US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[agrajag]

What if Bannon just wanted a bigly pay day? Everyone is talking about how big of an L Bannon took going against dear leader, I bet he is wiping his tears away with benjamins. He must have got a juicy deal with this book.

[Mandark]

He's not the author and he's already rich.

[agrajag]

He's not the author and he's already rich.

I thought he had some kind of co-author capacity since his name always appears to be tied to the book. So he was just some rando that spoke on record for it? The rich often have a desire to increase their wealth.

[VomKriege]

https://grrrgraphics.com

Ben Garrison is on a roll including having a Franken cartoon right next to a Moore one

[Joe Molotov]

He's not the author and he's already rich.

I thought he had some kind of co-author capacity since his name always appears to be tied to the book. So he was just some rando that spoke on record for it? The rich often have a desire to increase their wealth.

He also had a desire to make a hip-hop musical based on Coriolanus and set in the LA riots. Sometimes things don't work out.

[Joe Molotov]

https://grrrgraphics.com

Ben Garrison is on a roll including having a Franken cartoon right next to a Moore one

Now I'm sad I didn't get a Hillraiser Blu-Ray for Christmas, although I'm slightly worried by his usage of a UK style ratings logo.

[kingv]

He's not the author and he's already rich.

I thought he had some kind of co-author capacity since his name always appears to be tied to the book. So he was just some rando that spoke on record for it? The rich often have a desire to increase their wealth.

He also had a desire to make a hip-hop musical based on Coriolanus and set in the LA riots. Sometimes things don't work out.

That’s stupid, any musical based on gang violence in LA must be derivative of west side story.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://i.redd.it/ky3pis0wy9801.jpg

lol

[stufte]

https://i.redd.it/ky3pis0wy9801.jpg

lol

But I'm listening to the audio book right now.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

That’s stupid, any musical based on gang violence in LA must be derivative of west side story.

West Side Story is in NEW YORK CITY!

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I thought this board was gay as hell, and we're making these mistakes about musical theater?!

[kingv]

Yes, but it involves gang violence. Replace the sharks and jets with bloods and crips, and get Steve Bannon to write hip hop anthems about smoking crack and shooting white people, and you
Have a hit.

Alternatively, West vs east with pac and biggie, bad boy vs death row.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/roy_moore_accusers_home_burns.html

[benjipwns]

the twitter handle is literally "the gorilla channel thing is a joke" guys. I feel like I'm gonna be hit with "haha we knew that, loser" posts but I had to risk it. can't have my fellow neoliberals falling for fake news

I'm still not convinced it isn't true.

Up to a certain point, I suppose you can almost see how someone might be fooled. After all, the following story about Trump from a 1997 New Yorker profile, told by a reporter joining Trump on his private plane, is apparently true:

We hadn't been airborne long when Trump decided to watch a movie. He'd brought along "Michael," a recent release, but twenty minutes after popping it into the VCR he got bored and switched to an old favorite, a Jean Claude Van Damme slugfest called "Bloodsport," which he pronounced "an incredible, fantastic movie." By assigning to his son the task of fast-forwarding through all the plot exposition—Trump's goal being "to get this two-hour movie down to forty-five minutes"—he eliminated any lulls between the nose hammering, kidney tenderizing, and shin whacking. When a beefy bad guy who was about to squish a normal-sized good guy received a crippling blow to the scrotum, I laughed. "Admit it, you're laughing!" Trump shouted. "You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?"

[VomKriege]

Bloodsport is amazing. Trump redeemed.
Suck it you libtards, MAGA is on the way and you won't stop it.
Well unless he's fast forwarding through Van Damme toying the cops in a foot chase too. In that case, I weep for the world and America. Idiocracy was real !

[Joe Molotov]

In the interest of full disclosure, I would watch the gorilla channel if it was real.

[benjipwns]

Well unless he's fast forwarding through Van Damme toying the cops in a foot chase too. In that case, I weep for the world and America. Idiocracy was real !

Trump (#MAGA UPON HIM) probably watches this version now:

[Trent Dole]

In the interest of full disclosure, I would watch the gorilla channel if it was real.

here ya go then

[zomgee]

Boring

Really Boring

The gorillas aren't fighting

[curly]

The gorilla thing originates from the same account that created thebore's favorite neologism, milkshake duck

The internet truly is a small world

[Mandark]

I didn't realize until recently that people get legit mad about milk shake duck.

I want to know why but also I probably don't.

[shosta]

Don't take the internet for granted.

