US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[james]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-one-just-goes-hiking-in-afghanistan-american-woman-gave-birth-to-three-kids-as-a-taliban-hostage-she-now-seeks-to-end-the-mystery-surrounding-her-saga/2019/08/23/d036c346-8939-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html

A fan of fantasy and sci-fi, she was 16 when she first encountered Boyle in an online Star Wars forum in 2002. She was smitten. He was charismatic and sure of himself. He seemed to know a lot about the world. He was her first kiss, she said.

[...]

Boyle has spoken publicly of his prolific activity as a Wikipedia editor, which Canada’s National Post has reported exceeded 60,000 edits and focused on areas including terrorism, Star Wars, erotica and Nazi Germany.

This is what Star Wars fandom leads to, folks.

Wait...

Coleman, who was kidnapped with Boyle during a backpacking trip to neighboring Afghanistan in 2012, had already endured more than two years of deprivation, assault and the ever-present possibility of summary execution at the hands of the Haqqani network, the feared Taliban faction known for attacking Westerners. Her first child, a boy, was born shortly after they were taken captive. A second pregnancy was terminated after a guard secretly added chemicals to their food, she and Boyle believed.

Now her third pregnancy was coming to an accelerated end

So they get put in a taliban prison and decide to start popping out kids in their cell?

 

[EightBitNate]

[Nintex]

Ginsburg should have retired 10 years ago. 

Ah yes, this season's finale when Trump replaces RBG with SCOTUS Peter Thiel.

[VomKriege]

So they get put in a taliban prison and decide to start popping out kids in their cell?

 

Huge oversight by Taliban Planned Parenthood failing to give them pills or condom.
 

She was in captivity with her husband, fucking was probably one of the few enjoyable activities they could have.

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[VomKriege]

Sorry dufus. If it's any consolation there are 3 more Koch brothers and a line of dipshits waiting to take his place 

Unfortunately a tad more difficult than just breaking the Money Wall and the 200 Families, yeah.

[thisismyusername]

Not the type of Koch I want to talk about, but speaking of which:

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-one-just-goes-hiking-in-afghanistan-american-woman-gave-birth-to-three-kids-as-a-taliban-hostage-she-now-seeks-to-end-the-mystery-surrounding-her-saga/2019/08/23/d036c346-8939-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html

A fan of fantasy and sci-fi, she was 16 when she first encountered Boyle in an online Star Wars forum in 2002. She was smitten. He was charismatic and sure of himself. He seemed to know a lot about the world. He was her first kiss, she said.

[...]

Boyle has spoken publicly of his prolific activity as a Wikipedia editor, which Canada’s National Post has reported exceeded 60,000 edits and focused on areas including terrorism, Star Wars, erotica and Nazi Germany.

This is what Star Wars fandom leads to, folks.

Wait...

Coleman, who was kidnapped with Boyle during a backpacking trip to neighboring Afghanistan in 2012, had already endured more than two years of deprivation, assault and the ever-present possibility of summary execution at the hands of the Haqqani network, the feared Taliban faction known for attacking Westerners. Her first child, a boy, was born shortly after they were taken captive. A second pregnancy was terminated after a guard secretly added chemicals to their food, she and Boyle believed.

Now her third pregnancy was coming to an accelerated end

So they get put in a taliban prison and decide to start popping out kids in their cell?

 

or.....now hear me out, this might sound crazy, she was probably raped.

[ToxicAdam]

Billionaires financing the conservative movement are like Al Queda #2 in command.

[VomKriege]

or.....now hear me out, this might sound crazy, she was probably raped.

She was abused by the captors (perhaps as retaliation) but his husband is the father to all kids... Though the story is that he also turned into an abuser, according to her.

[Nintex]

All the tariffs up 5% and this:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164975929598316544

 

[shosta]

[Bank of England director] Urges Libra-Like Reserve Currency to End Dollar Dominance

KEYNES LIIIIIIIIIVES

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1165038066140176384

It's like serving someone shit before you start pissing on them. 

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1165036745815154688

[BIONIC]

I am ordering all carriers to BAN THE CHINESE AND KILL THEM

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1165036329106849794

[Tasty]

Etsy goin' wild.

[Tripon]

There's actually four Koch brothers...well now three.

Ah right. Pestilence Koch, Death Koch, Famine Koch, and War Koch.

RIP Famine Koch.

Best Koch is Wyatt Koch

[Tripon]

Emails from senior Veterans Affairs staff released Thursday reveal the frustration and scorn they felt at having to deal with the intrusion of three wealthy members of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in the agency’s plans to create a new digital health platform.

The 2017 and 2018 emails, which Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, show the outsized influence of the Mar-a-Lago members, Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marc Sherman and internist Bruce Moskowitz.

The emails reveal how senior staff responded to what they saw as unhelpful meddling in their work. Essentially, they humored the three Trump friends while ignoring their advice, which they considered misinformed and potentially disruptive to veteran health care.

In one email, project head John Windom describes a meeting with the three as a “grin and bear it session.” Another calls them "clearly out of their depth" in demanding changes in the department's 2018 EHR contract with Cerner that the officials felt were unreasonable.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/digital-health-platform-mar-a-lago-members-1676335

[kingv]

The fact that Disney has not shitcanned Ike perlmutter speaks volumes.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

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Etsy goin' wild.

thats....a pretty cool shirt.

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https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1164974088131162113

[EchoRin]

Best Koch is Wyatt Koch

How is there not a wikipedia on this dude or his company? Made me think this was all a joke for a minute.

