US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1285349618751078402

Kanye already on the ballot in 2 states.

[Mandark]

Murder and violent crime rates would need to double to get to what they were in the late 80's/early 90's.

Which is exactly the time where Trump's brain is stuck, partially explaining why he thinks it's a winning issue (the rest is, y'know, racism).

it took until someone explained the environmental protection legislation regulating the use of water passed in the early 90s before trump’s talking point of sinks, showers, and washers not having enough water started to make sense to me

Yup, which he would have been aware of as a landlord.

Same deal with his comments on Haiti and AIDS. Even his "economic nationalism" is basically 80's angst about Japan overtaking us, redirected to other countries.

[benjipwns]

Romney did the morally just thing during the impeachment

but did he though

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym


Tucker's pre planned vacation is about to get extended

Not surprised at all that Fox still hasn't cleaned up all the slime.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1285395904581828609

 

[Coitus]

Allegations against Tucker are obvious bullshit.  If they’re old enough to vote he’s not interested.

[benjipwns]

[T-Short]

The way I see it, the Antifa protests going on now, are just a belated Yellow Vests movement that has come to the US.
Aside from the surplus military gear the US government response isn't really much different from any other country dealing with such protests.
In Europe if you would protest the EU summit going on now by smashing up some stores, you'd also be arrested by some undercover police.

Uniformed officers from unidentifiable agencies pulling people into rented, unmarked minivans? Yeah, no.

[VomKriege]

Yeah, I don't think they've yet upgraded to unmarked vans here.

[tiesto]

https://twitter.com/KwCongressional/status/1284790978650558465

[Great Rumbler]

This is a parody account. It has to be.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://twitter.com/hulkhogan/status/987531414831796224

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

This is a parody account. It has to be.

He seemed legitimately insane when on Heidecker’s show. But then again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KwCongressional/status/1285562515112570880

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1285575768022626304
https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1285576417149947904
https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1285584409060683779

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1285612789923491842

lmao, the Cheney's getting chased out of the Republican party by the Trump mob

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/hulkhogan/status/987531414831796224

[Joe Molotov]

Hulk has a lot of love in his heart.

[Pissy F Benny]

[team filler]

went to albertsons last night, all the goya canned food is sold out 

[VomKriege]

This is a parody account. It has to be.

Imagine this guy, if he is not a gigantic hoax, has worked in the energy industry and conducted some business.

Though as mentioned by Heidecker and QAA, there's someone writing his tweets and he seemed a bit confused when questioned on that content. Maybe some edgelord is amping things up to 11.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1285622654528036866

Next up, cat fight 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/nodank_/status/1285609788894785542

 

[Great Rumbler]

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested on Tuesday morning at his rural farm, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio said. The spokesperson, Jennifer Thornton, said Householder was taken into custody in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme allegedly involving state officials and associates.

Four others were also arrested, Thornton said: former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges, Householder adviser Jeffrey Longstreth, and lobbyists Neil Clark and Juan Cespedes.

[Joe Molotov]

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1285636153538904064

If it wasn't for the Birthday party this would be the best party.

[ToxicAdam]

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested on Tuesday morning at his rural farm, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio said. The spokesperson, Jennifer Thornton, said Householder was taken into custody in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme allegedly involving state officials and associates.

Four others were also arrested, Thornton said: former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges, Householder adviser Jeffrey Longstreth, and lobbyists Neil Clark and Juan Cespedes.

Matt Borges was the founder of the Lincoln Project. Bet Trump is happy about that.

[james]

The fuck, Avicii is dead?

[tiesto]

The fuck, Avicii is dead?

Yeah for 2 years now...  :'(

[james]

 

[CatsCatsCats]

Uh, same boat.

Guess James and I are from the same dimension

[BIONIC]

https://twitter.com/hulkhogan/status/125437560418865152

[BisMarckie]

Avicii dying was a work, just like Tupac who is living in Serbia now.

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/hulkhogan/status/125437560418865152

Hands down one of the greatest tweets of all time.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1285689844518313984

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1285693873499627520

[team filler]

 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/TulsiPress/status/1285723277319639040

https://twitter.com/TulsiPress/status/1285723278347325440

 

[Yulwei]

https://twitter.com/TulsiPress/status/1285723277319639040

https://twitter.com/TulsiPress/status/1285723278347325440

 

test
Ignore this

[team filler]

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1285726277719199746

https://twitter.com/LouReed332/status/1285728281996726278

[ToxicAdam]

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1285718477131653122?