I got wind of an old tale from 1998; Tom Perkins aka Tom Tomorrow of "This Modern Time" put out a rather witty but controversial comic lampooning the media circus over the Clinton scandal called "Hollywood and the President". Advertisers threatened to pull funding because it was obscene. From the Nashville Times (one of the papers that had to pull the comic under advertiser pressure):

According to one wire-service report, the cartoon showed “lust-addled naked adults groping each other in a cluster-orgy while discussing the political issues of the day.” The cartoonist, whose real name is Dan Perkins, said that the naked people were intended to be “a visual metaphor for the salacious, over-the-top, gossipmongering that’s now going on in Washington.” Perkins said the drawing was based on a 1789 illustration from a Dutch edition of de Sade’s Story of Juliette, but was toned down for This Modern World. “I took the nuns out,” Perkins said.

Always a fan of a highminded irreverence, I set out to see this for myself. I checked This Modern Time's archive but the page was "under construction". Humorously there is a second, separate archive page which links to the archived strips on salon.com. Unfortunately, they're all dead links. (I've always found it a little ironic that new media, which prides itself on embracing technology and being the future, is usually worse about preserving things than "old" media.) So I tried the Wayback Machine, which usually works. But of course the first time they had crawled the salon.com page from Tom Tomorrow's page, it was already a dead link.

The next thing to do of course would be to check the newspapers from the time that ran the strip. I already know of two of them: The Nashville Scene and The Illinois Times. That's a bit of work, but I have half a mind to do it.

The moral of the story is that things really do disappear. Google is good but it doesn't solve people not preserving things. And I think media corporations have an obligation to preserve everything, unedited, forever.

[Rufus]

I didn't realize until recently that people get legit mad about milk shake duck.

GAF picked up on it. Then it became a running joke on here.

[agrajag]

I didn't realize until recently that people get legit mad about milk shake duck.

I want to know why but also I probably don't.

Nah

[thehunter116]

I mean I read that tweet and I still thought it might be true because Trump really is that stupid. 

[Rufus]

Poe's law is a double edged blade, bratan.

[etiolate]

Stupid? We'd all watch The Gorilla Channel.

Next on THE GORILLA CHANNEL. It's the blazing hit, Ferocious Gorilla Brawls 5: This One Has Nunchucks

[VomKriege]

Plenty of people watching the Fox channels

[Phoenix Dark]

1. Low Energy Jeb
2. Liddle Marco
3. Lyin' Ted
4. Sloppy Steve
5. Crooked Hillary

[Nola]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/949618475877765120

i'm, like, really smart and stuff

I’m not sure which makes this moment in American history more farcical, that the Commander in Chief of the global hegemon is a walking embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, or that eventually, post-contemporaneous accounts of this presidency are going to have to devout entire chapters to the enormous daily influencing role of fucking Steve Doocy:

[Stro]

Juicy Doocy, one of the last true journalists in America

[kingv]

I’m sorry but sloppy Steve is the best one yet, specifically because it has hints of vulgarity.

[Nola]

I’m sorry but sloppy Steve is the best one yet, specifically because it has hints of vulgarity.

It's the opposite for me. I just can't get behind a nickname that puts two words together that no person's imagination should be involuntarily forced to inhabit in the same mental image.

It's like a GOATSE troll by the brain

[Joe Molotov]

Fuckin’ Flynn (that one’s only used behind closed doors)

[bluemax]

https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/949719270405029888

[team filler]

should drug testing be required for unemployment pay?

[etiolate]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html

This article is such trash it got dunked on by Mike Cernovich.

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/949763065335095297

It's full of all the racist ideas popular in the progressive left that the Dems have to kick out of their message. It's not exactly a shocker the idiot writer assumes a Persian is Asian because she thinks every middle easterner looks like the baddies from Indiana Jones. It's just hilarious that they did it in an attempt to attack racists.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Slovenly Steve is way more accurate, but I suppose that's a reach, vocabulary wise for ole' Dilettante Donald.

[zomgee]

Sloppy Steve
Floppin' Flynn
Ebola Etoilet

[benjipwns]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html

This article is such trash it got dunked on by Mike Cernovich.

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/949763065335095297

It's full of all the racist ideas popular in the progressive left that the Dems have to kick out of their message. It's not exactly a shocker the idiot writer assumes a Persian is Asian because she thinks every middle easterner looks like the baddies from Indiana Jones. It's just hilarious that they did it in an attempt to attack racists.

Persia was in Asia.

[etiolate]

I am the light.

Fear me dorks 

[etiolate]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html

This article is such trash it got dunked on by Mike Cernovich.

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/949763065335095297

It's full of all the racist ideas popular in the progressive left that the Dems have to kick out of their message. It's not exactly a shocker the idiot writer assumes a Persian is Asian because she thinks every middle easterner looks like the baddies from Indiana Jones. It's just hilarious that they did it in an attempt to attack racists.

Persia was in Asia.

