US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Shrew]

Whats Hillary got to say about this...

[Shrew]

Trade me Chaos Orbs boo, I got you . I GOT YOU

Dont listen to these fools

[Shrew]

thanks a'bama

I am literally shaking

[Shrew]

its so stupid to read bullshit about 'sanity reigns' or some shit

look at this

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does this look like 'sanity reigns'?? if not for black people moore would have won with a +30 margin of victory or some shit

sanity does not reign

Wecome to Ireland, son

[Shrew]

YO THEY WONT LET US SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE

[Rufus]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/940786879888351232

[Phoenix Dark]

Hey where is that poster with the Fear And Loathing avatar who always reminds us democrats aren't popular and spend so much time talking about Russia they can't win any races ever.

[Shrew]

Walk the walk

[Shrew]

https://trib.al/joWkqJNw

At least it says Tribal in the name

[Shrew]

Hey where is that poster with the Fear And Loathing avatar who always reminds us democrats aren't popular and spend so much time talking about Russia they can't win any races ever.

[Shrew]

Hey where is that poster with the Fear And Loathing avatar who always reminds us democrats aren't popular and spend so much time talking about Russia they can't win any races ever.

You're miles behind

[Shrew]

Thanks for looking out for us though!

[Shrew]

Its a conspiracy, Ive been framed They call me nicca so much Im startin to think its my name

[Shrew]

Reading 4chan....

What the fuck is wrong with people

Dude, times are rough

Loooooooooooooooooool

[shosta]

but now what

Billy Kristol being right about something is just further proof of the Mr. Robot alternate timeline fan theory.

[Phoenix Dark]

Hey where is that poster with the Fear And Loathing avatar who always reminds us democrats aren't popular and spend so much time talking about Russia they can't win any races ever.

You're miles behind

What

[benjipwns]

Hey where is that poster with the Fear And Loathing avatar who always reminds us democrats aren't popular and spend so much time talking about Russia they can't win any races ever.

Of course Democrats can win races in the Deep South, their Confederate and Jim Crow Roots as the Real Racists™ ensure they're strong where it counts and can pack the rolls at the precincts they still control in the cities to make up the margins elsewhere once they know how many votes they need to manufacture.

Just like in Michigan. Unless it's 2016 apparently. Or a Democratic Presidential Primary. Or a smart candidate is running for Governor against "Stand-In Democrat." Or the city relied on has been half emptied and most of the others still have too many cacs.

[FStop7]

Steve Bannon started the year as the man with the ear of the President and a member of the NSC.

He ended the year banished from the White House and having fumbled away a critical Senate seat while making powerful enemies the entire way down to the bottom.   

Truly a master tactician.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm really glad that the gay-hating pedophile rapist lost by a fraction of a percent.  What a good day for America.   

edit:  forgot he's also a rapist.

It’s alabama. 

American's say 'It's alabama'.  The rest of the world says 'It's america'. 

[Joe Molotov]

If I’m elected, I want to be sworn in on an issue of Hustler.

[Brehvolution]

When I went to bed, moore was up 50,000 votes. What a surprise this morning.

[thehunter116]

I was ready to say that the Republican Party was in trouble in 2018 if Moore won by like 5 percent.

Well well well.

They're in trouble regardless.

Now the racists are gonna double down against the establishment GOP and ruin them at the federal level.

[Brehvolution]

“There’s blood in the water for Mitch McConnell, it leads back to him. This room is gonna be walking out with a vengeance. We know who’s responsible,” said Chanel Rion, the 27-year-old fiancee of Missouri Senate candidate Courtland Sykes.

Sykes himself was even more fire-and-brimstone, worried that establishment Republicans ― not Democrats ― were winning the war against “MAGA candidates,” a shorthand for President Donald Trump’s “make America great again” campaign slogan.

“This is impossible. This is 100-percent an effort by the Washington establishment to keep Roy Moore out of it,” Sykes told HuffPost. “If they can put a Democrat in office in Alabama, in 2017, to replace Jeff Sessions, even after Donald Trump won by a landslide in 2016, that means they can replace anyone they want. We don’t have an honest republic if this can happen. Does that make sense?”

gop blame game is always the best. 

