US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[agrajag]

Corey Lewandowski on Igraham Angle just now: "She's about as much of a native american as I am. I'm not a Native American, and I'm proud of that."

...

trying to find an appropriate reaction smiley but I am drunk an lazy

[benjipwns]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/04/media/weekly-standard-the-bulwark/

A handful of writers and editors who worked at The Weekly Standard, the now-defunct conservative magazine that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump until its sudden demise in December, have a new home.

Starting Monday, Bill Kristol, a co-founder of The Weekly Standard, and Charlie Sykes, the former talk radio host and conservative commentator, will beef up The Bulwark, a conservative website that has until now served as an aggregator for Kristol's non-profit group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute.

"The Bulwark was an aggregator," Sykes told CNN in a phone interview Friday. "We are going to turn it into a full-fledged opinion news website, with really the core digital staff of The Weekly Standard."

"I think the need for a rational, non-Trumpist forum was more urgent than ever," Sykes added. "And I do think that contrary to some of the conventional wisdom, there is a market for center-right commentary that pushes back against Trumpism."

Sykes will serve as editor-in-chief, and Kristol will be an editor-at-large.

The Bulwark staff have a number of articles prepared for next week's launch, Sykes said, including one that examines the possibility of a 2020 challenger to Trump, reaction to Mitt Romney's recent op-ed, and one that looks into "the task ahead" for conservatives in the age of Trump.

One of the "core missions" of The Bulwark will be "pushing back against some of the trolls and grifters on the right," Sykes said, without naming any one person in particular.

WE'RE SAVED

[agrajag]

I always confuse Bill Kristol with Billy Crystal.

[benjipwns]

look at Hermann Goring over here

[benjipwns]

plus the wall obsession was a thing well before the caravan invaded, you're trying to trick us

ain't slick

[Mandark]

if trump ends 242 years of constitutional government because the conservative media bubble willfully exaggerated and distorted a small group of poor refugees, I am going to blow something up

Wasn't the caravan.

Anne Coulter called him a pussy and unfollowed him on Twitter.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1081528502602612736
And now we wait.

[Cerveza mas fina]

How come the goverment is shut down over a wall Mexico is paying for?

[TakingBackSunday]

including Wall

[Tripon]

(CNN)President Donald Trump told congressional leaders during a meeting Friday to try to negotiate terms to re-open the government and that he preferred the word "strike" in describing the ongoing government shutdown, a person familiar with the meeting and a Democratic aide told CNN.

Trump also kicked off the meeting with a profanity laden opening salvo lasting more than 15 minutes in which he made it clear that he had no plans to move on from his demand for $5.6 billion to build a border wall, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
Trump also addressed the issue of impeachment, directing his remarks at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to two people familiar with what happened inside the room. Pelosi, in response, told him the meeting was supposed to be about re-opening the government, not impeachment, the people said.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported on Trump's preference for calling the shutdown a "strike."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/trump-calling-shutdown-strike/index.html

[sinxtanx]

home run strike all the way to a check mate touch down

[Brehvolution]

(Image removed from quote.)

“If you are liberal then you are, by definition, tolerant, and if you truly eschew hate, you know that loving your neighbor ― your actual neighbor ― is where tolerance begins,” he writes. “I am writing on behalf of my family to ask you to reconsider whether the message of your lawn sign moves our world and our village in the direction of love at all, or whether it sends a very different message instead.”

Despite his conciliatory tone in the letter, though, McInnes isn’t always so polite about his neighbors and their signs. He devoted an hour-long podcast on Friday to the signs, with a decidedly less neighborly tone.

“If you have that sign on your lawn, you’re a fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow,” McInnes said. 

https://getoffmylawnpod.libsyn.com/get-off-my-lawn-podcast-101-i-hate-hate-has-no-home-here-signs

Typical conservative snowflake speak: Liberals must be considerate of me, but I don't have to be considerate to them.

