US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Brehvolution]

I believe trump didn't even know about the navy having a boat with that name. He's that dumb.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1134116464426921985

Trump responds by saying he didn't know about it then trashes McCain.

Prediction in about three hours: trump saying he ordered it covered because he didn't want to show weakness in japan where mccain was a pow.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134134541378052096

this guy 

[team filler]

 

[Trent Dole]

The Russians worked to help me get elected but I didn't work with them cause I say I didn't. CASE CLOSED!

[Nintex]

I honestly think the Russians tried to keep Trump in the dark as much as possible and ordered their cronies actually trying to infiltrate the campaign the same thing.
They wanted to fuck things up because Putin believed Clinton had organized protests against his regime as secretary and the result of them easily hacking her emails(which were in hindsight probably hacked by every foreign intelligence service) was even better than the Russians could've predicted.

In the end Mueller found a lot but he didn't find the smoking gun connecting the GRU to the Trump family and even the money trail through Deutsche Bank went cold.

Kushner and Jr. talked to Israeli agents and made encrypted calls to the head of Nascar for some reason. Kushner even wanted to use the secure lines at the Russian embassy because the Trump Org didn't have those, and the Russians refused.
Can you imagine what that must've been like for the investigators. Expecting to find a trail to the Kremlin only to end up in the swamp of the Trump Organization and all the weird characters connected to the Trump verse.
Plus the asinine idea to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. "Our boy can be President, we can have Ivanka sit on Putin's chair!" 

What made the case for collusion even weaker was in fact the FBI agents messaging back and forth about what an idiot Trump was and that they would need some sort of 'insurance policy' against him.
And finally there is the small detail of the dossier about Trump and the Russian hookers having a golden shower on Obama's bed, which was spread as misinformation.

Whatever happens during the 2020 campaign, it'll be hard to top this level of crazy. If someone had written this as a movie script it would've been shot down for not making sense. 

[Joe Molotov]

[james]

Always vote D folks

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134150981514616839?s=20

[Trent Dole]

Vote Blue Whoopitydoo!

[agrajag]

the Bore is all about the D

 

[agrajag]

FBI, I have no idea who this "Shostakovich" person is I swear

 

[Brehvolution]

Was that 30,000 number ever verified? Where did it come from?

[agrajag]

How did she even find time to write 30,000 emails, let alone delete them? The 30,000 is a fraction of the total number of emails. Is she excelsiorlef?

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1134196622873767936

[Cauliflower Of Love]

How did she even find time to write 30,000 emails, let alone delete them? The 30,000 is a fraction of the total number of emails. Is she excelsiorlef?

 

Was that 30,000 number ever verified? Where did it come from?

I believe from her lawyers being transparent about what they went through before handing over the data.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1134196622873767936

Imagine trying to go home after committing treason and the feds live in your building.

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[Nintex]

They wanted to fuck things up because Putin believed Clinton had organized protests against his regime as secretary and the result of them easily hacking her emails(which were in hindsight probably hacked by every foreign intelligence service) was even better than the Russians could've predicted.

They hacked Podesta and the DNC. As far as we know, they never hacked HRC's account.

Actually, I feel pretty confident in saying that they didn't, because we definitely would have seen at least some of the 30,000 personal emails leaked if they had.

What I meant was her campaign emails and even so among the Podesta emails were some messages from HRC as well.

Plus there was Guccifer who pleaded guilty to hacking her server although his claim has never been proven
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281211-hacker-guccifer-pleads-guilty

Before he went off the rails Schindler did a pretty good piece on it
https://observer.com/2016/06/how-emailgate-weakened-americas-national-security/

[Phoenix Dark]

Brief thoughts from the red state of Michigan 

1. I have no issue with Pelosi slow walking. What does impeachment solve or accomplish? Post-Mueller statement it makes more sense to impeach, given that he's asking congress to do its job. But again...what's the point, going into an election year? Trump isn't being removed from office. The hope (which I was wrong about btw) was that the report would reveal some things so egregious that republicans would have to come to the table for impeachment. For instance, evidence of blackmail or direct working with the Russian govt. That ship has sailed fellas.

