that makes me skeptical, because it is clearly a lie. There isn't enough research to come anywhere near saying it is reversible as it is used in these circumstances (the research is on younger children given blockers, not on how it affects people through their teens physically and mentally). Moreover, once you start with puberty blockers, you are virtually guaranteed to continue to the permanent hormones, so the "reversible" claim is disingenuous. On the contrary, it could easily be argued that the puberty blockers put you into a suspended state where you never obtain the ability to give informed consent, because you never learn what you would be risking.

Given that the blatant lie about "reversibility" is present everywhere I look on this subject, it makes it seem likely that kids are also lied to when they are considering starting the procedure.

That said, the argument on the other side is that the benefits (such as potentially preventing suicide, and the effect on adult appearance) are so overwhelming that they outweigh informed consent and all the risks, and that can't be dismissed. It is an impossible dilemma especially with the lack of research.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 04, 2021, 09:41:45 AM
What is needed is better education on the pro's and cons of such endeavors.

But because those advocating for gender fluidity are pushing for this to become 'normal' and see any form of criticism as a threat and those pushing against it will use the bad outcomes for their own agenda, neither side is going to do that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 04, 2021, 11:37:23 AM
Sure we might have a vaccine rollout plan and our country is no longer a laughing stock, but this is far too big of a cost.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EARTH3R/status/1378109499513348096
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: D3RANG3D on April 04, 2021, 12:05:37 PM
https://twitter.com/runBMC57/status/1378435984707133445
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on April 04, 2021, 12:06:29 PM
Pretty sure it's the kids wanting it done


In this case, almost by definition they can't give informed consent.

Many of the potential effects are impossible to understand as a kid. If you get early puberty blocking drugs, there is no way you can truly understand the risk of reduced or eliminated sexual function 15 years later. For a natal boy, the drugs can prevent genital growth, which is doubly dangerous because it means there isn't enough tissue for the most effective surgeries if that ended up being the plan, and also means reduced or eliminated sexual function if you decide against surgery. And indeed, many trans adults don't want surgery on their functional genitals at all; it shouldn't be assumed they will.

Similarly, it is hard to argue that kids can truly understand the implications of sterilization when that is part of a procedure.

There is also very little research on how the drugs affect the brain.

Although the effects of the hormones are permanent, the claim is always that puberty blockers are reversible. This is the biggest thing that makes me skeptical, because it is clearly a lie. There isn't enough research to come anywhere near saying it is reversible as it is used in these circumstances (the research is on younger children given blockers, not on how it affects people through their teens physically and mentally). Moreover, once you start with puberty blockers, you are virtually guaranteed to continue to the permanent hormones, so the "reversible" claim is disingenuous. On the contrary, it could easily be argued that the puberty blockers put you into a suspended state where you never obtain the ability to give informed consent, because you never learn what you would be risking.

Given that the blatant lie about "reversibility" is present everywhere I look on this subject, it makes it seem likely that kids are also lied to when they are considering starting the procedure.

That said, the argument on the other side is that the benefits (such as potentially preventing suicide, and the effect on adult appearance) are so overwhelming that they outweigh informed consent and all the risks, and that can't be dismissed. It is an impossible dilemma especially with the lack of research.

At the end of the day it comes down to whether a person views the surgery as necessary or not, and if 2% regret it that still leaves 98% who don't.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 04, 2021, 01:53:43 PM
And comes down to a decision between the people affected and their doctors and not people on the internet talking about mutilations or anti-LGBTQ politicians using the issue as a faultline.  It's one of those things that if you just let the issue be the community will figure out the answer themselves and in a decade or two people will forget this was ever a thing.   
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Thirty-Ought-Six on April 04, 2021, 11:51:59 PM
At the end of the day it comes down to whether a person views the surgery as necessary or not, and if 2% regret it that still leaves 98% who don't.

"Regret" doesn't cover everything here. A 12 year old can't really understand how to feel about their sexual function or fertility 20 years down the line, and they won't ever know any alternative. Nor will they ever know an alternative between starting treatment at, say, 11 compared to 14. And there is little research on the long term, or on children starting treatment very early and continuing for years. But I do agree that, given the current state of knowledge, low rates of regret are a strong argument against laws like in Arkansas.


And comes down to a decision between the people affected and their doctors and not people on the internet talking about mutilations or anti-LGBTQ politicians using the issue as a faultline.  It's one of those things that if you just let the issue be the community will figure out the answer themselves and in a decade or two people will forget this was ever a thing.


That's why I think the biggest thing to avoid is a chilling effect, which comes from the anti-LGBTQ politicians, but also from those who consider anything but uncritical support to be an enemy.

Studies have found that the kids themselves are doubtful about whether they can understand the long term ramifications of their choice, even though they agree on the necessity of the treatment's availability.

They don't need uncritical support for a given procedure, they need it to be looked at scientifically, with an eye toward both the risks and the benefits, so they can be given the best possible answers. Obviously, this is not going to come from anti-LGBTQ politicians and laws like this one. It's a bad law. But some of the concerns expressed are legitimate, and some are shared by the kids themselves.

I think it is "better" in some sense to be forthright about the lack of informed consent, the lack of knowledge about psychological effects, the risk to sexual function and effectiveness of transition, etc, even if you strongly believe it is still worthwhile. If nothing else, it just creates a climate for better science.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 05, 2021, 04:55:55 AM
Kids want Mario one day and Fortnite the next.
Childrens menu's always have one option because decision making is difficult for them.

I say let them be kids until they're old enough to understand. I imagine a childhood of hormone therapy and gender surgery is terrible and a ruined childhood scars you forever.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 05, 2021, 05:38:54 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088

Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2021, 05:43:44 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088

Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair

Even if I've become warier of Google lately, this is an absolutely fantastic ruling for every software developer. Get fucked Oracle, you evil empire pieces of shit.

The ruling itself is actually pretty limited in scope and very well-reasoned IMO. About a dozen pages into the ruling PDF right now.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

MPAA: "This will mean the end of copyright and piracy will increase 10,000%!!!!" Lololololol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2021, 05:46:45 PM
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“If Google’s unprecedented approach to transformation were to become the law, a producer who makes an unauthorized feature film of the hit TV series Game of Thrones (HBO 2011) could claim that the use was new, innovative, and socially valuable, and therefore a transformative fair use—a preposterous legal position.”

- The Motion Picture Association of America

:mindblown :confused :wtf :sabu :dead

Lol get fucked :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on April 05, 2021, 05:54:26 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088

Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair

Jesus Christ, it only took a fucking decade to get to the final decision that interoperability is not theft
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2021, 05:57:37 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088

Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair

Jesus Christ, it only took a fucking decade to get to the final decision that interoperability is not theft

I'm convinced Oracle actually bribed someone/the judge at the Circuit Court of Appeals. This was settled by a jury until that ruling reversed everything.

Oddly the Supreme Court seems to take the stance that similar fair use/software copyright cases should be decided by a judge "as a matter of law, not fact," meaning juries shouldn't be the deciders in such cases. :thinking (I believe, if I understand what I'm reading so far.)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2021, 06:01:54 PM
Even if it was painful and drawn out, there's precedential upsides to the Supreme Court being the final deciders in the case.

That said, the outcome of this will likely be increased lobbying on Oracle's part.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 05, 2021, 06:53:24 PM
It's one of those things that if you just let the issue be the community will figure out the answer themselves and in a decade or two people will forget this was ever a thing.   
Nah, that's about when the lawsuits will all be hitting.

From the few survivors.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 05, 2021, 07:20:14 PM
(https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/4jYFUODZi6GtCTQIRwIng_qT5HXCMGttf-Q79b5e5Qw/https/pbs.twimg.com/media/EyGduNwVoAIUFRS.jpg%3Alarge?width=938&height=527)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 05, 2021, 07:22:15 PM
This reads like a TP parody image yet it's somehow real. :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 05, 2021, 07:22:40 PM
Well about that boycott

https://mobile.twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1379175308256022534
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on April 05, 2021, 07:33:25 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/12/12/trump-reportedly-drinks-12-cans-of-diet-coke-each-day-is-that-healthy/

How many hours until Trump is photographed breaking his own boycott

Less than 48!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2021, 08:10:16 PM
(https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/4jYFUODZi6GtCTQIRwIng_qT5HXCMGttf-Q79b5e5Qw/https/pbs.twimg.com/media/EyGduNwVoAIUFRS.jpg%3Alarge?width=938&height=527)

I legit thought that said SEXY KIM at the top :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 05, 2021, 08:17:50 PM
Well about that boycott

https://mobile.twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1379175308256022534
lmao they set up an 'oval office' so he can still be 'President'.

These fucking people  :lol

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 05, 2021, 08:24:01 PM
Well about that boycott

https://mobile.twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1379175308256022534
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyP9aMDWUAc0EfO?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 06, 2021, 02:26:10 AM
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1379100141681049601

 :badass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 06, 2021, 05:11:12 AM
Zodiac Killer trying Castro disguise:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyQWezrWEAMdHA1?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 06, 2021, 05:27:16 AM
BLM MLB

 :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on April 06, 2021, 09:09:50 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639088

Google v Oracle: Supreme Court declares Google's code copying fair

Jesus Christ, it only took a fucking decade to get to the final decision that interoperability is not theft

I'm convinced Oracle actually bribed someone/the judge at the Circuit Court of Appeals. This was settled by a jury until that ruling reversed everything.

Oddly the Supreme Court seems to take the stance that similar fair use/software copyright cases should be decided by a judge "as a matter of law, not fact," meaning juries shouldn't be the deciders in such cases. :thinking (I believe, if I understand what I'm reading so far.)

In the original jury trial, the presiding judge was a hobbyist programmer, and gave the jury direction on what copyright actually covers as well as being able to answer questions on stuff.
In the appeal it was just a judge, who had no reason to think that things like method names are generally standardised due to function, not just because someone is jacking someones style
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Rman on April 06, 2021, 09:18:20 AM
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 06, 2021, 10:40:09 AM
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.

It's easier to just give corn freebies.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2021, 10:53:31 AM
You know who uses most of that infrastructure? Poors, minorities and demoncrats!

Better to just let everyone pull their own bootstraps, that way only the whites hard-workers will prosper! True meritocracy.

obvious /s
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2021, 11:06:41 AM
"The Google platform just got bigger and market power greater — the barriers to entry higher and the ability to compete lower. They stole Java and spent a decade litigating as only a monopolist can. This behavior is exactly why regulatory authorities around the world and in the United States are examining Google's business practices."

- Dorian Daley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Oracle

I guess you gotta say something to save face. :dead

All these lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank, though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Rman on April 06, 2021, 12:00:55 PM
You know who uses most of that infrastructure? Poors, minorities and demoncrats!

Better to just let everyone pull their own bootstraps, that way only the whites hard-workers will prosper! True meritocracy.

obvious /s

the gop is saying stuff like water pipes and broadband are not infrastructure. they're still stuck in the agricultural age.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 06, 2021, 12:05:49 PM
All this talk about infrastructure makes makes me excited for infrastructure week
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on April 06, 2021, 02:39:43 PM
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.

Unless it's a multimillion dollar bridge to nowhere in a GOP rep's district.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 06, 2021, 04:07:03 PM
kinda weird that the gop is so anti-infrastructure? have you been to bumblefuck america, their main constituency? it's a mess. gop is so anti-progress. it's a caricature as this point.

It's not that weird. Infrastructure spending happens where population centers are larger (more efficient use of tax dollars) and the upkeep costs of that can last generations. A new subway line built in NYC is going to have a far greater impact on the lives of the poor/middle class than whatever you do in rural Kansas.

Most rural infrastructure spending revolves around paving roads, more irrigation, making areas more conducive to building new homes. All things that mostly benefit those that already have money in those areas. Many times, improvements to highways means bypassing former towns/villages that relied on that thru traffic. Economically devastating them in the process.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on April 07, 2021, 05:22:13 AM
It's more that the GOP is opposed to anything the Dirty Dems support. Trump easily could have passed an infrastructure package with 100% GOP support but he never actually did any work to put one together or gave a shit about it anyway so nothing got done.

It also would have been a 100% pork product. There is no fucking way that it would have benefited anybody other than Trump and his cronies. Then again, most of the money that Bush Junior sent to Iraq pretty much evaporated into thin air as well, so maybe it’s just their groove.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 07, 2021, 11:38:16 PM
Everybody's running for governor!

Quote from: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/andrew-giuliani-son-of-rudy-says-hes-considering-run-for-new-york-governor/2987302/
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican.

Giuliani, 35, who has never held public office, told The New York Times that he was “strongly considering” the idea and looking to make a decision by the end of the month.

He was more emphatic in an interview with the Washington Examiner, saying he planned to run, and “I believe I can win the race.”
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ex-campaign-manager-brad-parscale-helping-caitlyn-jenner-explore-run-for-california-governor
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is helping Caitlyn Jenner as she very seriously explores running for Governor in California, Fox News has learned.

A source familiar told Fox News that Parscale is helping Jenner. The source said the two have been friends since 2017.

The source told Fox News Parscale is helping to connect Jenner to "the best talent in the country" as she considers mounting a gubernatorial campaign.

"She is very, very, very serious," the source said about Jenner’s potential campaign.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 07, 2021, 11:47:12 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1379817241580015616

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It’s a shocking total, one that dwarfs the nearly $728,000 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) pulled in during the first three months of 2019
An ungodly sum for a freshman congressman in a 75% R district.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on April 08, 2021, 12:07:11 AM
Ungodly is a good word choice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 08, 2021, 06:22:01 AM
Everybody's running for governor!

Quote from: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/andrew-giuliani-son-of-rudy-says-hes-considering-run-for-new-york-governor/2987302/
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican.

Giuliani, 35, who has never held public office, told The New York Times that he was “strongly considering” the idea and looking to make a decision by the end of the month.

He was more emphatic in an interview with the Washington Examiner, saying he planned to run, and “I believe I can win the race.”
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ex-campaign-manager-brad-parscale-helping-caitlyn-jenner-explore-run-for-california-governor
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is helping Caitlyn Jenner as she very seriously explores running for Governor in California, Fox News has learned.

A source familiar told Fox News that Parscale is helping Jenner. The source said the two have been friends since 2017.

The source told Fox News Parscale is helping to connect Jenner to "the best talent in the country" as she considers mounting a gubernatorial campaign.

"She is very, very, very serious," the source said about Jenner’s potential campaign.

Grifters assemble :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 08, 2021, 09:36:35 AM
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you know why?

 :sicko
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 08, 2021, 09:39:30 AM
Good, let GOP donors waste all their money on Owning the Libs and Da Cultoor Warz instead of races that actually matter. :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 09, 2021, 01:03:10 AM
Guys search Squirtle on Twitter
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 09, 2021, 04:25:13 AM
Guys search Squirtle on Twitter
I'm getting pictures of my favorite Pokemon :heart

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eygp2yrWQAA4vp0?format=jpg)

 :nsfw
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 09, 2021, 10:00:43 AM
(http://www.thebore.com/forum/Smileys/default/dobbs.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 09, 2021, 10:05:58 AM
Yahoo Answers to end as Trump fans see plot to “silence conservatives” (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/yahoo-answers-to-end-as-trump-fans-see-plot-to-silence-conservatives/)

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"Should Trump buy Yahoo to prevent Answers from being shut down?" user asks.

Oh lord :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 09, 2021, 10:13:38 AM
Quote
"I think George Floyd died from HEALTH ISSUES?"

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 09, 2021, 11:13:46 AM
Trump taking over Yahoo Answers and turning it into his MAGA social media platform would be lit.

Alas, he's playing golf, doing stand-up at his club and pretending to work behind a 'fake' presidential desk.
The show goes on but further and further removed from the real world it seems.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 09, 2021, 11:22:11 AM
trump still shadow president since he didn't go to inauguration and hand over the secret keys
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Post by: Tasty on April 09, 2021, 11:52:21 AM
I'm now slightly suspicious it was Trump who posted How is babby formed back in the day.
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Post by: team filler on April 09, 2021, 01:24:50 PM
https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1380551319690301443


 :salute
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Post by: BIONIC on April 09, 2021, 01:33:16 PM
:what
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Post by: benjipwns on April 09, 2021, 10:23:57 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/09/lego-gamer-infiltrated-white-house-press-480673
Four times in recent weeks, members of the White House press corps have relayed questions to press secretary Jen Psaki from someone claiming to be a fellow reporter who was not able to be there in the room due to Covid protocols.

That colleague, who goes by the name Kacey Montagu, doesn’t exist — at least not as an actual reporter.

Since late last year, Montagu has taken on the identity of a White House correspondent extraordinaire with a fictional outlet to boot: White House News, shortened in emails to WHN.

Montagu started two real-life Twitter handles, which are followed by some top White House officials and journalists. Montagu has filed Freedom of Information Act requests and obtained Psaki’s personal financial disclosure form, along with the disclosure of at least one other official, the president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.

In communications with confidants, Montagu has posed as a member of White House Correspondents Association, claiming to be a reporter for The Daily Mail, the British tabloid known for its gossipy coverage of celebrities and political figures. Montagu also communicates regularly with top White House reporters and has had several exchanges with White House officials.

But Montagu never joined WHCA and The Daily Mail. There is no Kacey Montagu, except as a digital impersonation of a White House correspondent.

“I love journalism, and I think the Press Corps is doing a pretty bad job at the moment, so I decided I would ensure some transparency and ask some questions me and some friends wanted the answer to,” Montagu said, when reached by email and asked why they were posing as a White House reporter.
Quote
Acquaintances online suspect much of the biographical information to be untrue. They believe Montagu’s White House moonlighting began as something to boast about in the online global gaming platform called ROBLOX, where users jokingly call themselves “Legos.” Within that platform is a role-playing group called nUSA, where people from across the world engage in a mock U.S. government exercise. At one point, Montagu had adopted the role of Secretary of State but resigned from that job after — as they recalled — ”the [nUSA] President went to war with some U.K. and I thought it was a pretty bad idea!”
Quote
Montagu’s play-acting as a White House reporter goes back at least to December, when he or she set up @WHschedule on Twitter. They repeatedly referenced the “schedule” account in emails as a primary duty. In March, they began sending tweets from @WHpoolreport. The accounts are rudimentary repostings of two sources of information reporters regularly consume: the president, first lady, vice president, and second gentleman’s daily schedules and the so-called pool reports, which are real time dispatches from a small group of journalists tasked with following around those principles during the course of the day and reporting back to the rest of the press corps on their movements and utterances.

“I created them as some fun but also to ensure that people know what is going on — they should be able to know what POTUS and V.P. is doing and I think the account following shows people are interested in that,” Montagu told POLITICO.

The accounts got attention from insiders, who quickly came to rely on their speed and efficiency. @WHSchedule had a following of more than 1,300, including several White House correspondents (some working at POLITICO). The new @WHPoolReport account amassed more than 600 in a few weeks' time, including some who work in the administration like Michael LaRosa, press secretary for Jill Biden and Symone Sanders, a senior advisor and chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://twitter.com/SecMontagu/status/1380683244983701507
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Post by: Nintex on April 10, 2021, 03:14:52 AM
Her Twitter is incredible.

There is even Roblox Fox News  :mindblown
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Post by: Nintex on April 11, 2021, 06:15:50 AM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048)

ok
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 11, 2021, 06:30:55 AM
Slpa your dick down Biden.
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Post by: Tripon on April 11, 2021, 01:24:28 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1380641708782850048)

ok

We just lived though a year where I had to fucking talk to my students over a shitty web camera a year+.

If you don't think internet and a lack of connection to said internet isn't an infrastructure issue, then you need to update your terms.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on April 11, 2021, 02:12:33 PM
Nintex is Dutch and probably hasn't looked into how bad the internet is in other parts of the world. I think most Americans are completely hamstrung by the way your ISPs work.

I think for a lot of poorer countries Elon Musk's starlink thing is looking pretty good.
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Post by: Nintex on April 11, 2021, 03:56:03 PM
I'm aware of the internet situation. I just think that the messaging is very weird.
"High speed internet is infrastructure"

Yes it is, what is your point?

You are the President with the most votes of any President in history get shit done.  :idont
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Post by: james on April 11, 2021, 04:03:10 PM
Biden should personally start laying fiber wire across Montana
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Post by: Tripon on April 11, 2021, 04:04:08 PM
I'm aware of the internet situation. I just think that the messaging is very weird.
"High speed internet is infrastructure"

Yes it is, what is your point?

You are the President with the most votes of any President in history get shit done.  :idont

.... They're trying to pass an infrastructure bill you nonce.
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Post by: james on April 11, 2021, 04:12:56 PM
The netherlands is so small they dont need interet. Want to order from Amazon? Just shout it out your window. Want to watch Netflix? Just look out your other window into the house in Germany. Porn? You have a brothel across the street.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on April 11, 2021, 04:36:16 PM
.... They're trying to pass an infrastructure bill you nonce.

Won't the ISP monopoly still fuck you guys over even if infrastructure gets better?

(Looking into the bill it seems like it's also fighting for state owned ISPs. All I can say is, good luck getting that bill passed...)
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Post by: Tripon on April 11, 2021, 04:42:49 PM
.... They're trying to pass an infrastructure bill you nonce.

Won't the ISP monopoly still fuck you guys over even if infrastructure gets better?

(Looking into the bill it seems like it's also fighting for state owned ISPs. All I can say is, good luck getting that bill passed...)

Depends on the state. There's already municipal (city owned) ISPs running in more rural areas/states that pretty well. A lot of this will be built in more rural areas where there isn't a private company yet because of the cost and time commitment.

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Post by: team filler on April 11, 2021, 04:48:27 PM
https://twitter.com/Dragondescendan/status/1380772168913461248


people living in non YT countries need to be in complete squalor  :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2021, 07:44:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aJoBUDLKL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

big if true
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Post by: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2021, 08:01:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aJoBUDLKL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

big if true

 :biden
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 12, 2021, 11:22:05 AM
The context of the actual quote and what was "quoted" have pretty significantly different meanings and connotations, you fuck

But also, yes we deserve to have better things than China.  :patel
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Post by: james on April 12, 2021, 05:14:17 PM
Looks like riots are back on the menu boys
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Post by: Nintex on April 12, 2021, 06:13:16 PM
Looks like riots are back on the menu boys
Signs COVID is over

- School shootings ✓
- Police killing ✓
- Riots after police killing ✓
- Sabre rattling with China/Russia ✓
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Post by: Tasty on April 12, 2021, 07:05:04 PM
Looks like riots are back on the menu boys
Signs COVID is over

- School shootings ✓
- Police killing ✓
- Riots after police killing ✓
- Sabre rattling with China/Russia ✓

I hate that this is true. :-\
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 12, 2021, 09:58:18 PM
Okay, but George Floyd's death and the subsequent protests happened during the pandemic.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 13, 2021, 04:00:34 PM
Got a classic Jim Crow Joe clip where he’s most right wing on drug use than HW Bush  :lol

https://mobile.twitter.com/saywhatagain/status/1381982428135317504
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Post by: Nintex on April 13, 2021, 04:49:43 PM
Joe Biden I read, has denied some people top jobs at the White House just for smoking a joint. He would sooner pursue the war on drugs than meaningful police reform I think.

Trump's 'war on drugs' on the other hand was about as effective as his coca cola boycot, putting crackhead Larry Kudlow in charge of the economy and appointing Kellyanne Conway as opioid crisis czar while being an addict himself.
His fight against the Mexican drug cartels seemed more like a 'take out the competition' sort of endeavor than any meaningful action to stop 'drugs from pouring in'.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 13, 2021, 07:04:57 PM
https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1382105543364411395 (https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1382105543364411395)


The soul of the nation has been restored :trumps
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Post by: benjipwns on April 14, 2021, 01:15:16 AM
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1382096427309019139
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 14, 2021, 12:34:00 PM
Yeah man a sleazy house rep from the Florida Panhandle is really the last vanguard against the lame stream media and socialists

Yeah, but some guy that puts "works at CNN" in his Tinder profile said that CNN doesn't like Donald Trump, so both sides etc.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 14, 2021, 01:07:10 PM
Eh, if you’re getting punkd by project veritas in 2021 you deserve to be clowned on.

Anyway, the only thing that video showed is how high on their own supply CNN employees are for actually thinking they’re the reason Biden is in the White House.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on April 14, 2021, 01:35:39 PM
CNN didn't help Biden win because no one watches CNN.
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Post by: Nintex on April 14, 2021, 04:02:41 PM
I think big tech censoring Trump had a much bigger influence but CNN might've increased turn-out. TV ratings have absolutely crashed post Trump's first term in office, that's for sure.

Anyhow, I just got a news alert that NATO is pulling back all troops from Afghanistan and the country has to maintain it's own security and peace.
The war on terror for the poppy fields is over boys.

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Post by: james on April 14, 2021, 08:41:34 PM
I think big tech censoring Trump had a much bigger influence but CNN might've increased turn-out. TV ratings have absolutely crashed post Trump's first term in office, that's for sure.

Anyhow, I just got a news alert that NATO is pulling back all troops from Afghanistan and the country has to maintain it's own security and peace.
The war on terror for the poppy fields is over boys.

Russia had dibs on this decade in Afghanistan, were behind schedule in handing it over
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Post by: benjipwns on April 14, 2021, 11:05:45 PM
ALL IN:
Quote
Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday announced a six-figure ad buy for a spot that targets CNN, as he fights to save his political career amid sexual trafficking allegations.

The new 30-second ad will be featured in the Florida Republican’s congressional district and nationally on select cable networks, according to a statement from Gaetz’s congressional campaign. The ad marks the beginning of Gaetz’s counteroffensive, as he “fights back against a multiweek fake news cycle against him,” it said.

“Now we see what’s really behind all of this: Democratic Party and media-driven smears aimed at taking out a Congressman of the United States,” a spokesperson for the Friends of Matt Gaetz said in the statement.
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1382444386450030598
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 15, 2021, 11:49:52 AM
Criminal mastermind Matt Gaetz

https://mobile.twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1382483237394612225

Stick to buying drugs through venmo kiddos.
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Post by: who is ted danson? on April 15, 2021, 11:56:39 AM
Should have used Bitcoin  :lol
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 15, 2021, 12:00:11 PM
or used the republican's child abuse ring, both parties have one :trumps :biden
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Post by: james on April 15, 2021, 02:30:16 PM
This is why I launder all my cash through the Netherlands
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Post by: Nintex on April 15, 2021, 02:45:12 PM
or used the republican's child abuse ring, both parties have one :trumps :biden
What you mean is both child abuse rings have a political party
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Post by: Nintex on April 15, 2021, 05:18:49 PM
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1382801752827830274 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1382801752827830274)

"I could've done more but I wanted Putin to know that unlike my predecessor I might not be his bitch but still a coward"
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Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2021, 05:45:52 PM
All Putin needs to do is only invade places when Biden's asleep.

The world will be his by next Tuesday.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 16, 2021, 04:40:36 AM
Biden should make fun of big bad Vlad for being a manlet :trumps
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Post by: james on April 16, 2021, 01:09:42 PM
The president of Russia should be Putin his place

 :tauntaun

Join me at my 9pm show tonight
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 16, 2021, 04:49:45 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1383120325454467072 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1383120325454467072)

 :reeeee :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on April 16, 2021, 05:12:36 PM
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1382786258796167171

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 16, 2021, 08:32:48 PM
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1382720830178754562

Quote from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intel-walks-back-claim-russians-put-bounties-on-american-troops
according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.”

...

But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.

...

There were reasons to doubt the story from the start.
:trumps
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Post by: Nintex on April 16, 2021, 08:57:22 PM
Trump's Russian deals are hidden in the same place as Iraq's WMD's
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Post by: team filler on April 16, 2021, 10:05:51 PM
 :mueller :mueller :mueller
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 17, 2021, 06:12:47 AM
https://youtu.be/Tn-orqCQe7A

:maduro
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Post by: D3RANG3D on April 17, 2021, 12:54:20 PM
https://youtu.be/Qp3gy_CLXho
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on April 17, 2021, 05:34:24 PM
Quote from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intel-walks-back-claim-russians-put-bounties-on-american-troops
according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.”

...

But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven—and possibly untrue.

...

There were reasons to doubt the story from the start.
:trumps

Well... this is awkward. Glenn Greenwald is currently making a meal out of it
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Post by: Nintex on April 17, 2021, 06:32:30 PM
The media wanted it to be true, because Trump being some sort of manchurian candidate for Russia would've been great for their ratings.

Russian bounties on US troops always sounded like a bunch of horse shit.
Mostly because those groups already kill NATO troops for free and such a scheme leaves a trail that could easily be traced back.

In fact that paper trail was a problem the NATO countries ran into when funding and arming 'moderate rebels' in Syria, who later 'joined' ISIS.
And Putin was the one to call them out on it. Asking them in nicer words if they were out of their goddamn minds funding groups like ISIS.
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Post by: team filler on April 17, 2021, 06:38:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi9IwQFHJQE

nothing burger deluxe  :delicious
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Post by: Great Rumbler on April 17, 2021, 07:03:13 PM
lmao who cares about trump in 2021 :neogaf
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Post by: team filler on April 17, 2021, 07:48:51 PM
a nothingburger is a dish best served cold  :kermit
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Post by: Great Rumbler on April 17, 2021, 08:40:57 PM
like trump's post-presidential career :neogaf
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Post by: team filler on April 17, 2021, 10:45:18 PM
me n my boy nintex tried to tell ya  :trumps
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Post by: benjipwns on April 17, 2021, 11:19:12 PM
Trump is ancillary to the whole thing. This was another instance of journalists all "independently confirming" from sources that were only the government. Specifically spooks, who burned them like always. And the journalists are doing the same thing constantly yet nobody cares how often they get burned by this because the original story is all that's wanted in the first place.

That Trump accurately called this one out just shows how bad the story was in this case. Yet people like Maddow and The Daily Beast (playing now in your town), not to mention random journalists on Twitter, all ran with it into the ground.
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Post by: chronovore on April 18, 2021, 06:58:56 AM
I think you can be assured Trump dismissed it as a hoax not because he knew or believed it to be a hoax, but happened to be seemingly right about an out of hand support for Putin.

Even a broken, lying, orange clock is right twice a day.
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Post by: Nintex on April 18, 2021, 07:14:35 AM
It is more likely that in that famous Helsinki meeting Trump and Putin talked more about their shared love for 80's action movies, young girlfriends, annoying journalists than they did about anything political.
To this day I don't know why the media and Democrats thought that Trump, who didn't care about or read the 5 bullet point intelligence briefing unless it had pictures would go and talk geo-politics with Putin.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 18, 2021, 07:15:59 AM
like the q crew they know trump is the ultimate 9d chess master :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 19, 2021, 02:17:17 PM
https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1384205553270857740 (https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1384205553270857740)

2D Checkers :biden
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 19, 2021, 04:20:17 PM
Free country my ass.

https://mobile.twitter.com/costcope/status/1384219093692141568

 :fbm
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 19, 2021, 04:35:29 PM
The FBI can suck my dick in Apex Legends.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 19, 2021, 05:20:45 PM
They will never see the 2024 Roblox revolution and their write in candidate MrLEGOBalls coming.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 20, 2021, 06:21:26 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083


 :cac
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 06:35:25 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/whos-the-president-because-its-apparently-not-joe-biden
Quote
Joe Biden may be the president in name, but with the White House directly contradicting his proclamations twice in as many days and his notable absence from greeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, one has to ask: Who is actually running the country?

...

All the while, Vice President Kamala Harris, the person Biden claimed to have put in charge of the border crisis, is everywhere but on the border. While Biden is in hiding, Harris has been gallivanting across the country, even greeting Suga in his place.

Biden may be the president, but clearly, the buck does not stop with him. So, who is actually running the country in his stead?
:usacry
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 20, 2021, 06:38:40 PM
Donald Trump :shh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 20, 2021, 06:38:51 PM
Free country my ass.

https://mobile.twitter.com/costcope/status/1384219093692141568

 :fbm

I would like to request my user name be changed to Joe and my post history here be scrubbed please
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 06:44:17 PM
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/lin-wood-working-20-hours-day-reverse-2020-election-result-1584890
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood said on Monday that he sometimes works up to 20 hours a day as part of his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Wood, a prominent Georgia lawyer who maintains that former President Donald Trump won the November election, was speaking at the Anderson County Republican Party Convention in South Carolina.

He is running for chair of the South Carolina Republican Party but Trump endorsed his opponent, current chairman Drew McKissick, in March.

"Since November the 3rd, 2020, I've spent sometimes 20 hours a day fighting to reverse the election that was stolen from Donald Trump," Wood said. "And I'm not going to quit until the truth comes out and Donald Trump is recognized as president of the United States."

The small crowd clapped and cheered Wood's comments and some rose to their feet.

Wood used his speech to offer some criticism of McKissick and suggested there could be issues with the way the state party was conducting the chair election, scheduled to take place in May.

McKissick told Newsweek in a statement on Tuesday: "Lin Wood is a carpetbagging RINO who's been in South Carolina for two months. Any suggestion or accusation of cheating or not being a true Republican is just a strategy out of the slick trial lawyer's handbook—a trial lawyer who donated to Obama twice and supported candidates endorsed by Planned Parenthood. Trump endorsed my re-election campaign and that speaks for itself."
Quote
McKissick told AP on April 7 that Trump had spoken to him over the phone and said the former president "was like, 'Who's this attorney guy who is running against you? Does he even live in South Carolina?'"
:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1384371556919382016
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Post by: BIONIC on April 20, 2021, 06:44:53 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/whos-the-president-because-its-apparently-not-joe-biden
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-28-2015/x0BpVy.gif)

He has risen.
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Post by: chronovore on April 20, 2021, 06:56:10 PM
Please clap.
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Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 06:57:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvt-AtABYEk

 :trumps
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Post by: james on April 20, 2021, 06:59:04 PM
Thats funny, I also work 20 hours a day, in Minecraft
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on April 20, 2021, 07:18:52 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083 (https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083)


 :cac
She seriously said that? Thanked the dude for dying?
 :what
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Post by: Nintex on April 20, 2021, 07:30:26 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzdCo2dWUAABccZ?format=jpg)

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1384645991966642181 (https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1384645991966642181)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 20, 2021, 07:44:42 PM
still a sloppy drunk  :mueller
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Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 08:31:57 PM
Free country my ass.

 :fbm
https://mobile.twitter.com/sergiombneves/status/1384247232799526914
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 09:14:03 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1384637677102841857
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 20, 2021, 09:23:51 PM
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy. Lot to unpack in that one tweet.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 20, 2021, 09:30:26 PM
You mean the "s" on "domestic terrorist" right?
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 21, 2021, 09:52:15 AM
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boy. Lot to unpack in that one tweet.

Let's just leave it all packed up.
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Post by: Rufus on April 21, 2021, 02:07:47 PM
And throw it in a lake.
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Post by: chronovore on April 22, 2021, 07:41:14 AM
Except transgendered youths will have a more effective transition if they’re able to start before their default hormones make their usual changes. Disallowing them the personal choice of starting when they like damages their ability to pass. It’s also disregarding the concept of gender reassignment surgery as “health care,” just as laws against same sex intercourse deligitimize LGBTQA rights.

Gender dysphoria was declassified as a disorder - and correspondingly being automatically covered by things like health insurance, or having diagnostic criteria - as a result of activists fighting in favour of self certification and equating it to an attempt at relitigating homosexuality as a psychological disorder, and labelling those who consider it a primarily medical condition with a known treatment "truscum".

I would suggest the underlying issue here is semantic; someone with severe gender dysphoria should not be denied treatment, but they are also not in the same position as a 40 year old man with a wife and kids who just 'realised' they're actually trans now and want to opt into being a member of a protected class based on self identification as such, and having no symptoms (or even desire) for any treatment or alteration.
Who cares what consenting adults want to do? "It's for the freakin' children" doesn't mean much when it's adults wanting to stunt the growth of and inflict permanent wounds on children.

If they want to still do it when they become of age, who gives a shit, have fun. You can't do it to kids on the whim of adults though. The "actual underlying issue" is a fundamental disagreement as to whether or not it helps the children to do any of this to them when they're still young.

For the record further, social transitioning is not made illegal by the bill, only medical barbarism.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/4th-grader-shamed-texas-republicans-attacking-rights-now-getting-death-threats/

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/least-four-teens-attempted-suicide-arkansas-bans-trans-youth-getting-healthcare/

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 22, 2021, 01:34:12 PM
DC might become a state :leon

Puerto Rico next :gladbron
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Post by: team filler on April 22, 2021, 02:42:11 PM
 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 22, 2021, 02:43:22 PM
More like state of war amirite
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Post by: Great Rumbler on April 22, 2021, 03:34:49 PM
DC might become a state :leon

Puerto Rico next :gladbron

LET'S FREAKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Post by: zomgee on April 22, 2021, 03:59:04 PM
Manchin will say no because
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Post by: Joe Molotov on April 22, 2021, 04:20:45 PM
DC might become a state :leon

Puerto Rico next :gladbron

First revoke Commiefornia's statehood.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 22, 2021, 04:30:22 PM
why would manchin willingly give up control of the senate  :mueller
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Post by: Lonewulfeus on April 22, 2021, 04:59:08 PM
why would manchin willingly give up control of the senate  :mueller

Cause the senate could very likely get Ted Kennedy’d
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 22, 2021, 05:00:16 PM
Puerto Rico statehood is a trap, they’re just going to elect republicans. 
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 22, 2021, 05:00:31 PM
manchin: I'll give you a  think on the statehood count, if you bring down corporate tax to a negative.

biden:    :ohyeah
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 22, 2021, 05:08:07 PM
Puerto Rico statehood is a trap, they’re just going to elect republicans. 

It's still the right thing to do. It's not about how they'll vote (for me anyways.)

700,000+ US citizens in DC with no say in their government. Doesn't seem right to me.
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Post by: Tasty on April 22, 2021, 05:12:16 PM
:curious

::)
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Post by: Tripon on April 22, 2021, 05:17:02 PM
All the territories the U.S. controls should become states or independent nations. I don't care about size, we let freaking Rhode Island be its own state despite being a small ass area.

----
https://twitter.com/business/status/1385286568752070660
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 22, 2021, 05:56:12 PM
Getting billionaires to scramble and move their money around through taxation scare is a way to get the economy moving too.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 22, 2021, 06:48:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJCnBNTta8

"If it ain't broke don't fix it" :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 22, 2021, 09:48:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIapQt75GyE


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 22, 2021, 10:04:42 PM
I don't care about size, we let freaking Rhode Island be its own state despite being a small ass area.
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has the 2nd highest population density in the country. Only New Jersey is more dense.

And we don't "let" Rhode Island and Providence Plantations be anything. It was the fourth State to agree to the Union. (And was the first independent state to form from the Colonies.)

It's still the right thing to do. [Puerto Rico]
What if they don't want to be a State? 2020 was the first time they ever indicated they've wanted to become a State, traditionally the population has refused the burdens of Statehood to stay a unique Commonwealth. I think that Congress should deliberately ask them, but if they reject it again, Congress should not force them into it.

All the territories the U.S. controls should become states or independent nations.
They should probably not be forced to become States or independent nations if they do not wish it. Certain territories would collapse if forced into statehood of either type, they subsist entirely on federal funds. Making them independent nations and sending them federal aid is not a solution considering how those funds are traditionally sent. We'd be overnight occupying even more countries.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on April 22, 2021, 10:08:47 PM
Hawaii didn't really want to be a state either and look how that turned out. :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 22, 2021, 10:11:12 PM
Hawai'i voted 94% to become a State in the referendum. And its government had actually petitioned to be one.

Puerto Rico has a sweet deal, Hawai'i (and Alaska) never had the commonwealth deal that PR gets.

edit: Thinking about a solution, I would probably have Congress pass legislation that automatically asks DC, PR and the territories at every Presidential election to also vote on Statehood, independence or maintaining the existing relationship. (Except DC, which only gets the Statehood question.) And if it gets a majority consider it a petition for [whatever]. If it gets a supermajority then consider it a binding referendum on Congress to act within the next session. (Obviously, this can't be enforced as a Congress cannot bind another Congress, but it would at least require them to actively reject a supermajority in a territory voting for Statehood/independence.)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 22, 2021, 11:01:28 PM
Quote from: https://people.com/politics/george-w-bush-wrote-in-condoleeza-rice-in-the-2020-presidential-election/
He also freely admitted he did not vote for either incumbent Republican President Donald Trump — of whom he has been only obliquely critical, and never by name — or Democrat Joe Biden in the November election.

Instead, Bush wrote in Condoleezza Rice, who served as his secretary of state from 2005 to 2009.

He told her he did, too.

"She knows it," says Bush, 74, adding wryly: "But she told me she would refuse to accept the office."
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QBwUuiehwBQ/T4IExllkxQI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Rrxy4fkHypc/s1600/george-bush-gif.gif)
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 23, 2021, 09:28:55 AM
repubs counter offer on infrastructure

:lol

Quote
The new Republican proposal is about a quarter of the size of President Joe Biden's more than $2 trillion proposal — and also smaller than former President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan from three years ago. It’s also significantly narrower than either of those other plans, focused primarily on transportation infrastructure along with items like broadband and water projects.

The GOP plan is still vague on one of the most important questions: how to pay for the spending. It leans on unspecified user fees; "financing tools" and enticing the private sector to open its pocketbook; and unused money from prior Covid relief bills.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the lead Senate Republican working on the counteroffer, emphasized Thursday that it's important that the package "not be so large as to fail to launch, which means sticking to actual infrastructure. That's why our framework works. It serves as a realistic, thoughtful approach that addresses the core areas of infrastructure that we all agree upon."

(https://i.imgur.com/V0PZxGa.png)

:thinking
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Post by: Tasty on April 23, 2021, 09:55:56 AM
$0 for schools is a real kick in the teeth.
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Post by: Tasty on April 23, 2021, 09:59:55 AM
I'm pleasantly surprised both parties finally seem to recognize the importance of investing in broadband/internet access, though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 23, 2021, 10:02:28 AM
Republican "investment" in broadband is giving grants to comcast for 6G probably.
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Post by: Nintex on April 23, 2021, 12:27:30 PM
The Republicans seem to have learned their lesson.
They've actually made a counter offer.

Unless Trump comes out and says something like: "Do not give Joe this money or it'll end up in Hunter's nose and Nancy's fridge" you'll probably get a good old fashioned compromise.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 23, 2021, 01:03:39 PM
Democrats should just meet the two sections, bringing up the total.


 :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 23, 2021, 03:03:04 PM
(http://abload.de/img/politicalcompassylkz9.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 23, 2021, 04:53:37 PM
 :lol
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on April 23, 2021, 05:32:09 PM
as the head of Big Piss i can confirm the China story :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 24, 2021, 12:20:36 AM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/caitlyn-jenner-california-governor-run-710153ef-7a89-460d-b9ec-9efed2a9399f.html
Former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner on Friday officially announced her bid for governor of California.

...

Jenner said in a statement that "Sacramento needs an honest leader with a clear vision" and that "for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people."

The statement decries California's taxes as "too high" and criticizes an "over-restrictive lockdown" response to the COVID pandemic including on in-person schooling.

"This is Gavin Newsom’s California, where he orders us to stay home but goes out to dinner with his lobbyist friends."
Quote
A campaign adviser tells Axios that Jenner has greater name ID than Newsom and can command the kind of earned media that "will go to every possible demographic you could think of."
Quote
"She's running as someone that's socially liberal and fiscally conservative."
Hope this recall has a million candidates again :hyper
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 24, 2021, 01:48:31 AM
like we need anymore confirmation that nintex is trump
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 24, 2021, 09:52:51 PM
Quote from: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-his-elegant-press-releases-are-better-than-twitter-2021-4?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
The former president, who started sending press releases via email to get around his social media bans, also claimed his new way of communicating was "better."

"I'm really getting a big word out because we're doing releases," Trump said, according to Newsweek. "And every time I do a release it's all over the place. It's better than Twitter, much more elegant than Twitter. And Twitter now is very boring, a lot of people are leaving Twitter."

"When I started with Twitter years ago it was like a failed thing, concept, media platform," Trump continued. "And it became exciting. And I think I had a lot to do with it, to be honest with you."
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 25, 2021, 01:32:04 PM
lmao
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 25, 2021, 01:49:44 PM
Listening to al franken pod cast, it's a shame that he got a hit job by the early trump team done on him.

Dude would have made an amazing POTUS.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 25, 2021, 03:04:33 PM
Quote
"I'm really getting a big word out because we're doing releases,"

And that word is "nipple".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 26, 2021, 12:17:41 AM
https://twitter.com/PFTompkins/status/1386506094181163008
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 26, 2021, 01:08:41 AM
the schumer tweet by itself is hilarious  :mueller


juss drinkin a ice cold PLANT based all gender beer here, thanks o-biden!  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 26, 2021, 04:10:53 AM
Oh well give the politicians this moment of peace before they are wrecked  :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HardcoreRetro on April 26, 2021, 05:26:25 AM
What's he think other beers are made off?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: VomKriege on April 26, 2021, 06:06:25 AM
He's clowning on L.Kudlow who apparently ranted about how the Green New Deal is going to force you into plant based beers.

You'd think Kudlow would know a basic thing or two about booze.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 26, 2021, 12:56:22 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfWxWYoHkM

The television make-up cannot hide the fact that Larry is drunk AF  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 26, 2021, 01:38:57 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kamala_harris-kids-in-cages-border-crisis-1024x845.jpg)

Can we get a Kamala laughing emoji?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 26, 2021, 01:40:51 PM
I thought that was AOC
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 26, 2021, 02:27:58 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kamala_harris-kids-in-cages-border-crisis-1024x845.jpg)

Can we get a Kamala laughing emoji?

I'm not sure what the implication is supposed to be here? Did Kamala have all the people in border cage killed? Were they deported? Were they released into the United States? Is Ben Garrison now against putting people in cages? I don't get it...
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 26, 2021, 02:44:36 PM
It needs more labels, but based on the rant on his site, he’s just against women who laugh and also want to be president.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 26, 2021, 04:19:42 PM
Kamala sent them to Hillary's adrenochrome factory.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 26, 2021, 04:29:31 PM

The US stock market has seen better returns in Joe Biden's first 100 days than under any president in the past 75 years
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-performance-president-biden-100-days-best-75-years-2021-4-1030346645?utm_source=reddit.com

 :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on April 26, 2021, 05:11:24 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1386775232099323905

 :society
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 26, 2021, 05:41:08 PM

The US stock market has seen better returns in Joe Biden's first 100 days than under any president in the past 75 years
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-performance-president-biden-100-days-best-75-years-2021-4-1030346645?utm_source=reddit.com

 :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto :miyamoto

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 26, 2021, 09:25:31 PM
https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1386410424304762884

filler explain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on April 26, 2021, 10:35:16 PM
https://twitter.com/LoriBracco/status/1386285096278401025


 :pimp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on April 27, 2021, 11:15:29 AM
What's he think other beers are made off?

(https://cdn.craftbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/09001224/Rocky-Mt.-Oyster-Stout-two-pack-glass.jpg)

Ironically enough, Wynkoop was founded by John Hickenlooper, Democratic former governor of CO and one of the many people in the 2020 dem primary.

I've also had beer brewed with ants and beer brewed with bacon before...
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on April 27, 2021, 05:11:55 PM
You could probably find one made of horse semen as well, but those are not the normal ingredients used for brewing a beer.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on April 27, 2021, 05:39:36 PM
Biden should ban horse semen beer

 :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 27, 2021, 05:59:49 PM
Biden should stop gun violence and Larry Kudlow with a new prohibition
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 28, 2021, 01:15:17 PM
Quote from: https://apnews.com/article/rudy-giuliani-trump-investigation-warrant-7a413e1bbb819cb52cd402d64a982185
Federal investigators executed search warrants Wednesday morning at the Manhattan home and office of Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s attorney, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

...

Investigators executed warrants at Giuliani’s home on Madison Avenue and his office on Park Avenue and seized electronic devices, a person familiar with the investigation told the AP.
(https://i.imgur.com/IRxAOUg.png)
Title: I love this emoji lmfao
Post by: Tasty on April 28, 2021, 01:19:16 PM
:dobbs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 28, 2021, 02:06:03 PM
Quote
MattG43TZ: "And this one had SKILL people"

RudyG: "Wow... just wow Matt"

BIG T: "FANTASTIC RACK MATT SEND MORE"

MrFlynn: "Echelon 5 5 4 3 threat 0 6 9 line 4 5"

TriggerHappyDon: "yeah dad what about the coup"

RudyG: "Shut up or we're going get prosecuted for this"

BIG T: "RUDY IS RIGHT MARK SAID DO IT ON A SECURE LINE NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE FUCK YOUR TALKKING ABOUT MICHAEL SO YOUR NOT INVITED"

Kimber69lee: "I'm doing lines now daddy <3"

RogerX: "Don't worry Mr. President they owe me a favor Robert will keep the gate open if we wire 50k to his account"

BIG T: "OK BUT I'M NOT WALKING ROGER ALSO DON REMOVE FLYNN FROM THE GROUP HE IS A NUTJOB"

RudyG: "Good idea you should stay out of this so you have possible deniability and so should I"

BIG T: "THAT IS GREAT LEGAL ADVICE RUDY IS THIS LINE SECURE"

RogerX: "Do you actually get paid Rudy?"

BIG T: "SHUT UP ROGER SERIOUSLY I WILL UNPARDON YOU"

BIG T: "50K?!!?? JUST BLACKMAIL HIS WIFE"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on April 28, 2021, 07:00:39 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1387500953167962112 (https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1387500953167962112)

Another graduate of the Donald Trump Hand Language University.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 30, 2021, 05:09:54 PM
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1388121523391803393

 :gladbron
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 30, 2021, 05:30:00 PM
Quote from: https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/west-virginia-sen-joe-manchin-offers-thoughts-on-american-family-plan-district-of-columbia-statehood/article_077ceca4-b832-565c-9c39-d6644790a470.html
Also during the call, Manchin spoke about a bill that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the union. This bill passed through the House earlier in April, although Manchin said he believes a constitutional amendment will need to be made for the process to actually succeed, citing the 23rd Amendment.

"It gave D.C. residents the right to vote in presidential elections, but it complicates D.C.'s pathway to statehood, because Congress had three options to choose from back in 1961," Manchin said. "They could either have D.C. statehood, they could have retrocession to Maryland ... or they could have granted electoral votes to D.C. ...

"Congress selected, at that time, option three. ... Bobby Kennedy said in 1963 that Congress and the states embodied this choice in the form of a constitutional amendment. Hence, it is arguable that the choice can now be reconsidered only by means of another constitutional amendment. He said that we are a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and it seems to me that's who should be answering this question. Let the American people decide."
I think Congress can actually just vote on stripping the Mall's electoral votes, it doesn't need to be an amendment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 30, 2021, 06:45:42 PM
https://twitter.com/jacobdotgov/status/1388251233652256781
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on April 30, 2021, 07:04:14 PM
"Covid Biden says schools 'should probably all be open' in the fall."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on April 30, 2021, 09:17:52 PM
Quote from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nod-donald-trump-florida-set-ban-big-tech-deplatforming-rcna784
The Florida bill would prohibit social media companies from knowingly “deplatforming” political candidates, meaning a service could not “permanently delete or ban” a candidate.

...

The state's elections commission would be empowered to fine a social media company $250,000 a day for statewide candidates and $25,000 a day for other candidates if a company's actions are found to violate the law
:derp
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Post by: Rufus on May 01, 2021, 10:25:12 AM
https://twitter.com/adamkovac/status/1388180501064732673
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Post by: Nintex on May 01, 2021, 12:50:41 PM
So if Facebook were to open a theme park  :awesome
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Post by: Tripon on May 01, 2021, 03:37:03 PM
"Covid Biden says schools 'should probably all be open' in the fall."

All schools will be open in the fall. if you think any school is still doing remote unless for the few students that can't get vaxxed, you're kidding yourself.
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Post by: team filler on May 02, 2021, 09:55:51 AM
https://twitter.com/wrestlelamia/status/1386324357329219589
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Post by: Nintex on May 02, 2021, 10:37:25 AM
Compare that to the media batting for Austere Scholar Al Bag Daddy and mourning the death of International Diplomat Qa-sam Sole-and-many.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 02, 2021, 12:21:46 PM
I wonder who will get to announce that hillary has been compromised to permanent end at the wrestling when the news is made official once Trump reassumes office :thinking
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Post by: BIONIC on May 02, 2021, 12:40:57 PM
Demi has just announced that we have caught and compromised to a permanent end Shonda bin Mandark  :jeb
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 02, 2021, 01:51:26 PM
mandark would totally fuck shostas corpse :trumps
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Post by: Nintex on May 02, 2021, 02:16:36 PM
mandark would totally fuck shostas corpse :trumps
Only if shonda wears his dog suit tho  :doggy
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 03, 2021, 12:18:56 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1388849702209310720

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
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Post by: Nintex on May 03, 2021, 02:44:03 PM
"Don't ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for intellectual property rights"

"We choose to not vaccinate poor people not because it is easy but because it is hard"

Inspiring stuff.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 03, 2021, 03:24:30 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/trump_rino_hunt-1024x768.jpg)

 :lol
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Post by: team filler on May 03, 2021, 04:41:29 PM
what did jeb do?  :thinking
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Post by: BIONIC on May 03, 2021, 04:48:29 PM
what did jeb do?  :thinking

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-28-2015/x0BpVy.gif)

#NeverForget
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 03, 2021, 04:51:51 PM
what did jeb do?  :thinking

Also on the endangered species list is the classic RINO Jeb Bush. From “please clap” to open borders and endless wars, the Bush family is the gold standard of weak “Republicans In Name Only.  America has awakened and today more red state voters can see through the lies of people like Romney, Bush and Cheney. They know they have been duped for the last 30 years and will never vote for a Bush type republican again.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 03, 2021, 07:47:46 PM
Jeb!
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Post by: james on May 03, 2021, 10:55:54 PM
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552
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Post by: jorma on May 04, 2021, 01:42:20 AM
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552

looks like they photoshopped Joe into the one picture they could find that would make him look younger  :lol
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Post by: Nintex on May 04, 2021, 04:18:42 AM
I said young man  :rimshot
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 04, 2021, 05:56:55 PM
 :brain

https://mobile.twitter.com/mrochabrun/status/1389682468723253250
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Post by: Nintex on May 04, 2021, 05:59:01 PM
I am more amazed that they reference an article from the Washington Post as proof this request is legit  :doge
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Post by: samir on May 04, 2021, 06:35:38 PM
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552

Biden looks like a ventriloquist
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 05, 2021, 09:27:29 AM
Before of by November 6, 2020.

:thinking
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Post by: Nintex on May 05, 2021, 09:43:13 AM
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk)

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389759331470659586 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389759331470659586)

:trumps
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 05, 2021, 10:13:13 AM
Warmonger Liz Cheney, who has virtually no support left in the Great State of Wyoming, continues to unknowingly and foolishly say that there was no Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election when in fact, the evidence, including no Legislative approvals as demanded by the U.S. Constitution, shows the exact opposite. Had Mike Pence referred the information on six states (only need two) back to State Legislatures, and had gutless and clueless MINORITY Leader Mitch McConnell (he blew two seats in Georgia that should have never been lost) fought to expose all of the corruption that was presented at the time, with more found since, we would have had a far different Presidential result, and our Country would not be turning into a socialist nightmare! Never give up!

:trumps
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 05, 2021, 02:41:34 PM
Benny G is celebrating Karl Marx’s birthday in the best way possible.

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/joe_biden_marxism-swamp-1024x804.jpg)

Edit: Bernie bros back at destroying democracy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dennis_welch/status/1390014544890658819
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 05, 2021, 03:26:50 PM
That doesn't even come close to rhyming. :beli
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 05, 2021, 03:27:37 PM
bamboo fibers :dead
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Post by: MMaRsu on May 05, 2021, 04:12:32 PM
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389407067736215552

Biden looks like a ventriloquist

Ventriloquest or not, he probably does have his hand up her asshole
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Post by: Nintex on May 05, 2021, 05:29:58 PM
John Brakey is really one of those guys that seizes his moment in history.
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 05, 2021, 06:06:40 PM
I hope he investigates Maine next.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1334292563994533888

https://mobile.twitter.com/ushockme69/status/1337604339532263425

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Post by: Nintex on May 05, 2021, 06:17:56 PM
Sometimes they mess up their lore. Kim Jun Un is a friend of Donald Trump so it can't have been North Korean ships.
Unless they were used or stolen by China.  :thinking
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Post by: BIONIC on May 05, 2021, 06:52:32 PM
 :nsfw :nsfw :nsfw
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0qB7FMWUAMp2C_?format=jpg&name=large)
[close]

:horny  :trumps  :horny
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 06, 2021, 02:20:04 PM
Republicans seem to be learning the right lessons from the Biden campaign.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HaydenJSparks/status/1390051657170444288
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Post by: Nintex on May 06, 2021, 02:33:37 PM
 https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1390364669639020544 (https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1390364669639020544)

Imagine if someone had the foresight to create some sort of force in space to protect everyone from these new threats.  :thinking
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 06, 2021, 03:43:33 PM
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1390022537866776581

 :biden
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Post by: BIONIC on May 06, 2021, 04:44:52 PM
No opportunities in Biden’s America, folks  :trumps
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 06, 2021, 08:17:57 PM

 :biden

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChadFWolf/status/1390150330734858243

 :sicko
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Post by: benjipwns on May 06, 2021, 11:04:04 PM
https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1390392522267107330

https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1390430448057307142
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 07, 2021, 09:19:00 AM
ackkkkkkkkually, I paid a lot of money to look like this
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 07, 2021, 09:55:54 AM
crackers?
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 07, 2021, 12:46:26 PM
I like how he looks like current day Eric Bischoff with a dye job :heh
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Post by: Nintex on May 07, 2021, 05:57:44 PM
T R U M P / O W E N S  2 0 2 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZmirUpC0E

C H I L L I N'  W I T H  4 5
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 07, 2021, 08:12:38 PM
Round 3 baby!!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/donie/status/1390777133799251971
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Post by: james on May 08, 2021, 11:46:29 PM
Whatever happened to pence
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 09, 2021, 01:02:43 AM
Whatever happened to pence
He failed to refuse to certify and overturn the results of the election (because he literally can't) so he's not cool anymore. The folks who invaded on Jan 6th were out to hang him and Pelosi. :doge Apparently he's quietly trying to do some of the groundwork involved in running in '24 himself. Good luck with that, you have no charisma and your party openly despises you. :lol
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Post by: benjipwns on May 09, 2021, 01:10:42 AM
https://twitter.com/MichLKosinski/status/1391021496202670082
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Post by: team filler on May 09, 2021, 02:38:09 AM
https://twitter.com/CreightonOTE/status/1391066134615572486



 :dead
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Post by: benjipwns on May 09, 2021, 04:20:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
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Post by: Nintex on May 09, 2021, 06:55:44 AM
Whatever happened to pence
Cast back to the shadow realm after the ultimate anime betrayal
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 09, 2021, 08:55:20 AM
He evaded capture a few months ago and there have been no updates since :doge

https://realrawnews.com/2021/03/pence-eludes-capture-military-in-hot-pursuit/
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 10, 2021, 12:20:22 AM
Try and find a more cursed political song than this.

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You can’t.
[close]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI
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Post by: zomgee on May 10, 2021, 12:48:19 AM
He evaded capture a few months ago and there have been no updates since :doge

https://realrawnews.com/2021/03/pence-eludes-capture-military-in-hot-pursuit/

jesus christ that website

and all of its researchers

I know it's by fringe for fringe, but it just amazes me how that play goes on in their heads.
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on May 10, 2021, 04:40:26 AM
jesus christ that website

and all of its researchers

I know it's by fringe for fringe, but it just amazes me how that play goes on in their heads.

Quote
Disclaimer:

Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel.

I'm pretty sure it's just a joke website.
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Post by: BIONIC on May 10, 2021, 05:00:11 AM
The truth isn’t a joke  ::)
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Post by: zomgee on May 10, 2021, 10:35:28 AM
jesus christ that website

and all of its researchers

I know it's by fringe for fringe, but it just amazes me how that play goes on in their heads.

Quote
Disclaimer:

Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel.

I'm pretty sure it's just a joke website.

I unfortunately dove into the comments a little bit. Yes it is a joke website (to protect me from the lawyers!), but in the comments the owner is saying that it isn't satire and letting the users think that it's real. Trolling or not, it's pretty scary.

When your uncle says "do your research," this is the site he's doing his research on.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 10, 2021, 11:01:16 AM
As long as you put "it's just a joke, bro" the Deep State Illumminati can't get you.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2021, 12:06:28 PM
RealRawNews is The Onion if everyone who followed The Onion thought everything it posted was secretly true.
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Post by: Nintex on May 10, 2021, 01:12:30 PM
Try and find a more cursed political song than this.

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You can’t.
[close]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ogibWCNKI

Challenge accepted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Ho-mT63us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZUeHmpV6A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRPgO2OtkA
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Post by: team filler on May 10, 2021, 01:54:51 PM
RealRawNews is The Onion if everyone who followed The Onion thought everything it posted was secretly true.
everything posted on the onion IS secretly true  :info
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Post by: Nintex on May 10, 2021, 01:59:27 PM
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1390647791580499969 (https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1390647791580499969)

 :biden check those numbers again Jack
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Post by: benjipwns on May 10, 2021, 10:26:02 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ePgjw92.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on May 10, 2021, 11:15:36 PM
https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1391845826595590155
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Post by: benjipwns on May 11, 2021, 02:41:08 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0yR1PcWUAIAI6a?format=jpg&name=small)

 :notlikethis

oh god it gets worse

https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1390481351661527042

  :notlikethis :notlikethis :notlikethis :notlikethis
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Post by: Nintex on May 11, 2021, 03:00:37 PM
https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1392183084062216193 (https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1392183084062216193)

lmao

Quote
Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter with his second wife, Marla Maples, broke up with a boyfriend and “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail”.

Secret Service leaders, the book says, “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark and handsome agent”.


Quote
Leonnig also reports that it was not clear if Donald Trump knew what Secret Service personnel were saying about his daughter and daughter-in-law.

But she says the president did repeatedly seek to remove Secret Service staff he deemed to be overweight or too short for the job.

“I want these fat guys off my detail,” Trump is reported to have said, possibly confusing office-based personnel with active agents. “How are they going to protect me and my family if they can’t run down the street?”

:dead
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 11, 2021, 03:13:08 PM
But fat dudes have more room to take a bullet for you and better cover for you to be behind, and a bullet is less likely to go through a fat tub of goo* :rollsafe

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Post by: james on May 11, 2021, 03:40:05 PM
I agree, you put two Benjis on the job and no sniper in the world can get past that
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Post by: Nintex on May 11, 2021, 03:43:05 PM
*groins*

*Yells at Super TIVO*

*wipes McDonalds sauce from cheek*

*BURP*

*waddles into the meeting room at 4PM*

"Good morning Mr. President"

*SNORT*

“I want these fat guys off my detail, Mike”
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Post by: team filler on May 11, 2021, 05:00:20 PM
thanks for getting all the fats outta here before me  :biden
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 11, 2021, 05:07:21 PM
The secret service turned Trump Jr. into a cuck.

Quote
In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”.
Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018. Leonnig reports that the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point.

 :lol :lol :lol
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 11, 2021, 06:02:28 PM
Aren't alot of Secret Service agents _____ that infiltrate all administrations?
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Post by: team filler on May 11, 2021, 06:16:34 PM
Aren't alot of Secret Service agents BBC bulls that infiltrate all administrations?
;)
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Post by: naff on May 11, 2021, 07:49:09 PM
Donald J Trump Jr: The Spy That Shagged My Wife

A tell all sexposé on the balls deep state
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on May 11, 2021, 08:26:47 PM
RealRawNews is The Onion if everyone who followed The Onion thought everything it posted was secretly true.
everything posted on the onion IS secretly true  :info
https://twitter.com/DingusJMcGee/status/1392203455431778306


 :kermit
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Post by: BIONIC on May 11, 2021, 08:43:47 PM
The only constants in life are death, taxes, and filler being right about everything  :titus
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 11, 2021, 09:04:07 PM
Quote
So now even our Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, is a junky. This is emblematic of what is happening to our Country. The whole world is laughing at us as we go to hell on our Borders, our fake Presidential Election, and everywhere else!
- Donald J. Trump

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk/desk-8pttbep59x/

 :usacry
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Post by: who is ted danson? on May 12, 2021, 02:33:51 AM
Don't forget that we're also laughing at your son getting cucked by the SS
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 12, 2021, 10:52:02 AM
And everywhere else!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on May 12, 2021, 12:49:13 PM
-Gas shortages
-Collapsing stock market
-Rampant inflation
-War in the middle east
-Switch Pro no where to be found


Biden what have you done
 :shaq2

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 12, 2021, 01:01:46 PM
his fault for letting his corrupt wall street pals stop the gamestop rocket :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 12, 2021, 01:03:36 PM
-Gas shortages
-Collapsing stock market
-Rampant inflation
-War in the middle east
-Switch Pro no where to be found


Biden what have you done
 :shaq2
The Obama alumni are basically doing the same thing they did for the previous 8 years they were running 'the show' making the case for a Trump presidency and doing it better than Donald J. Trump ever could.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on May 12, 2021, 03:55:36 PM
Stock rout deepens in final minutes of trading, Dow sheds 700 points and Nasdaq falls 2.8%

 :gddr5 :gddr5 :gddr5 :gddr5 :gddr5
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Propagandhim on May 12, 2021, 04:09:12 PM
Made $7000 in 40 minutes on the drop.


 :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 12, 2021, 04:09:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YROsnx9qU
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Propagandhim on May 12, 2021, 04:19:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YROsnx9qU

(https://www.resetera.com/data/avatar/1544046528/m/1/1159.jpg)
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Post by: Nintex on May 12, 2021, 05:25:55 PM
Quote
I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis. First there was the Biden Border Crisis (that he refuses to call a Crisis), then the Biden Economic Crisis, then the Biden Israel Crisis, and now the Biden Gas Crisis. Joe Biden has had the worst start of any president in United States history, and someday, they will compare future disasters to the Biden Administration—but no, Jimmy was better!

:trumps
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Post by: benjipwns on May 13, 2021, 01:26:47 AM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html
Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.

“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”

Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her hands in the air in an exasperated motion.
Quote
Greene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals.

“She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”
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Post by: chronovore on May 13, 2021, 03:04:32 AM
http://twitter.com/jivedurkey/status/1392572716323049474
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Post by: Nintex on May 13, 2021, 04:22:56 AM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html
Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.

“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”

Ocasio-Cortez did not stop to answer Greene, only turning around once and throwing her hands in the air in an exasperated motion.
Quote
Greene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals.

“She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”
We need the Greene new deal instead am I right  :corona_rodney
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Post by: james on May 13, 2021, 11:29:42 AM
-Gas shortages ENDED
-Collapsing stock market REVERSED
-Rampant inflation FAKE NEWS
-War in the middle east  TBD
-Switch Pro no where to be found  TBD


My boy Joe Biden has been busy

Promises made, promises kept

 :miyamoto


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Post by: Nintex on May 13, 2021, 11:57:29 AM
The Biden Crypto Crunch
The Biden Comedy Decay
The Biden Paper Cut
The Biden Stepped on LEGO
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Post by: BIONIC on May 13, 2021, 12:06:45 PM
The Biden Crypto Crunch
The Biden Comedy Decay
The Biden Paper Cut
The Biden Stepped on LEGO

Hecantkeepgettingawaywithit.jiff
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 13, 2021, 12:22:24 PM
You’re forgetting about Biden’s biggest domestic failure so far.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1392565196250624001
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Post by: Nintex on May 13, 2021, 12:44:19 PM
Ted Cruz is on a roll lately

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1392560004973187072 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1392560004973187072)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 13, 2021, 04:31:05 PM
-Gas shortages
-Collapsing stock market
-Rampant inflation
-War in the middle east
-Switch Pro no where to be found


Biden what have you done
 :shaq2
The Obama alumni are basically doing the same thing they did for the previous 8 years they were running 'the show' making the case for a Trump presidency and doing it better than Donald J. Trump ever could.

no
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Post by: Nintex on May 13, 2021, 06:44:46 PM
Now Larry Kudlow is blaming Biden for not standing up to Russia who are responsible for the rocket attacks on Israel(?)  :confused :wut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMegwXrpbk

Because he doesn't believe in "coincidences"
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Post by: Nintex on May 14, 2021, 08:44:56 AM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392925908277731328 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392925908277731328)

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392925911276613632 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1392925911276613632)

 :titus
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 14, 2021, 09:34:35 AM
trump playing 9d chess with the deep state, where have I heard that before :thinking
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 14, 2021, 10:02:28 AM
All that work and Trump still lawst. At least CREEP got Nixon re-elected. :biden
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 14, 2021, 12:34:51 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woke_disney2021-1024x762.jpg)

 :clap
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Post by: Nintex on May 14, 2021, 01:36:38 PM
Holy shit that Comic :lawd

trump playing 9d chess with the deep state, where have I heard that before :thinking

"Mr. President FBI agents have been courted by honeypots we believe are working for Russia and China. Their names according to our intelligence are Tiger and Brazil. We lost track of them near your club in Florida so we should double security until we can figure out who these agents are working for"

"Ok, Chris, more security sounds great wow that they would do such a thing, right? Those are some very very bad people trying to ruin relationships like that. They look pretty nice in those pictures though don't they, I mean that's a 9. Whoever hired them sure has taste let me tell ya"

"Yes sir, I'm glad you see it that way sir.... indeed they look attractive sir...."

"Let's just quickly call your wife Chris to tell her not to worry in case she hears about this because you and I both know she's a 6 and I need you in tippy top condition"

"I don't think that... I..."

"Hello.... how are you this is the President.... You know I'm with your loving husband... yeah that's great right... he's doing a good job..... say listen, if you hear rumors about cheating FBI agents and Russian prostitutes called TIGER AND BRAZIL being recorded at Trump Hotels and Clubs believe me Chris is not involved with that at all.... and neither are Rudy and Jared.... he was working late last night?.... yes.... oh he said he was drinking at the bar.... well that is secret code talk for being with his favorite President honey.... so don't you worry OK thank you take care"

"You shouldn't lie to your wife Chris believe me they always find out now go get those Russkies and buy your wife some flowers"
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Post by: team filler on May 14, 2021, 02:47:20 PM
https://twitter.com/BrendanWiliams/status/1393058093647507458


 :biden
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 14, 2021, 05:16:51 PM
stupid science bitches :trumps
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Post by: Potato on May 14, 2021, 05:44:49 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woke_disney2021-1024x762.jpg)

 :clap
Gotta admit, the pronoun train is pretty fucking funny
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Post by: Nintex on May 14, 2021, 05:55:31 PM
Epcot just as walt envisioned it
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Post by: benjipwns on May 14, 2021, 09:54:36 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/14/neera-tanden-white-house-488375
A contentious nomination process kept Neera Tanden out of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, but she still landed in the White House.

The White House confirmed on Friday that Biden had appointed Tanden to be a senior adviser. She will start on Monday.
:biden
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Post by: benjipwns on May 14, 2021, 11:53:47 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1393375901170155521
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 15, 2021, 09:13:47 AM
Donald Trump had so much energy that he posted all night and then dozed most of the morning while Fox and Friends was on.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 15, 2021, 11:49:36 AM
I sleep 10 hours a night :success
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Post by: Nintex on May 15, 2021, 01:16:16 PM
There's no denying Trump definitely had the most energy and worked the hardest of any President in history while in office.

Not only was he running the US, he was also leaking to the press, making deals for his businesses, getting into fights with reporters, calling into Fox News morning shows whenever he felt like it, trying to beat the FBI at their spy games, campaigning 24/7, hosting parties, winning government contracts, meet with Rudy's friends, blackmailing Republicans, evading lawsuits, breaking fundraising records, flying all over the place and tweeting all day while still somehow finding time to be up to speed on the latest gossip, world events as well as whatever drama was playing out either on the 24/7 news channels, among his staff or on the internet or the world in general and respond before the 'US Government' officially could.

Most companies need a staff of 10 dedicated marketing and PR workers to write and push that many messages to their audience and stay in the loop.
Meanwhile Trump did most of it making a point out of not utilizing the vast resources of the US federal government because they were losers.

Commanders and generals in charge of complicated military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places like Kelly could by their own account not keep up, understand or keep track of everything he was doing.
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Post by: team filler on May 15, 2021, 02:24:16 PM
trumpy is an autisty   :ohhh
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Post by: Potato on May 15, 2021, 04:07:36 PM
...and he managed to fit in a weekly game of golf. Face it, Biden is a slow old pussy.
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Post by: team filler on May 15, 2021, 08:29:10 PM
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1393707042771283969


 :maduro
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Post by: Nintex on May 16, 2021, 06:28:18 AM
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1393707044251881472 (https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1393707044251881472)

(https://i.imgur.com/d7U427G.png)

#CoexistenceIsOk
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 16, 2021, 01:39:13 PM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1393975776299687942 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1393975776299687942)

This entire sentence  :doge
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 16, 2021, 02:13:37 PM
I thought Space Force was a joke until I found out they were a bunch of interstellar Marxists.   
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Post by: zomgee on May 16, 2021, 03:42:32 PM
Quote
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier joined The Steve Gruber show to discuss his new book, "Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military," which alleges that Marxist ideologies are becoming widespread within the armed forces. He expounded on those concerns in the podcast.

"Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be," Lohmeier said. "That wasn't just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature."

When pressed on what exactly he meant, Lohmeier decried the New York Times 1619 Project, a historical look at how slavery formed America's institutions, as "anti-American."

"It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base -- that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land," Lohmeier said. "If you want to disagree with that, then you start (being) labeled all manner of things including racist."

"Welcome to our new co-host on The Five..."
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Post by: benjipwns on May 16, 2021, 10:30:57 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/16/matthew-mcconaughey-texas-governor-run-488536
Matthew McConaughey has publicly said a run for Texas governor in 2022 is a “true consideration.”

But the Academy Award-winning actor’s interest goes a step further than musings in interviews. McConaughey has been quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles, including a deep-pocketed moderate Republican and energy CEO, to take their temperature on the race and to talk about seriously throwing his hat in the ring, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on May 17, 2021, 03:21:04 PM
https://twitter.com/awkward_duck/status/1394277136299606021


 :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on May 17, 2021, 08:38:26 PM
https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1394305959820992517
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Post by: team filler on May 17, 2021, 08:40:42 PM
not the chicken  :biden
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 17, 2021, 09:53:19 PM
Round 3 baby!!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/donie/status/1390777133799251971

This bus is now another victim of cancel culture in Biden’s America  :usacry

https://mobile.twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1394343120578482179
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 18, 2021, 12:49:32 PM
The Capital riot trials are going to be  :win

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattshuham/status/1394666856171122692

 :dead
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Post by: james on May 18, 2021, 01:19:33 PM
I can see a jury buying the "hes fucking distinguished mentally-challenged" defense

Edit: WTF Im using a legal term here
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Post by: Nintex on May 18, 2021, 01:23:37 PM
Indeed, CNN should be put on trial for those 4 years of "BOMBSHELL" propaganda not these innocent heroes  :-\
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Post by: benjipwns on May 18, 2021, 02:20:26 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/andrew-giuliani-announces-bid-to-oust-cuomo-as-ny-governor/
The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will announce Tuesday that he’s officially running for the Republican primary in 2022 — and is confident he can not only knock out veteran GOP competition but then go on to take out scandal-ridden Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“I’m a politician out of the womb. It’s in my DNA,” Giuliani, 35, told The Post, referring to his childhood as the son of a larger than life Big Apple mayor.

“Giuliani vs. Cuomo. Holy smokes. Its Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. We can sell tickets at Madison Square Garden,”
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Post by: Nintex on May 18, 2021, 02:44:13 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566 (https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566)

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848 (https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848)

:rejoice
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 18, 2021, 02:52:21 PM
edit:  corona thread
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Post by: naff on May 18, 2021, 05:38:25 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566 (https://twitter.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1394692694040002566)

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848 (https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1394653610718371848)

:rejoice

like bill burr and rudy had a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome
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Post by: james on May 18, 2021, 05:53:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4c54Qep.png)

Someone color in the red and blue states
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Post by: Nintex on May 18, 2021, 06:03:06 PM
Ok, not sure if I got them all but it seems to be something like this
(https://www.270towin.com/map-images/PQOv0.png)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 18, 2021, 06:45:52 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/4c54Qep.png)

Someone color in the red and blue states

Bernie :rejoice
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Post by: team filler on May 19, 2021, 12:42:09 AM
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1394801934759047170


bunch of nintex wannabes in the comments  :whew
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Post by: Nintex on May 19, 2021, 10:14:29 AM
"Look here Jenny, Jews and Muslims have been fighting as long as I remember we gotta support the Pope on this one get my horse ready"
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Post by: Nintex on May 19, 2021, 06:28:52 PM
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1395075360010743814 (https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1395075360010743814)

A quick count: Cheney, Romney and Pence = 18% for the non-Trump wing of the party


Still gonna have to beat this king
https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1394806101359697928 (https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1394806101359697928)
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Post by: benjipwns on May 19, 2021, 11:09:31 PM
https://www.axios.com/off-the-rails-trump-military-withdraw-afghanistan-5717012a-d55d-4819-a79f-805d5eb3c6e2.html
Quote
John McEntee, one of Donald Trump's most-favored aides, handed retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor a piece of paper with a few notes scribbled on it. He explained: "This is what the president wants you to do."

1. Get us out of Afghanistan.

2. Get us out of Iraq and Syria.

3. Complete the withdrawal from Germany.

4. Get us out of Africa.

It was Nov. 9, 2020 — days after Trump lost his re-election bid, 10 weeks before the end of his presidency and just moments after Macgregor was offered a post as senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.

As head of the powerful Presidential Personnel Office, McEntee had Trump's ear. Even so, Macgregor was astonished. He told McEntee he doubted they could do all of these things before Jan. 20.

"Then do as much as you can," McEntee replied.

In Macgregor's opinion, Miller probably couldn't act on his own authority to execute a total withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan because he was serving in an acting capacity. If this was for real, Macgregor told McEntee, then it was going to need an order from the president.

The one-page memo was delivered by courier to Christopher Miller's office two days later, on the afternoon of Nov. 11. The order arrived seemingly out of nowhere, and its instructions, signed by Trump, were stunning: All U.S. military forces were to be withdrawn from Somalia by Dec. 31, 2020. All U.S. forces were to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by Jan. 15, 2021.

What the fuck is this? Miller wondered.
:trumps
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Post by: team filler on May 20, 2021, 12:40:13 AM
don the dove  :tocry
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Post by: team filler on May 20, 2021, 04:37:57 AM
https://twitter.com/_isabellew97/status/1395187634008432642


 :hesright
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Post by: Nintex on May 20, 2021, 12:56:31 PM
Quote
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid disputes that Trump raised any strongman talk of retaliation during his conversation with Baradar, telling Axios that the president "did not exert pressure nor issue any threats and warnings." He characterizes the phone call as "cordial and normal."
:kermit
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 20, 2021, 02:12:25 PM
trump was never going to risk closing exit doors and hideouts for the inevitable ________ charges.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 21, 2021, 06:30:04 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1395604298835316740 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1395604298835316740)

(https://www.horlogeforum.nl/uploads/db9961/original/4X/4/9/f/49f2a25bd01979e3a74e122afbd0fb195e8342f9.gif)
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Post by: Nintex on May 21, 2021, 07:43:48 PM
https://twitter.com/MayorsRace2021/status/1395389576877838341 (https://twitter.com/MayorsRace2021/status/1395389576877838341)

 :kermit

The comments are great
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Post by: james on May 21, 2021, 08:00:56 PM
We need to concentrate them into special camps for their own good
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 21, 2021, 10:31:59 PM
Why hasn't he had any rallies in 9 months?

Because he's old and lazy.
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Post by: benjipwns on May 21, 2021, 11:22:41 PM
https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1395734868407984136
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Post by: benjipwns on May 22, 2021, 01:53:51 AM
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1395852719383056396

she's running :american
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Post by: team filler on May 22, 2021, 02:12:55 AM
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1386984892211220488


tyler perry as vp  :doge
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Post by: Transhuman on May 22, 2021, 04:38:19 AM
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1395852719383056396

she's running :american

I can't think of any specific examples, but i'm sure elected Republicans on the national stage have called out anti-white discrimination before. Maybe their motivation came from a place of bigotry and not equality, but it still makes it untrue to say they didn't.
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Post by: Nintex on May 22, 2021, 06:18:00 AM
We need to concentrate them into special camps for their own good
I can totally see Yang propose this with different wording.
Cool people camps  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on May 22, 2021, 10:57:42 PM
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1395894122569945088

https://twitter.com/BiancaBuono/status/1395955435128033280
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on May 23, 2021, 11:59:08 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/PY815UW.png)
Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/opinion/israel-hamas-biden.html
For all of these reasons, my friend Victor J. Friedman, an academic activist who has worked extensively in Jewish-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab dialogues in Israel, emailed me from Israel to say:

    “Maybe this is another ‘Kissinger moment.’ Like the 1973 war, this situation is a wake-up call for Israel. Despite the spin, people know that there was no real victory here. More than ever there is a feeling that something has to change. Hamas, like the Egyptians, in 1973 surprised Israel and did real damage. Bibi wanted to do enough damage to humiliate Hamas as much as possible, without going in on the ground. But Biden stopped us before we could totally humiliate Hamas.”

So, Victor added, “There is a potential opening here for some creative diplomacy, just like after the 1973 war.”

I think he is right, but with one huge caveat. Kissinger’s negotiating partners were all strong national leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad — and they were resolving an interstate conflict between sovereign nations.

Indeed, what Kissinger began in 1973 and Jimmy Carter completed at Camp David was only possible because all these leaders actually agreed to ignore the core problem — the intra-state problem, the problem of two people wanting a state on the same land. In other words, the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

What Bibi Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas and the various leaders of Hamas all have in common is that they have never, ever, ever been willing to risk their political careers or lives to forge the kind of hard compromise needed for a peace breakthrough in their war over the same piece of land.

So I am dubious, to say the least, about the prospects for peace. What I am not dubious about, though, is this: the pain on all the actors in this drama — from more accurate rockets to more global boycotts to more homes destroyed that no foreigners want to pay to rebuild to unemployment to more inflammatory social networks to more anti-Semitism — is only going to intensify.

So, my message to Biden would be this: You may be interested in China, but the Middle East is still interested in you. You deftly helped to engineer the cease-fire from the sidelines. Do you want to, do you dare to, dive into the middle of this new Kissingerian moment?
:american
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Post by: benjipwns on May 24, 2021, 12:36:27 AM
https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1396175219753160710

 :ohhh
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Post by: Joe Molotov on May 24, 2021, 12:58:11 AM
They’ve already all agreed that since the Democrats cheated, he can be president for 2 or 3 more terms. Read the Constitution.
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Post by: Nintex on May 24, 2021, 01:05:01 PM
https://twitter.com/georgepbush/status/1396861324521582595 (https://twitter.com/georgepbush/status/1396861324521582595)

Whatever happens this'll be the comeback of the century
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 24, 2021, 01:06:39 PM
Even the Bushes are cucked by Trump now :titus

You'd think that leaning into the Dubya white wash would be the better move :doge
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Post by: Nintex on May 24, 2021, 01:29:01 PM
They need Trump until the Reagan AI is ready to take over.
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Post by: james on May 24, 2021, 01:35:52 PM
OMG the Q "Trump is the secret president" must be going wild

Someone with access please share info. With Neogaf dead I dont have a direct line to Q anymore
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on May 24, 2021, 01:37:27 PM
Read the conspiracy thread fam
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Post by: Nintex on May 24, 2021, 01:37:44 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2K2Lt7X0AQLGo2?format=jpg)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-daily-routine-gatorade/2021/05/23/b6f608c2-b40e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-daily-routine-gatorade/2021/05/23/b6f608c2-b40e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html)

The "Free wheeling passion" is gone  :stahp
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 24, 2021, 08:02:17 PM
Even the Bushes are cucked by Trump now :titus

You'd think that leaning into the Dubya white wash would be the better move :doge

George P has been all in on Trump for a while now. He's got a lot of ambition and apparently little loyalty to the family.
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Post by: team filler on May 24, 2021, 09:03:02 PM
Read the conspiracy thread fam
reads it with the other account  ;)
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Post by: benjipwns on May 24, 2021, 11:24:35 PM
Everybody's running for Governor Part XII:
Quote from: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/noted-anti-government-activist-ammon-bundy-running-governor-idaho-n1268317
Anti-government provocateur Ammon Bundy filed papers to run for governor in Idaho next year, even though he's not currently registered to vote or legally allowed to set foot on Capitol grounds.

Secretary of State candidacy records show Bundy listing his address as a post-office box in Emmett, with a local contractor, Aaron Welling, acting as treasurer.

He would be seeking the 2022 GOP nomination for the state's top post, currently held by Republican Brad Little. The governor had been unsuccessfully targeted for recall by anti-government activists unhappy with shutdowns he ordered in response to the pandemic.

Bundy told NBC News on Monday he's not yet formally announced a gubernatorial run, but wants to begin building an organization for a potential candidacy.

"The people of Idaho are very freedom-minded," Bundy said. "I had never desired (to run for office), but I knew as early as 2017 that I would run for governor of Idaho."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on May 25, 2021, 01:08:10 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1397218618799267840

 :holeup
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Post by: BIONIC on May 25, 2021, 01:38:01 PM
:horny :bedroomeyes :horny
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 25, 2021, 01:40:03 PM
There way too many right wing events going on right now.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jaredlholt/status/1396827742935687170

Meanwhile on the left :confused :biden

Can’t wait for all the ‘how did this happen’ articles when Mike Lindell gets sworn in as president.
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Post by: Nintex on May 25, 2021, 01:48:01 PM
Quote
Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. To me it was obvious from the beginning but I was badly criticized, as usual. Now they are all saying “He was right.” Thank you!

Trumpadamus strikes again :trumps
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Post by: Nintex on May 25, 2021, 06:21:29 PM
https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1396945973830725635 (https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1396945973830725635)

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828 (https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828)

 :maduro
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on May 25, 2021, 06:23:42 PM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828 (https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1396936382355021828)

 :maduro

Hillary introducing herself as if she's about to put those two to death
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on May 26, 2021, 01:16:07 AM
https://twitter.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/1397204404193959952


 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 26, 2021, 02:33:36 PM
There way too many right wing events going on right now.

And they all star the same group of grifters.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 26, 2021, 02:49:30 PM
Got get them "speaking fees" from donations that were "left over" from _____.

:money
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Post by: Trent Dole on May 26, 2021, 02:57:37 PM
Will people still show up to totes not klan rallies in 2021 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 26, 2021, 09:50:54 PM
Will people still show up to totes not klan rallies in 2021 :doge

You already know the answer to that question.
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Post by: benjipwns on May 27, 2021, 11:45:03 AM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/matt-gaetz-still-eyes-2024-bid-despite-sex-trafficking-probe-unless-trump-runs/
He may be facing allegations of sex trafficking of a minor, but Rep. Matt Gaetz still has his eye on a 2024 presidential bid — as long as former President Donald Trump does not decide to run.

“I support Donald Trump for president. I’ve directly encouraged him to run and he gives me every indication he will,” the Florida Republican texted The Post Wednesday. “If Trump doesn’t run, I’m sure I could defeat whatever remains of Joe Biden by 2024.”
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Post by: benjipwns on May 27, 2021, 11:47:40 AM
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-private-flight-habit-hotel-demands-campaign-trail-book
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made frequent use of charter flights and laid out highly specific demands to staffers regarding his air travel and hotel accommodations while running for president, according to an excerpt from new book detailing Democratic presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.

Sanders’ habits on the campaign trail were detailed in "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by author Edward-Isaac Dovere. In the book, Dovere wrote that private air travel was a "revelation" to Sanders, who had flown commercially before his upstart presidential run in 2016 catapulted him to the national stage.

"Charter flights were a revelation to him. He would always be a little embarrassed pulling into the private terminals, but boy, did he get a kick out of not worrying about being late for a flight that couldn’t take off without him," Dovere wrote regarding Sanders. "By the beginning of 2017, his staff had put together a document laying out his minimum requirements for the kind of aircraft he’d require if asked to go on trips beyond his regular route back and forth between Vermont and Washington. Couldn’t be too cramped. Couldn’t get too bumpy."

...

The book detailed one incident in which Sanders allegedly shamed a hotel worker who couldn’t get his room to his preferred temperature.

"Hotel rooms had to be away from elevators and from ice machines, so that quiet was guaranteed," Dovere wrote. "He didn’t like getting upgrades and would often switch with an aide if he got the nicer room— ‘If there’s a bomb in there, it’s yours tonight,’ he’d joke— but he liked suites, and he liked bathtubs, and he insisted on a king-size bed, which had to have a down comforter or another blanket in the closet. He preferred that the extra blanket be dark blue, and made of cotton.

"The temperature in the room had to be kept at 60, even if that required having a staffer sit in the room with an open window in the winter to make sure it cooled enough or calling management in to override the system," he continued. "There was no bending the rules: once on a stop in California, annoyed that his aides couldn’t get the temperature below 65, he had them call the woman from the front desk up to change the thermostat while he sat on the bed, watching. She couldn’t get it to work, and nervously humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said, annoyed. ‘You don’t want me to sleep tonight?’

The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.
:bernie
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Post by: BIONIC on May 27, 2021, 11:48:22 AM
Will people still show up to totes not klan rallies in 2021 :doge

https://youtu.be/QMswepvHBAA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on May 27, 2021, 12:02:46 PM
Quote
"The temperature in the room…required having a staffer sit in the room with … an open window…to make sure it cooled enough …There was no bending the rules…call the woman from the front desk up to change…sat on the bed, watching. She …humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said…" want me to sleep tonight?’

 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on May 27, 2021, 12:51:14 PM
LET THE MAN SLEEP IN COMFORT
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 27, 2021, 02:20:40 PM
Wow, Bernie's behaviour is terribly elitist.

Meanwhile, Trump arranged top tier hotel stays for all his staff, helped to hand out paper towels if needed and was fine with McDonalds :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on May 27, 2021, 03:56:52 PM
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-private-flight-habit-hotel-demands-campaign-trail-book
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., made frequent use of charter flights and laid out highly specific demands to staffers regarding his air travel and hotel accommodations while running for president, according to an excerpt from new book detailing Democratic presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.

Sanders’ habits on the campaign trail were detailed in "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by author Edward-Isaac Dovere. In the book, Dovere wrote that private air travel was a "revelation" to Sanders, who had flown commercially before his upstart presidential run in 2016 catapulted him to the national stage.

"Charter flights were a revelation to him. He would always be a little embarrassed pulling into the private terminals, but boy, did he get a kick out of not worrying about being late for a flight that couldn’t take off without him," Dovere wrote regarding Sanders. "By the beginning of 2017, his staff had put together a document laying out his minimum requirements for the kind of aircraft he’d require if asked to go on trips beyond his regular route back and forth between Vermont and Washington. Couldn’t be too cramped. Couldn’t get too bumpy."

...

The book detailed one incident in which Sanders allegedly shamed a hotel worker who couldn’t get his room to his preferred temperature.

"Hotel rooms had to be away from elevators and from ice machines, so that quiet was guaranteed," Dovere wrote. "He didn’t like getting upgrades and would often switch with an aide if he got the nicer room— ‘If there’s a bomb in there, it’s yours tonight,’ he’d joke— but he liked suites, and he liked bathtubs, and he insisted on a king-size bed, which had to have a down comforter or another blanket in the closet. He preferred that the extra blanket be dark blue, and made of cotton.

"The temperature in the room had to be kept at 60, even if that required having a staffer sit in the room with an open window in the winter to make sure it cooled enough or calling management in to override the system," he continued. "There was no bending the rules: once on a stop in California, annoyed that his aides couldn’t get the temperature below 65, he had them call the woman from the front desk up to change the thermostat while he sat on the bed, watching. She couldn’t get it to work, and nervously humiliated, she apologized. Sanders didn’t care. ‘So, Chloe,’ he said, annoyed. ‘You don’t want me to sleep tonight?’

The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.
:bernie
That reads like someone spent a lot of time finding innocuous stories from a long campaign and twisting then into a "bad man" narrative.
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Post by: Nintex on May 27, 2021, 04:59:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufZ1nIcrpw

 :salute
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Post by: Great Rumbler on May 27, 2021, 06:48:46 PM
I'm with Sanders on this one, hotel room AC rarely gets the room cool enough with the normal settings.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: remy on May 27, 2021, 10:00:44 PM
Quote
The senator allegedly required pamphlets and other promotional materials to be removed from his hotel rooms and prefers having a fan, once asking an aide to buy one during a blizzard. The memo also directed staffers to ensure his rooms at hotels or events were stocked with drinks and snacks, such as green tea with honey, Gatorade and cans of assorted nuts.
sleeps with a fan what a maniac

drinking green tea and eating cans of nuts- just burning donator dollars on luxurious consumption. some leftist!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 28, 2021, 03:11:10 AM
https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1398171071514386432 (https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1398171071514386432)

Black Lives Matter!*

*not as much as my book deal or TV show :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 28, 2021, 07:03:08 AM
https://www.centralmaine.com/2021/05/26/hes-been-asking-walmart-to-pick-up-its-trash-for-three-years-but-when-he-did-it-himself-walmart-called-the-police/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on May 28, 2021, 07:23:29 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/tech/facebook-covid-19-origin-claims-removal/index.html

SMH
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Post by: Nintex on May 28, 2021, 01:01:36 PM
So Joe Biden is now the arbiter of truth.

Good to know.  :like
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 28, 2021, 03:03:10 PM
https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1398303790101667841 (https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1398303790101667841)

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1398338328882200581 (https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1398338328882200581)

10% for the big guy :biden
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Post by: team filler on May 28, 2021, 03:28:14 PM
So Joe Biden is now the arbiter of truth.

Good to know.  :like
god emperor bide  :biden
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Post by: Potato on May 28, 2021, 03:37:45 PM
Inflation is a sign of a growing economy.
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Post by: james on May 28, 2021, 05:20:48 PM
Im an average american worker and I experienced inflation just fine in south america thank you very much.

When the $1 can of soda suddenly costs $3.50

 :whew
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Post by: Nintex on May 28, 2021, 06:21:07 PM
Income fell 13.1% as well
Quote
:usacry

With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, tomorrow people start driving in the biggest automobile days of the year.
I’m sorry to say the gasoline prices that you will be confronted with are far higher than they were just a short number of months ago where we had gasoline under $2 a gallon.

Remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Trump did as President.
Soon Russia and the Middle East will be making a fortune on oil, and you will be saying how good it was to have me as your President.

Wasn’t it great to be energy independent, but we are energy independent no more.

Shame, shame, shame.

Other than that, have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on May 29, 2021, 05:46:31 PM
https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1398202457185042436 (https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1398202457185042436)

30 million people (in the US alone) believe in Qanon now   :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 31, 2021, 09:29:10 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/Ix6fBOF.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: D3RANG3D on June 01, 2021, 03:30:02 PM
https://twitter.com/CartoonsBen/status/1399739858533289989
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 01, 2021, 07:12:21 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051)

Trump has told people Maggie he expects to be reinstated in August because reasons.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 01, 2021, 07:28:54 PM
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1399836392839057411 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1399836392839057411)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on June 01, 2021, 09:54:50 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1399707794375426051)

Trump has told people Maggie he expects to be reinstated in August because reasons.

Looking forward to diamond Joe actually letting the capital police prepare, or even be bolstered by the national guard this time. Diamond Joe don’t play.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 02, 2021, 10:27:38 AM
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-page-shuts-down-for-good.html
Quote
Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.

The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.

“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 02, 2021, 10:39:12 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/biden-shapiro-trump-conservative-publishing/619052/
Quote
His presidency may be young, but industry insiders have told me in recent weeks that the market for anti-Biden books is ice cold. Authors have little interest in writing them, editors have little interest in publishing them, and—though the hypothesis has yet to be tested—it’s widely assumed that readers would have little interest in buying them. In many ways, the dynamic represents a microcosm of the current political moment: Facing a new president whose relative dullness is his superpower, the American right has gone hunting for richer targets to elevate.

To some in the publishing industry, the apparent lack of appetite is bewildering. “In the past, it’s been like taking candy from a baby to write a book about the Democratic president,” one frustrated conservative editor told me, requesting anonymity to speak candidly about internal business practices. Now? “Nobody is trying.”
Quote
Jonah Goldberg, a former National Review columnist who has written several popular conservative books, told me it was never hard to make Hillary Clinton seem “sinister” to readers of a certain stripe. “Hillary was a kind of Zelig figure of the post-’60s left. Some of the associations were tenuous, but you could play the political equivalent of the Kevin Bacon game with her without needing more than one or two degrees of separation. Black Panthers! Communist law firms! Sidney Blumenthal! Saul Alinsky!” Biden, an aging white guy who spent decades in the Senate, is by contrast “somewhat boringly conventional.”

And there’s another problem, Goldberg told me: “Most of the good ammo against Biden—which I’ve deployed in the past—isn’t as effective after four years of Trump. He says crazy things! He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! He has a ridiculous ego and lies about his brilliance and expertise! All of this is true. But all of that has been normalized by Trump.”

“The right-wing marketplace has been radicalized,” said Goldberg, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump-era GOP. “Not just by QAnon-type stuff, but by years of anti-Clinton-and-Obama fare.”
Quote
For now, the most successful conservative authors are training their fire on more abstract targets, such as “wokeness” and “cancel culture.” A quick review of recent best sellers suggests that ignoring Biden can work just fine. According to BookScan, which tracks most hardcover sales, Andy Ngo’s book on antifa, Unmasked, has sold more than 77,000 copies (an unqualified success in political nonfiction), as has Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies, which bills itself as a “manual for Christian dissidents.” The talk-radio host Mark Levin’s forthcoming American Marxism—which will tackle, among other subjects, “the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal,” per its publisher—is expected to be a massive hit when it’s released in July.

Shapiro attributes this trend to a broader shift that he’s noticed in his audience. While conservatives may not care about Biden, he told me, they are petrified of the larger progressive forces they see at work in American politics. “What people are afraid of right now are not powerful public figures. What people are afraid of are their bosses, their neighbors, that they’re going to get mobbed on Twitter and get socially ostracized.” Shapiro is betting that’s where the focus will stay: His own book coming out this summer will cover what he describes as “the leftist takeover of every major institution.”
Quote
Meanwhile, some in the conservative publishing world are determined to find a new bogeyman to fill the vacuum left by Biden. One possibility is Anthony Fauci, whose advocacy for COVID-19 restrictions has drawn ire from wide swaths of the right. (Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History became a surprise hit when it was released in March, selling more than 68,000 copies.) But as the pandemic winds down in America, Fauci’s staying power as an antagonist is in doubt. Another option is Biden’s son Hunter, whose personal life and controversial business dealings have been widely covered on Fox News. He is the subject of a forthcoming book, Laptop From Hell, slated for this September.

One conservative editor told me that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York might be the most logical choice, given the right’s fear of socialism, but cited a unique challenge in making the congresswoman appear sufficiently menacing: “It’s hard to find a bad picture of her to put on the cover.”
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Post by: Nintex on June 02, 2021, 12:13:05 PM
Player haters ain't got nothing go hate

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/73/b1/f473b1b8a22c8468d50ad8cddad79bd9.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 02, 2021, 12:29:40 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1399837556796276742 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1399837556796276742)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E24QnlnWQAcVobI?format=png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 02, 2021, 09:15:32 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1400201160817000448

 :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 03, 2021, 01:19:46 AM
https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1400174062551191554
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Raist on June 03, 2021, 06:24:43 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57180675

 :larry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 03, 2021, 01:47:57 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57343832

Abortion: Texas teen attacks new law in high school graduation speech
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 03, 2021, 01:48:13 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/trump-blog-page-shuts-down-for-good.html
Quote
Former President Donald Trump’s blog — a webpage where he shared statements after larger social media companies banned him from their platforms — has been permanently shut down, his spokesman said Wednesday.

The page, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” has been scrubbed from Trump’s website after going live less than a month earlier. It “will not be returning,” his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC.

“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.

Sad!  :biden
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Post by: Nintex on June 03, 2021, 01:56:19 PM
Quote
“It was just auxiliary to the broader efforts we have and are working on,” Miller said in email correspondence.

It was actually never about the votes but about the end to end consumer experience
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 03, 2021, 03:52:50 PM
George P has been all in on Trump for a while now. He's got a lot of ambition and apparently little loyalty to the family.

https://mobile.twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1400431775965396999

 :neogaf

Also Biden earning my vote for a second term.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1400112488209911816

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Anheuser-Busch though  :yuck
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on June 03, 2021, 04:02:07 PM
having to shut down a wordpress from lack of interest

:snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 03, 2021, 09:35:32 PM
having to shut down a wordpress from lack of interest

:snoop

Nobody wants to read a 10-paragraph Trump screed, even his die-hard fans.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on June 04, 2021, 01:16:23 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1400201160817000448

 :delicious

He's graduating.
The school's looking into ways to prevent the policy the conservative snowflakes used to try and punitively address the issue while chilling free speech. The student's clear work of social parody was merely a modest proposal.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on June 04, 2021, 09:20:01 AM
having to shut down a wordpress from lack of interest

:snoop

...Trump... die-hard fans... read.


  :lucas
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 04, 2021, 01:25:35 PM
https://spectator.org/florida-tech-censorship-law-desantis/
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Defenders of Big Tech routinely argue that these companies have a right to do whatever they want because they are not government entities. That is false.

Big Tech companies are engaging in censorship, plain and simple. The fact that they are in the private sector does not change the definition of the word. What it does mean is that Congress cannot impede their freedom to publish. The Constitution reserves that power and others to the states or the people under the 10th Amendment. Florida is exercising that authority.

In fact, the states have an active responsibility to protect their residents’ free-speech rights. Freedom of speech is not a one-way affair in which government is prohibited from interfering with speech but individuals and corporations may muzzle their neighbors. On the contrary, the proper role of government is not only to avoid restricting speech itself but also to protect the rights of the people to speak and be heard. That is exactly what Florida’s law is intended to do.
:notlikethis

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/social-media-fact-checkers-david-marcus
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Nobody is checking the fact checkers, and it is time that changed. It’s time for government to regulate the fact checking industry.

This may seem antithetical to traditional conservative values of small government, but the ubiquitous and monopolistic nature of social media, the power it has to frame how we see the world, is an existential challenge. We cannot be slaves to orthodoxy if that means Americans are subject not only to lies, but also the censorship of the truth.

The First Amendment rightly renders government powerless to regulate news outlets’ publishing content from their own in house fact checkers -- they are protected by freedom of the press. But third party independent fact checkers are another story entirely.
:stahp
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on June 04, 2021, 03:51:32 PM
"At the point at which fact checkers are citing lack of context, or concerns about methodology they are no longer fact checking"

What...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on June 04, 2021, 05:24:17 PM
Fat check



These rolls
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 04, 2021, 07:16:15 PM
Fact checkers lost their credibility in the 2016 election cycle.

If Bernie Sanders said he was against foreign wars it was considered partially false because of a comment he made in the 70's.
Then if Clinton said she was against the war in Iraq it was 100% true even though she voted for it.

There were some serious mental gymnastics going on.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 04, 2021, 07:22:06 PM
Criminalizing fact checking is probably one of the few issues that has bipartisan support in America.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on June 05, 2021, 09:02:56 AM
pretty wild to think sanders got bibi out of office
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 05, 2021, 02:14:15 PM
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456 (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456)

Run for Congress in Florida
Become speaker
Impeach Biden

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 05, 2021, 02:18:22 PM
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456 (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400881558681235456)

Run for Congress in Florida
Become speaker
Impeach Biden

:dead


Fail to get 2/3 of votes in Senate
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on June 05, 2021, 03:03:24 PM
seems like the kind of thing they'd send Don Jr to do and he'd not even win his primary in florida :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on June 05, 2021, 07:58:09 PM
He'd actually win a seat in Florida so not a terrible plan
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 06, 2021, 07:13:56 AM
Trump was an hour late, had his pants on backwards because he had shat himself(?) and his daughter in law announced she wasn't running in NC.

 :like
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 06, 2021, 08:57:23 PM
You don't need to be a member of the House to be elected Speaker though. :rollsafe
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Post by: Joe Molotov on June 07, 2021, 11:34:12 AM
You don't need to be a member of the House to be elected Speaker though. :rollsafe

This one weird trick!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 07, 2021, 03:31:37 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1401963741806092288 (https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1401963741806092288)

Copmala in her element doing a speech that could've been written by Stephen Miller.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 02:32:04 PM
Quote from: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004340386/biden-doj-plans-to-continue-to-defend-trump-in-e-jean-carrolls-defamation-lawsui
The Biden Justice Department is forging ahead with a controversial legal effort started under former President Donald Trump to intervene on Trump's behalf in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a writer who says Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.

E. Jean Carroll leveled the accusations against Trump in her memoir published in 2019. Trump denied the allegations and accused Carroll of lying to sell books.

Carroll sued the then-president for defamation, but the suit has been caught up in litigation since the Trump-era Justice Department attempted to step in on Trump's behalf and make the government the defendant instead of the now-former president.

In its filing late Monday, the Justice Department — now under the Biden administration — sought to continue its defense of Trump while distancing itself from his alleged actions.
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Instead, Boynton said, it boils down to a few legal questions, including whether a president is an "employee of the government" and whether Trump's denials were made within the scope of his office.

The department said the answer to both questions is yes, and therefore under federal law it said the government should be able to replace Trump as defendant in the case.

If the department were to succeed in its efforts, legal experts said the move would effectively end the case because the federal government can't be sued for defamation.
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 02:32:40 PM
Quote from: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/newsmax-turned-down-embattled-republican-matt-gaetz-job-spokesperson-2021-06-07/
Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.

Gaetz contacted Newsmax early this year, a source at the outlet said. That was around the time that news broke Gaetz was the subject of a federal investigation into possible sex trafficking of a minor.
annihilated
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 02:40:15 PM
(https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/maltlf4olewbwdr4w-nkvg.png)

edit:
(https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/ohi486xcvk2uz-oqtpckkg.png)

 :supergay
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 08, 2021, 04:44:40 PM
GOP Support for the LGBTQ2SIA+ certainly went up under Trump's leadership.

As did the appreciation for beautiful generals, big strong crying men and the YMCA.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 08, 2021, 07:19:49 PM
Copmala in her element doing a speech that could've been written by Stephen Miller.

Didn’t Biden build streetlights for them? These migrants are so ungrateful.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 09:25:57 PM
The bagman's back baby 8)
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/08/mcauliffe-favored-as-polls-close-in-virginia-primary-492217
Terry McAuliffe’s comeback bid aced its first test Tuesday, as the former Virginia governor cruised to victory in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary.

McAuliffe had been the wire-to-wire favorite in the Democratic gubernatorial primary since entering the race last December, significantly outraising his four other opponents and staking out a sizable lead in public polling throughout the race. His victory sets up a matchup with Glenn Youngkin, a former Carlyle Group chief executive who won the Republican nomination in a party convention about a month ago.

The November election will be the first major election during President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House — and a measure of how damaging now-former President Donald Trump was to the state Republican Party here, which had been ransacked during Trump’s four years in office.

McAuliffe’s blowout victory capped off a disappointing primary for some progressives in the state, who were eager to nominate a Black woman from the field. Both former state Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy and state Sen. Jennifer McClellan were unable to break out from the rest of the pack, which also included current Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Del. Lee Carter.

Some Democrats in the state fretted about apparent low turnout in the primary — “there’s more cicadas than there are voters,” one aide on a gubernatorial campaign quipped
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 09:31:34 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3Y-SS8WEAAC2JR?format=jpg&name=900x900)

cool cool cool everything's fine nobody will seriously
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 08, 2021, 09:35:32 PM
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1402257141570867217
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 09, 2021, 12:04:34 AM
(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/GzRDb92awX.jpg)

 :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on June 09, 2021, 10:56:37 AM
 :whatisthis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 09, 2021, 12:09:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcWytS3ThJk
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday disputed the science behind virus research because she does not believe in evolution.

Greene made the remarks while speaking to Steve Bannon on Real America's Voice, where she argued that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be criminally charged over the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Georgia Republican said that she opposed so-called "gain of function" research on viruses.

