US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Tripon]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-fake-lover-jacob-wohl-202701110.html

Inept conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman held another bizarre press conference in Burkman’s driveway on Wednesday, this time to smear Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) with obviously fake allegations of an extramarital affair.

And like past efforts to manufacture sexual claims against Trump foes—from Robert Mueller, to Pete Buttigieg, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—the Harris charade fell apart quickly.

The pair’s bogus accuser—26-year-old Sean Newaldass—told The Daily Beast on Friday that he had no idea the event in which he alleged that he was in a romantic dalliance with the Senate was real. That’s because Newaldass had met Wohl and Burkman by replying to an ad posted on Craigslist seeking a “male actor” for “performance art.” When he showed up at Burkman’s Virginia home and delivered his lines alleging an affair, Newaldass was under the belief that the press conference was actually an audition for a Spike TV show. He said he had no idea that Harris was a politician. Indeed, he assumed she was a fictional person.

Wohl probably needs to do something else, I didn't even hear about this one. Also, can't wait for whom they try to bring in for Tulsi. 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1183217358267138048

Ukraine situation might actually be something because Giuliani even more in his alzheimer's state sure is something.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/LibyaLiberty/status/1183396030315933696

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"No secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion"

uh....

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1182741572770816002

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

"No secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion"

uh....

I love these functionalist arguments. Because you know, who gives a shit if it’s actually true or not

[Crash Dummy]

benji-kun has seen the light
https://twitter.com/Ad_Inifinitum/status/1182419522122407941

[Trurl]

If Trump is being blackmailed by Russia their demands of him might become increasingly bold as his position looks less secure.  Use their asset while they have it sort of thing.

[Joe Molotov]

pee tape is real

[Tripon]

President Trump had been calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's bluff for more than 2 years, and some senior administration officials thought Erdoğan would never actually go through with his long-threatened Syria invasion, according to 6 sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

"I think everyone thought Erdoğan was bluffing."
— A source close to Trump
The big picture: Trump would tell Erdoğan that if he wanted to invade Syria he would have to own whatever mess ensued, according to these sources. Erdoğan would have to take care of ISIS and manage international condemnation, trouble from Capitol Hill, and the quagmire with the Kurds. And when Trump put it in such stark terms to Erdoğan, the Turkish leader would demur. Until last Sunday, that is, when he told Trump he was moving ahead with the invasion of northern Syria.

This time, Erdoğan called Trump's bluff, having waited for international forces to wipe out the ISIS caliphate.
Erdoğan's decision — which the White House cleared the way for in its Sunday night announcement, alienating and blindsiding key allies including Republican lawmakers and the Christian right — has plunged the Middle East and Trump's political standing in Washington into crisis.
Sources in Turkey have indicated that while Erdoğan was talking big, he thought Trump would restrain him, a U.S. official familiar with the details told Axios' Margaret Talev.

For example, Erdoğan did not expect — or want — a 30-km-deep (18-mile) buffer; that was assumed to be a negotiation aimed at getting something smaller.
Now Erdoğan may be in over his head and facing global condemnation and sanctions, but he got so far extended politically inside Turkey that he has had little choice but to go forward, the official said.
Behind the scenes: In phone calls and in-person meetings dating back to 2017, Trump has been effectively calling Erdoğan's bluff, according to sources who have been in the room with the two leaders and had access to their phone calls.

On one 2017 phone call, Erdoğan was complaining to Trump about the Kurdish threat on his border and told Trump he wanted to move in to take care of the Kurdish threat, per a source with direct knowledge of the call.
The source paraphrased their recollection of what Trump said on the call: "It was pretty blustery. Trump was like, 'I don't want to be there in the first place, but you know our guys are there. They don't take s--t. We're there. Maybe I don't want to be there, but if you do a border crossing and come into conflict with our guys, they are way better equipped and you don't want to do that.'" Trump's message, the source said, was "don't mess with the U.S. military."
But after conveying that threat, Trump signaled he wasn't going to keep his troops in Syria for long and was not going to be hanging around to protect the Kurds against the Turks, the source added. Trump said something to the effect of, "But you know I don't want to be there. We're there to defeat ISIS. My people tell me we are winning. ... So hang tight. But you don't want to get into a conflict with my guys," the source recalled.
Another former senior administration official, who was with Erdoğan and Trump when Erdoğan visited the White House in 2017, said Trump called the Turkish leader's bluff then, too.

"Trump basically said, 'Look, if you want it you own it, but don't come looking to me for help. You can take it, it's yours,'" the former official recalled of that 2017 conversation about Turkish intent to cross the border into Syria.

https://www.axios.com/trump-erdogan-turkey-syria-invasion-bluff-fc761d8f-e33b-473b-8ece-d0b8b3a51f26.html

[Momo]

Is Trump still getting impeached or nah? Havent seen an update recently.

