US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[T-Short]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-kicks-off-his-2020-reelection-campaign-on-saturday/516909/

Trump Kicks Off His 2020 Reelection Campaign on Saturday
The president is taking the permanent campaign to new levels with a political rally in Florida—the latest sign that he’s already planning for a second term.

Thank fuck. More campaigning.

[james]

RE: Muslim ban

Wasnt the Trump camp claiming that time was of the utmost essence?

That every hour delay resulted in millions of terrorists pouring in?

That the admin had intelligence the ban was needed immediately?

Funny how they've forgotten to fix it. Didnt we all expect a revised EO this past Monday?

[Brehvolution]

RE: Muslim ban

Wasnt the Trump camp claiming that time was of the utmost essence?

That every hour delay resulted in millions of terrorists pouring in?

That the admin had intelligence the ban was needed immediately?

Funny how they've forgotten to fix it. Didnt we all expect a revised EO this past Monday?

Or the administration knew the EO would get shot down in court therefore relieving them of any responsibility if there was an attack. Now they can just say, 'hey we tried'.

[Mr. Gundam]

How the fuck does Puzder not clear the bar but DeVos was never in any real danger?!

Her spouse didn't go on Oprah back in the day and talk about being abused.

Seriously. The Oprah factor strikes once again.

[james]

Or the administration knew the EO would get shot down in court therefore relieving them of any responsibility if there was an attack. Now they can just say, 'hey we tried'.

Half the administration wants to ban brown people, not give a damn about any attack.

Its crazy how easy it would be to make the EO legal

-Allow green card holders in
-Actually have a coordinated release
-Throw in some non-muslim countries with a history of violence. Simply make an excel list with country name and number of visa requests. Ban the bottom 10.

Gabon, Rwanda, The Gambia and Myanmar. Not a muslim ban!

[Mupepe]

It will always be Burma to me

[Boredfrom]

RE: Muslim ban

Wasnt the Trump camp claiming that time was of the utmost essence?

That every hour delay resulted in millions of terrorists pouring in?

That the admin had intelligence the ban was needed immediately?

Funny how they've forgotten to fix it. Didnt we all expect a revised EO this past Monday?

Or the administration knew the EO would get shot down in court therefore relieving them of any responsibility if there was an attack. Now they can just say, 'hey we tried'.

Given how hard it backfired, seriously doubt that.

[zomgee]

Boy this Trump press conference. It's something else. It's just stream of consciousness stuff.

[Brehvolution]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-16/trump-s-f-35-calls-came-with-a-surprise-rival-ceo-was-listening

Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the $379 billion F-35 program as “out of control,” made the highly unusual calls to Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan on Jan. 9 and Jan. 17. Muilenburg, whose company makes a fighter jet Trump has suggested might be an alternative to the F-35, was in the president-elect’s New York office for a meeting during the second call. He appeared caught off-guard but was able to listen in on the call, according to two people familiar with the calls, who asked to remain anonymous discussing sensitive information.

 

[FStop7]

Just walked by a random TV and heard Trump utter the words "nuclear holocaust" and now I need a drink.

[Boredfrom]

Just walked by a random TV and heard Trump utter the words "nuclear holocaust" and now I need a drink.

Being fair, I bet even Putin cringed when he hear this.

[seagrams hotsauce]

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GOP_surveys_Mainstream-Media-Accountability-Survey&utm_content=021617-media-survey-djt-jfc-p-p-hf-e-1&utm_source=e_p-p

lol

[Nola]

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GOP_surveys_Mainstream-Media-Accountability-Survey&utm_content=021617-media-survey-djt-jfc-p-p-hf-e-1&utm_source=e_p-p

lol

Tell me I'm pretty, survey edition....And leave the money on the dresser when you're done.

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/LeslieMac/status/832323907822690306

TOUPEE FIASCO

[etiolate]

"which online source do you trust the most?"

*blank space to fill in*


This will surely result in fun.

[studyguy]

Just watched this shit at work live and some people wandered over by chance just watching it confused.
That was like some masterful dark comedy shit that just went down. All it needed was an ass to ass scene and it would have beaten out Requiem For a Dream for depressing, dark mood coming away from it.

[Trent Dole]

https://twitter.com/LeslieMac/status/832323907822690306

TOUPEE FIASCO

Is that Lupe's half brother?

Just walked by a random TV and heard Trump utter the words "nuclear holocaust" and now I need a drink.

Being fair, I bet even Putin cringed when he hear this.