"That's a bioweapon," she charged. "So we need to be very clear about what was the intent of COVID-19 and these viruses that they experiment with like some sort of Dr. Frankenstein experiment."

"I don't buy it because I don't believe in evolution," the congresswoman said. "I don't believe in that type of so-called science. I don't believe in evolution. I believe in God."

Greene added: "These viruses were not making people sick until they created them and made them into weaponized viruses to be able to attach to our cells and make us sick. This has caused so many people to die all over the world."

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 09, 2021, 01:17:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFosCJKjPtw

Looks like the GOP is going all in on Trump 2024 with all the shows having him on speed dial again.


Who said it?

"I've been at the border, both physically and aware of the issue"

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Kamala Harris
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 09, 2021, 06:04:14 PM
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1402717892072857602 (https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1402717892072857602)

:badass :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: HaughtyFrank on June 09, 2021, 07:50:21 PM
https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 09, 2021, 08:10:19 PM
Remember 2009 when certain bad faith actors were claiming a new liberal government's spending was leading to hyper inflation? Remember how inflation and rates exploded, the economy crumbled, and babies starved in the streets because their poor mothers could afford milk?

Oh wait, that's right. They made the same bullshit claims and nothing happened.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 09, 2021, 08:41:30 PM
Quote from: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/police-clear-lafayette-park-area-trump-hold-bible/story?id=78171712
U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.

The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year and did not focus on individual incidents of police use of force, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent" with initial plans.
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The review ultimately found park police had been planning to clear the area for days to install anti-scale fencing and that the decisions on the ground were not changed because of the president or White House's plans.
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Regarding claims of violent tactics used against protestors, the report said only that "individual uses of force" by Park Police officers "are the subject of separate inquiries or ongoing lawsuits."

Greenblatt told ABC News that even though his office did not speak to Barr, the White House, or Secret Service for this review, it would have done so if the evidence indicated there was pressure from any of those sources that had an impact on Park Police decisions.

"We would have pursued evidence had it gone elsewhere. But we found that the U.S. Park Police officials on the ground, they owned the decision and the corroborating evidence supported that," he said on ABC News Live.
:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 09, 2021, 09:07:58 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1402779446797504516
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 09, 2021, 10:58:50 PM
https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409

The brain rot is painful to see, honestly.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 10, 2021, 02:15:55 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1402673068556886017

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on June 10, 2021, 09:45:40 AM
https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1402646586379878409

The brain rot is painful to see, honestly.

She must have gotten the fake vaccine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 10, 2021, 03:46:31 PM
2016: "Surely they couldn't be serious about building a wall?"

2021: "Fire the joint chiefs"

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1403072319971540999 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1403072319971540999)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 10, 2021, 07:20:48 PM
I'm not even someone who is a big global warming guy but...is it surprising that premier US military minds are worried about it? Think about the chaos and angst stirred by migration right now - waves of people fleeing military conflict or terrorism in their home countries. Now imagine that turned up to 11 because people are fleeing climate related disasters. Crops failing, drought, flooding. What does the Middle East look like in 10-20 years? What does Europe do in a similar timeline, facing mass migration and the right wing lurch that tends to cause? Hell look at South American migration. What's the long term impact of Brazil's government fucking up the Amazon.

Imagine the US military response that will be "required" by much of this. Given how pedestrian Chinese weapons systems are compared to the US, I don't see this being some far fetched opinion.

That being said, giving a speech to active duty military and telling them global warming is the biggest threat seems pretty laughable but hey....Biden being Biden has gotten him this far and it's working so uh...maybe internet hand wringling do not matter, as the kids say.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: OnlyRegret on June 10, 2021, 10:26:04 PM
https://twitter.com/JizzJohnsonJr/status/1402321008556756995
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 11, 2021, 10:17:03 AM
The only real mistake Biden made is to pick Kamala.

She's terrible at all this.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 11, 2021, 07:14:27 PM
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1403437920275533830
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on June 11, 2021, 07:33:39 PM
I'm not even someone who is a big global warming guy but...is it surprising that premier US military minds are worried about it? Think about the chaos and angst stirred by migration right now - waves of people fleeing military conflict or terrorism in their home countries. Now imagine that turned up to 11 because people are fleeing climate related disasters. Crops failing, drought, flooding. What does the Middle East look like in 10-20 years? What does Europe do in a similar timeline, facing mass migration and the right wing lurch that tends to cause? Hell look at South American migration. What's the long term impact of Brazil's government fucking up the Amazon.

Imagine the US military response that will be "required" by much of this. Given how pedestrian Chinese weapons systems are compared to the US, I don't see this being some far fetched opinion.

That being said, giving a speech to active duty military and telling them global warming is the biggest threat seems pretty laughable but hey....Biden being Biden has gotten him this far and it's working so uh...maybe internet hand wringling do not matter, as the kids say.

It's surprising that our top military minds would be worried about a liberal lie that was invented just to get research grants.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 11, 2021, 09:35:01 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1402997408112406529
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 12, 2021, 08:29:29 AM
:trumps :mynicca   :karen  :brazilcry
 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Trent Dole on June 12, 2021, 05:06:58 PM
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1403437920275533830
Turmp is going to be even more braindead in '24 than he was his entire time in office, they can run him if they want but even with all the voter suppression shit they're shoving through he probably won't win. :yeshrug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 12, 2021, 06:15:44 PM
Trump/DeSantis could beat Biden/Harris.

Ironically both parties need him on the ballot for another record turn-out.
If the sentiment is : "Trump can't possibly win" he likely will.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 14, 2021, 02:56:03 AM
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/hamas-unloads-on-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-terror-group-to-the-u-s/
Quote
Omar “equated between the victim and the executioner,” Basem Naim of Hamas’ International Relations Office complained in a statement that took issue with her Monday post on Twitter.

“it is unacceptable to make such an unfair comparison, which contradicts with basic norms of justice and international law,” Naim continued
:hamascry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 14, 2021, 11:38:45 AM
The humanitarian states of America are back baby!

https://mobile.twitter.com/USinTT/status/1404227576789454849

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on June 14, 2021, 11:44:44 AM
god bless :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 14, 2021, 12:11:14 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/06/12/hamas-unloads-on-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-terror-group-to-the-u-s/
Quote
Omar “equated between the victim and the executioner,” Basem Naim of Hamas’ International Relations Office complained in a statement that took issue with her Monday post on Twitter.

“it is unacceptable to make such an unfair comparison, which contradicts with basic norms of justice and international law,” Naim continued
:hamascry

"Hamas respects our laws more than the Democrats do. Hamas for Trump can you believe it?" :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 14, 2021, 01:59:50 PM
The humanitarian states of America are back baby!

 :biden

We could not have done this without you!

https://mobile.twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1404438475177226247
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 14, 2021, 02:57:52 PM
I like how every comment is either: "Arrest Trump, increase the minimum wage, make college free, help the migrants, do something ANYTHING!" or "You stole the election! MYPILLOW 10% OFF"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 15, 2021, 12:36:39 AM
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1404564419229724676

promoting social-fascism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy) :yuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on June 15, 2021, 08:37:05 AM
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1404564419229724676

promoting social-fascism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy) :yuck

It’s still not.
Go back to your vacation rental in Mexico.
Let AOC look after your constituency like last time.
Fuck bag.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 15, 2021, 07:38:34 PM
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1404836432368312324
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 15, 2021, 07:48:49 PM
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-nikki-frieds-campaign-site-was-liberal-english-moderate-spanish-until-she-was-1600397
Nikki Fried, Florida's agriculture commissioner, a rising star among state Democrats who hopes to defeat Governor Ron DeSantis next year if she wins the primary, sounds like a tried and true progressive on her English-language website.

She touts being an advocate for criminal justice reform, taking on the NRA, and fighting to protect the environment.

But as of Friday, all of that was missing from her Spanish-language website.

According to a Newsweek archive of the website, the original Spanish-language page was only 95 words, and the only policy point it mentioned was Fried's support for legalizing marijuana, while the updated page is 202 words and closely mirrors the English-language site on Fried protecting the environment, being a criminal justice reform advocate, and how she "expelled the NRA out of weapons license permitting."

"Our website copy, now updated, was in the process of being properly and professionally translated," Max Flugrath, communications director for Fried's campaign told Newsweek.
:teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 16, 2021, 12:33:27 AM
The republic may be crumbling, but at least we have the best first son in US history!

https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1404741334699810821
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 01:25:21 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4FvuxIUcAEJ0dV?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on June 17, 2021, 01:29:43 PM
:horny

Her body her choice, folks  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 01:38:32 PM
https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1405350740466544641
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 01:41:52 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-deserves-very-substantial-prison-time-prosecutors-n1271106
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Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.

Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.

“The defendant, a prominent attorney and media personality with a large public following, betrayed his client and sought to enrich himself by weaponizing his public profile in an attempt to extort a publicly-traded company out of tens of millions of dollars. This was an egregious abuse of trust, and it warrants real and serious punishment,” prosecutors wrote.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2jDTrlWwAAuUkF.jpg:large)
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Post by: james on June 17, 2021, 01:43:47 PM
https://twitter.com/Bex_Lyn/status/1405540464061685781


 :gddr5

Biden can't keep getting away with this
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Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 02:15:36 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-deserves-very-substantial-prison-time-prosecutors-n1271106
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Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.

Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.

“The defendant, a prominent attorney and media personality with a large public following, betrayed his client and sought to enrich himself by weaponizing his public profile in an attempt to extort a publicly-traded company out of tens of millions of dollars. This was an egregious abuse of trust, and it warrants real and serious punishment,” prosecutors wrote.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2jDTrlWwAAuUkF.jpg:large)
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1405515679558680578
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Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 02:27:48 PM
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1405195442867130368

mods help
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Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 02:37:46 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1405145440455204867

 :dead
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 17, 2021, 02:47:33 PM
(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/eCK46aAZ7C.jpg)

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Post by: james on June 17, 2021, 03:19:45 PM
Note tweet 6, bullet 2

This doesnt involve us bois
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Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 06:52:25 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1405215438917750786

 :rollsafe
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Post by: Joe Molotov on June 17, 2021, 06:54:59 PM
#1 Deez
#2 Nuts
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Post by: Nintex on June 17, 2021, 07:28:25 PM
Putin will make sure the hackers get that list :dice
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Post by: benjipwns on June 17, 2021, 08:12:48 PM
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405640781319319555
https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405645244486635520
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Post by: chronovore on June 17, 2021, 09:16:58 PM
Sidney Powell ultimately showing she lacks strength in her convictions.
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Post by: Nintex on June 18, 2021, 03:49:51 AM
Pretty crazy to think that she managed to get Flynn out with some impressive legal work and then pissed it all away :doge
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 18, 2021, 03:02:42 PM
(https://i.redd.it/n88h8vrbw0671.jpg)
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 18, 2021, 03:17:57 PM
Sidney Powell ultimately showing she lacks strength in her convictions.

The only true believer is Mike Pillow.
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Post by: Nintex on June 18, 2021, 04:32:47 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1405343301033631746 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1405343301033631746)

:pika
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Post by: benjipwns on June 18, 2021, 05:03:53 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1405928997880533003
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 18, 2021, 05:36:27 PM
Biden is stabbing his antifa supporters in the back.

https://mobile.twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1405943810648117255

 :biden
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Post by: Nintex on June 18, 2021, 05:47:02 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1406003195479052290 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1406003195479052290)

Sounds like terrorism to me Jack (https://abload.de/img/press-admonished-for-y6jxd.gif)
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Post by: Beezy on June 21, 2021, 05:11:04 PM
NYC votes tomorrow... :-\

https://twitter.com/rose_n_adams/status/1406975761920237575
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Post by: Nintex on June 21, 2021, 06:32:49 PM
https://twitter.com/emmagf/status/1407070361963880456 (https://twitter.com/emmagf/status/1407070361963880456)

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1407040635790581761 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1407040635790581761)

#YANGGANG2021
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Post by: tiesto on June 22, 2021, 10:18:53 AM
NYC votes tomorrow... :-\

https://twitter.com/rose_n_adams/status/1406975761920237575

My friend met Curtis Sliwa and he thought it was weird I had no idea who tf that was :P
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Post by: james on June 22, 2021, 10:43:24 AM
Its today?

Ah shit, I was going to run, I guess its too late
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Post by: benjipwns on June 22, 2021, 10:30:39 PM
Its today?

Ah shit, I was going to run, I guess its too late
You can probably still run in the general election.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 22, 2021, 10:32:44 PM
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/22/michigan-county-backed-trump-seeks-review-2020-election/5306630001/
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Cheboygan — The board of commissioners in a northern Michigan county that supported Donald Trump voted to pursue an audit of its election Tuesday, pointing to the ongoing tension among Republicans about the former president's loss.

Nearly eight months after Election Day, the GOP-controlled Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 to send a letter to Jonathan Brater, the state elections director, requesting a recount of its ballots and a review of whether an "unauthorized computer" manipulated the tallies.

The 25,000-person county is at the top of the Lower Peninsula, and 64% of its voters supported Trump, the Republican incumbent, in November. Only 34% backed Democrat Joe Biden. But for months, Cheboygan County officials have been discussing the idea of examining the election results amid a nationwide push among some in the GOP to question the outcome and to investigate unsubstantiated theories of voter fraud.
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Beth Bridgman of Cheboygan has been the most vocal Cheboygan County residents pushing for a so-called "forensic audit" of the 2020 results. In an interview, she voiced opposition to the county commissioners' letter, saying she was hoping for a more expansive review of the software and equipment used in the election.

"There’s nobody looking at whether or not the machines are being hacked in real-time," Bridgman said.
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Post by: Beezy on June 22, 2021, 11:21:50 PM
Yang already conceded :lol
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Post by: Nintex on June 23, 2021, 03:51:22 AM
What's next for Yang. Senate, Congress, switching parties?
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Post by: tiesto on June 23, 2021, 09:37:20 AM
Thought this was a great article from The Atlantic, describing 4 different competing views of America: Free America (libertarians, small government, Reagan conservatives), Smart America (college educated Democrats in the professional sector - still think the system can be reformed for the better, probably me and a good chunk of the Bore would fall under this), Real America (middle american white working class, religious), Just America (socially far to the left to the point of cancel culture, i.e. your average Resetera person at its most extreme... tends to be millennials and zoomers who are highly educated but locked out of opportunity due to the excesses of late stage capitalism)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/)

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Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness. There is never just one—they compete and constantly change. The most durable narratives are not the ones that stand up best to fact-checking. They’re the ones that address our deepest needs and desires. Americans know by now that democracy depends on a baseline of shared reality—when facts become fungible, we’re lost. But just as no one can live a happy and productive life in nonstop self-criticism, nations require more than facts—they need stories that convey a moral identity. The long gaze in the mirror has to end in self-respect or it will swallow us up.

Tracing the evolution of these narratives can tell you something about a nation’s possibilities for change. Through much of the 20th century, the two political parties had clear identities and told distinct stories. The Republicans spoke for those who wanted to get ahead, and the Democrats spoke for those who wanted a fair shake. Republicans emphasized individual enterprise, and Democrats emphasized social solidarity, eventually including Black people and abandoning the party’s commitment to Jim Crow. But, unlike today, the two parties were arguing over the same recognizable country. This arrangement held until the late ’60s—still within living memory.

The two parties reflected a society that was less free than today, less tolerant, and far less diverse, with fewer choices, but with more economic equality, more shared prosperity, and more political cooperation. Liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats played important roles in their respective parties. Americans then were more uniform than we are in what they ate (tuna noodle casserole) and what they watched (Bullitt). Even their bodies looked more alike. They were more restrained than we are, more repressed—though restraint and repression were coming undone by 1968.

Since then, the two parties have just about traded places. By the turn of the millennium, the Democrats were becoming the home of affluent professionals, while the Republicans were starting to sound like populist insurgents. We have to understand this exchange in order to grasp how we got to where we are.

The 1970s ended postwar, bipartisan, middle-class America, and with it the two relatively stable narratives of getting ahead and the fair shake. In their place, four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America’s moral identity. They have roots in history, but they are shaped by new ways of thinking and living. They reflect schisms on both sides of the divide that has made us two countries, extending and deepening the lines of fracture. Over the past four decades, the four narratives have taken turns exercising influence. They overlap, morph into one another, attract and repel one another. None can be understood apart from the others, because all four emerge from the same whole.
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Post by: james on June 23, 2021, 12:04:33 PM
Thought this was a great article from The Atlantic, describing 4 different competing views of America: Free America (libertarians, small government, Reagan conservatives), Smart America (college educated Democrats in the professional sector - still think the system can be reformed for the better, probably me and a good chunk of the Bore would fall under this), Real America (middle american white working class, religious), Just America (socially far to the left to the point of cancel culture, i.e. your average Resetera person at its most extreme... tends to be millennials and zoomers who are highly educated but locked out of opportunity due to the excesses of late stage capitalism)


Bullshit.

Where does the "nuke us from orbit, we are the virus" party come in? I think thats most of us
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 23, 2021, 01:22:35 PM
(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ZDmC4o4z5K.png)
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Post by: Uncle on June 23, 2021, 02:03:28 PM
which of the 4 americas is nintex from
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Post by: Joe Molotov on June 23, 2021, 02:04:25 PM
Smark America
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Post by: zomgee on June 23, 2021, 03:24:02 PM
Thought this was a great article from The Atlantic, describing 4 different competing views of America: Free America (libertarians, small government, Reagan conservatives), Smart America (college educated Democrats in the professional sector - still think the system can be reformed for the better, probably me and a good chunk of the Bore would fall under this), Real America (middle american white working class, religious), Just America (socially far to the left to the point of cancel culture, i.e. your average Resetera person at its most extreme... tends to be millennials and zoomers who are highly educated but locked out of opportunity due to the excesses of late stage capitalism)


Bullshit.

Where does the "nuke us from orbit, we are the virus" party come in? I think thats most of us

Resetera is thataway

 :camby
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Post by: benjipwns on June 23, 2021, 08:29:11 PM
Quote from: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/06/22/state-university-faculty-students-to-be-surveyed-on-beliefs/
The bill also offers no assurances that the survey’s answers will be anonymous, and there is no clarity on who can use the data and for what purpose.

What is specified is that the state university system’s Board of Governors and the State Board of Education will be required to select or create an “objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid survey,” presumably through the boards’ public procurement or rule-making process.

In addition to the survey, the measure DeSantis signed into law will bar university and college officials from limiting speech that “may be uncomfortable, disagreeable or offensive,” and will allow students to record lectures without consent for educational purposes or to support a civil or criminal case against a higher education institution.

When debating the bill on the Senate floor, Rodrigues said students should be able to “shed a light” on wrongdoing in a classroom. Professors, however, would have civil cause of action against any student — whether they are an adult or a minor — if they publish the recording for any other purpose.

DeSantis did not go into all the details of the bill, but lauded it in broad terms, saying it will allow “robust First Amendment speech on our college and university campuses.”

“I think that having intellectual diversity is something that is very, very important,” DeSantis said.
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The measure, which goes into effect July 1, does not specify what will be done with the survey results. But DeSantis and Sen. Ray Rodrigues, the sponsor of the bill, suggested on Tuesday that budget cuts could be looming if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students.

“That’s not worth tax dollars and that’s not something that we’re going to be supporting moving forward,” DeSantis said at a press conference at a middle school in Fort Myers.
(https://www.rawstory.com/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNjc5MTE4OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1Njc0NTQwMn0.KmmIeAFMOogg7W-V0yi64OOQh-VJ028cWSQlvlIlspo/image.jpg?width=1200&height=846)
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Post by: benjipwns on June 24, 2021, 03:06:35 AM
The NYC mayoral campaign coverage that The People demand:
https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/an-inside-look-into-curtis-sliwas-life-with-15-rescue-cats/
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It’s the purrrfect apartment.

The Post got an exclusive look inside Curtis Sliwa’s tiny Upper West Side studio apartment Wednesday — after the newly minted GOP mayoral nominee revealed that he and his wife share the space with 15 rescue cats.

The 320-square-foot studio on West 87th Street and Central Park West is a veritable kitty heaven with furnishings more fit for felines than their human roommates.

There’s three windows that face the street that are perfectly set up for bird watching, or an afternoon snooze in the sunshine, that have been retrofitted with chicken wire so the cats can enjoy a makeshift outdoor space while basking on the sills.

Three towering cat condos cover the apartment’s main wall and in the kitchen, two private cat hotels are perched atop the cabinets that provide a birds eye view of the action below.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 24, 2021, 03:46:25 AM
Die Linke: "Defund The Police"

Neo-FDR: "Listen, Jack"
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Biden also plans to discuss how $350 billion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package can be used by cities to hire law enforcement officers, pay overtime, prosecute gun traffickers and invest in technology to make law enforcement more efficient.
:biden
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 24, 2021, 06:47:28 AM
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article252283988.html
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on June 24, 2021, 01:37:37 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/Turkewitz/status/1408082312701558789

 :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: Nintex on June 24, 2021, 06:23:53 PM
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1408138688538763266 (https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1408138688538763266)

:biden
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Post by: benjipwns on June 26, 2021, 08:58:29 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1408927249957457920

our next President
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Post by: benjipwns on June 26, 2021, 09:58:19 PM
https://twitter.com/SpiroAgnewGhost/status/1408958829690163200
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Post by: benjipwns on June 27, 2021, 12:56:32 AM
https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1408214168013086724
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Post by: Nintex on June 27, 2021, 07:41:19 AM
https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145 (https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145)

STAND UP PRIVATE :salute

That's a whole different ball game
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on June 27, 2021, 07:50:02 AM
the S in USA now stands for soy :tocry
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Post by: Transhuman on June 27, 2021, 10:20:43 AM
https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145 (https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1408957939159814145)

STAND UP PRIVATE :salute

That's a whole different ball game

Soldiers who think for themselves?? Goodbye America I guess
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Post by: Nintex on June 27, 2021, 05:25:44 PM
Not only the rallies are back

https://twitter.com/CartoonsBen/status/1408960521945055238 (https://twitter.com/CartoonsBen/status/1408960521945055238)
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Post by: benjipwns on June 28, 2021, 01:15:00 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-supporters-express-boredom-same-old-trump-speech-this-getting-ridiculous-1604489
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They blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are "rotting in jail." And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even "bringing up the word 'vaccine,'" specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.

But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump's post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as "traitors."

"I'm 100% with the dude, but literally switched from his speech 3 mins ago. Im [sic] done with his speeches," wrote QAnon user Jacob.

"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote another QAnon user. "I support Trump but this is getting ridiculous."

"Love President Trump. But, if I'm being honest, it's a lot of the 'same old-same old,' we've all heard a thousand times before," wrote Annmarie Calabro.
:snore
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Post by: benjipwns on June 28, 2021, 01:17:24 AM
Quote from: https://www.republicanleader.gov/framework-to-stop-the-bias-and-check-big-tech/
For the sake of preserving free speech and a free economy, it’s time Big Tech faces the music. House Republicans are ready to lead.

This week I will join Ranking Members Jim Jordan and Cathy Rodgers to roll out a framework to stop Big Tech based on three principles:

Accountability: Our framework would rein in Big Tech and end their abusive practices, including by changing the law so that Americans can challenge Big Tech directly for their infringement of public speech rights. This effort starts by taking away the liability shield Big Tech has hidden behind for far too long. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would be changed to limit liability protections for moderation of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment and would preclude Big Tech from discriminating against Americans based on their political affiliation. We would also require regular reauthorization of Section 230 so Congress may update regulations of the constantly-evolving internet landscape.

Transparency: Our framework would empower Americans by ending Big Tech’s ability to hide behind vague terms of service that have not constrained their conduct in any meaningful way. We will do so by mandating that any Big Tech content moderation decisions or censorship must be listed, with specificity, on a publicly available website. In addition, by requiring Big Tech to implement and maintain a reasonable user-friendly appeals process, our plan will empower conservatives and others whose speech rights have been infringed to challenge Big Tech’s attacks.

Strengthening Anti-Trust Review: Our framework also recognizes that the status quo and bureaucratic delays are not acceptable when it comes to bringing long-overdue antitrust scrutiny to Big Tech. We will provide an expedited court process with direct appeal to the Supreme Court and empower state attorneys general to help lead the charge against the tech giants to break them up. We will also reform the administrative state and remove impediments that delay taking action on Big Tech power.

To this point, House Democrats have advanced a plan that not only ignores addressing conservative censorship, it makes it worse. And their plan empowers a federal bureaucracy with no accountability.

I have more faith in elected state leaders than in the unelected federal bureaucracy, which is as ideologically homogeneous as Big Tech. In other words, I think our former colleague Jeff Landry will more effectively prosecute anti-competitive behavior than Lina Khan.

This framework is our jumping off point and more will need to be done. We will work with our members, committees, and newly formed task forces to turn this framework into legislation, and we will fight for floor consideration. Conservatives and our ideas have been targeted by Big Tech for too long. We must step up because make no mistake, the Democrats continue to demonstrate no interest in addressing fairness when it comes to conservative viewpoints. And they’ll continue to use Big Tech to do so.
:camby
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Post by: Nintex on June 28, 2021, 05:39:20 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-supporters-express-boredom-same-old-trump-speech-this-getting-ridiculous-1604489
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They blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are "rotting in jail." And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even "bringing up the word 'vaccine,'" specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.

But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump's post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as "traitors."

"I'm 100% with the dude, but literally switched from his speech 3 mins ago. Im [sic] done with his speeches," wrote QAnon user Jacob.

"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote another QAnon user. "I support Trump but this is getting ridiculous."

"Love President Trump. But, if I'm being honest, it's a lot of the 'same old-same old,' we've all heard a thousand times before," wrote Annmarie Calabro.
:snore
Well you've been to McDonalds a thousand times before also and that hasn't stopped you Annmarie, now chant Build the Wall to save America :bolo
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Post by: benjipwns on June 29, 2021, 02:23:20 AM
Quote from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thomas-says-federal-laws-against-marijuana-may-no-longer-n1272524
"A prohibition on interstate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the federal government's piecemeal approach," he wrote.

His views came as the court declined to hear the appeal of a Colorado medical marijuana dispensary that was denied federal tax breaks that other businesses are allowed.

Thomas said the Supreme Court's ruling in 2005 upholding federal laws making marijuana possession illegal may now be out of date.

"Federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning," he said. "The federal government's current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana.”
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The federal government's "willingness to look the other way on marijuana is more episodic that coherent," Thomas said.
:mynicca
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Post by: chronovore on June 29, 2021, 11:54:19 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/media/fox-news-agrees-1-million-fine-part-human-rights-investigation-settlem-rcna1301

Fox is unable to include arbitration clauses in contracts for 4 years, in addition to the other punitive actions. It’s a start.
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Post by: benjipwns on June 30, 2021, 12:25:35 AM
NYC election going well:
https://twitter.com/bobhardt/status/1410055272308121603
https://twitter.com/alykatzz/status/1409992977171333123
https://twitter.com/POLITICO_Steve/status/1410032785247686657

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1410043998643818505
[close]
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Post by: benjipwns on June 30, 2021, 03:32:20 AM
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1409925611460739076

 :hyper
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on June 30, 2021, 03:27:13 PM
We have a new anthem

https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1410316463731322888 (https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1410316463731322888)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 01, 2021, 07:07:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0-HOCbRMDQ

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2021, 08:53:00 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0-HOCbRMDQ

 :trumps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLRv0b6wJlA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 02, 2021, 10:59:11 AM
https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/01/defund-the-fbi/
Quote
Defund the FBI
Republicans need to abandon their longtime, reflexive  loyalty to the FBI.
:phil do it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 02, 2021, 11:00:57 AM
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1410960266905407488
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 02, 2021, 12:37:45 PM
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410979534795685890 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410979534795685890)

:biden

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410981170976899073 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1410981170976899073)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 02, 2021, 02:08:43 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1410963637691371522

lol wat
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 02, 2021, 03:01:11 PM
Sounds like someone needs a sit down with Vice Admiral Hannink  :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 02, 2021, 04:15:32 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1411023629186482180

 :whatisthis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 02, 2021, 04:52:43 PM
It's fourty minutes long.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 02, 2021, 06:08:58 PM
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1411024038655299590 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1411024038655299590)

 :biden "You don't like Hot dogs, Jack?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 02, 2021, 07:40:25 PM
Republicans: Our tax cuts are so generous because with the money they get back they can almost afford a Costco membership.

Biden: Hold my beer.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 03, 2021, 11:46:02 PM
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1411435452385558529

 :american

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https://twitter.com/mirandayaver/status/1411495206206074882
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 03, 2021, 11:56:29 PM
This is how you Bidenpost, Nintex:
https://twitter.com/EliStokols/status/1411432738062843905

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/UOPqLk9.png)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on July 04, 2021, 04:24:32 AM
obummer woulda deepthroated the entire cone, no probs  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 04, 2021, 06:40:54 AM
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1411493248502317056 (https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1411493248502317056)

Company car taxes am I right fellas :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 05, 2021, 07:59:20 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/05/jd-vance-trump-tweets-deleted-498164
J.D. Vance, the bestselling author and a Republican Senate hopeful, said on Monday that he regretted his since-deleted Twitter posts that criticized Donald Trump, amid accusations of flip-flopping as he vies for a seat in Ohio.

Vance, the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” launched his campaign last week. He has come under fire for deleting tweets from 2016 that were unearthed by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski — including one in which he said he was voting for Evan McMullin, and another calling Trump “reprehensible” because of his views toward “Immigrants, Muslims, etc.”

...

“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” Vance said. “And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.”

Vance added that he himself had been criticized for standing up for the former president’s voters and agenda, saying, “I think that’s the most important thing, is not what you said five years ago, but whether you’re willing to stand up and take the heat and take the hits for actually defending the interests of the American people.”
this guy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 05, 2021, 10:35:47 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537

 :badass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 05, 2021, 11:31:04 PM
Glad my tax dollars could pay for that tweet storm. :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 06, 2021, 01:08:14 AM
Quote from: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pence-2020-election-insurrection-capitol-2021-7?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Former President Donald Trump's weekly lunches with his vice president Mike Pence at the White House followed a familiar routine, according to a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff.

"The lunches were specifically meant to be an opportunity for Pence to tell the president exactly how hard he was working for him," Wolff writes in excerpt of the book  "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" published by The Times of London. "He usually got ten minutes to do this before Trump snapped on the television and launched into his current list of grievances."

Trump wondered how Pence "could be such a 'stiff' and a 'square,'' the book says, "and likewise, as though a corollary, he regarded Pence as someone not tough, as someone who, he increasingly pointed out, could be 'rolled'."
:hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 06, 2021, 08:17:56 AM
other observers in the room reported that upon uttering these judgements, the former president was, quote, "looking kinda dumb with his finger and his thumb in the shape of an L on his forehead."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: zomgee on July 06, 2021, 11:43:39 AM
They are milking the hell out of that book.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 06, 2021, 01:30:57 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SIGSYS/status/1412278516515852288

 :whoo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 06, 2021, 01:46:23 PM
(https://i.imgflip.com/5fmtnv.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 06, 2021, 01:52:39 PM
They’re pulling an Amazon Nintex.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kathygannon/status/1391665742341345283
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 06, 2021, 02:13:45 PM
Should have just shot it all off during one last really cool battle, like when the fireworks stand has left-over fireworks at 12:01am on July 5th.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 06, 2021, 02:19:54 PM
“They destroyed our country and now they are giving us their garbage,” said gray-bearded Hajji Gul, another junk dealer.

 :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 06, 2021, 03:15:10 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SIGSYS/status/1412278516515852288

 :whoo

I am no military expert but I read this is just opsec

you don't tell people in advance the moment you're leaving because it makes you vulnerable, it's like intentionally signaling a free-for-all

plus they knew the US was pulling out for months now, just not the exact date
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 06, 2021, 05:46:32 PM
Probably wanted to avoid any kind of media spectacle, too.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 06, 2021, 06:29:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5o_DvOXoAEaNh3?format=jpg)
The government virgin


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5oVmnnXIAEqgZa?format=jpg)
The Taliban Chad


Rumor has it the Chinese want to move in to secure their 'interests'.
I wish Chairman Xi the undefeatable holy warrior luck and prosperity in his noble conquest of Afghanistan.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 07, 2021, 03:50:43 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1412476475236835331

 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 07, 2021, 06:00:14 PM
Trump is filing a class action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEO's :doge

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1412801016387485697 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1412801016387485697)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 08, 2021, 12:18:17 PM
Trump comics are back!

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/don_trump_quixote-1024x722.jpg)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.
[close]

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 08, 2021, 12:33:53 PM
I like how he added the little "Trump" in there so you wouldn't be confused about who it's supposed to be.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 12:54:21 PM
Quote from: https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/714291/republicans-suppressing-their-own-voters-in-arizona-and-georgia/?unlock=U3B0L5KGFF05PT5W
“We’re asking [Republicans] to vote for us in an election system they don’t believe in anymore,” lamented one Arizona-based GOP strategist.
this one weird trick
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 08, 2021, 02:49:17 PM
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1413206133674856458 (https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1413206133674856458)

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1413185504699367435 (https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1413185504699367435)

 :iface
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on July 08, 2021, 03:19:10 PM
Can't believe it's been 20 years and I still don't know the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 03:44:52 PM
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1413201144969564161
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 03:45:14 PM
Trump comics are back!

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/don_trump_quixote-1024x722.jpg)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.
[close]

 :neogaf
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 03:47:18 PM
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1412806016526344201

DESANTIS IN COLLAPSE, CANDACE OWENS SURGING
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 08, 2021, 04:50:44 PM
Trump comics are back!

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/don_trump_quixote-1024x722.jpg)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.
[close]

 :neogaf
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810

Of course libtards don’t understand subversion  ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 08, 2021, 06:50:31 PM
https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-office-dysfunction-2024-e2f9a9c0-f391-4c1d-8042-aa4f24a292e3.html (https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-office-dysfunction-2024-e2f9a9c0-f391-4c1d-8042-aa4f24a292e3.html)
Quote
Yet many Democrats, including some current senior administration officials, are concerned she could not defeat whomever the Republican Party puts up — even if it were Donald Trump.
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on July 08, 2021, 07:34:16 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537

 :badass

How the fuck did we elect the world's biggest Karen to our senate?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 07:52:53 PM
She's just in the House, she's from a district* that's 75% Republican, so once she got 40% in the primary she won by default. She'll be hard to get rid of unless the GOP can somehow beat her in a primary. Last time the Democratic candidate just withdrew and in the recent past they haven't even bothered to run a candidate in that district.

I'd argue she's actually said more crazy stuff since getting elected than before when she was more of a mild conspiracy theorist. But maybe it's just that it gets more attention/actually reported/etc.

*(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Georgia_US_Congressional_District_14_%28since_2013%29.tif/lossless-page1-400px-Georgia_US_Congressional_District_14_%28since_2013%29.tif.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on July 08, 2021, 08:10:39 PM
Thanks for the details.

My impression was that, prior to being elected to office, she was up front about believing in QAnon. To me, that stuff's crazier than just the overt, racist and nationalist stuff she's been regurgitating on the reg since taking office.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 08, 2021, 10:17:11 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E50Ph-PXoAkB61x?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 09, 2021, 12:20:57 AM
https://twitter.com/jolson321/status/1413195772712062979
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 09, 2021, 09:03:27 AM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537

 :badass

How the fuck did we elect the world's biggest Karen to our senate?

She's a rep.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 09, 2021, 09:40:53 AM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1412201906857025537

 :badass

How the fuck did we elect the world's biggest Karen to our senate?
The same way y'all elected Ted Cruz
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 09, 2021, 08:40:10 PM
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810

You got owned.

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/trump_windmill-1024x737.jpg)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Apparently nobody read my post about Trump charging a windmill. They said I didn’t understand the Don Quixote metaphor. In my post I explained I did indeed understand it, but as an artist I’m free to take liberties with any metaphor I like.
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Transhuman on July 09, 2021, 08:46:01 PM
4chan was giving shit about the cartoon? I thought 4chan was "pro-lulz"?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 09, 2021, 09:35:15 PM
https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810

You got owned.

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/trump_windmill-1024x737.jpg)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Apparently nobody read my post about Trump charging a windmill. They said I didn’t understand the Don Quixote metaphor. In my post I explained I did indeed understand it, but as an artist I’m free to take liberties with any metaphor I like.
[close]

"Jokes on you, I was only pretending to be stupid!"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 10, 2021, 05:24:34 AM
4chan and the other libtards need to learn how to stay calm like Donald Trump :trumps <- Trump

 :brazilcry <- 4 chan

communists -> :social 

:birb <- The Taliban
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 10, 2021, 02:13:19 PM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/anti-woke-democrat-8a192166-3240-410d-8b2a-074e8013be66.html
A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" to large swaths of America.

These Democrats warn that by jamming politically correct terms or new norms down the throats of voters, they risk exacerbating the cultural wars — and inadvertently helping Trumpian candidates.

Top Democrats confide that they're very aware of the danger. Already, we've seen a widespread pullback in the "defund the police" rhetoric.
Quote
Moderate and swing-district lawmakers and aides tell Axios' Margaret Talev and Alayna Treene that the party could suffer massive losses in next year's midterms if Democrats run like Sen. Elizabeth Warren is president.

One former Senate aide said it's "bye-bye majority" if Democrats run on "extreme wokeness."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 10, 2021, 02:16:22 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1413595082238873607
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 10, 2021, 07:19:42 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1413999686172610560 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1413999686172610560)

This is how you poll at 4%


https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1413912736187265029 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1413912736187265029)

 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 10, 2021, 07:54:48 PM
edit: o shit I didn't realize that's actually the joke well done cruz got me  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 11, 2021, 06:12:58 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1414343984265060361 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1414343984265060361)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1414348303031017475 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1414348303031017475)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 12, 2021, 08:37:05 AM
Quite a shift in the 'conservative' wing.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6ForcCXIAEPf1Z?format=jpg)

2016 it was Ted
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(https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/n_qc_1_cpacresults_1602065__112986.jpg)
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2015 it was Rand
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(https://savvyroo.com/chart-image-645138151147-site_display_607-cpac-straw-poll-shows-gops-favored-candidate-in-2016.png)
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 12, 2021, 09:35:03 AM
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1414404737240272898

 :badass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 12, 2021, 11:29:15 AM
Meanwhile, in Virginia:
Quote
Former Carlyle Group co-CEO Glenn Youngkin may have earned Donald Trump’s endorsement in the Virginia governor’s race, but now he’s the one trying to tie the former president to his opponent.

After former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe ran an ad highlighting Trump’s endorsement of Youngkin, the Republican’s campaign responded with its own ad highlighting McAuliffe’s past ties to Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFOFc-zTi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKoREtKurY
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on July 12, 2021, 11:34:29 AM
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1414404737240272898

 :badass

Can you imagine if any foreign politician postured an equivalent tweet at one of ours?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 12, 2021, 03:28:56 PM
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1414404737240272898

 :badass
https://twitter.com/pitbull/status/1414642768912130071 (https://twitter.com/pitbull/status/1414642768912130071)

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1414654535507714049 (https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1414654535507714049)

The coalition of the willing  8)

https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1414644232778813443 (https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1414644232778813443)

FREE CUBA BUFFERING :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: who is ted danson? on July 12, 2021, 05:55:39 PM
Cuba needs to learn that if you want to oppress your people, you need to pay the USA their tribute first.

1. Pick up the golden telephone in the revolutionary museum.
2. Call Uncle Joe.
3. Privatize everything, using US banks & PE firms.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 12, 2021, 06:21:14 PM
https://twitter.com/ScottGordonNBC5/status/1414678383544442884 (https://twitter.com/ScottGordonNBC5/status/1414678383544442884)

https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1414636022378360835 (https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1414636022378360835)

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1414658292333350919 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1414658292333350919)

lmao the libs are at it again  :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 11:09:21 AM
https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1414641797003980806
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 11:28:33 AM
https://twitter.com/wakeari60/status/1415291581746323461

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 14, 2021, 12:44:09 PM
Desantis in april : Protestors will be arrested and prosecuted!

Miami PD yesterday:   *lets hold up one of the main highways in miami for cuban protestors.

GG
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 01:11:38 PM
FACT CHECK:
Quote from: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article252763763.html
Here’s what the governor said when he signed the blatantly un-American bill into law: “Just think about it, you’re driving home from work and, all of a sudden, you have people out there shutting down a highway, and we worked hard to make sure that didn’t happen in Florida.”
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But it did happen in Florida, Gov. DeSantis. Demonstrators shut down State Road 826 in both directions Tuesday in solidarity with their counterparts in Cuba. Police obliged and redirected traffic. Mercifully, no one roared through the crowd in a vehicle.

Everything was as it should be in a country that has a high tolerance for free expression. But, unfortunately, for the governor, the reporter’s question trapped him in the hypocrisy of his law, likely to be arbitrarily enforced.

Honestly, we would have been more impressed if he had just responded: “Nah, the Miami-Dade demonstrators seeking human rights in Cuba have nothing to fear from my anti-riot law. We created it to subdue Black folks seeking human rights in the United States.”
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 14, 2021, 01:14:17 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843 (https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843)

George seizes the moment :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 14, 2021, 01:43:35 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/UQjzAIH.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 02:39:56 PM
https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1415078632582680583
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 02:53:43 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6M77lrVEAEtKaR?format=jpg&name=small)

 :hmm
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Post by: benjipwns on July 14, 2021, 05:34:10 PM
https://twitter.com/tragicplonker/status/1415081458943811584
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 14, 2021, 05:51:58 PM
a shame its fake because its a powerful look tbf :letsfukk
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 14, 2021, 05:53:34 PM
King Ted :lawd

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 14, 2021, 06:28:21 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843 (https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1415273119904931843)

George seizes the moment :salute
He's right though...he doesn't really give a shit about Afghan women, but he's right.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on July 14, 2021, 06:43:38 PM
what did he have to say when we helped put the mujahadeen into power? was that good for the women of afgchildtrafficstan  ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 14, 2021, 07:43:37 PM
He's right though...he doesn't really give a shit about Afghan women, but he's right.

If the us government isn’t going to let them immigrate to the US, they should shut the fuck up. Same thing with Cuba.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 14, 2021, 08:20:51 PM
https://twitter.com/tragicplonker/status/1415081458943811584

I didn’t even know Chumlee was on the ballot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 15, 2021, 09:09:17 AM
King Ted :lawd

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1414979281965522951)

But you don't show ID to get on the plane, you show ID to get into the airport.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 15, 2021, 10:49:52 AM
The voter ID discussion is ludicrous anyway.
The Democrats should just introduce voter ID like the rest of the world has done except for I dunno, Somalia?

Kamala was talking about Xerox machines while the 'rural communities' she's so worried about all have smartphones and plaster their car with Qanon bumper stickers.
They happily take selfies with the MyPillow guy, there's your photo ID.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 15, 2021, 12:53:59 PM
https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1415700943291756548 (https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1415700943291756548)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 15, 2021, 01:11:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/wpEW2tl.png)

:cac
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 15, 2021, 01:48:59 PM
Relationship with big beautiful strong generals ended, I'm coupin' with Mike now.


He's on a roll today  :lol

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1415715485279264768 (https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1415715485279264768)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 15, 2021, 03:34:26 PM
Yeah, no shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2021, 11:21:49 AM
The voter ID discussion is ludicrous anyway.
The Democrats should just introduce voter ID like the rest of the world has done except for I dunno, Somalia?
This is America buddy, you show up you get a ballot is how it should work. No tests, no qualifications, no forms, nothing except simple registration. People voting as other people is such a small problem (and generally is done via absentee anyway) it's irrelevant, and it doesn't change election outcomes anyway.

No national IDs either. We shouldn't have to show papers, so there's no need for them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2021, 11:24:37 AM
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1415977531308711939

https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1415800483420295169

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on July 16, 2021, 11:59:11 AM
The right are so stupid I almost think Im the stupid one for not running and grifting them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2021, 02:58:32 PM
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1415387847998246912

 :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 16, 2021, 03:04:54 PM
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/Y2ZUWLrTy63j9T6qrK/200.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 16, 2021, 03:11:34 PM
Bernie "ask for a loaf to get crumbs" Sanders everybody.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on July 16, 2021, 03:18:23 PM
The right are so stupid I almost think Im the stupid one for not running and grifting them.
how much does gateway pundit pay? I could write those dumb articles no prob, or being a conservative media contributor as an ex socialist minority who saw the light  :horny
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2021, 03:58:13 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1416092072185106434

 :crazy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on July 16, 2021, 04:57:10 PM
cross platform banning on my bore  >:(
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 16, 2021, 05:04:04 PM
makes me want to BAN THE MODS AND KILL THEM :rage
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 16, 2021, 05:50:56 PM
What's her resetera handle  :doge


This is some dystopian shit

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1416151504449310721 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1416151504449310721)

lmao Trump is gonna be pissed, he just wanted to send out a new round of fundraise emails, now he actually has grounds for his lawsuit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 16, 2021, 06:17:39 PM
Quote
Use promo code COMMIEPSAKI to get 25% off of your VIP subscription:
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 17, 2021, 01:59:34 PM
Attention patriot,

Communism is running rampant throughout the United States and the world and sleepy Joe is either sleeping or another communist.
Not only is communism evil they also want to make company cars non-tax deductible and make jet fuel unaffordable forcing President Trump
to take a commercial flight and an Uber. President Trump needs you to stop communism in its tracks once and for all!


"A man takes his dog to the Gulag. The guard says: dogs are not allowed. The man asks: so what are you doing here?" - Ronald Reagan
Play Golf at the Trump Doral
The communist hate golf! The more you play golf the more you help President Trump fight the communists!

Order a new pillow
The fake news says you can't fight communism in your sleep. They couldn't be more wrong!
Do you have a Chinese pillow? Visit mypillow.com/fightthereds today to order your limited edition 'Fight the Reds' MyPillow manufactured in the USA.

Cheat on your wife
In communist countries such as California it is impossible to cheat on your wife with the state monitoring every move.
Once in a while you and your family must remind yourself of the greatness that is freedom.

"A Russian man takes his wife to the doctor. She says doctor: I'm not feeling too well. The doctor says: get in line" - Ronald Reagan

Donate to your favorite candidates before they run
Make sure to donate to the Save America pac to support your favorite candidates who might run for office in the fight against communism.

Stop giving away things for free
It might seem harmless, a birthday present, flowers for your wife or perhaps books for your children but giving away products for free means you are promoting communism!
Gifts that are safe from communism are: gift cards, money, self-created art (such as a painting of President Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump fighting the communists)

"[inaudible] New York in the 80's was my personal Vietnam" - Donald J. Trump

Call and get the word out!
Call congress, call the senate, call the Sheriffs department, call C-Span and call all government agencies.
Tell them how sick you are of the communist take-over and that they must stop communism before it is too late.

Did you know?

- CNN is short for Communist News Network?

- Most countries and bad people and things that start with a 'C' such as China, Clinton, Cartels, California, Chuck (Schumer), COVID-19, Colbert, Castro, Chile and Cuba have a history with Communism?

- President Trump stood up against the communists in New York all by himself while the military was obsessed with a little shithole called Vietnam?"

Learn more about communism and visit helppresidenttrumpsaveamericafromcommunism.ru

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 17, 2021, 07:15:17 PM
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1416468436721356802 (https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1416468436721356802)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 17, 2021, 09:39:43 PM
When did Kristen Welker officially join the dems in congress?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 18, 2021, 07:12:35 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1416871139658305538 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1416871139658305538)

Infrastructure week
Ice Cream day

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 19, 2021, 01:19:54 PM
Wow a guy has to go to jail for 8 months because he entered the senate chamber with a Trump flag on January 6th.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1417166887247613955 (https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/1417166887247613955)

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Speaking calmly from a prepared text, he described being caught up in the euphoria as he walked down Washington’s most famous avenue

#FreePaul
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 19, 2021, 01:41:39 PM
Imagine thinking punishing treason creates a partisan divide.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 19, 2021, 02:00:42 PM
Imagine thinking punishing treason creates a partisan divide.

at this point, doesn't it? the people on his side don't consider what he did to be treason

they'll all say "see, this is how they treat people with our beliefs now, 8 months for just walking peacefully around a building, if you're getting arrested anyway then next time don't make it so peaceful"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on July 19, 2021, 02:45:10 PM
I hear theyre setting up FEMA death camps for anyone who was in DC that day
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 19, 2021, 04:00:02 PM
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1417089846162694145
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 19, 2021, 04:21:09 PM
They were already both elected for two terms, so this checks out.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 19, 2021, 05:14:48 PM
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/branding-us-left-aoc-makes-push-into-political-merchandise-2021-07-19/
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Now she is investing heavily in her online store, selling T-shirts, sweatshirts and other merchandise with her name, "AOC" initials or slogans including "Tax the Rich" and "Fight for our Future," efforts aimed at both fundraising and building the second-term lawmaker's profile nationally.

Her campaign paid political merchandise firm Financial Innovations, which operates her online store and supplies merchandise, more than $1.4 million in the first six months of 2021, according to campaign disclosures to the Federal Election Commission late last week.

That is more than many lawmakers spent on their entire re-election efforts during the period, and nearly double her payments made over the prior two years to Financial Innovations, a Cranston, Rhode Island firm that specializes in political merchandise for Democrats.
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Kiley Bolton, 22, a college student in Leander, Texas, said she gets both compliments and eye rolls when she wears her "Tax The Rich" sweatshirt she bought from Ocasio-Cortez's campaign.

"I like what it stands for and I like AOC," Bolton said.

Merchandise sales count as campaign contributions but it's not clear how much T-shirts and hoodies are bringing to Ocasio-Cortez' coffers. Campaign disclosures rarely specify whether a donation involved merchandise.

Frawley said the Ocasio-Cortez campaign could be making a 50% profit or more on much of its sales.
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Buyers also typically give campaigns their best contact information, which is useful for future fundraising and for recruiting volunteers.

"That's a huge value to political campaigns," Duncan said.

In an emailed statement, Ocasio-Cortez' campaign said the its online store is focused on "uplifting independent artists of color whose work tells a story of community and imagines a more equitable world for all."
https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/
(https://i.imgur.com/GsEyq00.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 19, 2021, 05:21:36 PM
so drinking beer or Pepsi or coffee or dew makes you a racist :thinking

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 19, 2021, 05:46:16 PM
That merch  :kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 19, 2021, 05:58:30 PM
the only political merch I'd ever wear is this

(https://i.imgur.com/qU6Z4h4.jpg)

:tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 19, 2021, 08:04:52 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/the-feverish-mind-of-trump-after-leaving-the-white-house (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/the-feverish-mind-of-trump-after-leaving-the-white-house)
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Trump also trashed Deborah Birx and said she was far too restrictive.

“She was a lot of work, a real diva with the scarves and shit,” he said.
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It’s true. ‘Hear ye, hear ye . . .’—was much more elegant in those days. It was, ‘Hear ye, hear ye, the  great state of Georgia is unable to accurately count its votes.’ Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Are you sure?’ They said, ‘Yes, we are sure.’ ‘Then we will take the votes from the great state of Georgia.’ He took them for him and the president.”
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Trump continued, “So I said, ‘Mike, you can be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.’
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Didn’t turn out that way in terms of the vote, but I won Arizona.
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“Nikki Haley wants to come here so badly,” he said. “She did a little nasty couple of statements...She has been killed by the party. When they speak badly about me, the party is not happy about it. It’s pretty amazing. There’s not been anything like this.”
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No, I’m a big believer in science. If I wasn’t, you wouldn’t have a vaccine. It depends. Are you talking about disinformation or are you talking about lies? There is a more beautiful word called disinformation.”

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“We’re really going to put it to the doctors. You should watch,” Ingraham told Trump.

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“You look great, sir,” Crenshaw said. “What’s your secret?”

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“I enjoyed it actually,” Trump said, a twinkle in his eye. “For some sick reason I enjoyed it.”
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:dead

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 20, 2021, 09:17:51 AM
How many days before he starts talking about vanity fair being fake news?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 20, 2021, 04:35:54 PM
How many days before he starts talking about vanity fair being fake news?

They all desperately need him to

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6r0aA5XEAYb20p?format=jpg)

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1417564968438800386 (https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1417564968438800386)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 20, 2021, 06:41:12 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1417543477622149124

cool cool cool

 :thisisfine
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 20, 2021, 07:32:24 PM
https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1417564083902111744

:itjustkeepshappening
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 20, 2021, 07:38:37 PM
https://twitter.com/nateroth/status/1417577027377541123 (https://twitter.com/nateroth/status/1417577027377541123)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 20, 2021, 08:30:46 PM
Damnit Barrack
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on July 20, 2021, 11:10:19 PM
How did a white person also end up with Barrack as a name? We need to get to the bottom of this
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 20, 2021, 11:17:29 PM
Barrack's grandparents were Lebanese Christians who immigrated in 1900 to the United States from Zahlé, Lebanon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on July 20, 2021, 11:48:49 PM
Barrack's grandparents were Lebanese Christians who immigrated in 1900 to the United States from Zahlé, Lebanon.

I want to see his birth certificate

The long-form one
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 21, 2021, 07:54:31 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 21, 2021, 07:56:06 AM
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1417771333996400645

 :badass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 21, 2021, 08:23:18 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236

"Mr. President, a brief question from CBS News...what is your administration's stance on the use of drone strikes against enemy combatants?"

"Well first of all this is a violation of my Miranda rights, since anything I say can and will be used against me in a court of law"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 21, 2021, 08:56:58 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236

I got into a disqus back and forth with someone stating this as well. :snoop to me
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 21, 2021, 01:15:42 PM
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1417889424910786560 (https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1417889424910786560)

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417661295805931522 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417661295805931522)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on July 21, 2021, 02:31:09 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1417592852759007236
She is just so stunningly, overwhelmingly ignorant. It’s not even a matter of being disingenuous, she’s just stupid. HIPAA regulations don’t prevent anyone from asking you anything, it prevents them from having access to your records.

Answer the fucking question.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 22, 2021, 12:04:08 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1418000816917594118

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1418008432410517508

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 22, 2021, 02:51:15 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295)

"Tell the boys from the newspapers we're not lifting any junctions Jen" :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 22, 2021, 06:50:27 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E67bPdoXEAItoQ-?format=jpg)

oh shi
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 22, 2021, 07:00:05 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1418329640318472192

https://twitter.com/kellymakena/status/1418271156151390208

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22588903/covid19-misinformation-section-230-facebook-joe-biden-white-house
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Democratic senators are introducing a new bill Thursday that would strip away Facebook and other social media platforms’ Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation.

The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) Thursday, would create a carveout in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act opening social media platforms like Facebook up to lawsuits for hosting some dangerous health misinformation. The bill directs the Health and Human Services secretary to issue guidelines on what should be classified as “health misinformation.”

I warned ya'll, Section 230 would be targeted first because of these idiots. The state wants nothing more than to monopolize the entire social media sector and as much of the internet as possible under its permanent control in a few large corporations.

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“For far too long, online platforms have not done enough to protect the health of Americans. These are some of the biggest, richest companies in the world and they must do more to prevent the spread of deadly vaccine misinformation,” Klobuchar said in a statement Thursday.
:karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 22, 2021, 07:02:44 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1418272522219532295)
https://twitter.com/MandelaFace/status/1418286009423335431
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 22, 2021, 07:03:23 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E67bPdoXEAItoQ-?format=jpg)

oh shi

One last wacky caper with the boys #neverforget  :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 22, 2021, 07:04:58 PM
If a newspaper allowed a bunch of crazy conspiracy theories and dangerous health misinformation to be printed in its letters to the editor section, then people would be rightly outraged. Why is Facebook any different?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 22, 2021, 07:08:42 PM
If a newspaper allowed a bunch of crazy conspiracy theories and dangerous health misinformation to be printed in its letters to the editor section, then people would be rightly outraged. Why is Facebook any different?
This is exactly the point, it's not any different. Both are protected speech and the state is not empowered to restrict it. It's part of the First Amendment protections. Section 230 repeals is an attempt to end run around the First Amendment by lawsuit. (But probably not against Facebook!)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 22, 2021, 07:30:30 PM
Those sort of laws only affect your friendly neighbourhood mom & pop message boards.

Facebook, Google and all have been wanting the same thing for years.
You don't access the internet, you access the internet through their platform and their curated content and they're pretty close to achieving that goal.

The Wuhan lab leak and Huntey's laptop have already shown how dangerous it is if social-media becomes the arbiter of truth.
But there already was a precedent for this with the Arab Spring protests and the likes.
Silicon Valley soyboy's deciding what type of government Egypt should have and in the power vacuum accidentally sliding the Muslim brotherhood into power.

We're rapidly moving towards a restricted society like the Chinese have because it fascinates the bureaucrats and makes things 'easier', except in our case it'll be the likes of Zuckerberg and Schwab behind the controls of the state machinery.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 22, 2021, 08:31:38 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1418329640318472192

https://twitter.com/kellymakena/status/1418271156151390208

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22588903/covid19-misinformation-section-230-facebook-joe-biden-white-house
Quote
Democratic senators are introducing a new bill Thursday that would strip away Facebook and other social media platforms’ Section 230 liability shield if they amplify harmful public health misinformation.

The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) Thursday, would create a carveout in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act opening social media platforms like Facebook up to lawsuits for hosting some dangerous health misinformation. The bill directs the Health and Human Services secretary to issue guidelines on what should be classified as “health misinformation.”

I warned ya'll, Section 230 would be targeted first because of these idiots. The state wants nothing more than to monopolize the entire social media sector and as much of the internet as possible under its permanent control in a few large corporations.

Quote
“For far too long, online platforms have not done enough to protect the health of Americans. These are some of the biggest, richest companies in the world and they must do more to prevent the spread of deadly vaccine misinformation,” Klobuchar said in a statement Thursday.
:karen

To be fair, Facebook and Twitter deserve to be shot into the sun.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 22, 2021, 10:55:27 PM
Problem is they don't want to shoot them into the sun, they want to cement them as sanitized and controlled institutions.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 23, 2021, 03:43:01 AM
Problem is they don't want to shoot them into the sun, they want to cement them as sanitized and controlled institutions.
Yep, FB would be an utility like gas and water
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 23, 2021, 07:51:12 AM
Those sort of laws only affect your friendly neighbourhood mom & pop message boards.

Facebook, Google and all have been wanting the same thing for years.
You don't access the internet, you access the internet through their platform and their curated content and they're pretty close to achieving that goal.

The Wuhan lab leak and Huntey's laptop have already shown how dangerous it is if social-media becomes the arbiter of truth.
But there already was a precedent for this with the Arab Spring protests and the likes.
Silicon Valley soyboy's deciding what type of government Egypt should have and in the power vacuum accidentally sliding the Muslim brotherhood into power.

We're rapidly moving towards a restricted society like the Chinese have because it fascinates the bureaucrats and makes things 'easier', except in our case it'll be the likes of Zuckerberg and Schwab behind the controls of the state machinery.

yep, facebook and google have powerful AI technology that could remove "harmful misinformation" on an automated basis, smaller sites can't afford this and would have to manually remove every post, or else lose 230 protections and be litigated into oblivion


even woke resetera, which has banned people for spreading false covid theories and medical misinformation, has still technically left those posts intact on the site where someone could theoretically read them and be influenced to believe them, "they banned this guy for speaking the truth"

they would probably have to go back and delete them all manually...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 23, 2021, 07:54:05 AM
edit: issue is a little more complicated than what I had posted here before

instead I offer you a glimpse into a dark future:

trump is re-elected in 2024

a new pandemic rages, but trump has installed his own loyalists into governmental medical positions

his doctors say that directing the public to wear masks is harmful misinformation, and any sites that spread this lie will lose their section 230 protections

:idont
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 23, 2021, 02:13:31 PM
The year is 2024, 230 protections are gone. AI's are sweeping through your Twitter and post histories.
People get cancelled left and right, workers, politicans, actors, artists.... "I don't recall ever using NeoPets" they say
"It was just a joke when we played HALO in high school to call eachother gay and teabag".

President Kamala laughs and keeps repeating the phrase: "Your actions have consequences" and "It is no joke, racism and sexism are not a joke"
The woke the world over are applauding Kamala's bold stance against hatred, bigotry and racism. Entire TV networks dissapear from the air unable to keep operating and find new staff.
"They finally get what they deserve" shouts John Oliver in jubilation. "Maybe we should just send them to Mars and save the climate too!" he jokes.
A furry in the audience shouts: "KILL THEM!". "No, no" John says, "not here Nep, we keep that for the extended YouTube cut that they can't see".

Just as the workers exit the Amazon Re-education through Labor centers to go home to their climate neutral tent city a column of black SUV's pulls up next to the sign that counts down the $10 trillion sum the United States still owes to cover the reparations for the short but decisive Taiwan conflict.
The door of one of the vehicles opens and the faint 80's rock music from inside the car gets louder. The workers can barely open their eyes as the blistering sun is reflected in the solar panels that surround them.
Their ears still ringing from the constant noise of windmills powering their prison and their stomachs aching from eating the soy-based sludge imported from China they now have to call food.
"Do you think they're here to free us?" one wonders, "Not a chance in heck, you still haven't gotten your smartphone back and you never will". "Surely I'll get it once I complete the diversity and inclusivity course!"
"We need to cough up $10 trillion first, which means either donating our $3 paycheck or not eating anything". "Maybe if someone else got elected... but no conservatives are allowed to campaign on TV or the internet. Was the election yesterday, I can't remember" 

As the men debate their situation the visitor wanders towards them slow but determined until he stops and only a fence seperates him from the gathered crowd frozen in shock.
He towers above them, snorts, shakes his head and finally says: "Get up losers, it's time to vote and make America great Again!".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 23, 2021, 07:33:11 PM
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1418562940458967046

 :kermit

I love Joy Ann Reid so much.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 23, 2021, 07:57:55 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1418314436591374339 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1418314436591374339)

The comments to this are glorious and 4chan was right

You got what you wanted ladies you can die in a ditch in... you know... the country... the place... the place where the sand is :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 24, 2021, 07:08:18 PM
 :karen we need a strong Republican party


The Republican Party

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953)

Cry more lib, Trump is still president
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 04:35:13 AM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419094922108538887 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419094922108538887)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 25, 2021, 01:46:01 PM
:karen we need a strong Republican party


The Republican Party

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1419068769020882953)

Cry more lib, Trump is still president

Little know fact: Presidents are presidents for life. After every new elected president they become head of the shadow government. The only exception is if they are removed or resign.


:tinfoil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 25, 2021, 05:00:29 PM
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/senate-candidate-blasts-childless-left-who-have-no-physical-commitment-to-the-future-of-this-country/
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J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the “childless left” whom he said have “no physical commitment to the future of this country” in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy.

Senate candidate, former Marine, and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance specifically named Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (three of whom are failed presidential candidates), citing them as the childless future leaders of the Democrat Party. “Why is this just a normal fact of …  life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?”

“The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds,” Vance noted. “Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.” He continued, asking, “Doesn’t this mean that nonparents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions?” He answered with a simple “yes” after saying “the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects” would criticize him.

“We should worry that in America, family formation, our birth rates, a ton of indicators of family health have collapsed,” the candidate said, highlighting the severity of America’s ongoing fertility crisis and calling it a “civilizational crisis.”

Vance spoke fondly of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s pro-natal policies, explaining that “they offer loans to newly married couples that are forgiven at some point later if those couples have actually stayed together and had kids.”

“Why can’t we do that here?” Vance asked. “Why can’t we actually promote family formation?”

Which the breeders on Fox and Friends Sunday took up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1E_Um_ky4
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Co-host Pete Hegseth pointed out that fellow co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy would get nine votes because she has nine children.

"I don't know about that solution, that seems not feasible," Campos-Duffy said. "But I will say that I agree with the premise of it, that it is absolutely true that people like [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], Pete Buttigieg -- you can name the left-wing politicians, people who think that we should legalize marijuana because they don't have kids and they don't really have a stake in what that looks like."

"I agree with him 100% that they don't have a stake in the game," she continued.
Quote
"And if you're Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- our favorite comrade -- and you've said the world is going to end in 12 years, what do you care?" he added. "It's this idea of absolute pessimism that the world's going to end and as a result, we're the problem and don't have kids."

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nine kids?!?
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Campos-Duffy
Campos ... heroes included Jack Kemp,
:american
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 05:57:05 PM
https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1419387819953463296 (https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1419387819953463296)

:maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 06:06:29 PM
Unconditional surrender

https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126 (https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126)

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888 (https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390 (https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390)

https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353 (https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: who is ted danson? on July 25, 2021, 06:20:23 PM
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1418415043004178432
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 06:29:01 PM
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1419056635163680768 (https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1419056635163680768)

wait for it

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 25, 2021, 06:37:29 PM
He never denied that dems suck the blood out of kids  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 06:37:59 PM
lmao they are so bad at this  :doge

https://twitter.com/Fla_Pol/status/1418940571444461569 (https://twitter.com/Fla_Pol/status/1418940571444461569)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 25, 2021, 06:46:21 PM
https://twitter.com/dallasdemocrats/status/1419034820718604294
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 25, 2021, 07:01:31 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1419350810845224965 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1419350810845224965)

Imagine fucking up so much you're getting dunked on by Ted Cruz.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 26, 2021, 11:44:38 AM
Unconditional surrender

https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126 (https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1419400765135749126)

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888 (https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1419394642085285888)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390 (https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1419376593693200390)

https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353 (https://twitter.com/DanWhitCongress/status/1419356290967609353)

:trumps

If you get no side effects from the Trump Vaccine it means you're a True Patriot :ego :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 26, 2021, 07:13:30 PM
:karen We need a strong Republican party

The Republican Party

Quote
Trump Jr., who appears to have the best connection with the party’s base, and perhaps the best prospects for a 2024 White House run if his father opts out, led the group with DeSantis coming in a close second, followed by House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (24%), Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., (17%), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., (8%), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (2%), and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., a vehement Trump Critic that voted to impeach him, at the bottom with a -43% rating.

https://mobile.twitter.com/newsmax/status/1419786981395951616 (https://mobile.twitter.com/newsmax/status/1419786981395951616)

Maybe ask him to help with Afghanistan too
https://mobile.twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1419633808022949888 (https://mobile.twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1419633808022949888)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on July 27, 2021, 01:22:05 PM
Is it just me or is Don Jr just especially ugly looking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on July 27, 2021, 01:37:12 PM
Ivanka being reasonably hot is a big win from the Trump side of the gene pool tbf :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 27, 2021, 05:08:58 PM
Is it just me or is Don Jr just especially ugly looking
He looks presidential :trumps

If this timeline delivers us a Kamala vs. Trump Jr showdown :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on July 27, 2021, 07:02:57 PM
battle angel tulsi vs zombie bern dawg  :hyper
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 27, 2021, 07:45:44 PM
They keep saying the quiet part out loud, this time a NYTimes reporter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7UUsMFXIAI04pL?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 27, 2021, 09:18:03 PM
They keep saying the quiet part out loud, this time a NYTimes reporter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7UUsMFXIAI04pL?format=jpg&name=small)

Send 'em all to jail and let God sort 'em out, Jack! :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 27, 2021, 10:11:41 PM
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 27, 2021, 10:38:43 PM
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?
FACT CHECK: The state and the government are not the same thing. :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 28, 2021, 12:00:17 AM
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/jake-ellzey-texas-special-election-501153
Quote
Voters in North Texas delivered an upset Tuesday, picking GOP state Rep. Jake Ellzey to fill a vacant House seat over a candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Ellzey beat fellow Republican Susan Wright, the widow of former Rep. Ron Wright, 53 percent to 47 percent, when the Associated Press called the low-turnout, Republican-vs.-Republican runoff. Though Ellzey was better funded, Wright leaned heavily on her backing from the former president, who often plays kingmaker in Republican primaries.
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 28, 2021, 05:57:56 AM
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?
FACT CHECK: The state and the government are not the same thing. :ufup

Sure, You and I understand all that, but what about the average Republican?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 28, 2021, 08:44:55 AM
Isn't being the enemy of the state just the whole Republican party schtick anyway? Being the party of small government and bring anti-government intervention?

Sounds like antifa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2021, 10:41:51 AM
lmao

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1420070917154164742 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1420070917154164742)

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1420147017242746885 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1420147017242746885)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 28, 2021, 03:33:12 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/jake-ellzey-texas-special-election-501153
Quote
Voters in North Texas delivered an upset Tuesday, picking GOP state Rep. Jake Ellzey to fill a vacant House seat over a candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Ellzey beat fellow Republican Susan Wright, the widow of former Rep. Ron Wright, 53 percent to 47 percent, when the Associated Press called the low-turnout, Republican-vs.-Republican runoff. Though Ellzey was better funded, Wright leaned heavily on her backing from the former president, who often plays kingmaker in Republican primaries.
:trumps
FACT CHECK:
Quote
Donald Trump's advisers are angry at David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, for persuading the former president to endorse a losing candidate in the special election for Texas' 6th District.
Quote
Trump himself disputed the result had dented his power. In a phone call with Axios on Wednesday, the former president conceded McIntosh had pushed him to support Wright but blamed Democrats — not the Club for Growth — for Ellzey's victory.

He also said he actually "won" because Wright had bested Ellzey in the initial primary and the runoff came down to two Republicans he liked.

"This is the only race we've ... this is not a loss, again, I don't want to claim it is a loss, this was a win. …The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 28, 2021, 03:53:46 PM
Vote!

(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Zcl1Bw3yXt.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 28, 2021, 04:02:21 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1420456411256037379
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 28, 2021, 04:46:00 PM
https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1420422062431215621

she sounds like a Tea Party Enemy of the State
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2021, 05:45:39 PM
Quote
"The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win."
      :trumps

:social2 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on July 28, 2021, 07:51:17 PM
https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1420422062431215621

she sounds like a Tea Party Enemy of the State

Even worse man.

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gulag_archipelosi-1024x737.jpg)

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on July 28, 2021, 10:21:19 PM
Vote!

(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Zcl1Bw3yXt.jpg)

Very interesting article as a former resident (whose uncle was involved in Buffalo politics for years).
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 29, 2021, 10:07:24 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/VCjADXN.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on July 29, 2021, 10:58:08 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/eA50p7U.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on July 29, 2021, 11:07:22 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/eA50p7U.png)

:nintex
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on July 29, 2021, 02:31:59 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/eA50p7U.png)

Gotta make this an emoticon - :cope would be good. Or :nintex like BIONIC says above.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 29, 2021, 04:15:24 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7aNb6kXIAQVqvV?format=png&name=small)

 :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 29, 2021, 04:15:45 PM
related thoughts:
https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/status/1420562185022066697
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1420619814473670657
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 29, 2021, 05:47:52 PM
Quote
Because the media oversamples their own networks

Amazingly put.

One of the consequences of the collapsing traditional media business model has been the tendency to turn to editorialising everything and reporting by opinion.

We need to stop believing that journalists are experts in anything but gathering and presenting news and stop giving credibility to their opinions.

Twitter (and opinion based reporting) creates an environment where journalists are allowed to create the news instead of actually reporting it based on experts or first hand witnesses.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 29, 2021, 07:20:37 PM
More Americans get shot every year than use Twitter  :idont
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 29, 2021, 09:57:03 PM
https://twitter.com/Fishcak18433002/status/1420786705938927616
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on July 30, 2021, 02:17:51 AM
https://twitter.com/DanielsCongress/status/1420474138762911745

 :american these ads :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on July 30, 2021, 02:33:59 AM
I'd vote for him, just for a laugh.


spoiler (click to show/hide)
I mean, that is how you lot voted Trump in.
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 30, 2021, 07:44:19 AM
https://twitter.com/DanielsCongress/status/1420474138762911745

 :american these ads :dead

 :hesright

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1421081589107380227 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1421081589107380227)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 30, 2021, 09:14:43 AM
https://twitter.com/Fishcak18433002/status/1420786705938927616

That's his trademark squirm.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on July 30, 2021, 02:09:22 PM
https://twitter.com/andyharnik/status/1421153383050846209 (https://twitter.com/andyharnik/status/1421153383050846209)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 30, 2021, 02:33:16 PM
Biden's activation codephrase.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Propagandhim on July 31, 2021, 08:28:38 AM
Or an elaborate Deez Nuts joke.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on July 31, 2021, 10:44:44 AM
Was Beezy there?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 01, 2021, 06:46:19 AM
https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421471637074022411 (https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421471637074022411)

https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421669559854043138 (https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421669559854043138)

https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421716065084641280 (https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421716065084641280)

"Just get a job jack" :biden
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Post by: Nintex on August 01, 2021, 01:56:31 PM
https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1421887555532898306 (https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1421887555532898306)

:salute :biden
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Post by: benjipwns on August 01, 2021, 10:02:51 PM
white people upset about black man having a party:
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1421968697304879113
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1421978196438831104
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Post by: benjipwns on August 01, 2021, 10:07:02 PM
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1421686869054550017
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Post by: benjipwns on August 01, 2021, 10:13:24 PM
https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1421669559854043138
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1421668812659830786
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Post by: Nintex on August 02, 2021, 06:11:04 AM
We need a strong republican party :karen

The Republican Party

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1421965229244698625 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1421965229244698625)
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Post by: team filler on August 02, 2021, 01:44:28 PM
don't flipflop on this v important issue, mcarthy!  :bernie
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Post by: Nintex on August 02, 2021, 02:32:50 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUqkJTMUPTo

 :usacry
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 02, 2021, 06:05:05 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1421914530200887304

https://mobile.twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1422304050381565952

 :neogaf
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Post by: benjipwns on August 02, 2021, 10:14:55 PM
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/college-republicans-fake-sexual-assault-allegations-benjamin-rajadurai/
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Two women are accusing senior members of the College Republican national leadership of asking them to fabricate sexual assault allegations against a male member to sink his candidacy for a leadership position with the organization.
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One night during the convention, before Britt had secured her victory against Smith, one of the women says Rajadurai invited her to his hotel room. Earlier in the night, she had an argument with Rajadurai during a reception party, which she says left her ‘profusely sobbing’. When the pair met in Rajadurai’s hotel room, the woman says Rajadurai apologized before stepping away to answer a phone call from Thornton on the other side of the room. During the call, the woman claims she heard Rajadurai ask Thornton, ‘Should I have [her name] or [the other woman’s name] do it?’ After the phone call ended, the woman says Rajadurai asked her if she would accuse Smith of sexual assault and visit Smith in his hotel room later that night.
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Screenshots of a text conversation between Rajadurai and the woman on May 15, 2021, show Rajadurai admitting that he and Thornton had tried to ‘me too’ Smith. Rajadurai goes on to apologize to the woman for asking her to participate.

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BR: The part that got out. That we tried to me too clay kinda sucks

W: well its not wrong

BR: That was a private convo between me and Chandler and it ultimately went no where

W: that was one of the most painful and hurtful things you’ve ever done to me…just as an FYI. like I think about that almost every day

BR: We were angry but we never tried do anything with it. I’m so sorry you heard it. I regret it every day

W: your best case scenario was that it actually happened. I never felt more worthless in my life

BR: No I was a piece of shit for it. To this day I regret it. I can’t imagine how it made you feel
Later in the text conversation, Rajadurai apologizes to the woman, saying ‘If I did I’m sorry.’ Rajadurai claims he didn’t remember asking her to accuse Smith of sexual assault, but says ‘I could see myself having done that’.

The woman said that one of the reasons she did not come forward earlier was because Rajadurai had openly bragged about his ability to ‘ruin people’s lives’.
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A second woman told The Spectator that Rajadurai asked her to accuse Smith of sexual assault at the same convention. She claims he made this offer on behalf of Smith’s opponent, Courtney Britt, and her backer Chandler Thornton.

While leaving the bathroom outside the convention floor, the second woman says she ran into Rajadurai in the hotel hallway. She says Rajadurai first pitched the proposal to her as a ‘joke’ with a group of people present.

The woman says Rajadurai told her to invite Smith to party with her that night so she could get him inebriated. Supposedly, the plan was for the woman to accuse him of sexual assault the following day.
we have fun though
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 03, 2021, 12:06:46 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/shooter_salad/status/1422392142962569217

(https://media1.tenor.com/images/35d5596b161e95e065f72237e9bcd651/tenor.gif)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on August 03, 2021, 12:08:52 PM
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‘If I did I’m sorry.’ Rajadurai claims he didn’t remember asking her to accuse Smith of sexual assault, but says ‘I could see myself having done that’

Smooth.
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Post by: james on August 03, 2021, 12:09:31 PM
CUOMO RESIGN BITCH
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Post by: Nintex on August 03, 2021, 01:40:02 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1422596255214182407 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1422596255214182407)

Now ted's dunking Bernie.

Ted for prez
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Post by: BIONIC on August 03, 2021, 02:44:18 PM
https://twitter.com/ohheyitskevin/status/1422607229027602436
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 03, 2021, 05:41:02 PM
I’m still a proud Cuomosexual!  :supergay

(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6alYgN7oaH.jpg?format=webp)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 03, 2021, 06:13:42 PM
https://twitter.com/eliza_relman/status/1422628478390788100 (https://twitter.com/eliza_relman/status/1422628478390788100)

lmao this clown

Should've included some cat pictures
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Post by: benjipwns on August 03, 2021, 11:44:16 PM
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1422732738839392258

 :bernie
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Post by: benjipwns on August 04, 2021, 01:11:27 AM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-details-emerge-about-how-cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-advised-n1275839
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State prosecutors shed new light Tuesday on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's involvement in managing the response to the sexual harassment scandal surrounding his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Chris Cuomo was in the governor's inner circle as they developed talking points and strategies in late February as accusations threatened the three-term governor, according to emails and text messages made public by investigators for New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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It also appeared that Chris Cuomo played a role in writing the overall response Gov. Cuomo issued on Feb. 28 as the sexual harassment allegations reached an apex.
In an email at 3:20 p.m. ET on Feb. 28, Vlasto replied to an email from Chris Cuomo that included language that would largely make up a statement issued later by the governor.

"Questions have been raised about some of my personal interactions with people in my office," the statement attributed to Chris Cuomo's email said. "I spend most of my life at work and colleagues are often also personal friends. I never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm."

The email continued that "sometimes I am playful and make jokes," adding: "You have seen me do it at briefings hundreds of times. My only desire is to add some levity and banter to what is very serious business."

Later that day, Andrew Cuomo posted a statement addressing the allegations on the governor's official website.

The statement, time-stamped 5:45 p.m. ET, mirrored, nearly word for word, the email attributed to Chris Cuomo.
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A CNN spokeswoman declined to comment on James' report Tuesday and repeated earlier network statements saying Chris Cuomo did not affect coverage of his brother.
:hitler

Related coverage:
https://twitter.com/AlphonsoDavid/status/1422685986753060866
https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1422703053845696513
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 04, 2021, 05:10:36 AM
https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1422746034296528897 (https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1422746034296528897)

With the dems in disarray mike is going to win big anyway
https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1422729941867798531 (https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1422729941867798531)
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Post by: Nintex on August 04, 2021, 01:19:51 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E79hQNrVEAM5pd7?format=jpg)

Ben does it again
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Post by: team filler on August 04, 2021, 01:23:35 PM
the doggy  :(
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 04, 2021, 04:44:41 PM
I subjected myself to medical tyranny and haven't grown the second dick or the tentacles that were promised :huh

I haven't even got a better phone signal :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 04, 2021, 07:13:45 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1422982440986021890 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1422982440986021890)

Looks like Trump has some competition
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 04, 2021, 07:48:05 PM
de santis looks like all those cuban in south florida that look russian
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Post by: benjipwns on August 04, 2021, 10:09:02 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566435-liz-cheney-says-her-father-is-deeply-troubled-about-the-status-of-the
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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday said her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney (R), is “deeply troubled” about the state of the Republican Party.

“My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is, deeply troubled about where the country is,” Cheney said during an event hosted by the Aspen Institute.
:usacry
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Post by: benjipwns on August 04, 2021, 10:26:55 PM
https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1422974289851060229
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on August 04, 2021, 11:41:33 PM
“When the subject of an article is a hostile, inarticulate shit-heel, versus when they are an effective politician.“
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Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2021, 05:08:00 AM
The media outlets really need to control their hotwives and cucks  :dead

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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 05, 2021, 08:35:03 AM
“When the subject of an article is a hostile, inarticulate shit-heel, versus when they are an effective politician.“

When has Biden been hostile?
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Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2021, 09:05:28 AM
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907 (https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907)

These people are so bad at this  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2021, 12:35:00 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1422970857861918725 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1422970857861918725)

 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on August 05, 2021, 04:09:58 PM
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907 (https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1423257378993147907)

These people are so bad at this  :doge
Accountable public servants :nope
Private militia :ohyeah


You yanks are fucking wild.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2021, 04:39:12 PM
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756)

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on August 05, 2021, 07:49:44 PM
What is the general opinion of Jeep drivers in other places?

Here, if you drive a Jeep, you're either gay or a complete and utter douche nugget. Very few exceptions.
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Post by: Nintex on August 05, 2021, 08:42:01 PM
Only people who actually need one for their work (i.e. for patrolling the beach or a forest) drive jeeps here.
Otherwise it's gay and/or douche.

Same with the YMCA, unlike old Britney Spears songs, Summer Jam or even the Backstreet Boys no one listens to that in a 'guilty pleasure / remember the 90's' sort of way except if they're :supergay
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Post by: team filler on August 05, 2021, 09:12:52 PM
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1423373704864714756)

:biden
this is beyond the rubicon  :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 05, 2021, 11:07:01 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8B_jUjWYAEmRCW?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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Post by: Potato on August 05, 2021, 11:46:01 PM
That's some statement
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 06, 2021, 04:25:51 AM
Just give Trump a netflix show you cowards

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1423399529257308164 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1423399529257308164)
:info
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 06, 2021, 08:51:24 AM
Remember the time Jerry had to drive Obama around the lawn.

Now senile potuses are allowed behind the wheel.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 06, 2021, 12:20:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780)

Another victory lap for Joe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 06, 2021, 12:39:31 PM
Imagine being president and wearing a tan suit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 06, 2021, 07:00:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8HfCs_XoAMvkMY?format=jpg)

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on August 06, 2021, 07:37:21 PM
https://twitter.com/nickroberts317/status/1423779173601103875
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 06, 2021, 10:01:16 PM
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Former President Barack Obama was forced this week to aggressively trim the guestlist for his 60th birthday bash in light of surging cases of the Delta coronavirus variant. And The New York Times has a glimpse into who got tossed from the original list of 475 people initially invited to party at Obama’s $12 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion. Jay-Z and Beyonce are, naturally, still slated to come. But Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian Larry David, the king of awkward encounters, was awkwardly uninvited. Talk show hosts David Letterman and Conan O’Brien were also dumped, as were most of Obama’s old administration aides, including high-profile advisor David Axelrod.
:whew
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Post by: benjipwns on August 06, 2021, 10:12:32 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/08/06/ron-desantis-hits-back-at-joe-biden-over-governor-who-jab/
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at President Biden Friday after the commander-in-chief snarked “Governor who?” when asked about the Republican’s mask and vaccine policies a day earlier.

“I guess I’m not surprised that Biden doesn’t remember me. I guess the question is ‘What else has he forgotten?'” DeSantis said at an event at Chipola College in Marianna, in the Florida Panhandle.

“Biden’s forgotten about the crisis at our southern border, I can tell you that,” the governor continued. “Biden has forgotten about the inflation that’s biting the budgets of families all throughout our country. Biden has forgotten about the demonstrators who are fighting for freedom down in Cuba. Biden’s even forgotten about the constitution itself, as we saw with what he did with this moratorium.

...

“This is a guy who ran for president saying he was gonna ‘shut down the virus’. And what has he done?” DeSantis asked during remarks in Panama City. “He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border”

...

“So why don’t you do your job? Why don’t you get this border secure, and until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you,” the governor concluded.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: chronovore on August 07, 2021, 01:46:53 AM
“When the subject of an article is a hostile, inarticulate shit-heel, versus when they are an effective politician.“

When has Biden been hostile?

:thats_bait.gif
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 07, 2021, 07:18:28 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1424097171578757120 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1424097171578757120)

Ted fighting for our crypto's :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 07, 2021, 07:24:59 PM
Are.....are they buying politicians with bitcoin?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Potato on August 07, 2021, 09:23:32 PM
Are.....are they buying politicians with bitcoin?
I guess it beats buying them with hookers and blow
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on August 07, 2021, 10:28:26 PM
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872

uh

would this affect like every MMO too

an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people

blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 07, 2021, 11:48:06 PM
Quote from: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/politics/trump-refunds-millions-2020-campaign-fundraising/
Former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have refunded nearly $13 million to donors in the first half of the year, after deploying fundraising tactics in the 2020 election that duped donors into giving more money than they intended or believed they were, The New York Times reported.

What's more, the Times reported Saturday that more than $135 million has been refunded to donors by Trump's reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts in the 2020 cycle through June 2021.

A Times investigation earlier this year found that Trump's political operation last year automatically enrolled their online donors into recurring donations every week until Election Day.

Donors would have to manually uncheck a box on digital donation forms if they wished to opt out of the weekly donation, the Times reported. A second pre-selected box withdrew another donation. The Trump campaign made the disclaimer "increasingly opaque" by including it amongst bold and capitalized text, according to the newspaper.

The tactic led to demands for refunds from supporters and a slew of credit card fraud complaints, the Times reported.
This is >10% of their donations. An average campaign has around 1-2% of these.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 08, 2021, 11:36:32 AM
https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1424372507428237313 (https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1424372507428237313)

 8)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on August 08, 2021, 06:18:27 PM
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872

uh

would this affect like every MMO too

an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people

blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight  :doge

What does this mean for the James fund
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: jorma on August 09, 2021, 01:30:30 AM
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872

uh

would this affect like every MMO too

an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people

blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight  :doge

What does this mean for the James fund

can't spell broker without going broke

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on August 09, 2021, 03:15:32 PM
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780 (https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1423667935374155780)

Another victory lap for Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apa0nG1OfUc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on August 09, 2021, 05:09:26 PM
We need Trump to save us from the Biden Surge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 09, 2021, 05:21:41 PM
(https://abload.de/img/bluedawgs-2-1024x717sqji1.jpg)

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1424830378712440845 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1424830378712440845)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 09, 2021, 06:05:39 PM
And you thought having the MyPillow guy and Kid Rock at the White House was bad
https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540 (https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on August 09, 2021, 06:20:56 PM
is that the mathew lesko reboot  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 09, 2021, 11:07:40 PM
More colleterial damage from Cuomo:
Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/nyregion/roberta-kaplan-times-up-cuomo.html
Ms. Kaplan, a prominent progressive lawyer, was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who had accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, a report said.

The fallout from a damaging report that found Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women widened on Monday when Roberta A. Kaplan, a nationally prominent lawyer with ties to the governor, resigned from Time’s Up, the organization founded by Hollywood women to fight sexual abuse and promote gender equality.

Ms. Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time’s Up and the co-founder of its legal defense fund, was one of several prominent figures whom the report found to be involved in an effort to discredit one of Mr. Cuomo’s alleged victims, and she has continuing legal ties to a former Cuomo aide accused of leading that effort.

“Unfortunately, recent events have made it clear that even our apparent allies in the fight to advance women can turn out to be abusers,” Ms. Kaplan wrote in a letter submitting her resignation from the group. “We have felt the raw, personal and profound pain of that betrayal.”
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It was part of a broader effort in which Mr. Cuomo and his aides sought counsel from former administration officials including Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest L.G.B.T.Q. political lobbying organization in the country; Tina Tchen, the chief executive of Time’s Up; and the governor’s brother, Chris Cuomo, an anchor on CNN.

All of those figures have come under criticism for their connections to Mr. Cuomo.

The involvement of Mr. David, who previously served as counsel to the governor, has led to calls for his resignation from the Human Rights Campaign. The organization said in a statement on Monday that it had hired a law firm to investigate whether Mr. David’s work on the op-ed aligned with its mission of “fighting for equality and justice for all.”

Mr. David, who has called on Mr. Cuomo to resign, said in a statement that he had no knowledge of “any incidents of misconduct” involving the 11 women in the attorney general’s report.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 09, 2021, 11:16:53 PM
Meanwhile in Arizona:
Quote from: https://www.thebulwark.com/voting-machine-tampering-is-coming-from-inside-the-maga-house/
Last week Gateway Pundit reported that Q himself…errr “CodeMonkeyZ” Ron Watkins…posted a video and a few screenshots to his Telegram that had been provided by a “whistleblower.” The posts were supposed to demonstrate that Dominion Voting Systems machines could in fact be connected to the internet, which is a necessary but not sufficient element in support of their bat guano theory of election fraud.

The grainy, shaky video presented a conversation between an election official and a Dominion employee, in which the election official asks a series of leading questions in order to demonstrate how, with the help of someone on the inside, the machine could hypothetically be tampered with over the internet using the BIOS motherboard settings.

When the official shared this “bombshell” video with CodeMonkey Watkins they included in it an image of their election system’s BIOS password, which is, of course, a massive breach of voting system security.

And in doing so they stepped on a pretty large rake – because the password in the video was unique, which allowed the Colorado Secretary of State’s office to identify which county the leak came from and during which meeting it was recorded.

Oops.
Quote from: https://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking/breaking_news/mesa-county-clerks-office-under-state-investigation-for-breach-of-security/article_067ca598-f92b-11eb-90a4-276a804129e6.html
The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office is under investigation by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office for a breach in security over its election system.

Secretary of State Jena Griswold released an order at 10:15 a.m. today calling on Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to supply surveillance videos and documents showing how the breach occurred, and how security information ended up on a social media post.

If Peters can't show proper chain of custody for that security information, which involves certain passwords that are eyes-only for state and county election workers who have passed background checks, all of the county's election systems could be immediately decertified, meaning the county would be on the hook for an expensive refit of all of its machines.

The Secretary of State's investigation into the matter could lead to criminal charges
:usacry

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Peters was not exactly a surprising suspect. She had previously gained notoriety through a series of social media posts during the January 6th insurrection that attested to how easy it might be for a criminal to tamper with election equipment. This latest leak appears to have been an attempt to verify her premise.

Her posts shamed Republican Senators like Pat Toomey who were not going along with President Trump’s effort to overturn the result of the November election with the fervor that she had hoped. Among her since-deleted tweets,

“Their intent is not to ‘overturn’ the election. This was not an election. This was planned fraud on a grand scale. If you refuse to acknowledge that you WILL NOT be re-elected. We need others in your place that uphold the Constitution and preserve our Republic.”
“Shame on you! As one that administers elections in my county, you apparently have no idea how it is possible to 1) tabulate more than once ballots favoring a candidate 2) change algorithm in a voting machine (see Eric Coomer from Dominion’s Facebook ranks) UR Dirty or ignorant.”
“You would be wise to learn the Constitution that you swore to uphold and to protect us from enemies ‘foreign and domestic.’”
“Also, the vaccines are troubling in the mechanics in the RNA. I don’t want anyone messing with my RNA, my DNA or anything else – MY BODY, my right!”
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: benjipwns on August 09, 2021, 11:20:29 PM
Meanwhile in California:
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/08/09/newsom-urges-democrats-to-skip-recall-candidate-question-1389761
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that Democrats should not vote for any of the 46 candidates vying to replace him in the upcoming recall election.

Recall ballots contain two parts: an up-or-down vote on whether to retain Newsom and an open-ended question of who should replace him. Newsom said he was focused on prevailing on the first part and discouraged his base from taking sides on the second.

“We’re just focusing on ‘no’ on the recall, leaving the rest blank,” Newsom said.

Newsom’s admonition highlights the strategic gamble his campaign took in dissuading other prominent Democrats from running. Some Democratic officials and campaign operatives believed it was in Newsom’s interest to have a fallback Democrat on the ballot in case Newsom is ousted. But Newsom’s team emphasized party unity and warned that another Democratic candidate could help the recall succeed by fracturing the liberal electorate.

As a result, recall ballots will list several prominent Republican candidates but no Democrats with political experience. If Democratic voters leave that second question blank, they could effectively be ceding the question of Newsom’s successor to Republican voters and other recall supporters.

That creates the possibility that a Republican becomes governor with a small plurality of the vote. Conservative talk show host Larry Elder has leapfrogged into the lead among Republicans but has topped out around 20 percent.
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While registered Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans in California, polls show conservatives are far more motivated to vote in the recall. Newsom’s fate will hinge on turning out enough of his voters to counteract surging Republican enthusiasm. The governor on Monday called his team’s get-out-the-vote efforts “unprecedented,” saying the campaign had sent more than 15 million texts while spending millions to buoy turnout.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed the governorship in 2003 without an outright majority, securing 48.6 percent of the vote after voters elected to recall then-Gov. Gray Davis. Then-Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante decided to run as a replacement Democrat in that election and managed just a third of the vote, an outcome that informed some Democrats’ thinking this time around.
Good news for Caitlyn Jenner?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on August 10, 2021, 12:27:39 AM
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872

uh

would this affect like every MMO too

an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people

blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight  :doge

What does this mean for the James fund

they blocked the bill by poisoning it with a massive military funding increase :neogaf

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/567046-cryptocurrency-amendment-blocked-in-senate

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A bipartisan amendment to redefine who would be subject to new cryptocurrency regulation requirements under the Senate infrastructure bill was blocked Monday after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) tried to attach his untreated proposal to boost military spending by $50 billion.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 10, 2021, 08:26:05 AM
And you thought having the MyPillow guy and Kid Rock at the White House was bad
https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540 (https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540)

Is it a hate crime if I say that flamboyant people like that make me want to set myself on fire?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 10, 2021, 08:36:53 AM
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1423653965196111872

uh

would this affect like every MMO too

an auction house constitutes a service that effectuates transfers of digital assets on behalf of other people

blizzard and square enix become brokers overnight  :doge

What does this mean for the James fund

they blocked the bill by poisoning it with a massive military funding increase :neogaf

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/567046-cryptocurrency-amendment-blocked-in-senate

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A bipartisan amendment to redefine who would be subject to new cryptocurrency regulation requirements under the Senate infrastructure bill was blocked Monday after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) tried to attach his untreated proposal to boost military spending by $50 billion.
"Siri what is infrastructure?"

"Infrastructure can be whatever you want it to be and is celebrated during an event called infrastructure week."

"Siri when is infrastructure week?"

"President Trump declared the start of infrastructure week on the 5th of june 2017, it is still ongoing."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on August 10, 2021, 09:01:46 AM
And you thought having the MyPillow guy and Kid Rock at the White House was bad
https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540 (https://twitter.com/IMAO_/status/1424836580565569540)

Is it a hate crime if I say that flamboyant people like that make me want to set myself on fire?

I think that's where we get the "flam" part

if it makes you want to throw yourself into the ocean that explains the "boyant"
Title: Depends on if you're Lucille Bluth
Post by: Tasty on August 10, 2021, 10:48:26 AM
Is it a hate crime if I say that flamboyant people like that make me want to set myself on fire?

(https://i.imgur.com/mJl8buU.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Uncle on August 10, 2021, 11:47:05 AM
:whoo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 10, 2021, 12:18:14 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1425128875063918596 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1425128875063918596)

Democrats are doing anything they can to distract us from the #CyberSymposium
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 10, 2021, 12:19:51 PM
i thought he was the real president last year not that ding dang dirty trump or some shit :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on August 10, 2021, 12:25:49 PM
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: team filler on August 10, 2021, 12:31:30 PM
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.
a classical bitalian? only goes gay for guidos  :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: tiesto on August 10, 2021, 12:32:07 PM
Glad he resigned, just really hoping that Kathy Hochul (or anyone else the Dems run) can beat Zeldin. That guy is my congressman and he's awful awful awful.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: james on August 10, 2021, 12:47:46 PM
CUOMO RESIGN BITCH

I get what I want.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 10, 2021, 12:55:29 PM
You love to see it…

Killing old people  :ohyeah

Inappropriately touching people  :nope
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: BIONIC on August 10, 2021, 12:58:25 PM
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.
a classical bitalian? only plays goes both ways for guidos

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8cMs6_XMAI87uU?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Nintex on August 10, 2021, 01:12:59 PM
Rivelino has spoken

https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1425140378035007492 (https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1425140378035007492)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: Tasty on August 10, 2021, 02:15:37 PM
As a proud #CuomoSexual, this is the worst day of my life.

I'd rather be #Cum-o-Sexual :smug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: benjipwns on August 10, 2021, 09:52:14 PM
is this "cope":
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1425131245449646080
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425147549527195653
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152701122367489
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152063755931661

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1425132119697862657
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Blah blah facts and science blah blah deadly pandemic
Post by: remy on August 11, 2021, 03:25:27 AM
Are.....are they buying politicians with bitcoin?
I guess it beats buying them with hookers and blow
the best combo would be to buy hookers and blow with bitcoin and forget about the politicians  :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2021, 01:05:28 PM
Trump is having a normal one today :dead

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8g8ALZWUAAGweh?format=jpg)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: team filler on August 11, 2021, 01:35:57 PM
need dat boi back on twitter  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2021, 01:39:58 PM
Trump is already back on Twitter through his spokesperson  :lol

https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1425495918028247047 (https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1425495918028247047)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 11, 2021, 03:04:36 PM
is this "cope":
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1425131245449646080
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425147549527195653
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152701122367489
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1425152063755931661

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1425132119697862657

glenn lmao
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 11, 2021, 06:48:55 PM
Huntey  :lol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881213/Unearthed-video-shows-naked-Hunter-Biden-claiming-Russian-drug-dealers-stole-laptop.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881213/Unearthed-video-shows-naked-Hunter-Biden-claiming-Russian-drug-dealers-stole-laptop.html)
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Hunter Biden claims Russian drug dealers stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room in 2018. Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter with a naked hooker in 2019, explaining how he believed his laptop was stolen

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The alleged incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers, each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: benjipwns on August 11, 2021, 10:35:15 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1251879820503535617

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: benjipwns on August 11, 2021, 10:43:21 PM
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1424761696380493826

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: team filler on August 12, 2021, 12:32:18 AM
 :ufup :cop :cop :cop :cop :cop :cop :cop :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 12, 2021, 07:57:41 AM
Quote
every Taliban fighter gets his own Ford, Toyota, Humvee or MRAP.

Quote
Hunter: 'No no no, because my dad [inaudible] running for president. He is, he is, he is. I talk about it all the time. If they do, he also knows I make like a gazillion dollars.'

Hooker: 'They'd try to blackmail you?'

Hunter: 'Yeah in some way yeah.'

:thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 12, 2021, 07:38:19 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1251879820503535617

 :teehee

This is still her best one.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1252012223435886593
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 13, 2021, 06:20:08 AM
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The poll released Wednesday by Morning Consult/Politico found that 14 percent of Biden voters surveyed said it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that Trump would make an inexplicable return to the White House as soon as this year. Twenty-six percent of Trump voters agreed that the former president would likely return to office before Biden's term is over.
https://www.newsweek.com/14-percent-biden-voters-say-trump-will-reinstated-president-this-year-poll-1618985 (https://www.newsweek.com/14-percent-biden-voters-say-trump-will-reinstated-president-this-year-poll-1618985)

 :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 13, 2021, 01:43:18 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8r1q4bXoAYG3mt?format=jpg)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Tasty on August 13, 2021, 01:48:34 PM
What I miss is proper use of the English language.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: benjipwns on August 13, 2021, 09:38:45 PM
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1426243802981879809

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: team filler on August 13, 2021, 09:43:09 PM
I've been #teamtaliban since the begin! :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 14, 2021, 05:55:51 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kphx-mT7cU

 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Transhuman on August 14, 2021, 06:14:00 PM
Do you really watch that Nintex?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: benjipwns on August 15, 2021, 09:56:30 PM
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1426954255169204224
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: T-Short on August 16, 2021, 03:20:50 AM
hehe

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1427022834644267009
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: james on August 16, 2021, 12:26:41 PM
Biden lied people died
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2021, 12:28:26 PM
After Trump has been trolling Biden over "Twitter" non-stop the White House has finally announced a press conference about OPERATION UNFOLDING CLUSTERFUCK

example of such trolling
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E86Z5YWWQAM-uEt?format=jpg)
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Biden lied people died

Biden slept, Afghanistan wept

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E83LtlzXMAMHNPu?format=jpg)

The smartest member of the Biden Adminstration
guess who
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E867aTUWQAIRxfE?format=jpg)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| It's infrastructure week, baybee! :biden
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 16, 2021, 12:35:44 PM
would the 'ban be running wild if this specimen was the man they'd have to deal with, instead of sleepy joe?

(https://i.imgur.com/sU7nkjp.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2021, 01:52:14 PM
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1427321757283794945 (https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1427321757283794945)

Welp, sounds like reporters finally have had enough covering for the clown show.

Are they really going with: "Trump put down this landmine and we stepped on it"

are they that stupid?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E86kDmAX0AEUoRH?format=jpg)

probably
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Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2021, 04:30:44 PM
We had to leave because of Trump and Trump was wrong but I totally stand by this position to do what Trump thought we should do.
Also Afghanistan is a complete failure but we were succesful.

Not even CNN is having this shit
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1427365091280920583 (https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1427365091280920583)


"We were never in Afghanistan for Nation Building" is also some grade A bullshit because that's how the war has been extended time and time and time again.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 16, 2021, 06:13:41 PM
Say what you will about Biden, but at least he is consistent.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nkulw/status/1427262475410477061
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 16, 2021, 07:55:32 PM
hehe

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1427022834644267009

 :pika
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 16, 2021, 08:18:57 PM
Hypernormalisation has set in for quite some time across the US and most of Europe.
Just never as painfully and confronting as it did over the past few days.

Republicans try to 'rewrite' last years history by removing an article, Joe Biden just went out there to rewrite 2 decades of history and throw everyone but himself under the bus and the Pentagon flunkies all had a masterclass in Rumsfeld bullshit but before he could teach them the jokes, he died.
The media had a wake-up call today, after 8 - 12 years of peddling horseshit they could no longer pretend there was any sort plan or better outcome there was no rescue, explanation or comfort and it scared the hell out of them.

Obama mistakingly thought both his enemies and allies would be rational and calculating instead of emotional, Trump painstakingly tried to achieve the impossible and bend reality to his will even when it nearly killed him and Biden knows there's nothing that can or will be done except bunker down to wait and see the world order crumble.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: jorma on August 17, 2021, 06:29:09 AM
So now that 'murica has been out of Afghanistan for a while, they must be getting really impatient to start another war. Any guesses on where  they will wage war next?

I just hope it's not going to be a war on climat change, because that's a war we need to actually win.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 17, 2021, 10:06:14 AM
So now that 'murica has been out of Afghanistan for a while, they must be getting really impatient to start another war. Any guesses on where  they will wage war next?

I just hope it's not going to be a war on climat change, because that's a war we need to actually win.  :doge
To fight a war you need to give your troops something to fight for.
So right now America like Afghanistan is mostly fighting itself.

The next war will likely be in Taiwan, the 'Quad' (United States, Japan, Australia and India) vs. China.
https://twitter.com/ReutersGMF/status/1427483442413858817 (https://twitter.com/ReutersGMF/status/1427483442413858817)

It's a war the US can't win unless they're willing to take heavy losses or risk a wider conflict.
Russia and the EU have no choice but to become allies or risk being gobbled up or strong armed by China respectively.

Quote
the Pentagon flunkies all had a masterclass in Rumsfeld bullshit
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1427624313365180419 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1427624313365180419)

boom
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 17, 2021, 12:10:13 PM
Quote
the 'Quad' (United States, Japan, Australia and India) vs. China

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 17, 2021, 12:11:13 PM
NGL Russia and US teaming up against China would be cool to see. In an abstract, Risk-like way of course.

It's annoying how much more of a thorn in the side Russia's become over the last two decades.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Snoopycat_ on August 17, 2021, 12:49:06 PM
After watching a bunch of Charlie Bo vids on YT it’s obvious most Americans don’t know most of their country is just as hellish as Afghanistan
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 17, 2021, 12:58:13 PM
China going into Afghanistan would be a net positive. Those fuckers need some Asian discipline in their lives
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 17, 2021, 02:23:39 PM
https://twitter.com/DavidCharter/status/1427692139857711113 (https://twitter.com/DavidCharter/status/1427692139857711113)

(https://abload.de/img/bluedawgs-2-1024x717sqji1.jpg)


https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427677700270002182 (https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427677700270002182)
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427680566212796424 (https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427680566212796424)

Xi has a laptop
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 17, 2021, 07:28:34 PM
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1427760288472911884 (https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1427760288472911884)

 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 17, 2021, 09:02:04 PM
Ben is on a fucking roll this week!

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/biden_helicopter-1024x760.jpg)

(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/bush_biden_terrorists-1024x808.jpg)

 :whoo

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WILL THE REAL TERRORISTS PLEASE STAND UP

Twenty years ago the war criminal George W. Bush lured America into war against ‘terrorists’ based on lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Likewise in Afghanistan, we fought not against Al Qaeda, but rather the Taliban and war dragged on for 20 years. There is some question about whether or not Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by US forces. He might have died long before of kidney disease. Obama was said to be a victorious hero even though there’s no proof Bin Laden had anything to do with the 9-11 attack. It is said the body of Bin Laden was buried at sea. How convenient—leave no evidence.

Bush pushed America into what became a repeat of Vietnam. Our leaders were interested in funneling money into the rapacious maw of our military industrial complex while expanding a US empire based on lies and fear. The fear of terrorism.

So who are the terrorists now? Biden has already announced it. They’re American citizens such as yours truly. Biden’s terrorists resist mandatory injections of dangerous substances urged upon us by a corrupt government. We refuse to wear masks. We supported Trump and attended his January 6 rally—or we would have if we could have. We know Biden and his forces blatantly stole the presidential election. We question the 9-11 narrative given to us by corrupt government. Building 7 was a planned demolition. Scientific facts have proved it without a doubt. That means a lot of the other claptrap we’ve been told is false, too.

Just because we question the jabs, the ‘official’ 9-11 fairy tale, and the last presidential election, Biden calls us ‘domestic terrorists,’ and we all know what the government does when terrorists are named. They are subsequently attacked. Will Biden use the military or national guard to round us up and send us to FEMA camps? I keep seeing ads for employment at FEMA camps. They need guards. Why?

Biden once said there could be no revolt in America because he had hight tech equipment including nukes, drones, and F-15s at his disposal. We the people have hunting rifles. How can we resist? Well, we saw a primitive Taliban resist and they were successful. If Biden and his Marxists want to use military force against the American people, it will probably trigger a civil war. It will likely end with Biden escaping the White House by helicopter.

— Ben Garrison
[close]

 :clap
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 17, 2021, 10:19:55 PM
Quote from: Ben Garrison
Obama was said to be a victorious hero even though there’s no proof Bin Laden had anything to do with the 9-11 attack.
:cenk
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 17, 2021, 10:22:46 PM
bin laden was soy i a, all the proof we need
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 17, 2021, 10:28:47 PM
https://twitter.com/GovCox/status/1427802129826123780

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 18, 2021, 03:46:14 AM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1427807877587157001

 :dead

Trump 2024 campaign starts now!
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Kurt Russell on August 18, 2021, 04:39:32 AM
(https://abload.de/img/b4ad54e7-b6b4-4a44-90frjdz.png)

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Kurt Russell on August 18, 2021, 04:43:02 AM
The next war will likely be in Taiwan, the 'Quad' (United States, Japan, Australia and India) vs. China.

By that point, Canzuk will absolutely be a thing, so expect Canada, the UK and New Zealand (lol) to join the party.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 18, 2021, 05:11:01 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1427809362794319881 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1427809362794319881)

Blow up all the forts

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1427807121870045191 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1427807121870045191)

:trumps

https://twitter.com/business/status/1427834255938310144 (https://twitter.com/business/status/1427834255938310144)

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1427887994980159488 (https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1427887994980159488)

 :salute

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427819121832599553 (https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1427819121832599553)

 :gun :jeb
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 18, 2021, 05:02:02 PM
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1428098017496682503 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1428098017496682503)

Nailed it  :smug


How long will he last?

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1428095468374986760 (https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1428095468374986760)

https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1428096548563476481 (https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1428096548563476481)

https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1428097659395616775 (https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1428097659395616775)
[close]

Unfortunately for Biden, CNN has finally found a way to restore their ratings
https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1428104263213924356 (https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1428104263213924356)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9Gj142WUAMdRqt?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 18, 2021, 06:17:32 PM
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688


 :success
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 18, 2021, 10:00:40 PM
https://reason.com/2021/08/17/dea-seizes-life-savings-of-new-orleans-grandfather-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/
Quote
A New Orleans grandfather says the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took his life savings based on flimsy accusations of drug trafficking and without ever charging him with a crime. Now he's fighting to get it back.

