US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1077255770725601280

 

[brawndolicious]

how many points is the Dow gonna drop tomorrow?

It'll increase 357.4 dow points

This was pretty close if you doubled it and made it negative.

[Nintex]

So any bets on when Trump is going to make a selfie in the White House.

All alone with the nuclear football on his desk? 

[kingv]

That's photoshopped.

You ruin everything

Also where is Barron? He must be with his real mom this year, the housekeeper

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/1077198684499181568

Why can't the dems just shut up lol 

[Joe Molotov]

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1076975432661110784

[james]

This is your captain speaking. I just wanted to let you all know that the emergency rafts and life vests were all just tested last week and there is absolutely nothing to worry about

[Nintex]

#Maga and Qanon land are incredible right now.

On the Hannity radio show (and a bunch of other pro-Flynn people) there's talk that Flynn was on a mission when he went to the RT dinner.
They say that he lured in Turkey and Russia to gather information as an undercover spy (really). Op-eds and all have been written.
There could be some truth to it as the investigations show that Flynn's group never did much lobbying (but maybe they were just incompetent?)

The Qanon people are of course happy with Trump's fight against the fed. But even happier with his tweet.
See, the movie Home Alone 2 has Kevin stuck alone at home (just like Trump!) and his family in Florida (just like Trump!).
So now something is really absolutely going to happen. 

[Mandark]

#Maga and Qanon land are incredible right now.

There could be some truth to it

hm

[Nintex]

#Maga and Qanon land are incredible right now.

There could be some truth to it

hm

The Flynn story comes from Fox News circles. There's some stuff in there like Flynn's blatant OP to attack Gulen that reeled in Turkey as a client for his 'services'.
But details are a bit sketchy and there seems to be a lot of wishful thinking. But given the background of Flynn it isn't entirely out of the question.

Solomon of the Hill was first to bring it up in an interview

That there was some document that could help Flynn. And he now seems to have figured out that it contains information that Flynn was doing some sort of information gathering mission.
Now the question is if the document exists that is, did they ask him to get some information on Russia/Turkey because he was working for them. Or did he use that 'mission' as a cover for his own dirty work.

The Home Alone 2 story is undistilled Qanon 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1077356854810836992

Imagine calling where Santa is and you get Donald Trump on the phone
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1077357477400846336

[Phoenix Dark]

Remember when Kudlow said the health of the stock market is the best indicator of overall economic health?

Remember when market worshiping republicans ignored the market gains of...well, virtually Obama's entire presidency?

Remember when Obama basically ignored the stock market, like most competent presidents, and let it do its thing?

We're about 2k points from it dropping below where it was on inauguration day.

[Mandark]

Going back further, I remember Republicans deciding the household survey was better for raw job numbers than the payroll survey when Bush was president (strictly cause the numbers looked better for a few months).

As soon as Obama took office, U6 suddenly became the "real" unemployment rate.

[kingv]

#Maga and Qanon land are incredible right now.

On the Hannity radio show (and a bunch of other pro-Flynn people) there's talk that Flynn was on a mission when he went to the RT dinner.
They say that he lured in Turkey and Russia to gather information as an undercover spy (really). Op-eds and all have been written.
There could be some truth to it as the investigations show that Flynn's group never did much lobbying (but maybe they were just incompetent?)

The Qanon people are of course happy with Trump's fight against the fed. But even happier with his tweet.
See, the movie Home Alone 2 has Kevin stuck alone at home (just like Trump!) and his family in Florida (just like Trump!).
So now something is really absolutely going to happen. 

This Qanon story about Flynn doesn’t make a lick of sense, and this is one of those times when Nintex shows how little critical thinking he does about this stuff.

If Flynn was on a mission... who was he working for? The idea that the US government was hiring him while he was working for a campaign that was under Investigstion and somehow the FBI just... forgot that they had hired ha very high profile person as an informant makes zero sense.

[agrajag]

Because ruining adults' Christmas wasn't enough

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077375011600678912

[benjipwns]

FAKE NEWS: The kid clearly said something that dopey dad mode Trump responded to.

