US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[agrajag]

my point is they're now officially classified as a terrorist group by the FBI. McInnes must be sitting there holding his head wondering how he got to this point. All he ever wanted was a piece of that Big Conservative Money and the whole thing spun out of control and now he's the leader of the vaguely homoerotic Project Mayhem.

[agrajag]

you seem to know an awful lot about the subject, former hate-site ResetEra moderator

[agrajag]

I'm still saving up money to get this resetera tattoo on my neck fixed

why don't crowdfund it and then you can spend all the money on blow and CP

[Mollys Fruity Loops]

And yet the so-called "mainstream media" still says nothing! Shame! Shame!

The BBC said nothing about child sex trafficker Jimmy Savile - in fact helping to cover it up. SHAMEFUL

Creepy elite pedo rings

The world WILL know the TRUTH

we might have another qanon believer

This has nothing to do with that. Witnesses have been blowing the whistle for a long time!

"previously dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the establishment" - The mind fuckery is real

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1064243265468272645

Hideo Kojima is a time traveler and Metal Gear Solid was a documentary.

 

[Joe Molotov]

I don't know why but I read this and thought of kingv

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This guy fucks.

[kingv]

And yet the so-called "mainstream media" still says nothing! Shame! Shame!

The BBC said nothing about child sex trafficker Jimmy Savile - in fact helping to cover it up. SHAMEFUL

Creepy elite pedo rings

The world WILL know the TRUTH

we might have another qanon believer

This has nothing to do with that. Witnesses have been blowing the whistle for a long time!

"previously dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the establishment" - The mind fuckery is real

When reality gets weirder than satire I can’t tell them apart.

[Boredfrom]

lol gavin done fucked up.

how do you go from being a co-founder of Vice to the leader of a terrorist organization?

 

From Punk to hipster to hate group leader...

Feels like a evolutionary path.

[benjipwns]

yo PD u got a Deja Vu near you? A STORM IS COMING

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2018/11/17/stormy-daniels-put-show-michigans-capital-city-later-month/2039646002/

Brace yourselves, capital city.

There's a storm coming.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims she once had an affair with President Donald Trump, is scheduled to perform all-nude shows later this month in Lansing.

Daniels is expected to take the stage the weekend of Nov. 30 at Deja Vu Showgirls, a strip club located at 1000 W. Jolly Rd. in Lansing.

She will perform two shows at Deja Vu's Lansing location around 11:30 p.m. Nov. 30 and 2:30 a.m. Dec. 1, said Tom Sime, general manager.

Tickets for the Lansing shows are $30 in advance and $40 at the door.

Daniels, 39, was recently named the "national spokesperson" for the Deja Vu chain of strip clubs across the U.S., Sime said.

https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2018/11/stormy_daniels_coming_to_sagin.html

Tickets are on sale for a Saginaw County strip-club performance by Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who claims she had an affair with President Donald Trump.

Daniels is slated to perform at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, at Deja Vu in Kochville Township.

[benjipwns]

http://www.governorpalin.org/2018/11/19/yikes-ocasio-cortez-fumbles-basic-civics-twice-1-statement/

YIKES

[benjipwns]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/beto-orourke-2020-democratic-primary-995353

Sparked by his narrow defeat in a Texas Senate race, Beto O’Rourke is scrambling the 2020 presidential primary field, freezing Democratic donors and potential campaign staffers in place as they await word of his plans.

Even prior to O’Rourke’s meteoric rise, many Democratic fundraisers had approached the large number of 2020 contenders with apprehension, fearful of committing early to one candidate. But the prospect of a presidential bid by O’Rourke, whose charismatic Senate candidacy captured the party’s imagination, has suddenly rewired the race.

O’Rourke — who raised a stunning $38 million in the third quarter of his race — is widely considered capable of raising millions of dollars quickly, according to interviews with multiple Democratic money bundlers and strategists, catapulting him into the upper echelons of the 2020 campaign.

Mikal Watts, a San Antonio-based lawyer and major Democratic money bundler, said several donors and political operatives in Iowa, after hearing from other potential candidates in recent days, have called to ask whether O’Rourke is running, a sign of his impact in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

“They’re not wanting to sign on to other presidential campaigns until they know whether Beto is going,” Watts said. “And if Beto is running, what good progressive Democrat wouldn’t want to work for Beto O’Rourke?”

“He’s game changing,” said Robert Wolf, an investment banker who helped raise Wall Street money for Obama in 2008 and 2012. “If he decides to run, he will be in the top five. You can’t deny the electricity and excitement around the guy.”

