US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[recursivelyenumerable]

Rationalizing a political pasting on the grounds that it's energized the base / set the stage for something better is not advised in general, but especially not so when there's a looming recession that's going to be bad for everyone without obscene wealth.

says the revolutionary socialist who believes in accelerationism 

I believe those are mutually exclusive categorizations, but that's for another thread probably.

I have kind of fallen into hanging with the leftish side of the ACC crowd on Twitter, and enjoying their memetic milieu, but I don't actually believe in accelerationism (L/ or otherwise). I guess this makes me a cultural accelerationist?

[Crash Dummy]

Rationalizing a political pasting on the grounds that it's energized the base / set the stage for something better is not advised in general, but especially not so when there's a looming recession that's going to be bad for everyone without obscene wealth.

says the revolutionary socialist who believes in accelerationism 

I believe those are mutually exclusive categorizations, but that's for another thread probably.

I have kind of fallen into hanging with the leftish side of the ACC crowd on Twitter, and enjoying their memetic milieu, but I don't actually believe in accelerationism (L/ or otherwise). I guess this makes me a cultural accelerationist?

can you share some good accounts on twitter? the ones i've seen seem a bit nutty and too right-leaning, in the service of who knows what

[Kara]

Set up a thread for y'all.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45863.0

[EightBitNate]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049310554953641984

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049310554953641984

I see the left has finally found a piece of government they can control. 

[Himu]

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/10/06/philly-archbishop-lgbtq-people-dont-exist

[TVC15]

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/10/06/philly-archbishop-lgbtq-people-dont-exist

At least this article was linked from there:

https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/11/09/35-dos-and-donts-gay-leather-bar#media-gallery-media-0

[Mupepe]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049310554953641984

You are a little whitey, aren’t you?

I uhhh. I guess so? I’ve got some some mayo packets in my dash here.

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049311168953630720

wtf

this is your brain on socialism. Check the video on the bottom where they chase an old man.

[team filler]

they should have killed that old piece of shit, fuck old people.

[Himu]

[shosta]

Finally, the whitey tape!

[TVC15]

they should have killed that old piece of shit, fuck old people.

Put em down when they hit 50. It would solve so many problems, especially in the government.

[shosta]

Wtf, Mandela. Wasn't there a rumor of Obama saying kill whitey on tape? I can't find this anywhere.

[Assimilate]

Did a 40 year old white man call another white man whitey??? 

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya he did.  You got a problem with that whitey? 

[Trurl]

Why are they doing that?  I don't understand what's happening.

[TVC15]

Did a 40 year old white man call another white man whitey??? 

Oooo this is appropriate

[Mandark]

Wtf, Mandela. Wasn't there a rumor of Obama saying kill whitey on tape? I can't find this anywhere.

It was Michelle, and it was just "whitey" rather than "kill whitey."

[EightBitNate]

they should have killed that old piece of shit, fuck old people.

[shosta]

Yeah, filler killed him, too.

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1049451517907005440


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[Brehvolution]

That article is about 8 years late.

[Great Rumbler]

That article is about 40 years late.

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[Mandark]

Axios saying Nikki Haley turned her resignation in and Trump accepted it.

[kingv]

She’s Gotta get ready for 2020 is my prediction.

My second prediction is that she gets replaced by an unqualified lunatic.

[Mandark]

After the NYT op-ed by the anonymous official about resisting Trump from the inside, she wrote one in response in the WaPo about how that's disloyal, and if she has a disagreement with Trump she tells him to his face cause he's mature enough to deal with conflicting opinions.

There were leaks that Trump was pissed cause he saw "sometimes I disagree with the president" as a stab in the back, because of course he did.

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1049451517907005440


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This has been my unfortunate realization.

“Conservatives are on the wrong side of history.” -> “It’s wrong to stereotype an entire party. They’re not all like that - just the extremists.” -> “Oh.”

[Himu]

Lots of good stuff in WaPo Opinion section today yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/08/the-corruption-of-the-gop-is-complete-so-whats-plan-b/?utm_term=.d6c382f8f5e6

[Mandark]

Lots of good stuff in WaPo Opinion section today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/08/the-corruption-of-the-gop-is-complete-so-whats-plan-b/?utm_term=.d6c382f8f5e6

[Himu]

What!

[agrajag]

Aren't you a registered Republican?

 

[Himu]

Aren't you a registered Republican?

 

In Texas “registered” is a matter of “please send me campaign emails” but sure.

[Mandark]

"This is the year a cross-party unity ticket would find real success." = "This is the season Dwight Howard puts it all together and becomes a dominant scorer in the low post."

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1049451517907005440


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this guy's profile picture is literally wearing a fedora

[Himu]

He looks good in it. Don’t hate.

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/maxasteele/status/1049665974381760512

[kingv]

After the NYT op-ed by the anonymous official about resisting Trump from the inside, she wrote one in response in the WaPo about how that's disloyal, and if she has a disagreement with Trump she tells him to his face cause he's mature enough to deal with conflicting opinions.