[Trent Dole]

His supporters are making doofy murderfest videos where he kills everyone and everything that disagrees with him.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/watch-trump-supporters-celebrate-video-at-his-golf-resort-showing-president-conducting-mass-shooting/

[benjipwns]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/business/media/trump-fox-news.html

Fox News Is Trump’s Chief TV Booster. So Why Is He Griping About It?

The New York Times still doesn't understand the need for constant struggle against revisionism?

[Momo]

Also, filler, I follow Tulsi on insta now

[Nintex]

His supporters are making doofy murderfest videos where he kills everyone and everything that disagrees with him.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/watch-trump-supporters-celebrate-video-at-his-golf-resort-showing-president-conducting-mass-shooting/

They just (poorly) edit Trumps' face in famous movie scenes. Who's going to warn the MSM that Trump is on his way with a Legion of Gondor to raid CNN 

[VomKriege]

Wow Trump wasn't joking when he said he could manage rushing into that school to handle an active shooter.
 

[Momo]

Trump's hair probably acts like Krillin's solar flare, so it's kinda legit.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/13/hunter-biden-resign-china-company-045761

Hunter prematurely announcing he will step down if Biden wins.

babywhatisyoudoing?

For his part, Trump mocked Hunter Biden on Twitter. “Where’s Hunter? He has totally disappeared! Now looks like he has raided and scammed even more countries! Media is AWOL,“ he wrote Sunday morning.

he's right about one thing.

[benjipwns]

No, end of the month:

“Hunter intends to resign from the BHR board of directors on or by October 31, 2019,” Mesires said. He noted that Biden had already left the board of Burisma.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

it's not my fault the bore was being raided over the weekend and I didnt have the chance to double check on the timing of his resignation.

[kingv]

His supporters are making doofy murderfest videos where he kills everyone and everything that disagrees with him.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/watch-trump-supporters-celebrate-video-at-his-golf-resort-showing-president-conducting-mass-shooting/

They just (poorly) edit Trumps' face in famous movie scenes. Who's going to warn the MSM that Trump is on his way with a Legion of Gondor to raid CNN 

The right is getting better at comedy and it’s making me nervous.

[benjipwns]

The right is getting better at comedy and it’s making me nervous.

That means Steven Crowder is somewhere exponentially getting worse at comedy to balance the right back out.

[daemon]

Question: Isn't that video about Trump shooting news outlets n stuff really old? I remember from like 2 years ago.

[Nintex]

Question: Isn't that video about Trump shooting news outlets n stuff really old? I remember from like 2 years ago.

It was just WWE footage of Trump hammering the CNN logo.
But in the 2016 campaign a lot of this sort of material was made.

What's funny is that prior to 'TRIGGERED' the video had like 77 views.

The MSM just can't take it that Trump is inviting memers to the White House for gatherings and private meetings and Acosta is only invited to be shat on during his opening remarks. 

Trump:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1183722535961202689

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1183779243588763649

The Left: 

[Madrun Badrun]

The last episode of the weeds is kind of scary https://www.vox.com/the-weeds

[Nintex]

Warren: "Zuckerberg is secretly rightwing, fake news am I rite?"

Zuckerberg: "Secretly?  "

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1183789521751724032

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1182741572770816002

 

non-binding pledge lmao

[Nintex]

"Ok, Liz, we'll replace the candy bars with vegan bars, how's that for reform. Maybe at some tents to our inventory"
 

"Jimmy, you heard the boss, you better vote Trump"
 

"But I wanna vote Warren and my name is Sarah now"
 

"Cut the bullshit Jimmy, You wanna lose your job at the Amazon Fulfillment Center?"
 

[james]

Is Trump still getting impeached or nah? Havent seen an update recently.

He's self impeaching but hes bad at everything so its slow

[james]

Warren: "Zuckerberg is secretly rightwing, fake news am I rite?"

Zuckerberg: "Secretly?  "

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1183789521751724032

Wow billionaire white male is a conservative I am SHOCKED

[Nintex]

Warren: "Zuckerberg is secretly rightwing, fake news am I rite?"

Zuckerberg: "Secretly?  "

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1183789521751724032

Wow billionaire white male is a conservative I am SHOCKED

"So uh, you guys like Facebook"

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECOaVwm7OUEJV-pj19nT6LoqFggEKg4IACoGCAowzdp7ML-3CTCtyxU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Matt Gaetz, a Republican congressman from Florida, had attempted to crash a meeting put together by the House intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees — the official congressional panels spearheading an impeachment inquiry into the president.

