Author Topic: US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP (Read 2965539 times)

Nintex · « **Reply #67620 on:** August 10, 2020, 04:27:18 PM »

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The show of support for Loomer came during the annual Palm Beach Republican Party’s “Lobsterfest” fundraising gala held at the Trump International Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.

Pretty amazing how Donald milks the GOP and their donors with such efficiency

Stro · « **Reply #67621 on:** August 10, 2020, 04:36:22 PM »

The only dudes I see on TV with their massive book shelves that I believe have read even half of the visible books are Eddie Glaud Jr. and Jon Meacham

Mandark · « **Reply #67622 on:** August 10, 2020, 04:39:03 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on August 10, 2020, 03:51:56 PM

Free college laborers; have you considered the risk of not sustaining a traumatic brain injury?

Some players were tweeting the hashtag #wewanttoplay last night and a bunch of conservative sports yellers (who have always thought players need to shut up and be totally subordinate to their coaches) suddenly got very very interested in "listening to the players and what they want."

Then a few hours later those same players announced that they wanted to form a union.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #67623 on:** August 10, 2020, 04:56:08 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on August 10, 2020, 04:39:03 PM

Quote from: Joe Molotov on August 10, 2020, 03:51:56 PM
Free college laborers; have you considered the risk of not sustaining a traumatic brain injury?

Some players were tweeting the hashtag #wewanttoplay last night and a bunch of conservative sports yellers (who have always thought players need to shut up and be totally subordinate to their coaches) suddenly got very very interested in "listening to the players and what they want."

Then a few hours later those same players announced that they wanted to form a union.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67624 on:** August 10, 2020, 05:35:39 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on August 10, 2020, 03:51:56 PM

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1292823225114779651

Free college laborers; have you considered the risk of not sustaining a traumatic brain injury?

what a fucking scumbag

shosta · « **Reply #67625 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:11:15 PM »

holy fucking shit

https://twitter.com/BresPolitico/status/1292871439243268098

shosta · « **Reply #67626 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:17:56 PM »

ok anyone who thought I'm a joker for suggesting regional multi-state bonds better get on board before people starve to death

Mandark · « **Reply #67627 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:18:45 PM »

Gonna guess that this wouldn't stop them from voting on a bill if the leadership talks produced anything.

shosta · « **Reply #67628 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:22:07 PM »

They can schedule an emergency session any time they want but it's signalling an expectation that there is absolutely no bill on the horizon anytime soon and no way to bridge the divide

Once it starts hurting they might end up compromising to wherever the Republicans left off but it really bites that that's the strategy now

Mandark · « **Reply #67629 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:29:21 PM »

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1292956939706609665

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #67630 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:33:10 PM »

A nuclear apocalypse would also be decent for the deficit.

Kara · « **Reply #67631 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:39:49 PM »

Quote from: 213372bu on August 10, 2020, 07:33:25 PM

The US should install a coup in this illegitimate country!

It would be nice if we could call snap elections, at the very least.

Nintex · « **Reply #67632 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:41:58 PM »

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1292948342134120448

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1292947662963122181

Mandark · « **Reply #67633 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:48:15 PM »

Quote from: Kara on August 10, 2020, 07:39:49 PM

Quote from: 213372bu on August 10, 2020, 07:33:25 PM
The US should install a coup in this illegitimate country!

It would be nice if we could call snap elections, at the very least.

Been trying to game out how this would go down if we were in a parliamentary system cause I've got nothing better to do. An even more pointless exercise than it seems because it probably keeps Trump out of leadership in the first place, there's no midterms or split government, etc.

We do have a couple mechanisms for kicking the bum out but those require a party bucking its leader, same as a vote of no confidence would.

shosta · « **Reply #67634 on:** August 10, 2020, 07:54:21 PM »

Quote from: Kara on August 10, 2020, 07:39:49 PM

It would be nice if we could call snap elections, at the very least.

