Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 7210676 times)

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #46020 on:** January 02, 2020, 05:15:39 PM »

Many on the left used fearmongering around 'deficit spending' as a way to malign Reagan. The underlying dig being that he was spending out of control, escalating the military and leading us into a nuclear war with the Soviets. Biden was one of them.

They were so effective in that messaging that the early 90's became defined by the idea that the government was going bankrupt. This in turn spurred the success of people like Ross Perot and the Contract for America capitalizing on that anxiety. The big selling point on the Contract was term limits and a Balanced Budget Amendment.

So, you had many dems on the hill (those that survived the 1994 culling) then in a position where they spent the last decade maligning the Republicans for financial irresponsibility now facing a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment. People like Biden then had to toe the line where they support fiscal responsibility but not in the fashion the Republicans did.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #46021 on:** January 02, 2020, 05:40:56 PM »

https://twitter.com/MatthewSitman/status/1212740518855221249

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #46022 on:** January 02, 2020, 05:41:55 PM »

What I like about Bernie when it comes to spending, it's that he's clearly a dl Keynesian.

He's never like either or, he's like moar please.

Tasty · « **Reply #46023 on:** January 02, 2020, 06:05:35 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on January 02, 2020, 04:30:08 PM

If WaPo didn't think they fucked up, why change the photo?

"If they were truly innocent, why would they give in to mob rage?"

nachobro · « **Reply #46024 on:** January 02, 2020, 06:14:14 PM »

lolbezos

agrajag · « **Reply #46025 on:** January 02, 2020, 06:14:56 PM »

haha, look at those Berniebros, triggered by antisemitic tropes, ahahaha you Jewish losers, hahaha

team filler · « **Reply #46026 on:** January 02, 2020, 06:15:19 PM »

https://twitter.com/OrganizingPower/status/1212859926344802304

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #46027 on:** January 02, 2020, 06:48:55 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on January 02, 2020, 06:14:56 PM

haha, look at those Berniebros, triggered by antisemitic tropes, ahahaha you Jewish losers, hahaha

no filler

agrajag · « **Reply #46028 on:** January 02, 2020, 07:41:40 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 02, 2020, 06:48:55 PM

Quote from: agrajag on January 02, 2020, 06:14:56 PM
haha, look at those Berniebros, triggered by antisemitic tropes, ahahaha you Jewish losers, hahaha

no filler

actually it's dufus, the antisemitism minimizer

team filler · « **Reply #46029 on:** January 02, 2020, 07:46:04 PM »

Nintex · « **Reply #46030 on:** January 02, 2020, 08:26:19 PM »

The Trump mob can add Qassem Soleimani to their list of painted houses as Trump's weirdo Twitter friends are publishing pictures of his severed hand and Iraqi state TV is freaking out.

team filler · « **Reply #46031 on:** January 02, 2020, 09:28:41 PM »

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1212920072705986560

agrajag · « **Reply #46032 on:** January 02, 2020, 09:32:15 PM »

is this what they call beastmode?

team filler · « **Reply #46033 on:** January 02, 2020, 09:47:33 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on January 02, 2020, 09:32:15 PM

is this what they call beastmode?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212924762827046918

agrajag · « **Reply #46034 on:** January 02, 2020, 09:55:51 PM »

https://twitter.com/CNNRGLDN/status/1212929655851954177

Tasty · « **Reply #46035 on:** January 02, 2020, 10:38:22 PM »

Quote from: riotous on January 02, 2020, 10:25:32 PM

Not how saving images work; it’s just compressed.

Lazy loading will load a smaller, lower-res image before the larger one is done. If Trump is impatient (LOL) he probably went to save the image as soon as it appeared; if this were the case and he was on a poorer internet connection, it's likely he saved the low-res version, which would make the tweet correct.

Tasty · « **Reply #46036 on:** January 02, 2020, 10:53:21 PM »

Quote from: riotous on January 02, 2020, 10:41:04 PM

I don’t think a single browser actually saves images mid-loading any file. It would just continue to write to the file.

The file basically would lazy-save.

Super important stuff tho lol

Lazy loading works in JavaScript ("native" version that works without JS is coming soon.) Pseudocode to follow.