There was just one problem: Mr Gaetz does not serve on any of the three panels handling the inquiry. He was swiftly ejected from the room and stayed outside shortly after to complain to reporters about the situation.

Mr Gaetz argued that, because the House judiciary committee, of which he is a member, has previously led impeachment enquiries, he should have been allowed in the room.

[Nintex]

"So Rudy did you bury this Ukraine thing yet?"

"I hear from my buddies at the New York FBI the Ukrainians are suicidal hehehehe"

"Good, we've sold the server at a yard sale..."

"We can be sure Zelensky won't talk, Pompeo and Barr are on our side... there's just... you know"

"Don't worry Rudy I've handled it"

https://twitter.com/fxmacro/status/1183867379182428160

[team filler]

zuck the cuck would be an autisty incel if not for thieving his way into billions. of course he's rightwing 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1183857996213948424

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1183904463578419201

Apparently not legal and not cool.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1183936219631280128

Very cool, very legal 

[Occam]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/rudy-giuliani-admits-fraud-guarantee-paid-him-500000-to-work-for-indicted-associate/

[Nintex]

On another occasion, he said, "Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” according to testimony by Fiona Hill.

Lmao imagine the guy who made the Iraq invasion plans saying this

[Great Rumbler]

The rats are starting to eat each other.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1184004730722217984

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184168291775995904

Trump ready to blow up CNN as his buddies prepare to take control of the network

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1184163962545491969

lmao this dumb 'investigation' into CNN is lit

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1184090745256460289

[james]

 

President Donald Trump looks likely to cruise to re-election next year under three different economic models Moody’s Analytics employed to gauge the 2020 race.

Barring anything unusual happening, the president’s Electoral College victory could easily surpass his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, which came by a 304-227 count.

Moody’s based its projections on how consumers feel about their own financial situation, the gains the stock market has achieved during Trump’s tenure, and the prospects for unemployment, which has fallen to a 50-year low. Should those variables hold up, the president looks set to get another four-year term.

The modeling has been highly accurate going back to the 1980 election, missing only once.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/moodys-trump-on-his-way-to-an-easy-2020-win-if-economy-holds-up.html

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

A new challenge approaches.

https://mitt2020.org/

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We, the world, can not have another 4 years of Donald Trump. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH...the bigotry, the racism, the hatred must end now. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

That being said, there is one man, and one man only to restore decency, civility and dignity to our great land and that’s Mitt Romney. Get behind our movement to “nudge” Mitt to run. Buy a shirt and wear it proud. Show your support for the next President of the United States, America’s 46th President, Mitt Romney.

[Joe Molotov]

MITT TWENTY, ROMNEYVISION!

[Pwnz]

President Donald Trump looks likely to cruise to re-election next year under three different economic models Moody’s Analytics employed to gauge the 2020 race.

Barring anything unusual happening, the president’s Electoral College victory could easily surpass his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, which came by a 304-227 count.

Moody’s based its projections on how consumers feel about their own financial situation, the gains the stock market has achieved during Trump’s tenure, and the prospects for unemployment, which has fallen to a 50-year low. Should those variables hold up, the president looks set to get another four-year term.

The modeling has been highly accurate going back to the 1980 election, missing only once.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/moodys-trump-on-his-way-to-an-easy-2020-win-if-economy-holds-up.html

That's really grasping at straws. The economy has been sustained at a consumer level since inauguration, but the 2018 elections and Trump's approval rating indicates a landslide loss for him.

Hilarious that economic data analysts are using feelings a year out of the election rather than, you know, economic data about the economy.  Latest PMI is still below 50 (PDF in link):
https://www.markiteconomics.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/6d5ffb41584d4c08a54706d85d3580b3

I think we're not officially in an industrial recession with 2 quarters of contraction.  There's a good chance we'll have net economic recession in a year, but even if we don't Trump's numbers are a guaranteed loss.  Now watch Democrats fuck it up.

[Nintex]

Trump has already dragged everybody into a shit show 13 months out and is not leaving any room for any Democrat to gain any traction, outside of the ones already known to the public (Biden, Warren, Sanders).
It looks like he might've sunk Joe Biden 2020 enough to get the Democrats to nominate Elizabeth Warren, which means every wall street grifter, CEO and/or hedgefund manager will do anything in their power to keep him in power.
Bloomberg is also again considering a run in case Biden doesn't make it.

Unless they find the second JFK or Obama, the Democrats don't stand a chance.
He's pushing the Democrats to run on supporting Middle East wars, increasing taxes and green deal policies.

