US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Joe Molotov]

The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas. They love my Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judicial picks & more. I made.....

....them richer. Their network is highly overrated, I have beaten them at every turn. They want to protect their companies outside the U.S. from being taxed, I’m for America First & the American Worker - a puppet for no one. Two nice guys with bad ideas. Make America Great Again!

this is pretty much Lou Dobbs' argument in the videos i posted

No puppet, no puppet. You're a puppet!

[kingv]

He's not done yet.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024245909239021568
 


Oh god, he's really enjoying his EXECUTIVE TIME today
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024264286418489345

Interestingly, I suspect the NRA hates self printable guns. No money in it for manufacturers.

[kingv]

A couple other fun things I saw in the last 12 hour or so.

1) trump has also moved to collusion is not a crime framing. There’s definitely going to be some story that lays out that trump ordered the Russian meeting or something.

2) and it turns out Otto Warmbier probably was not beaten as his parents and the government let on.
https://www.gq.com/story/otto-warmbier-north-korea-american-hostage-true-story

I think this was supposed to be Trumps yellowcake uranium story for the March to war with North Korea before he decided that Kim Jong Un was actually a cool dude.

[benjipwns]

“I don't believe Otto was physically tortured,” Andrei Lankov said in his office in Seoul. “The campaign to make Otto a symbol of North Korea's cruelty was psychological preparation to justify military operations.”

Lankov was born on July 26, 1963, in Leningrad, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg). He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Leningrad State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He also attended Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung University in 1985.

RUSSIAN!

To quote Joe: What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.

[VomKriege]

“I don't believe Otto was physically tortured,” Andrei Lankov said in his office in Seoul. “The campaign to make Otto a symbol of North Korea's cruelty was psychological preparation to justify military operations.”

Lankov was born on July 26, 1963, in Leningrad, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg). He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Leningrad State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. He also attended Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung University in 1985.

RUSSIAN!

To quote Joe: What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.

What is happening is not what is happening

[benjipwns]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/31/open-borders-help-economy-combat-illegal-immigration-column/862185002/

Trump, however, has it exactly backwards: The solution to America’s immigration problems is open borders, under which the United States imposes no immigration restrictions at all. If the U.S. adopts this policy, the benefits will far outweigh the costs.

Jeffrey Miron is director of economic studies at the Cato Institute

KOCHTOPUS, GET EM LOU

[benjipwns]

https://nypost.com/2018/07/29/when-will-democrats-condemn-the-lefts-growing-turn-to-violence/

Last week, a man was indicted for threatening to kill Republican Rep. Diane Black. “They were serious enough threats that the grand jury did take action,” Black said in an interview with Fox News.

It’s been barely a year since the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise during congressional baseball practice, and the story of the threats to Black was barely a blip in our news.

The shooting last June should have been a wake-up call for our political discourse, but we’ve only been on a further slide since then.

This month, Black’s fellow GOP congressman Jason Lewis says his daughters were threatened. A man threatened to chop up Sen. Rand Paul’s family with an ax.

Another was arrested outside the campaign office of Rep. Lee Zeldin for threatening to kill supporters of President Trump. And the Nebraska GOP office had bricks thrown through its windows and graffiti painted on its wall.

“He started it” is never an excuse, and it won’t bring a lick of comfort to the family of the victim when someone inevitably dies from the escalation. Democrats need to step up and stop this before it’s too late.

powerful stuff, can't believe the Opportunity Democrats are allowing this

[VomKriege]

Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!

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Verbatim from one of his tweets today.

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[benjipwns]

Sounds like official confirmation of Qanon to me. Seems like a lot of people now have egg on their face for doubting.

[kingv]

Never understood why we trust Cato Kaelin with all this policy stuff anyways.

[benjipwns]

Because he was the host of this:

[benjipwns]

JUSTICE AT IT IS MOST EXTREME

[Joe Molotov]

Eye for an Eye

Justice at it's Most Extreme

Tic Toc

Q

[Nintex]

Lou Dobbs: "Mueller is on a Jihad against Trump in an effort to overthrow the presidency"

 

[Atramental]

Inshallah

[Nintex]

 

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John Bolton with the gun 

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[Atramental]

Holy shit. I totally forgot about Jon McNaughton. The rest of his Trump paintings must be comedic gold. 

