US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[thisismyusername]

It can also stand for face and you're still owned

In no universe is that true, kid Joker.

[shosta]

I once sat among indigenous people in a small village in Costa Rica and partook in an ayahuasca ceremony. With my mind's eye wide open, my spirit traveled across fifty billion different realities. I saw everyone in all possible permutations of their lives. I saw the universe as a living, breathing organism where we are all connected. I saw every possibility that we could be, full potential, wasted potential, and I felt what every living thing felt, like an interconnected whole, the unity of all things burning through my very essence like an unstoppable chemical reaction, bathed in the bliss of true awakening. And in every single one of those realities, it was always true that you were a fucking loser.

[Nintex]

CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Republican lawmakers on Sunday for their avoidance of CNN amid the latest controversial developments surrounding President Donald Trump.

“for the fourth week in a row, the White House and top House and Senate Republicans have refused to come on this newscast to answer our questions about all of these important developments.”

“We hope they will come to explain all of this to the American people,” Tapper said. “Because especially at a time when the White House has ended the practice of regular press briefings, they are shirking this important part of their duty to the American public to explain what they are doing with our money and in our name.”

CNN with more fake news, Rudy is always available. 

[shosta]

Let me Bing that for you.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1185332311983869952

 

https://twitter.com/robinsonjrcruz/status/1186022697706409995

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1185385533771599872

 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/disruptionary/status/1186036448216129536

 

[Nintex]

The Hillary Clinton campaign is officially mass producing boomer memes.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1186008390926917632

[D3RANG3D]

 

[thisismyusername]

Shut the fuck up Meg, Killary.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/DionNissenbaum/status/1186004617408274440

 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-acting-chief-of-staff-mick-mulvaney-melts-down-under-brutal-grilling-by-foxs-chris-wallace?source=facebook&via=desktop

WOW

[Nintex]

Trump was “honestly surprised at the level of pushback,” adding that the president “still considers himself to be in the hospitality business.”

Being POTUS is just a side hustle for Trump 

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1185645373580304387

[thisismyusername]

The Hillary Clinton campaign is officially mass producing boomer memes.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1186008390926917632

https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1186014264282243075

Also half of leftist Twitter going: YASSSSS QWEEN #SLAY!

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/964863858849574913

People just keep on finding these twitter posts that aren't even that old.

[team filler]

 

[OnlyRegret]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/19/aocs-sanders-endorsement-2020-229864

Here’s what it signals: Even if Bernie won’t be with us forever

leading in with the pre-eulogy 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Jack_Burkman/status/1185960464037138443

[CatsCatsCats]

Should be required, breeders aren’t rational

[BIONIC]

https://twitter.com/Jack_Burkman/status/1185960464037138443

We’re all Mommy Tulsi’s children

[ToxicAdam]

if nothing came out her womb, she can't be in a war room.

If she's barren, you can't swear in.


Need to tighten these chants up for my Trump rally.

[agrajag]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-acting-chief-of-staff-mick-mulvaney-melts-down-under-brutal-grilling-by-foxs-chris-wallace?source=facebook&via=desktop

WOW

friendship ended with Shepperd Smith, Chris Wallace is my new friend

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1186333357728075777

"I'm getting more promotion than any human being that ever lived" 

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1186331188534767616

lmao, did he just call Iran low lifes 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"I would have done it for free ..........i don't run my businesses"





MIA biggest airport in the world

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1186335357513555969

He just keeps going at it 

[Joe Molotov]

Donald capitulating to Democrat demands yet again. Why even bother impeaching Trump when Nancy Pelosi is already president.

[Nintex]

Meanwhile more pictures have surfaced of pretty much all the bois with the Ukrainian fraudsters

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/katherinemiller/status/1185951342247985152

Where's Benji when you need him

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-a-secret-twitter-account-and-it-sure-looks-like-its-this-one.html

[Joe Molotov]

I demand a Pierre Delecto v Carlos Danger hell in a cell.

