US Politics Thread |OT| THE DARKEST TIMELINE

[brawndolicious]

Man the final weeks of the election will be like the Battle of Berlin for Trump.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36582770

its begun

[AdmiralViscen]

I can't wait for reports on what the meetings of the VP screenings were like.

Probably a lot of "When we were interviewing Gov. Mary Fallin, Dr. Carson visibly dozed off and started snoring through her recitation of her conservative credentials."

"Chris Christie arrived late, visibly sweating and covered in grease stains. He said 'You wouldn't believe what a line there was at McDonalds.' Gov. Christie was later rejected for breaking the Oreos pledge right in front of us."

[Phoenix Dark]

FEC reports out today

@PaulBlu
Donald Trump raised just $3.1 million in May. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/PaulBlu/status/745067600158330880

@samsteinhp
Trump’s campaign only has $1,289,507 cash on hand. that is completely nuts.

https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/745068761712033796

@teddyschleifer 4h4 hours ago
Hillary Clinton's campaign has $42.5 million on hand, and raised $26.4 million in the month of May, per new filing.

https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/745005149417005058

@teddyschleifer 4h4 hours ago
Combined with Priorities USA, this means pro-Clinton players have about $94 million on hand as of May 31.

As for Trump? Don't know yet.

wow

[CatsCatsCats]

LOL HE DOESNT NEED TO RAISE FUNDS HES A BILLIONAIRE

[Human Snorenado]

Sad!

[Madrun Badrun]

Maybe it would have been kinder not to stop today's assassin. 

[Tasty]

Either he's grossly underreporting to skip out on taxes, or his base is made up of white trash dirtpoors. Probably both.

Either way this is an easy spin for him to show Hillary as corrupt, rich, not for the people, etc.

[Phoenix Dark]

Kenneth P. Vogel ‏@kenvogel 4m
Trump campaign expenses in May, per @FEC report:
Hats: $208k
Online advertising: $115k
Data management: $48k
Communications consulting: $38k

[Madrun Badrun]

Hats: $208k  smh

[Madrun Badrun]

Not only is he not raising money, but a good portion of the money he is raising is going to himself and family.  Jesus

[brawndolicious]

Say what you will about his chances, I just don't think his supporters really care that much anymore now that they've officially done their protest vote.

Would be amazing if Utah goes to Gary Johnson or Hillary while Trump's trying to get California or New York like he said he would.

[Joe Molotov]

Like it says on his hat!

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

If you look at the polls, Trump saw a bit of surge [and Hillary saw a bit of collapse] near the end of May, but he's fallen hard since then and Hillary has been pulling away for nearly a month now. Trump really can't afford to not have money for big ad buys right now.

[Human Snorenado]

Is this what the death of a major US political party looks like brehs? We are living in interesting times.

[VomKriege]

I don't doubt the campaign is in disarray, but Trump can probably limp around to the convention just with twitter and the free TV air time. Then I don't see the GOP really taking any extreme stance, though he'll probably have to do with partial support. Some fresh money included.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

If you look at the polls, Trump saw a bit of surge [and Hillary saw a bit of collapse] near the end of May, but he's fallen hard since then and Hillary has been pulling away for nearly a month now. Trump really can't afford to not have money for big ad buys right now.

Seems to coincide with him wrapping up the nomination and the endorsements he received. But after that he imploded, and Hillary hasn't United the democrat base yet lol. Gonna be ugly.

[Kara]

Is this what the death of a major US political party looks like brehs? We are living in interesting times.

Nah, GOP control at the local level is insane.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Is this what the death of a major US political party looks like brehs? We are living in interesting times.

Nah, GOP control at the local level is insane.

yeah, this is very true, they ain't going nowhere yet. Red Statehouses are gerrymandered even moreso then congressional districts, and red state Democratic parties are even more feckless then the DNC.

But a supermajority in the Senate, and flipping Congress? I would have thought that to be impossible even under the best circumstances, but holy shit are they screwing the pooch bad enough these days that those could happen. Just maybe.

[Brehvolution]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-payments_us_5768a69ee4b0853f8bf1fe2d?47ktv6lrlstgshsemi

The figure represents payments for facilities rental, catering, monthly rents and utilities at more than a half-dozen Trump-owned companies and properties. It includes nearly $350,000 that the Trump campaign paid a Trump-owned company, TAG Air, for the use of Trump’s private jets and helicopters. 

The most striking expenditure in the new filings was $423,372, paid by the Trump campaign for rentals and catering at Trump’s 126-room Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, Mar-A-Lago, which Trump operates as a private club.

