Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 6934831 times)

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15300 on:** March 12, 2018, 09:16:14 PM »

WOAH IF TRUE

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15301 on:** March 12, 2018, 10:17:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/973362107260522496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FReaganBattalion%2Fstatus%2F973362107260522496

etiolate · « **Reply #15302 on:** March 12, 2018, 10:37:40 PM »

hunter follows the reagan battalion?

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15303 on:** March 12, 2018, 11:08:40 PM »

Quote from: etiolate on March 12, 2018, 10:37:40 PM

hunter follows the reagan battalion?

They broke the milo stuff.

chronovore · « **Reply #15304 on:** March 13, 2018, 04:07:30 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on March 12, 2018, 02:48:15 PM

Why do they keep calling Scaramucci, why why why

https://twitter.com/KasieDC/status/972977297518137346

What trump has in common with Sinatra is, they were both guys who wanted to be embedded in powerful groups (government for Trump, mafia for Sinatra), and the people in those groups treated them as a joke, like a sick little mascot while they continued committing their crimes against the public.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #15305 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:15:44 AM »

The big thing they have in common is they're both beloved by guidos with limited cultural references

kingv · « **Reply #15306 on:** March 13, 2018, 08:38:26 AM »

Wonder if Roger Stone is ready to turn States witness, it looks like he is going to be indicted.

Nola · « **Reply #15307 on:** March 13, 2018, 08:49:36 AM »

Trump ousts Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ef555d5c5620

kingv · « **Reply #15308 on:** March 13, 2018, 08:57:46 AM »

I actually am not sure that I hate that idea. Pompeo, as a military general is a wildly inappropriate pick, but Tillerson was even farther out his depth, from what I can tell.

Edit: of course, Tilly Tilly was maybe the only person in the admin willing to criticize Russia.

zomgee · « **Reply #15309 on:** March 13, 2018, 09:06:12 AM »

Quote from: Nola on March 13, 2018, 08:49:36 AM

Trump ousts Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ef555d5c5620

This was last night:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tillerson-says-ex-spys-poisoning-in-uk-clearly-came-from-russia-vows-it-will-trigger-a-response/2018/03/12/b2717dd8-2648-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.acf01e5c1369

Nola · « **Reply #15310 on:** March 13, 2018, 09:13:33 AM »

Idk, Pompeo has often appeared like a Trump sycophant(playing up denials about Russian hacking the DNC until faced under oath to admit otherwise in testimony, questions within the CIA that he couldn’t be trusted to put his duties above presidential loyalty, the fact he’s a racist tea party Republican from Kansas) and Haspel is just a real piece of shit.

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At the end of a briefing on March 22, Trump reportedly asked everyone to leave the room except director of national intelligence Daniel Coats and CIA director Mike Pompeo. According to the Washington Post, Trump then asked Coats if he could intervene to get Comey to back off from investigating Flynn as part of the FBI’s Russia probe.

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Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002.[6][7] The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods.[8][9] Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence (Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah).[10]

Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had "drafted a cable" in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.[9]

I didn’t like Tillerson’s arrogant downsizing bullshit but he at least seemed to be operating somewhat competently and uncompromisingly toward Trump. Pompeo I guess we’ll see. But the theme in Trump’s firings and hirings seem to share the trait of putting more enablers and loyalists around him and getting rid of the people that frustrate him.

Nola · « **Reply #15311 on:** March 13, 2018, 09:19:38 AM »

Quote from: zomgee on March 13, 2018, 09:06:12 AM

Quote from: Nola on March 13, 2018, 08:49:36 AM
Trump ousts Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ef555d5c5620

This was last night:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tillerson-says-ex-spys-poisoning-in-uk-clearly-came-from-russia-vows-it-will-trigger-a-response/2018/03/12/b2717dd8-2648-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.acf01e5c1369

I couldn’t help wondering the same thing but the Post does note this decision was seemingly made last week and is now just being announced. Though I guess timing of the announcement and Tillerson making the comment the way he did does invoke some slight chin scratching.

zomgee · « **Reply #15312 on:** March 13, 2018, 09:38:33 AM »

Quote from: Nola on March 13, 2018, 09:19:38 AM

Quote from: zomgee on March 13, 2018, 09:06:12 AM
Quote from: Nola on March 13, 2018, 08:49:36 AM
Trump ousts Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/2018/03/13/30f34eea-26ba-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ef555d5c5620

This was last night:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tillerson-says-ex-spys-poisoning-in-uk-clearly-came-from-russia-vows-it-will-trigger-a-response/2018/03/12/b2717dd8-2648-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.acf01e5c1369

I couldn’t help wondering the same thing but the Post does note this decision was seemingly made last week and is now just being announced. Though I guess timing of the announcement and Tillerson making the comment the way he did does invoke some slight chin scratching.

