US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Kara]

it should be noted this kind of behavior is far from limited to the trump administration:

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1014160328437923840

[benjipwns]

I'd have a much higher opinion of Trump if he carried werthers originals around, tbh

Pink Starbursts are delicious

 

i kinda like these prolly too much


plus...LIKE REAGAN

[agrajag]

Never tried those. But I like

[Tasty]

Tropical Starburst are secretly the best candy of all time and I can't find them anymore.

[benjipwns]

https://www.amazon.com/Starburst-Tropical-Fruit-Chews-Single/dp/B003YZ3MS0

[Tasty]

But I don't wanna gain 20 pounds.

[agrajag]

I feel weird about ordering candy online. If it wasn't for that, I'd have crates of chupa chups already.

[benjipwns]

plus...LIKE REAGAN

Never tried those. But I like

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at the Jelly Belly HQ they have this (no idea if that dork is always standing there):


and at the Reagan Library they have a smaller one:

[agrajag]

Fuck me, I've been supporting Nazis!

[benjipwns]

i have no idea how long jelly beans last but just in case you're hungry after the apocalypse, i bet nobody else will think of these

[agrajag]

I'm pretty sure candy corn is the only thing that will survive nuclear warfare

[benjipwns]

Then, Jelly Belly HQ looks like a two-fer based on that graphic of candy corn on the wall. Really the whole left side of that picture is all the evidence you need that they're some kind of Nazi pilgrimage site

[benjipwns]

Young Nazi's

[agrajag]

they should've made that Reagan mosaic out of jelly beans and candy corn

[benjipwns]

looks like the Reagan Library one is preserved

[agrajag]

Oh shit, they DID

 

[agrajag]

I will never underestimate the Herman Goelitz Candy Company overlords again.

[benjipwns]

they should've made that Reagan mosaic out of jelly beans and candy corn

HE PROBABLY DIDN'T LIKE CANDY CORN, THE BREZHNEV OF CANDIES

Jelly beans have been around since the 1890s, but Jelly Belly claims to have made the first gourmet jelly bean in 1976. “We were making candy corn before then and we were starving,” said Herman Goelitz Rowland, the chief executive of Jelly Belly. The company was then called the Goelitz Confectionery Company and was founded in 1898 by Mr. Rowland’s great-grandfather, Gustav Goelitz. The name changed to Jelly Belly in 2001.

Unlike traditional jelly beans that have only flavored shells, the Jelly Belly innovation was to flavor the chewy insides as well. Jelly Belly beans are also smaller and come in 50 flavors using real ingredients like fruit, peanut butter and coconut, not, industry consultants said, the six or seven usually artificial and often unidentifiable flavors available in regular jelly beans. Ms. Gencarelli described the other jelly beans as “the kind that were probably stuck together in your grandma’s candy dish.”

Jelly Belly beans sold well enough. But in 1980, word got out that Ronald Reagan was a devotee. “Our sales went from $8 million to $16 million in one year,” Mr. Rowland said. Coping with the media attention and running the California factory around the clock to try to keep up with demand, he said, was “very traumatic for our little company.”

[agrajag]

"Hanz, we are out of food! Go to the store and buy some potatoes"
"Verzeihen mein liebling, we didn't get a paycheck at the candy corn company again. All they gave us was this bag of candy corn. It's going to be a schwer winter"

[benjipwns]

"employees were forced to take home hundreds of pounds of the free candy corn or they'd lose their jobs"

[benjipwns]

"as candy corn production ceased globally in 1988 as part of an arms limitation agreement, up to 80% of all modern candy corn is believed to be sourced to that 'gift' to employees"

[agrajag]

It figures that it'd be Nazis to unleash such a hellish confection upon the world. I wouldn't be surprised of black licorice was a result of Stalinist experiments.

[Kara]

It would explain why I love anise.

[agrajag]

It would explain why I love anise.

were you raised in the gulag?

[Kara]

Growing up when I complained about doing chores one (or both) of my parents would flatly reply, "Arbeit macht frei."

[Phoenix Dark]

Candy corn is great, you just have to know which brands are the best. A lot of cowards shit on candy corn when they've only tasted the trash tier/Jim Bean level.

 

[agrajag]

Ok breh, you gonna stan for Circus Peanuts next?

