US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[VomKriege]

Emailghazi the biggest US scandal in the last century

[Brehvolution]

Rubio tweeted out that the dems are trying to steal Florida's election for Gillum because they want to make sure all the votes are being counted.

[chronovore]

Also why Trump singled out the Republicans that lost that didn't support him.

fwiw Trump is lying about this.

You can tell that he's lying, because his lips are moving.

[El Babua]

Fucking Florida

[shosta]

Florida and Georgia governor races might trigger recounts? That's good. That's damn good.

[Great Rumbler]

I really hope at least Rick Scott ends up losing once the recount is done.

[Occam]

What's it with this constant recounting business? Why don't they count the votes correctly the first time? You never hear about recounts in European countries.

[agrajag]

This is America

[brawndolicious]

We really need ranked choice voting for statewide and federal offices. You hear bullshit about how polarized the country is but it's really a spectrum and the average voter would be far more comfortable with their third or fourth choice winning than their tenth choice.

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/stevebousquet/status/1060964919644958720

Scott has gone full Trump. Just throwing raw meat to repugnicans, but not following any legal channel for his accusations.

With that said, i wouldn't be too hopeful about Florida Shosta. Our batting average with recounts isn't good.

[Maiden Voyage]

What's it with this constant recounting business? Why don't they count the votes correctly the first time? You never hear about recounts in European countries.

There's usually an auto recount if the win is less than an arbitrary percentage. Unlike Europe we actually care.

[Maiden Voyage]

Florida Shosta sounds a lot like a young Leisure Suit Larry.

[TakingBackSunday]

So say sinema wins...what’s the senate split at that point?

[Mandark]

53-47

[agrajag]

53-47

That's really shitty.

[CatsCatsCats]

Lol we ded

[kingv]

Recounts are caused by the caravans of Mexicans coming across the American border every year.

 Notice the similarity between REcount, REfried beans, and REsetera.

[kingv]

53-47

That's really shitty.

It was always going to be like this though. When you look at all of the senate races you realize Democrat’s only lost like 9-11 races depending on how the recounts go. The map was really bad for the dens this year, but holistically they basically almost ran the board.

[shosta]

[agrajag]

Oh, we're fucked fucked.

[CatsCatsCats]

Here’s a political bet: which kills us all first, nukes or climate fuckery?

[Mandark]

I'll bet 2 liters of pure aqua and a case of ammo against safe passage through The Abandoned Zone that it's climate.

[shosta]

Honestly, we should abolish the Senate.

[El Babua]

Also, the State

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060993836984324096

The election NEVER ENDS

[Mandark]

Can't lie: seeing the #MAGA set go from smug certainty to pants-pissing tantrums has been pretty gratifying.

[agrajag]

Honestly, we should abolish the Senate.

You say that now, until the GOP has a super majority in the House and unilaterally repeals all entitlement programs, environmental protections, fills every supreme court position with a hardline conservative, appoints Trump ruler for life and redistributes the wealth again to the 1%. Did I miss anything?

 

[shosta]

Can't lie: seeing the #MAGA set go from smug certainty to pants-pissing tantrums has been pretty gratifying.

They're so irrelevant, though. The only person who I want to wipe their shit eating grin off their face is Nintex.

[Mandark]

Beast mode!

[agrajag]

Beast mode!

The madman has done it again!

[CatsCatsCats]

(N+1)th dimensional chess!

[nachobro]

those who understand strategy are in awe of trump the master

[Nintex]

This is like an average InfoWars broadcast. 

[BlueTsunami]

Can't lie: seeing the #MAGA set go from smug certainty to pants-pissing tantrums has been pretty gratifying.

The concept of schadenfreude was made for this very moment

[shosta]

I forgot to share this with you all

Voters in Pahrump on Tuesday picked Republican Dennis Hof, the legal pimp who died last month, to serve in state Assembly District 36.

Electing the former brothel baron and reality TV star Hof, who died at age 72, now sets off a competitive, and convoluted, tri-county process to appoint a living Republican to the seat.

Nye County Republican Central Committee Chairman Joe Burdzinski and former Assemblyman James Oscarson have been tipped as contenders for the job.

Hof jumped out to an apparently insurmountable 36-percentage point lead against Democratic hopeful Lesia Romanov after the first batches of ballots were counted late Tuesday night.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

my boss voted for him

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[Am_I_Anonymous]

After the Civil War until FDR, the Democrats similarly ran up huge margins in a select few locked down states (mostly the former Confederacy) that ultimately often did nothing to win them control of the Presidency, House or Senate except for unique or select years. It's also why that era first did the whole popular vote losing President wraps up Electoral College thing.

And before this they supported, funded, and profited off slavery.

Thank God for Richard Nixon (Google it you woke morons) .

There's your answer as to why AiA is a conservative. The enemy of my enemy...

[Occam]

What's it with this constant recounting business? Why don't they count the votes correctly the first time? You never hear about recounts in European countries.

There's usually an auto recount if the win is less than an arbitrary percentage. Unlike Europe we actually care.

But why? Shouldn't the count be correct the first time?

[Mandark]

aia I dunno how to break this to you but p sure nixon didn't end slavery

[Mandark]

BONUS CONTENT ALTERNATE PUNCHLINE:

AIA's gonna switch parties when he finds out about the Volstead Act.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

BONUS CONTENT ALTERNATE PUNCHLINE:

AIA's gonna switch parties when he finds out about the Volstead Act.

