US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[curly]

Thoroughly annoyed by these performative Our Revolution types who shove their "activism" in front of everyone's faces. Ocasio-Cortez "occupied" Pelosi's office until she promised to reinstate the select committee on climate change. But...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415723-house-dems-plan-to-bring-back-committee-on-climate-change

This was already in the work weeks ago. And you know who started that committee before it was dissolved by Republicans? Pelosi! I suspect this sit-in was actually staged between Dem leadership and the "new" progressive wing of the party to give her a nice photo-op and give the insurrection something to chew on.

(Image removed from quote.)

We did it! 

Things are getting off to an interesting start on Capitol Hill where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is participating in a sit-in in the office of Nancy Pelosi to demand “a Green New Deal”.
The protest, which is led by two groups, Justice Democrats and Sunrise Movement , bashes Pelosi for “her intention to promote a ‘bipartisan marketplace of ideas’ and re-launch a toothless special committee from 2007 on climate change which resulted in weak cap-and-trade legislation passing the House in 2009 before failing in the Democratic-controlled Senate”.

[Trent Dole]

Amazon to split second HQ between New York, Virginia
https://www.apnews.com/bf0843c9b8a243d7ad90975b41d734b7

The decision ends an intense competition between North American cities to win Amazon and its promise of 50,000 new jobs. Some locations tried to stand out with stunts, but Amazon made clear that it really wanted incentives, like tax breaks and grants. The company received 238 proposals before narrowing the list to 20 in January.
Amazon had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than a million people; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and have room to expand. It also wanted to able to attract top technical talent and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.
Set within eyeshot of the nation’s capital, Crystal City is a thicket of 1980s-era office towers trying to plug into new economic energy after thousands of federal jobs moved elsewhere.
Rapidly growing Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living.
In setting off the flurry of interest, Amazon said it could spend more than $5 billion to build its second headquarters over the next 17 years. The two locations combined would be about the same size as the company’s current home in Seattle, which has 33 buildings, 23 restaurants and houses 40,000 employees. The company isn’t leaving Seattle, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said the new headquarters will be “a full equal” to its current home.

The only choice more boring than this would be just building another headquarters in Seattle.

Apparently both those chosen locales are also where Bezos owns homes so the rest of this process was just a puppet show to see how much other places would bend over for him and a way to get better deals from NY and VA.

[Mandark]

Scott Walker basically lost his job because of a similar deal with FoxConn but that didn't seem to slow anyone down.

[Joe Molotov]

wow, that post really was bad

The bipartisan marketplace of ideas has determined it to be below acceptable quality, please wait 6 to 8 weeks and then resubmit an updated version.

[Nintex]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-clashes-first-lady-others-kelly-may-soon-exit-white-n935686?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Having learned of the dispute, the president was furious and told Kelly to give the first lady, who has a smaller East Wing staff than her recent predecessors, what she wanted, these people said. "I don't need this shit," Trump told Kelly, according to one person familiar with the conversation.

Trump was especially annoyed, according to people familiar with his thinking, that he had to get involved in disputes involving his wife. His message to Kelly, according to one of them, repeatedly has been: "Deal with it."

Who had: "Melania Trump has government officials fired" on their bingo cards?

Melania Trump has ensured the departure of one White House official, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel, after she had a series of run-ins with the first lady’s office.

https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1062448099346575360

 

[agrajag]

Hire a chief of staff so you don't have to deal with your nagging wife brehs

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062522615666016256

 

Counting all votes is stealing an election.

[Brehvolution]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-friends-features-maga-lego-knockoff-where-you-can-build-wall-to-keep-out-sombrero-clad-mexicans/

Later on Fox & Friends, newsreader Jillian Mele covered the toy set during headlines: “Take a look at this, a conservative company introducing a new line of toys encouraging kids to build a wall with MAGA building blocks. The set comes with a President Trump figurine and a ‘Make America Great Again’ hard hat.”

The Trump toy is also shown handing an “emails” file to a Hillary Clinton figurine, who is naturally clad in an orange jumpsuit.

“If you like toys…” Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade reacted.

“A gift for the kids or for like, the Trump voter?” asked Ainsley Earhardt.

“Both!” Mele replied.

[Mandark]

I remember in 2010 when they redistricted and people were screaming that the map would be gerrymandered for ten years. Has anyone seen an analysis of how that's reflected in 2018's election?

Pennsylvania and Virginia have had court-ordered redistricting since then and accounted for six of the Dem gains, so that probably helped. North Carolina was ordered to make a new map but drew out the process long enough to avoid it this cycle.

Going by Dave Wasserman's current tally, if the total national vote was tied (right now it's +7.1% for Dems and growing) and you applied a uniform shift across all the districts to get that, Republicans would have a 233-202 majority. Also using a uniform shift, the breakeven point is right around +4% Dem in the total national vote.

