US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Kara]

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1149064820647444483

That love pat.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/seanonolennon/status/1149079154589077507


 

[El Babua]

Kamala:

[benjipwns]

just don't release them from prison, I swear, these dumb lieberals

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/nathanoseroff/status/1115991880972607488

[Kara]

Steven Pinker hung out with him after he got arrested iirc. No wonder he keeps thinking things are getting better.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1148629093534990336
https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1148649437809405952

[benjipwns]

more like Chris Giant Dad or

[Crash Dummy]

But... Is Wario a libertarian then ?

In Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 our eponymous hero is mad that Mario expropriated his castle in the last game so he decides to get a new one by going to an island (libertarians love using Robinson Crusoe to make economic arguments) that's inhabited by pirates (libertarians love Somalia even though they'll never go there) to take their wealth by force (libertarians don't believe the non-aggression principle applies to people who haven't followed the law) and sell it back to Princess Peach / Mario (libertarians are giant dads) so that he can buy a new castle. Mario expropriates the pirates' wealth after Wario had beat them up for it (see previous aside) so Wario asks a wish granting genie to give him a castle and the genie demands payment in gold / treasure before doing so which Wario gladly complies with and he is rewarded with a castle commensurate with prices you were ignorant of until that point.

nintendo please make another wario game but based on under the volcano, many thanks in advance

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1148629093534990336

ONLY 200+ IQ BRAINS ALLOWED TO WATCH

[close]

[Mollys Fruity Loops]

Nintex, please quit your day job

https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1148627147717824512

Was military intelligence right?

[benjipwns]

 

[Himu]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/teen-graffiti-hate-crime-divides-maryland-high-school/?fbclid=IwAR0UCrS4XHNKPgfJcySIYRfH3NJ_j5dOL26Zqx0xdCw1V65OO0D7Xagtxuw&noredirect=on&utm_term=.73190e8561f7

Holy shit. What a ride of an article.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1149093748942368768

[Himu]

GrrrGraphics.

*stares at phone*

[Brehvolution]

All garrison cartoons are FAKE NEWS.

[Great Rumbler]

FREE BEN GARRISON

[Joe Molotov]

Is he the guy that does The Onion cartoons? Love that guy.

[Occam]

Trump expected to announce executive action to try to get citizenship question on 2020 Census, according to administration official

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-hold-news-conference-on-census-as-he-mulls-executive-action-to-add-a-citizenship-question/2019/07/11/c0eb7cb6-a3c8-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html

[agrajag]

in my head canon Ben Garrison is Mr. Garrison from South Park

[kingv]

I can’t figure out if this Mississipi GOP governor is a genius or an idiot for this dumb no women reporters stance.

This shit might actually fly in MS.

That reporter is fine as hell tho.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/REALpunknews/status/1148773836101488641

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/MikeGravel/status/1149344720050692097

[Tasty]

Others have also suggested consumers’ credit scores could potentially go down if this additional data is added in earnest to the calculations. For instance, utility companies can already report late payments to credit bureaus, but typically only do so after several months have passed. If utility companies were obliged to report all consumer payment information to the credit reporting agencies, consumers could be dinged for a single late payment, even if they quickly resolved the situation.

FUCK this and fuck Harris.

[Kara]

Trump expected to announce executive action to try to get citizenship question on 2020 Census, according to administration official

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-hold-news-conference-on-census-as-he-mulls-executive-action-to-add-a-citizenship-question/2019/07/11/c0eb7cb6-a3c8-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html

It's not like anything stops him except his own laziness, why not.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1149342154055135232

[Himu]

#NeverHarris !!!

I will write in!

[benjipwns]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/pete-buttigieg-2020-systemic-racism-1406957

Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign on Thursday rolled out an extensive plan to fight systemic racism and expand economic freedom for African Americans.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor has dubbed this set of proposals the "Douglass Plan," after pioneering abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

[Tasty]

the "Douglass Plan," after pioneering abolitionist Frederick Douglass

 

[Himu]

Okay. How are you going to help black folks out, breh?

I like the ideas. Hopefully another candidate swipes em.

[agrajag]

Frederick Douglass has done a tremendous job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.

