USA Politics Thread |OT| Son of a bitch!

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[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1358476087341252608

 

[Pissy F Benny]

Was he there to dab on the sinners

[Joe Molotov]

Trust the plan.

[chronovore]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell-idUSKBN2A827J

She has been denied the ability to keep her previous testimony excerpt redacted. Her concern was that it would make her look guilty because of admitting to perjury.

[Nintex]

Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

 

I'm not sure what's more fucked up about how the media handles the Epstein story. The repeated claims that he killed himself under no suspicious circumstances or omitting exactly what type of sex trafficking charges this disgraced billionaire was accused of.

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[Dickie Dee]

Epstein killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

 

I'm not sure what's more fucked up about how the media handles the Epstein story. The repeated claims that he killed himself under no suspicious circumstances or omitting exactly what type of sex trafficking charges this disgraced billionaire was accused of.

You mean it wasn't the good kind of sex trafficking? you fucking idiot

[Tasty]

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https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1358977700564639745

[benjipwns]

[chronovore]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/nyregion/manafort-vance-ny-indictment.html

Felt hopeless, until this closing passage:

It is possible, though unlikely, that Mr. Manafort may still face federal charges. Last month, Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor from the special counsel’s office, argued that the wording of Mr. Trump’s pardons had been “oddly” drafted.

Rather than relieving those who had been pardoned from all potential liability for their actions, Mr. Weissmann argued, the language only narrowly covered their convictions.

In Mr. Manafort’s case, that might leave the door open to new charges, including on crimes that Mr. Manafort admitted he was guilty of as part of a plea deal. Those include 10 counts of financial crimes, as well as other offenses.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

I’m loving wholesome Joe.



https://mobile.twitter.com/Ninomerica/status/1358973355240673283

[Nintex]

All nurses in heaven are male and female?

Wow, Joe Trump is at it again

[Nintex]

Trump's lawyer is freewheeling the impeachment defense 

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359234965540642820

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/YossiGestetner/status/1358917696415543298

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1359238590044209157

The Dersch on Newsmax trashing Trump's legal team 

The guy on now is just yelling about how they want to deprogram the people who voted for Trump or the GOP, wtf is this

[Nintex]

The first guy, declined to prosecute Cosby.
The second guy wanted to defend Epstein and well...



It's like they wanted to make this as painful for the GOP as possible.

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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1359245645609984000

 

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I cover my head every time I click the like button 

[Nintex]

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1359284370633355268

Thomas Shannon, acting Secretary of State, told us: "The president looked at the prime minister and said 'I don't believe this. Vladimir Putin is the only man in the world who can destroy the United States and I didn't take his call.'"

"He [Trump] came straight up to me, grabbed my hand and said 'Great interview on Fox News.' He said, 'I said to the people around me, I don't know who the hell that guy is but he's doing a great job.' And that was my first lesson as a diplomat: that if you want to get through to President Trump, do an interview on Fox News."

"My initial thought was just 'How can I end this?' I literally did have in my mind the idea of faking some kind of medical emergency and throwing myself backwards with a loud blood curdling scream into the media."

The first episode of Trump Takes on the World airs on BBC Two on 10 February

 

[benjipwns]

SECRETS REVEALED: https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/02/09/sen-shirkey-baselessly-claims-us-capitol-riot-was-staged-by-trump-haters-recording-shows

“That wasn’t Trump’s people. That’s been a hoax from day one. That was all prearranged,” Shirkey, a Clarklake Republican, said of the riot. “It was arranged by somebody who was funding it. … It was all staged.”

...

Shirkey insinuated that even Sen. Mitch McConnell “was part of” a staged insurrection.

“I think they wanted to have a mess,” Shirkey said. “They would have had to recruit this other group of people.”

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Following our story, Shirkey issued an apology for his comments in the video.

“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”

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[Great Rumbler]

“I said some things in a videoed conversation that are not fitting for the role I am privileged to serve. I own that,” Shirkey said. “I have many flaws. Being passionate coupled with an occasional lapse in restraint of tongue are at least two of them. I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.”

cool story bro

[Joe Molotov]

I accidentally a conspiracy theory

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[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

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https://twitter.com/CaseStudyQB/status/1359549897247240201

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1359568526336425984

 

[ToxicAdam]

Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.

[Nintex]

Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.

Garrison doesn't need to do anything, he only needs to create his art 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Less than a month has gone by with Biden as president and already this country is unrecognizable.

https://mobile.twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1359493382092042242

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1359635853853753351

[EchoRin]

Playing national anthems before games that aren't even international competition always seemed stupid to me. Even as a kid who didn't think about politics.
I don't really care now. It's just a formality if I'm actually at a pro game and I do find it kinda cool that the Buffalo Sabres play both the Canadian and American anthem even if it's just two American teams playing each other due to the proximity and that a chunk of the fan base and season ticket holders live across the border. And yeah you get singers that can showcase themselves and some have it as their main gig during the season. I'd feel kinda bad to rip that away from them. It's more like if the tradition wasn't there I would never have been for starting it up.

