Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 5433628 times)

Transhuman · « **Reply #49260 on:** January 16, 2020, 06:41:00 PM »

60% of Bernie Bros are women

team filler · « **Reply #49261 on:** January 16, 2020, 06:43:09 PM »

Quote from: filler on January 16, 2020, 05:48:44 PM

https://twitter.com/DatPiff/status/1216921803571904512

B E A S T ! !

https://twitter.com/Trumenza/status/1217954060206141440

Nintex · « **Reply #49262 on:** January 16, 2020, 07:03:23 PM »

Quote

With South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in the audience, Trump said arranging the fireworks at the state's landmark was easy. "I called up our people and within about 15 minutes we got it approved and you're going to have your first big fireworks display at Mt. Rushmore," Trump said Wednesday.

Dismissing concerns that the fireworks posed an environmental threat, Trump said, "what can burn? It's stone," adding that "nobody knew why, they just said environmental reasons."

team filler · « **Reply #49263 on:** January 16, 2020, 07:13:28 PM »

naff · « **Reply #49264 on:** January 16, 2020, 07:50:59 PM »

i mean, i think part of the message was that society is much quicker to discredit women in favour of men, which is especially concerning in regards to high reported rates of sexual violence vs investigation or conviction. but also solid point, this situ is a little different.

has there been any reporting on exactly what context this was said in and how he said it? or is it just "he said a woman couldn't win!".

knowing the way warren twists things he probably alluded to it being a more difficult and relatively unlikely task for a woman to win the white house over a man because of implied societal prejudice etc and she's now saying "he said a woman couldn't win!"

Kara · « **Reply #49265 on:** January 16, 2020, 07:56:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1217909231946477575

B E A S T

Transhuman · « **Reply #49266 on:** January 16, 2020, 07:59:05 PM »

Quote from: naff on January 16, 2020, 07:50:59 PM

has there been any reporting on exactly what context this was said in and how he said it? or is it just "he said a woman couldn't win!"

No context. It's a he said she said based on a 3 year old conversation. It's very cringe.

shosta · « **Reply #49267 on:** January 16, 2020, 08:02:48 PM »

Quote from: Kara on January 16, 2020, 07:56:24 PM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1217909231946477575

B E A S T

this tweet could read "I JUST SHIT MY PANTS" and it would have the exact same energy

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49268 on:** January 16, 2020, 08:10:13 PM »

https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1217962046488240129

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #49269 on:** January 16, 2020, 08:12:02 PM »

it keeps happening

VomKriege · « **Reply #49270 on:** January 16, 2020, 08:18:13 PM »

Old but

Thirty-Ought-Six · « **Reply #49271 on:** January 16, 2020, 09:00:04 PM »

This whole Buttigieg prank is going to be an amazing episode of Nathan For You.

Tripon · « **Reply #49272 on:** January 16, 2020, 09:57:34 PM »

https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1217983364336103424

RIP

kingv · « **Reply #49273 on:** January 16, 2020, 10:04:31 PM »

Quote from: naff on January 16, 2020, 07:50:59 PM

i mean, i think part of the message was that society is much quicker to discredit women in favour of men, which is especially concerning in regards to high reported rates of sexual violence vs investigation or conviction. but also solid point, this situ is a little different.

has there been any reporting on exactly what context this was said in and how he said it? or is it just "he said a woman couldn't win!".

knowing the way warren twists things he probably alluded to it being a more difficult and relatively unlikely task for a woman to win the white house over a man because of implied societal prejudice etc and she's now saying "he said a woman couldn't win!"

He actually said he thought a Native American woman couldn’t win.

kingv · « **Reply #49274 on:** January 16, 2020, 10:10:06 PM »

Quote from: filler on January 16, 2020, 05:38:13 PM

https://twitter.com/808constituent/status/1217938104591339521

"leadership and aloho of tulsi"

MPs are like the dirt dumbest morherfuckers in the military. You need to have an ASVAN score that says you are “ mostly literate” to rate as an MP. This is not a serious accomplishment.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #49275 on:** January 16, 2020, 10:29:22 PM »

Mmmmmm Bernie

james · « **Reply #49276 on:** January 16, 2020, 10:39:57 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on January 16, 2020, 09:57:34 PM

https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1217983364336103424

RIP

You hate to see it

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49277 on:** January 16, 2020, 11:00:35 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on January 16, 2020, 09:57:34 PM

https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1217983364336103424

RIP

team filler · « **Reply #49278 on:** January 16, 2020, 11:54:01 PM »

Quote from: Esch on January 16, 2020, 09:23:23 PM

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1217908701123747841

https://twitter.com/LedNudd/status/1217929211303907334

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1217909116833796096

Tripon · « **Reply #49279 on:** January 17, 2020, 12:15:23 AM »

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #49280 on:** January 17, 2020, 08:50:13 AM »

I didn't get chance to watch Parnas Pt II: Attack of the Combover, did anything good come out?

