Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 5433630 times)

james · « **Reply #34380 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:09:07 PM »

Here is my list:

Support:

1. Bernie, primarily so all the poligaf posters kill themselves
2. Warren, as she has by far the best policies
3. Harris, because she jamiacan me crazy

Would hold my nose and vote

4. Beto, white Obama but worse
5. Castro, I know nothing about him
6. Butti, I guess the gays like him?
7. Yang, memes are ok
8. Gravel. ditto

Ill stay home:

9: Biden

I'd rather vote for Trump:

10: Gillibitch

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #34381 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:19:03 PM »

Quote from: james on April 23, 2019, 03:58:13 PM

Quote from: shosta on April 21, 2019, 10:14:19 PM
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538

Why the fuck is the both column necessary?

More checkmarks = better candidates

james · « **Reply #34382 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:21:03 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on April 23, 2019, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: james on April 23, 2019, 03:58:13 PM
Quote from: shosta on April 21, 2019, 10:14:19 PM
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538

Why the fuck is the both column necessary?

More checkmarks = better candidates

Then they need an "all checkmarks" column to confirm that the best candidates have a check mark in all the columns

james · « **Reply #34383 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:23:21 PM »

Quote from: Stro on April 23, 2019, 04:21:23 PM

Yang's BUI would improve my life more than the policies of anyone else running but I'm probably going to just hope I'm dead on election day 2020 like it's a normal Tuesday for me

I came across some photos of the election party I hosted in 2016. Big oof.

Mandark · « **Reply #34384 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:27:28 PM »

Gillibrand gets points from me for how angry she makes the Franken dead-enders.

Mandark · « **Reply #34385 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:31:52 PM »

fuck how did I not go with "frankenstans" there

Nintex · « **Reply #34386 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:38:52 PM »

Quote from: Stro on April 23, 2019, 04:21:23 PM

Yang's BUI would improve my life more than the policies of anyone else running but I'm probably going to just hope I'm dead on election day 2020 like it's a normal Tuesday for me

Looking at the average age of the candidates most of the front runners might also be dead by then.

BIONIC · « **Reply #34387 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:55:58 PM »

I feel dirty for liking a Nintex post

agrajag · « **Reply #34388 on:** April 23, 2019, 04:56:39 PM »

my unsolicited list

1. Bernie/ Warren. Bernie is probably more electable/charismatic, Warren torpedoed her candidacy with ancestry.com. Ideally a Bernie/Warren ticket happens, but it might be too "radical" for the general public.

2. Yang. He has some positions I find disagreeable, but I know I will personally benefit from his UBI and so will a ton of other people. He also seems level-headed, can be reasoned with and doesn't endlessly bloviate vague generalities (see tier 6).

4. Harris/Castro/Tulsi. Harris is basically Clinton 2.0, she's a symbol. Not too versed on Castro. He's from Obama's cabinet. Tulsi, I want to see on the debate stage.

5. Gravel. Just wanna see the crazy old man hit the debate stage.

6. Beto/Butch/Gilli/Booker. Zero enthusiasm for these.

7. Biden/Klubba

Nola · « **Reply #34389 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:04:00 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on April 23, 2019, 03:42:15 PM

https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks/status/1120511753635475461

booty mayor btfo

People should give Pete at least some credit.

Pete just doesn't say no to anything. Which means he keeps himself in the spotlight and doesn't get lost in the media cycle. It seems to be what older guard Dems aren't grasping. Keeping a tight grip on your narrative and media appearances doesn't work anymore.

I've seen the guy interview with basically every beltway paper, appear at a CNN Townhall, Morning Joe, Fox News, a million podcasts(Weeds, Preet Bahara, Axlerod, PSA, Brett Bair, pretty much every NPR show), and appear on almost every day-time or late-night show. And he throws just enough shit out there like stacking the supreme court and getting rid of the filibuster to drum up enough controversy. In that sense, I really don't get the Beto comparisons. He's not my first choice but some of the shit people throw at him(like not having positions) I don't quite get.

team filler · « **Reply #34390 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:05:11 PM »

Tier !. Surf babe Tulsi

agrajag · « **Reply #34391 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:06:43 PM »

so does Yang and Bernie. But Yang has the nerve to go on Joe Rogan and he's cryptofasc, Bernie does a Fox townhall, he's a Russian plant. Mayor Pete goes on Fox and he is a liberal darling.