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1285811409721282561

 

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1285688104423239686


7 minutes later...


https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1285689783214317568

[VomKriege]

"It's a way for parents to survive and feed their kids or whatever."

[Mandark]

White House, GOP in disarray over coronavirus spending plan as deadline nears on expiring emergency aid

Putting the whole thing in spoilers.

tl;dr is that Republicans didn't bother trying to come up with a plan so it's not even clear what their opening bid will be.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

A major intraparty rift widened between the White House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday as they stumbled to formulate a unified coronavirus budget plan, lacking agreement on policy goals, spending parameters and even deadlines.

The Republican and White House positions changed multiple times as the day went on, with some GOP lawmakers refusing to rally behind President Trump’s demand for a payroll tax cut while others worked to convince White House emissaries that more money was needed for testing and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Complicating matters, other Republican lawmakers appeared mortified about the growing size of the spending bill, leading to bickering over which policies to remove and warning that miscalculations could allow Democrats to seize control of the White House and the Senate in November.

“What in the hell are we doing?” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who according to multiple officials was incensed at the push to boost spending levels, asked his colleagues at the lunch with the administration negotiators, according to several people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the exchange.

The whole process now appears likely to spill into August, something the White House and congressional Democrats had hoped to avoid, because it would mean more than 20 million Americans would lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire at the end of this month. They have not mapped out a plan for what would happen to these people as the pandemic’s turmoil continues to weigh on the U.S. economy.

Part of the problem stemmed from the White House’s failure to go into the talks with a preset strategy or a list of proposals that they knew GOP lawmakers would rally behind. This miscalculation created immediate problems. Numerous demands the White House had tried to formulate over the weekend were erased within hours.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that the goal was to keep the spending bill around $1 trillion, but by Tuesday he had abandoned that. White House officials also indicated they would no longer push for cuts to testing and the CDC. And after a barrage of criticism of Trump’s tax cut demand, White House officials stopped trying to press the matter.

“I think we’re going to spend what we need to spend, and we’re going to make sure we don’t spend more than that,” Mnuchin said.

Democrats pointed fingers at the Republican infighting and said the White House and GOP leaders were unprepared to handle the country’s mounting economic and health care challenges. House Democrats passed a $3 trillion spending bill in May that would send another round of stimulus checks, provide more money to states and help hospitals, among other things, but the White House has vowed to block it.

“Republicans are in complete disarray,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “Totally incompetent. Totally in disarray. Totally at war with one another.”

In an effort to bridge differences, Mnuchin, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow met with Senate Republicans over lunch. But that led to little progress, as Republicans made clear to Mnuchin and Meadows that they were not supportive of Trump’s insistence on a payroll tax cut or curbed funding for coronavirus tests and the CDC.

Republicans do appear to be gravitating toward a proposal on what to do about the expiring unemployment benefits, however. In March, Congress approved an additional $600 weekly benefit through the end of July for unemployed Americans.

Democrats have proposed extending those benefits through January, but the White House and some Republicans now want to cut the extra benefits to about $200 per week. Democrats haven’t agreed to this, however.

Republicans were finding a harder time coming to a consensus on many other issues. Mnuchin on Monday had insisted the payroll tax idea was in the bill, but he didn’t even bring it up during the lunch as the opposition snowballed, two people briefed on the interaction said.

“We haven’t reached a conclusion on anything,” Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) said when the lunch ended.

Meadows acknowledged the discontent, telling reporters, “Well as you can imagine, any time you have Senate Republicans there, you have a number of different thoughts on what should or should not happen.”

Underlying the confusion surrounding the GOP stimulus package are tensions among Trump administration officials about their priorities.

Trump is being represented on Capitol Hill by Mnuchin and Meadows, a tandem that hasn’t brokered a deal jointly with Congress before. Trump has for months privately worried that Mnuchin, his chief negotiator with Democrats, was giving away too much to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), leading conservative lawmakers to push for Meadows to have a more active role in this round of talks. Before joining the White House, Meadows was a congressman and leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Mnuchin, meanwhile, has a background as a banker and a Hollywood producer with few ties to the conservative movement.

