US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

Mitch: "Who is going to pay for this 3 trillion stimulus green deal nonsense from our friends across the aisle? This is not sound fiscal policy and the people should expect better from a responsible government"

Trump: "HEY THERE MCTURTLE HOW ABOUT WE PAINT MOUNT RUSHMORE GOLD AND CALL IT MOUNT TRUMPMORE TO CELEBRATE OUR BIG WIN AGAINST THE PLAGUE"

Mitch: "Ok  "


https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1260708500063367168

LMAO CNN wanker clowns dragging Obama into this 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1260685572886147073

Trump trying to run a promo.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1260683609503080448

lmao what is this

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1260687226024976389

yeah can't have a tax return interfere with ObamaGate, MIPs and the UFC

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Said this before, but I think a really underrated political moment was the Republican party almost unanimously opposing Dodd-Frank.

In the wake of the finance industry fucking up so bad that they'd triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression, the GOP figured they could still vote against any sort of reform and not be punished by the electorate. Which was completely insane but also they were right.

we back

[Nintex]

Mandark can be our MIP 

[recursivelyenumerable]

This is like the tenth round of conservative ruckus over the Flynn investigation... Is it going to lead to a real overhaul of the entire process and rein the intelligence community in? Or is it all just a bad-faith controversy meant to construct a narrative of corruption?

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yeah idk if I'll ever bother to look up what, if anything, is actually new this time

[Transhuman]

I bet those senators use incognito mode

[Great Rumbler]

This is like the tenth round of conservative ruckus over the Flynn investigation... Is it going to lead to a real overhaul of the entire process and rein the intelligence community in? Or is it all just a bad-faith controversy meant to construct a narrative of corruption?

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yeah idk if I'll ever bother to look up what, if anything, is actually new this time

There's nothing new, just the same stuff rehashed.

[benjipwns]

FACT CHECK: Rand Paul now has a beard.

[benjipwns]

SENATOR SANDERS MISSED THE VOTE

AMY FOR AMERICA (D-MN): YEA

 

[Joe Molotov]

Republicans in 2020: "This is the year we finally impeach Obama."

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1260751783682441216

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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1260751783682441216

he crossed trumpy with intelligence report, time for payback 

[Mandark]

We might have an open Senate seat from North Carolina, you say?

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joshua4congress collected 200k in donations and bounced without ever filing to run 

[benjipwns]

for stost

https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1260649457785266177

Conservative commentator William Kristol explained in an interview for The Post that he finds it impossible to go back to the Republican Party. “Trump’s been renominated, and liberating the party from Trump or Trumpism seems awfully far-fetched,” Kristol said. “Obviously, if he loses in November, things are in more flux. ... But I can’t honestly conceive of working with [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and [former Senate majority whip] John Cornyn and [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy.” He added: “I’m just disgusted by what they’ve been doing, really, for the last three years, that I don’t much look forward to that.” (Disclosure: I wrote pieces for Kristol when he was editor of the Weekly Standard and consider him a friend.)

There once was a friendly debate among those who used the NeverTrump moniker about whether the GOP could be “saved” or was worth “saving.” Early in the Trump presidency (if not before), I answered no; many who once spoke of reforming or reviving the party now have come around to the view it is hopeless.

I cannot speak for others, but the reason the Republican Party is not worth saving is that with few exceptions (e.g. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker), its members have fully embraced Trump and Trumpism — a noxious brew of nationalism, contempt for truth, xenophobia and an “America First” agenda. Any of these would have sent me fleeing from the party; collectively, they make it impossible to return.

...

The Democrats, to the relief of many NeverTrumpers, made it easy for us in this presidential election. Former vice president Joe Biden is a decent, qualified man who is respectful of objective reality, understands separation of powers and embraces America as a nation founded on a creed (“All men are created equal ...”), not on blood and soil. He is no socialist. We can happily embrace him.

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Biden will need all the help he can get in developing a short-term response to the pandemic, overseeing development of a vaccine and its fair distribution and managing a sane restoration of the “new normal.” I concur wholeheartedly with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who argues that the pandemic has highlighted gross inequities in our society (manifesting in higher death rates and unemployment for nonwhites) that span many issues (e.g. health care, broadband access). That, too, demands our attention. The necessity to target resources where they are desperately needed should not be a partisan issue. No decent person, let alone someone who considers himself a small-"d" democrat, should tolerate such inequities that literally result in the deaths of our fellow Americans.

