US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[EchoRin]

https://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2019/11/5/20942192/bubble-tea-boba-asian-american-diaspora

Boba liberalism, as Redmond (who declined to be interviewed for this piece) explains it, is “thinking the university key club and API student associations will lead the way in fighting for the dignity of the asian diaspora, in securing real material benefits to their communities, and rectifying the colonial crimes of the host country.”

It’s: “thinking t-shirts, products, and merchandise are the main way of affirming one’s racial identity. It’s capitalist consumption presented as ‘API-ness.’ Buy more crazy rich asians tickets, sell more boba, go to raves, wear this brand. It’s reliant on capitalism.”

And: “wanting to reconnect with your roots by [...] drinking bubble tea, getting added to subtle asian traits, and organizing fundraisers for your asian student association, but never studying your history and feeling solidarity with your homeland against imperialism.”

Andrew Yang and his embrace of contentious model-minority stereotypes (and alcoholic boba) are boba liberalism. So is rallying around representation in Hollywood only insofar as it affects what we see on our screens. Tolerating an abhorrent, morally bankrupt presidency as long as it guarantees lower tax rates, stable housing prices, likelier admission to Ivy Leagues, and the promise of the American dream our immigrant parents had aspired to so long ago: boba liberalism. In Redmond’s words: “All sugar, no substance.”

Lol. That's a great put down.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm very sorry for your loss of life.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1204124434975596544

Reading those comments, Ernie is going to get devoured when he doesn't close down the government.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

“If Biden is elected,” an adviser to the campaign told the news outlet, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

“He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years, but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’ But he’s not going to publicly make a one-term pledge,” another adviser reportedly said.

Holy shit, dude is going further than clinton and planning for his retirement before being elected.

[Brehvolution]

[Occam]

You know you live in a banana republic when major newspapers feel the need to post articles such as this:

A guide to the misleading spin on the IG report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/11/guide-misleading-spin-ig-report/

[Trent Dole]

“If Biden is elected,” an adviser to the campaign told the news outlet, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

“He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years, but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’ But he’s not going to publicly make a one-term pledge,” another adviser reportedly said.

Holy shit, dude is going further than clinton and planning for his retirement before being elected.

He's gonna be retired way before 2024/5

[Nintex]

You know you live in a banana republic when major newspapers feel the need to post articles such as this:

A guide to the misleading spin on the IG report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/11/guide-misleading-spin-ig-report/

Barr has legitimate issues with the report.
It should worry everyone that FBI agents were either celebrating Trump's victory or plotted 'insurance policies' against him on a very flimsy legal basis.
The report did show that none of it was really planned and that's just how the dominoes ended up falling when shit leaked and cases became public.
But it's not like the FBI did a really good job during the 2016 election cycle.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1204124434975596544

[Great Rumbler]

You know you live in a banana republic when major newspapers feel the need to post articles such as this:

A guide to the misleading spin on the IG report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/11/guide-misleading-spin-ig-report/

Barr has legitimate issues with the report.

[TakingBackSunday]

You know you live in a banana republic when major newspapers feel the need to post articles such as this:

A guide to the misleading spin on the IG report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/11/guide-misleading-spin-ig-report/

Barr has legitimate issues with the report.
It should worry everyone that FBI agents were either celebrating Trump's victory or plotted 'insurance policies' against him on a very flimsy legal basis.
The report did show that none of it was really planned and that's just how the dominoes ended up falling when shit leaked and cases became public.
But it's not like the FBI did a really good job during the 2016 election cycle.

Sure

[kingv]

You know you live in a banana republic when major newspapers feel the need to post articles such as this:

A guide to the misleading spin on the IG report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/11/guide-misleading-spin-ig-report/

Barr has legitimate issues with the report.
It should worry everyone that FBI agents were either celebrating Trump's victory or plotted 'insurance policies' against him on a very flimsy legal basis.
The report did show that none of it was really planned and that's just how the dominoes ended up falling when shit leaked and cases became public.
But it's not like the FBI did a really good job during the 2016 election cycle.

To summarize: there was no conspiracy.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that cops do bad warrants. federal jake is still jake.

[james]

Bernie needs to nationalize Bloomberg ASAP

https://twitter.com/DavidWright_CNN/status/1204780465821028352

[TakingBackSunday]

I got nothing but bloomberg ads all weekend while watching football

kill me

[nachobro]

love living in a state where the primaries don't matter

[Joe Molotov]

that sounds great, but how about living in a state where the general election doesn't matter?

[james]

that sounds great, but how about living in a state where the general election doesn't matter?

China?

[Great Rumbler]

How about living in a state? 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

that sounds great, but how about living in a state where the general election doesn't matter?

Woke?

[Occam]

"On a hunting trip to Mongolia earlier this summer the president’s son Donald Trump Jr killed a rare species of endangered sheep. A permit for the killing was retroactively issued after Trump met with the country’s president"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/11/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-rare-endangered-sheep-permit

In other Trump Jr news:
Anonymous official’s book replaces Trump Jr’s ‘fake No 1’ on bestseller list

"The RNC has denied making bulk purchases of [Trump Jr's] book, only for FEC records to reveal it spent nearly $100,000 on copies on 29 October. Politicians including the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, and the Florida congressman Matt Gaetz are also reported to be promoting and selling the book.

The Times published a picture of dozens of boxes of the book – under a sign reading “Capitalism Not Cronyism” – at the office of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group with which Trump Jr has close ties. The not-for-profit was the host of a Los Angeles event earlier this month which did not go according to plan after Trump Jr said he would not answer questions from the audience."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/29/a-warning-anonymous-bestseller-donald-trump-jr-triggered

[Nintex]

Don Jr. thinking he's a popular internet meme lord surely is one of the best jokes the writers pulled on us.

