US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Am_I_Anonymous]

How about you get off my trancis dick?

Nah, you're crumbs to me kid. How about you identify yourself, are you a Mary or a Marty?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

How about you get off my trancis dick?

Nah, you're crumbs to me kid. How about you identify yourself, are you a Mary or a Marty?

I throw away crumbs. Why you all up in my shit? Cause I said your stupid thoughts were stupid shit?

I love how thirsty you got over that bait transcis bait. Fuck off.

e: trump tried to say crimea was obamas fault and not putins. haha

[Am_I_Anonymous]

How about you get off my trancis dick?

Nah, you're crumbs to me kid. How about you identify yourself, are you a Mary or a Marty?

I throw away crumbs. Why you all up in my shit? Cause I said your stupid thoughts were stupid shit?

I love how thirsty you got over that bait transcis bait. Fuck off.

Allow me to rephrase, apologies. I don't give a fuck if you die tomorrow, who are you, you stupid bitch?

Better?

[Mandark]

Has there ever been a politician more transparently hypersensitive than Trump? It's kind of amazing.

We have tapes of LBJ and Nixon obsessing over shit but it still doesn't even feel close.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Has there ever been a politician more transparently hypersensitive than Trump? It's kind of amazing.

We have tapes of LBJ and Nixon obsessing over shit but it still doesn't even feel close.

He just brought up oprah again, so probably not.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Has there ever been a politician more transparently hypersensitive than Trump? It's kind of amazing.

We have tapes of LBJ and Nixon obsessing over shit but it still doesn't even feel close.

Nixon. That's about it.

[seagrams hotsauce]

yeah but you're a giant piece of shit so who cares what you think

[Cauliflower Of Love]

In the span of 90 seconds Trump either revealed a secret meeting in Russia with Putin or got confused on Russia and Finland (and ignored the correction), then claimed Obama annexed Crimea, and after arguing, left it at "it had nothing to do with me", which no one said in the first place.

It's fucking amazing.

Q: can we get some details?

A: putin!

[Am_I_Anonymous]

yeah but you're a giant piece of shit so who cares what you think

Ironic.

Keep holding onto internet grudges from 5 years ago, it does wonder for your street cred, I'm sure!

[Himu]

Trump: I could end the Mueller investigation

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"People leave"

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Trump: I could end the Mueller investigation

Can some 4th grade teacher please tell him how checks and balances work, I thx?

[Mandark]

What's crazy to me (besides literally everything) is that he's clearly miserable most of the time with this job, he doesn't give a shit about or understand any of the work-related stuff, he's drawing all sorts of legal scrutiny that he would have avoided by just being a regular sketchy rich guy, and he's going to cling to this position like a barnacle anyways.

He could be living out his retirement years golfing, randomly calling in to talk radio, and cruising charity events for women who remind him of his daughter, but nope.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I swear to god trump is channeling Cameron Alexander.

What's crazy to me (besides literally everything) is that he's clearly miserable most of the time with this job, he doesn't give a shit about or understand any of the work-related stuff, he's drawing all sorts of legal scrutiny that he would have avoided by just being a regular sketchy rich guy, and he's going to cling to this position like a barnacle anyways.

He could be living out his retirement years golfing, randomly calling in to talk radio, and cruising charity events for women who remind him of his daughter, but nope.

Fallacy of corruption. They can't get me ever, so time to level up.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I swear to god trump is channeling Cameron Alexander.

I was thinking George Constanza but go on.

[stufte]

[Himu]

Trump: I could end the Mueller investigation

Can some 4th grade teacher please tell him how checks and balances work, I thx?

The fact he said it is awful though, fuck stick.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1060057084769824769

The Senate is so rigged that Democrats may never control it ever again
It would be nice to live in a democratic republic.

It’s the day after Election Day, and Democrats just handed Republicans the GOP’s collective asses. Though the sheer magnitude of the Republican loss remains uncertain — ballots are still being counted, and blue California may take weeks to complete its count — early projections suggest that Democratic House candidates may have won the national popular vote by 7 points.

That’s a bigger margin of victory than the Republican wave in 2010 (6.8 points) or the GOP wave in 2014 (5.7 points).

