Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 7227293 times)

kingv · « **Reply #29460 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:26:37 AM »

Quote from: Kara on January 31, 2019, 12:31:32 AM

Quote from: Mandark on January 31, 2019, 12:15:26 AM
I'd been wondering if Harris was going to do any sort of mea culpa about stuff from her career as a prosecutor, or retcon it, or defend it from a tough-on-crime perspective.

So far it's looking like retcon.

I have no interaction with this sort of thing anymore, but I've heard she's the heir apparent to Clinton. Probably a safe bet to just ride that machine to the nomination if what I heard was accurate.

You’re clearly referencing the Sybian here.

Nola · « **Reply #29461 on:** January 31, 2019, 12:02:49 PM »

https://twitter.com/morningmoneyben/status/1090819573539049473

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29462 on:** January 31, 2019, 12:59:10 PM »

Saturday & Live, my favorite show about abortion.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #29463 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:03:33 PM »

Quote from: shosta on January 31, 2019, 12:42:39 PM

(Image removed from quote.)

Like this:

Nintex · « **Reply #29464 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:07:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1091012465259937793

nachobro · « **Reply #29465 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:09:52 PM »

9 9 9 is back baybeeee

james · « **Reply #29466 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:17:38 PM »

Holy shit, thats a character I did not expect them to bring back for this season

But its exactly what America needs this year.

NINE NINE NINE BABY

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29467 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM »

Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

kingv · « **Reply #29468 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:25:48 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM

Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

That’s veterinary care.

Nintex · « **Reply #29469 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:26:26 PM »

Roger Stone is doing a press conference.

"I will tell the truth"
"Also it was never proven the DNC server was ever hacked"

He's just going to throw InfoWars talking points into the mainstream media with these stunts.

Kara · « **Reply #29470 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:54:14 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM

Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

Pokemon are a capital asset in their fictional universe so like any good bourgeois he probably supports socializing their cost but privatizing their profit.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #29471 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:54:41 PM »

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article225247295.html

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Citing “conduct that violates civil rights,” lawyers for Gov. Matt Bevin say former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be held responsible for nearly $225,000 in legal fees and court costs incurred by couples who sued her in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses because of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage.

Going from brought on stage to thrown under the bus.

Kara · « **Reply #29472 on:** January 31, 2019, 01:54:53 PM »

That Pokémon post may be worse than the time that I analyzed the mode of production in Essos in the dragon book show thread.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29473 on:** January 31, 2019, 02:14:09 PM »

Quote from: kingv on January 31, 2019, 01:25:48 PM

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM
Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

That’s veterinary care.

Nurse Joy is a fully licensed RN; she didn't spent 3 years getting her nursing degree to be disrespected like this.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #29474 on:** January 31, 2019, 02:22:40 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 02:14:09 PM

Quote from: kingv on January 31, 2019, 01:25:48 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM
Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

That’s veterinary care.

Nurse Joy is a fully licensed RN; she didn't spent 3 years getting her nursing degree to be disrespected like this.

I thought every Nurse Joy got their job by nepotism.

Mandark · « **Reply #29475 on:** January 31, 2019, 02:52:35 PM »

https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1090944315742998528

Trump pulling a reverse Overton Window.

edit: If you open to see the whole picture, there's another graph showing how Democrats and Republicans used to be in sync and started diverging about a decade ago.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #29476 on:** January 31, 2019, 03:52:03 PM »

Guess I should have perm'd hungrynewb during his sabbatical and then just never told anyone I did it. Now it's too late.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29477 on:** January 31, 2019, 03:52:26 PM »

Quote from: Kara on January 31, 2019, 01:54:14 PM

Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 31, 2019, 01:21:22 PM
Can someone ask him how he feels about the fact that Pokémon features free healthcare for all, via the Pokémon Centers? (Most RPGs at least require you to pay a copay at the Inn)

Pokemon are a capital asset in their fictional universe so like any good bourgeois he probably supports socializing their cost but privatizing their profit.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29478 on:** January 31, 2019, 04:10:09 PM »

Why should they... carry these monsters in their pocket?

BIONIC · « **Reply #29479 on:** January 31, 2019, 04:14:42 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 31, 2019, 03:52:03 PM

Guess I should have perm'd hungrynewb during his sabbatical and then just never told anyone I did it. Now it's too late.

Q will finally expose The Bire mod sex scandal

team filler · « **Reply #29480 on:** January 31, 2019, 04:17:54 PM »

the cock brothers

team filler · « **Reply #29481 on:** January 31, 2019, 04:42:30 PM »

Nintex · « **Reply #29482 on:** January 31, 2019, 04:56:47 PM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1091088740947320833

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #29483 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:09:20 PM »

sure, whatever

Boredfrom · « **Reply #29484 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:26:57 PM »

I mean, this is not the first time the military or intel excuse themselves with “is the media fault” or the first time that Trump outright lies.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29485 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:41:40 PM »

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/bloomberg-building-data-organization-crush-trump/581710/

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He’s not sure there is a realistic space in the Democratic primaries for his centrist record. And he almost certainly won’t run if Joe Biden does, members of his team believe.

