US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/983469671662972928

 

The people of the US all stand for sleazy lawyers paying off porn stars breh


Trump made those comments as he went into a meeting to decide on what to do with Syria. 

We're all so fucking dead. 

[Nola]

Moments like these are when Trump hurts himself. This rambling mess is pathetic, and as always slightly scary.

Though he couldn't help but mention once again how disappointed he was in Jeff Sessions recusing himself because he wanted him to protect him.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/983473102897246209

Couldn't they have like, waited just one day for the Syria thing to blow over before pissing off Trump?

 

[Mandark]

Guys I've read some of the reactions by legal analysts, and the consensus seems to be that this is not good news for Michael Cohen.

[Boredfrom]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/983473102897246209

Couldn't they have like, waited just one day for the Syria thing to blow over before pissing off Trump?

 

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"Even Bolton is afraid"

[benjipwns]

Guys I've read some of the reactions by legal analysts, and the consensus seems to be that this is not good news for Michael Cohen.

FACTCHECK: You could get this kind of analysis from CNN.

[Boredfrom]

Man, the Sun King is really triggered today.

[Nintex]

Watched the thing

Assad is so fucking dead.
Trump with arms folded after going on a pissed off rant about Comey says to a question about striking Syria:

"We have the best fighting force [billions billions]. We have a lot options, you will know after the fact"

"... John's going to be great, you picked an exciting day to start"

Trump seems all gung ho about demonstrating American military might in like the next 24 hours.

[Boredfrom]

lol no one cares anymore, Trump.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/pwafork/status/983480932765020164
Good question

The 4d chessmasters want Trump to fire everyone
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/983481117733875718

[agrajag]

Literally no one in the blogosphere, twittersphere, or mediasphere knows what the warrant is for or it even has anything to do with Stormy Daniels.

[Boredfrom]

Literally no one in the blogosphere, twittersphere, or mediasphere knows what the warrant is for or it even has anything to do with Stormy Daniels.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-records-related-to-stormy-daniels-in-raid-of-trump-attorney-michael-cohens-office/2018/04/09/e3e43cf4-3c30-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d85f7b621047

Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, is under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations, according to a person with knowledge of the case.

[Crash Dummy]

ahaha who is left on trump's legal team if cohen goes?

[agrajag]

ahaha who is left on trump's legal team if cohen goes?

He still has sekulow, mr corn cob and that other guy. Cohen was never part of the defense team.

[benjipwns]

if you defend yourself, you can't lose your legal team

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either that or you're in real trouble

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[Crash Dummy]

He still has sekulow, mr corn cob and that other guy. Cohen was never part of the defense team.

i forgot about those guys, i just remember the main lawyer quitting a few weeks ago and no other lawyer wanted to take on trump as a client

[Mandark]

maybe roy moore and donald trump can pool their resources together to find new laywers

"But don't we already have a J..."

"No, Kayla. A new lawyer."

[benjipwns]

maybe roy moore and donald trump can pool their resources together to find new laywers

way to miss the obvious, that roy becomes the donald's lawyer

[Phoenix Dark]

Clearly the deep state is trying to remove Trump before he starts a war. So they can install a puppet president who will start a war.

[Mandark]

Trump knows that the deep state will convict him no matter what. he's driving away all his lawyers so he can appeal the verdict based on lack of proper representation.

[benjipwns]

typical that the "progressives" around here would be making fun of a victim of the biased criminal justice system

[Crash Dummy]

Clearly the deep state is trying to remove Trump before he starts a war. So they can install a puppet president who will start a war.

wonder what's going through pence's mind right now

[benjipwns]

something about the gays

[Crash Dummy]

something about the gays

*gayeds

[benjipwns]

homosexualisteds

[Madrun Badrun]

Is Gayed a sister site to Blacked?  PD will know. 