Kermit Warren, a former longshoreman, says he and his son had gotten laid off from their jobs last year during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and he was trying to turn a side-business as a scrapper into a full-time venture. To that end, he and his son traveled to Ohio with roughly $28,000 to purchase a tow truck.

However, Warren claims the tow truck was too large for his needs, so he and his son bought a one-way ticket back home. In the airport, three DEA agents stopped the two men and questioned them about the bag of cash they were carrying.

The complaint against Warren's money filed in federal court says Warren and his son gave suspicious and incomplete answers about their travel itinerary and plans to buy the truck. Based on that, the agents seized his money. The complaint alleges that a drug dog later alerted on the cash, and that the DEA had previously received a tip of drug trafficking activity at his son's residence. Warren denies any involvement in drug activity.

The government is now seeking to keep Warren's money forever
Quote
Although there is nothing illegal about flying domestically with large amounts of undeclared cash, federal and local law enforcement have a habit of seizing currency from travelers under civil asset forfeiture laws.
Quote
The Institute for Justice is currently litigating a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of people whose cash was seized by the DEA at airports. One of the lead plaintiffs in that case, Stacy Jones, had  $43,167 in cash seized by the DEA as she was trying to fly home to Tampa, Florida, from Wilmington, North Carolina. Jones says the cash was from the sale of a used car, as well as money she and her husband intended to take to a casino.

One of the other named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Terrence Rolin, a 79-year-old retired railroad engineer, had his life savings of $82,373 seized by the DEA after his daughter tried to take it on a flight out of Pittsburgh with the intent of depositing it in a bank.
Quote
In 2016, a USA Today investigation found the DEA seized more than $209 million from at least 5,200 travelers in 15 major airports over the previous decade.
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 18, 2021, 10:45:22 PM
https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1428022270446952460

 :nope
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Kurt Russell on August 19, 2021, 03:49:27 AM
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688

To be fair, that sounds like it would make a great tycoon game.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on August 19, 2021, 05:02:34 AM
https://reason.com/2021/08/17/dea-seizes-life-savings-of-new-orleans-grandfather-without-charging-him-with-a-crime/
Quote
A New Orleans grandfather says the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took his life savings based on flimsy accusations of drug trafficking and without ever charging him with a crime. Now he's fighting to get it back.

Kermit Warren, a former longshoreman, says he and his son had gotten laid off from their jobs last year during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and he was trying to turn a side-business as a scrapper into a full-time venture. To that end, he and his son traveled to Ohio with roughly $28,000 to purchase a tow truck.

However, Warren claims the tow truck was too large for his needs, so he and his son bought a one-way ticket back home. In the airport, three DEA agents stopped the two men and questioned them about the bag of cash they were carrying.

The complaint against Warren's money filed in federal court says Warren and his son gave suspicious and incomplete answers about their travel itinerary and plans to buy the truck. Based on that, the agents seized his money. The complaint alleges that a drug dog later alerted on the cash, and that the DEA had previously received a tip of drug trafficking activity at his son's residence. Warren denies any involvement in drug activity.

The government is now seeking to keep Warren's money forever
Quote
Although there is nothing illegal about flying domestically with large amounts of undeclared cash, federal and local law enforcement have a habit of seizing currency from travelers under civil asset forfeiture laws.
Quote
The Institute for Justice is currently litigating a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of people whose cash was seized by the DEA at airports. One of the lead plaintiffs in that case, Stacy Jones, had  $43,167 in cash seized by the DEA as she was trying to fly home to Tampa, Florida, from Wilmington, North Carolina. Jones says the cash was from the sale of a used car, as well as money she and her husband intended to take to a casino.

One of the other named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Terrence Rolin, a 79-year-old retired railroad engineer, had his life savings of $82,373 seized by the DEA after his daughter tried to take it on a flight out of Pittsburgh with the intent of depositing it in a bank.
Quote
In 2016, a USA Today investigation found the DEA seized more than $209 million from at least 5,200 travelers in 15 major airports over the previous decade.
:american
That's pretty fucked up
Title: civil asset forfeiture
Post by: chronovore on August 19, 2021, 11:38:19 AM
https://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 19, 2021, 12:15:44 PM
That sketch at the end did not need that 15 minute introduction.  :snore


https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1428364143308939264 (https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1428364143308939264)

 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 19, 2021, 01:50:53 PM
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688

To be fair, that sounds like it would make a great tycoon game.

It sounds like MGS4
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 19, 2021, 03:08:04 PM
https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1428335707744088064 (https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1428335707744088064)

They're just letting this man dig and dig

Does he have any friends in the White House at all?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 19, 2021, 04:05:51 PM
is this gonna actually end up with them pulling the "Joe has to step down for health reasons" card like the mad lads said would happen  :titus

I suppose the one saving grace he has ATM is no one believes he's actually calling the shots
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 19, 2021, 04:56:51 PM
is this gonna actually end up with them pulling the "Joe has to step down for health reasons" card like the mad lads said would happen  :titus

I suppose the one saving grace he has ATM is no one believes he's actually calling the shots

No because Westerns don’t actually gaf about Afghanistan. It’s just political enjoyers hyping themselves up because this is the first major release since Jan 6 and they’re hungry for new content.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: chronovore on August 19, 2021, 09:14:23 PM
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 19, 2021, 09:18:33 PM
when the msm are doing their best to make you look crazy/demented for ending a never ending 20 year war  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on August 19, 2021, 10:29:10 PM
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.
Yeah, but you could have got your people out before leaving though...
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: chronovore on August 19, 2021, 11:28:05 PM
Yeah, mistakes were made. We’re going to be examining what went wrong for a long time. It was a volatile and difficult situation to navigate, which is why I think it is so pointless and disingenuous to point fingers at Biden and shout “senile!“
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on August 20, 2021, 12:18:31 AM
Yeah, mistakes were made. We’re going to be examining what went wrong for a long time. It was a volatile and difficult situation to navigate, which is why I think it is so pointless and disingenuous to point fingers at Biden and shout “senile!“
Agreed. Blaming this situation on the president being senile is completely disingenuous and pointless. Everyone needs to call it what it is: incompetence.

Didn't even bother telling your most staunch allies what was going on.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 20, 2021, 12:20:54 AM
the people profiting off the war want the end to look as bad as possible. like being in endless war is somehow not the worse option  :mueller
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Uncle on August 20, 2021, 09:01:20 AM
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread

 :nintex
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 20, 2021, 12:00:26 PM
Make peace not war ✌🏻
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 20, 2021, 02:24:56 PM
That went well

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1428784666308403212 (https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1428784666308403212)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 20, 2021, 04:14:17 PM
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.

You know all those humvees the Taliban is driving around?

Should have stocked the gas tanks with bombs. Then after the fall of Kabul, trigger them and you gottem
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: jorma on August 20, 2021, 04:36:42 PM
There are a lot of universe brains posting in this thread, and I don’t agree with many of the hot-takes about Biden’s mental competency level, but I will say we all knew there was no possible way for us to CLEANLY get out from Afghanistan. It was never going to happen.

You know all those humvees the Taliban is driving around?

Should have stocked the gas tanks with bombs. Then after the fall of Kabul, trigger them and you gottem

sounds like a great plan if you sit in 'muricaland with your dick in your hand, but probably not as great sounding if you are one of the 10.000 CIA-agents US citizens currently depending on the good will of the taliban to get passage home  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 20, 2021, 04:47:30 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9PQ25GXIAkHMb5?format=png)

*Record scratch* *Freeze frame*

"Yep that's me on the left, a member of the CIA or shall I say "Taliban".
How me and my friends from college ended up here with this type of trigger discipline?
Well, it all started with that one crazy GOP internship in Florida and a shitpost on 4chan...."
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 20, 2021, 07:58:55 PM
Quote
Bin Laden warned in 2010 letter that Biden would ‘lead US into crisis’
https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/bin-laden-warned-in-2010-letter-that-biden-would-lead-us-into-crisis/ (https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/bin-laden-warned-in-2010-letter-that-biden-would-lead-us-into-crisis/)

Quote
In the letter dated May 2010, the al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind wrote he had no assassination plots against Biden because he deemed him “totally unprepared” to lead the United States.

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 22, 2021, 07:10:26 AM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429250972161806340 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429250972161806340)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429255053425233925 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429255053425233925)

:salute

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 22, 2021, 05:14:39 PM
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1429543601546088449 (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1429543601546088449)

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1429545960192057353 (https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1429545960192057353)

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429544883879092228 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1429544883879092228)

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1429549912035840002 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1429549912035840002)

 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on August 22, 2021, 05:37:51 PM
That's the wrong way around.

Quote
BIDEN: *walks away*

REPORTER: “What about ISIS and the threat that Americans face now?”

Nintex, don't be a sap.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 22, 2021, 07:02:20 PM
Now that MSNBC and CNN have moved to 'unfit for office' Fox News has to up the ante with the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan calling for a court-martial.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1429427947732185095 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1429427947732185095)

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 22, 2021, 08:08:50 PM
Nintex, don't be a sap.

(https://i.imgur.com/3AwjBBh.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 22, 2021, 10:02:00 PM
Biden should just say what Trump would say.

"Afghanistan is a shithole country full of shithole people. Im bringing our proud American boys home. If their government cant stop cave people from taking over, thats on them USA USA USA"
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 22, 2021, 10:39:21 PM
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1429257743165177858

the 5G has activated :noooo
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on August 22, 2021, 11:45:54 PM
https://youtu.be/K41lyqnjbTE
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 23, 2021, 12:23:10 AM
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1429257743165177858

the 5G has activated :noooo

4th highest cable news channel?

....out of 4?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 23, 2021, 03:59:21 PM
"We are going to be the leaders in evacuating"

She literally said it, these fucking clowns  :lol

https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698 (https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698)

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1429880537242554371 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1429880537242554371)

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1429881127423004696 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1429881127423004696)




Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 23, 2021, 04:14:51 PM
it's like trump and hillary teamed up!  :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 23, 2021, 04:22:18 PM
imagine how hot the content would be with trump trying to explain away this shit show :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 24, 2021, 05:07:28 PM
"We are going to be the leaders in evacuating"

She literally said it, these fucking clowns  :lol

https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698 (https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1429885605727645698)


*spongebob narrator voice* 24 hours later

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1430264973587099648 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1430264973587099648)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 24, 2021, 05:50:07 PM
"gee, let me go to dangerous area of the world with war going on"  :) "oh no, I am in dangerous area with war going on!"  :'(


 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 24, 2021, 07:11:41 PM
He's running
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1430282157583437833 (https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1430282157583437833)

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 24, 2021, 09:42:59 PM
The California recall is going to be hilarious next month. Dems have no idea what to do so they’re running ads with Liz Warren.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vWWUbuUjA

If Newsom gets recalled, this guy is probably going to replace him…
https://mobile.twitter.com/KFILE/status/1430201152927371266
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 24, 2021, 10:06:09 PM
should have called in the real heavy hitter  :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 25, 2021, 07:58:02 AM
Don't worry the Dems got this, they'll just call the black guy a racist  :wut

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9QzifIX0AEiYDc?format=png)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Don Rumata on August 25, 2021, 08:27:03 AM
"gee, let me go to dangerous area of the world with war going on"  :) "oh no, I am in dangerous area with war going on!"  :'(


 :neogaf
Just wanted to get a couple of Afghan carpets on the cheap.  :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 25, 2021, 09:43:47 AM
Don't worry the Dems got this, they'll just call the black guy a racist  :wut

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9QzifIX0AEiYDc?format=png)

"...Black face..."

How did this get through?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 25, 2021, 12:03:09 PM
Quote
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654)

 :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 25, 2021, 09:52:06 PM
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1430574593488588801

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9ptKPyXMAAvNvf?format=jpg&name=small)
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Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 25, 2021, 11:22:25 PM
Quote
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1430211255781019654)

 :pacspit

(https://i.imgur.com/1b0jlow.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2021, 02:14:30 AM
https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1430618373801578502
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 26, 2021, 03:26:08 AM
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1430307617528766470
IMPEACH
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 26, 2021, 02:53:29 PM
Teddy weighs in

https://twitter.com/DanielsCongress/status/1430958138363105286 (https://twitter.com/DanielsCongress/status/1430958138363105286)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 26, 2021, 03:03:06 PM
Let's go to Afghanistan and knock out the Taliban real quick, we'll be in and out in a week.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 26, 2021, 04:11:14 PM
Biden fled, marines are dead

Biden retreated, the marines got yeeted
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 26, 2021, 04:17:54 PM
https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/1430982598633865222 (https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/1430982598633865222)

Deadliest attack in a decade

Even I didn't imagine we'd miss the peace and quiet of the Trump administration.

Looks like he found a Twitter account that still works  :lol

https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1430984922269892613 (https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1430984922269892613)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on August 26, 2021, 04:31:03 PM
AFAICS the only way the US could have withdrawn completely 'drama free' would have been formal surrender and complete capitulation to the Taliban, recognition of their authority at an international level and an ongoing series of reparations and trade / infrastructure funding / weapons deals in return for an amnesty for their allies and a staggered withdrawl.  :idont
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 26, 2021, 04:57:30 PM
In some non Afghanistan news…

https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1430690402651103240

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 26, 2021, 05:09:14 PM
The 3 million Vietnamese receiving vaccines: "more dick-waving, please!"
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 26, 2021, 05:22:12 PM
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1430698615035490311 (https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1430698615035490311)

Not enough L's in the world if Larry wins Cali.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 26, 2021, 05:57:18 PM
https://twitter.com/AlpinaB72/status/1431012322064011267 (https://twitter.com/AlpinaB72/status/1431012322064011267)

https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1431015427392610305 (https://twitter.com/CaliforniaPanda/status/1431015427392610305)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on August 26, 2021, 07:56:22 PM
If that's the best that the anti-Biden camp can do, i'm going to assume that they couldn't find any actual argument with what he said at the press conference.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 26, 2021, 08:00:58 PM
If that's the best that the anti-Biden camp can do, i'm going to assume that they couldn't find any actual argument with what he said at the press conference.

It's Nintex posting a political tweet, bruh.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on August 26, 2021, 08:06:12 PM
I guess I just sort of blocked it out in my mind before.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 27, 2021, 01:37:24 AM
Didn't you hear what Taliban Joe said?

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1430284949165428740 (https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1430284949165428740)

ISIS-K is on the loose!!!!
Better keep the women safely inside.

The only silver lining in the August 31st retreat is that the entire clusterfuck ends and Joe Biden can't fuck it up more with demented decisions.

https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1431072896059850761
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on August 27, 2021, 01:45:31 AM
ISIS-XXX :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 27, 2021, 02:02:34 AM
We should ally with the Talibán and give them guns and tanks so they fight Isis on our behalf
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 27, 2021, 04:07:08 AM
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1431066069351927814 (https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1431066069351927814)

Very presidential
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 27, 2021, 04:35:01 AM
was this the moment where Trump really became president? :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 27, 2021, 05:00:42 AM
Of course Biden is doing nothing to stop ISIS-X or Space-ISIS  :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: who is ted danson? on August 27, 2021, 05:21:40 AM
the dirty dems defunded the space force, and now ISS have a massive space complex
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on August 27, 2021, 08:41:59 AM
Joe Rogan endorses Larry Elder  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgmC1I91Uw
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: T-Short on August 27, 2021, 05:10:51 PM
ma'am I'm going to have to ask you to put the Facetune down

https://twitter.com/CallyGingrich/status/1430721647812648967
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 27, 2021, 06:29:21 PM
I thought newt passed way?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on August 27, 2021, 07:19:31 PM
I thought newt passed way?

Only if you consider Alien 3 canon.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 27, 2021, 08:58:30 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1430991584934473738

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 28, 2021, 03:02:13 AM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1431354272688582656
 :mjcry at the copyright/trademark infringement
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 29, 2021, 01:29:35 PM
Israel putting Joe to sleep.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thejtlewis/status/1431730502571110401
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 29, 2021, 03:22:13 PM
Now thats a fucking power move
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 29, 2021, 08:42:08 PM
 :)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on August 29, 2021, 10:22:45 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/IsraeliIdanAlt/status/1431978847885578241

Y'all need to stop getting twitter news.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 30, 2021, 04:06:37 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1432166542683279362

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on August 30, 2021, 04:55:46 PM
The war is over.

Biden brought the boys home.

Joe did what Donaldn't

 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 30, 2021, 06:11:28 PM
Y'all need to stop getting twitter news.

So Biden purposely looked away from the pm of Israel and then responded to him that he should thank Obama for being so nice to Israel, not him.

The dude is far more based than I could’ve imagined.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on August 30, 2021, 08:36:26 PM
https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1432379499379838983
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1432448825868918785
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1432492906254901250

thisisfine.jpg
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Mupepe on August 30, 2021, 10:15:42 PM
Wheels is going to have trouble shooting and steering. I just want to see him do burn outs on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on August 31, 2021, 03:08:18 AM
why does he have a girls name? :hitler
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 31, 2021, 09:33:08 AM
why does he have a girls name? :hitler

We're actively working on that one.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Raist on August 31, 2021, 01:37:08 PM
Wait what. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5%26Watch%3A%20Taliban%20fighters%20pose%20in%20abandoned%20US%20aircraft%262021-08-31T15%3A44%3A21.107Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:3da91a97-cdcf-42d2-8dd8-a43a19fd9801&pinned_post_asset_id=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5&pinned_post_type=share)


I sure hope they did a little bit to "disable the abandoned equipment" than just slashing tires and smashing windshields :dead


Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on August 31, 2021, 01:51:56 PM
Wait what. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-58279900?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5%26Watch%3A%20Taliban%20fighters%20pose%20in%20abandoned%20US%20aircraft%262021-08-31T15%3A44%3A21.107Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:3da91a97-cdcf-42d2-8dd8-a43a19fd9801&pinned_post_asset_id=612e4390b19a573a6ec38be5&pinned_post_type=share)


I sure hope they did a little bit to "disable the abandoned equipment" than just slashing tires and smashing windshields :dead




They put air tags in the planes for when they start bombing in a few days.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 31, 2021, 02:04:01 PM
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432702615419342848
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on August 31, 2021, 07:18:24 PM
I can’t believe our president is this cool.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BigBrownBeaver2/status/1432706626901917704

Nothing personal Jack.
 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on August 31, 2021, 07:23:41 PM
“Heroes”  :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BrokenVerses on August 31, 2021, 11:38:20 PM
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432702615419342848

They're dogs.

Like I get it, people love them and it's sad that some American do-gooder was running an animal rescue in Kabul and had to leave their rescues behind but...

They're fucking dogs.

Afghan refugees were being crammed into overloaded Air Force planes and dozens were immolated by a suicide bomber at an airport checkpoint.

At this point in this mess people are looking for looking for outrage.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on August 31, 2021, 11:49:59 PM
https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1432702615419342848

 :piss  :doge :piss2


:)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 01, 2021, 01:19:05 AM
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1432852473006497800


#teamtaliban  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 01, 2021, 09:22:34 AM
They've had 13 kids killed in action?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 01, 2021, 03:18:28 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1432866784432979969

 :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 01, 2021, 05:21:55 PM
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1433063564407984133
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1433079050281660422

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on September 01, 2021, 05:26:12 PM
Miss me yet?  :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 01, 2021, 09:39:22 PM
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1432936885639331845
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1433209379122200576

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Propagandhim on September 02, 2021, 06:13:37 PM
Horseface Theory

 :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 03, 2021, 10:46:58 AM
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1433530902982893570
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1433786223596871685

only the best for Senate in Ohio :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 03, 2021, 11:13:20 AM
Miss me yet?  :bernie
https://twitter.com/AlexandraChalup/status/1433471696426704899
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on September 03, 2021, 12:24:42 PM
Another Clinton in the white house would have fixed America. No, the world.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 03, 2021, 12:49:11 PM
The last watchdog against the Biden administration has been defeated.

https://mobile.twitter.com/willsommer/status/1433784221643034642
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on September 03, 2021, 12:59:11 PM
How do you like them weather weapons, Jack?  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 03, 2021, 02:42:15 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-YTbg8XEAARNtT?format=jpg&name=small)

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 03, 2021, 03:06:03 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1432866784432979969

 :notlikethis
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1433864709397262341

edit:
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1433794100638240791
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 03, 2021, 06:28:36 PM
Imagine thinking there are any federal laws that protect your privacy in 2021. :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 03, 2021, 09:46:53 PM
https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna/status/1433939541610618881
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 03, 2021, 09:58:13 PM
they can pry the horse viagra out of my cold dead hands  :gun
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 04, 2021, 08:02:14 AM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279


 :klob
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 04, 2021, 06:28:15 PM
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1433922442850930696 (https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1433922442850930696)

 :iface
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 06, 2021, 04:24:45 PM
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1434547036641275913
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 06, 2021, 06:49:56 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-makeover-weight-m-ms-tan-b1832818.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-makeover-weight-m-ms-tan-b1832818.html)

Quote
“When I saw him, he looked healthier and in better physical condition than I had seen him in a long time,” an advisor told Insider.

Quote
“He was eating all those M&M’s on [Air Force One] all the time,” another Trump pal said. “He’s a big man with a big frame, and he’s lost a lot of weight. I can’t tell you how much, but it’s a lot. You can see it in his suits.”

Quote
“The president is feeling great, Mar-a-Lago guests frequently comment about how good he’s looking over these last couple of months, and he feels great as well,” another associate told Insider.

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 07, 2021, 12:33:43 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279


 :klob

Of course she cross fits


https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1434547036641275913

That's the side effect of the neuralyzer, Happens to all reserve potuses.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on September 07, 2021, 01:10:36 PM
Of course she cross fits

It's where she finds men to cheat on her husband with.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 07, 2021, 05:51:29 PM
Alex Jones said the deep state were putting something into Trump's diet cokes to 'weaken' him.
Looking at those before/after pictures seems like he was right.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 07, 2021, 06:15:48 PM
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1435346754573148170 (https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1435346754573148170)

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1435343385506766848 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1435343385506766848)

https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1435308227286208514 (https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1435308227286208514)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 07, 2021, 10:50:55 PM
https://twitter.com/chrismegerian/status/1435414495128690688

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 08, 2021, 06:25:32 PM
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1435720974083706886 (https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1435720974083706886)


If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan  :wut

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-zAiEZXsAk1QPH?format=jpg)
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Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 08, 2021, 10:15:26 PM
https://twitter.com/benpershing/status/1435781559689392130
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2021, 12:59:11 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435812791122731024 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435812791122731024)

The reviews are in
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435803665672060928 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435803665672060928)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 09, 2021, 01:04:15 PM
nintex trUmPdates  :drool
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2021, 01:18:45 PM
More important analysis on the taliban
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1436012635057758208 (https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1436012635057758208)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2021, 02:51:39 PM
https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1436030814094036993 (https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1436030814094036993)

 :whew :money :salute

https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1436037399629414404 (https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1436037399629414404)

 :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 09, 2021, 04:24:12 PM
Evander Holyfield's nearly as old as Joe Biden.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 09, 2021, 04:25:31 PM
holyfields brain has been mush since I was in highschool, how is he still alive?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on September 09, 2021, 04:48:30 PM
Is this a real Donal Trump quote or is it parody

Quote
Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war. He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over, ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this Country.

What about this one

Quote
If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago. What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2021, 05:02:30 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435811735127085060 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1435811735127085060)

"Does she have some kind of... religious thing"

"No she's sceptical"

"Oh she's Russian?"

"Well that's the end of that"

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 09, 2021, 05:27:55 PM
Whats with the laugh track?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 10, 2021, 01:09:11 PM
Quote from: https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-denies-responsibility-for-setting-zebras-free-supports-freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today denying responsibility for letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C. suburbs. The charges were made known when a member of the public noted that, historically, Norton has valued the principle of consent of the governed, most notably in the fight for statehood for the District. More recently, Norton has also been known to oppose unnecessary fences.

“Local news has reported that the zebras were let loose on Saturday or Sunday of last weekend, a period of time during which I was enjoying quiet time at home with family,” Norton said. “My alibi is solid, but given my career of fighting for statehood for the District, which includes years of explaining the importance of having consent of the governed, and given my recent opposition to fences, I can understand why the charge was made. I hope the owners find the zebras and that all involved live long, full lives.”
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 10, 2021, 06:28:34 PM
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1434547036641275913

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-8dWemXIAM7QxQ?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 10, 2021, 07:47:30 PM
Just fuck already.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 10, 2021, 10:56:25 PM
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1436120109937012745

these people are so stupid

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 10, 2021, 11:03:26 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 11, 2021, 08:17:48 AM
9/11 speeches are rolling in

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1436648547978461184 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1436648547978461184)

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1436454819028508672 (https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1436454819028508672)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 11, 2021, 06:52:34 PM
Quite the day

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_AsAxzWUAUelBo?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_CVUd6X0AENQyL?format=jpg)

https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1436824180712902658 (https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1436824180712902658)

Trump is a living wikipedia of boxing :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 12, 2021, 07:37:04 AM
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1437013939284553733 (https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1437013939284553733)

https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1436878196457226246 (https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1436878196457226246)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 12, 2021, 09:07:09 AM
that event was so gloriously trashy from the clips I've seen :lol

at least bill Clinton's adventures with epstein were classy :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 12, 2021, 01:03:47 PM
Trump been busy lately.

https://mobile.twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1436861661185409028
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 12, 2021, 02:20:01 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279


 :klob
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 12, 2021, 02:35:33 PM
Quite the day
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436897225871962113
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 12, 2021, 02:43:57 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436895130737328129 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436895130737328129)

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436897225871962113 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1436897225871962113)

(https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/020/b53/32520716e9ddc61cb36b565e964feb9e64-GettyImages-1235196699.rhorizontal.w700.jpg)

Never forget  :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 12, 2021, 03:42:14 PM
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1437096311522738180

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 12, 2021, 03:48:40 PM
ewww / legit yikes
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on September 12, 2021, 04:14:01 PM
Sometimes I feel like I don't give you guys enough sympathy. It must be exhausting being an American.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 12, 2021, 05:04:07 PM
https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041 (https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041)

https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822 (https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822)

:titus
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 12, 2021, 05:39:23 PM
she used to be hot with the pale tail and dark hair, a damn  :trumpsshame
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 12, 2021, 10:29:21 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_IJmVpXEAM2Cbr?format=jpg&name=large)

IMPEACH
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on September 12, 2021, 11:35:37 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279 (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279)


 :klob
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
Crossfit really is a cult
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on September 13, 2021, 02:11:55 AM
https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041 (https://twitter.com/goodblackdude/status/1437155114557399041)

https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822 (https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1436108071886114822)

:titus

My favourite Rose McGowan moment is still when she accidentally left her wallet on a plane and it had cocaine in it, and she claimed that Harvey Weinstein must have had his people plant it in there.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 13, 2021, 09:26:42 AM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279 (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279)


 :klob
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_Bjw0kWQAADUy_?format=jpg&name=small)
Crossfit really is a cult

Like if you're not afraid of taking big Hero WODs.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 13, 2021, 02:11:53 PM
ban the wods and kille them  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on September 13, 2021, 05:41:00 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_IJmVpXEAM2Cbr?format=jpg&name=large)

IMPEACH

How the fuck is the girl in yellow taller than Joe she looks 9
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 13, 2021, 05:48:55 PM
You can tell the secret service guys are nervous when Joe is around kids.

They know, they always know.

Turnaround must be high at the secret service, first Trump (when they had to be lucky with which family member they had to protect (so they could either date them (Tiffany), enjoy free parties (Trump) or not be allowed to use the bathroom (Ivanka)) and now grandpa joe and his cokehead son.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 13, 2021, 06:08:03 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_IJmVpXEAM2Cbr?format=jpg&name=large)

IMPEACH

:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 13, 2021, 07:43:20 PM
https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1437560312614563856 (https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1437560312614563856)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_L8sqWXoAUC5fM?format=jpg)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 13, 2021, 08:07:48 PM
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788

 :)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 13, 2021, 08:35:38 PM
Glad Trump fans have accepted that Biden is their president.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 14, 2021, 09:05:00 AM
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788

 :)

 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 14, 2021, 01:11:05 PM
tax that ass  :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 14, 2021, 01:37:21 PM
idk what all the fuss about her is, she's a 6/10 at best :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on September 14, 2021, 01:40:40 PM
idk what all the fuss about her is, she's a 6/10 at best, unlike my 2d waifu who’s an 11/10  :expert

.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 14, 2021, 02:40:44 PM
BIONIC ARM is a simp alert :drudge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 14, 2021, 02:42:57 PM
she could peg my patriarchy anytime  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on September 14, 2021, 04:00:20 PM
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788

 :)
She really is a fuckhead.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 14, 2021, 04:54:45 PM
https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1437808644012351488 (https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1437808644012351488)

Some would call this treason
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on September 14, 2021, 05:34:28 PM
https://youtu.be/q0GCKXZTV8E
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 14, 2021, 05:47:49 PM
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1437564853233782788

 :)
She really is a fuckhead.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843

 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 14, 2021, 05:49:35 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1437884698412322829 (https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1437884698412322829)

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1437902123505618945 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1437902123505618945)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 14, 2021, 06:40:48 PM
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843

 :hesright

Shutup Ben, you wet ass P-word.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 14, 2021, 07:55:14 PM
https://twitter.com/Libra9981/status/1437868634915934222


 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 15, 2021, 12:16:42 AM
https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/1437868931520286720

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 15, 2021, 12:53:50 AM
Looks like the $100+ million the Democrats spent on California worked despite Rose and Shosta's best efforts for Larry Elder.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 15, 2021, 01:04:55 AM
https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/1437868931520286720

 :titus

Biden is horny :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 15, 2021, 01:39:24 AM
Quote from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-calls-allies-to-demand-gen-mark-milley-be-arrested-for-treason/
the ex-president picked up the phone and rang up several close associates and TV-prone political allies. According to two people familiar with the matter, the twice-impeached former president was sounding testy and had a simple request:

He wanted his prominent supporters to go on television and in public this week to declare that Gen. Mark Milley should be “arrested” for “treason.”

They followed his orders as various MAGA-faithful pundits and Trumpy candidates—including Ohio U.S Senate candidate Josh Mandel, Trump-aligned TPUSA frontman Charlie Kirk, and several former Trump officials—dutifully echoed the “treason” charge on social media.

And by Tuesday evening, the twice-impeached former U.S. president was on a Newsmax show co-hosted by his former White House using the T-word.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1437946204374118403

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1437950658389286912

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Nintex above.
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https://twitter.com/Eugene_Scott/status/1437477421188632582
[close]
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Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Propagandhim on September 15, 2021, 06:03:11 AM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1437976753159483395  :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on September 15, 2021, 06:08:49 AM
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1437760297184419843

 :hesright

Shutup Ben, you wet ass P-word.
That dress is pretty #latestagecapitalism though
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 15, 2021, 01:31:52 PM
the whole event look like the capitol in the hunger games tbh  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: who is ted danson? on September 15, 2021, 02:24:01 PM
has ben found the clit yet ?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 15, 2021, 05:12:39 PM
AOC does nothing
"omg how come she's doing nothing"
AOC does a thing
"omg i can't believe she did a thing"
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 15, 2021, 05:20:52 PM
People like living in tents, forest fires, stepping on needles or shit, Tesla's running over their kids and giving burglars $950 in free stuff I guess :trumps

https://twitter.com/ThorDeplorable/status/1438163060674400261 (https://twitter.com/ThorDeplorable/status/1438163060674400261)

Another rebel

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438256221660663812 (https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438256221660663812)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 15, 2021, 08:05:15 PM
https://twitter.com/toricoooper/status/1438174533794533380

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1438249396571807744

https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1438290415430639619

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1438292065343901697
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 15, 2021, 08:06:29 PM
https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1438232585851871232

other than that, the story was accurate
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 16, 2021, 10:02:37 AM
https://twitter.com/quarantinebee/status/1438253106744082432


 :mueller
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 16, 2021, 05:00:01 PM
(https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/milley-traitor-1-1024x737.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 16, 2021, 05:27:39 PM
bit of a letdown tbh  :beli
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BrokenVerses on September 16, 2021, 07:03:46 PM
Regardless of how the Afghanistan withdrawal went, General Milley is unfireable now. Can't get rid of him without looking like you're caving to the frothing conservative base.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: HaughtyFrank on September 16, 2021, 08:10:50 PM
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1438503498690154497
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 16, 2021, 09:59:39 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1438654793384353793
Quote from: Jennifer Rubin
How utterly predictable that Politico would run the zillionth hit piece on a prominent woman, especially one candid in her critiques of Politico's hysterical, clickbait style of coverage. The notion that I am polarizing in a newsroom (as opposed to any of the dozens of other opinion writers) is a "take" only Politico could come up with — by of course running around to ask the question in the first place. I trust the Post's superb news side folks spend zero time thinking about me (as is entirely appropriate). My only surprise is that Sam [Stein, POLITICO’s White House editor], a very good journalist, would become enmeshed in such an obviously misogynistic publication. Surely there are finer publications that would have him.

And btw, what a low class move to do this on Yom Kippur at the last moment.
SLAY QUEEN
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: DJ Bedroom on September 16, 2021, 10:49:07 PM
ON TODAY OF ALL DAYS
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: HaughtyFrank on September 17, 2021, 12:39:27 AM
Quote
On Thursday, we reached back out with our reporting. Rubin responded in an email with the subject line “OFF THE RECORD.” Since we never agreed to conduct such an off-the-record conversation, we are publishing it below in full:

 :ohhh
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 17, 2021, 03:48:07 AM
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1438699215077715970
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 17, 2021, 03:28:22 PM
The good news, 7 Afghan kids won't have to sit on Joe Biden's lap

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1438935509506592778 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1438935509506592778)
Big crowd at the Biden Rally today
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 17, 2021, 05:23:23 PM
fly out there to breed and make anchor babies  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 17, 2021, 06:10:10 PM
are they submissive?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 17, 2021, 07:25:49 PM
I'm sure Gavin has a tent for them in Cali just across Facebook HQ, they'll feel right at home  :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 17, 2021, 07:41:48 PM
gavin thinks he's gonna be pres  :mueller nobody voting for him outside his home state  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 18, 2021, 04:57:04 PM
https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1439209017541283849
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 18, 2021, 05:02:54 PM
"Or whatever the correct legal remedy is"

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 18, 2021, 05:10:58 PM
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1439276950946713610
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 18, 2021, 05:15:38 PM
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1439253127107129352 (https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1439253127107129352)

Opening of The Matrix Ressurections isn't until December bois
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Hap Shaughnessy on September 18, 2021, 05:55:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1cfjh6VfE
 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 18, 2021, 06:58:36 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/aocs-tax-the-rich-dress-designer-aurora-james-is-a-tax-deadbeat/
The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.

The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes.

...

While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid.

Over the years Cultural Brokerage Agency has also faced multiple legal challenges as a result of habitual nonpayment of worker benefits.

In October 2019 the state Worker’s Compensation Board slapped the company with a $17,000 fine for not carrying worker’s-comp insurance between March 2017 and February 2018. The company currently owes $62,722 and no payments have been received to date

...

Though AOC proudly labeled James a “working class” designer as they waltzed down the Met Gala red carpet, her lifestyle has been anything but. As the pandemic raged across America, igniting a deep recession, James scooped up a $1.6 million residence in Los Angeles in September 2020.

The Tudor-style home with cathedral ceilings, a master-bedroom fireplace and backyard hot tub sits on 7,095 square feet in the posh Hollywood Hills, according to RedFin.

True to form, the property is already listed as “delinquent” by the Los Angeles County assessor’s office, which told The Post James owed $2,504 in property taxes.

...

Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a career out of demanding better worker wages and benefits, and taxing the rich to pay for her budget-busting federal programs, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Quote from: https://www.prnewsonline.com/aoc-met-gala-dress-response/
The annual Met Gala routinely attracts the eyes of those with an interest in creativity, celebrity and high fashion. However, this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended her first Met Gala, provoking a true statement. Bright red script saying “TAX THE RICH” stood out across the back of her white gown, generating conversation on both sides of the political spectrum.

Now, as many PR practitioners know, utilizing a very public platform to deliver a message doesn’t happen overnight. Teams of communicators plan and strategize messaging and delivery. In this case BerlinRosen worked with the designer, Brother Vellies’ creative director Aurora James, as well as with Ocasio-Cortez’s PR team.

Janna Pea, EVP, BerlinRosen, worked with James, a Black woman designer who founded the 15 Percent Pledge, during the social justice reckoning during the summer of 2020. The 15 Percent Pledge encourages retailers and corporations, in the fashion and beauty space, to sign an agreement dedicating 15 percent of their buying power to Black-owned businesses. Notable signees include Gap and Sephora. 

“My role and our role as the communications support was about helping to uplift and amplify their message and this moment," Pea said. "It is inspiring how this vision came together and our firm was proud to be a part of that process."

Pea noted the importance of preparation and providing a context for reporters to include when delivering the messaging. This included prepping materials that highlighted talking points for the congresswoman and James, as well as offering select reporters nuggets of info without giving everything away.

“The whole point was to make it a surprise, and teeing up the right reporters, so they had the context behind the look,” Pea said. “Because it's one thing to see the dress and say, 'Oh, my goodness, why would you do this?' But to have the context as to WHY they did it—and make sure the press understood, that was our role."

The dress certainly caused a stir, trending on social media. It remains a topic of articles and conversation several days later. Some pundits found the message ironic at a lavish event, while others applauded the bravado of the statement amidst the Met Gala grandeur.

...

Pea said the message is doing exactly what it was meant to do, attract attention.

“I'm not sure anybody could have fully prepared for what the outcome truly was,” Pea said. "The goal was for people to see it and be inspired. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez is a young woman of color in powerful position to deliver a powerful message on the carpet—a message that got folks to say, 'Oh, wait, what does that mean? And why does she feel like she needs to put that on a dress?' The wealth gap continues to grow and the collaboration between Aurora and the congresswoman addressed that. I’m glad conversations are continuing to be had around this topic."
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 18, 2021, 07:37:46 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024)

Crooked Hillary Clinton

No one cares now, but Trump was right this whole thing was bullshit
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 18, 2021, 08:20:02 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024)

Crooked Hillary Clinton

No one cares now, but Trump was right this whole thing was bullshit

It sure is a good thing Trump's lawyers never got up to anything funny. ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 18, 2021, 09:44:31 PM
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1439276950946713610
Also there:
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439314612638429185

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_mNS65VIAAYWie?format=jpg&name=small)
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Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 18, 2021, 10:54:19 PM
https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1439013099869179910

 :cop
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 18, 2021, 11:33:58 PM
Also there:
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439314612638429185]

(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/wWp9kJBC55.png?format=webp)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Tasty on September 19, 2021, 12:13:51 AM
Literal cult.

If only their leader told them to grab some coolaid.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 19, 2021, 12:48:40 AM
Literal cult.

If only their leader told them to grab some coolaid.

They are not that stupid.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLBcZc5JHA

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 19, 2021, 01:00:13 AM
trumpy did a good job there. imagine anyone else trying to talk that crowd into getting vaxxed.  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 19, 2021, 03:55:23 AM
It can get worse:
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1439272830273789953

https://twitter.com/DonHuffines/status/1438897624363507717

Quote from: Article I, Section 10, Clause 3
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
He wants to create a Texas Military and attack Mexico with it. :dead :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: T-Short on September 19, 2021, 06:04:47 AM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1439225130811539457
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Uncle on September 19, 2021, 10:42:20 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1439312535820374024)

Crooked Hillary Clinton

No one cares now, but Trump was right this whole thing was bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41omTzW2Z6g
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: chronovore on September 19, 2021, 12:05:35 PM
she used to be hot with the pale tail and dark hair, a damn  :trumpsshame

This definitely changes her into a more challenging fap.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 19, 2021, 03:43:21 PM
Can't believe it has been a year

https://twitter.com/Bartleby_Kamoi/status/1439308764344201219 (https://twitter.com/Bartleby_Kamoi/status/1439308764344201219)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 20, 2021, 08:31:11 PM
https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1439976012188692496



 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 20, 2021, 08:41:58 PM
He wants to create a Texas Military and attack Mexico with it. :dead :dead :dead :dead
https://twitter.com/DonHuffines/status/1440006495907766281

I want to note that I was partially wrong. He doesn't want to just create a Texas Military. He also claims the U.S. Constitution gives him the power to unilaterally seize control of all US military forces and equipment in Texas to repel any "invasion" which of course the prescience of any single "illegal alien" in Texas is equivalent to. Not even the Confederates claimed this power!
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 20, 2021, 09:11:50 PM
Also there:
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1440021257043464193
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 21, 2021, 12:39:27 AM
https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1440089852414816264

3 and 4 :dead :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 21, 2021, 10:05:34 AM
Even so...
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 21, 2021, 02:16:33 PM
https://twitter.com/xspotsdamark/status/1440378348371283971


https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1440318198281240578


 :cac
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 22, 2021, 02:30:23 AM
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1440371634519511049 (https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1440371634519511049)
 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 22, 2021, 03:29:16 AM
IMPEACH

https://twitter.com/emilybrooksnews/status/1440453572559138817
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 22, 2021, 06:53:49 AM
Seriously at which point are Presidents responsible. Impeaching Biden would be justified at this point.

Bill Cllnton / Bush
Oopsie daisy we accidentally deregulated the banks and broke the global economy :teehee

Bush / Cheney
Oops there were no WMD's in Iraq. You literally fought for nothing  :teehee

Obama / Biden / Hilldawg
Sorry we almost caused WW3 by siding with literal Nazi's, abusing UN resolutions and funding ISIS.
Don't worry we'll send John Kerry to play checkers with Lavrov before Hillary is elected :teehee

Bush / Obama
A strategy for Afghanistan? Yeah, that would've been cool right? :teehee

Trump / Pence
 :wut :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on September 22, 2021, 03:13:57 PM
Poor Biden can’t win, he’s being even worse to immigrants than Trump and conservatives are still calling him an open borders Marxist.

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1440337774628917249
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 22, 2021, 03:35:49 PM
The media wants Trump back. I've not seen this much Trump content in a while.

Every other MSM story is Trump and if there's a Biden story it somehow relates to Trump as well.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 22, 2021, 05:34:59 PM
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1440784677434916868 (https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1440784677434916868)

Maybe the Taliban can help

https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1440746962924412928 (https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1440746962924412928)

Jen Psaki mild shocked that Johnson does not need cue cards, 5 days of preparation and 6 aderalls to answer basic questions.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 23, 2021, 01:42:24 PM
https://twitter.com/ItsKingsBruh/status/1441072305262653444
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2021, 06:48:59 PM
https://twitter.com/alexbkane/status/1441105793445625858

https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1441103652941271057

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1441103868566200326
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on September 23, 2021, 06:59:32 PM
Fucking drama queen
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 23, 2021, 06:59:56 PM
https://twitter.com/Schwartzesque/status/1441003515476914176 (https://twitter.com/Schwartzesque/status/1441003515476914176)

 :iface
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 23, 2021, 07:04:15 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAATnggVUAg-UgE?format=jpg)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2021, 07:07:17 PM
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1441069474124386321

https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1441136152325599232

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 23, 2021, 07:22:13 PM
Audit the 2016 election, no way that was accurate  :hmph
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2021, 07:25:59 PM
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1441037429717274638
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 23, 2021, 07:48:15 PM
https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1441176019126288389 (https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1441176019126288389)

Quote
“There is a complete lack of direction,” said one admin official.“Everything is deferred to the White House NSC, which can't see past low polls on immigration and are terrified their own shadow may be a pull factor. Career and political staff are equally concerned.”

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2021, 09:24:41 PM
Quote from: Jennifer Rubin
How utterly predictable that Politico would run the zillionth hit piece on a prominent woman, especially one candid in her critiques of Politico's hysterical, clickbait style of coverage. The notion that I am polarizing in a newsroom (as opposed to any of the dozens of other opinion writers) is a "take" only Politico could come up with — by of course running around to ask the question in the first place. I trust the Post's superb news side folks spend zero time thinking about me (as is entirely appropriate). My only surprise is that Sam [Stein, POLITICO’s White House editor], a very good journalist, would become enmeshed in such an obviously misogynistic publication. Surely there are finer publications that would have him.

And btw, what a low class move to do this on Yom Kippur at the last moment.
SLAY QUEEN
Quote from: https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-klain-washington-post-jennifer-rubin-politico-biden-white-house
It has been over a week since White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has retweeted one of his most favorite journalists, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

...

In fact, the last time Klain retweeted Rubin was on Sept. 13, which was three days before Politico published its findings. This marks a running total of ten days without visible Klain-Rubin activity.

The Sept. 13 tweet promoted a column Rubin had written supporting the Biden administration's crackdown on businesses in order to boost vaccinations. The previous retweet took place on Sept. 10.

During the retweet drought, Rubin defended Biden's foreign policy following the awkward spat that took place with France, trashed GOP lawmakers amid the Capitol Hill debate overspending, and slammed the Supreme Court on not quashing Texas' abortion law.

According to Politico, Klain had "retweeted or @ mentioned Rubin more than three dozen times since mid-May" and that her columns were promoted by the White House press team, the VP's office, the State Department and the DNC.
pls retweet :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2021, 11:35:37 PM
Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.

The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.

The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
:usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 23, 2021, 11:48:34 PM
da cyber ninjas  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 24, 2021, 02:34:56 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1440838033222242309
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1440737803382378503
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1440735263127339009

 :american GOD BLESS AMERICA :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Transhuman on September 24, 2021, 02:59:24 AM
These better not be the politicians on deck when WW3 happens
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 24, 2021, 04:00:56 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAAGZtAWEAAMvqk?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BrokenVerses on September 24, 2021, 06:28:18 PM
Quote
We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/fort-bliss-female-service-member-assaulted-by-group-of-afghan-refugees

Christ.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 24, 2021, 06:45:08 PM
Quote
We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/fort-bliss-female-service-member-assaulted-by-group-of-afghan-refugees

Christ.
Surely this NATO refugee camp for young men with blue balls would be different than all the others.

Quote
Operation Allies Welcome
:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BrokenVerses on September 24, 2021, 06:50:02 PM
They already charged 2 Afghan men at a different refugee camp in Wisconsin with raping a child there.

There's some wild shit circulating about what's going in these places from the soldiers working there, real bad stuff.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 24, 2021, 06:51:43 PM
They already charged 2 Afghan men at a different refugee camp in Wisconsin with raping a child there.

There's some wild shit circulating about what's going in these places from the soldiers working there, real bad stuff.

Like a good German gal once told me We'll Schaffen Das :biden

On that note:
https://twitter.com/EllieCKaufman/status/1441500845766426624 (https://twitter.com/EllieCKaufman/status/1441500845766426624)

They have to wait until they've vaccinated enough people to move them to the US.
You'd think that after 2 trillion nation building you'd at least have a minimal vaccine effort as part of healthcare services.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 24, 2021, 06:59:41 PM
Quote
We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/fort-bliss-female-service-member-assaulted-by-group-of-afghan-refugees

Christ.
military doesn't like sharing their sexual assault victims with outsiders  :rkelly
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 24, 2021, 07:09:55 PM
Cucked by the Taliban twice  :heh
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on September 24, 2021, 07:39:05 PM
 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 25, 2021, 08:28:38 PM
Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.

The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.

The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
:usacry
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Propagandhim on September 25, 2021, 08:41:05 PM
"enough fake votes to change the outcome of the election 4 times over".

Wait, but by the 4th change it's back to a Trump win.   ???
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 25, 2021, 11:15:13 PM
https://twitter.com/stphnfwlr/status/1441918093853401088

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441913724432904198

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAK6a1sXoAMsG7K?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 26, 2021, 02:12:28 AM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441884093176705029

 :american she's the best
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 26, 2021, 02:26:59 AM
IMPEACH
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1441465613684252672
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 26, 2021, 10:25:01 AM
Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.

The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.

The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
:usacry
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)

PHANTOM VOTERS  :pika

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441917191842983943 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441917191842983943)

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1442104164687941634 (https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1442104164687941634)

"And then military instinations(?) and their installations and they have a lot of things surrounding it and we had this big beatiful airbase
that costs billions of dollars to built and we were gone we didn't even turn out the lights and one day we were gone and you know who is looking at
it now and who is all over it CZYNNAAAAA. We were never leaving that we had a perfect plan they were listening to us Abdul Abdul you can't shoot our soldiers"


Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: tiesto on September 26, 2021, 11:30:07 AM
Quote from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/23/arizona-audit-draft-report-confirms-biden-beat-trump-2020/5835521001/
A monthslong hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 vote confirmed that President Joe Biden won and the election was not “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, according to early versions of a report prepared for the Arizona Senate.

The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider margin than the county’s official election results. The data in the report also confirms that U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly won in the county.

The official results are set to be presented to the Senate at 1 p.m. Friday. Several versions of the draft report, titled “Maricopa County Forensic Audit” by Cyber Ninjas, circulated prematurely on Wednesday and Thursday. Multiple versions were obtained by The Arizona Republic.
:usacry
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAD5Sr2XEAc_PRr?format=jpg&name=small)

Channeling Scott Steiner here with this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 27, 2021, 03:22:30 AM
"And then military instinations(?) and their installations and they have a lot of things surrounding it and we had this big beatiful airbase
that costs billions of dollars to built and we were gone we didn't even turn out the lights and one day we were gone and you know who is looking at
it now and who is all over it CZYNNAAAAA. We were never leaving that we had a perfect plan they were listening to us Abdul Abdul you can't shoot our soldiers"[/size]


Did you or Trump have a stroke halfway through this?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 27, 2021, 03:55:49 AM
https://twitter.com/WinterwayEd/status/1437696975516930048

https://twitter.com/WinterwayEd/status/1438607006437416960

 :american hero
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2021, 11:38:16 AM
IMEACH!
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Uncle on September 27, 2021, 12:34:55 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/MxKJFJI.jpeg)

 :nintex
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 27, 2021, 12:46:15 PM
Stay Tooned Ben :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 27, 2021, 01:58:16 PM
Quote from: https://gizmodo.com/anti-vaccine-cartoonist-ben-garrison-says-hes-got-covid-1847749901
When Gizmodo asked Garrison whether he’d been vaccinated against covid-19, he repeated many of the same conspiracy theories that appear in his cartoons.

“We will never take their foul spike protein-producing jabs, which are neither safe nor effective. They’re not real vaccines. They’re gene therapy,” Garrison wrote in an email to Gizmodo.

“15,000 have died as a result of the Covid vaccines and hundreds of thousands others have had serious side effects. The mainstream media will not mention a word of this—not one peep. Instead we get the ’safe and effective’ malarky over and over as well as government pushers urging us to take the free poison. Don’t do it. The Pfizer CEO certainly won’t. Bill Gates and his family won’t, either,” Garrison claimed.

Garrison says he’d never visit a hospital to treat his covid-19. (Last week, NBC News reported that anti-vaccine Facebook groups have been influencing members to not seek hospital treatment for covid-19 and even instructed them to pull their sick family members out of ICU.)

“I would never go to a hospital with Covid. Robert David Steele did it a few weeks ago and they killed him. The hospitals get extra money for Covid death reports, which is necessary to keep fear ramped up,” Garrison claimed in an email to Gizmodo.

The man Garrison is referring to, Robert David Steele, was a conspiracy theorist who frequently appeared on InfoWars with Alex Jones. The 69-year-old Steele believed some incredibly bizarre things, including that NASA had imprisoned children on Mars to work as slaves. Steele, who claimed to be a former CIA officer, reportedly died of covid-19 in August.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on September 27, 2021, 02:11:08 PM
Did someone just post testicles on this page
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on September 27, 2021, 03:51:41 PM
COVID really is starting to feel like some sort of bioweapon that is targeted to remove the most stupid members of society from circulation.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 27, 2021, 06:30:47 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1442572759180079106 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1442572759180079106)

These are dark days, we may only hope that freedom might one day be restored.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 27, 2021, 07:06:03 PM
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1442620310688260099 (https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1442620310688260099)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: who is ted danson? on September 28, 2021, 03:17:11 AM
Pls default USA. Pls pls pls.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Uncle on September 28, 2021, 10:26:56 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/F7YyqH1.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on September 28, 2021, 10:46:43 AM
Pls default USA. Pls pls pls.

Fun fact

Massive inflation is excellent if you're in debt.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 28, 2021, 02:00:20 PM
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1442910554230648833 (https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1442910554230648833)

They're coming for you Joe

(https://media1.giphy.com/media/qZabG7FmSZw8TDNwaU/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 28, 2021, 02:40:50 PM
why didn't they just get a pmc to take over and let everyone get paid? :money
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 28, 2021, 03:03:33 PM
why didn't they just get a pmc to take over and let everyone get paid? :money
That was Flynn's idea. They were going to privatize the war and pay Erik Price to fight it (or rather have the Afghans pay for it)

The Trump - Taliban deal was drafted in a way that if the Taliban would stick to it and join the Afghan government,
they would eventually be 'forced' as part of that government to sign a security agreement to keep the contractors and help US special forces fight terror.
:trumps


Today Milley admitted that the Taliban did not act in accordance with the Doha agreement and that the alternative to pulling out would be a renewed conflict with the Taliban or rather full scale war.
The only thing the Taliban did out of the conditions outlined in the agreement was not attack American troops. They calculated correctly that the US would leave and not risk more lives.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 28, 2021, 03:14:38 PM
In other news

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1442924066344632320 (https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1442924066344632320)


https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1442952747028934657 (https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1442952747028934657)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 28, 2021, 10:48:49 PM
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1442999842771546113
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 29, 2021, 01:52:06 AM
https://twitter.com/OhioWarRoom/status/1443025227106168833

because this is America? i dunno
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on September 29, 2021, 02:00:27 AM
TOGETHER WE WILL SEIZE THE MEANS OF FORD PRODUCTION
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 29, 2021, 10:11:43 AM
JD Vance can seize deez nuts, Page 69 lol, hit send
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 29, 2021, 03:43:43 PM
https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1443290621721120772 (https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1443290621721120772)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 29, 2021, 05:03:10 PM
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1443294107733053440
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 29, 2021, 05:35:23 PM
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1443327217124130825 (https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1443327217124130825)

https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1443325690699517954 (https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1443325690699517954)

Blue Dawgs  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on September 30, 2021, 06:51:46 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1443708824909717508 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1443708824909717508)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 30, 2021, 07:26:22 PM
https://twitter.com/jonward11/status/1443655935566696460

https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1443685636242825222

https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/1443593817135923202
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 30, 2021, 07:26:42 PM
https://twitter.com/ismurray/status/1443590849951055872

 :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: chronovore on September 30, 2021, 07:42:14 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1441884093176705029

 :american she's the best

She's a harpie with limited brain activity and was only emboldened by Trump's own mediocrity. The media giving her attention will have the same unfortunate affect it did with Trump: elevation in awareness and status. Trump would not have won the last election if media hadn't presented him so constantly, and similar minded people resented the media's mocking attitude enough to take action. Ridiculous.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 30, 2021, 08:14:20 PM
Hey, I'd rather have her in power than somebody like JD Vance.

Plus she just came out for anarchism!
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1443617333445079041
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on September 30, 2021, 09:11:03 PM
https://twitter.com/morroweric/status/1443628623576109065
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 01, 2021, 04:12:10 AM
this guy is my favorite crazy candidate
https://twitter.com/DonHuffines/status/1443715506264059910

https://twitter.com/DonHuffines/status/1443387516715995137

but she's still my favorite crazy elected official :american
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1443760445383495689
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 01, 2021, 12:02:13 PM
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1443926661792210945

 :bernie bernie math
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 02, 2021, 05:14:46 AM
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1444219735298777091 (https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1444219735298777091)

Do the right thing judge :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 02, 2021, 02:56:40 PM
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1444355616613539854 (https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1444355616613539854)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAtfg0hXoAUwkpQ?format=jpg)

https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1444289487891226635 (https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1444289487891226635)

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1444330758538149891 (https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1444330758538149891)


INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK never ends :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 02, 2021, 10:35:23 PM
Quote from: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/joe-manchin-reconcilation-bill-big-coal-1235597/
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin just cooked the planet. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I mean that literally. Unless Manchin changes his negotiating position dramatically in the near future, he will be remembered as the man who, when the moment of decision came, chose to condemn virtually every living creature on Earth to a hellish future of suffering, hardship, and death.
the hysteria :dead :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 03, 2021, 06:44:36 AM
If you actually read the UN report on the climate it is far less alarmist than they make it out to be.

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 04, 2021, 04:58:19 PM
They officially admit there are 2 Presidents.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA4GxdTWUAUfEyY?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on October 04, 2021, 08:25:26 PM
https://twitter.com/hellocullen/status/1444348945837162497
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 04, 2021, 10:21:30 PM
https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1445095388021620737
Quote
even The Nation’s justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, insisted, “There is absolutely no upside to protesting people while they’re in the bathroom.”

Then there’s Sinema’s take: In a statement, she described the incident as “not a legitimate protest.”

“It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings...and filming students in a restroom,” Sinema said.

Given these reactions, one would think that an angry activist kicked open the bathroom door while Sinema was taking a massive dump. Instead, they just sort of stood around in a public space, politely but firmly demanding that Sinema to do the job they elected her to do. Even President Biden was seemingly unimpressed by all the whining, telling reporters during a Monday press conference that “It happens to everybody... it’s part of the process.”

He’s right. And for all the pearl-clutching, few are providing a more effective and safe alternative to what these activists did. They told Sinema, to her face—and through a door—that she was failing them and why. There was no violence, no rude language, nothing. Just a few constituents following their representative into a large bathroom to air their grievances. What should they have done instead? Call her office and direct their ire through a receptionist like surely countless Americans do each day? Write her a letter she won’t read? Vote her into office again and hope that, this time, she’ll deign them important enough to listen to?

But maybe it’s easier to act like a public bathroom is a sacred place than criticize the fact that Sinema decided to hide from her voters like a coward.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 05, 2021, 10:15:57 AM
Harass women  :sicko
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 05, 2021, 11:28:16 AM
saying its actually ok to harass bitches in the toilets is opening a giant can of worms i think :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 05, 2021, 12:10:29 PM
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1444829981268402176

 :idont
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 05, 2021, 12:24:41 PM
Todays' word of the day: Contention
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 05, 2021, 12:52:34 PM
why the fuck do isreal need aid money from america anyway :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 05, 2021, 01:06:50 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA4YLT0XsAArQyl?format=png)

They actually did it

Make America Great Again, Again :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 05, 2021, 01:34:47 PM
They should have gone with MMAGAGA

Make MAGA great again
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on October 05, 2021, 07:24:12 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1445057824200003599

 :biden :point :american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: chronovore on October 06, 2021, 02:13:04 AM
^^^
Who are these snowflakes?

If you actually read the UN report on the climate it is far less alarmist than they make it out to be.

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1444431077582462976)

:dead
Cruz is a flapping wizardsleeve cuntflap. Jesus. The President who was MOST IN BED WITH RUSSIA EVER insult Cruz' wife, and he treated it like some kind of NTR foreplay. Fuck that little fat badger.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on October 06, 2021, 05:47:38 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/tLTJ5at.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 06, 2021, 06:08:14 PM
https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1445805616619040769 (https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1445805616619040769)

Don't worry folks help is on the way we're gonna make America Great Again, Again Greater Again

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA9NB1eVQAoN9ip?format=jpg)

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 06, 2021, 06:13:33 PM
https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1445811969269719048

 :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 06, 2021, 06:25:01 PM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1444327582284009472
https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1445574385226563591
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1445375120671924225

 :camby :camby :camby :camby

All these whiners like Don Lemon (of asking if a plane got sucked into a black hole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A) fame) complaining because regular people are allowed to speak without the elite media's permission can just fuck off forever.

So can the government officials who see it as as juicy opportunity to end run around the First Amendment and empower large corporations:
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1445451624005001217
https://twitter.com/rSanti97/status/1445799441928237061
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 06, 2021, 06:37:49 PM
CNN should start cleaning up their own act first.

And by act, I mean not having news anchors protect their siblings in power  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on October 06, 2021, 06:57:52 PM
CNN should start cleaning up their own act first.

And by act, I mean not having news anchors protect their siblings in power  :doge

Fredo was just accused of being an ass grabber himself  :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Uncle on October 06, 2021, 09:39:10 PM
fucking fuck

this is more serious/meta than this thread usually goes and I know nobody cares, but I seriously value free speech, and while I know misinformation is doing a number on everybody worldwide, regulation/censorship of what boils down to general discussion informal global chatrooms is the wrong way to try to manage it

honestly I don't know how you'd even enforce it



it's important for people to be able to be innocently wrong sometimes and not face serious consequences for literally just talking, and I see no method for separating casual wrong-ness from intentional insidious wrong-ness



and it's important for people to be able to joke about things, and 99% of comedy is lies

when Dave Chapelle says his childhood friend's mom told him they were out of Stovetop Stuffing and so he "kicked her in the pussy," that really ought to be globally tagged as misinformation (as well as impolite behavior)

you have to let people joke about things, and if you let people joke about things then anyone spreading any misinformation gets to end their post with "this information was presented for entertainment purposes only" and claim immunity from censorship

otherwise The Onion becomes illegal overnight for presenting itself as a news site
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 06, 2021, 09:51:44 PM
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1445504493794172928
Quote
Laxalt has already said he’d support legal challenges to the midterm results, more than a year out from the election.

“With me at the top of the ticket, we’re going to be able to get everybody at the table and come up with a full plan, do our best to try to secure this election, get as many observers as we can, and file lawsuits early, if there are lawsuits we can file to try to tighten up the election,”
Quote from: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/adam-laxalt-kicks-off-statewide-tour-in-u-s-senate-campaign-2451472/
Laxalt filed unsuccessful challenges to 2020 election results in Nevada and maintains that Democrat-sponsored changes to balloting, such as universal mail-in voting, have undermined faith in elections.

On Friday, Laxalt acknowledged that Joe Biden was president of the United States but declined, when pressed by a reporter, to say whether he thought Biden was legitimately elected.

“I know you want to make this entire election about this. We have major issues going on in our country right now,” he said before turning to address another question.
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 06, 2021, 09:56:42 PM
this is more serious/meta than this thread usually goes and I know nobody cares
Only because a prominent poster has made it their life mission to drown out any discussion by spamming borderline random stuff they found under "latest" on Twitter.

Now "some" claim this is to drive out anything except the MAGA Agenda, but those people also fled like cowards. I won't say they're all cowards, but at least one definitely is.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on October 06, 2021, 10:34:08 PM
:bow  :nintex  :bow2
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 06, 2021, 10:42:08 PM
My favorite thing in this current hysteria about the dangerous free speech of non-elites is to read the comments where people are begging to have their speech censored by the state:
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/TomBalawejder/status/1445606635427090433
https://twitter.com/CommodoreNelson/status/1445569090752417793
https://twitter.com/ItsaLearning/status/1445564956628250639
https://twitter.com/KurganZone/status/1445812562608594945
https://twitter.com/Daveinmac/status/1445738197716123651
https://twitter.com/TtamStrebor/status/1445742891184242688
https://twitter.com/DavidClinchNews/status/1445801390115368963
https://twitter.com/DavidClinchNews/status/1445568582809632776
https://twitter.com/DavidClinchNews/status/1445774907372027914
[close]

Anyone who says they want to remove Section 230 but otherwise likes free speech is a liar and a fraud.

Did CNN, so here's MSNBC demanding the federal government (specifically the FBI) shut down free speech:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1445894653308375043

And since it's on the same account, here's our newest "whistleblower" agreeing with Senator Markey that Congress should eliminate the First Amendment:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1445418958182563841
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 07, 2021, 02:37:54 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBBai2iVgAkdzj_?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 07, 2021, 01:52:02 PM
this is more serious/meta than this thread usually goes and I know nobody cares
Only because a prominent poster has made it their life mission to drown out any discussion by spamming borderline random stuff they found under "latest" on Twitter.

Now "some" claim this is to drive out anything except the MAGA Agenda, but those people also fled like cowards. I won't say they're all cowards, but at least one definitely is.
(https://c.tenor.com/D47I8y_einUAAAAd/george-lucas-i-may-have-gone-too-far.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 08, 2021, 01:31:44 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBIg_d-WUAIC36c?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 08, 2021, 06:49:21 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1446093923898826758

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1446296414410117120
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 08, 2021, 08:20:27 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1445057824200003599

 :biden
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1446559842265665557
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 08, 2021, 08:48:29 PM
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446568451246600192

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446569268724879370
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 10, 2021, 06:22:15 AM
If you think they could no longer dial up the crazy

https://twitter.com/Johnbarron_46/status/1447033872277913606 (https://twitter.com/Johnbarron_46/status/1447033872277913606)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1447018133387157508 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1447018133387157508)

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1446891313979437064 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1446891313979437064)
[close]

Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 10, 2021, 02:39:46 PM
https://twitter.com/dceiver/status/1446829358992216071
Quote
Power concedes nothing without demand. But the demands of Democratic voters are reasonable: Just pass Biden’s agenda, already! As the powerful continue to cocoon themselves within a vault of donor boodle and ordinary citizens get shut out of the participatory process, we should naturally expect an antagonistic and more confrontational public to emerge. And while many argue that the people should have the right to be rude, this is clearly not an ideal or preferable way to practice politics. Anyone who doesn’t want that future should stop asserting the ludicrous notion that affluent political elites have some inalienable right to civility, and start insisting that they earn it.

Also on TNR:
Quote from: https://newrepublic.com/article/163867/manchin-sinema-climate-moderates-extremists
APOCALYPSE SOON: Let’s Call Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema What They Are: Extremists

...

To hear Sinema, Manchin, and Gottheimer tell it, they’re a voice for sober rationality in a party careening toward the extreme left, bravely standing up for the forgotten majorities who want to keep corporate taxes low and spending under control. But what does it mean to be a moderate in the era of the climate crisis?

If anything, the reconciliation bill is dangerously modest. It does nothing to directly limit America’s prolific fossil fuel production and exports.

...

In a world already irreversibly altered by rising temperatures, there’s no moderate way forward. Back in 2014—when there were tens of billions fewer tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—climate scientist Kevin Anderson argued that the planet faced “an unavoidably radical future. We either continue with rising emissions and reap the radical repercussions of severe climate change, or we acknowledge that we have a choice and pursue radical emission reductions.” Progressives want the latter, or at least the closest thing to it Congress is likely to produce in the next few months. Sinema, Manchin, Gottheimer, and their ilk are doing everything they can to make the former path a reality. No one should call them moderates, or even centrists. They’re extremists. If they have their way, they’re going to get a lot of people killed.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 10, 2021, 03:33:28 PM
Support Mom and Pop Pharma :american
https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1447195963542679552
https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1447195965606273035
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 10, 2021, 05:12:49 PM
https://twitter.com/MattHerdman/status/1446695232318361601 (https://twitter.com/MattHerdman/status/1446695232318361601)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 10, 2021, 05:38:37 PM
https://twitter.com/JamesPindell/status/1447170321698676739

lmao
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: zomgee on October 10, 2021, 06:28:31 PM
I really kind of hope that it's just shitbin tweetposting between you two from now on. Good versus evil in a fight that will surely last the rest of our lives or the year 2024, whichever comes first.

I know one of them won't stop because he's an insufferable moron with low energy comprehension.

The other is Benji.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 10, 2021, 06:29:38 PM
Oh, look, Facebook agrees, "redo 230 and establish regulations on us pls":
https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1447196180685938688

 :camby
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 10, 2021, 07:21:49 PM
Regulations their lobbyists will write because that wanker has connections in all the right places.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 11, 2021, 04:46:43 AM
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1446997664554536960
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 11, 2021, 10:48:11 AM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1447230705902235656 (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1447230705902235656)

When is supply chain week?
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 11, 2021, 12:41:31 PM
They elect a Democrat and we get soviet style empty shelves you cant explain that
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 11, 2021, 07:25:52 PM
Are they deep faking him now?  :thinking

https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1447323792833929224 (https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA/status/1447323792833929224)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 12, 2021, 02:37:43 PM
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446568451246600192

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1446569268724879370
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They actually hired actors for this

Quote
Monterey resident Trevor Bernardino, 13, told KSBW he was stunned when he learned he would be traveling to Washington, DC to take part in the video.   

'Then after that, like a week later my agent called me and was like 'Hey Trevor you booked it,' he told the network.

Trevor was one of five teens who participated in the video for the YouTube original series. He was joined by Derrick Brooks II, another child actor, Emily Kim, likewise a child actor, Zhoriel Tapo, a child actor and aspiring journalist who has interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Sydney Schmooke.

The video was shot at the Naval Observatory, Harris' residence, from August 11 to August 13. During that time the Taliban were making rapid advances across Afghanistan and were closing in on Kabul during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal. -Daily Mail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlMnn0hc9c

Quote
"So for humanitarian reasons we are not going to play that'll video, but it's online," said Carlson. "If you dare, look it up, watch it. Watch it again, watch your own soul die as you do. It's the fakest thing that's ever been caught on video but in fact it's even faker than it looks."

The tuck  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 12, 2021, 02:59:53 PM
If anyone knows about not being genuine…
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 04:47:21 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBdta1iWEAMfLU9?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 05:06:30 PM
somebody's feeling the heat from Doug Huffines and Allen West*

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1447706651964985345

*
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1447562535113150465
https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1447562537327685633
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 12, 2021, 05:16:05 PM
Biden should have made the vaccine a rectal suppository
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 06:28:29 PM
They actually hired actors for this

Quote
Monterey resident Trevor Bernardino, 13, told KSBW he was stunned when he learned he would be traveling to Washington, DC to take part in the video.   

'Then after that, like a week later my agent called me and was like 'Hey Trevor you booked it,' he told the network.

Trevor was one of five teens who participated in the video for the YouTube original series. He was joined by Derrick Brooks II, another child actor, Emily Kim, likewise a child actor, Zhoriel Tapo, a child actor and aspiring journalist who has interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Sydney Schmooke.
Better part:
https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1447893041470181378
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 12, 2021, 06:48:30 PM
It's literally Veep :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 07:12:38 PM
https://twitter.com/ASFleischman/status/1447606937714139136
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 07:21:54 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1446246052747784195
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1447574557775237128
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1447545776549376001
https://twitter.com/RepGarbarino/status/1447597100599025667
https://twitter.com/StevenMatteo/status/1447534076232089603
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1447660725468639240

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/AdamHDomby/status/1447940471955787785
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 10:52:08 PM
https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters/status/1447954016793595907
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2021, 11:15:00 PM
https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448019963504119817
https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448040032841961474
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 13, 2021, 09:56:33 AM
Give new meaning to "in the paint".
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Propagandhim on October 13, 2021, 01:24:38 PM
https://twitter.com/RockSolidDem/status/1448325371418513411
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 13, 2021, 02:06:45 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1448288133439803395 (https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1448288133439803395)

:juche
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 13, 2021, 02:38:10 PM
Thats suspicious. Ive been by the port before and can confirm the waves never stop coming in. Its always been 24/7.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Potato on October 13, 2021, 06:14:42 PM
Biden should have made the vaccine a rectal suppository
You mean it wasn't?
 :ltg
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on October 13, 2021, 06:16:27 PM
 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 13, 2021, 07:23:25 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1448425978062118917 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1448425978062118917)

 :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 14, 2021, 01:54:17 PM
https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1448624014507880454
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 14, 2021, 02:16:07 PM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1448711805434466310 (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1448711805434466310)

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1448655081738440706 (https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1448655081738440706)

:salute

"We need a strong republican party" - Nancy Pelosi
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on October 14, 2021, 02:39:51 PM
Sloppy Steve  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 14, 2021, 03:47:42 PM
Nintex you're good with computers how serious was this hacking

https://mobile.twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448697768311132160
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 14, 2021, 03:55:31 PM
me, decoding the HTML

(https://i.imgur.com/FJAnepf.gif)

"I'm in."
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 14, 2021, 05:15:03 PM
Quote from: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/missouri-governor-vows-to-prosecute-st-louis-post-dispatch-for-reporting-security-vulnerability/
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million, and vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate the “hackers” and anyone who aided the publication in its “attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”

The Post-Dispatch says it discovered the vulnerability in a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials, and that more than 100,000 SSNs were available. The Missouri state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) reportedly removed the affected pages from its website Tuesday after being notified of the problem by the publication (before the story on the flaw was published).

The newspaper said it found that teachers’ Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved. In other words, the information was available to anyone with a web browser who happened to also examine the site’s public code using Developer Tools or simply right-clicking on the page and viewing the source code.

The Post-Dispatch reported that it wasn’t immediately clear how long the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information had been vulnerable on the DESE website, nor was it known if anyone had exploited the flaw.

But in a press conference Thursday morning, Gov. Parson said he would seek to prosecute and investigate the reporter and the region’s largest newspaper for “unlawfully” accessing teacher data.

“This administration is standing up against any and all perpetrators who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians,” Parson said. “It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information. We are coordinating state resources to respond and utilize all legal methods available. My administration has notified the Cole County prosecutor of this matter, the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensics Unit will also be conducting an investigation of all of those involved. This incident alone may cost Missouri taxpayers as much as $50 million.”

...

“The state is committed to bringing to justice anyone who hacked our systems or anyone who aided them to do so,” Parson continued. “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. This individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.”

Parson said the person who reported the weakness was “acting against a state agency to compromise teachers’ personal information in an attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”

“We will not let this crime against Missouri teachers go unpunished, and refuse to let them be a pawn in the news outlet’s political vendetta,” Parson said. “Not only are we going to hold this individual accountable, but we will also be holding accountable all those who aided this individual and the media corporation that employs them.”
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 14, 2021, 05:59:56 PM
https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129 (https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 14, 2021, 06:07:22 PM
https://twitter.com/MrBlank/status/1448758047560585221
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 14, 2021, 06:25:09 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1448495251560091648
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 14, 2021, 07:19:18 PM
twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448019963504119817
twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448040032841961474
https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1448726524123881479
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 15, 2021, 01:02:34 PM
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1449047260038303746 (https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1449047260038303746)

Quote
“It was a dying party, I’ll be honest. Now we have a very lively party,”

that's one way to put it :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 15, 2021, 06:29:02 PM
https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129 (https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129)

So sad to hear that Governor Parson died of DESE.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 16, 2021, 07:16:58 PM
https://twitter.com/ratnersarmy/status/1449066315193495555
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 16, 2021, 11:16:34 PM
filler content:
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1449439671432335361
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on October 17, 2021, 12:24:10 AM
crossfit just looks like people trying to injure themselves while working out  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 17, 2021, 03:09:29 AM
https://twitter.com/amywestervelt/status/1449368273074667534
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 17, 2021, 07:52:46 AM
I see he doesn't want to get rid of oil and gas quite yet. Which makes sense if you consider what is happening in Europe right now.
Germany went through a failed energy transition after the disaster at Fukushima (not the climate) spurred them into action. Across Europe countries are not able to meet energy demands with renewables.
And a lot of sustainable energy sources like bio mass (cutting forests, shipping the trees across the ocean and then burning them) are not sustainable or environmentally friendly at all.
Burning gas is cleaner than burning a tree.

But the screeching climate cult does not understand that if you remove one source of energy, you have to replace it with another.
Especially because all their other plans such as electric vehicles, working from home, big tech / automation investments and resettling refugees, require more energy and significant changes to the power grid.
All most climate spending plans are really doing is using tax money to fund big corporations and industry to renew and upgrade their equipment and production methods to be more sustainable.

You can't save the climate unless you fix the energy problem or not put the climate and environment in one basket and invest heavily in nuclear energy again.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 17, 2021, 04:52:44 PM
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1449837228977496064 (https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1449837228977496064)

Yes, do this you fools. Put him in a room with Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff live on CNN. :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 17, 2021, 06:35:01 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FB7uoaqX0AAdWx4?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 17, 2021, 07:10:42 PM
I know "cult" gets thrown around an awful lot in regards to Trumpland shit, but
(https://i.imgur.com/rce59Oz.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on October 17, 2021, 08:04:51 PM
when they do the audits and nothing comes up, they'll still not show up to vote  :smug
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 17, 2021, 08:07:13 PM
Remember only polling experts and career politicians can question election results and argue with the media about their calls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLV7nqD3CA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQesfLIycJw

After they questioned Trump's 2016 victory to this day (a new documentary about the pee pee tape just dropped) why did they think he would just accept the outcome?
It's like with everything they come up with from 'fake news' to 'the big lie' (all phrases coined by the MSM and bluechecks) Trump knows better how to use them.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 17, 2021, 08:19:44 PM
Remember only polling experts and career politicians can question election results and argue with the media about their calls.

After they questioned Trump's 2016 victory to this day (a new documentary about the pee pee tape just dropped) why did they think he would just accept the outcome?
I was unrepentant in making fun of Democrats and their media lackeys for the stolen election/Russia talk, but there is a huge difference here between whining about the election result and Trump's refusal to ever accept a legitimate election result: First, Trump himself claimed that 2016 had been rigged and stolen from him despite having won. Second, Trump spent an entire year talking up the idea that 2020 was going to be stolen from him and telling his voters not to vote by mail-in. Third, Hillary conceded right after the election and never challenged any of it in court, Trump filed nearly 70 frivolous lawsuits and continues demanding fraudulent "audits" including in states he won. Fourth, Trump attempted to have others violate the law to switch the election results in his favor. Fifth, in the wake of all that he encouraged supporters to literally storm the Capitol as if this could change the results.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 18, 2021, 11:43:55 AM
yeah but hillary is a smelly biaaaaaaaaaaaatttttch so it evens out :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 18, 2021, 12:02:38 PM
Wow Hilary finally had Colin Powell killed. What did he know and when did he know it
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 18, 2021, 01:39:37 PM
Remember only polling experts and career politicians can question election results and argue with the media about their calls.

After they questioned Trump's 2016 victory to this day (a new documentary about the pee pee tape just dropped) why did they think he would just accept the outcome?
I was unrepentant in making fun of Democrats and their media lackeys for the stolen election/Russia talk, but there is a huge difference here between whining about the election result and Trump's refusal to ever accept a legitimate election result: First, Trump himself claimed that 2016 had been rigged and stolen from him despite having won. Second, Trump spent an entire year talking up the idea that 2020 was going to be stolen from him and telling his voters not to vote by mail-in. Third, Hillary conceded right after the election and never challenged any of it in court, Trump filed nearly 70 frivolous lawsuits and continues demanding fraudulent "audits" including in states he won. Fourth, Trump attempted to have others violate the law to switch the election results in his favor. Fifth, in the wake of all that he encouraged supporters to literally storm the Capitol as if this could change the results.
He started talking about rigged elections and rigged contests in general even before 2016. But that leaves the question, why is everyone surprised or shocked even and so easily caught up in the rigged elections hysteria, both his supporters and opponents.

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1450095282427936768 (https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1450095282427936768)

Here lies Colin Powell, he had some tough moments around our wars

:dead

A good and decent man who just happened to lie about the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction to literally *checks notes* the entire world.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 18, 2021, 09:54:25 PM
He started talking about rigged elections and rigged contests in general even before 2016. But that leaves the question, why is everyone surprised or shocked even and so easily caught up in the rigged elections hysteria, both his supporters and opponents.
Maybe the powerful people who continue to push that rhetoric to the point of insisting their supporters don't vote in the next two elections.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on October 18, 2021, 10:12:24 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1450115366500327430

 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 18, 2021, 10:28:01 PM
don't vote, DO donate:
(https://i.imgur.com/j6EJ57g.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 19, 2021, 04:58:18 AM
https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-announce-legislation-to-reform-section-230
Quote
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) announced new legislation today to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields websites and online platforms from being held liable for third-party content.

The legislation, titled the Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, would amend Section 230 to remove absolute immunity in certain instances. Specifically, the bill would lift the Section 230 liability shield when an online platform knowingly or recklessly uses an algorithm or other technology to recommend content that materially contributes to physical or severe emotional injury. The bill will be introduced in the House tomorrow.
fuuuuucccccccckkkkkkk ooofffffooofffffffff
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on October 19, 2021, 09:40:09 AM
Quote
Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act
:neo
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 19, 2021, 09:49:41 AM
don't vote, DO donate:
(https://i.imgur.com/j6EJ57g.png)

probably part of his deal plea to no say anything about voting.
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: james on October 19, 2021, 10:08:56 AM
uses an algorithm or other technology to recommend content that materially contributes to physical or severe emotional injury

Good. Im sick and tired of Instagram showing me successful people having fun while Im in bed eating Doritos.

Its really bad for my mental health

Ready to sue those fucks
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: BIONIC on October 19, 2021, 10:26:03 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCEN_bVXIAUhaqr?format=jpg&name=large)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: team filler on October 19, 2021, 10:31:28 AM
 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: Nintex on October 19, 2021, 02:35:08 PM
When Trump hits, he doesn't miss.

Basically nuked the entire politicial pundit class with a hyper sonic missile from orbit.  :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 19, 2021, 04:00:44 PM
Benji a new one just dropped

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1450548575704866823 (https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1450548575704866823)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: tiesto on October 19, 2021, 07:00:17 PM
What a waste of a perfectly good CRT TV.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on October 19, 2021, 07:25:20 PM
What a waste of a perfectly good CRT TV.

nice rack tho
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 20, 2021, 09:32:03 AM
What a waste of a perfectly good CRT TV.

nice rack tho

Not really.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 20, 2021, 01:46:54 PM
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1450781733251649536 (https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1450781733251649536)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCKHc28X0AEk1vz?format=jpg)


https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1450872552914620424 (https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1450872552914620424)

Quote
It is unclear whether in this scenario Manchin would end up caucusing with the Democrats, which would allow them to continue to control the Senate, or side with the Republicans and place the Senate in GOP hands. In either event, he would hold great sway over this half of Congress.

 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 20, 2021, 03:08:24 PM
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1450690040279994368

 :shh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 20, 2021, 03:27:30 PM
Quote from: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/hawley-bill-supply-chain-us-manufacturing-requirement
Hawley's bill would direct the Department of Commerce to consult with the Department of Defense in producing an annual report that identifies "finished and intermediate" manufactured goods that are critical for the national security of the United States, or the protection of the industrial base of the United States.

The bill would also require that those goods identified by the Commerce and Defense departments be subject to the local content requirement of over 50% – meaning that more than 50% of the value of the good must be produced in the United States in order to be sold commercially in the country.
:camby

Quote from: https://gizmodo.com/how-joe-manchin-and-republicans-could-destroy-the-world-1847888280
How Joe Manchin and Republicans Could Destroy the World
The West Virginia senator's opposition to a key climate program and Republican opposition to everything is an existential threat to everyone.

...

The other option is that the U.S.’s weak position could allow for another nation to lead. Both Robinson and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (who is Robinson’s deputy at The Elders) repeatedly called on China to come to the table with the U.S.—or on its own. Casten also sees a similar dynamic that could play out, with China having a potential opening to swoop in and set the climate agenda that will define the 21st century.

“The question is really going to be what country is going to lead the international conversation about climate?” he said. “To be in that leadership position, you basically have to have two things. You have to have the economic clout to muscle your way into that role, which we do. And you have to have the proven track record that you are committed to doing at least as much internally as you are demanding the rest of the world does, which we do not. If we don’t get there, what we’re basically doing is opening the door to the Chinese century.”
:noooo
:phil
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BIMming It
Times up, time to leave!
10/20/21 11:44am
“We. Are. Fucked.”

Yup, which is why I think I’m finally starting to relax. I’ll still push for positive change, and strive to see us actually live up to the challenge, but I have very little hope that it will happen. The problem is too intimidating to even accept for a lot of people, meaning it’s near impossible to grass-roots our way to change... and the people at the top are already banking on the idea that they can fleece the masses and use those immense resources they gather to live in relative luxury while the world burns around them.

Meanwhile, everyone who isn’t in the top .5% is going to have to murder each other for their next meal or glass of clean water by 2050... which means we won’t even have the luxury of a peaceful end, we’re going to keep destroy ourselves until the job is complete. Human civilization is looking more and more like our first and worst mistake as a species.

So, I’m not going to fear it anymore... I’m ready to accept it, and I pray that I’m dead before things get really bad.
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Sassy After Death
BIMming It
10/20/21 12:49pm
Hey that’s my attitude as well!  I hope I die in the early parts though.
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Chairman Kaga
Brian Kahn
10/20/21 10:12am
You know, if democrats had a bigger majority then two jerks holding the power to destroy the entire agenda wouldn’t be a thing.

Unfortunately gerrymandering, intimidation, lying, and the simple fact that most people in a position of power are now just in a race to consolidate that power, wealth, and security so when the inevitable collapse finally happens, they might stand a better chance of bring some sort of warlord or ruler of the broken society below.

Apocalypse fiction? At this point I don’t think so.
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CMAllenToo
Brian Kahn
10/20/21 11:04am
At this point it’s not sarcastic to say the greatest threat to humanity is rabid conservatism — like a WV senator refusing to let go of coal. And while America’s brand of conservatism is...more batshit crazy that most of the rest of the world, it’s certainly not on its own either.

Change is not optional, which means Conservatism is NOT AN OPTION. We CANNOT continue to do things as we have always done. Humanity has two choices: change or die. Conservatism is CHOOSING to die. And if that’s your choice, do the rest of humanity a favor and get it over with RIGHT NOW. Yes, I said it. I’m not going to coddle or sugarcoat for Conservatives. If you want to die, just go die. Today. The rest of humanity doesn’t want or need you here, and will be far better off with you and your obstructionist bullshit out of the way. Otherwise, get with the program, fall in line, and accept the changes we all have to make.
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 20, 2021, 05:07:29 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1450913547685351434

 :badass
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on October 20, 2021, 05:21:38 PM
ERADICATE ERADICATE ERADICATE
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 20, 2021, 06:30:07 PM
FACT CHECK:
Quote from: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/christmas-presents-never-late-trump/
On October 14, 2021, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, posted a message on Twitter falsely claiming that Christmas presents never arrived late during the administration of former President Donald Trump.

This is false. The Christmas presents did arrive late during Trump’s presidency.

Late Christmas presents were not unique to the Trump presidency. There are frequently shipping delays during the holiday season as mail carriers deal with an influx of purchases, as well as severe winter weather. In December 2020, the last Christmas with Trump as president, the COVID-19 pandemic further complicated shipping efforts and led to massive delays.
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Jordan’s tweet was one of several messages in recent weeks that hyperbolically claimed that President Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were, in effect, canceling Christmas. The official House Republicans Twitter account, for example, posted the following message on Twitter:

Biden is not trying to steal Christmas.

The claim that Biden is “canceling” or “stealing” Christmas is part of an ongoing (and largely imaginary) “War on Christmas” (see our previous coverage of the “War on Christmas”).
:biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 20, 2021, 09:24:20 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCLp6yLWYAEFNtf?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCLp6yKX0AM-j-W?format=jpg&name=small)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCLwRlDWUAkqfrq?format=jpg&name=small)

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The Trump Media & Technology Group also announced plans to launch a subscription-based video service called TMTG+ that will feature "non-woke" programming. The new endeavor will be led by reality television producer Scott St. John who has worked on shows like “Deal or No Deal" and “America’s Got Talent."

https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1450992181431488513

https://tmtgcorp.com/company-overview/

https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1451004313665523713
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 21, 2021, 12:32:38 AM
I bet this won’t be an enormous grift.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: who is ted danson? on October 21, 2021, 03:03:48 AM
Russian translation is already up: https://www.pravda.ru/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 21, 2021, 05:00:34 AM
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TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.

It's a big tent and everyone is invited :rejoice

I'm wondering if Trump is going to change the messaging now that he has a vehicle with no strings attached to make $$$.
Less donations to pacs, more investments in TMTG stonks.

The success of this depends on if he can get more big conservative names to sign on and create content.
In that sense it's all very fragmented. So creating a big umbrella for conservative media is not such a bad idea.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 21, 2021, 07:15:13 AM
lol trump will ban the people he's mad at on that particular day all the time :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Transhuman on October 21, 2021, 07:46:44 AM
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TRUTH Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.

It's a big tent and everyone is invited :rejoice

So Taliban allowed?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kevtones on October 21, 2021, 11:38:09 AM
The number one problem in the US is the housing market. It is literally driving up the cost of living universally and outpacing wages and has been forever (dramatically raising wages is the dumb answer to solve this). People should not be paying $850k for a partially renovated 2b in fucking Torrance, California.


1) There is not a shortage of housing, there is a consolidation of ownership.
2) Make house renting/duplex renting illegal.
3) Make flipping illegal.
4) Make it illegal for private equity to buy homes.
5) Give first-time homeowners a 3-month headstart on all housing offers. Give them dramatically lower interest rates.



Even if modified versions of the above. Curb this out-of-control bullshit. Watch the supply raise. Watch the prices come down.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on October 21, 2021, 12:08:03 PM
The number one problem in the US is the housing market. It is literally driving up the cost of living universally and outpacing wages and has been forever (dramatically raising wages is the dumb answer to solve this). People should not be paying $850k for a partially renovated 2b in fucking Torrance, California.


1) There is not a shortage of housing, there is a consolidation of ownership.
2) Make house renting/duplex renting illegal.
3) Make flipping illegal.
4) Make it illegal for private equity to buy homes.
5) Give first-time homeowners a 3-month headstart on all housing offers. Give them dramatically lower interest rates.



Even if modified versions of the above. Curb this out-of-control bullshit. Watch the supply raise. Watch the prices come down.

Bernie would have built houses for everyone
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 21, 2021, 12:08:43 PM
The number one problem in the US is the housing market. It is literally driving up the cost of living universally and outpacing wages and has been forever (dramatically raising wages is the dumb answer to solve this). People should not be paying $850k for a partially renovated 2b in fucking Torrance, California.


1) There is not a shortage of housing, there is a consolidation of ownership.
2) Make house renting/duplex renting illegal.
3) Make flipping illegal.
4) Make it illegal for private equity to buy homes.
5) Give first-time homeowners a 3-month headstart on all housing offers. Give them dramatically lower interest rates.



Even if modified versions of the above. Curb this out-of-control bullshit. Watch the supply raise. Watch the prices come down.

There is a tremendous global real estate bubble that is bigger than it has ever been before.
In Amsterdam they implemented mandatory registrations for landlords (which means regulations and permits).
80%(!) of AirBnB's have been delisted.

Driving the prices
up ^


Housing is an investment opportunity, tourist accomodation, refugee shelter or cash cow first, tents are to live in. #BuildBackBetter

I've given up on buying a house this decade, I will probably conquer one in the climate wars instead.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kevtones on October 21, 2021, 12:30:40 PM
Maybe we should just move to that city in the desert that they're trying to make.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 21, 2021, 12:35:00 PM
https://twitter.com/davidcicilline/status/1450463809865404423
https://twitter.com/RepKenBuck/status/1450893025538883594

these dummies just discovered store brands and are mad about it
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 21, 2021, 12:43:04 PM
Quote
A statement from TMTG, which is chaired by President Trump, says the merger between TMTG and DWAC could reach a valuation of $1.7 billion.

Although TMTG is not yet publicly traded, DWAC surged on the Nasdaq after news of the merger broke.

DWAC rose 85 percent within the first hour of trading, Investor Place reported. By Thursday morning the stock skyrocketed from just over $10 per share to a peak of more than $19 per share.

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 21, 2021, 06:37:38 PM
Don't bet against Trump
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCQaq9cVQB0e7qq?format=png)

https://twitter.com/MarketRebels/status/1451319838509518849 (https://twitter.com/MarketRebels/status/1451319838509518849)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 21, 2021, 11:08:25 PM
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1451240278975733761
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 22, 2021, 12:05:46 AM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1451228049480065030
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 22, 2021, 12:49:04 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1451552095287513095 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1451552095287513095)

The more the news media says people shouldn't buy this, the more they do.

It's like poetry :lucas
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on October 22, 2021, 12:56:56 PM
Getting rich to own the libs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 22, 2021, 01:49:59 PM
It's funny, the libs think that they can stop folks from buying because this is a scam or a grift.
But everyone buying already knows that it is, which is why they are buying it.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCUWL3bVgAI-EXx?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on October 22, 2021, 02:19:53 PM
Of course it's a miami special.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 22, 2021, 04:36:16 PM
The Grand Old Party:
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1451570489105731592
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1451599887284457475
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: T-Short on October 22, 2021, 05:47:58 PM
https://twitter.com/LukewSavage/status/1451280024326246408
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 23, 2021, 06:15:30 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCV1dRFVUAYOzz1?format=jpg)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on October 23, 2021, 07:28:43 AM
 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 23, 2021, 09:21:17 AM
https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney/status/1451240389768265729
Title: Re: USA Politics |OT| I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely Afghanistan
Post by: benjipwns on October 23, 2021, 10:24:33 AM
Nintex you're good with computers how serious was this hacking

mobile.twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448697768311132160
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IBPeRa7U8E
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 23, 2021, 02:48:34 PM
We need a Cyber Symposium to get to the bottom of this.

Someone get the logs, where are the routers?

BREAKING NEWS: IP address confirmed. We don't know what it means yet but it probably had something to do with Twitter deleting at least a million followers from my account. Stay tuned patriots.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on October 23, 2021, 08:48:34 PM
https://twitter.com/ReutersFacts/status/1451806964476825600


 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 24, 2021, 04:40:28 AM
VEEP was a documentary

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1451607189857177628 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1451607189857177628)

https://twitter.com/PulseNigeria247/status/1451274108440875008 (https://twitter.com/PulseNigeria247/status/1451274108440875008)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1451214672229699596 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1451214672229699596)

 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 24, 2021, 02:14:07 PM
https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125 (https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125)

wtf did Fraudci do  :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on October 24, 2021, 02:17:21 PM
They could’ve just gotten Adrenochrome from dogs this whole time?

 ??? :maf ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on October 24, 2021, 02:59:52 PM
https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125 (https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1452331160827269125)

wtf did Fraudci do  :tocry

Supporting the brutal factory farming industry that treats billions of animals a million times worse than these few dozen beagles for a non-scientific and non-vital purpose.

 :curious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 24, 2021, 03:52:59 PM
are you saying steaks are non vital? :gurl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 24, 2021, 05:08:50 PM
https://twitter.com/RepGregMurphy/status/1452274141474738178 (https://twitter.com/RepGregMurphy/status/1452274141474738178)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUCaOV5nbyk

Biden's decline is slowly seeping through to the MSM.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 25, 2021, 01:38:11 AM
https://twitter.com/ReutersFacts/status/1451806964476825600


 :whew
independently confirmed by another fact checker:
https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1451650063789350916

nothing to see here carry on

edit: oh crap
(https://i.imgur.com/l9tOXhN.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 25, 2021, 10:44:11 AM
Ohio update:

no, not how it works:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452441777873489928

this is a funny campaign ad though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onvB7A3SXcY

crai moar:
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1452608423858688008
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 25, 2021, 02:21:49 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452454518319456257 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452454518319456257)

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452393600495636483 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452393600495636483)

 :kermit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on October 25, 2021, 02:31:35 PM
https://twitter.com/ReutersFacts/status/1451806964476825600


 :whew
independently confirmed by another fact checker:
https://twitter.com/PolitiFact/status/1451650063789350916

nothing to see here carry on

edit: oh crap
(https://i.imgur.com/l9tOXhN.png)

Insane timeline  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 25, 2021, 03:47:59 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1452689465101754371 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1452689465101754371)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on October 25, 2021, 06:40:15 PM
 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 26, 2021, 10:41:31 AM
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1452734283735605258 (https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1452734283735605258)
:pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 26, 2021, 11:45:56 AM
Not even being a dickhead here, but running polls about two men who will be in their late 70's/early 80's in three years time seems quite presumptive :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on October 26, 2021, 01:34:12 PM
tulsi/rogan 2024  ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 26, 2021, 01:56:31 PM
Not even being a dickhead here, but running polls about two men who will be in their late 70's/early 80's in three years time seems quite presumptive :doge
I think Trump will manage to be Trump at least until the next election.

It probably depends on how well the Republicans do next year. If they win the midterms he will claim credit and drive that MAGA-A train all the way to the White House.
If they lose he will call them a bunch of losers, RINO's and pass the torch to Trump Jr. because the elections are rigged anyway.

Biden is probably not getting better but I also can't see him get any worse than he already is (if he gets any worse, than he has a serious condition and is unfit to lead anyway).
Right now, he's just old, confused and tired. Maybe he'll do an LBJ, announce he will finish his term but is not running for re-election as to 'clean' his slate for matters at hand.
That would give the Democrats a second chance to pick a better candidate. But rumors are going around that Biden is worried Kamala doesn't have what it takes to defeat Trump and thus he feels compelled to run if Trump does.

Biden like Trump seems unfazed by all the criticism.
Remember his position has always been "Just vote for the other guy if you don't like me".
He still has 2 - 3 years to steer this ship around, which is needed literally at this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 26, 2021, 04:43:51 PM
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1453036179629150212 (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1453036179629150212)

Two songs titled "Let's go Brandon" top the iTunes charts.

what the fuck is going on anymore  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 26, 2021, 07:25:30 PM
what the fuck is going on anymore  :lol

Wingnuts found something new to spend their money on besides LOCK HER UP mugs and bumper stickers?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 26, 2021, 07:39:58 PM
Right now, he's just old, confused and tired. Maybe he'll do an LBJ, announce he will finish his term but is not running for re-election as to 'clean' his slate for matters at hand.
This is not what LBJ did. LBJ barely beat Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary (49%-42%), this led Robert Kennedy to enter the race. After a few more primaries it was clear that LBJ wasn't going to win before the convention and he dropped out. Yes, he framed this as a noble action to focus on Vietnam but he was facing a revolt from more than half his party. Humphrey barely won the nomination himself and this was after Kennedy was killed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: who is ted danson? on October 27, 2021, 03:58:06 AM
If Biden wants to do an LBJ, he needs to start by flashing his cock to reporters and having bathroom meetings with staff whilst taking a dump.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 27, 2021, 06:22:43 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCmg-bNWUAAQj16?format=jpg&name=small)

 :klob

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:era
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 27, 2021, 02:04:08 PM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1453418733985222660 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1453418733985222660)

https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1453420206848716802 (https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1453420206848716802)

https://twitter.com/Crypsis12/status/1453395251247423490 (https://twitter.com/Crypsis12/status/1453395251247423490)

 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on October 28, 2021, 01:27:35 PM
https://twitter.com/MKUltraMoney/status/1453770035965616134

he don't miss  :lawd

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 28, 2021, 01:59:34 PM
Unfortunately that one is fake.

This was the real message from October 27th (or one of them)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCu60syX0AQ7r3O?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on October 28, 2021, 02:28:52 PM
As long as filler posts it

https://youtu.be/Yvd3aEsThbc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 28, 2021, 02:58:31 PM
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1453703126960283660 (https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1453703126960283660)

Rampant inflation and no growth.  :doge

Seems like the voters don't like it either

https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1453853566272253961 (https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1453853566272253961)

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1453857751386492931 (https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1453857751386492931)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2021, 08:37:36 PM
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1453724741441757188
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2021, 10:02:00 PM
https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1453752698130534404

edit: lmao

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1453704425109868544
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2021, 10:06:36 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCyT2OxXMAED6Cm?format=jpg&name=small)

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2021, 10:31:19 PM
Tucker Carlson makes a streaming service only shitty "documentary" about January 6. Blue checks and their authoritarian fans yet again rush to condemn First Amendment protections (while endorsing arresting people for protesting slavery and war):
https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1453866059455414278
https://twitter.com/LynzforCongress/status/1453737915951947781
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1453886873680728066
https://twitter.com/esquire/status/1453829204840173568
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1453745496024092675
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1453897898953957389
https://twitter.com/Carolho93444463/status/1453689091644530696
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Also because Trump got an op-ed:
https://twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1453548401086304260
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1453058429577273348
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:notlikethis :notlikethis :notlikethis :notlikethis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on October 29, 2021, 01:52:03 AM
As long as filler posts it

https://youtu.be/Yvd3aEsThbc
anything can be cannon in the fillervers  :pimp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 29, 2021, 03:11:39 AM
Don't yell fire in a crowded theatre.
Gib Sinema cookies instead
Oops gas is $3 now, you're fired for not getting a vaccine
You are basically a domestic terrorist if you like Dave Chapelle

Wait why are you voting for MAGA Republicans? :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Transhuman on October 29, 2021, 03:35:31 AM
I think you'll find the people who didn't get vaccinated had that political affiliation already, they didn't decide on it because they didn't want to get vaccinated.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 29, 2021, 04:17:03 AM
And yet another CNN reporter/editor comes out against First Amendment protections:
https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1453734361229000707
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on October 29, 2021, 05:58:12 AM
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1453724741441757188

if this is true, then according to policy 3 there will be a big bire meet up in a fema camp :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 29, 2021, 03:01:05 PM
So the Build Back Better gang got together and came up with:

Quote
You can't yell 'fire' in a movie theater

in the year of our lord 2021
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 30, 2021, 12:12:18 PM
https://twitter.com/RepSaraJacobs/status/1453436855345627146 (https://twitter.com/RepSaraJacobs/status/1453436855345627146)
 :iface
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on October 30, 2021, 12:33:45 PM
What a bitch.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 30, 2021, 05:31:14 PM
Guide to a Free Press in 2021:
 :nope Anything Tucker Carlson does.
 :ohyeah Repeatedly telling your audience that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are personally threatening the literal existence of the entire planet.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on October 30, 2021, 07:01:24 PM
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1454222840358658056

 :what
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 30, 2021, 08:33:22 PM
Quote
if the Supreme Court were to invalidate either the EPA’s authority or the vaccine mandate under this doctrine, it might unravel nearly every major law Congress has passed since World War II. Nearly every one of these laws involves delegating authority to U.S. agencies.

 :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on October 31, 2021, 06:41:49 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1454929060195340291 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1454929060195340291)

:pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on October 31, 2021, 07:18:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1454846733733830663

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2021, 09:13:55 AM
Coomers annihilated. :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 01, 2021, 09:55:09 AM
while the war on terror was a failure, the war on degeneracy was won :snob
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 01, 2021, 02:44:32 PM
Sleepy Joe  :shh

https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 01, 2021, 02:56:42 PM
you'd think they send out a clone to listen to boring ass speeches by nerds even if he was a young and spry man, I certainly would if I was a world leader :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 01, 2021, 03:08:44 PM
So the Lincoln Project has tried for weeks to get Trump to comment on Youngkin and today he did.
But he did not do what they expected (tell his supporters not to vote or that the whole thing is rigged) instead he tells them to flood the polls and go vote.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDIUk8aX0AIvrx8?format=jpg)

Same message here, the way to secure elections is to flood the polls.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDG57EFXIAIjVMc?format=jpg)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: samir on November 01, 2021, 05:42:06 PM
Sleepy Joe  :shh

https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496)

There were also reports of a distinct odor coming from Mr Biden.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 01, 2021, 06:56:04 PM
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1455245837722963972 (https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1455245837722963972)

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1454201915668008963 (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1454201915668008963)

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1455282754803863560 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1455282754803863560)

the libs are owning themselves :dizzy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 01, 2021, 07:17:12 PM
Sleepy Joe  :shh

https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496 (https://twitter.com/zachjourno/status/1455174496164458496)

There were also reports of a distinct odor coming from Mr Biden.

sulphur? :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 01, 2021, 07:35:14 PM
does the secret service change his diaper  ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 01, 2021, 08:08:09 PM
I think all Presidents at least shit themselves once to see what happens when they do and to practice the number 2 protocol.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 01, 2021, 08:50:34 PM
the protocolon  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 01, 2021, 09:10:26 PM
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1455235144718196746
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 01, 2021, 09:31:24 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1455200172372369420
 :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on November 01, 2021, 10:43:40 PM
Guide to a Free Press in 2021:
 :nope Anything Tucker Carlson does.
 :ohyeah Repeatedly telling your audience that Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are personally threatening the literal existence of the entire planet.

:nope
Agreeing with Benjipwns
:ohyeahTaking several minutes to look up proper markdown for tables to better present the meme.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 01, 2021, 11:14:40 PM
:ohyeahAgreeing with Benjipwns
:ohyeahTaking several minutes to look up proper markdown for tables to better present the meme.
:ohyeahFixed
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 02, 2021, 02:02:51 AM
Fresh off Democratic media wanting the head of the Southwest Airlines pilot terrorist, we have more Let's Go Brandon stuff triggering people into wanting arrests:
https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1455336734422675460
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1455245963673677835
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1455277689280008196
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 02, 2021, 05:59:05 AM
MTG's total is up to $48,000 so far and could go higher:
Quote from: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/579462-greene-accrues-at-least-48k-in-fines-for-defying-house-mask-mandate
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines.

The House Ethics Committee publicly disclosed on Monday that Greene had been fined at least seven times this year, most recently in late September.

But the committee's public disclosures, which come after lawmakers have had 30 days to file an appeal if they wish, appear to be just a fraction of all of Greene's mask violations to date.

According to a letter from House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker dated Oct. 28, Greene has been documented not wearing a mask in the House chamber at least 20 times since May. Greene was fined $500 in May for her first offense, with $2,500 penalties imposed for subsequent offenses.

"You have been observed not wearing a mask on July 29, August 2, September 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, and October 1, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, and 27, and have been asked by a member of my staff to wear a mask while in the Hall of the House of Representatives on each occasion unless recognized to speak by the chair," Walker wrote in the letter, which Greene's office shared with The Hill.
She gets $174,000 as a member of the House.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 02, 2021, 11:25:05 AM
I can’t believe people called Trump anti-semitic.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1455209380480233477
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 02, 2021, 11:32:37 AM
filler Trump rellif
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on November 02, 2021, 12:51:02 PM
isn't yelling fire in a crowded theater actually protected speech like anything else, but when you get in trouble of it you're charged with something not explicitly related to the first amendment

similar to how your freedom to say "fuck you officer" can result in disturbing the peace or obstruction of justice or any number of things unrelated to the literal words you said

 ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 02, 2021, 01:10:08 PM
isn't yelling fire in a crowded theater actually protected speech like anything else, but when you get in trouble of it you're charged with something not explicitly related to the first amendment

similar to how your freedom to say "fuck you officer" can result in disturbing the peace or obstruction of justice or any number of things unrelated to the literal words you said

 ???

FACT CHECK:

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time-to-stop-using-the-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-quote/264449/

Quote
Ninety-three years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what is perhaps the most well-known -- yet misquoted and misused -- phrase in Supreme Court history: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."

Without fail, whenever a free speech controversy hits, someone will cite this phrase as proof of limits on the First Amendment. And whatever that controversy may be, "the law"--as some have curiously called it--can be interpreted to suggest that we should err on the side of censorship. Holmes' quote has become a crutch for every censor in America, yet the quote is wildly misunderstood.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 02, 2021, 05:55:35 PM
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455652761077522432 (https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455652761077522432)

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476 (https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476)

https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/1455647802105769987 (https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/1455647802105769987)

welp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 02, 2021, 06:14:31 PM
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476 (https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1455646681018601476)

welp

Interview with one of the people who responded a lot

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1455243036795998212
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 02, 2021, 06:27:26 PM
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1455624199809245190 (https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1455624199809245190)

 :wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 02, 2021, 07:19:58 PM
I can’t believe people called Trump anti-semitic.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1455209380480233477
:hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BrokenVerses on November 02, 2021, 07:50:10 PM
Not just taking the easy W and passing the infrastructure bill is certainly looking like a misstep by the Democrats.

Instead they went for a 3.5 trillion dollar liberal wishlist that was almost certainly dead on arrival anyways and produce nothing but infighting for months. Way to go, guys.

It would have at least been something for an administration that seems like it is barely treading water.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 02, 2021, 08:03:26 PM
And now they're about to lose Virginia because Youngkin is outperforming Trump by a lot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 02, 2021, 08:38:28 PM
I love how the failing new york times says losing by over 10% is slightly underperforming.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 02, 2021, 09:03:04 PM
If it wasn't for the pandemic this is what 2020 would've been like.

The Democrats learned nothing from Trump 2016 but they also didn't learn from any of their own victories that followed (because they solely pinned that on 'Trump' too)
And Trump will happily take the flak as the GOP prepares to sweep the board next year.

https://twitter.com/gabriellaborter/status/1455701782689091587 (https://twitter.com/gabriellaborter/status/1455701782689091587)

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1455693642866298887 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1455693642866298887)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 03, 2021, 12:44:56 AM
My theory that millions of Republicans died from covid seems to have been incorrect.