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This may yet turn into an effort on behalf of a Bloomberg campaign, with his advisers carefully watching Biden’s moves to help them decide what to do. They doubt there’s room in the Democratic field for both.

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Whatever his concerns about Biden, Bloomberg has continued acting and sounding like a presidential candidate—making anti-Trump speeches in Virginia and Washington last week, blasting ex–Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for flirting with an independent campaign on Monday, heading to New Hampshire to talk policy and eat pizza on Tuesday. But he and his team are carefully assessing the likely hard fit for his record and positions in the 2020 race as it’s shaping up.

“They feel like they have a candidate with potential, staff, dollars, strong name ID, and [they] are assessing the road ahead,” said one person who’s been in touch with Bloomberg’s team. “They know they can’t wait forever, but also understand that they have more bandwidth to assess the field and opportunities—more than many, if not most.”

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But Bloomberg also looked at running for president in the past three elections—coming so close in 2016 that ads were scripted and a potential running mate selected—only to determine that he couldn’t win (though those times he planned to run as an independent, not a Democrat). He has been seriously considering a 2020 run since the summer, infuriated by nearly every decision of Trump’s presidency. Serious meetings about the data effort began in the fall.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s aides have continued asking around for intel on what Biden will do, believing there’s likely only room in the race for one of them.

Also Bill Weld is deciding today whether or not to run as a Republican or Libertarian. He told Reason the latter, but "sources" in Boston say the former. He has no shot as a Trump challenger in the GOP so I'd believe what he told Reason.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29486 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:42:26 PM »

https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-howard-schultz-democrat-opposition-research-9ee6df16-dc0c-4914-8bc2-7dca505c80ac.html

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Priorities USA, a progressive group and the largest Democratic super PAC, is sending FOIA requests to nearly 70 different national and state agencies that either Howard Schultz or his corporate entities may have interacted with at any point between August 1987 and June 2018.

The group is gathering as much potential opposition research as they can on Schultz and his business in anticipation of his decision to possibly run for president as an independent. This is yet another example of liberals trying to push Schultz out of the 2020 race before he begins, in part because they view his candidacy as a "threat" that could be "a major step toward re-electing Donald Trump," Priorities USA communications director Josh Schwerin told Axios.

The FOIA requests span agencies like the National Labor Relations Board (in search of "investigations, complaints, sanctions, violations, or enforcement actions taken by the agency related to the business operations of Starbucks Corporation or its affiliates") to the Washington State Department of Ecology (in search of "environmental violations and subsequent penalties").

Nintex · « **Reply #29487 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:49:06 PM »

This anyone but Trump strategy that the Democrats are doubling down on sure will end up great.

Mandark · « **Reply #29488 on:** January 31, 2019, 05:49:27 PM »

That group was co-founded by the former Obama staffer who's now advising Schultz.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29489 on:** January 31, 2019, 06:20:04 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on January 31, 2019, 05:49:06 PM

This anyone but Trump strategy that the Democrats are doubling down on sure will end up great.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are "doubling down" on the "Trump rather than anyone else" strategy.

Nintex · « **Reply #29490 on:** January 31, 2019, 07:08:03 PM »

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/senate-investigators-blocked-phone-calls-not-father-trump/index.html

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Senate investigators have obtained new information showing Donald Trump Jr.'s mysterious phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, three sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

agrajag · « **Reply #29491 on:** January 31, 2019, 07:16:49 PM »

https://twitter.com/blacks4Schultz

https://twitter.com/blacks4Schultz/status/1090967247395475456

kingv · « **Reply #29492 on:** January 31, 2019, 09:44:42 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on January 31, 2019, 07:08:03 PM

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/senate-investigators-blocked-phone-calls-not-father-trump/index.html
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Senate investigators have obtained new information showing Donald Trump Jr.'s mysterious phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, three sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

This is trump saying something to head off the story.

Because one of those dudes was the guy that had previously tried to help trump with Trump a Tower Moscow.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29493 on:** January 31, 2019, 10:23:27 PM »

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1091080473294655488

benjipwns · « **Reply #29494 on:** January 31, 2019, 10:27:27 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #29495 on:** January 31, 2019, 10:32:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1091163201025249280

benjipwns · « **Reply #29496 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:06:07 PM »

now deleted tweet:

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1091065444117680128

Tripon · « **Reply #29497 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:26:50 PM »

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1091167259509379072

benjipwns · « **Reply #29498 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:33:39 PM »

Bunch of MAGA types (I assume) in the responses complaining that he's not working. Stay safe.

Akala · « **Reply #29499 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:34:14 PM »

I mean are we certain they didn’t omit page 1?

benjipwns · « **Reply #29500 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:40:33 PM »

I think people are just jealous that he's going to visit Ron instead of them.

