US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Madrun Badrun]

https://i.imgur.com/I0LeUxq.gifv

im really loving this mistake

[Nintex]

If you're going to write it out you have to start with the Hillary endorsed uprisings against Putin. The Russification of Wikileaks which gave Putin the Snowden and Manning ops to retaliate and the RT dinner with Flynn and Jill Stein.
Followed by how "he's CIA" Manafort got in bed with the wrong Russians and Trump's appearance in a Russian music video.

This thing has so many plot lines. It is completely bonkers.

[kingv]

https://i.imgur.com/I0LeUxq.gifv

im really loving this mistake

I feel like you have to see the longer clip where Justin Trudeau stares straight into the camera with this look on his face of trying not to laugh and also “holy crap how dumb is this motherfucker” and the chick behind him is like 2 seconds away from cracking up as he deadpans to Trump “each of us gets a copy”
https://twitter.com/muhammadlila/status/1069609790802784257

It really needs the Curb Your Enthusiasm music.

“E

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1070096529225146370

Sorry china you are now part of the show

[Rufus]

Now?

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1070099672813965316

[BIONIC]

Sounds legit

[benjipwns]

They'll probably leave Hillary's flag just wadded up in a ball on top.

[benjipwns]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/media/weekly-standard-future-uncertain/

The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication on the right still critical of President Donald Trump, is uncertain, Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes told staff in a series of phone calls Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The magazine's precarious position comes after its leadership spent months searching for a buyer, the people told CNN.

The people explained that The Weekly Standard's leadership had butted heads with MediaDC, the current publisher of the magazine, and that the two parties had agreed to allow Hayes to search for a new owner.

However, MediaDC recently informed The Weekly Standard's leadership that the company was no longer interested in a sale, the people said.

Instead, Ryan McKibben, the chairman of MediaDC, asked to meet with Hayes in a meeting tentatively scheduled for late next week, the people said. McKibben, they said, also requested the entire staff of The Weekly Standard be made available following the meeting.

That request, coupled with MediaDC's Monday announcement that its other conservative news organization, The Washington Examiner, would be expanding its magazine into a weekly publication, has left The Weekly Standard's leadership worrying about the future of the magazine.

One of the people familiar with the matter told CNN that the Washington Examiner is expanding at the expense of The Weekly Standard.

and all i got out of it was this t-shirt war in Iraq

[Nintex]

Flynn is spending 0 days in prison because he has cooperated so well but most of the findings are [redacted].

Trumpists: "shows he's working with Mueller to get the cabal #D5"

Leftists: "this means a military tribunal (nuremburg 2.0) will hang all the traitors instead"

[kingv]

If you want to figure out if it’s bad for Trump, just wait for him to tweet.

Edit: I just checked his feed, I’m about 99% certain none of today’s tweets are actually from him.

It’s a day for sulking in the east wing watching fox and friends.

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/ikebarinholtz/status/1070086293185421312

[Nintex]

Now that D5 is an awkward get together with Hillary, Obama and Trump seated together and Trump acting normal for all but 3 days the Q's have a new angle they're playing at.

Theory 1: D5 was never the date 'dumb idiots' D5 is a person = Flynn was born December 5th.

Theory 2: D5 is now D7 because the funeral threw a wrench in the plan to arrest Clinton and the cabal

 

[Brehvolution]

Always moving them goalposts. 

[Nintex]

*Trump in jail*

Qanons: "This was all part of the plan to have the cabal drop their guard. In reality Trump is actually just hiding out at the Mar-a-lago waiting for the perfect moment to strike"

*Trump dies*

Qanons: "Wow, now everyone thinks he's dead and he can move freely behind the scenes. Props to his son for great acting"

Whoever came up with Q had the brilliant idea to make "Trust the plan" a thing. Basically whenever something goes wrong or not the way it is expected it is all part of the bigger and wider plan.

[Occam]

This is sickening:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/05/gov-elect-tony-evers-calls-gop-plans-curb-his-power-hot-mess-an-embarrassment-state-wisconsin/

[Nintex]

I guess that ends the truce
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1070451415842213894

[hungrynoob]

rip

https://twitter.com/TWPundit/status/1070480786787319809

[Great Rumbler]

hungrynoob has resorted to sending out dick pics.

weird flex but okay

[benjipwns]

It was the Jeb! wins meme except instead of Jeb! it was George P. Bush.

[benjipwns]

https://organizingforbernie.com/

[Nintex]

Jeb noticed a spelling error.

[chronovore]

https://organizingforbernie.com/

No joke, I feel like if the media had given Bernie the attention he deserved rather than chasing the Trump Shame Circus, we'd have a different POTUS right now.