#AtSevenItsMarginal

[benjipwns]

Also, add that to my never gonna happen End Of Second Term Bucket List: "Announce will be ordering our anti-air defenses to bring Santa down."

[Mandark]

[NORAD Santa/Space Force joke]

[curly]

honestly he's right on that one

[Boredfrom]

honestly he's right on that one

 

I mean, you could argue people should not lie about Santa Claus but most people have  tact or the sense of not doing to children of different parents.

[curly]

parents who make other people pretend Santa is real around their too-old children are no different than ISIS

[benjipwns]

so much for the tolerant left

[Boredfrom]

I mean it would be different if it was like when Nico was trying to tell Maki that Santa doesn’t exist and everyone acted like she was summoning Beetlejuice. (that is bad touch Moe, no the good one)

[james]

Parents : i expect my tax dollars to cover the costs of a santa hotline

Trump: santa isn't real bitch

Parents :

[Trent Dole]

Parents : i expect my tax dollars to cover the costs of a santa hotline

Drumpf: santa isn't real bitch

Parents : (Image removed from quote.)

[agrajag]

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-12-24/mnuchin-risks-becoming-trump-s-target-as-market-slide-worsens?__twitter_impression=true

2019 is gonna be fun. Nintex is gonna be on seventh heaven.

[Nintex]

“There are plenty of people inside the White House who are not fans of Mnuchin who are happy to throw him under the bus,” said Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors in Washington and a former Treasury official

Everyone is happy to throw people under the bus in the White House. Although Trump is usually happy with people who don't function very well and keeps them on as long as he can.
It took him a long time to get rid of Pruitt and other people who were clearly terrible at their jobs. Hell, he dragged his feet getting rid of Mike Flynn because he liked him.

https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/956895850998960128
You got to hand it to Trump. He really knows where to find some horrible incompetent people and he seemingly has binders full of them. 

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/candycat357/status/1077736860145930241
 

Phoenixdarkmas prediction: Sanders gets blown out in the primaries, bows out and doesn't endorse anyone (until a nominee is chosen). Fervent Sanders allies like Nina Turner declare they may not vote for whoever the nominee is because he isn't progressive enough and we see continued efforts to attack the nominee from the left, leveraging social media.

[curly]

unironically saying berniebro in 2018 

phoenixdark primary predictions

[El Babua]

I'd rather be a Berniebro than a Betomale 

[Mandark]

Twitter's going to be unreadable during the primaries. Bernie stans are already hypersensitive and the Hillarybots are going to migrate to another candidate the way Sega fanboys jumped to Microsoft after the Dreamcast died.

And this time Trump won't have a competitive primary, so he'll be at rallies riffing on whatever's happening on the Dem side, like a racist sundowning version of MST3K. Not good!

[TVC15]

John Boehner is on a tv commercial telling me he can make a marijuana millionaire out of me. What have demoncrats ever done?

[james]

If we can ban Twitter and Facebook during election season everything will be better

[kingv]

John Boehner is on a tv commercial telling me he can make a marijuana millionaire out of me. What have demoncrats ever done?

Is this serious? Even he is a grifter now.

I think John Boehner was a terrible speaker, but st least I thought he mostly believed what he was trying to say.

[agrajag]

yeah I've seen those Boehner weed ads

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1077947986230104064

 

Merry Christmas Troops!!!

https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1077889566026203136

 

[agrajag]

 

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/candycat357/status/1077736860145930241
 

Phoenixdarkmas prediction: Sanders gets blown out in the primaries, bows out and doesn't endorse anyone (until a nominee is chosen). Fervent Sanders allies like Nina Turner declare they may not vote for whoever the nominee is because he isn't progressive enough and we see continued efforts to attack the nominee from the left, leveraging social media.

I think there are a lot of people that voted for Bernie because of his policy positions and not because they thought he was the best person to actually implement them. He was just the only choice on the menu talking about stuff like Medicare for all, $15 minimum wage, and debt free college.

I don’t necessarily think people love Bernie because he’s Bernie, but because they like those policies. But those are basically Democratic Party Table Stakes now.
In a way, Bernie won the policy battle even after losing the nomination.