Tripon · « **Reply #29501 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:42:01 PM »

https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1090251727096422401

Democrats want to get in on the enraged boners for AOC.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29502 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:53:22 PM »

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Many New York and Congressional Black Caucus lawmakers were also furious with Ocasio-Cortez after a recent Politico report stated she and the grass-roots group aligned with her, Justice Democrats, were considering backing a primary challenge to fellow New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, a Black Caucus member and establishment insider who succeeded Crowley as caucus chairman.

Both Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats have denied the report, but the group of insurgent progressives has vowed to target centrist Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and is eyeing other potential 2020 targets.

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“She’s pissing off a lot of people and has probably made a lot of enemies. … A lot of people who are furious with her are Joe’s allies, including some named Crowley,” said the insider, referring to Crowley’s cousin, Elizabeth Crowley, a former New York City councilwoman. “She is a woman. She’s been moving more to the left. She would be someone interesting.”

Elizabeth Crowley, 41, did not return a request for comment, but she has previously said she’s eyeing a bid for Queens borough president in 2021. She lives in a neighboring Queens district.

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Hispanic Caucus members aren’t happy about those efforts but say they are taking a wait-and-see approach before intervening with Ocasio-Cortez, who joined the caucus this month.

“We’re going to protect our members and we’re going to protect our own. Full stop,” said centrist Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), a former whip for the Hispanic Caucus.

maybe abuela could run against Sandy

Mandark · « **Reply #29503 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:56:18 PM »

A judge awarded Rand Paul a six figure settlement for losing the fight with his neighbor.

Participation trophy culture getting taken to extremes.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29504 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:58:10 PM »

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A jury on Wednesday evening awarded Paul $7,834.82 in medical damages, $200,000 for pain and suffering, and $375,000 for punitive damages, according to CNN affiliate WBKO.

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1090751141502177281

benjipwns · « **Reply #29505 on:** January 31, 2019, 11:59:16 PM »

haha i didn't know his neighbor was an anesthesiologist, a doctor fight over yard crap is even better

Mandark · « **Reply #29506 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:02:41 AM »

*Imagines Ron Paul yelling "You're violating the NAP! You're violating the NAP!" as his neighbor stomps a mudhole in him*

Mandark · « **Reply #29507 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:03:05 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on January 31, 2019, 11:59:16 PM

haha i didn't know his neighbor was an anesthesiologist, a doctor fight over yard crap is even better

You can tell cause he put Rand to sleep.

team filler · « **Reply #29508 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:04:53 AM »

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1091121197876695041

benjipwns · « **Reply #29509 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:14:31 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on February 01, 2019, 12:02:41 AM

*Imagines Ron Paul yelling "You're violating the NAP! You're violating the NAP!" as his neighbor stomps a mudhole in him*

your typo makes this post canonnically accurate, Rand's never talked about the NAP publicly, but Ron has, good work

benjipwns · « **Reply #29510 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:16:32 AM »

though Ron might have killed the neighbor unlike his pansy dilettante son

benjipwns · « **Reply #29511 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:17:21 AM »

at least that was shorter than Nintex's fan fiction usually is

Mandark · « **Reply #29512 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:19:52 AM »

Rand's neighbor making sure he internalized the external costs of his sloppy lawn care, by negotiating with his fists (which have "RNLD" and "COAS" knuck tats).

Mandark · « **Reply #29513 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:22:58 AM »

Too much time thinking about the invisible hand, not enough time worrying about two visible hands.

Kara · « **Reply #29514 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:25:47 AM »

I haven't seen a beatdown this #fierce since Rand Paul got beat up by his neighbor.

Mandark · « **Reply #29515 on:** February 01, 2019, 12:42:26 AM »

Of the miserable bog that is politics the last three years, two things have brought me moments of pure, unalloyed happiness: Ted Cruz getting busted watching a pirated clip of "Moms Bang Teens 20" on Twitter, and Rand Paul's neighbor deciding the principle of decent lawn care supersedes the Hippocratic Oath.

Kara · « **Reply #29516 on:** February 01, 2019, 01:36:09 AM »

He referenced the "Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer" meme last Halloween so I'm kind of skeptical the porn like thing was legit.

Mandark · « **Reply #29517 on:** February 01, 2019, 01:37:16 AM »

Quote from: Kara on January 25, 2019, 08:05:52 PM

e: Rufus smh, I bet you tell small children there's no Santa Claus too.

benjipwns · « **Reply #29518 on:** February 01, 2019, 01:41:38 AM »

it's a good attempt, but the Tucker's not working for me, now that Judge Jeanine Pirro on the other hand, yas queen Cecily

benjipwns · « **Reply #29519 on:** February 01, 2019, 01:43:04 AM »

the mocking laugh is totally missing, obvious one to work in

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Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 7227293 times)