Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 6904301 times)

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18780 on:** May 21, 2018, 02:16:19 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on May 21, 2018, 02:00:29 PM

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/998619627700805633
They already have a coin.

Where is Moon?

Nintex · « **Reply #18781 on:** May 21, 2018, 02:18:33 PM »

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/998622323480686597

Anything can happen

kingv · « **Reply #18782 on:** May 21, 2018, 03:11:30 PM »

Making a coin for this seems incredibly dumb.

Trump is kissing Kim Jong Uns fat ass and is likely to walk away empty handed. Making these coins and adding this whole pageantry to it just makes him (us) look even worse.

Nintex · « **Reply #18783 on:** May 21, 2018, 03:42:26 PM »

*Trump sits down*

"Well, this can only end two ways Mr. Supreme leader. My son in law will hand you a document showing what you should say and do during our photo op and conference. Also you will find $100 million in cash in a bank account in Zurich. All you have to do is sign a document that you will give up your nuclear weapons in exchange for economic aid and the construction of a Trump Tower in Pyongyang. You should also grant McDonalds a license to open franchises in North Korea. Your people will never be starving again and you will save a great American enterprise. I've talked to Xi and he's willing to hide your existing nukes for you near the border as long as you don't tell anyone about our deal. Also you may keep your shithole country. For optics it would be nice if you would visit the Mar-a-lago once a year for progress reports, access to the best prostitutes and golf. CNN would hate it believe me."

"And if I refuse to participate in this nonsense and claim my right as a nuclear power Mr. President?"

"In that case I will do whatever John Bolton tells me to do in the next 24 hours"

I follow a bunch of North Korea experts on Twitter and I like how the coin announcement alone got a collective "gasp"

Mandark · « **Reply #18784 on:** May 21, 2018, 04:12:36 PM »

Quote from: Kara on May 21, 2018, 11:38:01 AM

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/21/605012795/supreme-court-decision-delivers-blow-to-workers-rights

Waiting for the other shoe to drop with Janus v AFSCME. $:-\$

kingv · « **Reply #18785 on:** May 21, 2018, 04:43:14 PM »

I am curious if the “no class actions” will end up as a case of “be careful what you wish for”,

I can foresee a future when an enterprising law firm figures out how to collectively file many substantially similar lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions, yet bill collectively. What happens when a company is faced with 5,000 small law suits for wage theft, each of which is too small to fight cost effectively instead of one big one?

A company caught in that situation might come back begging to combine the suits into a class action.

Edit: this is basically the inverse of the DMCA porno lawsuits. It’s not clear to me that a company is always going to end up better off under this arrangement.

Nintex · « **Reply #18786 on:** May 21, 2018, 06:41:12 PM »

https://twitter.com/gregorykorte/status/998662792583499777
What is this nonsense Rudy

https://twitter.com/gregorykorte/status/998674373455306752

Ya think man?

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/21/mueller-investigation-trump-meets-rosenstein-fbis-wray-coats/629608002/

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The episode underscores the unique position Trump finds himself in: As president, he has the constitutional power to give orders to officials overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — even though his own campaign is the subject of that investigation.

I guess no one thought of this

agrajag · « **Reply #18787 on:** May 21, 2018, 07:15:26 PM »

keep digging that obstruction hole deeper Donny

Nola · « **Reply #18788 on:** May 21, 2018, 08:18:55 PM »

Boogie · « **Reply #18789 on:** May 21, 2018, 08:25:52 PM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 20, 2018, 01:00:01 AM

What's going to be interested about this place now? Just a bunch of soft ass pussies wishing they could still be posting on the REE.

Among other things, I literally kick in doors to meth labs for a living.

Tell me what you do that warrants you calling me soft.

team filler · « **Reply #18790 on:** May 21, 2018, 08:29:03 PM »

Boogie · « **Reply #18791 on:** May 21, 2018, 08:36:15 PM »

Quote from: filler on May 21, 2018, 08:29:03 PM

Hey, could be worse, we could still have Mr. Super-Woke, The Business around, throwing his soft-ass tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan at Mr. Badass here...

Nola · « **Reply #18792 on:** May 21, 2018, 08:39:12 PM »

Watch out Boogie, Assimilate runs with a tough crowd on this internet, that have zero hesitation in calling feminists cunts directly to their social media handle behind their anonymous avatars, or pulling a "Ted Danson" out of his stunted vocabulary of insults from the glory days of the PC-less late 90's.