[benjipwns]

stolen from GAF, etoliate vindicated:

[Kara]

Dollars to donuts someone called that poster an authoritarian after they advocated for designated marshalls.

[benjipwns]

BATTLE OF THE TITANS

[benjipwns]

Cornel West pronounces it "human-manatee." I'm on board with this.

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1014553587903442944

[Nintex]

So what sort of meme videos does Donald Trump watch?

ALL OF THEM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1016079192604139520

[Nola]

it's been way too long since we've had some good news

i need more info on what mueller is doing, how fucked cohen is, etc

Seems like Cohen is inching closer and closer to flipping....assuming they’ll take him.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/politics/cohen-trump-real-truth/index.html

There’s also the whole fascinating Marcy Wheeler saga, but I’m not sure how you would classify it. Probably equal parts incredibly concerning and illuminating.

[Trurl]

So what sort of meme videos does Donald Trump watch?

ALL OF THEM

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1016079192604139520

Hall of the Mountain King is an interesting choice since it's a theme song for mayhem.

[benjipwns]

There’s also the whole fascinating Marcy Wheeler saga, but I’m not sure how you would classify it. Probably equal parts incredibly concerning and illuminating.

Do you have a two or three sentence summary of that? I tried reading her original posts on the topic back when it started a couple weeks ago and, aside from the general premise about knowing a source who knew something that was of interest to the FBI, they were basically literally gibberish to anyone who hadn't memorized all of emptywheel.

[Mandark]

maybe shoulda been reading wheeler instead of kaus, huh

[benjipwns]

i've read 10000% more emptywheel posts than kausfiles posts in the last two years

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it's literally just his twitter feed now, he's never getting elected to the Senate this way!

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[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1015762445632036864

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1015764153766576130

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1015769593397194752

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1015770591951876096

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1015772684125257729

this is your fault mandark

[benjipwns]

PRETTY MUCH FULL-ON EMERGENCY

[Nola]

There’s also the whole fascinating Marcy Wheeler saga, but I’m not sure how you would classify it. Probably equal parts incredibly concerning and illuminating.

Do you have a two or three sentence summary of that? I tried reading her original posts on the topic back when it started a couple weeks ago and, aside from the general premise about knowing a source who knew something that was of interest to the FBI, they were basically literally gibberish to anyone who hadn't memorized all of emptywheel.

Her post on it
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/03/putting-a-face-mine-to-the-risks-posed-by-gop-games-on-mueller-investigation/

Here's a WAPO write up on it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/she-broke-a-cardinal-rule-of-journalism-by-revealing-her-source-to-the-fbi-heres-why/2018/07/06/b3201632-8128-11e8-b9a5-7e1c013f8c33_story.html?utm_term=.7f0bbb901116

Skimmed this one, maybe it is helpful? Snarky but much more matter-of-fact.
https://www.wonkette.com/oh-nothing-just-that-house-republicans-seem-to-be-trying-to-get-somebody-killed-to-protect-trump-from-russia-investigation

I will be curious who this source ends up being. Since it seems like it will eventually come to light by the end of the investigation. But you probably aren't wrong to be confused, there is more mystery than reveal in her post.

[Nintex]

PRETTY MUCH FULL-ON EMERGENCY

"Let me get this straight"

"You think the most powerful men in government are secretly Nazi's spending their nights scheming to take away your rights"

"And your plan is to harass these people at restaurants and call them?"

"GOOD LUCK!"

[benjipwns]

Snarky but much more matter-of-fact.

fella by the name of Glenn Greenwald, from years back when he still had a shred of credibility (though his true colors were already shining through like a rainbow if you cared to pay close attention). ... Greenwald, as we all know, would love nothing more than to be a freckle on Vladimir Putin's inner thigh

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true colors is a link to: https://newrepublic.com/article/116253/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald-julian-assange-what-they-believe

Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought?

Theirs are not the politics of left against right, or liberals against conservatives, or Democrats against Republicans, but of the individual against the state.

Where liberals, let alone right-wingers, have portrayed the leakers as truth-telling comrades intent on protecting the state and the Constitution from authoritarian malefactors, that’s hardly their goal. In fact, the leakers despise the modern liberal state, and they want to wound it.