Winning the governors races in Michigan and Wisconsin is going to help, but Ohio and Florida would've been really nice.

[kingv]

How the fuck does LEGO not have a trademark on the basic design of a lego figurine that prevents people from legally making knockoff legos?

It’s not like they don’t use the LEGO figures in tons of promotional shit, or tv shows. Did they just not defend it?

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062522615666016256

 

Counting all votes is stealing an election.

Imagine if NFL team was trailing 24-22, but then NFL team proposed immigration reform and somehow now they’re losing 40 to -2. So they sellout to try to win, but they still don’t win. Then AFTER game, they make bad analogies on Twitter.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Looks like Donald Trump might be assassinated by the deep state soon.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-eric-holder-is-posting-mind-control-codes-on-twitter/

[Brehvolution]

  So many fake christians

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062764361243078656

[CatsCatsCats]

They gerrymandurr’d that shit fair and square, checkmate libcucktards

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/business/economy/trumps-tax-cut-was-supposed-to-change-corporate-behavior-heres-what-happened.html

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1062810142176100353

Yeah Nelson. Just accept it. America.
GUN.jpg

[Mandark]

Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

[Joe Molotov]

Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

He really is the Democrats’ Trump.

[FStop7]

"Don't tarnish your years of service" from Mr. Please Clap. 

[benjipwns]

Trump's mood takes a foul turn: 'He's pissed -- at damn near everyone'
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Kate Bennett, Jeremy Diamond, Kaitlan Collins, Pamela Brown, Sarah Westwood and Noah Gray, CNN

1. how can they tell
2. why did this story require ten bylines

 

[Nintex]

The deputy national security advisor and one of John Bolton's key appointments is officially out because she had a feud with Melania.

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1062849073961676800

"I don't need this shit" - Donald J. Trump.

Next on the list to possibly depart/get fired are: Nielsen, Kelly, Zinke, Ross, Mattis

[agrajag]

*reads about the Avennatti arrest*

This season is going into overdrive.

[Mandark]

They hired a company to smear their critics with the Soros conspiracy theory and they pressured the ADL to label criticism of Facebook as antisemitic.

That's chutzpah.

[Mandark]

Dem unity forces McConnell to filibuster his own proposal

That's some crazy news from 2012.

[kingv]

They hired a company to smear their critics with the Soros conspiracy theory and they pressured the ADL to label criticism of Facebook as antisemitic.

That's chutzpah.

Just a couple of Jews stirring up a little anti-Semitism for money...

[Brehvolution]

While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros.

Do you guys remember when Facebook made a lot of noise that they were fighting fake news

Sandberg was also furious at employees looking into Russian influence without permission saying any evidence would make the company look bad.
https://www.recode.net/2018/11/15/18095967/facebook-new-york-times-story-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg-fired

The story claims that Sandberg was angry when she first learned executives were digging into Russian election meddling without permission in early 2016, and was later an advocate internally for keeping critical information about that investigation out of the public eye.

This section of the story about the company’s decision not to name Russia in its first public white paper about the incident summarizes how both executives came across more broadly throughout the piece:

    If Facebook implicated Russia further, Mr. Kaplan said, Republicans would accuse the company of siding with Democrats. And if Facebook pulled down the Russians’ fake pages, regular Facebook users might also react with outrage at having been deceived: His own mother-in-law, Mr. Kaplan said, had followed a Facebook page created by Russian trolls.

    Ms. Sandberg sided with Mr. Kaplan, recalled four people involved. Mr. Zuckerberg — who spent much of 2017 on a national “listening tour,” feeding cows in Wisconsin and eating dinner with Somali refugees in Minnesota — did not participate in the conversations about the public paper. When it was published that April, the word “Russia” never appeared.

Admitting the truth makes you look like you are siding with the Democrats.

[Nintex]

Perhaps big finance and world leaders should've not shoveled percentages of their GDP to Silicon Valley and their private data theft operation because computers in the cloud are cool.

Perhaps.

[jorma]

How the fuck does LEGO not have a trademark on the basic design of a lego figurine that prevents people from legally making knockoff legos?

It’s not like they don’t use the LEGO figures in tons of promotional shit, or tv shows. Did they just not defend it?

they did, but the patents expired and they didn't have that disney clout to extend them perpetually. it's the patenting system working as intended, i guess.

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1062853932576321538

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1062853932576321538

[Occam]

The acting AG of the US:
https://m.

You can't make this up.

[agrajag]

please pay your respects to Benji's passing.

[VomKriege]

As often, the War College podcast has a good topic selection, here a short discussion on when thousands of bombings were recorded in America, sometimes several a day.

https://www.acast.com/warcollege/whenpoliticalviolenceexplodedinamerica

[Brehvolution]

please pay your respects to Benji's passing.