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Finally, many people ask: Are you all big-"D" Democrats now? My answer is “it depends.” I am a Pat Moynihan Democrat, a Scoop Jackson Democrat, an Andrew Cuomo Democrat. I’m not a Bernie Sanders Democrat. So where does that leave me? Where I have been for just about four years: a center-right member of the “Resistance,” an advocate for good governance and internationalism (including free trade and robust legal immigration) and a passionate believer in the American creed. The best answer perhaps to the partisan affiliation question is that it is a time for creative policy and civility, so we will focus on that.

One final point: NeverTrumpers, now NeverRepublicans, should keep their eye on the extraordinary class of female freshmen House centrists (Reps. Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Elaine Luria and others). A lot of those ex-Republicans might decide they are Abigail Spanberger Democrats.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/FtDetrickTruthr/status/1260663677922967552

[Mandark]

translating the shorthand

Andrew Cuomo Democrat: helps the GOP control the statehouse even though Dems have more seats

Pat Moynihan Democrat: the real problem is black people not getting married

Scoop Jackson Democrat: just really likes war, a lot

[benjipwns]

Moynihan and Jackson also were regularly speaking truth to power warning about how far left the Party was going and resembling socialism or even communism

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https://twitter.com/lodgepolepines/status/1260783171316191233

 

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/GlamDamorous/status/1260637171599282176


So he pulled the plug on his social media accounts (which seemed to be the core of his campaign) without any sort of heads up to his followers/supporters/donors because he doesn't know how to turn off notifications.

I think a grift would have been better.

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he doesn't wake up before 12pm!

[BIONIC]

Mandark can be our MIP 

More like LIC: Least Improved Coward 

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https://twitter.com/wittlett/status/1260844475712253953

[Mandark]

Whole calendar year's been one big Meltdown May so far.

Looked around on the FEC page for Collins' "campaign." No sketchy looking consultant fees and he's not paying himself a salary. The payments to the campaign manager (who made that tweet) are weird, like ~$30k over three months last year and nothing so far in 2020.

Hopefully we get some fun Fyre Fest post-mortems out of it.

[Mandark]

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00670463&recipient_name=buttar&two_year_transaction_period=2020&disbursement_description=wages

Could get a lot of ice cream with this.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/lodgepolepines/status/1260783171316191233

 

Trump is showing the Chinese how to protest and incite a revolution.
When a communist officer goes to their home and says: "Open your door citizen(in Chinese)" they will say: "That is such a nasty question!"
When a state reporter asked them to "Smile for our great country and leader" they will say: "You are fake news!"

Just watch, these things that go viral have a way of getting out in the real world.
Especially the things Trump says and does.

Have you seen how many politicians adopted his 'off the cuff' Twitter behavior and/or waving their hands around as if they're playing a really fucked up Kinect game?

[thisismyusername]

BUSH DID 9/11!

More like: Saudi's did 9/11.

https://news.yahoo.com/in-court-filing-fbi-accidentally-reveals-name-of-saudi-official-suspected-of-directing-support-for-911-hijackers-224555851.html

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1260350242756665344

 

Damn it, filler.

[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1260525966088179713

Now I remember why I blocked MSNBC and CNN on my Twitter feed. Flaming stupid hot-takes like this.

"REAGAN DIDN'T IGNORE EPIDEMICS!!!!!!!! *spittle*

The gays:

Just proof Libs don't give a shit about the homos.

[team filler]

BUSH DID 9/11!

More like: Saudi's did 9/11.

https://news.yahoo.com/in-court-filing-fbi-accidentally-reveals-name-of-saudi-official-suspected-of-directing-support-for-911-hijackers-224555851.html

https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1260350242756665344

 

Damn it, filler.

https://twitter.com/abetterworld98/status/1260629663694704640

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https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00670463&recipient_name=buttar&two_year_transaction_period=2020&disbursement_description=wages

Could get a lot of ice cream with this.

he's saving up for a fancy freezer!