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[Tasty]

PRETTY MUCH FULL-ON EMERGENCY

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"Let me get this straight"

"You think the most powerful men in government are secretly Nazi's spending their nights scheming to take away your rights"

"And your plan is to harass these people at restaurants and call them?"

"GOOD LUCK!"

To be fair that could be applied much earlier to the Vast Liberal Conspiracy right-wing news has been going on about for 30+ years.

[Mandark]

"You think the most powerful men in government are secretly Nazi's spending their nights scheming to take away your rights"

Who the fuck said anything about "secretly"?

[benjipwns]

lol

[Mandark]

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/2018-07-09/states-seeking-info-on-fast-food-no-poach-agreements

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is leading a coalition of 11 Democratic state attorneys general seeking information about "no-poach" agreements meant to block employees from leaving one fast food franchise to work for another franchise in the same chain.

Healey says Monday the agreements limit the ability of low-wage workers to seek promotions and earn a better living.

The attorneys general say 80 percent of fast food franchisors have no-poach agreements.

The attorneys general have sent a letter to Arby's, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Little Caesars, Panera Bread, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Wendy's seeking copies of franchise agreements by Aug. 6.

The attorneys general are from California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.

I didn't realize but apparently those agreements can cover different locations for the same company.

[benjipwns]

notice, no YUM! Brands are named by the attorneys general

[benjipwns]

Hannity: "Judge Amy Barrett seems the most interesting, yet she also seems to be the most hated, which doesn't make any sense?"

oh sean

[Nola]

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lol

Hey now, they were a part of the preeminently credible Gawker family. 

[Kara]

From a separate story on that multi-state inquiry.

The practice is not limited to fast-food chains. Jiffy Lube, H&R Block and Anytime Fitness are among the companies that have had no-poaching clauses in their franchisee contracts, according to [Alan B.] Krueger and [Orley] Ashenfelter.

[Mandark]

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/07/09/gop-backed-house-candidate-promoted-white-nationalist-propaganda-including-piece-claiming-black/220614

Today's racist GOP Congressional candidate news (reposting American Renaissance and VDARE, etc).

[benjipwns]

I notice you fail to note the epic egg on you demonrats face over another candidate:

Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.), who is campaigning for reelection in November, said Democrats are “stupid” if they believe he is an ally of Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart.

“I don’t give a shit about Corey Stewart,” Taylor told The Virginian-Pilot. “No one else does either except for Democrats who are trying to target me. ... No one cares, except for a small teeny amount of people you met at the cupcake place. What are they trying to say? That Scott Taylor likes Corey Stewart so therefore he’s a racist?”

“Do you think that’s going to play here?” Taylor continued. “My son is named after a black guy. I’m a military guy. We don’t give a shit about where you come from. Black, white, brown, gay, straight. I don’t care.”

[benjipwns]

Trump's going to nominate Obama, who then will rule that Robert Mueller is a traitor and that nothing wrong happened and that Hillary needs to be locked up.

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/Nintex

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[benjipwns]

just found out the Democrats are POLITICIZING this nominee already, wow, just shameful

[benjipwns]

did you accidentally sign the wrong form at the bank or something?

[benjipwns]

common myth that they like to propagate but you don't actually have to sign up for the LP to use drugs

[benjipwns]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent out a dramatic, no-holds-barred fundraising email on Monday saying she is "determined to avenge President Obama if it’s the last thing I do" by preemptively opposing President Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

In the fundraising email, Pelosi opened by acknowledging that she has been making persistent appeals to potential donors lately: "I emailed on Saturday. I emailed on Sunday. Now I’m emailing you again today."

She then outlines her plan to get back at Senate Republicans for their refusal to vote on Obama's 2016 Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.

"I just learned that SECONDS after Trump’s announcement... Republicans will launch an unprecedented $1.4 MILLION ad blitz to support his nominee," Pelosi wrote. "I’m worried this will eviscerate our chance to make Republicans pay for the Supreme Court seat they STOLE from President Obama."

The email, with the subject line "Trump nominee BACKFIRES," was sent by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and signed by Pelosi.

It goes on to promise that Pelosi will "personally triple-match" any gifts to her so-called "Supreme Court fund" prior to Trump's announcement.

[benjipwns]

from live stream of Trump's announcement:

Hemo-Goblin
​q anon is Mossad

woah if true

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1016486119746105346

nooo we lost owning the libs?!?