[agrajag]

Meanwhile more pictures have surfaced of pretty much all the bois with the Ukrainian fraudsters

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this man has no neck

[shosta]

[OnlyRegret]

Meanwhile more pictures have surfaced of pretty much all the bois with the Ukrainian fraudsters

(Image removed from quote.)

this man has no neck

he puts his neck on the line for no man

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1185877850324381696

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/ibrahimpols/status/1185571046738579456

 

[Joe Molotov]

Fellow travelers gotta stick up for each other.

[Nintex]

MSNBC thirsty for hilldawg 

MSM: Trump repeats words a lot so he's not very smart

Also MSM: Hillary Clinton said, and then Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton finally but Hillary Clinton

[benjipwns]

EXPLOSIVE FIREWORKS FROM THE NEW FRONTRUNNER:

[shosta]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

[james]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

Hows your predictit account looking?

[shosta]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

Hows your predictit account looking?

I just pulled all my money out of Bernie and put it down on Justin Trudeau. If he wins I'll be even for the year quarter.

[james]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

Hows your predictit account looking?

I just pulled all my money out of Bernie and put it down on Justin Trudeau. If he wins I'll be even for the year quarter.

pray for shosta

[benjipwns]

Found their 538: http://338canada.com/

[benjipwns]

enjoying these error bars that all the Canadian election projection sites have:


Only a hundred seat margin of error!

[agrajag]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

Hows your predictit account looking?

I just pulled all my money out of Bernie and put it down on Justin Trudeau. If he wins I'll be even for the year quarter.

bet on Singh

[Joe Molotov]

enjoying these error bars that all the Canadian election projection sites have:
(Image removed from quote.)

Only a hundred seat margin of error!

Don't you mean a hundred seat margin of errour?

[team filler]

this whole primary is so embarrassing. just give it to Biden already.

Hows your predictit account looking?

I just pulled all my money out of Bernie and put it down on Justin Trudeau. If he wins I'll be even for the year quarter.

bet on Singh

always bet on sikh 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1186355491892543488

Trump's rambling is hardly the craziest thing about these 'cabinet meetings'

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1186388592748322816

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1186405744146554882

 

[Nintex]

The difference between the Trump admin now and 2017 is not Trump himself but the people around him.
Hicks would monitor his media diet and provide the talking points. John Kelly would pretty much co-pilot the Presidency.
A cabinet meeting like this might've been something Kelly couldn't have prevented but he would've made sure Trump got the talking points and messaging correct.

Now it's just Trump winging it. With Pompeo and Mulvaney leaning back expecting this to work out like it always did to the point that Mulvaney was confident enough to act like his boss.
He seems clearly shocked the double down button didn't work for him as it did for Trump.

[benjipwns]

  RUSSIA CAN'T DISTRACT US
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-21/midwestern-moderates-buttigieg-and-klobuchar-try-to-rise-in-democrats-2020-presidential-race

Think Warren’s too liberal? Biden’s old news? Midwesterners Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar want to talk to you

SIGOURNEY, Iowa —  Just when it looked like the Democratic presidential contest was becoming a two-person race, a pair of Midwestern pragmatists are betting they can still rise by speaking to an unsatisfied slice of the electorate: voters who believe Sen. Elizabeth Warren is too far to the left but think former Vice President Joe Biden is yesterday’s news.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., has been building a robust campaign infrastructure and raking in piles of campaign cash, and during last week’s debate he grabbed the spotlight with an aggressive challenge to Warren.

“My lane has never been clearer,” he told reporters after speaking Friday at the University of Chicago. “If you want the left-most-possible candidate, you’ve got a clear choice. If you want the candidate with the most years in Washington, you’ve got a clear choice. For everybody else, I just might be your person.”

Sen. Amy Klobuchar also got a boost from the debate, where she gave her most effective pitch yet for being a pragmatic Midwestern alternative to the liberalism of Warren and Bernie Sanders.

“I don’t see this as flyover country. I see this as home,” the Minnesota senator told voters gathered in an Iowa home-decor store on Friday in Sigourney, about 80 miles east of Des Moines. “A lot of people make a lot of promises, especially to Iowa. What really matters is their track record.”

To capitalize on the buzz from his debate performance, Buttigieg is taking a swing this week through all four early-primary states, including Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The day after the debate, Buttigieg went to Ames, Iowa, for a bit of a victory lap.