[kingv]

I’m pretty sure the DNC is still dead set in sabotaging Bernie for “not being a real Democrat.”

I don’t really plan to vote for him in a 2020 primary, as I think it’s time to move on from 2016... but some of the hate these hilldawggers have for him is crazy. They act like old boy told her to only campaign 3 days a week and spend money in Arizona instead of being a campaign surrogate for her.

[TakingBackSunday]

honestly I just want bernie bros and shillarys to just hate fuck and get it over with, I'm fucking sick of both of them

[nachobro]

Hey that tactic worked for Trump the Master and the Rs

[Mandark]

Whoever the nominee is I hope we don't get the same weird online toxicity as the Sanders/Clinton primary. That was just the dumbest.

[kingv]

It just seems to be the only reason they don’t like him.

- he’s historically not a democrat
- he dares to challenge Hillary

It’s just counterproductive, IMO. He’s a popular figures within the party, has popular ideas, and has caucuses with the Democrats forever. It’s the type of inside baseball politics bullshit that people that don’t go to their county Democratic Party meeting every month and care deeply about internal DNC politics  really dislike.

I think Bernie should just join the Democratic Party permanently, but not being good friends with Debbie Wasserman Schultz or Howard Dean is not Something I see as particularly bad or good. At the end of the day, he ran as a Democrat, helped raise money for democrats, and was a campaign surrogate for the Democratic candidate and campaigned for and fundraised for Democratic candidates in 2018.

[kingv]

Whoever the nominee is I hope we don't get the same weird online toxicity as the Sanders/Clinton primary. That was just the dumbest.

It was the worst, and it still is.

People are so hard over on twitter for Hillary or Bernie and just trash the other one every time it comes back up.

I still think that this was part of the Russian disinformation to build that distrust. Both candidates should just stay away from running in 2020.

[CatsCatsCats]

This shit in Wisconsin so fucked

[Mandark]

What's with you posting old links? Are you doing a bit?

[Great Rumbler]

Tucker Carlson: Not a white supremacist, but #1 with white supremacists.

[kingv]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/nra-trump-2016-campaign-coordination-political-advertising/

So it looks like trump and the nra were illegally coordinating their ad buys.

From the butina indictment, there was email from 10/4/2016 that stated:
Unrelated to specific presidential campaigns, I've been involved in securing a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key [GOP] leaders through, of all conduits, the [NRA]."
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1080766/download

So if the campaign and the NRA are illegally collaborating, breaking campaign finance laws. And the NRA also serves as a conduit to GOP officials... how is that not “collusion”?

Essentially the NRA is an intermediary that theoretically allows them to directly coordinate messages and targeting with the campaign, because the campaign is directly coordinating with the NRA.

[Great Rumbler]

So, this just happened with one of the GOP's Senate pick-ups:

Missouri’s Republican secretary of state has launched an investigation of its outgoing attorney general and Sen.-Elect Josh Hawley (R-MO), over accusations that Hawley misused public funds in order to help his political career.

The ADLF complaint adds: “Under Hawley’s oversight and with his approval, political consultants appear to have used Missouri’s taxpayer-funded resources to construct a carefully-curated communications strategy that would puff up Hawley’s public image and prepare him for his Senate candidacy.”

[Mandark]

PAGING PHOENIX DARK TO THE THREAD

https://twitter.com/iantothemax/status/1070461918123413505

[hungrynoob]

 

[hungrynoob]

yup, people who are the subject of an investigation get a letter that says "YOU ARE GOING TO BE ARRESTED". during a funeral.

yup, shitting pants for no reason,

[Joe Molotov]

hungrynoob, can you explain the wrinkles in the flag on HW’s coffin? I’m curious if that means anything.

[Great Rumbler]

So how long do we have to wait for the nationally-televised military tribunal?

[Madrun Badrun]

TBF, I'd be PAIN.pnging if I got sunblasted by that dude's bald head too. 

[TakingBackSunday]

I take it back.  Hungrynoob by far is my favorite village idiot

[Great Rumbler]

yup, people who are the subject of an investigation get a letter that says "YOU ARE GOING TO BE ARRESTED". during a funeral.

Actually, the letter said:

[curly]

(Image removed from quote.)

 

refuse to believe a conspiracy from people who don't know how to lock proportions when resizing an image

[benjipwns]

“Under Hawley’s oversight and with his approval, political consultants appear to have used Missouri’s taxpayer-funded resources to construct a carefully-curated communications strategy that would puff up Hawley’s public image and prepare him for his Senate candidacy.”

Was that not the point of having that position? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.

[benjipwns]

Democrats are hitting fast forward.