Yeah, I mean it's evident this was in the schedule for this week to have him step down, but it's a hell of a thing for him to say the night before.

Trurl · « **Reply #15313 on:** March 13, 2018, 09:49:39 AM »

When's the last a secretary of state was fired?

Nola · « **Reply #15314 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:23:43 AM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/973550099585478657

Well, that definitely adds to the idea that even if planned and inevitable, this announcement schedule was seemingly ad hoc, spur of the moment, and Trump wants it known he was being fired(and in typical Trump fashion can’t look the person in the eye). This is definitely going to invite the obvious optics of how this is going to be perceived by many, even if completely coincidental.

Edit: for whatever reason I can’t get the tweet to embed. Just an official release from Tillerson about how they were unaware, not contacted, given no reason, and that Tillerson was not seeking an exit.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #15315 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:14:11 AM »

Take out the ? and everything after in the link for the tweet to embed.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15316 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:10:43 PM »

Quote from: Trurl on March 13, 2018, 09:49:39 AM

When's the last a secretary of state was fired?

Not counting second term replacements...I think maybe never?

VomKriege · « **Reply #15317 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:12:58 PM »

Hillary but she killed all the couriers

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15318 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:49:33 PM »

Trump bought the 8GB Wii U of presidential cabinets. Gotta clean out the fridge.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #15319 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:56:21 PM »

Only the best people.

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #15320 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:58:04 PM »

Quote from: Nola on March 13, 2018, 10:23:43 AM

https://mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/973550099585478657

Well, that definitely adds to the idea that even if planned and inevitable, this announcement schedule was seemingly ad hoc, spur of the moment, and Trump wants it known he was being fired(and in typical Trump fashion can’t look the person in the eye). This is definitely going to invite the obvious optics of how this is going to be perceived by many, even if completely coincidental.

Edit: for whatever reason I can’t get the tweet to embed. Just an official release from Tillerson about how they were unaware, not contacted, given no reason, and that Tillerson was not seeking an exit.

Steve done fucked up.

https://bnonews.com/site/index.php/2018/03/u-s-under-secretary-of-state-steve-goldstein-fired/

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15321 on:** March 13, 2018, 12:58:48 PM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on March 13, 2018, 12:56:21 PM

Only the best people.

Will that ever not be a great punchline? I submit that it will not.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #15322 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:01:54 PM »

this carnival of stupid is just....so fucking stupid

etiolate · « **Reply #15323 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:04:05 PM »

so

more CIA influence

gg

agrajag · « **Reply #15324 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:17:30 PM »

Quote from: etiolate on March 13, 2018, 01:04:05 PM

so

more CIA influence

gg

Act like Mike Pompeo is a career CIA guy brehs

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15325 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:18:05 PM »

I'm more concerned about the new CIA chief, to be honest.

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15326 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:19:27 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 13, 2018, 01:18:05 PM

I'm more concerned about the new CIA chief, to be honest.

And yet she's still a better pick than Tom fucking Cotton.

Tasty · « **Reply #15327 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:39:05 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on March 13, 2018, 12:49:33 PM

Trump bought the 8GB Wii U of presidential cabinets. Gotta clean out the fridge.

Holy shit

kingv · « **Reply #15328 on:** March 13, 2018, 01:46:14 PM »

Imagine a President beholden to a country with a GDP smaller than at least 3 US states.

Trump is just a multidimensional idiot.

Mandark · « **Reply #15329 on:** March 13, 2018, 03:04:48 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on March 13, 2018, 01:17:30 PM

Quote from: etiolate on March 13, 2018, 01:04:05 PM
so

more CIA influence

gg

Act like Mike Pompeo is a career CIA guy brehs

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Deep State

Brehvolution · « **Reply #15330 on:** March 13, 2018, 03:47:05 PM »

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/racially-tinged-amateur-hour

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ACLU lawyer Dale Ho cross-examined Jesse Richman, a witness for Kobach, about the methodology in a controversial study Richman produced showing significant rates of non-citizen voting. In the study, Richman coded certain respondents who had “foreign”-sounding names, for weighting purposes.