Nola · « **Reply #34392 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:12:34 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on April 23, 2019, 05:06:43 PM

so does Yang and Bernie. But Yang has the nerve to go on Joe Rogan and he's cryptofasc, Bernie does a Fox townhall, he's a Russian plant. Mayor Pete goes on Fox and he is a liberal darling.

I won't speak to how they are getting filtered, but all three of them are playing from the same playbook of saying yes to almost everything and that has elevated their respective profiles and kept the media cycle from forgetting about them IMO.

Pete just uses the strategy while channeling a lot of that Overton Window approach Obama utilized and I suspect that is what endears him to that cable news/beltway journalist crowd.

team filler · « **Reply #34393 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:29:59 PM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/bfcbtn/theory_the_dnc_has_encouraged_candidates_from_all/

...

team filler · « **Reply #34394 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:37:22 PM »

https://twitter.com/anastasiakeeley/status/1120752362585559041

shosta · « **Reply #34395 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:41:40 PM »

The Chairman Dao redemption tour is my favorite subplot this year

team filler · « **Reply #34396 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:54:08 PM »

https://www.rt.com/usa/457363-trump-twitter-dorsey-meeting/

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Trump meets Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to talk about 'health of public conversation'

Nintex · « **Reply #34397 on:** April 23, 2019, 05:57:59 PM »

Top tier:
Yang - He seems to actually have ideas on stuff that matters like automation
Trump - All time classic god emperor
Tulsi - If this question was fuck/marry/kill, you know
Putin - You might as well cut out the middle man or woman
McCafee - This would be bonkers and thus top tier

OK handsign tier:
Gravel - Old man yells from oval office
Buttigieg - Seems like an ok guy
Romney - I always thought Romney would be an 'ok' President. He was onto the Russians before everyone else for starters

Guess they'll do tier:
Biden - Will probably get railroaded by the press everytime he touches something or someone and will be generally disliked
Sanders - Congress/Senate will probably block a lot of his ideas or water them down
Harris - It'll be annoying as fuck to have a 'yassss queen' as President for 4 years but at least we will live (I think)
Castro - Don't know much about him but seems ok'ish
Booker - Textbook politician. Probably wouldn't rock the boat too much

Nightmare tier:
Gillibrand - Just seems awful
Pence - Trump picked him just because he's so horrible
Beto - Furry
Warren - basically no-fun-allowed.jpg
Howard Schultz - electing this guy would be a clear sign of the apocalypse
Paul Ryan - I would seriously feel bad for 'Murica if he got elected

Nintex · « **Reply #34398 on:** April 23, 2019, 06:11:27 PM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1120793199650463747

Narrator: "Trump send out 50 tweets in the last 24 hours"

If there was ever a need for a transcript of a meeting

Boredfrom · « **Reply #34399 on:** April 23, 2019, 06:34:30 PM »

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/440313-trump-spent-meeting-with-twitter-ceo-complaining-about-losing

Tripon · « **Reply #34400 on:** April 23, 2019, 08:39:19 PM »

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On Tuesday, President Trump hosted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in the Oval Office for a closed-door meeting, during which the leader of the free world spent an inordinate amount of time complaining about lost Twitter followers, according to a source familiar with the conversation.

The Twitter chief, for his part, tried to reassure the president that the company’s staff merely wants his follower count to be as bot-free as possible.

This is what the most powerful person in the world was preoccupied with Tuesday.

A large percentage of the meeting, which included senior White House officials such as Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino, was spent addressing the subject of @realDonaldTrump’s follower count. The president stated his belief that he had lost some of his roughly 59 million followers in anti-Trump, anti-conservative Twitter purges, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Dorsey, according to this knowledgeable source, had to explain to the president that like other Twitter users, @realDonaldTrump periodically loses followers when the site deletes fake or bot accounts. Dorsey even said he himself had lost followers as a result of Twitter’s efforts to delete fake accounts.