<img src="flag-low-res.jpg">

// When flag-low-res.jpg is done loading, swap it with the high-res version.
if (img.complete) {
img.src = 'flag-high-res.jpg';
}

Glossing over some things but that's how it works. Sometimes. I'm not sure if Wiki uses lazy loading JS for images, but it's generally seen as a best practice.

curly · « **Reply #46037 on:** January 02, 2020, 10:55:42 PM »

Damn it nerds not now there's a war on

Tasty · « **Reply #46038 on:** January 02, 2020, 10:59:21 PM »

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1212944317343506433

Herpity derpity do

Tripon · « **Reply #46039 on:** January 02, 2020, 11:00:34 PM »

https://twitter.com/murshedz/status/1212919677531258880
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1212938627279466503

You think Trump remembers any of the shit he says just to get a rise out of people?

team filler · « **Reply #46040 on:** January 02, 2020, 11:01:56 PM »

https://twitter.com/vanilabeanfrapp/status/1212946585593745409

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #46041 on:** January 02, 2020, 11:30:10 PM »

So...I guess we're just gonna go to war with Iran, huh?

Mandark · « **Reply #46042 on:** January 02, 2020, 11:57:13 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on January 02, 2020, 05:15:39 PM

Many on the left used fearmongering around 'deficit spending' as a way to malign Reagan. The underlying dig being that he was spending out of control, escalating the military and leading us into a nuclear war with the Soviets. Biden was one of them.

They were so effective in that messaging that the early 90's became defined by the idea that the government was going bankrupt. This in turn spurred the success of people like Ross Perot and the Contract for America capitalizing on that anxiety. The big selling point on the Contract was term limits and a Balanced Budget Amendment.

So, you had many dems on the hill (those that survived the 1994 culling) then in a position where they spent the last decade maligning the Republicans for financial irresponsibility now facing a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment. People like Biden then had to toe the line where they support fiscal responsibility but not in the fashion the Republicans did.

ah, this must be one of those deliberately stupid posts you'd workshop with siamesedreamer that you told me about

team filler · « **Reply #46043 on:** January 03, 2020, 01:22:15 AM »

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1212954008790458369

drag her, bb

Mandark · « **Reply #46044 on:** January 03, 2020, 01:48:09 AM »

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1212930045641142274

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1212930634315948033

hell yeah it's a bush admin reunion tour and they're playing the hits

james · « **Reply #46045 on:** January 03, 2020, 01:50:25 AM »

Heading to the consulate tomorrow to renew my Mexican passport

Enjoy your draft suckers

agrajag · « **Reply #46046 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:00:28 AM »

Quote from: filler on January 03, 2020, 01:22:15 AM

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1212954008790458369

drag her, bb

https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1212962092455747584

TVC15 · « **Reply #46047 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:18:32 AM »

Ugggghghhdjdjmcjeke, if we’re at war by the time the election comes, the current batch of Dem candidates may as well save their money and all drop out,

agrajag · « **Reply #46048 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:36:50 AM »

has Tulsi made a statement?

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #46049 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:00:00 AM »

https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1212965176087121922

agrajag · « **Reply #46050 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:38:10 AM »

https://twitter.com/_Arianna_D/status/1212937373173944320

agrajag · « **Reply #46051 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:45:39 AM »

https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/1212953988213149696

agrajag · « **Reply #46052 on:** January 03, 2020, 04:04:33 AM »

tiny warmonger Shapiro getting fucking dragged

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1212958700052156418

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1212961521438822400

BIONIC · « **Reply #46053 on:** January 03, 2020, 04:42:54 AM »

Quote from: agrajag on January 03, 2020, 02:36:50 AM

has Tulsi made a statement?

More importantly, has Ice Bae made a statement?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #46054 on:** January 03, 2020, 09:28:37 AM »

I'm still waiting to see how Salt Bae responds.

Tasty · « **Reply #46055 on:** January 03, 2020, 09:52:58 AM »

Quote from: filler on January 03, 2020, 01:22:15 AM

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1212954008790458369

drag her, bb

Y not kill bad guy all times

Tasty · « **Reply #46056 on:** January 03, 2020, 09:53:43 AM »

That tweet gets more stupid the more I think about it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #46057 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:03:20 AM »

Just drone strike Iran's White House or whatever they have. Bam, problem solved.

Himu · « **Reply #46058 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:20:57 AM »

Jesus Christ the Republicans defending this and accusing Democrats of "defending Iran"

They're fucking cultists.

Himu · « **Reply #46059 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:21:53 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 03, 2020, 10:03:20 AM

Just drone strike Iran's White House or whatever they have. Bam, problem solved.

Shoot all of America's enemies!

Himu · « **Reply #46060 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:25:29 AM »

Quote from: agrajag on January 03, 2020, 04:04:33 AM

tiny warmonger Shapiro getting fucking dragged

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1212958700052156418

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1212961521438822400

https://twitter.com/KyleKChin/status/1212975578447536128

Mandark · « **Reply #46061 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:41:52 AM »

Quote from: Cindi Mayweather on January 03, 2020, 10:20:57 AM

Jesus Christ the Republicans defending this and accusing Democrats of "defending Iran"

This was very common during the Bush years. Anti-war activists were "objectively pro-Saddam," Dems who criticized the administration were giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," etc.

