US Politics Thread |OT| THE DARKEST TIMELINE

[Shadow Mod]

House voted to defund planned parenthood.

 

[Kara]

“No matter what party you belong to, we should all agree that taxpayer dollars should not be used for harvesting baby parts for profit,” Representative Tim Walberg of Michigan said.

Fuck you you pinko commie hippie. Job creators outchea trying to get some .

[Shadow Mod]

How about we agree on just what the fuck reality is, and it's not what ever the fuck that idiot described.

[Phoenix Dark]

I've seen this movie before. Let me guess: Boehner will let the kids play for a few days, Obama will stand firm, the Senate will pass a clean bill that funds the government (including Planned Parenthood), Boehner will pull the rug from under the extremists in his caucus/get a clean bill passed, Obama will will sign a clean govt funding bill.

I used to think maybe Boehner will let them shut down the government for a few days but nah, not during a presidential election.

[Joe Molotov]

I hope Boehner gets kicked to the curb just for the entertainment value. The House is already a disaster, who cares if it's made to be slightly more of a disaster? I'm sure it'll be like last time where everyone hates him, but the insurgents are too disorganized to actually oust him, but I didn't think Cantor would get primaried either.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-i-am-a-bush

[Trent Dole]

I thought Jeb! was supposed to be the stupid one, like somehow even stupider than George W.

[Tasty]

If he was the smart one he would have been president already.

Checkmate.

[tiesto]

[benjipwns]

https://mcafee16.com/



http://www.whoismcafee.com/

[VomKriege]

"He kept our PCs safe !"

[benjipwns]

In 2012, when asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying "I take it off," and that "It's too annoying."

[benjipwns]

Jake Tapper ‏@jaketapper  1h1 hour ago
Wow. Some big changes in the race in our post-debate poll. Tune in to @CNNSotu at 9 am ET - plus we'll talk to Trump, Christie & Kasich

Mark Halperin ‏@MarkHalperin  13h13 hours ago
Whatever the @CNN GOP post-debate national poll numbers show at 9am ET Sunday,  THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.  @jaketapper

Lindsey Graham surge incoming!

[benjipwns]

[Dennis]

Is !Jeb standing on tip toes again?

[benjipwns]

PD...our guy...get the paddles

[Dennis]

Walker putting in that work. Paging PD.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1114726

[benjipwns]

There were too many shots of his bald spot, especially with Trump in the frame.

[benjipwns]

Enthusiasm gap:

Democrats:
51% - extremely/very enthusiastic about 2016 election
23% - not too/not at all enthusiastic about 2016 election

Republicans:
65% - extremely/very enthusiastic about 2016 election
11% - not too/not at all enthusiastic about 2016 election

[benjipwns]

Just more proof that the people want Bernie not some "in your heart you know she might" Goldwater Republican.

[Kara]

(Image removed from quote.)

BrandNew come get ya boys.

[benjipwns]

Donald Trump’s campaign said to Breitbart News, “Both polls reinforce that Mr. Trump is the leader in the race by a wide margin and won the debate. Other candidates will rise and fall depending on individual performance, but Mr. Trump is solidifying his substantial lead.”

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

[Rufus]

One can only hope that they're doing this to highlight the stupidity of the law. Right? Right?

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

An adult perpetrator and a minor victim, but both are the same person.

[benjipwns]

I was looking up the various candidates PAC donations and came across this:

George H.W. Bush gave $125,000 to his son's super PAC, but George W. Bush only gave $95,000 to his brother's.

[Shadow Mod]

When you have as money as they do isn't that basically just donating a mercedes.

[benjipwns]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

In July, Denson took a plea deal and admitted a misdemeanour. Felony charges were dropped. She was put on probation for a year, technically for exploiting herself by making and having a naked image of herself.

She was ordered to pay $200 in court costs, stay in school, refrain from using illegal drugs and alcohol, take a class in making good decisions and do 30 hours of community services. She will not be allowed to have a cellphone for a year.

[Great Rumbler]

“Do you acknowledge what every fact checker has found?” Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Fiorina Sunday. “As horrific as the scene is, it was only described on the video by someone who claimed to have seen it. There is not -- no actual footage of the incident you just mentioned.”

“No, I don’t accept that at all,” Fiorina responded. “I’ve seen the footage. And I find it amazing, actually, that all these supposed fact checkers in the mainstream media claim this doesn’t exist, they’re trying to attack the authenticity of the videotape, I haven’t found a lot of people in the mainstream media who has ever watched these things.”

“I mean, they will claim that somebody watched it for them,” she continued. “I will continue to dare anyone who wants to continue to fund Planned Parenthood, watch the videotapes. And anyone who wants to challenge me first is going to have to prove to me that they watched it.”

[Phoenix Dark]

I guess I misjudged misandry amongst republican voters, who are clearly rejecting him based on his physical appearance.

[Shadow Mod]

Someone should piece together a video of torture dungeons and a bunch of speeches by Fiorina to say she's the living incarnation of the devil.

Maybe she'll understand editing then.

[Joe Molotov]

How can all these "supposed" "fact" "checkers" in the mainstream "media" claim that the video doesn't "exist" when they haven't even watched the nonexistent video?

[Great Rumbler]

I can't actually believe that "Bush was actually a great President!!" is the hill that Jeb! is gonna die on:

@HillaryClinton Your political machine’s 9/11 ad is disgraceful. As a New Yorker you know the leadership my brother provided after 9/11

[Steve Contra]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

This episode of Black Mirror was p cool

[Joe Molotov]

PD, come get your boy

[studyguy]

 

[Steve Contra]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/21/scott-walker-said-to-be-quitting-presidential-race/

PD 

[Human Snorenado]

Goddamnit, Contra beat me by seconds.