[Nintex]

I like how shameless the Republicans are. Using literally the TOP GUN logo to run for a seat and winning it within the borders of the lands of queen Nancy with a grass roots 'own the libs' campaign focused on bombing shit with air planes.

https://twitter.com/MikeGarcia2020/status/1260604068956786688

https://twitter.com/MikeGarcia2020/status/1244742890661658624

[Tripon]

Even if he files at the last second, why the hell would you be waiting that long when you qualify and know you're going to run?

It's like Bloomberg when he didn't apply to run in the Nevada caucuses. Dude isn't serious.

[Mandark]

My favorite tweets about this are the sincere ones trying to use it to talk about the limits of electoralism.

[Great Rumbler]

Turned into a brief moment of conservative radio. This just in: Obamagate is LITERALLY the biggest scandal in American history. Of course, no one can say exactly what crime Obama committed, but we're getting more information and nothing has been as big.

It's literally nothing that we didn't know 3 years ago.

[Mandark]

>A gurl was walkin2 skewl wit her bf n they were crossin da rode.

>she sed "bbz do u suport joshua4congress"

>he said "NO..""

>da gurl cryed N ran across da rode b4 da green man came on the sine.

>boy was cryin and went to pic up her body.

>she was ded.

>he whispered 2 her corpse "I ment 2 sey i suport joshua FIVE-congress..." (dat mean he suport him moar den 4congress)

>xxx~*...like dis if u cry evry time...~*xxx

[Nintex]

Obama investigated a nice man he fired who went on Russia Today a lot and had dinner with Putin while yelling about cyber armies and putting Hillary Clinton behind bars.

Who could do such a thing and why? 

[Tripon]

Flynn also got caught doing some sort of PR for the Turkish government and some sort of kidnapping plot of Gulen. How he didn't get charged for that, I have no idea.

[Mandark]

On a gut level I just don't feel any sympathy towards an influential person who gets in trouble cause they decided to lie to the feds.

[Nintex]

Except for Trump who wanted him as his VP no one in the administration or even the transition team liked Flynn. Which is why no one covered for him, he was cast out almost immediately.
The way I see it, Flynn would've been back to writing op-eds right now if he had kept his job and would've been fired or left within 3 months.

The problems that others faced like Trump not giving a shit during the first 6 months of his presidency and the Priebus/Banon/Kushner civil war would've pushed out Flynn.
Just like when Bolton joined and the only thing Trump ever did was tell everyone how stupid his ideas were and how he wanted to start wars with everybody.

With all positions about three things happened
1) Trump didn't or doesn't care so you could do what you wanted (Rex, Scott, Perry, Carson)
2) Trump cared so Ivanka and Jared were your new boss (Priebus, Mnuchin, Wilbur)
3) Trump thought you did a good job so you got promoted to do all the jobs Jared didn't want until you imploded (Kelly, Mulvaney, Pompeo)

And then there's the characters he keeps around for TV and drama like Kelyanne.

[Nintex]

Rallies are back

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1261010395118043136


https://twitter.com/AmerIndependent/status/1261009511621558272

https://twitter.com/AmerIndependent/status/1261016668752486402

[Tripon]

3rd party run. 

[recursivelyenumerable]

Flynn also got caught doing some sort of PR for the Turkish government and some sort of kidnapping plot of Gulen. How he didn't get charged for that, I have no idea.

the Erdogan propaganda editorial he wrote that was published immediately after the election was so bizarre, like just transparently bogus argumentation, I was surprised it didn't get flagged more at the time. maybe if I'd made more of a fuss about it on twitter I could've changed history

[Nintex]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-disruptive-career-of-trumps-national-security-adviser

Flynn is an odd character even in the Trump circus.

[FStop7]

Rumors about Pence’s health are starting to make their way around Twitter.

[Joe Molotov]

Rumors about Pence’s health are starting to make their way around Twitter.

Trump has a good idea of how he's doing, relatively speaking.

[Phoenix Dark]

Turned into a brief moment of conservative radio. This just in: Obamagate is LITERALLY the biggest scandal in American history. Of course, no one can say exactly what crime Obama committed, but we're getting more information and nothing has been as big.

It's literally nothing that we didn't know 3 years ago.

Not to mention the fact that Obama warned Trump about Flynn to his face at the White House, before the inauguration. 

Dude lied to the FBI, didn't register as a foreign agent, seemingly agreed to extradite to Turkey...this dude should be in jail.

