US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[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!

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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.

[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?

[Mandark]

White House press conference, they had a few top level people from the intelligence agencies to talk about election security etc. Haven't caught up on it myself.

[kingv]

Weird that Trump would let. Olson, at least, talk like that.

[Nintex]

Interesting stuff

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/02/rnc-warns-donors-kochs-760233

let_them_fight.jpg

[Kara]

https://www.accountingtoday.com/articles/us-expats-face-hammering-from-new-tax-rules

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.accountingtoday.com/articles/us-expats-face-hammering-from-new-tax-rules

If they don't like it, then they can leave.

[Kara]

I work with taxpayers like the ones described in that article so my heart definitely doesn't bleed for them, but it's really astounding how careless the construction of the new code was.

To go a little more , stuff like this is going to be used as part of a larger push to eliminate worldwide taxation of individuals in N years (instead of just changing the law to exempt taxpayers below a certain threshold), and when that happens it's all she wrote for reeling in the excesses of the present day.

[Nintex]

Trump has gone back into 2016 campaign mode.
Tweet storms, rallies and daily CNN drama.

Scott Adams visited Trump today

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1025149648929996800

[Atramental]

Scott Adams is such a troll. 

[Mandark]

Adams gets in his feelings waaaaay too much to be a troll.

[Atramental]

Maybe he’s concern trolling? 

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I suppose you’re right.

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[benjipwns]

Maybe Q was right.

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

he deleted this whole set of tweets for some reason? was it drunk tweeting?

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benj ip wns always reads his twitter handle as "matty glesias" for some reason

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[curly]

He regularly deletes old tweets

[Kara]

He talked about how Maoist movie reviews that said the prequel Star Wars movies were good pushed him away from the Avakian line of Correct Thought.

[benjipwns]

that was the link I was trying to get and couldn't remember which movies he was complaining about, I knew it was a Disney Lucasfilm property but wasn't sure on what about Star Wars

[Mandark]

Posting this ironically before benji can post it sincerely.

https://twitter.com/ProfHenderson/status/1024281730130239490

[agrajag]

I guess he worded it poorly and meant that people say "Koch Brothers" when referring only to those two, and the other brothers, perhaps, would not want to be associated with their shenanigans?

[agrajag]

The Kock sisters

THE VERY SPECIFIC TWO KOCH BROTHERS doesn't really have the same ring to it

They have names, CHARLES and DAVID, stop dehumanizing them!