It's so dumb they would break up that interview into two.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #49281 on:** January 17, 2020, 12:14:27 PM »

Trump hired Alan Dershowtiz and Ken Starr to represent him at the trial

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #49282 on:** January 17, 2020, 12:56:37 PM »

Alan’s probably still got a spare key to the fuck island.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #49283 on:** January 17, 2020, 01:58:04 PM »

Dems should use everyday from here on to point out that trump hired epstein's legal team to defend him.

james · « **Reply #49284 on:** January 17, 2020, 02:36:26 PM »

Quote from: riotous on January 17, 2020, 02:00:09 PM

Meh.. kinda disagree on principal on criticizing who someone's lawyers are based on who they represented in the past. The best lawyers have often represented the worst offenders.

Trump is scum regardless.

According to riotous, Alan Dershowitz is the best lawyer

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Alan Dershowitz, the outspoken, controversial Harvard Law School emeritus professor, is defending himself on Twitter after an op-ed resurfaced in which he suggested that the age of consent for statutory rape cases should be lowered.

Dershowitz made the suggestion in a 1997 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, suggesting that 15 was a reasonable age of consent, no matter how old the other partner was.

https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/1155939457440219137

Occam · « **Reply #49285 on:** January 17, 2020, 02:53:03 PM »

USDA proposes changing school menus to allow more fries, pizza and fewer fruits and vegetables, reversing a Michelle Obama effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/17/usda-proposes-changing-school-menus-allow-more-fries-pizza-fewer-vegetables-fruits-reversing-michelle-obama-effort/

In other, completely unrelated news, happy 56th birthday to Michelle Obama!

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #49286 on:** January 17, 2020, 02:58:12 PM »

Occam · « **Reply #49287 on:** January 17, 2020, 02:58:58 PM »

Quote from: Esch on January 16, 2020, 09:23:23 PM

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1217908701123747841

That news is from four years ago.

Occam · « **Reply #49288 on:** January 17, 2020, 03:03:43 PM »

Quote from: Kara on January 16, 2020, 07:56:24 PM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1217909231946477575

B E A S T

Occam · « **Reply #49289 on:** January 17, 2020, 03:51:23 PM »

Jebus, what a moron.

VomKriege · « **Reply #49290 on:** January 17, 2020, 03:58:08 PM »

Capitalism is doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s rewarding productivity with pay, and some people and companies are more productive. If you improve worker bargaining power, that may help a bit, but over the long run people can’t earn what they don’t produce.

shosta · « **Reply #49291 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:11:14 PM »

fuck you mandark

Mandark · « **Reply #49292 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:14:33 PM »

damn brooks is gonna feel so owned when he reads that

shosta · « **Reply #49293 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:16:58 PM »

leave me alone

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #49294 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:17:58 PM »

Is there a gif with bart simpson yelling at the clouds?

Mandark · « **Reply #49295 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:21:09 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on January 17, 2020, 05:17:58 PM

Is there a gif with bart simpson yelling at the clouds?

Kara · « **Reply #49296 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:49:08 PM »

Snarky McSnark dooming us all to nothing but tweets and Nintex fanfic itt.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #49297 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:52:43 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on January 17, 2020, 05:21:09 PM

Quote from: ToxicAdam on January 17, 2020, 05:17:58 PM
Is there a gif with bart simpson yelling at the clouds?

That’s the joke bitch

Mandark · « **Reply #49298 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:54:51 PM »

touché

Mandark · « **Reply #49299 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:59:39 PM »

Some special irony in a tenured takemonger explaining that the economy rewards "productivity."

Akala · « **Reply #49300 on:** January 17, 2020, 05:59:42 PM »

Joe

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #49301 on:** January 17, 2020, 06:01:56 PM »

Bitch was too aggressive, Sry, drinking at airport waiting for my ride and feeling ways

shosta · « **Reply #49302 on:** January 17, 2020, 06:16:42 PM »

Quote from: Esch on January 17, 2020, 05:56:01 PM

I hadn't finished reading that post

- productivity ≡ average hourly income. firms and people can do all kinds of things to boost their income (from monopoly pricing to regulatory capture to raw exploitation), so saying they earned their income by being more productive is tautology.
- Brooks accidentally says firms have decreased labor share of income. Since that's Sanders' point, it's not clear what he thinks Sanders is wrong about

there you go

shosta · « **Reply #49303 on:** January 17, 2020, 09:01:32 PM »

So many Sandernistas in my feed getting pretty mad at the suggestion that Warren just misunderstood what he meant... as if it's not at all plausible a Senator notorious for mistreating staff might have communication issues

Trurl · « **Reply #49304 on:** January 17, 2020, 09:53:56 PM »

Which senator is notorious for mistreating staff?

shosta · « **Reply #49305 on:** January 17, 2020, 09:55:40 PM »

triple edit: I think my brain just made this up. residual sanders derangement?

