US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1167497793994481666

I didn't even notice that. 

A nuclear hurricane is both the most epic and terrifying thing ever 

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1166453158308208640

Lindsey Graham, tough on Russia China.

[OnlyRegret]

Was Gillibrand the one that retorted to some townhall question with a check your privilege run down? 
Sure privilege exists, but can't really feed your family with it.

[Tasty]

Gillibitch

[OnlyRegret]

sure racism is bad, but r*ssia? that's is a whole new level of sin

[james]

Gillibitch probably got more mentions in the past 24 hours than during the entire rest of her campaign

[Madrun Badrun]

Gillibitch

Really now?

[james]

Gillibitch

Really now?

Gillibitch

 

[Madrun Badrun]

TBF his post was full of deep political insight so he gets a pass on one minor thing on an otherwise good post.  Yours, however ...   

[Mandark]

ngl I'm kind of disappointed in tasty

[james]

References to Gillibitch date back months, if not years.

That fact that you don't know this shows how pathetic her campaign was.

[Trent Dole]

I kind of figured she'd fare better than she did. Ah well.

[kingv]

How can one make art with those little ass titties?

[curly]

from the wiki article it sounds like it was a reenactment of her rape so it probably wasn't meant to aid you in jerking off

in before "that's where you're wrong" and other hilarious comedy

[Tasty]

ngl I'm kind of disappointed in tasty

It's just fun to say in my mind. Like on a fifth grade level.

I have no idea who the candidate herself actually is.

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[Pwnz]

Thoughts and prayers

[BisMarckie]

james killed rosa

Parks?

(Image removed from quote.)

Noske just wanted to restore some order. Nobody could have known the Freikorps would kill Liebknecht and her.
 And the riots afterwards? They could’ve just gone home and become model citizens.

Noske absolutely understood that Pabst wanted to have Liebknecht and Luxemburg killed and agreed with it, he just didn't want to dirty his hands by giving the order himself. That's why he first tried to shift responsibility to general Lüttwitz, and when that wasn't possible, directly to Pabst.

Thanks for the history lesson, dad.

[Nintex]

Trump is now vlogging about the Hurricane

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167527540518522883

 

Basically everyone will die but we'll see what happens

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https://twitter.com/YousefMunayyer/status/1167103805038759936

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Trump is now vlogging about the Hurricane

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167527540518522883

 

Basically everyone will die but we'll see what happens

Just uh...be aware
-Potus 2019


=(

[agrajag]

Trump is now vlogging about the Hurricane

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167527540518522883

 

Basically everyone will die but we'll see what happens

and you are blogging about his vlogs

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweeted-classified-intelligence-briefing-photo-2019-8?utm_source=reddit.com

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1167480875765960705

 

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweeted-classified-intelligence-briefing-photo-2019-8?utm_source=reddit.com

What was even the purpose of putting that out in the first place? Was he trying to make fun of the Iranians or make them look bad?

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1167578038483259394

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1167578038483259394

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1167586983436271616

[agrajag]

 

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweeted-classified-intelligence-briefing-photo-2019-8?utm_source=reddit.com

What was even the purpose of putting that out in the first place? Was he trying to make fun of the Iranians or make them look bad?

Trolling on Twitter.

[Madrun Badrun]

The last 3 episodes of the weeds were pretty good. 

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https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/1167486964737761280

[agrajag]

lmao

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-49522499

Netflix to produce series inspired by Hillary Clinton's presidential run
 30 August 2019 US & Canada

[benjipwns]

Um... NV might be scrapping their phone-in "virtual" caucus which means I'll have to drag my ass to the real deal. Can anybody tell me what to expect? Should I bring a helmet in case someone throws a table again? I'm only used to primaries in civilized states.

You go stand in groups. If your candidate does not meet 15% then the other groups at or close to it try to convince you to come join their group or you stay uncommitted. After a set amount of time (can be many hours) they eventually count these up and use them to elect county convention delegates*.

