US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[benjipwns]

I gotta admit that as books are coming in that start to move into covering the Trump administration it's funny to see how they cite and use his Twitter statements. Some people are like "nope" and just cite articles citing his tweets, others just give up and do "Donald Trump, @RealDonaldTrump, Twitter" because that's clearly the only way to do this.

Like this National Security Council book, for them talking about Reagan/Bush/Obama it's something like "the Obama team felt the Pentagon was working against them" with the citation being like some long form NYTimes article or Bob Woodward book or interview with a NSC member. But for Trump it's all like "Trump felt the deep state was opposing him" and the citation is Trump, on Twitter, "DEEP STATE! SAD!" It's like the Reagan Diaries, but in real time and no rewriting like Reagan did.

[benjipwns]

I don't know how many of these will be cited in books:

Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course. By 8 p.m. Monday, as Dorian churned toward Florida and Mr. Trump’s boarded-up Mar-a-Lago resort, the president had golfed twice and since Saturday morning pelted the American public with 122 tweets.

...

“In addition to Florida — South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” Mr. Trump wrote in a tweet shortly after departing Camp David for Washington on Sunday morning. “Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE!”

Mr. Trump’s commentary on the hurricane was not wholly accurate. The National Weather Service quickly walked back one of his assertions: “We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama,” officials said on Twitter.

Always eager to have the last word, Mr. Trump on Monday attacked an ABC reporter who said the president had wrongly inserted Alabama in the list of states.

“Always good to be prepared!” Mr. Trump wrote by way of explanation.

But the president’s concern for Florida, a state of political and personal importance to him, did not seem to waver going into the weekend. On Friday, he took questions from reporters about the ability of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., estate, to withstand the winds.

“Yeah, it would look like Mar-a-Lago is dead center,” Mr. Trump said. “But, look, Mar-a-Lago can handle itself. That’s a very powerful place.”

As Dorian grew in size and strength, Mr. Trump appeared to marvel at the storm’s sheer capacity for devastation: “Being hit like never before, Category 5. Almost 200 MPH winds,” the president tweeted on Sunday. Earlier, during a hurricane briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Mr. Trump expressed disbelief bordering on reverence for Dorian’s Category 5 status, the highest degree measured by meteorologists on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.

“A Category 5 is something that I don’t know that I’ve even heard the term, other than I know it’s there. That’s the ultimate.”

Curiously, Mr. Trump has claimed before that neither he nor weather experts had ever heard of or experienced a Category 5. He was speaking specifically about Hurricane Irma in Florida and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, both in September 2017, and both classified as Category 5.

The Capital Weather Gang, a group of weather experts at The Washington Post, took issue on Monday with Mr. Trump’s remarks.

“Although it might seem like a harmless curiosity or blind spot, Trump’s self-professed ignorance of Category 5 monsters could slow the government’s response to such disasters,” an editor, Andrew Freedman, wrote, “or contribute to confusion at the highest levels of government as well as among people in harm’s way.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday about Mr. Trump’s knowledge of Category 5 storms, or about Mr. Trump’s preparation efforts in general.

golfing? hopefully he's working on his paper towel free throws, he only hit 50% in Puerto Rico

[Nintex]

Who's going to do the book on the everlasting infrastructure week?

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[BIONIC]

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I can tell from the reflections that this is completely photoshopped. Who’s your Russian handler? You okay with this sorta vile content @BireSupport?

[Tasty]

“It’s too late in the game to keep saying it’s too early.”

OK, but who's on first?

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1099005542893182976

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1168905586760671238

The whole Internet, it seems, has had a nice laugh. The tweet originally garnered only nine likes and zero retweets; it now has over 32,000 likes and 4,800 retweets. There is something inherently entertaining about the self-proclaimed defender of uncomfortable speech on college campuses coming unglued when he found a sentence on the Internet that he didn’t like. Stephens may be the first person in history to publicly illustrate both the Streisand Effect and Godwin’s Law in a single episode. But the joke turned sour on Friday night, when he published a column that not-so-subtly compares me to a Nazi propagandist. There’s a lesson here, about power and introspection in modern America. But I have my doubts Stephens is ready to learn it.

[Brehvolution]

Funny thing about it is Dave went to Bret's house to say it to his face, but Bret just hid behind the couch until Dave left the front porch.

[Tasty]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/elizabeth-warren-2020-competitors-1477953

But she weathered those attacks, and strategic decisions by her campaign have helped make her an elusive target. She began addressing her biggest obstacle, her previous claims to Native American ancestry, in 2018 by releasing a DNA test before she announced for president. That allowed some of the hardest hits to unfold outside the presidential race.

Also gonna do a Hot Take here and say it was probably better for her to bite the bullet and dive on the DNA sword ahead of her candidacy announcement than her getting trapped in a media tidal pull of "WHY WON'T SHE ADDRESS IT, IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE TRUMP STARTED SAYING POCOHANTAS."

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could be possible that Warren was always going to be a second tier candidate with Bernie and Biden in the race.

