US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Syph]

Re: political consequences in 2020

Voters have short-term memory, not to mention literally anything can change between now and then. We're just shy of day 10 lol. Extrapolating to 2020 positively or negatively is just an exercise in masturbatory wishful thinking at this point.

[Trent Dole]

He's fucking getting reelected, we know.

[seagrams hotsauce]

People on the right are concerned that the screw-ups within the plan are due to organizational mess and Steve Bannon.

lmao suck my dick from the back fuckhead

[Bebpo]

Just had a random thought.  Why can't a bunch of rich billionares on the liberal side buy out Fox News in a hostile takeover and fire everyone and get rid of the right-wing's biggest propaganda tool?

[etiolate]

People on the right are concerned that the screw-ups within the plan are due to organizational mess and Steve Bannon.

lmao suck my dick from the back fuckhead

what

[Cerveza mas fina]

Just had a random thought.  Why can't a bunch of rich billionares on the liberal side buy out Fox News in a hostile takeover and fire everyone and get rid of the right-wing's biggest propaganda tool?

Gaf repost?

[VomKriege]

Because Fox is owned by another rich billionaire and the lowest level you could initiate an hostile takeover (provided it's possible) is probably at the 20th Century Fox level (who owns the entity which in turn owns the news arm).

Also, if serious, suppressing it won't make the voters vanish.

[TakingBackSunday]

In all honesty, though.  Boogie.  What do I have to do to start the process of moving to Canada?

All of this bullshit mixed with Trump announcing his SCOTUS pick tomorrow just pains me.  I can't take it anymore. 

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/826045312590573568

 

[Huff]

In all honesty, though.  Boogie.  What do I have to do to start the process of moving to Canada?

All of this bullshit mixed with Trump announcing his SCOTUS pick tomorrow just pains me.  I can't take it anymore.

 

[Atramental]

BrandNew, by the time you become a Canadian citizen Trump will be out of office. 

Also...


 

[Boogie]

In all honesty, though.  Boogie.  What do I have to do to start the process of moving to Canada?

All of this bullshit mixed with Trump announcing his SCOTUS pick tomorrow just pains me.  I can't take it anymore.

I don't have any greater insight to the process beyond browsing the immigration Canada website:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/apply.asp

+student visa

As Ripclawe said in another thread, it ain't a given and easy process, where you just decide to come to Canada and fill out some paperwork, wait a few months, and bam, you waltz in.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I think this is the key point people should fucking realize, you just don't waltz in to any country and get to stay, even open and inviting countries have rules.

Next time someone says about foreigners just waltzing in you can ask them if they realize how hard it is to get in. They dont.

[Atramental]

Also, aren't there only three spots in Canada that are actually worth living in?

The greater Toronto area, the greater Vancouver area, and... well not so much Montreal.

French Canadians get really pissy when you don't speak French around them ...or so I hear. 

[Nola]

Their toxic comments section aside, GAF occasionally brings my attention to interesting articles I wouldn't have found:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump

The story on the analytics team Trump and Brexit proponents used is pretty fascinating. Maybe the narrative that big data failed in this election was pre-mature. Clinton and Democrats just found themselves behind the times?

[TakingBackSunday]

Just because I'm a white male doesn't mean it excludes me from feeling sorrow for the bullshit going on.

Good to know re: length and effort it takes.  I've been shopping around for jobs up there for a while...but this presidency is making it more and more serious a search.

[I'm a Puppy!]

oh that's cute. I should tell you more about big data and gambling companies some day. I'm way sure the rabbit hole goes way deeper than this article. I've seen worse in my small stint, can't imagine someone who has actually seen it all.

[james]

Fuck Elon Musk

[headwalk]

BrandNew, by the time you become a Canadian citizen Trump will be out of office.

you mean he won't get approval in
the next one thousand years

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/826081756713467908

lmao, what does this even mean. we're into Onion territory here for realz

[Nola]

oh that's cute. I should tell you more about big data and gambling companies some day. I'm way sure the rabbit hole goes way deeper than this article. I've seen worse in my small stint, can't imagine someone who has actually seen it all.