Other Trump-owned recipients of campaign funds include Trump Restaurants, which raked in $125,080 in rent and utilities; Trump Tower Commercial, which charged $72,800 in rent and utilities in the building that houses Trump’s campaign headquarters; the Trump National Golf Club, in Jupiter, Florida, which collected $35,845 for facilities rental and catering; and the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, which billed the campaign for $29,715, for facilities rentals and catering.

Charge your donors to fly your own jets and stay at your own hotels, brehs

[CatsCatsCats]

He's just making money because he's a smart businessman, you probably don't understand, college intellectual

[Phoenix Dark]

if he matches it with a loan

[Kara]

He's just making money because he's a smart businessman, you probably don't understand, college intellectual

Honestly, I see that kind of stuff every day.

[CatsCatsCats]

Thing about Trump not having funds allocated for tv spots is he already gets so much free press why would he bother?

[brawndolicious]

Because reporters are actually talking about him, rather than making agitprop. The guy boycotted fox news ffs.

[Brehvolution]

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if he matches it with a loan

The matched money won't show up until after the press asks where it is.

[Kara]

Not entirely topical but this is the thread in which I learned about it.

On the rare moments I've popped into Twitter lately I've noticed a lot of pseudo reappropriation of the triple parentheses thing, and by people who to my knowledge aren't Jewish either. Is this a thing now, or am I just unintentionally in a bubble of people I don't agree with?

[brob]

Not entirely topical but this is the thread in which I learned about it.

On the rare moments I've popped into Twitter lately I've noticed a lot of pseudo reappropriation of the triple parentheses thing, and by people who to my knowledge aren't Jewish either. Is this a thing now, or am I just unintentionally in a bubble of people I don't agree with?

lots of people, mostly people involved in US media in some capacity, are doing it as an attempt at solidarity as far as I understand. Tho they seem to be misunderstanding, since the whole point from the nazis that started it was portraying jewish people as infiltrators

 

[Madrun Badrun]

I would have assumed that you'd have an extra good sense of when people are being offensive (((Kara))).

[Mandark]

Started seeing it several weeks, maybe a month ago.

is it Problematic?

[Kara]

I don't believe reappropriation is possible, but am rarely (if ever) an affected party in such debates and thus generally keep that opinion of mine to myself. 

It sounds like this is as much self-congratulatory WhiteLiberalism.txt as it is reappropriation, however.

[Mandark]

I guess, but the people doing it are mostly the actual targets of online Nazis or their friends/colleagues.  Not gonna nitpick about how they show support.

[benjipwns]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

More Guccifer leaks: https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/hillary-clinton/

[Phoenix Dark]

I don't believe reappropriation is possible, but am rarely (if ever) an affected party in such debates and thus generally keep that opinion of mine to myself. 

It sounds like this is as much self-congratulatory WhiteLiberalism.txt as it is reappropriation, however.

this doesn't mean that one day I'm going to stumble across a circa 2000 "why can't I say the n word" Kara post, does it.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/politics/harriet-tubman-20-bill-steve-king/index.html

I'm sure this is not about race.

[benjipwns]

fuck steve king and all, but i wonder if it's as much about tubman and the $20 like CNN assumes and not just some NEVER CHANGE IT EVER like when the faces got bigger or the bills changed colors or whatever people like to complain about the government doing to OUR MONEY without our permission like how back in my day nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them, "give me five bees for a quarter" you'd say, now where were we? oh yeah, the important thing was i had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time

AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5485, AS REPORTED
OFFERED BY MR. KING OF IOWA

Page 21, line 16, strike ‘‘$1’’ and insert ‘‘any’’.

Page 21, line 16, insert ‘‘or coin’’ after ‘‘note’’.

13 SEC. 119. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
14 or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury
15 or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used
16 to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.

[benjipwns]

gross

[Mandark]

It's not about Harriet Tubman, it's about keeping the picture on the $20," King said Tuesday evening, pulling a $20 bill from his pocket and pointing at President Andrew Jackson. "Y'know? Why would you want to change that? I am a conservative, I like to keep what we have."

Oh hey maybe benji's right and this isn't about race at all...

The conservative gadfly said it is "racist" and "sexist" to say a woman or person of color should be added to currency. "Here's what's really happening: This is liberal activism on the part of the president that's trying to identify people by categories, and he's divided us on the lines of groups. ... This is a divisive proposal on the part of the president, and mine's unifying. It says just don't change anything."

lol jk guys

[benjipwns]

Y'know? Why would I want to look elsewhere than the single link for more information? I am a conservative, I like to keep what we have and make gut decisions.

This is a divisive proposal on the part of Mandark, and mine's unifying.

[benjipwns]

Kim Weaver of Sheldon, King's Democratic opponent in Iowa's 4th District race for the House this fall, criticized the seven-term lawmaker's proposal.

