US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/courierjournal/status/1087507900585652224

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1087573989277474816

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1087847187927760896

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087354276421271552

 

[kingv]

I don’t get why people keep stabbing for the black Israelites so much on some “oh they say provocative things sometimes!”

Like being a grown ass man standing around calling a bunch of 15 year olds crackers is a smart and good thing to do.

By that standard trump says Provocative things sometimes, as does the Donald reddit, and q supporters.

Like it’s ok for none of these people to be worth defending.

[Mandark]

Okay but do you denounce and reject them?

[james]

I don’t get why people keep stabbing for the black Israelites so much on some “oh they say provocative things sometimes!”

Like being a grown ass man standing around calling a bunch of 15 year olds crackers is a smart and good thing to do.

By that standard trump says Provocative things sometimes, as does the Donald reddit, and q supporters.

Like it’s ok for none of these people to be worth defending.

Eh, theyre like the LaRouche folks.

Equal opportunity assholes.

If you live in the city, theyre just another pigeon or plastic bag in your way

[Coitus]

People who live in cities understand the black Israelites are an amusing joke at best, a tedious annoyance at worst.

But to someone who lives in a McMansion in a subdivision in exurban Cincinnati and attends a mediocre Catholic school, they’re the most frightening thing imaginable.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1087931379139166210
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1087938079212613632

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087354276421271552

31 tweets, Jake Tapper is a war criminal

[team filler]

the black israelites are the real heroes in all this

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1087865000671236096

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1087834805348298752

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087832114072932352

The guy in charge of thumbnails should be given a raise. 

Anyway it seems that the Democrats are feeling the heat because some of them don't want to be 'weak' on border security.
While Republicans are feeling the heat because the government is still shutdown.

In general it seems like everyone is just working around Pelosi/Drumpf who are not budging and flinging shit at one another to come up with a compromise.

smug don is smug

[benjipwns]

Unionizing. Paying interns $15 an hour. Ensuring time off. Institutionalizing salary transparency.

To staffers on presidential campaigns past, who were long accustomed to brutal hours and low pay, that was the stuff of liberal fantasies.

But this cycle, there is an intensifying conviction among progressive operatives that internal campaign culture should reflect the very values that 2020 Democratic hopefuls passionately tout on the trail.

“Every candidate should practice what they preach,” said Rebecca Katz, a veteran progressive strategist. “If they’re talking about the American Dream, they should provide it for their own staffers as well.”

“It’s hard to be going door-to-door, telling people you should vote for this candidate because they support a $15 minimum wage when you yourself are making less than that,” added Ihaab Syed, secretary of the Campaign Workers Guild, a union for campaign staffers. “It’s hard to go door-to-door, calling for Medicare for All, when you’re not being given health care.”

McClatchy contacted representatives for 12 Democrats who have declared or are considered likely to declare presidential campaigns and asked detailed questions about their approaches to internal campaign culture. The questions ranged from whether they would support a campaign unionization effort to whether they would commit to paying workers a minimum wage.

Only one already-declared presidential contender made a commitment: Julián Castro, the former Obama administration housing secretary and the ex-mayor of San Antonio, would support his staffers if they want to unionize and will pay a $15 minimum wage, a representative for his team told McClatchy.

I'm not being snarky, but I actually do wonder if some of these might actually run afoul of the often impossible to meet standards of campaign finance law.

Unionizing seems like the most obvious one to me as running into a thicket of issues, in fact, that actually seems like an epic way to knee cap an opposing campaign.

[benjipwns]

Sam Seder considering a bid for the Libertarian nomination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPwAJhd_4AM&t=2h42m0s

[agrajag]

posting Sam Seder clips is my schtick!

 

[benjipwns]

i am a journalist you can't criticize me

[Coitus]

Unionizing. Paying interns $15 an hour. Ensuring time off. Institutionalizing salary transparency.

To staffers on presidential campaigns past, who were long accustomed to brutal hours and low pay, that was the stuff of liberal fantasies.

But this cycle, there is an intensifying conviction among progressive operatives that internal campaign culture should reflect the very values that 2020 Democratic hopefuls passionately tout on the trail.

“Every candidate should practice what they preach,” said Rebecca Katz, a veteran progressive strategist. “If they’re talking about the American Dream, they should provide it for their own staffers as well.”

“It’s hard to be going door-to-door, telling people you should vote for this candidate because they support a $15 minimum wage when you yourself are making less than that,” added Ihaab Syed, secretary of the Campaign Workers Guild, a union for campaign staffers. “It’s hard to go door-to-door, calling for Medicare for All, when you’re not being given health care.”

