US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/1263138698708889606

swing state incumbent being absolutely hung out to dry by his leadership

You know who is gonna be high on the "fuck you" list all year? Stacy Abrams and Beto. If they had done the logical thing, ie run for senate, they'd be leading or in contention right now, and we'd be looking at closer to 55-56 seats than 53-54.

For the life of me I can't understand what Abrams is doing. Whether Biden wins or loses, she's gonna be relegated to MSNBC appearances and a lackluster book tour. I of course am assuming there's no way in hell she gets VP.

[curly]

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1263234146337525762

He was talking about left wing antisemitism as well

Can you imagine if Bernie wasn't Jewish

[BIONIC]

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1263234146337525762

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/1263138698708889606

swing state incumbent being absolutely hung out to dry by his leadership

You know who is gonna be high on the "fuck you" list all year? Stacy Abrams and Beto. If they had done the logical thing, ie run for senate, they'd be leading or in contention right now, and we'd be looking at closer to 55-56 seats than 53-54.

For the life of me I can't understand what Abrams is doing. Whether Biden wins or loses, she's gonna be relegated to MSNBC appearances and a lackluster book tour. I of course am assuming there's no way in hell she gets VP.

Probably still in play for a cabinet level post. Maybe secretary of something or Chief of Staff or whatever.

[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1263132098912804866


YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS KWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

https://twitter.com/NeilNevins/status/1263224638395514881



Chariman Xi, Nuke us all.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1263216996432384000

Joe Biden has quite the audience 

[BIONIC]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1263216996432384000

Joe Biden has quite the audience 

So about the same numbers as Ninja these days, just with more corporate sponsors 

[team filler]

shid>shahid

[team filler]

gillum still in play? his meth sex BBC bull activities would secure my vote 

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1263266298709938176

 

[shosta]

I just had 3 glasses of wine again.... anyone wanna... jk haha.. unless..

[BisMarckie]

I just had 3 glasses of wine again.... anyone wanna... jk haha.. unless..

Hyper-inflation is a dumb thing to wish for as it will only further decimate the middle class. Go!

[benjipwns]

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FAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKEEEE

Modern Congress would never pass something called the GIMTBPM Act.

[shosta]

Hyperinflation obliterates savings which can only hurt the 50% of people that even have savings - for everyone else it just relieves their debt burden... regular levels of inflation merely changes the distribution of income... in fact Keynes had proposed paying for world war ii by means of a so-called inflation tax... in any case inflation is hardly worrisome during a deflationary episode like the one we're experiencing and equating fiscal nationalism with hyperinflation is a hundred year old conservative strawman

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1263266298709938176

 

How am I supposed to tell these white women apart?

[team filler]

candace owens and stacy dash will be on it along with diamond n silk 

[shosta]

Just had three beers... someone set me off

[team filler]

lizard warren is too ugly to be president, same as hilldawg. first woman president gotta be hot! 


just like the first black prez 

[benjipwns]

Democrats are the Party of The State therefore a vote for Biden is a vote for empowering the state by any means necessary, while a vote for OUR PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump could be justified as a vote for both chaos and anarchy allowing the potential chance for a more just stateless society to rise.

[shosta]

I see nothing wrong with what you just said... as a fellow librarian i understand exctly what you're talking about

[benjipwns]

Someone in 2016 was upset that I wasn't going to vote in the most important election of our lifetime ever so I told them a similar version of that and they thought I actually was going to vote for Trump for like a couple weeks apparently.

[shosta]

was it someone on neogaf? because everyone was mad at you on neogaf

[Nintex]

Someone in 2016 was upset that I wasn't going to vote in the most important election of our lifetime ever so I told them a similar version of that and they thought I actually was going to vote for Trump for like a couple weeks apparently.

Not voting is for cowards

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1263204731570307073

This is an 'attack' ad 

[shosta]

In the thick of primary season, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden brawled over Medicare for All: He called her approach “angry,” “elitist,” “condescending”; she shot back anyone who defends the health care status quo with industry talking points is “running in the wrong presidential primary.”

Six months later, with Biden the presumptive nominee and Warren in the running for VP, she is striking a more harmonious chord.

"I think right now people want to see improvements in our health care system, and that means strengthening the Affordable Care Act," she told students at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics this week, while adding that she still wants to get to single payer eventually.

The shift is the latest public signal Warren has sent Biden's way in recent weeks that she wants the job of vice president — and wants Biden to see her as a loyal governing partner despite their past clashes, which go back decades.

[CatsCatsCats]

Fake ass biaaaaaatch

[shosta]

Speaking of, what's the healthcare situation right now for the unemployed? Is there something in the CARES act or are these people all just fucked?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"angry"

[CatsCatsCats]

Speaking of, what's the healthcare situation right now for the unemployed? Is there something in the CARES act or are these people all just fucked?

On my furlough I’m just supposed to keep paying mine, but I haven’t received the information I was supposed to in the mail, so, pretty sure mine is just gonna lapse.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1263493458729275399

Trump keeps finding things to pull out from.

[Mandark]

Speaking of, what's the healthcare situation right now for the unemployed? Is there something in the CARES act or are these people all just fucked?

I think there's stuff in the HEROES act but not the CARES act.

If you're on funemployment, that extra $600 doesn't count towards Medicaid eligibility, but it does count towards subsidy calculations for market plans. 

[thisismyusername]

In the thick of primary season, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden brawled over Medicare for All: He called her approach “angry,” “elitist,” “condescending”; she shot back anyone who defends the health care status quo with industry talking points is “running in the wrong presidential primary.”

Six months later, with Biden the presumptive nominee and Warren in the running for VP, she is striking a more harmonious chord.