[Dickie Dee]

Okay. How are you going to help black folks out, breh?

How does he plan on fighting systemic racism?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/pete-buttigieg-2020-systemic-racism-1406957

[Himu]

I want reparations for my grandmother while she’s still alive.

[Joe Molotov]

Unfortunately, due a typing error, all reparations are being sent to Michael Douglas.

[Himu]

She’s an authoritarian. Nothing will show her except a raw rejection of her power. She cannot - should not - win the democratic nomination. That would really turn it into The Simpsons: a wannabe dictator reined in by the nations checks and balances vs an authoritarian.

Thankfully I live in the south which is nothing but red states. One write in for “No one” would go over very well.

[kingv]

Cindi is the only person in the country that wants reparations and also wants to be able to buy a rocket launcher at Target.

[Himu]

Cindi is the only person in the country that wants reparations and also wants to be able to buy a rocket launcher at Target.

Rocket launcher? Where’d this come from? Comparing ar15 to rocket launchers now? Pathetic.

[HardcoreRetro]

write in bob avakian instead

Dr Death?

[Himu]

He’s the leader of some USA communist party.

I’d sooner rather write in Bobby Seale instead.

[HardcoreRetro]

It was supposed to be a humorous jape where I misread the name and think of Jack Kevorkian instead of Bob Avakian.

[kingv]

Cindi is the only person in the country that wants reparations and also wants to be able to buy a rocket launcher at Target.

Rocket launcher? Where’d this come from? Comparing ar15 to rocket launchers now? Pathetic.

True. Rocket launchers are a lot less lethal in school shootings 

[Himu]

School shootings are down across the board even compared to the 90’s when we had Columbine. Be sarcastic to someone who cares.

[Kara]

It was supposed to be a humorous jape where I misread the name and think of Jack Kevorkian instead of Bob Avakian.

The Bore may be a hate site but years of watching The Shield have given its members empathy for the Armenian diaspora. Sorry, Erdogan.

[benjipwns]

a write-in in many states aren't even counted if they aren't for a registered write-in candidate

[HardcoreRetro]

School shootings are down across the board

What, like in the video games section? Might actually have to check that part of the forum.

[benjipwns]

maybe when Kim Jong Un makes his visit here he will assist us in setting up true democratic elections

[Himu]

a write-in in many states aren't even counted if they aren't for a registered write-in candidate

Oh well.

There’s always the down ballot.

[kingv]

School shootings are down across the board

What, like in the video games section? Might actually have to check that part of the forum.

Incredibly untrue fact that you can disprove for yourself with a calculator and 5 minutes on Wikipedia. But you don’t have to because I just did for you.

1990-1998: 59 school shootings, 64 deaths, 121 injuries for 185 people shot total
2010-2018: 169 school shootings, 83 deaths, 270 injuries, for 353 people shot total

If there’s a silver lining it’s that modern kids appear to be shitty shots.

[Tasty]

Okay. How are you going to help black folks out, breh?

I like the ideas. Hopefully another candidate swipes em.

I think the name of the initiative is cringeworthy and comes off as trying way too hard, maybe you disagree.

[Tasty]

Thankfully I live in the south which is nothing but red states.

Seems like a weird thing to be thankful about in this context but OK.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/eehouls/status/1149008324198719489

[Himu]

School shootings are down across the board

What, like in the video games section? Might actually have to check that part of the forum.

Incredibly untrue fact that you can disprove for yourself with a calculator and 5 minutes on Wikipedia. But you don’t have to because I just did for you.

1990-1998: 59 school shootings, 64 deaths, 121 injuries for 185 people shot total
2010-2018: 169 school shootings, 83 deaths, 270 injuries, for 353 people shot total

If there’s a silver lining it’s that modern kids appear to be shitty shots.

No, many that are counted as school shootings really aren't. You are taking an issue and using false information and proclaiming them as fact. People like you, people with your agenda, consider a robbery on school campus, while school is out, to be counted as a school shooting.

Highlighted here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-there-havent-been-18-school-shooting-in-2018-that-number-is-flat-wrong/2018/02/15/65b6cf72-1264-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.f2e704894ed3

And then you trust the media, which represents this false news to present a fake narrative to flex their own agenda.