THE SMOKING GUN OF A MUSHROOM CLOUD

[Joe Molotov]

I don't think he did anything wrong. If anything, he did something right.

The thing is he didn't tell our Vice President properly and then he said he didn't remember... that just wasn't acceptable to me.

This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine

Okay.

[Atramental]

What a time to be alive. 

[Joe Molotov]

Reporter: Are you going to meet with the CBC on your urban agenda?
Trump: Who is the CBC?
Reporter: (Somewhat disbelievingly) The Congressional Black Caucus
Trump, to the black reporter: Are you their friends? Why don’t you set up something?

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

[FStop7]

Reporter: Are you going to meet with the CBC on your urban agenda?
Trump: Who is the CBC?
Reporter: (Somewhat disbelievingly) The Congressional Black Caucus
Trump, to the black reporter: Are you their friends? Why don’t you set up something?

"Oh the CBC?  I love Don Cherry."

[Joe Molotov]

BAD THINGS.

[agrajag]

Reporter: Are you going to meet with the CBC on your urban agenda?
Trump: Who is the CBC?
Reporter: (Somewhat disbelievingly) The Congressional Black Caucus
Trump, to the black reporter: Are you their friends? Why don’t you set up something?

are you not part of the afro american hive mind?

[agrajag]

bad things done with ur anus

[Steve Contra]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

Remember the old joke that Gingrich was what stupid people thought someone smart sounded like? Simpler times, those.

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

Remember the old joke that Gingrich was what stupid people thought someone smart sounded like? Simpler times, those.

[Steve Contra]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/doing-it-his-way-sean-spicer-just-referred-reporte-5636?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=facebook#2,

[agrajag]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/doing-it-his-way-sean-spicer-just-referred-reporte-5636?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=facebook#2,

making all political satire obsolete since 2017

[Steve Contra]

https://twitter.com/FT/status/832359675978989568

#vicbergerairhorn

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832197515248275456

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832198588201594880

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832230758299340800

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832238070460186625

 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

I don't have audio. What does he say?

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

I don't have audio. What does he say?

You know what uranium is, right? There's this thing called nuclear weapons and other things...like...lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things.

[Steve Contra]

https://twitter.com/readerer/status/832303185826033664

I don't have audio. What does he say?

"You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things."

[team filler]

[Oblivion]

You know what uranium is, right? There's this thing called nuclear weapons and other things...like...lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things.

"You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things."

Thanks.

This guy... 

[agrajag]

The biggest fuckfest of an administration in our lifetime brehs

[seagrams hotsauce]

I gotta admit that Trumps soundbites are legit hilarious. "This administration is a fine tuned machine... except I can't get anyone in my cabinet approved"

[Atramental]

The biggest fuckfest of an administration in our lifetime brehs

I pray we don't get into any major conflicts or have a 9/11-esque terror attack... 

[Nola]

I gotta admit that Trumps soundbites are legit hilarious. "This administration is a fine tuned machine... except I can't get anyone in my cabinet approved"

Or apparently to take the job:

Trump’s pick to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser turns down offer, people familiar with decision say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/16/trumps-pick-to-replace-michael-flynn-as-national-security-adviser-turns-down-offer-people-familiar-with-decision-say/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.ce3e9b5b9135



 

[seagrams hotsauce]

YO THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS 31 YEARS OLD?!

Feeling so #blessed rn

[chronovore]

YO THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS 31 YEARS OLD?!
(Image removed from quote.)
Feeling so #blessed rn

He's 31, with the hair of a 51 year old, and the temperament of a 11 year old. So it evens out.

[FStop7]

Bob Harward did the biggest IRL 

[agrajag]

That's a sinister looming motherfucker

[FStop7]

Is it true that I can ask random black people to schedule meetings with other black people on my behalf?  I really want to meet Ghost Face Killa.

[zomgee]

One of 'em's gotta know him.

[Madrun Badrun]

Is it true that I can ask random black people to schedule meetings with other black people on my behalf?  I really want to meet Ghost Face Killa.

PD can you send me a Google invite to this too?  k thanks.

[chronovore]

Every time I end up agreeing with a Fox News anchor, I feel a step closer to losing my mind.

My retired lobbyist uncle is still referencing Breitbart links and said he likes Milo and Tucker. We had just started to have rational conversations again, now this.

[El Babua]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

[chronovore]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Pretty sure they'd just respond to that tape with "Having that much of a man in you doesn't make you gay."