Although other prominent Democrats, including Biden, Sanders and Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, have support networks of their own, Wolf said, “Beto comes out of [the midterm elections] saying, ‘Oh my God, if a guy can do well in Texas, he certainly can do well throughout the country as a Democrat.”

“I get the hype,” Wolf said. “I think there’s an incredible amount of excitement around Beto. A lot of people have comparisons around him and a Robert Kennedy or a Barack Obama. And the [Democratic] Party likes young, ambitious and aspirational.”

“That’s this cycle’s ‘Bernie army’ — it’s ‘Beto’s Army,’” [a major Democratic bundler] said, comparing O’Rourke’s Senate fundraising to the crush of small donors who propelled Sanders in his unsuccessful 2016 primary campaign.

“All the guy would have to do is send out an email to his fundraising base … and he raises $30 million,” the bundler said. “That has totally changed the landscape for the tier 1 guys, because now Bernie and Warren, now they have competition. It completely changes the game if Beto runs. And he should run. … He’s Barack Obama, but white.”

“I don’t believe that 50-year-old guys like me and 60-year-old guys in Washington who are in an hourly form of political warfare understand how disillusioned that warfare has made the younger people of this country,” he said. “From that perspective, Beto’s unvarnished approach was both refreshing to me, but intoxicating to the younger generation.”

“If Bernie runs and Warren runs and Kamala runs and [Cory] Booker runs, I think they all wash each other out in a certain way," Watts said. “Beto’s got the juice right now. If he goes, he’s going to suck a lot of the oxygen out of the room. A lot … and immediately.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/pelosis-bid-for-speaker-imperiled-as-public-opposition-grows-1005368

Sixteen Democrats vowed Monday to oppose Nancy Pelosi for speaker on the House floor, throwing the California Democrat’s bid to reclaim the gavel in serious jeopardy.

In a highly anticipated letter that went public Monday, the Democrats praised Pelosi as “a historic figure" but argued that it is time for change at the top.

“Our majority came on the backs of candidates who said that they would support new leadership because voters in hard-won districts, and across the country, want to see real change in Washington," the group of Democrats said in the letter. "We promised to change the status quo, and we intend to deliver on that promise."

The show of force underscores the depth of the challenge facing Pelosi, who has led the caucus for 16 years. Pelosi needs 218 votes among lawmakers present and voting to be elected speaker on Jan. 3. House Democrats have won 233 seats, meaning Pelosi can currently afford to lose only 15 votes.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/seth-moulton-nancy-pelosi-speaker-democrats-1005762

The push by Rep. Seth Moulton against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's bid to become speaker took center stage on Monday night at a town hall in his district, where constituents shouted and interrupted Moulton and one another in a lively debate over the future of the chamber.

Moulton (D-Mass.) and some of his constituents say the midterm elections show that it’s time for new leadership in the House, while his critics on Monday night called his opposition to Pelosi a product of sexism and ageism.

...

Dozens among the 150 people crowded into the Amesbury Town Hall pushed back against Moulton’s comments. Several shouted “no” when he said, “The majority of Democrats want this change.” Some protesters held signs that were green on one side and red on the other. When Moulton or another attendee said something they didn’t like, the protesters held up the red signs to signal disagreement.

The Monday night protest at Moulton’s town hall was organized by artist Isa Leshko and Bambi Snodgrass, director of Freedom North Shore, a women’s group that came out of the Women’s March. A longtime progressive, Leshko said Monday night’s protest was her first time organizing. She told Moulton his call for new leadership felt like a “slap in the face” to women, and pointed out that the letter calling for new House leadership that surfaced on Monday included signatures from only two female lawmakers.

“How can you say you have this huge outpouring of female support for new leadership?” Leshko asked.

Another constituent told Moulton that criticism of Pelosi felt personal. “I almost feel like I’m targeted,” she said. “I’m old and I’m a woman.”

But Moulton denied that his call for a new party leader was based on gender or age.

BETO FOR SPEAKER!!!!!!!

[benjipwns]

“I think people on the left are really looking for someone that can take on corporate power and eradicate systemic racism,” said Karthik Ganapathy, who served as a spokesman for Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential run.

I just want to tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you.

[benjipwns]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/19/donald-trump-roosevelt-monopoly-antitrust-facebook-apple-netflix-google-column/2049321002/

Today, things look a lot like Teddy Roosevelt’s era. A few monopolies occupy much of the tech world: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — FANG, as they’re often abbreviated. They gobble up potential competitors, as Facebook did with WhatsApp and Instagram.