[Nintex]

2024 headline

DRONE HITS KENNEDY DURING TEXAS TRIP
A newly invented SIA drone went 'rogue' and fired a deadly missile during a training flight at Senator and Democratic candidate for President Joe Kennedy III.
Operator Graham Dulles, grandson of former CIA director Allen Dulles called it a 'freak accident'. Space Force command recorded the attack and warned the Space Intelligence Agency their drone had gone rogue and lethal but it was already too late to intervene.
Supreme Commander Musk tweeted "Oops" and posted a live stream of the incident to his followers. Asked for a comment he replied: "Guess the AI's still need work. Will patch in new update".
This comes after last weeks controversial appointment of General Michael Flynn as head of the SIA, replacing the CIA with an intelligence agency for modern times.

President Trump offered his condolences to the family tweeting: "Sending my best to the entire Kennedy family for losing yet another candidate for President by a 'magic' bullet. Guess luck doesn't run every family!"
Conspiracy theorists pointed their fingers at the President who quickly denied having anything to do with the accident: "I've never met that AI. I've not been involved with any IA I have got a big brain that I use, it is called being smart" Trump said.

[Propagandhim]

2024 headline

DRONE HITS KENNEDY DURING TEXAS TRIP
A newly invented SIA drone went 'rogue' and fired a deadly missile during a training flight at Senator and Democratic candidate for President Joe Kennedy III.
Operator Graham Dulles, grandson of former CIA director Allen Dulles called it a 'freak accident'. Space Force command recorded the attack and warned the Space Intelligence Agency their drone had gone rogue and lethal but it was already too late to intervene.
Supreme Commander Musk tweeted "Oops" and posted a live stream of the incident to his followers. Asked for a comment he replied: "Guess the AI's still need work. Will patch in new update".
This comes after last weeks controversial appointment of General Michael Flynn as head of the SIA, replacing the CIA with an intelligence agency for modern times.

President Trump offered his condolences to the family tweeting: "Sending my best to the entire Kennedy family for losing yet another candidate for President by a 'magic' bullet. Guess luck doesn't run every family!"
Conspiracy theorists pointed their fingers at the President who quickly denied having anything to do with the accident: "I've never met that AI. I've not been involved with any IA I have got a big brain that I use, it is called being smart" Trump said.

me reading a Nintex post then realizing it's a Nintex post 

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it was actually kind of funny

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I actually contribute much less to this forum than Nintex 

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[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1261050694691405825

lmao

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it was actually kind of funny

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I actually contribute much less to this forum than Nintex 

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nobody thinks this is true

[Propagandhim]

lmfao

[curly]

posters from the major european countries: valuable contributors to the community

posters from the minor european countries: sickos, deviants, rabid dogs

[curly]

https://twitter.com/mstratford/status/1261022113340760070

le dems

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/BostonMagazine/status/1260974415396909057

Reaching the vehicle, Kennedy turned toward Bowen and responded. “There is an awful lot of opportunity that comes with being a senator from Massachusetts,” he said, “and with due respect to Senator Markey, who is a good man, there’s more to this job than the way you vote and the bills that you file. It comes with an ability to leverage that platform to address the issues we’re talking about and, with due respect to the senator, if you’re not going to leverage that now, given what is at stake for the Democratic Party, for the values that we hold dear in our commonwealth, that have been targeted by this administration literally from day one, if you’re not doing it now, then when?”

Really excited for this Big D Democrat

uhm excuse me how can he be a big D when he's Irish?

[Great Rumbler]

Dude lied to the FBI, didn't register as a foreign agent, seemingly agreed to extradite to Turkey...this dude should be in jail.

I thought you believed in criminal justice reform?

For the proletariat, not the bourgeois.

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https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange/status/1261069307007496192

leet 

[benjipwns]

Flynn should have gone to jail (and definitely been fired as NSA) for being dumb enough to talk to FBI agents without his lawyer. Especially such an obvious trap.

On the other hand, him getting off entirely makes up for the months of where his plea deal was the smoking gun which meant he was going to reveal EVERYTHING and had flipped to Mueller.

So justice served, also I hope he does get held in contempt for perjury.

[benjipwns]

"I'm just trying to get by on the sidewalk."

LITERAL FAKE NEWS RIGHT AT THE START

[TakingBackSunday]

This country is fucked