Need to update my model

That, or china needs to send us a stronger strain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 03, 2021, 01:10:41 AM
https://twitter.com/krystalball/status/1455715568653271042
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 03, 2021, 04:17:20 AM
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1455722698689196033 (https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1455722698689196033)

https://twitter.com/juliezweil/status/1455709437692284932 (https://twitter.com/juliezweil/status/1455709437692284932)

The silent majority. :rejoice

New Jersey is close too
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 03, 2021, 10:17:54 AM
This guy knows how to run

https://twitter.com/Jacob_Kaye_/status/1455708986423103492
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on November 03, 2021, 10:45:56 AM
I can't do 4 years of listening to Ciattarelli's obnoxious curmudgeon tone.  Such a sourpuss cunt.   
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 03, 2021, 11:05:36 AM
I can't do 4 years of listening to Ciattarelli's obnoxious curmudgeon tone.  Such a sourpuss cunt.

PHIL MURPHY LIED ABOUT ME
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 03, 2021, 02:45:16 PM
https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769 (https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769)

What a king

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDSPnMbWQAgWUB9?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDShsRDXsAEfgem?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 03, 2021, 03:10:34 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDO-MaWXEAUr-ZZ?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDO-9DWXsAALndv?format=jpg)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 03, 2021, 03:50:32 PM
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 03, 2021, 04:02:43 PM
Imagine the result if the GOP actually had charasmatic and popular candidates and not some guy named Glenn.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on November 03, 2021, 04:14:22 PM
Imagine the result if the GOP actually had charasmatic and popular candidates and not some guy named Glenn.

What about some guy named Jack?  :smug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: jorma on November 03, 2021, 05:19:08 PM
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney

Virgina though, youngkin is probably the more accurate name :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Bebpo on November 03, 2021, 06:52:41 PM
https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769 (https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769)

What a king

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDSPnMbWQAgWUB9?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDShsRDXsAEfgem?format=jpg)

This basically feels like the future of everywhere in America.

non-college white people running for GOP winning because the country is polarized and enough people just hate the left/democrats/progressives to vote them all out.

At this point I think I've given up all hope of things getting better for the left and fully expect a bankrupt country falling apart led by dictators for the rest of my life. Pretty much just have to save up money and hunker down and survive the fallout for another 40 years or so until I'm dead.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Maiden Voyage on November 03, 2021, 07:36:51 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDO-MaWXEAUr-ZZ?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDO-9DWXsAALndv?format=jpg)

 :dead

This is why you never give Democrats money.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 03, 2021, 08:16:32 PM
https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769 (https://twitter.com/Mike_Palicz/status/1455946478808096769)

What a king

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDSPnMbWQAgWUB9?format=jpg)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDShsRDXsAEfgem?format=jpg)

This basically feels like the future of everywhere in America.

non-college white people running for GOP winning because the country is polarized and enough people just hate the left/democrats/progressives to vote them all out.

At this point I think I've given up all hope of things getting better for the left and fully expect a bankrupt country falling apart led by dictators for the rest of my life. Pretty much just have to save up money and hunker down and survive the fallout for another 40 years or so until I'm dead.
Democrats just need to abandon the culture wars and leave that to the NGO's and activisits.
Telling people you're going to replace their children's teachers and removing historic landmarks is just not a very good idea.
That turns people who would otherwise vote blue or don't vote at all against you.

They also seem willing to die on hills nobody gives a fuck about.
People that voted for Biden could easily vote for another Democrat with the right message.
Freshen up the leadership of the party for starters, Pelosi and Schumer are dinosaurs not exactly the type of people you need to get the vote out.

The Republicans are willing to take all or nothing bets, sometimes that works out for them and sometimes it doesn't.
Make AOC speaker or drop the progressives entirely, do something wild for a change. Complaining about Russia or white people on CNN isn't getting them anywhere.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 04, 2021, 01:08:35 PM
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys young kin :rodney
:banplz
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 04, 2021, 03:38:03 PM
Durham delivered :titus

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579)

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1456306512800911360 (https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1456306512800911360)

Fiona Hill, the impeachment witness was a Clinton/Russian spy in the Trump camp.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 04, 2021, 03:51:01 PM
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney

Is he the guy who used to post on here
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 04, 2021, 03:56:16 PM
lmao

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1456211801226502148 (https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1456211801226502148)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 04, 2021, 05:49:55 PM
power move by his sleepiness :playa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 04, 2021, 07:02:20 PM
Glen youngkin looks like he enjoys youngkids :rodney

Is he the guy who used to post on here
;) but his posts still burn
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 04, 2021, 07:13:09 PM
power move by his sleepiness :playa
The old man still gets it, dunking on journo's is worth at least a million votes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 11:50:31 AM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1456258596392472579)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDY2VLSXEAAYpyB?format=jpg&name=small)

 whoops :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 11:53:27 AM
https://twitter.com/WinWithWinsome/status/1456005295377879049
https://twitter.com/WinWithWinsome/status/1456619430369284096
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 05, 2021, 03:27:18 PM
Imagine the commentary when Trump actually picks Candace as his running mate.  :lol

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1456223000160833538 (https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1456223000160833538)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 03:38:40 PM
Imagine the commentary when Trump actually picks Candace as his running mate.  :lol
Picks her? He'll have to grovel to her with her unstoppable platform of stopping car warranty calls and arresting Bill Gates:
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1455987071038918661
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1456412367844151299
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 07:09:22 PM
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/1456369450559709186
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1456050628573204481

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 05, 2021, 07:15:16 PM
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1456742930022944770 (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1456742930022944770)

 :wut

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDTQra1X0AIUkBx?format=jpg)

They're trying to rush through something the majority of the voters don't like.
It's like the Democrats had no plan beyond 'orange man bad' and didn't expect to win like Trump in 2016.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 08:18:04 PM
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1456357029598175237
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 05, 2021, 08:33:29 PM
Quote from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-john-eastman-editing/2021/10/28/f2d61bea-35fd-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html
In the early afternoon of Jan. 7, only hours after addressing the “Stop the Steal” rally outside the White House that fed into the assault on the Capitol, John C. Eastman began working on the first draft of history: He rewrote his own Wikipedia page.

...

Eastman was able to move quickly because he already had a Wikipedia account and was familiar with its ways; over the years he had edited his own article, a violation of the rules that was noticed but incompletely acted upon. This time, however, Eastman’s editing drew immediate attention. In barely two hours, all of his changes were made to disappear — “reverted,” in the parlance of Wikipedia — and he was asked to make his case on the Talk page assigned to the article, where editors can debate proposals for improving an entry.

...

On Jan. 9, Eastman indeed returned to Wikipedia with his list of proposed fixes and the sources for those claims. Experienced editors evaluated his suggestions. They approved some uncontroversial requests — a better photo of him was uploaded, too — but when he suggested rewriting the description of his meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the lead-up to the certification vote in Congress, an editor using the name SundayClose rendered a verdict, “Not Done,” trusting an account in the New York Times over Eastman’s own testimony. “Seriously?,” Eastman replied. “The youtube source I cited was the actual speech in which I specifically stated what was being asked of the Vice President. How is the actual statement not a more reliable source than an anonymous source cited by the NY Times?” SundayClose answered, exasperated: “Yes seriously. This is Wikipedia, not your personal soapbox,” adding, for good measure, “Just because you say it in a speech doesn’t make it true.”

In a telephone interview, Eastman recalled the experience as a deep disappointment, which he saw as reflecting a systemic problem with Wikipedia. Instead of allowing him to correct a biased account, he said, “I had to ask permission from some unknown twentysomething.”
:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 05, 2021, 11:39:45 PM
 :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge

Infrastructure bills has passed

THANK YOU BRANDON
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: jorma on November 06, 2021, 02:17:19 AM
Now onto the more pressing issue - legalizing weed!

LET'S GO BRANDON, WE CAN DO IT!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 06, 2021, 07:14:51 AM
Thanks to 13 Republicans because the proggers were against.

Is infrastructure week finally over?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 06, 2021, 07:20:45 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1457097969149353984 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1457097969149353984)

Thankfully VEEP is still going strong.

"We MuSt SaVe ThE ClImAte"

Yell the people counting trees from space on 9 OLED panels. :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 06, 2021, 07:27:52 PM
 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 07, 2021, 11:43:46 AM
Infrastructure bills has passed

THANK YOU BRANDON
Thanks to 13 Republicans because the proggers were against.

Is infrastructure week finally over?
I notice that neither of you thanked the real heroes:
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1456832223169204225
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2021, 05:46:00 PM
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1457414545266327553 (https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1457414545266327553)

 :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 07, 2021, 07:42:31 PM
Another highlight from the conference:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1455120663639953408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8KR4SkE4ZQ
Quote
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told "Axios on HBO" he'll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims "the left" is telling men: "You're part of the problem. ... Your masculinity is inherently problematic."

As an ambitious Republican frequently mentioned as a possible future candidate for president or vice president, Hawley, 41, is using American masculinity to appeal to suburban parents, and to working men won over by Donald Trump.

"As conservatives, we've got to call men back to responsibility," Hawley said. "We've got to say that spending your time not working ... spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online ... is not good for you, your family or this country."
Quote
Asked during the "Axios on HBO" interview to paint a picture of his ideal man, Hawley said:

"Well, a man is a father. A man is a husband. A man is somebody who takes responsibility."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 07, 2021, 08:00:59 PM
He's a total loser with a very punchable face.
No wonder he hates video games.

Good thing he will never be President.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on November 07, 2021, 09:05:09 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1457493879003963398
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on November 08, 2021, 04:58:21 AM
My favourite part is when "wir sind die jäger" lines up with a bunch of black people in a river. (It means "we are the hunters")

That's a good look.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 08, 2021, 12:31:19 PM
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1457748250077847557 (https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1457748250077847557)

Why would you vote for the Democrats if the GOP exists  :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on November 08, 2021, 05:52:21 PM
Because the last unprepared, populist idiot didn’t do enough damage?

Cool. Coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-c-c-c-coool.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 01:54:25 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1457493879003963398
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1458105886182887424
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 01:57:05 PM
Quote from: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-s-supporters-have-bizarre-secret-password-meant-own-libs-n1283462
But none of those ignite the id of the conservative movement, which is, of course, owning the libs. None of those arguments make liberals cry, which gives the GOP its joie de vivre. “Let’s go Brandon” undoubtedly annoys liberals. One tweet by Tristan Snell said the chant is the MAGA equivalent of “Sieg Heil.” To this I say: Calm the hell down; that’s an insult to Nazis. And furthermore, Biden doesn’t have the gall to steamroll these would-be Nazis like Joseph Stalin’s army did in Berlin.
First sentence is true. Last sentence is :what
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2021, 02:05:10 PM
Now that's a take  :whew


Gossars Tweet now has this disclaimer
Quote
This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about hateful conduct. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible. Learn more

LMAO
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 02:15:16 PM
MTG's had that put on probably hundreds of her tweets at this point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2021, 02:21:08 PM
Unlike the op-ed section of MSDNC the GOP doesn't seem to mind that they can't attack Biden directly.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1458145053243809802 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1458145053243809802)

https://twitter.com/hinsonashley/status/1457705467782762496 (https://twitter.com/hinsonashley/status/1457705467782762496)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 03:34:26 PM
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1457776512057311240

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 09, 2021, 05:50:23 PM
Time to start a cultural genocide
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 09, 2021, 06:01:59 PM
Did you hear the walls are closing in on old Donny Trump again and..

https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1458205365993095171 (https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1458205365993095171)

oh

https://twitter.com/JakeBGibson/status/1458148063806214150 (https://twitter.com/JakeBGibson/status/1458148063806214150)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 07:07:31 PM
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1457377128249536514

apparently I have participated in fraud
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 09, 2021, 11:35:12 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDzEdyxXMAAIjE9?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on November 10, 2021, 06:12:52 AM
Ironic that two of the least masculine men I've ever seen are presenting that segment
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 10, 2021, 08:12:02 AM
They want to embrace the most masculine cock they can find between their sweet sweaty cheeks
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 10, 2021, 11:42:45 AM
Ironic that two of the least masculine men I've ever seen are presenting that segment
The GOP is playing 4D chess in their pursuit to appoint Joe Rogan President of Texas.


https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1458464805711400970 (https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1458464805711400970)

https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1458431383341309954 (https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1458431383341309954)

They are right that this is transitionary. Transitionary to the next Republican President that is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: who is ted danson? on November 10, 2021, 05:18:41 PM
Inflation is 6%, but if you exclude the essentials such as food, energy, and housing, its actually like 1%  so its ok
 :science
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 10, 2021, 09:36:38 PM
The only things I consume on that list are eggs, chicken, coffee, and rent. Get fucked consumer whores
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2021, 12:21:05 PM
https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries/status/1277637300244156416
https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries/status/1458547713381896193
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 11, 2021, 12:23:35 PM
you're right, benj! they should just kill him!!  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 11, 2021, 12:23:56 PM
He's not supporting mass incarceration, he's supporting put one guy in prison. Benji arguing in bad faith, as usual.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Transhuman on November 11, 2021, 01:05:09 PM
Can't we just get along
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 11, 2021, 01:18:05 PM
https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1458853898559623175 (https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1458853898559623175)

This judge is just doing everything he can to trigger the libs :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2021, 02:40:35 PM
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1458756226964205571
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD7EMmZXMAcgZqg?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2021, 06:44:03 PM
From the Cuomo investigation transcript:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD3bTv_XsAQm4Xv?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 11, 2021, 06:45:25 PM
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1458910082872320000 (https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1458910082872320000)

:trumps

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1458845922515951625 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1458845922515951625)

:pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 11, 2021, 10:38:38 PM
https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1458968084421750788

Ban Ohio.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 12, 2021, 02:02:38 AM
https://twitter.com/ResistLine3/status/1458982454161719301

 :karen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 12, 2021, 03:36:42 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD3VomJWEAghSog?format=png&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2021, 03:50:32 AM
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1458166251604385801 (https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1458166251604385801)

Trump/Lindell 2024

Make America Great Again, Again Now 20% Off
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 12, 2021, 10:23:10 AM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/trump-hang-mike-pence-january-6-audio-4f147245-becf-4766-ac60-7acece6862be.html
Karl: "They were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"

Trump: "Because it's common sense, Jon. It's common sense that you're supposed to protect. How can you — if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? — how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that? And I'm telling you: 50/50, it's right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them. Anybody I spoke to — almost all of them at least pretty much agree, and some very much agree with me — because he's passing on a vote that he knows is fraudulent. How can you pass a vote that you know is fraudulent? Now, when I spoke to him, I really talked about all of the fraudulent things that happened during the election. I didn't talk about the main point, which is the legislatures did not approve — five states. The legislatures did not approve all of those changes that made the difference between a very easy win for me in the states, or a loss that was very close, because the losses were all very close."
He apparently seems to have only talked to two constitutional scholars about this, John Eastman and someone who told him no.
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Post by: Kurt Russell on November 12, 2021, 12:40:03 PM
(https://abload.de/img/254294802_33585090834tlj8a.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2021, 12:51:35 PM
Quote
"They were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"

Quote
"Because it's common sense, Jon."

:trumps

Anyway this is why we need a GOP primary or rather battle royale.
Cruz, Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Haley, Lindell and a dozen other great people... that's some TruthTV+ content right there.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 12, 2021, 02:21:19 PM
He thought they wanted to hang out with Pence, an easy mistake to make since Pence is such a chill guy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 12, 2021, 06:50:30 PM
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1459266895731998723 (https://twitter.com/AP/status/1459266895731998723)

sloppy steve
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2021, 03:46:25 PM
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1459247618438086661
https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1459212662915670017
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEBFzYxXoAY_pKE?format=jpg&name=small)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEBYH0uXIAQFHPt?format=jpg&name=small)
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2021, 08:13:16 PM
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1459542743970201607

 :derp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 14, 2021, 02:36:20 PM
Quote
The Post-ABC poll finds that, if elections were held today, 46 percent of adults overall would back the Republican candidate for Congress and 43 percent would support the Democratic candidate. Among registered voters, the GOP advantage goes to 51 percent vs. 41 percent for Democrats, a historically strong result for Republicans on this measure.

Quote
Republicans hold their largest lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 40 years.

 :whew

Just keep doing what y'all are doing

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1459968493865127947 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1459968493865127947)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on November 14, 2021, 07:01:09 PM
Ben and Jerry's new flavor is straw man.

(https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/s600x600/255863897_5216892811660838_8515671259589657774_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=v-AokgyQjvAAX-2GS2I&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=413b46bee995080d0024332a39a11ac3&oe=619620DD)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on November 14, 2021, 10:21:25 PM
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1459602460931248129
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on November 14, 2021, 10:35:56 PM
Ben and Jerry's new flavor is straw man.

(https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/s600x600/255863897_5216892811660838_8515671259589657774_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=v-AokgyQjvAAX-2GS2I&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=413b46bee995080d0024332a39a11ac3&oe=619620DD)
This is what happens when you let millennials run social media channels. Hot takes and low intelligence analysis of issues that have nothing to do with fucking ice cream.

Social media metrics might tell you how many "likes" and "Yas Queens" a tweet got, but they don't measure the deep damage that's done to a brand name from advocating for the dismantling of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 15, 2021, 11:16:50 AM
Ben and Jerry's new flavor is straw man.

(https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/s600x600/255863897_5216892811660838_8515671259589657774_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=v-AokgyQjvAAX-2GS2I&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=413b46bee995080d0024332a39a11ac3&oe=619620DD)
This is what happens when you let millennials run social media channels. Hot takes and low intelligence analysis of issues that have nothing to do with fucking ice cream.

Social media metrics might tell you how many "likes" and "Yas Queens" a tweet got, but they don't measure the deep damage that's done to a brand name from advocating for the dismantling of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.


Pretty sure those are ben and jerrry's hot takes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 15, 2021, 12:03:40 PM
Ben and Jeryys Salty Nutz
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2021, 01:11:32 PM
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493)

Signal not noise! Remember Patriots
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on November 15, 2021, 01:22:49 PM
Bannon auditioning for Homeland : New Patriot on showtime.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 15, 2021, 03:23:55 PM
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1460269024143679493)

Signal not noise! Remember Patriots
:lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2021, 04:37:49 PM
https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1460351373728436225 (https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1460351373728436225)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 15, 2021, 05:05:02 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/us-airstrikes-civilian-deaths.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 15, 2021, 07:25:59 PM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1460398412919193612 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1460398412919193612)

Quote
“Liz Cheney stopped recognizing what Wyomingites care about a long time ago. When she launched her war against President Trump, she completely broke with where we are as a state,” Hageman added to the newspaper.
:trumps

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1460401227544547329 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1460401227544547329)

"The signal, not the noise." says the man who makes a lot of noise.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 16, 2021, 06:50:21 PM
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/11/16/vps-office-circles-the-wagons-around-harris-495123 (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/11/16/vps-office-circles-the-wagons-around-harris-495123)
Quote
enjoy some of the pomp and circumstance that comes with traveling abroad. But her absence from Washington at a time when the administration was pushing through its biggest policy achievement to date became part of that story
Quote
the only solution for the White House is to defend her and give her something positive to work on — not a collection of complex issues that are intractable or fraught politically.
Quote
‘We nip this in the bud. We’re done,’” the strategist said. “And I have a feeling that probably once every three or four months there’s going to be a story like this.”

literally VEEP still
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 17, 2021, 04:50:15 PM
https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1460617059310739461
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 17, 2021, 04:58:49 PM
https://twitter.com/stengel/status/1461033521812840453

Quote
Political analyst @MSNBC. Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor @TIME & CEO of Nat'l Constitution Ctr.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 17, 2021, 05:37:48 PM
https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1461063478588936200
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 17, 2021, 05:51:41 PM
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1461083904316784652 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1461083904316784652)

It's official the Democrats have declared war on anime memes
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1461084747854143492 (https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1461084747854143492)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 17, 2021, 10:17:44 PM
The College Republicans were imploding over accusations not too long ago (last year sometime? earlier this year?) and now it's the Democrats turn: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/college-democrats-of-america-dnc-522864
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The group’s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of anti-Blackness, Islamaphobia and anti-Semitism at each other. Impeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization’s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism.

The conflict has gotten so messy that the Democratic National Committee is considering disaffiliating with the national collegiate organization altogether and creating a partnership with the state groups underneath the national umbrella, according to a Democrat familiar with the discussions.
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The controversy began in September when Tasneem Ahmad Al-Michael, a Muslim and former vice president of the CDA abruptly ended his presidential campaign after a 2014 tweet in which he used a racial slur resurfaced, CDA members involved in the election said. He said the subsequent attacks on him and his campaign team prompted him to pull out of the race. “What I said as a 15 year old prior to being in politics was ignorant, inappropriate, and flat out wrong,” Al-Michael said in a text message to POLITICO. “It doesn’t define me, my character, or invalidate the work that I continue to do.”

New president and vice presidential candidates subsequently emerged, including Mesbah, who was serving as the CDA’s director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA).

The day before the election, the CDA’s Jewish Caucus began sharing a screenshot of a 2016 tweet Mesbah wrote while watching a debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

A 13-year-old at the time, Mesbah wrote, "I blame this debate on the yahood," an Arabic word which is sometimes used as a slur against Jewish people. She also tagged another user with a history of anti-Semitic tweets.
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On Nov. 12, Mesbah’s successor as IDEA director, Jeremy Ward, released a report calling for Mesbah to resign as vice president “due to the harm caused to two different communities.”

Ward had initially announced the independent investigation into Mesbah’s conduct in September. Circulated internally on Nov. 10, it concluded that Mesbah’s past tweet was anti-Semitic and that her claims of Islamaphobia were unfounded.

It also included a new accusation that Mesbah exhibited “a pattern of discrimination against members of the black community, specifically black women.” Ward wrote that the report did not disclose any specific instances of “anti-blackness” behavior so as to ensure that those who had complained would not face retribution or harassment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 17, 2021, 10:59:42 PM
https://twitter.com/PunishedPhelan/status/1461098594673508362
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on November 18, 2021, 12:32:03 AM
Super happy that pouting vegan manbaby and failed actor QAnon Shaman is also a failed political actor: sentenced to 41 months for trying to pass sedition off as bad cosplay.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jacob-chansley-qanon-shaman-sentenced-january-6-attack-capitol/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 18, 2021, 01:57:07 AM
they're not being hanged for treason?  :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on November 18, 2021, 04:30:27 AM
they're not being hanged for treason?  :pacspit

Quote
Jacob Chansley, 34, from Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty in September to one felony count of obstruction for his role in trying to block the counting of the 2020 Electoral College votes. He faced a maximum of 20 years in prison on the charge, but federal prosecutors sought a sentence of 51 months, the longest requested sentence in a January 6 investigation to date.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
:drudge

Oh fuck get into your bunkers everyone.

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1461721710001012736 (https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1461721710001012736)

This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill.
I've never seen anyone describe a colonoscopy as a 'routine' procedure either.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 19, 2021, 11:49:26 AM
translation: biden is out of action while he gets fricked up the anus :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2021, 12:50:00 PM
translation: biden is out of action while he gets fricked up the anus :shaq
They are replacing the batteries of the control probe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 19, 2021, 12:58:29 PM
Sleepy joe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on November 19, 2021, 01:32:25 PM
Rittenhouse not guilty.

Bored from BTFO.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2021, 02:10:20 PM
Congress is uncovering a bunch of secret commies again:
https://twitter.com/Ravarora1/status/1461725292263739396
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1461369421889519618
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2021, 02:13:23 PM
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1461764867984035840 (https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1461764867984035840)

Drain the swamp, file lawsuits against CNN :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on November 19, 2021, 04:52:37 PM
(https://abload.de/img/fb_img_1637355806106lnj0b.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 19, 2021, 06:16:25 PM
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEl1vg7XsAgjqva?format=png)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on November 19, 2021, 06:23:53 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 19, 2021, 07:21:00 PM
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1461792704728383494

Yes. Let's do this. If we're going to get nuts, come on, let's get nuts.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/David_J_Koch/status/1461793276491706371
https://twitter.com/David_J_Koch/status/1461809363287425025
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 20, 2021, 06:56:16 PM
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Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together .

The huge book, printed in America, is a coffee table style collection of photographs that the former president selected himself. He even wrote the captions, offering praise and scorn where he felt it was needed.
Trump's going to release a picture book with commentary, you can't make this shit up

(https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6542f44/2147483647/strip/true/crop/900x801+0+0/resize/900x801!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F53%2F8e%2F1d5f93e94286a8daaf9ec01e71b0%2Fdt-cover.png)

(https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b110698/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1496x1370+0+0/resize/1496x1370!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F36%2F22%2F6e91245f4d9a9c81fb606507d2e3%2Fdt-pelosi.jpeg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 22, 2021, 03:49:55 AM
https://twitter.com/HarrisonKrank/status/1462543045824495619 (https://twitter.com/HarrisonKrank/status/1462543045824495619)
 :pika

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The former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on November 22, 2021, 11:02:39 AM
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The former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.

Need some Nintex fanfic on this ASAP
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 22, 2021, 12:05:55 PM
Nothing yet from Joemala but there is a message from the PresidentTM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEz3QmOX0AU8N6k?format=jpg)

Quote
The former president vowed that he would look to wear the taekwondo clothing in Congress should he make a return to the White House in the future.

Need some Nintex fanfic on this ASAP

"I used to sell many condo's to the Thai. They are great people, great fighters and tremendous spirit. That's what this country needs, the spirit of Tai Condo. They are totally honored that I'm wearing their traditional clothes which were made in Japan by the way. The black belt that's the biggest... that's like the most amazing... they only hand these out to the greatest fighters like Trump. You couldn't get one Chris."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 22, 2021, 12:09:56 PM
Imagine if Taekwondo Trump was in Street Fighter 6 or Tekken 8 :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 22, 2021, 12:42:49 PM
https://twitter.com/TaekwondoTrump following 111 accounts  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 22, 2021, 05:39:41 PM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1462908313918713857 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1462908313918713857)

:wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 22, 2021, 09:11:59 PM
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/1462800131137601536

DC twitter is so weird, dude's mad because a rumor he believed doesn't turn out to be true and he blames who the rumor was about?

I'm all for the SC killing SR8 as savagely as possible but I don't mind them taking the time to do it properly, they're already expediating the case a huge amount and there's potentially a dangerous precedent to set with this law in having to climb to five votes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on November 22, 2021, 09:47:16 PM
DC twitter is so weird, dude's mad because a rumor he believed doesn't turn out to be true and he blames who the rumor was about?

(https://i.imgur.com/hWMH3bf.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on November 24, 2021, 04:07:46 AM
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1461774537075404808)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEl1vg7XsAgjqva?format=png)

:trumps

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r0xc51/no_one_saw_this_coming/

To no one’s surprise…
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2021, 12:55:36 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r0xc51/no_one_saw_this_coming/

To no one’s surprise…
Poor kid from Illinois who just got out of court: nice fitted suit
Former President who claims to be a billionaire: yet another suit that doesn't fit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2021, 01:21:12 PM
Great Moments in The Atlantic (by the same writer!)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE619EpXIAkPhux?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE619ErXoAAeiXb?format=jpg&name=small)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE-OdszX0AAXEys?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on November 24, 2021, 02:42:32 PM
Commies  ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 24, 2021, 03:06:46 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r0xc51/no_one_saw_this_coming/

To no one’s surprise…
Poor kid from Illinois who just got out of court: nice fitted suit
Former President who claims to be a billionaire: yet another suit that doesn't fit
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1463342729547554816 (https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1463342729547554816)

Trump also took the time to reenact the response of Abdul the leader of the Taliban as the US left Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1463341317430431748 (https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1463341317430431748)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2021, 04:49:54 PM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/biden-restart-trump-remain-mexico-49d43ad0-41d3-4e09-8fe5-a90dd62b78ea.html
President Biden will start turning asylum seekers back to Mexico as soon as next week under a reinstated Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program — but will offer them the option to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Axios has learned.

Under court orders, the president will officially undo a key immigration promise, which will force asylum-seekers to wait months in Mexico ahead of their immigration court hearings in the U.S. — as long as Mexico accepts them.
:camby
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on November 24, 2021, 05:48:35 PM
 :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 24, 2021, 07:40:43 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/they-need-to-take-responsibility-federal-judge-orders-hefty-fees-assessed-against-two-lawyers-who-filed-suit-challenging-2020-election/2021/11/22/b7ff5392-4be7-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html
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A federal judge has ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last year challenging the 2020 election results to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system.

“As officers of the Court, these attorneys have a higher duty and calling that requires meaningful investigation before prematurely repeating in court pleadings unverified and uninvestigated defamatory rumors that strike at the heart of our democratic system and were used by others to foment a violent insurrection that threatened our system of government,” Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter wrote.

“They are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct,” he wrote.
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The two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, filed the case in December 2020 as a class action on behalf of 160 million American voters, alleging there was a complicated plot to steal the election from President Donald Trump and give the victory to Joe Biden.

The two argued that a scheme was engineered by the voting machine vendor Dominion Voting Systems; the tech company Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.

Their case was dismissed in April. In August, Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by filing it in the first place, arguing that the duo had run afoul of legal rules that prohibit clogging the courts with frivolous motions and lodging information in court that is not true. At the time, he called their suit “the stuff of which violent insurrections are made,” alleging they made little effort to determine the truth of their conspiratorial claims before filing them in court. He ordered them to pay the legal fees of all of the many entities they had sued.

In a statement, Fielder called the order “unfathomable” and noted that the court’s sanctions and its dismissal of his original case are under appeal.

“We are not going to stop fighting for the rights of the people to vote in free and fair Presidential elections. This is the cross to die on,” he wrote.
Quote
What’s more, Neureiter wrote, the hefty fees were appropriate given “the severity of the violation” and because the lawyers had solicited donations from the “arguably innocent and gullible public” to fund their suit. He said he weighed whether the penalties could chill future legitimate lawsuits but concluded that “the repetition of defamatory and potentially dangerous unverified allegations is the kind of ‘advocacy’ that needs to be chilled.”

edit: from the judge:
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In assessing the amount of the sanction, I also take into account the fact that Plaintiffs' counsel made a public appeal for financial contributions from arguably innocent and gullible members of the public in order to supposedly hire experts to support this case. . . . In reality, as disclosed at the hearing on sanctions, Plaintiffs' counsel hired no experts, either before or after filing the Complaints, and did not speak to any of the alleged experts that were being used in other cases around the country. Given the apparent lack of standing to bring this case—and its likely failure given the existing Supreme Court precedent on the issue of standing—as well as the failure to hire or speak to any expert witnesses to support the underlying factual assertions in the Complaints, this financial appeal to the public for financial contributions was arguably deceptive.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 25, 2021, 02:48:49 PM
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767 (https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767)

With Kamala and Joe tanking they are trying to make Pete happen again.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 25, 2021, 09:35:33 PM
https://twitter.com/KannoYoungs/status/1464034937871515653

No mashed potatoes? IMEACH
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 26, 2021, 02:54:52 AM
He should be impeached for that horrible typeface and the lack of spacing
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on November 26, 2021, 06:54:05 AM
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767 (https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1463914283654389767)

With Kamala and Joe tanking they are trying to make Pete happen again.  :doge

boot edge edge is a CIA snitch :pacspit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 26, 2021, 06:42:53 PM
The most powerful Secretary of Transportation in modern memory. :jeb Suck a dick, Elaine Chao, you'll never be a presidential also-ran.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 26, 2021, 06:51:09 PM
Buttigieg is probably America's rebound after they're done dating their wild ex again, again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 27, 2021, 03:22:37 AM
https://twitter.com/USDOT/status/1464255125170442245
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 27, 2021, 06:22:36 AM
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1464045800057622529 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1464045800057622529)

Is there no limit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on November 27, 2021, 02:15:48 PM
Did Trump just literally call himself a turkey and then celebrate by dancing to a gay anthem?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 28, 2021, 07:29:25 PM
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1465112932547796997 (https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1465112932547796997)

Matthew bows out
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on November 28, 2021, 07:38:28 PM
We had a famous musician (Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett) get into federal politics.

Turns out politics is much harder than ranting on stage about whatever socialist/environmentalist talking point.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 29, 2021, 02:44:16 PM
https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1465262824926715909 (https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1465262824926715909)

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on November 29, 2021, 03:33:50 PM
Trump runs for president
Trump wins republican nomination
Biden nominates Trump to supreme court
Trump takes the offer and his VP, the pillow guy, loses 20-80
Biden expands supreme court by 4 new members, puts in age limit of 65

Checkmate conservs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 29, 2021, 03:47:45 PM
I don't think Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters is the right ticket for 2024.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on November 29, 2021, 06:22:30 PM
Trump runs for president
Trump wins republican nomination
Biden nominates Trump to supreme court
Trump takes the offer and his VP, the pillow guy, loses 20-80
Biden expands supreme court by 4 new members, puts in age limit of 65

Checkmate conservs
Trump "runs" for President
Ted Cruz runs for President, so do about 20 other Republicans including Mike Lindell, Mike Flynn, Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo
MSM wants Trump's take on it, all day every day, considering he isn't running
After Pence bows out and Pompeo dies of OMEGA COVID, Lindell and Cruz are still tied. Cruz proposes a coin flip but Lindell does not trust such black magic

Trump announces "THE CANDIDATE" for TRUTH TV so the public and a panel of judges can decide if Lindell or Cruz gets the GOP nomination.
RINO's protest that this is against the rules but nobody cares what they think.

Meanwhile with the OMEGA COVID strain running rampant the Democrats have decided to mostly campaign in META.
They report on the engagement of voters with KAMAMETA the META avatar of their candidate Kamala Harris and METABUELA the avatar of VP candidate Hillary.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 30, 2021, 06:38:08 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1465772746571493383
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 30, 2021, 06:39:10 PM
https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1465762937273040908

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1465832687151849477
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 30, 2021, 08:06:37 PM
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1465420966201335816
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on November 30, 2021, 09:38:43 PM
https://twitter.com/PascrellforNJ/status/1465771237574156289
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on November 30, 2021, 10:44:02 PM
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1465420966201335816
Reeeeesetera in political form
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 01, 2021, 02:04:52 PM
Quote
"Let me tell you something about AOC. I've watched her walk down the halls of Congress, and I see these old men shiver in fear. They shiver in fear whenever they see her," Trump said, per the book extract quoted by the Daily Mail.

"You want to know why? Because AOC has a base, just like me."

:trumps

          :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 01, 2021, 05:53:36 PM
Quote
"Let me tell you something about AOC. I've watched her walk down the halls of Congress, and I see these old men shiver in fear. They shiver in fear whenever they see her," Trump said, per the book extract quoted by the Daily Mail.

"You want to know why? Because AOC has a base, just like me."

:trumps

          :hesright



There’s also her willingness to speak truth to power… (wait for it) in clear, well considered logical arguments.

So there’s at least that difference.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 01, 2021, 07:48:35 PM
She also plays video games, clowns Ted Cruz from time to time and is a grifter that drives a Tesla :heart

https://twitter.com/JonCover2/status/1463546592762290179 (https://twitter.com/JonCover2/status/1463546592762290179)

I have never seen 'the fuck capitalism - posted from my iPhone' girl deliver a logical argument.
She's more about emotions and indeed activism that scares the shit out of the dinosaurs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2021, 08:29:02 PM
There’s also her willingness to speak truth to power… (wait for it) in clear, well considered logical arguments.
You mean like her explanation for her Present vote on the Iron Dome?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2021, 08:51:19 PM
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1466098858593763345

this one weird trick, judges HATE HIM
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2021, 09:03:47 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1466104573500735495
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1466094216908582914

SLAY QUEEN

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFincweVUAIRZK3?format=jpg&name=small)
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/245234838716706816
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/322846380274098176
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/598608227346096128
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on December 01, 2021, 09:14:54 PM
Omicron + Thomas = we feast
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 01, 2021, 09:17:55 PM
For anyone confused, there's two abortion cases at the Supreme Court.

The Texas case (SR8) isn't really about abortion. Yes, it's about abortion and only exists probably because of abortion, but it's really about whether or not a state can effectively require civil penalties to use a constitutional right through an never intended technically limited loophole.

The Mississippi case (Dobbs) is just straightforward about can you restrict abortion before so many weeks. This has always been the one anti-abortion activists are truly focused on and are hoping will be used to overturn Roe.

The worst case scenario is that the Court first uses Dobbs to overturn Roe/Casey, and then because abortion is no longer a constitutional right they dismiss the SR8 case as not being relevant. (I suppose, technically, a worst case scenario is they uphold SR8 regardless, but I don't think the Court wants to go that far, they were all pretty skeptical at arguments. That's why the "actual" worst case scenario is they do what the Court likes to do and dismiss for any reason they can find which becomes an option if they gut Roe/Casey first.)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 02, 2021, 12:35:31 AM
http://twitter.com/wiseposter/status/1466105526383697925

There’s also her willingness to speak truth to power… (wait for it) in clear, well considered logical arguments.
You mean like her explanation for her Present vote on the Iron Dome?

No one's perfect. There's no also perfect answer for the Israel situation. Other than eschaton fetishists and shared intel across our apparati, I'm unclear on why the USA supports Israel so blindly.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 02, 2021, 12:48:06 AM
Lincoln Project founder now spreading xenophobic nativism and lies (dual citizens can serve in Congress)
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1465878427232346115
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 02, 2021, 04:01:10 AM
https://twitter.com/NellSco/status/1466175410522234881
https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/1466101384311459843
https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1466092305300008960
https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1466199442801889282

 :bernie
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Trent Dole on December 02, 2021, 04:51:24 AM
Bernie wasn't in the main election and it's not his fault she barely visited anywhere during the campaign but sure go off. :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2021, 05:18:57 AM
I'm unclear on why the USA supports Israel so blindly.
$$$ and votes

It's a significant voter base with influencers in places that matter to team blue and an important issue for evangelicals and a customer for American weaponry for team red.
For NATO it's also an important airfield in an area surrounded by feudal lords and dictators.

And finally like modern day Japan it is also one of the permanent Allied victory trophies out of World War 2 to show Democracy works.
If Israel is lost it would not only be a humanitarian disaster but also a significant blow to the morale of NATO.
With Hong Kong, Afghanistan fallen and Kosovo, Taiwan under threat, you can expect a big increase in support for Israel.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: jorma on December 02, 2021, 04:47:36 PM
shameless :lol :lol :lol

https://twitter.com/dccc/status/1466494036630544394

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2021, 05:07:37 PM
I'm unclear on why the USA supports Israel so blindly.
israel is the great satan
:hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2021, 07:34:16 PM
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1466541630194868228 (https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1466541630194868228)

Come on Manchin, she's stealing your spotlight.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 02, 2021, 07:37:35 PM
this bitch watched hamilton, disgusting  :yuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 02, 2021, 07:55:26 PM
shameless :lol :lol :lol

https://twitter.com/dccc/status/1466494036630544394
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFpMblXXoA8J1oL?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2021, 12:03:00 AM
shameless :lol :lol :lol
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1466560742648340481
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2021, 12:09:48 AM
Conservative Twitter is freaking out about this (among a few other Biden clips today) but I actually love this version of Joe Biden (who so far continues to be the best President of my adult life, SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS), he's done this since at least the 80's (since that's as far back as I've investigated him) where he just makes up completely implausible stories while rambling, he did it all the time during his 2008 presidential campaign and it was great:
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1466491905299075072

It's different from Trump's lying because I totally believe that Joe Biden believes in these stories while he's telling them whereas Trump just says shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 03, 2021, 01:47:08 AM
Conservative Twitter is freaking out about this (among a few other Biden clips today) but I actually love this version of Joe Biden (who so far continues to be the best President of my adult life, SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS), he's done this since at least the 80's (since that's as far back as I've investigated him) where he just makes up completely implausible stories while rambling, he did it all the time during his 2008 presidential campaign and it was great:
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1466491905299075072

It's different from Trump's lying because I totally believe that Joe Biden believes in these stories while he's telling them whereas Trump just says shit.
http://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1466531004324225029
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 03, 2021, 03:53:24 AM
shameless :lol :lol :lol
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1466560742648340481

https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1466562729406128128 (https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1466562729406128128)

The mole made it to chief of staff :titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 03, 2021, 04:04:14 AM
It's different from Trump's lying because I totally believe that Joe Biden believes in these stories while he's telling them whereas Trump just says shit.
"I ran up the Hill in Cuba at a place called Normandy, bullets were whizzing everywhere but I was going to kick Mao and his gang in the nutsack. Next to me a young private is shot. His name was Mike I remember it well. A large black fella who was every bit as good a soldier as the japs we fought the week before in Okinawa. I took the rifle he dropped and looked through the scope. I couldn't believe what I saw, Cornpop manning a German machine gun"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 03, 2021, 04:18:46 AM
https://twitter.com/dannychun/status/1466122293612929024
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 03, 2021, 07:42:14 AM
Don't forget VEEP  :D

https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1466445112829952004 (https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1466445112829952004)

If it's Kamala v Trump I wouldn't know who to support  :existential

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1466739179493249025 (https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1466739179493249025)
:rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 03, 2021, 05:02:32 PM
They brought out the Biden clone.

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1466799629547282442
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 03, 2021, 06:16:53 PM
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1466800460627685388 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1466800460627685388)

:info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 03, 2021, 06:33:26 PM
secret service needs to arrest that baby  :cop :crybaby :cop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 04, 2021, 05:28:51 AM
Hillary has probably already eat it :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 04, 2021, 07:13:01 PM
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1467138576697724932

 :science
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 04, 2021, 07:23:00 PM
If it's Kamala v Trump I wouldn't know who to support  :existential
https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1467152388473638914
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 04, 2021, 07:42:26 PM
They should have Kamala call Putin, not Joe.

Vlad would immediately run back to Sochi and retire  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 04, 2021, 07:55:39 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnEkdahl/status/1466827213576323082
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 05, 2021, 04:43:22 PM
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1467307799864655872 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1467307799864655872)

Savage Trump is best Trump :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BrokenVerses on December 05, 2021, 06:01:20 PM
Maybe Milley did say that but I have a feeling it was probably more along the lines of...

That it would have been physically impossible for the remaining <3000 soldiers the US had in Afghanistan at the end of the Trump administration to retrieve 20 years worth of weapons and equipment that had been issued to the Afghan government to fight their war with (or not as it turns out but that's beside the point).

Or that the cost of retrieving this equipment and/or shipping it back to the US would be astronomically more than all that worn-out garbage is worth.

And attempting to forcibly disarm a notoriously unreliable military that you are obviously throwing to the wolves would likely result in them violently turning on you as opposed to merely rolling over for the Taliban in a few weeks.

Personally I'm not going to get shot in the back trying to make some doped-up ANA thugs hand over their weapons just so conservatives don't get their feelings hurt seeing Taliban drive Humvees down the street on Fox News.

Obviously there are plenty of questions and criticism for the four administrations and 20 years worth of military leadership that presided over this but it's not like Trump is doing anything deeper than the usual self-aggrandizement and trying to distance himself from something that looked bad and right-wingers are upset about.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 05, 2021, 07:16:16 PM
 :lol 5 star general is a dumbass  :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 06, 2021, 05:48:39 AM
If it's Kamala v Trump I wouldn't know who to support  :existential
https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1467152388473638914
You'd be surprised just how many politicians are exactly like this. Don't read briefs, don't understand their their portfolios, blame everyone else for their inability to do their job.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on December 06, 2021, 12:18:58 PM
I should be a politician
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 06, 2021, 01:08:21 PM
https://twitter.com/davidmgins/status/1467619770208038925 (https://twitter.com/davidmgins/status/1467619770208038925)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF5JpeLXoAErVZ0?format=jpg)
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 07, 2021, 12:25:36 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF-X6liWQAE7XYl?format=png&name=small)

"Suck it, Nintex." - :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 07, 2021, 01:02:09 AM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/woke-new-jersey-dem-fooled-by-fake-rabbis-parody-twitter-account/
The campaign of Imani Oakley, a 31-year-old progressive activist running for Congress in Newark, thought it was in negotiations to organize a fundraiser with like-minded Linda Goldstein — the “chief rabbi” of Gaza — but instead were chatting up a Big Apple lawyer running a parody Twitter account.

On the bizarre parody account, Rabbi Linda Goldstein warns Hamas fighters to practice social distancing in terror tunnels; posts photos of herself posing with a menorah made of Qassam rockets; and bills herself as the “Jewish issues advisor” to Hamas boss Ismail Haniyeh.

“Excited to announce #Hamas has given me permission to build the first and only #Jewish #Ghetto in #Gaza #Palestine!,” Goldstein announces in a June tweet. “By default, wherever a #Jew lives they’re #Colonizing. Ghettos ensure Jews don’t displace #Palestinians.”

None of Goldstein’s anti-Israel public messages appeared to pose any red flags for Maita Lockhart, Oakley’s campaign manager, who responded enthusiastically when the faux-rabbi reached out in November with an offer to organize a fundraiser in Gaza.

“I would be grateful if you could provide dates/times for this week or next to connect and discuss further,” Lockhart said in a Nov 23 introductory email.

...

The parody account is the creation of a pro-Israel attorney named Michael, who declined to reveal his last name because he fears retribution. Michael told The Post he created the account to mock far-left, anti-people who believe in the development and protection of a Jewish nation Jews.

“I am making fun of the five percent of Jews that hate Israel,” he said. “I created this personality that shows how reductive and absurd these people are.”

Lockhart again followed up with the “rabbi” after the holiday.

“We are so pleased that you would like to host a virtual fundraiser,” she said. “I would be grateful if you could provide dates/times for us to speak further this week or next so that we can solidify next steps.”
https://twitter.com/ImaniOakleyNJ10/status/1466803269259378698
https://twitter.com/ImaniOakleyNJ10/status/1466803271729877005
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 07, 2021, 05:43:40 AM
Quote
“The collapse of Biden has led to a surge for President Trump on all fronts both in the GOP primary and in a potential general election,” said pollster Mark Penn.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1467994019510824964 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1467994019510824964)

Ah they've gone back to the 'Fire Comey' plot
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1468109379652231172 (https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1468109379652231172)

Won't be long before they circle all the way back to having Hillary Clinton as their candi...
https://twitter.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1467934675175936008 (https://twitter.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1467934675175936008)


Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 07, 2021, 09:00:15 AM
https://twitter.com/ImaniOakleyNJ10/status/1466803271729877005

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BikeJesus on December 07, 2021, 11:50:09 AM
https://twitter.com/VICENews/status/1467971474904518662

Jussie Jack-Off.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 07, 2021, 11:57:01 AM
these nigerian prince email scams have gone too far  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 07, 2021, 01:14:41 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZTLRQDhhw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 07, 2021, 04:48:15 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGCDE42XoAUNKS_?format=jpg)

 :whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 08, 2021, 03:21:50 PM
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520
(https://www.thecoli.com/media/mj-lol-tablet.20489/full?d=1591945062)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 08, 2021, 03:26:40 PM
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520
(http://i.imgur.com/msLLMni.gif)

(https://c.tenor.com/rP4nGah2YkEAAAAd/sorry-to-keep-you-waiting-donald-trump.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 08, 2021, 04:04:52 PM
I wouldn't have read that if I were being waterboarded, as the kidz say.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 08, 2021, 07:57:08 PM
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)
(http://i.imgur.com/msLLMni.gif)
Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 09, 2021, 09:24:00 AM
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)
(http://i.imgur.com/msLLMni.gif)
Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?

You gotta sell the there-is-no-shadow-government-and-i-totally-wasn't-running-the-government-while-clownshoes-ran-around story.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2021, 04:08:12 PM
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520 (https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1468626491147755520)
(http://i.imgur.com/msLLMni.gif)
Not going to watch that, but why the fuck would you do that to yourself? Does she have no...actually...did she ever have any dignity?
She gave up her ideals to help Bill.
She gave up her dignity to save Bill from his accusers and lord knows what else with regards to Epstein.
She gave up any respect people had left for her to spread the rumor that Obama was a muslim.
She gave up her soul to look tough and plunge Syria and Libya into chaos causing a migrant crisis that has persisted to this day.

And then when her goal of total world domination and a big red button to level Moscow was finally within her grasp... Batman literally saved us from the brink.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 09, 2021, 04:55:58 PM
you'd assume anyone with the last name clinton would be avoiding publicity while the maxwell trial is ongoing, but i suppose plebs like me and you cannot account for or understand the hubris of the elites :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 09, 2021, 05:16:34 PM
you'd assume anyone with the last name clinton would be avoiding publicity while the maxwell trial is ongoing, but i suppose plebs like me and you cannot account for or understand the hubris of the elites :trumps
The trial is a cover-up they're literally banning accounts that tweet about it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 09, 2021, 05:18:59 PM
i'd still be keeping a low profile as someone who isn't mentally distinguished, but like i say this may be pleb talk 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 09, 2021, 08:32:20 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1469034205015326728
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 09, 2021, 08:36:57 PM
Slides from Trump White House PowerPoint presentation:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLmYaQXwAkKii7?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLmYZ_XIAY1Q5_?format=jpg&name=small)

"Constitutional Remedy" is their phrase for having the House elect the President.

edit: lmao, here's the entire crazy thing if you want to look at it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210716135230if_/https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/voter-fraud.pdf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 09, 2021, 08:53:59 PM
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1468650835810955269

 :awesome
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 09, 2021, 09:15:26 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGHIhG2WQAY1ybV?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on December 09, 2021, 10:24:17 PM
Slides from Trump White House PowerPoint presentation:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLmYaQXwAkKii7?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGLmYZ_XIAY1Q5_?format=jpg&name=small)

"Constitutional Remedy" is their phrase for having the House elect the President.

edit: lmao, here's the entire crazy thing if you want to look at it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210716135230if_/https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/voter-fraud.pdf

Should have done it for the lulz
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 09, 2021, 10:32:43 PM
Some local politics:
https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1469067475899854855
https://twitter.com/mikesacconetv/status/1468695255448961034
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 10, 2021, 01:18:58 AM
needs a different name (that one's already taken :rage), but I'd watch this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGIkybCXwAAjiOW?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 10, 2021, 07:56:00 PM
https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1469366162437849096 (https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1469366162437849096)

I like how Bush and Obama were searching for the Taliban for years and Trump called them up like 'yo wassup'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRYEjfA8OEM

:filler
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 11, 2021, 12:40:46 AM
Oh I see the US leftist media has given up on trying to prop up Biden and is back to discrediting Trump. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 11, 2021, 05:33:26 AM
The "coup" trail now leads to Kanye West and a powerpoint.

Going by the headlines...
Inflation is at 6.8%(highest in 40 years), the Iran talks are in shambles, the border is a mess, homicides are at record numbers along with OD's and suicides and Russia isn't backing down. And that's only current events.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 11, 2021, 11:26:54 AM
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1469383958173569028
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1469384043150155779
https://twitter.com/JurisDudence/status/1469392012956872708

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 11, 2021, 11:40:51 AM
https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1469307941056651269

And that's why I support the Trump Administration started prosecution of a journalist, I'm a progressive who cares about civil liberties!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 11, 2021, 11:47:40 AM
imagine being such a ghoul that you'd want to see someone more than likely tortured by the CIA for the rest of his life for reporting facts just because Trump broke your brain :maduro
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 11, 2021, 05:56:30 PM
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1469785587779575813

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1469788365071556615
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 11, 2021, 07:38:27 PM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-80394aaf-e0a3-4ef5-b7cb-1b73ff22ccea.html
Sources who have spent time with Trump at Mar-a-Lago say it's impossible to carry out an extended conversation with him that isn't interrupted by his fixations on the 2020 election.

He's intensely focused on demands that Republicans "get smart" and pursue efforts to "audit" and overturn that result.

"We try to get him onto other topics, but you always get dragged back," a Trump adviser said.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on December 12, 2021, 04:11:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/6yfSFjH.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/gA0Mh72.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/1LaZDnE.jpg)

 :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on December 12, 2021, 04:25:56 PM
throat goat Nancy R
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 12, 2021, 05:29:02 PM
:salute

https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1470073023072026629 (https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1470073023072026629)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 03:58:34 PM
https://twitter.com/congresstrading/status/1470482804395982855
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 04:03:02 PM
https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1470235528347852802
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 13, 2021, 04:05:11 PM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112)

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1470481602362945544 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1470481602362945544)

We heard you like sequels
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 04:13:33 PM
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1470441206492635138
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: james on December 13, 2021, 05:17:05 PM
https://twitter.com/nathanTbernard/status/1470485071257915402
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 05:46:12 PM
https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1470173465692946440

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 13, 2021, 06:08:40 PM
I dunno Larry, let's ask the council first

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGcjnZOWQAEN1ly?format=jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 08:43:26 PM
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1470522276130947073
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 13, 2021, 11:24:09 PM
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1470552655747588109

 :awesome
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 13, 2021, 11:36:15 PM
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1470552655747588109

 :awesome
The entirety of the GOP hated Trump prior to his election. Then they all lined up to kiss the ring, once Trump won. They would have celebrated and fallen right into line again, had the insurrection proven "successful." Fuck each and every one of them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 14, 2021, 03:08:20 AM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1470390337256538112)
Well, a demagogue is much better than a demogorgon or whatever the fuck Hilary is these days.
 :holeup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on December 14, 2021, 05:59:00 AM
You'd think that 6 years of Trump would've made the libs realize that there really is no central planning in the Republican party but they keep looking for a 'leader' to attack.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on December 14, 2021, 01:10:43 PM
This is me stomping all over Nintex's grave because that ^^^ was the last Nintex post in this thread ever because he's BANNED get fucked you fucking fascoid shit for brains  :brock
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on December 14, 2021, 01:23:57 PM
benji, in case you didn't see on discord:
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1469903366260080640

 :science
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Ghoul on December 14, 2021, 01:30:43 PM
 :no1curr

Go back to discord.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 14, 2021, 02:29:34 PM
the two possibilities are

1) as the lorax prophesied, life returns to this barren wasteland and people who used this forum who dared not tread into nintex-space slowly come back

2) only benji posts tweets until he realizes nobody else is commenting and he peaces out

I suppose the next election will be the proving ground
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 14, 2021, 06:01:46 PM
When the world is dead the last light to go out will be a computer screen with a post from Benji.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 14, 2021, 07:03:39 PM
When the world is dead the last light to go out will be a computer screen with a post from Benji.

what will it say?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 14, 2021, 07:16:15 PM
Probably a link to a thinkpiece about Soviet bloc revanchism.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on December 14, 2021, 07:20:38 PM
This is me stomping all over Nintex's grave because that ^^^ was the last Nintex post in this thread ever because he's BANNED get fucked you fucking fascoid shit for brains  :brock

Yay I'm so happy they shitcanned Filler and Nintex. Now we can have a much higher standard of calm, non-emotive, reasoned discourse in the same vein as above.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 14, 2021, 07:22:41 PM
This is me stomping all over Nintex's grave because that ^^^ was the last Nintex post in this thread ever because he's BANNED get fucked you fucking fascoid shit for brains  :brock

Yay I'm so happy they shitcanned Filler and Nintex. Now we can have a much higher standard of calm, non-emotive, reasoned discourse in the same vein as above.
Nintex died for this... :larry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 16, 2021, 02:31:25 PM
Leader of the American Communists everyone.

https://mobile.twitter.com/marianaa_alfaro/status/1471155232935604226

https://mobile.twitter.com/TransComics/status/1250593327868772355

 :goty
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: T-Short on December 16, 2021, 04:47:00 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1471493741810622473
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 17, 2021, 04:07:47 AM
The argument for having independently wealthy politicians is that in theory they are more resistant to corruption or bribery, rather than being grubby little grifters trying to stick their snout in every trough they can

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1471493741810622473

case in point
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on December 17, 2021, 04:13:07 AM
https://twitter.com/business/status/1471671761389424640

 :phil
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 17, 2021, 01:49:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3-22-oFYmQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 17, 2021, 06:10:28 PM
The governor of New York keeps changing goal post after goal post. This is driving me nuts and I've had all three shots. Accept that due to vaccines COVID is now endemic. Please. The higher the number of vaccines New York gets the more strict the mandates get. This reminds me of 9/11 and when all of a sudden I had to get my anal cavity checked just to get on a plane for "safety" reasons. Looking forward to voting Republican in 22 and 24 especially if they shy away from Trumpism.

https://cnycentral.com/amp/news/local/governor-hochul-intends-to-change-definition-of-fully-vaccinated-to-include-boosters?fbclid=IwAR02Yx6Q2M_UoDBdKMVPdzviDxMtUMFSytAOKq-GGcZSQtT52zShT39hZdI

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 17, 2021, 06:26:33 PM
Really good talk between two great thinkers.

https://youtu.be/qgYMuRqXPr0
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 17, 2021, 06:57:17 PM
jorp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 17, 2021, 06:59:45 PM
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/a-preview-of-gop-tactics-if-they-win-the-house-in-2022.html

Quote
    Conservative lawmakers, anticipating the GOP retaking one or both congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections, are already calling for and strategizing around a fiscal clash in 2023, insisting on using the threat of federal default to place new curbs on government spending and reduce the $28 trillion national debt….


    GOP hard-liners — including members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group loyal to former president Donald Trump that has a history of pushing party leaders into high-stakes confrontations with Democrats — are vowing to provoke a reckoning over federal spending using every tactic at their disposal.


    “You have to use the tools you have to force change in this town,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.). “That’s not going to go away until people get their head out of their [hindquarters] and actually focus on spending money that we have and not printing money. . . . Then we can end brinkmanship. If you’re going to keep spending money like drunken sailors, we’re going to keep fighting.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: who is ted danson? on December 17, 2021, 07:03:42 PM
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/LeviYonit/status/1471821911827091459
[close]

only to be opened by filler if he is ever allowed back ;)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 18, 2021, 12:41:37 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1468501922512621570

 :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 18, 2021, 10:23:28 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/skepticalspice/status/1468501922512621570

 :brain
Their account is private.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on December 18, 2021, 10:23:47 PM
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1471493741810622473
Grifters gonna grift.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 19, 2021, 07:00:41 AM
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472208856742780928

(https://i.ibb.co/VWhDw5c/mjlol.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 19, 2021, 11:31:47 AM
:rejoice Manchin :rejoice

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586450-manchin-says-he-will-not-vote-for-build-back-better-this-is-a-no

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1472208856742780928

(https://i.ibb.co/VWhDw5c/mjlol.png)

Les incompetents. This lady cannot handle pressure under fire and is one seat away from being president.

She hasn't been challenged in a real way her whole career and can't answer a simple question without flipping out.

Scary times.

And the worst (best) part? She's the Democratic front runner for 2024 and she's nowhere to be seen as Veep. AOC can't win on the national stage and Sanders isnt running. Iirc a poll had Buttigieg after AOC with a measley 8% polling. LUL. I knew she'd be bad but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it'd be this bad.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 19, 2021, 11:44:27 AM
Looking forward to voting Republican in 22 and 24 especially if they shy away from Trumpism.
They won't. The Republican Party has degraded into nothing but a cult centered around winning Trump's approval. All else falls by the wayside in service of this goal. Liz Cheney voted 90% with the Trump Administration's legislative agenda but she has been cast aside (potentially literally in a primary) as a traitor for someone who voted only 70% with the agenda but who voted against impeachment. It's the same across the board for the other Trump sycophants like Jim Jordan, etc.. They voted against him more far often (less than 85% of the time) than others they call traitors to the cause but voted with him on the one thing he cared about.

The Democratic Party is garbage and a disaster but it's not a fevered cult. There are still good Democrats and the Party has policy goals even if most of them are awful and regressive.

The only good of the modern Republican Party is that they oppose Democrats. The problem is that they do it only in service of Trump. Say hypothetically that the Democrats propose an awful idea, hard to believe I know, but the Republicans will oppose it. This isn't new, in the past Republicans would try to find reasons to do so, maybe conservative principle of some kind, maybe just explaining that it's a bad idea that will do something bad, etc. Now they do all of this with one eye to what Trump wants. If Trump decides he likes the idea, it's a rush of Republicans to cast opposition aside and support it. Also vice versa.

As anti-Trump as the Democrats have become, itself a worrying issue, they have yet to turn their entire policy apparatus over to him. A Trump policy that Democrats like, while Democrats may engage in theater in the media about, they ultimately will support. Same with policies they oppose that Trump opposes. Even in some cases where they oppose policies Trump supports. The Democrats were willing to give Trump his useless wall to get other things for example. This isn't the case in the Republican Party. A deal with Democrats to achieve some conservative principles while agreeing to minor concessions can only happen IF Trump doesn't become animated about it enough to oppose it.

In every instance here where I use Trump also consider me to be including his outsourced proxies including popular figures like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, etc. Trump doesn't care enough, nor is he smart enough, to have an opinion on everything he's asked about so he outsources his views and then backs those people up if he decides he agrees for the moment.

As for Trump himself and the 2022/2024 elections he's already established his litmus test for both of those: the 2020 election. He supports those who say it was stolen, he opposes those who tell the truth. Trump doesn't care about the Republicans winning 2022 if none of them pledge loyalty to his stolen election theory. At the recent Republican candidate debate for Governor in Minnesota (https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/at-gop-gubernatorial-debate-all-5-candidates-suggest-bidens-win-wasnt-legitimate), four of the five candidates supported the theory and the last one wouldn't go that far but admitted they have questions about it. This is despite two of them winning election in 2020 themselves. This is being repeated across the country, former Senator David Perdue's entire campaign for Governor of Georgia is based around the idea that sitting Republican Governor Brian Kemp stole the election for Biden. (Funny enough, an allegation he doesn't make about his own loss of his own Senate seat.) The further they go in pursuit of this insanity (https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/politics/perdue-disproven-2020-election-fraud-claims/index.html) the better in their view since it's more likely to attract Trump's approval.

The biggest problem of all though is that this mad pursuit for Trumpism may not harm the party too much. 2022 and 2024 may be entirely successful following this endeavor, maybe even succeed in Trump himself winning again in 2024. A result that would only further damage the Democratic Party and encourage it into greater anti-Trumpism and apocalyptical hysteria. None of that can be very good for the body politic.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 19, 2021, 12:00:45 PM
What about the Virginia race last month? The winner kept Trump at arms length and still won. What about the rise of GOP in NJ?

If Republicans run on common sense COVID control and rulings that don't emulate a police state, target wokism and progressivism, unite people of varying creeds against the left then they potentially stand a chance without running Trumpism. The problem is many Republicans like Cruz and DeSantis have baggage. Bad, bad baggage.

That said you make a good case.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 19, 2021, 12:10:32 PM
Benji if the Democratic party has awful policy, awful results, awful regressive ideas mixed in a cocktail of authoritarian wokism then the only real option for any voter are the Republicans. I wish that weren't  the case but the way of American politics is if one pushes the other pulls. If one isn't working, vote for the other. It's a constant back and forth. Unfortunately it's time to vote Republican. Maybe without Trump as leader they can do a better job!

One thing I can tell you is I've never, in my 30+ years of living seen so many black people sick and tired of the Democrats to the point of considering Republicans. Never. Even in NY. Black people are bombarded every day with images of the vax and while I support the vaccine the concern is genuine and earned given the history. Then tie in mandates for jobs when many of these jobs overwhelmingly affect many people of color. Black voters helped hold the fort down and many of us are sick. I've never seen so many black people in my life openly anti Dem as I'm seeing right now and I love it.  :jawalrus

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-approval-rating-fallen-most-black-adults-pew-1638502

:whew

Mandates :disgust
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: tiesto on December 19, 2021, 02:41:51 PM
The problem with the NY Democrats is they embody all the stereotypes of regulatory excess that people have of the party nationwide. Their regulations tend to be arcane and questionable (it's like that one desert town in Nier), most in place to suck any penny it can out of a business - it was perfectly fine last summer to have massive, unmasked protests... but god forbid a restaurant stay open past 10! A small business runs out of hand sanitizer on a job site? Major fines!

That being said, considering I have a moderate heart condition, I personally prefer to err on the side of caution instead of a free-for-all like Florida or Texas. And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.

And as for mask/vaxx mandates, a majority of NYers tend to support them. Due to have some big $$ federal contracts, my job made the vaxx and masks when not at desks mandatory at the beginning of Dec - we're one of the largest private/non healthcare/non education employers on (definitely much more conservative) Long Island, and back in Oct when the email about the mandate went out, something like 96% were already vaccinated. And even the healthcare facilities haven't had to let go nearly the amount of people they were expecting to not comply with the vaxx mandate... Northwell Health, the island's largest healthcare system, which has 60k employees, only let 1400 go for failing to comply.

https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html (https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 19, 2021, 02:53:28 PM
The problem is that I think that whatever good Republicans can achieve by simply being opposition to Democrats will be undermined by Trumpism. The only person in the GOP with any kind of status who didn't knuckle under to Trump was Mitt Romney. Ted Cruz could have stood up for movement conservatives and the Evangelicals that made up his primary base and tried to frame an internal constraint on Trump, but instead he immediately kissed the ring. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell fell all over themselves to get Trump "wins" that went against years of conservative principles. Even in the case of judges, which was the most successful part of the four years of Trump, many of those appointed were simply shitbags with no experience rather than principled conservative judges or originalists or whatever else you'd expect. And this was all despite the fact that Trump didn't really care about any of the specifics in any of this. When they were trying to "repeal and replace" Obamacare some actual conservative opposition to the bill popped up and Trump told them he didn't care about "the little shit, only the big picture" and just wanted something, anything passed that would let him claim he repealed Obamacare and instituted a great superior Trumpcare. (And even at this, they failed.)

The reform plan the party was coalescing around after the 2012 results is dead except for the bad parts. Free trade? Out. Immigration reform? Instead we got zero tolerance, illegal bans, malicious prosecution and pursuit of "the wall" on the wrong border. Budget and debt controls? Gone, he surpassed even Bush on this front and Bush at least had the excuse of the wars he started. A truce on the culture wars? Instead the social moderate Trump did everything possible to amplify them and appointed plenty of fervent nutsos on this. (Although some of this has backfired, Goursch writing gender identity into anti-discrimination laws for example, ACB so far refusing to go along with Alito's social conservatism. Even if Dobbs is a "win" by upholding Mississippi's law, I don't think they're going to touch Roe/Casey. I could be wrong though!) Foreign policy? All over the place, some was actually good, most of it bad and counterproductive to stated goals, never ended the drone wars. Withdrawing from the Iran deal, setting up Afghanistan to fail, etc. Respect for the institutions and constitution? lol, to use just a single example, I'll point out that he targeted ACB as a traitor (to where she gets more death threats from Trumpists than Democrats still) just months after appointing her simply because she agreed with the law and precedent that the Supreme Court had no authority to intervene and overturn an election result in multiple states because Texas wanted it to.

I still don't think Trump is the worst President in history (I'm partial to Nixon) and as noted above I do think he did a few good things even if by accident but he was a unique aberration in terms of his political force. Nobody else can pick up his mantle and run with it. Nobody else can keep his unique base. The GOP is harming everything by continuing to be completely subservient to the man. Ryan and McConnell fucked up when they decided that was the "message" of 2016 but after 2020 and Jan 6th, the party had ample chance to challenge him and they mostly haven't.

It's early, but it's also funny, at the moment the only person it looks like can stand up to Trump is DeSantis. But he might actually be worse than another four years of Trump. Ideally, Trump stays out of 2024, doesn't endorse but also does turn on DeSantis and those two spend it fighting, opening a path for somebody more reasonable like Nikki Haley or Kristi Noem or Tim Scott, or god forbid, even Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. That seems like the only likely prospect for the Republicans to come back from Trump at this point. I mean, other than him just keeling over sometime soon. But I imagine he'll be one of those types that just refuses to die despite so many reasons why he should. Like Strom Thurmond did.

Anti-Trump efforts that defect blindly to the Democrats (Lincoln Project, Jennifer Rubin) are useless. There needs to be strong anti-Trumpism within the Republican Party. But there isn't. Maybe something can center around Glenn Youngkin, if only to provide an outpost of opposition. But I thought the same about Ted Cruz and Rand Paul after 2016. Both became loyalists instead. (Rand was especially disappointing personally, and it's why I can't take him seriously on anything anymore.) Ryan and McConnell became loyalists. Kevin McCarthy ran to the front of the parade practically. Even Sarah Palin was more skeptical of Trump than these idiots.

The problem as it I see it is within what you note, the Republicans will gain simply because they're not Democrats. But that won't cast Trump out of control, if anything it may strengthen his hold. We'll have primaries where Trumpists win because he backs him, and then they go on to win general elections simply because they aren't Democrats. Trump will claim credit and victory and most of the party will continue to worship him despite the fact that it's not sustainable when he does leave the scene after 2024.

edit:
And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. A socially moderate, reasonable conservative can win New York. Especially when Democrats suck. (And everything about Kathy Hochul indicates that she sucks.) That was George Pataki (and before him Nelson Rockefeller) for three terms! Rudy and Bloomberg did the same in NYC proper. There's similarly politically strong Republican Governors in deep blue Massachusetts and Maryland right now. But a Trumper can't do this. And right now, Republicans seem to accept only Trumpers.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 19, 2021, 03:05:07 PM
The problem with the NY Democrats is they embody all the stereotypes of regulatory excess that people have of the party nationwide. Their regulations tend to be arcane and questionable (it's like that one desert town in Nier), most in place to suck any penny it can out of a business - it was perfectly fine last summer to have massive, unmasked protests... but god forbid a restaurant stay open past 10! A small business runs out of hand sanitizer on a job site? Major fines!

That being said, considering I have a moderate heart condition, I personally prefer to err on the side of caution instead of a free-for-all like Florida or Texas. And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.

And as for mask/vaxx mandates, a majority of NYers tend to support them. Due to have some big $$ federal contracts, my job made the vaxx and masks when not at desks mandatory at the beginning of Dec - we're one of the largest private/non healthcare/non education employers on (definitely much more conservative) Long Island, and back in Oct when the email about the mandate went out, something like 96% were already vaccinated. And even the healthcare facilities haven't had to let go nearly the amount of people they were expecting to not comply with the vaxx mandate... Northwell Health, the island's largest healthcare system, which has 60k employees, only let 1400 go for failing to comply.

https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html (https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ny-voters-support-mask-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/article_62f74d84-8f49-5039-961b-60c41f1d728c.html)

I'm not saying to have a free for all. We were doing good. New Yorkers try to do the best thing for us. We got vaccinated for our own safety without much behest. This past summer was freedom. You could go to a restaurant and pig out and not show a vax card because it's assumed through good faith that you, as a New Yorker, in a city with a 70% vaccination rate, already got at least one jab. Numbers were down, endless fun at parks (especially Washington Square), things were good! And then they demanded mandates. You need to have a vaccination for your job. You need to show your vaccination card to go inside this business even if you're wearing a fucking mask. It caused unnecessary division in a city that was doing well and healing good. It has completely split communities.

There's a line between Texas "I don't give a fuck" and where we are now in NY and NY used to be that nice middle ground that was juuuust right. I personally blame Biden and his horrific policies. The NY Democrats right now are horrendously overstepping, overreacting, and overregulating.

As said in the Covid thread, the Guv issued a State of Emergency with three measly Omicron cases even BEFORE the current spike (which, to my knowledge, isn't even Omicron!). This hysteria, overreacting, and fear porn from the top of the state brass is completely unnecessary and reflects the weakness in the current administration and state politicians. They need to be voted out.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 19, 2021, 03:19:36 PM
New example of how bad this guy is. :lol
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1472586019077767170
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 19, 2021, 03:27:57 PM
This is worse:
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1472576562142887948
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 19, 2021, 03:30:50 PM
The problem is that I think that whatever good Republicans can achieve by simply being opposition to Democrats will be undermined by Trumpism. The only person in the GOP with any kind of status who didn't knuckle under to Trump was Mitt Romney. Ted Cruz could have stood up for movement conservatives and the Evangelicals that made up his primary base and tried to frame an internal constraint on Trump, but instead he immediately kissed the ring. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell fell all over themselves to get Trump "wins" that went against years of conservative principles. Even in the case of judges, which was the most successful part of the four years of Trump, many of those appointed were simply shitbags with no experience rather than principled conservative judges or originalists or whatever else you'd expect. And this was all despite the fact that Trump didn't really care about any of the specifics in any of this. When they were trying to "repeal and replace" Obamacare some actual conservative opposition to the bill popped up and Trump told them he didn't care about "the little shit, only the big picture" and just wanted something, anything passed that would let him claim he repealed Obamacare and instituted a great superior Trumpcare. (And even at this, they failed.)

The reform plan the party was coalescing around after the 2012 results is dead except for the bad parts. Free trade? Out. Immigration reform? Instead we got zero tolerance, illegal bans, malicious prosecution and pursuit of "the wall" on the wrong border. Budget and debt controls? Gone, he surpassed even Bush on this front and Bush at least had the excuse of the wars he started. A truce on the culture wars? Instead the social moderate Trump did everything possible to amplify them and appointed plenty of fervent nutsos on this. (Although some of this has backfired, Goursch writing gender identity into anti-discrimination laws for example, ACB so far refusing to go along with Alito's social conservatism. Even if Dobbs is a "win" by upholding Mississippi's law, I don't think they're going to touch Roe/Casey. I could be wrong though!) Foreign policy? All over the place, some was actually good, most of it bad and counterproductive to stated goals, never ended the drone wars. Withdrawing from the Iran deal, setting up Afghanistan to fail, etc. Respect for the institutions and constitution? lol, to use just a single example, I'll point out that he targeted ACB as a traitor (to where she gets more death threats from Trumpists than Democrats still) just months after appointing her simply because she agreed with the law and precedent that the Supreme Court had no authority to intervene and overturn an election result in multiple states because Texas wanted it to.

I still don't think Trump is the worst President in history (I'm partial to Nixon) and as noted above I do think he did a few good things even if by accident but he was a unique aberration in terms of his political force. Nobody else can pick up his mantle and run with it. Nobody else can keep his unique base. The GOP is harming everything by continuing to be completely subservient to the man. Ryan and McConnell fucked up when they decided that was the "message" of 2016 but after 2020 and Jan 6th, the party had ample chance to challenge him and they mostly haven't.

It's early, but it's also funny, at the moment the only person it looks like can stand up to Trump is DeSantis. But he might actually be worse than another four years of Trump. Ideally, Trump stays out of 2024, doesn't endorse but also does turn on DeSantis and those two spend it fighting, opening a path for somebody more reasonable like Nikki Haley or Kristi Noem or Tim Scott, or god forbid, even Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. That seems like the only likely prospect for the Republicans to come back from Trump at this point. I mean, other than him just keeling over sometime soon. But I imagine he'll be one of those types that just refuses to die despite so many reasons why he should. Like Strom Thurmond did.

Anti-Trump efforts that defect blindly to the Democrats (Lincoln Project, Jennifer Rubin) are useless. There needs to be strong anti-Trumpism within the Republican Party. But there isn't. Maybe something can center around Glenn Youngkin, if only to provide an outpost of opposition. But I thought the same about Ted Cruz and Rand Paul after 2016. Both became loyalists instead. (Rand was especially disappointing personally, and it's why I can't take him seriously on anything anymore.) Ryan and McConnell became loyalists. Kevin McCarthy ran to the front of the parade practically. Even Sarah Palin was more skeptical of Trump than these idiots.

The problem as it I see it is within what you note, the Republicans will gain simply because they're not Democrats. But that won't cast Trump out of control, if anything it may strengthen his hold. We'll have primaries where Trumpists win because he backs him, and then they go on to win general elections simply because they aren't Democrats. Trump will claim credit and victory and most of the party will continue to worship him despite the fact that it's not sustainable when he does leave the scene after 2024.

edit:
And Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for Governor, is a huge Trump bootlicker, antivaxxer, antimasker - just an all-around awful person, he's been my district rep for years now. Trust me, even with how awful the Dems have been, Zeldin is worse.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. A socially moderate, reasonable conservative can win New York. Especially when Democrats suck. (And everything about Kathy Hochul indicates that she sucks.) That was George Pataki (and before him Nelson Rockefeller) for three terms! Rudy and Bloomberg did the same in NYC proper. There's similarly politically strong Republican Governors in deep blue Massachusetts and Maryland right now. But a Trumper can't do this. And right now, Republicans seem to accept only Trumpers.

You make good points especially towards DeSantis, who is nightmare fuel.

My personal picks are Nicki Haley and Tim Scott but I'm concerned about Haley's record.

Have you seen this in Bloomberg?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-01/it-s-marco-rubio-versus-nikki-haley-in-republican-battle-over-socialism-lite
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Post by: benjipwns on December 19, 2021, 05:56:35 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1472578641016012801

 :awesome slay queen
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Post by: Himu on December 20, 2021, 12:34:27 AM
https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2021/12/18/i-have-never-in-my-life-seen-a-worse-politician-than-kamala-harris-n493448

:dead
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Post by: Uncle on December 20, 2021, 08:39:54 AM
is it just me or are a lot of traditionally "ratio'd" people and positions no longer getting ratio'd on twitter

did twitter get more lax on conservative takes or did conservatives learn to play by the rules and not get banned?

is this like a post-parler thing where they stopped trying to have their own space

or is it all russian bots

 ???
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Post by: shosta on December 20, 2021, 05:06:06 PM
Nobody else can pick up his mantle and run with it. Nobody else can keep his unique base. The GOP is harming everything by continuing to be completely subservient to the man.
Is this post about the caustic effect of his personal qualities or about the broader reactionary forces he capitalized on? A lot of your post focuses on quislings in the GOP but I don't know if I agree that Trump, the man, is here to stay. He's genuinely deplatformed (does/will Fox even book him?). If he runs again then everyone has to cover him but there's a good chance he doesn't and the party relegates him to honored speaker status. Overall I agree there's no going back, just disagreeing on the certainty of Trump's personal involvement in all this.
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Post by: shosta on December 20, 2021, 05:11:58 PM
Benji if the Democratic party has awful policy, awful results, awful regressive ideas mixed in a cocktail of authoritarian wokism then the only real option for any voter are the Republicans.
You think the negatives of the Republican platform are less bad than COVID overreaction?
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Post by: HaughtyFrank on December 20, 2021, 07:00:24 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1473005054445731848



Anytime you think the world can't get dumber...
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 20, 2021, 07:14:08 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1473005054445731848



Anytime you think the world can't get dumber...

Imagine being the sort of person that likes this kind of thing. :notlikethis
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Post by: Himu on December 21, 2021, 01:32:04 AM
Benji if the Democratic party has awful policy, awful results, awful regressive ideas mixed in a cocktail of authoritarian wokism then the only real option for any voter are the Republicans.
You think the negatives of the Republican platform are less bad than COVID overreaction?

No. After living in super progressive NY I've cooled on many Democratic platform issues and really don't identify with left politics beyond healthcare, housing, and a few other issues.

That isn't to say I entirely agree with the Republicans but right now I disagree with Democratic leadership and agree with the Republican arguments against that leadership. I have no affiliation and my services can be bought at any time. I do not think either party is capable of fully representing my interests so I will vote for the party that does at any one point. Currently Democrats are overreacting to COVID and turning into authoritarian Nancy's that are overly triggered by opinions they disagree with. So I'll vote against them. Either way, I'm participating in a country whose sins are many and whose interests go against mine. Therefore I might as well place my vote up for the highest bidder at any time rather than committing to a select group.

You call it COVID overreacting, I call it fear porn, authoritarian rules, safety over liberty, and destroying the social contract between governance and the populace. Mandates severely go against my morals. I truly believe in a person's ability to choose.

Of the Democratic platform what has Biden's agenda done for black Americans? Black Americans did better under Trump. I might as well consider alternatives. Since Democrats and Republicans neither care I might as well pick which party at one point suits my self preservation and morals. American politics are a push pull. A pendulum swing.

Even if I agree with Democrats wanting better healthcare, supporting that also means I have to support their feminist and LGBT agendas by proxy that go against Islam and racial victimhood narratives that push the country as a social hierarchy. At the end of the day they're both racist warmongering parties operating on greedy capitalistic tendencies. You take the good with the bad.
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Post by: benjipwns on December 21, 2021, 01:53:27 PM
Is this post about the caustic effect of his personal qualities or about the broader reactionary forces he capitalized on? A lot of your post focuses on quislings in the GOP but I don't know if I agree that Trump, the man, is here to stay. He's genuinely deplatformed (does/will Fox even book him?). If he runs again then everyone has to cover him but there's a good chance he doesn't and the party relegates him to honored speaker status. Overall I agree there's no going back, just disagreeing on the certainty of Trump's personal involvement in all this.
While I think Trump's personal influence is not going to last much past 2024 he is not as deplatformed as you think. He has a fairly strong network that ensures his stupid press releases get all over Twitter anyway for example. He makes lots of personal calls to people in power (this has always been how he's operated) and while Fox is mildly touchy about him specifically, OANN/Newsmax is not and both have been growing extensively because of this. Donald Trump Jr. has no problem getting on Fox and part of it is that Trump himself is still pissed at Fox for calling Arizona and the Presidency for Biden. He thought their news wing was as devoted to him as the opinion wing is.

That said, my point there was a bit less about Trump's personal power over the party and more about the fact that the GOP as is, and probably through 2024 (Trump running, winning or losing) at least does not seem to have an alternative to Trump. If Trump today decided he was done and was going to just retire the party would be utterly derelict but still within his influence because of all the people who have reidentified themselves as Trump loyalists plus everyone who has gotten into office on the basis of just being Trumpers. The party does not seem to have any alternative prepared for this possibility even though we pretty much know that by the time 2024 passes they will have to or collapse into nonsense infighting for an extended period.

Before Trump you had the different power bases, the neocons, the America First people, the Evangelicals, the economic conservatives/libertarians, etc. Trump shoved this all aside for loyalty to himself. Many of those power bases don't exist as they did and won't be coming back. The Koch's for example are dying off and in any case pulled up stakes and gave up on the GOP. Long time institutions like Heritage have fallen apart and been shredded. Maybe these are good things, but they certainly seem to be negatives for the Republicans. The old farm leagues are decimated and have been replaced by Twitter/Facebook MAGA stars like MTG, Boebert, etc. (This last part does seem to be fairly bipartisan however I think the GOP has gotten the worst of this otherwise positive development.) As much as people suspected, probably correctly, that these groups would have strong influence in the Trump Administration and how Pence (someone who came up in those farm leagues) would be doing most of this, that changed as the Administration went on and Trump started throwing out everyone (even otherwise loyalists like Jeff Sessions) that Pence put into the Administration and propping up his loyalists instead. By the end, Trump was doing things like not just ignoring his own State Department (which he had done from the start, but then many Presidents do this for personal diplomacy) but having incompetent people like Rudy Giuliani instead run alternative diplomatic policy for Trump's personal gain. Trump himself had fallen into the cult.

In other words, the further and longer into Trump they go, the more they're hollowing out the party. One that it's easy to forget had pre-Trump just came off the 2014 elections where it borderline ran the table and would have faced Hillary in 2016 anyway. Maybe I'm wrong, but the party just doesn't seem as strong now as it was then. (Not that the Democrats seem very strong either, they are at least not yet a cult.)
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Post by: benjipwns on December 21, 2021, 03:03:17 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1473337579936301061
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Post by: benjipwns on December 21, 2021, 03:26:58 PM
https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/status/1473012775538597894

 :lol
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Post by: shosta on December 21, 2021, 08:33:59 PM
In other words, the further and longer into Trump they go, the more they're hollowing out the party. [...] Maybe I'm wrong, but the party just doesn't seem as strong now as it was then. (Not that the Democrats seem very strong either, they are at least not yet a cult.)
This is the part I think I'm disagreeing with, and why I was focusing on Trump's personal involvement in the party. Is it hollowing the party, or just another transformation? Not that rampant brain disease and a reptilian instinct to own the libs are enviable but how are the Republicans weaker in a practical sense? A lot of the craziness that happened because Trump just doesn't apply once he's not in the picture anymore. Does the party fall apart after that because the only thing holding it together was a fat orange tv star with the personality of a toddler? No way. Maybe the old values are dessicated but we're clearly living in an age of reaction that values macho foreign policy, backing the blue, hugging the flag as hard as you can, and kicking people off welfare. Actually those do sound like the old values :hitler

With the culture war in full steam, an entire counterattack on progressive education, exasperation with covid regulations, a media craze over the inflation narrative, and images of a national crime wave plastered across right wing social media ... I dunno, it seems like a strong position to me, with consistent messaging, and broad consensus within the party: stop the crime, stop the spending, stop the tyranny. Look at himu - it worked on him!
(https://i.imgur.com/SLKlNur.png)
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Post by: shosta on December 21, 2021, 08:34:22 PM
in summary, Republicans will win bigly. then they will ban and kill me.
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Post by: benjipwns on December 21, 2021, 09:02:53 PM
https://twitter.com/GloriaPazmino/status/1473394432057745414

 :american
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 21, 2021, 10:44:08 PM
Putting prisoners who are already in jail into solitary confinement will certainly stop crime and bring back order to this lawless city!
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Post by: Himu on December 22, 2021, 09:08:05 AM
Lmfao
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Post by: Propagandhim on December 22, 2021, 11:33:32 AM
Solitary confinement is a really tough one.  On the one hand, Adams is right - there has to be another level of punitive measure for inmates who can't stop attacking others.  On the other, I can't think of a worse kind of torture.  I'd rather bear physical beatings as long as I knew it would end soon, than be stuck in solitary for extended periods of time.  They seem to use solitary too often, too, like as a tool to extract non-violent inmates from a violent population, etc.   I don't envy anyone who has to figure this one out.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 22, 2021, 11:38:57 AM
Open back up asylums but make them more humane. Often these people have nowhere to go. Homeless dude went and stabbed a woman to death for no reason just the other day.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 22, 2021, 05:58:16 PM
Open back up asylums but make them more humane.

Thanks, Reagan!
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Post by: benjipwns on December 23, 2021, 12:39:25 PM
https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1474033369361141762

 :what (French, not Hussain. Wait... Hussain!)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 23, 2021, 05:56:59 PM
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1474056840594006019
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 23, 2021, 09:29:09 PM
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1474157273652109317

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 12:09:19 AM
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/bidens-approval-dips-to-new-low-as-independents-sour-on-his-leadership

Down 8 points in a week with my bloc (independent). Get fucked, vote red.
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Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 12:14:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/us/politics/latinos-republicans-conservative-vote-gop.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-arent-winning-latino-votersdems-are-losing-them

Not Latino but sway me.
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Post by: benjipwns on December 24, 2021, 12:29:07 AM
Things are going well with the LP I see:
https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucusMO/status/1474174513793359872
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Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 12:38:38 AM
https://youtu.be/hNDgcjVGHIw

From a few weeks back.
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Post by: benjipwns on December 24, 2021, 03:01:10 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHJBjegX0AULJIh?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 08:34:38 AM
"I told you Joe! I told ya!"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on December 24, 2021, 02:13:04 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1474452335980019716
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Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 09:56:51 PM
Lmao

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1474079028130852868

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1473856547411349509

https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1473852459370037249

https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1473746502518546437
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Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 10:11:22 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1474452335980019716

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1474519354444242951
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Post by: Himu on December 24, 2021, 10:59:48 PM
https://twitter.com/CommissBratton/status/1473666832460513280

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1474129460177903622

Agreed with Bratton. Before living here I would have agreed with AOC. Interacting with the homeless in person is way different than only seeing them wave a sign from your car. When you see the same guy for months, to the point where you know his name, buy him food regularly, and is as part of your neighborhood as the local park or local hardware shop you start to realize some of them don't want help. Oh, you'll still help them out. But when they try to take advantage of your kindness and boundaries by asking to take a shower in your apartment and they refuse when you suggest they go to a shelter, you start to see the cyclical nature. Sometimes if you say no to a homeless guy he might whip his weiner out and piss in your direction right at you. in Flatbush for a year. Same dudes, same spots. The wheelchair man I have more empathy for and I try to do what I can but it never changes I never feel safe when I get on a train car full of homeless people sleeping on my way to work at 5 am or when I'm harassed on the train by a crazy person. I highly doubt AOC *has* to or even uses the subway on regular basis.

AOC and the leftists are living in an utopia not on planet Earth most likely because they don't have to deal with it.
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Post by: Uncle on December 24, 2021, 11:14:42 PM
it's a complicated problem that shouldn't be boiled down to memes, but I can't help but picture an unarmed holistic wellness counselor forced to approach these guys and say "sirs? you need to move on, you're scaring the other riders, come with me," being told to fuck off or even getting attacked, and then needing actual police support anyway (who are slow to respond because to them the wellness counselors represent an attack on their livelihood)
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Post by: shosta on December 25, 2021, 01:59:50 AM
Same dudes, same spots.
... Yeah, they're still homeless. Of course they're in the same spots.

I highly doubt AOC *has* to or even uses the subway on regular basis.
She didn't use the subway in the Bronx? I doubt that.
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Post by: Himu on December 25, 2021, 07:20:40 AM
Not as a congresswoman. So she will bring up "they need medical care and shelter" (they do) as if that's relevant to them sleeping on the train, which isn't its goal nor point. I pay $127 a month to ride the train in comparison.
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Post by: shosta on December 25, 2021, 01:54:14 PM
If you agree that they need shelter then why is it so appalling that they'd end up on the train, away from the weather?

Aside, I thought NYC was very good about providing shelter, which is why the proportion of housing insecure in NY that rough sleep is extremely small compared to other places. People fall through the cracks though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 25, 2021, 07:51:49 PM
If you agree that they need shelter then why is it so appalling that they'd end up on the train, away from the weather?

Aside, I thought NYC was very good about providing shelter, which is why the proportion of housing insecure in NY that rough sleep is extremely small compared to other places. People fall through the cracks though.

The subway, a public utility, is not a hotel room or dormitory. New Yorkers have a right to not have to step in human poop or deal with homeless people assaulting us. It is not the job of the MTA to take care of the homeless as the trains are not a bedroom. In the year of 2019 New York City invested over 3.2 billion dollars into homeless care. A lot has been invested and whether for good reasons or bad, many homeless people do not want to take advantage of these facilities. Allowing homeless people to fester and live aboard the train where working people commute, children go to school, others literally work unfair to New Yorkers and more than that, isn't an actual solution. It is a band-aid. Police should be used to force homeless off trains and hopefully into shelters where they can get care. Billions are thrown at this and what's happening? Very little. What is happening to all that money? And your solution is to throw more money? More facilities? More medical care? In NY I have medicaid and haven't paid a medical bill all year. What's being done isn't enough.

To crib from a comment thread on Reddit:

Quote
"Shelters are often drug-infested, dirty and hostile environments." You people are truly amazing.

If the shelters are unsafe, dirty, and hostile - that's the fault of the elected official. Not the retiree being attacked for apparently asking that people be murdered for lacking a home. More than that - you realize people who make shelters "drug-infested, dirty and hostile" might also impose that behavior in this public space, yes?

None of you seem up in arms about cops enforcing mask rules, but you're ok with this?

"Shelter case workers are extremely underpaid." Indeed, and yet CEOs & lobbyists like Jim Coughlin from Westhab probably make millions. Not my fault. Not my choice. I have no control over this, even with my vote for candidates I hope will work harder against corruption and misuse of funds. The city gives out contracts to these people. It's their problem.

You're giving incompetent, corrupt governance, and the thing people really have a problem with - dudes camping out and doing far worse on subways - a pass.

Nobody gives a shit about the homeless riding the subways, or even dozing off.

"There are often underlying co-occurring substance use or mental health disorders and little to no family support." Yes, and so they can work that out on riders, got it.

It is not riders' fault there's lack of safe shelter.

Stop making excuses. That's all you're doing. That's all people who are entrusted with billions of dollars to deal with this and whose constituents who deserve a feces/assault-free subway ride are doing. It's criminal. I'm sick and tired of people who take my money moralizing and gaslighting me with bullshit. They get away with it because people like you uncritically swallow the tropes you've posted and have been raised to expect nothing of elected officials who campaign on "idealistic" half-truths and sloganeered bullshit, nor to consider the working/middle class people who have no other way to get around as "privileged". And AOC likes it that way, because she doesn't have to do dickshit but tweet.

This is not an acceptable solution and all the babbling about unsafe shelter and the reasons I'm supposed to pity someone shooting up and telling me to get out of his house while I'm trapped underground doesn't really change that.
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Post by: Himu on December 26, 2021, 07:59:49 AM
Registered independent but I need to take steps to reg Republican asap.

Liked the flips that happened last election but I didn't vote then.

https://nyti.ms/3wdzU15

Thank you Democratic Party for making an apathetic non-voter register R just to tell you to f off.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 27, 2021, 05:29:11 PM
Ah, so you'd go with it if you didn't have staff shortages.

https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2021/12/hochul-no-plans-for-mta-covid-vaccine-mandate-due-to-crew-shortages.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Yes, I'd very much like to whip out my vaxx card every fucking time I ride the train. Or how about you go fuck yourself and I vote red? Let's go Brandon.

All of this hysteria over a virus that is significantly weaker. Yes, taking out a vaxx card in the city that doesn't sleep, in the city of hustle, in the city of I need to run two blocks within two minutes to catch my train this would absolutely save lives and not make you hated. Keep digging.

The Democrats are completely batshit.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/12/27/mta-to-reduce-subway-service-this-week-due-to--covid-surge-

Their policies are utterly ineffectual and the definition of navel gazing. Yes, let's reduce subway services due to Omicron which will result in more packed cars. Of course, that's not the actual reason. It's due to staff shortages. But the constant blaming on Omicron, a novel variant so weak scientists no longer think it's worth studying, is what gets me. The endless fear gymnastics has gotten tiring.

Liberals!!!!!

(https://i.imgur.com/ytKDkd5.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 27, 2021, 06:16:57 PM
Hahahahaha I so wish I voted for Trump. Months of screeching how there's no federal plan for COVID. How Trump isn't providing leadership. And this?!

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1475539059032395780

I should have voted for Trump. Oh my GOD. :fbm I'm buying a MAGA hat from Amazon right this second. I'm tired.
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Post by: benjipwns on December 27, 2021, 06:28:57 PM
Throwing yourself wholeheartedly into MAGA is not a solution to Democrats and the media being bad.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 27, 2021, 07:03:57 PM
Hahahahaha I so wish I voted for Trump. Months of screeching how there's no federal plan for COVID. How Trump isn't providing leadership. And this?!

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1475539059032395780

I should have voted for Trump. Oh my GOD. :fbm I'm buying a MAGA hat from Amazon right this second. I'm tired.

Quote
“My message to the governors is simple: if you need something, say something,” he said. “We’re going to have your back any way we can.”

The administration plans to distribute the tests free to Americans, support more vaccination and testing sites, and deploy 1,000 military medical professionals to augment hospital staff nationwide.
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Post by: Himu on December 27, 2021, 09:20:21 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-democrats-stung-in-2020-are-slipping-even-further-behind-gop-in-2022-vote/ar-AASb5lt?ocid=BingNewsSearch

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TALLAHASSEE — Many prominent Florida Democrats sought a reckoning after their losses in 2020. They wanted a change within the party structure and a rejuvenated party to take on Republicans in 2022.

There were changes at the Florida Democratic Party, as Manny Diaz was elected chairman in January after Terrie Rizzo resigned, but by some measures, their prospects for 2022 have only worsened.

“It’s going to be rough,” said Matt Isbell, a Tallahassee-based Democratic consultant. “It’s going to be pretty bad.”

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/gop-turnout-effort-plays-big-role-in-niagara-elections/article_d4c2eef2-ce38-50f1-9ca0-d1a91ceba138.html

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“The proof is in the pudding,” Niagara County GOP Chairman Rich Andres responded when asked about the success of his party’s efforts in the 2021 local elections.

That “pudding” got a bit sweeter for Republicans with this week’s court ruling over disputed ballots resulting in Chris Voccio being elected legislator in the Sixth District. Of the 15 legislative districts in Niagara County, 12 were won by Republicans, 3 by Democrats.

An analysis of balloting for the 2021 elections here indicates heavy turnout in Republican areas, coupled with low interest in Democratic districts, led to the strong showings by Republicans, who continue to dominate the Niagara County Legislature.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/21/gop-tidal-wave-voter-suppression-set-intensify-2022-analysis-warns

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Republican state lawmakers are showing no signs of slowing down the "tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation" that ramped up across the country in 2021, according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice on Tuesday that warns such attacks are set to continue or even escalate in the New Year.

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Oh no, someone stop the Republicans. :lol I have never in my life had trouble voting and I'm from a red Texas. Liberals truly do think black people are incompetents who can't even get a drivers license. But when you put your head together to come up with a thought you realize that in the south, you can't do shit without driving, especially in oil industry Texas where politicians love to slobber all over Big Oil's knob. Everyone and their dog has a DL in the south because it's a basic necessity. But the Democrats point to VoTeRR sUPpreSzion while trying to make it easy for illegal immigrants, people who aren't even citizens to legally vote all in a twisted gamble to maintain power on the misguided assumption - assumption - that illegal immigrants will vote D. lmao Oh, those poor darkies. They can't save themselves. They can't even get a DL to vote! Let me hold your hand and save you darkie.

All this talk of lines while ignoring there were lines in NYC in 2020 too. It's almost as if, Americans want to vote therefore there's lines. It's almost as if a sizable amount of voters want their voices heard. I agree! Let's go Brandon!

As for the Republican gains...Masha'Allah.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 27, 2021, 09:38:44 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-losing-latinos-gop-no-095344285.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Keeping Latino voters: Latino voters have different interests because they come from different cultures. However, as a rule, be the exact opposite of the Democratic Party and promote family values over purple haired dysfunction. Let's Go Brandon is a great way to do it, because it's clean while also sending a clear message. Remain clean and family friendly. Don't give in to deviance. Find incentives towards nuclear family building. Say Latino and never say Latinx. In fact, mock LatinX. Point to how ineffectual Democrats are and how they wallow in dysfunction, victimhood, and their own form of fear. Express realistic solutions sans gil tossing like it's Final Fantasy. Make serious attempts to reverse and apologize for any mistreatment or miscommunication of illegal latinos under the Trump administration and how you can curb illegal immigration without being inhumane in the future. Sell Latinos on the promise of America: that the only one stopping us are ourselves, nor our race, gender, or whatever. Be positive and sell a dream. Live up to that dream.

By the same token the Democratic party no longer serves the interests of the middle class black.

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/11/14/black-republicans-lead-political-poll-reversal/

Target the middle class Latinos and those who desire to be middle class through sheer effort.

https://youtu.be/bwnqWIIXZM0

Show them the poverty of left-ward solutions.

edit:

https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1457837943201189895?

It won't be 50% but definitely over 25%. In the long run the main strategy is to dismantle the Democratic Party with any shred of power given their poor uses of it. Kill them at the ballot box. I want to make you weak and beg for scraps. I will do anything possible to make this happen.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 12:16:22 AM
you're gross
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: jorma on December 28, 2021, 01:46:18 AM
I was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.

so what's even the point of that thing? this might be the most distinguished mentally-challenged argument FOR the passports i've ever seen  :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 02:27:46 AM
Yeah, just use a fake card.
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I resent vaccine card passports. So much. This last summer in NYC was amazing. We were so free and lived like it. Not one restaurant asked for a vax card because the common assumption was that because you're a New Yorker you were likely vaxxed. I like shit like that, good assumptions in fellow man rather than mandating a bunch of rules.  For a goddamn year I couldn't enjoy the small things in life. I couldn't drink coffee in a coffee shop for instance but now I have to whip out a vaxx card just to drink coffee. What if I forget my card? In NY I use cash a lot and often don't even bring my wallet with me because I'll just bring a few dollars. Now I might forget my damn wallet. Then what? No coffee? No lunch? No dinner? No arcade? All of these places have requested a vaxx pass. Never mind some of the most vulnerable populations are racial minorities that aren't vaxx. Think of the implications. Even with a mask you can't go in and enjoy a coffee. I'm sorry but it goes against my morals and speaks to the highly ineffectual virtue signaling of crappy liberal policies. We enjoyed freedom for months. WHY NOW? Moreover, vaccinated people can catch and spread the disease anyways which is precisely we have the (highly logical) mask rule while on trains and buses. Therefore a vaxx mandate for inside dining is re re to begin with.

Telling someone you'll be fired unless you take a vaccination less than a year old is highly immoral. You cannot change my mind on that. It is wrong.

Liberals!!!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 02:39:11 AM
Jfc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 02:39:44 AM
At least nintex was entertaining
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 28, 2021, 05:10:47 AM
So this thread is going well...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:22:16 AM
The reality of living with the effects of progressive policy and whistling away, sucking the teet of their golden promise is night and day and more people are waking up thankfully to their dystopian failure. Masha'Allah.

You get it. The problem is progressivism and liberalism. End their rule. White liberals and progressives and leftists are the most racist people I've met in my life and they have a lifestyle that will only lead you to the fire. You too have found the hole behind the veil: progressivism is shit. Kill it. Stab it in the belly and shoot it in the head NOW before it becomes too late.


https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475143652942893056

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475143998268346369

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475144602151632899

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475145718482432000

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475146006752755712

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475146704617803776

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475147656682872839

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475154737251061762

https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475155614107979779

Since this is America and the only viable party that isn't democratic is Republican voting red is your only real choice to affect change.

A registered D for 18 years? I assume we are nearly the same age with the same wakeup call.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:50:55 AM
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing

Oh my God yesss
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 07:33:28 AM
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing

Oh my God yesss

she doesn't sound like the kind of person who would go right wing, though, she apparently cares about fixing the homeless problem, being charitable and kind etc. and that doesn't seem to be the republican platform

seems like someone who would go leftist rather than liberal

I was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.

so what's even the point of that thing? this might be the most distinguished mentally-challenged argument FOR the passports i've ever seen  :lol :lol :lol

It is dumb when you know places aren't really checking them with any scrutiny, I agree. My point was it isn't some oppressive, major inconvenience at all. You literally just have to flash a card or your phone for less than 2 seconds. Himu gonna Himu, though.

"it's easy to ignore" is the worst possible argument for anything like this, that's how things get worse and worse without you recognizing it like the frog in the boiling pot

I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers"

"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: VomKriege on December 28, 2021, 07:39:57 AM
Have the police detain the homeless and "force them into appropriate care" (I guess ?), this Shellenberger guy has good points !
 :ohyeah

Having to flash a QR code, I am a human, not a number !
:nope
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 07:45:24 AM
Hahahahaha

https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1475564991503687685

https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing

Oh my God yesss

she doesn't sound like the kind of person who would go right wing, though, she apparently cares about fixing the homeless problem, being charitable and kind etc. and that doesn't seem to be the republican platform

seems like someone who would go leftist rather than liberal

I was in Manhattan for a week and had to show my vax card almost everywhere I went. It was not a hassle in the fucking least. You just pull it out. Almost no where even really looked at it. My uncle was using his wife's card while with his wife and no place even noticed.

so what's even the point of that thing? this might be the most distinguished mentally-challenged argument FOR the passports i've ever seen  :lol :lol :lol

It is dumb when you know places aren't really checking them with any scrutiny, I agree. My point was it isn't some oppressive, major inconvenience at all. You literally just have to flash a card or your phone for less than 2 seconds. Himu gonna Himu, though.

"it's easy to ignore" is the worst possible argument for anything like this, that's how things get worse and worse without you recognizing it like the frog in the boiling pot

I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers"

"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"

Or how all of a sudden the government thinks it's worth spying on its people or airports giving flyers anal checks after 9/11. Liberal ok with tyranny?! Say it ain't so!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 07:50:24 AM
I haven't gotten a government anal check in years  :gloomy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 07:52:40 AM
Don't worry. It's coming.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 08:03:42 AM
HAHAHAHA

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1475507614821892099

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1475547050557284353
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on December 28, 2021, 08:08:48 AM
HAHAHAHA

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1475507614821892099

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1475588179378024460

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 08:17:16 AM
I'm not listening to him. He's the blue loser who tried to put his hounds on the poor Oregon dad because he teased Brandon! :lol

CNBC reports this

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/27/biden-says-covid-surge-needs-to-be-solved-at-state-level-vows-full-federal-support.html

I don't give a fuck about the clip. The point is Brandon says there's no federal solution after campaining on that exact promise. In fact, it's why he was elected to begin with. And if he's so anti federal solution will he please rescind his vaccine mandate? :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 08:34:08 AM
biden's tan suit brought to you by, jfc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on December 28, 2021, 08:37:12 AM
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The president may be concerned that federal initiatives to contain the virus can’t be effective without states’ help. The comments could also be an attempt to put added pressure on governors to take a greater role in trying to control the disease.

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The omicron variant poses a multifaceted threat to Biden, who campaigned on the federal government’s ability to curb the pandemic. The president on Monday reiterated some of the promises he made last week, including the federal government’s purchase of 500 million rapid coronavirus tests.

“My message to the governors is simple: if you need something, say something,” he said. “We’re going to have your back any way we can.”

The administration plans to distribute the tests free to Americans, support more vaccination and testing sites, and deploy 1,000 military medical professionals to augment hospital staff nationwide.

:idont
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on December 28, 2021, 08:42:09 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/politics/biden-covid-governors/index.html

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On Monday, Biden, citing the Stafford Act, directed federal funding via FEMA to assist in the deployment of Covid testing.

"It is the policy of my Administration to combat and respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government to protect and support our families, schools, and businesses, and to assist State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to do the same," Biden writes. "This policy includes the use of emergency and disaster assistance available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to get COVID-19 testing to the places that need it most."

The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services "on a fully reimbursable basis, to provide testing sites, launched and operated by HHS in close coordination with State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments," using FEMA funding.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 08:49:41 AM
https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-this-thread-from-a-lefty-in-san-fran-who-is-starting-to-question-this-whole-progressivism-thing

Oh my God yesss

she doesn't sound like the kind of person who would go right wing, though, she apparently cares about fixing the homeless problem, being charitable and kind etc. and that doesn't seem to be the republican platform

seems like someone who would go leftist rather than liberal

Agreed. When faced with the philosophical and moralistic failures of liberalism, outside of deciding to not participate altogether, one is finally faced with only two real choices: leftism or conservatism. Unfortunately due to my experiences with the left I am not sold on leftism as they appear more interested in credo and identity politics and oppression Olympics over results. I'm far more convinced by conservatism. Leftism in comparison is in many ways laughable.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: VomKriege on December 28, 2021, 08:56:09 AM
it's a complicated problem that shouldn't be boiled down to memes, but I can't help but picture an unarmed holistic wellness counselor forced to approach these guys and say "sirs? you need to move on, you're scaring the other riders, come with me," being told to fuck off or even getting attacked, and then needing actual police support anyway (who are slow to respond because to them the wellness counselors represent an attack on their livelihood)

We have social emergency workers & association volunteers (Red Cross and such) doing exactly that here, patrols at night to offer coffee, soup and try to convince homeless people to come with them to a shelter. They don't always agree to and I'm certain some of them may get aggressive or violent and this periodically means the police has to be involved. But practice and experience is that safety is not so much an issue you can't do exactly that.

I'd be pretty surprised it's not exactly the same in NYC or any major city ? Popular soups, volunteers, city social services, etc

Yes it's a complicated issue and making it more of a policing issue, to my knowledge, generally has not proven to address it (unless it's for moving it out of sight, out of mind).
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: VomKriege on December 28, 2021, 09:05:01 AM
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.

Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Rufus on December 28, 2021, 09:24:51 AM
I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers"

"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
:snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 09:35:16 AM
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.

Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.

it's called anarchy.

When people can't reconcile the fact you have to sacrifice for your idealized goal of being selfless, they just turn to hating the "system".


you look at people like nintenx of himu, most of era and whats left of gaf. That's what these contradictory opinions are.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 09:42:10 AM
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.

Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.

Because allowing people using a public utility and making it their home to use drugs is not a solution. It merely turns its head away from the problem. If we continue in that manner NY will look like SF and I and others refuse to let that happen. Therefore, they must be removed and put in shelters where they can get help.

Versus

A culture of increasing goal posts. Where people need to get vaccinated with a vaccine less than a year old or face being terminated. Forced vaccination mandates. Forced vaccine cards. Shaming people for not being vaxxed. A culture of corporate shilling of vaccination. Fourth shots, fifth shots. When does it end? What's the end goal? All in the name of safety and security. Weeks and weeks of fear an looking down the gun barrel of disease. Omicron Omicron omicron reeeee I'm scarrreddd

You try to equate but one is fair. The other results in endless purity checks in the name of safety. I am tired of the fear tactics. Omicron lockdowns when Omicron is weak as shit. Why do you trust Big Pharma so much? Why do you trust governance forcing citizens so much?