One need only look at the recent multicity scramble for Amazon’s second headquarters to see how much power these companies wield: Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, nonetheless managed to get the state of New York to build him a helipad.

And these new tech monsters have a one-two punch that Standard Oil lacked: Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation — which give them enormous control over communications, including communications about politics — also give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies.

As Wu writes: “Big tech is ubiquitous, seems to know too much about us, and seems to have too much power over what we see, hear, do, and even feel. It has reignited debates over who really rules, when the decisions of just a few people have great influence over everyone.”

Facing a similar situation, Roosevelt declared, “When aggregated wealth demands what is unfair, its immense power can be met only by the still greater power of the people as a whole.”

With today’s economy dominated by the FANG companies, will Donald Trump — another brash New Yorker who found himself in the White House — follow TR’s lead?  Perhaps a better question is, why wouldn’t he?

I think I took a wrong turn somewhere in The Bleed.

Door?

[kingv]

Instapundit is such an idiot.

I hadn’t read his site in years, but sure enough he’s still hawking mad Amazon affiliate links.

[benjipwns]

last time i went there he wasn't even posting half the content himself anymore, and the new people liked to write at length about their opinion instead of just linking to stuff/quoting with maybe a one-liner which was the only reason i visited him way back in the day, he worked as a decent "conservative blogosphere aggregator"

...looks like that's kinda still the case, though him and one of the other posters seem to be dominating the site and have reverted to that style

ALSO THERE'S NOW COMMENTS

[benjipwns]

 

[kingv]

I just feel like it’s really lazy blogging.

I feel like he was pretty popular 20 years ago, but I’m guessing that he’s lost a ton of traffic over the years. Like who wants to just go to the web for some noob to post links that say shit like “I totally agree”.

[benjipwns]

he provided a semi-useful service when blogging was just becoming a legitimate medium and you didn't want to follow multiple ones, before that everybody of all the political spectrum and level used Drudge back in the day just because he aggregated so much news onto one easy page and linked to the main articles, they had a simplicity in design that matched their function...there was basically a Democratic version "instapundit" that i forget the name of now, so you could just hit both of them to see what the big time bloggers/columnists were fighting about without having to troll through multiple blogs, and it aggregated the news cycle too because there was a level of activity that the news corporations hadn't, and arguably still don't, tapped into understanding in terms of their own sites presenting content

but you don't even need people like Glenn or Drudge's interns for that stuff anymore, as i've mentioned i use memorandum as my news page and that's all just a set of scripts (or nefarious AI's)

[benjipwns]

also i know Mandark will remember this term, but dunno about anyone else for sure, but it popped into my head writing about that era: warbloggers

[benjipwns]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/tom-steyer-2020-presidential-bid-1005612

Former billionaire investor, climate activist and impeachment agitator Tom Steyer will take several steps toward a 2020 presidential bid Tuesday.

That will include a six-figure web ad buy on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, along with a full-page ad in USA Today and other Gannett newspapers outlining a political platform, a revamped TomSteyer.com and the announcement of five town halls across the country, the first of which will be in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina, according to copies of the ad and platform provided to POLITICO.

The first town hall is set for Dec. 4 in Charleston, S.C., and the next will be in Fresno, Calif., sometime in December, according to Aleigha Cavalier, senior communications adviser for TomSteyer.com, who also works for Steyer’s climate-focused group NextGen America. There will be one town hall for each of the “5 rights" on Steyer's platform: the right to an equal vote, to clean air and water, to learn with pre-K education through college, to a living wage, and to health.

“These rights should be the basis of the Democratic Party’s platform,” Steyer wrote on his updated site in what was referred to internally as a "preamble." “Together, we will achieve these rights for all Americans.”

Perhaps anticipating that the left will be skeptical of a billionaire former hedge fund manager, Steyer presents himself as something of a disillusioned traitor to his class.

“Over time, I saw private greed overcome public good,” Steyer writes in his preamble. “The time arrived when I could see that our economy was rigged to funnel virtually all the enormous benefits of our growing productivity to the wealthy and their large corporations, while the vast majority of Americans — the people who do the work — gained little or nothing.”

“We are a country divided,” he writes. “But we have the power to reunite and, once united, the people are unstoppable.”

WE'RE SAVED

[kingv]

I guess that is when I was first aware of instapundit. Around the iraq war 2: electric boogaloo.

[benjipwns]

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2018/11/19/identifying-and-estimating-the-ideologies-of-twitter-pundits

Jake Tapper manipulating the data so he appears right in the center I bet.

