US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[benjipwns]

Obama also issued a pardon to Gen. James Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who recently pled guilty to a felony charge of lying in the court of a leak investigation.

He supposedly leaked the Stuxnet info.

[benjipwns]

That's great, but this doesn't expunge his horrible record with whistleblowers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/22/edward_snowden_is_eighth_person_obama_has_pursued_under_espionage_act.html

Sorry Rethuglicans, your lies like this: http://observer.com/2017/01/chelsea-manning-edward-snowden-president-obama-legacy/

Or this:

As renowned journalist James Risen put it after being on the receiving end of state actions over his reporting, Obama's White House "has been the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation." IRS abuses add more to the pile and so did obstruction to independent investigations. How bad did it get? In 2014, the "lack of transparency [was] so severe that 47 of Mr. Obama's 73 inspectors general signed an open letter in 2014 decrying the administration's stonewalling of their investigations."

Have just been debunked. Stop trying to play ninth-dimensional chess with the master.

[benjipwns]

Ron Stanford • 33 minutes ago
Let's see if I've got this straight. Manning committed literal treason, and almost certainly got members of the military killed. He did this because he was upset that his duties included fetching coffee for superior officers.

He gets a pardon.

A Christian baker passes on a Gay Wedding commission because doing so is against his religion. He is fined $150,000.00, his home is taken away and his livelihood destroyed. THAT is the Obama legacy.

[Syph]

Chelsea Mannings sentence was commuted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html

I believe Obama claimed that there was nothing that could be done about Snowden since there was no trial/verdict yet.

holy shit

[Nola]

Ron Stanford • 33 minutes ago
Let's see if I've got this straight. Manning committed literal treason, and almost certainly got members of the military killed. He did this because he was upset that his duties included fetching coffee for superior officers.

He gets a pardon.

A Christian baker passes on a Gay Wedding commission because doing so is against his religion. He is fined $150,000.00, his home is taken away and his livelihood destroyed. THAT is the Obama legacy.

Looks like some righties aren't satisfied letting liberals corner the market on hyper-reactionary charges of treason.

[benjipwns]

Uh oh, Trump's going to appoint a godless lieberal to the Supreme Court:

Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Judicial Action Group found an “objective review of Judge Pryor’s decisions in Glenn v. Brumby and Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley leads to the conclusion that he has failed to interpret the Constitution as the framers intended.”

“Accordingly, he lacks support from many conservative leaders who, like President-elect Trump, believe that Justice Scalia’s seat must be filled with a nominee who has a deep record of commitment to the Constitution.”

The Glenn case centered on a claim by a man who wanted to be a woman that he suffered discrimination when he dressed as a woman and went to the office, a move his supervisor perceived as disrupting operations. The organization reported that in the Glenn case, Pryor “concurred with the court’s opinion to create a new transgender right to employment and bathroom nondiscrimination.”

But Pryor offered “no analysis of the text of the law or constitutional provisions and failed to cite one case of binding precedent from either the U.S. Supreme Court or the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.”

Specifically, Pryor concluded that the right should be created even though not one of the 16 Supreme Court cases cited addressed “transgenders.” Nor was there any precedent in the 11th Circuit.

“Pryor’s vote in Glenn is the best evidence of how he would vote on the Supreme Court. In most lower court cases, judges vote consistently with binding precedent even if it is not the precedent they would create. However, in the Glenn case there was no binding Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit precedent on ‘transsexual rights,’ which makes the case analogous to a Supreme Court case and, therefore, highly indicative of how Pryor would vote on the Supreme Court,” the action group found.

Read the history of the attacks on marriage and the family, from the days of Karl Marx and Margaret Sanger to those now pushing for mandatory recognition of same-sex “marriage,” in “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.”

“Not only did Judge Pryor personally prosecute Alabama Judge Roy Moore over his display of the Ten Commandments as attorney general of Alabama,” said Daniel Becker, founder of Personhood Alliance, “but once he became a federal appeals judge, he issued rulings extending special rights to transgender people while refusing to recognize the religious liberty rights of Christians.”