What's your solution to the homeless epidemic and people living in the subway trains? You could say more services but NYC already provides 3.9 billion towards these services trying to assist nearly 80k people. You want to waffle about ideals. I don't give a shit. I care about results. What's the result of one? Less freedom. The other? Better public safety.

One is not the other. I bet you also support governments spying on citizens and the TSA. Same shit. But no, the real bad guys are putting people that shoot up heroin in the public space where they belong so they can get help.

LOL this is the perfect approximation of the leftist ideal and its soft feelings based cacophany of failure without thinking about results and intended consequences.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 09:45:33 AM
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vaccine less than a year old

Imagine thinking that major vaccines developed after sequencing the human genome still need to be tested through old processes.

I can fucking charge my phone literally wirelessly from the power source, and there are still people who think vaccines are ominous. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: VomKriege on December 28, 2021, 09:46:48 AM
One is fair ?
Yeah I'd say one of those has a lot more scientific backing, objective known benefits than the other.

Anyhow no one ever convinced you to not go down what particular way you're exploring so safe travel.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 09:49:06 AM
I recognize that the vaccine is a good thing, I recognize that everyone should be vaccinated, and the card is probably even innocuous and ok, I will just never back any argument on the basis of "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers"

"just wear the star it literally takes 2 seconds to pin it on"
:snoop

the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compelling

say that everyone should do it because it's important for public health and for managing the virus over the long term, I have absolutely nothing against that, but then you will also need to demonstrate that it does indeed succeed at those functions
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 09:55:13 AM
You really can't point fingers at me Cauliflower. I believe in vaccines. I got all three shots. However, I take issue with mandating and forcing others to get them. Morally it is wrong. Whatever happened to my body my choice?

Yes, it is fair. New Yorkers face the most dense public in America. We interact in daily life because we lack cars and transport. Trains are something millions use a day and we have no reason to suffer from being harassed by people high  on H when trying to get the morning commute

In what way are mandates keeping new yorkers safe? We are over 70% vaxxed by at least one shot. As usual with liberals it is virtue signaling just like how they are with racists. You know what will keep new yorkers safe? Not having people harass us on our commute.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Rufus on December 28, 2021, 09:57:10 AM
the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compelling

say that everyone should do it because it's important for public health and for managing the virus over the long term, I have absolutely nothing against that,
Then why add a holocaust comparison on top? For some added heft? :beli

but then you will also need to demonstrate that it does indeed succeed at those functions
Do driver's licences stop people from driving without one? No. Let's do away with them then.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 09:57:15 AM
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However, I take issue with mandating and forcing others to get them. Morally it is wrong. Whatever happened to my body my choice?

Serioulsy trying to compare contagious decisions to abortion choices?

You know what happened to that? Nothing. because they are fucking irrelevant to the vaccine "debate".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 09:59:06 AM
I'm definitely not solving this issue by myself.

Just found the juxtaposition of calling for the police to forcibly remove people for safety and public health motives & protect a public utility then ranting about a rather mild inconvenience from a larger mandate designed to protect a public utility & public health to be a bit confusing.

they're different topics, aren't they?

I don't necessarily call for the police to forcibly remove people, but I also don't think sending in a group that's less equipped than the police is going to somehow be more effective at solving the problem

of course many social services exist but apparently these particular people are choosing not to take advantage of them

all I intended to convey is that twitter hot takes aren't necessarily providing any more workable solutions to the issue
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:02:19 AM
Ok. Enjoy your culture of fear. Your endless cycle of cold cries and calls from a media that wants your money, your time, your sweat, your fear. Weeks of Omicron fear. Turns out it's not shit. White House tells unvaccinated to prepare for a winter of death. Aren't you scared yet? Where does it end? All in the name of safety? What safety? Whose safety? Continue to bahhhh to your masters. The same corporations you criticize and resent. Continue to get your wool snipped.

You are truly showing the weakness of the leftist position and its fluttering of floundering failure in tacit pursuit of endless feelings. Where's the result? Leftism is shit. Keep proving me right. Keep being scared.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 10:05:31 AM
The reality of living with the effects of progressive policy and whistling away, sucking the teet of their golden promise is night and day and more people are waking up thankfully to their dystopian failure. Masha'Allah.

You get it. The problem is progressivism and liberalism. End their rule. White liberals and progressives and leftists are the most racist people I've met in my life and they have a lifestyle that will only lead you to the fire. You too have found the hole behind the veil: progressivism is shit. Kill it. Stab it in the belly and shoot it in the head NOW before it becomes too late.

Less posts with 20 twitter links, plz.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 10:06:14 AM
the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compelling

say that everyone should do it because it's important for public health and for managing the virus over the long term, I have absolutely nothing against that,
Then why add a holocaust comparison on top? For some added heft? :beli

you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage

if I say "apples are like steak in that they can both be eaten" it's disingenuous to come back with "YOU MORON, CLAIMING THAT APPLES ARE SAVORY" when I never said that

you're essentially arguing the idea that no one can compare anything ever because no two things will ever be identical

if you don't want a comparison, then just leave it at what I said: the argument that everyone should do something (anything) just because it is easy is never compelling

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but then you will also need to demonstrate that it does indeed succeed at those functions
Do driver's licences stop people from driving without one? No. Let's do away with them then.
I did not say that it needs to succeed at those functions 100% of the time, a vague improvement is better than nothing, which is why even if few vaccine card "enforcers" (tellers, clerks etc.) even glance at it and people are getting away with fake ones, if it does convince some percentage of the population to just get vaxed, that's probably good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:07:33 AM
Remember Vom, you're the one that compared the positions. Not I. I very much care for homeless people and refuse to see how letting them sleep on the subway, do their drugs in public is "caring" for the homeless
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 10:07:36 AM
omicron is no shit because of vaccines and boosters and distancing and not making people all virulent. crazy leftists



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Rufus on December 28, 2021, 10:07:49 AM
you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage
:doge
You need to understand tact and tastelessness.

I did not say that it needs to succeed at those functions 100% of the time, a vague improvement is better than nothing, which is why even if few vaccine card "enforcers" (tellers, clerks etc.) even glance at it and people are getting away with fake ones, if it does convince some percentage of the population to just get vaxed, that's probably good
Then what's the problem? Back to the slippery slope?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 10:11:12 AM
Yeah, let's leave the "Actually this is just like the Holocaust" arguments at the door.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 10:11:25 AM
you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage
:doge
You need to understand tact and tastelessness.

I also said "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers" which conjures up the menacing spectre of the hit 2013 game Papers, Please
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:14:11 AM
Notice that throughout this discussion not one liberal or leftist has offered one single solution. Just feelings, guilt, and pointed fingers truly solidifying the weakness of their positions. All they know is comply. They refuse to engage in ideas or discussions. They can only villify and make twisted comparisons. Weak. Ineffectual. Crap.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Rufus on December 28, 2021, 10:16:23 AM
you need to understand that a comparison is usually being wielded to make a specific point, and not for including literally all associated baggage
:doge
You need to understand tact and tastelessness.

I also said "what's the problem, it's easy to show them your papers" which conjures up the menacing spectre of the hit 2013 game Papers, Please
(https://media.giphy.com/media/cFgb5p5e1My3K/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 10:19:54 AM
What the fuck are you even talking about.

Solutions to what problem? Concerns of dying from COVID? Vaccines, distancing. Economy dying? Stop spreading COVID. Filthy rich getting their pockets filled?COVID mandates.

Idiots not articulating an argument, himu.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:37:31 AM
You'll need five shots to be fully vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1474096240065449989
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 28, 2021, 10:37:58 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 10:39:46 AM
imagine thinking "full vaccinated" is a thing.

and yelping at the left for being too sciency.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:47:10 AM
imagine thinking "full vaccinated" is a thing.

and yelping at the left for being too sciency.

For a citizen that complies you are woefully misinformed or very naive.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/586402-ny-governor-plans-to-add-booster-shot-to-definition-of-fully-vaccinated
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 10:54:14 AM
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Fauci said earlier this month that it "it's going to be a matter of when, not if” the definition of being “fully vaccinated” changes, but he noted that the change likely was not going to happen right away.
fucking science man, always being non committal. You'd think you'd be more open to something like that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 11:09:43 AM
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Fauci said earlier this month that it "it's going to be a matter of when, not if” the definition of being “fully vaccinated” changes, but he noted that the change likely was not going to happen right away.
fucking science man, always being non committal. You'd think you'd be more open to something like that.

Ah. I forgot science is your ilks religion. Nice backtrack after being proven categorically wrong though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 11:15:01 AM
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?

Fucking clown.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: therealdeal on December 28, 2021, 11:15:57 AM
Notice that throughout this discussion not one liberal or leftist has offered one single solution. Just feelings, guilt, and pointed fingers truly solidifying the weakness of their positions. All they know is comply. They refuse to engage in ideas or discussions. They can only villify and make twisted comparisons. Weak. Ineffectual. Crap.

You should probably figure out why you constantly need a “they” to rail against if you’re actually trying to grow like you say
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 11:24:34 AM
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?

Fucking clown.

I believe in evolution and I believe in vaccines. I do not however believe in endless government creep. Whose the clown? Someone like you that swallows everything they regurgitate even to the point of making boosters mandatory? Seems so. Keep pointing and calling me names. You look utterly pathetic and I'm laughing at your squalid rhetoric.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 11:29:59 AM
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?

Fucking clown.

I believe in evolution and I believe in vaccines. I do not however believe in endless government creep. Whose the clown? Someone like you that swallows everything they regurgitate even to the point of making boosters mandatory? Seems so. Keep pointing and calling me names. You look utterly pathetic and I'm laughing at your squalid rhetoric.


Government creep. Learn something about vaccine mandates in the US and how they have managed and prevented disasters and collapses.

I'll go ahead and swallow all these peer reviewed research and regurgitate this data that proves mandates and boosters minimize people dying on the fucking streets. ( you mentioned something about homeless right?)



Quote from: himu
  I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 11:41:58 AM
I had to get vaccinated several times as a kid in order to attend a public school.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 11:42:26 AM
rumbler invading
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 11:45:00 AM
What's next you don't believe in evolution because new fossils keep being found out of nowhere?

Fucking clown.

I believe in evolution and I believe in vaccines. I do not however believe in endless government creep. Whose the clown? Someone like you that swallows everything they regurgitate even to the point of making boosters mandatory? Seems so. Keep pointing and calling me names. You look utterly pathetic and I'm laughing at your squalid rhetoric.


Government creep. Learn something about vaccine mandates in the US and how they have managed and prevented disasters and collapses.

I'll go ahead and swallow all these peer reviewed research and regurgitate this data that proves mandates and boosters minimize people dying on the fucking streets. ( you mentioned something about homeless right?)



Quote from: himu
  I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there

I am enjoying your troglodytic tears. You know I believe and trust in science or else I wouldn't get three shots so you can't attack me there. You can't defend the government forcing vaccines and especially three shots so you can't attack me there. So you call me a clown and and accuse me of anti-evolution thought. It's pathetic. Behind your veil of wide teeth and a smug sneer I sense crocodile tears and hurt feelings. You know I'm not JayDubya and it bothers you so, so much.

Like most leftists you're nothing but a bully and like with all bullies your power is lost once I stop giving a shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 11:51:28 AM
bringing up jaydubs out of nowhere


legit not sure what to do with that, except to imagine you doing that and then saying you don't give a shit.

I'm minting this nft right here and now, and demi is only a benefactor (30%)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 11:59:26 AM
oh. lol, himu just did a post history search


fucking hell.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 02:26:49 PM
Fascism.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1475843008239218689

Look at these COVID criminals. A family trying to eat.

Thankfully I'm at NYC GOP HQ right fucking now to offer my services.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 03:18:24 PM
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.

"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.

And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."

I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 03:25:45 PM
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.

"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.

And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."

I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.

 :pika
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 03:29:12 PM
thats disrespectful rumbler

dont appropriate the fallen.

gross
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 28, 2021, 03:29:15 PM
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.

"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.

And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."

I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.

Even though that's a more likely scenario than as presented, even if it wasn't which face of the GOP do we think will pretend to care?
The one actively attempting to prevent people without the correct documentation having access to things like jobs or voting?
The one that will champion the use of police services to protect a businesses right to do business in the face of disruption, up to and including overruling the right to protest?
The one fighting for the rights of businesses to be able to selectively offer their services and refuse customers, especially where the business deems those customers harmful to the rest of their business?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 03:33:55 PM
thats disrespectful rumbler

dont appropriate the fallen.

gross

The fallen deserve no respect.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 03:36:59 PM
thats disrespectful rumbler

dont appropriate the fallen.

gross

The fallen deserve no respect.

holy shit
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on December 28, 2021, 03:44:04 PM
thats disrespectful rumbler

dont appropriate the fallen.

gross

The fallen deserve no respect.

I agree. Cindi brings a level of sophisticated and intellectual discussion that was missing from the bore DOT com. No more endless tweets and shit posts.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 03:49:12 PM
Try showing what actually happened. Found some guy in the comments saying this is what actually happened.

"No, a bunch of fucking idiots went into an Applebee's to protest having to wear a mask & did a "sit in" by taking up all the tables and started raising hell. They didn't leave when the manager asked, so the cops were called.

And a mom used her 6 yr old as a pawn."

I don't know what really happened, but this 2 minute video edited down to show only a certain part of what happened is basically the lugenpresse kind of shit people on the right like to rail against.

Link to tweet? Couldn't find it. Stand corrected if so
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 04:14:40 PM
It was quicker to just look up a news article on google. The tweet is basically buried in a quagmire of people showing their disgust, but not actually looking into what happened.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708 (https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708)


When asked about the incident caught on video, an NYPD spokesperson provided Newsweek with information about the protest at the Applebees location, where several individuals entered the location without masks and refused to show their COVID-19 vaccine cards on December 15.

"Upon arrival, officers were informed by the manager that individuals entered, refused to prove vaccination status in compliance with NYS Mandate and requested for the individuals to be removed from the location," the NYPD spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that four individuals were arrested following the protest and were charged with criminal trespass. The individuals seen in the video of the mother and child were not arrested.

Newsweek followed up with the NYPD to confirm that the incident on video occurred on the same date as the December 15 protest but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 04:19:55 PM
kids shouldn't be allowed in restaurants
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 04:22:21 PM
Imagine being a manager at Applebees which already sounds like a fate worse than death and then having to deal with this bullshit.

 :'(
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 28, 2021, 04:39:36 PM
Bring back Nintex please.
The discussion in this thread is  :heh . We need to go back.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 04:51:14 PM
It was quicker to just look up a news article on google. The tweet is basically buried in a quagmire of people showing their disgust, but not actually looking into what happened.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708 (https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-mom-child-being-kicked-out-restaurant-over-new-york-vaccine-mandate-1663708)


When asked about the incident caught on video, an NYPD spokesperson provided Newsweek with information about the protest at the Applebees location, where several individuals entered the location without masks and refused to show their COVID-19 vaccine cards on December 15.

"Upon arrival, officers were informed by the manager that individuals entered, refused to prove vaccination status in compliance with NYS Mandate and requested for the individuals to be removed from the location," the NYPD spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that four individuals were arrested following the protest and were charged with criminal trespass. The individuals seen in the video of the mother and child were not arrested.

Newsweek followed up with the NYPD to confirm that the incident on video occurred on the same date as the December 15 protest but did not receive a response in time for publication.

Good on them for protesting this tyranny. I'm proud of them and they're patriots. These rules are stupid. Thank you for providing this with a news source. I googled and couldn't find anything. Keep protesting and keep fighting! I fully support them.

Joe Biden's America indeed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 04:54:31 PM
Why bring your 6 year old to that shit though and it's not like the guy running the restaurant asked for these rules.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 04:55:33 PM
Why bring your 6 year old to that shit though and it's not like the guy running the restaurant asked for these rules.

So what? Black folks brought children to sit ins. How does that change that it's an injustice. Arrested for not showing vaccination proof in an Applebee's. Like I said before it's fascism and tyrannical. I feel very good having spoken to NY Republicans today and look forward to canvassing for them!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 04:55:51 PM
ironically himu is a product of bidens america
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 04:57:19 PM
again, comparing civil rights to fucking medical vaccination.

fuking crazy pills i seem to be taking are grade AAA fauci approved.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 04:59:22 PM
again, comparing civil rights to fucking medical vaccination.

fuking crazy pills i seem to be taking are grade AAA fauci approved.

It is the American peoples civil right to eat in an establishment without being othered for not having taken a vaccine! It is the American peoples civil right to work without being terminated for not taking a vaccine! I do not like this precedent despite being vaxxed. It is morally wrong and the vaccine doesn't even stop the spread. This is illogical grand standing and nothing more.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Occam on December 28, 2021, 05:03:55 PM
Jesus H. Christ on a stick! You are such a moron.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:06:45 PM
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the vaccine doesn't even stop the spread.

You fucking idiot. The vaccine stops the virus from getting to the point of spreading.

It's the purpose of A vaccine.


Virus mutate and spread when it's allowed to spread. If you minimize the volume of the spread your can help to eradicate the virus because it can't spread further.


I'm going insane trying to explain this on simpler terms.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:10:13 PM
Like all leftists you are unable to see beyond the scope of your bubble. You say it's wrong to compare it to civil rights but this issue disproportionately affects black people.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-people-low-vaccination-rates-150200517.html

I will do all I can to canvass and flip as many seats in NY to spite your racist ideology of control or comply. Like all liberal policies, it is comply without thinking about results. It is only ever about how you feel. I pray for comeuppance and that it be swift.

https://www.westernjournal.com/vaccine-mandate-backlash-black-voters-just-sent-biden-unmistakable-message/

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the vaccine doesn't even stop the spread.

You fucking idiot. The vaccine stops the virus from getting to the point of spreading.

It's the purpose of A vaccine.


Virus mutate and spread when it's allowed to spread. If you minimize the volume of the spread your can help to eradicate the virus because it can't spread further.


I'm going insane trying to explain this on simpler terms.

I can still get the virus as a vaccinated individual. I can still spread it. I'm very aware of virus mutations.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:14:10 PM
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.

You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.

Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 05:15:15 PM
Some condoms break, so why use them at all?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:17:14 PM
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.

You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.

Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.

Deprived of vaccines? No, the problem is a mandate that limits every day life which forces a vaccine against a persons personal choice. It is sinister. If you don't get that nothing will get through to you, racist enabler.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 05:18:12 PM
Arrested for not showing vaccination proof in an Applebee's.

That's not what they got arrested for. They were asked by the owner to leave, which is seemingly one of the rights right-wing people love to fight for. Then they got arrested for not complying with the request to leave.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:19:54 PM
Arrested for not showing vaccination proof in an Applebee's.

That's not what they got arrested for. They were asked by the owner to leave, which is seemingly one of the rights right-wing people love to fight for. Then they got arrested for not complying with the request to leave.

They were arrested because they were asked to leave for refusing to comply to a vaccine mandate request. Good on them!

Please, in concrete terms, tell me a vaccine mandate or vaccine pass to eat in a restaurant is good.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:21:54 PM
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.

You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.

Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.

Deprived of vaccines? No, the problem is a mandate that limits every day life which forces a vaccine against a persons personal choice. It is sinister. If you don't get that nothing will get through to you, racist enabler.

Idiots like you spreading stupid shit about vaccines is sinister. While being tripple V'ed yourself. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:22:27 PM
Fucking selfish hypocrite.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:23:31 PM
black people being deprived of vaccines doesn't negate your stupid conjectures that unrelated to minorities being deprived of a voice.

You're using it as a tool to push stupid shit, the same way manchin, biden, trump and clinton try and twist shit.

Fuck you for saying I have racist ideology when you're actively perpetuating it.

Deprived of vaccines? No, the problem is a mandate that limits every day life which forces a vaccine against a persons personal choice. It is sinister. If you don't get that nothing will get through to you, racist enabler.

Idiots like you spreading stupid shit about vaccines is sinister. While being tripple V'ed yourself.

Spreading stupid shit about vaccines? Oh you mean like,"I think you should get the vaccine but think that forcing people to get one or forcing people to show proof of one in order to eat is immoral"? Boo hoo, leftist.

Nice double post. You mad?  :-*
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:26:57 PM
yea i am, cause your stupid shit hurt people
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:28:11 PM
:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 05:29:49 PM
see you next time when you come around, and I will still hope for the best for you.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 05:45:03 PM
They were arrested because they were asked to leave for refusing to comply to a vaccine mandate request. Good on them!

Please, in concrete terms, tell me a vaccine mandate or vaccine pass to eat in a restaurant is good.

The best course of action would be to lock down everything. If you want to keep the economy running, the vaccine mandate/pass is your second best course of action to keep the spread of the virus as low as possible whilst keeping the economy running. Is it nice? No. But it's better than just letting the virus run rampant.

What's best for public health doesn't neccesarily have to be the thing you deem to be good or nice.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:49:50 PM
Better than letting the virus run rampant. When we were first getting started to understand the virus? Sure. Now? Fuck that. And fuck the endless safety protocols in the guise of "safety". Almost two years of this. Two. Years.

(https://i.imgur.com/bQzsVKr.gif)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: HardcoreRetro on December 28, 2021, 05:52:15 PM
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 05:56:54 PM
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.

Who cares. Learn to live with it. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated if you need to. Most of America already is. Who gives a fuck. Move on. We are going to sit here and be scared till it goes away? Life moves the fuck on virus or no virus. I am not stopping shit especially after nearly two years of this. I've done all I've could. I've done everything right. I no longer care.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 28, 2021, 05:58:48 PM
It's disgusting fascism to try and make people eating in an Applebee's show proof of vaccination.

Also, can't we just round up all the homeless and put them in a camp or something?

:what
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:01:09 PM
Ah, so it's not human to have a goddamn limit.

Especially after a summer of beautiful, beautiful freedom. Now they're soft lockdowning and taking everything back!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 06:04:19 PM
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.

Who cares. Learn to live with it. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated if you need to. Most of America already is. Who gives a fuck. Move on. We are going to sit here and be scared till it goes away? Life moves the fuck on virus or no virus. I am not stopping shit especially after nearly two years of this. I've done all I've could. I've done everything right. I no longer care.

Imagine arguing yourself.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:05:18 PM
I wear a mask on the train. I wear a mask when I can. I do what I can. It's perfectly reasonable to not give a shit anymore and you cannot guilt trip me for thinking so.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
cough
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:13:54 PM
Benji:

https://reason.com/podcast/2021/12/18/two-libertarians-debate-vaccine-mandates/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 06:18:51 PM
libertarians

lol

thanks for that
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on December 28, 2021, 06:21:01 PM
what do you call a libertarian who ran out of money?

walked into the wrong mansion.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 06:31:45 PM
https://news.gallup.com/poll/358373/justice-roberts-tops-federal-leaders-americans-approval.aspx
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 28, 2021, 07:23:31 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/kurtbardella/status/1475911897019002887
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 07:56:35 PM
https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/1475901344275959818

You'll be shocked by what this data shows!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 28, 2021, 07:57:53 PM
It's as if it's still a dangerous virus.

Who cares. Learn to live with it. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated if you need to. Most of America already is. Who gives a fuck. Move on. We are going to sit here and be scared till it goes away? Life moves the fuck on virus or no virus. I am not stopping shit especially after nearly two years of this. I've done all I've could. I've done everything right. I no longer care.

1,200+ people are still dying from covid every day. And that number is trending upward again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 08:28:42 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/kurtbardella/status/1475911897019002887

I've heard this before ::)

Newsflash. People hate Democrats so much Trump gained 70m voters last election.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 28, 2021, 09:42:24 PM
I've heard this before ::)

Newsflash. People hate Democrats so much Trump gained 70m voters last election.

wouldn't you say to some extent the problem with democrats is embracing the fringe extreme? people screaming about going more left, leftist rather than merely liberal, driving away the normies? remember the clashes within the party itself at times when it was pelosi vs. "the squad" arguing about whether to rein it in or go further woke

if some of that is what turned you away from the democrat party, couldn't something similar happen to republicans
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 28, 2021, 10:52:18 PM
I've heard this before ::)

Newsflash. People hate Democrats so much Trump gained 70m voters last election.

wouldn't you say to some extent the problem with democrats is embracing the fringe extreme? people screaming about going more left, leftist rather than merely liberal, driving away the normies? remember the clashes within the party itself at times when it was pelosi vs. "the squad" arguing about whether to rein it in or go further woke

if some of that is what turned you away from the democrat party, couldn't something similar happen to republicans

That's not why I've turned away from D's. I've hated D's since Obama. Hochul isn't progressive she's a center left dino. However it's the progressive policies Ive seen in action which proves to me progressivism/socialism don't work and that was the only reason I've stuck with D's for so long. I've said before that progressive policies are ineffectual and based on emotion and feelings rather than results. With this in mind my options are either don't vote or vote red. Like I said, witnessing the poor policies of liberalism reveals only two options: choosing leftism or choosing conservatism. I've decided to choose conservatism. Also, I learned to believe in myself beyond victomhood here and that the only thing keeping myself from growing is myself. R's on a federal level is just icing. On a state and local level? Hell yes. Republicans fall in line so such a schism is unlikely.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 05:29:03 AM
Now that I've gotten sleep I can further expound. Democrats platform and strategy isn't fringe. It's mainstream. Democrats enjoy being allies with Big Tech. Democrats censor thought and speech by extension which I find the biggest threat to humanity as it is now: using technology to control minds and hearts. Democrats have gleefully jumped aboard to population thought control. Democrats get control what is said, allowed, and heard in the public sphere. They aligned themselves with a corporate stranglehold on speech and what is allowed to be said. Democrats bully and coerce. They don't value freedom and will toss away any freedom in the name of security and safety. This isn't fringe. This is the Democratic agenda du jour. Yet they claim to speak for me, people like me, working class people, and more. All talk as they sip from their corporate master's teet. The same people that criticize capitalism are on board with this party if it weren't laughable enough.

Republicans have a lot of issues, Islam phobia being one of my top issues with them. But at this point I consider them the lesser evil. You claim the right could fall under the pressure of too many interests but our interests are aligned. Democrats however have to contend with progressives, center dems, conservative Dems, and now former Republicans under one roof. Tough pill to swallow. Years ago I thought Trump destroyed the Republican party when in fact he's destroyed the Democratic Party. Look at Manchin. Look at Sinema. Look at their ability to not hold an agenda because of the too many pots and pans. And they control all three branches with tiny majority. Meanwhile Republicans stick to the plan. I very much wish I voted for Trump 2020 so, so bad.

Moreover, look at the Democratic "platform", Uncle. It's all pretty much "wouldn't it be nice if...____ happened" A platform of wishful dreams and hope to keep your arm endlessly outstretched.

And lo and behold, Uncle. Like I said. Western governments are running face forward towards Chinese like thought control on its populace and they're using COVID as a way to rapidly push down boundaries that were hard to break before. Which do you think the Democrats would side with in this situation, Uncle? As I said. They're the greater evil. Except it'll be sponsored by Starbucks and have some crappy ass corporate drawing with abstract art.


https://twitter.com/l3onx/status/1475758427213336579

Edit: see, on my way to work I spied a local coffee shop sign here in Chinatown. The sign? "Vaccinated and Caffeinated." Vaccination, which I support and suggest everyone get, is being treated like the latest iPhone. It is a status symbol and shame tactic, not a thing of public health. This is why conservatives curate comparisons of liberals as socialists. Not because they actually are socialists but because they use coercion and shame tactics via the group which leads to no room for the individual, similar to communist regimes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 08:26:31 AM
https://youtu.be/kWDCWOLEM9M

:lol

Let's go Brandon!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 09:29:19 AM
https://youtu.be/kWDCWOLEM9M

:lol

Let's go Brandon!

White people are so cringe.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 09:35:37 AM
https://youtu.be/kWDCWOLEM9M

:lol

Let's go Brandon!

White people are so cringe.

https://youtu.be/06bhL_HcDbo

*dances*
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 09:48:09 AM
Just grade-school tier humor. And not even, like, 8th grade, but 3rd grade.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 10:00:11 AM
Just grade-school tier humor. And not even, like, 8th grade, but 3rd grade.

:yeshrug

I'm sure wearing a pink hat and screaming FUCK TRUMP for four years is just as mature. Remember the images of Trump in a diaper? The blow up baby balloon in UK? It's almost as it political humor always devolves into elementary school tier joshing. You're not that special and liberals aren't as clever as they think. Same shit, different team. Let's go Brandon!

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on December 29, 2021, 10:19:57 AM
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.

Pretty much. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 10:26:50 AM
Just grade-school tier humor. And not even, like, 8th grade, but 3rd grade.

:yeshrug

I'm sure wearing a pink hat and screaming FUCK TRUMP for four years is just as mature. Remember the images of Trump in a diaper? The blow up baby balloon in UK? It's almost as it political humor always devolves into elementary school tier joshing. You're not that special and liberals aren't as clever as they think. Same shit, different team. Let's go Brandon!

Uh, yeah, I thought that was pretty stupid, too. Especially since any joke about Trump is merely a pale imitation of the living joke that the man himself is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 10:27:46 AM
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.

Can't monetize that, though. LGB is just another grift and plenty of people are happy to lap it up [and crack open their wallets].
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 10:41:45 AM
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.

Let's Go Brandon is way better. For one it's clean, which makes it impossible to censor in an age where anything non-left is censored. Two, it makes liberals annoyed which is the ultimate icing. Three, the circumstances that made it arise is Simpsons esque and absolutely hilarious. Four, you can't tell me what to do. :yeshrug

Let's go Brandon.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 10:49:14 AM
Literally none of those are true, it just makes you look like some boomer on facebook

All of them are true. :rejoice

I remember when some twit flipped off Trump and got elected to public office but liberals are reeeeeing about LGB dad and calling it a slur. :lol It makes me want to keep saying it!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 29, 2021, 11:19:52 AM
https://twitter.com/l3onx/status/1475758427213336579

If you can't use critical thinking to discern between signal and noise, you should honestly get the fuck off Twitter for your own mental health.

The NHS app is a general purpose medical app.
Yes, it contains a record of vaccination.
Yes, it contains a record of what if any prescription medicine someone is on, and when the prescription renews / expires.
Yes, it lets you book / cancel / amend doctors appointments.

Like... What the fuck do you think the purpose of a medical history app is?

The part related to 'social / lifestyle / political' data that is tracked but stored locally for anonymity is about meta data.

If you go to a venue that has an outbreak, should you know there was one - the 'track and trace'  aspect? Yes, that's how you can reduce outbreaks. There's no way of doing that without that record.

Can you infer details about someone based on where they visit if that's not anonymised? Of fucking course you can.
If someone is regularly going to a synagogue you can probably infer their religion.
If someone is regularly going to a gay bar you can probably infer their sexuality.
If someone is regularly going to a pub for hours on end and not a gym, you can probably infer something about their lifestyle.

That's what that disclaimer means and why those details are stored locally - so if there's an outbreak at your swingers club you can know to self isolate, but without telling everyone you got it at the swingers club.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 11:21:16 AM
Of course you'll find some way for defend it all in the name of public good. :lol The left truly are despotic. I was right about them the whole time but gave them a chance. I should have stuck with initial instinct.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 29, 2021, 11:29:02 AM
:dunno

It's storing less data about me and my lifestyle than fucking Facebook does, so I'm not sure what the big deal is.

You don't even need the app. You get a paper card when you get vaccinated.
Track and trace is the least fucking intrusive option to long term stop outbreaks. I don't know what's despotic about that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 11:29:52 AM
Just say fuck Joe Biden. No one cares, man.

Let's Go Brandon is way better. For one it's clean, which makes it impossible to censor in an age where anything non-left is censored. Two, it makes liberals annoyed which is the ultimate icing. Three, the circumstances that made it arise is Simpsons esque and absolutely hilarious. Four, you can't tell me what to do. :yeshrug

Let's go Brandon.

This is just embarassing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 11:52:01 AM
Agreed. When faced with the philosophical and moralistic failures of liberalism, outside of deciding to not participate altogether, one is finally faced with only two real choices: leftism or conservatism. Unfortunately due to my experiences with the left I am not sold on leftism as they appear more interested in credo and identity politics and oppression Olympics over results. I'm far more convinced by conservatism. Leftism in comparison is in many ways laughable.
This is a false choice. There are more options than "leftism" and "conservatism" out there. Also there is no need to adhere completely to any single option as described by another.

Don't define yourself solely by what you are against, it's also important to know what it is that you are for.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 03:45:14 PM
Agreed. When faced with the philosophical and moralistic failures of liberalism, outside of deciding to not participate altogether, one is finally faced with only two real choices: leftism or conservatism. Unfortunately due to my experiences with the left I am not sold on leftism as they appear more interested in credo and identity politics and oppression Olympics over results. I'm far more convinced by conservatism. Leftism in comparison is in many ways laughable.
This is a false choice. There are more options than "leftism" and "conservatism" out there. Also there is no need to adhere completely to any single option as described by another.

Don't define yourself solely by what you are against, it's also important to know what it is that you are for.

Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.

Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 04:21:54 PM
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.

Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.

In any case, the Republicans are probably not a viable party in New York if they cling to MAGA (or conservatism even in a Reaganite form) and are especially not in New York City outside of Staten Island. The mandates are not going to turn people into single-issue voters even if you have personally become one over them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 05:05:41 PM
This is what my conservative Republican state is getting up to these days:

https://twitter.com/zittrain/status/1476231700644569091

Every day I'm thankful to not be in school anymore. :goty
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 05:38:39 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1475851939371962368

the kween :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 06:19:32 PM
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.

Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.

In any case, the Republicans are probably not a viable party in New York if they cling to MAGA (or conservatism even in a Reaganite form) and are especially not in New York City outside of Staten Island. The mandates are not going to turn people into single-issue voters even if you have personally become one over them.

Republicans run things in Staten Island, many parts of southern Brooklyn (especially Coney Island). Then there's entire areas like Suffolk County (Long Island). This map doesn't even include east of a specific point where it gets far more blood red.

(https://i.imgur.com/yVPFdBS.png)

As for the state itself,

Being Republican in NY state is extremely viable. The Democratic stranglehold is only fairly recent and Republicans are mounting an offense. There were many upsets this past election due to lower Dem turnout and Republicans are slated to gain even more momentum.

The idea that because NY is a blue state that means there's no avenues for Republicans is false, and a myth. You fell for it hook, line, and sinker. We are literally neighbors with NJ, the same state that almost marginally flipped from blue to red in 2021 just last month. You think I'm the only one flipping? :lol

Niagara Falls report.

https://news.yahoo.com/top-10-big-republican-turnout-224600442.html

NY Times reports: "N.Y. Democrats Assess Losses to Republicans: ‘This Was a Shellacking’"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/republican-election-results-new-york.html

2016 state map.

(https://i.imgur.com/1PPhbQj.jpg)

Being Republican in NY nets you many opportunities. The great thing about NY is that Democrats have power and they can't go too far because much of the state votes Republican. The Republicans act as a check. But now with all these mandates the Democratic Party has gone beyond the threshold and they need to be punished thoroughly.

The idea that NY is like California and a Democratic bastion is a media myth. Thanks for falling for it? Long Island and Queens is a great place to get a house to be honest and where I plan on setting up roots.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 06:22:42 PM
Land doesn't vote.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 06:23:50 PM
Other kween:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHyY3nhWQAAgGQa?format=jpg&name=small)
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1476215613798322176
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: tiesto on December 29, 2021, 06:44:57 PM
Disagree. Third parties are not viable. In America we have a two party system. If Biden isn't correct, Trump obviously is. Currently Republicans are the only people in the country fighting mandates on a wide level. Sure, there's libertarians but the Libertarian Party is a joke of a joke and not viable. Republican is the only choice besides not voting. It's A, B, C, D, Benji.

Went to Trump Tower today and it was pretty cool and friendly. Bought a certain red hat.
You're conflating two things. Electoral strategy and personal ideology are obviously not the same thing. You didn't make a statement about Democrats and Republicans. You argued that "liberalism" had failed and the only choices left were "leftism" and "conservatism" which meant you had to choose conservatism. This continues to be false. Eluding this by pointing to partisan electoral politics is not a response.

In any case, the Republicans are probably not a viable party in New York if they cling to MAGA (or conservatism even in a Reaganite form) and are especially not in New York City outside of Staten Island. The mandates are not going to turn people into single-issue voters even if you have personally become one over them.

Republicans run things in Staten Island, many parts of southern Brooklyn (especially Coney Island). Then there's entire areas like Suffolk County (Long Island). This map doesn't even include east of a specific point where it gets far more blood red.

(https://i.imgur.com/yVPFdBS.png)

As for the state itself,

Being Republican in NY state is extremely viable. The Democratic stranglehold is only fairly recent and Republicans are mounting an offense. There were many upsets this past election due to lower Dem turnout and Republicans are slated to gain even more momentum.

The idea that because NY is a blue state that means there's no avenues for Republicans is false, and a myth. You fell for it hook, line, and sinker. We are literally neighbors with NJ, the same state that almost marginally flipped from blue to red in 2021 just last month. You think I'm the only one flipping? :lol

Niagara Falls report.

https://news.yahoo.com/top-10-big-republican-turnout-224600442.html

NY Times reports: "N.Y. Democrats Assess Losses to Republicans: ‘This Was a Shellacking’"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/republican-election-results-new-york.html

2016 state map.

(https://i.imgur.com/1PPhbQj.jpg)

Being Republican in NY nets you many opportunities. The great thing about NY is that Democrats have power and they can't go too far because much of the state votes Republican. The Republicans act as a check. But now with all these mandates the Democratic Party has gone beyond the threshold and they need to be punished thoroughly.

The idea that NY is like California and a Democratic bastion is a media myth. Thanks for falling for it? Long Island and Queens is a great place to get a house to be honest and where I plan on setting up roots.

Well, Suffolk elected Trump by under 250 votes... which is a drop in the bucket considering we're one of the most populous counties in the country (1.46 million). The Trump fans here are a very loud, barely majority - you'll see like 10 protestors ad nauseum in front of some of the government buildings here and the corner by the bagel shop I go to.

If you want to move to Suffolk, though, you might like the Stony Brook area (I grew up and live near there) - large state university, decent restaurant scene (lots of Asian restaurants have opened in the past 10 years for instance), 1.5 hours to the city by train/1 by car, near a big mall and lots of big box stores. There's also the Patchogue area, which was pretty dumpy when I was growing up but radically reinvented itself as a new urbanist dream over the last few years - expensive apartments, lots of bars, and a ton of rowdy drunk 20 year olds. If you're interested I could give you a run-down on LI places to move to/places to avoid, based on what you're looking for.

Some things to keep in mind about the island - houses are really expensive and taxes are absolutely ridiculous. There aren't a whole lot of options beyond single-family homes, and most of the construction is from the 60s and 70s; newer mcmansion style will run you at least 700k at the minimum, and brand-new homes are just not a thing anywhere but on the forks (due to it being so built up). Due to the lack of townhouses and apartments, their prices are higher relative to the rest of the country - my ex was paying $1k for a converted garage studio apt. And you'll need a car to get a lot of places (we have buses and the LIRR but there's a lot of places lacking in access to either), even basic necessities like grocery shopping and entertainment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 07:21:48 PM
I'm considering Queens over LI anyways.

Queens is beautiful and the houses are more affordable. Every time I go to Queens I end up thinking,"this place is the spot!" Feels like a place to set some roots.

Pictures from Trump Tower.

(https://i.imgur.com/fHtbOdG.jpg)

The MAGA hat.

(https://i.imgur.com/L29gw4l.jpg)

Went back to my apartment wearing my hat. Some of the reactions I got were amazing. One black guy did a double take, stared at me and kept screaming,"they hate you, THEY HATE YOU!" I just laughed. I asked one cop if I was near the 5 train because it had been a while since I went to that part of 5th avenue (I knew it was on 59th) and his face was startled and confused at first. Most people ignored me. The fellas at the Trump Tower, which was full of very good people, gave me a thumbs up and gave me confidence to wear it home rather than keep it tucked in the bag. I really felt camaraderie at Trump Tower. I didn't feel judged like I do online. I felt I could express myself freely. No one was racist. I wasn't the only black person or minority period. It was just full of people enjoying their day, eating at a nice, fancy restaurant or taking in the sights while shopping or taking selfies. Everyone was masked, including me. I really enjoyed my time there. Later I made a stop before heading home and didn't feel judged by the other people despite me wearing a MAGA hat. We laughed and got on really well.

I had a good time. It really struck a nerve that my blackness doesn't matter that much but my character. The people I met in line were also black. You'd think they'd judge me but I let them have my space in line (it was a mother and daughter) because I was raised to be a gentleman. For so long I've limited myself or defined myself through my blackness. Perhaps it's time to shed that aspect of myself. I am a person who happens to be black, not a black person. I was already sick and tired of blackness as it is and how so many people define themselves through so this was a nice step forward. Blackness truly is boring as I wrote before.

Best part of Trump Tower is they didn't ask if I was vaxxed. Finally some normalcy in this pit of totalitarianistic horse crap.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 29, 2021, 07:34:37 PM
This is what my conservative Republican state is getting up to these days:

https://twitter.com/zittrain/status/1476231700644569091

Every day I'm thankful to not be in school anymore. :goty

I would systematically request that every book in every school library be removed to bury everyone in red tape and also potentially make $$$$$

hell yes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive)

Quote
The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of a (possibly ahistorical) occurrence in India during British rule.[2][3][4] The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.[5]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 07:43:16 PM
Good on Oklahoma. I wish the law weren't too strict as it can be abused. Just keep it to certain topics.

https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpuwzSvIxHM

That said, good on Oklahoma for protecting our nations children and away from adult-based agendas and overt mental illness. Good job, Oklahoma GOP.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 29, 2021, 07:59:42 PM
https://youtu.be/QeU0VZDr3m8

:rejoice Protect us, guvs :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2021, 09:17:21 PM
Nate Silver making himself look stupid again:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1476350997178064897
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2021, 10:30:45 PM
Good on Oklahoma. I wish the law weren't too strict as it can be abused. Just keep it to certain topics.

https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpuwzSvIxHM

That said, good on Oklahoma for protecting our nations children and away from adult-based agendas and overt mental illness. Good job, Oklahoma GOP.

lmao okay bruh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Rufus on December 30, 2021, 11:28:21 AM
No moral compass, just 100% with whoever makes you feel good at the moment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2021, 04:56:12 PM
https://youtu.be/It-SaPc-tBE

(https://i.imgur.com/sajNXCf.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2021, 05:16:22 PM
No moral compass, just 100% with whoever makes you feel good at the moment.

:lol

Nah. Both parties are evil. Both bomb brown people and Muslims. Both are racist. Both support the drug war. Both support Israel apartheid. Both support funneling weapons to terrorists. However, we have only two real choices. So if you want to participate you have to choose. To me, vaccine mandates go against my morals. Democrats and liberals and progressives and leftists love limiting speech, actions, liberty, and personal freedom. So right now I'll support GOP. Since neither party are for me, I will vote for my best option at any one time.

The options in America are: 1. be a party loyalist (:lol), 2. don't vote and don't participate, 3. Swing!, 4. vote third party. If you come to the conclusion that neither party is truly good, you will start to vote for which aligns closer to your values. Vaccine mandates, firing people for not taking a vaccine, totalitarian virtue signaling, speech and thought control, giving illegal immigrants the ability to vote, and decades of failing to promise black Americans go against my moral compass. I did better under Trump! So I might well as well flip. This 2+2=4 and perfectly logical. You're just too in your emotions to see it.

When I articulate my disgust with vaccine mandates I am shamed by the liberal flock. Taking away someone's job is utterly depraved especially during a time of high job shortages. Rather than have an opportunity to swing me to their side, they shame like they always do. Therefore this shows our moral compass is actually very different and not worth aligning with.

Also, living in NYC has shown me liberal policies do not work. Being a progressive in a red state is like being Alice in Wonderland: a dream, nothing more. At the end of the day you're just a judgemental European. I don't care what you think.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/briefing/swing-voters-us-elections.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Occam on December 30, 2021, 05:27:34 PM
You know what really pisses of libruls? Nazis.
This what you should get next:
(http://alloallo-hire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/swastika_armband.jpg)
Lots of camaraderie, too.
With this, your new friends will love you even more!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2021, 06:01:45 PM
You know what really pisses of libruls? Nazis.
This what you should get next.
(http://alloallo-hire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/swastika_armband.jpg)
Lots of camaraderie, too. You'll love it!

:lol

In the four years of Trump as President no one came for me and I lived in Texas. It was all media fear tactics.

I wonder which is more like the Nazi's:

1. A media that defends and pushes your agenda - lgbtq, feminism, endless ads on vaccines (I'm pro-vaxxed and even I feel like I'm being programmed in NYC. Will the next vaccine ad feature nothing but black people again??), endless fear (Omicron! Winter of death!)

2. Your ilk controls speech. I can't even say taco or distinguished mentally-challenged on this website. Control, control, control in the name of keeping others "safe". Once you notice it, it's impossible not to notice.

3. Any minority knows white liberals and white leftists treat us like trash if you hold any opinion outside of their orthodoxy. They deem people different from them utterly incapable.

4. Left people are lacking morality. I've always spoke out how I HATE how they will piss on someone's grave. Take a recent death in Lowtax for example. An orgy of salivating leftists gyrating over the fact someone they didn't like died. "It's okay, he was a piece of shit" ignoring that celebrating someone's death - especially by suicide, yikes - makes you pretty shitty too. At least I am open to my flaws. Leftists deem themselves moral paragons. These are the people that think they're more moral. You call everyone else Nazi's while laughing at the deaths of your opponents. :yeshrug Hard to take your claims seriously when you regularly dehumanize any viewpoint not your own.

Yet everything that you disagree with is Nazism. At this point what isn't Nazism?

Everything about leftists and the leftist platform is about control. If you don't think homeless people should be able to shoot up on the subway then obviously you don't care about them. See? Using an emotional appeal. To do what? Control and guilt and shame. Vaccine mandates? To control your body. Vaccine cards for entry? Controlling your actions through shame. "Vaccinated and caffeinated!" Endless virtue signaling to show your superior ways to control, to silence, to guilt, to shame. You make me sick. If you don't agree with us and our methods then you're obviously on the wrong side.

Who really, are the real Nazis?

Aren't you another Euro? Like I expect you to understand Americans or American issues.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2021, 06:04:30 PM
A year ago you were blue no matter who, a year before that you were all about being a gun owning GOP diehard, I'm sure by the next election cycle you'll be cycled back to "wow Republicans actually suck, vote DEM!!!!!!!!" and pretend like none of these posts were ever made

I really regret going blue no matter who. I was so wrong. I felt pressured into it despite loathing Hillary, loathing Biden, loathing Kamala. For years I've voted against what I felt was right because of the looming "Nazi threat". They reward Americans with vaccine mandates and terminating vulnerable citizens. No more. I'll join the other side. I put my faith in the Democratic Party and they return it with totalitarianism. You don't understand that me going blue no matter who is precisely WHY I am doing this. Since I, in the past, gave up my personal disregard for Democrats and put my faith in them, why should I continue to reward them? In the past year every single conspiracy theory lobbied by Trumpers turned out to be true. Vaccine mandates. Vaccine passports. Vaccine chips!

Your entire point is self defeating and precisely why this is necessary. I've been logical this entire time. You simply lack the mental effort or empathy to understand it.

A few years back I felt I was doing what I felt was right by getting with Republicans. I only halted it because of Trump and social pressure. Now I realize I should have stayed with them all along.

The best part about vaccine mandates and other mandates is how it reveals how right the conservatives were this entire fucking time about liberals. Now they've gone full mask off and I thank them for that.

From AnnCoulter.com

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As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).

When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/03/04/5-ways-liberals-try-to-control-you-n1803689

Thank Fuck someone speaking sense after months of mandates and hyperdrive liberalism and ineffectual policy masquerading as safety protocol. Get fucked. Conservatism is the only answer.

You cannot control me any longer, liberal.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 30, 2021, 07:10:43 PM
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I can't even say taco or distinguished mentally-challenged on this website.

this time the libs have gone too far
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cryo on December 30, 2021, 09:46:40 PM

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As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).

When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/03/04/5-ways-liberals-try-to-control-you-n1803689

Thank Fuck someone speaking sense after months of mandates and hyperdrive liberalism and ineffectual policy masquerading as safety protocol. Get fucked. Conservatism is the only answer.

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abortion-on-demand
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/texas-abortion-heartbeat-ban/index.html

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gay marriage
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/states-across-u-s-still-cling-outdated-gay-marriage-bans-n1137936

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condom distribution in public schools
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-03-07/abstinence-only-education-bill-passes-utah-senate

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screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”
https://bookriot.com/texas-book-ban-list/
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Of course, The Hunger Games isn’t listed, and neither is Battle Royale. After all, stories about kids killing each other doesn’t cause students “discomfort,” but a book that mentions a character’s gay uncle is apparently scarring.

A lot of what you've been posting since returning seems to be you equating the internet to real life and also highlighting the general progression of [whatever group you want to call "not-liberals"] is waging against education, deeming it "brainwashing," in an effort to get "complacent" populaces entirely fueled by "fuck y'all, got mine" and squeezing as much profit from our country and our planet as they can before wiping their hands of what future generations will experience, doubly enforced by also passing laws preventing them from being held responsible.

My next reply will be when you have returned from your next self-imposed exile where you tell us you have left conservatism.  Hope you have a great new years weekend.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2021, 09:51:41 PM
Education? My main ire is mandates. They go against liberty and are immoral. :lol

Conflating internet with real life? I'm pretty sure if I step outside my door I'll be greeted with a rainbow flag or something or maybe some ad about how you can help your lgbt child. :lol Where the hell do you think I live? This is everywhere I go.

(https://i.imgur.com/UrfadqN.jpg)

Everywhere I go is some agenda.

Treating every single part of life as a fucking ad.

https://youtu.be/PyIigvwqCLw

"Conflating the internet with real life?"

Let's not forget Faceboook Covid banners. I AM BOOSTED! Or t-shirts advertising you're proudly vaccinated and therefore better than everyone. And let's not forget signs like VACCINATED AND CAFFEINATED. It's endless virtue parade. Vaccinations for liberals, because of the politics they're linked to, have gone from something health related to a status symbol no different than the latest iPhone. The fact it's COMMUNISTS that don't get it always makes me lose my shit.

(https://i.imgur.com/8ikJTTI.gif)

See ya then. :lol

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on December 31, 2021, 12:32:40 AM
https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1476629444869693441

lol...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 09:43:15 AM
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s7568

Lol

Adding CDC to the list?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 10:58:05 AM
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1476166916347736065
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 31, 2021, 11:45:14 AM
It's gotta be tough having to see rainbow flag and a sign on how to correctly wear a mask every day.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 11:57:45 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-2022-reckoning/?utm_source=recirc-mobile&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=hero&utm_content=related&utm_term=first

It's gotta be tough having to see rainbow flag and a sign on how to correctly wear a mask every day.

It's about layers. This is one layer. But controlling speech is another. Liberals tell what is and isn't right to say. Controlling thought is another. It's fine if you're pro-vax but if you're anti-mandate then you're obviously a Nazi, which leads to control through shame and guilt tripping through emotional appeal - the final layer. It's all done for one solitary reason: control. We're right. You're wrong. Control. We control what's permissable and what's okay in society and if you disagree you're a bigot. Control. We control the language and what can and can't be said and if you don't like it you're a bigot. Control. So they lose their shit about Dave Chappelle talking about racist progressive LGBT people and try to cancel him. They find out Chris Pratt is conservative and Christian so they turn on him too. It may seem an innoceous sign about public health but imagine seeing it every day for a fucking year. Control through capitalism and ideology.

The left are the greater evil. The only options are to go further left, into leftism, which isn't an option because they support this type of thought, speech, and action policing. The only option is conservatism because they're the only people in society fighting it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on December 31, 2021, 12:15:00 PM
Everywhere I go is some agenda.

Treating every single part of life as a fucking ad.


The MAGA hat.

(https://i.imgur.com/L29gw4l.jpg)

Went back to my apartment wearing my hat.

:mike

From AnnCoulter.com

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As Stan Evans says, whatever liberals disapprove of, they want banned (smoking, guns, practicing Christianity, ROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance) and whatever they approve of, they make mandatory (abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, pornography, condom distribution in public schools, screenings of “An Inconvenient Truth”).

When liberals say, “nothing is sacrosanct,” they mean “nothing other Americans consider sacrosanct is sacrosanct.” They demonstrate their open-mindedness by ridiculing other people’s dogma, but will not brook the most trifling criticism of their own dogmas.

Surely you can see that this is, as they call it, false equivalency?
Just as you can - and should - apply cui bono to statements, you can also apply cui malo to ask 'what is the harm'?
The liberalism you profess to despise recognises the rights of people up to the point it infringes on someone elses rights.

Who is harmed by, to use one of those examples, abortion being legal (and sidenote: it's not fucking mandatory)? How are they harmed?
People who believe it is morally wrong cannot enforce that belief onto others who may not share that belief.

Who benefits? How do they benefit?
People unwilling or incapable of supporting a life they will be responsible for for the next 18+ years. They won't be risking their life in a backstreet abortion clinic. They won't be forced into a marriage of convenience, or give up their career, or add to the welfare debt, or add another unwanted child to the thousands already in care, or bring an unloved child into the world.

As a society, which of these actually accrues harm? Someones fee-fees are hurt, versus the state picking up another mouth to feed?

Can you not see the difference?
Christian Scientists believe all medicine is immoral, because sickness comes from God and God alone should cure it.
Do you see the difference between;
Allowing Christian Scientists to refuse medical treatment, even where they may die as a result, because to impose that treatment upon them infringes on their right to believe what they want?
and
Enforcing Christian Scientists belief that medical treatment is immoral on all citizens and making doctors and hospitals illegal, because allowing anyone to be treated goes against those beliefs?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2021, 12:27:06 PM
The left are the greater evil. The only options are to go further left, into leftism, which isn't an option because they support this type of thought, speech, and action policing. The only option is conservatism because they're the only people in society fighting it.
Still a false choice.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 12:28:24 PM
The left are the greater evil. The only options are to go further left, into leftism, which isn't an option because they support this type of thought, speech, and action policing. The only option is conservatism because they're the only people in society fighting it.
Still a false choice.

What are the choices? Name them please.

Leftism isn't a choice. They support vaccine mandates at the expense of workers and treat workers just as expendable as the capitalists they criticize.

Libertarians are anti mandate and the most sensible people in the room besides MAGAts and since so many libertarians vote Republican for ideological reasons you might as well go MAGA.

Not voting against such tyranny isn't an option either. What are my options, Green? I'm pro-vaccine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2021, 01:40:50 PM
There are Marxists who are opposed to social studies warriors and COVID hysteria. Nothing precludes them from voting Republican for a cycle, especially in a local race, if they determine these are the dominant issues of the moment and a Republican candidate has the best take on them.

It is nonsense for libertarians to "might as well go MAGA" considering they oppose most of the MAGA agenda like its founding principle of complete opposition to free trade and freedom of movement. Its increasing hostility to liberal principles like the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press, etc. are also troublesome to where they weigh heavily against, not for, "might as well go MAGA."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 01:54:41 PM
There are Marxists who are opposed to social studies warriors and COVID hysteria. Nothing precludes them from voting Republican for a cycle, especially in a local race, if they determine these are the dominant issues of the moment and a Republican candidate has the best take on them.

It is nonsense for libertarians to "might as well go MAGA" considering they oppose most of the MAGA agenda like its founding principle of complete opposition to free trade and freedom of movement. Its increasing hostility to liberal principles like the rule of law, freedom of speech and the press, etc. are also troublesome to where they weigh heavily against, not for, "might as well go MAGA."

Mind expounding about Marxists against social studies warriors?

Also do you have libertarian literature I can read? What are some libertarians thoughts on the liberal tendency to throw money at social ills and force their creedo on the entire populace?
 
All of this I've communicated are things I've had in my head for months so I've had no filter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on December 31, 2021, 01:59:00 PM
Also do you have libertarian literature I can read?

(https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/405/814405722.0.x.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 02:02:57 PM
Also do you have libertarian literature I can read?

(https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/405/814405722.0.x.jpg)

I have my copy at home! Always ready to peruse his amazing English diction.

Who knew you liked classic lit, Bionic? Proud of you.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 02:22:22 PM
https://reason.com/2021/09/01/vaccines-are-good-vaccine-mandates-from-the-government-are-bad/

Libertarians are true Patriots against liberal dogma.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2021, 04:11:24 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1477000469318885385
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 04:23:41 PM
Okay, hypocritical commie.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 05:25:05 PM
I started talking to libertarians to see how they think and reading their literature, Benji. 😒 So far they talk a lot more sense than liberals and progressives while also not being as crazy as Republicans.

Benji trying to save me with reason and logic and not finger pointing :rejoice

https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/rt3iji/im_coming_here_as_a_friend_to_try_to_understand/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on December 31, 2021, 05:48:27 PM
Do I see a himu/Benji libertarian love in blossoming on the battlefield?

The bore was not ready for this level of power!

We need Nintex back to balance out the streams, stat!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 06:24:31 PM
Do I see a himu/Benji libertarian love in blossoming on the battlefield?

The bore was not ready for this level of power!

We need Nintex back to balance out the streams, stat!

I'm ready

(https://i.imgur.com/X45qNUh.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on December 31, 2021, 06:29:27 PM
don't stand so close to me
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 08:39:43 PM
SIX.

FEET!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 31, 2021, 09:53:11 PM
Okay, hypocritical commie.

She dining outside with her boyfriend, sitting about six feet away from each other and not near anyone else, so I dunno why so many right wingers are freaking out.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 11:25:15 PM
Okay, hypocritical commie.

She dining outside with her boyfriend, sitting about six feet away from each other and not near anyone else, so I dunno why so many right wingers are freaking out.

Same difference as Cruz bailing on Texas during crisis. I see no difference. Two rich fucks that virtue signal and talk about this, that but when push comes to shove Cruz is flying to the Bahamas like an elitist shithead during Texas snowstorms and AOC is in Miami during the Age of Omicron and NYC is getting ravaged with cases. Even if Omicron is weak as shit it's still a local emergency. I waited an hour in the cold for a COVID test only for them to close while I was in it as she dines in luxury because she's a rat bitch. Same shit, different team.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2021, 11:39:15 PM
Same difference as Cruz bailing on Texas during crisis. I see no difference. Two rich fucks that virtue signal and talk about this, that but when push comes to shove Cruz is flying to the Bahamas like an elitist shithead during Texas snowstorms and AOC is in Miami during the Age of Omicron and NYC is getting ravaged with cases. Even if Omicron is weak as shit it's still a local emergency. I waited an hour in the cold for a COVID test only for them to close while I was in it as she dines in luxury because she's a rat bitch. Same shit, different team.
What are Ted Cruz and AOC, a Senator and a Congresswoman respectively, supposed to be doing about ongoing local emergencies? Especially when their bodies are not in session?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2021, 11:49:04 PM
Same difference as Cruz bailing on Texas during crisis. I see no difference. Two rich fucks that virtue signal and talk about this, that but when push comes to shove Cruz is flying to the Bahamas like an elitist shithead during Texas snowstorms and AOC is in Miami during the Age of Omicron and NYC is getting ravaged with cases. Even if Omicron is weak as shit it's still a local emergency. I waited an hour in the cold for a COVID test only for them to close while I was in it as she dines in luxury because she's a rat bitch. Same shit, different team.
What are Ted Cruz and AOC, a Senator and a Congresswoman respectively, supposed to be doing about ongoing local emergencies? Especially when their bodies are not in session?

I completely agree. However AOC herself shamed Cruz. Hence the criticism. She's doing the exact same thing and going by her own standards has earned the same critique.

By liberal virtue signaling she managed to get pants caught on fire. 😔
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 12:27:50 AM
Benji

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/372503124226867203/926708028110147594/Screenshot_20220101-002409.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 01:06:06 AM
Benji, query:

One of my biggest  niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and envisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 01, 2022, 01:19:04 AM
Benji, query:

One of my biggest  niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and invisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?

one of my friends claims to be libertarian and was talking about it a lot at new years tonight

he said he gets annoyed that everyone immediately jumps to the conclusion that he must be a right wing nut; he is a left-leaning libertarian (which is clearly valid based on the political compass) and he said he has absolutely no issue with tax, he just wants it to be put toward more worthwhile causes

for example he hates that so much of his tax dollars go towards incarceration for minor marijuana possession offenses, hundreds of thousands of dollars per person per year without accomplishing anything but ruining a person's life further

depending on the state and the legality of marijuana, you move across a state line and suddenly your tax dollars are going to much more productive causes

now maybe this perspective valuing the role of taxes is unique among libertarians, I just mention it due to the synchronicity of the question with the conversation we just had
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 04:27:39 AM
As I wait for the train to go to work at 4 am on New Years Day I am perusing some very interesting thoughts posted on r/libertarian that challenge many views and thoughts I have on libertarians.

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Governor Jared Polis (D) of Colorado is the most libertarian governor in the country

That's right, the Democrat Jared Polis is the most libertarian. Not Greg Abbott, not Ron Desantis. Search Abbott and Desantis on this sub, the headlines are always about expanding government, taking away freedom. Now search Jared Polis, he's always on this sub for something libertarian he did wether it's related to drugs, criminal justice or pandemic restrictions. He's also a frequent poster of r/neoliberal because he's a capitalist, he donated to the primary challenger of Ilhan Omar. He supported shontel Brown over democratic socialist Nina Turner in the primary. He is always supporting the capitalist Democrats over the socialist Democrats. When he was in Congress he was the only Democrat member of the Liberty Caucus, the libertarian caucus founded by Justin Amash.

Conclusion: after study, the OP is correct. His record speaks for itself. Another consideration is that fervently campaigns against socialists and leftists. Good.

In a thread about Libertarian attitudes towards Lincoln:

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The fact there are a ton of people in this comment section saying that Lincoln overstepped his bounds because the south would've outlawed slavery at some point "peacefully"(what a joke), or that it was infringing on the constitution basically confirms OPs title for this discussion thread.

Basically the epitome of 'don't tread on me, but tread on them all you like that's ok with me.'

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In my experience a strong majority of people who identify as libertarian don't give a flying fuck about protecting the liberties of others and of stopping persecution of oppressed groups. For a big group its nothing more than 'don't touch my paycheck, don't touch my guns, don't touch my property' and they'll happily sign up for oppression of others if they get their demands me.

Freedom for me, not freedom for thee.

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It is truly unfortunate that for too many libertarians, that in the face of bondage, the adage is often “do nothing, it will eventually work itself out, freedom.”

I believe libertarians inability to use pragmatism in the face of mass societal strife shows an inability to actually help solve or improve issues, resulting in a passive acceptance. It is hard to convince someone to be a libertarian once you dig past the weed and gay marriage talking points and see the responses to issues like slavery or pandemics. People want to know how their individual lives can improve under certain systems, not know if they were unlucky enough to be born into bondage their fate would be left up to if their master decides to be peaceful.

Conclusion: I'm really impressed so far by, although this is just Reddit, but also people like Benji's, ability to discuss and not shame other viewpoints. Also I'm impressed that libertarians are able to self critique in a way Democrats or Republicans often don't. With them it's always the other side and not themselves. I would or could attribute this to party lines and it's because Libertarian Party lacks real power but that doesn't change that Progressives and Leftists don't have power and still are entirely unable to self critique.

Libertarianism also appears to have lots of room for diversity. Some don't even place taxes as a priority, factoring into the above Uncle post.

Quote
I hate people who become libertarian because they don’t want taxes. That has nothing to do with libertarianism. Low taxes is a side effect of libertarian policy over time, not a policy itself.

Libertarians still can accept taxes because we still want government that works for us. Libertarians can also acknowledge the few times the other side got it right with a social program and there’s lots of evidence to support its working.

Government isn’t one size fits all. I just want to start from a libertarian perspective. That way the burden of proof is on the aggressor. In this case I think Lincoln more than proved he was justified.

So far I'm impressed by libertarianism literature and views. Unlike liberalism or progressivism it also appears to be intellectially cogent (i.e liberalism is about pushing society. How much is too much?) while lacking conservatisms social rigidity (I.e. I agree being LGBT is a sin but I have no desire to discriminate against LGBT people by law). I'm intrigued. I'll keep reading Stoic philosophy while considering these revelations. Honestly, the libertarians are making the most sense in the room. It appears just because you believe in Libertarianism that you don't need to support the party either.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 06:09:16 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html

Identity politics :lol

Liberals and progressives :lol

Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!

Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!

:dead Reset Era in real life :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: VomKriege on January 01, 2022, 08:24:58 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html

Identity politics :lol

Liberals and progressives :lol

Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!

Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!

:dead Reset Era in real life :dead

It's about the treatments, not the vaccine. Those are in scarce supplies and I think eligibility is treated on demand from a patient/their consulting MD. I don't think a general hesitancy from some demographics is really relevant. Actually it might be a way to counterbalance hesitancy (alongside a studied, established trend of worst health outcomes for minorities in the US) to at least make sure they get access to post treatments in priority.

Those exact same guidelines exist in other states and that controversy about anti white racism is weeks old at that point. I guess you can take exception to that though it really reads more like a weighted variable in whatever formula they use to triage demands.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on January 01, 2022, 01:27:55 PM
You know what really pisses of libruls? Nazis.
This what you should get next:
(http://alloallo-hire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/swastika_armband.jpg)
Lots of camaraderie, too.
With this, your new friends will love you even more!


....but I thought Himu was trying to step away from socialism, not embrace it?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on January 01, 2022, 01:44:46 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html

Identity politics :lol

Liberals and progressives :lol

Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!

Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!

:dead Reset Era in real life :dead

Okay, I read the memo and I'm with you on this one: this is absurd.  A risk factor defined simply on the basis of race is complete lunacy.    A multivariate risk score to prioritize individuals by risk on multiple characteristics is what you'd think they'd do to apportion a finite amount of resources.  It seems wrong to make white people meet a higher threshhold req simply on the basis of their race.   Unless there are biological differences between the races that affect how they respond to this virus, I don't see how this is even constitutional.   I'm open to having my mind changed, but...yeah.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 02:27:05 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html

Identity politics :lol

Liberals and progressives :lol

Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!

Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!

:dead Reset Era in real life :dead

It's about the treatments, not the vaccine. Those are in scarce supplies and I think eligibility is treated on demand from a patient/their consulting MD. I don't think a general hesitancy from some demographics is really relevant. Actually it might be a way to counterbalance hesitancy (alongside a studied, established trend of worst health outcomes for minorities in the US) to at least make sure they get access to post treatments in priority.

Those exact same guidelines exist in other states and that controversy about anti white racism is weeks old at that point. I guess you can take exception to that though it really reads more like a weighted variable in whatever formula they use to triage demands.

Prioritizing medical acts via race is absurd.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 01, 2022, 02:40:49 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html

Identity politics :lol

Liberals and progressives :lol

Liberals: we need to get more incentive to and concentrate on getting black and Latino populations vaccinated by making certain races more eligible to the vaccine!

Black and Latino populations that are vaccine skeptical and see it as a big science experiment on minorities: Wait we are being deliberately targeted?!

:dead Reset Era in real life :dead

Okay, I read the memo and I'm with you on this one: this is absurd.  A risk factor defined simply on the basis of race is complete lunacy.    A multivariate risk score to prioritize individuals by risk on multiple characteristics is what you'd think they'd do to apportion a finite amount of resources.  It seems wrong to make white people meet a higher threshhold req simply on the basis of their race.   Unless there are biological differences between the races that affect how they respond to this virus, I don't see how this is even constitutional.   I'm open to having my mind changed, but...yeah.

Imagine laws like that.

Then you see this every goddamn day on your commute every day for a year.

(https://i.imgur.com/GtydIOO.jpg)

Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.

Notice how they're almost all black.

https://youtu.be/LvKHbctcJp4

https://youtu.be/GIZw5_U3KLE

https://youtu.be/1H_gzUmDmyo

https://youtu.be/4l7zrbJawsQ

https://youtu.be/H5-YFeLxe14

https://youtu.be/ddvcxsgoGi8

After months and months and months it might start to seem like an agenda. Rumbler dismisses it as "oh it's just a sign about masks!" NO. THAT'S ONE LAYER OF IT. And that's just one law I posted. Imagine you saw this daily for almost two years. What would you think? What would your opinion of liberalism be?

Someone please vote the Democrats out.

(https://i.imgur.com/6vBgsM7.gif)

This is why I said being a liberal in a red state is pretty easy. You do not have regular acts that make you question your viewpoints. It's pretty easy to see how someone would become a Communist in this environment, right? Or a conservative for that matter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 01, 2022, 03:18:36 PM
:cac:
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 01, 2022, 08:04:21 PM
I will say on the matter of ads all featuring black people/minorities: that is the majority of media/ads now

and I'm not complaining about it like "omg bring back the nuclear hetero white family to my advertising," I'm just saying, that's how things are now, and it's not surprising that these ads would follow the same trend
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on January 01, 2022, 09:21:46 PM
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.

Notice how they're almost all black.

You left one out from that "why I got vaccinated" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVemLtyud4

And then this one has people of different races in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZw5_U3KLE

It's almost as if NYC is a giant melting pot, with a lot of minorities, and they're putting out videos featuring people of different races and ethnic groups. I see they put out videos in multiple languages, too.  Perhaps there is a larger focus on minorities here because they have data showing that some groups are less vaccinated than others?  I dunno. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 01, 2022, 09:24:15 PM
I will say on the matter of ads all featuring black people/minorities: that is the majority of media/ads now

and I'm not complaining about it like "omg bring back the nuclear hetero white family to my advertising," I'm just saying, that's how things are now, and it's not surprising that these ads would follow the same trend

these ads are about under represented and vulnerable sectors of society. Not a trend but a focused demo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 01, 2022, 10:47:18 PM
Liberals are making me do a MAGA because ads
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 02:53:28 AM
If himu (he-mu lol) was being serious he'd talk about

you can have whatever you like

i want joe biden, give me joe biden,
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 04:44:44 AM
Liberals are making me do a MAGA because ads

If you think that's the summation of my points I will not be addressing you further. You aren't worth engaging with.

I will say on the matter of ads all featuring black people/minorities: that is the majority of media/ads now

and I'm not complaining about it like "omg bring back the nuclear hetero white family to my advertising," I'm just saying, that's how things are now, and it's not surprising that these ads would follow the same trend

This is a focused demographic.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 04:51:10 AM
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.

Notice how they're almost all black.

You left one out from that "why I got vaccinated" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVemLtyud4

And then this one has people of different races in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZw5_U3KLE

It's almost as if NYC is a giant melting pot, with a lot of minorities, and they're putting out videos featuring people of different races and ethnic groups. I see they put out videos in multiple languages, too.  Perhaps there is a larger focus on minorities here because they have data showing that some groups are less vaccinated than others?  I dunno.

Have you read a damn thing I said? Of course they have data some groups are less vaccinated. You would do well to make less arguments and try to understand. You don't take my points made as a whole. You, like Rumbler, think this is just about ads because you're both fools.

It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work. Throwing money at problems do not work. Forcing your narrative definitely doesn't work. Think this is about ads all you want. It's a critique on liberal approaches to the pandemic, their inability to respect individual rights, their endless virtue signaling and identification of the virus as an identity through capitalistic processes, their endless forcing of their narrative onto the rest of society, the failed promises, the lack of leadership, the woke policies. As said, the ads are just one layer. Put together and I have much reason to seek outside solutions whether it's communism or conservatism. Thankfully Benji has thrown in Libertarianisms hat.

Frankly, upon reflection, I realize that the main reason I'm pushed towards Republicans now is that they are opposition to the Democrats. But if the Republicans get in office and do jack shit it will force me to run to the Democrats. This cycle is ever repeating because I'm not a liberal and I'm not a conservative. On further extrapolation, this is also how MAGA likely got started. Democrats are so fucking bad that you have  to seek alternatives. Many naturally think Republicans are that alternative and because Democrats are so bad you end up digging your heels into the Republican position which forces going down a MAGA rabbit hole since what's the mainstream alternative besides supporting the Democratic Party? Benji is correct that there are options besides the ones I listed. The two party system needs to be abolished.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 05:42:29 AM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-the-squad-demoncrats-midterms-b1984861.html

:dead You have more problems to worry about than the Squad. The Democrats are doing this to themselves, H-dawg.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 02, 2022, 09:50:31 AM
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.

What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 11:32:42 AM
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.

What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.

Fair enough and well met.

I'm currently on my phone now and can't explain this in-depth in a comfortable manner without access to a keyboard. However, in short, to me, I'm defining liberalism as a capitalistic, economic, and socio phenomenon interpretation of "more". More regulation, more laws, more red tape, more government, more social programs, more spending, more taxes. Although I lived in NYC briefly before for the majority of my life I've lived in red states and I was born and raised in Texas. Being a black American I've voted for Democrats my whole life even when I started to loathe them. I voted green party in 2012 election against Obama so my issues with the donkeys has been over a decade in the running. However, being from the south I've been insulated from the reality of Democratic policy making on a state and local level, being that my home rep. district is middle class and Republican.

I love New York to death I plan on dying in the Northeast however seeing the reality of liberal/progressive spending combined with their reactions to the pandemic reveal I've been voting outside of my actual viewpoints because of tradition and demographic pressure (being a black American). NYC is full of red tape. Property taxes are insane. Property codes are insane. Everything is regulated to a ridiculous degree as people struggle to afford housing. Yet the government gaslights us into thinking it cares. As said pages back, NYC spends 3.9 billion on homeless care and yet we have a crisis. Is all of the money truly going to homeless support? So many of liberal policies means simply throwing money at a problem and hoping it fixes itself. Then we look at the federal level. Joe Biden administration has been putting us in severe inflation.

Last summer was probably the best summer I've had as an adult. It was dreamlike and the NYC I love and remember the most. Most of us were vaxxed, the pandemic numbers were low, we were free and fucking lived like it. And then September rolled around that fuck Sleepy Joe announced vaccine mandates. Suddenly New York state follows his line despite stable COVID numbers and some of the highest vax rates in the country and starts firing healthcare workers for not being vaccinated during a time when we have a healthcare worker shortage in the middle of a pandemic. Governments making mandates that private businesses force customers and employees to be vaccinated. More, more, more. It's never enough for the liberals. Granted, a private business or whatever can fire whoever it wants. But when the government gets involved and mandates what businesses have to do is when I have a problem.

Then we have the Department of Health racial justice vaccine policy posted this page. More, more, more. It's always more.

If there's any evidence it works I'd like to see it but having lived in two states of ideological opposites I learned what politics I like and it's leaving me the fuck alone to choose my own choices while also not harming the public. The conservatives in Texas are just as problematic. Dan Patrick shoving shit down our throats in a pandemic and telling us to sacrifice grandma and grandpa was heinous. The governor opened up Texas for memorial day during a pandemic for nothing more than cash flow. The conservatives are making their own mandates which are anti-mandate mandates and not allowing businesses to do whatever the fuck they want. It's the opposite extreme of the liberals and just as barbaric.

What I miss is my country and state and city allowing me to choose my own goddamn decisions to get vaxxed on my own fucking time and letting us live our lives without endless moralization of a health choice. I CHOSE to get vaxxed and now it's no longer a choice. I really miss the world from last summer!

More, more, more.

It never ends. Granted, there are some cases when more is necessary. The COVID checks were necessary for example given the context. But there has to come to a point where we stop with more.

I ended up saying fuck it and writing it now instead of waiting for a keyboard. :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 11:36:13 AM
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.

What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.

Fair enough and well met.

I'm currently on my phone now and can't explain this in-depth in a comfortable manner without access to a keyboard. However, in short, to me, I'm defining liberalism as a capitalistic, economic, and socio phenomenon interpretation of "more". More regulation, more laws, more red tape, more government, more social programs, more spending, more taxes.

I'm watching american history x right now.

This is like almost the verbatim scene of connor filming his sister and spouting off about "hillary rodham clinton" and z i o n nation and liberal media.


This joke character is on point.

If not, you're fucking lost out of you mind.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 11:37:24 AM
It's about liberalism. Wokism to an extent as well, as per the Department of Health race ruling. My conclusion and argument made for pages? Liberalism does not work. Liberal solutions do not work.

What do you think liberalism is? As an ideological position, not as a Fox News strawman catch all.
Because you keep describing things that are fundamentally against most flavours of liberalisms core tenets as examples of why 'liberalism' is bad and doesn't work.

Fair enough and well met.

I'm currently on my phone now and can't explain this in-depth in a comfortable manner without access to a keyboard. However, in short, to me, I'm defining liberalism as a capitalistic, economic, and socio phenomenon interpretation of "more". More regulation, more laws, more red tape, more government, more social programs, more spending, more taxes.

I'm watching american history x right now.

This is like almost the verbatim scene of connor filming his sister and spouting off about "hillary rodham clinton".


This joke character is on point.

This is another case against liberalism. Liberals are dicks. Especially white liberals. Good Lord they're the fucking worst. Cauliflower is the gay equivalent of a Karen.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 11:45:46 AM
I am not endorsing libertarianism. I am libertarian as much as I am liberal. I am simply endorsing not-MAGA. Along with the idea that there are more than three choices and that you don't have to align yourself lockstep with any single one. (I also think that equating MAGA and conservatism is a misstep.)
Benji, query:

One of my biggest  niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and envisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
Libertarians are not anarchists. That said, many are minarchists. Police, courts, military and minimal taxes. But this isn't a requirement. Hayek argued for a strong safety net. Milton Friedman was one of the earliest advocates of UBI. (And convinced the decidedly non-libertarian Nixon.) Ancaps are allies of libertarians for many reasons and they hold a strong position within the movement but they aren't even a plurality. Mises was more of an ancap. Nozick and Hess were all over the place. Some libertarians consider a VAT to be more libertarian than income taxes, arguably the opposite of the US status quo.

Libertarianism doesn't have a limiting principle, not even the NAP. American libertarians make lots of Constitution-based arguments because of its position within American political culture and because it provides an actual limiting principle. I'd argue that at least a plurality of libertarians (and libertarian-leaners, especially those who stay Republicans) don't like immigration. Yet for the first hundred years of the country there were no immigration laws at all. Nonetheless, many libertarians believe that the non-criminal violation of immigration law constitutes an "invasion" and justifies the creation of a military police state. Other libertarians (and especially ancaps) view the path as the eventual erasure of borders and thus support a streamlining of immigration law on the way to its eventual elimination and consider this both more libertarian and more constitutional. Many libertarians (though not the ancaps) believe in some form of what Tyler Cowen calls state capacity libertarianism on the basis that a strong state protects capitalism (https://mason.gmu.edu/~mkoyama2/About_files/StateCapacitySurvey.pdf). But a strong state doesn't necessitate a large or highly active state either.

The joke about libertarians is the same as the one about economists, Jews, communists, etc. Put ten of them in a room and you'll get eleven opinions on what libertarianism is. Of course, all things being equal, a libertarian will usually argue for smaller government and less taxes than the status quo, whatever it is.

Most estimates are that libertarians and libertarian-leaners are about 5% of the American populace. A large chunk doesn't vote almost ever, another large chunk votes Republican, many are swing voters, many vote locally but don't care about the Presidency or Congress. Sometimes in a good year (2016 presidential race, 2013 Virginia governors race, etc.) a plurality will vote for the Libertarian Party itself based on the candidate. Sometimes Democrats even get libertarian support, see your Polis posts above but also people like Ron Wyden and the much mocked but sometimes not wrong liberaltarian (https://www.cato.org/commentary/liberaltarians) which got revived as anti-Trump opposition (https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/17/14287694/liberaltarianism-liberalism-libertarianism-resist-trump-markets-growth) after dormancy during the Obama presidency. There's also the left libertarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism) which is still not a libertarian socialist. (I think the former makes a much stronger case than the latter though it is more popular within self-described anarchists (and Yurop) than American libertarians.)

Again, I'm not suggesting you (or anyone) should be a libertarian for the views you've recently expressed, that's why I mentioned the Marxists against social studies warriors (Freddie de Boer is pretty prominent) and COVID hysteria (too many to mention) among the other choices. Not that there's anything wrong with being a libertarian inherently. More what I was expressing was that there's no need to throw yourself into the MAGA package (or any single package) over a single issue, opposition to Democrats and "liberal policies" or even a desire to vote Republican in the next local race. Instead it's fine to do all these things while being mostly libertarian, Marxist, liberal, neo-fascist, whatever.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 11:46:24 AM
Imagine thinking you know who others are.

Wait that's what you're doing and so vehemently wrong.

It's like watching someone wrongly correct a slide in the rain. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 11:47:34 AM
is himu confusing liberals and libertarians?

cause

:neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 11:53:04 AM
I know you're a dick and that's enough for me.

Great Sage, here's more example of liberal oversight, lack of choice, and forcing their lifestyle on others.

https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stoves

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/brooklynites-could-see-property-tax-hike-under-proposed-city-reforms/ar-AASjD9l?ocid=BingNewsSearch



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 11:55:16 AM
I am not endorsing libertarianism. I am libertarian as much as I am liberal. I am simply endorsing not-MAGA. Along with the idea that there are more than three choices and that you don't have to align yourself lockstep with any single one. (I also think that equating MAGA and conservatism is a misstep.)
Benji, query:

One of my biggest  niggles against libertarians has been their anti-tax rhetoric. I understand it but what do they suggest we replace taxes with? After all they fund important things such as public transport, bridges, healthcare. What's their alternative? I'm currently on state funded healthcare and I receive very good services. Is the anti-tax rhetoric not similar to leftists utopian ideals? A problem with liberalism/progressivism is that so much of it is hope based. "Wouldn't it be nice if....?" is basically their platform. I'm reading the Libertarian Party website now and taxes are the first issue listed on the platform. In what way is this not "wouldn't it be nice if there were no taxes?" Are libertarians going off of real world examples to produce results for their arguments or are they like the leftists and basing everything off of laughable emotions, and theory, and what ifs, and envisioning a future, and the political equivalent of being a LARPer?
Libertarians are not anarchists. That said, many are minarchists. Police, courts, military and minimal taxes. But this isn't a requirement. Hayek argued for a strong safety net. Milton Friedman was one of the earliest advocates of UBI. (And convinced the decidedly non-libertarian Nixon.) Ancaps are allies of libertarians for many reasons and they hold a strong position within the movement but they aren't even a plurality. Mises was more of an ancap. Nozick and Hess were all over the place. Some libertarians consider a VAT to be more libertarian than income taxes, arguably the opposite of the US status quo.

Libertarianism doesn't have a limiting principle, not even the NAP. American libertarians make lots of Constitution-based arguments because of its position within American political culture and because it provides an actual limiting principle. I'd argue that at least a plurality of libertarians (and libertarian-leaners, especially those who stay Republicans) don't like immigration. Yet for the first hundred years of the country there were no immigration laws at all. Nonetheless, many libertarians believe that the non-criminal violation of immigration law constitutes an "invasion" and justifies the creation of a military police state. Other libertarians (and especially ancaps) view the path as the eventual erasure of borders and thus support a streamlining of immigration law on the way to its eventual elimination and consider this both more libertarian and more constitutional. Many libertarians (though not the ancaps) believe in some form of what Tyler Cowen calls state capacity libertarianism on the basis that a strong state protects capitalism (https://mason.gmu.edu/~mkoyama2/About_files/StateCapacitySurvey.pdf). But a strong state doesn't necessitate a large or highly active state either.

The joke about libertarians is the same as the one about economists, Jews, communists, etc. Put ten of them in a room and you'll get eleven opinions on what libertarianism is. Of course, all things being equal, a libertarian will usually argue for smaller government and less taxes than the status quo, whatever it is.

Most estimates are that libertarians and libertarian-leaners are about 5% of the American populace. A large chunk doesn't vote almost ever, another large chunk votes Republican, many are swing voters, many vote locally but don't care about the Presidency or Congress. Sometimes in a good year (2016 presidential race, 2013 Virginia governors race, etc.) a plurality will vote for the Libertarian Party itself based on the candidate. Sometimes Democrats even get libertarian support, see your Polis posts above but also people like Ron Wyden and the much mocked but sometimes not wrong liberaltarian (https://www.cato.org/commentary/liberaltarians) which got revived as anti-Trump opposition (https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/17/14287694/liberaltarianism-liberalism-libertarianism-resist-trump-markets-growth) after dormancy during the Obama presidency. There's also the left libertarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism) which is still not a libertarian socialist. (I think the former makes a much stronger case than the latter though it is more popular within self-described anarchists (and Yurop) than American libertarians.)

Again, I'm not suggesting you (or anyone) should be a libertarian for the views you've recently expressed, that's why I mentioned the Marxists against social studies warriors (Freddie de Boer is pretty prominent) and COVID hysteria (too many to mention) among the other choices. Not that there's anything wrong with being a libertarian inherently. More what I was expressing was that there's no need to throw yourself into the MAGA package (or any single package) over a single issue, opposition to Democrats and "liberal policies" or even a desire to vote Republican in the next local race. Instead it's fine to do all these things while being mostly libertarian, Marxist, liberal, neo-fascist, whatever.

True enough. MAGA and Republicans aren't even true conservatives at this point.

Yeah, I've read libertarian views on taxes and they're surprisingly open minded and diverse on it despite the "lol what about roads lol" meme.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 11:59:22 AM
I know you're a dick and that's enough for me.

Great Sage, here's more example of liberal oversight, lack of choice, and forcing their lifestyle on others.

https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stoves

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/brooklynites-could-see-property-tax-hike-under-proposed-city-reforms/ar-AASjD9l?ocid=BingNewsSearch





This isn't an ideological issue.

This is fuck you I got mine, lets kick every poor out, issue. It spans the spectrum.

It's like you don't read past the headline of what you post.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 12:00:20 PM
https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stoves
Story oddly doesn't mention how the same climate activists and Democrats (like AOC) in New York spent much of the prior year demanding Indian Point nuclear plant be shut down immediately and replaced with natural gas. To help fight climate change of course.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 12:04:42 PM
Benji I wanted to thank you for reminding me there's a choice beyond MAGA because I've been teetering on going that way for months.

https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22834653/new-york-gas-ban-buildings-climate-change-gas-stoves
Story oddly doesn't mention how the same climate activists and Democrats (like AOC) in New York spent much of the prior year demanding Indian Point nuclear plant be shut down immediately and replaced with natural gas. To help fight climate change of course.

Yeah the progressives like AOC are a massive fucking joke. :lol They truly believe their solutions and only their solutions are valid and want to force it on the rest of society.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 12:13:31 PM
AOC getting under people's skin this early is pretty great to be honest.

trump knew this and it's what he feeded off when it queens time. and he won, because people are idiots.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 12:13:51 PM
YES!!!!!

FIGHT FOR US AGAINST INSANITY, ADAMS.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/mayor-eric-adams-voices-concerns-about-nycs-non-citizen-voting-bill/?utm_source=reddit.com
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 12:18:59 PM
that's the same type of bills crafted for politicians to be able to claim residency in a place that's an easy win during an election. but voting rights.


States rights deem that state residency is different from US residency. 

Are you against states rights?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 12:24:03 PM
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 12:30:53 PM
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)

Save for a few states. Any resident who pays local taxes and physically resides in a state is a resident in the state. And has rights to vote in local elections.

Residency for state tuition in colleges is a speed stop to get students to pay higher fees. Universities and colleges have no qualms about letting illegal immigrants studying at 3x rates of in state.

There is no illegal immigration between state because that falls under federal jurisdiction of sovereign nations. And guess what, states are not sovereign nations.



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 12:38:38 PM
I don't care. Go guilt trip someone that does. Why is every liberal/progressive/socialist policy some emotional appeal?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 12:39:52 PM
what guilt trip?.

You don't care about facts being laid out because, ironically you just react emotionally.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 01:01:37 PM
YES!!!!!

FIGHT FOR US AGAINST INSANITY, ADAMS.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/mayor-eric-adams-voices-concerns-about-nycs-non-citizen-voting-bill/?utm_source=reddit.com
Residents being able to vote in a local (and probably any) election is a good thing. Unless you think they should instead be rebated all the local taxes that they pay. (Something that should also be allowed for people who don't want to vote it would seem.)

Also:
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Adams, who had previously supported the legislation passed by a large majority of the City Council early last month.

...

Adams’ transportation commissioner and major backer, former Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) was the primary sponsor of the bill.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Mupepe on January 02, 2022, 01:04:06 PM
If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)
They’re green card holders, not illegal immigrants
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 01:45:40 PM
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1477653294340263943
https://twitter.com/DCLongIslander/status/1477651764790837256
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1477650872339468294
https://twitter.com/daveyalba/status/1477648916749463552
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1477652980296032261
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 02:26:52 PM
how will himu post on twitter now?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 02:31:41 PM
I like you're obsessed with me. Even though Biden is trash I will say he was lawfully elected. I even voted for him. Like all leftists you are only capable of sounding off your talking points. You have no power here and I find your obsession with me cute as much as I find it pathetic.

If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)
They’re green card holders, not illegal immigrants

True. Thanks for the clarification in language.

Benji: I'm fine with voting in local elections. The problem is the 30 day clause with Adams hopes to kill.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 02:39:05 PM
your the only active poster on here now that upper management got rid of nintex filler.

 you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?



unless your toxic which would make my day.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 02:44:00 PM
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?

I have no idea who or what you're talking about.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 02:46:57 PM
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?

I have no idea who or what you're talking about.

ok
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 03:08:17 PM
you are the one who somehow connected me to an old dispute from 10(?) years ago?

I have no idea who or what you're talking about.

ok

I don't hold grudges. Not long anyways. Definitely not for ten years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 02, 2022, 03:16:37 PM
#freenintex
#freefiller
#saveusfromhimu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 03:20:51 PM
#freenintex
#freefiller
#saveusfromhimu
Last page you were rooting for the Himji libertopian team up. Flip flopped : stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 03:25:21 PM
Benji: I'm fine with voting in local elections. The problem is the 30 day clause with Adams hopes to kill.
What's the fear? That thousands upon thousands of people will uproot their lives to become residents in NYC for a month for the purposes of voting then immediately leave?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 02, 2022, 04:16:05 PM
#freenintex
#freefiller
#saveusfromhimu
Last page you were rooting for the Himji libertopian team up. Flip flopped : stahp

 :lucille
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 04:39:39 PM
imagine being wrong
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 04:57:47 PM
lmao

https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1477672179173109768
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIHyBzZXIAwYicM?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on January 02, 2022, 05:25:44 PM
Watch these videos. Look how many are black people or latinos. Minorities are being specifically targeted. You see this on some video display next to a bus stop.

Notice how they're almost all black.

You left one out from that "why I got vaccinated" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVemLtyud4

And then this one has people of different races in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZw5_U3KLE

It's almost as if NYC is a giant melting pot, with a lot of minorities, and they're putting out videos featuring people of different races and ethnic groups. I see they put out videos in multiple languages, too.  Perhaps there is a larger focus on minorities here because they have data showing that some groups are less vaccinated than others?  I dunno.

Have you read a damn thing I said? Of course they have data some groups are less vaccinated. You would do well to make less arguments and try to understand. You don't take my points made as a whole.

I'm responding to your posts, with videos, in particular.

You, like Rumbler, think this is just about ads because you're both fools.

Well, that's true- it was pretty foolish of me to even try replying!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 05:37:37 PM
Benji: I'm fine with voting in local elections. The problem is the 30 day clause with Adams hopes to kill.
What's the fear? That thousands upon thousands of people will uproot their lives to become residents in NYC for a month for the purposes of voting then immediately leave?

It's just weird to me someone can live here for 30 days and vote but I have to stay here for a year to obtain residency and qualify for in state tuition costs. Where's the balance? I thought this was about equality? Seems to me it's Democrats using minorities for voting pawns on the assumption they'll vote D.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 05:40:11 PM
free tuition paid for the government would sol....



capitalism
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 05:41:30 PM
free tuition paid for the government would sol....



capitalism

No one said anything about free tuition.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 05:43:06 PM
someone did

shutup communist
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 05:45:35 PM
It's just weird to me someone can live here for 30 days and vote but I have to stay here for a year to obtain residency and qualify for in state tuition costs.
Why do you think these two things are connected?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 05:48:16 PM
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1477664097554493440
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 05:52:19 PM
what do you think about first nation invaders himu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 05:53:09 PM
It's just weird to me someone can live here for 30 days and vote but I have to stay here for a year to obtain residency and qualify for in state tuition costs.
Why do you think these two things are connected?

They aren't. But seems pretty unfair to me! Why don't you make a case in its favor?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 06:08:47 PM
I hate chocolate.

Time to burn down the *checks notes* oatmeal factory.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 06:28:22 PM
You can't even make your case without deflecting and mockery. :) Keep proving me right about liberal policies. If they work as intended you'd be able to defend them. But you can't because you only know how to parrot. Pathetic.

I'm not even against people with green cards voting, but being able to vote in an election while staying here for only a month?ake your case. You should learn to engage like Benji. Your posts are incredibly emotional and infantile. Like most liberals and socialists you are only able to cater to emotion and guilt tripping rather than informing and then you wonder why no one likes leftists and we vote "against our best interests". Make a non emotional case for allowing 30 days.

And like a typical leftist, you have to do the *checks notes* thing. Always the same with you people. It's almost like a cult.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 06:33:21 PM
you literally said you don't care after I explained it. Look back in the last page.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 06:37:44 PM
you literally said you don't care after I explained it. Look back in the last page.

I didn't even read it the first time because of your stupid posts about American History X;et al.

If it takes me a year to become a state resident to get in state tuition rate an illegal immigrant shouldn't have the right to vote within 30 days of arriving here. :)

Save for a few states. Any resident who pays local taxes and physically resides in a state is a resident in the state. And has rights to vote in local elections.

Residency for state tuition in colleges is a speed stop to get students to pay higher fees. Universities and colleges have no qualms about letting illegal immigrants studying at 3x rates of in state.

There is no illegal immigration between state because that falls under federal jurisdiction of sovereign nations. And guess what, states are not sovereign nations.

Fair enough. Why 30 days, though?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 06:40:24 PM
State laws.

Why should it not be 30 days?

Is someone squatting for 30 days to just vote in local elections about zoning changes?

It's 30 days because that's the average of people to get a place month to month, and decide they're hanging around.

And since you brought it up again, your rant was straight out of the xenophobic rant from American History X, from an ignorant tool being used.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 06:46:08 PM
State laws.

Why should it not be 30 days?

Is someone squatting for 30 days to just vote in local elections about zoning changes?

It's 30 days because that's the average of people to get a place month to month, and decide they're hanging around.

Fair enough.

Quote
And since you brought it up again, your rant was straight out of the xenophobic rant from American History X, from an ignorant tool being used.

Here comes the accusations and crocodile tears as if I give a shit.

(https://i.imgur.com/bOvZRV8.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 06:48:34 PM
do you know what crocodile tears are?

Look, I know you've had a revelation on life, but that's usually followed with "damn I should keep my mind open" , but all you've done is spout stupid shit that are blindly ignorant.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 06:50:05 PM
do you know what crocodile tears are?

Look, I know you've had a revelation on life, but that's usually followed with "damn I should keep my mind open" , but all you've done is spout stupid shit that are blindly ignorant.

And all you've done is point fingers and be an ass. Why not dig further just to spite you? Keep a mind open? Like the left that always shames and mocks? Kiss my ass. I keep an open mind to people that give me respect. You deserve none.
Title: sorry
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 06:52:44 PM
.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 06:54:22 PM
Quote
Like the left that always shames?


I'm sorry you got hoodwinked.

Hood winked?

No one tricked me at all I go by personal experience. I always treat others the way they treat me. I react energy with energy and the left, overwhelmingly, are condescending dipshits with fingers that wag endlessly.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 02, 2022, 07:12:19 PM
They aren't. But seems pretty unfair to me! Why don't you make a case in its favor?
I thought I did on the prior page. Letting residents vote promotes taxation with representation.

30 days seems like a concession to those who don't want residents to be able to vote at all. A one day residency may be pushing things even if I did find it amusing when Matt Walsh "moved" to Virginia for a single day just to harass a school board that was trying to block him. A week seems like more than enough to dissuade all but a handful of people from establishing residency simply to vote in an election and leave.

I'm also not sure that this is some kind of Democratic plot to increase their already substantial power because the Democrats win most NYC elections in landslides anyway which is what kills turnout. If anything the best targets would be in the even lower turnout primary races which would be interparty conflicts. AOC wouldn't be a thing if Joe Crowley was able to use Democratic Party funds to bus in 4019 voters for primary day.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 07:15:59 PM
My take is for it to boost low turnout and prevent progressive takeover of NYC politics which...putting into perspective, is a good thing. Thank you Benji. Also, a month is definitely more reasonable than a week. I'm just curious about why that specific number (30 days).
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 07:18:35 PM
Business accounting runs on monthly/quarterly/yearly runs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 07:32:14 PM
Good argument. I can see that. Thank you sharing your perspective.

Why do you think someone convinced me of these views as if the government itself isn't making mandates, and woke policies;etc? Say you support vaccines but really dislike even the idea of a mandate and you're shouted at. Literally. In your face. Why would you be surprised someone would be pushed right?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 07:38:00 PM
I haven't heard a single argument against mandates for mask or vaccines that haven't been diluted into "because me".

Coronavirus is not a little thing. Point Blank. Nearly 5 million accounted people have died from it. Because people were flippant about it.

I don't know much about you, and my personal stuff about you, is that you are easily convinced, from the internet history of fucking gaf.  I apologize if I got some wrong. 

I'm not tryin to attack you. But you are eating alot of stupid shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 07:45:50 PM
I haven't heard a single argument against mandates for mask or vaccines that haven't been diluted into "because me".

I've communicated multiple times I am triple vaxxed, believe in vaccines heavily. I pushed my entire family to get vaccinated including my vaccine skeptical mother and aunts. Despite this it's still against my values to mandate a medical procedure, especially in the case of firing. A mask isn't a medical procedure and the fact they became politicized to begin with was completely uncouth. A private business absolutely has the right to fire anyone for not following their procedures on a contractual basis. However, when it's the government telling companies they must comply to forcing their employees to take a medical procedure they don't want to is when I have a problem on moralistic grounds. 9/11 was also a not very small thing and they used it as an excuse to take away our personal freedoms and privacy in the name of safety. In what way do I benefit for fighting for people whom I disagree with? I think being LGBT is a sin but I still think they have the right to be married and transition and live their lives. No one told me to feel this way at all, it is pure instinct.

After that, it's pretty easy to start spotting other areas in which Democrats use coercion as a political tactic, especially in NYC, one of the most liberal cities. A private business requiring me to show my vaxx card is A-okay, but it's the New York City government forcing them to do it. Going with this, what else can the government force businesses to do?

This was all done to:

1. Limit cases
2. Stop the spread
3. Increase vaccination numbers

But despite that, we have a situation where Covid cases are spreading despite these mandates which brings up the question if they're even necessary. Also, remember, this past summer in NYC, vaccinated people like myself could walk all over this city without a mask without a vaccination ID and we had low, low cases.

Given all of this...

Query:

1. Does the Government know what it's doing regarding the Pandemic? Is it just reacting? The vaccine mandate for health workers was first announced in August amid low cases.
2. Does the Governments policies even work as intended ?
3. Do the policies have anything to do with results or is it about control?
4. When do mandates end and what would be considered a bridge too far considering this is being sold under the guise of public health?

If the past summer with Vaccine Boy Summer resulted in low, low cases and vibrant life and this winter resulted in high cases despite high vaccination rate what is the point of mandates if it's based around a virus - something that we cannot control?

No one. Not one Democrat or left wing person I've talked to has been able to satisfactorily consider these viewpoints and answer my questions.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 07:52:11 PM
Quote
A private business absolutely has the right to fire anyone for not following their procedures on a contractual basis. However, when it's the government telling companies they must comply to forcing their employees to take a medical procedure they don't want to is when I have a problem on moralistic grounds.

Why does the idea break down? Just because it's mandated? You might as well get rid of city codes for abestos.

Quote
In what way do I benefit for fighting for people whom I disagree with?

Fighting for people who can't fight for themselves doesn't require a benefit.

Quote
I think being LGBT is a sin but I still think they have the right to be married and transition and live their lives. No one told me to feel this way at all, it is pure instinct.

A sin? Didn't' realize you were religious turnt.

You feel that way because you're a bigot.

Quote
I think being LGBT is a sin

I'm done with you. You're a garbage person. You can't convince ignorant people who want to be ignorant.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 08:05:59 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/oHJsW68.gif)

I am not a bigot and think lgbt people deserve to be treated with love, respect, and the same dignity as any other human being but I will not attempt to change your mind.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 08:29:40 PM
the siners
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 08:54:20 PM
the siners

You know I'm including myself in that right? I'm bi and sometimes I'm attracted to men. But I cannot marry a man and therefore cannot be with a man in that way even if I'd want to. It's not the people but the act.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 02, 2022, 09:12:05 PM
Self hatred doesn't opt you out of being a bigot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Tripon on January 02, 2022, 10:13:27 PM
https://twitter.com/BrittanyNoble_/status/1477709446088470535  ???
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 02, 2022, 11:53:51 PM
They're considering making boosters a required shot :stop

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-mark-levine-manhattan-covid-omicron-boosters-test-portal-20220103-w54vs5etuzgfpgki2shs7liali-story.html

At this point when the next wave hits they'll require four shots. I've had my third shot. I REFUSE ANY MORE. The liberals with more, more, more!  :-X :yuck

Self hatred doesn't opt you out of being a bigot.

BIGOT! YOU HATE YOURSELF!!! :lol
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Post by: kingv on January 03, 2022, 04:49:07 AM
I'll just throw out that many of the childhood vaccine series that we all took as kids have 3-4 shots. 4 shots is not unusual or crazy in any way.

It's likely, IMO, that we will have annual COVID boosters with different strains, for at least 5-10 years, and maybe longer, similar to the flu vaccine.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 06:39:56 AM
I'll just throw out that many of the childhood vaccine series that we all took as kids have 3-4 shots. 4 shots is not unusual or crazy in any way.

It's likely, IMO, that we will have annual COVID boosters with different strains, for at least 5-10 years, and maybe longer, similar to the flu vaccine.

Great! But flu shot isn't REQUIRED  or requires proof to eat my lunch. Given my phone battery I'm glad I have a paper vax card at least.

I need my flu shot BTW
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Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 03, 2022, 08:25:13 AM
A mask isn't a medical procedure and the fact they became politicized to begin with was completely uncouth.


3. Do the policies have anything to do with results or is it about control?
4. When do mandates end and what would be considered a bridge too far considering this is being sold under the guise of public health?

I think it is worth considering these two statements together as to the reasons behind the mandate.

The fact that one political party has tacitly and not-so-fucking-tacitly pushed anti-vaxxing / no-masks as a legitimate political viewpoint, instead of leaving it as what it is, fringe black helicopter / new world order / sovereign citizen conspiracy idiocy means that there are significantly more idiots buying into this than there should be. (And thanks from the rest of the world for exporting this horseshit too, btw.)

So I would suggest to you that turning this into a mandate rather than relying on the 'honour system' is a response to that.
And that it's not about control - it's about business owners and employees having to deal with these chucklefucks on a daily basis, people who are inherently completely unreasonable in their manners and behaviour.

This isn't about local mom and pop diners letting regulars in on the downlow sans masks getting raided by the cops for a city fine shakedown.
It's about organised groups of obnoxious, self righteous, and in many cases violent 'protesters' shitting up peoples businesses, and the businesses being left to handle it on their own with no real authority to deal with things, which is where you see the stories of minimum wage staff being assaulted, spat on, and abused.

Making it a legally enforced mandate means some of that pressure is off of the businesses and employees that also want some semblance of normal; they can now call the cops on these dickheads.

E:
FWIW I think there is a really fine line between jumping into legal remedies for expediency and accidentally over reaching with bigger implications, and there is discussion to be had there, and I also don't think vax-checks / passports are actually as preventative as things like track and trace or tests at entry would be.
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Post by: tiesto on January 03, 2022, 10:46:04 AM
^

Yea, my friend owns a very successful vintage clothing store (Michael Kors is a regular) and yesterday she received an anonymous letter from someone scolding her for her mask requirement to enter, threatening legal action. Apparently a bunch of other nearby businesses have gotten the same letter. It's such bullshit that she and her fellow business ownere have to put up with this. And I don't think the cops are much help, half of the cops I see around here don't wear their masks and are against any kind of mask/vaxx mandate.
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Post by: El Babua on January 03, 2022, 11:39:43 AM
https://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1477997674892861444?t=Lq0gaGxTHcHYVcohejTJqg&s=19
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Post by: Rufus on January 03, 2022, 01:25:01 PM
https://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1477997674892861444?t=Lq0gaGxTHcHYVcohejTJqg&s=19
Yeah, swagger is what everyone needs right now. :ryker
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 01:51:24 PM
A mask isn't a medical procedure and the fact they became politicized to begin with was completely uncouth.


3. Do the policies have anything to do with results or is it about control?
4. When do mandates end and what would be considered a bridge too far considering this is being sold under the guise of public health?

I think it is worth considering these two statements together as to the reasons behind the mandate.

The fact that one political party has tacitly and not-so-fucking-tacitly pushed anti-vaxxing / no-masks as a legitimate political viewpoint, instead of leaving it as what it is, fringe black helicopter / new world order / sovereign citizen conspiracy idiocy means that there are significantly more idiots buying into this than there should be. (And thanks from the rest of the world for exporting this horseshit too, btw.)

So I would suggest to you that turning this into a mandate rather than relying on the 'honour system' is a response to that.
And that it's not about control - it's about business owners and employees having to deal with these chucklefucks on a daily basis, people who are inherently completely unreasonable in their manners and behaviour.

This isn't about local mom and pop diners letting regulars in on the downlow sans masks getting raided by the cops for a city fine shakedown.
It's about organised groups of obnoxious, self righteous, and in many cases violent 'protesters' shitting up peoples businesses, and the businesses being left to handle it on their own with no real authority to deal with things, which is where you see the stories of minimum wage staff being assaulted, spat on, and abused.

Making it a legally enforced mandate means some of that pressure is off of the businesses and employees that also want some semblance of normal; they can now call the cops on these dickheads.

E:
FWIW I think there is a really fine line between jumping into legal remedies for expediency and accidentally over reaching with bigger implications, and there is discussion to be had there, and I also don't think vax-checks / passports are actually as preventative as things like track and trace or tests at entry would be.

But this isn't just a business related situation. The government is mandating that all citizens get vaccinated. Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop. I find it to be equivocally the wrong solution. Where's the line? What else can the government mandate me to do if they don't want me to have control over my body? If the vaccine worked to the point where it outright prevents Covid, I could see it. But it doesn't! It just gives your immune system a boost on the off chance you get it so you can hopefully fight it better so comparisons to things like Measles vaccination mandates don't work tit for tat either.

Essentially the state is requiring the populace to have our bodies altered on a maybe. A what if.

Another consequence of mandates is that not all people can even take the vaccine currently. What about them? Do they get an exemption?

You say it's not about control but what about the curfews? Over the past summer they lowered the 12 am curfew at Washington Square Park (my favorite park outside of Central and Prospect) to around 9 pm. The least likely to be vaccinated are racial minorities. The state says it cares about racial inequality, but is applying a wide sweeping mandate which targets certain racial groups by proxy. Their response? Oh, we just need to specifically target those groups least likely to get vaccinated and place a racial hierarchy on who gets Covid treatment. That's their solution!

The consequence of these actions are highly problematic from an American standpoint. Where does safety over liberty end exactly? Because from the links I've shared you should see that it never stops once it's rolling. It's a continual erosion.

On Reason this was timely posted and it strikes to crux of my argument.

https://reason.com/2022/01/02/the-lockdown-showdown/

If executives of local, state, and federal government can achieve these kind of sweeping mandates what's stopping them from activating them in bad faith? After all, according to Democratic Party, Republicans currently are fascist right? But you're mandating things. Often American politics act as a push and pull. California achieves sweeping anti-gun laws and Texas responds with sweeping anti-abortion laws. Currently Texas and Florida are doing their own flavor of anti-mandate laws but if the Republican Party are as dangerous as liberals say, going by this executive overreach what's stopping Republicans from achieving more heinous proposals through the same means?