Second, the number of accounts returned in the API requests for how many users each pundit follows is capped at 5,000 and some (particularly alt-right) accounts follow far more than 5,000 accounts -- likely due to them buying followers for publicity purposes. This could conceivably affect the ideological distributions, since we’re only able to measure overlap based on 5,000 of the accounts these users follow and, since they’re following accounts indiscriminately, their follows don’t convey as much information (Charlie Kirk, for example, did not make a conscious decision to hit the “follow” button 255 thousand times, and he is not placed well using this method).

Good god, Charlie.

[benjipwns]

from looking at the big table, I found one unmentioned factor might be people they follow specifically to argue with, Cernovich for example is listed way to the "left" of some regular ol journalists whose accounts are boring retweets of their network/"breaking news"/etc. But Cernovich follows lots of "left" people that he argues with or trolls or whatever.

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/19/troops-us-mexico-border-come-home-1005510

Trump bringing home our troops.

[BIONIC]

from looking at the big table, I found one unmentioned factor might be people they follow specifically to argue with, Cernovich for example is listed way to the "left" of some regular ol journalists whose accounts are boring retweets of their network/"breaking news"/etc. But Cernovich follows lots of "left" people that he argues with or trolls or whatever.

That leftist Gorilla Mindset

[curly]

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2018/11/19/identifying-and-estimating-the-ideologies-of-twitter-pundits
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Jake Tapper manipulating the data so he appears right in the center I bet.

this is tankie erasure

[agrajag]

Where is Joe Kennedy III in all of these discussions of Dem candidates?!

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1064863684516896768

[Boredfrom]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/19/donald-trump-roosevelt-monopoly-antitrust-facebook-apple-netflix-google-column/2049321002/

Today, things look a lot like Teddy Roosevelt’s era. A few monopolies occupy much of the tech world: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — FANG, as they’re often abbreviated. They gobble up potential competitors, as Facebook did with WhatsApp and Instagram.

One need only look at the recent multicity scramble for Amazon’s second headquarters to see how much power these companies wield: Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, nonetheless managed to get the state of New York to build him a helipad.

And these new tech monsters have a one-two punch that Standard Oil lacked: Not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation — which give them enormous control over communications, including communications about politics — also give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies.

As Wu writes: “Big tech is ubiquitous, seems to know too much about us, and seems to have too much power over what we see, hear, do, and even feel. It has reignited debates over who really rules, when the decisions of just a few people have great influence over everyone.”

Facing a similar situation, Roosevelt declared, “When aggregated wealth demands what is unfair, its immense power can be met only by the still greater power of the people as a whole.”

With today’s economy dominated by the FANG companies, will Donald Trump — another brash New Yorker who found himself in the White House — follow TR’s lead?  Perhaps a better question is, why wouldn’t he?

I think I took a wrong turn somewhere in The Bleed.

Door?

I understood that reference.

[Brehvolution]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-sink-savings-into-iraqi-dinar-scam

 

[kingv]

Iraqi Dinar? 

Vietnamese Dong?

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/mcnaughtonart/status/1064938711270346752

A modern day Norman Rockwell
 

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, first of all, there's a ref in the back field signalling a touchdown before Trump even crosses a goal line. Secondly, a ref in that position is not that one that should be calling a touchdown, it should be made by a ref standing on the goal line.

Also, one of Trump's teammates is definitely taking a knee way in the background.

[agrajag]

Okay, first of all, there's a ref in the back field signalling a touchdown before Trump even crosses a goal line. Secondly, a ref in that position is not that one that should be calling a touchdown, it should be made by a ref standing on the goal line.

Also, one of Trump's teammates is definitely taking a knee way in the background.

so what your saying is that Marco Rubio painted that?

[FStop7]

https://twitter.com/mcnaughtonart/status/1064938711270346752

A modern day Norman Rockwell
 

LMAO that ratio

Shitty artist stays shitty

[Dickie Dee]

Okay, first of all, there's a ref in the back field signalling a touchdown before Trump even crosses a goal line. Secondly, a ref in that position is not that one that should be calling a touchdown, it should be made by a ref standing on the goal line.

Also, one of Trump's teammates is definitely taking a knee way in the background.

A good comic.

[Boredfrom]

Feel like some prop that would be in Biff Palace in Back to the Future II.

[Joe Molotov]

Feel like some prop that would be in Biff Palace in Back to the Future II.

Or the White House in our current timeline.

[nachobro]

[BIONIC]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-sink-savings-into-iraqi-dinar-scam

 

[Nintex]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-sink-savings-into-iraqi-dinar-scam

 

I like how Trump is a sort of catch all for all scams, black swan events and conspiracies.