Even in countries that have this, that's the prerogative of the head of state

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #67635 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:11:20 PM »

Quote from: 213372bu on August 10, 2020, 07:33:25 PM

The US should install a coup in this illegitimate country!

Mandark · « **Reply #67636 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:21:35 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 08, 2020, 04:14:09 PM

Quote from: curly on July 08, 2020, 04:09:38 PM
Bit strange how 80% of Dave Weigel tweets are some variation of "good news for Joe Biden"

Delaware Mafia

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1292973838288986118

curly · « **Reply #67637 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:28:50 PM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/adamwren/status/1292932633966649346

james · « **Reply #67638 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:32:54 PM »

Mayor Butti coming in at the last second to be vp would be worth it for the meltdowns

james · « **Reply #67639 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:33:22 PM »

Quote from: shosta on August 10, 2020, 07:11:15 PM

holy fucking shit

https://twitter.com/BresPolitico/status/1292871439243268098

Don't forget folks, vote blue to keep Trump in check!

benjipwns · « **Reply #67640 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:37:00 PM »

it's Mayor Pete's wife

edit: wait, what? since when?

Tripon · « **Reply #67641 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:45:33 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on August 07, 2020, 03:21:34 PM

Quote from: Tripon on August 07, 2020, 03:17:52 PM
Apparently Congress really does need to see the U.S. in a deep depression before acting, huh.

"Congress"

Yes, congress.

Fuck Hoyer.

Mandark · « **Reply #67642 on:** August 10, 2020, 08:47:03 PM »

"congress"

benjipwns · « **Reply #67643 on:** August 10, 2020, 09:03:35 PM »

Quote from: https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-than-100-black-leaders-and-celebrities-urge-biden-to-pick-black-woman-as-vp-182615502.html

Entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, radio personality and “The Breakfast Club” co-host Lenard “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey, former NFL defensive end Michael Bennett, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump and many others signed the open letter to Biden.

“As someone who has said throughout the campaign that VP Joe Biden needs to choose a Black woman VP, the urgency for that pick has gone from something that SHOULD happen to something that HAS to happen,” the letter said.

The letter denounced the treatment of some of Biden’s potential picks, including Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., over her perceived ambition and her debate attacks on Biden’s civil rights record when she was a rival candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“It disgusts us that Black women are not just being vetted in this VP process but unfairly criticized and scrutinized,” the letter said. “Was Joe Biden ever labeled ‘too ambitious’ because he ran for president three times? ... Why does Senator Kamala Harris have to show remorse for questioning Biden's previous stance on integrated busing during a Democratic primary debate?”

Among the names on the letter are entertainer Nick Cannon, Bishop William J. Barber and CNN political contributor Van Jones. No nationally prominent Black political figures were listed as signers.

“Failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election,” it said. “We don’t want to choose between the lesser of two evils, and we don’t want to vote the devil we know versus the devil we don’t because we are tired of voting for devils — period.”

Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/us/politics/biden-vp-pick.html

Joe Biden’s advisers are planning an announcement for the middle of the week as his search concludes, people briefed on the selection process said.

Quote from: https://ijr.org/klobuchar-vows-highly-supportive-biden-vp/

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) says that she will be “highly supportive” of whoever Biden picks to be his running mate, and he has a large pool of impressive contenders to choose from.

During an interview on CNN on Monday, Klobuchar was asked her previous comments on Biden’s vice presidential search process, where she shared her belief that Biden should choose a woman of color to be his running mate.

CNN’s Poppy Harlow noted that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) recently met with Biden, and asked, “What do you think, senator, an all-white ticket would say about the Democratic Party right now?”

“You know, Poppy, Joe Biden is going to pick the best person for that job. And there are so many incredibly qualified women — including the governor of Michigan — they are all qualified,” Klobuchar responded.

She continued, “What I was trying to capture here was that this is a historic moment. It’s a historic moment because what’s been going on in our country — not just with George Floyd out of my state — but also with how we’ve seen so many African Americans, immigrant workers that have been hit so hard by this pandemic in outrageous numbers.”