Furthermore as an extension, given the already polarized nature of American politics, how is this not a control move? Did they really think all Americans would comply, much less Republicans? But it's more than Republicans that disagree with the mandate. I'm pro-vaccine and I've been against mandates from day one. This has only achieved more division and turmoil. Frankly, it makes Biden's case for Presidency forfeit and makes argument for voting out the current incumbents. It reeks of bad leadership. America is not Europe, but good or bad. Someone like me that supports vaccines is now considered anti-vax because I'm against mandates. It naturally politicizes and pushes people like me naturally to the right.

Say what you want about the "they're mostly vaxxed" but Japan's decision to not discriminate against the unvaccinated was an excellent move in smoothing waters. If Joe Biden's Administration had any sense they would have pushed for people getting vaccinated and making a case that doesn't have the stench of propaganda while humanizing and understanding the concerns of people that hadn't taken the vaccine. Instead their messaging was Winter of Death and Disease, et al. This is from the government that mandates a medical procedure? Death and disease? Imagine if we are on the wrong side next time given this obvious case of dehumanization?

Japan's health decree reads:

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“Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory.

Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.

Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects.

No vaccination will be given without consent.

Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.”

See? Reasonable leadership through good will and a helping hand. That is how government should act. Many have argued,"well Japan is smart and they're vaxxed and they do the right things to help their neighbors" but that doesn't take into consideration that the White House has this on their website:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHBYQMVX0AMnVAS?format=jpg&name=small)

Would you trust such a government or do what they tell you to? I wouldn't!

So basically, within the confines of American politics, a vaccine mandate makes shit worse. Not only in terms of bodily autonomy and liberty, but also politically. I am very, very against a vaccine mandate and will vote Republican just to counter it in response. Both Trump and Biden are doing the same things in reverse: Trump came out with anti-mask rhetoric and Biden has come out with anti-unvaccinated rhetoric. We've seen both sides have their chance to fix this without blowing the nation up and both fucked it up majorly. They both participate in language that dehumanizes the other side. At least Trump is playful and open about it and didn't campaign on "uniting the nation".
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 03, 2022, 02:06:47 PM
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Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop.

vaccines aren't medical procedures and vaccines have been mandated by the big G for centuries.
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Post by: stufte on January 03, 2022, 02:23:22 PM
Anti-vaxxers can get fully and unapologetically fucked. There is no "both sides" in this. Fuck the willfully ignorant fucks who continue to get people killed in the name of "muh freedoms".
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 02:25:50 PM
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Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop.

vaccines aren't medical procedures and vaccines have been mandated by the big G for centuries.

Biden is mandating all companies with 100 or more employees.

https://www.cnet.com/health/biden-vaccine-mandate-update-which-workers-will-need-proof-of-covid-vaccination/

NYC's Key to NYC basically mandates vaccines in all but name.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keytonyc.page

Anti-vaxxers can get fully and unapologetically fucked. There is no "both sides" in this. Fuck the willfully ignorant fucks who continue to get people killed in the name of "muh freedoms".

I disagree with Covid anti-vaxxers and think many can be crazy but they shouldn't get fucked and I will fight for their right to voice their opinions. There is absolutely both sides and by dehumanizing them you are proving there is.
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Post by: stufte on January 03, 2022, 02:38:37 PM
I'm super cool with dehumanizing dangerous morons. Their "opinions" are worth less than hot dogshit on a sidewalk.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 02:48:10 PM
I'm super cool with dehumanizing dangerous morons. Their "opinions" are worth less than hot dogshit on a sidewalk.

Okay.

(https://i.imgur.com/tTtcdDx.gif)
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Post by: Occam on January 03, 2022, 02:50:33 PM
I'm super cool with dehumanizing dangerous morons. Their "opinions" are worth less than hot dogshit on a sidewalk.

Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 02:54:01 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

Vaccinated people get and transfer the virus. Many of us have been living recklessly and without masks, spreading Covid. Are we also murderers?

You sound pretty insane.

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Post by: Coffee Dog on January 03, 2022, 03:26:26 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.
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Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 03, 2022, 03:26:46 PM
yes
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 04:04:21 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.

NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.

Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.

Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
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Post by: stufte on January 03, 2022, 04:13:53 PM
I don't care what color you are. If you are skeptical, talk and LISTEN to your doctor, and take action accordingly. If you won't listen to reason you're a detriment to civilized society and can get fully fucked.
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Post by: Coffee Dog on January 03, 2022, 04:18:09 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.

NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.

I didn't state a theory. It's easier to get infected when you're unvaccinated.
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Post by: Potato on January 03, 2022, 04:22:33 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.

NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.

Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.

Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
So, they're not avoiding the vaccine because they believe in conspiracies, they're just avoiding it because of "reasons".

I think I prefer the conspiracy nuts. At least they are being fooled by misinformation rather than just actively harming themselves and others by being sceptical for no apparent reason.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 04:30:33 PM
No apparent reason.

Not only are you condescending but you're badly informed. :lol
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Post by: Potato on January 03, 2022, 04:36:27 PM
If I'm badly informed, it's your fault. That post was literally based on your information.
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Post by: Beezy on January 03, 2022, 05:31:45 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.

NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.

Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.

Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
And most unvaccinated black people I know do believe all these conspiracies around the vaccine. Some wear masks, some don't. Some don't even want to get tested. There's no one popular viewpoint amongst unvaccinated black people, even just in NYC.

NY state's numbers are because of the new omicron variant. NY state's hospitals are still okay so far because vaccinated people are fighting off COVID without needing to go to the hospital. Early in the pandemic before there was a vaccine that wasn't the case. I'm sure you know this since you moved here during that time.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 05:59:28 PM
Honestly, reading some libertopian literature, the pandemic has made an excellent case for libertarianism which is funny because at the start of this I read things like "There's no Libertarian in a Pandemic." Whoopsie on that.

Pros of the libertarian position:

- correctly recognizes the power that government has

- correctly recognizes that government should be limited albeit with a guiding hand

- personal liberty is the most important aspect in society. Are we really free without liberty?

- plastic ideology. I can think badly of drug addicts while also thinking drugs should be decriminalized and no one should be punished for what they personally consume. I can think doing LGBT acts is sinful but also believe they should have the liberty toive the lives they want to live without judgement. Non-Muslims should let Muslim women allowed to wear hijab, niqab, and burqa if they want to. So much for liberte' eh, France?

- because it is ideological plastic it also has no real ideology beyond live and let live and no coercion outside of NAP. You can be a left libertarian or right libertarian. Everyone wins!

- because of this it's a good ideological framework outside of the two party system

- rather than blindly accepting other perspectives libertarians appear more than most to question the short term and long term effects of policy than either Democrats or Republicans who tend to be too tuned into their base.

- by extension, libertarians more than any politicial group I've seen love debating perspectives and understanding perspectives.

- because it's not stuck in ideology the libertarian perspective allows freedom outside of the two party system. I can vote for both democrsts and Republicans depending on where they are on the Freedum scale rather than for party.

Negatives of the libertarian position:

- the party is in complete disarray when more Americans could use a third option than ever

- because it is ideologically plastic anyone can claim to be libertarian. It's common for libertarian ideology to be ransacked by conservatives. Ted Cruz claims to be a libertarian but often goes against LGBT people in bigoted policy and flexes authoritarian Christian theology down tax payers' throats all while flying a Gadsden flag. This is problematic.

- because it's plastic this means there's no guiding light in it. Freedom means something different for everyone and that's a problem for libertarians.

- many libertopians tend to grab one to a key issue like say taxes or weed and take it to such an extreme that it's the only issue they care about and fuck everyone else's freedom. White conservative libertarians are notorious at this.

- because there's no fail safe list of beliefs for libertarianism it could probably never go mainstream because you need a common core principles to enact lasting cbange to convince the regular folk

- libertarianism bas garnered a bad name. Things like Bioshock characterize it as freedom run amock. People regularly blast and mock Ayn Rand writing. It's labeled as for college grads and stoners.

All in all pretty interesting with some notable negatives. Still appears to be worth looking into.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 06:12:37 PM
Anti-vaxxers kill people. Dogshit presumably doesn't, unless you smear it into an open wound and then refuse treatment with modern medicine. Kind of what anti-vaxxers are doing. Smearing dogshit into the heads of others and rejecting modern medicine.

If you wear masks but choose not to get the vaccine are you really killing people?

It's easier to get infected with the virus if you aren't vaccinated, so it definitely helps spread the thing around to others. Hard to spread it if you don't get infected.

NY state puts a massive hole in that theory given our vaccinated rate and current case numbers.

Technically, aren't most people murderers in a pandemic? I find that argumentation unconvincing.

Furthermore, most unvaccinated people I know are black and skeptical. They don't think Bill Gates put 5G in it. They don't think it was curated as a science experiment on minorities. They're just skeptical. Given the rising cases they're even more skeptical. They wear masks and try to stay safe and don't consider the virus to be a hoax but the left who claims to fight for minority voices tells them to get fucked. Both sides indeed.
And most unvaccinated black people I know do believe all these conspiracies around the vaccine. Some wear masks, some don't. Some don't even want to get tested. There's no one popular viewpoint amongst unvaccinated black people, even just in NYC.

NY state's numbers are because of the new omicron variant. NY state's hospitals are still okay so far because vaccinated people are fighting off COVID without needing to go to the hospital. Early in the pandemic before there was a vaccine there wasn't the case. I'm sure you know this since you moved here during that time.

Agreed fully the conspiracy theorists are out there. My main contention is labeling all of them in this category or not taking their concerns seriously. At the end of the day I'm still not convinced that forcing people to get vaccinated or risk getting fired is the way to fight vaccination rates. I think it is horribly ineffective and callous. These are people that don't trust government so the governments answer is to...force them to get vaxxed or risk their jobs? It's...uh, not smart or logical in any manner lol. It's liberals coercing others to their bidding and further divides an already divided populace.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 03, 2022, 06:48:54 PM
But this isn't just a business related situation. The government is mandating that all citizens get vaccinated. Say whatever you want but a government entity mandating a medical procedure is just wrong, full stop. I find it to be equivocally the wrong solution. Where's the line? What else can the government mandate me to do if they don't want me to have control over my body? If the vaccine worked to the point where it outright prevents Covid, I could see it. But it doesn't! It just gives your immune system a boost on the off chance you get it so you can hopefully fight it better so comparisons to things like Measles vaccination mandates don't work tit for tat either.

Essentially the state is requiring the populace to have our bodies altered on a maybe. A what if.
It's probably worth noting that no level of the government has yet mandated vaccination. OSHA's requirement does not mandate vaccination, may not be constitutional and doesn't apply to everyone anyway. Local public health measures restricting access are not requirements to get vaccinated and I'm not sure they can get much tighter before the courts interfere, they already have on meaningless things like religious services for example. That said, Jacobson has been the law of the land for over a century. Vaccine mandates may be ineffective public policy, but they aren't new and aren't stretching the bounds of established police powers.

On the other hand, we also have Republican states and localities engaging in efforts to promote non-vaccination including banning private parties from establishing vaccine requirements and by directly paying people for not getting vaccinated and rescuing public officials like police officers who leave localities because they refuse to get vaccinated. This is bad public policy with no clear benefit. It's probably also unfortunately not unconstitutional nor is bad public policy new either.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 06:57:53 PM
I've expressed my disgust with Republicans like Abbot and DeSantis mandating anti-mandates when it should be left to the business to make these choices. The Republicans are just as anti-freedom as the Democrats.

Good points on vaccine mandates and their current status. Thoughts on Key to NYC? Is that not a mandate? If no mandates are in place why do news sources continue to use that word and language?
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Post by: benjipwns on January 03, 2022, 07:12:05 PM
Requiring vaccination for access to public accommodations is not mandating anyone get vaccinated. I may dislike the idea of disallowing unvaccinated people access to certain public accommodations by government fiat but being unvaccinated is not a recognized protected class even if people are born that way and others want to dehumanize them.

I can't tell you why the news media does anything at this point.
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Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 07:45:48 PM
Requiring vaccination for access to public accommodations is not mandating anyone get vaccinated. I may dislike the idea of disallowing unvaccinated people access to certain public accommodations by government fiat but being unvaccinated is not a recognized protected class even if people are born that way and others want to dehumanize them.

I can't tell you why the news media does anything at this point.

Fair enough but these things are often so essential to basic human life it feels like a mandate I'm terms of policy and language, especially after nearly two years of this.  So yeah, I don't like it even if it's not a true mandate. And if it's not a real mandate it feels like it's grooming the populace for a mandate in the future. I don't like it one bit.
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Post by: Uncle on January 03, 2022, 07:54:26 PM
All in all pretty interesting with some notable negatives. Still appears to be worth looking into.

it's weird to me to view this like shopping, holding up different fruits and looking for blemishes and choosing one to fully commit to, only to throw it out and choose a new one a few weeks later

I don't understand why anyone would willingly adopt any label for themselves because you're inviting so much baggage and immediate dismissal from others who have preconceptions about it

same reason nobody says "I am a gamer"

just embrace whatever ideologies sit best with you, if someone asks you what you are, you describe to them your positions and if they want to box you in and say "sounds like you're a libertarian," that's their decision, not yours
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Post by: Uncle on January 03, 2022, 07:57:28 PM
Requiring vaccination for access to public accommodations is not mandating anyone get vaccinated. I may dislike the idea of disallowing unvaccinated people access to certain public accommodations by government fiat but being unvaccinated is not a recognized protected class even if people are born that way and others want to dehumanize them.

I can't tell you why the news media does anything at this point.

Fair enough but these things are often so essential to basic human life it feels like a mandate I'm terms of policy and language, especially after nearly two years of this.  So yeah, I don't like it even if it's not a true mandate. And if it's not a real mandate it feels like it's grooming the populace for a mandate in the future. I don't like it one bit.

I just don't like precedents that can be abused, like if trump gets re-elected and now thinks he has some basis to mandate ivermectin for everyone
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 08:06:26 PM
All in all pretty interesting with some notable negatives. Still appears to be worth looking into.

it's weird to me to view this like shopping, holding up different fruits and looking for blemishes and choosing one to fully commit to, only to throw it out and choose a new one a few weeks later

I don't understand why anyone would willingly adopt any label for themselves because you're inviting so much baggage and immediate dismissal from others who have preconceptions about it

same reason nobody says "I am a gamer"

just embrace whatever ideologies sit best with you, if someone asks you what you are, you describe to them your positions and if they want to box you in and say "sounds like you're a libertarian," that's their decision, not yours

You think it's about me picking something. To me it's about exploring my options to be an informed citizen on how to vote in a very rigid vote system. Also, this is America. No one votes 1:1 towards what they think. Small government conservatives vote GOP. A Communist like Shosta is a devout Democrat. If I'm to venture my options outside of the two party system needing to under libertarianism is necessary. Given my views I've already been labeled a libertopian on Reddit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 03, 2022, 08:09:19 PM
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1478086269754298373
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 03, 2022, 08:29:07 PM
A Communist like Shosta is a devout Democrat.
I didn't pull the lever for Newsom during the recall :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 03, 2022, 09:12:29 PM
A Communist like Shosta is a devout Democrat.
I didn't pull the lever for Newsom during the recall :ufup

Good boy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 03, 2022, 09:54:59 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIMpKcbWYAE4Xph?format=jpg&name=small)

these guys always gotta delete these :rage
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 03, 2022, 11:10:13 PM
https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1477708658263793667
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 03, 2022, 11:44:47 PM
College Republicans are the best:
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1477818133473730560
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1478074993363668998
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1478154125183369218

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1477734126727933960
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1477809387276169216
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1477811068349018112
https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1477814346168160256
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on January 03, 2022, 11:50:31 PM
Seems like the kind of viewpoint I'd expect from a college student, let alone a UCLA college student, let alone a Republican who is attending a high-priced four-year on their parents' dime, and doesn't want to acknowledge their privilege.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 04, 2022, 03:11:18 AM
College Republicans are the best:
[snip]
Real q, do you ever get essays like this? :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2022, 03:24:31 AM
The will of the people over rule of law? Lol what?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2022, 10:37:13 AM
Inconsistent responses, inconsistent methods. It's almost like government barely functions! Big government? Lmao why?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nycCoronavirus/comments/rva1ln/mta_employee_speaks_out_about_the_change_to_covid/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 04, 2022, 12:32:35 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/elivalley/status/1476231238935621639

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2022, 01:50:13 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/biden-disapproval-rating-high-voters-blame-him-on-economy-cnbc-poll.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 04, 2022, 02:04:55 PM
Imagine being responsible  for saving the US from the brink of destruction twice in 20 years and getting bad ratings.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 04, 2022, 05:58:57 PM
https://twitter.com/PeterMoskos/status/1478456322483961857
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Beezy on January 04, 2022, 07:21:31 PM
Does that mean they'll release people currently locked up for non-violent crimes?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 04, 2022, 07:33:24 PM
https://twitter.com/PeterMoskos/status/1478456322483961857

Excellent policy. Good job. Hopefully Brooklyn next. There's been a mass effort from BK DA last year to cut down on sex work arrests as NYC works towards decriminalization of sex work which is a fantastic move and one that would make Jesus proud.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 04, 2022, 08:22:17 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1478469016960262147
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 04, 2022, 09:03:45 PM
Who would have thought that people who get their news and political talking points from Twitter might be ill-informed?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 04, 2022, 11:00:11 PM
College Republicans are the best:
[snip]
Real q, do you ever get essays like this? :lol
No, unfortunately. It would be pretty great if someone replied to a question asking how something operated by attacking the legitimacy of the institution though.

I'm not sure how I would respond.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 04, 2022, 11:43:03 PM
https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist/status/1478419141384097792
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 12:36:02 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ted-cruz-impeach-biden/2022/01/04/afc3f7ac-6da0-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html

Jeez so sick of the political witch hunts at this point from both sides instead of fighting for the people. Just fuck each other already.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 05, 2022, 01:11:31 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/q02nHi7.png)

 :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 05, 2022, 01:28:06 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIReFyiXEAwu9Wk?format=png&name=900x900)

oops

https://twitter.com/Holden114/status/1478375607352365064

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FITpcgGXwAEIb7F?format=jpg&name=small)
 :rollsafe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 05:31:21 PM
:lol

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1478145694078750723
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 05:44:03 PM
dp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 06:38:46 PM
:dead

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1478791350233427969

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2022, 06:55:46 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1478758105999679490

I am not generally the type to rail against AOC, but I saw this particular tweet

first of all the tweet she's replying to is horrible and dumb, but the correct response to that is not further idiocy

to claim that there are no "low skill jobs" is to imply that every single job takes the exact same amount of skill to perform? because otherwise if some jobs require more skill than others, the ones that take less can be easily considered the lower skilled jobs by comparison

and everyone implicitly knows there are low skill jobs, because we've all done them, and as a society we tend to give them to people who currently lack skills such as teens

to have a "low skill job" is not an indictment of you as a person, nor does it entitle anyone to abuse you, devalue you, or disrespect the work you do...it's just a truthful classification of some forms of employment

if you want, you could call it a "high availability/low demand job," because it's all based on supply and demand...people trained for highly skilled professions like doctors are in shorter supply so that's a "low availability/high demand job" by comparison

and the jobs that are "high availability" -- Wal-Mart greeter -- are like that because the skill requirement is such that anybody in the world can do it



don't gaslight me  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 07:08:00 PM
The problem with Adams' statement wasn't the addition of "low skill" but when he said lacking academics or whatever. Many college grads do low skill jobs and many smart, creative people that never went to college work them too. Also many jobs are low skill but still hard working. There's not much skill in picking up packages at an Amazon warehouse. You just stack boxes. What makes it hard is the repetitive motion. She's being offended by the wrong part of the statement but hey, it's a new day so it's something new to be offended at.

I wonder what will offend her tomorrow? Likely not another mentally ill homeless person on the trains. :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2022, 07:39:26 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1478758105999679490

I am not generally the type to rail against AOC, but I saw this particular tweet

first of all the tweet she's replying to is horrible and dumb, but the correct response to that is not further idiocy

to claim that there are no "low skill jobs" is to imply that every single job takes the exact same amount of skill to perform? because otherwise if some jobs require more skill than others, the ones that take less can be easily considered the lower skilled jobs by comparison

It's not a claim that different jobs require different levels of skill.


to have a "low skill job" is not an indictment of you as a person, nor does it entitle anyone to abuse you, devalue you, or disrespect the work you do...it's just a truthful classification of some forms of employment

if you want, you could call it a "high availability/low demand job," because it's all based on supply and demand...people trained for highly skilled professions like doctors are in shorter supply so that's a "low availability/high demand job" by comparison

and the jobs that are "high availability" -- Wal-Mart greeter -- are like that because the skill requirement is such that anybody in the world can do it



don't gaslight me  :doge


It's exactly this and meant to be a reframing of the discussion of what 'low-skill' implies.  Economic terms are often used to obfuscate ethical and political positions.  If you live in a world where one's economic worth is their worth as a person, then a "low skill job" is an indictment of you as a person, and results in people abusing and taking advantage of you.  More importantly, it devalues your economic worth and is not just a reflection of it.  As we have seen with the recent 'labour' shortage, people are not as replaceable as people using the term 'low-skill' want to imply.  It wasn't long ago where people got away with using the term 'unskilled', again referencing it as just a fundamental economic truth.  The fact that these terms exist in economics does not mean that when people use these terms they are actually talking about economics. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 05, 2022, 07:47:19 PM
Let's keep it a buck. Terminology and language means jack shit. Two years ago you were an essential worker, now you're a Terminated because you're not vaxxed. Turns out you weren't essential after all. Maybe the reason AOC's agenda doesn't win is because she spends too much time arguing bullshit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2022, 07:51:23 PM
It's exactly this and meant to be a reframing of the discussion of what 'low-skill' implies.  Economic terms are often used to obfuscate ethical and political positions.  If you live in a world where one's economic worth is their worth as a person, then a "low skill job" is an indictment of you as a person, and results in people abusing and taking advantage of you.  More importantly, it devalues your economic worth and is not just a reflection of it.  As we have seen with the recent 'labour' shortage, people are not as replaceable as people using the term 'low-skill' want to imply.  It wasn't long ago where people got away with using the term 'unskilled', again referencing it as just a fundamental economic truth.  The fact that these terms exist in economics does not mean that when people use these terms they are actually talking about economics.

your economic worth is only tied to your worth as a person if you allow it to be

"you're fat and ugly so you're worthless" is just as invalid as "you don't have a high-paying job so you're worthless," your self-worth is something YOU decide internally



she says there are no low skill jobs which is why we have to value the people doing them because they really take so much skill, honest

I say there ARE low skill jobs but that is not an excuse to abuse the people doing them because those jobs will always exist and someone has to do them, and everyone deserves respect



her take is using a falsehood to try to say something nice, I'm saying embrace the truth and still choose to value people
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2022, 08:00:07 PM
essentially, she is still wrapped up in the false viewpoint that your worth is tied to your skill level

rather than concluding that your worth shouldn't be tied to your skill level and working toward that end, she chooses to claim that everyone has a high skill level so therefore everyone has worth

like, can't we decouple these things?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2022, 08:53:54 PM
You are very much agreeing with the underlying philosophy of what she is arguing for but choosing an uncharitable interpretation of her words.  It's only her lying if you think she is making a claim about different jobs being incomparable (and thus equal) in skill, instead of a claim about how the term 'low skill' is used to devalue people.  It's pretty clear that it's the latter given 'is a myth perpetuated by wealthy interests ...'.  Again, the point is that 'low skill' is a term used to obfuscate the various ideas of demand, education, skill, etc. by using an economic term in order 'to justify inhumane working conditions, little/no healthcare, and low wages'.   

Pointing out that there are skills needed for waitressing or that valuable lessons were learned while doing it, is a way to get people to reevaluate the skills needed to do such jobs and to combat the idea that high availability means low-skill and thus low value.  It's not a claim that anyone who waitresses can be a doctor, but a claim that they should be valued (in that they deserve human working conditions, healthcare, and a livable wage), even though they are not a doctor. 


edit;  even if her tweet was literally 'A waitress is just as skilled as a doctor', it wouldn't mean that she thinks a waitress is just as practiced and educated and in demand as a doctor or that they work just as hard etc. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2022, 09:18:07 PM
you're treating it like one of those "not all men" gotchas, "well of course when we said all men are raised as catcallers, we didn't mean ALL men, but methinks you protest too much"

not all corrections of poorly-phrased statements are uncharitable; sometimes the statement is just a bad one

don't say "low skill is a myth" if you don't mean it, especially released to the Twitter audience, good god

it would be incredibly easy to respond to the first tweet by (first of all) correcting the conflation of education level with the job one finds oneself in, and segueing from that false conflation to the other one that conflates skill level with whether you deserve abuse



the most charitable read would be the one that assumes as a politician, it ingratiates her more to her constituents to imply that she sees you (yes, you) as being highly-skilled

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Pointing out that there are skills needed for waitressing or that valuable lessons were learned while doing it, is a way to get people to reevaluate the skills needed to do such jobs and to combat the idea that high availability means low-skill and thus low value.

high availability DOES often mean low-skill, and we should not combat this idea if it is true

but low-skill does not mean low value, this is the distinction that matters

you've got these things intrinsically linked just like she did, which is just not true, the fact that something is easy to do doesn't mean those doing it deserve abuse
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2022, 09:42:03 PM
You are absolutely right, sadly, there will be dumbasses who will misread what she meant, and so she should have really made herself clearer.  Like why invite the bad faith arguments?  Especially on twitter.  It's like 'defund the police': it's a good idea to keep the police in check, but I can't stand the marketing.  I don't get why people can't be completely clear and logical with their language, since language is really about conveying facts and logical propositions.  If everyone was just more clear in what they meant, these kinds of misunderstandings just would not happen.  It's honestly just stupidity when people don't do this.     
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 05, 2022, 09:55:43 PM
Don't you think the medium (and people using that medium) is significantly to blame here?

Getting your political analysis 240 characters at a time and at 6000 miles per hour from people desperate for attention and clicks is a big problem.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2022, 10:31:48 PM
No, I don't think so.  A ten-part tweet or 10-minute interview would be picked apart just the same.  Just skimming the replies -- because I don't have a stomach for twitter -- you get people having a gut reaction of 'how dare she say my job X is as easy as job Y' i.e. people who fundamentally believe they are better people and deserve more than people doing Y due to their ability to do X or people going 'well economics', i.e. people who have bought into the idea that economics is a valid and perfect science and that when people use economic terms they strictly mean their academic definition.  That tweet is doing what it intends to do, which is to raise the value of 'low skill' works and question how the term gets used, and more importantly, it will hit its intended audience.  Being divisive is not a loss.  Nor is the fact that some people are allergic to rhetoric, and hence might dislike what she said only because of how she said it. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 05, 2022, 11:41:49 PM
That tweet is doing what it intends to do, which is to raise the value of 'low skill' works and question how the term gets used, and more importantly, it will hit its intended audience.  Being divisive is not a loss.  Nor is the fact that some people are allergic to rhetoric, and hence might dislike what she said only because of how she said it.

this defense can be equally applied to literally just fucking lying, like trump-style tweets

his intended audience will understand what he means  :-*

so what if it's divisive, it gets him the attention he wants, sowing division is not a loss  ;)

you just don't like what he said because of HOW he said it, put another way you'd agree with him  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 06, 2022, 12:35:30 AM
https://reason.com/2022/01/05/biden-is-trying-to-disguise-a-general-vaccine-mandate-as-a-workplace-safety-measure/?fbclid=IwAR2kws8dD6AnxO7tJPaw2ecgxA0hZnAAfwshWnoRzbL9uTrq12Rqp2uhrDo

Counter point:

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/587794-the-libertarian-myth-at-the-heart-of-legal-challenges-to-bidens-vaccine
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 06:08:02 PM
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1479107411201847303

While those may be true in the abstract, I prefer a former President's more straightfoward formulation:
Quote from: Bill Clinton
There is nothing patriotic about hating your government, or pretending you can hate your government but love your country.

Also from that 25 year old speech:
Quote from: Bill Clinton
If you treat law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line for your safety every day like some kind of enemy army, to be suspected, derided, and--if they should be able to enforce the law against you--to be shot, you are wrong
ACAB
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 06, 2022, 07:29:10 PM
Seems like we learned nothing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1479162130494627843

https://mobile.twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1479133345300852738

If only Hamilton was around when 9/11 happened.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 07:31:13 PM
Dictated but not read:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIdLDDoXsAQZGmU?format=jpg&name=small)

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1479100286702657539
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 07:33:51 PM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1479192312022548491

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 07:38:06 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1479172475329994754
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 07:38:20 PM
https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/1479142491869876233

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1479111384042393603
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 06, 2022, 07:49:46 PM
:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 06, 2022, 08:05:21 PM
I think the January 6 insurrectionists deserve prison but are we going to do "on this day ____ years ago" every year now?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 08:06:35 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIcsEXyXMAYfEwM?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 08:12:05 PM
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1479085805536747522

I don't think this is the own he thinks it is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 06, 2022, 08:36:04 PM
I think the January 6 insurrectionists deserve prison but are we going to do "on this day ____ years ago" every year now?

when you think about it and trace back the roots of the rhetoric, gamergate was directly responsible for Jan 6
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 06, 2022, 08:40:04 PM
I think the January 6 insurrectionists deserve prison but are we going to do "on this day ____ years ago" every year now?

when you think about it and trace back the roots of the rhetoric, gamergate was directly responsible for Jan 6

Ughhh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on January 06, 2022, 09:14:28 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIcsEXyXMAYfEwM?format=png&name=small)

I’ll save my donations for the December 14th political prisoners, thank you very much  ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 10:19:38 PM
https://twitter.com/GraemeEdgeler/status/1479237549604294656

 :shh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 10:21:57 PM
https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/1479255535178420224

awwww yesss
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2022, 10:31:33 PM
https://twitter.com/rickklein/status/1479103258903916544

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2022, 01:49:04 AM
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1478619579190583296
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 03:23:03 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-pearl-habor-911-comparison-jan-6-speech-2022-1?utm_source=reddit.com

Lmao 1/6 was fucked up but at the end of the day it's a what if. No one died besides Babbitt iirc.

I'll just paste what was said on r/moderatepolitics

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She can compare it to whatever she wants, voters won't really care when it comes time for elections, they are going to look at how their own personal livelihoods have been affected.

I doubt they are going to say "Well, inflation sucks, gas prices suck, house prices suck, food prices suck, but..I don't want another Jan 6th to happen, so I'm voting against that"

Btw, I'm not trying to downplay Jan 6th, it was inexcusable, but I don't think it'll affect people's votes as much no matter how much they try to use it as a fear tactic.

The Democrats will have to get some better ammo if they only have Trump, and Jan 6 to fall back on come election time.

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Virginia showed shouting Trump name is useless, but they don't seem interested in changing that.

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Outside of Reddit and Democratic politicians, I don't think a single person that I know of gives a shit about January 6. The fact that the Democrats make it a big deal while the rest of the American people struggle with gas and food prices, makes me think it'll hurt them long term because they think this is more important than what it really is (compared to other current issues)

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Two things true:

1. What happened at the Capitol was wrong, all involved in trespassing and/or coordinating attacks should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
2. Democrats want to use this against Republicans for political gain, and its very transparent and obvious. They're not even really hiding this, as I believe Schumer said he was going to try to use the anniversary of the event to push the Democrats changes to federal voting laws.

Also, comparing to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor is silly, obviously.

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That feels like cheapening national tragedies to score political points.

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Democrats seem to have a tendency to overplay their hand, even when it's a winning one.  Rather than let Trump sink himself (which he promptly did), they got down into the muck with him and impeached him left and right and seemed petty and partisan in the process (alliteration!).  Instead of condemning the minority of these folks for trying to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power, they're trying to overstate their impact and number of supporters for political purposes.  The only people this will resonate with already vote for Democrats.

Especially during the Trump era, Democrats had a golden opportunity to be the adults in the room and broaden their appeal.  I was there for the taking.  Instead, (according to them) everything Trump and the Republicans did was a threat to democracy which was therefore always on the verge of collapsing.  Schumer first demanded that we preserve the filibuster (when he was in the minority) in order to save democracy but when Dems took the majority, we now have to kill/alter the filibuster in order to do what?  You guessed it:  Save democracy.  I'm starting to see a trend here.

On social issues, they tailored their message in order to appeal to a very narrow group (the progressive left), which further alienated people who may have been enticed to the party with a more moderate message.  Once Biden got into office, the party swung even further left both economically and socially.  Rather than appealing to more voters, they seem to be hell-bent on catering to a very vocal minority within their party, which is a terrible way to win an election.  The messaging just doesn't appeal to large parts of the country.

FWIW: I realize Biden won in 2020, but I'd argue (based on the House votes) that was a very specific circumstance.  I think President Biden received a lot of anti-Trump votes in 2020 (as opposed to Pro-Biden votes).

Dems, recognize that American voters have only two real options. Yeah we can vote third party but if you don't come with the goods, Americans might look at what someone else is selling. No amount of 1/6 mentions changes this.



Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 04:17:13 AM
Lmao remember when dude asked me to post a source most Americans are moving past Covid and living life as we did before?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/06/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes#former-biden-advisers-call-on-the-administration-to-change-its-covid-strategy

Imagine being scurred when you have a vaccine and a booster. Lmao pussy shit unless you're actually immunocompromised, have a child aged 0-5, or are elderly, or live with someone in those three groups. Finally Biden. Finally. Open the gates. This fucking thing is cooked.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 04:39:03 AM
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/01/06/adams--hochul-announce-new-subway-policing-strategies-to-draw-riders

:rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2022, 09:22:27 AM
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Lmao pussy shit unless you're actually immunocompromised, have a child aged 0-5, or are elderly, or live with someone in those three groups.

 :snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 07, 2022, 11:47:51 AM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/toddler-shoots-mother-sibling-texas-b1988437.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 12:58:06 PM
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Lmao pussy shit unless you're actually immunocompromised, have a child aged 0-5, or are elderly, or live with someone in those three groups.

 :snoop

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Different people will make different decisions, and that’s OK. Severely immunocompromised people — like those who have received organ transplants or are actively receiving cancer treatment — have reason to be extra cautious. For otherwise healthy older people, on the other hand, the latest data may be encouraging enough to affect their behavior.

Consider this: Before Omicron, a typical vaccinated 75-year-old who contracted Covid had a roughly similar risk of death — around 1 in 200 — as a typical 75-year-old who contracted the flu. (Here are the details behind that calculation, which is based on an academic study.)

Omicron has changed the calculation. Because it is milder than earlier versions of the virus, Covid now appears to present less threat to most vaccinated elderly people than the annual flu does.

The flu, of course, does present risk for the elderly. And the sheer size of the Omicron surge may argue for caution over the next few weeks. But the combination of vaccines and Omicron’s apparent mildness means that, for an individual, Covid increasingly resembles the kind of health risk that people accept every day.

Via nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/briefing/omicron-risk-milder-pandemic.html

Some of you need to admit you don't want this to end. You're opposite of Covid denialists, and Covid extremists. Less than the flu.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 12:59:26 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586710-warren-accuses-supermarket-chains-executives-of-profiting-from-inflation
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 07, 2022, 02:41:53 PM
You're supposed to avoid people when the flu is going around too, dipshit

If they have the flu, sure.

Which is precisely why you wear a mask. But you don't stop going to restaurants during flu season. You don't make endless doom posts about flu season. Knowing flu is out there doesn't stop me from going to the movies or something. You're not obsessively posting daily case numbers during flu season. You don't put your life off for flu season. You get your shot and go. In this case, get vaccinated, wear your mask and move on with your life. The endless doomerism tied to Covid extremists is just as damaging and revolting as Covid denialists.

Thank you for making my case....dipshit. :)

Now get some pants on, grow some balls, put on your mask, and end this Covid bitch fest. If I have to see Tripon or someone talk about how they haven't eaten in a restaurant for two years one more time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Beezy on January 07, 2022, 04:26:57 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-pearl-habor-911-comparison-jan-6-speech-2022-1?utm_source=reddit.com

Lmao 1/6 was fucked up but at the end of the day it's a what if. No one died besides Babbitt iirc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html

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WASHINGTON — As a pro-Trump protest turned into a violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, four people in the crowd died.

Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber.

Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack, collapsing on the sidewalk west of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Rosanne Boyland appeared to have been crushed in a stampede of fellow rioters as they surged against the police.

Benjamin Philips, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke.

Mr. Greeson and Mr. Philips died of natural causes, the Washington medical examiner said in April. He added that Ms. Boyland’s death was caused by an accidental overdose.

In the days and weeks after the riot, five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6 died.

Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.

Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack.

Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.

The Capitol Police had previously said that Officer Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging with protesters.” The Washington medical examiner later ruled that he had died of natural causes: multiple strokes that occurred hours after Officer Sicknick’s confrontation with the mob. The medical examiner added, however, that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”

A bipartisan Senate report, released in June, found that the seven deaths were connected to the Capitol attack. But the report was issued a month before two Metropolitan Police officers — Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag — died by suicide in July.

The police agencies have not classified the four total suicides as “line of duty” deaths that would provide the victims’ families with enhanced benefits. Washington law excludes suicide deaths from the line-of-duty designation.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 07, 2022, 05:12:41 PM
It's just a flu

- trump himu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2022, 09:00:22 PM
https://twitter.com/TexasGOP/status/1479529037949292549

I don't think this is the own they think it is.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2022, 09:09:47 PM
Speaking of Texas GOP:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1479264723740684288
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1479272140625092614
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1479562750053400576
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIiGpA_XEAAZZsw?format=png&name=360x360)
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1479433855379685382
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on January 07, 2022, 09:22:05 PM
Cruz is the guy who doesn’t care which car he’s riding in, as long as he gets a ride.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2022, 10:25:15 PM
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1479573656913154052
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 07, 2022, 10:54:54 PM
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1479475073014710275
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1479490390474604544

Look, nobody's perfect, you guys are being so critical right now!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: T-Short on January 08, 2022, 08:40:25 AM
https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1479805809123115009
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Tripon on January 08, 2022, 10:01:05 PM
https://twitter.com/supserena1/status/1478803717285679105

Eric Adams is going to be one of those true posters, isn't he.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 08, 2022, 10:26:31 PM
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1479944792373137409
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: T-Short on January 09, 2022, 07:12:03 AM
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1479929265118449666
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on January 09, 2022, 01:08:13 PM
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1480093487840305157

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 09, 2022, 06:21:16 PM
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1480187349346697216
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1480190393874587651
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 09, 2022, 06:21:38 PM
Ted Cruz can't stop winning:
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1479613921111822340
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 09, 2022, 06:58:50 PM
https://twitter.com/SlimRyan45/status/1479852062959669255

The fact that it was 28 degrees out where Ruth also lives should have tipped her off that this wasn't the route to take. :lol

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FImFR5DWYAEXx0o?format=jpg&name=small)
https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus/status/1479938931470831622
https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus/status/1480302511072457136
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Kurt Russell on January 10, 2022, 12:21:34 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384965/amp/AOC-reveals-COVID-partying-maskless-Miami.html

 :yikes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 10, 2022, 03:27:57 AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384965/amp/AOC-reveals-COVID-partying-maskless-Miami.html

 :yikes
Big Oof
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 10, 2022, 07:39:08 PM
Another traitor to our country:
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1480386842952355849
https://twitter.com/davecatanese/status/1480670834603614208

 :usacry

"I will never endorse this jerk again."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIv4a37XEAIvrmm?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 10, 2022, 08:25:50 PM


"I will never endorse this jerk again."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIv4a37XEAIvrmm?format=jpg&name=900x900)
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As a non-American, I can confirm that the United States was, in fact, a laughing stock just one year ago, and two years ago, and three years ago, and four years ago, and five years ago.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 10, 2022, 10:28:39 PM
https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1480559083421896709

good job, good effort
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 11, 2022, 06:32:52 PM
ROFL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-voting-rights-filibuster/2022/01/11/ada7ce66-72dd-11ec-b202-b9b92330d4fa_story.html

Biden in 2005:

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“I say to my friends on the Republican side, you may own the field right now but you won’t own it forever.” And he concluded, “I pray to God when the Democrats take back control, we don’t make the same kind of naked power grab that you are doing.”

-Senator Joe Biden, May 23, 2005

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/23/dont-fall-filibuster-abolition-its-trap/


ROFL

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Democrats are the OGs of setting new standards while playing hardball, and then having a surprised Pikachu face when Republicans throw those standards right back at them.

    2006: "We're gonna delay every one of Bush's judicial nominations. That’ll teach him.” 2014: "NOOOOOOOO you can't delay Obama's judicial nominations! Republicans are racist! The "O" in GOP stands for obstructionist!"

    2013: "Time to remove the judicial filibuster, boys. It's the only way to get our nominees through." 2020: "NOOOOO what do you mean Republicans have voted in a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court through bare minimum party line majorities! This is an abuse of power! The Court is invalid and corrupted!

    2018: "Impeach Trump because of obstruction of Congress, something every President has done for the last 50 years but we choose now to act on it." 2022: "NOOOOOOO why is Ted Cruz saying the GOP will impeach Biden????? This is political brinksmanship!"

    YOU ARE HERE ——> 2022: “Guys I have a brilliant idea. Let’s get rid of the filibuster entirely for just one day, pass the voting rights act, then put it back in place.” 2024: “NOOOOOO what do you mean Republicans temporarily removed the filibuster to pass the National Abortion Ban Act, which passed 50-50 in the Senate with Vice President DeSantis breaking the tie? This is a gross violation of democracy and human rights! Republicans out here playing legislative games again! The minority party wasn’t even consulted!”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 11, 2022, 07:11:04 PM
this dude i can't even
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1480948292045336577
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 11, 2022, 07:12:42 PM
https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1480977129932218375

 :american "It may be time for a change candidate." :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 11, 2022, 07:36:23 PM
What the fuck is wrong with the Democrats?

Hilary lost to Trump because she was Hilary, not because Trump was any decent candidate. Even contemplating putting her up again is madness
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: DJ Bedroom on January 11, 2022, 07:42:48 PM
#itsherturn
#myabuela
#pokemongofuckyourselftothepolls
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 11, 2022, 09:39:28 PM
lol Romney
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1481031670971047938
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 11, 2022, 09:48:45 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI0_q8dX0AYJ8N4?format=jpg&name=medium)

why is this a thing
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 11, 2022, 10:03:16 PM
https://twitter.com/tomfriedman/status/1481057380582543362
 :dead :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 12, 2022, 09:51:13 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI0_q8dX0AYJ8N4?format=jpg&name=medium)

why is this a thing

Or for $60, he'll record a birthday message for your friend or family member.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 12, 2022, 10:06:43 AM
nvm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: bork on January 12, 2022, 02:18:41 PM
https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1480977129932218375

 :american "It may be time for a change candidate." :american

That second photo looks like :greenshinobi
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: stufte on January 12, 2022, 02:35:35 PM
https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1480977129932218375

 :american "It may be time for a change candidate." :american

No. Fuck no. Fucking fuck no. No no nope.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Raist on January 12, 2022, 04:47:38 PM
Trump vs. Clinton 2 lessgo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 13, 2022, 11:57:28 AM
Fuck Hillary, we have a new queen.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1481626312041246721
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 07:00:07 PM
Quote from: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/589584-rnc-moving-to-force-presidential-candidates-to-skip-traditional-commission
The Republican National Committee (RNC) alerted the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Thursday that it plans to require GOP presidential nominees not to attend debates run by the commission going forward.

"The RNC will initiate the process of amending the Rules of the Republican Party at our upcoming Winter Meeting to prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates," wrote Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the letter, which was obtained by The Hill.

McDaniel said GOP voters "have lost trust" in the commission and noted that the RNC has proposed a number of reforms to the debate process.

"Unfortunately, neither the tone nor substance of your latest response inspires confidence that the CPD will meaningfully address the serious issues which the RNC has raised," she said.

If the RNC moves to change its rules, the pullout would mark one of the greatest changes in the history of U.S. presidential debates, which the CPD has hosted for more than 30 years.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1481670184339492870
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 07:14:17 PM
Fuck Hillary, we have a new queen.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI_rWZIXwAIbsZf?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 07:14:35 PM
https://twitter.com/johntabin/status/1481710130689454090
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 07:25:14 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI82cmbVcAAMrKI?format=jpg&name=small)

huge if true
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2022, 10:55:29 PM
Hahahahaha

DIE

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-approval-lower-donald-trump-same-stage-presidency-poll-1668931

:sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 11:36:00 PM
https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1481592213452857346
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Over the course of many years and many think pieces, the case against the filibuster has been laid out. Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases. Onto the pile, however fruitlessly, let us add another: The filibuster is a plot against Vice President Kamala Harris—to take away her constitutional right to vote.

Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution makes it plain: Harris, as chair of the Senate, is given the responsibility to vote “when the Senate is equally divided.” In all the furor over the filibuster blocking voting rights legislation, keep in mind it is blocking Harris from this constitutional right, as well. The supermajority rule that ran counter to the Founders’ desires, now upheld by the filibuster’s status quo, is not just aiding in the disenfranchisement of voters by blocking meaningful voting rights legislation from passage—it’s also disenfranchising the woman sent to Washington to resolve the disputes of a divided Senate.

It would be fitting if Harris, given the chance to gavel the filibuster out of existence to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, reclaimed her rights at the same time. She can put that to the Senate on January 17 when any rules changes are being considered—by starting with a declaration that the filibuster is not just unfair or undemocratic but unconstitutional, as well.
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Harris, as chair, could reach the same conclusions. Rather than just hope a Senate majority uses the “nuclear option” to rid us of the filibuster, she could press the button. For the reasons above, she could declare the supermajority for cloture to be in conflict with Article I.

She may fail in the attempt. A majority can overturn a ruling of the chair. It is not so easy even for some Democrats in the Senate to give up the filibuster. There are many, many other bills that the senators take up other than voting rights legislation. So individual senators are caught in a dilemma worthy of a class in game theory—though glad to remove it for A, they do not want to remove it for B, or maybe C, or maybe D, or maybe an unknown X that will arrive later in their six-year terms. So the filibuster remains in place forever—except now for the budget and for nominations to judgeships and political positions. In these two cases, the budget and nominations, there is no choice but to get rid of the filibuster or there would be institutional collapse of the courts and of the executive branch.

However, with the John Lewis Act and Freedom to Vote Act, we are speaking about the institutional collapse of democracy itself. Protecting the integrity of federal elections from state interference is necessary to the integrity of the federal government—it is an obligation that is set forth in the original Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4. It is the only clause, the only text, that says Congress can override any state regulation of a federal election. Ever since 1787, Article I, Section 4 has been in there, the original nuclear option, to protect the national government from institutional collapse. It is an outrage to use the filibuster to block even the power of the national government to save itself. Surely that must have at least the same priority as enacting a budget by majority rule.

Let the vice president show some muscle in defense of her country. Let the debate start on January 17 with a ruling from the chair that Rule 22 is in conflict with her own right to cast a vote when the Senate is evenly divided. Then let her dare the Senate to overrule her. To reclaim the right to vote in the blocked legislation, she should begin with reclaiming her own right to vote, as well.

By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote. Who says the vice president has nothing to do?
:dead :dead :dead :dead

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1481743466891812864
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2022, 11:38:47 PM
https://twitter.com/newrepublic/status/1481592213452857346
Quote
Over the course of many years and many think pieces, the case against the filibuster has been laid out. Typically, critics of the Jim Crow relic invoke various historical facts (some of which have apparently been lost on, or willfully ignored by, certain critical members of the Senate), as well as an array of practical and prudential bases. Onto the pile, however fruitlessly, let us add another: The filibuster is a plot against Vice President Kamala Harris—to take away her constitutional right to vote.

Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution makes it plain: Harris, as chair of the Senate, is given the responsibility to vote “when the Senate is equally divided.” In all the furor over the filibuster blocking voting rights legislation, keep in mind it is blocking Harris from this constitutional right, as well. The supermajority rule that ran counter to the Founders’ desires, now upheld by the filibuster’s status quo, is not just aiding in the disenfranchisement of voters by blocking meaningful voting rights legislation from passage—it’s also disenfranchising the woman sent to Washington to resolve the disputes of a divided Senate.

It would be fitting if Harris, given the chance to gavel the filibuster out of existence to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, reclaimed her rights at the same time. She can put that to the Senate on January 17 when any rules changes are being considered—by starting with a declaration that the filibuster is not just unfair or undemocratic but unconstitutional, as well.
Quote
Harris, as chair, could reach the same conclusions. Rather than just hope a Senate majority uses the “nuclear option” to rid us of the filibuster, she could press the button. For the reasons above, she could declare the supermajority for cloture to be in conflict with Article I.

She may fail in the attempt. A majority can overturn a ruling of the chair. It is not so easy even for some Democrats in the Senate to give up the filibuster. There are many, many other bills that the senators take up other than voting rights legislation. So individual senators are caught in a dilemma worthy of a class in game theory—though glad to remove it for A, they do not want to remove it for B, or maybe C, or maybe D, or maybe an unknown X that will arrive later in their six-year terms. So the filibuster remains in place forever—except now for the budget and for nominations to judgeships and political positions. In these two cases, the budget and nominations, there is no choice but to get rid of the filibuster or there would be institutional collapse of the courts and of the executive branch.

However, with the John Lewis Act and Freedom to Vote Act, we are speaking about the institutional collapse of democracy itself. Protecting the integrity of federal elections from state interference is necessary to the integrity of the federal government—it is an obligation that is set forth in the original Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4. It is the only clause, the only text, that says Congress can override any state regulation of a federal election. Ever since 1787, Article I, Section 4 has been in there, the original nuclear option, to protect the national government from institutional collapse. It is an outrage to use the filibuster to block even the power of the national government to save itself. Surely that must have at least the same priority as enacting a budget by majority rule.

Let the vice president show some muscle in defense of her country. Let the debate start on January 17 with a ruling from the chair that Rule 22 is in conflict with her own right to cast a vote when the Senate is evenly divided. Then let her dare the Senate to overrule her. To reclaim the right to vote in the blocked legislation, she should begin with reclaiming her own right to vote, as well.

By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote. Who says the vice president has nothing to do?
:dead :dead :dead :dead

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1481743466891812864

https://youtu.be/Y-4-q3AiTcw

(https://i.imgur.com/Fc99Vqv.gif)

HAUAHUAHUA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2022, 11:39:27 PM
Meanwhile in Washington state:
https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1481425896561119244
https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1481427576254042122
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2022, 11:42:33 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/supreme-court-blocks-president-bidens-vaccine-mandate-large-82255529

(https://i.imgur.com/Jf3R88M.gif)

HUAHUAHUAHUA

Supreme Court defending liberty! :bow I know people that can continue to get work now.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 13, 2022, 11:53:04 PM
Third option! Please allow us a third option a platform if the RNC is pulling out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/politics/presidential-debates-rnc.html

(https://i.imgur.com/1RA3wRD.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2022, 12:03:55 AM
VOTE JOE OUT

VOTE JOE OUT

VOTE JOE OUT

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/12/cpi-december-2021-.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 14, 2022, 12:35:24 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/supreme-court-blocks-president-bidens-vaccine-mandate-large-82255529

(https://i.imgur.com/Jf3R88M.gif)

HUAHUAHUAHUA

Supreme Court defending liberty! :bow I know people that can continue to get work now.



Quote
In a 6-3 decision, the justices agreed with that argument, saying that the workplace safety rule for large employers was too broad to fall under the authority of the Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration to regulate workplace safety.

"Covid-19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather," the court's majority wrote.

"That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases."

Imagine arguing that the administration is stepping too far, because like air pollution, it's too broad to be governed by the federal government.

:snoop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2022, 12:42:58 AM
The argument is bad but they are correct in that the Federal Government and OSHA are stepping too far into peoples business. To be able to allow such wide sweeping legislation without context is abhorrent. Requiring someone that works virtually, as many are already doing, to be vaccinated or risk termination should be unlawful. Thankfully the SCOTUS is on the side of the people :bow

Get that Federal government shit out of my fucking face.  :gaas
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 14, 2022, 01:04:53 AM
The court didn't say that the federal government can't establish a vaccine mandate, it said that Congress has to, not the executive branch. (The dissent argues that the executive branch can unilaterally declare an emergency and then do whatever it wants without any checks and balances.)

Related:
https://twitter.com/Chris_C_Horner/status/1481817149882703879

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 14, 2022, 01:06:11 AM
https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1481641314366078986

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2022, 02:49:43 AM
That's like how to start World War 3 for dummies  :doge

Europe won't go to war in Ukraine. If the American national security establishment would buy a history book they'd know why.

It isn't the Russians that want Nord stream 2 for more reliable gas supplies.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2022, 09:40:42 AM
Manchin! :rejoice

The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.

Painting your opponents in one broad brush only goes so far. Get fucked with your progressive agenda, Biden. Thankfully I'm warm and vaccinated and don't have to deal with the winter of death! 

Get woke go broke! What happens when everyone against you is a Nazi or a Confederate? We are witnessing it. What happens when you live in a cracker filled barrel of privilege? You're seeing it. What happens when you cater to nutters? Bask on the losses of the Democratic Party. The last two days are like the hardest shot of liquor to the system. Mm! Burns so good. Get FUCKED!

https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-voting-elections-wv-state-wire-28fce7f5190404f5091158c912bf8d5d
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2022, 01:54:32 PM
Quote
Thankfully I'm warm and vaccinated and don't have to deal with the winter of death!

can we add this to the newsfeed?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 14, 2022, 04:27:33 PM
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.
I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 14, 2022, 04:38:54 PM
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.
I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 14, 2022, 05:09:30 PM
Clinton got hacked again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1482035323853066245
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on January 14, 2022, 06:25:54 PM
Yasss Abuela slaaaayyy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on January 14, 2022, 07:28:28 PM
I want to see hillary run and win just to see how insane it gets with her as prez  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: therealdeal on January 14, 2022, 07:29:37 PM
she will never win, enemies on all sides ideologically
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 14, 2022, 07:30:49 PM
she will never win, enemies on all sides ideologically
Which is exactly why the dumbshit Dems will nominate her once the dementia takes Biden out
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 14, 2022, 08:29:23 PM
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_of_Deceit
The first chapter, ("The Themes of Agitation"), presents samples of an agitator's diatribe, which might be mistaken as "simply ... the raving of a maniac".[10] Generally agitators rely on core motifs, labeled as "Discontent", "The Opponent", "The Movement" and "The Leader".[11]

"Social Malaise", the second chapter, examines how social malaise or discontent can be manipulated by converting perceived problems into grievances. The response to economic grievances is to say that "too much help is being extended to foreign nations”, that not only are "foreigners taking our money, they also threaten our jobs".[12] Political grievances are addressed by the call to action against international "commitments by the United States government [that] jeopardize political liberties."[12] Media outlets are the source of cultural grievances, and labeled "the enemies of the nation",[13] while other enemies are depicted as morally lax, "a crowd of Marxists, refugees, [and] left-wing internationalists."[12]

The outer world is painted as hostile and filled with enemies in the third chapter ("A Hostile World"). The agitator positions himself as "a bone fide advocate of social change", but in doing so intentionally ”crystallizes and hardens these feelings” of hostility.[14] The remedy is his supposed superior knowledge, which he offers as a shield. He convinces his audience that it needs his guidance because they are victims, cheated by a "comprehensive and carefully planned political conspiracy".[15] He offers himself "a champion of democracy and Christianity", and as the only person who will solve grievances.[16]

...

Having provided his own definition for the causes of the social malaise, "as a would be leader of a popular movement" he sets goals for improvement in Chapter VII ("A Home for the Homeless"); however his solutions are found to be empty promises. His political or economic goals are motivated by little more than a desire "go one better than the government, his most dangerous competitor."[20]

Followers are provided neither with hope nor positive ideas for change; agitation is historically distinguished by a complete lack of positive change. Chapter VIII ("The Follower") explains that adherents are made to believe the enemy will only be vanquished through means of a movement and by following the leader's dictates. External forces said to threaten American society are emphasized. The size of the movement is quantified, with claims that it consists "75% of the American people".[21] In Chapter IX ("The Leader") he positions himself as someone with special skills, whose interests support theirs, someone who is "one of the plain folk ... yet far above them."[22] Unlike Hitler or Mussolini, who broke with society and abandoned democratic, Chapter X ("Self-Portrait of the Agitator") shows how the American agitator "dares not repudiate established morality and democratic values".[22] Yet the themes, as exposed in the book, do "not prevent him from conveying the principal social tenets of totalitarianism."[22]

In the closing chapter ("What the Listener Heard"), the authors discuss the listener's reactions. They view them as generally drawn to the idea of success, while against "bureaucrats, Jews, congressmen, plutocrats, communists ... He grumbles against the foreigners who come to this country and get good jobs."[23] Löwenthal and Guterman emphasize that American agitators have historically failed to gain traction and are usually marginalized. They warn, however, that under certain circumstances, such as loss of security for the middle class, America should contemplate the "possibility in which a situation will arise in which large numbers of people would be susceptible to his psychological manipulation".[24]
Quote from: https://bostonreview.net/articles/charles-h-clavey-what-frankfurt-school-would-say-about-trump/
But the agitator also went beyond distraction and dissimulation. Reformers, Lowenthal and Guterman argued, framed complaints in rational terms and offered a plan of concerted action that would solve the underlying problems. Write to the management of the bus company, they might advise; raise the issue at the next meeting of the city council. Agitators, by contrast, encouraged followers to indulge in unreflective, spontaneous behavior: vilify immigrants; rail against crowded cities; claim that the routes were determined by “special interests.” As rituals of emotional catharsis, these outbursts may well have provided momentary relief, but at a high cost: the problem remained. Whatever energy that could have sustained a project of real reform had been uselessly dissipated. “Under the guise of a protest against the oppressive situation,” Lowenthal and Guterman explained, “the agitator binds his audience to it.” Instead of being dismantled, the conditions that needed to be changed were only reinforced. According to Prophets and in keeping with Horkheimer’s program of critical theory, then, the agitator’s platform was not only normatively objectionable but also inherently irrational. Demanding that foreigners speak English might make some passengers feel better, but it would not make the bus less crowded.

...

Content analysis showed that this humiliation was a key component of the agitator’s material, but the method could not explain why such an apparently counterintuitive technique worked. Turning to psychoanalysis, Lowenthal and Guterman argued that, even as he labeled them “eternal dupes,” the agitator validated his followers’ self-identification as society’s misunderstood and forgotten. Through this constant refrain, the agitator transformed humiliation into a badge of masochistic honor and perceived alienation into a source of identity. What is more, by reinforcing what his audience already—if unreflectively—believed about themselves, the agitator seemed to offer a kind of cynical honesty: they may be suckers, but at least they know it.

What about those who oppose the agitator? For him and his followers, there are no opponents—only enemies. Lowenthal and Guterman explore this conceit through careful study of the agitator’s ability to create a spiraling series of representations. From specific accusations against suspected communists the agitator turned to vague but emphatic claims that violent revolution was imminent; that communism was the “‘RED THREAD’” tying together journalism, global politics, international business, European courts, and the Catholic Church; and, finally, that communism was nothing but a “‘front’” for still-more-nefarious cabals. The agitator’s accusations became so nonspecific that they merged, enabling him to sermonize against the demonic “Communist Banker” who threatened all freedom-loving Americans. This composite was suited to the agitator’s purpose: by depicting enemies as at once strong and weak, cunning and unintelligent, disguised and identifiable, eternal and doomed, pulling the strings and yet never in power, this image convinced the agitator’s adherents that all who opposed them deserved punishment—and, moreover, that these enemies had it coming.

Over and over again—at rallies, on the radio, and in print—the agitator’s audience took this message in. To some observers, the agitator seemed to cast a spell over his audience, to manipulate them with mass hypnosis. Lowenthal, Guterman, and their Frankfurt School colleagues understood the process differently: their analysis showed that the repetition of images and slogans wore down the listeners’ psychological defenses. Beginning with his first offer of temporary emotional relief from social malaise, the agitator encouraged his listeners to set aside autonomous, logical, evidence-based thought; he invited his followers into the realm of hostility, paranoia, and irrationality. Having undermined rational faculties from within, the agitator proceeded to impose an alternate reality of his own making, a world split by the existential distinction between friend and enemy, survival and death, strength and weakness. Whenever the agitator spoke, his followers heard the same message: “The world is an arena of a grim struggle for survival. You might as well get your share of the gravy.”

In exchange for loyalty and submission, the agitator’s adherents were promised protection, guidance, and, especially, revenge. Soon, he continually assured his followers, government institutions and state power would be turned on the movement’s enemies: foreigners, immigrants, refugees, dissidents, and, especially, Jews. But this promise was only superficially political. At its core, the pledge addressed the malaise of the audience. The agitator never promised his followers direct access to power. Instead, they were to remain perpetual “watchdogs of order,” thrown the bone of witnessing the humiliation, degradation, and persecution of those outside the movement. Although there would be no real change—no resolution the problems behind social malaise—this violence would be “great fun.”
:hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 14, 2022, 08:49:14 PM
Hillary still has sway in the party. If Biden doesn't run for a second term she will convince the dems to do a real primary because it is the Democratic thing.
She tried to take over from Biden too (as Biden tried to take over from her after the 9/11 collapse). Kamala would be livid and we witness the cat fight of the century.

Biden has held out for this long though and after a rapid decline seems to have stabilized somewhat.
It's weird though. When Trump won the Republicans and the people who got Trump in set themselves on fire in the first year because they didn't know what the fuck to do except 'own the libs' . Then they decided Trump was the problem and they basically put him under house arrest with a general who could cope with war situations but not Trump. Finally when all seemed lost Trump's own moves like writing love letters to Kim Jun Un and his YOLO economic policies for some reason worked out until COVID hit and he almost killed himself campaigning.

Now the Democrats got in and they torch themselves because they also didn't expect to get in (and probably wouldn't have without a little help from Silicon Valley). But unlike the Republicans it seems that they haven't figured out a Plan B now that Kamala seems even less comprehensible than mumbling Joe Biden and a Donald Trump word salad. I think half the reason the Russians are planning war is that NATO vs. Russia diplomacy is not an epic event broadcast in the motherland between statesmen but instead the Deputy of the Foreign Office Liason exchanging soundbites while American media leaks new alleged Russian invasion plans daily as if the Russians haven't already invaded parts of Ukraine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 14, 2022, 11:50:51 PM
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1482017236076445702

 fight fight :punch

March 20th, 2020
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JbCXIAgnZBJ?format=png&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JcPXIAQVPwB?format=png&name=900x900)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 15, 2022, 12:36:36 AM
https://twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/1482047697699938313

This seems rather excessive.

Would sharing this about the original way the flag was saluted be "unpatriotic commentary"?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 15, 2022, 05:13:11 AM
https://out.reddit.com/t3_s3yx41?app_name=android&token=AQAAOePiYfIJ7rH4m60sHMwzqMD0Bm00kKI-fHfaSaEdjFCOnitg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clickorlando.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fdesantis-florida-wont-enforce-health-care-worker-vaccination-requirement%2F

Fuck yes DeSantis

Rub shit in their face.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 15, 2022, 05:16:12 AM
https://twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/1482047697699938313

This seems rather excessive.

Would sharing this about the original way the flag was saluted be "unpatriotic commentary"?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg)

Truly Republicans need to get out of the way of America's tainted past. Solves nothing, teaches nothing. Iowa's bill? Pathetic!


https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1482017236076445702

 fight fight :punch

March 20th, 2020
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JbCXIAgnZBJ?format=png&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJE7JcPXIAQVPwB?format=png&name=900x900)
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Lmao

Let us not forget DeSantis closed bars for half a year, closing them in March and reopening in September.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-health-coronavirus-florida-desantis-bars-20200317-pxlyqnu2kvdwdn4jtv6lpnl26q-story.html

Definitely not a perfect record on this but hey, we all live and grow and march 2020 was a spooky time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 15, 2022, 05:30:24 AM
It's happening!

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/14/ge-suspends-covid-vaccine-and-testing-rules-after-supreme-court-blocks-biden-mandate.html

HUAHUAHUA

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-reaches-break-point-georgia-speech-voting-rights-senate-mcconnell-division-election-law-11642110521

Biden administration thinks Americans are mostly twitter checkmarks. Lmao Keep digging.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 15, 2022, 11:37:30 AM
imagine championing dropping vaccine requirements.

jfc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 15, 2022, 12:49:33 PM
imagine championing dropping vaccine requirements.

jfc

https://abc7ny.com/endemic-when-will-the-covid-pandemic-end-omicron-variant-covid-19/11466588/?ex_cid=TA_WABC_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

:hyper :rejoice

How will Democrats handle no more panini to force their authoritarian horseshit on the rest of us? Went to a martials arts class to demo the class the other night and had to show my vaccine card as well as my physical ID just to get in. Can't wait for me to have to need ID to get on the goddamn train. What next? My social security card to prove I'm a citizen? How about my fucking birth certificate too you absolute fucks?

Oh no, the panoodle! Can't wait for Megatron strain!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 15, 2022, 01:32:10 PM
TBH I thought American businesses would be too lazy or greedy (or patriotic :american) to bother checking peoples vax passports, they don't even bother aside from big crowd events here in Britain, and even then its like 20% of spectators they do.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 15, 2022, 06:13:51 PM
What next? My social security card to prove I'm a citizen?
Well that would be dumb, because permanent residents have social security numbers even if they're not citizens.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 15, 2022, 06:43:05 PM
Clinton got hacked again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1482035323853066245

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1482163264742068225 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1482163264742068225)

 :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2022, 02:50:14 PM
https://youtu.be/0MzctOaJZS0

:rejoice Tulsi

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2022, 07:04:14 PM
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/486981-nikki-fried-compares-gov-desantis-administration-with-rise-of-adolf-hitler/

Hitler REEEEEEEEEEEEE

The Democrats are so ineffectual they can't counter DeSantis without calling him a Nazi *chuckle*

In other news. Today I paid 40 for groceries. I usually pay 20. Fuck Joe Biden.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2022, 08:51:58 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/youngkin-eliminates-cabinet-level-dei-163904493.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAN0b-K_koznehcvIjVP5s7F2yZLieCS3qubQhvRZIWXIrcU-214DLT0LYXXVm_1TSFpp6St8UYUX1U3kpR4jYBS18hPAlvP0NorxPBv_wtiHO6wMWJURr_P45af2h-oeJkdVHtW9twfcweFGp6xroKIxk18MDhuaCvDfYiujufBq

Republicans: SCHOOL CHOICE!!!

Also Republicans: BAN CRT!!!

:sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 16, 2022, 09:10:04 PM
https://youtu.be/0MzctOaJZS0

:rejoice Tulsi



stop using queen to denigrate king
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 16, 2022, 10:07:22 PM
Quote from: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/01/13/renaming-columbus-day-into-indigenous-peoples-day-doesnt-violate-the-constitution/
So held Judge C. Darnell Jones II yesterday in Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia (E.D. Pa.). He concluded plaintiffs lacked standing to change such a government declaration:
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Just because a plaintiff disagrees with the Government's actions, however, does not equate to discriminatory treatment…. Plaintiffs fail to identify any discriminatory impact they have personally experienced from Executive Order 2-21…. Plaintiffs fail to explain, and this Court fails to see, how they have been personally impacted and harmed through the renaming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' day.
He went on to say that in any event government speech of this sort doesn't violate Equal Protection Clause rights:
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Because Executive Order 2-21 constitutes government speech, Plaintiffs, even if they had standing, could not bring a successful Equal Protection violation. The Third Circuit has held that, "[t]he Equal Protection Clause does not apply to government speech." Fields v. Speaker of Pa. H.R. (3d Cir. 2019). This is because "private citizens have no personal interest in government speech on which to base an equal protection claim."
And he added:
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Here, Plaintiffs have failed to state any discriminatory impact they have personally experienced from the renaming of Columbus Day. As previously explained at length, Plaintiffs cannot claim that they have been prevented from celebrating either Christopher Columbus or Italian American heritage with the renaming of the holiday, and Plaintiffs can still, personally, refer to the holiday as Columbus Day. Though Plaintiffs allege that Defendants' renaming of Columbus Day wipes away recognition of Italian Americans in favor of Indigenous People, they fail to state any discriminatory impact that supports such a conclusion. Put simply, Plaintiffs do not provide this Court with any details as to how their lives have changed because of the renaming of the holiday. Without such proof, any Equal Protection allegation is futile.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2G2GdnWYAARlhP?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 17, 2022, 02:03:08 AM
https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1482427458309832706

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 03:37:38 PM
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-subway-riders-only-have-perception-of-fear/?utm_source=reddit.com

LOL

A woman was just pushed to her death in front of a train by a homeless man with a rap sheet longer than his arm in and out of hospitals and you want us to feel safe around these nutters?

Where's that revolving door Bush ad?

https://youtu.be/PmwhdDv8VrM
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2022, 03:43:44 PM
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-subway-riders-only-have-perception-of-fear/?utm_source=reddit.com

LOL

A woman was just pushed to her death in front of a train by a homeless man with a rap sheet longer than his arm in and out of hospitals and you want us to feel safe around these nutters?
Such a weird event and the exact same thing happened in Brussels on the same day.
Luckily in Brussels the train stopped in time.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 06:38:24 PM
LMFAO

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 17, 2022, 06:45:54 PM
LMFAO

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
Well, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.

That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 06:47:20 PM
LMFAO

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
Well, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.

That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.

I'm laughing at him. He's not my hero.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 17, 2022, 06:49:21 PM
LMFAO

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
Well, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.

That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.

I'm laughing at him. He's not my hero.
So why the fuck are you a Republican? This is the god your kind worship and the idiot that is going to be the next Republican presidential candidate.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 07:09:10 PM
LMFAO

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-capitol-police-officer-shot-ashli-babbitt-disgrace-2022-1
Well, if Trump is your hero, then you are a fucking idiot.

That's utterly disgraceful from a former President and particularly disgraceful from the guy who incited the incident and was in power at the time. Should be hung for treason that cunt.

I'm laughing at him. He's not my hero.
So why the fuck are you a Republican? This is the god your kind worship and the idiot that is going to be the next Republican presidential candidate.

Nah, he's digging his hole and Republicans are hopefully separating themselves from him. Don't get me wrong. I don't trust Republicans just like I don't trust Democrats. They're both assholes and don't give a fuck. Also I'm not a Republican. I'm registered Republican however temporarily to get Sleepy Joe and his authoritarian allies out of power. Liberal policies overwhelmingly do not  work. I've witnessed it first hand.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 17, 2022, 07:16:52 PM
What the fuck are you talking about? You proudly displayed your MAGA hat not two weeks ago, are you telling me that now you have changed stripes YET AGAIN?

Go back in this thread, read your rants and then tell me you're not coming off as unhinged at best and completely fucking mental at worst.

Here is some advice: Unplug from the internet for a week and reflect on what effect any of this shit has on your real life. Come back to me and then tell me whether you now give a shit about this garbage any more.

Vote Republican, vote Democrat, I don't care, but at least do it for the right reasons. Everything you have said to justify your current political beliefs is just bullshit window dressing.

I'm done with this conversation and I hope you take the time to reflect on all the shit you have said in the past few weeks and learn from it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 07:22:38 PM
None of this impacts you in real life, says the non-American who cannot understand my viewpoints and characterizes them as window dressing. You base your entire viewpoint on America and American life on things you read from the internet. Oh no, I have a MAGA hat. It must mean I worship Trump. See?

Based on something you read on the web. Please take your own advice and take a break from the internet and realize that people have our own views beyond your own bubble.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2022, 07:24:55 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)
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Fundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

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They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 17, 2022, 07:28:01 PM
If the alternative to US hegemony wasn't a fucked up, genocidal, totalitarian dictatorship, I'd happily see the end of the US, but the alternative is much, much worse for everyone.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 07:28:33 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)
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Fundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1482853533028216835 (https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1482853533028216835)

They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps

What's the other option? Go to the Democrats? :lol There's only two viable mainstream options as a politician: red or blue. It's how the country works. Virginia governor distanced himself from Trump and won.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 07:36:03 PM
The Biden administration even more than NY politics shows the failure of progressivism as an political force. So much catering to activists and the progressive caucus huahuahua. Get humbled you bubble living smug progs. I lick your tears. How ineffectual how nothing you do works nor commands respect.
I'm pretty sure I had to spend a lot of time a couple of years ago convincing you that even though the Democrats weren't progressive enough for you, you should still vote for them.

Yup, until I moved to New York and had to learn what dealing with progressive policy was really like. Hard sell after that.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 17, 2022, 07:45:52 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)
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Fundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps

What's the other option? Go to the Democrats? :lol There's only two viable mainstream options as a politician: red or blue. It's how the country works. Virginia governor distanced himself from Trump and won.
By all means vote for the sequel  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 07:46:31 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/msnbc-host-tiffany-cross-accuses-193332625.html

https://youtu.be/komuDnY8OEA

Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi!

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991 (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991)
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Fundraisers for Republican candidates, where Trump might pop in to say hello, are an important perk for candidates and are held almost nightly at the ex-president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

They're clearly distancing from Trump with nightly fundraisers and seeking his endorsement :trumps

What's the other option? Go to the Democrats? :lol There's only two viable mainstream options as a politician: red or blue. It's how the country works. Virginia governor distanced himself from Trump and won.
By all means vote for the sequel  8)

My big thing about this thread is that it's full non-Americans. It's like, who the fuck are you? The Democrats are utterly, utterly incompetent both in policy and governing. Majority of Americans agree. Look at Biden's numbers. He's a shitshow. Now, imagine you're me. What do? You've lived a lifetime of Democratic failure. Maybe if the Democrats weren't so fucking bad people wouldn't consider Republicans? The world may never know. The two party system forces you to pick between these extremes. Thankfully I don't have to swallow all of their vomit. Libertarians are also an option but they're not a viable, legitimate option. Then there's also not voting. I did not vote in the fall election and have not voted since October 2020. Since change is impossible and there's only two binary choices anyways, you might as well not participate and choose to not vote for anything but local politics.

Take Potato. Guy goes on a fucking RANT about how blah blah blah you're a republican blah blah when this very page I made fun of Republican hypocrisy! :lol Neither party looks out for American interests and only expresses their stupid fucking agendas and I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 08:06:58 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/romney-biden-elected-stop-crazy-not-transform-america-trump-2022-1

:bow

God I wish I could vote for Romney. Please run in 2024.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 10:02:06 PM
I like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/s6ll27/its_time_for_subway_platform_edge_screensbarriers/

:rejoice

Protect us from the homeless mental patients please. Bring back asylums.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 17, 2022, 10:40:38 PM
You're so dumb.

Wishing you voted for someone after admitting you didn't vote.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 10:42:35 PM
You're so dumb.

Wishing you voted for someone after admitting you didn't vote.

???

Romney wasn't on the ballot. You got anymore snarky, illigical comebacks?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 17, 2022, 10:45:12 PM
Yea

Vote.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 17, 2022, 10:48:03 PM
Can't wait to vote for Romney in 2024. Romney/Gabbard :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on January 17, 2022, 11:43:16 PM
mitt romney don't pay no tax  :trumps :yeshrug
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 04:17:59 AM
(https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/lgcee9uipekjsow90933fa.png)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx

The two party system baby! :rejoice

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In early 2021, Democratic strength reached levels not seen in nearly a decade. By the third quarter, those Democratic gains evaporated as Biden's job approval declined. The political winds continued to become more favorable to Republicans in the fourth quarter, giving the GOP an advantage over Democrats larger than any they had achieved in more than 25 years

HAUHUAHUAHUA

(https://i.imgur.com/sbX1pjD.gif)

YoUrrE PosStinG MeNtAL sTuFff HiMMuuuu

Says the non-American.

(https://i.imgur.com/FdfY8FC.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 18, 2022, 04:26:30 AM
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 04:38:02 AM
https://twitter.com/mattwolking/status/1483191332210413573

Interesting.

I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day

You're in a US politics thread injecting your ideas on what I should do and how I should feel in my own country. Fuck off.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 18, 2022, 04:47:28 AM
I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day

You're in a US politics thread injecting your ideas on what I should do and how I should feel in my own country. Fuck off.


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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 04:51:01 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-faces-renewed-ridicule-after-comparing-mlks-assassination-george-floyds-death-1670142

https://youtu.be/ianr3bLDQ90

 :crowdlaff

I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.
Sounding more and more like a Maga wanker every day

You're in a US politics thread injecting your ideas on what I should do and how I should feel in my own country. Fuck off.


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I thought MAGA made these stipulations based off of race.

But hey, thanks for the compliment. Nice hat.

(https://i.imgur.com/Xb7gz0L.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 05:43:49 AM
Wait, himu has a maga hat? :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 05:52:21 AM
Wait, himu has a maga hat? :dead

Bought at Trump Tower.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 11:21:42 AM
https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1479915231988047872
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 18, 2022, 11:27:14 AM
What social media is Trump still allowed on to be able to send me a friend request?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 12:14:44 PM
https://twitter.com/VATeenDems/status/1483203361986035722
https://twitter.com/PauseListnCount/status/1483318605404069888

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https://twitter.com/SenatorLocke/status/1483456558533120012
https://twitter.com/SenatorLocke/status/1483456761646432259
https://twitter.com/SenatorLocke/status/1483456661507428362
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https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1482899076991619074
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 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 12:25:51 PM
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1483167649597169666

Unfortunately there is no Verrit code available so I don't think I can trust these claims.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:06:38 PM
 :drudge

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1483092776149569539
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 01:10:58 PM
Hahaha

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/nh-libertarian-party-celebrates-mlk-day-by-tweeting-america-isnt-in-debt-to-black-people-its-the-other-way-around/

Hey Benji look it's your party and the supposed third option

If libertarian party were smart they'd use the vaccine mandates and economic conservatism as an olive branch towards black Americans to help build their party. Instead they do this. Thank God you don't have to be a part of the LP to be libertarian.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:19:52 PM
How is the NH Libertarian Party "my party"? I've never voted for or supported the national Libertarian Party let alone the NH one.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 01:22:31 PM
Oh ok. I apologize.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:25:04 PM
:drudge
Related content:
https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1482787370994913281
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:27:06 PM
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1482826753118720004

 :rollsafe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 01:30:05 PM
:drudge
Related content:
https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1482787370994913281

https://twitter.com/MenAreWomenNow/status/1482829043116433410

:crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:42:17 PM
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482505700769206278
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482506460810690562

why do so many journalists (and ones with law degrees like this dude) tweet things like this :awesome
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 18, 2022, 01:44:17 PM
:drudge
Related content:
https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1482787370994913281

https://twitter.com/MenAreWomenNow/status/1482829043116433410

:crowdlaff

I just like how that hombre manages to look 30 and 55 at the same time :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 01:57:36 PM
shosta got his op-ed published in the local rag:
Quote from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Want-true-equity-California-should-force-parents-16777540.php
If California is ever going to achieve true equity, the state must require parents to give away their children.

Today’s Californians often hold up equity — the idea of a just society completely free from bias — as our greatest value. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he makes decisions through “an equity lens.” Institutions from dance ensembles to tech companies have publicly pledged themselves to equity, along with diversity and inclusion.

But their promises of newly equitable systems are no match for the power of parents.

Fathers and mothers with greater wealth, education or other resources are more likely to transfer these advantages to their children, compounding privilege over generations. As a result, children of less advantaged parents face an uphill struggle, social mobility has stalled and democracy has been corrupted. More Californians are giving up on the dream; a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll found declining belief in the notion that you can get ahead through hard work.

My solution is simple, and while we wait for the legislation to pass, we can act now: The rich should give their children to the poor, and the poor should give their children to the rich. Homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors.

Now, I recognize that some naysayers, hopelessly attached to their privilege, will dismiss such a policy as ghastly, even totalitarian. But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today’s most common political obsessions.
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Perhaps such coercion sounds dystopian. But just imagine the solidarity that universal orphanhood would create. Wouldn’t children, raised in one system, find it easier to collaborate on climate change and other global problems?

Now, I don’t expect universal support for universal orphanhood. A few contrarians, lost in the empty chasm between American extremes, might object to this rational proposal on emotional grounds. They might argue that pursuing your own conception of family is fundamental to freedom. Or that our differences and biases, for all the damage they can do, also give human life much of its meaning.

They also may suggest that people don’t really want to start or finish at the same point in life. They may even say that what we really desire is what the title orphan of the musical “Annie” insisted upon: “I didn’t want to be just another orphan, Mr. Warbucks. I wanted to believe I was special.”

But you shouldn’t pay those critics any mind. Because they just can’t see how our relentless pursuit of equity might birth a brave new world.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 02:00:00 PM
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482505700769206278
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1482506460810690562

why do so many journalists (and ones with law degrees like this dude) tweet things like this :awesome

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 02:02:28 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/florida-republican-defeated-59-percentage-202832444.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9vdXQucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAdsnpsTHDHcsj_RZKBRd_3wEESfaOKdaOTjqkVAEOkxFvFl9Qb-dRAeNGpSOtsI9SYbJCZ-04rQx62s4KXHIU1KrEwN3MSZXyAbyhaltbFt_A2zXP0t1Ik79UkI5Q7_fAslx8futcsSSPVGRoRrd_OVG8ogk9yLtsYWiqzZ4_p-

Smh Republicans :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 02:04:18 PM
sorry about your art Himu:
https://twitter.com/LeighWolf/status/1482410875759775748
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 02:06:12 PM
sorry about your art Himu:
https://twitter.com/LeighWolf/status/1482410875759775748

qq

Another artist censored by the machine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2022, 03:25:14 PM
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1483424459147071488 (https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1483424459147071488)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJWCyEbWYAUY7IA?format=png)

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on January 18, 2022, 03:25:21 PM
How is the NH Libertarian Party "my party"? I've never voted for or supported the national Libertarian Party let alone the NH one.
benji lore  :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on January 18, 2022, 03:26:46 PM
benji is :lore
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2022, 03:37:46 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1483421902551007234 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1483421902551007234)

Imagine getting heckled and losing an argument with a 10 year old :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 03:41:33 PM
https://twitter.com/EvanDonovan/status/1483431595470110726

 :american Thank you Florida :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 03:51:49 PM
https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1483168650962124803

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 04:55:04 PM
https://twitter.com/EvanDonovan/status/1483431595470110726

 :american Thank you Florida :american

Lol even Republicans aren't above their stupid fucking virtue signaling like the libtards
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 05:12:01 PM
https://twitter.com/DamonLinker/status/1483551581098311682
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1483540409192230918

lmao what in the world is going on :spin
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 05:17:43 PM
For Himu:
Quote from: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/590203-hochul-raises-216-million-since-launching-gubernatorial-campaign
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Tuesday that she has raised $21.6 million since launching her gubernatorial campaign in mid-August, a hefty haul establishing her as the front-runner in the race’s Democratic primary.

Hochul’s campaign said it is going forward with $21.3 million in the bank and touted its five-month haul as “record-setting.” The campaign also drew donations from every one of New York’s 62 counties.

The fundraising haul underscores Hochul’s edge in the primary, which pits her against New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Rep. Thomas Suozzi, who represents a district in Long Island. Already, her campaign prowess is believed to have helped nudge state Attorney General Letitia James (D) out of the race and kept New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on the sidelines.

Williams and Suozzi have not yet publicly disclosed their fundraising, but an adviser for Suozzi told The New York Times that he had taken in more than $3 million since launching his campaign in November and transferred another $2 million from his congressional campaign account.
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2022/01/18/kathy-hochul-leads-democratic-primary-challengers-by-over-30-points/
ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the Democratic primary for governor of New York has grown to over 30 points beyond her nearest challenger now that state Attorney General Letitia James has dropped out of the race, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

New York’s first female governor captured the support of 46 percent of Democratic voters when asked in a Siena College survey who they would vote for if the primary election – scheduled for June 2022 – was held today.

That places her 34 points ahead of second place challenger, former Mayor Bill de Blasio – who hasn’t even officially announced his candidacy. He netted 12 percent in response to the same question.

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams received 11 percent, followed by Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi, trailing with six percent.
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Meanwhile, Hochul’s biggest support demographic comes from upstate, with 65 percent of primary voters backing her campaign.

Not one challenger – de Blasio, Williams or Suozzi – broke double digits in upstate.
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The governor’s favorability among all voters stands at 45 percent compared to 29 percent of voters who have an unfavorable opinion of her and 25 percent who said they either don’t know or have no opinion.

It’s even higher among Democrats – 60 percent view her favorably, compared to 19 percent who said they have an unfavorable opinion of her.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 05:20:46 PM
Over my dead body.

But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2022, 06:04:46 PM
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Republican Candidates
Rob Astorino, Westchester County executive (2010–2017) and gubernatorial nominee in 2014[81][82]
Mike Carpinelli, Lewis County sheriff[83][84]
Derrick Gibson, contractor and podcast host[78][84]
Andrew Giuliani, Former special assistant to the President and Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison during the Trump administration, Newsmax TV contributor, and son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani[85][76]
Lee Zeldin, U.S. representative for NY-01 (2015–present)[86][87]

:trumps

"WHERE IS MIKE?? Rudy is probably gonna sue me for this one but Mike and Lee are the real winners"
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Post by: Beezy on January 18, 2022, 06:09:55 PM
Over my dead body.

But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
You better go upstate. :lol

I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:12:42 PM
Republicans won't win NY governor race but we can push NY to being more purple. It's best to be realistic and muddy the waters as much as possible.

(https://i.imgur.com/uUfUkde.gif)

Over my dead body.

But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
You better go upstate. :lol

I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.

Most people here like being by ourselves until the government tells us what to do. Perfect opportunity to sway some here, some some there. And upstate does sound like a plan in the future.
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Post by: Beezy on January 18, 2022, 06:18:26 PM
Please keep track of how many people you manage to sway.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:19:30 PM
Please keep track of how many people you manage to sway.

Most are tired of Democratic failures. Look at the Chinese community. They're sick of Democratic dog shit and the only way to show the Chinese-Americans they have power is by showing them how to flex it: by telling the D's to suck their cock and earn it. Republicans should sway the Chinese like how Republicans managed to capture Cuban Americans after the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Cuban Americans in Florida flipped from to R and helped Bush win the Presidency. Since there's a similar racial controversy with the Chinese and Asian community in NY it's perfect time to strike.

STRIKE FIRST!

In the last election many Chinese surprisingly voted for the Republican candidate. That's a good weak spot to start with.
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Post by: Beezy on January 18, 2022, 06:24:01 PM
Ok so keep track of how many people you manage to sway from dem to republican in this city
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:28:25 PM
Another weak spot is black Americans, particularly black Muslims. Almost every black Muslim New Yorker I know is swinging right. I just have to convince them enough to go that road rather than acquiesce from voting entirely. They're already sick of the Democratic Party and the mandates. Republicans need to find a way to make amends with the American Muslim community. If we can convince Republicans that we are allies against the dysfunction and degeneracy that is liberalism, there is a chance. Unfortunately that's not likely as Republicans tend to be Islamphobic and utter fools in the opportunity they're missing in a potential Abrahamic alliance. What is more likely is convincing people to flip R by showing Republicans have closer views to our traditional values than the Democrats. The great thing is many vote R anyways since not all black Muslims are Black American but instead are Caribbean or African and trend more conservative.

Ok so keep track of how many people you manage to sway from dem to republican in this city

Dem to Republican? I don't have to. There's enough disenfranchised voters that hate both. I just have to convince them to hate the D's a little more. The majority of voters are Independent. Getting dems to flip? You guys have too much Democratic cock up your mouth to do that.
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Post by: Nintex on January 18, 2022, 06:29:41 PM
I think if gas prices go high enough and all this NATO/Russia sabre rattling starts to tank the markets such radical flips could happen.
But I can also see it happening in reverse as local politicians feel the heat first.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 06:30:24 PM
Republicans should sway the Chinese like how Republicans managed to capture Cuban Americans after the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Cuban Americans in Florida flipped from to R and helped Bush win the Presidency.
Cuban Americans have always been more Republican, they prefer it because it's more anti-Communist in rhetoric. They didn't switch parties because of Eilan, they've been trending more D this century. Florida was mostly a GOP state at the Presidential level since Eisenhower, yet Obama won it both times in part because Cuban Americans voted for him.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:32:15 PM
Republicans should sway the Chinese like how Republicans managed to capture Cuban Americans after the Elian Gonzales fiasco. Cuban Americans in Florida flipped from to R and helped Bush win the Presidency.
Cuban Americans have always been more Republican, they prefer it because it's more anti-Communist in rhetoric. They didn't switch parties because of Eilan, they've been trending more D this century. Florida was mostly a GOP state at the Presidential level since Eisenhower, yet Obama won it both times in part because Cuban Americans voted for him.

Thanks for the clarification. I knew Cubans were majority R but after Gonzales I thought trended that way even more.
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Post by: Beezy on January 18, 2022, 06:41:34 PM
Himu, I know you can't help but label everything and everyone, but don't assume that I care for either party and relax with the insults.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:43:16 PM
Himu, I know you can't help but label everything and everyone, but don't assume that I care for either party and relax with the insults.

Fine. Sorry.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:45:48 PM
Benji, critique of this common story?

https://buffalonews.com/news/the-long-shadow-of-a-little-boy-elian-gonzalez-helped-shape-the-future-of-u/article_d2ddc16f-3dfd-5a4e-8b32-626c3d5140b3.html
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 06:54:48 PM
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/chinese-new-yorkers-disgusted-by-violence-empty-democrat-promises/

(https://i.imgur.com/Yiog093.png)

Although the Post, there's much to take advantage of here.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 07:08:23 PM
https://www.thecity.nyc/politics/2021/11/11/22777346/chinese-new-yorkers-voted-for-sliwa-gop-republicans

It's already happening.

Just need to head to Sunset Park and canvass and make Brooklyn a little more red.

(https://i.imgur.com/KSi2BaK.gif)
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 07:14:17 PM
I can't/won't dispute the polling in that piece that Cuban Americans may have bounced back to the Republicans after shifting towards Clinton in 1996 (and then as the piece notes they still favored Dole) because of Eilan, I'm just saying that Cuban Americans were always pretty Republican before that. The second wave of Cuban immigration from the island is what shifted them to being even competitive in the first place, before that they were far far more Republican. (Although much smaller in number.) Florida was also a pretty Republican state for President outside of the Cuban Americans, Nixon got like 70% of the vote and Reagan got 65% of the vote for example.

This century, Cuban Americans liked W. and Obama and apparently Trump too. But then so did lots of Americans. I wouldn't chalk their difference from the rest of the Latinx being due to lingering effects of Eilan but due to being more middle class, something they've pretty much been since the 1950's even if the accusations that they're all the old rich from the island are demonstrably not true.
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Post by: Potato on January 18, 2022, 07:15:34 PM


I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.

Over my dead body.

But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
You better go upstate. :lol

I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
:lucas :sheik :point :ohyou
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 07:22:18 PM


I'll be damned if I'm chastised by a bunch of a fucking foreigners.

Over my dead body.

But knowing NY and the governors office I'm sure she's got some controversy or two. I need to do anything I can help muddy the waters for D's in NY. Thankfully I am now registered Republican :rejoice
You better go upstate. :lol

I'm not sure why your time in NYC has made you think that most people here care to listen to anyone else's political opinions. Especially someone not from here.
:lucas :sheik :point :ohyou

Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.

I can't/won't dispute the polling in that piece that Cuban Americans may have bounced back to the Republicans after shifting towards Clinton in 1996 (and then as the piece notes they still favored Dole) because of Eilan, I'm just saying that Cuban Americans were always pretty Republican before that. The second wave of Cuban immigration from the island is what shifted them to being even competitive in the first place, before that they were far far more Republican. (Although much smaller in number.) Florida was also a pretty Republican state for President outside of the Cuban Americans, Reagan got like 70% of the vote for example.

This century, Cuban Americans liked W. and Obama and apparently Trump too. But then so did lots of Americans. I wouldn't chalk their difference from the rest of the Latinx being due to lingering effects of Eilan but due to being more middle class, something they've pretty much been since the 1950's even if the accusations that they're all the old rich from the island are demonstrably not true.

My point isn't this century. My point is a case of taking advantage of Democrats' weaknesses on key issues and attacking when the moment is hot. Since they have so many blind spots, especially in NY, there's many, many places to attack. It's scrumptious. Since the Democrats identify themselves by their...identities....lol...it's easy to catch a few strays that feel left behind by the big Democratic tent. Since the Democratic tent is so big with so many conflicting interests you can swoop in and grab who feels left aside to show them there's another way. Since Cubans swung to R with Elian, it's a great test case of taking group vulnerability in which Democrats are not satisfactorily addressing, and striking while it's hot. So admit that Cubans did flip because of Elian. So you agree. Zehahaha.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 07:53:21 PM
But Cuban Americans were already Republican-leaning swing voters, they were primed to already vote Republican and only needed an extra reason to swing harder. Black voters will probably only vote in single digits for Republicans unless Biden does something like repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to block people from eating at the Olive Garden in Times Square (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=35992.msg3019234#msg3019234) and even then Republicans would probably ignore the Black vote.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 08:08:23 PM
More Florida leadership on the pressing issues:
Quote from: https://apnews.com/article/business-florida-lawsuits-ron-desantis-racial-injustice-3ec10492b7421543315acf4491813c1b
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.

The Senate Education Committee approved the bill that takes aim at critical race theory — though it doesn’t mention it explicitly — on party lines, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.

Democrats argued the bill isn’t needed, would lead to frivolous lawsuits and said it would amount to censorship in schools. They asked, without success, for real-life examples of teachers or businesses telling students or employees that they are racist because of their race.

“This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race. This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago,” said state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who is Black. “At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened or are you going to say we must talk about history?”
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The bill reads in part, “An individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”

The bill is called “Individual Freedom.” Republican Sen. Manny Diaz, its sponsor, said it is not about ignoring the “dark” parts of American history, but rather ensuring that people are not blamed for sins of the past.

“No individual is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by the virtue of his or her race or sex,” Garcia said. “No race is inherently superior to another race.”

Jones said DeSantis is playing to his conservative base by pushing the legislation, but wouldn’t go so far as to say DeSantis himself is racist.

“The governor will continue to go across the country with his racist rhetoric on critical race theory ... It’s a problem that doesn’t exist,” Jones said. “I think the governor’s policies that he continues to push are racist.”
:american
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 08:42:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/18/senate-dems-filibuster-showdown-election-reform-527308

:rejoice

This man's balls

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-inmates-ivermectin-federal-lawsuit-jail/

Harrowing
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 08:45:11 PM
https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1483466200105603078

Teenage boys suddenly have strong feelings on the filibuster.
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 08:48:21 PM
Here you go Himu:
Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voter
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 08:51:43 PM
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-begala-says-democratic-party-has-bad-followers/

Kukuku...see? This is what Democratic party thinks of us, its voters. They think of us as plebians. Vassals. Puppets. They shit and stir and sloth and when turmoil hits they blame us rather than their pitiful paltry party leadership. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe liberalism *does* work but the Democratic Party is the one selling it.

Here you go Himu:
Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voter
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.

A wonderful chance to meet wonderful allies who see that they too are nothing but puppets for the Democratic elitist structure, who see the failures of identitarian quackery, progressive policy, and a deification of the homeless at the expense of personal and communal liberty. After half a century of failed promises, lack of action, bad governance, and overall bad politics the black community humbly submits our grievance and allyship with the Asian American and Latino communities. Let's all ditch em at once so that they finally know the score and who truly has power. If we shift the GOP and make it the new home for minorities and base our support not on the whims of identity but the fruits of virtue and morals and values, we can reshape this country in our own making. Opportunity knocks at our door and she begs us,"come hither".

Since 2016 the Democratic Party has learned nothing. Just more finger wagging from progressive phaggots. On and on with endless moral outrage when they have no moral guideline to begin with and shame you for not thinking exactly like them. For all their faults, libertarians are the open-minded people liberals always claimed to be.
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Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:29:54 PM
Republicans should sway the Chinese
I don't think the Republican line on China is achieving this.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:32:07 PM
Republicans should sway the Chinese
I don't think the Republican line on China is achieving this.

China is China. They left for a reason. They're now proud Americans, unlike Potato. China can get fucked.

You seem to think with a identitarian glitz as if identity rules the world. Identity is nice, but you know what's nicer? Opportunity. Who gives a fuck if Republicans are wah wah about China if they have policies that benefit Chinese-Americans. What solutions do you have to help Chinese-Americans? Oh. That's right. Only their identity matters to you as is the typical progressive guideline.
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Post by: Potato on January 18, 2022, 09:34:10 PM
Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?

LOL. I've visited there three times, including New York twice. My partner has family in Chicago and San Francisco. I've also extensively visited Central America and Europe and Asia. How many places your ignorant arse been, huh?

Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.

You really are that fucking dumb, huh?

How long until you drop this heel turn and go along some other manic detour?
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 09:34:29 PM
https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1483076531605884937

 :karen same outfit
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:37:11 PM
Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?

LOL. I've visited there three times, including New York twice. My partner has family in Chicago and San Francisco. I've also extensively visited Central America and Europe and Asia. How many places your ignorant arse been, huh?

Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.

You really are that fucking dumb, huh?

How long until you drop this heel turn and go along some other manic detour?

Oh wow. You've visited. Whoopee doo. And this gives you expertise to speak on my country as if I give a fuck. Just like you don't give a fuck when I call your country a bunch of authoritarians.
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Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:37:59 PM
Diaspora don't generally hate their home country, and they probably don't like it when a nontrivial amount of politicians in their new country Other them by complaining about them invading the universities,  make up stories about biological warfare, and start beating a war drum because their country can suddenly make good cell phones.
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:40:08 PM
Diaspora don't generally hate their home country, and they probably don't like it when a nontrivial amount of politicians in their new country Other them by complaining about them invading the universities,  make up stories about biological warfare, and start beating a war drum because their country can suddenly make good cell phones.

It doesn't really change shit. Voters are still voting Republican. An entire Chinese district flipped from D to R last election in NYC. You again mistake identity for real life. Federal Republican sayings have nothing to do with local issues which are impacted by Democratic negligence.
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Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:41:42 PM
You seem to think with a identitarian glitz as if identity rules the world. Identity is nice, but you know what's nicer? Opportunity. Who gives a fuck if Republicans are wah wah about China if they have policies that benefit Chinese-Americans. What solutions do you have to help Chinese-Americans? Oh. That's right. Only their identity matters to you as is the typical progressive guideline.
No, I'm just saying that the Chinese people I know are proud of their culture and heritage, generally have good opinions about China, and didn't really like the wave of random racist attacks on asian people in SF and NYC, or the China virus shit.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-asian-americans-are-thinking-about-the-2020-election/

Chinese people supported Democrats almost 3 times as much as they did Republicans. You don't think a lot of them were pretty offended by the right wing? Especially when they're kind of fucking racist?
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:42:56 PM
Hmmm, racism versus empty sayings. Only two options. If the Democrats aren't doing shit, what are the only options? Ohhhhhh, it's the fucking Republicans. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Basic warfare.
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Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:45:48 PM
We'll see I guess... but the polling doesn't support what you're saying. It's like when they say black people will start voting R... I mean maybe but you've got the fucking neonazi shit as the first obstacle
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 09:51:08 PM
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1483143852106170368

 :teehee
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Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:51:13 PM
Polling doesn't reflect what I'm saying? Latinos are leaving Dems en masse becoming the new swing voter. Even Dems are bleeding black men and no longer cater to us. Asian Americans in New York are giving the Republicans the good ol' try. In New York definitely reflects what I'm saying and I've even provided evidence. Given my post was written from the context of a New Yorker you will have to provide me with counter reports that actually reflect a trend that you're arguing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:52:12 PM
Hmmm, racism versus empty sayings. Only two options. If the Democrats aren't doing shit, what are the only options? Ohhhhhh, it's the fucking Republicans. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Basic warfare.
I mean... yeah? Why would you vote for the racists if at worst the Dems just "aren't doing anything"? How is that rational at all
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Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 09:54:02 PM
We'll see I guess... but the polling doesn't support what you're saying. It's like when they say black people will start voting R... I mean maybe but you've got the fucking neonazi shit as the first obstacle
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:54:36 PM
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1483143852106170368

 :teehee

(https://i.imgur.com/d4ghqMr.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 18, 2022, 09:56:20 PM
Low hanging fruit. That's all you got? Patetico. Unlike you I actually live in USA and I actually live in NY. You don't live in America. If you did, I'd consider your opinion with some salt. But you don't. You're some non-American in an American thread judging Americans a place you likely have never been, which is a figment of your imagination, which you think you're better than. Who cares what you think?

LOL. I've visited there three times, including New York twice. My partner has family in Chicago and San Francisco. I've also extensively visited Central America and Europe and Asia. How many places your ignorant arse been, huh?

Who cares what you think? How does America impact you on your day to day life. It's not real lol just close the thread nicca. Instead you're invested in some far away land you don't live on and our politics and our people and what affects us. Big mad.

You really are that fucking dumb, huh?

How long until you drop this heel turn and go along some other manic detour?

Oh wow. You've visited. Whoopee doo. And this gives you expertise to speak on my country as if I give a fuck. Just like you don't give a fuck when I call your country a bunch of authoritarians.
Well, at least I've been out of my own country multiple times. How about you?

If you had, then maybe you would understand why and how the madness of US politics affects the rest of us so much.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:57:02 PM
We'll see I guess... but the polling doesn't support what you're saying. It's like when they say black people will start voting R... I mean maybe but you've got the fucking neonazi shit as the first obstacle
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?

You see this as an aberration but it is key to liberalism and its dysfunction.

Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.

Liberalism.

Doesn't.

Work.

A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail? The scrunch of a lifted nose?
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Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 09:57:04 PM
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?
they don't have to vote, I'd understand it if they need a little more sumpin to get them to pull a lever. I didn't try to save newsom in the recall for instance. I'm just saying it's insane to flip to the other side because you're tired of your party jerking you around. It feels insane to me
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 09:59:07 PM
What are they going to do? Vote Democrat for nearly a century on end no matter how the party changes?
they don't have to vote, I'd understand it if they need a little more sumpin to get them to pull a lever. I didn't try to save newsom in the recall for instance. I'm just saying it's insane to flip to the other side because you're tired of your party jerking you around. It feels insane to me

Ah so it's VOTE!!! VOTE RIGHTS!!! until they want to vote for the opposite party.

(https://i.imgur.com/yA3LgPh.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 10:04:08 PM
Shosta there's only one way out of this and you know it: abolish the two party system. The two party system forces you into binary choices with only two options regardless of your convictions, politics, or values.

You act like people vote Democrat agreeing with every single thing. I have extremely homophobic family that vote Democrat despite their stance on LGBT and you think it's not above people to vote GOP because of a very small number of Neo Nazi's? Yet the most racist people I've met in my life white libtards. Our President spoke at a Klansman's funeral. It's almost like both parties are racist in some way so you might as well pick your poison so arguments towards racism will fall on deaf ears and you might as well vote for what's closer to your convictions.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 10:09:10 PM
As long as FPTP dominates it's going to pretty much be a two party system by default. (Insert obligatory mention of the laws that maintain it here.)

New York is actually probably a bad example for downplaying third party chances compared to the rest of the country because of the fusion ballot lines. Letitia James herself originally won election to the City Council on the Working Families line and only on re-election gained the Democratic nomination IIRC. James Buckley famously won a Senate seat on the Conservative line. Rudy and Bloomberg both held the Liberal line despite being nominal Republicans and Bloomberg ran as his own party the last time around. And of course, Cuomo started his own hilarious front party in Women's Equality.

Not saying it's likely, as it's not, just that it's more likely than in almost every other state. Or at least was, I know the parties were warning that a recent Cuomo signed law was a way to silently kill them off by upping requirements.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 10:10:48 PM
Polling doesn't reflect what I'm saying?
I don't have anything about New York but here's a couple of months ago in Virginia

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-favored-democrats-wide-margin-high-profile-races-exit-rcna5024

Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.

Liberalism.

Doesn't.

Work.

A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail?
we're just a couple of chucklefucks on a forum, I don't have to have a whole political platform posted in plain sight for everyone. and I'm not sure you ever asked me this. And furthermore I need to cook dinner and I've already wasted a bunch of time on this so I don't feel like writing out a whole thing about it, nor do I appreciate you basically calling me a limp dick on something that's been a pet issue of mine for years.

Short answer? Look at Japan. They went from 25k homeless nationally in 2003 to under 4000 last year. Do whatever they did. Improve the social safety net like we did during the pandemic so that less people suddenly have their whole lives thrown into disarray because their economic situation changed. Make a real effort at public housing like what France does because we've never really tried in this country. Expand the fuck out of the housing supply like China does so that landlord parasites stop gutting urban renters. Get a public healthcare system with robust mental health coverage and destigmatize therapy and psychiatry. And stop criminalizing homelessness itself so that people have a way out of their situation instead of giving them more shit to deal with (fines, arrest records) that become obstacles to improving their lives. A better future is possible. I'm sorry that our political class has not found the willpower to achieve all these goals and I'm sorry that because of that you'd rather give in to right wing barbarism.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 10:12:50 PM
Ah so it's VOTE!!! VOTE RIGHTS!!! until they want to vote for the opposite party.
actually I support voting rights for everyone except you specifically

Wtf is this post even supposed to mean. I can be against voter suppression laws and also call your thought process deranged
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 10:17:54 PM
Shosta there's only one way out of this and you know it: abolish the two party system.
I've said this in the past

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You act like people vote Democrat agreeing with every single thing
no I don't, where have I said this? Do you even know who I am?

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Yet the most racist people I've met in my life white libtards.
ok candace

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Our President spoke at a Klansman's funeral.
joe biden is probably racist but you are being extraordinarily dense
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 10:23:58 PM
A better future is possible.
Please don't post left-wing Democratic propaganda in this thread. Thank you.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 10:25:24 PM
This is the best possible world. Vote for Dr. Pangloss!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 10:31:06 PM
Horseshoe theory is real.

https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1483204129702952965
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 10:35:08 PM
Need to know more about the ~19% of Democrats (and 7% of Republicans and unaffiliated) who are apparently like "Yeah, definitely imprison them for tweeting against the vaccines, but hold up, take their kids? Too far man."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 18, 2022, 10:41:44 PM
maybe the 29% that are internment camp fans hate their kids and have been looking for an excuse for someone to finally take them
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 10:48:18 PM
Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.

Liberalism.

Doesn't.

Work.

A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail? The scrunch of a lifted nose?
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1483637209991303168

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 18, 2022, 11:00:36 PM
Take the homeless issue. Shosta offers no solutions. He just wants to let the homeless sleep in the trains. No solutions. Just complete abject neglect. Ignore the issue. All in the guise of moral superiority.

Liberalism.

Doesn't.

Work.

A year of NYC taught me this. What solutions do you have, Shosta beyond the pointed figure and the wag of a nail? The scrunch of a lifted nose?
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1483637209991303168

 :teehee

Maybe life has made my heart harden but I agree with Tucker.

https://youtu.be/DREmnsungVM
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2022, 11:21:54 PM
http://twitter.com/j4hub/status/1483582648182362114
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 19, 2022, 12:54:20 AM
Quote from: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/01/15/utah-leaders-have/
Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.
well that escalated
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 19, 2022, 12:56:53 AM
https://twitter.com/Ecclesiasticu12/status/1482853681187983360

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 01:05:34 AM
Quote from: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/01/15/utah-leaders-have/
Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.
well that escalated

Fascists.

Get fucked! What next? Prison for the unvaccinated? Prison for the vaccinated that don't comply? What counts as vaxxed? Two shots? Three? Will people need four shots when the state decided kiss big pharma's ass and mandate it? Hopefully Utahans wisely boycott that paper and make their money bleed harder than a dried out tit fresh out of milk. Leeches.

It's like I goddamn said in the Covid thread about how almost every notable conspiracy theory is coming to past and now these liberals are demanding this to happen. I can't stand liberals. :stop
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 19, 2022, 01:48:43 AM
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1483171765626892292
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on January 19, 2022, 02:28:24 AM
 :comeon
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 04:43:01 AM
Lmfao white people need SAFE SPACES


https://apnews.com/article/business-florida-lawsuits-ron-desantis-racial-injustice-3ec10492b7421543315acf4491813c1b?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1483171765626892292

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 05:28:25 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPoliticsSays/comments/s7391p/if_you_put_a_bunch_of_liberals_in_a_bar_overnight/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

:lol

Thanks a lot mandates

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/17/trucker-vaccine-rule-is-making-freight-and-fruit-pricier/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 06:51:14 AM
Here you go Himu:
Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voter
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-five-deadly-sins-of-the-left

Quote
In short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.