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They are. Oh my god. 






 

[agrajag]

Why does the last one look like Alec Baldwin SNL Trump?

[Boredfrom]

Feels like Ben Garrison cartoons. Kind of interesting given he has obvious art school training but is such a waste...

[kingv]

I feel like he’s not a particularly great painter, apart from his right wing subject matter.

Like it all has a very “some shit I’d buy for $30 from a store in the mall” kind of look to it.

[agrajag]

The MAGA Kinkade

[Boredfrom]

I feel like he’s not a particularly great painter, apart from his right wing subject matter.

Like it all has a very “some shit I’d buy for $30 from a store in the mall” kind of look to it.

Not saying he is a particularly good painter, but that he is using his skills to what is essentially political cartoons (then again, one can argue that type on your face message was typical in classical art already).

 Is also hilarious that he is a religious nut and puts Trump as some sort of Messiah. “Fuck LGBT rights, but Trump is allowed to be a pig with women because he is cleaning the swamp”.

[agrajag]

Meanwhile in North Korea...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634201841/despite-denuclearization-pledge-north-korea-reportedly-building-more-icbms

 

Was this the news Hungrynoob warned us about?

[Kara]

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/take-no-prisoners-inside-a-wwii-american-war-crime/

Don't recommend listening to this around other people.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1024389322823426049

Judge seems a bit biased.

Trump is heading towards a rally as I type this. Currently the crowd is heckling CNN
https://twitter.com/mahoneysthename/status/1024402235021844480

 

[Nola]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.

Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration’s proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by The Associated Press.

The excerpts also show the administration plans to challenge California’s long-standing authority to enact its own, tougher pollution and fuel standards...……….

New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don’t have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.

At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes...

Next up, cut FDA regulations to curb obesity.... Because people will eat less if there is more salmonella in their food.

[Nintex]

people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon

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Pro-tip for the Trump admin. If people would crash more they would also drive less. 

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https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1024422582219681798
Mueller also found something on the Podesta's.

[agrajag]

hungrynoob was right!

[Atramental]

#PizzaGate? 

[Nola]

I'm pretty sure Mueller investigating Tony was first reported like a year ago.

I remember it being one of those stories that rose and fell within a few days. A little bit longer in the right-wing sphere that went nuts over it(and still doeS).

[kingv]

Etoilet taking Ls from beyond the grace.


https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links

I guess maybe that time stamp theory WAS bullshit after all...

[thisismyusername]

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/93hbwt/wikileaks_refuses_to_publish_manafort_family/

Jesus Christ at these texts. Dude was into LITERAL CUCKHOLDING, and forcing his wife to do it.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

[kingv]

He was just in it for the porno and Xans.

[Urinals]

Is there such a thing as Wikileaksleaks?

[benjipwns]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/style/how-cable-news-chyrons-have-adapted-to-the-trump-era/

if the chyrons had a skeptical, cut-to-the-chase chyron of their own, it might read, “Chyrons: We’re Just Like the Headlines in Your Newspaper.”

[Cerveza mas fina]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.

Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration’s proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by The Associated Press.

The excerpts also show the administration plans to challenge California’s long-standing authority to enact its own, tougher pollution and fuel standards...……….

New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don’t have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.

At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes...

Next up, cut FDA regulations to curb obesity.... Because people will eat less if there is more salmonella in their food.

Holy fuck is this mileage thing real?

[Nola]

Holy fuck is this mileage thing real?

Yeah:

https://apnews.com/07c8fd1825ed42e08393f7d151a0664d

It's all part of their longstanding push to roll back MPG standards and other regulations to help benefit the oil and gas industry. The other fun thing they are pushing is to eliminate a state's ability to raise MPG standards above what the federal standards are set at. So California's higher MPG standards would be invalid or unenforceable.