TVC15 · « **Reply #49306 on:** January 17, 2020, 10:11:35 PM »

Bernie generally seems unpleasant and like a whiny bitch. The Bros also suck ass. But I guess Bernie is what we got.

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Reviewbrah/Pamperchu ‘24, I guess that’s our real shot

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EightBitNate · « **Reply #49307 on:** January 17, 2020, 10:20:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/livposting/status/1217944812382408704

Nintex · « **Reply #49308 on:** January 18, 2020, 05:30:50 AM »

Quote from: Esch on January 17, 2020, 04:11:05 PM

Caption this

(Image removed from quote.)

"Look at my African American"

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #49309 on:** January 18, 2020, 09:06:58 AM »

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/politics/impeachment-trial-rules-no-talking-no-phones/index.html

Imagine being a senator who needs senate rules to pay attention in the senate.

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Some busy senators are actually looking forward to the mandatory time to disconnect and unplug.
Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland called the no-devices restriction "a real plus."
"I think it's refreshing," he said, "I don't have to be bothered by the phone every five minutes."
Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, praised the ban on phones as "beautifully old fashion."
"I'm glad that we can put these devices down, I'm glad we will be sitting in our chairs, I'm glad that we are going to be focused on what's in front of us at that time. I think it's important, it's beautifully old fashion, and I think we should stick to it," she said.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49310 on:** January 18, 2020, 09:54:41 AM »

"Actually, forcing white business owners to serve black people is an infringement of important civil liberties."

Kara · « **Reply #49311 on:** January 18, 2020, 01:22:52 PM »

Quote

a “new, minoritarian constitution”

Because the old one was a majoritarian masterpiece.

team filler · « **Reply #49312 on:** January 18, 2020, 01:29:23 PM »

B E A S T !

Kara · « **Reply #49313 on:** January 18, 2020, 02:10:44 PM »

It's very important to wear camouflage in ~~space~~ an air conditioned office.

team filler · « **Reply #49314 on:** January 18, 2020, 02:59:30 PM »

https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1218620909012914181

Occam · « **Reply #49315 on:** January 18, 2020, 05:49:55 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on January 18, 2020, 04:05:16 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/quiz-which-candidate-agrees-with-me/

my results

Quote
Who agrees with you most → least

15
Buttigieg

14
Biden

13
Bloomberg

centrism

According to this, I mostly agree with Steyer (I had no idea who that is before looking him up just now; yay, another billionaire), followed by Sanders and Warren (barf), closely followed by Klobuchar and Yang. The ones I least agree with are Biden and Gabbard (lowest for me, sorry filler).

Why is Sanders against a carbon tax? And against free trade with countries bordering the Pacific? That makes no sense.

Kara · « **Reply #49316 on:** January 18, 2020, 05:57:39 PM »

Don't know why he personally opposes it, but carbon taxes are often presented as a poison pill to more substantial climate policies. I assume Pop Pop prefers to pursue those instead.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #49317 on:** January 18, 2020, 06:02:23 PM »

A carbon tax basically says "what your're doing is terrible, but you don't have to stop". It's past that point now.

To put it on cnn terms, it's like interviewing a hologram of steven irwin while trump is committing treason.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #49318 on:** January 18, 2020, 06:07:00 PM »

opposition to free trade negotiation has been a staple rhetorical wedge for ~30 years on the american left, usually on the grounds of safeguarding labor in infant or moribund industries.

there are legit left reasons to oppose tpp and whatnot, particularly as to how it serves american empire. but i havent seen any indication that bernard and co. are actually thinking along those lines

Quote from: Kara on January 18, 2020, 05:57:39 PM

but carbon taxes are often presented as a poison pill to more substantial climate policies.

this. ostensibly well-meaning cap and trade proponents get excited about it because its a market solution to a market problem

Trent Dole · « **Reply #49319 on:** January 18, 2020, 06:09:00 PM »

Warren
13

Sanders
11

Steyer
11

Yang
10

Klobuchar
7

Buttchug
6

Bloomberg
5

Gabbard
5

Biden
4

I'm with Warren slightly more and I should rag on Yang less apparently.

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