:)

Working class gang stand up

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Doesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.

It's almost like the left are the negative Nancy's of politics. All finger wag, no optimism. They don't even have an American dream to sell. Oh there's optimism right. But only if you do what we say and think the way we think. They act like coercive bullies. All bark, all doom, all tears. Weakness distilled, like the hardest vodka made of their own transparent tears, drunk off the fat of their own Hope and Change.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: tiesto on January 19, 2022, 01:04:56 PM
Here you go Himu:
Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voter
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-five-deadly-sins-of-the-left

Quote
In short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.

:)

Working class gang stand up

Quote
Doesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.

It's almost like the left are the negative Nancy's of politics. All finger wag, no optimism. They don't even have an American dream to sell. Oh there's optimism right. But only if you do what we say and think the way we think. They act like coercive bullies. All bark, all doom, all tears. Weakness distilled, like the hardest vodka made of their own transparent tears, drunk off the fat of their own Hope and Change.

That's an interesting article, I definitely agree with some of his points - identity politics being a giant red herring for the left and an alienating factor for the struggling working class, in particular. But climate change issues and techno-pessimism are things I just cannot seem to shake off. Especially as more and more companies consolidate and innovation slows. I do enjoy my dystopian sci-fi and tech-pessimistic media, and being in a tech related industry can quickly deduce potential negatives/ease of exploitation from new tech being put to market (hell, 2 of the companies I worked for popped up in The Bore's #latestagecapitalism thread).

To me, the biggest issue with the left is their terrible messaging, and how Republicans take advantage of the most extreme left positions to scare the centrists (who may possibly be open to some sort of reform) and stifle any sort of positive change. I still have to keep in mind that places like RE and tankie-themed FB meme pages are a niche of a niche, mainly consisting of zoomers with lots of ambition and pipe dreams but limited real world experience...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 19, 2022, 01:24:11 PM
US politics is like shin megami tensei where you have the law route and the chaos route but if you actually want to end up with what's best for humanity you have to do some specific quests like make sure you deliver 5 vials of baphomet essence to the scientists, gaslight both of your best friends into thinking you support each of their contradictory positions, and promise the teen girl you've been seeing in your dreams that her death will not be in vain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 19, 2022, 01:59:58 PM
US politics is like shin megami tensei where you have the law route and the chaos route but if you actually want to end up with what's best for humanity you have to do some specific quests like make sure you deliver 5 vials of baphomet essence to the scientists, gaslight both of your best friends into thinking you support each of their contradictory positions, and promise the teen girl you've been seeing in your dreams that her death will not be in vain

I just wish my cat would make me go to bed early.  :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 03:02:50 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-choice-pac-emilys-list-000454396.html

:heh

Revealing your back to attack Sinema? Sinema might not have a GOP rival in her election for her seat and a moderate dem will be very viable in AZ. Indepedent gang loves her. She will be competitive without their support. Also funny how this group is inflicting its agenda in politics beyond abortion rights. Reminds me of...NRA. Hmmm. :thinking

Can't wait to see her regain her seat!

When the Dems lose the General they'll go back to using the Filibuster as a tool to Save Democracy and repost Bernie's long ass filibuster as proof.

US politics is like shin megami tensei where you have the law route and the chaos route but if you actually want to end up with what's best for humanity you have to do some specific quests like make sure you deliver 5 vials of baphomet essence to the scientists, gaslight both of your best friends into thinking you support each of their contradictory positions, and promise the teen girl you've been seeing in your dreams that her death will not be in vain

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 03:21:28 PM
Speaking of Bernie....

Calling your allies pathetic. Like I said: the left are bullies.

https://youtu.be/GuWzUCPMwBo

:heh

Remember the time Bernie proudly voted against filibuster reform?

https://youtu.be/8oAurwzy06M

https://youtu.be/ANT3JsLjx4A

Fuck off, Do Nothing Democrats.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 03:39:38 PM
Dios MiO

https://youtu.be/jKQfCBWy8bI

All because the Do Nothing Democratic Clinton administration convinced the Ukraine's to give up their nuke stock in exchange for our protection in case this would happen. America as World Police is an absolute failure.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/in-1994-the-us-succeeded-in-convincing-ukraine-to-give-up-its-nukes-but-failed-to-secure-its-future

Bad leadership at home, bad leadership abroad. Hmmm I'm smelling a trend! And it smells like donkey shit.  It's almost as if the Democrats can't govern! Much less lead. We need a strong man. We need Trump.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2022, 05:01:03 PM
While I agree the foreign policy of the Democrats under Obama and now Biden is an absolute, completely and total disaster including the things he just said.
I do think that disarming a bunch of obsolete nukes (regardless of any Russian action) was the right thing to do. The situation in 2014 wouldn't have been any better if there were nukes in play instead of fire bombs and snipers.

When Putin took the Crimea he was so paranoid and worried that NATO would intervene that he put nuclear missiles on standby in case NATO would attack the Russian invasion forces.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 05:43:13 PM
Benji:

https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-black-america-break-democratic-party-opinion-1649223

I can feel her hate. I never figured I'd see a black person that hates the Democrats as much as me :rejoice

Quote
As a seventh-generation freedom loving American and a descendant of U.S. slaves, the new code of political conduct should be, if we don't eat, then nobody eats, and may those who take from our plate choke on what they've stolen.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 19, 2022, 07:26:29 PM
Joe shits on the floor, President Psaki has to clean it up

https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/1483948900520054785 (https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/1483948900520054785)

Finally some real news on CNN

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1483945128070979584 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1483945128070979584)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 08:28:19 PM
:lol President Cuck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 09:17:48 PM
https://youtu.be/Qw1S0RvUKg0


:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 19, 2022, 09:42:54 PM
Here you go Himu:
Quote from: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-coming-asian-voter
The Democrats’ problems with Hispanic voters are, at this point, well-known and well-documented. But what of Asian voters, the other fast-growing part of the nonwhite population? A close look at political trends suggests that here too a problem could be emerging.

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-five-deadly-sins-of-the-left

Quote
In short, Democrats are stuck. They have not escaped the gravitational field of identity politics and their inability to do so means that their brand cannot sustain a durable majority. Indeed, there are signs that Democrats are experiencing more and more slippage among working class voters of all races. For a left-wing party, that is catastrophic—not just for 2022, but far beyond. They may find out, to their sorrow, that it is far easier to control the commanding heights of cultural production than the commanding heights of political power.

:)

Working class gang stand up

Quote
Doesn’t the left want to make people happy? One has to wonder. There seems to be more interest in figuring out what people should stop doing and consuming than in figuring out how people can have more to do and consume. The very idea of abundance is rarely discussed, except to disparage it.

It's almost like the left are the negative Nancy's of politics. All finger wag, no optimism. They don't even have an American dream to sell. Oh there's optimism right. But only if you do what we say and think the way we think. They act like coercive bullies. All bark, all doom, all tears. Weakness distilled, like the hardest vodka made of their own transparent tears, drunk off the fat of their own Hope and Change.

That's an interesting article, I definitely agree with some of his points - identity politics being a giant red herring for the left and an alienating factor for the struggling working class, in particular. But climate change issues and techno-pessimism are things I just cannot seem to shake off. Especially as more and more companies consolidate and innovation slows. I do enjoy my dystopian sci-fi and tech-pessimistic media, and being in a tech related industry can quickly deduce potential negatives/ease of exploitation from new tech being put to market (hell, 2 of the companies I worked for popped up in The Bore's #latestagecapitalism thread).

To me, the biggest issue with the left is their terrible messaging, and how Republicans take advantage of the most extreme left positions to scare the centrists (who may possibly be open to some sort of reform) and stifle any sort of positive change. I still have to keep in mind that places like RE and tankie-themed FB meme pages are a niche of a niche, mainly consisting of zoomers with lots of ambition and pipe dreams but limited real world experience...

I increasingly view the GOP as the party for the working man and the Democratic Party as the one for elites.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:09:19 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-stirs-up-illegitimate-election-fracas

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"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.

For the past twenty one years the Democratic party has labeled Republican wins as "illegitimate". They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms and this is how they steel their already primordial scared base with the news early: by preparing an election fraud tale. They'll argue the wave against them and their do nothing politics will be erroneous and false.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1483931218810970112

They will double down in their dumbness, that their edicts are divine rather than self reflect on their dispassionate policy. The result? Donkey dung for you and donkey dung for me.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-refuses-trump-plea-to-block-national-archives-from-giving-records-to-jan-6-panel

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against former President Donald Trump and refused to block the National Archives from sharing documents from his time in the White House with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The high court's decision came as a one-paragraph order and was unsigned. Justice Clarence Thomas, nominated by former President Ronald Reagan, was the lone justice signaling that he would have granted Trump's request, which is based on the argument that the records are protected by executive privilege. President Joe Biden has supported their release.

This is ridiculous. Let it be released. What have you to fear? If you were sensible and had a softer touch during Covid we would still have you as our President during a time when the need for softness waned and testosterone was needed. Although we need you, you're also a disgrace. Truly, the President we deserve.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 10:28:44 AM
They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms
The President's party has lost in the House and Senate in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 10:33:48 AM
I'm well aware. I'm commenting on how bad it could get. Democrats have already given up. I've never seen this before. It feels historic. With hope we can turn the tide and go full 1980 on the Do Nothing's in 2024.

:rejoice https://reason.com/video/2022/01/19/how-progressives-ruined-san-francisco-michael-shellenberger/ :rejoice

The failures of progressive policy: a group of enablers.

https://youtu.be/4tF5DzLWwcw
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 10:53:56 AM
https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1484163150484316168
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1484140125223374852
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 10:57:35 AM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1484148452963622915

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:00:36 AM
https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1484163150484316168
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1484140125223374852

IT'S HAPPENING!!!!! :hyper
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 11:09:05 AM
Also funny how this group is inflicting its agenda in politics beyond abortion rights. Reminds me of...NRA. Hmmm.
https://twitter.com/rorycooper/status/1483816051917869058
https://twitter.com/BMamont/status/1484048390195347456

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:19:25 AM
:sabu :sabu :sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 11:23:21 AM
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/08MamaKitti08/status/1484187212455546886
https://twitter.com/TruthJusticeUS1/status/1484147346485227520
https://twitter.com/KiranKat4/status/1484158795744002054
https://twitter.com/Traceyszostek4/status/1484184602772180992
https://twitter.com/uplight2k/status/1484185005085626373
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:39:50 AM
https://twitter.com/SurprisePullit/status/1484202790977261569

https://twitter.com/mjk_4mjk/status/1484202670655168522

https://twitter.com/JustEric/status/1484142710844014593

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:44:15 AM
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1484148452963622915

https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1484151584347111427

Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)

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https://twitter.com/08MamaKitti08/status/1484187212455546886
https://twitter.com/TruthJusticeUS1/status/1484147346485227520
https://twitter.com/KiranKat4/status/1484158795744002054
https://twitter.com/Traceyszostek4/status/1484184602772180992
https://twitter.com/uplight2k/status/1484185005085626373
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Verrrrry tolerant of the left. Here's me looking surprised.

(https://i.imgur.com/OjEzmJ6.gif)

With things like r/hermancainaward, cheering when people die, disliking minorities when we vote opposite of them, and all around lifting up degeneracy it's not so shocking. When will they be able to finally look in the mirror and ask the question to end all questions,"Are we the baddies?"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 12:40:36 PM
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1484152723553628162

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1484183149672239106

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1484194006208679941
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 12:57:21 PM
Trafalgar: 38.7% Approval Rating for Biden; Voters Prefer GOP Over Dems 55.7% to 42.2%

https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/20/trafalgar-38-7-approval-rating-for-biden-voters-prefer-gop-over-dems-55-7-to-42-2/

Let's keep going!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2022, 01:51:46 PM
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1484006381099307008 (https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1484006381099307008)

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on January 20, 2022, 01:56:27 PM
Himu, I love you buddy - but what does the Republican party offer you besides a slight respite from the particularly annoying grievance politics from the Democratic party?  There's a lot to criticize with the left, especially their handling of sensitive issues regarding race and identity...  But what do the Republicans do for you?  Is it largely their stance on vax freedom?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Occam on January 20, 2022, 02:39:06 PM
Click spoiler for red pill.

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http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48293.msg3017616#msg3017616
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 02:59:01 PM
this thread has been completely consumed by himu becoming fully invested in lib-owning culture :mjcry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 03:13:33 PM
Himu, I love you buddy - but what does the Republican party offer you besides a slight respite from the particularly annoying grievance politics from the Democratic party?  There's a lot to criticize with the left, especially their handling of sensitive issues regarding race and identity...  But what do the Republicans do for you?  Is it largely their stance on vax freedom?

Life experience. Living in a blue city in a red state is a complete opposite experience to living in a blue city in a blue state. It's easy to say you're a progressive until you've actually lived in a place that actually is.

You would think moving to NYC would make me more liberal/progressive than I was. I moved here as a progressive. In the end, I had to learn what it was like to live with and sit with the impact of my own policies. It was a massive wake up call.

Liberalism leads to:

1. Mediocrity - Privileged liberals hewed and hawed about the Pandemic and being scared to even go out even as they sat in their homes doing Zoom meetings, complaining about having to commute to the office well after vaccines were available. Whether my former roommates or whatever, I just noticed that the privilege of being able to work from home was an elite status that the elite couldn't recognize was privileged, nor could they appreciate as the rest of us - like myself and others I knew - had to sacrifice our bodies, our time, our safety to make ends meet in the middle of a pandemic. Through this experience I saw the laziness that was bred through virtual meetings, the privilege of work from home that it creates, and the mediocrity it brings. The rest of us operated on pure grit and a will to live despite all odds. Meanwhile the privileged are too scared to live because of social anxiety. It's really pathetic.

2. Weakness - Tied into the last point, and as we can see from Biden's lack of leadership, liberalism leads to weakness. Endless complaining, no solutions, just bleeding hearts. Their solution to most problems is to...do nothing. Or they do something but have no real end game plan so they protest the closing a nuclear plant to purport an increase in natural gas usage only to want to limit natural gas and increase gas energy prices a year later. They have no long term strategy. It is only ever feelings based finger pointing and victim blaming. There's almost never an idea of hope presented by the left. It's endless navel gazing and problems and doom and gloom. Going by the left, you can't do anything because you're black. You're a woman. You're this, you're that. Everything is tied to some victim complex of identity and I refuse to let my victories be defined by the color of my skin but the talent that I have and dreams I wish to achieve.

3. Excuse making - Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs. Homeless are smoking crack on the subway and attacking people where children take the commute to school? Let's ignore it, they need a place to sleep! This all forms a trifecta of low expectations. They don't push anyone to do aspire to be their best, they merely look at society and victimize. Are these very real issues? In some cases, sure. But endless victimhood, what has it gotten us? Absolutely nothing. Hopes. Dreams. And a can do spirit. Maybe we will fail, but that's the tough America is made of.

More and more as I lived here I noticed that the real problems people face aren't met with respect but with money being thrown at the issue. It made me more fiscally conservative due to how much of my tax dollars go towards shit that don't solve anything.

Conservatives understand all of this. Although they have their own issues with liberty, Republicans have more respect towards it as a rule. I very much identify with the libertarians but the Libertarian Party isn't going to win a fight against the Democratic Party which I increasingly view as even worse for society than the Republicans especially through the lens of identity politics. I can talk to Republicans about things and they'll disagree on some things but understand where I'm coming from. I communicate my complex views on liberty and Democrats think I'm a bigot.

Over regulation, disregarding families and family values, no long term strategy, lack of strong leadership, privileged elitists, too fiscally liberal, reducing people to their identity/race/gender, the endless victim olympics, over 50 years of being a total clown show, their inability to get things done on a local/state/federal level, on and on and on. On most issues I realize I'm closer to the Republicans than the Democrats. A few years ago I flirted with conservatism and I wrongly put it in the box but I can admit I was wrong and I should have went all the way then and there. I've finally pushed the button.

At the end of the day we live in a two party system and the American people are keep choosing between the two because they can't govern. But for all of his faults, Americans did real well under Trump, especially our wallets and businesses and families.

Republicans offer me:

1. Hope. They actually believe the things they say. Conservatives just want upward mobility. That's what I want. Republicans actually believe if you work hard enough you'll make it. That's what I believe. I wouldn't have moved across the country if I didn't. In this, we are aligned. When I came here I found opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. Turns out opportunity knocks if you want it bad enough. No one stopped me because of my race. No one limited me but myself. By contrast, the left only judges, finger points, says this and that person thinks a certain way therefore they're bad and must be avoided.

2. A modern life. Republicans wisely understand that the conditions of our lives in here and now - today - is a rare circumstance in the circumference of human history and we should hold on to what we hold dear at all costs. Although there's much to improve, the liberal/progressive/communist idea of toppling what we have of unprecedented education, unprecedented peace, unprecedented opportunity for the human being to strive is bad. Often liberals are too concerned with transforming things without knowing what they're transforming them into. They are all heart, no brain.

3. Freedom. To own a gun. To own a business and run it how you like. To think what you want.

Throw in deregulation, school choice (as I plan for a family), more traditional values, lower taxes, better distribution of those taxes, less welfare programs that keep society mediocre, a can do spirit and it's pretty obvious which is better.

I think a better question is what the Democrats have to offer me.

I haven't even gotten into Vaccine mandates, the endless Covid safety parade, the endless Covid virtue signaling, turning vaccines into a full fledged identity, or the failures of the Biden administration. All of those things were the final domino enough to finally make me push the button. Republicans are by no means perfect but at this point, but they're closer to my ideals than the Democrats.

TLDR: Moving to NYC made me more conservative after challenging my progressive views. The only things I agree with Democrats on is healthcare reform (I get really good healthcare in NY and think it's worth paying a tax for) and a few other issues like decriminalization of drugs which funnily came from the more libertarian Colorado.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 20, 2022, 03:14:04 PM
Mods really need to restrict him and Nintex to their own politics thread for True American Patriots. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2022, 03:14:53 PM
this thread has been completely consumed by himu becoming fully invested in lib-owning culture :mjcry

I admit in the post-nintex comprehensive review I did not accurately predict this turn of events

the two possibilities are

1) as the lorax prophesied, life returns to this barren wasteland and people who used this forum who dared not tread into nintex-space slowly come back

2) only benji posts tweets until he realizes nobody else is commenting and he peaces out

I suppose the next election will be the proving ground
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Propagandhim on January 20, 2022, 03:24:24 PM
Thanks Himu, I want to write a detailed response, but non-shitposting is rare for me on TheBore and I have a few things I need to take care of.   Will write soon.   I appreciate you delineating your thoughts.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 03:29:48 PM
Thanks Himu, I want to write a detailed response, but non-shitposting is rare for me on TheBore and I have a few things I need to take care of.   Will write soon.   I appreciate you delineating your thoughts.

I appreciate the respect. You are the first and only person on this forum to ask me one simple question: "why"? The rest merely judge, laugh, and finger point proving my thesis against liberals and particularly liberalism's deficiencies. Their inability to discuss, their inability to respect. I truly loathe them and want to see them cry. Being surrounded by a bunch of white communists and progressives where I have tap dance and keep my mouth shut for a year has me feeling a kind of way. I want to see them cry. Bloody tears if I have to.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 03:32:54 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1478469016960262147
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1484246576725962753
https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1484246579825594368
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 03:38:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJj8CbkWUAcFiDj?format=jpg&name=small)

Thank you Ivanka :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 03:41:18 PM
:american

Ivanka :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 03:55:11 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-stirs-up-illegitimate-election-fracas

Quote
"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.

For the past twenty one years the Democratic party has labeled Republican wins as "illegitimate". They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms and this is how they steel their already primordial scared base with the news early: by preparing an election fraud tale. They'll argue the wave against them and their do nothing politics will be erroneous and false.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1483931218810970112
This is fake news, Biden was clear:
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1484166810077483009
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1484241290564972546

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https://twitter.com/B_D_Frazier/status/1484192783506161664
https://twitter.com/LindaJStovall/status/1484250923023179777
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https://twitter.com/brokenarrow828/status/1484251304771923970
https://twitter.com/zephyr1701/status/1484212758191214600
https://twitter.com/Tballard_terri/status/1484266985819103245
https://twitter.com/WaltGekko/status/1484256765063610378
https://twitter.com/je_brannon/status/1484197288796897280
https://twitter.com/Benitezvotes201/status/1484257470985953295
https://twitter.com/tbender1028/status/1484180868038025216
https://twitter.com/DerwoodS85/status/1484266565101043723
https://twitter.com/JoyceKehoe/status/1484167936918970372
https://twitter.com/EllenSpivak/status/1484180961390649344
https://twitter.com/julytetoo/status/1484267757143265280
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 03:58:36 PM
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:00:04 PM
https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1484234913792643078

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1484190900964241413

Look at this field. Yikes. Democrats might be giving Republicans a gift of a decade of rule 80's style with this.

https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1484008651908124675

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-stirs-up-illegitimate-election-fracas

Quote
"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate," Biden said, stumbling through his response.

For the past twenty one years the Democratic party has labeled Republican wins as "illegitimate". They are already preparing for a shellacking, a once in a generation loss, at midterms and this is how they steel their already primordial scared base with the news early: by preparing an election fraud tale. They'll argue the wave against them and their do nothing politics will be erroneous and false.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1483931218810970112
This is fake news:
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1484166810077483009
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1484241290564972546

Yeah I saw. Nice back track Jen. Must suck to clean up Joe's messes.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:04:21 PM
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/

They should get one then.  How in the hell do you not have an ID? You need one for most jobs. This is the basic of the most basic and not worth having sympathy over.

So many excuses. Long voting lines in Harris county when you had the ability to vote at any polling location in the county. Despite this people still said VoTerrRr fRawWwd. Went to usual location and it had a long line so I drove 5-10 minutes to another location, get in and out and voted with no line. Still cries of vote fraud despite this because some sorry sucker decided to stay in line at Harris fucking County at goddamn midnight despite the above stated ruling.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 04:14:13 PM
I assume Hillary deleted this speaking of truth to power because there's actually 50 Republican Senators:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJkVfsxXMAEpb8D?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2022, 04:22:16 PM
this thread has been completely consumed by himu becoming fully invested in lib-owning culture :mjcry
nonsense
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:22:21 PM
No one ever blocked me or stopped me from voting. Those people do not prioritize voting. Not having a driver's license in Texas is like not having a coat in the Midwest during winter. It is utterly preposterous to not have one even without a car due to Texas' layout which requires driving and its ties to big oil. This is a non-issue and they're using black Americans as puppets as usual. It's funny. All this about voting rights when record numbers came out to vote Biden into office and black voters flipped the senate in Georgia. Bubububu it's hard to vote! Vote fraud! No it fucking isn't. Yet the very same courts determined there was no mass vote fraud in 2020 elections which got the Do Nothing Dems elected. I'm sick and tired of the Dems using race as an issue. These niccas are not interested in voting.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 04:27:34 PM
https://twitter.com/adamliptak/status/1483840306474885131
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1483847480815013892
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1483887001686392842
https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/status/1484222934415822853

 :awesome
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2022, 04:33:54 PM
It really takes some mental gymnastics to say that 'democracy' is at stake in the US following the election with the most votes ever and more people being involved in the political debate, process and audits than ever before.
Wasn't this what Obama wanted? That everyone would engage in politics? I recall that's why he spend a lot of time campaigning on Facebook and the likes. To make sure he'd reach the people that normally didn't bother voting.

Trump as it happened expanded on that ideal for both parties.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:43:12 PM
Record voting numbers. Our democracy is at stake!!!!

LMFAO It really makes you question every single part of the left platform.

Climate change. WE HAVE 9 YEARS TO SAVE THE EARTH!!!

On and on. Once you get past it the majority of the Democratic platform is fear tactics. Chicken Little if it was a party.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2022, 04:45:09 PM
Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/

I don't doubt that this is still potentially an issue, but this is from a speech from 10 years ago, at the time citing data from 16 years ago
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 04:52:16 PM
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)
This is also fake news:
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1484223895297089539
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 04:54:01 PM
Rob was angry at the woman, but not Manchin:
(https://i.imgur.com/QDkxkTL.png)
This is also fake news:
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1484223895297089539

:sabu

Right.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 20, 2022, 05:17:52 PM
It's no big deal to disenfranchise tax payers if they don't have a driving license, but I will LOSE MY SHIT AT THE SUGGESTION OF CHECKING MY VACCINATION STATUS TO EAT AT APPLEBEES
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 05:26:11 PM
I don't doubt that this is still potentially an issue, but this is from a speech from 10 years ago, at the time citing data from 16 years ago
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-absentee-id-law-has-outsized-impact-on-black-and-metro-voters/ZFAZVG46EZEL5MUICUQI6SHQ44/

Based on the number of registered black voters in Georgia and this article, the new voter id law disenfranchises about 7% of black registered voters.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:26:34 PM
1. Despite Pandemic Challenges, 2020 Election Had Largest Increase in Voting Between Presidential Elections on Record

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/record-high-turnout-in-2020-general-election.html

2. AP finds fewer than 475 cases of potential voter fraud in six 2020 battleground states

https://thehill.com/homenews/presidential-campaign/585901-ap-finds-fewer-than-475-cases-of-potential-voter-fraud-in-six

3. Homeland Security says 2020 election ‘most secure in American history’

https://news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-says-2020-election-004658626.html

(https://i.imgur.com/ItMttPo.gif)

Given all of this why in the ever living fuck should Americans care about the Democrats and their stupid electoral "reform" bill? Why die on this hill? Why attack fellow Democrats which confuses the more casual political reader?

The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO. In a Politico poll voting rights is not on the minds of many Americans and if they are you are probably well fed.

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We asked voters which of three voting reform ideas should be “the top priority” for Congress to pass: reforming Congress’ role in counting Electoral College votes, expanding voting access in federal elections or expanding oversight of states’ changes to voting practices. “None of the above” (32%) beat out all of them.

source: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/01/12/our-exclusive-new-poll-on-voting-rights-495693

Oh, we'll be using our voting rights alright, and after that the Dems will blame Russia for umpteenth time.

This is what I'm talking about: the Democratic Party dies on specific weird hills rather than getting shit done that people actually give a fuck about. They deserve what they get. Go Red!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:30:12 PM
It's no big deal to disenfranchise tax payers if they don't have a driving license, but I will LOSE MY SHIT AT THE SUGGESTION OF CHECKING MY VACCINATION STATUS TO EAT AT APPLEBEES

Drivers license is a basic utility as an ID and driving.

Going to a restaurant or doing whatever shouldn't need proof of vaccination. There's no utility in it especially with a virus that spreads whether you're vaccinated or not. False equivalence. It's logical to need a passport to get into another country. I shouldn't have to show two forms of ID to view a karate class. One is Draconian, the other is basic common sense. How do you know if the person listed in the county register actually lives where they say do or if that's their actual name? An ID makes perfect, logical sense.

But thanks for the fish, foreigner.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 05:32:06 PM
You spent a lot of time in the past talking about how the Democratic party takes black voters for granted. Well over half of black voters think voter suppression laws are a problem. Should the Democratic party be listening to them or not?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 05:34:41 PM
We don't need to be dismissing or attacking other Bore members simply for being foreigners, they may make reasonable points worth responding to anyway. (The Tories in the UK are trying to require photo ID as well, although they are at least providing for it to be free.)

Except for the Canadians who are simply inhuman scum of the lowest order.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 05:37:28 PM
But thanks for the fish, foreigner.
fact check, the vast majority of seafood in the US is imported from Asian sources.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:39:00 PM
You spent a lot of time in the past talking about how the Democratic party takes black voters for granted. Well over half of black voters think voter suppression laws are a problem. Should the Democratic party be listening to them or not?

Democrats do two things:

1. Take voters for granted

and

2. Placate.

They know it won't pass. In what way does this help black Americans? We can already vote. You wanna help black Americans? Legalize weed and overturn prior weed charges. Oh, but that's something valuable and the Democrats won't do that. So they placate to give the idea that they're trying, to rein in black people to show how much they care. But they know in their heart of hearts it's not going to pass. That way they can point and blame the race card like this.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJkVfsxXMAEpb8D?format=jpg&name=small)

See, if you're against this then you're clearly a dirty, wirty wacist.

This is their strategy to try to drum up funding because they already know this shit is in the bag and there's no turning back.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:40:38 PM
We don't need to be dismissing or attacking other Bore members simply for being foreigners, they may make reasonable points worth responding to anyway. (The Tories in the UK are trying to require photo ID as well, although they are at least providing for it to be free.)

Except for the Canadians who are simply inhuman scum of the lowest order.

If the foreign riff raff that comes into American thread wouldn't be so judging of an American perspective, I'd give them respect. Since they offer none, all I give is spit. Nintex may not always agree but Nintex considers the American perspective.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 05:43:31 PM
I think it's the opposite of placating. They're putting as much pressure as they can on two senators by creating a very public issue out of this and increasing the chances of them getting primaried.

They know it won't pass. In what way does this help black Americans? We can already vote.
7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2022, 05:48:03 PM
I appreciate the respect. You are the first and only person on this forum to ask me one simple question: "why"? The rest merely judge, laugh, and finger point proving my thesis against liberals and particularly liberalism's deficiencies.

others have shown you respect, not long ago you were talking about how benji was actually trying to be patient and introduced libertarianism to you, and I don't always engage but I read what is posted and try to understand every perspective

some people will say it's not worth giving a thought to perspectives that seem predisposed to mislead or with dark agendas or whatever but simply knowing what someone else thinks can't really harm you, as long as you're determined to remain thoughtful and reject what is clearly wrong

problem is, there isn't much of an other perspective being presented in this thread because they've largely abandoned this board

though sometimes it almost feels like "liberal" news goes without saying?  like I'm already inundated with it, without it needing to be posted here?  is that because famously "reality has a liberal bias?"  maybe that's just my own browsing habits though

anyway I think the bold 24 pt caps lock meme gifs are a bit over the top and it feels like browsing a grandma facebook, if something truly owns the other side I'm sure it speaks for itself, or needs little more than  :doge

not trying to tone police it just gets exhausting


I don't doubt that this is still potentially an issue, but this is from a speech from 10 years ago, at the time citing data from 16 years ago
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-absentee-id-law-has-outsized-impact-on-black-and-metro-voters/ZFAZVG46EZEL5MUICUQI6SHQ44/

Based on the number of registered black voters in Georgia and this article, the new voter id law disenfranchises about 7% of black registered voters.

this is good data, thanks  :like

I understand the logic that if voting is already quite secure and there's very little fraud that these steps aren't necessary, and it might not be so bad to err on the side of letting more people vote than fewer

but I also think maybe it's something that always should've been a requirement, it doesn't necessarily sound like an undue complication

something that potentially causes complication should come alongside something that can alleviate it, like a national election holiday
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 05:53:24 PM
If the foreign riff raff that comes into American thread wouldn't be so judging of an American perspective, I'd give them respect. Since they offer none, all I give is spit. Nintex may not always agree but Nintex considers the American perspective.
You're conflating your perspective for "the" American perspective, no one I have seen has criticized or judged America only you. Nintex is pro-MAGA but is also under the illusion that the Presidency operates like Dutch Parliament.

I think it's the opposite of placating. They're putting as much pressure as they can on two senators by creating a very public issue out of this and increasing the chances of them getting primaried.
But not until 2024 and only in Sinema's case. If Manchin loses a primary or (more likely) retires, West Virginia will almost assuredly elect a Republican.

7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.
Georgia does provide a free photo ID however.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:55:54 PM
I think it's the opposite of placating. They're putting as much pressure as they can on two senators by creating a very public issue out of this and increasing the chances of them getting primaried.

They know it won't pass. In what way does this help black Americans? We can already vote.
7% of black registered voters in Georgia soon won't, but it's not like Georgia has ever been a close election or anything.

Which is exactly why it's placating:

1. Manchin won't be primaried. He's popular with Republicans and Independents and no way will a more progressive Dem win in W. Va.

2. Arizona is more accommodating to moderate Dems and while Sinema is losing backing from more progressive Dems she's also gaining lots of Independent and Republican support which can push her to victory.

The Democrats know that they're likely to lose this fight. Democrats regularly overestimate their chances, whether it's turning Texas blue or beating Mitch McConnell. They falsely think they can take down Manchin and (likely) Sinema so this is Democrats' theatrical approach to show they "did something".

Democrats naively think more people support them and their agenda than they think.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 05:57:29 PM
If the foreign riff raff that comes into American thread wouldn't be so judging of an American perspective, I'd give them respect. Since they offer none, all I give is spit. Nintex may not always agree but Nintex considers the American perspective.
You're conflating your perspective for "the" American perspective, no one I have seen has criticized or judged America only you. Nintex is pro-MAGA but is also under the illusion that the Presidency operates like Dutch Parliament.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying my perspective is the only perspective. But it's certainly an American perspective and I greatly dislike people that live outside of my country telling me how to think or feel. Whether it's guns, or whatever issue. I just don't care what you're doing in Europe or whatever. Non-Americans condescension is a massive pet peeve of mine.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 05:58:45 PM
this is good data, thanks  :like

I understand the logic that if voting is already quite secure and there's very little fraud that these steps aren't necessary, and it might not be so bad to err on the side of letting more people vote than fewer

but I also think maybe it's something that always should've been a requirement, it doesn't necessarily sound like an undue complication

something that potentially causes complication should come alongside something that can alleviate it, like a national election holiday
Maybe. You could justify a lot of things in a vacuum. The truth though is that every law is passed in a definite historical context. New voter ID laws are being legislated because record absentee turnout during a pandemic (narrowly) helped Democrats. The North Carolina law was just struck down for targeting African Americans with "surgical precision".

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038354159/n-c-judges-strike-down-a-voter-id-law-they-say-discriminates-against-black-voter
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 06:02:26 PM
The Democrats know that they're likely to lose this fight. Democrats regularly overestimate their chances, whether it's turning Texas blue or beating Mitch McConnell. They falsely think they can take down Manchin and (likely) Sinema so this is Democrats' theatrical approach to show they "did something".

Democrats naively think more people support them and their agenda than they think.
I'm confused. Do you support the bill or not?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 06:04:58 PM
But not until 2024 and only in Sinema's case. If Manchin loses a primary or (more likely) retires, West Virginia will almost assuredly elect a Republican.
Ok, then maybe it drives up voter turnout in other places? I don't know. Symbolic votes cost nothing. There's generally only upside.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 06:05:26 PM
The Democrats know that they're likely to lose this fight. Democrats regularly overestimate their chances, whether it's turning Texas blue or beating Mitch McConnell. They falsely think they can take down Manchin and (likely) Sinema so this is Democrats' theatrical approach to show they "did something".

Democrats naively think more people support them and their agenda than they think.
I'm confused. Do you support the bill or not?

I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 06:14:32 PM
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.
I think you're simply ignorant of what's in this wave of voter id laws and I encourage you to educate yourself. I also think you're inclined to want the vote to fail because you just like seeing the libs getting owned now.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 06:14:48 PM
https://twitter.com/baldingschemer/status/1483917490640072714

yikes
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 06:15:48 PM
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.
The bill and removing the filibuster are only related because the latter is needed to pass it. Sinema voted for the bill and for maintaining the filibuster.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Uncle on January 20, 2022, 06:29:16 PM
I'm seeing a lot of talk online like "as soon as the republicans are in power they will destroy the filibuster and do whatever they want!!" but like

they've maintained it this long for the same reasons the democrats have, because it's a useful tool for making sure the minority doesn't get steamrolled and laws don't wildly flip flop every 4-8 years

also, if they're not shortsighted they'd realize that trump can only have one more term and then the party has no frontrunner and no guarantees of maintaining power, meaning the now-dead filibuster could go on to benefit democrats in the following 8 years
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 06:31:50 PM
I do not. I do not understand why sweeping changes to the filibuster are necessary.
I think you're simply ignorant of what's in this wave of voter id laws and I encourage you to educate yourself. I also think you're inclined to want the vote to fail because you just like seeing the libs getting owned now.

I'm well aware what's in it. It's combo Frankenstein of a bill that combines Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Act. Which is precisely why I think they're placating black Americans. It's not a racial electoral reform bill. Voting is just fine. This just makes voting easier. Which is cool and good but definitely not needed on a federal level and definitely isn't a black American specific issue either. They know this which is why they're characterizing it as that. If it were that important, they wouldn't be so damn greedy and try to create a frankenbill and then point it off as specifically a racial electoral reform bill. Cuz it ain't. All this while also trying to end the filibuster. Manchin even cosponsored half of the bill. If it were just the bill, it'd be about what they say it is. But they're adding the filibuster on top as leverage. Sinema and Manchin would play ball and would vote yes and they could use Kamala as a tie breaker but nope. Being able to register to vote online is cool and all but it's the definition of Quality of Life Improvement, not like a real hard line thing especially when people need money for food.

File it under who cares.

And yeah...

 I do like seeing the libs get owned.

(https://i.imgur.com/58xdevu.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2022, 06:51:07 PM
I'm seeing a lot of talk online like "as soon as the republicans are in power they will destroy the filibuster and do whatever they want!!" but like

they've maintained it this long for the same reasons the democrats have, because it's a useful tool for making sure the minority doesn't get steamrolled and laws don't wildly flip flop every 4-8 years

also, if they're not shortsighted they'd realize that trump can only have one more term and then the party has no frontrunner and no guarantees of maintaining power, meaning the now-dead filibuster could go on to benefit democrats in the following 8 years
Our country runs on a slim +1 or +2 seats majority for the past 10 years or so. Combined with heavy party discipline this means that the opposition can basically be ignored and that a lot of policies lack public support but are simply created from 'deals' made by the leading parties. You allow euthanasia without doctors consent, I give you some additional funding for defense, that sort of thing. In general this is not very healthy or sustainable for Democracy and it just further polarizes things.

Of course it could be helpful for some things everyone wants but simply can't get done because of political infighting but in reality whoever is in power will just push through the most controversial stuff 'while they have the opportunity' often when no one is paying attention to what legislation actually is or does. I suspect that you'd see abortion, gun control, national security, censorship etc. laws passed one after the other but very few things like infrastructure or healthcare. And at some point irreversible decisions will be made because of the fear that one day the party might lose the majority and to prevent the flip flopping.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 06:56:09 PM
Sinema and Manchin would play ball and would vote yes and they could use Kamala as a tie breaker but nope.
They can't do that unless they get rid of the filibuster.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 07:13:30 PM
Sinema and Manchin would play ball and would vote yes and they could use Kamala as a tie breaker but nope.
They can't do that unless they get rid of the filibuster.

Well aware and tough luck. Democrats need 10 more votes to pass something most Americans don't care about. Their record as far as pushing legislation so far has been pushing through bad frankenstein bills like this and BBB. Maybe if they pass something that American people gave a shit about that can really hurt Republicans' reputation for not playing ball things would swing their way.

As it is, they know this won't pass because they need a Filibuster and are going to go,"see? republicans are racist". Same old song and dance. Very tiring.

The entire thing is a wedge issue, not a real issue, to care about. It's a bunch of preppies playing games while the rest of us starve.

https://thedispatch.com/p/the-election-was-secure-why-rush

You mistake me not understanding the filibuster rule. My argument is: this is a waste of time to begin with. If Democrats really want to help Americans there are much better bills they can propose. Instead they make up sweeping legislation not when they they have a clear majority but during a time when they two moderate dems in clear opposition of their agenda. On a moral and legalistic side, Manchin and Sinema are correct.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:25:53 PM
what other country requires a 60% threshold in any of its legislative chambers to pass laws?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 07:30:43 PM
Who gives a shit? Why do we need big brother guv to federalize elections? You mean the same government that could be in Republican hands in all three branches in 2025? The same people that tried to take power? The people that are supposedly Neo Nazi's?

See?

Long term thinking.


(https://i.imgur.com/eNChg5i.gif)


This is nothing but a game to the D's and defies logic. Pass better legislation Americans care about.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 07:32:13 PM
White supremacist pro-MAGA shill chud Jake Tapper attacks democracy:
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1484274761890992129
https://twitter.com/zuchons/status/1484278096811503619
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:36:42 PM
This is nothing but a game to the D's and defies logic. Pass better legislation Americans care about.
they tried. it was called BBB but the Senate is an undemocratic body and killed that too.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 07:38:08 PM
This is nothing but a game to the D's and defies logic. Pass better legislation Americans care about.
they tried. it was called BBB but the Senate is an undemocratic body and killed that too.

BBB was another frankenstein.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:38:35 PM
you're a frankenstein
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:41:05 PM
You understand why these bills have to be so big, right? Do you know how budget reconciliation works? Please read up on it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 20, 2022, 07:41:44 PM
White supremacist pro-MAGA shill chud Jake Tapper attacks democracy:
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1484274761890992129
https://twitter.com/zuchons/status/1484278096811503619
:titus
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 07:44:53 PM
There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 07:46:43 PM
You understand why these bills have to be so big, right? Do you know how budget reconciliation works? Please read up on it.

It doesn't change that BBB, as much as it had some good in it, was a confusing sell to most people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-build-back-better-americans-dont-know-opinion-poll/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:46:55 PM
There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.
bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that

It doesn't change that BBB, as much as it had some good in it, was a confusing sell to most people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-build-back-better-americans-dont-know-opinion-poll/
they knew who they were voting for in 2020; Biden campaigned on climate change funding, infrastructure, paid parent leave, universal childcare, shit like that. The representatives know what's in a bill. That's how a republic works dude, everyone else is busy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 07:51:01 PM
There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.
bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that
Himu's premise is that there will be ten Republican votes for some of those separate things. Although the only things I've seen any Republican support for are the child credit and Electoral Count Act. Then again they did wind up with 69 votes on "infrastructure" in the end.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 07:57:25 PM
I know what his point is, I'm just saying that presuming any legislation that really matters can and will be supported by a supermajority of senators is this crazily annoying post-hoc justification for a sui generis tool of obstruction that no other deliberative body in the world supports, not even state governments
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 08:00:13 PM
There are some things in BBB I like. I wish they'd cut some of it up into separate bills. 2 Trillion altogether, in this economy, is a non starter first off. That's a hard sell at the get go.
bro they CAN'T, the filibuster prevents them from doing that
Himu's premise is that there will be ten Republican votes for some of those separate things. Although the only things I've seen any Republican support for are the child credit and Electoral Count Act. Then again they did wind up with 69 votes on "infrastructure" in the end.

Precisely. Infrastructure is one of Trump's major election promises. If the D's focused on solely that, and tried to get to get some R's on board it'd be a winner with a lot of Americans and would be a wonderful nest egg to sweep from the MAGA tent. As it is now, infrastructure is now back on the MAGA menu.

A major flaw with the Democrats is that...they're dreamers. They think too big, too soon and this results in wide sweeping bills too big, too soon within the context of the time (a deadlock and a tiebreak and in need of ten additional votes). So in the end, nothing gets done because they're they're all CHANNNNNGE!!! instead of slow practical steps.

So then nothing happens. This is true whether on a local, state, or federal level and one of the major downfalls of the party. Meanwhile Republicans are the opposite.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 08:06:15 PM
Precisely. Infrastructure is one of Trump's major election promises. If the D's focused on solely that, and tried to get to get some R's on board it'd be a winner with a lot of Americans and would be a wonderful nest egg to sweep from the MAGA tent. As it is now, infrastructure is now back on the MAGA menu.
??!? They already passed the maximum amount of infrastructure spending they could get Republicans to agree with. That was the whole point of the "clean infrastructure bill". They did it. After that, they wanted to pass the rest of their agenda. That people voted for.

This country has been in a legislative and institutional quagmire since 2010. Before the COVID superbill the last major bill was like Dodd Frank or something. Average people have gotten too far behind while the rich get richer. Change is overdue.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 08:07:25 PM
There isn't a majority for eliminating the filibuster though and this has been well known. Do you think Democrats are going to run on "get us 54 seats so we can eliminate the filibuster"?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 08:08:52 PM
Well the Senate isn't even democratic anyway! This bullshit is rigged!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 08:09:21 PM
It's just an example of good tactics and one they should be cognizant of. What I'm articulating is that the big bills is why I also think they're placating. They know it won't pass so they try big, thrifty bills they know won't pass and then blame the elephants.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 08:13:30 PM
You really think the Democrats were negotiating with Manchin in bad faith this entire time, knowing that they wouldn't be able to pass it, in order to make it look like they were doing something?  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 09:37:31 PM
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO. In a Politico poll voting rights is not on the minds of many Americans and if they are you are probably well fed.
https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1483857086194884620
https://twitter.com/are_selfies/status/1483874482737627139
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 09:41:57 PM
https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1483996545976471553
https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1484203430600056835
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 09:51:28 PM
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO.
Unemployment is extremely low to the point of labor shortages and lower quartile wage growth is so strong it's causing inflation (but even stronger growth and CapEx). the economy is really, really good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:26:50 PM
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO. In a Politico poll voting rights is not on the minds of many Americans and if they are you are probably well fed.
https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1483857086194884620
https://twitter.com/are_selfies/status/1483874482737627139

Lmfao

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1484205156631732227
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 20, 2022, 11:27:53 PM
The American people do not give a flying fuck. Right now we are dealing with high bills, rising unemployment, and growing prices in food. Are the Democrats helping us out there? NO.
Unemployment is extremely low to the point of labor shortages and lower quartile wage growth is so strong it's causing inflation (but even stronger growth and CapEx). the economy is really, really good

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/01/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims_20.html?m=1
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 11:42:47 PM
https://jones.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mondaire-jones-outlines-path-forward-fight-voting-rights
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJlT6xKVgAMEQQT?format=png&name=900x900)
 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 20, 2022, 11:53:50 PM
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/01/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims_20.html?m=1
Are you reading that graph correctly? Look at the dashed line.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 20, 2022, 11:59:02 PM
https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/1484042368487763968

spoiler (click to show/hide)
don't read the last sentence of the letter
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 21, 2022, 12:13:52 AM
That last sentence really is some verbal gymnastics to get around saying "we know motherfuckers".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 04:32:07 AM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-curriculum-transparency-rcna12809

This is good. So what.

As for CRT, fuck it.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 06:48:21 AM
https://youtu.be/jembutRKLe8

Independent gang :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 07:28:36 AM
https://youtu.be/qqoDdO81Z2E

:bow ROMNEY

Please I beg you to run, run, run! Right on the mark with the Democratic hysteria. Republicans can fall into hysteria and moralistic pontificating (Freedom Fries :crowdlaff) too but never as much as the Democrats whose entire platform is existential fear-based rhetoric.

OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING IN THE DARKNESS!! :stop

I'M TOO SCARED TO GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE OF COVID :stop

WE HAVE 9 YEARS LEFT TO SAVE THIS PLANET OR WE ALL DIE!!! :stop

IF WE CANNOT PASS THIS LEGISLATION BLACK PEOPLE WON'T BE ABLE TO VOTE!!! :stop

THE GUNS ARE COMING FOR US!!! :stop

On and on and on and on.

Thank you for speaking up for everyday Americans, Mr. Future President. :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: tiesto on January 21, 2022, 12:28:00 PM
Republicans can fall into hysteria and moralistic pontificating (Freedom Fries :crowdlaff) too but never as much as the Democrats whose entire platform is existential fear-based rhetoric.

I'd argue that the majority of the Republican platform (aside from tax cuts for the rich/big corps) is riling up their constituents about existential "threats":

TURRISM!
MUSLIM PRESIDENT!
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
ANTIFA!
GAYS MARRYING!
TRANS BATHROOMS!
PEOPLE SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGES IN PUBLIC!
WHITE DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE!
WESTERN CULTURAL DECLINE!
SHARIAH LAW!
BENGHAZI!
STOLEN ELECTIONS!
CRITICAL RACE THEORY!

And moral grandstanding? The anti-abortion, pro-evangelical, "Christian nation" party has that on lockdown. I'd rather 100 SJWs tell me I'm a racist and a colonialist oppressor for failing to use the term Latinx than a single bible thumpin' evangelical giving me a sermon on why I'm going to hell for being a nonbeliever.

And while being chicken little doesn't help the problems, at least the Dems are worried about things that have actually caused death and destruction - covid deaths and extreme weather conditions due to climate change.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2022, 01:06:33 PM
https://youtu.be/jembutRKLe8

Independent gang :rejoice
(https://i.imgflip.com/625oq0.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 01:18:43 PM
Republicans can fall into hysteria and moralistic pontificating (Freedom Fries :crowdlaff) too but never as much as the Democrats whose entire platform is existential fear-based rhetoric.

I'd argue that the majority of the Republican platform (aside from tax cuts for the rich/big corps) is riling up their constituents about existential "threats":

TURRISM!
MUSLIM PRESIDENT!
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
ANTIFA!
GAYS MARRYING!
TRANS BATHROOMS!
PEOPLE SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGES IN PUBLIC!
WHITE DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE!
WESTERN CULTURAL DECLINE!
SHARIAH LAW!
BENGHAZI!
STOLEN ELECTIONS!
CRITICAL RACE THEORY!

And moral grandstanding? The anti-abortion, pro-evangelical, "Christian nation" party has that on lockdown. I'd rather 100 SJWs tell me I'm a racist and a colonialist oppressor for failing to use the term Latinx than a single bible thumpin' evangelical giving me a sermon on why I'm going to hell for being a nonbeliever.

And while being chicken little doesn't help the problems, at least the Dems are worried about things that have actually caused death and destruction - covid deaths and extreme weather conditions due to climate change.

I will be first to concede that yeah, conservatives do raise the alarm a lot but I think a big liberal problem is discounting these issues. Take the refugee situation. It is a complex situation but the way the left tells it anyone that has concerns over safety is a bigot even if they admit empathy towards their plight. The left undercuts how many of the issues you listed change or alter society and then guilt trip if you don't support their way.

MARY AND JOSEPH WERE REFUGEES YOU BIGOT!!
AMERICA LIMITED JEWISH REFUGEES DURING WWII. YOU BY NOT SUPPORTING MORE REFUGEES PROVE TO BE A NAZI BY ASSOCIATION.

You could say both sides don't have empathy towards the others' concerns and that's a problem.

The problem is that liberals tend to discount these issues and their complexities. Take illegal immigration. A lot of Latinos don't support it (or Latinx now that I think about it) yet it's curated as a topic only racists don't support. Why wouldn't illegal immigration and borders be considered a serious issue? You list the issue of the lefts concerns being one of death and destruction just days after a man from the UK flew to Texas and held a synogogue hostage. So in what way aren't borders a legitimate safety concern? A massive liberal failure is taking complex issues and labeling them in binary ways.

Take critical race theory. History should absolutely teach the realities of America's past. The problem is that CRT teaches that race is a part of every single interaction and typifies one's lice experience solely through a racial lens. At that point it stops being history. And it's being taught to grade school students? We should be more honest in what we teach our children of the Great American Myth but teaching our kids that their life will be typified by their race as an oppressed/oppressor dynamic isn't good for the children nor American society. This is a valid concern yet the liberals, in their liberalism, naively shoo away any criticism just like they shoo away any criticism of drag queens reading to kids in libraries with sex convictions.

A fatal flaw of liberalism is it has no idea how too much is too much. There's always more, more, more and don't consider how their choices alter society in some naive pursuit of truth and justice. So they call people that don't support Latinx bigots even though Latinos would rather be called be a spick than Latinx and naively support CRT in some blind wokeness when many black people openly resent it.

The issue is one of empathy. Liberals don't empathize with conservative issues and conservatives don't empathize with liberal issues. But overwhelming in my experience, conservatives are more likely to understand the complexities of an issue than liberals who tend to be more binary. Covid deaths was an issue when Trump was in office and there was no vaccine but now that there is a vaccine and there's more Covid deaths under Biden than Trump suddenly liberals love making fun of those that die because it's mostly the unvaccinated. Then, in their want to be more safe, they take shit too far.

The site Benji posted the other day tackles this in an article. Liberals love to not know what people actually think in some naive pursuit that it's only a concern of Fox News and hardline conservatives again proving their inability to communicate or understand the complexity of issues. Even if you support a liberal cause, like Covid safety, it becomes an issue of HOW. How to reduce deaths? Vaccine is a great way. But HOW do you get more people to get the vaccine? The left thinks a mandate is how things should be done and people should be forced to get it. But if you disagree with that then you're obviously an anti-vaxxer. Why? Because limitations of HOW. Liberals think only their solutions are the solutions worth doing or talking about and unwilling to engage in discussions. Why limitations in how things are approached? Because to the left there's only one solution. Again. Binary. If you're not with us you're against us. You can take the issue of How on every single issue and liberals don't fucking get it because in their bubbles they have concluded only they have the answers to society.

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-fox-news-fallacy

All this does it make it appear the left do not in any way take your concerns seriously which forces exodus from their platform.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 01:30:06 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484222187942858753
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484533024628912129

what a strange man
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Beezy on January 21, 2022, 01:40:40 PM
CRT isn't taught to grade school students.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 01:43:58 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484222187942858753
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484533024628912129

what a strange man

Some anti-vaxxer dumbly think that the jab impacts reproduction, including sperm count.

Read this the other week.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nn87/unvaxxed-sperm-coin-spreading-covid-disinformation
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 01:48:00 PM
CRT isn't taught to grade school students.

https://reason.com/2021/07/06/critical-race-theory-nea-taught-in-schools/

:what
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 01:53:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ConfiscateDeez/status/1484563421811326979
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2022, 01:54:03 PM
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484222187942858753
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1484533024628912129

what a strange man

Some anti-vaxxer dumbly think that the jab impacts reproduction, including sperm count.

Read this the other week.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nn87/unvaxxed-sperm-coin-spreading-covid-disinformation
The vaccine can actually change the menstruation cycle for women mainly because it activates the immune system.
It seems highly unlikely that there will be long term effects in this area.

Nearly 99% of side-effects can be traced back to 'triggering the immune system' and dissapear quickly.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 02:00:54 PM
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/how-not-to-build-a-coalition

:whew
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 02:01:18 PM
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1484542487331020802

this seems familiar...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2022, 03:04:03 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1484606683041218563 (https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1484606683041218563)

:trumps

For those who don't know, basically people had been robbing trains carrying Amazon packages.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 03:44:59 PM
Quote
President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

More Americans disapprove than approve of how Biden is handling his job as president, 56% to 43%. As of now, just 28% of Americans say they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, including only 48% of Democrats.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-inflation-6b6b0abfef867fc405e9f358ce2c3a09

(https://imgur.com/q3O9qdG.gif)

"I don't believe the polls." - Joe Biden

Joe Biden is a perfect test case for how the two party gives very little to the American people. Joe Biden ran solely on the issue of him not being "the other guy". He wasn't voted in for his values, his convictions or lack thereof, or his policy. He wasn't Trump and at the time, that was enough.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 03:48:11 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-curriculum-transparency-rcna12809

This is good. So what.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1484573261967114247
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 03:52:06 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-curriculum-transparency-rcna12809

This is good. So what.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1484573261967114247

What if the children are being taught slaves came here in involuntary? Would the ACLU view transparency as important then?

A major flaw in left shame tactics is that they often can't see how it benefits them. Fuck the ACLU.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 04:06:23 PM
Quote from: https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/crew-to-trump-remember-to-pay-taxes-on-rnc-cash/
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington today sent Donald Trump a letter to remind him that he will need to pay taxes on any money the Republican National Committee spends to cover his legal bills.

The RNC has reportedly agreed to cover up to $1.6 million in legal bills stemming from the New York investigations into Trump’s business practices, having already spent about $700,000. As these are Trump’s personal legal expenses arising from his personal businesses, any dollar the RNC spends on covering Trump is taxable income for him under the law.

“For years, Donald Trump has been looking to taxpayers, political supporters, and those seeking to curry favor with him to pay his bills, and this is one more example,” said CREW President Noah Bookbinder. “Trump is facing so many legal issues that it’s important he remembers that not paying taxes on this income could cause him to face even more.”

It may come as a surprise that Trump needs help covering his personal legal expenses, as he claims to be worth billions. Then again, his false claims about the value of his holdings are what brought about the investigations into his business practices in the first place.

We would hope that the former president does not need this reminder. After all, this is the man who said, “I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world. Nobody knows more about taxes.” Trump famously paid a $2 million fine after illegally using his tax-deductible foundation to pay his personal expenses, a scandal first exposed by CREW.

“Tax evasion is a serious crime–it’s what finally sent Al Capone to prison,” said Bookbinder. “Given the litany of laws Donald Trump has apparently violated, we thought it helpful to give him a reminder before he violates another one.”
:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Beezy on January 21, 2022, 04:09:16 PM
CRT isn't taught to grade school students.

https://reason.com/2021/07/06/critical-race-theory-nea-taught-in-schools/

:what

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The implication is that these critiques are aspects of critical race theory, which in a weird way makes this an example of the activist left basically accepting the activist right's new working definition of CRT as "all of the various cultural insanities."
:foodcourt
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 04:23:41 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572

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Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”

Yikes. Three page EO posted at the link.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 21, 2022, 04:30:08 PM
Tema Okun and Robin DiAngelo do seem to have gotten many of their core ideas from a bad Tucker Carlson segment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 04:39:11 PM
Tema Okun and Robin DiAngelo do seem to have gotten many of their core ideas from a bad Tucker Carlson segment.

It's my personal prediction and I could easily be wrong, but I think Republicans are taking a nice slow road towards distancing Trump. It's clear the party wants to move on but they're locked in due to the base. They can't take anti-Trump stances too far too soon less they get burned for it so they're playing a long game. You can see soft anti-Trump rhetoric from people like Cheney and Turtle Boy. But knowing that they can will lose this massive advantage if they go full on anti-Trump I think they're relying on time being the ultimate victor in this case for more and more doozies like this one to remind people of his illegitimacy to lead office. So that when a frontrunner comes after 2022 into 2023 they can finally start talking down on Trump and shift the party in their own image. Again, I could be totally wrong. My hope is that they'll take what good they learned from Trump's Presidency (saying fuck you to the elites and liberal institutions regardless of criticism) and running Trumpism without the decay and dysfunction. At least I hope that's what happens! I'm very biased and I will vote Republican in the GE for the first time in my life either way.

We have to win and defeat the D's.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 04:59:33 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-mcconnell-slams-outrageous-mischaracterization-202008878.html

We need you Mitch. You're also good at what you do, Mitch: stopping Democrats from getting what they want with their own ever changing rules.

Stop fucking it up and being like Biden, making it more challenging to bring more black conservative people into the fold during a time of record disenchantment with the donkeys.

Emphasize your record with anti-racism (https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-mitch-mcconnell-defied-ronald-reagan-on-apartheid).
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 21, 2022, 06:57:57 PM
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1483905141036261376 (https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1483905141036261376)

:trumps

The libs don't understand that if they push out Mitch it will make Trump the uncontested leader of the party.
Or maybe they do and they want to save CNN ratings.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 21, 2022, 11:38:44 PM
WAPO OP-ED: Are Republicans becoming the country’s majority party?

Quote
Are Republicans becoming the country’s majority party? Tantalizing new polling data from Gallup suggest they might. It could just be a blip, or it could be an early sign of an upheaval that would transform American politics.

That’s what makes the Gallup data so potentially Earth-shattering. Gallup found that partisan identification has shifted by a massive 14 points since early 2021. In the first quarter of 2021, 49 percent of Americans said they were Democrats — defined as solid partisans and Democratic-leaning independents — compared with only 40 percent who said they were Republicans. That lead shrunk in each quarter of the year. By the fourth quarter, the lead shifted to the GOP. As President Biden’s job approval dropped into the low 40s, 47 percent of Americans said they were Republicans compared with 42 percent who said they were Democrats.

Quote
Biden’s ultra-liberal ineptitude is giving Republicans another chance to prove they understand the real American dream. If they finally listen to what voters are telling them, 2022 and 2024 could bring about the most decisive realignment since the Great Depression.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/18/are-republicans-becoming-countrys-majority-party/?utm_source=reddit.com

What a beautiful OP-ED.

Vaccine mandates are totalitarian. Thank you for showing your hand and pushing the rest of us, even if temporarily, to the right! We can all now finally press the button!

(https://i.imgur.com/ePTNltX.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 22, 2022, 04:36:33 AM
To me it seems like people like the free exchange ideas in the modern GOP. You have 20 different factions now. From people that think JFK jr. is a Republican to people that claim not to be Republicans but agree with them on their podcasts or old ladies that simply want MyPillow coupons. What even is a Republican at this point is up for debate.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2022, 09:15:47 AM
To me it seems like people like the free exchange ideas in the modern GOP.

This is also a major factor. In today's world you cannot express any idea without being shamed, finger pointed at, guilt tripped at with the modern Democratic Party. They've codified a culture of thought policing. They utterly cut off spaces of free speech in the guise of "acceptance" and "tolerance" and I think a year or two of not being able to think or express what you think without having some finger wagged in your face whether on or offline by the left has curated a sense of resentment for a lot of people which proved the alt-rights protestations against the "progressive left" for so long utterly, utterly correct. Then you factor in things like vaccine mandates and even if you support vaccines but dislike mandates, that's not good enough for them and you'll be endlessly purity tested to oblivion. So now you can't escape the left even when you put your phone in your pocket. The only recourse is to beseech their closest enemies just to make the pain go away.

Ergo, the left presents a monoculture and shame anyone outside of that monoculture.

Two years of everyone being ultra online probably is helping it further.

Then you factor in them not taking rising crime seriously;etc. and it's really game, set, match.

This was posted on r/moderatepolitics and some of the answers are enlightening.

Quote
Personally, I would have registered republican by now if it weren't for the fact that my voter registration can be looked up online, and I'm afraid my boss or Co worker might see it.

I think a big part of the rise of the Republican party is a growing disfranchisement. it seems like the internet is creating a hegemony of a few only being able to speak without fear of losing your job or other things. this is going to create false sense of self-righteousness which will back fire at the democrats sooner or later. One of the most common reason I've heard from independents on why they don't vote republican is because they are waiting until they had enough.

Quote
It was my opinion that the election of Trump was a reaction to the media's coverage of him.  He was a deeply flawed candidate that made many errors that should have sunk him.  But the media exaggerated pretty much everything  he did during the campaign and from prior.

* Trump calls Mexicans rapists (he said they were sending their rapists)

* Trump called for the execution of 5 innocent teens in 1989. (Trump said rapist should be made to suffer and killers should face execution)

* Trump admits sexual assault "grabbing women by the pussy". (Trump joked about how easy fame groupies are)

* etc etc

All of these actions were bad,

* Mexico isn't sending their rapists

* his ad was ignorant and a call for over the top authoritative response to crime

* referring to women with such disrespect should sink you

But the media exaggerated everything he did.  Made him the victim.  He went from being a bad guy to being "not as bad as they say".

It's my opinion that the same or a similar thing is happening here.   I think the support for Republicans comes from a backlash to the media's coverage.

People can oppose blm riots or even their position that the police are racist without being a racist but that is how they are portrayed

Supporting stricter borders doesn't make you xenophobic  but that is how they are portrayed.

Two years of questioning the validity of Trump was patriotic but questioning the validity of Biden is treason

Over and over there are stories of exaggerations and then protecting the democrats I'm most media.  I could see this causing this Chang in numbers
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2022, 09:25:15 AM
monoculture

PROTOCULTURE

https://youtu.be/Niky5KShqBs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 22, 2022, 01:05:10 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1484934474190053376

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2022, 02:36:01 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/U5jgJd5.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2022, 02:44:26 PM
https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I

Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.

They've been threatening her for years.

https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ

Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2022, 07:58:32 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-embassy-personnel-family-in-ukraine-ordered-begin-evacuating-officials

Are we leaving behind artillery, jets, tanks, and ammo for the Russians?

- - - -

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/03/youngkin-virginia-voters-lessons-trump-democrats-518716

Months old but :)

Fuck upper class liberals.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Tripon on January 23, 2022, 12:33:34 PM
https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I

Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.

They've been threatening her for years.

https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ

Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.

Didn't you claim to be a republican?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 03:49:59 PM
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454


https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I

Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.

They've been threatening her for years.

https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ

Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.

Didn't you claim to be a republican?

I don't understand.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Tripon on January 23, 2022, 04:31:55 PM
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454


https://youtu.be/xBByilRv86I

Tsk tsk tsk. Donating to Sinema.

They've been threatening her for years.

https://youtu.be/LZFhr3hL7uQ

Humble those socialist fucks, Sinema.

Didn't you claim to be a republican?

I don't understand.

Simena is a centrist Dem, she doesn't claim to believe in any Republican or small c conservative ideals. You're sending money to a person that doesn't hold your positions. If she does, can you tell me what interests you? 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Occam on January 23, 2022, 04:34:28 PM
I don't understand.

You should get that printed on a shirt.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 05:08:20 PM
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454



Didn't you claim to be a republican?

I don't understand.

Simena is a centrist Dem, she doesn't claim to believe in any Republican or small c conservative ideals. You're sending money to a person that doesn't hold your positions. If she does, can you tell me what interests you?

I think this completely typifies the difference in mindset we have. For you it's about party lines. I don't even fully agree with everything on the Republican platform. Up until now I was Independent. For Democrats and liberals, things are mostly about purity tests and think you have to fully agree with someone to support them. Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I. For Democrats, they think the "other side" is evil. Me, I just think liberals are wrong. However, Sinema has shown gumption to stick to her ideals and isn't about toppling well placed structures or reforming things just to get her way. She has principles. She doesn't skirt her party byline for sake of party. This must be rewarded as it is rare in a politician. As an Independent (although now Republican) I really support that. You have made a grave mistake in projecting your own vote habits on to me. I will gladly vote for or support a Democrat if I like them even if we don't agree on everything.

Colorado's governor is a Democrat and I'd gladly vote for him if I had the opportunity.

The fact she's a centrist Dem is precisely why I'm supporting her. She's not a hard L "liberal" either. Do you support her? She's closer to me than you.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kyrsten_sinema/412509
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Coffee Dog on January 23, 2022, 05:52:01 PM
Why are you saying it's about Sinema's "principles" when it's clear that these two groups (sinema and Republicans) have totally different principles, ideals and policy? The only thing they have in common is a mutual enemy, and yet you're willing to throw your support at them both.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 23, 2022, 06:11:43 PM
himu wants to own the libs... pretty simple
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: shosta on January 23, 2022, 06:13:48 PM
Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I.
didn't she start as a Green party activist?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 06:19:33 PM
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1485353848768274434

(https://64.media.tumblr.com/ad18464cac42c22b3e3a3c91afddbf22/tumblr_mwqr8zSAOF1rks9x0o1_500.gif)

Let's go!!!

Why are you saying it's about Sinema's "principles" when it's clear that these two groups (sinema and Republicans) have totally different principles, ideals and policy? The only thing they have in common is a mutual enemy, and yet you're willing to throw your support at them both.

Again, this is liberal thinking: support only people who think like you and not being able to understand the propensity to respect people that think are different from you. Do you think I agree with everything on the Republican platform? You're applying the liberal purity testing I don't care about. Sinema should be rewarded for her filibuster move and sticking to her guns.

Quote
and yet you're willing to throw your support at them both.

What part of "I used to be registered independent" is hard to understand?

Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I.
didn't she start as a Green party activist?

Yeah, environment is one of her biggest platforms.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 23, 2022, 06:21:20 PM
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747)

What an absolute disaster
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 06:29:19 PM
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747)

What an absolute disaster

(https://i.imgur.com/JbEqaRp.gif)

himu wants to own the libs... pretty simple

Liberals have codified a monoculture on society that is utterly inescapable. They own all culture. They've curated a culture so stifling that I need - need - to watch Fox News and go to conservative spaces to get away from it all, like a warm bath in the dark of winter. When you make a culture where you can't say anything, can't think anything, can't express anything fear of insults, reprisal, and outright dehumanization yeah, I want them owned. Very badly. I want them deplatformed and humbled. Yes, I want them owned and I am not ashamed to admit it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 06:45:14 PM
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747

We should have went with Trump :tocry I wish I could revote.

One of the big stats from that video is up 34 points is that people no longer think Government can solve the issues in this country. Quite right: because BIG GOVERNMENT SUCKS SHIT. That's the big lesson of the pandemic and Biden's presidency: Republicans were right about big government all along. Fuck big government. Shrink the Fed and feed her shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 23, 2022, 06:46:40 PM
The people in power have listened to a small but very vocal minority and now they are further removed from the general population than ever before.
Yet the big problem is that they can't pivot away from that minority because if they do, they will be destroyed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Tripon on January 23, 2022, 07:22:08 PM
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1484649194778472454



Didn't you claim to be a republican?

I don't understand.

Simena is a centrist Dem, she doesn't claim to believe in any Republican or small c conservative ideals. You're sending money to a person that doesn't hold your positions. If she does, can you tell me what interests you?

I think this completely typifies the difference in mindset we have. For you it's about party lines. I don't even fully agree with everything on the Republican platform. Up until now I was Independent. For Democrats and liberals, things are mostly about purity tests and think you have to fully agree with someone to support them. Sinema has walked a narrow line with the party for a while and the only reason she was elected was because she went D when realistically, she should probably be I. For Democrats, they think the "other side" is evil. Me, I just think liberals are wrong. However, Sinema has shown gumption to stick to her ideals and isn't about toppling well placed structures or reforming things just to get her way. She has principles. She doesn't skirt her party byline for sake of party. This must be rewarded as it is rare in a politician. As an Independent (although now Republican) I really support that. You have made a grave mistake in projecting your own vote habits on to me. I will gladly vote for or support a Democrat if I like them even if we don't agree on everything.

Colorado's governor is a Democrat and I'd gladly vote for him if I had the opportunity.

The fact she's a centrist Dem is precisely why I'm supporting her. She's not a hard L "liberal" either. Do you support her? She's closer to me than you.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kyrsten_sinema/412509

Himu, I'm saying this because you said you were a republican before, and an independent now.
You're supporting a person who takes large corporate donations and doesn't represent her constitutes (Arizonians in general), or her actual Dem base (labor unions, activists, Hispanic groups, etc.), she's a no vote on lower drug prices, expanding Medicare, $15 minimum wage, a tax increase on wealthier individuals. She's at best an obstructionist to what actually makes Congress work at the moment because she won't say what will win her vote, but she'll vote against thing that are popular. It'll be one thing if the strategy is actually working, but just look at her poll numbers, it's objectively worse than Mark Kelly, and he's no leftist either. And Simena is to the right of Kelley.

I'll be frank, what are you actually for and why are you donating to a person who is one of the people you claim to detest (the Dem establishment, which she's a part of, btw. Look at her donor base, it's the same as the Dem leadership and other members of congress that you would think sucks hard)?

If it's just to own the libs, then to be frank, there's candidates for you. You can do better than Simena.

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The fact she's a centrist Dem is precisely why I'm supporting her. She's not a hard L "liberal" either. Do you support her? She's closer to me than you.

Of course not, we talked about this, you should know my politics by now. I hate my own senators, and Simena is somehow to the right of Dianne Finestein and Alex Padilla.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 08:09:53 PM
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Florida bill would ban talk of sexual orientation, gender identity in the classroom

Congrats Florida for passing good legislation.

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Building upon a framework created with 2021’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, Florida lawmakers have proposed a new piece of legislation that would ban discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms for kindergarten through seventh grade.

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-ban-talk-of-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-in-the-classroom/amp/

Teaching per-pubescent children about sexuality (whether straight or not), LGBT, and gender identity has no place in our schools. Gender identity talk should be banned from schools until we understand it more and its impact on children.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2022, 08:28:42 PM
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/9/pandemic-exploited-to-adopt-mass-surveillance-watchdog-warns

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Pandemic exploited to normalise mass surveillance, watchdog warns

AlgorithmWatch warns that a plethora of automated decision-making systems were implemented in haste under the guise of public health.

...

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The results produced by AI “have been wildly overblown, subject to hype, and even exploited in dangerous, Cold War-style propaganda among conflicting superpowers,” Chiusi said.

“The trend long precedes the pandemic, and a public health emergency may be framed — and it has been — as the perfect excuse to justify — and even worse, normalize — widespread surveillance, especially in non-democratic contexts. What’s even more worrisome is how little this has been debated in democratic countries as well,” he told Al Jazeera.

Yes. On one hand everything is a "threat to our democracy" but on the other, let's blindly take on surveillance esque police state legislation and shame everyone who disagrees.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 24, 2022, 04:08:35 AM
I always thought "if you stand for nothing you'll for anything" a rather glib axiom, but, well, y'know.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 08:50:57 AM
Benji:

https://np.reddit.com/r/GoldandBlack/comments/sanmfz/is_the_two_party_duopoly_shifting/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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2008 Republicans - Pro War, in the pocket of corporate interests, party of the rich

2008 Democrats - Anti war, in the pocket of labor unions, party of the working class

2022 Republicans - Anti war, party of the working class

2022 Democrats - Pro War, in the pocket of corporate interests and labor unions, party of the rich

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We might be in the midst of a party system realignment.

The 1960s union Democrat voters are dying out, which means the Democrat party's base has become almost entirely socialists and urban grift recipients.  The party's politicians are almost all political grifters who don't care as long as they maintain power.

The Republican party is internally divided between Bush era NeoCons and newer Trump supporters.  The Trump faction sees the corruption throughout government. It's united by doing battle against the woke socialists; the Bush era GOP who just appease the socialists for a share of the grift are in their way. However, the Trump faction isn't sure how they want to govern once they get control; it ranges from "new guy,  same as the old guy" to eliminating large swaths of government.

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>shifting to more of a landscape of libertarianism vs “progressivism"

yeah that is my assessment, at least with voters

while I don't think the left is going to give any real power to pretend socialists like aoc and sanders, the right is in a bit of a civil war. their entire base is now trump style populist mixed with libertarians, but the party is controlled by McConnell and rinos. They are going to have to let trump or desantis be their candidate, and while those 2 aren't libertarians themselves, they have much more overlap with them than neocons and ally themselves with libertarian lite reps like rand paul. I really think our best move is forming a coalition with the populists and supporting the mises caucus to take power at the state level. The south is very into libertarianism now and we should be running republicans that want to do things like kill state income tax and legalize weed.

Trump/Desantis are not libertarians, but trump had many policies that were, like his successful tax cuts and isolationism. We are going to have to deal with policies like securing the border and blocking free trade. I honestly don't think open borders and tree trade are tenable until the issues they are causing are dealt with. Open borders are not beneficial with a welfare state and free trade isn't viable when you kill off domestic industry.

Libertarians are never going to win on their own, so we need to take over the republican party.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 09:21:15 AM
The Republicans aren't so much anti-war as temporarily burned by bad wars and having promoted "thinkers" closer to the Old Right than those who dominated the Party from Dewey on, including during the Reagan Revolution, and thus are not instantly dismissive of objections to military action. Many Republicans are currently attacking Biden for not pre-emptively declaring war on Russia and have spent many of the last few months lamenting how Biden had "lost" Afghanistan. Trump's deeply principled stance as a peacenik is entirely because he was afraid of bad press if he chose wrong again ala Iraq.

And no true libertarian, let alone an ancap, would think there's ever a justification for restricting free trade. Mainstream economics, Friedman, the Austrian axioms, etc. none of them support such a backwards position. Even the history of American protectionism doesn't support the thesis as often the tariffs were set more for revenue generation than any kind of attempt at the latter with the latter almost always resulting in economic downturns. There's not even support for the theory made here that domestic industry has been "killed off" as the United States produces more than ever within its borders.

According to the underlying theory of autarky these people should advocate for greater internal restrictions between the states as each of the 50 states would obviously benefit from promoting their domestic industry rather than accepting goods or workers from other states.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 09:29:48 AM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.

At home it's important to press Republican leaders to curb their hawkism. Isolationism is for the best. This is also why you need a strong leader to pressure or at least remind our enemies of our power even if we shouldn't wield it. Biden shows what happens when you have a weak leader.

Although Trump's isolationism is due to not wanting to make another Iraq I much prefer it to Biden's approach. Strength first. My problem arises when free trade is, a crucial part of modern living, is impacted. I think Trump's tariffs on China were a bit much.

Thoughts on the potentiality of a party realignment and what it might look like?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 09:41:41 AM
The Gender Gap Is Taking Us to Unexpected Places https://nyti.ms/3Fmxhx3

Yikes. This explains my entire situation. Ugh. Upper class white women. Barf.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955 (https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485264153292029955)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485322623504556034)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1485324690096799747)

What an absolute disaster

(https://i.imgur.com/JbEqaRp.gif)

himu wants to own the libs... pretty simple

Liberals have codified a monoculture on society that is utterly inescapable. They own all culture. They've curated a culture so stifling that I need - need - to watch Fox News and go to conservative spaces to get away from it all, like a warm bath in the dark of winter. When you make a culture where you can't say anything, can't think anything, can't express anything fear of insults, reprisal, and outright dehumanization yeah, I want them owned. Very badly. I want them deplatformed and humbled. Yes, I want them owned and I am not ashamed to admit it.


:dead :dead :dead :dead :dead :dead

You laugh but you probably aren't surrounded in a super woke environment in real life where people have the need to articulate their pronouns. Wokism and having to censor yourself around it is tiring. Thankfully there's Fox News. I'm convinced this is why it's so popular. It's an island away from the liberalism in society. Thank God.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 09:51:38 AM
Isolationism is also dumb. There is no reason to seal yourself off from the world's benefits.

"Strength" or "weakness" as you're suggesting and as dominates discourse is nonsense. Trump does not represent the former and Biden does not represent the latter even under this nonsense theory. What is "strong" about Trump bashing China on Twitter and in campaign rallies because they pursue their own goals while then bending over backwards to excuse other authoritarians and then also excusing China? Jimmy Carter has long been considered "weak" on foreign policy because he initially pursued a policy that favored human rights and treaty negotiations over LBJ and Nixonian power politics before shifting towards another Washington Consensus. Yet, Nixon went to China and Reagan pursued arms treaties with the Soviets. Over the combined 28 years of JFK-LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Bush the United States betrayed more allies and shifted more sides than Jimmy Carter ever did. All of the former are "strong" while Carter is "weak" in the traditional picture. Bill Clinton was so afraid of appearing as "weak" that he intervened in more countries with force in his eight years than every President since Truman had combined.

There is no realignment involving libertarians rising to power within the Republican Party while the Republican Party rejects even its purported principles for pure power politics it perceives as necessary to preserve an America it hates for being "weak."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 09:53:52 AM
This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 10:13:33 AM
This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023

Hey a liberal dismissing real concerns and turning them into a joke for his bubble sphere of sycophants

Never seen that before.

Oh, he's a professor and in high education. Even more surprising.

Of course it's some liberal cracker who probably has his every want taken care. I fucking hate them so much.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 10:18:39 AM
Isolationism is also dumb. There is no reason to seal yourself off from the world's benefits.

"Strength" or "weakness" as you're suggesting and as dominates discourse is nonsense. Trump does not represent the former and Biden does not represent the latter even under this nonsense theory. What is "strong" about Trump bashing China on Twitter and in campaign rallies because they pursue their own goals while then bending over backwards to excuse other authoritarians and then also excusing China? Jimmy Carter has long been considered "weak" on foreign policy because he initially pursued a policy that favored human rights and treaty negotiations over LBJ and Nixonian power politics before shifting towards another Washington Consensus. Yet, Nixon went to China and Reagan pursued arms treaties with the Soviets. Over the combined 28 years of JFK-LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Bush the United States betrayed more allies and shifted more sides than Jimmy Carter ever did. All of the former are "strong" while Carter is "weak" in the traditional picture. Bill Clinton was so afraid of appearing as "weak" that he intervened in more countries with force in his eight years than every President since Truman had combined.

There is no realignment involving libertarians rising to power within the Republican Party while the Republican Party rejects even its purported principles for pure power politics it perceives as necessary to preserve an America it hates for being "weak."

Not necessarily pretend there's nothing outside of USA but no more world police or warhawk bs.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 10:56:48 AM
If you don't actually want isolationism maybe don't talk about how much you want isolationism because it's "for the best"? America has always been a world actor, even at its most "isolationist" it simply avoided being bound to act rather than withdrawing from the world. When America was considered "isolationist" it was from the point of view of Yurop, it never acted that way in the Americas. The canon, Washington's Farewell Address, doesn't promote isolationism but argues against too wantonly accepting binding commitments like were (and are) common in Yurop. American treatment of NATO is one of the few instances where it actually has gone back on this though the American commitment to it has never really been seriously tested either.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 12:00:26 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1485605703574343681

slay queen
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: BIONIC on January 24, 2022, 12:06:31 PM
This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023

Big Gulps, huh? Alright! Well, see ya later!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2022, 12:34:35 PM
This appears to be a subtweet:
https://twitter.com/cant_b/status/1484996213040726023
Mussolini was put in power by the Italian Monarchy, army, landowners, industrialists, and the Catholic Church following a general strike and a time of instability.
They were so afraid of an imminent revolution led by Socialists or Communists that they put the Fascists in power instead.

So Brenan basically says that he is voting for Biden because he's afraid of Bernie Sanders and AOC. 

Hitler and Mussolini weren't elected to power. They were appointed by the elite and only after being given their power did they legitimize it with a rigged election.
The claim that they won their victories based on public discontent is the big lie that everyone keeps spreading.

This happens throughout history, whenever the people revolt (or want to revolt) the elite put a pawn in power to control the masses.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: team filler on January 24, 2022, 12:36:57 PM
 :hesright
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 12:37:14 PM
https://twitter.com/leftjerkstore/status/1485655858335961094
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 12:58:44 PM
Mussolini was put in power by the Italian Monarchy, army, landowners, industrialists, and the Catholic Church following a general strike and a time of instability.
They were so afraid of an imminent revolution led by Socialists or Communists that they put the Fascists in power instead.

So Brenan basically says that he is voting for Biden because he's afraid of Bernie Sanders and AOC. 

Hitler and Mussolini weren't elected to power. They were appointed by the elite and only after being given their power did they legitimize it with a rigged election.
The claim that they won their victories based on public discontent is the big lie that everyone keeps spreading.

This happens throughout history, whenever the people revolt (or want to revolt) the elite put a pawn in power to control the masses.
This is not accurate, both Mussolini and Hitler acquired power by legal means after failing to do so by illegal means. (Which is why their cases remain relevant to democracies.) Mussolini's legal rise to power is generally inexplicable because he had no real base of support yet the majority of Parliament enacted the Acerbo Law anyway. Hitler's also legal rise to power is not, he was the head of the largest party by far, his alliance held a plurality in the Bundestag and his position against the Republic held a majority. (Also the outlawing of the opposition parties was done by Weimar law where the President had already been ruling by decree for some time. The Enabling Act after all operated on the technicality that it was removing power from the Presidency to the Parliament.)

The criticism here is that the certain voters will apparently choose to vote for Mussolini, much like many Italian and German voters did choose to vote for Mussolini and Hitler, the fact that the latter never gave them an electoral majority is irrelevant.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: D3RANG3D on January 24, 2022, 01:37:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzJ_fyKEqn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKerqUluuQI
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 02:13:11 PM
NOT FUNNY:
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1485269981856206855
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 02:17:05 PM
https://twitter.com/GrouchyMars/status/1485368077453725696
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2022, 02:54:15 PM
https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/status/1485373989715329025 (https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/status/1485373989715329025)

https://twitter.com/Roundsman33/status/1485366753647599616 (https://twitter.com/Roundsman33/status/1485366753647599616)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 03:36:00 PM
Let them drink margaritas :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 24, 2022, 03:45:16 PM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.
Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?

Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 04:31:17 PM
https://twitter.com/Malinowski/status/1485682928709423107

 :hmm

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/kate46011/status/1485690846968229890

 :hmm
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: who is ted danson? on January 24, 2022, 05:24:13 PM
Now is the time for Biden to subvert expectations. Forget Russia. Your focus should be at home. Put birth control in the water supply. The repubs will never see it coming.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 05:58:40 PM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.
Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?

Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...

Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb?  Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?

Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism

You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.

FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Nintex on January 24, 2022, 06:01:23 PM
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1485747212600713219 (https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1485747212600713219)

These bois :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 24, 2022, 06:52:47 PM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.
Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?

Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...

Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb?  Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?

Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism

You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.

FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 06:54:50 PM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.
Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?

Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...

Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb?  Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?

Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism

You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.

FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.

I'm putting you on ignore. Your replies are nothing but incendiary nonsense and unecessary escalation. Enjoy your police state.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Potato on January 24, 2022, 07:39:40 PM
I agree with all of that. The Republicans right now are only temporarily embarrassed from their hawkish past. I am full on pro-isolationism. I don't think it's America's best position to get involved in a war outside our borders. I'm sorry if Russia takes over Europe. I hope it doesn't happen but I also don't think we should get involved unless they threaten US of A. China and Taiwan is a more delicate situation but thankfully China knows the rebuttal against that will be more world wide.
Lol, what happens to all those markets for American goods if the Russians "take over"?

Your lack of understanding of how the world works is phenomenal...

Who said anything about goods? I'm obviously talking about power and military. But that's what happens when you live in a country with influence and not a vulnerable nation in the middle of Asia. We can afford to not clean anyone's military messes. Who said anything about taking exports? You assumed all that from a single sentence? Are you dumb?  Did you not read this discussion being made in a military context?

Isolationism in an American context doesn't mean closing borders and killing anyone that lands like it's Japan post-Sengoku and into the Shogunate. It means basically non interventionism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism)

You really are proving yourself to be a foreigner who has zero expertise to speak on American issues.

FYI I have been non interventionist since I was a teenager and we invaded Iraq.
LOL. Complete ignorance of the world. How long is this latest ridiculous version of you going to last? It's getting tiresome.
I'm putting you on ignore. Your replies are nothing but incendiary nonsense and unecessary escalation. Enjoy your police state.

Oh, the irony...

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Enjoy your police state.
Says the guy who wears the MAGA hat. LOL
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 08:00:59 PM
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1485756789262065666

 :teehee

this keeps happening
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1485753310007250945
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/972896956451377154

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1485754304711507970
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/972825704164397056

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1485741913600892929
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/911443645752135680
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 08:07:10 PM
:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on January 24, 2022, 08:16:11 PM
:dead
I agree
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: bork on January 24, 2022, 09:01:25 PM
https://twitter.com/taliesinSF/status/1485764369992585216

 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 09:14:25 PM
Exactly, it was at a table, the media is just out to get Biden as part of their plan to put Trump in power forever. #DemocracyDiesInDarkness #EnemyOfThePeople #‎StandWithAcosta‬
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 09:31:48 PM
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/9923ac667558e2eb842459d9cfd92db5/c442c9a5f62bfb19-84/s1280x1920/308e944ee47a549410ee77f036e512ad5c405dbe.gifv)

OMG the Biden administration and the liberal defense of it is utterly hilarious.Endless sources of endless comedy. Just wow.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 10:00:44 PM
This is such bad history lol:
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1485330997868580865
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1485330999772737539
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1485331002121543683
https://twitter.com/HarrisPeskin/status/1485331398290513923
https://twitter.com/Ella4the98th/status/1485437485132001280

War on Russia Twitter is wild
https://twitter.com/hardwarehank58/status/1485368457940062208
https://twitter.com/Fog_0f_War/status/1485441775665827850
https://twitter.com/angieslife/status/1485439926011322373
https://twitter.com/WhistlerLuxury/status/1485438666151321602
https://twitter.com/Ardie85854079/status/1485629718057549826
https://twitter.com/TeriMye37231065/status/1485436088709648384
some jerk posted this in there
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ4AbVUWUAMYz1b?format=png&name=small)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 10:03:14 PM
Agreed with Obama there.

I greatly do not want war with Russia, a nuclear power. Or China, a similarly nuclear power. Having two Cold Wars on two fronts? No mas. Since they're neighbors they have reason to be allies in their want for power and might. Russia has eyes on Europe. China on Africa. I have no idea how we are going to get out of this.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 10:15:26 PM

https://twitter.com/Ella4the98th/status/1485437485132001280

This is a frightening tweet. :whoo I bet you China would attack Taiwan as soon as we "whomp Russia" as she says.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 24, 2022, 10:15:59 PM
Some Georgia senators were getting jealous of all the attention Florida gets:
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 24, 2022, 10:20:12 PM
Some Georgia senators were getting jealous of all the attention Florida gets:
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808

This is horrifically dumb. Measles vaccines for instance should be required for school entry.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on January 25, 2022, 01:30:18 AM
Some Georgia senators were getting jealous of all the attention Florida gets:
https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808 (https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1485703300821495808)

This is horrifically dumb. Measles vaccines for instance should be required for school entry.
:thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 25, 2022, 01:55:54 AM
Agreed with Obama there.

I greatly do not want war with Russia, a nuclear power. Or China, a similarly nuclear power. Having two Cold Wars on two fronts? No mas. Since they're neighbors they have reason to be allies in their want for power and might. Russia has eyes on Europe. China on Africa. I have no idea how we are going to get out of this.

lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 25, 2022, 02:22:41 AM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1485789468389003269

KWEEN :gladbron
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 25, 2022, 10:45:20 AM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 25, 2022, 11:00:25 AM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2022, 11:16:33 AM
Quote
We whomp them with the Europe

 :wut

Quote
Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia
:existential

How can you be a leading expert on Russia if you don't understand the significance of "Kievan Rus" to the Russians and other Slavics and the role of the Russian President as the leader of the Russian Federation as well as the protector of the Christian Orthodox Church and the Russian people. If you're desperate to make a WW2 analogy than the Japanese in WW2 fit this situation better. Their answer to crippling economic sanctions out of their control caused by political malpractice, aggression and miscalculations was increased military action in places that were hard to defend for the allies.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BIONIC on January 25, 2022, 11:39:11 AM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution

Welcome to the resistance  :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2022, 12:01:38 PM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution
So who do you think should lead that revolution?

I don't think Trump fits the current mood, he's again an old man and when push came to shove often did the thing that was expected of him as opposed to the right thing or something that would really make a difference.
He also lacks a comprehensive set of policies or plan so even if Trump and Larry would be able to fix the economy (again) and ease tensions with Russia it is unlikely he would be able to achieve much beyond that in a single term.
I also think that the mood across the anglo-saxion sphere as the Russians so aptly put it, is the same. And US presidents have the ability to inspire and unite the free world beyond their borders (see JFK, Reagan and even Obama).

So Trump would either need a VP that inspires others or a team that makes it work.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 25, 2022, 12:30:50 PM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution

welcome back himu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: shosta on January 25, 2022, 12:56:46 PM
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/208166762036854785/935586108534833202/20220125_092438.jpg)

for benjamin
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 25, 2022, 01:17:09 PM
Since I was banned, I spent the last month watching Tucker Carlson every night (its like a warm glass of milk) and I cant believe how blind Ive been. Biden and his army of liberal women are destroying this country and the only way we can fix it is through an evangelical revolution.

Biden's regime is an oppressive, brutal, corrupt, and lavish regime. It has suffered from some basic functional failures that have brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. Biden is beholden to—if not a puppet of—corporate interests. Support for Biden has waned among Western politicians and media as a result of the petroleum price increases.

It is time for revolution
So who do you think should lead that revolution?

I don't think Trump fits the current mood, he's again an old man and when push came to shove often did the thing that was expected of him as opposed to the right thing or something that would really make a difference.
He also lacks a comprehensive set of policies or plan so even if Trump and Larry would be able to fix the economy (again) and ease tensions with Russia it is unlikely he would be able to achieve much beyond that in a single term.
I also think that the mood across the anglo-saxion sphere as the Russians so aptly put it, is the same. And US presidents have the ability to inspire and unite the free world beyond their borders (see JFK, Reagan and even Obama).

So Trump would either need a VP that inspires others or a team that makes it work.

Its all about charisma.

I think we need an evangelical preacher. Someone in their 40s or 50s.

-Excellent public speaking skills
-Popular base of support
-Deep knowledge of social issues
-Understands what we need to do

But he also needs to lean into populism. Thats how Trump won.

The candidate should make a variety of promises to Americans for his coming conservative regime: a popularly elected government that would represent the people of America and with which the clergy would not interfere. He should promise that no one should remain homeless in this country, and that Americans would have free internet, heating, electricity, bus services and free oil at their doorstep.

Once elected, the next step is to introduce conservative law, with a conservative dress code enforced for both men and women by Patriotic Revolutionary Guards. The American educational curriculum should be made conservative at all levels.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 25, 2022, 02:45:06 PM
Jones got interviewed about January 6
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/25/politics/alex-jones-january-6-plead-fifth/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/25/politics/alex-jones-january-6-plead-fifth/index.html)

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"I just had a very intense experience being interrogated by the January 6 committee," Jones said on his podcast on Monday. "They were polite, but they were dogged."

Quote
"The questions were overall pretty reasonable," Jones said. "And I wanted to answer the questions, but at the same time, it's a good thing I didn't because I'm the type that tries to answer things correctly even though I don't know all the answers, and they can kind of claim that that's perjury because about half the questions I didn't know the answer to."

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The committee acknowledged specifically that once at the Capitol, Jones told people "not to be violent" and to gather and wait for Trump to speak.

Quote
On his show, Jones said he tried to discourage people from entering the Capitol, but described containing the crowd as "mission impossible."
"We learned there were a bunch of people inside the Capitol," Jones said. "And that was so stupid and so dumb. I didn't support it that day and I don't support it now."

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"Let's get something clear for the committee and my audience and everybody else: I don't want a civil war in this country and that's a terrible idea," Jones explained. "And I don't want lawlessness by anybody. And I don't want anybody attacking anybody, OK?"
Jones acknowledged that he uses rhetoric about fighting, but said that only applied to the information wars.

"InfoWar means we fight with information," Jones said, adding that it was a "non-violent war."
:salute  :info
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on January 25, 2022, 03:56:35 PM
Alex Jones starring in:

(https://imgur.com/Bw53iYg.jpg)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 25, 2022, 06:10:46 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/why-asian-americans-are-leaving-democratic-party-opinion-1672308
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 25, 2022, 06:13:17 PM
https://twitter.com/amazon_policy/status/1485966758821482503

:dead if Republicans get federal weed legislation passed before the Dumbocrats :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: therealdeal on January 25, 2022, 08:28:23 PM
the reality that they're trying to legalize federal only because it's getting in the way of amazon hiring more box chuckers :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on January 26, 2022, 12:10:44 AM
https://youtu.be/Sx4dFHzIZ_Y
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 12:19:33 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1486048504028053504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfm4rqMd78
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 12:49:13 AM
https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1485705970827218944
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 12:52:24 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1486048504028053504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfm4rqMd78

https://youtu.be/su1Z7kynqc8
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 12:57:55 AM
Nintex destroyed, Charles Cooke is my new fanfic author:
Quote from: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dontbrowbeatmypete/
I still haven’t stopped shaking after last night’s attack. Standing at the White House podium, the president of the United States — the most powerful man in the world — launched a violent incursion against my friend Peter Doocy, the finest reporter in history. Doocy is a true professional — as good as they get. He is my brother, my friend, my colleague, my inspiration, my valentine, my muse. He is a light shining in the darkness, a petal of truth beneath a gloomy cloud of power, a luscious wave that breaks exquisitely onto the shore. Peter didn’t deserve to be called a “stupid son of a bitch.” Nobody in the media does. America is better than this. 👏 This. 👏 Is. 👏 Not. 👏 Normal.

👏 NOT 👏 NORMAL

👏

This morning, my eight-year-old daughter, Chrysanthemum, took off her gas mask and asked me why the president would say something like that to an American hero. I’m ashamed to admit that neither I nor her mother knew what to say. “This president said he’d restore honor and dignity to the White House,” Chrysanthemum said, looking up at us from her hyperbaric chamber. “But he’s attacking the free press, which is just doing its job. This is how we lose our democracy.” She’s so wise for her age. She has so much potential. This isn’t the world I want her to grow up in when she goes outside for the first time.

On the statue I helped removed from New York’s City Hall, there is a quote from the slaveowner Thomas Jefferson that has resonated with me ever since it became convenient to my side at 10 a.m. today: “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” Just think about that. Let it sink in. RT if you agree. Our liberty is at stake here.

#DontBrowbeatMyPete 🙏

I have studied the rise of Adolf Hitler. I know better than most how this happens. The first thing Hitler did after he came to power was call reporters “stupid sons of bitches” when they asked him about inflation. Twelve years later, the world was in ruins. We are closer than you think to that happening again. First, they came for Philip Wegmann. Then they came for Jacqui Heinrich. Now, with the defilement of Peter Doocy — peace be upon him — I fear we are running out of time. We must be brave. For Peter. For America. For the future.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 01:00:16 AM
Please pray  🙏🏾
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 01:25:44 AM
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1486050031169847300

 :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on January 26, 2022, 01:28:00 AM
It's not a threat to our democracy to say elections are illegitimate when we do it. ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 26, 2022, 05:31:38 AM
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1486048504028053504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfm4rqMd78

:rock

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:girlaff
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 06:13:46 AM
https://twitter.com/MikeKBerg/status/1486050031169847300

 :usacry

:lol

Bububu Democrats have values and and and both sidesism hurts us all boo hoooo

Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop

:sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 11:30:09 AM
https://twitter.com/UROCKlive1/status/1485434104648646658

found in a related thread
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ-HKWSWQAgde0B?format=jpg&name=small)

 :lol
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 11:38:08 AM
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1485385622361677828
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 26, 2022, 12:30:04 PM
lol.

cant wait until 2025 when trump nominates the next judge.

thanks himu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 12:55:26 PM
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1486387309230665736
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 26, 2022, 12:56:10 PM
https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1486394524243042315
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: tiesto on January 26, 2022, 01:05:55 PM
So, question for someone more "in the know" about more grassroots, local politics...

Is there anyone in the Dem party that has potential for being president-elect in a few years? I know they were trying to push Beto for a little while but he's got the stench of failure on him. I guess there's AOC but I worry she has limited appeal.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 26, 2022, 01:17:24 PM
So, question for someone more "in the know" about more grassroots, local politics...

Is there anyone in the Dem party that has potential for being president-elect in a few years? I know they were trying to push Beto for a little while but he's got the stench of failure on him. I guess there's AOC but I worry she has limited appeal.

AoC for sure. She needs to lean into the sex appeal though. Thats how you get middle america.

Put on a Kansas City football cap, hold onto an ice cold Coors Lite, and show as much skin as professionally possible.

Bam, you flipped PA, Michigan, Wisconsin etc as blue as can be.

She needs a new bf though. Someone who looks like Daniel Craig. A sexy daddy that will help AoC make the important decisions

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 01:25:21 PM
So, question for someone more "in the know" about more grassroots, local politics...

Is there anyone in the Dem party that has potential for being president-elect in a few years? I know they were trying to push Beto for a little while but he's got the stench of failure on him. I guess there's AOC but I worry she has limited appeal.

Beto is a non starter. Too many Democrats chase after the whole pretty young guy who can talk thing. They're hoping for another Obama or Clinton. Dems really like the whole "he can speak so well!" thing which feels straight out of church. I don't think Americans will fall for it this time.

I think Colorado governor Polis is a good option. Moderate, made recent popular change to the whole trucker decision and got him less time so he's already popular. Could win over moderate Republicans and libertarians. Gay so he ticks the IDpol box. Good policies, lots of experience. He's my first choice for a Democratic candidate that I'd vote for. The current field for Democrats is unwinnable. AOC is too divisive. Kamala sucks. Biden is old. Bernie is old. Cuomo would have the best chance and look what happened there. Yang made his own party. Buttigieg? Dems are fucked with their current field. Governors like Newsome won't win over moderates and indepedents. Michigan governor is a tough sell as well outside of the core Dem base. Polis is an actual threat to the GOP.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 26, 2022, 01:41:35 PM
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop

no
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 01:49:12 PM
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop

no

yeah

https://twitter.com/ryanfazio/status/1400291577482862601

Oh no I forgot my DRIVERS LICENSE on the way to the polls! :sabu

That's another thing. Every nicca worth their salt NEVER leaves their house without their ID. A cop stops you because they saw another dude with a black hoodie on? Sheit, you better have ID that says who you say you are. I was taught this as a teenager: never leave the house without proof of identification. But nope. Gotta bend over for people who can't get a gat damn ID and call it racism.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 26, 2022, 01:50:11 PM
New plan, put AoC on the Supreme Court
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 26, 2022, 02:06:42 PM
Im hearing a lot about Biden appointing Trump to SCOTUS to heal the country and end partisan divide. Very good idea.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: GreatSageEqualOfHeaven on January 26, 2022, 02:09:40 PM
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop

no

yeah


Again; no.
Not all of europe requires ID to vote, of those that do, not all require photo ID, and for the unusual inversion Europe != The World.

And for the second prong of your current infatuation with the poster children for hypocrisy, if you consider "Things everyone in Yurop do, so so should you" a guiding principle, where the fuck is your gun control, abolition of the death penalty and universal healthcare, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 02:15:32 PM
:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: OnlyRegret on January 26, 2022, 02:26:09 PM
New plan, put AoC on the Supreme Court

You totally didn't mean Ocasio-Cortez in that line, I know
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 26, 2022, 02:49:41 PM
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1486424132141080576 (https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1486424132141080576)

I think it's time for Whoopi to take that seat

https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1486424088654630912 (https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1486424088654630912)

:sicko
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 03:04:48 PM
Lmao :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 26, 2022, 03:14:41 PM
Obama should come out as trans and be the nominee. Lets gooooooooooooooooooooo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BIONIC on January 26, 2022, 03:37:34 PM
Obama should come out as trans and be the nominee. Lets gooooooooooooooooooooo

His love of dijon mustard and tan suits has always been sus when you think about it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 26, 2022, 05:02:57 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1486398035135549442
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 26, 2022, 06:01:42 PM
"The World Crisis"

Man, these writers are getting lazy  :snore
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 26, 2022, 07:16:07 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1486398035135549442

:dead he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BrokenVerses on January 26, 2022, 07:20:41 PM
Thank God I'm from a state that has done vote by mail for decades so I don't have to stand in line like an asshole.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 27, 2022, 12:52:13 AM
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-gop-candidate-furries-schools/

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 01:07:10 AM
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.
because that worked out so well
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Tripon on January 27, 2022, 01:30:35 AM
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.
because that worked out so well

Biden did what Lincoln did. He picked a Dem VP.  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 27, 2022, 01:38:18 AM
he should have reached across the aisle Lincoln style and chose a republican vp anyways.
because that worked out so well

:sabu
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on January 27, 2022, 02:16:28 AM
lincoln got shot in the head, what a idiot  :crowdlaff
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 03:47:31 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKEnFc5VIAM87zF?format=jpg&name=small)

Thank you Christy :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 03:56:14 AM
No Maus
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1486474211694686218
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 04:30:32 AM
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1486390130831200262

All the cheering supportive replies are killing me, how are these people real. :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 27, 2022, 05:57:08 AM
SCOTUS Hillary Clinton  8)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 27, 2022, 08:34:58 AM
lol everyone knows that when Trump gets back in office (any day now) he's appointing the actually not dead Kobe Bryant to the Supreme Court :morans
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 27, 2022, 08:44:18 AM
ag garland is salty
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 27, 2022, 10:15:32 AM
Oh no black people have to get IDs to vote, the same way everyone votes outside of USA. The horror. :stop

no

yeah

https://twitter.com/ryanfazio/status/1400291577482862601

Oh no I forgot my DRIVERS LICENSE on the way to the polls! :sabu

That's another thing. Every nicca worth their salt NEVER leaves their house without their ID. A cop stops you because they saw another dude with a black hoodie on? Sheit, you better have ID that says who you say you are. I was taught this as a teenager: never leave the house without proof of identification. But nope. Gotta bend over for people who can't get a gat damn ID and call it racism.

46 out of 47 European countries have Universal Health Care too. :salute
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 11:04:00 AM
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486431065153708042
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on January 27, 2022, 12:10:16 PM
46 out of 47 European countries dont have black people
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 27, 2022, 04:18:40 PM
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486431065153708042

I want Putin as Veep

Only then can we have world peace
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 27, 2022, 05:23:05 PM
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1486764426816589828

:doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on January 27, 2022, 05:28:14 PM
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1486764426816589828

:doge
MAGA!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 06:10:08 PM
https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1486342860656066560

cringe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 06:12:09 PM
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/1486780890080428032
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Uncle on January 27, 2022, 06:23:53 PM
in fact, Biden did see it.  it brought to light a perspective he had never considered, and the words pierced his heart. with a tear in his eye, he sent a text to his vice presidentress.

"it's time to pack it up, Jack."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 06:58:01 PM
https://twitter.com/AzelfDaBoi/status/1485992791532621827
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 27, 2022, 07:08:16 PM
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/1486780890080428032
To be fair to Nikki it's getting pretty ridiculous at this point.

Biden calls Zelensky and says as soon as the ground is frozen the Russians will move in to sack Kyiv (according to CNN).

Zelensky tells Biden he should calm down and that the peace talks are still ongoing.
He also updates Biden on the local weather as the ground has been frozen for weeks (according to Ukrainian sources).

And now the White House says CNN is FAKE NEWS

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1486845174877724673 (https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1486845174877724673)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 07:27:47 PM
https://twitter.com/DarciSings/status/1486790355001303043

the air quotes around "woman" and "black guy" :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on January 27, 2022, 08:24:20 PM
https://twitter.com/AzelfDaBoi/status/1485992791532621827
(https://i.imgur.com/cu4yGiG.gif)

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 09:33:04 PM
Biden calls Zelensky and says as soon as the ground is frozen the Russians will move in to sack Kyiv (according to CNN).

Zelensky tells Biden he should calm down and that the peace talks are still ongoing.
He also updates Biden on the local weather as the ground has been frozen for weeks (according to Ukrainian sources).

And now the White House says CNN is FAKE NEWS
Yes, this has been debunked:
https://twitter.com/emilyhorne46/status/1486836236434264066
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 27, 2022, 10:22:45 PM
shoot me if I ever start tweeting like these political scientists
https://twitter.com/leedrutman/status/1486718903141027844
https://twitter.com/EdwardLawsonJr/status/1486745279818838024
https://twitter.com/EdwardLawsonJr/status/1486745480382009353
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on January 28, 2022, 12:24:33 AM
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486431065153708042

Dream a little bigger!

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaryKatherine70/status/1486841137721753604

Quote
You just know Hillary desperately wants back in. She is already warming up. That is why she recently brushed off and delivered her 2016 election night “victory” speech. She began saying, “I’m going to face one of my most public defeats head-on by sharing with you the speech I had hoped to deliver if I had won the 2016 election. “

All she has to do is change “defeat” into “victory” and rework the rest.

 :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 28, 2022, 12:41:56 AM
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZP_6t2lSDk/

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on January 28, 2022, 12:42:24 AM
I'd vote for hilldawg tbh  :rash
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on January 28, 2022, 12:51:28 AM
Lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 28, 2022, 03:46:46 AM
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1486356895359291400 (https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1486356895359291400)

:rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 29, 2022, 07:22:22 PM
https://youtu.be/OdJOLMgY4p0

:bow

My argument the last two months. Liberalism. SMH. It's never enough. More more more!

They regulate thought

They regulate speech.

They regulate culture to represent a monoculture.

They regulate every single rule in society. Enough can push you to the right because it's enoigh to make you go,"maybe the right has a point?"  But nope. More shame. More finger pointing. SMH. It gets to a point where you only care about them losing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 29, 2022, 10:13:02 PM
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1487113146137563136
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 30, 2022, 09:23:26 AM
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1487291387880038401 (https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1487291387880038401)

 :kermit

"Why are so many people dying boss"

"I umm well... errmm"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Tripon on January 30, 2022, 06:02:25 PM
Nintex posting Bill Mulgien.  :brain
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on January 31, 2022, 05:39:19 AM
Yikes

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1487980283404107778
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on January 31, 2022, 06:57:47 AM
https://youtu.be/dSqLWrSVWaY
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 01:47:54 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKY6L96XsAMjY_u?format=jpg&name=small)

lmao this guy :rollsafe

https://twitter.com/walterolson/status/1487943802308509696
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1487939911714230276
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 01:51:38 PM
Wacky Susan Collins says maybe she'll support Trump after all though:
https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1487810491514863626
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 02:42:31 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKbuS0JWYAsuAHu?format=jpg&name=small)

KWEEN :lawd
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on January 31, 2022, 06:55:40 PM
Does "Wacky" Susan support Trump running a tank through NATO HQ as the next publicity stunt?  :doge

https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1488258717292404744 (https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1488258717292404744)

Section 5, whatever :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 08:33:22 PM
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1488280396949114883

death to traitors :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on January 31, 2022, 08:38:34 PM
http://twitter.com/ConsPostingLs/status/1488272550023073798
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 08:53:34 PM
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1488011639710306308

 :teehee
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on January 31, 2022, 09:15:17 PM
stost undermines the revolution in California:
Quote from: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/universal-health-care-bill-faces-deadline-california-82573398
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal health care system died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats could not gather enough support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline.