[brawndolicious]

Bernie is sort of like my friend's wife who believes she was abducted by aliens, a true believer but not my first choice for interspecies ambassador if that day comes.

[kingv]

Haha yes. Exactly.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/1077039555365220352

Somebody actually looked into the voting record of Beto's time in the house. I guess people are mad that he seemed to represent the district he was serving.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1069077953919754240

[Joe Molotov]

You post on Twitter with the brain you’ve got, not the brain you wish you had.

[curly]

https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/1077039555365220352

Somebody actually looked into the voting record of Beto's time in the house. I guess people are mad that he seemed to represent the district he was serving.

I agree that congressional voting records should be taken in context but Jonathan Allen is a hack reporter who specializes in horserace bullshit

[shosta]

The following is a tweet storm of unspecified length. I could figure out how long it is, but I won't because I don't respect your time. [1/x]

[Mandark]

The following is a tweet storm of unspecified length. I could figure out how long it is, but I won't because I don't respect your time. [1/x]

Someone pre-writing a thread and counting exactly how many tweets there are is way more psychotic than giving the audience a heads up that they're going to string together some related points.

[shosta]

Someone pre-writing a thread and counting exactly how many tweets there are is way more psychotic than giving the audience a heads up that they're going to string together some related points.

I believe "pre-writing a thread" is known as writing. You shouldn't be publishing simultaneously with the formation of your thoughts.

[agrajag]

twitter is a stream of consciousness thing. Just ask the Pres.

[shosta]

The following text would be better posted on any number of blog sites but I don’t respect mine or anyone’s time so I’ll put it across 100 tweets.

I fucking hate Twitter.

Medium shrunk the size of its banner.

[Nintex]

So Trump went for a surprise visit to Iraq.

he was worried about everyone on the trip because the plane went dark, except John Bolton
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1078059639625969664

ISIS defeated *cheers*
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1078042068075855872

And stocks are up bigly
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1078033283039088646

 

[Boredfrom]

Your hot takes are constantly horrible, congrats.

[Great Rumbler]

If we can ban Twitter and Facebook everything will be better

.

[Mandark]

Someone pre-writing a thread and counting exactly how many tweets there are is way more psychotic than giving the audience a heads up that they're going to string together some related points.

I believe "pre-writing a thread" is known as writing. You shouldn't be publishing simultaneously with the formation of your thoughts.

You do not believe this. You post at the Bore.

[benjipwns]

I believe "pre-writing a thread" is known as writing. You shouldn't be publishing simultaneously with the formation of your thoughts.

You do not believe this. You post at the Bore.

what r u talkin about, PD? BEAST MODE is guaranteed for 2020

[CatsCatsCats]

On the bore, we’re more likely to dewrite than prewrite

And edit

[benjipwns]

Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. attorney general, has incorrectly claimed on his résumé and in government documents to have been named an Academic All-American while playing football at the University of Iowa, according to the documents and the organization that awards that honor.

Mr. Whitaker, who was a tight end on the Iowa team from 1990 to 1992, claimed to have been an Academic All-American in his biography on his former law firm’s website and on a résumé sent in 2014 to the chief executive of a now-closed patent-marketing firm, for which he sat on the advisory board. The résumé was included in documents released last month by the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Whitaker made the same claim in a 2010 application for an Iowa judgeship. And a Justice Department press release, issued in 2009 when Mr. Whitaker left his post as U.S. Attorney in Iowa, said he had been “an academic All-American football player.”

Barb Kowal, a spokeswoman for the awarding organization, also known as CoSIDA, said the group has no record that Mr. Whitaker was ever an Academic All-American.

[benjipwns]

oof, Democrats really hate women now thanks to Putin

[Joe Molotov]

~5% of people have never heard of anyone entirely new.

[benjipwns]

yikes

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Sharpton at the start

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"how pointless is my life? and how pointless are the decisions i am making on a day to day basis?"

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[agrajag]

~5% of people have never heard of anyone entirely new.

Say what you want about Mr. New, but at least he hasn't voted with Republicans as often as Betom