Feeling whatever the bad version of nostalgic is.

EchoRin · « **Reply #46062 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:46:41 AM »

It's the ol "you're either with us or you're with the terrrrists"

Himu · « **Reply #46063 on:** January 03, 2020, 10:51:25 AM »

It's Imperialism full stop.

America first, indeed.

And yet no more wars, isolationism was one of the main Trump election issues and yet here we are, with Republicans defending this and accusing those that don't support this of being anti-american and it's not even noon yet.

Truly fascists.

Mandark · « **Reply #46064 on:** January 03, 2020, 11:11:40 AM »

Quote from: Cindi Mayweather on January 03, 2020, 10:51:25 AM

And yet no more wars, isolationism was one of the main Trump election issues

kindasorta

He criticized the Iraq war(and lied about having opposed it at the time) because Jeb was nominally his biggest opponent, but he also kept doing the "shoulda taken the oil" bit, saying he'd withdraw from the JCPOA, and telling the (fake) story of a commander using bullets soaked in pigs blood to kill Muslim combatants.

To the degree there was anything making it all cohere it's his weird, childlike way of calculating material benefits and "deals," hence wanting NATO members to pay us, asking his advisers why we don't just seize Venezuela's oil, etc. Some people were so desperate to have an alternative to our forever wars (understandable!) that they talked themselves into him being an actual dove.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #46065 on:** January 03, 2020, 11:16:54 AM »

Who's ready for $3+ at the pump?

Himu · « **Reply #46066 on:** January 03, 2020, 11:17:06 AM »

And now they're sucking his dick because of this

Truly the cult train that never stops

Trurl · « **Reply #46067 on:** January 03, 2020, 11:18:30 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on January 03, 2020, 10:41:52 AM

Quote from: Cindi Mayweather on January 03, 2020, 10:20:57 AM
Jesus Christ the Republicans defending this and accusing Democrats of "defending Iran"

This was very common during the Bush years. Anti-war activists were "objectively pro-Saddam," Dems who criticized the administration were giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," etc.

Feeling whatever the bad version of nostalgic is.

Old man from Tomorrow Belongs to Me feels.

Tripon · « **Reply #46068 on:** January 03, 2020, 11:48:08 AM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on January 03, 2020, 11:16:54 AM

Who's ready for $3+ at the pump?

L.A. area is already $3.14 (and it was $3.60+ for a good month and higher in the summer). We're going back to plus $4+ on the coasts.

james · « **Reply #46069 on:** January 03, 2020, 12:14:27 PM »

If killing war criminals is ok, according to Republicans, is it open season on Trump?

nudemacusers · « **Reply #46070 on:** January 03, 2020, 01:39:37 PM »

Eating shawarma right now, waiting for this to blow over.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #46071 on:** January 03, 2020, 01:56:12 PM »

when do security briefings start for candidates? Is that not until after the nominations?

kingv · « **Reply #46072 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:12:47 PM »

Quote from: james on January 03, 2020, 12:14:27 PM

If killing war criminals is ok, according to Republicans, is it open season on Trump?

Why is everybody saying that Qasam Soleimani is a terrorist? Like what qualifies him for that?

Because he runs a military unit that trains militias? What the fuck does that make us, then?

james · « **Reply #46073 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:30:42 PM »

Seems like the standard Democrat response had been

'i would do the same exact thing but better vote for me'

Fucking imbeciles

team filler · « **Reply #46074 on:** January 03, 2020, 02:32:41 PM »

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1213168223127949313

your fave's could never

Tripon · « **Reply #46075 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:31:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1213194198054293504

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #46076 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:42:00 PM »

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #46077 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:50:36 PM »

my 3 faves, just missing General Love in this

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1213164624423608320

Edit:
she up there with them too

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1212942072229040128

team filler · « **Reply #46078 on:** January 03, 2020, 03:57:13 PM »

warren is with the neolibs

and she'll keep voting to fund trumps military too

jorma · « **Reply #46079 on:** January 03, 2020, 04:09:48 PM »

Quote from: james on January 03, 2020, 02:30:42 PM

Seems like the standard Democrat response had been

'i would do the same exact thing but better vote for me'

Fucking imbeciles

And when Iran responds (it seems Swedish geopolitical experts are of the opinion that Iran pretty much has to respond with violence), everyone in america will go "blood for the blood god" all over again and Bernie will be fucked

News:

Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 7210676 times)