The bill had to pass by midnight on Monday to have a chance at becoming law this year. Democrats needed 41 votes for that to happen, a threshold that did not seem impossible given that they control 56 of the 80 seats in the state Assembly and universal health care has long been a priority for the party.

But intense lobbying from business groups put pressure on more moderate Democrats, who face tough reelection campaigns this year in newly-redrawn districts. Plus, Democrats were missing four lawmakers from their caucus — including three of their more liberal members — who had resigned recently to take other jobs.

“Especially with four democratic vacancies in the Assembly, the votes were not there today, but we will not give up,” Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San Jose and the bill's author, said in a news release.

Kalra's decision not to bring the bill up for a vote incensed his allies in the California Nurses Association, who have been pushing for this bill for years — including campaigning heavily for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2018 election. While Kalra had authored the bill and gotten it out of two legislative committees to reach the Assembly floor, the Nurses Association said in a statement they were “outraged that Kalra chose to just give up on patients across the state.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on January 31, 2022, 09:29:43 PM
Imagine what kind of country you are when the moderates in the left leaning party which has a huge majority in the house in one of the most left leaning and richest states cannot pass a bill to give its people universal health care...
 :larry :biden :maduro :trumps :obama
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on January 31, 2022, 09:37:26 PM
:fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 02, 2022, 10:13:00 AM
https://youtu.be/VPVi1K7P9Ck
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 10:33:45 AM
https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1488878455387312133
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 10:57:32 AM
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1488509030062559232

death to traitors i said :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 10:57:50 AM
https://twitter.com/Jason_Garcia/status/1488515638859644931

thank you governor :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2022, 11:56:47 AM
Jeff Zucker resigned from CNN because of some connection with Cuomo

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1488908201449996288 (https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1488908201449996288)

https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1488913407751376912 (https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1488913407751376912)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 12:29:37 PM
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1488665043189313542

 :american

edit: lmao those aren't even the best comments on there, AOC is apparently a white adjacent MAGA fauxgressive who supports White Power and like Tulsi Gabbard has always been anti-Black
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1488210519437758464
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 02:33:40 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1488936184487231493
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1488931717033467911
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 02:34:13 PM
Jeff Zucker resigned from CNN because of some connection with Cuomo
https://twitter.com/MattBelloni/status/1488928088847093763
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1488909167737856005
https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1488923044261289984
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 04:14:29 PM
https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1488982541155581957

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1488941074638856192
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2022, 04:37:29 PM
Covering Trump speeches is one thing, I remember them broadcasting Trump's plane sitting on the runway, an empty rally podium or just images of Trump tower with the chryon: "Waiting for Trump"
CNN and MSNBC were so fixated on Trump coverage that Fox News and other conservatives openly wondered if he was in fact working for the Democrats to disrupt the GOP primary.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 04:50:19 PM
The hot dog guy meme was 2015-16 in media:
(https://i.imgur.com/fYof0G5.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ZsOLMxr.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 02, 2022, 05:05:19 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKnCQ4HWUAMLbL0?format=jpg)

The Republicans can thank Jeff for making Trump forget to drop a take about Whoopi and the Holocaust.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2022, 09:34:54 PM
https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1489028577651830790
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 03, 2022, 12:39:32 AM
Imagine being a democrat on the cusp of the corona demolition, and knowing that you won't have any single branch for the next twelve years.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: who is ted danson? on February 03, 2022, 02:44:41 AM
Imagine being a democrat on the cusp of the corona demolition, and knowing that you won't have any single branch for the next twelve years.

Goddamit Bernie you fuckin commie you should have stood down against hilary!!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 03, 2022, 08:04:20 AM
Holy shit, the White House?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-rogan-spotify-covid-white-house-b2005488.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Stay in your fucking lane big government.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on February 03, 2022, 09:57:41 AM
Imagine being a democrat on the cusp of the corona demolition, and knowing that you won't have any single branch for the next twelve years.

Goddamit Bernie you fuckin commie you should have stood down against hilary!!

He did. He was very clear about it. And it wasn’t enough.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/24/bernie-sanders-vote-hillary-clinton-election
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 03, 2022, 11:48:10 AM
Bernie should have launched a coup

He had my sword
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 03, 2022, 01:37:42 PM
Covering Trump speeches is one thing, I remember them broadcasting Trump's plane sitting on the runway, an empty rally podium or just images of Trump tower with the chryon: "Waiting for Trump"
CNN and MSNBC were so fixated on Trump coverage that Fox News and other conservatives openly wondered if he was in fact working for the Democrats to disrupt the GOP primary.
he was. then he won and made the most of it  :trumps

he was their bernie  :larry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 03, 2022, 01:45:23 PM
The left is too soy to launch a coup.

Had Lenin started his coup in 2022 instead of in 1917 they would've asked him to tone it down for the sound sensitive folx.
The mutiny of the sailors would've been condemned by the left because 'we know exactly the type of people that join the navy are'.

In Lenin's own group there would've been infighting about a lack of diversity and representation.
Just another white male coup  :six:
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 03, 2022, 08:56:10 PM
https://youtu.be/DtUJpWYtGWM

https://youtu.be/YGMnh0eMyEU
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on February 04, 2022, 01:01:29 AM
http://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1489179173239226373

:mindblown
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 04, 2022, 01:17:22 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/qVsmwOB.png)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 09:39:39 AM
In Lenin's own group there would've been infighting about a lack of diversity and representation.
Because the Russian Revolution and Soviets were well known for the lack of infighting.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 11:23:37 AM
https://twitter.com/cbszak/status/1489629420793081859

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1489611374930141184
https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy/status/1489448776959991815
[close]

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1489427677735837700

edit: it was unanimous
https://twitter.com/davidsiders/status/1489393028401795074
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 11:30:24 AM
Fair and balanced:
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1489351708811563008

https://twitter.com/LawyerCat_/status/1489296618054582272
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 11:32:32 AM
This. Is. CNN.
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/jeff-zucker-allison-gollusts-cozy-ties-with-andrew-cuomo-deeper-than-previously-known/
CNN boss Jeff Zucker and his paramour Allison Gollust had an inappropriately close friendship with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — personally calling him to do news segments with his brother Chris Cuomo and even coaching him on what to say during his infamous COVID briefings, The Post has learned.

Gollust and Zucker — the latter of whom dramatically quit CNN Wednesday after their affair was exposed — also gave Andrew Cuomo endless positive coverage because of their relationship, sources said.

“While those 11:30 a.m. daily briefings by Andrew were across every network, they boosted ratings in a poorly performing slot for CNN,” one source said.

According to a source to Cuomo, “Zucker and Gollust even advised Andrew what to say — how to respond and particularly how to hit back at [President Donald] Trump to make it more compelling TV.

https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1489277014179819523
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 04, 2022, 12:37:10 PM
https://twitter.com/Craigipedia/status/1489634324857212941
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 04, 2022, 12:57:07 PM
In Chicago they've got dead people working, some people are working twice! Bus loads of people coming in from other states to work!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 01:46:36 PM
https://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1489661748110004226

 :american we did it reddit :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 04, 2022, 01:58:26 PM
Smh at both parties censuring people for stepping out of line. Bunch of horse shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 02:00:16 PM
https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/1489371101595586563

Quote from: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/cnn-employees-continue-to-push-back-on-the-fall-of-jeff-zucker
“The first calls I got this morning were from four members of the January 6 committee, who felt devastated for our democracy, because Jeff was not going to be around to make sure that CNN is able to do its job,” she said (later clarifying to colleagues that she meant to say four congresspeople, including one member of the committee).

 :dead :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 02:07:07 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1489314458707111939

But private citizens can still own cannons? Why can nobody read the Second Amendment?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Uncle on February 04, 2022, 02:54:48 PM
benji I'm sorry but his interpretation of the second amendment is non-cannon
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 03:24:46 PM
benji I'm sorry but his interpretation of the second amendment is non-cannon
This post is one of the few exceptions to the First Amendment.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 03:33:45 PM
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1489627774398734339

 :awesome
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 03:49:34 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKsWkODVQAQaZGB?format=jpg&name=small)

Jen Psaki is quickly becoming Second KWEEN
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 03:55:12 PM
Quote from: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages
A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act
...
The bill empowers every U.S. state or territory to create sweeping new Internet regulations, by stripping away the critical legal protections for websites and apps that currently prevent such a free-for-all—specifically, Section 230. The states will be allowed to pass whatever type of law they want to hold private companies liable, as long as they somehow relate their new rules to online child abuse.

The goal is to get states to pass laws that will punish companies when they deploy end-to-end encryption, or offer other encrypted services. This includes messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage, as well as web hosts like Amazon Web Services. We know that EARN IT aims to spread the use of tools to scan against law enforcement databases because the bill’s sponsors have said so. In a “Myths and Facts” document distributed by the bill’s proponents, it even names the government-approved software that they could mandate (PhotoDNA, a Microsoft program with an API that reports directly to law enforcement databases).

The document also attacks Amazon for not scanning enough of its content. Since Amazon is the home of Amazon Web Services, host of a huge number of websites, that implies the bill’s aim is to ensure that anything hosted online gets scanned.

Separately, the bill creates a 19-person federal commission, dominated by law enforcement agencies, which will lay out voluntary “best practices” for attacking the problem of online child abuse. Regardless of whether state legislatures take their lead from that commission, or from the bill’s sponsors themselves, we know where the road will end. Online service providers, even the smallest ones, will be compelled to scan user content, with government-approved software like PhotoDNA. If EARN IT supporters succeed in getting large platforms like Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services to scan, they might not even need to compel smaller websites—the government will already have access to the user data, through the platform.

A provision of the bill that purports to protect services using encryption (Section 5, Page 16) doesn’t come close to getting the job done. State prosecutors or private attorneys would be able to drag an online service provider into court over accusations that their users committed crimes, then use the fact that the service chose to use encryption as evidence against them—a strategy that’s specifically allowed under EARN IT.
cool cool cool
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 04, 2022, 07:06:18 PM
https://youtu.be/akk867x2VKo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: who is ted danson? on February 04, 2022, 07:16:18 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cringetopia/comments/skmthr/shes_supposed_to_be/

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 07:37:03 PM
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1489733399547887617

Welcome to #TheResistance! :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2022, 07:40:42 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1489732710826397696 (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1489732710826397696)

President DJ Trump  :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2022, 09:42:10 PM
https://twitter.com/benfeuerherd/status/1489690666162696195
https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1489692424880508932

No word on if he will appeal due to ineffective assistance of counsel.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 05, 2022, 03:03:53 PM
https://twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1489797501817430016

 :neogaf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 05, 2022, 03:04:38 PM
https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1489973542259204102
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK1oqCQWYAAE7cV?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK15F1HXsAcwvMH?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2022, 07:14:43 PM
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In March of last year, Politico reported on the “secret sit-down” in Florida that Trump convened with four of the Trump-adulating Ohio candidates—including Mandel. “What ensued was a 15-minute backroom backbiting session reminiscent of Trump’s reality TV show [The Apprentice],” the report said.
:rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 05, 2022, 08:12:45 PM
https://youtu.be/px-XTWjuer4
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 05, 2022, 09:28:12 PM
scandal in NYC

https://twitter.com/intelligencer/status/1490042511670362112
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 05, 2022, 09:54:45 PM
https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1489421351244992516

Can Manchin not go on usdebtclock.org himself whenever necessary or what? :mindblown

edit: and of course there's an app for it :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 06, 2022, 07:29:26 AM
Republicans hate liberty as much as Democrats. Get fucked, Graham.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/lindsey-graham-wants-to-read-all-your-communications-every-text-every-comment-you-make/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2022, 02:23:32 PM
https://twitter.com/JacobWindrix/status/1490384019820716038

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2022, 02:32:36 PM
https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1489393235655106562
https://twitter.com/jessehawken/status/1490364594254225411
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 06, 2022, 03:26:00 PM
https://twitter.com/AroundtheHorn/status/1489724194564751363

 :dunno

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://youtu.be/tHZ5k1u9PKo
 :doge
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2022, 03:38:25 PM
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1490373518760030208

 :mouf
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2022, 03:58:31 PM
https://twitter.com/jimmyotx/status/1490152896062763009
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 06, 2022, 06:35:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 06, 2022, 08:52:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo

We need to combine forces to fight the liberals.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 06, 2022, 11:49:17 PM
https://youtu.be/QAwSFr1hz6c
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 07, 2022, 07:49:10 AM
https://youtu.be/QAwSFr1hz6c (https://youtu.be/QAwSFr1hz6c)
He also had polio.
People have inconsistent views and motives, surprise surprise. :doge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkLBNRNkOo)
You don't have to vote Republican (or at all) to have conservative ideals. And even if he were a lefty, he'd still be a conspiratorial meathead who spreads nonsense.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 07, 2022, 07:58:49 AM
 ::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 07, 2022, 08:01:23 AM
Why post if you're just gonna be a baby when someone comments on it?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 07, 2022, 08:02:40 AM
Joe Rogan invites guests with genuine interest in a subject to share stories and have an open conversation about a variety of topics :nope

CNN invites lobbyists with ties to northrop grumman and raytheon to explain why the US must go to war with Russia and you are a racist for thinking otherwise :ohyeah

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 07, 2022, 08:03:21 AM
Why post if you're just gonna be a baby when someone comments on it?

I can post that you are a dumb biaaaaatch if that makes you feel better.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 07, 2022, 08:11:33 AM
I can post that you are a dumb biaaaaatch if that makes you feel better.
Alright, have fun being asshurt then.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 07, 2022, 08:19:38 AM
 :rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 07, 2022, 08:50:27 AM
::)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Svejk on February 07, 2022, 01:24:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSd9a-kA8Qk

A gentle reminder that these are people that voted in the US..
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Beezy on February 07, 2022, 06:02:01 PM
White people exposing other shitty white people in defense of Joe Rogan is so weird to me. Fuck them all.

https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1490032451372023809
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 07, 2022, 06:58:42 PM
White people exposing other shitty white people in defense of Joe Rogan is so weird to me. Fuck them all.

https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1490032451372023809

It's necessary to reveal white liberal hypocrisy.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 07, 2022, 07:31:27 PM
Peter Thiel is a huge get for Trump's political operation
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1490795451972567047 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1490795451972567047)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 08, 2022, 10:52:04 AM
Will he bring the Hulkster with him? :hulk
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 11:56:28 AM
Top House Democrat and likely Nancy successor:
https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1490913530928795648

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 11:57:15 AM
Mask discourse:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1491083523146625029

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1490799740799365121
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1490690404798410758
https://twitter.com/BrianColas7/status/1490463529459228672
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 11:58:03 AM
Pence vs. Trump:
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1491057455077666819
spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/EvanDonovan/status/1490747640644083712
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1490827933153255431
[close]
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 11:58:50 AM
JD Vance discourse:
https://twitter.com/politicoalex/status/1490778293607489539
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1490793837475868683
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 08, 2022, 12:40:20 PM
Siding with Pence
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 02:16:59 PM
Quote from: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/meidastouch-2020-campaign-finance-trump-1152482/
Last August, in the midst of a presidential battle that would determine the future of America, an upstart liberal group called MeidasTouch sent its supporters an urgent call to action. “Tonight is a huge night,” MeidasTouch declared on Twitter. “We are giving half of our contributions directly and immediately to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We are proud to have already chipped in 25K to their campaign. RT and chip in here.”

For MeidasTouch, the pro-Biden blitz was part of a rapidly expanding political action committee that turned viral tweets and posts into campaign contributions. Founded by three brothers, the group says it has generated more than a billion views on social media, mocking and humiliating Trump and his enablers. Crowd favorites included “Creepy Trump,” “Bye Ivanka,” and “Bye Don Jr: Love Me, Daddy!” Its podcast has become a popular destination on the anti-Trump circuit, with recent guests including Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Ted Lieu, and Mary Trump, the former president’s estranged niece. All this exposure translated into more than $5 million in contributions from #Resistance donors desperate to oust Trump and his Republican collaborators.

The three brothers who founded MeidasTouch sell themselves as the progressive breakout success of the 2020 election cycle, weaving a narrative of a start-from-scratch operation that — thanks to a gift for creating viral anti-Trump videos and a unique understanding of the digital tides — rapidly blossomed into a behemoth of Democratic politics. “We’ve become the most recognizable and impactful brand name in progressive politics in the 30 days since we launched,” Ben Meiselas, the eldest brother, told Adweek in June. They aren’t, per their own telling, just the top brand, they’re also pioneers of a radical transparency model that the notoriously opaque world of Super PACs could stand to learn from. “I knew that PACs in general, political action committees, have a reputation about them,” Meiselas said on a recent MeidasTouch podcast. “And I wanted this to be so different from every other PAC, starting with the fact that me, who works for this every day, doesn’t get paid. But, two, to have the most ridiculous amount of transparency possible.”

But the full story of MeidasTouch is more complicated. The group spent more than $1 million on an advertising strategy that it calls revolutionary but campaign veterans and independent experts say is nonsensical and a more effective tool for fundraising than for helping Democrats win elections. And despite its promised transparency, MeidasTouch’s financial structure makes a dollar-for-dollar accounting of its spending impossible — and, according to a former Federal Election Commission attorney, raises some of the same legal issues that got the Trump campaign into trouble in 2020.

It’s not hard to find examples of how MeidasTouch’s grandiose self-promotion doesn’t match reality. Take, for example, the fundraising plea blasted out last August. The Super PAC, per its own disclosure forms, didn’t donate $25,000 to the Biden campaign — and indeed, a direct donation from MeidasTouch to Biden would have violated campaign-finance laws. Instead, the donations came from people who clicked on an embedded link in Meidas’ tweet and were given the option to split their donation between the Biden campaign and the Super PAC. Donors gave $31,623 to the Biden campaign, and MeidasTouch received nearly $30,000.
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“It’s extremely misleading,” says Adav Noti, chief of staff at the Campaign Legal Center and a former associate general counsel at the Federal Election Commission. “It’s not just PACs who do it. The Trump campaign did it ad nauseam. They did it so much it started not working anymore, which is hard to do. It’s obviously misleading.”
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The three brothers behind MeidasTouch don’t see any gray area around their efforts. With a “numbers-don’t-lie” approach, the Meiselas brothers point to their prodigious online success. MeidasTouch has created more than 500 political videos “for fractions of pennies on the dollar,” which it says have racked up more than 1 billion views across all social media platforms. It touts the hundreds of hashtags it created, such as #DiaperDon, that it says were top U.S. and global Twitter trends. It has legions of devoted followers who call themselves the #MeidasMighty. The brothers host a podcast that one recently called “the top new news podcast in the world.” And when Democrats emerge victorious, Meidas’ founders aren’t shy about claiming credit. “We accomplished exactly what we set out to with Biden’s victory and now control of the Senate with the wins in Georgia,” Brett Meiselas, an Emmy Award-winning digital editor who is the PAC’s creative engine, told Rolling Stone in January. “The Meidas Mighty are one of the most powerful forces in politics!” he tweeted in April.

But experts and fellow political operatives questioned the connection between MeidasTouch’s success and Democrats’ victories, and when Rolling Stone began asking questions about how MeidasTouch spends its money, things got weird.

Given an opportunity to respond to Rolling Stone’s reporting and inquiries, the brothers leveraged their social media muscle to promote a misinformation campaign full of bizarre conspiracy theories and online vitriol. They went after the credibility of the magazine and its reporter more than a week before this story was published online. MeidasTouch publicly threatened to sue Rolling Stone and privately threatened to sue someone who spoke to the magazine for this story — demanding the publication apologize and pay its legal costs.

It turns out, when someone dared to scrutinize these darlings of the anti-Trump movement, they responded a lot like, well, Donald Trump.
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“There’s no way any message was getting across with [these buys]. None. Zero. Zip. It’s not possible,” says Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic political consultant who ran both Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and Doug Jones’ 2017 upset Senate win in Alabama. “We already know voters don’t remember anything at 300 points a week. You could buy 300 points a week, day in and day out, for 52 weeks and, at the end of it, no one would know what you’re talking about.”
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Meidas argues its ads are special because they’re backed by a massive social media footprint and generated follow-up coverage. But according to David Shor, an influential Democratic data analyst, “The only people who engage with anti-Trump ads are liberals.” Moreover, when Priorities USA, a liberal Super PAC, studied whether Twitter virality could be used to measure how effective an ad would be at persuading swing-state voters, it found it wouldn’t work. “The better the ad did on Twitter, the less it persuaded battleground-state voters,” Nick Ahamed, Priorities’ analytics director, told the Daily Beast in December. “Our takeaway is that we, as political operatives or people online on Twitter a lot, aren’t necessarily a good judge of what is persuasive.”
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 08, 2022, 02:25:56 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcLsow4lYo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 03:13:38 PM
https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1491135618910670851

oof
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 08, 2022, 03:18:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcLsow4lYo

LOL. Joe's audience, who is frankly massive, doesn't care. And his guests are well aware that the video is a manipulation.

Praying for Allah to smite the liberal, their agenda, and serve them with humble pie because of their evil ideology of control. Liberal citizens are nice, if naive, people. Liberal politicians and interest groups want to maintain only one perspective. They need to be served a humble pie of shit.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 03:36:19 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-admits-belonging-to-swingers-group/
A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.

Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”

Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.

“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
:american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 08, 2022, 03:41:46 PM
Guys, the benefit of them going after Rogan is that they're exposing themselves for making it so overt. They're doing all this to go after a podcaster. It's a big bet. All these resources on one man. They're really exposing their hand. Time will tell of it works.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 03:46:53 PM
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/women-candidates-of-color-lead-gop-charge-to-flip-the-house-00006300
Broadly, there are more Republican women and Hispanics running for Congress than ever before, according to figures tracked by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. So far, more than 253 women and 228 people of color have filed to run as Republicans across the House map, the committee says. In the most important seats, roughly two dozen open and battleground districts, a leading GOP candidate is either a woman or a person of color.

It’s a stunning turnaround from the aftermath of the 2018 election, when the number of GOP women in the House dropped to just 13 and there was only one Black Republican in the chamber. When Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) sounded the alarm, she sparred with the NRCC over whether the party ought to intervene in primary contests to fix the disparity. There is no such discord heading into 2022.

McCarthy has thrown his weight into races earlier than in the past, with plans to make diversifying the party a priority by opening up donor pools to star candidates and helping them clear primary fields.

McCarthy "wants to show that our district and myself as a candidate are welcomed into the Republican Party, and they're excited to have a Hispanic, female, Republican, small-business owner bilingual that lives on the border, that shares the conservative values,” said Monica De La Cruz, a McCarthy-backed candidate running in South Texas. “I feel that he has expressed to me that I'm a good voice for the Republican Party.”

In Michigan, McCarthy took special interest in courting James, who lost successive Senate bids in 2018 and 2020, falling by less than 2 points in the last election. McCarthy’s top competition was the Republican Governors Association, which was urging James to make another statewide bid, this time against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Aware that James had seen polling of the governor’s race, CLF strategists decided to commission some surveys of their own. They polled multiple scenarios throughout 2021, trying to prove to James he had a better chance of winning a House seat than a statewide race. The polls included matchups in current districts, potential new districts and head-to-head battles with three possible Democratic incumbents he could have faced: Democratic Reps. Andy Levin, Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 03:53:19 PM
https://twitter.com/AdamShawNY/status/1491109056790286336
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 08, 2022, 03:55:32 PM
https://twitter.com/AdamShawNY/status/1491109056790286336

MURDERER!!!

:brazilcry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 08, 2022, 04:23:53 PM
Ninja school  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 08, 2022, 05:08:43 PM
Quote from: https://www.axios.com/male-economists-are-freaking-out-over-a-nyt-profile-512af8ae-e55f-44c9-9ccc-1f763a91cd7f.html
Male economists are freaking out over a NYT profile

A handful of prominent male economists, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, are freaking out — mostly on Twitter — about a weekend New York Times profile of economist Stephanie Kelton, known for her work on Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT.

Why it matters: This Twitter-based econ fight is about more than one economist. It's an argument over a natural economic experiment — the U.S. government spending unprecedented sums to keep the economy from free-falling during COVID.

And the gender dynamics — male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist, Times' reporter Jeanna Smialek, in ways distinctive from typical academic arguments — look terrible here.
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“I am sorry to see the @nytimes taking MMT seriously as an intellectual movement. It is the equivalent of publicizing fad diets, quack cancer cures or creationist theories,” Summers tweeted.

Summers' tweet was criticized by some for being condescending and dismissive in its equating an economic idea with a quack cancer cure.
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Noah Smith, a well-known economist and former Bloomberg columnist, wrote a Substack post calling the article "bad."

Other economists say that the merits of MMT are up for debate, but noted the criticisms of Smialek and Kelton got personal in ways atypical from how men's economic research is criticized.

For example, Smith, who does offer substantive criticisms, also calls the Times profile a "puff piece," noting that Smialek writes about Kelton's outfits
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Economics is a predominantly white, male field, and women and people of color often face fierce resistance and hostility.

WARNING: Vicious Sexism Inside
Quote from: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-nyt-article-on-mmt-is-really
The NYT article on MMT, written by Jeanna Smialek, is mostly a puff piece about Stephanie Kelton, MMT’s most well-known proponent. In glowing tones, it describes Kelton’s clothes, her office, her house, her neighborhood, her blog, her manner of speaking, her personal story, and so on, calling her “the star architect of a movement that is on something of a victory lap”. Very little is written about the background of the macroeconomic policy debate, and what does appear is highly questionable:

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In economics, there’s a school of thought sometimes called “freshwater.” It’s the set of ideas that became popular at inland universities in the 1970s, when they began to embrace rational markets and limited government intervention to fight recessions. There’s also “saltwater” thinking, an updated version of Keynesianism that argues that the government occasionally needs to jump-start the economy. It has traditionally been championed in the Ivy League and other top-ranked schools on the coasts.

You might call the school of thought Ms. Kelton is popularizing, from a bay that feeds into the East River, brackish economics.

The brief description of freshwater and saltwater economics is fine, but to describe MMT as being “brackish” — i.e., some sort of fusion of freshwater and saltwater, or a middle ground between the two — is absurd. MMT doesn’t take its inspirations from either of those schools of thought — its ideas (to the extent that such exist) are rooted in things like functional finance and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, which split off from the mainstream long before it divided into freshwater and saltwater. MMT doesn’t even use formalized mathematical models of the economy like freshwater and saltwater econ do (or like Post-Keynesian macro does), so it’s pretty impossible to compare these schools of thought. In terms of policy prescriptions, MMT is far, far more sanguine about government borrowing than either freshwater or saltwater.

The article then demonstrates that it has little notion of what separates MMT from mainstream thinking:

Quote
M.M.T. theorists argue that society should feel capable of spending to achieve its goals to the extent that there are resources available to fulfill them. Deficit spending need not be constrained to recessions, even theoretically. Want to build a road? No problem, so long as you have asphalt and construction workers. Want to feed children free lunches? Also not a problem, so long as you have the food and the cafeteria workers.

In fact, this is also a feature of all freshwater and saltwater models of the economy. Those models deal only in real variables — asphalt and construction workers and food and cafeteria workers and so on. In fact, those models’ lack of attention to financial constraints of any kind is exactly why they failed to predict the Great Recession!

These passages — and the lack of any other engagement with non-MMT theories, research, or ideas — make it clear that Smialek’s main source on all of these topics was Kelton herself. She does briefly quote Jason Furman, a Harvard economist and former CEA chair under Obama:

Quote
“M.M.T. was already pretty marginal,” said Jason Furman, a Harvard economist, noting that, in his view, most policymakers and prominent academics ignored it already. Even if policy in the pandemic effectively embraced the idea that you do not have to pay for your spending, that idea, he said, was also Keynesian.

And the M.M.T crowd, while dismissing the Fed’s role, has not come up with a clear and obviously workable idea for how to stem inflation, he argued, adding, “If you were open-minded, this would discredit it still further.”

But even though Furman notes that Kelton did a bad job of characterizing the difference between MMT and Keynesian thinking, the NYT writer doesn’t follow up on this at all; she makes no effort to clarify where MMT actually does differ from other forms of economic thought. Nor does she quote any other macroeconomists.

This is important because any attempt to engage with the actual substance of MMT quickly finds that such substance is curiously lacking. MMT proponents almost always refuse to specify exactly how they think the economy works. They offer a package of policy prescriptions, but these prescriptions can only be learned by consulting the MMT proponents themselves. There is no model here — no set of equations or definite formal statements that a layperson could use to generate their own MMT policy prescriptions without appealing directly to the gurus.

Every economist who has attempted to engage seriously with MMT literature has concluded the same. When Drumetz Françoise and Pfister Christian of the Banque de France read Kelton’s book and tried to comprehend the essence of MMT, they concluded:

Quote
Overall, it appears that MMT is based on an outdated approach to economics and that the meaning of MMT is a more that of a political manifesto than of a genuine economic theory…As Hartley (2020) notes, MMT “is not a falsifiable scientific theory: it is rather a political and moral statement by those who believe in the righteousness – and affordability – of unlimited government spending to achieve progressive ends”.
Quote
To most people, who correctly recognize that MMT is a set of political memes to push for more deficit spending, this inflation represented a reason to be less enthusiastic about MMT itself — we finally seemed to have reached our limits. Proponents of austerity and/or tighter monetary policy began to use “MMT” as shorthand for the policies the U.S. had already undertaken.

Of course, MMT proponents themselves didn’t see things that way. They did indeed attempt to take a victory lap. But this is always what they were going to do, no matter what! If Covid relief efforts hadn’t been sufficient to produce inflation, they would have also taken a victory lap. If interest rates on U.S. government bonds had risen, causing a contraction in economic activity, they would have taken a victory lap, arguing that the Fed should have used monetary policy to lower those interest rates. Even if the U.S. government had defaulted on its sovereign debt, throwing the economy into chaos, the MMT people would have taken a victory lap, arguing that this was a mistake.

In other words, there was no conceivable state of the Universe in which MMT people would not have taken a victory lap. They always take victory laps, all day long, rain or shine. When you have an unfalsifiable meme complex instead of a concrete and falsifiable theory, it’s easy to claim that your ideas cannot fail, they can only be failed.

But to the rest of the world, inflation gave a reason to be skeptical of MMT’s constant advocacy of yet more deficit spending. So their star began to dim. This NYT puff piece represents the MMT gang’s efforts to jump-start a revival of their falling fortunes. The attempt seems likely to fail. As Jason Furman notes in a recent thread, MMT’s failure to persuade even the leftiest U.S. politicians to accede to its tenets should tell us something about its future prospects:

https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1490479534461923336

So ultimately, neither puff pieces in major newspapers nor fierce Twitter battles will have much of an effect on actual policy. MMT people will continue to find new starry-eyed advocates to dazzle with words that sort of sound like economic theory, and this will lead to brief outbursts of social media rage, followed by frenzied and bitter assaults from MMT’s small but highly active social media army. And then eventually most of the new enthusiasts will realize that there’s no “there” there — that the problems they had thought were mere asterisks were actually the whole thing — and they’ll quietly drift away.
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:lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 08, 2022, 06:02:25 PM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-admits-belonging-to-swingers-group/
A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.

Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”

Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.

“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
:american
how many BBC bulls destroyed his wife before he figured out it wasn't for them?  :shaq
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 08, 2022, 08:40:15 PM
https://youtu.be/h4e8lSQy64c
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 08, 2022, 08:44:14 PM
He picked the perfect thumbnail for his descent into madness. :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 09, 2022, 10:37:26 AM
Quote from: https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-admits-belonging-to-swingers-group/
A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn’t for them, according to a report.

Stan Pulliam, 40, told the Williamett Week that he and his wife of 12 years, MacKensey, had “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”

Pulliam, the mayor of his hometown of Sandy, fessed up to the outlet after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX” made its rounds across the state’s political circles.

“Hi Everyone! MacKensey and I are excited to be added to your little community. Some of you we have already had the pleasure to meet and we look forward to getting to know the rest of you!” he wrote in the group, which had 536 members at the time, the Williamett Week reported Thursday.
:american
how many BBC bulls destroyed his wife before he figured out it wasn't for them?  :shaq

536
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 12:28:07 PM
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1491441851748204546

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 09, 2022, 12:30:30 PM
And 100% were American.  :usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2022, 12:56:49 PM
He picked the perfect thumbnail for his descent into madness. :lol
Thanks to the attack on Joe Rogan and the corruption Russell describes the streams of the wank dads, culture war and US politics have now completely crossed.
One could argue there is no longer a difference.

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The clock is ticking for Trump to go on the Joe Rogan Experience so Eddie Bravo can ask him about the UFO's and then all hell breaks loose.

I don't see anything the mainstream media can do to stop this train at this point short of faking contact between Biden and Martians. The "Corporate Lobby -> Media -> Policy" cycle could finally be broken.
I would argue that if the media was distrusted like this in 2003 the US wouldn't have been able to start a war in Iraq.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 01:14:08 PM
Quote from: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-crack-pipes-racial-equity/
Claim
In early 2022, the Biden administration endeavored to advance racial equity by distributing crack pipes to drug users.

Rating
Mostly False

What's True
In 2022, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services substance abuse harm reduction grant did require recipients to provide safer smoking kits to existing drug users. In distributing grants, priority would be given to applicants serving historically underserved communities. However...

What's False
This was just one of around 20 components of the grant program and far from its most prominent or important one, despite being the primary focus of outraged news reports. The purpose of the program was to reduce harm and the risk of infection among drug users, not to advance racial equity, although that was a secondary consideration.
:hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2022, 01:24:09 PM
Now that they can no longer sell crack pipes to the Afghani's they do need to offload the merchandise somewhere :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Occam on February 09, 2022, 01:30:51 PM
Goodbye American democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights.html

What started with Bush v. Gore in 2000 (or, depending on how you look at it, with Nixon's SC appointments) is now complete. It's over.

And now back to the regularly scheduled debate of inconsequential twitter brainfarts.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 09, 2022, 01:37:38 PM
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1491441851748204546

 :hmm

This guy has an engineering degree from MIT.  It's not like he doesn't know how to isolate limiting factors - He knows what he's doing. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Rufus on February 09, 2022, 01:43:53 PM
So he's just an evil asshole, got it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 01:58:07 PM
I think he's just asking the kinds of questions they don't want you to even think about.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 02:31:53 PM
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1491490647890608142

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 06:01:19 PM
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1491525010997096449
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1491532845453656064

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Beezy on February 09, 2022, 06:19:53 PM
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1491540990544519170
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2022, 07:03:17 PM
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1491547402486099968 (https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1491547402486099968)

:dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 09, 2022, 07:07:41 PM
Joe Biden: "Look kids, if you're going to smoke the crack, then make sure you use a healthy pipe. Wouldn't want you to catch any infections while you're smoking the crack."

*Creepy Joe places his hand creepily on the crack kid's shoulder*


 :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2022, 07:16:33 PM
They're trying to convince Larry Kudlow and Mike Lindell to change sides  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 07:28:19 PM
It's not a bad policy on a broad view, safer drug use efforts work quite well, the problem is first describing it as a form of racial equity because that's apparently the only reason we can do anything anymore and then, when somebody noticed this, denying it was happening at all while admitting it was seemingly true. Now they're assuring everyone that there just won't be any literal crack pipes involved:
Quote from: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/02/09/statement-hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra-and-ondcp-director-rahul-gupta.html
Today, on the heels of organizations applying for grant money for harm reduction efforts, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and the Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Dr. Rahul Gupta released the following statement:

“HHS and ONDCP are focused on using our resources smartly to reduce harm and save lives. Accordingly, no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits. The goal of harm reduction is to save lives. The Administration is focused on a comprehensive strategy to stop the spread of drugs and curb addiction, including prioritizing the use of proven harm reduction strategies like providing naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and clean syringes, as well as taking decisive actions to go after violent criminals who are trafficking illicit drugs like fentanyl across our borders and into our communities. We will continue working to address the addiction and overdose epidemic and ensure that our resources are used in the smartest and most efficient manner.”

Snopes has since changed their rating from "Mostly False" while describing how it's actually true to:
Quote
Rating
Outdated

Context
After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage in February 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits, as part of a substance abuse harm reduction grant program. This newly-stipulated detail was not originally available, meaning the assertions made in a first wave of coverage had become outdated.

Origin
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stipulated that federal funding would not be used to include pipes in the safe smoking kits to be distributed as part of a substance abuse harm reduction program. As a result of that newly-stipulated detail, Snopes has changed its rating from “Mostly False” to “Outdated.”]
Facebook was also blocking articles and redirecting people to a "fact check" about how the crack pipe claim was true yet false. No idea what they're doing now.

At no point in time have I seen anyone of importance explain why this is actually a good thing rather than attack someone else in the media or debate whether or not crack pipes are literally involved. Snopes now edited article is basically about what is in these kits usually and whether or not the programs help racial equity.

Great work all around everybody. :american

edit:
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1491574951765229573
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 09, 2022, 08:19:21 PM
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1489449639048888320 (https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1489449639048888320)

 :what
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 09, 2022, 08:35:48 PM
:dead fucking hell. Fuck you Nancy
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 09, 2022, 09:08:51 PM
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1491498922757533699


Warren BASED again?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 09, 2022, 09:10:23 PM
missed the boat
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 09, 2022, 10:18:12 PM
https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1491578161825525760
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLBdyNZXMA0n0l1?format=jpg&name=small)

 :trumps

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on February 10, 2022, 01:40:49 AM
https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1491578161825525760
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLBdyNZXMA0n0l1?format=jpg&name=small)

 :trumps

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It won't happen, but he should be in jail.
Should have been censured by congress for emoluments.
Should have been rejected by the American people for the egregious nepotism flagrantly on display throughout his time.
Should have been forced to adhere to safety procedures.

I feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 10, 2022, 03:18:09 AM
Absolutely nothing will happen to him
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on February 10, 2022, 08:45:02 AM
Executive Privilege
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2022, 12:40:26 PM
Quote
I feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.
I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
When Sadddam promised the mother of all tank battles and had his Cold War era tank army demolished by high-tech cruise missiles the US and by extension NATO were at the 'height' of their power.

People have mistaken the reluctance of the Russian Federation to intervene up until the mid 2000's with 'acceptance' of the current security situation.
The Russians simply couldn't do anything to stop the US from attacking Serbia because they had a mostly obsolete army like Saddam.
Once they had modernized their armed forces and were able to strike back and win (in places like Georgia and Syria), they started doing so.
Meanwhile the US policy was that the 'cold war' was over (Obama famously told Romney this in a debate) and the Russians and Chinese were 'partners' on the global stage even though there was no commitment from their side.

That's the reason US power waned, there's no longer a clear technological advantage and the loss in Afghanistan has confirmed the view that the US can no longer dictate their will without an army in place.
The other reason is the US barked up the wrong tree with Iraq. All those resources could've been spend on containing China (and even Russia) and propping up China's asian neighbours.
Condoleezza Rice I believe actually admitted this to Bush, making the case that the US should've invaded to free North Korea instead of Iraq.

At the same time Europe has realized after 2 'lost decades' that their foreign policy of just following the US and leaning on their army is not the best way to go about things.

It seems to me that short of waging more wars with millions of dead (i.e. what Trump didn't want to do in Afghanistan) to keep their enemies at bay there is little the US could've done to prevent losing their soft power which was based on a short lived military, economical and technological advantage.

In the end it was Obama who told the world the US would 'lead from behind' essentially doing nothing to protect US puppet rulers in Egypt and elsewhere while at the same time supporting a coup in Russia's backyard that the EU was very uncomfortable with.
And George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton squandered the opportunities to pull Russia into NATO and Europe and instead let it spin out of control which soured Russians once yearning for freedom on the ideals of Democracy.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 10, 2022, 12:54:28 PM
Its like being back in 1930s Germany

:fbm

Inflation surges 7.5% on an annual basis, even more than expected and highest since 1982

The consumer price index for all items rose 0.6% in January, driving up annual inflation by 7.5%.

That marked the biggest gain since February 1982 and was even higher than the Wall Street estimate.

Core inflation rose 6%, which also was a notch above expectations.

Real earnings for workers increased just 0.1% on the month when accounting for inflation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/january-2022-cpi-inflation-rises-7point5percent-over-the-past-year-even-more-than-expected.html
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 10, 2022, 06:44:15 PM
Its like being back in 1930s Germany
FACT CHECK

In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 10, 2022, 09:08:11 PM
Its like being back in 1930s Germany
FACT CHECK

In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges

"gotta hand it to the Nazis... " - Nintex
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 10, 2022, 09:18:12 PM
Its like being back in 1930s Germany
FACT CHECK

In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
they also had an amazing state funded pest control  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: chronovore on February 10, 2022, 10:08:37 PM
Quote
I feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.
I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
When Sadddam promised the mother of all tank battles and had his Cold War era tank army demolished by high-tech cruise missiles the US and by extension NATO were at the 'height' of their power.

People have mistaken the reluctance of the Russian Federation to intervene up until the mid 2000's with 'acceptance' of the current security situation.
The Russians simply couldn't do anything to stop the US from attacking Serbia because they had a mostly obsolete army like Saddam.
Once they had modernized their armed forces and were able to strike back and win (in places like Georgia and Syria), they started doing so.
Meanwhile the US policy was that the 'cold war' was over (Obama famously told Romney this in a debate) and the Russians and Chinese were 'partners' on the global stage even though there was no commitment from their side.

That's the reason US power waned, there's no longer a clear technological advantage and the loss in Afghanistan has confirmed the view that the US can no longer dictate their will without an army in place.
The other reason is the US barked up the wrong tree with Iraq. All those resources could've been spend on containing China (and even Russia) and propping up China's asian neighbours.
Condoleezza Rice I believe actually admitted this to Bush, making the case that the US should've invaded to free North Korea instead of Iraq.

At the same time Europe has realized after 2 'lost decades' that their foreign policy of just following the US and leaning on their army is not the best way to go about things.

It seems to me that short of waging more wars with millions of dead (i.e. what Trump didn't want to do in Afghanistan) to keep their enemies at bay there is little the US could've done to prevent losing their soft power which was based on a short lived military, economical and technological advantage.

In the end it was Obama who told the world the US would 'lead from behind' essentially doing nothing to protect US puppet rulers in Egypt and elsewhere while at the same time supporting a coup in Russia's backyard that the EU was very uncomfortable with.
And George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton squandered the opportunities to pull Russia into NATO and Europe and instead let it spin out of control which soured Russians once yearning for freedom on the ideals of Democracy.

Thanks for the lucid, well considered response.

I disagree with Condoleeza, invading NK would have had a lasting negative effect on US/China relations, let alone the fact that we’ve previously retreated from that peninsula once before without a clear victory.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 10, 2022, 10:26:17 PM
Its like being back in 1930s Germany
FACT CHECK

In 1930's Germany they actually maintained the roads and bridges
they also had an amazing state funded pest control  :)
:gladbron
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 10, 2022, 11:36:06 PM
Quote
I feel so goddamned naïve for thinking Bush Jr. was the worst president we'd ever have. Yes, The Shrub led us into an unjust war. Trump has frittered away the bulk of soft power the USA has enjoyed since WW II, essentially committing us to reintroducing War just to show our intent and will.
I'm not sure if Trump had anything to do with it to be honest. The reason the US 'lost' power is because China is the first worthy rival to US power in decades.
When Sadddam promised the mother of all tank battles and had his Cold War era tank army demolished by high-tech cruise missiles the US and by extension NATO were at the 'height' of their power.

People have mistaken the reluctance of the Russian Federation to intervene up until the mid 2000's with 'acceptance' of the current security situation.
The Russians simply couldn't do anything to stop the US from attacking Serbia because they had a mostly obsolete army like Saddam.
Once they had modernized their armed forces and were able to strike back and win (in places like Georgia and Syria), they started doing so.
Meanwhile the US policy was that the 'cold war' was over (Obama famously told Romney this in a debate) and the Russians and Chinese were 'partners' on the global stage even though there was no commitment from their side.

That's the reason US power waned, there's no longer a clear technological advantage and the loss in Afghanistan has confirmed the view that the US can no longer dictate their will without an army in place.
The other reason is the US barked up the wrong tree with Iraq. All those resources could've been spend on containing China (and even Russia) and propping up China's asian neighbours.
Condoleezza Rice I believe actually admitted this to Bush, making the case that the US should've invaded to free North Korea instead of Iraq.

At the same time Europe has realized after 2 'lost decades' that their foreign policy of just following the US and leaning on their army is not the best way to go about things.

It seems to me that short of waging more wars with millions of dead (i.e. what Trump didn't want to do in Afghanistan) to keep their enemies at bay there is little the US could've done to prevent losing their soft power which was based on a short lived military, economical and technological advantage.

In the end it was Obama who told the world the US would 'lead from behind' essentially doing nothing to protect US puppet rulers in Egypt and elsewhere while at the same time supporting a coup in Russia's backyard that the EU was very uncomfortable with.
And George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton squandered the opportunities to pull Russia into NATO and Europe and instead let it spin out of control which soured Russians once yearning for freedom on the ideals of Democracy.

Thanks for the lucid, well considered response.


nintex praise  :-*
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 11, 2022, 12:47:10 AM
 :heart
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2022, 01:39:52 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMa-1EXwAIhn2V?format=png&name=small)

https://twitter.com/AnnieAndrewsMD/status/1491814813785374724
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2022, 01:41:42 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLQRf-NXsAIuBAl?format=jpg&name=small)

 :rollsafe
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2022, 01:43:34 PM
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1491728441187737601
https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1491753874306342913

 :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 11, 2022, 01:48:01 PM
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1491764637775323142 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1491764637775323142)

 :holeup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 11, 2022, 01:54:02 PM
https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1491728441187737601
https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1491753874306342913

 :trumps

I didn't watch the video, but if the implication is that he was flushing something important...why are they telling us this now or check to see what he was flushing?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 11, 2022, 01:55:55 PM
Trumps seems like the kind of guy who doesn't flush after dropping a big old steamer and puts the seat down, just to be a dick tbh :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 11, 2022, 02:00:53 PM
Quote
Several advisers were unhappy about his decision to talk to her as part of his marathon conversations with book authors at Mar-a-Lago. But they concluded he couldn’t help himself and couldn't be stopped.
That pretty much sums up Donald Trump

:trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 11, 2022, 05:25:55 PM
JD Vance losing to "Someone Else":
https://twitter.com/PollProjectUSA/status/1492203754518548480
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1492257125011234817
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 11, 2022, 05:41:22 PM
Journo's: "Haha, Trump's guy isn't winning" :bobby

Trump's guys

https://twitter.com/steinhauserNH1/status/1490724412328402955 (https://twitter.com/steinhauserNH1/status/1490724412328402955)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 11, 2022, 07:29:52 PM
NO!

THE GOP CHANCE OF TAKING THE HOUSE NEEDS TO BE HIGHER

https://www.racetothewh.com/house
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 11, 2022, 07:31:57 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-poll-55-of-americans-say-nominating-a-black-woman-to-the-supreme-court-is-not-important-100011137.html

Who gives a fuck about a black woman on the supreme court?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on February 11, 2022, 07:39:59 PM
Thanks Himu, I want to write a detailed response, but non-shitposting is rare for me on TheBore and I have a few things I need to take care of.   Will write soon.   I appreciate you delineating your thoughts.

You going to write a response?

https://youtu.be/h4e8lSQy64c

Let them redefine right wing. Frankly, it allows more of us to be labeled rightwing which allows us to coalesce more power to skull fuck them. The more they make everyone that disagrees with them to be enemies the more they create forces against them. This is a part of the ongoing strategy to make Democrats not about the working class but a party of elites. If that's what they want, they come and get it.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 12, 2022, 07:48:40 AM
https://youtu.be/csjNAZpqrmo
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 12, 2022, 07:50:04 AM
https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1492050290761154582 (https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1492050290761154582)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: D3RANG3D on February 12, 2022, 10:00:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI-QXU5a6LQ
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 12, 2022, 05:27:22 PM
lmao

https://twitter.com/AngelaBelcamino/status/1491824609800376327
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 12, 2022, 07:43:13 PM
Lmfao
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2022, 10:21:49 AM
In todays episode of Trump was right
https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1492849789280481288 (https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1492849789280481288)

Apparently Hillary Clinton's campaign hacked Trump Tower and the White House after Tump's election to find evidence of his collusion with Russia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers)

Trump is taking the news as well as you'd expect
Quote
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution," Trump said. "In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."
Quote
Trump added: "In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this."
:trumps

Oops

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1492875644971229186 (https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1492875644971229186)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 13, 2022, 11:08:59 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/7ujGk4T.jpg) :rejoice
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Kunai With Chain on February 13, 2022, 03:10:29 PM
https://twitter.com/JohnBlakeCNN/status/1492855731799969795

They've changed the headline since but...  :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 13, 2022, 03:53:20 PM
CNN manages to tie Joe Rogan to the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.

It's fucking poetry :lucas
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 13, 2022, 05:14:16 PM
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1492892324678012928

              2022's Contract With America?
 :isthis
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 13, 2022, 05:14:49 PM
https://twitter.com/_LibLaughLove/status/1492206127186075651
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 13, 2022, 05:48:30 PM
This will apparently air during the Super Bowl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOb1AXX5hsU

Blue check has totally sane response:
https://twitter.com/poet_economist/status/1492322147867500547
https://twitter.com/poet_economist/status/1492693054721077253

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/poet_economist/status/1492687838181265408
https://twitter.com/poet_economist/status/1492690770360684544
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 13, 2022, 06:18:43 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1492318197416083457

"It's just been revoked!" - :trumps
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 14, 2022, 03:36:38 PM
If World War 3 starts tomorrow, how will it affect the midterms?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 14, 2022, 05:16:21 PM
a benji roundup

Dr. Oz in first place!
https://twitter.com/RobertCahaly/status/1493329723904114688

Drink your favorite liberal tears in this Jan 6th fistpump mug!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLkhVvHWUAYBA1E?format=png&name=small)

Happy Valentines Day, turn in your loved ones:
https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1493208813670965248
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 14, 2022, 05:24:52 PM
a benji roundup
Happy Valentines Day, turn in your loved ones:
https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1493208813670965248
Completely disregarding the ethics of it, you have to admit this is actually some pretty good social media campaigning for a government agency.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 14, 2022, 05:40:39 PM
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1492318197416083457

"It's just been revoked!" - :trumps
Translation: Trump called Maggie to complain about Scooter Libby.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 14, 2022, 06:26:32 PM
Scooter Libby?? Wasn't that guy pardoned well over a decade ago?  :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2022, 03:45:49 AM
https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1493391769236557827 (https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1493391769236557827)

Looks like Biden unified the country  :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2022, 11:44:00 AM
They've lost Larry Summers

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1493580567459287045 (https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1493580567459287045)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 03:00:06 PM
Recently in Senate GOP primaries:
https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1493670321882341380

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1492182791857057798
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 03:05:41 PM
In todays episode of Trump was right

Apparently Hillary Clinton's campaign hacked Trump Tower and the White House after Tump's election to find evidence of his collusion with Russia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers)

Trump is taking the news as well as you'd expect
Quote
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution," Trump said. "In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."
Quote
Trump added: "In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this."
:trumps

Oops
https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1493560039377887234
https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1493586660478566400
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 03:22:52 PM
Drink your favorite liberal tears in this Jan 6th fistpump mug!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLkhVvHWUAYBA1E?format=png&name=small)
https://twitter.com/auctnr1/status/1493247205775400960

spoiler (click to show/hide)
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1450816077525618692
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 03:53:55 PM
https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1493655942281535497
https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1493658052167454725

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 15, 2022, 05:20:42 PM
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092 (https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092)

Are they going back to Iraq?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: team filler on February 15, 2022, 05:23:42 PM
iran is back on the menu, bois  :biden
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 05:27:01 PM
Are they going back to Iraq?
Farther back, price controls. 8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 05:27:26 PM
Drink your favorite liberal tears in this Jan 6th fistpump mug!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLkhVvHWUAYBA1E?format=png&name=small)
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1493696189480546304
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 05:28:20 PM
https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1493675103338516483
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1493675076436250629
https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1493702777779929093
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 15, 2022, 05:39:58 PM
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092 (https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1493697362409177092)

Are they going back to Iraq?

Big brain: Gas tax holiday
Bigger brain: Invade Iraq
Biggest brain: Invade Russia
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 06:33:35 PM
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1493719621765156869
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1493724931976142853
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 15, 2022, 09:03:11 PM
They posted new TRUTH Social images from the beta:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLqWueCXMAExTfH?format=jpg&name=small)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLrb5L_VUAIU-AJ?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLrb5L9UcAUbEPO?format=jpg&name=small)

Disaster is scheduled for March 31st.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2022, 08:52:59 AM
We'll finally find out if Trump plays Wordle.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 16, 2022, 12:04:37 PM
The failing New York Times is not happy with me -- that's okay, I'll keep playing Wordle on that garbage.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 16, 2022, 12:55:46 PM
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1493990301551190028 (https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1493990301551190028)

:wut
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 05:37:50 PM
stosts attack on education continues:
Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-voters-send-democrats-a-warning-on-schools-180841783.html
Three members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.

Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.

“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.

Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).

The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.

Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 05:41:54 PM
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1493978156801437699
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1493980067021602819
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1493983906256855043

 :camby
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 16, 2022, 07:49:54 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-biden-time-changes-white-100030272.html

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 08:06:24 PM
More from the stostfront:
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/16/feinstein-plummets-harris-underwater-in-new-california-poll-00009427
Sen. Dianne Feinstein ’s approval ratings have plummeted to unprecedented lows as California voters turn against their senior senator, according to a new poll from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.

Voters disapproved of Feinstein’s job performance by an enormous 19-point margin. Her standing has steadily eroded, with her approval rating — now at just 30 percent — dropping 5 points since May. She does not command majority approval among Democrats, topping out at 45 percent, and she has lost the left, with Democrats who consider themselves “strongly liberal” more likely to disapprove by 5 points.

Vice President Kamala Harris also fared poorly in her home state. More voters disapproved of her job performance (46 percent) than approved (38 percent) — a sign of political peril for Harris, whose ascension was a point of pride in California.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: shosta on February 16, 2022, 08:11:25 PM
stosts attack on education continues:
Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-voters-send-democrats-a-warning-on-schools-180841783.html
Three members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.

Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.

“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.

Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).

The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.

Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.
School board politics :lawd
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748231236002250752/943392006179262514/1644992561792.jpg)

That last tweet is so bad :dead
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 08:14:42 PM
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1494050633019580417

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 16, 2022, 08:16:10 PM
stosts attack on education continues:
Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-voters-send-democrats-a-warning-on-schools-180841783.html
Three members of the San Francisco school board closely linked to a divisive equity agenda were expelled from office on Tuesday, in an election that had been closely watched for its national implications.

Although the recall process that led to their removal is an unusual feature of California politics, the results of the referendum are sure to reverberate at a time when education has emerged as a top voter concern.

“San Francisco today has shown us what it means to be progressive,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco parent who had helped organize the recall, at an election night party that saw diverse segments of the city’s fractured political landscape come together in a shared discontent with educational policy.

Cheers erupted as results came in shortly before 9 p.m., with voters voting in near-identical 3-to-1 margins to recall board President Gabriela López (74.89 percent) and members Alison Collins (78.54 percent) and Faauuga Moliga (72.04 percent).

The three were accused of engaging in symbolic crusades while doing little to help students struggling with remote schooling and other pandemic-related challenges, such as social isolation. “Competence matters, even for progressives,” went the headline of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial in favor of the recall.

Moliga had sought to separate himself from Collins, who had come under fire for anti-Asian tweets, and López, who was widely derided for a New Yorker interview in which she failed to articulate why a school named after Abraham Lincoln needed to be renamed, but his effort did not succeed. Nor did a broader attempt to paint the recall as a Republican ploy to subvert and disrupt the city’s famously liberal consensus.

Quote
Perhaps more controversially, the board moved to diversify the city’s elite Lowell High School by implementing a lottery instead of academic entrance exams. The move angered San Francisco’s large and politically active Chinese American community, which had long seen Lowell as a beacon of promise.
Posters in favor of the recall were plastered across Chinatown ahead of Tuesday’s vote. “They seem to have their eyes on the wrong thing — the wrong priorities,” community activist Bayard Fong told Yahoo News of the board members.

Quote
The board earned national mockery for an hours-long meeting in which it debated whether a gay father would add sufficient diversity to a parental advisory board.

 :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 11:27:05 PM
https://twitter.com/fedjudges/status/1494129276710375424

 :hmm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 16, 2022, 11:27:53 PM
School board politics :lawd
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/748231236002250752/943392006179262514/1644992561792.jpg)

That last tweet is so bad :dead
https://twitter.com/AliMCollins/status/1493662689670746112

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLvtdmeXEAYNj7t?format=jpg&name=small)

https://twitter.com/SFProgressives/status/1493994019528921090
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Propagandhim on February 17, 2022, 12:18:43 PM
https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1494350695784407046



LETS.FUCKING.GOOOOOOOOoooo99000


spoiler (click to show/hide)
crowd chants: PA-PA!  PA-PA!  PA-PA!
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Dennis on February 17, 2022, 12:23:30 PM
Papa John just doesn't look the same without the grease.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 17, 2022, 12:31:26 PM
https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1494367554248314890 (https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1494367554248314890)

 :trumps

I see Trump is still toxic for the conservatives and everyone is trying to distance themselves
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Uncle on February 17, 2022, 01:11:06 PM
Papa John just doesn't look the same without the grease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOlA3M63rc
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 17, 2022, 01:33:58 PM
Hopefully he'll eat 40 pizzas in the next 10 days to get ready for CPAC.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 17, 2022, 01:45:38 PM
How don't we have a Papa John emote :huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 04:15:30 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLzvh6UVEAY_Dzv?format=jpg&name=medium)

http://kandisstaylor.com/endorsements/

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 04:17:09 PM
School board politics :lawd
https://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1494341615434944526

spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 05:09:01 PM
https://twitter.com/fedjudges/status/1494129276710375424

 :hmm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL0dlgJX0AIzJzu?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 17, 2022, 05:17:58 PM
Democracy Dies in Darkness  :thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 06:27:21 PM
End of an error:
Quote from: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/02/17/oregon-supreme-court-ruling-nick-kristof-oregon-residency-governors-race/
Nick Kristof, the former New York Times columnist who quit his job to run for Oregon governor, is officially out of the race.

In a 33-page opinion issued Thursday morning, the Oregon Supreme Court gave finality to a determination Secretary of State Shemia Fagan made in January: That Kristof cannot legally vie for the governorship, because he does not meet the state’s three-year residency requirement for the job.

“We recognize [Kristof] has longstanding ties to Oregon, that he owns substantial property and operates a farm here, and that the secretary did not question his current Oregon residency,” the opinion reads. “Moreover, he has thought deeply and written extensively about the challenges faced by those living in rural areas of Oregon — and the rest of the country. But that is not the issue here. The issue, instead, is whether [Kristof] has been, during the three years preceding the November 2022 election, ‘a resident within this State.’”

In light of the evidence, the court found, Fagan was within her rights to rule that Kristof was not.
Quote
In January, Oregon election officials ruled Kristof did not meet residency requirements established in the state’s constitution and therefore could not run to be governor. Oregon election officials ruled that to meet the three-year residency requirement for this year’s gubernatorial race, a person must be a resident in Oregon for the entire three-year period starting in November 2019.

Kristof has said that the term “resident” should be interpreted somewhat loosely. He and his lawyers argued for months that he grew up in Yamhill, still owns and maintains a farm there and has always considered Oregon his home. They added that the historical point of having a residency requirement in the Oregon constitution was to exclude those who were unfamiliar with the state, and that Fagan gave “no weight to forty years of published writings” in which Kristof claimed Yamhill was his home.

Fagan disagreed. In January, she said there was there was a mountain of “objective evidence” showing Kristof considered himself a New York resident until recently. That evidence included Kristof’s decision to vote in New York in 2020. Kristof also had a New York driver’s license that year.
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Kristof has suggested, at times pointedly, that the attempts to force him out of the governor’s race have political motives. At the start of his political campaign, Kristof positioned himself as an outsider and said Fagan — a longtime politician with ties to the Democratic establishment — was basing her decision on “politics, not precedent.”
:usacry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 07:03:55 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-canadian-freedom-convoy-donors

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Ilhan Omar scolds journalists for promoting harassment of Canadian Freedom Convoy donors: 'Unconscionable'
The Democratic 'Squad' member says journalists 'need to do better'

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., slammed journalists whose reporting on the data breach of donors to the Canadian Freedom Convoy is leading to the harassment of private citizens.

Members of the media on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border have been sharing names and how much money they contributed to the truckers who've been protesting Canada's vaccine mandate, stemming from the recent hack of the crowdfunding website GiveSendGo. 

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1494008623407800326

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1494083595689943045
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: shosta on February 17, 2022, 07:14:25 PM
https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1494368391746015236?t=uZTLJSXccGqptKNuEHKetw
Forums Poster Arvid vs. The Islamic Republic of Iran  :wong
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 07:18:09 PM
ISLAM FOR LIBERTY

Alhalmdulilah.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: shosta on February 17, 2022, 07:29:19 PM
School board politics :lawd
https://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1494341615434944526

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Just want to say that this recall was whatever (sf school board members are wacky) but definitely part of a dark money coordinated assault on education, same as any of those anti-CRT bills. Getting SF BOE members recalled is a nice trophy for conservatives.

What I don't like in this same reactionary wave is the district attorney recall. He's doing things (https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/02/02/sfpd-chief-da-chesa-boudin-use-of-force-memorandum-of-understanding-ends/) they don't like (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-allegedly-used-rape-kit-for-arrest-16918819.php) and they're losing their shit over it. If he ends up getting recalled I'm going to be so fucking mad. It's a bad year to be a reformist DA.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 07:44:13 PM
I admit I haven't been following either effort but I seem to remember earlier that the school board people were far more confident about their efforts than the Boudin one. Despite all the framing of the school board thing as racism/anti-woke/whatever there were concerns about actual school policies (including COVID stuff) and the woke stuff was just seen as the board members ignoring actual concerns for that rather than disagreement with it as a whole. Also seems the school board people built a real coalition and were doing the hard work to keep the campaign up while the Boudin recall is more of a traditional recall where people are like "yeah, whatever" and sign the petitions and then vote against it and there's no actual coalition to build with grievances beyond "he sucks" that cut across groups.

Looking it up now, Boudin actually barely won election in the first place, so maybe he's more at threat than I realized.

Also, not surprised that stost is in favor of a DA who ignores the crime spree that just happens to coincide with stost's moving to the area and breaking into cars wantonly.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 08:22:10 PM
2/3rds of people polled by the DCCC are Himu:
https://twitter.com/_ericting/status/1494436102836404225

The ACLU of Virginia disagrees:
https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/1494327778203901952
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 08:28:33 PM
2/3rds of people polled by the DCCC are Himu:
https://twitter.com/_ericting/status/1494436102836404225

The ACLU of Virginia disagrees:
https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/1494327778203901952

SAWWWIIIIIIIING baby!

(https://i.imgur.com/mXSSn1M.gif)

Make sure the Democrats are blasted at the polls for their awful despotic Covid dog shit. Let's show them the power of the center. Let's Go Brandon!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 08:35:08 PM
https://twitter.com/liberteetarian/status/1494452929960370177

(https://i.imgur.com/Jx2BnZl.gif)

Indy gang getting in

Problem with the statement polled by DCCC is that it's not congressional Democrats. It's mostly local and state. As well as Federal. The House and Senate Democrats can't get anything done. They're jokes of a joke. Democrats need to be expelled and their incompetence revealed. It's easy to point at them and say,"they're evil" which is really, really easy to do given the past year. But it's much easier to apply incompetence rather than willful evil. The truth is that Democratic Party is an abscess, a tumor, and needs to be zapped from American politics. Look how they've treated the country after a thin marginal win. Fuck them. Make that wave blood red.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BisMarckie on February 17, 2022, 08:38:16 PM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 08:42:18 PM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh

Critical race theory and Democratic Pedophiles also supporting stuff like this.

https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 08:47:17 PM
Read this tweet which is a reply to the original thread.

https://twitter.com/RussLakey/status/1494484143723319296

Democrats and their endless virtue. "BUT PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!!!!! :stop"

Yeah, and? It's a pandemic. Remember when Trump was Prez and they lost their shit at 400k dying under his watch? But they are really quiet about blaming Biden for deaths when it hits even more than Trump's numbers. Yet they still use PEOPLE ARE DYING!!! as an excuse, even when their rigid policies clearly aren't fucking working.

https://twitter.com/BringAWarrant/status/1494445331345559553

https://twitter.com/WinstonSmithTC/status/1494449877622800392

https://twitter.com/LivingSamsara/status/1494482375170052104

https://twitter.com/fsmith1340/status/1494480739626364945

(https://i.imgur.com/Hn5UFWp.gif)

LET'S DO IT! We have the momentum! Liberals have masks despite being triple vaxxed and endless faggotry. Have to make sure Liberals lose so much ground they lose an entire generation. We have to make sure liberals never see power again.

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 09:06:26 PM
It's not news but it's obvious there's a decent chunk of Biden 2020 voters who wouldn't vote for Trump in 2024 (or even 2020 if they could do it over) but don't really see Biden with a Republican House as a major problem. I think both Clinton and Obama (and certain Democrats) benefited from Republican Congresses as foils whereas W. Bush and Trump didn't seem to gain much politically from having a Democratic Congress even if the country probably did benefit from partly removing a rubber stamp.

I still think Biden is the best President of this century if only because he has yet to blatantly do anything to suggest he should be impeached unlike the other three.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 09:08:58 PM
A big problem is the assumption that us Biden voters support the Democrats. I've hated the Democrats for years. Now I LOATHE them and will do anything to keep them from power.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 09:19:47 PM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh
School board elections becoming national issues in the United States actually has some decent history, especially during media lulls, because they connect in ways that lots of abstract issues don't. Most everyone can imagine "what if my kids school was doing [Z]" in ways the more esoteric debates over something like whether Build Back Better should raise the child murder tax credit by 1% in line with deficit projections over a ten year baseline IF and ONLY IF Kyrie Irving were to get vaccinated in Afghanistan during the Winter Solstice.

See, for example, this:
Quote from: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/opinions/san-francisco-school-board-recall-hemmer/index.html
San Francisco school board recall sends a dangerous message

...

This rhetoric of "parents' rights" is not new to the 2020s; conservatives in Colorado in the 1990s even sought to pass a "parents' rights" amendment "to direct and control the upbringing, education, values and discipline of their children." Yet it is now being reworked to funnel all the discontents of the era into a set of right-wing school politics at the heart of the GOP's strategy for the coming midterm elections.

Political organizing around schools is nearly as old as compulsory schooling itself, sparking battles over access, the teaching of subjects like evolution and sex and mandatory prayer and pledges of allegiance. Parents played a role on both sides of all these issues, advocating for the school rules that they felt aligned with their own values.

Yet because so many of these issues would ultimately be settled in state legislatures, Congress and the courts, the right successfully framed school politics as concerned parents having their rights infringed by politicians, bureaucrats and judges. This was the case with desegregation and busing, with Black parents constantly pressing for equal access to local schools and better education. In Boston in the 1960s, Black parents organized Operation Exodus, an effort to transport their children to better schools in the years before court-ordered busing.

The arrival of court-ordered busing in the 1970s, which occurred after White-run school boards failed to comply with the state's Racial Imbalance Act of 1965, led to the formation of groups like ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights), a movement by White parents to resist school desegregation.

...

That same erasure happened in the debate over African American Vernacular English that exploded in 1996, after the Oakland school board passed a garbled resolution recognizing AAVE, or ebonics, as a language. The resolution, which was widely reported as a requirement to teach ebonics as a replacement for standard English (or "teach black schoolchildren in ghetto-ese," as the Boston Globe put it), was both ridiculed and denounced by everyone from civil rights leader Jesse Jackson to conservative Education Secretary William Bennett.

It was treated as a sign that public schools were incapable of properly educating students, that standards were nearing non-existence under the reign of liberal bureaucrats.


The politics of the ebonics panic allowed no space for the broader story, one that began with the problem of poor Black students being underserved and undereducated within the school system. A lawsuit brought in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1979 on behalf of poor Black students argued that they were being denied equal access to education because the school system did not account for the socioeconomic and cultural background of these students. A judge ruled that the school had to find ways to identify students who spoke AAVE and find ways to use that knowledge to assist their education. It was in response to these concerns that the Oakland school board acted.

...

In places like Loudoun County and San Francisco, conservative activists are attempting to do the same today, refashioning a suite of school discontents into a wave of Republican victories.

What these decades of backlash politics show is that narrative plays a powerful role in shaping where politics flow. Democratic politicians often lack courage when backlash politics are in motion, as likely to jump on the outrage bandwagon as shrink into the shadows, waiting for it to blow over. But they and progressive activists have a responsibility to counter moral panics with narratives more rooted in reality and more concerned with those whose needs are being overlooked.

Journalists and commentators also play a critical role in how backlash politics form: whose stories get told and emphasized, what frames are applied to the story of what schools need and where they fail, what policy issues and political concerns are treated as legitimate and which get hand-waved away. Getting those issues right is not just critical for how elections unfold, but how schools are ultimately valued and reformed.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BisMarckie on February 17, 2022, 09:28:30 PM
 I am completely illiterate when it comes to school boards, since the concept is completely alien to me.

But I now know about some stuff form the 60's and 90's but not what the San Francisco stuff is or was about.

Are you fucking with me here, benji?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 17, 2022, 09:28:57 PM
lmfao

California starts nations first endemic virus policy? lmfao Liberals patting themselves on the back for doing nothing with their bullshit sophistry. I fucking hate liberals. Anyone with brain cells can see through the lamestream media's dog crap in this news article.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-california-pandemics-7fe43acafdedeeb334fe1448e87fb74a?fbclid=IwAR11PFwjahUKAQj4A7MOSV-1yxS0VQ7W4W-tMKftpIKDkIA5pQjZmtBLBQ4

Very disappointing from the AP. Yeah, I'm sure Texas' pandemic response wasn't endemic stage when I visited last year fall when I could buy coffee in a coffee shop and not be forced to show ID as if I were buying a goddamn alcoholic drink. lmfao Kiss my brown cowboy butt, California.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 09:34:53 PM
I am completely illiterate when it comes to school boards, since the concept is completely alien to me.

But I now know about some stuff form the 60's and 90's but not what the San Francisco stuff is or was about.

Are you fucking with me here, benji?
I would never. Do you think I would really just go on the internet and try to mess with you?

That said, a few school board issues have become national issues, desegregation notably. But also busing was one because it was happening in a lot of states at the same time, while the CRT in Skewls thing is completely overblown, and not really in the classrooms, it actually is happening in a lot of schools administration across the country at the same time, the trans in sports panic, etc. The media certainly helps a lot to make these into "national conversations" though.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BisMarckie on February 17, 2022, 09:35:49 PM
I wasted 5 minutes to skim through an CNN article (I even clicked the link) for your sadistic entertainment :stahp
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: shosta on February 17, 2022, 10:02:59 PM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh
In the United States, children are mindless robots that can be programmed at will by the educational apparatus. Whoever controls the schools effectively controls the entire country. This is also exactly why Benji decided to become a college professor.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 17, 2022, 10:28:19 PM
One of my formative experiences regarding federalism was in junior high or high school reading a former French Education Minister bragging about how he could know what page every student in the country was on at anytime because of how standardized their system was. I think they've since loosened up and decentralized at least some of it though, he probably would have been describing it in the 1980/90s or even the 1970s.

No wonder they have problems now unlike the good old days when society ran perfectly and according to dirigisme design.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 18, 2022, 12:02:54 AM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh
In the United States, children are mindless robots that can be programmed at will by the educational apparatus. Whoever controls the schools effectively controls the entire country. This is also exactly why Benji decided to become a college professor.

I became a college professor to hit on depressed 18 year old hotties away from home for the first time in their lives


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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 18, 2022, 09:28:59 AM
Why the fuck are some school board elections national, and now that I know about them international, news?
 :huh

Critical race theory and Democratic Pedophiles also supporting stuff like this.

https://youtu.be/Eog_UDtpaVs

I read this in Alex Jones voice and I'm :rofl
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2022, 05:44:05 PM
Yeah she was really channeling Alex energy there :lol
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 18, 2022, 10:20:14 PM
'The brand is so toxic': Dems fear extinction in rural US

https://www.yahoo.com/now/brand-toxic-dems-fear-extinction-052403735.html

(https://i.imgur.com/BCX3V5G.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 05:19:35 AM
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/594973-nyc-mayor-announces-plan-to-bar-homeless-people-from-sleeping-on-subway?amp

ADAMS ANNOUNCES PLAN TO BAR HOMELESS PEOPLE FROM SLEEPING ON THE SUBWAY

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!! YES YES YES Maybe there's hope for liberalism. Maybe it's not all liberals but it's the progressives. I don't know! All I know is that I'm so happy we aren't California!

The comments on r/nyc have me so happy. Please reopen asylums. Please. Please. Put the extremely mentally ill there. Please. For the rest of us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/svn3b4/ny_officials_announce_plan_to_remove_homeless/
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 05:29:54 AM
YES!

YES!!!!

ADAM SILVER QUESTIONS NYC VACCINE MANDATES

https://theathletic.com/news/adam-silver-questions-nycs-vaccine-mandate-for-nba-mayor-eric-adams-responds-agrees/ykZMosh30giJ/

Forcing NYC residents to be vaccinated but not out of staters is so peak NY liberalism. FUCK!!!

Once again the the r/NYC comments make me feel incredibly not insane and alone and not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves.

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I’m 100% pro vax but the mandates are silly. They were done on the premise that being vaccinated prevents you from spreading it. We’ve long known that the vaccines only keep you from getting severely ill and don’t prevent the spread much. Repeal the mandate.

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Entire countries are dropping them with great success. Denmark even had to put out an official correction to misinformation site when persistent misinformation indicated they are now struggling, which they aren't.

It's very hard to continue to call it science, when the hard evidence, on country scales, disagree.

I'm both vaccinated and pro-vax, but the mandates are completely out of alignment with reality.

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I understand the mandates were meant to get the majority of the public vaccinated. More people vaxxed, more people are safe. It’s a macro aggregate thing.

But the minor details in this do matter. Now what? You lift the restriction after firing 1% of public service employees? That seems wrong to me.

Visiting players and entertainers can be unvaxxed, but my friend from out of town who isn’t vaxxed can’t do much of anything? Again, minor detail but seems wrong to me.

I’ve never understood what we were aiming for here. 100% vaccinated? Where else in life are we 100% anything? Is it 90%, 99%? If it was 99% was it really worth firing all these people recently?

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Because this specific NYC mandate is not and never was about protecting people, it was designed to incentivize people to get vaccinated

Thats the odd thing about all of this. People can talk around in circles, but the mandate isn't really about protecting people and never was, it was a designed as a punitive measure.

Thats also the reason visitors can play... obviously. Its about protecting NYers, if you're not from here, they didn't care about you getting vaxxed. Stupid loophole shows intentions. (that being said, if this did apply to visitors, I'd bet the NY teams would all be playing games in NJ to avoid any issues with visitors, so of course the exemption is there)

(https://media0.giphy.com/media/l4q8cJzGdR9J8w3hS/giphy.gif)

My unvaccinated partner can't drink coffee with me in NYC because she's not vaccinated and doesn't have vaccination proof. Never mind eating at a restaurant. Do liberals really think we will forget this?

KISS, MY BLACK ASS. Yes! But remember! My brain doesn't forget! STRAIGHT RED TICKET! Thank you liberals for exposing your authoritarianism to the rest of us. The liberals have no long term plan! Liberal policies DO. NOT. WORK. It's just short term reactionary jockeying. This is true on a local, state, and federal level: the donkeys are USELESS. Vote for something strong. Vote for an elephant. VOTE REPUBLICAN.

Watch the liberals all of a sudden change their motto, their stupid defenses when their "team" decides "you know what, this is dumb" literally overnight after months of guilt tripping, pointed fingers, and gaslighting. But the rest of us won't forget the lesson: FUCK. LIBERALS. Liberals want to FORCE us to live like them, think like them. Fuck. Liberals! Liberals you overexposed your hand with mandates. That was the final domino for many, many, many people. Congratulations on playing yourself!
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Coffee Dog on February 19, 2022, 10:43:55 AM
You know, I'm starting to get the feeling you're a single issue voter.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: james on February 19, 2022, 12:16:34 PM
not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves

Nice healthy community you have here bork
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Uncle on February 19, 2022, 12:50:33 PM
You know, I'm starting to get the feeling you're a single issue voter.

that's not true! vaccine mandates and homeless people are at least two issues  :hmph
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 12:57:24 PM
not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves

Nice healthy community you have here bork
I'm personally insulted that you would call me a liberal.
 :jeanluc


And the irony of you calling anyone a taco is just
  :delicious
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2022, 01:38:40 PM
"And then there was this tiny little mouse, probably from Europe or Australia or wherever the hell it came from. And the elephant said: Look mouse I don't want to trample you but you are in the way. But if you have a mouse and you're zoning out a 24 story residential building and gas starts leaking all over the place....  not good, let me tell ya not good. This guy knows what I'm talking about right? A real builder just like Trump with that wheelchair. Where did you serve soldier? McDonalds, Burger King? Anyway vote straight red folks put it all on red."
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: bork on February 19, 2022, 03:30:11 PM
Once again the the r/NYC comments make me feel incredibly not insane and alone and not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves.

Hey, can you tone it down with this shit?  Thanks.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 04:54:11 PM
Once again the the r/NYC comments make me feel incredibly not insane and alone and not guilt tripped by some insane f.aggot Borean from Europe or Australia. I hope and pray online liberals hang themselves.

Hey, can you tone it down with this shit?  Thanks.

Urgh, fine.

I just really dislike liberals. Utterly vacuous people behind smiling teeth.

edit: fuck it, no more compassion.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:11:38 PM
"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."

--Mother Theresa
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:16:41 PM
"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."

--Mother Theresa

I'm not mentally ill. I just hate you and like the reaction to what I wrote clearly struck a chord. I'm glad it did, you weak Australian bitch. Sorry you got in your fee fee's, leftist scum. Find a good rope yet? Try the belt you're wearing. You've dehumanized me for months, including in your reply there. I will not spare a quarter. Go ahead. Kill yourself, fuck.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: BIONIC on February 19, 2022, 06:20:53 PM
:popcorn
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:24:45 PM
I'd suggest you try this Potato but unfortunately guns are illegal in Australia.

(https://i.imgur.com/boK0W86.gif)

Thankfully there's an option!

(https://i.imgur.com/tkZvO8g.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:28:46 PM
I'd suggest you try this Potato but unfortunately guns are illegal in Australia.

(https://i.imgur.com/boK0W86.gif)

Thankfully there's an option!

(https://i.imgur.com/tkZvO8g.gif)
Can confirm that they are not illegal and I wont be using mine to do that. But hey, you're a real peach of a human being. Let's hope you come to your senses and give up this ridiculous angry man cosplay you're currently doing. Maybe try getting really deep into knitting or something. Calm your nerves and you penchant for stupidity. Either way, I only wish you the best for your own sake. Stay safe and, remember, don't do anything drastic.


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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 19, 2022, 06:30:08 PM
It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park. 
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:31:46 PM
It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park. 
Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 06:32:06 PM
Is it me that's wrong for regularly telling people to kill themselves?

 :skinner

No, it's the online liberals for criticizing me.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:32:50 PM
I'd suggest you try this Potato but unfortunately guns are illegal in Australia.

(https://i.imgur.com/boK0W86.gif)

Thankfully there's an option!

(https://i.imgur.com/tkZvO8g.gif)
Can confirm that they are not illegal and I wont be using mine to do that. But hey, you're a real peach of a human being. Let's hope you come to your senses and give up this ridiculous angry man cosplay you're currently doing. Maybe try getting really deep into knitting or something. Calm your nerves and you penchant for stupidity. Either way, I only wish you the best for your own sake. Stay safe and, remember, don't do anything drastic.

Wish me the best. You just called me mentally ill because I wrote something to get a rise. I'm doing pretty fucking great. I just don't like you and rather than give you a nice face I've decided to give you what you've given me for months. It's no sweat on my brow. It's just laughs and games on the internet.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:34:27 PM
It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park. 
Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.

See. It's the online left moral grand standing. Help. Posts after accusing me of being mentally ill.

(https://i.imgur.com/VIulusu.gif)

Your hypocrisy is showing leftist. You've chastised me for months for nothing more than disagreement.

Please, for my sake, kill yourself.

It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park.

Hey at least I'd be in the park and outside. But that's something you're scared to do isn't it? Do you go to the park mask on or mask off?

:thinking
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 06:37:04 PM
Earlier you often made a distinction between liberals and leftists. Now you've twice conflated the two and accused Potato of being both, when he's pretty clearly not a leftist.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:37:54 PM
Earlier you often made a distinction between liberals and leftists. Now you've twice conflated the two and accused Potato of being both, when he's pretty clearly not a leftist.

He said earlier he's not a liberal. I assume he's a leftist because he's a domineering online asshat, which generally conflates to being a leftist.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. My bad. I edited it to say "online left".
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:42:55 PM
It's time Himu took a permanent walk in the park. 
Nah, we should try to help those who are lost. I do not support a ban at all.

See. It's the online liberal moral grand standing. Help. Posts after accusing me of being mentally ill.

(https://i.imgur.com/VIulusu.gif)

Your hypocrisy is showing leftist. You've chastised me for months for nothing more than disagreement.

Please, for my sake, kill yourself.
But you quite clearly are mentally ill and need to seek some help.

Slow down and maybe when you find the next thing you're going to hyper-focus on, try to take it slow and ease into it rather than diving headfirst into whatever this is. I have had very few interactions with you since you took this massive heel-turn, you've just been raving against everyone and getting more and more angry with (probably ) yourself.

If you think this is harassment, then you need to man up and stop being a fucking snowflake (just like the liberals you apparently so despise).

There's a saying we have here (not sure if you have it there) that might help, "How about you have a cup of concrete and harden the fuck up!"
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:45:41 PM
I don't really consider it harassment. I just want dialogue and there's none to be had. Just mockery for pretty normal viewpoints. :yeshrug

Harden the fuck up? It's the internet. It's just games. Since you don't want any dialogue, why should I? I'll just shit post instead.

Let's be real: I'm not mentally ill. You're just being an asshat as usual. Since what I say doesn't garner any actual viewpoints beyond mockery I might as well just bait for a reaction. I'm really liking yours right now. I'm feeling pretty good. :)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:45:51 PM
Earlier you often made a distinction between liberals and leftists. Now you've twice conflated the two and accused Potato of being both, when he's pretty clearly not a leftist.

He said earlier he's not a liberal. I assume he's a leftist because he's a domineering online asshat, which generally conflates to being a leftist.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. My bad. I edited it to say "online left".

Of all the dumb fucking shit you have spewed recently, this is probably some of the dumbest fucking shit.

Get help.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 19, 2022, 06:46:42 PM
Himu, you are a 4'2 mental midget and absolutely have some form of mental illness.  You've had like eight different personality crises in a decade and your new personality is based solely around being an antagonistic piece of shit.  Being a cunt might be laughs and games to you but it's annoying as shit to others.  We are not your therapist and not here to help you, and all you do here is spread brain rot, so get lost.   
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 06:47:17 PM
I think he's just fucking with you because you unnecessarily snipe at him and foreigners in general. Your personal foes aren't inherently political enemies, democratic politics is about building coalitions, not casting out anyone who dares cross you. A point you seem to grasp with the Democrats current woes but perhaps not with your MAGA chasing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:49:06 PM
I think he's just fucking with you because you unnecessarily snipe at him and foreigners in general. Your personal foes aren't inherently political enemies, democratic politics is about building coalitions, not casting out anyone who dares cross you. A point you seem to grasp with the Democrats current woes but perhaps not with your MAGA chasing.

Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:49:07 PM
I don't really consider it harassment. I just want dialogue and there's none to be had. Just mockery for pretty normal viewpoints. :yeshrug

Harden the fuck up? It's the internet. It's just games. Since you don't want any dialogue, why should I? I'll just shit post instead.

Let's be real: I'm not mentally ill. You're just being an asshat as usual. Since what I say doesn't garner any actual viewpoints beyond mockery I might as well just bait for a reaction. I'm really liking yours right now. I'm feeling pretty good. :)


"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."

--Mother Theresa

I'm not mentally ill. I just hate you and like the reaction to what I wrote clearly struck a chord. I'm glad it did, you weak Australian bitch. Sorry you got in your fee fee's, leftist scum. Find a good rope yet? Try the belt you're wearing. You've dehumanized me for months, including in your reply there. I will not spare a quarter. Go ahead. Kill yourself, fuck.


 :ufup
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:51:22 PM
Himu, you are a 4'2 mental midget and absolutely have some form of mental illness.  You've had like eight different personality crises in a decade and your new personality is based solely around being an antagonistic piece of shit.  Being a cunt might be laughs and games to you but it's annoying as shit to others.  We are not your therapist and not here to help you, and all you do here is spread brain rot, so get lost.   

I haven't been an antagonistic piece of shit at all. You just don't like what I say, and you can't handle it. Which makes me giggle so I double down and down and down.

I said a pretty basic opinion: I am pro-vax but extremely anti-mandate and it was mocked. No dialogue. Just mockery. Time to double down. Then triple down. Just to spite you all while having giggles.

Let's be honest. This is an online persona. I'm not like this in real life. I absolutely will vote Republican but all this? It's all show. It's theatre and giggles because I'm the villain just for existing. If that's the case, I might as well play the part. The fact you think this thread and this forum is real life is the true mental illness.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:51:57 PM
I don't really consider it harassment. I just want dialogue and there's none to be had. Just mockery for pretty normal viewpoints. :yeshrug

Harden the fuck up? It's the internet. It's just games. Since you don't want any dialogue, why should I? I'll just shit post instead.

Let's be real: I'm not mentally ill. You're just being an asshat as usual. Since what I say doesn't garner any actual viewpoints beyond mockery I might as well just bait for a reaction. I'm really liking yours right now. I'm feeling pretty good. :)


"The mentally ill should not be allowed to vote."

--Mother Theresa

I'm not mentally ill. I just hate you and like the reaction to what I wrote clearly struck a chord. I'm glad it did, you weak Australian bitch. Sorry you got in your fee fee's, leftist scum. Find a good rope yet? Try the belt you're wearing. You've dehumanized me for months, including in your reply there. I will not spare a quarter. Go ahead. Kill yourself, fuck.


 :ufup

find a rope yet?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 06:54:48 PM
I think he's just fucking with you because you unnecessarily snipe at him and foreigners in general. Your personal foes aren't inherently political enemies, democratic politics is about building coalitions, not casting out anyone who dares cross you. A point you seem to grasp with the Democrats current woes but perhaps not with your MAGA chasing.

Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.

Make a decision fuckhead.

Am I on block or am I not?

Is it just "laughs and games on the internet" or are you really trying to insult me and tell me to kill myself?

Your own internal logic and philosophy is so twisted and confused at this point that I don't know if you are even capable of making a coherent point.

But whatever, by all means, go ahead and keep posting insane rants about the boogeyman liberals and leftists who are coming to take your rights away, while accusing me, of all people, of being one of those liberals and leftists.

You know you sound like one of those Fox News guests that even the Fox News hosts are embarassed about, right?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 06:56:57 PM
You're on block, but I'm liking your reactions here so much I just keep clicking view post which is a simple click.

It's absolutely laughs on the internet and the fact you called me a fuckhead shows you're starting to show emotion. I'm getting a crack.

Do you prefer leather belts or the elastic kind?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2022, 06:58:52 PM
(https://c.tenor.com/MczMp0LLuawAAAAC/assistindo-eating-popcorn.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:00:41 PM
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.
I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.

Maybe Potato is taking it too personally, I don't know, he just seems to be giving you some shit back rather than pursuing any kind of leftist agenda. (Madrun is trying to sow discord as is typical of the Canadian menace.)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:01:16 PM
Potato:

(https://i.imgur.com/gpBl1h5.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:02:48 PM
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.
I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.

Maybe Potato is taking it too personally, I don't know, he just seems to be giving you some shit back rather than pursuing any kind of leftist agenda. (Madrun is trying to sow discord as is typical of the Canadian menace.)

In the past I simply reminded Potato he's injecting a non-American perspective onto my American viewpoint. Pretty simple. :yeshrug He took it personally (good) which is precisely I brought up Euros and Australians in the aforementioned post. Nice, easy, reaction.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 19, 2022, 07:05:21 PM
Benji, I'm not trying to sow discord, I'm legit tired of seeing Himu's dumb fucking rants in every thread.  It's nintex bad but then also aggressive on top.   The forum would be better without Himu here.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 07:06:02 PM
Didn't really have anything to say other than


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Made you look dickhead!
 :cody
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:06:26 PM
even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.


Mmmm...no. I tell my perspective from my life and you've got the liberals coming out calling me stupid for feeling that way whether it's Stro or some non-American. Most are liberal so I apply it to liberals. But my main ire goes beyond homelessness and covid policies but liberal policies in general, to which the liberal response in this thread and forum confirm to me: the problem is liberals. Since the liberals are unwilling to engage when I was being intellectually honest and nice, why should they get respect returned? I am nice to those who are nice to me.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:07:14 PM
Didn't really have anything to say other than


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Made you look dickhead!
 :cody
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Nice avatar.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 07:07:28 PM
Unnecessarily snipe at him. I have on block for a reason. I legitimately hate him and I'm happy at this reaction.
I think it's pretty unnecessary to take shots at foreigners like you have, especially since they're just as welcome here. Nintex is on "your side" and you don't really target him, but Potato and Madrun and whoever else disagrees with you gets attacked for being foreigners and told to get out. All while most of your posts are just rants about "liberals" being jerks to you, even though your current dispute isn't really with "liberals" broadly but with COVID and homeless policies in New York City.

Maybe Potato is taking it too personally, I don't know, he just seems to be giving you some shit back rather than pursuing any kind of leftist agenda. (Madrun is trying to sow discord as is typical of the Canadian menace.)

In the past I simply reminded Potato he's injecting a non-American perspective onto my American viewpoint. Pretty simple. :yeshrug He took it personally (good) which is precisely I brought up Euros and Australians in the aforementioned post. Nice, easy, reaction.


Oh no. Whatever will your incompetent snowflake brain ever do now?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:09:43 PM
Benji, I'm not trying to sow discord, I'm legit tired of seeing Himu's dumb fucking rants in every thread.  It's nintex bad but then also aggressive on top.   The forum would be better without Himu here.

lol every thread

What you really mean is this and the Covid thread. lol Poor ol Madrun. Poor poor Arvie. :tocry
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 07:10:33 PM
The fact that you have chosen me, out of all the people who have called you out on your bullshit, to accuse of being leftist is just proof that you are not really coherent and don't really have a philosophy outside of ranting and raving about whatever it is that's triggered you on Twitter.

Get help.

What you think is just "fun and games on the internet" is actually some pretty deep seated malfunction in your brain and a cry for help.

I do want you to get that help. It's important.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:10:50 PM
The Madrun Agenda:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLriwI_VEAMGHNu?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:11:20 PM
The Madrun Agenda:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLriwI_VEAMGHNu?format=jpg&name=small)

qq

Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Resist Australian-style Fascism
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:12:47 PM
For the sake of transparency, again, it's not two issues. Here's a serious post without me fishing for a reaction.

Himu, I love you buddy - but what does the Republican party offer you besides a slight respite from the particularly annoying grievance politics from the Democratic party?  There's a lot to criticize with the left, especially their handling of sensitive issues regarding race and identity...  But what do the Republicans do for you?  Is it largely their stance on vax freedom?

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Life experience. Living in a blue city in a red state is a complete opposite experience to living in a blue city in a blue state. It's easy to say you're a progressive until you've actually lived in a place that actually is.

You would think moving to NYC would make me more liberal/progressive than I was. I moved here as a progressive. In the end, I had to learn what it was like to live with and sit with the impact of my own policies. It was a massive wake up call.

Liberalism leads to:

1. Mediocrity - Privileged liberals hewed and hawed about the Pandemic and being scared to even go out even as they sat in their homes doing Zoom meetings, complaining about having to commute to the office well after vaccines were available. Whether my former roommates or whatever, I just noticed that the privilege of being able to work from home was an elite status that the elite couldn't recognize was privileged, nor could they appreciate as the rest of us - like myself and others I knew - had to sacrifice our bodies, our time, our safety to make ends meet in the middle of a pandemic. Through this experience I saw the laziness that was bred through virtual meetings, the privilege of work from home that it creates, and the mediocrity it brings. The rest of us operated on pure grit and a will to live despite all odds. Meanwhile the privileged are too scared to live because of social anxiety. It's really pathetic.

2. Weakness - Tied into the last point, and as we can see from Biden's lack of leadership, liberalism leads to weakness. Endless complaining, no solutions, just bleeding hearts. Their solution to most problems is to...do nothing. Or they do something but have no real end game plan so they protest the closing a nuclear plant to purport an increase in natural gas usage only to want to limit natural gas and increase gas energy prices a year later. They have no long term strategy. It is only ever feelings based finger pointing and victim blaming. There's almost never an idea of hope presented by the left. It's endless navel gazing and problems and doom and gloom. Going by the left, you can't do anything because you're black. You're a woman. You're this, you're that. Everything is tied to some victim complex of identity and I refuse to let my victories be defined by the color of my skin but the talent that I have and dreams I wish to achieve.

3. Excuse making - Black people can't get vote IDs despite the fact most black people live in the south and it's impossible to get anywhere in the south without a fucking drivers license and a car so most people already have IDs. Homeless are smoking crack on the subway and attacking people where children take the commute to school? Let's ignore it, they need a place to sleep! This all forms a trifecta of low expectations. They don't push anyone to do aspire to be their best, they merely look at society and victimize. Are these very real issues? In some cases, sure. But endless victimhood, what has it gotten us? Absolutely nothing. Hopes. Dreams. And a can do spirit. Maybe we will fail, but that's the tough America is made of.

More and more as I lived here I noticed that the real problems people face aren't met with respect but with money being thrown at the issue. It made me more fiscally conservative due to how much of my tax dollars go towards shit that don't solve anything.

Conservatives understand all of this. Although they have their own issues with liberty, Republicans have more respect towards it as a rule. I very much identify with the libertarians but the Libertarian Party isn't going to win a fight against the Democratic Party which I increasingly view as even worse for society than the Republicans especially through the lens of identity politics. I can talk to Republicans about things and they'll disagree on some things but understand where I'm coming from. I communicate my complex views on liberty and Democrats think I'm a bigot.

Over regulation, disregarding families and family values, no long term strategy, lack of strong leadership, privileged elitists, too fiscally liberal, reducing people to their identity/race/gender, the endless victim olympics, over 50 years of being a total clown show, their inability to get things done on a local/state/federal level, on and on and on. On most issues I realize I'm closer to the Republicans than the Democrats. A few years ago I flirted with conservatism and I wrongly put it in the box but I can admit I was wrong and I should have went all the way then and there. I've finally pushed the button.

At the end of the day we live in a two party system and the American people are keep choosing between the two because they can't govern. But for all of his faults, Americans did real well under Trump, especially our wallets and businesses and families.

Republicans offer me:

1. Hope. They actually believe the things they say. Conservatives just want upward mobility. That's what I want. Republicans actually believe if you work hard enough you'll make it. That's what I believe. I wouldn't have moved across the country if I didn't. In this, we are aligned. When I came here I found opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. Turns out opportunity knocks if you want it bad enough. No one stopped me because of my race. No one limited me but myself. By contrast, the left only judges, finger points, says this and that person thinks a certain way therefore they're bad and must be avoided.

2. A modern life. Republicans wisely understand that the conditions of our lives in here and now - today - is a rare circumstance in the circumference of human history and we should hold on to what we hold dear at all costs. Although there's much to improve, the liberal/progressive/communist idea of toppling what we have of unprecedented education, unprecedented peace, unprecedented opportunity for the human being to strive is bad. Often liberals are too concerned with transforming things without knowing what they're transforming them into. They are all heart, no brain.

3. Freedom. To own a gun. To own a business and run it how you like. To think what you want.

Throw in deregulation, school choice (as I plan for a family), more traditional values, lower taxes, better distribution of those taxes, less welfare programs that keep society mediocre, a can do spirit and it's pretty obvious which is better.

I think a better question is what the Democrats have to offer me.

I haven't even gotten into Vaccine mandates, the endless Covid safety parade, the endless Covid virtue signaling, turning vaccines into a full fledged identity, or the failures of the Biden administration. All of those things were the final domino enough to finally make me push the button. Republicans are by no means perfect but at this point, but they're closer to my ideals than the Democrats.

TLDR: Moving to NYC made me more conservative after challenging my progressive views. The only things I agree with Democrats on is healthcare reform (I get really good healthcare in NY and think it's worth paying a tax for) and a few other issues like decriminalization of drugs which funnily came from the more libertarian Colorado.
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:16:16 PM
There's two different modes. There's troll mode, fish mode, where I write purposely hyperbolic stuff, and then there's the real me, as in the response to Propa. If you think fish mode is genuine you're really fucking re re. :heh

Read this tweet which is a reply to the original thread.

https://twitter.com/RussLakey/status/1494484143723319296

Democrats and their endless virtue. "BUT PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!!!!! :stop"

Yeah, and? It's a pandemic. Remember when Trump was Prez and they lost their shit at 400k dying under his watch? But they are really quiet about blaming Biden for deaths when it hits even more than Trump's numbers. Yet they still use PEOPLE ARE DYING!!! as an excuse, even when their rigid policies clearly aren't fucking working.

https://twitter.com/BringAWarrant/status/1494445331345559553

https://twitter.com/WinstonSmithTC/status/1494449877622800392

https://twitter.com/LivingSamsara/status/1494482375170052104

https://twitter.com/fsmith1340/status/1494480739626364945

(https://i.imgur.com/Hn5UFWp.gif)

LET'S DO IT! We have the momentum! Liberals have masks despite being triple vaxxed and endless faggotry. Have to make sure Liberals lose so much ground they lose an entire generation. We have to make sure liberals never see power again.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2022, 07:17:03 PM
Do you have a beast mode?  8)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Coffee Dog on February 19, 2022, 07:17:35 PM
I'm not really sure how you go from BIG COPE over not getting to work from home -> telling people to kill themselves because it makes you feel good
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:18:44 PM
Do you have a beast mode?  8)

Only on the women I love.

Boy yowza!!!

(https://i.imgur.com/xxvEIaX.gif)
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:20:30 PM
BIG COPE over not getting to work from home

Ah. A reductionist statement that reduces what I said into a meme. Never seen that on this forum before or from liberals for that matter. Coffee is fatal to dogs. I hope you don't drink too much, you hunkering phaggot.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: samir on February 19, 2022, 07:22:41 PM
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:24:54 PM
Mmmm...no. I tell my perspective from my life and you've got the liberals coming out calling me stupid for feeling that way whether it's Stro or some non-American. Most are liberal so I apply it to liberals. But my main ire goes beyond homelessness and covid policies but liberal policies in general, to which the liberal response in this thread and forum confirm to me: the problem is liberals. Since the liberals are unwilling to engage when I was being intellectually honest and nice, why should they get respect returned? I am nice to those who are nice to me.
It's fine to have problems with progressives and Democrats in general but for the most part you've only really outlined three broad disagreements with them:
-COVID policy in NYC, which is more extreme than most of the country, including even DC at times, and as you yourself have noted other Democratic Governors are not following Hochul in statewide policies while pushing back against the the larger coastal state Democrats that are closer to her
-homeless/crime policy in NYC, which as you yourself again noted Eric Adams (himself not very popular among progressives) seems to be trending away from the de Blasio policies (which themselves were far from the popular policies of Rudy and Bloomberg, both "liberals")
-they're jerks online

When you pressed him a bit, stost outlined his own policy interests regarding homelessness from a leftist perspective that probably wouldn't be entirely acceptable among big city progressives, Democrats or "liberals" and you didn't have too much criticism for those. The SF recall is interesting because it was a coalition on specific interests, where typical broad politics would have never succeeded (indeed the board members and their defenders tried to go exactly this route by accusing their multicultural San Francisco opponents of being Trumpers, Republicans, white supremacists, etc.) which I think is another instance of evidence for where if you want to bring down big city party-backed Democrats as you proclaim it's about building coalitions on issues, not engaging in MAGA style politics. I think you're probably right that the de Blasio polices weren't entirely popular even among Democrats, but you seem to be painting anyone who disagrees with you as inherently backing those.

In other words, I'm saying you need a little more Hugh Honey and less Vic Vinegar in both your real estate and your life.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:25:32 PM
Hmm, pretend. No. More like, think a certain way but blow it up a bit. For show. Since no one wants to actually talk and treat people like humans here you might as go all out and make it your oyster.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:30:18 PM
https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/1495113050382209025
https://twitter.com/petespiliakos/status/1495149035174436870
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:30:43 PM
Mmmm...no. I tell my perspective from my life and you've got the liberals coming out calling me stupid for feeling that way whether it's Stro or some non-American. Most are liberal so I apply it to liberals. But my main ire goes beyond homelessness and covid policies but liberal policies in general, to which the liberal response in this thread and forum confirm to me: the problem is liberals. Since the liberals are unwilling to engage when I was being intellectually honest and nice, why should they get respect returned? I am nice to those who are nice to me.
It's fine to have problems with progressives and Democrats in general but for the most part you've only really outlined three broad disagreements with them:
-COVID policy in NYC, which is more extreme than most of the country, including even DC at times, and as you yourself have noted other Democratic Governors are not following Hochul in statewide policies while pushing back against the the larger coastal state Democrats that are closer to her
-homeless/crime policy in NYC, which as you yourself again noted Eric Adams (himself not very popular among progressives) seems to be trending away from the de Blasio policies (which themselves were far from the popular policies of Rudy and Bloomberg, both "liberals")
-they're jerks online

This isn't a fair ascertainment of my views at all. I've made the argument for example that liberals own all culture. This means it's impossible to escape liberal viewpoints as well as people. So not only do you have to suffer with it in real life, in the media you consume, in the ways they impact your day to day life but you go online and they're fucking everywhere as well. It's not that liberals are jerks online. It's actually the cherry on top.

You're also pulling together homeless and crime policy into one batch. You've missed taxes, as well as the fact the Democrats don't get anything done or the fact that for the most part liberal policies are wholly reactionary.

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When you pressed him a bit, stost outlined his own policy interests regarding homelessness from a leftist perspective that probably wouldn't be entirely acceptable among big city progressives, Democrats or "liberals" and you didn't have too much criticism for those. The SF recall is interesting because it was a coalition on specific interests, where typical broad politics it would have never succeeded (indeed the board members and their defenders tried to go exactly this route by accusing their multicultural San Francisco opponents of being Trumpers, Republicans, white supremacists, etc.) which I think is another instance of evidence for where if you want to bring down big city party-backed Democrats as you proclaim it's about building coalitions on issues, not engaging in MAGA style politics. I think you're probably right that the de Blasio polices weren't entirely popular even among Democrats, but you seem to be painting anyone who disagrees with you as inherently backing those.

In other words, I'm saying you need a little more Hugh Honey and less Vic Vinegar in both your real estate and your life.

I disagree with Shosta's homeless policy in general which was the same as NYC's to my memory and that's do nothing.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:32:30 PM
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1494849704923967491

 :american
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:32:58 PM
:dead American troops to Canada
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:40:10 PM
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Himu on February 19, 2022, 07:41:06 PM
I'll spare Madrun the time and leave on my own will. I'm pretty sure Bork will ban me though anyways so you win anyways.

As a corollary, as I said elsewhere, the Bore is inherently toxic.

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The environment of the Bore is made as such where I, or someone else, says something. Then people, rather than trying to understand what is being said, get on a soapbox of correctness and attempt to judge or bully the person in to why they're wrong. Person doubles down. Tirade continues. Person triples down.

The Bore does this with any person they don't like and always has. We are a monoculture and like to keep it that way. Look at Ghoul's posts on this page and thread. it's done specifically to create a reaction. He's acting like a toxic ass. So I respond as a toxic ass back. That's Bore 101.

You could argue it's the format, and that's true as far as it goes, but it's also the people. The Discord can be just as toxic.

I've been on this forum since it launched in 2006. Frankly, no one I used to like even posts anymore besides a few strays like Bebpo or Tiesto. I just post to get reactions now anyways. Posting here is pretty pointless and has been for some time.

If there's one bad thing for my mental health, as you all say, it's probably The Bore. The fact of the matter is, we don't like each other, and there's better things to spend ones time on. "Go where you're appreciated" is pretty good advice. I don't appreciate any of you or vice versa.

I hate you all.

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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Nintex on February 19, 2022, 07:46:34 PM
God speed Himu I hope you find what you are looking for :fbm
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: samir on February 19, 2022, 07:49:52 PM
See you in a month
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Potato on February 19, 2022, 07:54:55 PM
See you in a month
I wonder what random issue his personality will be based on by then?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: OnlyRegret on February 19, 2022, 07:55:29 PM
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Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 07:55:38 PM
This isn't a fair ascertainment of my views at all. I've made the argument for example that liberals own all culture. This means it's impossible to escape liberal viewpoints as well as people. So not only do you have to suffer with it in real life, in the media you consume, in the ways they impact your day to day life but you go online and they're fucking everywhere as well. It's not that liberals are jerks online. It's actually the cherry on top.

You're also pulling together homeless and crime policy into one batch. You've missed taxes, as well as the fact the Democrats don't get anything done or the fact that for the most part liberal policies are wholly reactionary.
I disagree with your position on culture, doesn't seem like that at all to me. People seem pretty good at siloing. Even where progressives are dominant I don't see anything that suggests they're winning the fight, especially online. For example, the people still using Latinx are a rear guard that got crushed dramatically. People ignore/mock all the NFL's attempts at seeming woke. Elite culture has always pushed their views, I don't know why you're suddenly so upset about it that you're willing to become caustic, it's been this way our entire lives. Seinfeld was elite "liberal" culture in the 1990's.

I did toss crime in there because as I was writing the stuff comparing Adams and de Blasio I recognized that was part of what upsets people about Adams.

Taxes are taxes, one set of people are always going to want higher taxes on other people. Even Republicans, the Trump SALT changes were a direct attempt to wedge tax concerns into Democratic cleavages. That's why you had even NY Republicans who were otherwise MAGAtards voting against it in the House. At this point criticizing Democrats for wanting to increase taxes seems like low hanging fruit, they champion their desire for more taxes now days.

Democrats seem to get a lot done, they just have different priorities than you or I. For example, directing taxpayer dollars to well connected wealthy political groups, they get this done very well.

On the last point, I've called progressive politics reactionary for a long time just on this forum but you have to actually make that argument if you want them to listen to you about it. Insulting them for not getting it won't get them there, it will just harden them in their place on the right side of history and cause them to dismiss everything you say including the good parts.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: mormapope on February 19, 2022, 07:58:14 PM
I can't give an exact percentage, but part of me is convinced the real Himu hasn't really existed for some quantity of time, and that the Bore account for Himu has been used for nefarious reasons for 16 years.

I may be wrong and it's actually one person behind the account. But if the main consistency is the lack of consistency..... :doge
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: Transhuman on February 19, 2022, 08:39:33 PM
SO HOW ABOUT THOSE USA POLITICS?
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 09:13:36 PM
SO HOW ABOUT THOSE USA POLITICS?
Too soon. Not funny.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: bork on February 19, 2022, 09:35:09 PM
Well, that was a lot to come back to after a couple of hours.

 :rodney

I'll spare Madrun the time and leave on my own will. I'm pretty sure Bork will ban me though anyways so you win anyways.

Yeah, because you need a break and this will stop any temptation you might have of doing more posting.  See you in 30.
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: benjipwns on February 19, 2022, 09:45:55 PM
and here comes the online liberal jannies to silence a Black man for speaking truth to liberal power smh

AMAB
Title: Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!
Post by: bork on February 19, 2022, 09:46:05 PM
Rather than clean this shit up, thread's closed.  Will make a new one shortly.