F

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1062853932576321538

I guess you can't wag the dog too much.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1063111419158245376

Wasn't Flynn's case about this 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1062853932576321538

F

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1063111419158245376

Wasn't Flynn's case about this 

flynn who?

[Mandark]

Looking forward to a week of spin about how the Sessions firing is completely unrelated to Mueller before Trump just blurts out the truth in front of a camera.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/14/transcript-trump-daily-caller-interview/

Literally one week. Ha ha ha.

[HardcoreRetro]

You gotta love Trump's eloquence.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-hippodrome-20181114-story.html

[curly]

https://twitter.com/eScarry/status/1063183409458102272

AOC got them pressed 

[Mandark]

That dude's commitment to keeping the tweet up is creating an apocalyptic ratio.

[Nintex]

Now watch them hook up and this season will get really weird.

[Mandark]

creepier than your usual fanfiction

[seagrams hotsauce]

https://twitter.com/eScarry/status/1063183409458102272

AOC got them pressed 

homeboy is wearing a floral skinny tie, so it seems like he's speaking from a place of authority when it comes to the topic of struggle fashion

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1063208373192146945

YAASSS SLAY QUEEN

Shine bright & keep it pushing.✨

[agrajag]

what's mockworthy about that tweet, honest question

[Mandark]

what's mockworthy about that tweet, honest question

Literally every conservative dude is both horny for and enraged by AOC. Kind of fascinating to watch.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1063212539532767234

Thank you Florida 

what's mockworthy about that tweet, honest question

Nothing, I'm just glad she's keeping the Twitter feud alive. Maybe Trump will weigh in too.

[agrajag]

what's mockworthy about that tweet, honest question

Literally every conservative dude is both horny for and enraged by AOC. Kind of fascinating to watch.

right. Not sure if there was confusion, I was asking Nintex why he was seemingly mocking her for defending herself against a, let's be honest, sexist attack.

[Mandark]

Oh, I meant that specifically as an explanation for his post.

[agrajag]

a wild good guy Cernovich appears?

[Nintex]

Jesus christ, now Shapiro and the rest are posting their takes.
All we need now is Dr. Peterson to come in and tell everyone female crabs polish their shells like humans put on nice clothes and what are you gonna do about eet.

Nope, not soiling our sacred grounds with that drivel. 

[Mandark]

Cernovich and Posobiec are both trying to rebrand as "respectable" and ditch their pizzagate roots, I think.

[Nintex]

I remember that one time cernovich was like "guys, I'm starting to think Trump was a mistake of a president" when the Charlottesville stuff happened but then he took out Al Franken so basically he's a cindi tier political commentator

The only good thing Cernovich did was head to the DNC to show the protests and how the progressives were shut out from the nomination proceedings.
That's what got him his followers too. He was basically the only guy outside on the streets showing the fence around the DNC and the protestors trying to get in.

Otherwise he has always been this weird awful creep that doesn't shower because he's addicted to the smell of his own piss, shit and vomit.

[kingv]

Once you understand all these alt-right Twitter trump supporters are just grifters it makes a lot more sense.

Look at Candace Owens being a hill bot until like November 2016.

[Mandark]

The case for Brown is pretty straightforward: he keeps winning elections in Ohio while running on economic populism, so the hope is he'd connect with WWC voters in the midwest while still being acceptable to the progressive wing of the party.

Downside is you're probably conceding a Senate seat since no other Dems are winning statewide there, and there was an old accusation of abuse in some divorce proceedings that were unsealed (though his ex-wife supports him now and denounced his opponent for trying to use that).

[kingv]

I just wrote a long post about how Obama fucked Castro by making him his secretary, and then just realized there’s two of these fuckers and they are brothers.

I would vote for Sherrod Brown but IMO there is a really narrow path for a cishet white dude to win with the current dynamics of a democratic primary.

You basically have to either get the backing of the neoliberals or the Bernie liberals and ignite passion from some demographic group that transcends their base policy preferences.

Hillary locked up centrists and women and black people.

Obama Locked up progressives and black people.

The only path for Sherrod brown (or any white guy) in 2020, IMO would be some kind of trump like strategy where you have a strong loyal plurality in a lane you have to yourself  in a really crowded field otherwise. I don’t think Sherrod brown has the cult of personality to pull that off.

I think Bernie has an outside shot at a strategy like that, but alsothink the superdelegates would work to prevent nominating him  unless he won an outright majority.

Joe Biden might be able to put together a coalition that works with an Obama endorsement.

But the above dynamics make me think the most likely nominee is Kamala  Harris. Black + woman + shrewd enough to st least play lip service to a lot of Bernie type of ideas. I do question her grandstanding though. Her line of questioning on Kavanaugh was really dumb. She tried to play it like she knew something but was bluffing.