A cursory google search reveals how wrong you are.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/us/columbine-anniversary-school-violence-statistics.html

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/some-research-shows-school-shootings-dropped-after-columbine

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-one-of-the-safest-places-for-children-researcher-says/

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/school-shooting-statistics-parkland-florida/

School shootings are considerably down since the 90's.

School shootings are down. Crime is down. Gun crime is down. This isn't about safety. This is about selling fear and how much you don't like guns because you consider them declasse and the fact you have - pathetically I might add - bought into media fear like a complete and utter plebe. Because if it were about safety you would  actually look at the facts and stop running around like a headless chicken while pumping out your "alternate facts".

[Himu]

Thankfully I live in the south which is nothing but red states.

Seems like a weird thing to be thankful about in this context but OK.

In the sense they aren't swing states so you can vote for whoever. :dahell

[Mandark]

All the corporate speak in that Buttigieg white paper seems to be covering up a certain amount of "our plan is to develop a plan" vagueness.

However, a mainstream Dem presidential candidate making it a goal to reduce the incarcerated population by half would have been a pipe dream ten years ago, maybe five.

[agrajag]

Thankfully I live in the south which is nothing but red states.

Seems like a weird thing to be thankful about in this context but OK.

weird flex lol

[benjipwns]

don't listen to him Cyndi, libertarianism is a joke:

I don’t think plagiarists are effective. I’ve read nothing by Libertarians (when I read them, in the early years) that wasn’t my ideas badly mishandled—that is, the teeth pulled out of them—with no credit given. I didn’t know whether to be glad that no credit was given, or disgusted. I felt both. They are perhaps the worst political group today, because they can do the most harm to capitalism, by making it disreputable. I’ll take Jane Fonda over them.

Because libertarians are a monstrous, disgusting bunch of people: they plagiarize my ideas when that fits their purpose, and denounce me in a more vicious manner than any communist publication when that fits their purpose. They’re lower than any pragmatists, and what they hold against Objectivism is morality. They want an amoral political program.

Please don’t tell me they’re pursuing my goals. I have not asked for, nor do I accept, the help of intellectual cranks. I want philosophically educated people: those who understand ideas, care about ideas, and spread the right ideas. That’s how my philosophy will spread, just as philosophy has throughout history: by means of people who understand ideas and teach them to others. Further, it should be clear that I reject the filthy slogan “The end justifies the means.” That was originated by the Jesuits, and accepted enthusiastically by the Communists and the Nazis. The end does not justify the means; you cannot achieve anything good by evil means. Finally, libertarians aren’t worthy of being the means to any end, let alone the end of spreading Objectivism.

All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That’s worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. Anarchists are the scum of the intellectual world of the Left, which has given them up. So the Right picks up another leftist discard. That’s the libertarian movement. 

[Mandark]

From one of the links Cindi posted:

"Active shooter incidents" at elementary/secondary schools, 2000-2009: 16, resulting in 24 deaths.

"Active shooter incidents" at elementary/secondary schools, 2010-2017: 21, resulting in 43 deaths. (nb this over a shorter period and does not include Parkland)


This is less a point about gun control as a point about posting links and bullshitting about what's in them, thus making me feel obligated to find the relevant charts in a 268 page pdf.

[Mandark]

PAY 👏 MANDARK 👏 FOR 👏 HIS 👏 FACT-CHECKING 👏

[Himu]

Why is it that every generation of democrats since the 80's has some sort of fear story to sell for votes?

In the 80's it was music. Cindi Lauper and heavy metal are corrupting our children.

In the 90's it was violent video games like Mortal Kombat. Fighting games and Doom are turning your child into a psychopathic mass murderer.

In the 00's they kind of stopped it because of 9/11.

Now they're using fake news to tell about how living in America is a literal warzone and everyone should fear leaving their houses to prevent themselves from being shot despite current America being the safest its been at an all recorded time low.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-12/pssst-crime-may-be-near-an-all-time-low

(note: bloomberg is an anti-gun news source funded by the same owner of Everytown which makes this link even sweeter)

[Mandark]

Cindi, for years you've been telling us that you absolutely need scads of heavy armament because of how likely it is you'll be assaulted.