Russia is in Asia, too

 

 

[kingv]

I’m sorry but sloppy Steve is the best one yet, specifically because it has hints of vulgarity.

It's the opposite for me. I just can't get behind a nickname that puts two words together that no person's imagination should be involuntarily forced to inhabit in the same mental image.

It's like a GOATSE troll by the brain

I don’t know, he looks like the type of dude that licks some other dudes load out of his wife’s snatch.

I always turn those videos off st that point, because it disgusts me, but assuredly they all look sort of like Steve bannon. Fat white dudes in their 50s/early 60s.

[seagrams hotsauce]

should drug testing be required for unemployment pay?

underrated shitpost

[shosta]

I Am Eric Trump. My Family Won’t Let Me Talk Because I Am an Anarcho-Feminist Committed to Kurdish Liberation

Over the past few years, I have been mocked on late-night comedy programs as a silent dolt. It makes sense for Western liberals to mock what they don’t understand, but what they think is silence due to a childish stupidity is actually a decades-long censorship campaign of my political beliefs. My family won’t let me talk because I am an anarcho-feminist committed to Kurdish liberation.

When I was a young boy, I lived with my grandparents in Zlin, Czechoslovakia. One day, when my grandmother was subjugated to patriarchal wage slavery at a shoe factory, and my brother Don was out shooting endangered deer with Kalashnikovs, I found a strange book on her shelf titled, The National Road To Kurdish Revolution by Abdullah Öcalan. I didn’t realize it then, but this author, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), would become the most important person in the world to me, a man that I would soon call Apo, or father.

By the time I graduated from the Wharton School of Business, I had devoured Abdullah Öcalan’s works on anti-capitalist Kurdish feminism. And in 2002, in solidarity with my grandmother and proletarian matriarchs everywhere, I legally changed my middle name from “Vegas” to “Dapîr,” the Kurdish word for grandmother.

Apo imparted me the very brilliance I believe my grandmother saw in me all of those years ago. I discovered that the problem with The Apprentice was not that it was an exploitative sham, but that there is no ethical “apprenticeship” under capitalism. Apo taught me that the problem with Trump University was not that it was a fraudulent university, but that the school forbade me from teaching a class on Jineology — Kurdish anarcho-feminism — thus denying me tenure because of my political beliefs.

Öcalan taught me that America will only be safe when southeast Turkey, northeast Syria, and northwest Iraq are autonomously controlled by decentralized women’s councils. I tried to convince my birth father of this during his presidential campaign, but to this day, he insists that “bombing the hell out of ISIS” is the only answer. I even quoted Leyla Zana at a campaign meeting, saying, “Kurds are like fire: if approached kindly, they will warm you; if approached badly, they will burn you.” When General Michael Flynn heard this, he threatened to send me to Turkish prison.

When General Flynn wanted the Trump campaign to make a deal with Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extradite Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Turkish rival and cleric, I protested at the meeting by eating Cheerios, a well-known symbol of women’s divinity. In hindsight, I realize this may have exacerbated my perception as an overgrown baby, and I curse my kulak brother for leaking this nonviolent resistance out of context to Saturday Night Live. But I protested Gulen not because collusion with a foreign power was a violation of federal law, but because Fethullah Gulen’s fundamentally structuralist conception of peace with a Kurdish state does not recognize intersectional anarcho-feminism, thus representing milquetoast neoliberal pacifism rooted in systemic ethno-nationalist hegemony. General Flynn convinced my father to never let me speak, or eat, in public again.

Indeed, General Flynn, Erdogan, and my so-called Trump “family,” have systematically silenced my message of feminist Kurdish liberation. Ivanka controls my Twitter account. Whenever I feel like a prisoner in my own four-star hotels, I am reminded of the struggle of Apo, currently a prisoner on Imrali. While the notorious Turkish prison island is his prison, mine is the Trump National Doral Miami Hotel Executive Suite bathroom. My gruel is room service and complimentary bath products.

There will come a day when I will liberate my dear Apo as well as my fellow Kurdish comrades in anarcho-feminism, and my grandmother will be smiling down on me, ji ezmên. There will come a day when Jineology conquers capitalism, the state-sanctioned patriarchy, and late-night TV show ratings. But until then, I — and in some way all of us — stand silently in the back of a press conference in sad, Trump-brand chains.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

i'm just fishing for valhelm likes

[close]

[shosta]

retrospective:

Speaking at a breakfast in Boulder, Colo., Howard Dean recalled signing a civil-union bill when he was governor of Vermont and said, ''A great many L.G.B.T. groups -- for those of you who are not initiated, that's shorthand for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups -- asked me to come speak all around the country.'' On one of those occasions, Dr. Dean was complimented on his appearance. ''There's a term for that,'' he said. ''It's called metrosexual.''

