US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Atramental]

The biggest fuckfest of an administration in our lifetime brehs

I pray we don't get into any major conflicts or have a 9/11-esque terror attack... 

[Nola]

I gotta admit that Trumps soundbites are legit hilarious. "This administration is a fine tuned machine... except I can't get anyone in my cabinet approved"

Or apparently to take the job:

Trump’s pick to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser turns down offer, people familiar with decision say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/16/trumps-pick-to-replace-michael-flynn-as-national-security-adviser-turns-down-offer-people-familiar-with-decision-say/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.ce3e9b5b9135



 

[seagrams hotsauce]

YO THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS 31 YEARS OLD?!

Feeling so #blessed rn

[chronovore]

YO THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS 31 YEARS OLD?!
(Image removed from quote.)
Feeling so #blessed rn

He's 31, with the hair of a 51 year old, and the temperament of a 11 year old. So it evens out.

[FStop7]

Bob Harward did the biggest IRL 

[agrajag]

That's a sinister looming motherfucker

[FStop7]

Is it true that I can ask random black people to schedule meetings with other black people on my behalf?  I really want to meet Ghost Face Killa.

[zomgee]

One of 'em's gotta know him.

[Madrun Badrun]

Is it true that I can ask random black people to schedule meetings with other black people on my behalf?  I really want to meet Ghost Face Killa.

PD can you send me a Google invite to this too?  k thanks.

[chronovore]

Every time I end up agreeing with a Fox News anchor, I feel a step closer to losing my mind.

My retired lobbyist uncle is still referencing Breitbart links and said he likes Milo and Tucker. We had just started to have rational conversations again, now this.

[El Babua]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

[chronovore]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Pretty sure they'd just respond to that tape with "Having that much of a man in you doesn't make you gay."

[Atramental]

Hannity: "Their balls never touched SO IT'S NOT GAY!" 

[helios]

Shep Smith is awesome

[Nola]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Yeah his base seems to be all in on Trump in a way I didn't think would persist when the cracks started coming.

Not to be all      and shit because its only been a few weeks, but reading some of the message boards I used to glance over that were once a bit far right but still rational enough, and seeing some of the rhetoric coming from his supporters and right-wing media all over, it just makes me glad Trump is incompetent.

Lots seem ready, giddy even, at the idea of purging the intelligence community, suppressing the press, eliminating checks and balances, rationalizing only loyalists holding positions in government, and handing Trump as much power as he wants.

All because of this bizarro narrative they have bought into where Trump is this white knight truth teller in a sea of lies trying to purge Washington of corruption and fighting for them. In a battle for America's soul. Because liberals, the media, BLM, Democrats, establishment Republicans, globalists, and Obama have done so much damage and poisoned so many institutions that extreme measures are necessary. That any attack on Trump is just proof of their points and fuel for why Trump needs to go even harder.

[El Babua]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Yeah his base seems to be all in on Trump in a way I didn't think would persist when the cracks started coming.

Not to be all      and shit because its only been a few weeks, but reading some of the message boards I used to glance over that were once a bit far right but still rational enough, and seeing some of the rhetoric coming from his supporters and right-wing media all over, it just makes me glad Trump is incompetent.

Lots seem ready, giddy even, at the idea of purging the intelligence community, suppressing the press, eliminating checks and balances, rationalizing only loyalists holding positions in government, and handing Trump as much power as he wants.

All because of this bizarro narrative they have bought into where Trump is this white knight truth teller in a sea of lies trying to purge Washington of corruption and fighting for them. In a battle for America's soul. Because liberals, the media, BLM, Democrats, establishment Republicans, globalists, and Obama have done so much damage and poisoned so many institutions that extreme measures are necessary. That any attack on Trump is just proof of their points and fuel for why Trump needs to go even harder.

Yep. My thought was that the people you described were around 20% or so of his electorate, while the rest were traditional repubs/Hillary haters. But looking at Chrono's interactions with his uncle, it seems like this shit's only going to get worse.

[benjipwns]

Shep Smith is awesome

[seagrams hotsauce]

well while we're at it

[Nola]

Yep. My thought was that the people you described were around 20% or so of his electorate, while the rest were traditional repubs/Hillary haters. But looking at Chrono's interactions with his uncle, it seems like this shit's only going to get worse.

I sort of live in Trump country in Louisiana, not that I am some expert or some shit but I can't avoid interacting with Trump supporters on almost a daily basis. White, work in business, I fit the stereotype.

I can't say with confidence the breakdown, but i think you are right and they are more then I or you assumed. At least a lot more that casually subscribe to the same narratives.

I think you have the Trumpkins that are like I said, and then you move down the line to the casual supporters. That watch their Fox News or have their right-wing Facebook feed and friends that parrot Breit Bart or whatever, and while they aren't out cheering for Trump to "shut the media down!" and "drain the swamp by purging the Obama intelligence community." They just passively feel fine about anything he does but don't pay too much attention overall. They just trust the right and despise the left at this point. To the point that an authoritarian doesn't register as beyond the pale to them.