[james]

For 70% tax on those making $10m a year, I don't think it will work. It needs to be gradual. If you start taxing from $10m, then those making $9m will be actually making more. It needs to be gradual, like 50% on $8m, 60% on $9m and 70% on anything equal to or greater than $10m.

Poliera is at it again

[kingv]

It’s like babbies learning how marginal tax rates work

[Nintex]

Just declare a state of emergency and tax everyone 100%


Anyway. The talks must be going well. Trump spend the last hour or so trashing the Democrats and #fakenews on Twitter. 

[Nola]

For 70% tax on those making $10m a year, I don't think it will work. It needs to be gradual. If you start taxing from $10m, then those making $9m will be actually making more. It needs to be gradual, like 50% on $8m, 60% on $9m and 70% on anything equal to or greater than $10m.

Poliera is at it again

I.E. one idiot that was corrected immediately in subsequent posts

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1081268164946735105

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1081711373921542146

Watching Warren campaign is like watching Mitt Romney campaign.
I remember political commentators felt sorry for Romney just at how bad he was at campaigning. 

[Trent Dole]

So four more years then.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/former-pm-kim-campbell-calls-trump-expletive-on-twitter-1.4241998

[james]

Wow TSA is so lax they let me bring Benji on the plane

[Akala]

https://mobile.twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1081528992484610048

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1081919703407308801

[benjipwns]

who started this "clown car" meme? how do we imprison them?

[agrajag]

I better nor get any presidential text alerts over this shit

 

[Cerveza mas fina]

There must be some laws and checks and balances on what can constitute an emergency

[benjipwns]

Not to endorse the idea of clicking Nintex links, but The Atlantic article he linked does do a decent overview of it all: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

[Phoenix Dark]

Dunno how I forgot TSA and air traffic control being apart of this too. This shit will be over before February, once they start refusing to work without pay. 

McConnell hasn't been seen outside the WH giving press conferences and he isn't really being visible at all; meanwhile this is being run by house republicans. As I said before...this ends when McConnell says enough is enough. He didn't want a shutdown and I saw a report he was upset that Trump blindsided him by threatening to veto the funding bill the senate passed. The more Trump goes off the deep end, the worse this will go for him.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1081897450200354816

Da Deep State got to Trump. 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1081897450200354816

Da Deep State got to Trump. 

I told you, it was just a way to get Mattis to leave without having to fire him. 

[Boredfrom]

https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1081897450200354816

Da Deep State got to Trump. 

I told you, it was just a way to get Mattis to leave without having to fire him. 

 

[agrajag]

dat 4d chesssssst

[benjipwns]

  WE DID IT PD, INJUSTICE IS OVER

LANSING — There will be no Women's March at the Michigan Capitol building this year, the first time since the historic 2017 demonstration in Washington D.C. spurred similar events in Lansing and around the country.

Activists planned the state's main protest in Detroit this year, instead, Women's March Michigan President Phoebe Hopps wrote in an email.

"Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, and we wanted to make the March accessible to folks who live in Metro Detroit," Hopps wrote. "Especially communities of color and people who may not have any means of driving to Lansing."

Events at the Capitol are expensive and it's challenging to organize transportation to bring protesters from the more populous Detroit area.

Women's Marches were held at the Capitol in 2017 and 2018. Governor Gretchen Whitmer spoke at the event last year shortly after she announced her campaign.

[Tripon]

WE DID IT PD, INJUSTICE IS OVER

LANSING — There will be no Women's March at the Michigan Capitol building this year, the first time since the historic 2017 demonstration in Washington D.C. spurred similar events in Lansing and around the country.

Activists planned the state's main protest in Detroit this year, instead, Women's March Michigan President Phoebe Hopps wrote in an email.

"Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, and we wanted to make the March accessible to folks who live in Metro Detroit," Hopps wrote. "Especially communities of color and people who may not have any means of driving to Lansing."