El Babua · « **Reply #18793 on:** May 21, 2018, 09:01:40 PM »

I think filler's just dejected you're fucking with his supply Boogie.

team filler · « **Reply #18794 on:** May 21, 2018, 09:04:20 PM »

war on drugs

agrajag · « **Reply #18795 on:** May 21, 2018, 09:19:33 PM »

First they came for our meth and we were silent, then they came for our backpage..

zomgee · « **Reply #18796 on:** May 21, 2018, 09:51:28 PM »

Then I will come for your back doors.

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Nola · « **Reply #18797 on:** May 21, 2018, 09:54:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/998616962065367040

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/998619468430565377

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/998681314588004352

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Yep, it's real

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agrajag · « **Reply #18798 on:** May 21, 2018, 10:00:37 PM »

So by The Onion's estimations should be 5-10 years now?

Assimilate · « **Reply #18799 on:** May 21, 2018, 10:11:14 PM »

Quote from: Boogie on May 21, 2018, 08:25:52 PM

Quote from: Assimilate on May 20, 2018, 01:00:01 AM
What's going to be interested about this place now? Just a bunch of soft ass pussies wishing they could still be posting on the REE.

Among other things, I literally kick in doors to meth labs for a living.

Tell me what you do that warrants you calling me soft.

So you take tax payer dollars to continue to fight a losing war?

Ya, you soft.

Broseidon · « **Reply #18800 on:** May 21, 2018, 10:44:00 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on May 21, 2018, 10:00:37 PM

So by The Onion's estimations should be 5-10 years now?

insh'Allah

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #18801 on:** May 21, 2018, 10:52:17 PM »

But emotionally he's a teddy bear.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #18802 on:** May 21, 2018, 10:57:11 PM »

you guys don't have to show off your badass bonafides to a guy who is deathly terrified of people asking how old he is y'know. just sayin

Boogie · « **Reply #18803 on:** May 21, 2018, 11:05:15 PM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 21, 2018, 10:11:14 PM

Quote from: Boogie on May 21, 2018, 08:25:52 PM
Quote from: Assimilate on May 20, 2018, 01:00:01 AM
What's going to be interested about this place now? Just a bunch of soft ass pussies wishing they could still be posting on the REE.

Among other things, I literally kick in doors to meth labs for a living.

Tell me what you do that warrants you calling me soft.
So you take tax payer dollars to continue to fight a losing war?

Ya, you soft.

A metric by which every US serviceman deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan since November 2001 is soft in your eyes, ya?

Nola · « **Reply #18804 on:** May 21, 2018, 11:10:20 PM »

He's a hard man Boogie.

There isn't a latin country he doesn't have the balls to travel to for work and drink alone in his hotel and cry on the internet about how shitty the local culture is.

Assimilate · « **Reply #18805 on:** May 21, 2018, 11:37:05 PM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on May 21, 2018, 10:49:41 PM

He also has a BJJ brown belt, soon to be black belt, and could likely break both of your elbows in under a minute. You don’t get that by being soft.

But does he let his girl put her finger in his butt like a real man

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18806 on:** May 21, 2018, 11:50:02 PM »

This is kind of pathetic, Assimilate.

Boogie · « **Reply #18807 on:** May 21, 2018, 11:57:59 PM »

THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY NINJAS.

ASSIMILATE, ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO CALL OUT SHIRTLESS BLACK DUDES FOR THEIR LARGE PUFFY NIPPLES, AND USE THE "R" WORD TO RESCUE THE PRESIDENT?

kingv · « **Reply #18808 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:02:05 AM »

https://twitter.com/mcnaughtonart/status/998752487023636480?s=21

Check mate libtards.

Boogie · « **Reply #18809 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:10:04 AM »

The generic videogame president of the late 80s/early 90s.

Not the real world one of 2018.

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to any Professional Standards investigators checking up on me, I will of course do my due diligence and utmost to safeguard all Internationally Protected Persons for any official visits to the Dominion of Canada, including, but not limited to, the 2018 G7 Summit in the Charlevoix region of the Province of Quebec, regardless of my personal views or opinions of any particular head of state attending....

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team filler · « **Reply #18810 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:32:50 AM »

dat spoiler

team filler · « **Reply #18811 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:33:00 AM »

https://twitter.com/WilDonnelly/status/998745744722055168

Kara · « **Reply #18812 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:33:08 AM »

Quote from: Boogie on May 21, 2018, 08:36:15 PM

Hey, could be worse, we could still have Mr. Super-Woke, The Business around, throwing his soft-ass tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan at Mr. Badass here...