[Atramental]

Hannity: "Their balls never touched SO IT'S NOT GAY!" 

[helios]

Shep Smith is awesome

[Nola]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Yeah his base seems to be all in on Trump in a way I didn't think would persist when the cracks started coming.

Not to be all      and shit because its only been a few weeks, but reading some of the message boards I used to glance over that were once a bit far right but still rational enough, and seeing some of the rhetoric coming from his supporters and right-wing media all over, it just makes me glad Trump is incompetent.

Lots seem ready, giddy even, at the idea of purging the intelligence community, suppressing the press, eliminating checks and balances, rationalizing only loyalists holding positions in government, and handing Trump as much power as he wants.

All because of this bizarro narrative they have bought into where Trump is this white knight truth teller in a sea of lies trying to purge Washington of corruption and fighting for them. In a battle for America's soul. Because liberals, the media, BLM, Democrats, establishment Republicans, globalists, and Obama have done so much damage and poisoned so many institutions that extreme measures are necessary. That any attack on Trump is just proof of their points and fuel for why Trump needs to go even harder.

[El Babua]

Shep Smith is the best guy Fox News has.

As far as Trump being Trump goes, I'm pretty sure his voters like him calling out the media more so than any truth. Any issues he has in his cabinet and Russian ties won't be something they care about unless he gets caught on tape sucking off Putin.

Yeah his base seems to be all in on Trump in a way I didn't think would persist when the cracks started coming.

Not to be all      and shit because its only been a few weeks, but reading some of the message boards I used to glance over that were once a bit far right but still rational enough, and seeing some of the rhetoric coming from his supporters and right-wing media all over, it just makes me glad Trump is incompetent.

Lots seem ready, giddy even, at the idea of purging the intelligence community, suppressing the press, eliminating checks and balances, rationalizing only loyalists holding positions in government, and handing Trump as much power as he wants.

All because of this bizarro narrative they have bought into where Trump is this white knight truth teller in a sea of lies trying to purge Washington of corruption and fighting for them. In a battle for America's soul. Because liberals, the media, BLM, Democrats, establishment Republicans, globalists, and Obama have done so much damage and poisoned so many institutions that extreme measures are necessary. That any attack on Trump is just proof of their points and fuel for why Trump needs to go even harder.

Yep. My thought was that the people you described were around 20% or so of his electorate, while the rest were traditional repubs/Hillary haters. But looking at Chrono's interactions with his uncle, it seems like this shit's only going to get worse.

[benjipwns]

Shep Smith is awesome

[seagrams hotsauce]

well while we're at it

[Nola]

Yep. My thought was that the people you described were around 20% or so of his electorate, while the rest were traditional repubs/Hillary haters. But looking at Chrono's interactions with his uncle, it seems like this shit's only going to get worse.

I sort of live in Trump country in Louisiana, not that I am some expert or some shit but I can't avoid interacting with Trump supporters on almost a daily basis. White, work in business, I fit the stereotype.

I can't say with confidence the breakdown, but i think you are right and they are more then I or you assumed. At least a lot more that casually subscribe to the same narratives.

I think you have the Trumpkins that are like I said, and then you move down the line to the casual supporters. That watch their Fox News or have their right-wing Facebook feed and friends that parrot Breit Bart or whatever, and while they aren't out cheering for Trump to "shut the media down!" and "drain the swamp by purging the Obama intelligence community." They just passively feel fine about anything he does but don't pay too much attention overall. They just trust the right and despise the left at this point. To the point that an authoritarian doesn't register as beyond the pale to them.

My optimism is that like with Bush, after the honeymoon period is over and Trump keeps fucking up, the casuals will turn on him a bit. At least enough that they don't show up to vote in large enough numbers. Sort of a Hillary effect.

[benjipwns]

TUCKER AND GREENWALD BASHING DEMOCRATS AS LOSERS AND HILLARY AS CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT



how many spaces on triggered bingo do i get

[Nola]

I give Shep about 6 months at best before either joining Megan Kelly at NBC or ending up with Greta on MSNBC.

[benjipwns]

I give Shep about 6 months

People have been saying this for the last 60 years he's been on the air. He's the highest paid person at Fox after O'Reilly. (Hannity's total annual income is higher but that accounts for his radio show, etc. Fox itself pays him a lot less.)

Despite hosting an afternoon show, Shep's actual positions are all kinds of managing editor type ones within the actual news departments, he's not really paid to be a talking head like O'Reilly, Kelly, Chris Wallace, Matt Lauer, etc.