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« Reply #120 on: November 16, 2016, 05:09:09 AM »
Bernie could have been the first Polish president  :'(

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« Reply #121 on: November 16, 2016, 06:38:32 AM »
Defending Bannon is not even remotely the sword I will choose to die on, but
oh syph :(

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« Reply #122 on: November 16, 2016, 09:34:56 AM »
Bernie could have been the first Polish president  :'(


Starting to see the silver lining with Trump.

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« Reply #123 on: November 16, 2016, 09:57:12 AM »
Murder in the digital realm:

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In response, Spencer posted a video to YouTube in which he said, “I am alive physically, but digitally speaking, there has been execution squads across the alt-right.”
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« Reply #126 on: November 16, 2016, 12:51:31 PM »
so white tech assholes finally crack down on abuse and not allowing an absolute take all environment of free speech is the one silver lining of this fucking election.

fuck white tech people valuing "free speech" and not understanding/owning up to the consequences of creating and sheltering an environment that has allowed these fucks to foster.
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« Reply #127 on: November 16, 2016, 01:53:02 PM »
speaking of white tech assholes

has anyone seen BrandNew?

I don't think he's posted since the election :doge

He posted on the very last page you...dufus.
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« Reply #128 on: November 16, 2016, 01:58:33 PM »
Really makes me feel better.  Thanks dufus!
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« Reply #129 on: November 16, 2016, 02:08:26 PM »
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« Reply #130 on: November 16, 2016, 02:15:34 PM »
What about MTW? Didn't he indicate that he bet money against Hillary?

What's the over-under on him being on some spontaneous binge holiday? :doge

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« Reply #131 on: November 16, 2016, 02:22:56 PM »
Really makes me feel better.  Thanks dufus!

whoops I totally missed the last half of the previous page for some reason :lol

stay strong breh :rock

you should understand that a president doesn't have that much power... it's the reason why eight years of Obama didn't turn America into a socialist paradise

pretty sure gay and trans rights will not regress and even improve over the years


this is wishful thinking. the people he surrounds himself with do not favor lgbt rights.
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« Reply #132 on: November 16, 2016, 02:23:20 PM »
Bigly money.
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« Reply #133 on: November 16, 2016, 02:39:00 PM »
there's more to lgbt rights than marriage
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« Reply #134 on: November 16, 2016, 02:54:49 PM »
This new era of Kelly though :lawd




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« Reply #135 on: November 16, 2016, 02:56:59 PM »
 :dunno

I need to start making political comics. If a hack like this can make it, so can I.
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« Reply #136 on: November 16, 2016, 03:01:25 PM »
Crying Chinese Al Gore :lol

The white man yet again steals a job from the red man.


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« Reply #137 on: November 16, 2016, 03:07:12 PM »
:dunno

I need to start making political comics. If a hack like this can make it, so can I.

Kelly does political comics for The Onion, by the way.
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« Reply #138 on: November 16, 2016, 03:12:48 PM »
:dunno

I need to start making political comics. If a hack like this can make it, so can I.

If Ben Garrison can do it, so can you, you mean.
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« Reply #139 on: November 16, 2016, 03:14:44 PM »
:dunno

I need to start making political comics. If a hack like this can make it, so can I.

Kelly does political comics for The Onion, by the way.

That's what he wants you to think. He does them for the onion, a "satire" website but don't be fooled. I know his long game plan.
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« Reply #140 on: November 16, 2016, 03:23:07 PM »
:dunno

I need to start making political comics. If a hack like this can make it, so can I.

All you have to do is label everything.

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« Reply #141 on: November 16, 2016, 03:28:27 PM »
Shifty China disrespectful. Retweet for snappy comeback @politburo, like to nuke Canton. #directdemocracy #POTUS
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« Reply #142 on: November 16, 2016, 03:47:45 PM »
Am I the only one here worried about the actual real world threats of going to war with iran and destroying the planet with climate change rather than the gay-rights boogeyman?

No one is going to make sodomy illegal and start sodomy police squads.
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« Reply #143 on: November 16, 2016, 03:51:45 PM »
Why not both ?
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« Reply #144 on: November 16, 2016, 04:04:07 PM »
Why not both ?

One one hand, you have a gay aunt, who wont have her life at all affected by Trump

On the other hand, you have a mass extinction event

#bothsides
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« Reply #145 on: November 16, 2016, 04:16:21 PM »
Am I the only one here worried about the actual real world threats of going to war with iran and destroying the planet with climate change rather than the gay-rights boogeyman?