I really enjoy his Twitter and am glad he found a niche reporting on forever war from a dovish position. (As much as one can be glad about the existence of U.S.-led forever war.)

Kara · « **Reply #18813 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:36:30 AM »

https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/05/why-the-rural-south-is-still-being-treated-as-americas-toilet-bowl/

team filler · « **Reply #18814 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:42:34 AM »

Boogie · « **Reply #18815 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:49:57 AM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on May 22, 2018, 12:43:50 AM

The Business was always the best of us.

If by which you mean "the Business had the best abs of us", then yes, you are correct.

Nola · « **Reply #18816 on:** May 22, 2018, 01:14:01 AM »

In completely out of left field news, I'll preface this by saying I'm not a recession-hawk and this is more of a "hmm, that's interesting, I'll keep an eye and am a little curious if it does happen if the correlation holds."

Basically the TLDR is that since 1970, basically every time we have gotten an inverted yield curve between the 10 and 2 year bonds - meaning the 10 year bond has a lower interest rate than the two year bond - it has been a pretty reliable leading indicator of a imminent recession(no one quite knows why though). As of now we are getting really close:

Mandark · « **Reply #18817 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:02:20 AM »

Cliff's Notes version:

Central banks typically try to raise the interest rate during a boom and lower it during a bust. A prediction about future interest rates is also largely about predicting the state of the economy.

The yield on bonds reflects what buyers think the interest rate will be over the lifetime of a bond. An "inverted yield curve" just means that yields are higher for short-term bonds, which means investors believe future interest rates will be lower than they are now, which implies an economic downturn.

So it's a sort of wisdom-of-crowds thing, but even without efficient markets it can work as a self-fulfilling prophecy and has a decent track record empirically. It's one of the more well-known signs in macro forecasting.

Mandark · « **Reply #18818 on:** May 22, 2018, 03:15:58 AM »

Neither one's an exact reflection of how investors feel about economic prospects, they're just rough proxies that reflect other things (anticipated central bank behavior, profit margins, blah blah). I think very generally they agree? But not always. 2006-7 was a bull market with a flat/inverted yield curve.

It's macro forecasting. Nobody knows anything.

benjipwns · « **Reply #18819 on:** May 22, 2018, 03:19:36 AM »

corporate media BUSTED

agrajag · « **Reply #18820 on:** May 22, 2018, 10:38:44 AM »

I'm trying to wrap my head around this.

Trump: I want an investigation on whether Obama ordered the FBI to place my campaign under surveillance.

Also Trump: the President has absolute right to do what he wants with the DOJ

Kara · « **Reply #18821 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:07:46 PM »

Quote from: kris on May 22, 2018, 02:32:21 AM

It's not like the investors in the stock market are dumber than the investors in bonds.

To give a Robert Kiyosaki anecdote phrased in the form of a Jeff Foxworthy routine, in a wealthy family the person who actually made the wealth owns bonds; their failsons buy Apple stock in the spring of 2015 and sell it the following January.

benjipwns · « **Reply #18822 on:** May 22, 2018, 12:33:42 PM »

Tovarisch Kara-san, look at this proper investment: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=31622.msg2431540#msg2431540

Nintex · « **Reply #18823 on:** May 22, 2018, 01:30:00 PM »

Trump's economy will not enter a recession but a golden age. Just ask the experts like Kanye and Scott Adams.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/998974192862277632

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/998977259426983937

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/998977689754263552

Nintex · « **Reply #18824 on:** May 22, 2018, 01:46:54 PM »

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/998974030244925440

Never change Trump

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18825 on:** May 22, 2018, 01:52:23 PM »

I feel that Moon is also naive if he is seriously thinking that this will end well with Trump in there. Better people than Trump had tried.

I understand that he is ball washing Trump, but he probably should know by now that "You never go full Trumpkin".

Mandark · « **Reply #18826 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:33:37 PM »

Trump had been acting so belligerent that the substance of a deal probably matters less to Moon than getting Trump publicly committed to any kind of peace effort.

Remember the prospective ambassador to South Korea dropped out because he's against a preemptive strike, which apparently was a fairly popular idea in the administration before they brought in John Bolton.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18827 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:45:12 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on May 22, 2018, 02:33:37 PM

Trump had been acting so belligerent that the substance of a deal probably matters less to Moon than getting Trump publicly committed to any kind of peace effort.