One area the White House appeared to be shifting its position on was whether to include more money for coronavirus testing. Over the weekend, the White House had opposed new money for testing, but Senate Republicans pushed back. On Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said the administration would seek “targeted” money for testing, saying that “we’re willing to put in money for targeted testing that makes sense, not just dumping money into a pot that contains $10 billion.”

These programs are just one part of what the administration and McConnell had envisioned as a $1 trillion package that is likely to be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the election. But the price tag appeared to be growing.

Republicans have spent much of the past several days clashing over how to handle Trump’s demand for a payroll tax cut plan. Mnuchin and Meadows were met with so much blowback to the idea at the Senate GOP lunch Tuesday that Mnuchin didn’t try to persuade anyone to reconsider, several attendees said.

He was also confronted by multiple complaints about the size of the emerging package, with some lawmakers who had voted for the $2 trillion Cares Act in March saying they couldn’t support the new package if it were to exceed $1 trillion.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) argued against the payroll tax cut, making the case that no voters would notice the tax relief and that he was skeptical that the policy changes could even be implemented before October.

Electoral politics were also in consideration at the lunch. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) urged other GOP senators to be attentive to what Republicans in competitive reelection bids are hearing on the ground from voters, and he made the case that if the GOP loses the majority, Democrats in control will implement policies that are much more costly to the national debt. So spending a bit more money now in a rescue bill that would aid Republicans in their races would be cheaper in the long run, he argued. Cotton is also up for reelection in November but is not considered to be in a competitive race.

Cotton’s viewpoint appeared to clash with that of Cruz, who vigorously warned against spending too much money in the package and said it could lead to a revolt among conservative voters in November.

Cruz said the GOP should be focused on a safe restart of the economy. He said if the economy remains shuttered in November, Democrats will win both the White House and the Senate and that Republican senators, who usually meet in the ornate Mansfield Room in the Capitol, will “be meeting in a much smaller lunchroom” next year.

McConnell did provide some details of what he hoped would be an eventual GOP package. He said it would include $105 billion to help schools reopen, another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, more stimulus checks to individual Americans, incentives for hiring and retaining workers, and reimbursement for businesses to establish safety measures.

“The American job market needs another shot of adrenaline,” McConnell said. “Senate Republicans are laser-focused on getting American workers their jobs back.”

Trump has already enacted four laws that provided close to $3 trillion in new tax cuts and spending to try to help the economy and health-care system navigate the coronavirus pandemic. The economy remains weak, however, with an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent and millions of people collecting unemployment benefits. Lawmakers are split over what to do next. When he was heading into a meeting with Senate appropriators, Meadows was asked about the highest price tag they could agree to.

“Obviously everybody looks at a trillion-dollar stimulus plan as the goal, but that’s going to be up to the senators and the House,” Meadows said. “It’s going to be a Senate- and House-led process.”

[close]

[Brehvolution]

What is going on in Portland is pretty much what the 2nd amendment is for. The same people triggered by having to wear a mask are OK with secret police snatching people off the street.

[Yulwei]

White House, GOP in disarray over coronavirus spending plan as deadline nears on expiring emergency aid

Putting the whole thing in spoilers.

tl;dr is that Republicans didn't bother trying to come up with a plan so it's not even clear what their opening bid will be.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

A major intraparty rift widened between the White House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday as they stumbled to formulate a unified coronavirus budget plan, lacking agreement on policy goals, spending parameters and even deadlines.

The Republican and White House positions changed multiple times as the day went on, with some GOP lawmakers refusing to rally behind President Trump’s demand for a payroll tax cut while others worked to convince White House emissaries that more money was needed for testing and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Complicating matters, other Republican lawmakers appeared mortified about the growing size of the spending bill, leading to bickering over which policies to remove and warning that miscalculations could allow Democrats to seize control of the White House and the Senate in November.

“What in the hell are we doing?” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who according to multiple officials was incensed at the push to boost spending levels, asked his colleagues at the lunch with the administration negotiators, according to several people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the exchange.

