US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Stro]

Is he struggling with the fact that people actually died on his watch? Is he incapable of accepting it?

No, he's struggling with having something he was "weak on" in his legacy.

[Joe Molotov]

As the saying goes, Trump wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. There’s nothing that isn’t about him.

[Mandark]

Is he struggling with the fact that people actually died on his watch? Is he incapable of accepting it?

He constantly tells blatant lies to try to make himself look good. We don't need to analyze each one for a distinct reason. It's the same as all the other times.

[team filler]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-board-of-education-votes-to-remove-hillary-clinton-from-history-curriculum/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=56907969

 

[Nola]

CBS kind of burying the lede on that one. Taking out Hellen Keller and the first female presidential nominee of a major party in a Social studies curriculum, but leaving in Billy Graham is classic Texas, but the one that actually kind of triggers me(and probably is more damaging) is removing any mention of Thomas Hobbes to replace it with passages about the positive importance of Moses and Mosaic/Judeo-Christian law in shaping the constitution and influencing American history/government.

[shosta]

They took out Hobbes but left in the bible?

[Oblivion]

Remember back when the Tea Party first showed up that Texas wanted to remove Thomas Jefferson from the history books cause he wasn't Bible Thumper-y enough?

[shosta]

Reminds me of one of my favorite books

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1041094855592689664

I guess every natural disaster now includes the President keeping score of the casualty count on Twitter. 

Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.

[agrajag]

I can't wait 

[seagrams hotsauce]

gonna be real weird blocking FEMAs number

[Nintex]

"Attention haters and losers. This is an emergency message from your favorite President. My poll numbers are up again, also I've never seen a thin person drink diet coke. Bye!"

[Mandark]

[Phoenix Dark]

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[Nintex]

Just wait for next week when he kicks a baby down a staircase and shits on the corpse. 

[agrajag]

Welp, Kavanaugh's victim took a polygraph test and passed it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.8fdb81ed34bf

[curly]

She also has therapist's notes from 2012 about the assault

[shosta]

Polygraphs are dumb

[agrajag]

I agree, and I said that in my previous post. But it's not nothing.

[Nintex]

Yikes, sounds like Kavanaugh is done. He might've gotten away with 'drunk teenagers do dumb shit' a few years ago but in the age of #metoo all that can help him is a huge deflection in the news cycle.

[kingv]

Polygraphs are dumb, but I think it’s still a good defense here for PR reasons.

Maybe it should not be, but plenty of people want to use the lack of a polygraph to say someone is lying.

[kingv]

Also they should use that pic of him in his football uniform more often. He looks like every rapey  guy in every teenage movie ever.

[agrajag]

Also they should use that pic of him in his football uniform more often. He looks like every rapey  guy in every teenage movie ever.

pics or it didn't happen

[agrajag]

Curly is right, the therapist notes are a big deal, much bigger than the polygraph. In a sane world, that would the nail in the coffin for this nomination, but well

 

[Mandark]

I don't expect this to change anything. It's too late to get another nominee through before the midterms (when they might lose the Senate) and another Federalist Society vote on the court is too important for them to leave to chance. Which is a bit depressing.

Even before this it was odd they didn't nominate a woman. Is there literally no female judge that passes the ideological test out there, or did they have to pick someone Kennedy was personally cool with, or are they (or Trump) just that sexist?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/cbudoffbrown/status/1041407197148794883

They're going to push this through

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1041351922236776448

[Nintex]

The Fox News caption guy is having a field day 



Avennati: "Do you watch PORN?"

Tucker: "I'm into humilation porn. I watched you on CNN"

JESUS CHRIST TUCKER 

[agrajag]

I mean, what guy hasn't drunkenly held a woman against her will with his buddy, covered her mouth and raped her? Boys will be boys.

[kingv]

Also they should use that pic of him in his football uniform more often. He looks like every rapey  guy in every teenage movie ever.

pics or it didn't happen

https://goo.gl/images/W5pSNN

This link should work... probably.

[benjipwns]

Even before this it was odd they didn't nominate a woman. Is there literally no female judge that passes the ideological test out there, or did they have to pick someone Kennedy was personally cool with, or are they (or Trump) just that sexist?

There were some rumors that this was part of the deal for Kennedy to ditch early so the GOP could avoid any procedural delays. He may not have trusted Trump fully to not de facto impose a deadline on the nomination.

Personally, I don't think Trump actually gives much of a shit who he nominates for many of these positions.

[benjipwns]

  WE'RE SAVED, SHE'S BACK
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/american-democracy-is-in-crisis/570394/

American Democracy Is in Crisis
Our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege. We need to do everything we can to fight back.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

...

Trump and his cronies do so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track. I think that may be the point—to confound us, so it’s harder to keep our eye on the ball. The ball, of course, is protecting American democracy. As citizens, that’s our most important charge. And right now, our democracy is in crisis.

I don’t use the word crisis lightly. There are no tanks in the streets. The administration’s malevolence may be constrained on some fronts—for now—by its incompetence. But our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege. We need to do everything we can to fight back. There’s not a moment to lose.

Trump may be uniquely hostile to the rule of law, ethics in public service, and a free press. But the assault on our democracy didn’t start with his election. He is as much a symptom as a cause of what ails us. Think of our body politic like a human body, with our constitutional checks and balances, democratic norms and institutions, and well-informed citizenry all acting as an immune system protecting us from the disease of authoritarianism. Over many years, our defenses were worn down by a small group of right-wing billionaires—people like the Mercer family and Charles and David Koch—who spent a lot of time and money building an alternative reality where science is denied, lies masquerade as truth, and paranoia flourishes. By undermining the common factual framework that allows a free people to deliberate together and make the important decisions of self-governance, they opened the way for the infection of Russian propaganda and Trumpian lies to take hold. They've used their money and influence to capture our political system, impose a right-wing agenda, and disenfranchise millions of Americans.

