US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Kara]

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst several billions. It is to live in the stupidest and most cretinous regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been coopted by Silicon Valley in service of a long-term capital strike, never to be repurposed. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark present there is only war. There is no peace amongst the nations, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting Boomer reply guys.

[Mandark]

Every time you post something like that I look it up to figure out if you're paraphrasing a socialist theorist or WH40K.

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-peter-smith-clinton-emails-dead-by-suicide/

 

Cool, an article from two years ago

[Joe Molotov]

joe never answered my question. = (

You asked me if you could ask me a question and I said yes. Question answered.

[james]

Filler's REO post deserves more likes.

[Kara]

Every time you post something like that I look it up to figure out if you're paraphrasing a socialist theorist or WH40K.

It's a very particular party game, you have to say.

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You look up my nonsense sometimes? 

[close]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1130878193701916676

Everything is horrible.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), another 2020 presidential candidate, also criticized the finale, remarking that she was “pissed off” and “particularly upset” by the writers’ treatment of Daenerys Targaryen, a female lead portrayed by actress Emilia Clarke.

“She’s somebody who made sure the lowest income, the least empowered could have a voice, and that was who she was,” Gillibrand said in a video published Monday by NowThis News. “Her goal was to break the wheel. Her goal was to reform government and make sure it represented the people first.”

Instead, the show’s scribes “destroyed who she was and why she wanted to ascend to power,” Gillibrand said. “I thought it was cheap, and I was very unhappy.”

[team filler]

Filler's REO post deserves more likes.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

joe never answered my question. = (

You asked me if you could ask me a question and I said yes. Question answered.

check

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1130867289086144513

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1130867289086144513

 

Another member of the Trump Administration is leaving.

https://twitter.com/johnnydestefano/status/1130917649326714881

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1130867289086144513

ben carson definitely killed a person

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/nandorvila/status/1130648864527138817

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Is that ted cruz and anne coulter?

[Joe Molotov]

Is that ted cruz and anne coulter?

No.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

that doesnt count

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ChangePolls/status/1130460997058289666
https://twitter.com/ChangePolls/status/1130473231067095040
https://twitter.com/ChangePolls/status/1130485106504818688

Biden and Sanders tied now.

[Tasty]

Warren keeps making gains. Should be a fun year and a half...

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Sanders put the gel on.

[agrajag]

Warren keeps making gains. Should be a fun year and a half...

she would make a great running mate for Bernie Sanders!

[Trent Dole]

I'd be happy with a Warren/Sanders or Sanders/Warren ticket really. The DNC would never allow her to pick him as a running mate.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

A sanders/warren ticket is suicide.

I'm really curious as to who bernie is grooming for a vp

[team filler]

I think he literally never thinks about it but I also think he's the type of person who will want a likeminded attack dog to spitroast his opponents with, not someone to "round out" the ticket etc.

[VomKriege]

I think he literally never thinks about it but I also think he's the type of person who will want a likeminded attack dog to spitroast his opponents with, not someone to "round out" the ticket etc.

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Now she just needs to realize that "quick and decisive victories" are the exception rather than the norm, provided they even exist.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1130874226620141568

 

[VomKriege]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-in-2020.html

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131152788770181121

 

[Joe Molotov]

If it wasn't for all these bills, I'd have money.

[Nintex]

INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK!

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1131238983227232257

https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/1131221984505995264

[james]

The best part about Bernie leading the polls is watching the Hillarybots jump off a cliff

[agrajag]

what polls is Bernie leading in?

also links of Hillarybots jumping off a cliff, asking for a friend

[james]

what polls is Bernie leading in?

also links of Hillarybots jumping off a cliff, asking for a friend

I have vivid day dreams

[Cauliflower Of Love]

people still talking about hillary in  *checks notes* today

GG

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Everytime I see that piece of thing being a dickhead in the whitehouse. I think even higher of Obama.

[Nintex]

Almost forgot about this subplot lmao

https://twitter.com/jmetr22b/status/1131273626219622401

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SecretaryCarson/status/1131234819680165889

Woah

[james]

What would a Carson presidency look like?

Would racism be over?

[Nintex]

What would a Carson presidency look like?

Would racism be over?

"Mr President what about North Korea"
"Coca Cola?"
"No, North Korea"
"North Dakota?"
"You know the country with the nuclear weapons that is threatening us for years and wants to destroy the US and reunite with South Korea, that North Korea"
"What about it?"

[Brehvolution]

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1131249603658035201

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/Tim_Canova/status/1131323952788377600

[Joe Molotov]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

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bill barr resembles al franken

omg if al franken comes back on the scene.

[benjipwns]

lmao this dude, https://apnews.com/a6e717dc8d224706a766b759ffded030

Michael Avenatti, the attorney who rocketed to fame through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels in her battles with President Donald Trump, was charged Wednesday with ripping her off.

Federal prosecutors in New York City say Avenatti used a doctored document to divert about $300,000 that Daniels was supposed to get from a book deal, then used the money for personal and business expenses. Only half of that money was paid back, prosecutors said.

...

In announcing the new charges Wednesday, prosecutors said that Avenatti sent a “fraudulent and unauthorized letter” to Daniels’ literary agent, instructing the agent to send payments not to Daniels but to a bank account Avenatti controlled. They said he used the stolen funds to pay employees of his law firm and pay for hotels, airfare, dry cleaning and his Ferrari.

...

Daniels raised concerns with Avenatti about late payments around the time her book, “Full Disclosure,” was published in October, according to the indictment.

“When is the publisher going to cough up my money,” she asked Avenatti in early December, according to the indictment.

Avenatti responded that he was “working them and threatening litigation,” prosecutors said, but he did not tell Daniels he had already received the money.

