Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 5441699 times)

Anyway it's extremely funny that the American left can't even have a joke anti-imperialist candidate (edit: fact check, Tulsi gabbard is a candidate and a joke, I forgot).

Gravel being literal COINTELPRO is probably my favorite bit of trivia among the fringe candidates.

james · « **Reply #38712 on:** July 05, 2019, 12:52:58 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 05, 2019, 12:46:28 AM

Quote from: Esch on July 04, 2019, 10:00:28 PM
Anyway it's extremely funny that the American left can't even have a joke anti-imperialist candidate (edit: fact check, Tulsi gabbard is a candidate and a joke, I forgot).

Gravel being literal COINTELPRO is probably my favorite bit of trivia among the fringe candidates.

Have you thanked him by donating just one dollar to help him make the next debate?

agrajag · « **Reply #38713 on:** July 05, 2019, 12:59:46 AM »

Donate $1 today to send James to the Hague.

shosta · « **Reply #38714 on:** July 05, 2019, 01:00:18 AM »

Quote from: agrajag on July 05, 2019, 12:59:46 AM

Donate $1 today to send James to the Hague.

I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Mandark · « **Reply #38715 on:** July 05, 2019, 01:03:11 AM »

I will glady donate a dollar if the Gravel teens send me fifty bucks.

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Look up the tuition at The Masters School. I feel I'm being more than fair.

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james · « **Reply #38716 on:** July 05, 2019, 01:10:07 AM »

Quote from: shosta on July 05, 2019, 01:00:18 AM

Quote from: agrajag on July 05, 2019, 12:59:46 AM
Donate $1 today to send James to the Hague.
I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Show me your proof of donation and Ill have it arranged

team filler · « **Reply #38717 on:** July 05, 2019, 01:44:28 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 05, 2019, 01:03:11 AM

I will glady donate a dollar if the Gravel teens send me fifty bucks.

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Look up the tuition at The Masters School. I feel I'm being more than fair.
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No reply when I tweeted them to have their rich families send my poor family money so we can donate

james · « **Reply #38718 on:** July 05, 2019, 02:15:47 AM »

Quote from: filler on July 05, 2019, 01:44:28 AM

Quote from: Mandark on July 05, 2019, 01:03:11 AM
I will glady donate a dollar if the Gravel teens send me fifty bucks.

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Look up the tuition at The Masters School. I feel I'm being more than fair.
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No reply when I tweeted them to have their rich families send my poor family money so we can donate

....this is pretty genius.

Nintex · « **Reply #38719 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:15:11 AM »

Trump met with the dank memelords mad-liberals and carpedonktum and their kids

https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1146985737541304320

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #38720 on:** July 05, 2019, 04:33:08 AM »

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #38721 on:** July 05, 2019, 04:36:23 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on July 05, 2019, 03:15:11 AM

Trump met with the dank memelords mad-liberals and carpedonktum and their kids

https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1146985737541304320

that kid is all like "if my dad does his shit right I can buy myself into this office".

VomKriege · « **Reply #38722 on:** July 05, 2019, 04:56:25 AM »

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@CarpeDonktum
Eternally Sarcastic Memesmith specializing in the creation of memes to support President Donald J. Trump. Content that I post was "Doctored" by me.🎥 👨‍⚕️⚕️

Am I out of touch or do I still want to live on this planet anymore ?
No, it's the planet that is wrong.

VomKriege · « **Reply #38723 on:** July 05, 2019, 09:18:44 AM »

That's the CO of Marine Todd, right ?

agrajag · « **Reply #38724 on:** July 05, 2019, 10:06:19 AM »

kingv · « **Reply #38725 on:** July 05, 2019, 10:21:59 AM »

Carpedonktum has some of the most low effort unfunny memes.

He’s also somewhat ironic, because he loves to drag millennials for millennial tendencies (I think every fourth meme is about avocados)... but Is a stay at home dad, which imo is peak millennial stereotype cuck lifestyle.