2. The democrat field is reminding me a lot of the 2012 GOP field. Too many candidates, too much fuckery, and in the end maybe the incumbent wins easily. Or maybe not. Trump is a worse position and is has less electoral strength than Obama did but I still think he can win depending on what happens. The major factor hurting Trump is the midwest. Tariffs are NOT popular here. It's not a coincidence republicans got decimated in the Midwest last year. People aren't happy about that shit, and it's costing jobs. But will democrats nominate someone who can talk to those people?

3. Honestly the only candidates I "like" are Yang and Warren, simply because they've discussed tax policy without sounding stupid. But neither are good presidential candidates. Yang isn't winning anything obviously, and Warren is too easy to clown and would come off weak against Trump.

4.  white people got us in this mess, and white people will have to get us out. Specifically a white dude. Beto can win. Biden can probably win but he's a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow and I'm sure there's another shoe waiting to drop on him touching chicks. Everyone else? Nah...I don't see it.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

President Trump delivered the commencement address to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Thursday,

 

The president praised their work and accomplishments, and announced he's exonerating all graduates with restrictions on their records for pulling pranks and generally misbehaving so they can all enter active duty on even footing. Mr. Trump explained that "even the best cadets can sometimes get a little bit carried away."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-air-force-academy-graduation-commencement-address-colorado-today-live-updates-2019-05-30/

[kingv]

I’m pretty sure “I played a prank st the academy” never makes it into your service record...

Air Force cadets are actually civilians and not in the military. Thus they are not subject to the UCMJ not do they have “service records” at that point.

At best they probably have that lineal number thing.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134240657621438464

[nachobro]

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134240657621438464

Cool, we got products from China going up in price and products from Mexico going up in price, all at a time when American produce in the midwest and central states are being decimated by flooding.

[TakingBackSunday]

Cool, can’t wait to spend more money on literally everything

[agrajag]

 

[james]

Big fan of these tariffs. Get fucked car companies

[BisMarckie]

Another win for Taco Bell.

[Great Rumbler]

My brain keeps spinning around in circles, like, can you arbitrarily enact tariffs on a NAFTA member? Apparently the authority is related to his emergency powers, so what emergency are we in and what determines if we're no longer in an emergency?

Like most other things that Trump is doing, it's not a question or whether he has the ultimate authority to do it or not, it's whether Senate Republicans will do anything to stop him. And we all know by know that they aren't going to do anything.

Or you can pray for a John Roberts swing vote.

[benjipwns]

Apparently the authority is related to his emergency powers, so what emergency are we in and what determines if we're no longer in an emergency?

We are in 33 emergencies now.

[benjipwns]

Attorney General William Barr on caring about his reputation: "Everyone dies"

he's going after the key Bire dank meme swing vote

[benjipwns]

Flay / Fieri 2020

you've crossed a line

[benjipwns]

FAILED FOREIGN POLICY

In 2000, when the original Iron Chef show traveled to New York for a special battle, he challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto to battle rock crab. After the hour battle ended, Flay stood on top of his cutting board and raised his arms in what one journalist wrote was "in premature victory". As Morimoto felt that real chefs consider cutting boards and knives as sacred, and being offended by Flay's flamboyant gesture, he criticized his professionalism, saying that Flay was "not a chef". Flay went on to lose the battle.

FAILED ECONOMIC POLICY

The judges included chefs Curtis Stone, Bobby Flay, Lorena Garcia, and Chipotle Mexican Grill founder Steve Ells,[5] who were the investors in the winning concept

...

On June 14, 2011, the Manhattan and Los Angeles locations were closed in order for Woods to focus on the Minneapolis location,[26][27] which itself closed on June 28.[28] Woods was vocal in blaming Chipotle's management team for the failure of the Soul Daddy chain and said that the company owed him a year's salary.