[Nintex]

The Trump impeachment case the Democrats have put together is pretty convincing.

Especially the part where Rudy calls a senator to stall the proceedings, Trump supporters shouting his tweets while storming and Chris Christie and a bunch of other GOP members both inside and outside the capital telling Trump he needs to 'call it off'.
Trump's lawyer also connected the dots on Fox News last night when he said this happened because Trump has more loyal supporters than the Democrats. 

[Potato]

And still they will acquit him

[Nintex]

And still they will acquit him

I'm not sure. These people are shameless so maybe they will just throw Trump under the bus to save themselves or they might think that if Trump gets convicted and banned from office they could be next.

Whatever sentiment prevails will determine the outcome because the defense is a clown show (Dersch and others not showing also shows Trump's support has dropped among the GOP establishment).
It looks like the vote will be much closer than previously expected.

[Transhuman]

They'll do the math and figure it's better for the "Republican image" that Trump not be convicted. Same rationalising the Dems had when Clinton was impeached.

[remy]

The footage the dems cut together and showed at the trial was pretty fucking crazy. The woman that got shot was actually trying to climb over a resident evil 2 style desk barricaded door 

If you just watched the news clips it seemed like some idiots running around stealing shit, I had no idea it was as wild as some of those videos show

[Potato]

Just watched the whole video. Fuck me, Republicans are stupid cunts.

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still the best 

[zomgee]

(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.

[Joe Molotov]

Who is Igor supposed to be in that Garrison cartoon? Yellen?

I think that’s supposed to be Adam Schiff since Maxine Waters is next to him. Garrison needs to step up his labeling game since I thought Schumer was Giuliani at first.

He only labeled Mitch, who is the most obvious one of all. 

[benjipwns]

Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.

The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.

More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.

a zoom call with over a hundred boomers

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/UniteCountryPAC/status/1359878860192575495

 

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god emperor bide 

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https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1359900792623427585

welcome to the resistance wealthy conservatives 

[benjipwns]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/

Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.

I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.

The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.

And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.

Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.

You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.

[Joe Molotov]

 

[team filler]

(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.

1973 B.I.

[james]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/i-miss-thrill-trump/617993/

Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.

I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.

The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far. But he didn’t exactly relegate us to the concentration camp for the unflattering stories we published. Cable news, more like it. During my first MSNBC “hit”—you always call it a hit, never anything but—I mispronounced Mueller, making the first syllable sound like the lowing of a cow (in case you’re ever in a similar fix: his name rhymes with duller). Either the anchor didn’t notice, or it made no difference, because the producers asked me back. Not many times, but enough for my children to regard me with a measure of awe, as if I were taking regular journeys into outer space.

And now Trump is gone. Oh, I know, we will always have “covfefe.” We will always have Press Secretary Sean Spicer advancing the exceedingly novel argument that not even Hitler gassed people (yes, he really said that), and Kayleigh McEnany, after him, informing us that she would never lie, then proceeding to do so relentlessly for months on end, while a cross dangled prominently from her neck. Above all was a This isn’t really happening sensation, followed by the realization that not only was it really happening, but it was my job to figure out why and to whom and, not infrequently, whether readers ought to expect nuclear war. I don’t think we will recover that peculiar thrill until the presidency of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I use that word, thrill, with full intention. No need to tell me about the cruel immigration policy, the incompetent pandemic response, the racism and bigotry, the frightening chaos. “We never gave you time. We kept the foot on the gas,” a top former West Wing staffer told me in 2018, when I was writing a book on the Trump administration. That same staffer maintained that there was “no chaos; only method.” I believed that at first, until I didn’t. I once sat across from Trump in the Oval Office as he launched into a disquisition about Jussie Smollett. Do you remember Jussie Smollett? I can assure you that Trump remembers Jussie Smollett. He has almost certainly spent more time thinking about Jussie Smollett than he has about the coronavirus pandemic. I suspect that some of his more ardent supporters would be perfectly fine with that.

Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. France, by the way, is where Trump called American soldiers who’d fallen in combat “suckers” and “losers.” When this magazine first reported those comments, Trump’s supporters denounced the Atlantic story as preposterous and offensive, even as outlet after outlet confirmed the reporting. They failed to realize that the preposterous and the offensive were the twin beacons of the Trump presidency. Journalists were merely going where he led. This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.

You are doubtlessly annoyed as you read this, whoever you are and whatever you believe.

[team filler]

(before internet)

Boomers are just the best.

1973 B.I.

the dark ages 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1359596983493685250

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186

[Potato]

Good Christian values

[Mr. Gundam]

Good Christian values

Republicans haven't been the Party of Family Values for at least a decade now.

[tiesto]

Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to be alpha chad.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1359946977790685186

Zangief cosplayer? Guess there's some truth to the Republicans being in bed with the Russians

[Nintex]

CIA press: "The congresswoman made horrible comments on social media"

MI5 press: "Oi, crazy tits boffed the boys at the gym"

Ivey's profile picture on his Facebook page shows him standing stark naked by a waterfall. He has now set up a gladiator bootcamp called The Ludus

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1359878790122471428

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