“President Trump is KEY,” the commenter wrote. “Nobody thought he would win, he will trigger the IRAQ RV.”

Feel like some prop that would be in Biff Palace in Back to the Future II.

Or the White House in our current timeline.

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[Maiden Voyage]

Lawyer: Trump provides written answers to Mueller questions

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump say they’ve provided the special counsel’s office with written responses to questions on Russian election interference.

The answers are an important milestone in Robert Mueller’s probe, marking the first time the president is known to have described to investigators his knowledge of key moments under scrutiny by the special counsel’s office. Trump told reporters last week that he was answering the questions himself.

Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for Trump, said in a statement that the answers were provided Tuesday.

It is not clear what other information Mueller’s office will seek.

This round of questioning was limited to the general topic of whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia. But Mueller’s team has also wanted to question Trump about whether he committed obstruction of justice.

https://apnews.com/fa8c322f9179496ab2ba1665b9330592

[agrajag]

there goes Rand Paul, the paper tiger, again

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1064978272960811008

[chronovore]

How the fuck does LEGO not have a trademark on the basic design of a lego figurine that prevents people from legally making knockoff legos?

It’s not like they don’t use the LEGO figures in tons of promotional shit, or tv shows. Did they just not defend it?

I've only seen non-minifig style figures in knockoff lego sets. Are you seeing ones which copy that design?

[kingv]

Those Trump wall fake LEGO sets, all the mini figs look LEGO style to me.

As for Trump being the sort of scam singularity, it would be kind of shocking except for the Trump base was buying gold from Rush Limbaugh to protect against hyperinflation when inflation was like -0.1% and vitamins from a fat guy and a midget to ensure they got tall and healthy.

What’s really shocking is how much the Republican Party is just one big grift and scam. Trumps biggest accomplishment was being the first actual politician to realize this and unapologetically run a scam campaign.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1064940956582141955

I guess Trump is 50/50 on this. 

Trump is now writing the foreign policy statements himself?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/

[agrajag]

maybe some 400lbs guy in his bed killed Khaggoshi

[agrajag]

he looks like Kingpin

[kingv]

Today’s Lhashoggi statement makes me feel even more correct in my assertion that trumps only frame to view the world is in terms of $’s going back and forth.

Saudi Arabia is spending money in the US ergo, we should not punish them.

It also makes the Iran nuclear deal scuttling look even dumber.

Neither Iran or Saudi are particularly great horses to ties your wagon to, but like, if trump was smart he could have tried to maintain reasonable relations with both to play against each other

[Great Rumbler]

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acting ag looks like Mussolini

I was gonna say he looks like Tor Johnson, but his eyebrow game isn't nearly on point enough that anyone would confuse the two:

[Brehvolution]

Today’s Lhashoggi statement makes me feel even more correct in my assertion that trumps only frame to view the world is in terms of $’s going back and forth.

Saudi Arabia is spending money in the US ergo, we should not punish them.

It also makes the Iran nuclear deal scuttling look even dumber.

Neither Iran or Saudi are particularly great horses to ties your wagon to, but like, if trump was smart he could have tried to maintain reasonable relations with both to play against each other

And if history is anything to go by, we will be invading SA in a decade or so when they start using our weaponry they bought against our interests.

[Nintex]

This Thanksgiving the President celebrates by fighting the supreme court and cheering for cheap Saudi oil. 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://apnews.com/71d38227507640e796d0db0b9256f038?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

[Joe Molotov]

https://apnews.com/71d38227507640e796d0db0b9256f038?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Did they consult with Era's elite legal minds before doing this?

[agrajag]

my point is they're now officially classified as a terrorist group by the FBI. McInnes must be sitting there holding his head wondering how he got to this point. All he ever wanted was a piece of that Big Conservative Money and the whole thing spun out of control and now he's the leader of the vaguely homoerotic Project Mayhem.

[Tripon]

my point is they're now officially classified as a terrorist group by the FBI. McInnes must be sitting there holding his head wondering how he got to this point. All he ever wanted was a piece of that Big Conservative Money and the whole thing spun out of control and now he's the leader of the vaguely homoerotic Project Mayhem.

lol at this being 40 minutes. Man, Shane Smith must be laughing at all this. He gets to make tens of millions and all he has to do is host and do voice over for Vice's Sunday show.

[TakingBackSunday]

I can't believe that's still not deleted or edited yet

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actually, yes I fucking can

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[Dickie Dee]

Trump: I'm thankful for the difference I made.

[Crash Dummy]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1065631033700376576

[Dickie Dee]

literally

[Joe Molotov]

That's deep, bro.