No one is going to make sodomy illegal and start sodomy police squads.

I'm worried about the fact they're thinking of a Muslim registry.

I'm worried they have a white nationalist as second most powerful man in the WH and will have the POTUS' ear and influence policy.

I'm worried that the Vice President is a historical anti-LGBT demagogue who believes in conversion therapy and has been noted in telling corporations to not hire "the gays". The fact that I am a trans woman during a time when republicans - the same party who thinks HB2 was a good thing - has controls of all aspects of government frightens me and they have actual power to effect me and my communities lives. Adding to this they are trying to make it harder to obtain birth control and healthcare for women. Does this include hormones for trans individuals? A question to certainly ask, because without hormones many will be driven to suicide.

I'm worried that BLM will be labeled a terrorist organization, which I occasionally participate with.

I'm worried that Trump values "loyalty" above all else at the expense of valued and respected republican leadership that didn't support his candidacy. He has a group of loyalists and many aren't willing to play ball with establishment republicans which they will use to force loyalty and dominance on to the rest of the party. This is the first step of fascism: forcing "enemies" to bend the knee or face consequences. Once he has the party under his control because they are too cowardly to fight him in fear of losing their "base" they will have even more power - especially in a republican majority government - to inflict terrible policy.

I'm worried about my Latino friends and deportation, although I was strongly anti-deportation for non-criminals and families during the Obama admin, so that issue is big for me.

I'm worried about the fact that if democrats concede one more state that the Republican Party will have the power to alter the constitution uncontested.

I'm worried about the Paris Agreement and Trump's climate change denying administration which could push carbon emissions to a no point of return of its not already there in the pursuit of money from lobbyists.

I'm worried about foreign policy especially where Russia is concerned. I'm worried about Mexico. I love Mexican's am friends with many. I'm worried about Syria and hope things go well with Asaad but Trump's relationship with Putin puts this under scrutiny. I'm worried about China's response to America. I'm hoping the unprecedented risk of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim rhetoric will help create bonds and a reach across the aisle for the two religions but it's wishful thinking. I'm worried about the rise of European fascism in response to this election. I'm worried about our relationship with Germany.

I'm worried about someone like Trump, as disorganized and ignorant he is of the duties of the office he holds, having access to nuclear codes.

I'm terrified and not one issue bothers me. It all scares me. All Noam Chomsky said in truthdig, the republican party is currently the most dangerous organization in world history. Concentrating on one issue does not due this entire thing justice.
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« Reply #146 on: November 16, 2016, 04:21:53 PM »
Also I'm less worried about climate change because the leaders that signed the agreement say you can't back out of it and they are proposing that America be forced to take up a carbon tax if they do not honor the agreement. So there's hope there since we know republicans hate taxes. But it's definitely an issue. Basically, we have world leaders there to cockblock republicans on that, but there exists a possibility I might lose hormones due to anti-LGBT policy under an all republican majority.

Iran deal is far more worrying.
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« Reply #147 on: November 16, 2016, 04:22:45 PM »
I'm terrified and not one issue bothers me. It all scares me. All Noam Chomsky said in truthdig, the republican party is currently the most dangerous organization in world history. Concentrating on one issue does not due this entire thing justice.

Thats Im ok with.

It just seems that too many people are trying to boil it down to one thing, and that thing is either abortion, or gay rights. You know, the things that focusing on in the first place caused trump to win the election
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« Reply #148 on: November 16, 2016, 04:24:35 PM »
I'm terrified and not one issue bothers me. It all scares me. All Noam Chomsky said in truthdig, the republican party is currently the most dangerous organization in world history. Concentrating on one issue does not due this entire thing justice.

Thats Im ok with.

It just seems that too many people are trying to boil it down to one thing, and that thing is either abortion, or gay rights. You know, the things that focusing on in the first place caused trump to win the election

Not the news I'm reading.
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« Reply #149 on: November 16, 2016, 04:26:41 PM »
All these high stakes makes Hillary's complacent campaign even more horrific. I hope another Clinton doesn't run the rest of my days.
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« Reply #150 on: November 16, 2016, 04:28:58 PM »
edit: this is probs better

« Last Edit: November 16, 2016, 04:35:45 PM by Syph »
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« Reply #151 on: November 16, 2016, 04:39:35 PM »
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« Reply #152 on: November 16, 2016, 04:40:10 PM »
James what do you expect people to talk about? Right now, world leaders are telling trump and his aides they can't get out of the deal and if they do there will be consequences. There's hope there.

