US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Cauliflower Of Love]

“Since China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization in 2001, no one has manipulated better or taken advantage of the United States more,” Trump said. “I will not say the word ‘cheated,’ but nobody’s cheated better than China, I will say that.”

 

“But I said I don’t blame China, I blame China. Then I realized it’s true.”

 

[Occam]

See, it can always get worse. As his dementia progresses, eventually all he'll be able to utter will be complete word salad. And it will still make total sense to his disciples.

[ToxicAdam]

Are people sleeping on Buttchug? He keeps doing better and better in each successive Iowa poll and is now one of the leaders. Iowa has a good history of selecting the eventual Democrat front-runner. Or is Pete just considered the closest thing to a "hometown boy" and getting that regional bump?

[shosta]

Or is Pete just considered the closest thing to a "hometown boy" and getting that regional bump?

That one.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

rural america seems themselves in pete because he has the courage to do what they dont.

[CatsCatsCats]

I know people who are supporting Buttybutt. They’re also big west wing fans, so

[thisismyusername]

rural america seems themselves in pete because he has the courage to do what they dont.

Suck hogs?

https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1161652820103315456

[thisismyusername]

Are people sleeping on Buttchug? He keeps doing better and better in each successive Iowa poll and is now one of the leaders. Iowa has a good history of selecting the eventual Democrat front-runner. Or is Pete just considered the closest thing to a "hometown boy" and getting that regional bump?

If Pete seriously comes from behind ( ), I will be fucking shook to shock.

[team filler]

cums from behind 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

cums from behind 

Just like Obama, he's probably a power bottom.

[Nintex]

Pete's actually a pretty good candidate

- Not as left as Warren/Sanders
- Not as old as Biden
- Not a long shot crypto fascist like Yang
- Not as unlikable as Kamala / Amy / Hillary
- Not as controversial as Tulsi
- Pretty much scandal free

He's gay yes, but unlike Trump he doesn't gloat about big beautiful generals, boyfriends like Kim Jun Un and handsome and tall members of the Bin Laden family in every other speech.
The only thing Trump has come up with so far is that he can't pronounce his name "Bootedgedge" and he doesn't know who he is.

As for not being well known, there's nothing a couple billion of election campaigning can't fix plus he could pick a famous/well known running mate.

As predicted

[OnlyRegret]

why you hating on yang you cloghead

[Cauliflower Of Love]

This administration is so fucking dumb.

While the human stakes in these cases are enormous, the legal question is so minor that it is unclear why the Court agreed to hear the cases in the first place.

As a general rule, the executive branch must provide a reasoned explanation when it announces a new policy. Three lower courts held that the Trump administration failed to adequately explain its decision to end DACA, and blocked the decision on those grounds.

The lower court’s rationale hinged upon the most lawyerly of distinctions. If the administration had said they were ending DACA for a policy-based reason, then the administration’s decision to end DACA would be largely unreviewable by federal courts. But if the administration offers a legal justification — that is, if they claim that they are ending DACA because they believe DACA to be illegal — then the courts may review that legal determination.

[shosta]

we can sue gun manufacturers now

[Joe Molotov]

we can sue gun manufacturers now

Beto’s trick

[team filler]

 

[benjipwns]

One down: https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/former-sc-gov-mark-sanford-has-dropped-out-of-presidential/article_3def9eee-0171-11ea-84ec-8bd313d6fd8a.html

CONCORD, N.H. — The end of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s run for president came under light snow and gray skies.

Standing outside the New Hampshire Statehouse surrounded by 15 members of the media and two staffers, the long-shot Republican closed down his campaign some 65 days after it began.

Holding an oversized trillion-dollar check to represent the national debt, Sanford said his singular focus in his 2020 bid had been to advance the debate on mounting government spending and addressing the deficit.

“But you’ve got to be a realist,” said Sanford, who spoke for just shy of 16 minutes.

Sanford had originally planned to be inside a Statehouse office on Friday, to have his name added to the ballot in the first-in-the-nation primary. Instead, it is where his run ended days after he vowed to spend all of November campaigning here.

“I’m going to suspend my campaign and I’m going to look for other ways to advance these incredibly timely and important but now out-of-season issues,” he said.

One in? https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/hillary-clinton-presidential-run-2020-070318

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to rule out launching a future presidential campaign after her two failed bids, saying “many, many, many people” were pressuring her to enter the race.

“I, as I say, never, never, never say never,” the former secretary of State said on BBC Radio 5 Live. “I will certainly tell you, I’m under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it.”