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[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1168898508608421888

 

[Brehvolution]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conversion-therapy-crusader-has-something-say-he-s-gay-n1049146

If you pray the gay away too hard, next you'll be praying the gay to stay.

[agrajag]

lmao if you think Trump won't obliterate her with the DNA/Pocahontas stuff if she makes it through to the general

[ToxicAdam]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

[Tasty]

Honestly, and I could end up being totally wrong on this, but my gut feeling is... Trump's nicknames have a curve and an eventual decay. I don't think they have indefinite staying power. If you're dredging up dusty artifacts from 2016 as your main weapon, it may not be a sound strategy.

From his base's perspective as well, Pocahontas is old hat. His newer insults for other candidates are gonna get more play and lols in the primary.

But who knows at this point. Like I said, I don't.

[Tasty]

lmao if you think Trump won't obliterate her with the DNA/Pocahontas stuff if she makes it through to the general

"obliterate"

For the record he didn't even obliterate Hillary in the election he won, she did it to herself. And the primary that produced him can only be described as a self-implosion from all sides as well.

Additionally I'm not sure what more he could say that hasn't already been said, but that's incumbent on Warren not to hand Trump any additional rope. Which she has been good about so far, but I concede she still hasn't faced him head-on. (However, I'd also point out that hasn't stopped Trump from going after the other candidates' gaffes, though.)

[agrajag]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

tell me again how his petty shit worked against Clinton? Obviously I hope you're right, and any Dem candidate is vastly preferable to Trump, even Biden. She's just a vulnerable candidate and crumbles under pressure even during a Breakfast club interview.

[agrajag]

I hope you are right Tasty.



 

[Tasty]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

You have more faith in middle America than I do, but for sure they're not going to be warm on Trump if all he can offer is a slur while economic and healthcare issues continue to grow at a national scale.

[agrajag]

benji


https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1168693363157196800

[Tasty]

#latestagecapitalism

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/ShaiRinku/status/1168266942760857606

[Tasty]

Just because Trump's lowered the standards on discourse does not mean I prefer they stay that way. This is a miscalculation by Beto I feel.

[kingv]

Beto really missed the boat by not going with the much more impactful “this is fucked up like clown pussy”

[agrajag]

it's kind of gross that they are using a tragedy to sell shirts, even if Beto is sincere in his outbursts. Also the 3.0 Pottymouth Beto rebrand has a strong "how do you do fellow kids" energy

[Cauliflower Of Love]

benji


https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1168693363157196800

This is terrible.

[Nintex]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

tell me again how his petty shit worked against Clinton? Obviously I hope you're right, and any Dem candidate is vastly preferable to Trump, even Biden. She's just a vulnerable candidate and crumbles under pressure even during a Breakfast club interview.

With Trump it's hard to tell at this point if he wants to get re-elected. If he does he'll pull the most insane show this planet has ever seen.

An interesting thing to watch is the news networks. They know that things will be a lot more boring with Biden or Warren in the White House compared to Trump.
CNN, MSNBC and tons of TV shows would lose 90% of their material overnight. With the Russia thing going nowhere the ratings were already dwindling.

Obama had an eventful Presidency for sure but nothing compares to this.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

tell me again how his petty shit worked against Clinton? Obviously I hope you're right, and any Dem candidate is vastly preferable to Trump, even Biden. She's just a vulnerable candidate and crumbles under pressure even during a Breakfast club interview.

With Trump it's hard to tell at this point if he wants to get re-elected. If he does he'll pull the most insane show this planet has ever seen.

An interesting thing to watch is the news networks. They know that things will be a lot more boring with Biden or Warren in the White House compared to Trump.
CNN, MSNBC and tons of TV shows would lose 90% of their material overnight. With the Russia thing going nowhere the ratings were already dwindling.

Obama had an eventful Presidency for sure but nothing compares to this.

Hopefully they treat his dumbass like any other politician instead of being "OMG TRUMP".

I've always been curious to know what the Obama admin pulled off on the DL during the Tan Suit Travesty (TST).

[agrajag]

this is such a weird headline

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1168950821410758657

[Cauliflower Of Love]

this is such a weird headline

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1168950821410758657

They should have added that Sanders plummeted into second.

[Tasty]

Sanders has been #2 from the start.

[OnlyRegret]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/conversion-therapy-crusader-has-something-say-he-s-gay-n1049146

If you pray the gay away too hard, next you'll be praying the gay to stay.

Clearly the noble soul absorbed The Gay from his patients.

lmao if you think Trump won't obliterate her with the DNA/Pocahontas stuff if she makes it through to the general

Pissed me off. Pasty ass people with snowflake syndrome using entire peoples/cultures/ethnicities as deco.
"I'm totally exotic with 1/64th Whitefeet DNA".
No ya ain't, and cultures don't exist as flavour enhancers for you to use as a hat.

 

[benjipwns]

The plan for former GOP-er Warren to sneak into the Democratic Party and win the Presidency and then reveal she never stopped being a GOP operative and tear apart the government is on track.