"I think right now people want to see improvements in our health care system, and that means strengthening the Affordable Care Act," she told students at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics this week, while adding that she still wants to get to single payer eventually.

The shift is the latest public signal Warren has sent Biden's way in recent weeks that she wants the job of vice president — and wants Biden to see her as a loyal governing partner despite their past clashes, which go back decades.

What do you know? I called it™. Faux-Progressive that kowtows to the establishment.

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So has Bernie, annoyingly.

[close]

Fake ass biaaaaaatch

[BlueTsunami]

Warren's heel turn



It's all so transparent

[Mandark]

So has Bernie, annoyingly.

because he lost

that's not a dunk, that's just how this works

[shosta]

that's such a weird comparison from timu because Bernie is still caping for M4A weekly. He would gain nothing from "kowtowing" on that.

Warren also gains nothing from a pivot except the very slim chance he picks her as VP, which is why I'm like mega annoyed by it

[Mandark]

bernie voted for the aca

[Cauliflower Of Love]

cause he's a big pharma shill

[shosta]

bernie voted for the aca

you are the number one factor contributing to my hypertension

[Mandark]

Casting the deciding vote for the ACA is probably the single act of Bernie Sanders' political career that created the most material benefit for vulnerable people.

[shosta]

Not the Iraqi Liberation Act?

[Mandark]

Also supported by (apparent) left hero Ed Markey!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You know what they say, if you ask for a half a loaf you get crumbs, if you ask for the whole loaf you get kicked out of the shop and get the cops called on you.

[shosta]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the next coronavirus bill would not extend beefed-up unemployment insurance enacted as the pandemic ravaged the U.S. economy, according to a source familiar with his remarks.

The Kentucky Republican made the comment Wednesday on a call with House GOP lawmakers as he talked about priorities for the next phase of the outbreak response, Politico first reported. The $600 per week federal unemployment benefit, which adds to the sum individuals normally get from states, will expire at the end of July.

this is going to age well come july

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1263523204045430790

This guy has the rona.

[Nintex]

This guy has taken every drug known to man and is in a permanent state of high

[Akala]

people in other countries must feel about the same watching american news as we do watching tiger king.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

faucis not a press briefings because trump has it

[Mandark]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the next coronavirus bill would not extend beefed-up unemployment insurance enacted as the pandemic ravaged the U.S. economy, according to a source familiar with his remarks.

The Kentucky Republican made the comment Wednesday on a call with House GOP lawmakers as he talked about priorities for the next phase of the outbreak response, Politico first reported. The $600 per week federal unemployment benefit, which adds to the sum individuals normally get from states, will expire at the end of July.

this is going to age well come july

Imagining a scenario where on August 1st the only barrier to full employment is UI benefits being too generous.

[Nintex]

I read a piece from an Australian or British reporter who was shocked when he finally got to see a Trump speech at the White House for himself.
He said that either everyone in the US has gotten used to interacting with addicts that they didn't notice he was high as fuck or that he was the only one watching who was sober.
He also added that the media and TV broadcasts actually makes him look good in comparison by cutting up his speeches and Trump was way more incoherent than he expected.

Before you could tell when Trump was on something, during his crazy 3 hour CPAC speech for example or when he debated Hillary Clinton. You could sometimes even see when he dialed it back with downers.
Now they're proudly proclaiming that the 70+ year old President is full of energy and rarely sleeps as he stomps towards his helicopter and attends 3 or 4 events a day.

Trump never showed much empathy, boasting about his own buildings on 9/11 but there was a hint of caring and worrying about what had happened. Same when during his campaign those natural disasters struck and he made a few visits. Now with the pandemic he just keeps making jokes. The fact that he shrugged off taking Hydroxychloriquine as if it was just something he added as 'no big deal' to his daily routine was utterly bizarre and instantly made people think that he didn't actually take it.

[kingv]

Best nintex comment in a year probably.

But yes, the media is very friendly to trump. Even the really critical media gives him a huge pass on stuff like this.

[kingv]

Hyperinflation obliterates savings which can only hurt the 50% of people that even have savings - for everyone else it just relieves their debt burden... regular levels of inflation merely changes the distribution of income... in fact Keynes had proposed paying for world war ii by means of a so-called inflation tax... in any case inflation is hardly worrisome during a deflationary episode like the one we're experiencing and equating fiscal nationalism with hyperinflation is a hundred year old conservative strawman

I think it depends a lot on what you mean by hyperinflation. I can see an argument that  High inflation (call it 5%), in a heavily leveraged economy might be good for the average joe but I don’t think that Weimar Republic style hyperinflation would do anything good for anybody.

[shosta]

I don't think hyperinflation is good, the origin of this is OttoVonLoggins making fun of me for wanting to dumptruck money on the economy

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1263266298709938176

 

Pfft Megan McKaren is already on the regular one and Whoopi was a total shit to Bernie when he was on so that's kind of what the plain view already is? I'm sure this will last as long and be as popular as Real News was.

[Mandark]

Pfft Megan McKaren is already on the regular one and Whoopi was a total shit to Bernie when he was on

Funniest part of that was Bernie saying he could work with Republicans and she asked who. He said her dad and she pointed out her dad was dead.

It was all backwards and upside down.

[shosta]

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1263551045977780224

 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1263551045977780224

 

VEEP is about to become reality 

[zomgee]

Hot take

https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1263512553927426048

Hot dish

[TakingBackSunday]

jfc what a boring ticket

[zomgee]

But I was told it was an absolute necessity and lock that Biden was picking a black woman. Is Amy black?

Did you SEE that hot dish recipe?

no she is not black