[benjipwns]

Iowa is crossing the streams!

[Tripon]

One down: https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/former-sc-gov-mark-sanford-has-dropped-out-of-presidential/article_3def9eee-0171-11ea-84ec-8bd313d6fd8a.html

CONCORD, N.H. — The end of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s run for president came under light snow and gray skies.

Standing outside the New Hampshire Statehouse surrounded by 15 members of the media and two staffers, the long-shot Republican closed down his campaign some 65 days after it began.

Holding an oversized trillion-dollar check to represent the national debt, Sanford said his singular focus in his 2020 bid had been to advance the debate on mounting government spending and addressing the deficit.

“But you’ve got to be a realist,” said Sanford, who spoke for just shy of 16 minutes.

Sanford had originally planned to be inside a Statehouse office on Friday, to have his name added to the ballot in the first-in-the-nation primary. Instead, it is where his run ended days after he vowed to spend all of November campaigning here.

“I’m going to suspend my campaign and I’m going to look for other ways to advance these incredibly timely and important but now out-of-season issues,” he said.

One in? https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/hillary-clinton-presidential-run-2020-070318

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to rule out launching a future presidential campaign after her two failed bids, saying “many, many, many people” were pressuring her to enter the race.

“I, as I say, never, never, never say never,” the former secretary of State said on BBC Radio 5 Live. “I will certainly tell you, I’m under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it.”

When's the latest somebody actually entered a national race and did well in the primaries?

[benjipwns]

[nachobro]

https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1194416893203034113

[james]

Brb, going to kill myself

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1194321492537991169?

[thisismyusername]

Esch's Young Turks emoticon here?

https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1194405374536929280

Please, <Diety>, let Daddy Socialism win the nomination. We don't need "she has a (plagiarized) plan for that" to run her fake-ass socialism.

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Joe Molotov]

https://mobile.twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1194444125233405952

Lul, was Rudy really a lawyer?

[Great Rumbler]

Brb, going to kill myself

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1194321492537991169?

Buttmentum!

[Brehvolution]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trish-regan-blasts-trump-impeachment-as-hostile-takeover-democrats-want-to-dehumanize-conservatives/

“We don’t need to be in this divided place. Of course, when Trish Regan says it the mainstream media goes bonkers. Saying it’s ‘insane warning of violence in the streets,'” Regan complained. “The bottom line is we are in a very bad place. Thank you, Adam Schiff, thank you, Nancy Pelosi, thank you The Squad. There is a total lack of tolerance on the left.”

“If we do not respect one another, if we don’t respect our institutions of government, we have no cohesiveness, we have no spirit, we have no economy, we have no country. This is exactly what our enemies want, divide and conquer,” Regan warned. “Adam Schiff, who is apparently a little stuck in his wannabe, Hollywood crime-thriller movie-writer role, is selling America out. For what? For what he thinks is political glory. It’s not going to get him very far. This hostile takeover of the government is not going to succeed. One, because Americans recognize it for what it is.”

“Adam Schiff can continue to try and write this horror movie, or Americans, we can take our country back. The left’s attempt to dehumanize conservatives, to dehumanize the middle of this country, it is very deliberate,” Regan said, without mentioning one high-profile political figure who has publicly condemned some Republicans as “human scum” for choosing to oppose Trump.

Lack of tolerance of corruption.

They legit triggered. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I heard some photographer yell to the capitol police "excuse me officer can you get out of the shot"

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/_ericblanc/status/1194613024642027520

someone who understands polling methodology explain this to me

[Cauliflower Of Love]

It means Sanders is at -1 % and Hillary is polling higher than Warren at 10%

[benjipwns]

the margin of errors in the second image are not for the results in the first image, it's for a different question in the poll

the Pete, Biden and Warren groups are ~20% of the sample, the Sanders group is 13% of the sample, therefore the Sanders group has a larger margin of error when they're polled on something (in this case who their second choice is), this increase would continue as you move down the poll to the Klobuchar group and so on, although by the time you get to a group that's 3% of a sample the margin of error is borderline nonsense (it could feasibly be 30-35 points for this sample)

here is the full paragraph for that second image:


here's the net favorable ratings:

[agrajag]

here's a little hopium to offset that nassssty butt poll

https://twitter.com/MorningConsult/status/1194390163192811521

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Biden still in first

 

[close]

[benjipwns]

When's the latest somebody actually entered a national race and did well in the primaries?