Daniels began publicly raising concerns about Avenatti’s conduct in November. In a statement, she said Avenatti had launched a fundraising effort to raise money for her legal case without telling her. She also said he had filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, on her behalf, against her wishes.

Did he and Paul Manafort have some kind of bet to see who could commit all the crimes on the books first or what?

[BIONIC]

#Avenutty2020

[Joe Molotov]

Sad that we didn’t even get to the Avenatti 2020 official logo phase.

[BisMarckie]

#Avenutty2020

#EvaNotty2020

Okay, more like 2012.

[benjipwns]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourkes-cnn-town-hall-ranks-near-the-bottom-in-ratings

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is not only starting to appear toward the bottom in the polls, but his Tuesday televised town hall with CNN now holds the distinction of being one of the lowest in ratings for the network.

O’Rourke's CNN town hall averaged 714,000 total viewers and 194,000 in the 25-54 demo, which means it came in third for both categories during 10-11:15 p.m. EST, according to early Nielsen Media Research.

In the same time slot on Tuesday, Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" had about 2,393,000 viewers and MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell" had about 2,274,000 viewers.

CNN town halls with declared presidential candidates that had more viewers include:

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: 745,000
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar: 869,000
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker: 929,000
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 1,091,000

is this the relaunch?

[BIONIC]

Beta O’Dork, am I right? 

[Kara]

Going to miss O'Dork a little. He had powerful meme energy.

[Kara]

Ah, the halcyon days before Wilmington Joe swooped in to save the party, when a virtual nobody who couldn't beat Lyin' Ted Cruz got a massive media campaign and a zillion dollars for his campaign after he announced because he thinks ten thousand dollar deductibles are actually good.

[team filler]

trump would have drank beta's milkshake, came up on him like a bitch

the tweets would have been 

[benjipwns]

FACT CHECK:

Obama aides say Beto O'Rourke reminds them of the ex-president. Obama agrees.
Ex-staffers have reached out to the Texas Democrat to offer advice — and encouragement — as he weighs a bid for the White House.

...

Aides to the former president and the man himself say O'Rourke's campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, gave them flashbacks to Obama's precocious political rise and has positioned the young white congressman as an early if unlikely heir to the first black president's "hope and change" mantle.

Obama said as much at an event in Chicago last week and some of his former political lieutenants have been publicly encouraging O'Rourke to consider a 2020 presidential bid, while privately counseling him on what to expect should he jump in.

...

But in O'Rourke, Obama veterans see not only an inspiring political celebrity, but, like Obama, a tactical innovator who eschewed the political industrial complex of pollsters and consultants and used technology in new ways to connect directly with supporters and multiply the force of his fundraising and ground game.

"The reason I was able to make a connection with a sizable portion of the country was because people had a sense that I said what I meant," Obama told his former strategist David Axelrod last week, adding that O'Rourke has that same quality.

"It felt as if he based his statements and his positions on what he believed. And that, you'd like to think, is normally how things work. Sadly it's not," Obama added.

...

Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama White House aide who now hosts "Pod Save America," urged Washington not to count out O'Rourke.

"The whole conversation around Beto has been eerily familiar to me, because these are the exact arguments people made to me when I told them I was considering working for Barack Obama 10 years ago," he wrote this week in an essay calling on O'Rourke to run.

[Occam]

WTF, Beta is awful.
Charming but intellectually unimpressive and full of hot air with policies that could have passed for moderate Republican before the party went completely insane.
He is nothing like Obama.

[team filler]

[Tripon]

NEW YORK (AP) — After Eric Garner’s death following a confrontation with New York City police five years ago, one officer involved in the struggle wrote up paperwork that exaggerated the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime, that officer testified Tuesday.

Officer Justin Damico said that after riding in an ambulance with the dying Garner, he filled out arrest papers listing a felony tax charge that would have required prosecutors to prove Garner, a small-time street hustler, had sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes.

Damico was questioned about the posthumous arrest papers while testifying at the disciplinary trial of Officer Daniel Pantaleo, a one-time partner accused of restraining Garner with a banned chokehold as they tried to arrest him for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on Staten Island in July 2014.

“You initiated this on your own, writing up the arrest of a dead man?” asked Suzanne O’Hare, a lawyer for the police watchdog agency bringing the disciplinary case against Pantaleo.

Damico acknowledged that the felony charge was incorrect because Garner actually had with him five packs of Newports that contained a total of less than 100 cigarettes. The cigarettes were marked for sale in Virginia, a sign they were being resold illegally in New York.

https://apnews.com/ce589240fb884eceab7eaba2bfdff9e2?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

How the hell nobody went to jail for this.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1131401373440978950

 

[Brehvolution]

That's what all criminals say.

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourkes-cnn-town-hall-ranks-near-the-bottom-in-ratings

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is not only starting to appear toward the bottom in the polls, but his Tuesday televised town hall with CNN now holds the distinction of being one of the lowest in ratings for the network.

O’Rourke's CNN town hall averaged 714,000 total viewers and 194,000 in the 25-54 demo, which means it came in third for both categories during 10-11:15 p.m. EST, according to early Nielsen Media Research.

In the same time slot on Tuesday, Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" had about 2,393,000 viewers and MSNBC's "Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell" had about 2,274,000 viewers.

CNN town halls with declared presidential candidates that had more viewers include:

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: 745,000
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar: 869,000
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker: 929,000
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 1,091,000

is this the relaunch?

Who are all these people watching Ingraham Angle and Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell? 

[kingv]

WTF, Beta is awful.
Charming but intellectually unimpressive and full of hot air with policies that could have passed for moderate Republican before the party went completely insane.
He is nothing like Obama.

That’s actually exactly like Obama. Center right Democrat.