Meanwhile, we have his aides suggesting a federal Muslim registry and they appointed a white nationalist to the wh.

What are you expecting? Also, I haven't really read many musing about the status of abortion or gay rights. As of Sunday, the entire conversation has been on Trump's aides and potential cabinet picks.  Worrying about abortion and gay rights is kind of a week ago thing.
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« Reply #153 on: November 16, 2016, 04:43:10 PM »
Why not both ?

One one hand, you have a gay aunt, who wont have her life at all affected by Trump

On the other hand, you have a mass extinction event

#bothsides

I actually share your concerns, as a Western European, about Trump foreign policy. But I think US citizens must be as vigilant with both the big and small things, however we may each rank issues. Trump already damaged the standard of transparency by not submitting to the disclosure of tax returns, an healthy tradition. There's already concerns he's not sticking to formal and informal protocol. Still minor for now, but violating due processes and bending rules (even decorum ones) can be hurtful to democratic institutions.
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« Reply #154 on: November 16, 2016, 04:45:36 PM »
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“It was arrogance, arrogance that they were going to win. That this was all wrapped up,” a senior battleground state operative told The Huffington Post.

Several theories have been proffered to explain just what went wrong for the Clinton campaign in an election that virtually everyone expected the Democratic nominee to win. But lost in the discussion is a simple explanation, one that was re-emphasized to HuffPost in interviews with several high-ranking officials and state-based organizers: The Clinton campaign was harmed by its own neglect.

In Michigan alone, a senior battleground state operative told HuffPost that the state party and local officials were running at roughly one-tenth the paid canvasser capacity that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had when he ran for president in 2004. Desperate for more human capital, the state party and local officials ended up raising $300,000 themselves to pay 500 people to help canvass in the election’s closing weeks. By that point, however, they were operating in the dark. One organizer said that in a precinct in Flint, they were sent to a burned down trailer park. No one had taken it off the list of places to visit because no one had been there until the final weekend. Clinton lost the state by 12,000 votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-campaign-neglect_us_582cacb0e4b058ce7aa8b861?mfnm5yh9t7bhjjor

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« Reply #155 on: November 16, 2016, 04:52:53 PM »
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“It was arrogance, arrogance that they were going to win. That this was all wrapped up,” a senior battleground state operative told The Huffington Post.

Several theories have been proffered to explain just what went wrong for the Clinton campaign in an election that virtually everyone expected the Democratic nominee to win. But lost in the discussion is a simple explanation, one that was re-emphasized to HuffPost in interviews with several high-ranking officials and state-based organizers: The Clinton campaign was harmed by its own neglect.

In Michigan alone, a senior battleground state operative told HuffPost that the state party and local officials were running at roughly one-tenth the paid canvasser capacity that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had when he ran for president in 2004. Desperate for more human capital, the state party and local officials ended up raising $300,000 themselves to pay 500 people to help canvass in the election’s closing weeks. By that point, however, they were operating in the dark. One organizer said that in a precinct in Flint, they were sent to a burned down trailer park. No one had taken it off the list of places to visit because no one had been there until the final weekend. Clinton lost the state by 12,000 votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-campaign-neglect_us_582cacb0e4b058ce7aa8b861?mfnm5yh9t7bhjjor

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All these high stakes makes Hillary's complacent campaign even more horrific. I hope another Clinton doesn't run the rest of my days.

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« Reply #156 on: November 16, 2016, 04:59:21 PM »
Chelsea Clinton will be the most qualified nepotism candidate ever. YASSS PRINCESS.
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« Reply #157 on: November 16, 2016, 05:05:44 PM »
Chealsea has kids. There's a chance for the Clinton name! YAAASSS
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« Reply #158 on: November 16, 2016, 05:06:28 PM »
Good lord...

How did Hillary even win the primaries if she's this bad at campaigning? It's madness.
They gamed the shit out of them. It's maddening that in the eight years since she lost the primaries to Barack her and her team learned fucking nothing
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« Reply #159 on: November 16, 2016, 05:08:45 PM »
Good lord...

How did Hillary even win the primaries if she's this bad at campaigning? It's madness.

They were #RIGGED

James what do you expect people to talk about?

Maybe why the Democrats are dropping another fucking ball with the Louisiana runoff?

And why theyre not challenging every vote being tossed away in Wisconsin?

Or why theyre not working to pursuade the electoral college folks to flip?

Or why Obama is sitting on garland like some chump?
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« Reply #160 on: November 16, 2016, 05:09:22 PM »
With the popular vote that way it was, I would be very interested to see a study on how county gerrymandering affected the results

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« Reply #161 on: November 16, 2016, 05:11:37 PM »
Good lord...