I have read/heard some interesting stories on the way fanduel and other less prominent gambling sites use analytics and personality profiling to target people and maximize returns. Though I am certainly interested in any good stories lol.

Edit: though thinking about the article some more. Really it just seems like the next obvious step in data gathering for political camapaigns. Obama perfected pinpointing demographics and basic information. This seems to pinpoint what specific messaging is effective to both increase support and suppress opponents. Giving the user a solid advantage in messaging.

[I'm a Puppy!]

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/826081756713467908

lmao, what does this even mean. we're into Onion territory here for realz

That's literally like saying for every pill you perscribe a patient you have to use one less stitch in patching them up.

[Samson Manhug]

I know literally doesn't strictly mean in the literal sense anymore, but it's still jarring for me too see. This is like when I learned that you don't have to put two spaces after a period. It took months to unlearn.

[Great Rumbler]

Dow has plunged over 200 points this morning, putting it back below 20k. 

[headwalk]

arbitrary numerical decision making is the mark of a man who doesn't have time to read. he's got a country to run.

[james]

Dow has plunged over 200 points this morning, putting it back below 20k. 

Obama elected: MARKET HATES UNCERTAINTY WHAT WILL OBAMA DO WILL HE BAN GUNS

Trump elected: We all think he'll do different things buy buy buy

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/826060143825666051

MLG presidential pro strats

[Atramental]

I didn't think we could go dumber than GWB but here we are. 

[Boredfrom]

I didn't think we could go dumber than GWB but here we are. 

Really? because this is exactly what I expected from a notorious shit talker millionare reality tv star.

[Boredfrom]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=229368541&postcount=226

but but but but trump is playing 11th dimensional chess!!!111

I mean, is clear that Trump and his staff are political smart enough to get to the Oval Office but they were never smart or competent enough to be unchallenged authoritians. I doubt they expected the backlash for the muslim ban EO even if their intention was to test waters of what they could get away with. Trump and his staff seem to be increansingly frustrated themselves, even Bannon needed to lash out against the media just to cool off.

[brawndolicious]

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/826081756713467908

lmao, what does this even mean. we're into Onion territory here for realz

This is so, so fucking dumb. So dumb. My god.

What you want to do is eliminate the regulations that wouldn't pass a rigorous cost-benefit analysis under your set of assumptions. For example, maybe getting the concentration of Chemical X from 2 ppm to 1 ppm costs way more than we benefit from eliminating that last ppm. Maybe your assumption is that we can live with the risk of that last ppm. Maybe you decide that a regulation that's projected to save 1 life per year at an economic cost of 10 billion a year isn't worth it. Maybe you decide we should be calculating the economic costs of certain regulations differently. That's fine. You can even give the agencies the assumptions they need to use in their cost-benefit models.

What you don't want to do is take an arbitrary sledgehammer to everything. That doesn't make sense from a policy or a managerial perspective.

Good points. I review environmental permits all day at work and I'm not even sure what counts as an individual regulation since they can vary from two sentences to multiple pages.

Which is probably why quantity of regulations is usually measured in pages. I'm pretty sure Trump just has no idea what a law looks like when it's on a page but everyone was afraid to explain it to him.....................

[archie4208]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/826060143825666051

MLG presidential pro strats

Are you a bad enough dude to shitpost the president?

[VomKriege]

They really have no idea, have they ?

[Great Rumbler]

In under 48 hours, the ACLU had received $24 million in online donations, far more even than the $7.2 million the organization received five days following Trump’s election, and around six times the organization’s average intake—per year.

https://action.aclu.org/secure/donate-to-aclu

Chipped in a little bit myself.

Trump

[Brehvolution]

From reading twitter yesterday, I saw a few people matching from $10K to $50K in donations. It could be bullshit though.

[Phoenix Dark]

Supreme Court hearings will be very interesting, given last week.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

yeah, that makes perfect sense. Because so much of what the Trump administration has done so far can be described as reasonable and well considered.