There were leaks that Trump was pissed cause he saw "sometimes I disagree with the president" as a stab in the back, because of course he did.

There’s also this from yesterday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/410443-government-watchdog-calls-for-investigation-into-haley-accepting-free?amp

It seems weird for a trump official to resign over grift though. She must have lined up all 7 guys and had a mini-bukkake on film or something if this is the reason because in the scheme of things this barely counts

[benjipwns]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/politics/the-clintons-go-on-tour/index.html

Bill and Hillary Clinton are going on tour.

The Clintons announced on Monday that they would headline a series of live events together -- billed "An Evening with The Clintons" -- across the country in the final weeks of 2018 and into 2019.

The tour will provide the Democratic stalwarts with a notable platform weeks after the consequential 2018 midterm elections and deep into 2019, when a number of Democrats will be jockeying for positions in the fight to be the party's standard bearer against President Donald Trump in 2020.

The events, which are being produced by tour promoter Live Nation, are being billed as "one-of-a-kind conversation with two individuals who have helped shape our world and had a front seat to some of the most important moments in modern history."

"From the American presidency to the halls of the Senate and State Department to one of the United States' most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections, they provide a unique perspective on the past, and remarkable insight into where we go from here," reads the website dedicated to the tour.

The tour will start in Las Vegas, Nevada, with an event at the Park Theater. The couple will then travel to Toronto, Montreal and Texas before the end of 2018. The tour will start back up in April of 2019 with events in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, the District of Colombia, British Columbia, Washington and California.

Ticket prices run the gamut based on each location, but top tickets at the couple's events in Texas cost $699. The least expensive tickets at some of the events were around $70.

WE'RE SAVED

[FStop7]

#MeTour

[stufte]

He looks good in it. Don’t hate.

but look, it's on crooked! what a dope!

[Nintex]

top tickets at the couple's events in Texas cost $699.

I see what you did there Bill

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/NYTStyles/status/1049151872928571392

[Trurl]

I've always admired Max Boot for having a name that fits his opinions.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NYTStyles/status/1049151872928571392

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1049461500165976064

In other celebrity news

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/simoneMperez/status/1049636654728798208

[close]

[Brehvolution]

https://www.brettkavanaugh.com/

[Dickie Dee]

I really thought this was a non-story 

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1049517613368389632

… “We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” said Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for Vote.org.

For context, 190,178 new voters were registered nationwide in the entire month of September, while 56,669 were registered in August.

In Swift’s home state of Tennessee, where Swift voiced support for two Democratic candidates running in this year’s midterms, voter registrations have also jumped.

“Vote.org saw [Tennessee] registrations spike specifically since Taylor’s post,” Guthrie said. The organization has gotten 5,183 in the state so far this month — at least 2,144 of which were in the last 36 hours, she said, up from 2,811 new Tennessee voter registrations for the entire month of September and just 951 in August.

Guthrie said the site had also seen a big jump in the number of visitors since Swift’s post, with 155,940 unique visitors in the last 24 hours — second only to the number of people who visited on National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 25 when there were 304,942 unique visitors (The average daily users for the site are 14,078 in 2018)…

[team filler]

T swizzie has more political influence than kanye and beyonce combined, true white power   

[Kara]

Swift Vote something something Truth

[shosta]

honestly, though, white nationalists annihilated

[Nintex]

Current front runners to become UN ambassador
- Ivanka Trump
- Ye West

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1049757662819246080

[Boredfrom]

I dunno why Ivanka would want the job gven his current  vague position in the administration is already draining her.

[shosta]

Wait, is this why timu changed his avatar?

Can glen get his back, now?

[team filler]

glen?

[Mandark]

I dunno why Ivanka would want the job gven his current  vague position in the administration is already draining her.

Living in New York and hosting a bunch of fancy parties actually sounds like her wheelhouse, and she'd be able to claim access to the president more credibly than a real diplomat.

The real barrier is that the post requires Senate approval and thus confirmation hearings. She's not about to subject herself to that.

[kingv]

I believe the president cannot appoint family members to executive offices

[Mandark]

I think they already got someone in the DoJ to write an opinion saying that law was obsolete or unconstitutional which let them bring on Javanka for their current roles. Could still be an issue, don't really remember the details.

[Nintex]

I believe the president cannot appoint family members to executive offices

That's what Ann Coulter told Trump.

But is there such a law though or is it just 'morally wrong' or 'frowned upon'. In which case Trump wouldn't care. 

[Mandark]

They passed a law in the 60's as a response to JFK picking his brother as attorney general.

[Kara]

I think they already got someone in the DoJ to write an opinion saying that law was obsolete or unconstitutional which let them bring on Javanka for their current roles. Could still be an issue, don't really remember the details.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/justice-department-blesses-white-house-post-for-kushner-233968