[team filler]

Bored 

[Steve Contra]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/trump-mueller-ukraine-victor-pinchuk.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=66800746&pgtype=Homepage

Didn't even get a day

[benjipwns]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/04/09/lets-pay-trump-to-leave-office/

This gives me an idea. If Trump thinks that the United States is truly like “a Third World country,” maybe it’s time to start treating him the same way we treat the leaders of such nations. My immodest proposal: Let’s save America from itself and the ravages of this presidency by offering Trump a big bundle of money to leave. I’m serious. There’s an African precedent for this. Let me explain.

...

Here’s where the money part comes in. Every year, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, founded by a wealthy Sudanese businessman of that name, offers a prize of $5 million, payable over 10 years, to an African leader who exemplifies quality leadership. The prize, which was created in 2006, also offers the possibility of $200,000 per year for the rest of the winner’s life. The requirements? Change your country for the better, and step down at the end of your democratically elected term. Seems pretty easy — except Africa’s leadership has apparently been so bad over the past 12 years that only five presidents in the continent’s 54 countries have been given the prize. (Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was the 2018 awardee.)

I find it hard to believe that a number of African leaders who sit atop resource-rich countries and embezzle endlessly from the state would be motivated by a measly $5 million. But Trump, America’s first African president, just might be tempted by a nice payday. He may be rich, but he’s not Teodoro-Obiang-of-Equatorial-Guinea-level rich, you know? The promise of $10 million or $100 million (we have to offer him more than the Africans, of course) just might induce Trump to change course for the better. If cash prizes are supposedly good enough to improve democracy and development in Africa, they should be good enough for us, right?   

Besides, nothing else has worked to rein in Trump’s behavior. We thought the military generals would be a moderating force. White House aides have tried to keep the president off Twitter. None of it has worked. He’s still railing against immigrants, stoking trade wars and assaulting democratic norms. At this point, we might as well try throwing cash at our Trump problem. At least we know that Trump, a businessman, former game show host and beauty pageant impresario, is preoccupied with how much money he has. He’s been known to overstate his net worth. In 2006, he unsuccessfully sued a journalist who claimed he was worth only $150 million to $250 million.

So Mr. Ibrahim, if you read this, perhaps you might consider adding Trump to the list of candidates for the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in the next year or two. Maybe the payments could be in bitcoin. Whatever it takes. Nothing less than the future of the United States is at stake.

deadlines can come at you fast sometimes karen

[Mandark]

Libertarian not taking Coasian bargaining seriously.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/tsgnews/status/983482270299369472

[Mandark]

The State is even Deeper than we imagined.

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/tsgnews/status/983482270299369472

whew lads

[Phoenix Dark]

we must

er

Where's Optimus

[benjipwns]

https://www.israeliamerican.org/iac-national-conference/team-member/rudy-giuliani

it's like i have to do all the work around here

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/04/09/president-trump-mueller-investigation-comey-firing-sot.cnn/video/playlists/atv-road-to-the-white-house-automated/

[Mandark]

A lawyer friend explained there will probably be someone with a knowledge of the scope of the warrant who will comb the data first under the eye of a federal judge and hand that over.

I just found out that the people doing this are called a "taint team" and I'm looking forward to hearing that phrase repeatedly this week.

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/tsgnews/status/983482270299369472

Trump: “I knew I should have given him the loyalty speech!

[Madrun Badrun]

This seems like a good time to post this http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-of-social-mobility-2017-3?r=US&IR=T

[kingv]

So are Hillary’s speech fees good now, or bad now?

[benjipwns]

yo PD it our boy managing to put up with The Jacket

Amash: It's certainly not the type of thing I think President Trump was talking about on the campaign trail. I don't think he imagined sort of a neocon, hawkish foreign policy establishment coming in. If that's what he's going for, it's going to be very different from what he was telling people on the campaign trail, and that would be a real shame. I don't think when people elected Donald Trump they wanted us to go back to George W. Bush. Which is better? We can debate that, but I don't think that's what people are asking for. They're not asking for a George W. Bush type of foreign policy. They're not asking for, I think, a Donald Trump type of foreign policy either.