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During this private gathering in the West Wing, Dorsey assured Trump that the company wants him, and everyone else on Twitter, to have only real followers, according to the source.

Trump also said he’s heard from other prominent conservatives about problems with Twitter, though he declined to name names.

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The summit with Twitter’s CEO is unlikely to assuage the president’s concerns about tech giants and social media, of which he has many. Two people close to Trump previously told The Daily Beast that Trump has repeatedly griped to associates about how his predecessor, President Obama, has had more Twitter followers than he has, even though—by Trump’s own assessment—he is so much better at Twitter than Obama is.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gets-gentle-reassurance-from-twitter-chief-jack-dorsey-over-follower-count-in-white-house-meeting?ref=home

james · « **Reply #34401 on:** April 23, 2019, 09:14:17 PM »

Fuck jack, you enabled this. Go choke on a bot

Tripon · « **Reply #34402 on:** April 23, 2019, 09:26:29 PM »

Off the top of my head:

1. Bernie
2. Warren
3. Yang
4. Harris
5. Beto
6. Gabbard
7. Gravel
8. Weld
9. Buttigieg
10. Booker
11. Messam
12. Ryan
13. Moulton
14. Swalwell
15. Castro
16. Hickenlooper
17. Inslee
18. Klobuchar
19. Williamson
20. Delaney

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Never going to vote for: Gillibrand. I'd sooner vote for Howard Schultz. If Kristen Gillibrand actually somehow wins the nomination, I'd just write in Bernie or Warren at that point.

agrajag · « **Reply #34403 on:** April 23, 2019, 09:28:32 PM »

shosta · « **Reply #34404 on:** April 23, 2019, 09:35:08 PM »

You guys all hate Gillibrand so much but Nydia Velazquez gave her seal of approval so I dunno wtf you're all on except huffing oppo all day.

benjipwns · « **Reply #34405 on:** April 23, 2019, 10:35:47 PM »

Quote from: Stro on April 23, 2019, 03:43:22 PM

MSNBC is pushing Mayor Pete hard, Fox is pushing Bernie hard

More like Fox is pushing "a year of Democratic infighting worth ratings gold":

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Fox News will host a town hall with South Bend, Ind., mayor and presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg.

The event will air live from Claremont, N.H., on Sunday, May 19, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET.

It will be moderated by Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday."

Fox News and Fox Business president and executive editor, Jay Wallace, said of the event, “We look forward to hosting Mayor Buttigieg in New Hampshire and again showcasing our first-in-class journalism and election coverage.”

Buttigieg's town hall will be the fourth for Fox News during the 2020 election cycle.

"Special Report’s" Bret Baier and "The Story’s" Martha MacCallum held a town hall with 2020 frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) earlier this month, which was the highest rated of the election cycle so far, garnering nearly 2.6 million viewers, preceded by a town hall with Howard Schultz which drew more than 1.9 million viewers.

Last week, Fox News announced a town hall with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), scheduled for May 8 in Milwaukee.

kingv · « **Reply #34406 on:** April 23, 2019, 11:47:21 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on April 23, 2019, 04:07:01 PM

Shosta is vying for Mandark's Elder Statesman position in PoliBore.

If you come for the king, you better not miss bitch!

"If you come for the king, you better not miss bitch!"

- Barack Hussein Ayatollah Jumanji Obama

agrajag · « **Reply #34407 on:** April 23, 2019, 11:50:11 PM »

shosta retire bitch!

shosta · « **Reply #34408 on:** April 24, 2019, 12:08:26 AM »

I fucking missed the Yang rally I'd been waiting for for a month

kingv · « **Reply #34409 on:** April 24, 2019, 12:11:31 AM »

never forget that Jack had Azalea Banks make him a voodoo doll.

Tripon · « **Reply #34410 on:** April 24, 2019, 12:33:26 AM »

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The brothers involved in an alleged attack on actor Jussie Smollett are suing the "Empire" actor's attorneys for defamation. According to CBS Chicago, Ola and Abel Osundairo are accusing Mark Geragos and Tina Glandian of falsely accusing them of an actual hate crime.