VomKriege · « **Reply #38726 on:** July 05, 2019, 10:55:59 AM »

That's one poor Photoshop.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #38727 on:** July 05, 2019, 11:24:36 AM »

Quote from: Esch on July 05, 2019, 10:33:29 AM

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1147128159164403712

damn tulsi is gorgeous

toku · « **Reply #38728 on:** July 05, 2019, 11:55:30 AM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/nyregion/marianne-williamson.html

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38729 on:** July 05, 2019, 01:55:54 PM »

Did they check to see whether he'd written "Boycott" above the Nike swoosh?

team filler · « **Reply #38730 on:** July 05, 2019, 02:10:15 PM »

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1147203033190883328

based bernie

Tripon · « **Reply #38731 on:** July 05, 2019, 02:37:45 PM »

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1147212641074581505

👺

VomKriege · « **Reply #38732 on:** July 05, 2019, 02:45:01 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on July 05, 2019, 02:37:45 PM

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1147212641074581505

👺

Nintex · « **Reply #38733 on:** July 05, 2019, 02:51:18 PM »

A Twitter poll

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #38734 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:06:29 PM »

Post-it Note

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #38735 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:08:34 PM »

Quote from: filler on July 05, 2019, 02:10:15 PM

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1147203033190883328

based bernie

new page gawd

Kara · « **Reply #38736 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:11:48 PM »

Maybe the governor of Arizona is too poor to afford new shoes. *checks Wikipedia*

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Before entering politics, Ducey was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. He and his business partner sold the company in 2007.

Nope, just more politics kayfabe.

Kulturkampf

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #38737 on:** July 05, 2019, 03:24:56 PM »

I was feeling bad about donating 27 doll hairs to bernie because he was falling down the list.

Now I realized he's just letting these wealthbuckets soak in their money before he goes up against dumbass trump.

curly · « **Reply #38738 on:** July 05, 2019, 10:25:45 PM »

Apropros of nothing it's hilarious how the gaping maw of content has transformed Nate Silver from guy who cuts through pundit to bullshit to guy whose site writes features on how Mike Gravel and Joe Sestak could win the nomination.

Tripon · « **Reply #38739 on:** July 05, 2019, 10:30:39 PM »

Quote from: curly on July 05, 2019, 10:25:45 PM

Apropros of nothing it's hilarious how the gaping maw of content has transformed Nate Silver from guy who cuts through pundit to bullshit to guy whose site writes features on how Mike Gravel and Joe Sestak could win the nomination.

Somebody pointed out when the ownership of 538 shifted from ESPN to ABC, 538 had to pump out way more 'content' articles to justify its existence, where ESPN had no idea what to do with it's political side and just left the site alone as long as the sports articles kept pace.

Also, Nate Silver is a terrible pundit himself, and really shouldn't give out 'analysis'. Dude's just terrible at it.

shosta · « **Reply #38740 on:** July 05, 2019, 11:50:01 PM »

should I go to the bernie town hall tomorrow?

benjipwns · « **Reply #38741 on:** July 06, 2019, 01:05:17 AM »

Quote from: Tripon on July 05, 2019, 10:30:39 PM

Somebody pointed out when the ownership of 538 shifted from ESPN to ABC, 538 had to pump out way more 'content' articles to justify its existence, where ESPN had no idea what to do with it's political side and just left the site alone as long as the sports articles kept pace.

But the shift to be under ABC was last year, didn't actually change their editorial oversight, and they were posting this garbage for years now.

I contend the flaw has always been result of the trade from the NYT. The NYT wanted it solely as a politics site, Nate has a well known history in sports which is why ESPN (during its period of also allowing stuff like Grantland) was willing to buy it. ESPN was fine with it taking on literally anything under the sun when it shouldn't have been.

They should have kept 538 solely as a politics, and politics-adjacent metrics focused site. And Nate should have launched a new metrics-focused sports brand. ESPN proper has dabbled in this but never with a full-on focus. And now 538 actually does less of it because they've scrambled up the sites focus and let all the people they hired off the dying sports-stats-web go.