After going over some of the names Richman coded as foreign — two respondents with the last name Lopez were coded as foreign, and three Lopezes were not — Ho asked Richman how he would code the name “Carlos Murguia.” Richman said he’d probably code the name as “foreign.” Ho pointed out that Murguia is a federal judge in the same courthouse in which the trial is taking place. Richman admitted he wasn’t aware of that.

curly · « **Reply #15331 on:** March 13, 2018, 03:51:08 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/12/antifa-is-winning-richard-spencer-rethinks-his-college-tour-after-violent-protests/?utm_term=.8fe35d368b13

Nintex · « **Reply #15332 on:** March 13, 2018, 04:18:07 PM »

Travel to 2012 - Barack Obama Election night

Show yourself this image of Donald Trump inspecting the prototypes for the wall between Mexico and the United States.

tfw you wall off your yard but still want to spy on your hawt neighbors
https://twitter.com/sarahparvini/status/973644728246906880

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #15333 on:** March 13, 2018, 04:45:52 PM »

I just saw the following rumor about Tillerson's firing, it sound logical enough.

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I think Tillerson was sent to Kenya and when they showed him BOs birth certificate and proof that BOs is from Kenya he refused to be the one to bring this to light and pretended to get sick and cut the trip short. Trump had no choose but to replace him with someone who has balls to get the job done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/comments/844318/i_think_tillerson_was_sent_to_kenya_and_when_they/

Huge if true.

FStop7 · « **Reply #15334 on:** March 13, 2018, 04:49:25 PM »

Trump's baggy ass suit looks like it's from 1998.

Nintex · « **Reply #15335 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:13:22 PM »

Trump just proposed the creation of a SPACE FORCE

https://twitter.com/viaCristiano/status/973668093334573056

kingv · « **Reply #15336 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:19:24 PM »

Christ, he’s continuing to have a mental break.

He’s just went full insane.

jorma · « **Reply #15337 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:27:55 PM »

Brianna Wu redeemed

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #15338 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:39:33 PM »

Would try out for Space Force.

Aka would murder for space trip

Newt G gun be secretary of moon, just wait

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15339 on:** March 13, 2018, 05:43:06 PM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on March 13, 2018, 03:47:05 PM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/racially-tinged-amateur-hour

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ACLU lawyer Dale Ho cross-examined Jesse Richman, a witness for Kobach, about the methodology in a controversial study Richman produced showing significant rates of non-citizen voting. In the study, Richman coded certain respondents who had “foreign”-sounding names, for weighting purposes.

After going over some of the names Richman coded as foreign — two respondents with the last name Lopez were coded as foreign, and three Lopezes were not — Ho asked Richman how he would code the name “Carlos Murguia.” Richman said he’d probably code the name as “foreign.” Ho pointed out that Murguia is a federal judge in the same courthouse in which the trial is taking place. Richman admitted he wasn’t aware of that.

The Kobach trial has been an absolute gold mine so far.

Nintex · « **Reply #15340 on:** March 13, 2018, 06:06:00 PM »

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BREAKING: AP source: President Trump considering replacing embattled VA Secretary Shulkin with Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

Breaking? The TRUMP TRAIN has no breaks

Mandark · « **Reply #15341 on:** March 13, 2018, 06:29:58 PM »

Also today there's a special election in a district Trump won by 20 and hearings in a court case over voter fraud, with Kris Kobach and the ACLU involved.

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15342 on:** March 13, 2018, 06:59:11 PM »

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/973692788977127426

But no collusion doe

team filler · « **Reply #15343 on:** March 13, 2018, 07:04:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/jakemkaplan/status/973576861128298496

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15344 on:** March 13, 2018, 07:57:28 PM »

https://twitter.com/maddow/status/973690026226745346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%23973690026226745346

Nintex · « **Reply #15345 on:** March 13, 2018, 08:12:01 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #15346 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:05:25 PM »

Family of slain DNC staffer sues Fox News over retracted story
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-slain-dnc-staffer-sues-fox-news-retracted/story?id=53725795

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15347 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:12:23 PM »

Which slain DNC staffer was this? Do we have a name?