Tasty · « **Reply #34411 on:** April 24, 2019, 12:37:46 AM »

This Warren support

shosta · « **Reply #34412 on:** April 24, 2019, 12:40:20 AM »

all forms of Massachusetts pride

team filler · « **Reply #34413 on:** April 24, 2019, 01:02:55 AM »

https://twitter.com/55Counties/status/1120898168684564480

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #34414 on:** April 24, 2019, 09:13:01 AM »

FF7>FF8>FF4>FF6>FF9>FF10>FF3>FF2>FF12>FF1>FF13>FF14

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34415 on:** April 24, 2019, 09:22:03 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on April 24, 2019, 09:13:01 AM

FF7>FF4>FF6>FF9>FF10>FF3>FF2>FF12>FF1>FF13>FF14>FF8

Fixed

Tripon · « **Reply #34416 on:** April 24, 2019, 09:23:11 AM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1121023509029892096
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1121025624632647682

I don't think that is how it works.

agrajag · « **Reply #34417 on:** April 24, 2019, 10:04:47 AM »

Steve King says he understands how Jesus Christ felt after months of criticism in the House

agrajag · « **Reply #34418 on:** April 24, 2019, 01:05:12 PM »

james · « **Reply #34419 on:** April 24, 2019, 01:35:12 PM »

Trump: I will go to the Supreme Court for this
Liberals: LOL hes so dumb thats now how it works
Supreme Court: On a 5-4 decision we find Trump innocent of all crimes
Liberals:

EightBitNate · « **Reply #34420 on:** April 24, 2019, 01:49:51 PM »

1. MBDTF
2. College Dropout
3. 808s and Heartbreaks
4. Late Registration
5. The Life of Pablo
6. Graduation
7. Yeezus
8. Ye

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #34421 on:** April 24, 2019, 02:07:13 PM »

Man I loved MBDTF when it came out but idk listening to it again, some tracks land super corny

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #34422 on:** April 24, 2019, 02:50:37 PM »

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on April 24, 2019, 02:07:13 PM

some [kanye] tracks land super corny

agrajag · « **Reply #34423 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:01:43 PM »

kanye sucks

shosta · « **Reply #34424 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:04:41 PM »

didn't you use to have an ICP avatar?

agrajag · « **Reply #34425 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:07:12 PM »

yes Shosta, I am a card carrying Juggalo, how do magnets work

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

shosta · « **Reply #34426 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:09:20 PM »

what was that crying clown?

agrajag · « **Reply #34427 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:12:05 PM »

this one?

shosta · « **Reply #34428 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:14:34 PM »

dossier: updated

agrajag · « **Reply #34429 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:15:09 PM »

this entire time you thought I listened to ICP, interesting

shosta · « **Reply #34430 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:17:33 PM »

I've only been here a year and a half

agrajag · « **Reply #34431 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:18:30 PM »

next time don't wait a year and a half to clarify something, toots

team filler · « **Reply #34432 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:19:59 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #34433 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:22:46 PM »

yikes

sinxtanx · « **Reply #34434 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:41:29 PM »

wow I've lurked this thread for 1.5 years

team filler · « **Reply #34435 on:** April 24, 2019, 04:03:58 PM »

Trent Dole · « **Reply #34436 on:** April 24, 2019, 05:15:40 PM »

Quote from: EightBitNate on April 24, 2019, 01:49:51 PM

8. Ye

team filler · « **Reply #34437 on:** April 24, 2019, 06:01:01 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #34438 on:** April 24, 2019, 06:22:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/ShaymaaDarling/status/1120624558657163264

Nintex · « **Reply #34439 on:** April 24, 2019, 08:13:24 PM »

Quote from: filler on April 24, 2019, 06:01:01 PM

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D-DAY 2020 /r/politics
"HALO infinte is just released. I might just stay home"
"I didn't feel like going outside to vote"
"Jake Tapper: Does Berrnie have a problem with minorities"
"Is it weird to vote for a socialist, now that the US has conquered Venezuela and Cuba and ended socialism in South America?"
"Clinton: Bernard stole my Presidency"
"@realDonaldTrump: Watch out kids COMMUNISTS don't get a visit from SANTA"

TRUMP 51%
Sanders: 49%

News:

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