Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 6894097 times)

Nintex · « **Reply #57660 on:** May 05, 2020, 08:33:15 PM »

Quote from: Stro on May 05, 2020, 08:28:17 PM

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1257814281330069504

I like how Trump acts all cool as the music starts playing and yells at the guy: "HOW MANY DO YOU MAKE A DAY"

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1257818609159680001

The better quote to highlight would've been: "We've had one of our best months ever"

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57661 on:** May 05, 2020, 08:46:55 PM »

He's got googles though.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #57662 on:** May 05, 2020, 08:55:12 PM »

Is a super PAC just a well-funded PAC, or is there actually some qualitatively defined distinction between them? No I will NOT watch the let-me-google-that-for-you animation on this one.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #57663 on:** May 05, 2020, 08:56:07 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on May 05, 2020, 07:14:10 PM

I like the Squad because they're liberals and support the Democratic Party, just like Bernie Sanders, Terry McAuliffe, and me.

Quote from: Mandark on May 05, 2020, 08:02:02 PM

While I understand the frustration of Democrats like Charlotte Clymer and Cenk Uygur with Republican leaders, we should not succumb and lash out against our fellow American citizens in red states, who deserve our support regardless.

He's running.

Mandark · « **Reply #57664 on:** May 05, 2020, 08:57:19 PM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on May 05, 2020, 08:55:12 PM

Is a super PAC just a well-funded PAC, or is there actually some qualitatively defined distinction between them? No I will NOT watch the let-me-google-that-for-you animation on this one.

It is a PAC that has consumed a power pill and can temporarily eat ghosts.

Mandark · « **Reply #57665 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:03:23 PM »

but srsly folks

PAC: Individuals are capped in how much they can contribute, and unions/corporations can't donate. A PAC is allowed to give money directly to a campaign.

Super PAC: Any non-foreign entity can give any sum of money to a super PAC IIRC. It is restricted from giving money to campaigns or "coordinating" with them but in practice it's a pretty thin distinction.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #57666 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:29:20 PM »

As American politics get dumber so does everyone in this thread. I feel like we are going to find out that the US secretly deregulated the use of lead pipes during the Reagan years and its finally showing. Nintex do you import bottled water from America perchance?

Mandark · « **Reply #57667 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:43:59 PM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 05, 2020, 09:10:35 PM

One thing that's similar is that both are allowed to spend on ice cream.

https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange/status/1250308635701338112

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https://eatenlightened.com/collections/low-calorie/products/mint-chip-swirl-ice-cream-bars

I think I need someone to explain which expensive twee desserts are neolib and which expensive twee desserts are succ.

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Mandark · « **Reply #57668 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:50:15 PM »

Dude was acting broke while mentioning his house in Haight Ashbury. That's an automatic Phoenix Wright "CHALLENGE!" moment right there.

Tripon · « **Reply #57669 on:** May 05, 2020, 09:52:01 PM »

The problem is that many of those pipes weren't regulated to begin with in many parts of the country

Mandark · « **Reply #57670 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:03:12 PM »

https://twitter.com/TomPhilipson45/status/1257842886403555336

You MORONS can't tell the difference between SMOOTHING data and making a FORECAST, this is clearly just smoothing which happens to continue several weeks into the future.

Mandark · « **Reply #57671 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:10:40 PM »

It's from Kevin Hassett, who produced this version of the Laffer Curve during the Bush admin:

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #57672 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:12:01 PM »

You guys are in for a smooth future, not.

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #57673 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:15:47 PM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/rodrikdani/status/1257726610591154177

ah, yes. if not for trump the professional integrity of...neoclassical economics would still be intact

Mandark · « **Reply #57674 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:16:26 PM »

How to evaluate your model's fit:

1) Anchored to fit an outlier exactly.

2) Every data point <30 on the X axis is below the curve.

3) Every data point >30 on the X axis is above the curve.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #57675 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:21:20 PM »

Basically anyone who dies after May 16th hates Trump so much they'd rather kill themselves than let him be right.

Mandark · « **Reply #57676 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:25:24 PM »

Ah yes, the "Family Circus Billy-Walk Regression."

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #57677 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:26:41 PM »

Why is Norway giving me the finger? My family is Norwegian!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #57678 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:38:32 PM »

RBG hospitalized. Bless up ma'am.

Tripon · « **Reply #57679 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:39:57 PM »

So when does Trump do a packed in rally with nobody even pretending to protect themselves?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #57680 on:** May 05, 2020, 10:55:29 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on May 05, 2020, 10:39:57 PM

So when does Trump do a packed in rally with nobody even pretending to protect themselves?

Probably pretty soon.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57681 on:** May 05, 2020, 11:49:11 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on May 05, 2020, 10:39:57 PM

So when does Trump do a packed in rally with nobody even pretending to protect themselves?