The first major presidential campaign announcements could come before year’s end. The Democratic National Committee plans to announce a debate framework by then featuring 15 to 20 candidates. The first primary debate could happen as early as May, a full three months before the premiere debate of the 2016 cycle.

This week has offered a preview of the drama that could lie ahead. Former Vice President Joe Biden declared himself “the most qualified person in the country to be president,” billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer courted activists in key states, and at least two prospects — former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and firebrand attorney Michael Avenatti — publicly bowed out of the 2020 contest.

For those preparing candidacies, activity is picking up. While she has yet to make a final decision, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is laying the groundwork for an early launch — potentially by year’s end but more likely in January. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are also lining up for early launches.

Aides to the Democrats addressed their plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose internal discussions.

Another well-funded set, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Bloomberg and Steyer, believe they can afford to wait slightly longer to announce their intentions given their fundraising prowess.

Others may need to soon form presidential exploratory committees to access millions of dollars locked in their Senate campaign accounts to pay for travel, consulting and polling related to a possible White House bid. That’s especially true for Warren, Gillibrand, O’Rourke, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Hickenlooper isn’t expected to make a formal decision on running until after his term as governor ends Jan. 8. But he’s already started assembling his team and his operation has hired a pollster and national fundraiser.

Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, told The Associated Press that the grueling pace of a presidential contest would not be a deterrent for a second run. She also highlighted Sanders’ philosophy of not attacking other Democrats.

“We’ve never been negative toward an opponent,” she said in an interview last weekend. “And that’s going to be the case this time.”

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti are among those reaching out to experienced political operatives across the country for feedback. Former Obama administration Cabinet member Julian Castro has already indicated he’s likely to run.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is weighing a possible presidential bid. Some Democrats have sought to recruit him to run for the Senate in 2020, but his chief of staff, Tom Lopach, said, “Bullock is not interested” in that campaign.

Among the Democrats not ruling out a run is John Kerry

As the field takes shape, DNC Chairman Tom Perez is working to craft what he says must be a fair process that doesn’t leave the eventual nominee facing internal criticisms of favoritism like those that dogged Clinton in 2016.

[benjipwns]

Chris Eason is 47 years old, not registered to any political party, and worked in construction. He’s into camping and boating, and has lived in this rural town most of his life.

What Chris Eason does not do is vote.

“I just don’t vote. I don’t believe it. Do nothing but lie anyway,” Eason told BuzzFeed News about politicians. “Everybody’s crooked and they’ll do anything they can to get put in office.”

But, technically, Eason does vote — he says he’s just not the guy casting the ballot.

...

Sure enough, public records show, his absentee ballot ended up signed, sealed, and witnessed to the county Board of Elections with Eason’s name on it.

my worst nightmare

Eason told BuzzFeed News that he signed a blank absentee ballot in the now-contested Nov. 6 general election, didn’t actually pick any candidates, and then handed the unsealed ballot to the man at the center of an unfolding election fraud scandal, McCrae Dowless.

oh, smdh, fucking idiot

[I'm a Puppy!]

Kelly's done apparently

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff-donald-trump/index.html

[Nintex]

Kelly's always halfway out the door.

But yeah, this might be the pivot.

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for a week 

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[Madrun Badrun]

https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/history/active-shooters-across-america-10-years-attacks

[Nintex]

It's on
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071132880368132096

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071055923848855553

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1071164020726657024

Also today is also D7. The day that Q will lock up all the deep state and former presidents in the name of Donald Trump.
Or as he dropped it : "OPERATORS ARE ACTIVE"

Hold on to your butts 


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071177621445230596
 

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1071184210398982152
 

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1071266931825696768

Just what brother tryna see at the end of a 2 week bud.

[kingv]

Actually his whole twitter feed is fire today.

This American right wing grassroots panel or whatever it’s calling itself is lol.

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1071162678582874112

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1071242972807737345

Twitter banning discussion of qanon!
 

Or maybe not... not on the actual rules page.

[Mandark]

It's a gag. @getfiscal almost exclusively irony-tweets.

[kingv]

Man, I was looking forward to a lot of fuckery.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/mattbpurdy/status/1071441287084163072

Thank you Jared.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1071242399664480257

[Nola]

Honest question, have they ever been right on anything substantive?

I mean wasn't Mueller's Russia mandate supposed to be a front for a deeper investigation into Democratic sex-rings and weeding out the Hillary loyalists before she is put in front of a firing squad for treason and masterminding every Republican conspiracy or something? That Mueller is secretly working with Donald Trump?

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1071242399664480257

Calling it now: it's Barron.

Wait, that's believable. Guess it's not him then.

[Nintex]

Jared does everything so Jared.

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That would also explain why everything Q plans (from DECLAS to ARRESTS) never happens 

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