He'll be running on having ended 'The War on Terorr', Dow 40k, Kanye West at rallies, playing golf with Kim Jun Un, Elon Musk Mars missions and Mar-a-lago membership passes.
He'll probably think of some big construction project as well. My guess, a space elevator that China has to pay for.

[Occam]

I'd rather play vidyagames and have y'all waste your time instead and provide me with a summary later.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1184177628464537600

"gheheheheh" intensifies

[Uncle]

whoever he's up against in debates needs to be all "you promised a wall, where the wall tho" 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

I'm going to watch the stupid fucking debate again today

Just make a drinking game out of it. I’ve been drinking every time someone says ‘if you like your healthcare you can keep it’ and when Joe! says ‘ the fact of the matter is...’; I’m blacked out by the time closing statements happen.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I hope they all yell at bernie tonight.

[Nintex]

[Pwnz]

He may be double speaking, but if he isn't my bet is the House will give another 2 warnings and then send out the sergeant at arms by the 20th.

[james]

LOCK HIM UP

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[benjipwns]

[Nintex]

Rudy will testify like Lewandowski did.
Trump will encourage him live on Twitter.

How the Democrats haven't figured out that no one deeply embedded in Trump World(TM) isn't totally on board with the dank agenda is beyond me.

The Democrats are playing a dangerous game. Pinning their hopes on a CIA whistle-blower with closed hearings.
They should've kept the process open because the needle to impeachment isn't going to move much now that they're turning this into a partisan issue and Fox News can scream DEEP STATE all day.
Meanwhile as the media has nothing to report on Trump impeachment they instead turn to Hunter Biden who sunk himself.

If Beto or some other Democrat feels cheeky and calls out Biden tonight, the Trump campaign can play that tape all day every day on the Facebook record player.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1184096063193571334

During Tuesday’s debate, the DNC will use a software tool called Trendolizer to track trending disinformation. Trendolizer — think TweetDeck but with lots of fancy graphs — scrapes data from social media and across the internet to surface hidden content that is on the cusp of going viral. Its “Hotness” filter alerts users when something new is about to take off. If it’s potentially damaging misinformation about a Democratic candidate, DNC Tech flags it for its “counter-disinformation contact” on the affected campaign and recommends that they reach out to one of the third-party fact-checkers that Facebook relies upon—such as The Associated Press, Poynter, or FactCheck.org.

A fact-check is crucial: Once it’s attached to the news, Facebook will adjust its algorithm and diminish the spread of the story. (In guidance to the campaigns, the DNC is careful to note that “Checkyourfact.com, which is owned in part by Tucker Carlson, is another Facebook third-party fact-checker that the DNC is not in communication with.”)

The DNC flag-and-respond operation is more art than science. Campaigns can ask the DNC to turn the dials up and down on Trendolizer to figure out how much a "misinfo" threat has to spread before they are alerted. It’s up to the individual campaigns to figure out whether it’s worth worrying about the fake story or crafting a response.

“When contemplating a response to disinformation narratives, campaigns should consider whether misinformation has reached a tipping point where the costs of ignoring the issue are higher than the costs of the amplification that a response might generate,” the DNC privately instructed presidential campaigns on Monday.

In a previous email the party argued that a good indication of when to respond is when “the information has left closed communities,” such as 4chan or a fringe blog or social media account. (The DNC views the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., as a frequent conveyor belt for disinformation, pulling it out of closed communities and dumping it into the mainstream media, and so they watch his account carefully.)

After the September debate, DNC Tech sent out a summary of suspicious activity it spotted by monitoring Twitter. The party found that a Twitter thread by Beto O’Rourke was the target of “dogpiling,” the technical term for when trolls coordinate on one thread to dominate the candidate’s mentions. The Beto dogpile concerned a popular meme that says Beto is a furry.

Not everything deserves a response. When the DNC reached out and reported the furry dogpile to Beto’s campaign, the DNC staffer noted, “I haven’t flagged this activity to Twitter as I think the backlash to any action taken by them might be worse than the current activity.”

In addition to the dogpile, the DNC reported after the September debate “[a]t least three new right-wing narratives targeting candidates,” and that there was a “direct threat to one candidate, which Twitter removed in the early morning following the debate.”

The O’Rourke campaign recently faced a false story more concerning to them than the (mostly) harmless furry meme. Last month, a story spread online that the Odessa shooter, who killed seven people, had a Beto sticker on his car. “It’s the perfect kind of misinfo because it seems possible,” said Rob Flaherty, O’Rourke’s digital director. “It would undercut the whole narrative. If it were a reporter, we could just call them and they would issue a correction.”