How did Hillary even win the primaries if she's this bad at campaigning? It's madness.

They were #RIGGED

James what do you expect people to talk about?

Maybe why the Democrats are dropping another fucking ball with the Louisiana runoff?

And why theyre not challenging every vote being tossed away in Wisconsin?

Or why theyre not working to pursuade the electoral college folks to flip?

Or why Obama is sitting on garland like some chump?

Persuading the electoral college to flip probably wouldn't look good. Democracy and all that. Clinton knew the rules, and she ignored how to play the game.

What about the Louisiana runoff?
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« Reply #162 on: November 16, 2016, 05:33:22 PM »
To be fair, it's human nature to only try really hard when pushed. There was never really a moment in this campaign where she was in real danger of losing, even when some negative bombs came out, she seemed to weather them. Even the Obama/Romney matchup felt closer leading up to the result than this one did.

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« Reply #163 on: November 16, 2016, 07:27:03 PM »
I mean, yea, you have a point in theory, but she was running for President of the goddamn world lol

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« Reply #164 on: November 16, 2016, 09:32:42 PM »
How much would this criticism of Hillary's campaign been made had she narrowly won the election?

A lot of the usual places would be dismissing a lot of the issues of her campaign had the queen secured her throne.

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« Reply #165 on: November 16, 2016, 09:45:47 PM »
How much would this criticism of Hillary's campaign been made had she narrowly won the election?

A lot of the usual places would be dismissing a lot of the issues of her campaign had the queen secured her throne.

Some sure but I can imagine some criticism coming from various people, Obama vets, etc. Let's say she won and under performed in the midwest still, including losing key senate races (Wisconsin). Hillary limping to a victory and dems not retaking the senate would have been ugly.

...but much preferable to this :snoop
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« Reply #166 on: November 16, 2016, 10:32:38 PM »
Everyone's saying now she should have spent more time and resources in MI/WI, and maybe?  But she pretty decisively outspent Trump in FL/NC/PA/OH/IA and lost all of those.

Seems like the overall message (hammering Trump for his misogyny and intolerance) was basically ineffective, and gets my tentative vote for Biggest Strategic Fuckup.

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« Reply #167 on: November 16, 2016, 11:18:28 PM »
imo her "strategy" makes her message even more insulting. Here we have candidate who championed women and minorities with a lot at stake, with house minority and senate minority for her party. While championing our us and our rights and inclusivity she gambled our lives away by making the most extreme candidate in modern US history into a pied piper so she could normalize his views to the public and in the open, so she could defeat him in the general with the flawed premise that American people would vote for decency. Instead of working for votes, she thought they were guaranteed because of who she was and who Donald Trump is. Personally, as a black bi trans woman - her target demographic - I find it insulting that she would risk harming the very people she claimed to stand for with a complacent campaign for president.

Whether she would have won or not, the amount of details coming out is incredibly damning to me and the fact she was willing to risk it like this almost makes me not want to support another Democrat ever again if not for the fact the Republicans are 1000000 x worse and that I have to remember that there are far more better people and campaigners in the party.

At the very least, it makes me happy for not contributing to her gaining the candidacy and I'm very proud of my Bernie Sanders vote in hindsight.
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« Reply #168 on: November 16, 2016, 11:27:29 PM »
Are people blaming Hillary for Trump's rise based on that email? Seriously?

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« Reply #169 on: November 16, 2016, 11:28:53 PM »
Not necessarily, but using a pied piper strategy on Donald Trump certainly did this political climate no favors. They aren't the sole reason for his rise, but they were definitely playing with fire.
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« Reply #170 on: November 16, 2016, 11:35:30 PM »
Is it a reason at all?

The only source in that story is a memo from the DNC in April '15, with literally no followup reporting on how it was ostensibly executed. Given that the memo came from the wikileaks hack, you'd imagine there would be lots of further emails coordinating the plan, etc.  Besides which, we all just followed the campaign in real time. Trump was leading the polls from the day he announced and his rallies were broadcast uninterrupted on cable news from the start cause he drove ratings. Is there any reason to think he was given a platform because the DNC/Clinton campaign was manipulating the situation?

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« Reply #171 on: November 16, 2016, 11:44:42 PM »
trumps tweets going in on nytimes are hilarious lol
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« Reply #172 on: November 17, 2016, 12:37:26 AM »
trumps tweets going in on nytimes are hilarious lol

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« Reply #173 on: November 17, 2016, 12:58:13 AM »
How much would this criticism of Hillary's campaign been made had she narrowly won the election?