Amash: There are no speakers on the horizon, whether it's the current speaker or Nancy Pelosi, who are going to fix this problem. The speaker has to protect the institution. The speaker of the House is not doing that. The speaker of the House is in the business of protecting members of Congress right now, protecting them from themselves. He and previous speakers go out of their way to prevent us from voting on things. They don't want us to go on the record. If there's a war, they want that war to be fought without members of Congress having any input, because then afterwards you can decide whether you supported it or opposed it. You can decide after the fact. Did it go well? OK, I was for it. Did it go poorly? Oh, I was against that the whole time. That's what they want on everything, whether it's trade, whether it's wars. They don't want members of Congress to do their jobs. The speaker has not been protecting the institution. You need a speaker in there who is an institutionalist, who cares about the institution first, who is not a partisan. Let the House work its will. Let legislation come to the floor. Let Republicans and Democrats and others offer their amendments, and let's have votes on all sorts of things, substantive things, not just post offices like they do now.

Gillespie: You don't want to bring Dennis Hastert back?

Amash: We don't want to bring Hastert back.

Amash: I think it's the first step. I don't think it in itself is going to shut down free speech. It starts the movement in that direction, and that makes me nervous. One other thing about that bill, the bill is an ex post facto law as well. It makes punishments retroactive. Something that was legal at the time it occurred, the action occurred, it makes it illegal, which is unconstitutional. Our constitution expressly prohibits that. Even the DOJ came out and said, they sent us a memo saying, "This is unconstitutional." We received a memo in our offices from the Trump Department of Justice saying, "This bill is unconstitutional." Now, I showed that to my colleagues, and they said, "Yeah, I agree it's unconstitutional," and they voted for it.

comments among the various social media this was posted on don't seem entirely favorable about this ANCHOR BABY from "PALESTINE" and his pro-immigration aka PRO-WELFARE SPONGES comments in the only first twenty seconds of the half hour video they actually watched before responding

though i shall pick out a single benji's choice comment for your amusement:

Lawrence Miller
36 minutes ago
By not supporting nationalism, does that mean you do not support the US Constitution?

[Nintex]

What the fuck



https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/983539161595428864

[benjipwns]

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lol polls

someone pointed this out to me, I had missed it, but the GOP is apparently way more approving of affairs with Stormy Daniels in general than both Democrats and Independents:

[benjipwns]

I hope that car I saw regularly on campus in 2011 hasn't gotten rid of the bumper sticker yet!

The Vindication of Dennis Kucinich
When he ran for president, he was ridiculed and dismissed. It turns out he was the future of American politics.

“I feel like Johnny Appleseed,” he told the New York Times before the end. “I’m planting seeds all over this country: seeds of peace, seeds of hope. At some point, maybe years from now, there will be orchards.”

Today, Kucinich, 71, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, and those orchards aren’t just blooming — they are on the verge of taking over the entire landscape of American politics. It has been six years since he lost his congressional seat, but the stunning beatdown of both the Democratic and Republican establishments during the 2016 presidential campaign was Kucinich’s invitation to come in from the fringe.

“Kucinich was ahead of his time in terms of having that progressive politics before it’s popular, before it’s cool,” says Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, the national progressive advocacy group born out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. (Our Revolution has endorsed Kucinich in the governor’s race, though Sanders himself has not taken a position.)

The school shooting in Parkland, Fla., occurred 11 days before the forum, and Kucinich seizes on it to separate himself from the other candidates. In coming days, his campaign will circulate a video of Cordray, as state attorney general, speaking at a Second Amendment rally in 2010 after having submitted a brief in support of a Supreme Court case pursued by gun-rights advocates. “Rich, there’s a reason why you got an A from the NRA and why I got an F,” Kucinich says. “I stand for an assault-weapon ban in the state of Ohio, for the possession, the sale. Where do you stand?”