And yet, it wasn’t enough. Republicans will hold the Senate and, with it, the power to fill the federal courts with Republican stalwarts.

A Landslide Victory for Democrats Is Tempered by America’s Broken Electoral System

The numbers are still coming in as I write this just after the witching hour of Election Night, but Democrats seem poised for one of the biggest midterm landslide victories in modern history.

...

In a sane electoral system, such a resoundingly clear result would mean sweeping new powers for the winning party.

...

But the victory for Democrats feels underwhelming. That’s partly due to stinging defeats in high-profile races in Florida, Georgia, and Ohio that Democrats had hoped to win, as well as tough Senate losses in states like Missouri and Indiana that Democrats knew were uphill battles but had still hoped to eke out.

But it’s mostly due to the fact that the American electoral system is functionally broken in a way that gives Republicans enormous unearned advantages.

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And then, of course, there’s the Senate. Our own Martin Longman and many others have already covered this in depth, but the U.S. Senate no longer has any reason to exist

How to explain to someone living abroad that Democrats can have over 10 million more Senate votes and still lose

As Europeans woke up to the results of the 2018 midterm elections on Wednesday, their primary question — what next for a president who is so deeply unpopular here? — remained largely unanswered.

But European news networks still dedicated hours-long specials to the key vote. And while viewers here tried to make sense of the results, they repeatedly stumbled over two numbers: the total votes for Democratic and Republican Senate candidates. More than 45 million Americans voted for Democratic Senate candidates vs. about 33 million for Republican contenders, according to figures updated around 11 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday.

As the animated TV graphics clearly showed, though, it was Republicans who ended the night in control of the Senate — not the Democrats. “An extraordinary electoral system,” tweeted an incredulous state secretary in the German state of Hesse.

So how could Democrats outpace Republicans by more than 10 million votes and still fall further behind in the Senate?

Why Democrats didn't take the Senate despite winning 11 million more votes than Republicans

Although Republicans retained control of the Senate during this year's midterm elections, Democrats actually earned about 11 million more votes.

Reported vote counts show that Democratic Senate candidates this year thus far have won roughly 44 million votes, whereas Republican Senate candidates have earned 33 million, per The Washington Post. That means about 57 percent of the total votes cast went for Senate Democrats. Despite those stats, Republicans managed to flip three seats, bolstering their majority.

 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Trump: I could end the Mueller investigation

Can some 4th grade teacher please tell him how checks and balances work, I thx?

The fact he said it is awful though, fuck stick.

He reminds me of the kid who really wanted to be cool, and when he got his chance he blew it by exacerbating everything.

Screech. Trump is Dustin Diamond.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I can't understand you

x2

jfc

benji is back! done fake voting?

[benjipwns]

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/6/18068792/midterm-election-results-winners-and-losers

Loser: Taylor Swift
The country turned pop-country turned just pop star pivoted her image to a kind of bland, semi-political “girl power” stance about a year before the 2016 presidential campaign pitted the first female major party nominee against a gross misogynist and Taylor Swift sat it out. That earned her a chorus of criticism, though given her considerable audience on both sides of the partisan divide, it probably made sense for her in business terms.

That changed in 2018 when Swift rather unexpectedly Instagrammed an endorsement of former Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Senate campaign against Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Benji...holy shit he lives. Awesome.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"People will be less anti semitic if i suck netanyahu's dick"

[Cauliflower Of Love]

just laid hes hand out about he doesn't care.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I seriously wonder if trump thought he was up for election this year and was like "wtf?".

e: just accidentally complimented obama.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"black lady asked me a question I don't understand"

racist question

[Cauliflower Of Love]

lol, he just brought up impeaching pence without any prodding.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

uh " I retired jeff flake"

wat

[Great Rumbler]

I love how Trump is threatening intestigations into Hillary's emails and "leaks" if House Dems try to investigation the Executive Branch.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

x3 "I cant understand"

Fucking POTUS

"I can't understand"

[Mandark]

Pelosi should meet with Trump, say she wants to work with him, and ask him for a specific list of things he doesn't want investigated so she can better protect him.

I swear if Trump didn't have an aide in the room this might work.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Pelosi should meet with Trump, say she wants to work with him, and ask him for a specific list of things he doesn't want investigated so she can better protect him.