“Let’s hope the reports Donald Trump has his nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia down to two choices – Judge William H. Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and Judge Diane Sykes of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – represent nothing more than ‘fake news,'” he wrote.

“I can tell you without equivocation that Pryor is an establishment hack – more in the John Roberts mode than Scalia,” Farah wrote.

“Let’s go back to 2003 when, as Alabama state attorney general, he prosecuted the state’s Supreme Court chief justice, Judge Roy Moore, for following the dictates of his conscience in upholding the inspiration of the Ten Commandments, the very foundation of our moral law, thus removing him from office. The charge was violating judicial ethics, an accusation from a radical-left organization. Moore had broken no laws in the state of Alabama or the United States of America. He had faithfully upheld his oath to the constitutions or Alabama and the U.S. Instead, he had defied an illegal injunction by a federal judge, Myron Thompson, to remove a Ten Commandments display.”

At issue is the growing progressive bent of the Supreme Court

[VomKriege]

The latest episode of Foreign Policy's the ER "Life in the Post-Truth World" is good. It is nice to hear people be able to talk of the current steps in transition and the now infamous "dossier" without the GAF-level hysteria. Notably that the confirmation hearing for Mattis, Pompeo and Tillerson hinted of possible internal rifts of opinion (on Russia and intelligence agencies in general) within the administration. As a matter of fact, they delve a bit on Trump appointing many more internal White House entities with foreign policy, possibly source for severe confusion going forward.

As you would expect, the private investigation "dossier" has been making the rounds in Washington and press editing rooms for several months. Media didn't leak it because they have been unable, so far, to verify any of the allegations in it (neither have the FBI and intelligence agencies) even though they didn't find anything disproving them either.

Also that a lot of foreign politicians and diplomats think they'll be able to keep the boat steady by flaunting Trump's ego with commercial deals he could take credit for.

[Brehvolution]

“Let’s go back to 2003 when, as Alabama state attorney general, he prosecuted the state’s Supreme Court chief justice, Judge Roy Moore, for following the dictates of his conscience in upholding the inspiration of the Ten Commandments, the very foundation of our moral law, thus removing him from office. The charge was violating judicial ethics, an accusation from a radical-left organization. Moore had broken no laws in the state of Alabama or the United States of America. He had faithfully upheld his oath to the constitutions or Alabama and the U.S. Instead, he had defied an illegal injunction by a federal judge, Myron Thompson, to remove a Ten Commandments display.”

Ah yes, the radical leftism of upholding laws christians don't think should apply to them.

[VomKriege]

Business euphoria over Trump gives way to caution, confusion

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1521CE

Expectations for faster growth, tax reform and a quick repeal of Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, have "given way to 'We are not really sure what he means by that'," the official said.

One habit Trump says he will keep as president: tweeting

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1521OD

"Look, I don't like tweeting. I have other things I could be doing. But I get very dishonest media, very dishonest press. And it's my only way that I can counteract," said the Republican president-elect.

[TakingBackSunday]

I don't like tweeting

okay sure

[agrajag]

I'm just gonna leave this here

https://thenib.com/the-unbelievable-baby-man

[Boredfrom]

I don't like tweeting

okay sure

I believe him. I believe he doesn't like tweeting as much he used as the rush of being a celebrity or trying to win a election is not the same anymore now that he won and people of his same staff are yelling him to stop. But like any addict, he cannot stop.

[chronovore]

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/donald-trump-reelection-slogan-same-purge-election-year-tagline-1201770176/


 

[Mandark]

‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood

When Rick Perry agreed to be Secretary of Energy, he thought the Department of Energy had to do with fossil fuels, but it's really about maintaining America's nukes.

Also, four years ago his campaign called for eliminating the DoE.

It was the one department he forgot he wanted to get rid of during that debate.

[Joe Molotov]

‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood

When Rick Perry agreed to be Secretary of Energy, he thought the Department of Energy had to do with fossil fuels, but it's really about maintaining America's nukes.

Also, four years ago his campaign called for eliminating the DoE.