Remember the prospective ambassador to South Korea dropped out because he's against a preemptive strike, which apparently was a fairly popular idea in the administration before they brought in John Bolton.

The problem is “commitment”. Trump will flip flop at drop of a hat. And Moon did campaign for better relations with NK.

Mandark · « **Reply #18828 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:47:21 PM »

Yeah. I've been nervous since this whole thing started on how Trump would react when he realizes he's not getting what he wants (and Bolton deliberately raising the stakes reinforces that). Moon has to be looking for ways to mollify Trump and string him along and hope that it's just for one term.

Nintex · « **Reply #18829 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:48:39 PM »

The best outcome is that Trump and Kim will actually meet in Singapore. So Kim discovers that Trump doesn't give a rats ass about any of the human rights abuses and just wants to profit personally from the peace deal.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18830 on:** May 22, 2018, 02:52:31 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on May 22, 2018, 02:48:39 PM

The best outcome is that Trump and Kim will actually meet in Singapore. So Kim discovers that Trump doesn't give a rats ass about any of the human rights abuses and just wants to profit personally from the peace deal.

Given some leaks about the negotations, Im pretty sure Kim knows that Trump could care less. But Trump not caring doesnt guarantee anything.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #18831 on:** May 22, 2018, 04:09:28 PM »

Quote from: Nola on May 22, 2018, 01:14:01 AM

In completely out of left field news, I'll preface this by saying I'm not a recession-hawk and this is more of a "hmm, that's interesting, I'll keep an eye and am a little curious if it does happen if the correlation holds."

Basically the TLDR is that since 1970, basically every time we have gotten an inverted yield curve between the 10 and 2 year bonds - meaning the 10 year bond has a lower interest rate than the two year bond - it has been a pretty reliable leading indicator of a imminent recession(no one quite knows why though). As of now we are getting really close:

(Image removed from quote.)

A recession shortly after massive tax breaks to the top will look really, reaaaaally bad.

Nintex · « **Reply #18832 on:** May 22, 2018, 06:13:07 PM »

https://twitter.com/DMAnews1/status/998950451541245952

Does this fucker really have a time machine or what.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #18833 on:** May 22, 2018, 06:22:01 PM »

No, is just you, Nintex

Kara · « **Reply #18834 on:** May 22, 2018, 06:50:12 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on May 22, 2018, 12:33:42 PM

Tovarisch Kara-san, look at this proper investment: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=31622.msg2431540#msg2431540

Match 3 is revisionist Tetris, tongzhi.

EVOL · « **Reply #18835 on:** May 22, 2018, 09:21:35 PM »

Quote from: Boredfrom on May 22, 2018, 01:52:23 PM

I feel that Moon is also naive if he is seriously thinking that this will end well with Trump in there. Better people than Trump had tried.

I understand that he is ball washing Trump, but he probably should know by now that "You never go full Trumpkin".

It's literally our only hope. Moon can be the most amazing diplomat of all time, and it still wouldn't matter if other parties involved decide that they don't want to play ball.

North Korea decided to fuck with SK by refusing to receive SK journalists for the closing of their nuclear test site, and decided to relent for reasons god knows why. The more positive way to look at it would be that Moon succeeded in unreported diplomacy, hoping that that's the case

Trent Dole · « **Reply #18836 on:** May 22, 2018, 10:51:28 PM »

Trump may strangely be a great hope for peace in our time due to motivating other countries to hash their shit out with each other cause they know he's basically up for nuking anything and everything.

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #18837 on:** May 23, 2018, 10:05:36 AM »

Regardless I just don't see why Kim Jong would agree to give up his nuclear weapons or tolerate US/SK joint military drills. Especially in light of what's happening with Iran right now. Why risk another US admin coming in and saying "human rights matter again now." Now you don't have nukes and your economy is being propped up by US money so you're fucked.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #18838 on:** May 23, 2018, 11:07:36 AM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/999282325316866048

Now is this a real DJT tweet, or one of the fake DJT tweets written by his staff in the DJT-style to troll the liberal fake media elites?

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #18839 on:** May 23, 2018, 11:15:47 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on May 23, 2018, 11:07:36 AM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/999282325316866048

Now is this a real DJT tweet, or one of the fake DJT tweets written by his staff in the DJT-style to troll the liberal fake media elites?

He's just bringing back the classics.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/968468176639004672

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