My optimism is that like with Bush, after the honeymoon period is over and Trump keeps fucking up, the casuals will turn on him a bit. At least enough that they don't show up to vote in large enough numbers. Sort of a Hillary effect.

[benjipwns]

TUCKER AND GREENWALD BASHING DEMOCRATS AS LOSERS AND HILLARY AS CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT



how many spaces on triggered bingo do i get

[Nola]

I give Shep about 6 months at best before either joining Megan Kelly at NBC or ending up with Greta on MSNBC.

[benjipwns]

I give Shep about 6 months

People have been saying this for the last 60 years he's been on the air. He's the highest paid person at Fox after O'Reilly. (Hannity's total annual income is higher but that accounts for his radio show, etc. Fox itself pays him a lot less.)

Despite hosting an afternoon show, Shep's actual positions are all kinds of managing editor type ones within the actual news departments, he's not really paid to be a talking head like O'Reilly, Kelly, Chris Wallace, Matt Lauer, etc.

[benjipwns]

Speaking of Fox, I thought it funny that rather than simply do what seemed most logical and slide Hannity back to his old 9pm slot after Megyn Kelly left they instead rescued Tucker from Fox and Friends Weekend and gave him their second best hour.

[Mandark]

Shep being passive-aggressive during Glenn Beck's heyday on Fox was amazing.

[Nola]

I give Shep about 6 months

People have been saying this for the last 60 years he's been on the air. He's the highest paid person at Fox after O'Reilly. (Hannity's total annual income is higher but that accounts for his radio show, etc. Fox itself pays him a lot less.)

Despite hosting an afternoon show, Shep's actual positions are all kinds of managing editor type ones within the actual news departments, he's not really paid to be a talking head like O'Reilly, Kelly, Chris Wallace, Matt Lauer, etc.

Perhaps, it was mostly just an off the cuff thought anyways. Though Megyn was paid a lot as well and I have to imagine Sheps contract he signed in 2013 has to be up soon. With the MAGA's targeting him and the money flowing from the NBC's to court conservative voices, I wouldn't be wholly shocked is all I'm saying. Though I know he has also said glowing things about Murdoch committing more to what he values at the network. So who knows.

[benjipwns]

I don't know if I'd put much stock in the theory that NBC is chasing conservatives from those two hires. They (along with everyone else) went after Fox's highest profile/rated anchor who on the right was considered a Trump nemesis and social studies warrior, and stuck her at the end of the Today show. And although I think she's pretty conservative, her show was never like Hannity or something, she'd go after GOPers.

Greta isn't really anything from what I can tell other than a Scientologist, and I feel she's always kinda covered missing white women, murders and so on more than day-to-day political talking point fights, she had an Ailes Clause and didn't like the way he was killed off so used it.

Of course, Shep liked Roger Ailes too.

The one rumor I was hearing, through the grapevine including on a forum with some Fox ties, was that they were going to try and push Papa Bear out to retirement. During the Ailes stuff they were quitely settling a bunch of his sexual harassment cases and told him to shut up defending Ailes lol. MSNBC needs to hop on that and do O'Reilly and O'Donnell.

[curly]

https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/832305654643691524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What the fuck is going on

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/832305654643691524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What the fuck is going on

Yeah, what is going on in a white house full of neo nazis. Who can say?

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/832396832974131200

[Brehvolution]

Wait, so trump just stood up there and lied to the nation even more than the last time?   

[TakingBackSunday]

AP reporting that Trump is going to mobilize the National Guard to round up all unauthorized immigrants

this is where we are now people.

[zomgee]

Shep Smith is awesome

resultsmakemoney.com is down, shit.

[chronovore]

http://news.sky.com/video/really-mr-president-reporter-corrects-trump-10770976

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832555987299082242

[studyguy]

Who dies of a heart attack first. Rush, Hannity or Trump?

[FStop7]

I haven't been paying attention this morning.  Why is the AP being put on blast over the national guard story?  Doesn't the article read that it's a draft EO that's under consideration?  So how did they fuck up?

[Mupepe]

I haven't been paying attention this morning.  Why is the AP being put on blast over the national guard story?  Doesn't the article read that it's a draft EO that's under consideration?  So how did they fuck up?

Link?

[Nola]

Sort of what I was ranting about last night.

It is an alternate reality with Trump supporters:

Trump supporters cheer his combative stance with the media - PBS NewsHour
https://apple.news/AjLkFzeA3Rfe7emdOqChY-Q

[studyguy]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/17/chaffetz-clinton-email-inquiry/
Chaffetz going back at Clinton emails.
 

[Boredfrom]

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/17/chaffetz-clinton-email-inquiry/
Chaffetz going back at Clinton emails.
 