It was the one department he forgot he wanted to get rid of during that debate.

Live and learn. Maybe.

[Great Rumbler]

Wasn't Trump's argument against his lack of experience/knowledge was that he would surround himself with people who knew what they were doing and share their expertise with him?

[thisismyusername]

Not really political, but semi-related since I'm sure it's gonna be impacting canvasing areas and gerrymandering districts:

http://www.vox.com/2017/1/18/14296126/white-segregated-suburb-neighborhood-cartoon?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

*lights the Himu signal*

I'm not honestly sure how to fix this in regards to proper intergration. Though the logic of "I don't know these areas but I think they have people that I don't want to be around" seems pretty sound, combined with islamphobia and the like for politics.

[FStop7]

Wasn't Trump's argument against his lack of experience/knowledge was that he would surround himself with people who knew what they were doing and share their expertise with him?

Every politician says this when questioned about areas where they have less knowledge.

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But for Trump, that's all areas.

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Except urine.

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[Syph]

can you fucking imagine if they ran this in '08? people have really lost their goddamn minds

[Let's Cyber]

I'm a day late but Al Franken going in on Betsy Devos 



Warren and Sanders were good too.

[chronovore]

can you fucking imagine if they ran this in '08? people have really lost their goddamn minds

:fingerscrossed.gif

[Boredfrom]

Wasn't Trump's argument against his lack of experience/knowledge was that he would surround himself with people who knew what they were doing and share their expertise with him?

That is the argument that I hear in a lot of conservative sites... And ended being a bunch of BS.

[tiesto]

RAVI DRUMS will play the inauguration!

[benjipwns]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

[studyguy]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

Even so...


  Perry is gonna need a thicker rim on those glasses to make himself look educated enough for the appointment.

[Raist]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

These counter arguments are probbly fakes planted by the Russians. I see you 

[T-Short]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

[studyguy]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

A worker standing in a liquor line says, "I have had enough, save my place,
 I am going to shoot Gorbachev." Two hours later he returns to claim his
 place in line. His friends ask, "Did you get him?" No, the line there was
 even longer than the line here."

 

[Joe Molotov]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

A worker standing in a liquor line says, "I have had enough, save my place,
 I am going to shoot Gorbachev." Two hours later he returns to claim his
 place in line. His friends ask, "Did you get him?" No, the line there was
 even longer than the line here."

 

Please applaud, comrade.

[Raist]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

A worker standing in a liquor line says, "I have had enough, save my place,
 I am going to shoot Gorbachev." Two hours later he returns to claim his
 place in line. His friends ask, "Did you get him?" No, the line there was
 even longer than the line here."

 

лол

[zomgee]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

A worker standing in a liquor line says, "I have had enough, save my place,
 I am going to shoot Gorbachev." Two hours later he returns to claim his
 place in line. His friends ask, "Did you get him?" No, the line there was
 even longer than the line here."

 

Please applaud, comrade.

80's Russia is best Russia:



Joe Sedelmaier made the BEST COMMERCIALS.

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/70Ceeks/status/821832223775199232

 

[VomKriege]

Soviet jokes are pretty awesome.
I believe there's one going The USSR is so enlightened it's more advanced today than it will be tomorrow.

Wiki has a page full of them.

[Cerveza mas fina]

´wrong thread yall

[Cerveza mas fina]

VERY IMPORTANT

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp89g00720r000800040003-6

A worker standing in a liquor line says, "I have had enough, save my place,
 I am going to shoot Gorbachev." Two hours later he returns to claim his
 place in line. His friends ask, "Did you get him?" No, the line there was
 even longer than the line here."

 

 

[benjipwns]

[Joe Molotov]

Just what you'd expect from the master.

[etiolate]

A soviet man walks into the  communal grocer and asks for bread, but the grocer tells him there's no bread. So the man marks down on his notepad.

He then asks if there is any cheese and the grocer tells him no, so the man marks down on his little notepad.

An old woman speaks up and says, "Two years ago they would shoot you for asking and writing down such things."

So the man marks down on his notepad, "Out of bullets, too."