Aside from maybe dumb mcdumb Carter Page working for the CIA
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1204799896353722368

 

[Occam]

Catchy

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1204799896353722368

FBI: Well, I'm sorry, Timmy, but I don't dip that way. ... You dip the way you want to dip. I'll dip the way I want to dip.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1204879403282501633

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1204786774343471109

Democrats are getting cold feet already 

[team filler]

blue no matter who!

[benjipwns]

“If Biden is elected,” an adviser to the campaign told the news outlet, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

“He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years, but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’ But he’s not going to publicly make a one-term pledge,” another adviser reportedly said.

FACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/KBeds/status/1204793252337065984

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Probably doesn't even want one term.

[nachobro]

https://twitter.com/people/status/1204517713793691648

[agrajag]

Joe Biden: "I worry that the Democratic party will become too powerful, Republicans please keep voting Republican. "

Joe Biden and Joe Manchin: Real Democrats.

Bernie: not even a Democrat.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/people/status/1204517713793691648

class solidarity 

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1204845051752222720

[benjipwns]

I'm sorta more triggered that they wrote "a Google search of Boeing and Sanders reveals several articles" because they're giving away trade secrets!

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/people/status/1204517713793691648

Hosting a TV show and making real estate deals


Bombing Iraq displacing millions

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1204559969598742528

[benjipwns]

The lady that's on after LOU DOBBS just revealed that CNN didn't show Lindsey Graham's rambling and instead talked about Democrats and impeachment. I can't believe a "news company" would favor a political party like that I am so angry. Fucking CNN.

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1204559969598742528

“I’m pro-life and take no joy in reporting this”

[Tripon]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/politics/cnn-polls-california-texas/index.html
 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/TwinklingTania/status/1204974876873805824

 

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1204772711882514437

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1204756539757735938

YAS QUEEN

[Tasty]

that sounds great, but how about living in a state where the general election doesn't matter?

Living in the only continental state with 100% blue counties in 2016


 

[Tasty]

How about living in a state? 

[Occam]

Wapo says some "moderate" (spineless) Dems may vote against impeaching Trump because they are worried about losing their seats in red disctricts. Any Democrat who votes against impeachment deserves to lose their seat and should be kicked out of the party for not doing their constitutional duty; they are just as bad as the treasonous Republicans.

[nachobro]

 

[james]

Democrats: Why dont the kids come out and vote for us
Also Democrats: Spineless pieces of shit

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730
Still the best timeline 

[nachobro]

he was already person of the year twice

[james]

Best timeline: The sitting president about to get impeached is trolling and making fun of a child with Asperger's on twitter because he's jealous she's Time's person of the year instead of him

If Trump gets reelected Im leaving the US.

Not as a protest vote or whatever but for my own fucking sanity.

[BIONIC]

Best timeline: The sitting president about to get impeached is trolling and making fun of a child with Asperger's on twitter because he's jealous she's Time's person of the year instead of him

If Trump gets reelected Im leaving the US.

Not as a protest vote or whatever but for my own fucking sanity.

Is Trump raising the age of consent?

Top of page President of the United States of America:

[Mandark]

Every year Time does their Person of the Year thing, the same people remind everyone that it's (ostensibly) about newsworthiness and not praise, but nobody listens cause everyone wants to get mad.

Sort of charming that we're still doing it even though nobody reads Time anymore.

[kingv]

Wapo says some "moderate" (spineless) Dems may vote against impeaching Trump because they are worried about losing their seats in red disctricts. Any Democrat who votes against impeachment deserves to lose their seat and should be kicked out of the party for not doing their constitutional duty; they are just as bad as the treasonous Republicans.

This shit never works. If you learn anything from a Republicans it should be lean into your base.

[Mandark]

They just lost 40 seats in the House though.

[Tasty]

So this shindig is really gonna be Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg, huh.

I guess there's the chance this Blue Cross thing tanks Butti but hard to see someone else rising up to be as strong a #4.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Buttigieg doesn't stand a chance after super tuesday

[kingv]

They just lost 40 seats in the House though.

Yes, and it took a literally once in a lifetime awful and controversial President For that to happen.

They have been leaning into their base since Clinton was President and will have controlled Congress for 22 out of 30 years by the end of 2020.

Also, in a more specific sense, coming into office on an anti-Trump wave and then backing off from being a check on Trump is just dumb as hell from any kind of strategy perspective. It’s almost guaranteed not to work.

You won’t get any credit with a Republicans for not voting to impeach, and depress turnout with your base.

[Joe Molotov]

Scanning through the Time Person of the Year list, it looks like every US president has been on the cover exactly as many times as they had terms in office (Eisenhower was on the cover first during WWII when he was still a general, but then he didn't get the first term cover).

[ToxicAdam]

Sort of charming that we're still doing it even though nobody reads Time anymore.

It's the same people who complain about how "out of touch" the Grammy's are. Except that's been going on for 30+ years now.

[OnlyRegret]

These Republicans bringing up Hunter Biden's salacious drug stories as if it's related at all to what they're discussing is shameless even for them, a group of people with quite literally no shame.

Maintaining the illusion of being the moral party is essential to continue enjoying the support of their core base. Poor people who lean social conservative.
It's why they go so hard on abortion and claim Dems are in favour of post-birth abortion 

The party doesn't really care to actually follow the moral part, just pretends to be the bulwark stopping Dems from killing newborns or executing dear old grandma with death panels.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

what if hunter biden is a cia agent who was working undercover for trump?

[agrajag]

Best timeline: The sitting president about to get impeached is trolling and making fun of a child with Asperger's on twitter because he's jealous she's Time's person of the year instead of him

If Trump gets reelected Im leaving the US.

Not as a protest vote or whatever but for my own fucking sanity.

switch countries with nintex