We have not really had a candidate enter so late into a race with the resources (or even support) that a Bloomberg or Hillary could muster. Jerry Brown twice entered fairly late in the process but it was more of a shoestring vanity campaign than anything serious. Bob Dole waited until everyone else got in but was always the frontrunner and he also didn't want to participate in many of the events/campaigning so he could focus on his position as Senate Majority Leader.

The modern cycle is quite different though. Ted Kennedy when he challenged Carter launched his campaign in November 1979. Reagan similarly launched his campaign that November. Bill Clinton launched his campaign in October 1991.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

poll schmoll

https://twitter.com/BNeidhardt/status/1192971924462358528

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1194448682466398209

[agrajag]

lmao twitter bernie bros coming after Cenk Uygur with pitchforks because while he officially endorsed him, he didn't call Elizabeth  Warren the devil

[Brehvolution]

When you don't have facts, you attack the process. gop 101

Nunes and the other rubes are going to look so bad after all this.

[james]

Your daily reminder that Nunes grew up on a dairy farm, went to college to study dairy farming, got a goddamned masters degree in dairy farming, ran for congress in a dairy farming district on a platform of dairy farming and then someone handed him the keys to the intelligence committee which has nothing to do with dairy farming

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Pretty sure he milked something.

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1194648622916345856

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Does any of this really matter? They could get Trump to tweet that he's guilty of everything and he'd do it again in a heartbeat. Republicans would still refuse to say it's an impeachable offence, Moscow Mitch will make sure the senate will refuse to agree to impeach. Ever since Kavanaugh I realized only the evil and corrupt will ever win in this world and nothing matters ever

 

[Brehvolution]

People are laughing at gop questions because of the absurdity. It's like they met at the bar last night and after a few rounds started writing shit down. Nothing about trump. All about the Bidens. 

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/LizardRumsfeld/status/1194623281787265024

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What if hunter biden is the whistleblower working deep under cover?

[ToxicAdam]

I have yet to meet one person who is a Biden supporter IRL. Who are these people?

[OnlyRegret]

"oh, the obama grandpa, cool, obama term 3"

[ToxicAdam]

Yea, I guess that makes sense. The same way Bush Sr. got elected.

[Nintex]

These hearings are just the same things repeated over and over again.
There doesn't seem to be any new evidence or insight.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

jim jordan is all like "my voice can't get higher, why won't anyone listen!"

[Nintex]

This entire clown court

GOP:
"Did Obama give lethal aid to Ukraine?"
Witness: "Well it is my understand..."
"Did Obama not send as much aid as President Trump to Ukraine"
Witness "That would be correct"

 

Democrats:
"Would you say <insert> lied?"
Witness: "I cannot make such a judgment"
"Would you say ORANGE MAN BAD??"
Witness: "I cannot say withou..."
"Would you say ORANGE MAD did something other Presidents didn't?"
Witness: "To the best of my knowledge yes"



Media:
"Will you say Hoax or Witch Hunt if we stand in the doorway and shout?"
Trump: "This is a hoax and a witch hunt"




I thought it was a parody account but apparently this is a real account
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman

[Nintex]

Trump high as fuck says Erdogan has a great relationship with the kurds 

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1194730795736457217

 

[james]

I brought this up a few months ago and many of you all dog-piled on me.

Turns out, I was right.

Black people have fucked us for a generation.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1194731837140164608

[Nintex]

I brought this up a few months ago and many of you all dog-piled on me.

Turns out, I was right.

Black people have fucked us for a generation.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1194731837140164608

Jesus is king james, Jesus is King.

All Trump needs to do is to keep the clownshow running long enough so he can do a Trump/Kanye rally in 2020.
And then the Democratic party can close up shop.

[Mandark]

From Catalyst's own analysis, Black voters in midterm House elections:

2010: +80% Dem
2014: +74% Dem
2018: +90% Dem

[shosta]

Black people have fucked us for a generation.

I don't know why you think this is a cheeky or cute thing to post but it's neither.

[james]

Black people have fucked us for a generation.

I don't know why you think this is a cheeky or cute thing to post but it's neither.

Your people are guilty too

 

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/majorityfm/status/1194705609817575429

[Mandark]

"black people cost us the senate!"

*literally every analysis shows white voters tipping the senate in favor of the gop*

 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/100_Disable_vet/status/1194726981667086341

sleepy joe and mayo buttplug 

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/MuellerDad69/status/1194681313720225792