March?

nachobro · « **Reply #57682 on:** May 05, 2020, 11:50:46 PM »

i was thinking around june/july

Tripon · « **Reply #57683 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:34:17 AM »

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1257841291263696899

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57684 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:43:02 AM »

trusting polls right now

lol

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #57685 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:23:41 AM »

I got a pole you can trust

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #57686 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:36:55 AM »

i wish i had a Pole i could thrust

BIONIC · « **Reply #57687 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:51:51 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on May 05, 2020, 09:50:15 PM

Dude was acting broke while mentioning his house in Haight Ashbury. That's an automatic Phoenix Wright "CHALLENGE!" moment right there.

It’s HOLD IT you dumb coward.

team filler · « **Reply #57688 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:53:32 AM »

https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1257845067190095883

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57689 on:** May 06, 2020, 03:05:37 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on May 06, 2020, 01:23:41 AM

I got a pole you can trust

ok hitler

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how fucking easy would it have been for the remaining states in the primary states to move to mail in voting? would have cheaper, cleaner and just right.

but no, fucking be stupid and pretend broke joe biden is the best candidate

Nintex · « **Reply #57690 on:** May 06, 2020, 07:10:12 AM »

But Biden is the best candidate.

As a Stannis Baratheon fan I understand your disappointment but you have to admit that Joe Biden makes for a more interesting season.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #57691 on:** May 06, 2020, 07:52:14 AM »

Quote from: jakefromstatefarm on May 06, 2020, 01:36:55 AM

i wish i had a Pole i could thrust

team filler · « **Reply #57692 on:** May 06, 2020, 11:35:21 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 05, 2020, 10:38:32 PM

RBG hospitalized. Bless up ma'am.

https://twitter.com/proustmalone/status/1258051439861121025

Tripon · « **Reply #57693 on:** May 06, 2020, 11:41:07 AM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 06, 2020, 01:49:05 AM

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1257810561171107842

Andrew Yang keeps winning 2020

https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/1257812775348449281
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/1257813656982650887

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #57694 on:** May 06, 2020, 11:46:28 AM »

lousie mensch

i remember when everyone on my tl used to hate on her when she was a tory mp

bitch is on that american grift too i see

benjipwns · « **Reply #57695 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:06:03 PM »

She is one of the major Twitter experts on Russia's schemes:

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Mensch claims she has evidence that Vladimir Putin had Andrew Breitbart murdered to make room for Steve Bannon at Breitbart.

Tasty · « **Reply #57696 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:09:02 PM »

More like ubermensch

benjipwns · « **Reply #57697 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:14:53 PM »

Quote from: Esch on May 06, 2020, 12:10:18 PM

More like dipshit

Found the Putin shill.

Blocked and reported.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #57698 on:** May 06, 2020, 12:34:05 PM »

I saw the video of Ahmaud Arbery. WTF. How can there be no arrests after two months for that?

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57699 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:05:53 PM »

As long as the poor die.

benjipwns · « **Reply #57700 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:13:29 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on May 06, 2020, 12:34:05 PM

How can there be no arrests after two months for that?

Once a police, always a police.

team filler · « **Reply #57701 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:14:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1258050189253804032

team filler · « **Reply #57702 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:21:00 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #57703 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:23:57 PM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 06, 2020, 01:20:08 PM

blacklist pls

yikes

benjipwns · « **Reply #57704 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:28:22 PM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/tara-reade-joe-biden-vote.html

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So stop playing gotcha with the female supporters of Mr. Biden or the #MeToo movement, making them lie to the camera — or perhaps to themselves — about doubting her to justify their votes.

I’ll take one for the team. I believe Ms. Reade, and I’ll vote for Mr. Biden this fall.

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Suck it up and make the utilitarian bargain.

All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.

So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it. And don’t call me an amoral realist. Utilitarianism is not a moral abdication; it is a moral stance.

Utilitarianism arose from the Industrial Revolution, a time of terrible economic inequality and abuse. It was intended to make a moral claim for the equality of all creatures who can feel pain and experience pleasure.

Weigh it: Don’t a few extra cents for each worker matter more than the marginal dollar for the boss? Weigh it: Won’t the good for all the Americans who will benefit from replacing Donald Trump with Joe Biden, including the masses of women who will get some crumbs, count for more than the harm done to the victims of abuse?

Utilitarian morality requires that I turn my face away from the people I propose to sell out: Monica Lewinsky, Tara Reade. This is agonizingly hard for me to do. Pretending not to believe the complainants — which is what is taking place with Ms. Reade — or that they’re loose nobodies, which is what much of the media did to Ms. Lewinsky, is just an escape from the hard work of moral analysis.

And it adds to the harm. How is feminism advanced by casting a reasonably credible complainant as a liar? Better to just own up to what you are doing: sacrificing Ms. Reade for the good of the many.

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But even that probably would not be enough to make me abandon the claims of justice and vote for him in face of credible accusations of sexual assault. Fortunately for my sanity, there’s more.