I swear if Trump didn't have an aide in the room this might work.

Worked for comey.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I wish someone would just take a lifetime career hit and ask him "how long does your tan spray take" Like, jim acosta.

Just to see him freak. But I think that's the reality of this. It's just there and we're ok with it.

I wonder how much money trump & co owes to ms 13. Literally took the presidency to fight them .

"the media, we used to call it the press"  WOW

[Joe Molotov]

Now that he’s bored with the Karavan, it’s time to refocus on the true enemy of America: CNN.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

itsnt it spelled caravan with a c?

[Great Rumbler]

Not when Kara is the one leading the invasion.

[agrajag]

Assi gets banned and AiA comes back almost immediately after

 

[Nintex]

Interesting results. The GOP picked up more senate seats and lost the house.
I guess the Dems get to investigate what the GOP is up to now?

It'll just be a series of investigations into people Trump will fire at some point anyway.

The next two years:
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1060244121544286208

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1060247148380340224

 

[agrajag]

Assi gets banned and AiA comes back almost immediately after

 

Completely different wrting styles and I don't think Assi is capable of pulling that off.

Seeing the same admin who banned Assi "bless up" blatant bigotry is pretty awesome though;  forum is also kind of dead now.  Good work Rumbler.

It wouldn't be Assy, Assy would be the character under this scenario.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Delusion was on the ballot, and having that potus champaigning for it makes sense.

China is gonna make so much gains out this clusterfuck.

It's amazing that the obama admin was trying their god damn hardest to prevent india and china from becoming superpowers. but fuck the hippies, right? All these fucking ignorant people in the midwest that could have been the new source of economic prosperity for energy independence.

Just fucking turn one of those states into a solar panel farm and you have energy independence.

Idiots. I'm glad I don't plan on having kids.

[Mandark]

nintex, how much money do you want to bet that republicans gain seats in the house?

Not sure that they'll gain. But I'm quite certain that they won't lose much either.
I have this idea of seats swapping. Some reds turn blue, some blue turn red and then you get one or two independent party or green party people in there in an "upset".

At this point everything is 50/50 plus give or take a few percentage points. So unless everyone who didn't vote last time starts registering en masse the end result of all these elections will be roughly the same.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1060246759270682624

We're reaching new levels of smug Trump 

[benjipwns]

nintex, how much money do you want to bet that republicans gain seats in the house?

Not sure that they'll gain. But I'm quite certain that they won't lose much either.
I have this idea of seats swapping. Some reds turn blue, some blue turn red and then you get one or two independent party or green party people in there in an "upset".

At this point everything is 50/50 plus give or take a few percentage points. So unless everyone who didn't vote last time starts registering en masse the end result of all these elections will be roughly the same.

FACT CHECK: Bernie Sanders and Angus King won re-election to the Senate and are generally colored GREEN on media websites like the failing non-journalist reich-wing NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-senate-elections.html

[benjipwns]

One of the many independents Bernie Sanders beat was Brad Peacock, which Google tells me is:

Bradley J. Peacock is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. Peacock has also played in MLB for the Washington Nationals.

Houston Astros reliever Brad Peacock has contracted hand, foot and mouth disease, A.J. Hinch announced on Tuesday.

Peacock is now the third MLB pitcher to catch the disease this season. Both Noah Syndergaard of the New York Mets and J.A. Happ of the New York Yankees had stints on the 10-day disabled list due to the virus.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

glad to have you back benji, after doxxing all the voters.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Assi gets banned and AiA comes back almost immediately after

 

I was here before you, and I'll be here after you. Play your own position, small soldier.

[Mandark]

Telling someone you'll be posting on The Bore after they've moved on is a pretty bad self-own.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Telling someone you'll be posting on The Bore after they've moved on is a pretty bad self-own.

[Nintex]

Give it a few months and Trump will be airing his press conferences live from the golf course following the firing of his entire cabinet as he bashes the Democrats for obstructing.
Unless he just rubber stamps whatever the Democrats send him to make himself more popular.

[Mandark]

JEFF SESSIONS HAS "RESIGNED"

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

The keebler elf is out. 