[Kara]

Normally a Randroid doctrinaire meekly quitting after not even polling would be a cause for celebration, but this is GOP 2016: Husker Du?

[Steve Contra]

Normally a Randroid doctrinaire meekly quitting after not even polling would be a cause for celebration, but this is GOP 2016: Husker Du?

I'll still take the W.  I can't think of a more noxious person in the 2016 race and that's saying a lot.

[Kara]

It is.

Is there a more resounding vote of no confidence in the party line, btw? To borrow from a Brecht poem, perhaps the GOP can dissolve their constituency and elect another.

[Human Snorenado]

Normally a Randroid doctrinaire meekly quitting after not even polling would be a cause for celebration, but this is GOP 2016: Husker Du?

I'll still take the W.  I can't think of a more noxious person in the 2016 race and that's saying a lot.

re: the gop base, it's funny to me that roughly half of the support is going to people (Trump, Fiorina, Carson) that have never held office. The yahoos that make up the GOP are sick of their politicians giving them the sweet, sweet red meat pillow talk and then just lying there like a pillow queen when it's time to fuck. They want someone that will do ALL the dirty shit, and if they've gotta elect a troll doll, a failed CEO, or an idiot neurosurgeon to do it, they will.

[Joe Molotov]

[Steve Contra]

Trump more noxious than Walker?  i don't think so.  Trump is a blowhard asshole who probably wouldn't get much done, Walker has proven time and time again he's willing to railroad whoever needed to institute his shitty ideologies.

[brawndolicious]

They'd probably elect a gay Muslim if he was the only one promising to undo the Iran deal or get rid of immigrants/Planned Parenthood. I'm not trying to focus on the stupidest parts of their agenda, those actually seem to be the main things they want to do.

[Joe Molotov]

Walker thinks that Reagan's union busting was his greatest foreign policy achievement, because it let Russia know he meant business.

Christ, what an asshole.

[Dennis]

PD, please give !Jeb your kiss of death next 

[Steve Contra]

I still think he's the nominee.

Let's never forget Friday the 18th of September 2015, when PD killed Scott Walker's campaign

[Sausage]

[Phoenix Dark]

@myself

I thought he was the surefire nominee. Far right record for the base and enough respect from the establishment to be the fall back candidate after Bush flamed out. A record of "beating democrats in a blue state" (nevermind the heavy asterisk such a claim deserves - he's never run during a general election - it's a potent talking point to republicans). Destroyed unions at Reagan-esque levels. Wow.

[studyguy]

Why can't minorities just pull up themselves up from their bootstraps like I've done for the past 14 years.

“I strongly believe that Senator Cruz is truly what America needs to make America the shining city on a hill it once was,” CJ wrote in an e-mail to The Washington Post, saying Cruz would challenge the “Washington cartel.” “To allude to the Hunger Games, he’s the face of the rebellion. Being a teenager, I am definitely a big fan of that haha!”

Pearson wrote. “Ahmed is being used as a political prop, and to be quite frank, it’s quite disgusting. It’s even more disgusting that he’s enjoying it.”

 

I shouldn't laugh at 14 year olds though, makes me no better than the dudes shitting on the poor kid getting cuffed for nothing.
Still kid has some unfortunate opinions.
 

[Madrun Badrun]

Pretty sure Sulu gets to call the dude black face because he is a yellow face, not because he is a liberal.  For example, people would be pissed if I called anyone a variable-color face regardless of my political leanings. 

[Great Rumbler]

PD, come get your boy

Ten years from now this kid's gonna be seen threatening old white people with a nightstick at a suburban voting site.

[Kara]

Walker thinks that Reagan's union busting was his greatest foreign policy achievement, because it let Russia know he meant business.

Christ, what an asshole.

Yeah, OK, buddy. What was Russia part of then? The Soviet Union. By taking apart unions like PATCO, Reagan showed them Russkies that no one was safe, not even homophones.

[Steve Contra]

no one was safe, not even homophones

Newsfeed

[Kara]

Former peanut company executive Stewart Parnell was hit with a virtual life prison term Monday for his 2014 conviction on crimes related to a salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine and sickening hundreds.

A federal judge in Georgia sentenced the 61-year-old former head of Peanut Corporation of America to 28 years behind bars, imposing potentially the toughest punishment in U.S. history for a producer in a foodborne illness case.

He sent an email to his plant manager saying something like, "this is costing us too much $$$." Apparently writing the word money also cost too much.

[brawndolicious]

In other news of corporate duplicity:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/obama_administration_orders_vo.html


The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal is I think going to hurt them more than the Toyota floor mat or Takata air bag scandals (even though no one died because of this).

Half a million vehicles recalled. And the most likely fix will be a software one that gives the car worse mileage/power than when it was new.  Way to flush one of the biggest brands in the world down the toilet. All because they focused on diesels rather than hybrids.

[Great Rumbler]

"I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current frontrunner," Walker added.

[Kara]

In other news of corporate duplicity:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/obama_administration_orders_vo.html


The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal is I think going to hurt them more than the Toyota floor mat or Takata air bag scandals (even though no one died because of this).

Half a million vehicles recalled. And the most likely fix will be a software one that gives the car worse mileage/power than when it was new.  Way to flush one of the biggest brands in the world down the toilet. All because they focused on diesels rather than hybrids.

They programmed the engine to know when it was being smogged and to accordingly not pollute as much.

<insert car mag cliche about "Teutonic" engineering>

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Triumph please wear this the next time I see you