ESPN should have never been running any of this as first-brand content but Disney has always run their internet sites as a disaster area. The Go.com debacle is one of the greatest internet stories. The infamous ESPN redesign that broke all their old content was because they finally had to escape the Go.com platform backend.

ESPN is a multi-billion dollar enterprise based around amassing an archive of sports content, but they've broken their own internet archives four times, including the specific archive they setup to transition everything into as a repository. There's a whole chunk of ESPN content that the current site links to, but displays as blank, but if you ask for a print mode version restores all the content and makes it visible which I assume is why it still shows up as "related" or in searches.

You can sometimes randomly find nearly perfectly preserved content hiding on the servers that they probably don't even know is still sitting around: https://www.espn.com/nba/draft99/index.html

Kara · « **Reply #38742 on:** July 06, 2019, 01:13:07 AM »

Quote from: shosta on July 05, 2019, 11:50:01 PM

should I go to the bernie town hall tomorrow?

Live blog it on The Bore dot com.

benjipwns · « **Reply #38743 on:** July 06, 2019, 02:51:44 AM »

https://apnews.com/0c6962ba64b74c459b3cac060e322087

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DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Friday warned that American elections could become more like voting in countries like Iran.

Speaking at a campaign event in Dover, New Hampshire, the author described an “illusion of choice,” and criticized the “political media elite establishment. It’s a corporate establishment.”

“And they will not only tell us what we’re supposed to talk about,” she said. “They will tell us who we’re supposed to choose to even choose between in terms of voting.”

Williamson added: “It’s kind of like countries like Iran, where you can vote for whoever you want, among the people that they tell you it’s OK to vote for. And that’s the kind of country that we’re living in today.”

In a follow-up statement to The Associated Press, Williamson clarified that Iran was “a cautionary tale, not a direct analogy.” She also said the July Fourth holiday “reminds us of our unique place in the world and the hope and light we represent to others.”

However, she added, “When corporate forces begin to dictate our candidates and give us fewer and fewer choices, it is a threat to our foundation.” She said all candidates should be welcome to participate “whether they are backed by monied forces or not.”

benjipwns · « **Reply #38744 on:** July 06, 2019, 03:00:30 AM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/us/politics/kamala-harris-fundraising.html

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WASHINGTON — Senator Kamala Harris of California raised less than $12 million in the past three months, her campaign said on Friday, a total that leaves her well behind her top rivals in the Democratic presidential primary’s money race.

Ms. Harris’s total for the second quarter of the year, which ended on Sunday, was padded by a strong finish. She collected more than $2 million in online donations in the first 24 hours after the start of the Democratic debate on June 27, as well as an additional $1.2 million online last weekend, her team said.

Ms. Harris’s second-quarter number is far below what some other first-tier candidates reported this week.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., raised $24.8 million in the second quarter, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brought in $21.5 million and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont collected $18 million, their campaigns said this week. (Mr. Biden entered the race in late April, more than three weeks into the quarter.)

Many other candidates are expected to report raising far less. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, for instance, raised $2.8 million since entering the race in early May, his campaign said this week. The campaign of Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana announced Friday that he had raised more than $2 million since becoming a candidate in mid-May.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-fundraising.html

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It was a diverse group of supporters, but not a surprising one for Mr. Buttigieg. Through the first two fund-raising quarters, no other Democratic presidential candidate has married traditional high-dollar fund-raising with online small donations as successfully as Mr. Buttigieg, whose campaign announced on Monday that he had collected $24.8 million from more than 294,000 donors for the three-month period that ended Sunday.

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“They’ve got a badass operation,” Rufus Gifford, the finance director for Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign, said of Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign.

During the second quarter, Mr. Buttigieg attended about 50 high-dollar fund-raising events, for which ticket prices typically run $2,800, the maximum individual contribution allowed by federal law in the primary. But he also held 20 “grass-roots” fund-raising events, for which ticket prices start as low as $15.