“Iowans have four representatives in the United States House of Representatives, and unfortunately one of them seems to maintain a laser focus on where his next headline-grabbing piece of stunt legislation will come from," Weaver said. “What will this amendment do for residents of Iowa’s 4th District? Nothing. How will it make the lives of his constituents better? It won’t. And what chance does this meaningless and mean-spirited gesture have of actually passing? Just like most measures introduced by Steve King, none.”

[Syph]

holy shit if it's a clinton warren ticket my head may actually explode

[Cerveza mas fina]

How about Clinton Clinton

[Trent Dole]

Huh, can somebody who's been president run for VP?

holy shit if it's a clinton warren ticket my head may actually explode

A two female ( ) lineup would be a cool thing for historic purposes and since Warren's an actual progressive she'd maybe pull some of the berner types back in.

[Kara]

I don't believe reappropriation is possible, but am rarely (if ever) an affected party in such debates and thus generally keep that opinion of mine to myself. 

It sounds like this is as much self-congratulatory WhiteLiberalism.txt as it is reappropriation, however.

this doesn't mean that one day I'm going to stumble across a circa 2000 "why can't I say the n word" Kara post, does it.
(Image removed from quote.)

I was making the most of being a minor from a privileged background with a promising future in the year 2000 (read: engaging in escalating criminality without any consequence), thank you.

In my personal Jahiliyya I said things I wouldn't say today, however. (Namely casual sexism and homophobia.)

[Mupepe]

fuck steve king and all, but i wonder if it's as much about tubman and the $20 like CNN assumes and not just some NEVER CHANGE IT EVER like when the faces got bigger or the bills changed colors or whatever people like to complain about the government doing to OUR MONEY without our permission like how back in my day nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them, "give me five bees for a quarter" you'd say, now where were we? oh yeah, the important thing was i had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time

AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5485, AS REPORTED
OFFERED BY MR. KING OF IOWA

Page 21, line 16, strike ‘‘$1’’ and insert ‘‘any’’.

Page 21, line 16, insert ‘‘or coin’’ after ‘‘note’’.

13 SEC. 119. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
14 or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury
15 or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used
16 to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.

Great Simpsons reference.  A+  Thank you

[benjipwns]

Gay Black Dude TEARS Into Democrats, Hillary, Gun Grabbers

“I just wanted to let you guys know why I am a conservative gay male, and support Donald Trump” Gabriel Reagan, of Eugene, OR, says at the beginning of a video recently posted to his facebook page.

“Number one, he’s a hustler and a baller, and I admire that. He’s a good businessman” he says of Trump. “But more importantly, I’m kind of disgusted, not kind of, *very* disgusted and extremely disappointed in the way my fellow black folk have chosen over the past 60 years to really allow themselves to be enslaved to the democratic party, the slave master party.”

...

“To the homosexual community, my fellow gay folk. WAKE UP! Hillary Clinton does not love you, taking all this money from all these countries that slaughter gays every day. They just trying to work your vote, baby!” he proclaims. “They do not care about you one bit. This is not about gun control, this is about terrorism.” He soon says “Stop trying to make yourselves out to be some kind of special victim. It’s not a hate crime, I know you guys wish it was a white, straight, Christian male so it would fit your narrative, but your narrative’s been shattered.”

[benjipwns]

Washington PostVerified account
‏@washingtonpost
Breaking: Marco Rubio will seek Senate re-election, reversing pledge not to run

[Tasty]

Warren is far more effective where she is. We can't afford to give up any seats in either house of Congress.

[Brehvolution]

Washington PostVerified account
‏@washingtonpost
Breaking: Marco Rubio will seek Senate re-election, reversing pledge not to run

Another rubio flip flop.

[Joe Molotov]

Huh, can somebody who's been president run for VP?

Chelsea Clinton, tho 

[Tasty]

Huh, can somebody who's been president run for VP?

If they've served two terms: no, it would violate the 12th and 22nd amendments. (If something happens to the President, the VP would become the President, which obviously isn't allowed.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Interaction_with_the_Twelfth_Amendment

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/14/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-vice-president/index.html

[Syph]

Rubio Gowdy 2020 baby

[Kara]

Can't wait for the Minority Report LARP.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attacks-in-isis’-name-expose-a-struggle-to-spot-future-terrorists/ar-AAhpyzM

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

This is from an NBC producer.

Remember when the media had integrity?  Me neither.

The tweet has since been deleted because he is a chickenshit

[D3RANG3D]

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Make%20America%20White%20Again%22&src=tren

 

[Rufus]

"Again"

[Syph]

[Great Rumbler]

Rick Tyler says he...wants to return to an earlier time "when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration."

So...pre-1492, then?

[Syph]

Any good Watergate documentaries? I want to learn more