REJECT BOBBY FLAY'S FAILED POLICIES

[Brehvolution]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/kushner-cos-gets-800-million-federally-backed-apartment-loan

“As part of an ethics agreement he has and has followed, Mr. Kushner has had no role in the Kushner Companies or its activities since joining the government over two years ago,” Mirijanian said in a February email when Bloomberg first reported on the government’s potential involvement. “He is walled off from any business or investment decisions and has no idea or knowledge of these activities."

Nothing swampy here. Can you imagine the backlash on fox news if Chelsey Clinton's husband got $800M in loans?

[ToxicAdam]

I think he's a guy that has had autonomy for most of his adult life in his business dealings and isn't used to being "in charge" and having all these shackles on. So, he's just abusing what limited powers he does have because that's how he has always done things.

[benjipwns]

No one's ever really gone.

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https://twitter.com/fireeye/status/1134069469888864256

[james]

Under 25,000


Yeeeeeeeeees

[Nola]

Trump's an insecure trust-fund narcissist that inherited an already successful private business, there's no alchemy more potent for developing a fascist thinking brain than that.

[Nintex]

The neat thing about Trump is you can't tell if he's trying to destroy America for himself or outside entities, if he thinks these are actually good ideas, if he genuinely has no idea how tariffs work, or if he's trying to get thrown out of office because he didn't want the job in the first place and he just wants to skip to the part where he can make a bunch of money once out of office.

Trump usually starts out doing things he doesn't know anything about because someone tells him that he can't (real estate, casino's, airlines, TV, campaigning for President, President).
He's quite a fast learner so at some point he 'gets it' at a basic level. But then he thinks he's better than anybody at what he's doing and all his bad decisions come back to haunt him later.
When the whole thing collapses he jumps out with a parachute safely landing on one of his golf courses or hotels. Leaving the venture in debt and bankrupt and the workers unpaid.

Except in this case the venture is the United States of America and the global economy. 
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1134248653667930112

[benjipwns]

Trump's an insecure trust-fund narcissist that inherited an already successful private business, there's no alchemy more potent for developing a fascist thinking brain than that.

getting kicked out of the Italian Socialist Party?

[Boredfrom]

Oh boy, Trump went full distinguished mentally-challenged fellow again and fucked Mexico economy. 

Who could have predicted this?

[Brehvolution]

Under 25,000


Yeeeeeeeeees

Oil under $55

[benjipwns]

here you go james, hope this helps you get over the stolen five likes scandal: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/31/kirsten-gillibrand-2020-democratic-campaign-president-primary-podcast-227032

Kirsten Gillibrand’s Failure to Launch
She’s tough and smart. The New York senator seemed like a top-tier 2020 contender. So why is she crashing?

Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar.

It’s not that she couldn’t use more money. In the first quarter of 2019, the junior senator from New York raised just $3 million for her presidential campaign, the weakest haul of the six senators running at that time and arguably one of the most disappointing totals of anyone in the sprawling Democratic field. Given her anemic polling since entering the race, Gillibrand’s feeble fundraising performance fanned skepticism about her viability to earn a nomination that Democrats believe will require close to $100 million in hard money raised.

But at this point, Gillibrand isn’t focused on winning the primary. She’s worried about surviving the next few months.

Despite a soaring national profile in the U.S. Senate, Gillibrand has failed to achieve liftoff as a presidential prospect. She has not broken 2 percent in a single national poll since officially declaring her candidacy in mid-March, and her 0.4 percent average in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of surveys places her behind the likes of Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard and even geeky long shot Andrew Yang.

Her bigger problem is fundraising. To secure a spot in the first double-header of Democratic primary debates in late June, candidates must meet two thresholds: surpassing 1 percent in three recognized national polls and collecting 65,000 unique campaign contributions. Gillibrand has checked the first box, however unimpressively. Yet the second mission remains unaccomplished. With the debates closing in—and with even quixotic candidates such as self-help guru Marianne Williamson hitting the 65,000-donor mark—Gillibrand is under the gun.