McClatchy contacted representatives for 12 Democrats who have declared or are considered likely to declare presidential campaigns and asked detailed questions about their approaches to internal campaign culture. The questions ranged from whether they would support a campaign unionization effort to whether they would commit to paying workers a minimum wage.

Only one already-declared presidential contender made a commitment: Julián Castro, the former Obama administration housing secretary and the ex-mayor of San Antonio, would support his staffers if they want to unionize and will pay a $15 minimum wage, a representative for his team told McClatchy.

I'm not being snarky, but I actually do wonder if some of these might actually run afoul of the often impossible to meet staendards of campaign finance law.

Unionizing seems like the most obvious one to me as running into a thicket of issues, in fact, that actually seems like an epic way to knee cap an opposing campaign.

What issues?  Seems more fraught for a Dem candidate to union bust than not to oppose unionization.

[Coitus]

I didn’t realize Harris was Tamil. Gabbard will try to stab her at the first debate.

[benjipwns]

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is forming an exploratory committee to run for president, he announced Wednesday, making him the seventh Democrat to throw his hat in the ring to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.

In a video announcing his exploratory committee, Buttigieg framed his candidacy as offering a “new generation” of leadership and a “fresh start” for the country. At 37 years old, Buttigieg would be the first millennial president if he were elected.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088058134713823233

[kingv]

Started my taxes last night. Looks like I’m going to be on the hook to send Uncle Sam $800 this year.

I knew this tax bill was going to fuck me.

[Uncle]

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is forming an exploratory committee to run for president, he announced Wednesday, making him the seventh Democrat to throw his hat in the ring to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.

In a video announcing his exploratory committee, Buttigieg framed his candidacy as offering a “new generation” of leadership and a “fresh start” for the country. At 37 years old, Buttigieg would be the first millennial president if he were elected.

No one is going to elect president Butt Geek

[BIONIC]

They would, however, elect President Butt Chug 

[kingv]

I feel like it should be an onion article. Is this dude delusional? South bend has like 100k people.

[james]

Started my taxes last night. Looks like I’m going to be on the hook to send Uncle Sam $800 this year.

I knew this tax bill was going to fuck me.

Another satisfied Trump voter

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1088048731671412736

BEAST MODE THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN HAS OWNED THE LIBS AGAIN

[Coitus]

All polls but Rasmussen are fake.

[Nola]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088058134713823233

Not that it probably even needs to be said, since I assume for most people it is just the default, but factually speaking, Trump is wrong. If his wall actually did go against expert opinions and actually deter illegal immigration by a significant amount, per capita crime would rise, not fall.

[BIONIC]

I feel like it should be an onion article. Is this dude delusional? South bend has like 100k people.

Majority of people running for president aren't in any way thinking they'll win a nomination.

It's lucrative for them as an individual;  they almost always have a book to sell or some other ambition.

See: absolute crock of shit liar politicians like Ron Paul.

Didn’t Sleepy Ben Carson literally stop campaigning for a week during his bid so he can market his book lmao

Motherfucker didn’t even try to hide the hustle.

[Mandark]

You're going to get tired of all the winning.

[team filler]

The decline and closure of the neocon flagship journal, The Weekly Standard, did not slow the neocons at all. They are back with a new publication funded by a left-wing billionaire, but preaching from the same neocon playbook. Why do neocons continue to change their stripes, from Trotskyites in the 1930's, to Reagan conservatives, to Hillary-ite liberals?

[TakingBackSunday]

no

[team filler]

Dave
1 day ago (edited)
They (most of the republicrats) all serve the same circles of highly connected corporations while ACTING left or right. Due to their own extreme levels of immorality; They have no shame when they lie. They both hate Trump because he doesn't play along with them in the exact way they want him to. Though he's no moral compass by any stretch, he does things that interrupts the smoothness of their collusions and crimes. It's a mutual back scratching club where corporations gain wealth & power through consolidations and guaranteed government contracts while their puppets in government protect them and expand their own size & authority. This kind of America should and soon will dissolve. It's an empire and those always fall.

[Mandark]

not crazy about this blackpill filler gimmick tbh

[team filler]

filler blacked 

[Brehvolution]

Dave is in for one hell of a surprise.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NickBaumann/status/1088147069364260864

Welp that's a campaign ender right there.


https://twitter.com/business/status/1088153775758544897
We ain't hearing from Cohen anytime soon.

[Nola]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1088168895117176832

[nachobro]

so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference?

[Nintex]

No he send Pelosi a long form tweet stating: "I'll show up anyway"

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1088124637844828162

[Nola]

so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference?