[agrajag]

another weird tweet

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1168871320085520385

She slipped to 4th? From where? Do these people just sandbag articles and sit on them and publish them months later?

[kingv]

It’s that devastating deep fake where she was excited over a prison bus.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1168894255265386496

https://twitter.com/CDonatac/status/1169019292047814657

so clap much clap twitter clap truths clap

https://twitter.com/WillieEverstop/status/1168888666833465346

https://twitter.com/darlinshel/status/1168903009369296896

https://twitter.com/PelosiSquadFive/status/1168956670560690176

https://twitter.com/onoma071112/status/1168873256335630337

https://twitter.com/Cajsa/status/1168998751928803330

https://twitter.com/AubreyForBeto/status/1168928661283774466

https://twitter.com/diana4color/status/1168907490442039296

Obama was at ~25% in September 2007

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[jakefromstatefarm]

A Candidacy^TM that Began with Great Promise or: How to Overread One Early Debate Performance

[benjipwns]

Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for "sitting around and talking" about politics instead of working

...

When not reporting on the miracle of life, Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in "endless political discussion," according to Deloz.

Sanders’ idle chatter did not endear him with some of the commune’s residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. Daloz writes that one resident, Craig, "resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day."

Sanders was eventually asked to leave. "When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle’s allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on," Daloz writes.

wow, why is the mainstream media covering this up? first the dude's freeloading off a commune and now he's trying to freeload off, another group he's not a member of, the Democratic Party again? Old Yeller is a disgrace and should be banned from politics for life, along with all the white supremacist cishet shitlords who try to force him on marginalized people to prop up their precious Joker film

[benjipwns]

huge if true

[benjipwns]

I searched for "bernie sanders joker" to see if anyone had made any with the new movie and I got back a whole bunch of memes like that one and I can't tell without looking at the site if they're conservative brand memes or Democratic Bernie hater memes except for the ones that put Bernie next to Marx or something

this is the winner btw

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https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1168991285828624386

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[curly]

No one outside of his base will give a shit. It will make him look petty and small to middle America.

His entire brand is doing stuff that "would make him look petty to middle america" and he's the president. Middle America is fascist. Read settlers.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1168970949586280448

[benjipwns]

Nintex, use your own address when you want to sign up for these mailers:

[Mandark]

lmao if you think Trump won't obliterate her with the DNA/Pocahontas stuff if she makes it through to the general

If the key to beating Trump is to find a candidate that he won't be mean to, I have some very bad news.

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https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1168312265369628672

I'll put that "access" to healthcare right next to my access to luxury cars 

[benjipwns]

If the key to beating Trump is to find a candidate that he won't be mean to, I have some very bad news.

The Democrats need to nominate Trump.

Checkmate.

[agrajag]

it's not the meanness, it's the inability to deal with it*

* see the DNA test debacle in which Trump relentlessly bullied and psyched Warren out, and her response was the very sad 23 and me public reveal.

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1168312265369628672

I'll put that "access" to healthcare right next to my access to luxury cars 

Warren has luxury cars? What a fucking baller.

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1168312265369628672

I'll put that "access" to healthcare right next to my access to luxury cars 

Warren has luxury cars? What a fucking baller.

[Tasty]

Don't talk to me or my son filler ever again

[Occam]

I still think "Kamala" looks like some sort of terrible spelling mistake.

Edit: Took the time to educate myself, it's a common Sanskrit name. And here I thought it was a bastardized version of "Camilla".

[Nintex]

Nintex, use your own address when you want to sign up for these mailers:

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Trump's scaring the shit out of old people already 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1168312265369628672

I'll put that "access" to healthcare right next to my access to luxury cars 

Warren has luxury cars? What a fucking baller.

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see what happens when you don't save the cheerleader

[benjipwns]

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released an ambitious new climate change plan on Tuesday, embracing goals laid out by a former presidential rival and calling for $3 trillion

Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro unveiled Tuesday a $10 trillion plan

Senator Kamala Harris of California released an ambitious new climate change plan early Wednesday, calling for $10 trillion

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a rival of Ms. Warren’s on the left, has not explicitly taken up Mr. Inslee’s ideas. Instead, analysts said, he is trying to win over the progressive wing of the Democratic Party with a climate plan that takes its name from the Green New Deal and has the biggest price tag of all the candidates’ proposals — $16.3 trillion

Beto, do we hear $20 trillion?

Mr. Booker’s plan, which calls for $3 trillion

oh come on Corey

The Buttigieg campaign said total federal spending would range from $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion

Mr. Biden’s climate plan, which calls for $1.7 trillion

we're going the wrong way now!

Ms. Klobuchar’s plan, which calls for reinstating Obama-era regulations on fossil fuel emissions

that's not even a number Amy!

[benjipwns]

so much for The View being the home of the #Resistance

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/genuineheadline/status/1169240618415153152

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/genuineheadline/status/1169240618415153152

Is this the sequel to "caption doesn't match video"? Guest starring genuine headlines?

[Occam]

Did that guy link to the wrong clip?

Also, lol about not wanting a ban on guns so you can protect yourself... against guns.