“For anyone here, if you like what you’ve heard tonight, I want to earn my place on the debate stage. I can’t do it unless you send a dollar—literally, really,” Gillibrand says, shaking her head as though to acknowledge the oddity of this request. “The measure is for anyone who wants to be on the debate stage, you need to get 65,000 individual supporters. So please go to KirstenGillibrand.com and just send a dollar. It will help me get to the debate stage.”

All the while, she raised tens of millions of dollars, wrote a New York Times bestseller and was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world.

As it became clear that Gillibrand was preparing to launch a campaign for the presidency in 2020, the only question seemed to be the height of the senator’s ceiling. Could she win the Democratic nomination? And if so, could she succeed where her friend and former mentor, Hillary Clinton, failed four years earlier?

Today, the question is whether Gillibrand can get off the floor.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1134482503018995714

 

[BisMarckie]

Gonna need a verrit code for those quotes.

[james]

here you go james, hope this helps you get over the stolen five likes scandal

Benji, Gillbitch is neither tough nor smart, so the article does lead off with fake news

[james]

Miller is good at playing his little games

While Trump’s tariff strategy was opposed by the two economic advisors, it was spearheaded by advisor Stephen Miller, an immigration hawk, according to the source close to the White House and a person briefed on the matter. The move was announced as the administration’s most prominent free trade advocates were indisposed.

As the tariff plan was formulated, top advisors, including Vice President Mike Pence, who was traveling, and Larry Kudlow, who was undergoing surgery, were away.

Pence, formerly the governor of Indiana, and Kudlow, who was a CNBC contributor, have both been prominent advocates of free trade. Pence was in Canada on Thursday, and Kudlow was away due to hip replacement surgery, according to three sources.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/mnuchin-and-lighthizer-were-opposed-to-trump-tariffs-on-mexico-source-says.html

[Nola]

TBH, Nancy Pelosi's legacy as the speaker can basically be whittled down to:

Taking a break to pass some solid legislation in between helping two excessively criminal presidents avoid impeachment.

[james]

TBH, Nancy Pelosi's legacy as the speaker can basically be whittled down to:

Taking a break to pass some solid legislation in between helping two excessively criminal presidents avoid impeachment.

Dont worry, shes one of us common folks

The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) estimated in 2009 that Pelosi's average net worth was US$58,436,537, ranking her 13th among 25 wealthiest members of Congress.[235] In 2014, CRP reported Pelosi's average net worth in 2014 was US$101,273,023 having ranked 8th out of 25 wealthiest members of Congress.[236] Business Insider reported that Pelosi's worth was $26.4 million in 2012 and made her the 13th richest members of Congress.[1] In 2014, Roll Call estimated that Pelosi's net worth was 29.35 million, ranking her the 15th wealthiest member of Congress.[237]

Roll Call said Pelosi's earnings are connected to her husband's heavy investments in stocks that include "Apple, Comcast, Facebook, Shutterfly and Walt Disney".[237] Roll Call reported that the Pelosis have $13.46 million in liabilities including mortgages on seven properties.[237] According to Roll Call, Pelosi and her husband hold properties "worth at least $14.65 million, including a St. Helena vineyard in Napa Valley worth at least $5 million, and commercial real estate in San Francisco."

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133914824369459200

wtf

[Joe Molotov]

No one's ever really gone.

(Image removed from quote.)

https://twitter.com/fireeye/status/1134069469888864256

Fyre Festival 2 is gonna be litty.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134522786804850688

So his advisors are on leave

[james]

https://twitter.com/SusanSpice/status/1134523125574488064

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134522786804850688

So his advisors are on leave

Probably busy being interviewed by mueller.

[Nola]

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133914824369459200

wtf

I mean....Is he wrong?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134559092545134593

A new season has been greenlit 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Didn't he announce january 20 2017?

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1134506575442395136

 

[agrajag]

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1134453038234656768

Is this the Trump re-election campaign

 

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/oneforeachofyou/status/1134574118223962112