A Denver Post reporter, Joey Bunch, put Dean's use of the word high in his coverage, which was picked up widely. However, the reporter noted, ''then he waffled.'' The candidate quickly added a comment dissociating himself from knowledge of, or approval or disapproval of, the new narcissism: ''I'm a square. I've heard the term, but I don't know what it means.''

[agrajag]

retrospective:

Speaking at a breakfast in Boulder, Colo., Howard Dean recalled signing a civil-union bill when he was governor of Vermont and said, ''A great many L.G.B.T. groups -- for those of you who are not initiated, that's shorthand for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups -- asked me to come speak all around the country.'' On one of those occasions, Dr. Dean was complimented on his appearance. ''There's a term for that,'' he said. ''It's called metrosexual.''

A Denver Post reporter, Joey Bunch, put Dean's use of the word high in his coverage, which was picked up widely. However, the reporter noted, ''then he waffled.'' The candidate quickly added a comment dissociating himself from knowledge of, or approval or disapproval of, the new narcissism: ''I'm a square. I've heard the term, but I don't know what it means.''

LGBTM

 

[benjipwns]

his correction is actually quite accurate and honest

i always thought it was funny that the sorta boring, totally centrist, pragmatic square of a governor was turned into a firebrand leftist and had such nutroots support when he didn't even totally oppose the Iraq War as much as it being done without the UN, etc., his health care plan was to the right of the other candidates (let alone the ones four years later) and based around tax credits, he had supported school vouchers, didn't want a whole host of further gun bans and restrictions, campaigned on his record balancing budgets including by cutting government, became the first Democrat to ever opt out of the public financing for campaigns system...yet you would've thought he was closer to Dennis Kucinich and a Department of Peace, when he was probably only to the "left" of Joe Lieberman on military stuff and because his hand was forced on civil unions (lol at that compromise back in the day)

and that was all before his infamous SCREAM which was after he had already lost the whole thing

[benjipwns]

JOHN DERBYSHIRE ON CHARLES MURRAY, talk about a must read!

[benjipwns]

THE CORNER THE ONE AND ONLY.

“Please, Nominate This Man” Reconsidered
 by RICH LOWRY   
February 18, 2004 3:40 PM

Kathryn, I know you are joking, but I have gotten a lot of genuinely angry complaints that NR helped bring Dean down with our “Please, Nominate This Man” cover. A couple of points for all you out there steamed about that cover (especially today!): 1) Democrats probably were going to figure out that Dean was a disaster with or without us, but our cover may have helped. 2) We’re not in the business of hiding our opinions, and our opinion was a Dean nomination would be catastrophic for the Democrats—so we publicized that opinion in the most dramatic way we could. 3) To the extent the cover did hurt Dean (I’m still amazed at how many liberal Democrats are aware of that cover), I’m glad since he was a noxious influence on the Democrats and our national politics. We should want the Democrats to be as reasonable and responsible as possible, and at least John Kerry is more of both of those things than Howard Dean.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/75695

[Joe Molotov]

Bannon back on that Trump dicc.

[shosta]

Won what, a world's best dad contest?

[Mandark]

I remember stories about Dean's wife not campaigning for him. Not treated as a real controversy, but as something that was weird enough to warrant an explanation.

After Trump and Roy Moore, all this shit feels so quaint.

[Joe Molotov]

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/950103659337134080

The Gorilla Channel must have had some good shows this weekend.

[kingv]

Wikileaks just posted the whol Michael Wolff book. What are they just doing piracy now?

Where is season 7 of game of thrones?

[bluemax]

Wikileaks just posted the whol Michael Wolff book. What are they just doing piracy now?

Where is season 7 of game of thrones?

Reddit already has those spoilers.

[chronovore]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367853-trump-starting-workday-later-to-spend-more-time-watching-tv-and

President Trump is starting his official workday later and spending more time in the mornings watching TV and tweeting, Axios reported Sunday.

Trump’s day is now starting around 11 a.m. and he is also holding far fewer meetings during his workday, Axios reported after viewing copies of Trump’s private schedule.

The first part of Trump’s day is known as “Executive Time.” According to the schedule, it takes place in the Oval Office, but officials told Axios it actually takes place in the White House residence and consists of Trump watching TV and tweeting.
Trump reportedly arrives in the Oval Office for his intelligence briefing at 11 a.m., his first meeting of the day. He also returns to the residence by 6 p.m.

Shit, I never knew I was supposed to get credited for my internet fuckery while employed. Now that I'm working for myself, it's just wasted time…

[zomgee]

Wow a president that's just like me after all!

[kingv]

The less Trump works the better, IMO.

[thehunter116]

I have to take an executive shit.