Rising to rebut Kucinich, Cordray speaks with the focused burn of a welding torch. “It’s easy to jerk a knee and have an answer that sounds good and it’s a slogan,” Cordray says of the gun issue. He’s for more moderate measures such as banning bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, and establishing universal background checks. “My job here is to find concrete, practical solutions,” he adds — “concrete” and “practical” being two of his favorite adjectives when parrying Kucinich.

Cordray’s quiet outrage continues: “Not all of us lost our way as Democrats on this stage. Not all of us became paid commentators for Fox News and praised Donald Trump’s inaugural address as a great speech.”

A couple of days after appearing in Marysville, Kucinich and Cordray are at it again in Youngstown. “Dennis Kucinich is a well-meaning candidate,” Cordray says. “He’s too extreme for Ohio. He may not say it here, but he’s against all the oil and gas drilling in the state of Ohio. And he’s for confiscating certain weapons in Ohio, and that’s too extreme for eastern Ohio. We will turn it over to the Republicans until kingdom come if that’s what we do.”

Meanwhile in the comments:

MyMy
4/9/2018 3:36 PM EDT
So perhaps another Putin stooge here to despoil Democrats' chances?

Yunzer
4/9/2018 4:30 PM EDT
Yup. Kucinich represents that very troubling ongoing merger of the radical, formerly socialist left with the fascist, racist right, who worship distinctly non-socialist oligharchs like Putin, Assad, and Trump. The only leftists true to left-principles seem to be the anarchists in organizations like antifa or news sites like infoshop.

Merlin
4/9/2018 3:18 PM EDT
Is this is freaking joke?
 
Russian mole. 

But the lead is totally buried, this race is over, plan the inauguration already:

On Friday, April 20, at the Agora Theatre, singer-guitarist Dave Matthews will perform a special acoustic set in support of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Additional information can be found at kucinich.com/DaveMatthews.

[Optimus]

Whether it’s via Mueller or via the 2020 election, I can’t wait to see these people get broken when Trump is removed from the White House. Not a one of them deserves to ever feel human joy.

lol Trump won't last until the 2020 elections. Jack Remington, a well respected political analyst, assumed us a while ago that Trump will be in jail in minus 6 months, so yeah, he's screwed.

[Brehvolution]

What the fuck

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Fun Fact: trump couldn't even lift that gun.

[Brehvolution]

trump's lawyer, but also Deputy National Finance Chair of the GOP.

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[agrajag]

So Rosenstein is the one that signed off on the raid.

If you take the first three letters of his last name and add "so" in front, what do you get? Think about it. Just think about it for a second.

 

[agrajag]

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SOROS!!!!!!

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[CatsCatsCats]

edit: i thought you meant add 'so' after the first three letters... so i was like... rosso? porco rosso?

Same

[Great Rumbler]

Watching Trump and his conservative media buddies squeal about this raid [and everything else that Mueller has done] will never stop amusing me.

[Nintex]

/Adam Curtis Voice

"The conservatives thought they could control him, the liberals thought they could use him to win ever more political victories but in reality Donald Trump had broken the will and spirit of an entire nation."

/Adam Curtis Voice

[etiolate]

[agrajag]

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[Nintex]

Capitol Hill grilling? More like ball washing

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/983793590576001025

[Brehvolution]

Like us on Facebook

 

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/tsgnews/status/983482270299369472

Turns out this guy recused himself (Marcy Wheeler floated that possibility yesterday), so look forward to Trump obsessing over that betrayal.

[Nola]

I'm trying to think about what deeper ironic point they are possibly trying to make, but then I remind myself it is Code Pink.

Also, if there was one thing I was not going to be shocked about with Zuckerberg today, it would be Republicans finding a way to solve a regulatory challenge by capitulating it to the abusers.

[Joe Molotov]

If you take the first three letters of his last name and add "so" in front, what do you get? Think about it. Just think about it for a second.

 

Jill Stein? I dunno, this is too hard. 

[agrajag]

Why's everybody always recusing on me?
Cause you collude with russians on the daily
Why's everybody always recusing on me?
Cause you pay off hookers with campaign money