That seems like the obvious solution for him, but like a lot of commentators seem to think, I don't think Trump grasps that the House is a co-equal branch of government and that his authority doesn't override the House's unless the power explicitly granted.

So there is almost certainly some ego and ignorance at work here.

[Joe Molotov]

so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference?

Nah, people will definitely notice if he's slumming it in the Senate after he specifically said he was going to have it in the House and then Pelosi told him to get fucked.

[Nintex]

I would say the odds of Trump just traveling there and having a stand off with Pelosi in front of the door are high.

Even if she manages to keep him out he'll do the speech on his favorite spot. Blurting below whirring Helicopter blades.

[Mandark]

A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.

[I'm a Puppy!]

A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.

Don't forget he also did another speech (though not carried by all networks) and no one cared.

[Nintex]

A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.

Do you know what an integer overflow is?

[Nintex]

multiplying or adding two integers may result in a value that is unexpectedly small, and subtracting from a small integer may cause a wrap to a large positive value

Trump says Nancy canceled the SOTU
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1088179407477366784

[nachobro]

sad

[Nola]

Honestly, I am already working through my head how this move against Trump will undoubtedly be used in a totally disingenuous manner by some future Republican congress toward some future Democratic president to rationalize the justification for why they are denying the president a platform for the State of The Union because of some Benghazi/birther/email-gate style bullshit placating to their base. All the while the collective Washington editorial establishment will come out talking about "both sides" and drumming it up with a bunch of ridiculous moral equivalencies.

It seems to just be the cycle of things these days.

[Nintex]

Imagine being 1 of the unpaid 800k federal workers and then discovering that all the GOP and the VP did during their S H U T D O W N meetings was to get Trump to sign up to a staged coup in Venezuela.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/SenRubioPress/status/1088185846803648512

[close]

[I'm a Puppy!]

And likely a failed staged coup.

[james]

I thought Facebook cracked down on fake news

[Nola]

Alternatively, it doesn't matter if this president, or any president, is given an allotted time to conduct a ceremonial speech in the presence of Congress.

I should of added that the balcony of political nihilists and deep-thinking lefties that love to bring up Obama drone strikes or other such objectivity/superiority signaling will find a way to jump in and be dismissive of escalating trends no matter what

But really, my point was less about the pageantry than the trend of our discourse - mostly through various beltway outlets - that seems to bend over backwards to normalize and equivocate Republican fuckery.

SEE: The Washington Post editorial board "both sides-ing" this shutdown and faulting Democrats for not giving into Republican extortion.

[Nintex]

Mulvaney wants to start cutting programs as the shut down drags on.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1088188637714571277

https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1088193282826559488

The Qanons and 4D chess players also have their take (obviously).
Apparently if the government is closed for more than 30 days it is possible to fire government workers temporaily furloughed.
A "Reduction in Force" or RIF to drain the swamp (of course).
 

[Trojita]

Mulvaney wants to start cutting programs as the shut down drags on.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1088188637714571277

https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1088193282826559488

The Qanons and 4D chess players also have their take (obviously).
Apparently if the government is closed for more than 30 days it is possible to fire government workers temporaily furloughed.
A "Reduction in Force" or RIF to drain the swamp (of course).

Is that as real and binding as the five minute rule when the teacher/professor doesn't show up for class?

[Occam]

That's 15 minutes, not five.

(And it's a myth, of course.)

[james]

I am a professor and I arrive to my class after 17 minutes to ensure that I teach only the most dedicated students.

[benjipwns]

Honestly, I am already working through my head how this move against Trump will undoubtedly be used in a totally disingenuous manner by some future Republican congress toward some future Democratic president to rationalize the justification for why they are denying the president a platform for the State of The Union because of some Benghazi/birther/email-gate style bullshit placating to their base. All the while the collective Washington editorial establishment will come out talking about "both sides" and drumming it up with a bunch of ridiculous moral equivalencies.

It seems to just be the cycle of things these days.

Back to written messages! And the shorter the better!

"The State of the Union is alright, some good, some bad, the latter is my opponents fault, I'm the best. God Bless America."

[benjipwns]

wait, I just realized the obvious, Trump should just tweet the State of the Union message

[benjipwns]

@America, Ladies and Genteleman of the United States, the State of our Union is strong #SOTU #MAGA #BUILDTHEWALL 1/256,728

[agrajag]

why can't he just do another televised address from the oval office 

[benjipwns]

first prize goes to the first Congressperson to tweet back: @realDonaldTrump *applause* #SOTU

[benjipwns]

throwback: @realDonaldTrump YOU LIE! #SOTU