The county convention delegates later will elect state convention delegates*. Those will elect the national convention delegates. Have a fun, enjoy.

*This is how Ron Paul won Iowa and other caucuses, everyone for the non-Paul candidates left rather than stay to pick the actual delegates. The Paul (and Romney since they were often party office holders) people stayed.

[benjipwns]

The GOP holds a door straw poll at their caucuses so a lot of people vote in that but don't stay to participate in the actual caucus process, I do not believe the Democrats do this anymore. Or at least they've been getting rid of it, I recall some media confusion in 2016 because the caucuses were only reporting delegate totals, not vote totals.

[Tripon]

You go stand in groups. If your candidate does not meet 15% then the other groups at or close to it try to convince you to come join their group or you stay uncommitted. After a set amount of time (can be many hours) they eventually count these up and use them to elect county convention delegates*.

The county convention delegates later will elect state convention delegates*. Those will elect the national convention delegates. Have a fun, enjoy.

*This is how Ron Paul won Iowa and other caucuses, everyone for the non-Paul candidates left rather than stay to pick the actual delegates. The Paul (and Romney since they were often party office holders) people stayed.

How the fuck are people supposed to do this if you're an adult that works? Or have kids? Or you're in a hospital bed?

Congratulations, you found a major reason why retired old people are a major voting block.

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1167480875765960705

 

Gonna steal 2020

[benjipwns]

How the fuck are people supposed to do this if you're an adult that works? Or have kids? Or you're in a hospital bed?

Have you considered not having an existence outside of serving The Party?

[benjipwns]

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1167578038483259394

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1167586983436271616

https://twitter.com/Mobute/status/1167654226476118016

[kingv]

(Image removed from quote.)

A lot of people are saying diamond and silk are some of the good ones.

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/gop-senate-elections-2020-1691841

THERE ARE NOW TWO SENATE SEATS AT STAKE IN GEORGIA

RUN STACEY RUN

Wow, how dare you try to tell a woman of color what to do, like she's your servant or something? You're disgusting.

[Mandark]

That Stephens column also has a line about the Soviet invasion of Poland being "just as murderous" as the German one.

So in a column where he implies that someone who made fun of him on Twitter was using (specifically Nazi-era) antisemitic tropes, he himself winds up engaging in some soft Holocaust denialism. Good job, good effort.

[BIONIC]

Gilli thought she had the perfect springboard to be President when she advocated for getting rid of Al Franken with no due process when he was accused by a right wing radio host with false accusations.

Fun fact, the girl Gilli invited as her special state of the union guest went on to make a porno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_N%27est_Pas_Un_Viol

FACT CHECK: it’s a performance art piece, you uncultured swine

[Nintex]

That Stephens column also has a line about the Soviet invasion of Poland being "just as murderous" as the German one.

So in a column where he implies that someone who made fun of him on Twitter was using (specifically Nazi-era) antisemitic tropes, he himself winds up engaging in some soft Holocaust denialism. Good job, good effort.

Communism arrives in Poland:

500,000 Polish nationals imprisoned before June 1941 (90% male)

22,000 Polish military personnel and officials killed in the Katyn massacre alone

1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1939-1941

150,000–500,000 citizens of the Republic died

The Soviets had to leave because the Germans took over but still managed to kill, deport and imprison(in Siberian gulags pretty much also 'death') a lot of people in a short time.
I wouldn't call the bloody purging of the Polish state by the commies 'holocaust denialism' by any measure. 

 

[VomKriege]

I think I'll sort of agree with Nintex here. Look what you make me do.
The NYT article is gated behind login and I can't verify the context for "just as murderous" but I would really doubt it's meant in a purely mathematical sense (correct me if I'm wrong). Beyond that it probably comes down to whether one believes Nazi Extermination cannot, ever, be compared to other atrocities without cheapening it.

It might also be a statement regarding the partitioning, invasion and its immediate aftermath specifically, before policies of systematic extermination really get formalized then ordered.