The whole process now appears likely to spill into August, something the White House and congressional Democrats had hoped to avoid, because it would mean more than 20 million Americans would lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire at the end of this month. They have not mapped out a plan for what would happen to these people as the pandemic’s turmoil continues to weigh on the U.S. economy.

Part of the problem stemmed from the White House’s failure to go into the talks with a preset strategy or a list of proposals that they knew GOP lawmakers would rally behind. This miscalculation created immediate problems. Numerous demands the White House had tried to formulate over the weekend were erased within hours.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that the goal was to keep the spending bill around $1 trillion, but by Tuesday he had abandoned that. White House officials also indicated they would no longer push for cuts to testing and the CDC. And after a barrage of criticism of Trump’s tax cut demand, White House officials stopped trying to press the matter.

“I think we’re going to spend what we need to spend, and we’re going to make sure we don’t spend more than that,” Mnuchin said.

Democrats pointed fingers at the Republican infighting and said the White House and GOP leaders were unprepared to handle the country’s mounting economic and health care challenges. House Democrats passed a $3 trillion spending bill in May that would send another round of stimulus checks, provide more money to states and help hospitals, among other things, but the White House has vowed to block it.

“Republicans are in complete disarray,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. “Totally incompetent. Totally in disarray. Totally at war with one another.”

In an effort to bridge differences, Mnuchin, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow met with Senate Republicans over lunch. But that led to little progress, as Republicans made clear to Mnuchin and Meadows that they were not supportive of Trump’s insistence on a payroll tax cut or curbed funding for coronavirus tests and the CDC.

Republicans do appear to be gravitating toward a proposal on what to do about the expiring unemployment benefits, however. In March, Congress approved an additional $600 weekly benefit through the end of July for unemployed Americans.

Democrats have proposed extending those benefits through January, but the White House and some Republicans now want to cut the extra benefits to about $200 per week. Democrats haven’t agreed to this, however.

Republicans were finding a harder time coming to a consensus on many other issues. Mnuchin on Monday had insisted the payroll tax idea was in the bill, but he didn’t even bring it up during the lunch as the opposition snowballed, two people briefed on the interaction said.

“We haven’t reached a conclusion on anything,” Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) said when the lunch ended.

Meadows acknowledged the discontent, telling reporters, “Well as you can imagine, any time you have Senate Republicans there, you have a number of different thoughts on what should or should not happen.”

Underlying the confusion surrounding the GOP stimulus package are tensions among Trump administration officials about their priorities.

Trump is being represented on Capitol Hill by Mnuchin and Meadows, a tandem that hasn’t brokered a deal jointly with Congress before. Trump has for months privately worried that Mnuchin, his chief negotiator with Democrats, was giving away too much to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), leading conservative lawmakers to push for Meadows to have a more active role in this round of talks. Before joining the White House, Meadows was a congressman and leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Mnuchin, meanwhile, has a background as a banker and a Hollywood producer with few ties to the conservative movement.

One area the White House appeared to be shifting its position on was whether to include more money for coronavirus testing. Over the weekend, the White House had opposed new money for testing, but Senate Republicans pushed back. On Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said the administration would seek “targeted” money for testing, saying that “we’re willing to put in money for targeted testing that makes sense, not just dumping money into a pot that contains $10 billion.”

These programs are just one part of what the administration and McConnell had envisioned as a $1 trillion package that is likely to be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the election. But the price tag appeared to be growing.

Republicans have spent much of the past several days clashing over how to handle Trump’s demand for a payroll tax cut plan. Mnuchin and Meadows were met with so much blowback to the idea at the Senate GOP lunch Tuesday that Mnuchin didn’t try to persuade anyone to reconsider, several attendees said.

He was also confronted by multiple complaints about the size of the emerging package, with some lawmakers who had voted for the $2 trillion Cares Act in March saying they couldn’t support the new package if it were to exceed $1 trillion.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) argued against the payroll tax cut, making the case that no voters would notice the tax relief and that he was skeptical that the policy changes could even be implemented before October.

Electoral politics were also in consideration at the lunch. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) urged other GOP senators to be attentive to what Republicans in competitive reelection bids are hearing on the ground from voters, and he made the case that if the GOP loses the majority, Democrats in control will implement policies that are much more costly to the national debt. So spending a bit more money now in a rescue bill that would aid Republicans in their races would be cheaper in the long run, he argued. Cotton is also up for reelection in November but is not considered to be in a competitive race.