Once again, philosophy offers an answer to my quest for justice. Philosophers for at least three centuries have known that there can be no call to justice in a situation of extreme scarcity. David Hume, who originated the analysis, suggested that nobody can be expected to behave justly when trying to survive a shipwreck. The great modern philosopher John Rawls called moderate scarcity, or the absence of extreme scarcity, one of the “circumstances of justice.”

The Trump administration, and the Republican Party that he represents, are unassailably the political equivalent of Hume’s shipwreck. Offering only hatred, rejecting facts, refusing accountability, they represent the wreckage of the American ship of state. We knew that before 70,000 Americans died of Covid-19 in a spectacle of villainy and incompetence, but when you are faced with a distasteful moral choice, it can be useful to be reminded of the immensity of the stakes in making that choice.

It may not be just, but I’m swimming away from Mr. Trump’s sinking ship as hard as I can. If I have to, I’ll vote for Mr. Biden. I hope I’m not going to drown anyway.

benjipwns · « **Reply #57705 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:41:11 PM »

Quote from: hhkcvaoitsso on May 06, 2020, 01:26:36 PM

you are also on the blacklist

"Number 28: benjipwns"

Tripon · « **Reply #57706 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:42:10 PM »

https://twitter.com/cspanJeremy/status/1258076164234579969

Nintex · « **Reply #57707 on:** May 06, 2020, 01:59:41 PM »

Quote

Biden's edge evaporates as Trump seen as better suited for economy, coronavirus response, poll shows

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/bidens-edge-evaporates-as-trump-seen-as-better-suited-for-economy-coronavirus-response-poll-shows-idUSKBN22I005?

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57708 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:00:35 PM »

sit down or Rise Up

Nintex · « **Reply #57709 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:08:44 PM »

https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1258067536509317128

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57710 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:19:09 PM »

That's also what biden said.

Nintex · « **Reply #57711 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:43:07 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #57712 on:** May 06, 2020, 02:50:28 PM »

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1242873435170185216

Tripon · « **Reply #57713 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:36:08 PM »

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/new-bill-would-give-essential-workers-25-k-for-tuition-student-loans-175100129.html

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As Congress eyes the next phase of coronavirus relief, some lawmakers want to help pay frontline workers’ student loans or higher education costs.

“Grocery clerks didn't take that job at relatively modest wages thinking they were saving the world,” said Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH) in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

A new bill introduced this week would give essential workers $25,000 in student debt relief— or for college tuition or costs of a workforce development or continuing education program. Kuster and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the Opportunities for Heroes Act on Tuesday. The bill has several other Democratic cosponsors, but Fitzpatrick is the only Republican on board so far.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #57714 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:40:02 PM »

More free money for money-gouging universities. That will teach them.

benjipwns · « **Reply #57715 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:41:33 PM »

Quote from: Esch on May 06, 2020, 04:29:29 PM

not sure if this belongs here or in the wank dad but, hell, i know it will make mandark mad,

httpstwitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1258071579612925953

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“One group that really mattered in the primaries were the high-information voters, the people who watch MSNBC, listen to ‘The Daily,’” said Miller, referring to a popular New York Times podcast. “A lot of these people went from Harris to Warren to Buttigieg and finally landed on Biden. For these voters, it was all an assessment of who could defeat Trump. For them, we [“Never Trumpers”] have a unique experience and insight.”

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #57716 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:46:34 PM »

Someone enlighten me, what's wrong with "never trumpers".

Isn't that type of faction always baked into every election? Back in 2004 and 2012, huge swaths of the voting public weren't voting for Kerry and Romney, they were just voting to get rid of their proverbial 'anti-christ'.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #57717 on:** May 06, 2020, 04:48:26 PM »

nevertrump!

radicaleftright#

please don't let trump win

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narrator he won

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Nintex · « **Reply #57718 on:** May 06, 2020, 05:08:34 PM »

Trump talked about those losers yesterday on his way to the mask plant.

VomKriege · « **Reply #57719 on:** May 06, 2020, 05:10:36 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on May 06, 2020, 04:46:34 PM

Someone enlighten me, what's wrong with "never trumpers".

Isn't that type of faction always baked into every election? Back in 2004 and 2012, huge swaths of the voting public weren't voting for Kerry and Romney, they were just voting to get rid of their proverbial 'anti-christ'.

I'm sure there's a lot of earnest ones but it's a much smaller (or less influential) faction than originally imagined, some of the famous names who made a big show of it in 2016 progressively came back to tow Trump & the Party's line and I expect a few more will still as the election gets closer.

None of it may be the fault of the sincere ones but I think there was a lot of despair, bitterness and disappointment at how quick the GOP folded to brown nose Trump.

They're also always going to be seen as flimsy, unreliable allies demanding substantial compromises to a left-leaning electoral coalition.

Depressed Republican turnout might still play a big role in the election, I guess we'll have a better idea of how solid the sentiment really was.

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