[kingv]

Counterpoint. Nintex believes both events are fictitious.

[Nintex]

Welp 18 minutes of police footage from 2005 of Epstein's house has leaked.
He kept pictures of underage girls framed all over his house.

Yet all his 'friends' say they never saw anything alarming or didn't know he was up to no good 

Counterpoint. Nintex believes both events are fictitious.

What makes you think I don't believe WW2 and the Holocaust happened?

[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/mel_ankoly/status/1167236022767251456



Two unlikable women, sticking up for each other. #NastyWomen though.

https://twitter.com/TheHipsterRebbe/status/1167410279854092289

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1167819172132376577

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1167819172132376577

I respect the hustle of faking sick to play hooky, but the president really should take his job more seriously.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1167781757904719873

[Nintex]

If you don't want to support Democrats(Kamala Harris) go somewhere else.

LMAO, she's going to jump into the field isn't she. When Biden tanks and Kamala doesn't gain traction.
Doesn't look like she would have the party taken over by Sanders.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/mel_ankoly/status/1167236022767251456



Two unlikable women, sticking up for each other. #NastyWomen though.

https://twitter.com/TheHipsterRebbe/status/1167410279854092289

Hilary Clinton really going to proclaim PUMA wasn't a thing in 2008? 

The yardstick that I and many other political observers have been using is the example of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. The contest between Clinton and Barack Obama was considerably closer than this year's Clinton/Sanders contest, with Clinton having enjoyed an early advantage in national public opinion polls and endorsements. The 2008 contest was also far more negative than this year's was, with the candidates frequently questioning each other's likability and fitness for office.

It was obvious by spring of 2008 that that math was against Clinton. By the beginning of June, when the last of the primaries were held, she had come up short, and Barack Obama was the presumptive nominee.

But it was still nearly three months until the convention, and many of her ardent supporters were not prepared to give up. They were angry with Obama and his team. They felt he hadn't treated Clinton respectfully, that he'd won unfairly due to a number of disputed delegate counts in Michigan and elsewhere, and that Clinton was the true choice of the party's voters. Several of them created an organization called PUMA (officially, People United Means Action; unofficially, Party Unity My Ass) and threatened to vote for John McCain in the fall.

Judging from public opinion polls and my own observations on the convention floor, Clinton's most ardent backers overwhelmingly followed her enthusiastic endorsement of Obama. PUMA's threats never materialized. No Clinton delegates led a walkout during the convention or tried to shout over speakers.

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/7/28/12302406/bernie-or-busters-nothing-like-pumas

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They don't call him brother Sanders for nothing.



No wait, that's brother ali.

[Nintex]

The Clinton camp started the whole birther thing with the picture of Obama in robes they circulated.

Obama and Sanders never showed any respect for the yass queen 

[agrajag]

I think I'll sort of agree with Nintex here.

How not to start a post

 

[nachobro]

how is anyone talking to a clinton about anything other than epstein?

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1167868300581167104

flawless 

[OnlyRegret]

That Stephens column also has a line about the Soviet invasion of Poland being "just as murderous" as the German one.

So in a column where he implies that someone who made fun of him on Twitter was using (specifically Nazi-era) antisemitic tropes, he himself winds up engaging in some soft Holocaust denialism. Good job, good effort.

Communism arrives in Poland:

500,000 Polish nationals imprisoned before June 1941 (90% male)

22,000 Polish military personnel and officials killed in the Katyn massacre alone

1,700,000 Poles deported to Siberia in 1939-1941

150,000–500,000 citizens of the Republic died

The Soviets had to leave because the Germans took over but still managed to kill, deport and imprison(in Siberian gulags pretty much also 'death') a lot of people in a short time.
I wouldn't call the bloody purging of the Polish state by the commies 'holocaust denialism' by any measure. 

 

People tend to be weirdly nonplussed about massacres by Reds, see "tankies".

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