I don’t agree with critics who say that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy—but unregulated, predatory capitalism certainly is. Massive economic inequality and corporate monopoly power are antidemocratic and corrode the American way of life.

There is a tendency, when talking about these things, to wring our hands about “both sides.” But the truth is that this is not a symmetrical problem. We should be clear about this: The increasing radicalism and irresponsibility of the Republican Party, including decades of demeaning government, demonizing Democrats, and debasing norms, is what gave us Donald Trump. Whether it was abusing the filibuster and stealing a Supreme Court seat, gerrymandering congressional districts to disenfranchise African Americans, or muzzling government climate scientists, Republicans were undermining American democracy long before Trump made it to the Oval Office.

Now we must do all we can to save our democracy and heal our body politic.

But even the best rules and regulations won’t protect us if we don’t find a way to restitch our fraying social fabric and rekindle our civic spirit. There are concrete steps that would help, like greatly expanding national-service programs and bringing back civics education in our schools. We also need systemic economic reforms that reduce inequality and the unchecked power of corporations and give a strong voice to working families. And ultimately, healing our country will come down to each of us, as citizens and individuals, doing the work—trying to reach across divides of race, class, and politics and see through the eyes of people very different from ourselves. When we think about politics and judge our leaders, we can’t just ask, “Am I better off than I was four years ago?” We have to ask, “Are we better off? Are we as a country better, stronger, and fairer?” Democracy works only when we accept that we’re all in this together.

Verrit.com could not be reached for a confirmation number.

[kingv]

Mi abuela!

[james]

Polygraphs are dumb

ya that polygraph stuff isn't very valuable

Polygraphs are dumb

I am glad we assembled an international panel of experts on polygraphs

[Nintex]

How did we get here?

because you lost the easiest winnable election in the history of elections to a literal dumpster fire Hilldawg.

[Mandark]

we have polygraph stans on the bore?

[benjipwns]

a simple way to tell there's a large methodological problem with polygraphs is that they don't even let cops use them as part of a defense in most jurisdictions anymore

[Joe Molotov]

I'm only into monographs.

[james]

a simple way to tell there's a large methodological problem with polygraphs is that they don't even let cops use them as part of a defense in most jurisdictions anymore

Who gives a shit about cops

[BisMarckie]

Who gives a shit about cops

Cops.

[benjipwns]

well i do about at least one

[benjipwns]

although he is also Canadian

[Joe Molotov]

although he is also Canadian

But who would untie Nell from the train tracks if he wasn't there?

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

a simple way to tell there's a large methodological problem with polygraphs is that they don't even let cops use them as part of a defense in most jurisdictions anymore

Who gives a shit about cops

https://m.

[kingv]

we have polygraph stans on the bore?

We have Qanon stans on the bore, let's not pretend we're above anything else.

Speaking of, I kind of feel like I need a Qanon update. Does anybody here follow this shot? Like what happened after that YouTubed got exposed as Q and the reddit got shut down?

I feel like it conpletely disappeared after that but I figure there’s still gotta be q drops and shit, right?

[benjipwns]

Speaking of, I kind of feel like I need a Qanon update. Does anybody here follow this shot? Like what happened after that YouTubed got exposed as Q and the reddit got shut down?

I feel like it conpletely disappeared after that but I figure there’s still gotta be q drops and shit, right?

It's like in Backdraft when the smoke gets sucked back into the room.

[Nintex]

Prepare for a big dump of fuckery
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1041801059096817664



Also Mueller just announced that the Flynn case is ready for sentencing.

[kingv]

You can already see the fuckery in the FISA declassification.

“Declassify these pages that make my case look ok, but ignore the ones that show carter page being an m a bukkake gangbang with Russian spies”

[benjipwns]

carter page being an m a bukkake gangbang with Russian spies”

go on

[kingv]

Well first carter page holds a bowl....

[Nintex]

George Papadopoulos is back MAGA-ing it up again.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1041739920967122946

It never ends.

https://twitter.com/APDiploWriter/status/1041819037200785409

Tariffs now official

[I'm a Puppy!]

If Obama had done these tariff's, even half of them, republicans would be rioting in the streets.

[Mandark]

This Kavanaugh thing is bringing out the skeeviest takes.

Saw John Podhoretz using the phrase "sweet raunchy delight" and I'm ready to walk into an active volcano now.

[curly]

This Kavanaugh thing is bringing out the skeeviest takes.

Saw John Podhoretz using the phrase "sweet raunchy delight" and I'm ready to walk into an active volcano now.

conservative pundits are deleting tweets at an unprecedented rate

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[FStop7]

I got this fundraising email today.  Nothing says “we learned from our mistakes” like NEW FROM JIMMY CARTER.

[benjipwns]

Former President Jimmy Carter is doubling down on his recent comments labelling Donald Trump dishonest.

In a new interview with CBS News, Carter accused the president of being “careless with the truth.”

BOOM. ROASTED. TRUMP ANNIHILATED FOREVER.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that talking about impeaching President Donald Trump is "the wrong thing for Democrats to do."

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[kingv]

I got this fundraising email today.  Nothing says “we learned from our mistakes” like NEW FROM JIMMY CARTER.

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Well the GOP brought Bush our tocampaign for them in Congress.

Dems has to level the playing field somehow.

Should’ve brought Dukakis out in a tank.

[shosta]

[Mandark]

"Oh hey, Mario Kart's trending on Twitter..."

[Nintex]

... 
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1042062274427580416