“I can tell you, I think whoever he picks with the group he’s got, I will be highly supportive,” she added.

Mandark · « **Reply #67644 on:** August 10, 2020, 09:06:04 PM »

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1292951788304437248

I'm sure all the conservatives who were angry at Ilhan Omar for antisemitic tropes will etc. etc.

benjipwns · « **Reply #67645 on:** August 10, 2020, 09:09:57 PM »

She's about to lose her primary and go straight to prison I learned today.

Tripon · « **Reply #67646 on:** August 10, 2020, 09:22:33 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on August 10, 2020, 08:47:03 PM

"congress"

"Sept 14th"

Mandark · « **Reply #67647 on:** August 10, 2020, 09:26:30 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on August 10, 2020, 09:22:33 PM

Quote from: Mandark on August 10, 2020, 08:47:03 PM
"congress"

"Sept 14th"

shosta · « **Reply #67648 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:15:46 PM »

https://twitter.com/ZacMabry/status/1292965936757116929

Mandark · « **Reply #67649 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:26:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1292977590680997890

Everyone going bananas for veepstakes stuff like we're in a slow news period.

shosta · « **Reply #67650 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:27:31 PM »

should I log off

Mandark · « **Reply #67651 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:28:21 PM »

it's too late for all of us

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67652 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:51:56 PM »

damn rice is up 43 cents on predict it, I should have kept my mouth shut and jumped on at 23 cents.

Kara · « **Reply #67653 on:** August 10, 2020, 10:58:01 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on August 10, 2020, 07:48:15 PM

Quote from: Kara on August 10, 2020, 07:39:49 PM
Quote from: 213372bu on August 10, 2020, 07:33:25 PM
The US should install a coup in this illegitimate country!

It would be nice if we could call snap elections, at the very least.

Been trying to game out how this would go down if we were in a parliamentary system cause I've got nothing better to do. An even more pointless exercise than it seems because it probably keeps Trump out of leadership in the first place, there's no midterms or split government, etc.

We do have a couple mechanisms for kicking the bum out but those require a party bucking its leader, same as a vote of no confidence would.

Yeah, the horizons are very different under that system. I was more commenting on how insufficient the existing mechanisms are more than anything as you pointed out.

Does anyone want to sleepwalk for 5 months in N years when we're dealing with climate change events? Nein, danke!

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67654 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:06:21 PM »

Who/why is Gretchen a contender?

benjipwns · « **Reply #67655 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:09:22 PM »

Michigan is a swing state supposedly.

Stro · « **Reply #67656 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:16:09 PM »

I feel like this whole past 6 months or so shows why local and state level leadership is so important and you probably shouldn't pull one of those people away from the job on a time like this.

benjipwns · « **Reply #67657 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:26:05 PM »

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1292947361950564353

never admit this about your model Nate! jeez!

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67658 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:39:37 PM »

lol what a scrub.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #67659 on:** August 10, 2020, 11:53:11 PM »

Time to check on who’s Wikipedia articles are getting updated.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67660 on:** August 11, 2020, 12:20:25 AM »

nobody want's to buy my nina turner shares. =(

Kara · « **Reply #67661 on:** August 11, 2020, 01:28:15 AM »

President Trump is considering new immigration regulations that would allow border officials to temporarily block American citizens and legal permanent residents from returning to the United States from abroad if authorities believe they may be infected with the coronavirus.

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Under the proposal, which relies on existing legal authorities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the government could block a citizen or legal resident from crossing the border into the United States if an official “reasonably believes that the individual either may have been exposed to or is infected with the communicable disease.”

The draft, parts of which were obtained by The Times, explicitly says that any order blocking citizens and legal permanent residents must “include appropriate protections to ensure that no Constitutional rights are infringed.” And it says that citizens and legal residents cannot be blocked as an entire class of people.