And from March 24 to June 22, the Buttigieg campaign’s combined spending on digital advertising on Facebook and Google ($1.3 million) exceeded that of any other Democratic candidate except Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren, according to Bully Pulpit Interactive, a Democratic digital communications firm.

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Mr. Buttigieg had more than 230,000 new donors in the second quarter, bringing his total to more than 400,000, his campaign said. The average contribution over the course of his campaign has been $47.42, according to his team. His campaign said it now had more than $22.6 million in cash on hand. Of that, $832,000 is earmarked for the general election and cannot be used in the primary.

“This fund-raising report shows that Pete’s message is resonating with Americans, and it’s proof that we are building an organization that can compete,” Mike Schmuhl, his campaign manager, said in an early-morning email to supporters announcing the fund-raising total.

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The watch party included Mr. Buttigieg’s top fund-raising officials, known on his campaign as “investment directors”

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“They are innovating every single minute of every single day,” said Brendan Mullen, a cybersecurity executive who was the Democratic nominee for South Bend’s House seat in 2012 and who attended the campaign’s Miami debate events. “I’ve never seen anything scale at the speed they are. It’s scaling faster than any start-up in the history of America.”

Kara · « **Reply #38745 on:** July 06, 2019, 03:24:50 AM »

I see Big Armenia has paid that infographic designer off handsomely.

Nintex · « **Reply #38746 on:** July 06, 2019, 05:29:57 AM »

Quote from: shosta on July 05, 2019, 11:50:01 PM

should I go to the bernie town hall tomorrow?

Ask Bernard why he is a coward and let himself be cucked by Hilldawg at the 2016 convention.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #38747 on:** July 06, 2019, 05:50:28 AM »

Biden continues to crater.

Nintex · « **Reply #38748 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:55:48 AM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1147486815160610817

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #38749 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:58:30 AM »

Quote from: Trent Dole on July 06, 2019, 05:50:28 AM

Biden continues to crater.

I'm still surprised that people are surprised by this. Biden's got a history of history pre-VP and it's not good, once all that stuff started coming back into focus [along with some new, inevitable gaffes] his initial numbers were destined to drop off.

Tripon · « **Reply #38750 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:20:26 AM »

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1147510402709934080

The Gravel-alche is over.

Tripon · « **Reply #38751 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:25:28 AM »

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system.

agrajag · « **Reply #38752 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:34:25 AM »

Quote from: Kara on July 06, 2019, 03:24:50 AM

I see Big Armenia has paid that infographic designer off handsomely.

or Colombia

agrajag · « **Reply #38753 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:43:15 AM »

Quote from: agrajag on July 04, 2019, 03:44:22 PM

if you're gonna do a military parade, do it right or don't do it at all.

skip to 9:28 for bonus Steven Seagal

look at all the military hardware! Tanks, AK's, ballistic missle vehicles!

(Image removed from quote.)

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1147162499671908353

jorma · « **Reply #38754 on:** July 06, 2019, 11:01:55 AM »

Quote from: Tripon on July 06, 2019, 10:25:28 AM

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system.

politico headline in 2020: "trump loses the presidency in a landslide election victory for his opponent"

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38755 on:** July 06, 2019, 11:11:43 AM »

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1147456664142041090

VomKriege · « **Reply #38756 on:** July 06, 2019, 11:13:07 AM »

Doesn't look that bad actually.

Nintex · « **Reply #38757 on:** July 06, 2019, 11:34:02 AM »

Quote from: jorma on July 06, 2019, 11:01:55 AM

Quote from: Tripon on July 06, 2019, 10:25:28 AM
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system.

politico headline in 2020: "trump loses the presidency in a landslide election victory for his opponent"

"Biden concedes election in victory speech"

Nintex · « **Reply #38758 on:** July 06, 2019, 12:12:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1147519130377043969

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1147530669083570176

This entire thread

VomKriege · « **Reply #38759 on:** July 06, 2019, 12:17:23 PM »

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U.S. Marine and Meme Economist.

News:

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