Not when you know who inspire it ;-)

[Am_I_Anonymous]

aia I dunno how to break this to you but p sure nixon didn't end slavery

Without Nixon you'd probably be making more money than me and the NFL would be composed of 6'1 175 pound white guys running 5.9 40's.

"And in an inspiring performance for the Kalamazoo Gypsies, Mandark rushed the ball 32 times for 19 yards. Is it to early to say MVP? I think not"

Chris Berman.


Edit: And don't get me started on the NBA layup contest at the all star games 

[Mandark]

Now I'm actually curious how you think the civil rights movement went and Nixon's role in it.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Now I'm actually curious how you think the civil rights movement went and Nixon's role in it.

Well it all started in the Senate when a good god fearing man suggested freeing the slaves (taking over textile mills) and a redneck hillbilly caned the shit out of him for it :-)

You'll never get a serious debate out of me here, I leave that to y'all.

We can talk about how terrible an all white NBA would be though.

[Mandark]

Yeah, you've brought up the caning of Charles Sumner before.

Like, this is obviously not why you're a Republican. You've made a lot of money and want to keep it and that's understandable. But the "look up Richard Nixon!" bit is kind of interesting. Like is it a common meme on the right that he was a key figure in the CRM? Should I be expecting Dinesh D'Souza to make a documentary about this soon?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Yeah, you've brought up the caning of Charles Sumner before.

Like, this is obviously not why you're a Republican. You've made a lot of money and want to keep it and that's understandable. But the "look up Richard Nixon!" bit is kind of interesting. Like is it a common meme on the right that he was a key figure in the CRM? Should I be expecting Dinesh D'Souza to make a documentary about this soon?

Nah but unlike his predecessors at least he didn't say "fuck em" so he has that going for him.

[Nintex]

I forgot to share this with you all

Voters in Pahrump on Tuesday picked Republican Dennis Hof, the legal pimp who died last month, to serve in state Assembly District 36.

Electing the former brothel baron and reality TV star Hof, who died at age 72, now sets off a competitive, and convoluted, tri-county process to appoint a living Republican to the seat.

Nye County Republican Central Committee Chairman Joe Burdzinski and former Assemblyman James Oscarson have been tipped as contenders for the job.

Hof jumped out to an apparently insurmountable 36-percentage point lead against Democratic hopeful Lesia Romanov after the first batches of ballots were counted late Tuesday night.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

my boss voted for him

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Election Night 2018

Romney: "But Mitch, I'm telling you if we want to win 2020 we better replace him... I've talked it over with Nikki she was open to the VP spot"

Mitch: "Hold your horses Mitt, there's another result rolling in we might make it after all"

*TV sound* .... and Pahrump is called early for Dennis Hof. Who actually died before the vo....

Mitch: "Sounds like his corpse could actually win  "

 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

"But mah Brown v board of education, AiA"


*360 no look layup.

[Mandark]

Nah but unlike his predecessors at least he didn't say "fuck em" so he has that going for him.

idk man

[kingv]

I forgot to share this with you all

Voters in Pahrump on Tuesday picked Republican Dennis Hof, the legal pimp who died last month, to serve in state Assembly District 36.

Electing the former brothel baron and reality TV star Hof, who died at age 72, now sets off a competitive, and convoluted, tri-county process to appoint a living Republican to the seat.

Nye County Republican Central Committee Chairman Joe Burdzinski and former Assemblyman James Oscarson have been tipped as contenders for the job.

Hof jumped out to an apparently insurmountable 36-percentage point lead against Democratic hopeful Lesia Romanov after the first batches of ballots were counted late Tuesday night.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

my boss voted for him

[close]

Pharump for Trump!

You can use that for T-shirts.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Nah but unlike his predecessors at least he didn't say "fuck em" so he has that going for him.

idk man

If Trump is responsible for every racist in this country then Nixon is responsible for cleaning up educational racism. You can't have it both ways (well you could post on RE I suppose)

[Mandark]

The justice department started the process of school desegregation in the south in '64 or '65 though?

Nixon's admin didn't completely kneecap the process like a hypothetical president George Wallace would've but I'm struggling to see how he's a hero in this.

[kingv]

 Nixon was pretty famously racist, we can all acknowledge that right?

Like there are tapes of him talking about negro bastards that want to live like dogs, and suggesting that black people need to be inbred (or are inbred) to make America stronger in 500 years (or something like that, it’s a weird conversation).

I don’t think people (on hate site the Bire) are saying Trump created racism, he just has no qualms about using racism politically and is obviously also racist.

[CatsCatsCats]

Of course Trump isn’t responsible for every racist. He’s just taking advantage of how many there are

[kingv]

That said LBJ was also pretty racist.

[kingv]

And Obama is racist af against whites people.

 

[Mandark]

Ben Stein defending Nixon as a "friend to the Jews" decades later, after we can all hear on the tapes what Nixon thought of Jewish people.

 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Again he isn't my hero. But his fucked up strategy of forcing white southern democrats to vote Republican helped me out more than Wallace would of ;-)

[TakingBackSunday]

the definition of fuck you got mine right here

[Mandark]

Do you think the '68 election was mainly a choice between Nixon and Wallace?

This is why I asked originally: not for an argument, but because you seem to have some order of events laid out in your head and I'm really curious to know how it goes.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

the definition of fuck you got mine right here

I have 3 kids, 4 college educations, and a wife who thinks 500 dollar rugs are necessary, trust me...."mine" and I have long since parted ways.