The rule notes the prevalence of the coronavirus in Mexico as evidence of the need for the modified rule, citing the death on August 2 of the health minister in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, who the order says died of Covid-19 after a two week hospitalization.

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The Trump administration is ordering schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education to reopen for in-person instruction “to the maximum extent possible” on Sept. 16, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.

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The memo says that while families may choose to keep their students home and rely on virtual instruction, teachers are expected to teach in person unless they are at high risk for health complications should they contract the coronavirus.

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Mandark · « **Reply #67662 on:** August 11, 2020, 05:45:06 AM »

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1292810162344988672

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67663 on:** August 11, 2020, 10:40:20 AM »

Quote from: Mandark on August 11, 2020, 05:45:06 AM

https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1292810162344988672

I hope this has some backlash and she has to step down.

Just for the giggles.

Trurl · « **Reply #67664 on:** August 11, 2020, 10:41:38 AM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on August 11, 2020, 12:20:25 AM

nobody want's to buy my nina turner shares. =(

That's the first time I've heard her mentioned. You should have done more boosting.

shosta · « **Reply #67665 on:** August 11, 2020, 11:39:03 AM »

still no bill

Kara · « **Reply #67666 on:** August 11, 2020, 11:40:14 AM »

Russia has a vaccine now. Who needs to govern in a time of crisis?

shosta · « **Reply #67667 on:** August 11, 2020, 11:42:12 AM »

THEY NAMED THE VACCINE SPUTNIK V

Nintex · « **Reply #67668 on:** August 11, 2020, 12:56:38 PM »

Kudlow has changed the EO Trump signed because you know nothing even matters.
But everyone gets more money(?) so yay.

https://twitter.com/betsy_klein/status/1293210303761653760

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #67669 on:** August 11, 2020, 01:20:48 PM »

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/11/biden-vp-choice-running-mate-black-racial-393337

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In spite of the gaffes, policy shortcomings and a VP vetting process that has been nearly as disrespectful to Black women as Biden’s treatment of Anita Hill, the fact remains that Biden received close to 70 percent of Black support during the Democratic primaries.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #67670 on:** August 11, 2020, 01:36:43 PM »

What the fuck

james · « **Reply #67671 on:** August 11, 2020, 01:58:05 PM »

I tried to warn you black people

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #67672 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:22:59 PM »

I wish I were booking this reality. I'd have Biden pick Condi Rice as his VP and watch the mayhem ensue.

Nintex · « **Reply #67673 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:29:38 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on August 11, 2020, 02:22:59 PM

I wish I were booking this reality. I'd have Biden pick Condi Rice as his VP and watch the mayhem ensue.

Paul Manafort denied us the Trump / Gingrich ticket

james · « **Reply #67674 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:37:50 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on August 11, 2020, 02:22:59 PM

I wish I were booking this reality. I'd have Biden pick Condi Rice as his VP and watch the mayhem ensue.

Id rather at 3pm Obama anounce he is a trans woman and at 3:15pm Biden announce Obama, the first ever trans woman for VP

Nintex · « **Reply #67675 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:42:13 PM »

The best hypothetical 2020 ticket will always be Trump / Kanye West.

Harris is on the DNC speakers list now so I guess Biden picked Susan Rice?
Not a bad pick. She will prosecute Trump all the way to his new dacha in Sochi if he loses

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1293211531551952897

Biden has decided
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1293255927089504256

james · « **Reply #67676 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:57:20 PM »

Imagine making a decision on August 11

shosta · « **Reply #67677 on:** August 11, 2020, 02:58:05 PM »

you guys wanna do bets?

james · « **Reply #67678 on:** August 11, 2020, 03:02:24 PM »

Quote from: shosta on August 11, 2020, 02:58:05 PM

you guys wanna do bets?

Sure, in the dedicated betting subforum

team filler · « **Reply #67679 on:** August 11, 2020, 03:03:48 PM »

News:

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