[Atramental]

http://www.dailydot.com/irl/caitlyn-jenner-donald-trump-dance/?fb=dd

 

Buckle up buckaroos. 

[Atramental]

https://livestream.com/accounts/16944724/wreathlaying

[Take My Breh Away]

https://twitter.com/jazzyj022/status/821222306425008128

https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/822223315439943680

[benjipwns]

my president

[Take My Breh Away]

https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger/status/822204508017135616

https://twitter.com/Roran_Stehl/status/822212148143288320

Twitter has been a shower of comedy gold dripping upon the Trump inauguration concert

[benjipwns]

MORE THAN 200 Republican lawyers gathered in a ballroom inside Washington, D.C.’s Four Seasons hotel for a celebratory inaugural luncheon on Thursday with incoming White House Counsel Don McGahn and Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s close advisor and the former mayor of New York City.

For $350, attendees got a plate of beef tenderloin, cocktails — and, from Giuliani, an off-color anecdote involving sex, 9/11, a former president, and another man’s wife.

Giuliani said it all happened on September 14, 2001, when he rode with former President George W. Bush in a convoy of vehicles to the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center.

“In the same car with me was my fire commissioner, Tom Van Essen,” Giuliani said. “And Tom had lost what turned out to be 343 firefighters. And President Bush recognized him from seeing him on television the prior two days. And he leaned over to Tom, grabbed his arm, and said to him, ‘Tom, I’m so sorry. How are things going?’ Tom looked at him and said, ‘Much better now. My wife came home last night and I got lucky.’”

“That’s locker room talk,” Giuliani continued. “President Bush remembered that so well that when he saw Tom three weeks later at a fire house dinner, he came up to him and said, ‘Tom, are you still getting lucky?’ And Tom said, ‘No, it’s worn out.’”

[Syph]

Almost time to make america great again
 

[tiesto]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/19/el-chapo-extradition-2/

Heh, El Chapo is landing at the airport right next door to my office. Maybe I should go hang out with him after work tomorrow, lol.

[toku]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/17/chinese-president-warns-against-trade-war-in-davos/?utm_term=.3b99d12cd484

[VomKriege]

The Trump election has so far been a godsend for Putin and Xi. They get to appear as clear leaders on issues where you would expect to look up to the US for setting the tone.

[Syph]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/19/el-chapo-extradition-2/

Heh, El Chapo is landing at the airport right next door to my office. Maybe I should go hang out with him after work tomorrow, lol.

cnn had this plastered on their front page all day saying it's a gift to obama....wait what?

[VomKriege]

Just in time to be paraded around in a cage for the triumph ?

[Boogie]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/19/el-chapo-extradition-2/

Heh, El Chapo is landing at the airport right next door to my office. Maybe I should go hang out with him after work tomorrow, lol.

Heh, So, Eastern District New York won the internal battle of who gets to prosecute.  Interesting.

[PlayDat]

https://twitter.com/Roran_Stehl/status/822212148143288320

More than 150 years later we have a racist Republican as president.  Lincoln would have been thrilled.

[Brehvolution]

Did you know that El Chapo translated to english is The Chapo? Taco Bell culture has really rubbed off on me. 

[Let's Cyber]

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/822430065208291328

[Take My Breh Away]

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/822486938586382341

A picture says a thousand words

[VomKriege]

So my mother called me to say that was an... "interesting" speech. US raped and pillaged by foreign powers ? 



Also saw some of the juicy bits of DeVos's hearing : Surely they're being prepped for those ? She had a whole month to study !

[Raist]

Is half of that shit ramblings from religious leaders? Sheesh.

Founding fathers be rolling in their graves.

[Great Rumbler]

Is half of that shit ramblings from religious leaders? Sheesh.

Founding fathers be rolling in their graves.

But Trump voters absolutely love it.

[VomKriege]

The most classiest profile pictures ! Beautiful !

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[Boogie]

You guys, we have room in Europe if you wanna emigrate.

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As long as you're not brown, I think...

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 Canada is closer and cool with brown people.