“Who saw the debate last night?” Jessica Reynolds, a Story County prosecutor who endorsed and introduced Buttigieg, asked the crowd at Iowa State University. “Didn’t he knock it out of the park?”

Admitting to being “a little sleep-deprived,” Buttigieg portrayed himself as less divisive, but no less bold, than his rivals.

“I will put forward ideas that are bold enough to solve the challenges that are in front of us, and do it in a way that can unify the American people,” he said

Preparing to spread the word, more than a dozen volunteers gathered Friday night at a Buttigieg field office in Ankeny, a suburb of Des Moines, with a sense of urgency.

“It’s really important because after the debates we’re seeing all this crazy energy, and we want to harness that,” said Shannon Sankey, a 23-year-old organizer for the campaign. “And the best way we can do it is knock on doors.”

Buttigieg’s supporters seem comfortable with his more combative tone, even though it is a big shift for a candidate who has called for a positive, unifying campaign. Jacob Sher, a University of Chicago student, believes it is time for Buttigieg to come out swinging.

“I love how he went on the offensive in the debate,” Sher said while waiting to hear Buttigieg speak on campus. “Some people might have seen it as off from his original message, but in order to be a strong contender, it was a necessary move.”

Klobuchar kicked off her Iowa tour by rolling out endorsements by state lawmakers, including Rep. Andy McKean, who had been the longest-serving Republican in the state Legislature until this year, when he left the GOP over objections to President Trump and became a Democrat.

“She has that practical, common-sense, Midwestern approach that I think will resonate very favorable with the people of Iowa,” McKean said.

Many who are considering backing her say they are drawn to her pragmatism and see Klobuchar, 59, as both a more mature alternative to Buttigieg and a more youthful, female alternative to Biden.

“He’s past his prime, ” Dan McGuire, a Des Moines surgeon, said of Biden, adding that Buttigieg is “a little young — he hasn’t quite shown that he gets things done.”

Klobuchar is the “just right” candidate between them, he said.

“She has a pretty proven track record in the Senate of getting things done,” he said. “Not so much saying but getting them done.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/buttigieg-klobuchar-2020-campaign-053059

‘It sure feels like Buttigieg and Klobuchar have wind in their sails’

MASON CITY, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar shot out of the last Democratic debate with the most precious commodity a presidential candidate can get before the Iowa caucuses: momentum. Now, they’re racing to actually crack open what for months has been a three-person race.

The Minnesota senator and the South Bend, Ind., mayor each raised more than $1 million in the 24 hours following the debate, a sign that their critiques of progressive leaders Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders during the debate struck a chord. Energetic crowds greeted them in the first caucus state soon after — including voters who said they were looking for alternatives to Joe Biden, the longtime polling leader who has slipped in Iowa over the past month.

Klobuchar, speaking aboard her bright green campaign bus in Iowa — and joking that she was happy to be able to pay to wrap her logo around it after her post-debate fundraising boomlet — said her scraps with Sanders and Warren showed a focus on the swing voters who will decide the 2020 election, particularly in the Midwest.

Klobuchar chided Warren during the debate that “the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something you can actually get done.” Earlier, Buttigieg had told the Massachusetts senator that her “signature” is “to have a plan for everything, except” health care.

Warren and Sanders “say, we are brave because these are our ideas, and you’re not because you don’t share our ideas,” Klobuchar said in an interview. “Of course, I’ve been thinking about that a lot, and I said, no, I think it’s actually brave to bring up that you should pay for things in our party. I think it’s brave to acknowledge that we should bring in independents and moderate Republicans.”

In Waterloo, Iowa, Klobuchar told the 100-person crowd at Single Speed Brewing that the campaign raised $1.5 million in the 36 hours following the debate, a “huge amount of momentum,” she said to cheers, “and it gave me the chance to say a few more words than I got to in past debates from my perch up there on the side.”

But Klobuchar, who rolled out a pair of Iowa state legislative endorsements this week, said that her campaign has been building, “slowly, but surely,” and preparing to seize on the right moment. A “moment in a debate [is] pretty short-lived,” Klobuchar acknowledged. Those new endorsers “didn’t just go, ‘oh, we liked you in the debate!’ We had those in hand.”