Also cool

https://www.businessinsider.my/leon-haughton-jailed-us-customs-jamaican-honey-mistaken-for-meth-2019-8/
 

[agrajag]

Not convinced grandpa isn't being taken advantage of and being forced to run against his will

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1165003819413135360

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1165107072062697473

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1165104530218000384

 

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1164610256208584704

Major paradigm shift happening in real time among the mainstream economists

[Nintex]

It's modern monetary policy. You spend whatever the fuck you want and there are no downsides.
But I think that only works for fully developed economies like the United States, Japan(which has been doing this already) and western Europe.

And of course there will be limits which will be completely ignored and ruin everything 

[shosta]

MMT wouldn't change government spending patterns much, it just frees you from having to match everything up with a revenue source. You would still be beholden to inflationary control. The paradigm shift I'm referring to is viewing the US economy as fundamentally demand constrained, which hasn't been mainstream for an extremely long time, and incorporating private debt levels into macroeconomic models.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"We'll tax their wine!"


haha

Someone get these old men out of the public eye

Queen Tusli save us!

would be interesting if someone at Jackson Hole besides LHS makes the case for sustained fiscal stimulus, and invokes Blanchard on the near-irrelevance of debt.

I mean, isn't this how the US has become the greatest nation this planet has seen?  It's just a matter of who's benefiting at what time.

[Nintex]

On Earth 2 Trump and Biden are fighting over Trump cheating at Bingo while President Jeb! announces the Amazon has grown by 20%. 

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1165030771637280774

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1164610256208584704

Major paradigm shift happening in real time among the mainstream economists

"Central banks may no longer be able to steer the economy out of recessions through monetary policy" has been Krugman's thing for at least two decades though. The Return of Depression Economics came out during the Clinton administration.

[kingv]

I think it’s still a shift.

He was essentially arguing against Bernie Sanders because his healthcare plan couldn’t be paid for in 2016.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/weakened-at-bernies/

[Mandark]

I think it’s still a shift.

He was essentially arguing against Bernie Sanders because his healthcare plan couldn’t be paid for in 2016.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/weakened-at-bernies/

Nah, he was accusing the Sanders campaign of being dishonest in a similar way to Paul Ryan or Mitch Daniels.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/bruce_croxon/status/1165271425709748224


lol Canada

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jvgraz/status/1165299435863035907
https://twitter.com/jvgraz/status/1165299491685072896

RIP

[kingv]

I love the whole khive thing.

It’s really obvious why they ran with that, and I’m here for it.

It would be if Bernie fans started calling themselves the Maccabees or something.

[agrajag]

khivemind

[kingv]

If she absolutely has to have a nickname based on a popular black musician, I would have went with 12 stacks.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1165288476943605762

[OnlyRegret]

now that is art

[EightBitNate]

Ben Garrison is a fool and Groening probably doesn’t do much on the Simpsons anymore but who thought it’d be a good idea releasing that cringy liberal sketch just a few weeks after the feet story?

[Nintex]

I like how he has to specifically mention that it is a funny post. 

[OnlyRegret]

general buffoonery aside
the random feuds and shitposting give me a laugh, he is still mad about CNN
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1165074050273677312

[agrajag]

Ben Garrison is a fool and Groening probably doesn’t do much on the Simpsons anymore but who thought it’d be a good idea releasing that cringy liberal sketch just a few weeks after the feet story?

what feet story

[EightBitNate]

Ben Garrison is a fool and Groening probably doesn’t do much on the Simpsons anymore but who thought it’d be a good idea releasing that cringy liberal sketch just a few weeks after the feet story?

what feet story

It’s what the Ben Garrison cartoon is referring to. Groening got mixed up with Epstein. Epstein had a girl massage Matt’s feet on a flight. 

[Nintex]

Ben Garrison is a fool and Groening probably doesn’t do much on the Simpsons anymore but who thought it’d be a good idea releasing that cringy liberal sketch just a few weeks after the feet story?

what feet story

Epstein

One of his underage victims was told to massage the feet of Groening which as she described were awfully nasty.
But he's dead now so all your favs are safe 

[Tripon]

Ben Garrison is a fool and Groening probably doesn’t do much on the Simpsons anymore but who thought it’d be a good idea releasing that cringy liberal sketch just a few weeks after the feet story?

what feet story

https://twitter.com/XuHands/status/1164335744103534593

One of Jeffery Epstein's underage victims were made to rub Matt Groening's feet on his private airplane.

https://www.cbr.com/matt-groening-epstein-deposition-foot-massage/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363452/Bill-Clinton-15-year-old-masseuse-I-met-twice-claims-Epsteins-girl.html

She's been telling a version of that story publicly at least since 2011.

Epstein’s many Hollywood pals include Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.

‘Jeffrey once had me give Matt a foot massage when he was flying on the jet with us,’ Virginia says.

‘He laughed and did drawings of Bart and Homer for my little brother and my dad.

[agrajag]

 

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Elizabeth Warren is identity politics for journalists.

[thisismyusername]

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Elizabeth Warren is identity politics for journalists.

this her best interview 

[Tasty]

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New avatar?

[thisismyusername]

Too big, squishing it would lose details. :'(

Also not my work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/cutqns/courtesy_of_hood_pocahontas/

[Tasty]

Too big, squishing it would lose details. :'(

Also not my work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/cutqns/courtesy_of_hood_pocahontas/

up2ubb

[thisismyusername]

Nintex, take it. I'm still trying to figure out a good Papa Bernie one when the election starts.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1165362904159444992

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/TanaGaneva/status/1164968073281056768

I own a couple of books by Stephen Jay Gould. May, uh, have to reconsider that now...

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Elizabeth Warren is identity politics for journalists.

this her best interview 

She looks so domineering.

[OnlyRegret]

we're getting biden with VP Harris as some sort of Obama inversion aren't we