[Phoenix Dark]

Why reject Hardiman? He's probably the best you can hope for.

[james]

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

[Syph]

Fuck Elon Musk

[ToxicAdam]

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

The lizard brain always wins.

[Joe Molotov]

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

Why? The bad dudes can't get in the country anymore.

[Syph]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?423194-1/sean-spicer-briefs-reporters-white-house&live

[Optimus]

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

What will you do with those guns?

[seagrams hotsauce]

Fuck Elon Musk

He's a huckster. I've been banging this drum well before he joined Trump's gang of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows. Dude is a fraud.

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

What will you do with those guns?

Shut the fuck up, jerkoff.

[Stoney Mason]

It is what it is. You elect a bigoted leader. You get bigoted racist policies for 4 to 8 years. And the people who voted for such policies still pretend they were voting for other reasons. That's America.

 

[FStop7]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1339168

GAF flipping their shit over something they don't understand.  Alcee Hastings is wholly opposed to Trump.  He boycotted the inauguration and condemned the travel ban.

[etiolate]

Splicer's end comments were basically "you're hysterical clowns, read the order"

[james]

I hate guns. I want to ban guns. I think people who have guns should be taken away.


But I think it might be time to look into getting guns

Why? The bad dudes can't get in the country anymore.

Theyre coming from inside the house

Fuck Elon Musk

He's a huckster. I've been banging this drum well before he joined Trump's gang of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows. Dude is a fraud.

It went under the radar, but on twitter last week he implied that induced demand, a proven concept, wasn't real.

@MiguelGamino @PopSci This is silly. If adding lanes actually did make it worse, that would imply removing lanes makes it better. Obv not true.

[TakingBackSunday]

rumor is some anti LGBT executive order is coming this week

[Optimus]

Shut the fuck up, jerkoff.

Calm your tits, honey.

[I'm a Puppy!]

rumor is some anti LGBT executive order is coming this week

Man can't be that stupid can he?....can he?

[TakingBackSunday]

I've stopped thinking he's dumb.  This is all constructed by Bannon; they're toeing the water on what they can get away with.

[Fifstar]

Their toxic comments section aside, GAF occasionally brings my attention to interesting articles I wouldn't have found:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump

The story on the analytics team Trump and Brexit proponents used is pretty fascinating. Maybe the narrative that big data failed in this election was pre-mature. Clinton and Democrats just found themselves behind the times?

The original (german language) article absolutly dominated european social media a couple weeks ago. The article had somewhat of a turnaround though as a lot of follow up articles pointed out that the scope of manipulation stated in the article seemed blown out of porportion. Still a good read though.

[Boredfrom]

I've stopped thinking he's dumb.  This is all constructed by Bannon; they're toeing the water on what they can get away with.

They are still dumb unless Bannon only is destibilize the country, but een he is feeling the heat if his rant this week is anything to go by. Sure the hell they are testing the waters, but they are also drowning themselves.

The LGBT ban seems incredible stupid and self destructive as the 20% Tax, so is probably some idea is floting about or fake news.

[james]

I've stopped thinking he's dumb.  This is all constructed by Bannon; they're toeing the water on what they can get away with.

Throw out 50 EOs

If 10 get knocked down, 40 still passed.

[Boredfrom]

I've stopped thinking he's dumb.  This is all constructed by Bannon; they're toeing the water on what they can get away with.

Throw out 50 EOs

If 10 get knocked down, 40 still passed.

40 badly redacted and ideological incompatible EOs.

They were truly unprepared to the shitshow that is the Muslim ban.

[Phoenix Dark]

Splicer's end comments were basically "you're hysterical clowns, read the order"

I'm curious, what are your views on this. Because the actual EO included green card/Visas, despite objections from the DHS and State Dept. The protests weren't about nothing - something actually happen, and people responded accordingly. Or do you disagree.

[brawndolicious]

3 weeks until President's Day. We may actually see a general strike like some proposed at this rate.

[FStop7]

rumor is some anti LGBT executive order is coming this week

I can march every weekend if need be, fuckers.