Is clear that they also want to bait people into another Hillary Clinton fight just to recover a escape goat. The thing is that is a predictable course of action that both Obama and Clinton understand and have acted accordingly (avoid direct confrontations). I legit think that Trump didn't understood that the reason why Hillary and Obama have acted so passive (and incredible diplomatic with him) post election is not because they wish him the best or really think the country is good hands.

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832708293516632065

[zomgee]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832708293516632065

This is what kings say.

"A pox on the Washington Post!"

[Joe Molotov]

I hope this means some shit is about to go down.

Some shit already is going down, we've got Donald Trump as our president.

[Boredfrom]

I hope this means some shit is about to go down.

I hope so but is probably him just getting high after the Boeing talk and looking his approval numbers.
 

[Great Rumbler]

At 4:32 pm, President Trump put up this tweet:

(Image removed from quote.)

It was quickly deleted and 16 minutes later it was replaced with this:

(Image removed from quote.)

 

[Joe Molotov]

*This tweet has been edited for clarity.

[Samson Manhug]

A spate of Muslim travelers in the United States, both American citizens and green card holders, have claimed U.S. Customs and Border Protection revoked their Global Entry cards, several immigration lawyers said in interviews with Mic.

Global Entry is a program run by CBP, which provides expedited entry through customs checkpoints at U.S. airports to vetted travelers.

Other travelers said their Global Entry applications were denied — without explanation — after being told in person they were approved after screenings and interviews, according to the lawyers. Greg Siskind, attorney and board member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, has been leading the charge in investigating these cases and called for examples on Twitter in early February.

"So far, we have heard from eight to nine people who are all Muslim," he said. "We expect that number to grow.”

https://mic.com/articles/168606/us-customs-is-revoking-muslim-american-travelers-global-entry-cards-lawyers-say

[FStop7]

but it's not a Muslim ban 

[benjipwns]

https://newrepublic.com/article/140702/medical-theory-donald-trumps-bizarre-behavior

A Medical Theory for Donald Trump’s Bizarre Behavior
Many mental health professionals believe the president is ill. But what if the cause is an untreated STD?

Given the limited information available, neurosyphilis belongs in the differential diagnosis. We know Trump was potentially exposed to syphilis based on his own statements that he was sexually promiscuous in the 1980s, a period when syphilis cases were rapidly increasing in the U.S. “I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,” he told Howard Stern in 1997, referring to his dating life the decade prior. “It is a dangerous world out there—it’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider.”

If indeed Trump has neurosyphilis, he’d be in famous company. Al Capone had it. So did composers Frederick Delius and Franz Schubert. Many others were suspected of having it, including Hitler, Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible. What might enable us to eliminate Trump from this group? Two simple blood tests, in combination, can determine whether a patient has syphilis now or had it in the past. If both tests are negative, then he doesn’t have neurosyphilis. If one or both tests are positive, further evaluation, probably including a spinal tap, would be in order.

The importance—both to Trump and the nation—of establishing or ruling out this diagnosis cannot be overstated, because this infection is treatable. Without treatment, however, the disease is progressive: It can make for a rather ugly end to one’s life. Whether Trump emerged unscathed from his “personal Vietnam” is now a question that he should explore with his personal physician.

[agrajag]

I hope this means some shit is about to go down.

Some shit already is going down, we've got Donald Trump as our president.

No one is shittier than me, believe me.

[VomKriege]

I hope this means some shit is about to go down.

Some shit already is going down, we've got Donald Trump as our president.

No one is shittier than me, believe me.

I'm so full of shit you won't believe folks. At least that's the information I was given, I've seen it around.

[VomKriege]

Also I don't think I posted about it yet, but IIRC Julia Ioffe (who is familiar with Russia) was explaining that foreign policy wonks in Moscow, in expectation of the election next year and the generous Putin's campaign contributions, are all writing self-aggrandizing papers grasping at any straws to retrospectively pretend they helped shaping the pathway to a Trump election. 

[Let's Cyber]

This Trump rally in Florida is fucking surreal

 

[Boredfrom]

This Trump rally in Florida is fucking surreal

 

I decided to avoid because it looked to be depressing. Surreal and depressing is not a great combination.

[Let's Cyber]

Trump picked a "random" enthusiastic guy out of the crowd (who was clearly a plant  ) to tell the everyone how great Trump is.

 I wish I was joking.

[Boredfrom]

Trump picked a "random" enthusiastic guy out of the crowd (who was clearly a plant  ) to tell the everyone how great Trump is.

 I wish I was joking.

It looks like the random guy is actually genuily unstable.

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/833106405708144640

 

[Madrun Badrun]

that women's cheek bones, woosh

[Let's Cyber]

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/833106405708144640

 

It looks like the random guy is actually genuily unstable.

Total whack job.  So like a rather standard Trump supporter all things considered.

   

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2017/02/so-far-rate-of-hate-crimes-in-2017-outpacing-2016-109621