A lot of the usual places would be dismissing a lot of the issues of her campaign had the queen secured her throne.

Considering people thought she was gonna win in a land slide for some bizarro reason, I think if she'd squeaked out a victory there would've been some handwringing, but it probably would've been lost in all the YASSSS QUEEEEN.

Then no one would learn and the Republicans would win in 2020.

Everyone's saying now she should have spent more time and resources in MI/WI, and maybe?  But she pretty decisively outspent Trump in FL/NC/PA/OH/IA and lost all of those.

Seems like the overall message (hammering Trump for his misogyny and intolerance) was basically ineffective, and gets my tentative vote for Biggest Strategic Fuckup.

I really think she lost a lot of ground with the Deplorables thing. I have a feeling that even people she didn't intend it towards rallied under that banner because of their distaste for her and what she represents.
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« Reply #174 on: November 17, 2016, 12:59:45 AM »
President-Elect Trump first suggested creating a registry for Muslims last November, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told Reuters on Tuesday that Trump's immigration advisors were drafting a proposal on how this could be implemented.

Carl Higbie, a former Navy Seal, told Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly that he thinks a proposal could pass, citing Japanese internment camps during World War II as a precedent.

"You can't be citing Japanese interment camps for anything the president-elect is going to do!" Kelly says.

"Look, the president needs to protect America first," says Higbie, "and if that means having people that are not protected under the constitution have some sort of registry until we can identify the true threat and where it's coming from, I support it."

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Re: Gold-Plated Trumpmerica Thread |OT| On-time and under-budget
« Reply #175 on: November 17, 2016, 02:33:59 AM »
President Obama in Athens :

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“The current path of globalisation demands a course correction,” he said. “In the years and decades ahead, our countries have to make sure that the benefits of an integrated global economy are more broadly shared by more people, and that the negative impacts are squarely addressed.

“When we see people, global elites, wealthy corporations seemingly living by a different set of rules, avoiding taxes, manipulating loopholes … this feeds a profound sense of injustice.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/16/obama-calls-for-course-correction-to-share-spoils-of-globalisation

I guess it's probably the direction the Democratic Party will be steering ? I don't disagree but people are waiting for more than just lip service on the matter.

EDIT :

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/16/political-reporters-are-now-getting-anti-semitic-threats-at-their-homes/

Make Antisemitism Great Again
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Re: Gold-Plated Trumpmerica Thread |OT| On-time and under-budget
« Reply #176 on: November 17, 2016, 03:18:04 AM »
trumps tweets going in on nytimes are hilarious lol

hahaha
what a president-elect, what a card
baited
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...into voting for Trump  :fbm
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Re: Gold-Plated Trumpmerica Thread |OT| On-time and under-budget
« Reply #177 on: November 17, 2016, 03:48:54 AM »
I knew obama was an anti-capitalist :aah

Salute comrade!!
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Re: Gold-Plated Trumpmerica Thread |OT| On-time and under-budget
« Reply #178 on: November 17, 2016, 04:21:46 AM »
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/14/chuck-schumer-the-worst-possible-democratic-leader-at-the-worst-possible-time/


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Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
Jon Schwarz
November 14 2016, 11:14 p.m.

When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader — and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.

That’s a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face for opposition to Donald Trump:

    Schumer, who’s just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged: Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on the SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at 29, and the U.S. Senate at 47. He’s never had any adult job outside elected office.

    He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, sagely explaining “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

    Schumer’s done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional efforts to crack down on rating agencies.

    Schumer has long been the Democrats’ point man in efforts to craft a bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.

    Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a Senate hearing, Schumer explained that “it’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you’re in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.” In certain cases, he said, “most senators” would say “do what you have to do.” Schumer also defended the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.

    In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W. Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer warned of Iraq’s imaginary yet “vigorous pursuit of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.”

    Schumer voted against Barack Obama’s deal to limit Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.

    Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer’s seat when Schumer was running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.

Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well …  he did vote against NAFTA in 1993, and while he’s supported other trade deals since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Also, he’s a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his credit. And he’s the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which you might see as good or bad, depending.


The Democratic party ladies and gentlemen. They just don't give a shit.

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Re: Gold-Plated Trumpmerica Thread |OT| On-time and under-budget
« Reply #179 on: November 17, 2016, 04:23:56 AM »
What are the good American banking pieces of legislation and which are the bad again?