....Something, something, states rights!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Tbf there is a twisted logic IF this would lead to lower prices and higher sales which is debatable

[Nintex]

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/93hbwt/wikileaks_refuses_to_publish_manafort_family/

Jesus Christ at these texts. Dude was into LITERAL CUCKHOLDING, and forcing his wife to do it.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

There's also this:

“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” she continued, according to the reviewed texts. “As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose *strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."

Manafort was apparently behind the Maidan escalation. Would make sense, Yanukovich was basically just a puppet controlled and mangled by Manafort. Yanukovich was an average cold war era communist crook. Manafort wrote a few speeches and gave him a suit to make him look presentable. Kinda like what Blair's people did to Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear weapons (which he never had anyway).

Manafort was also supposed to 'control' Trump like he had Yanukovich but he never managed to get Trump to act like the statesman.
Unlike Yanukovich who was not only a crook, out of his element in politics and camera shy, Trump loved to improvise.
So every carefully curated speech turned into a big mess until Trump flat-out refused to read them and ripped apart the teleprompters.

[Nola]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024646945640525826

This fucking guy

[Kara]

Maybe Q was right.

http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1024479414631972864

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024646945640525826

This fucking guy

Sad thing is, he clearly doesn’t understand what recusal means. Even now.

For the purposes of the Russian Investigation, he is not the attorney general.

[Kara]

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/07/are-stock-buybacks-starving-the-economy/566387/

[Great Rumbler]

Implying that money spent on stock buybacks would have otherwise gone to employees.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024680095343108097
 

[Kara]

Implying that money spent on stock buybacks would have otherwise gone to employees.

tfw u don't know what a capital strike is but u know something wrong

[Nintex]

Wtf was said on Fox and Friends this morning?

Just the usual mix of positive Trump news and outrage over non-issues. Looking at their Twitter the main topics seem to have been praising his rally, Trump fixing healthcare and some Democrat not standing for the anthem.
Although recently Trump praised Rush Limbaugh so maybe his relationship with Fox & Friends has ended and Rush is his new best friend now.

I don't know why Trump suddenly figured it would be a good idea to compare Manaforts case to the Capone operation but here we are.

Trust the plan

DARK TO LIGHT

Q

[Nintex]

Tfw u accidentally reveal you watch Fox & Friends

Nope, we don't have that here. I just looked at their Twitter to see today's headlines.

The level of bias is extraordinary. Pretty much a window into a different universe or reality.

[shosta]

I believe you, but it would have completely been in character for you.

[zomgee]

Tweets aren't orders we swear

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1024731508173623301


Trump and his supporters are treating Manafort like a martyr while he's getting every benefit of the doubt throughout this process. Imagine if he were being treated like the average poor defendant.

[agrajag]

Dems are elitists and cucks but let's stan for Manafort who is draping himself in Persian rugs and is a literal cuckold.

[Atramental]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/qanon-meets-the-mainstream-at-tampa-trump-rally/

[Nola]

Tweets aren't orders we swear

[Cerveza mas fina]

Remember when we laughed that Boris Yeltsin was president

Good ole 90s

[Nintex]

Remember when we laughed that Boris Yeltsin was president

Good ole 90s

This story is just too good to be true.
- Clinton put Yeltsin into power
- The people around Yeltsin appointed Putin as the successor because he was a colorless bureaucrat with the O.K. from Washington
- Clinton approved and propped up Putin's rule over Russia
- Clinton bombed Serbia which the Russians considered a betrayal
- G.W. Bush became BFF with Putin but the relationship soured over the missile shields
- Obama send Hillary to fix things with Putin
- US NGO's (with the go ahead of Clinton) organized protests against Putin when the 'reset' failed
- Putin vowed revenge
- Putin destroyed Abuela's presidential aspirations through hacks, trolls and wikileaks
- Donald Trump was elected

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[Optimus]

Staying consistent with my Asian supremacy slash pro-Mayocide message in the other thread I'm officially endorsing the latest New York Times editorial board member :


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/2/ny-times-newest-editorial-board-member-doesnt-seem/

[Nola]

   

[Optimus]

 

Classic mayo, panicking over some tweets. You people are disgusting.

[kingv]

This press conference is pretty crazy. More or less invalidating both Trump's win in 2016 and ANYONE's win in 2018.

What press conference is this?