“There’s room for people to know who I am now,” Klobuchar said. On Thursday, her campaign released a digital ad touting her track record of bipartisan successes.

A former Biden backer in the crowd for Klobuchar’s stop in Mason City Saturday agreed. Mary Lu Barnekow, a 79-year-old Democratic caucus-goer, said age was an important factor for her, and she “was for Biden” before deciding his age was “a concern.” Buttigieg, meanwhile, is “too young.”

Instead, Barnekow, clutching Klobuchar lawn signs and stickers, decided to caucus for Klobuchar after seeing her in person this weekend coming off last week’s debate.

“Biden is afraid to make waves, and since they have similar platforms, Amy will say what Biden is afraid to say,” said Bert Lange, a 49-year-old voter from Garner, Iowa, who said he was supportive of the senator. “I definitely felt like she did that in the debate.”

[Nintex]

According to MSNBC, over the weekend Trump associates and outside advisers(Steve Bannon?) told him he'd likely be impeached and the only thing between him and impeachment is the 53 Republicans.

Which is probably why he ran defense in the cabinet meeting today.

[shosta]

[benjipwns]

According to MSNBC, over the weekend Trump associates and outside advisers(Steve Bannon?) told him he'd likely be impeached and the only thing between him and impeachment is the 53 Republicans.

Which is probably why he ran defense in the cabinet meeting today.

How are the Senate Republicans standing in the way of impeachment?

[agrajag]

they probably mean removal?

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/Whatapityonyou/status/1186451969914753025

[benjipwns]

I wouldn't even worry about a trial.

[agrajag]

you're not in a position to worry, cause no one's putting your ass to the fire. When you're in that position, even the slightest possibility's gotta be unnerving.

[benjipwns]

Hillary Clinton, Master Troll?
Freed of the constraints of public office, Mrs. Clinton seems to be living her best life.

Is Hillary Clinton trolling us?

Over the past two weeks, Mrs. Clinton has called President Trump a “corrupt human tornado.” She’s refused to appear on a panel with Kirstjen Nielsen, the former homeland security secretary best known for separating migrant children from their families. She’s picked a fight with Representative Tulsi Gabbard, suggesting that the Hawaii congresswoman and presidential candidate is a favorite of the Russians. And she’s tweeted a letter mocking Mr. Trump with language that makes it unprintable in this family newsletter.

Welcome to Hillary Unplugged.

For most of her public career, Mrs. Clinton has been constrained by the expectations of her position, be it first lady, senator or secretary of state. Now, after her stunning loss in 2016, it seems she finally feels liberated to speak her mind.

And she’s certainly stirring up a lot of drama while doing it. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate continues to loom large in the psyche of her party — both as heroine and villain.

Some Democrats celebrate seeing Mrs. Clinton giving zero, uh, cares.

“She has a unique and well-informed perspective,” said Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist and former Clinton aide. “I want to hear from her.”

But Mrs. Clinton’s return to the spotlight comes as a number of Democratic Party officials — including some major donors, activists and black pastors in early voting states — are privately wondering whether she should jump into the primary race.

Publicly, Mrs. Clinton isn’t doing much to tamp down the speculation: “Maybe there does need to be a rematch. Obviously, I can beat him again,” she said in an interview on PBS this month, referring to her victory over Mr. Trump in the popular vote.

People who have spoken to Mrs. Clinton say she remains “wistful” about the idea of a third presidential run, though she has not taken steps to actually mount a bid and remains unlikely to do so.

Instead, she’s offered advice to nearly everyone in the Democratic field — save for her former primary rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Ms. Gabbard.

She has a friendly relationship with Senator Elizabeth Warren, last speaking with her in early September, and remains in regular touch with former Vice President Joe Biden. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Cory Booker have reached out repeatedly.

She has no plans to make an endorsement in the primary, say those close to her.

But, as her supporters argue, why should she stay silent — particularly given the strangeness of our political times? After all, former Secretary of State John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee, has also flirted with running for president again.

Mrs. Clinton isn’t the only Democrat facing calls to run for office. Oprah Winfrey wants Bob Iger, Disney’s chief executive, to jump into the race.

What if Hillary is the third party candidate being groomed to run by Russia's disinformation campaign?