Mandark · « **Reply #15348 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:17:14 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 13, 2018, 10:05:25 PM

Family of slain DNC staffer sues Fox News over retracted story
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-slain-dnc-staffer-sues-fox-news-retracted/story?id=53725795

It's fucking wild how Zimmerman didn't lose her job over that (or was even publicly disciplined AFAIK).

I've seen people on the news side of FNC get testy about being lumped in with the opinion/"entertainment" part, and other news outlets stand up for Fox colleagues, but there's no excusing this.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15349 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:34:13 PM »

Lamb's got a 700 vote lead [about 0.3 percent points] in the Pennsylvania special election with 98% reporting.

Tasty · « **Reply #15350 on:** March 13, 2018, 10:39:33 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 13, 2018, 10:34:13 PM

Lamb's got a 700 vote lead [about 0.3 percent of all votes] in the Pennsylvania special election with 98% reporting.

🌊🌊🌊

zomgee · « **Reply #15351 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:08:18 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 13, 2018, 10:34:13 PM

Lamb's got a 700 vote lead [about 0.3 percent points] in the Pennsylvania special election with 98% reporting.

Yeah that'll trigger a recount huh?

Edit: Looks like no, since it is local and not state. I dunno politics.

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15352 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:34:44 PM »

Quote from: Stro on March 13, 2018, 11:02:53 PM

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on March 13, 2018, 05:39:33 PM
Would try out for Space Force.

Aka would murder for space trip

Newt G gun be secretary of moon, just wait

Newt Gingrich

Nute Gunray

Trump "I AM THE SENATE"

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #15353 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:44:24 PM »

American conservatives:

thehunter116 · « **Reply #15354 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:49:20 PM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5498269/Professor-Stephen-Hawking-dead-76.html

Hawking is dead RIP.

El Babua · « **Reply #15355 on:** March 13, 2018, 11:53:42 PM »

Mandark · « **Reply #15356 on:** March 14, 2018, 12:17:05 AM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on March 13, 2018, 10:39:33 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 13, 2018, 10:34:13 PM
Lamb's got a 700 vote lead [about 0.3 percent of all votes] in the Pennsylvania special election with 98% reporting.

🌊🌊🌊

When the Dems win the aggregate vote for the House 54%-46% and the GOP still has a seven seat majority, I'm gonna be so bitter.

Nola · « **Reply #15357 on:** March 14, 2018, 12:57:24 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on March 13, 2018, 10:17:14 PM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 13, 2018, 10:05:25 PM
Family of slain DNC staffer sues Fox News over retracted story
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/family-slain-dnc-staffer-sues-fox-news-retracted/story?id=53725795

It's fucking wild how Zimmerman didn't lose her job over that (or was even publicly disciplined AFAIK).

I've seen people on the news side of FNC get testy about being lumped in with the opinion/"entertainment" part, and other news outlets stand up for Fox colleagues, but there's no excusing this.

TBH Zimmerman's behavior doesn't seem to be some outlier of the organization. I mean this is a place that was caught photoshopping Democrats and liberals over the course of several years, went from Seth Rich to weeks of Uranium One, got caught literally re-printing GOP memos as "news research" after the GOP memos uncovered contained the same exact typos that Fox didn't even bother to correct when they passed them off as their own work, and was founded by a guy who concocted the idea of Fox News while working for the Nixon administration as a way to leverage the growing power of TV to basically serve as self-serving partisan propaganda with plausible deniability.

One interesting thing I came to find out about Fox News during that Seth Rich period is that they don't have a Standards and Practices division. It is apparently just rolled into the duties of a handful of people in their broader legal department. Apparently most news organizations(and by that I mean every other broadcast news channel) employ a division of people that comprises that Standards and Practices department. With various department ombudsmen, editors, and employees vetting the organization's reporting relative to their standards. Not Fox.

Mandark · « **Reply #15358 on:** March 14, 2018, 04:00:47 AM »

Quote from: curly on March 13, 2018, 03:51:08 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/12/antifa-is-winning-richard-spencer-rethinks-his-college-tour-after-violent-protests/?utm_term=.8fe35d368b13

https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/973746291359535105

I absolutely recommend clicking through to the tweet-thread.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #15359 on:** March 14, 2018, 05:01:16 AM »

It's his mother in law lmao
https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/973718684014465024

News:

Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 6934831 times)