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060256619383193601

[Nintex]

JEFF SESSIONS HAS RESIGNED

"Hi Mueller, nice investigation you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it"
 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

JEFF SESSIONS HAS RESIGNED

"Hi Mueller, nice investigation you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it"
 

Wow. This is like a low budget TV drama on the USA network at this point.

[Nintex]

Trump asked Jeff to step down
https://twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/1060256609023262721

So in between grililng the press he had this lined up.

[kingv]

Firing Jeff Sessions is perhaps the dumbest move.

There’s a lot of senators watching their backs out there that very well might say “fuck you trump, I’m up for re-election in a purple  state in 2 years” or “fuck you, I lost and no longer have to indulge you”

And, the house can just start their own investigation and hire mueller.

He’s having his biggest baby shit fit yet.

[benjipwns]

Trump asked Jeff to step down

So in between grililng the press he had this lined up.

It is customary (thus...I shouldn't mention it with Trump) for Presidents to request resignation letters long ahead of time from the Cabinet, to use when they "fire" the person. In this case "requested earlier today" means asking for the one already prepared.

W. Bush received multiple ones prepared by Rumsfeld that he all rejected.

Sessions was at the top of the list of the people Trump was looking towards getting rid of after the midterms no matter how they went.

[benjipwns]

Trump was upset with Sessions for many reasons other than the Mueller investigation, mainly stuff happening while Trump was in office and Sessions wasn't backing him, with immigration, etc.; if Mueller is indeed to issue a progress report soon it probably has little to do with it. Sessions was a dead man walking for months now.

[Mandark]

Trump was upset with Sessions for many reasons other than the Mueller investigation

haha

[benjipwns]

Perhaps I should have elaborated on how I am unsure that Trump knows the role of the Attorney General? There's all sorts of stories/scuttlebutt about Trump being upset that Jeff wasn't out being Trump's cheerleader on every administration policy, especially legally.

Rod Rosenstein's descent into confused madness I think makes clear that Trump did properly identify the Justice Department's Mueller thorn in his side. Probably all the more reason he wanted rid of Jeff, if he wasn't going to even do anything about that.

[benjipwns]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/media/fox-news-sean-hannity-jeanine-pirro-trump-rally/index.html

Fox News journalists were outraged and disgusted after Sean Hannity, the network's star host, campaigned with President Donald Trump on Monday night ahead of the midterm elections, more than half a dozen employees told CNN Business.

"People throughout the company think a new line was crossed," one senior Fox News employee told CNN Business on Tuesday.

"It disturbs me to my core," said another senior Fox News employee, who added, "I am so f---ing mad."

"We were all told that Hannity was going to interview the president, but no one that I spoke with expected what happened last night," added a third senior Fox News employee. "I'm aghast as are a number of other people."

But a Fox News spokesperson told CNN Business and other news outlets soon after that Hannity would simply be at the rally in Missouri to broadcast his show and cover the event for the network. Hannity offered an identical message in a Monday morning tweet, saying, "To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the president."

Yet just hours later, Hannity and Pirro were both on stage with Trump, energizing the Republican base ahead of Election Day.

After having expressly denied that he would be campaigning on stage with the President, the first move from Hannity when he walked on stage was to slam members of the media stationed at the back of the auditorium as "fake news," apparently not realizing -- or caring -- that Fox News journalists were among the "people in the back" that he had insulted.

One Fox News employee described to CNN Business the scene at the New York headquarters of Fox News at the time, as a number of journalists inside the company's news division watched the episode unfold live. The person said that the employees were dismayed at what they saw.

Other Fox News employees questioned why network executives have not taken any action.

"The whole thing is just so embarrassing that this guy basically has free rein to do whatever he wants, and management is either helpless or uninterested in doing anything about it," said one Fox News employee.

Another employee said that Hannity's behavior, both Monday night and generally, "continues to make the task of the news side all that much harder."

One former senior Fox News employee told CNN Business that he had spoken to a number of former colleagues who are still at the network about the matter. He described them as "livid."

In a Tuesday afternoon statement, a Fox News spokesperson said, "Fox News does not condone any talent participating in campaign events. We have an extraordinary team of journalists helming our coverage tonight and we are extremely proud of their work. This was an unfortunate distraction and has been addressed."