Cotton’s viewpoint appeared to clash with that of Cruz, who vigorously warned against spending too much money in the package and said it could lead to a revolt among conservative voters in November.

Cruz said the GOP should be focused on a safe restart of the economy. He said if the economy remains shuttered in November, Democrats will win both the White House and the Senate and that Republican senators, who usually meet in the ornate Mansfield Room in the Capitol, will “be meeting in a much smaller lunchroom” next year.

McConnell did provide some details of what he hoped would be an eventual GOP package. He said it would include $105 billion to help schools reopen, another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, more stimulus checks to individual Americans, incentives for hiring and retaining workers, and reimbursement for businesses to establish safety measures.

“The American job market needs another shot of adrenaline,” McConnell said. “Senate Republicans are laser-focused on getting American workers their jobs back.”

Trump has already enacted four laws that provided close to $3 trillion in new tax cuts and spending to try to help the economy and health-care system navigate the coronavirus pandemic. The economy remains weak, however, with an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent and millions of people collecting unemployment benefits. Lawmakers are split over what to do next. When he was heading into a meeting with Senate appropriators, Meadows was asked about the highest price tag they could agree to.

“Obviously everybody looks at a trillion-dollar stimulus plan as the goal, but that’s going to be up to the senators and the House,” Meadows said. “It’s going to be a Senate- and House-led process.”

[close]

Last week of unemployment benefits boost and they haven’t got a clue what should be done next.

[Mandark]

Last week of unemployment benefits boost and they haven’t got a clue what should be done next.

Wildly incompetent. They've had seven weeks since the last bill passed (the one boosting PPP funding) to figure out a rough consensus position for the party and it looks like they didn't even try. Just going into the negotiations with no clear priorities, not even a set of talking points.

Also, that tidbit about Trump wanting to cut CDC funding. Pretty sure that's already been reported, but still.

[Mandark]

That's part of it, but they also went into the tax cut bill and ACA repeal without clear plans and those were their top legislative priorities.

[Joe Molotov]

Imagine having a functional government instead of a Twitter-based Reality TV-show/QAnon Clown Festival.

[Nintex]

Imagine having a functional government instead of a Twitter-based Reality TV-show/QAnon Clown Festival.

 

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/judge-oregon-request-restrain-federal-agents-378315

“We need to find a peaceful outcome,” acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said at a news conference Tuesday in Washington. “At the end of the day, we have to protect the federal property and the law enforcement officers.”

To protect and serve federal property.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wolf said agents have been assaulted with lasers, bats, fireworks, bottles and other weapons.

 

[close]

[team filler]

fool me once, going going gone on your bitchass

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/MediumBuying/status/1286011582124888066

So weird that a presidential campaign is buying ad time just so the president will see them and be reassured, likely in response to a PAC (the Lincoln Project) that exists specifically to hurt his feelings.

[Great Rumbler]

What is going on in Portland is pretty much what the 2nd amendment is for. The same people triggered by having to wear a mask are OK with secret police snatching people off the street.

Because they're perfectly fine with secret police snatching people off the street when it's happening to people that they don't like.

[stufte]

Republicans would happily let their house burn down if it meant the liberal next door would choke on the smoke.

[Tripon]

 


https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1286019352018538500

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

For Filler

https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1285975729654693893

 

Lol, it’s young Hillary erotica.

“Your outsides are attractive all by themselves. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this during the women’s movement, but you have great tits. And your little waist, and your nice soft bum, and your delicious honey pot...”

I joined Bill in bed, and when I was lying on my back naked and he was lying on top of me naked, he looked at me and smiled. He said, “Hillary, I really enjoy discussing theology with you. I also enjoy doing lots of other things with you,” and then he plunged inside me.

https://theattic.jezebel.com/rodham-is-pantsuit-nation-erotica-1843465111

Apparently Hillary runs against Bill for president with help from Donald Trump. I take it back, I’m hyped for this shit!

[Yulwei]

For Filler

https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1285975729654693893

 

#theresistance

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1285976819208871936

 

"If you don't want to vote for me vote for the other guy"