Events at the Capitol are expensive and it's challenging to organize transportation to bring protesters from the more populous Detroit area.

Women's Marches were held at the Capitol in 2017 and 2018. Governor Gretchen Whitmer spoke at the event last year shortly after she announced her campaign.

Have marches at both places? 

[benjipwns]

Have marches at both places? 

How would we know which one is the official one then huh buster?

[Nintex]

Guess there's an open space for a military parade then 

[benjipwns]

From a pure logistics standpoint this is probably a better move rather than simply because the Governor is now a Democratic woman. The State Capitol grounds are actually a horrible place to hold a military parade or protest, it's literally like half a block, surrounded on three sides by tall buildings. (City Hall's "grounds" across the street you couldn't fit a basketball court on.) They usually don't allow you to block the street because they're all one way in Downtown Lansing and the one in front of the capitol is the only one for a couple miles that heads a certain direction. When they light the Christmas Tree it's allowed because it's dark and night and everyone leaves the downtown vacant at 4:30pm.

[benjipwns]

I assume the actual "real" loss will be easy access to all the state workers playing hooky.

[Tripon]

I assume the actual "real" loss will be easy access to all the state workers playing hooky.

I would also assume the local workers in Detroit are going to be annoyed that their city might be shut down for a random work day.

[Nintex]

Trump is heading to Camp David so the Q's think that shit is about to go down and Q even dropped a few things to fuel that fire. 

[benjipwns]

Camp David is like less than half an hour flight on Marine One. Yet it's not just Q people who treat it as some huge trip. Always been confused by that since I actually went by it as a kid.

I suppose it probably seems like it for all the WH beat reporters to get out there by road.

[team filler]

Camp David is like less than half an hour flight on Marine One. Yet it's not just Q people who treat it as some huge trip. Always been confused by that since I actually went by it as a kid.

I suppose it probably seems like it for all the WH beat reporters to get out there by road.

[Nintex]

Camp David is like less than half an hour flight on Marine One. Yet it's not just Q people who treat it as some huge trip. Always been confused by that since I actually went by it as a kid.

I suppose it probably seems like it for all the WH beat reporters to get out there by road.

One of the few things Ben Rhodes was ever right about is how ill informed the news media is.

They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing."

[benjipwns]

https://nypost.com/2019/01/05/tv-special-glosses-over-the-truth-behind-jfk-jr-s-doomed-flight/

even worse, it leaves out the part where he faked his death and became Q

[team filler]

 

[benjipwns]

hold up judge, first, wtf you got on your shoulders

[benjipwns]

stop the match, stop the match, she dead, stop the match, chris wallace is an inhuman monster

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1082021933502218240

More equal opportunity fapping.

[agrajag]

thug lyfe

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1082005969184452608
Why is Trump so convinced that Democrats actually want a steel wall. 

[team filler]

an actual iron curtain 

[benjipwns]

HELLO FELLOW HUMANS LOOK AT US HUMANS ENJOYING NORMAL HUMAN THINGS

[Tripon]

stop the match, stop the match, she dead, stop the match, chris wallace is an inhuman monster

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1081942826605314050

For the Kiblar's out there.

[benjipwns]

Nintex, stop trying to get your memes to trend on Democratic Twitter

[agrajag]

Joke's on you Tripon, he can read tweets faster than they are posted

 

[Mandark]

This page of the thread has Nintex roasting people for being politically uninformed, and benji roasting people for not grokking basic human behaviors.

Wild.

[benjipwns]

Admit how long you lasted through the Warren video.

[benjipwns]

Cowardly Mandark took down The Bire before I could say that I have also never claimed to be a human with complete human DNA, let alone made the claim a centerpiece of my Presidential Campaign

[Mandark]

Admit how long you lasted through the Warren video.

Seven years on this site and you think I watch the videos that get posted.

[benjipwns]

I figured you saw it when posted due to being on the Soros mailing list.