[kingv]

If I’m elected, I want to be sworn in on an issue of Hustler.

You must be an evangelical. Otherwise you’d pick Taboo...


Or is that the other way around?

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/940907000657006592

 

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/940788450260811776

 

[Joe Molotov]

If I’m elected, I want to be sworn in on an issue of Hustler.

You must be an evangelical. Otherwise you’d pick Taboo...


Or is that the other way around?

I don't want to get dis-invited from my speaking spot at the Values Voter Summit.

[Valhelm]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/940788450260811776

 

god this is like a bad West Wing episode and this proposal doesn't even make sense

We shouldn't expected senators and congresspeople to exhibit the exact views of their average constituency because they aren't meant to be avatars of public opinion. In a representative democracy, officials are elected to represent interests rather than ideology, and legislate as they see fit. Walter Lippmann set this straight in like 1920.

The average Alabamian is probably closer to Roy Moore than Doug Jones ideologically, but Alabamian voters chose the Democrat because they weren't comfortable with a zealot and a child molester arguing for their state in Washington.

[VomKriege]

CLEANSE THE FBI

[Joe Molotov]

benji, pls weigh in on this political bombshell and what it means for the 2018 election cycle

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/omarosa-leaving-white-house-294375

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Welp, Roger Stone thinks the Trump presidency's days are numbered.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/roger-stone-book-fall-of-trump

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/940907000657006592

 

i...wait...dump him from what? he must go from what?

this proud supporter of terrorism doesn't even know how his own party works?

[benjipwns]

benji, pls weigh in on this political bombshell and what it means for the 2018 election cycle

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/omarosa-leaving-white-house-294375

looks like a laser guided missile aimed right at Lightweight Kirsten Gillibrand's SAD DOOMED re-election efforts

[HardcoreRetro]

Roy Moore? More like Roy Less.

[Himu]

Republicans going after Bannon has been political theater

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/940907000657006592

 

[Great Rumbler]

[Himu]

RAIN DOWN ON ME REPUBLICAN TEARS

[Nola]

Republicans going after Bannon has been political theater

And Bannon is going to double down and keep up the charade of primarying moderate Republicans and thus weakening their positions in the general.

Looks like it will already happen in Arizona, with plans to do it in Missouri and West Virginia. Where Democrats should be vulnerable but against more Bannonites fucking things up when the generic ballot trend is currently
+12 compared to 2016? Bannon is poisoning the GOP and it’s 

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/940907000657006592

 

Since Roy Moore lost, we needed a new subtitle for this thread anyway...

[Great Rumbler]

Isn't that more suitable for the forum as a whole, though?

[benjipwns]

A female Democratic House member shocked fellow lawmakers Wednesday when she said that the revealing clothing that some members and staffers wear is an “invitation” to sexual harassment.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) made the comments during a private Democratic Caucus meeting Wednesday to discuss sexual harassment issues, according to two Democratic sources in the room.

“I saw a member yesterday with her cleavage so deep it was down to the floor,” Kaptur said, according to the sources present. “And what I’ve seen … it's really an invitation.” The comments left many others in the room stunned, the sources said.

Kaptur said women on Capitol Hill should have to abide by a stricter dress code, like those adopted by the military or corporations.

“Maybe I’ll get booed for saying this, but many companies and the military [have] a dress code,” she said. “I have been appalled at some of the dress of ... members and staff. Men have to wear ties and suits.”

[benjipwns]

benji, pls weigh in on this political bombshell and what it means for the 2018 election cycle

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/omarosa-leaving-white-house-294375

Another version: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/omarosa-manigault-newman-resign-trump-administration-article-1.3695668

Omarosa Manigault reportedly escorted kicking and screaming from White House as resignation announced

...

While White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Manigault Newman’s resignation will be effective Jan. 20, one year since President Trump’s inauguration, there were several reports she was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly and had to be escorted from the building after a foul mouthed tantrum.

...

Sources told the Daily News in September that Kelly was unhappy with Manigault’s influence on the President and her ability to get him worked up over hot topics.

Kelly did the firing and Manigault “acted very vulgar and cursed a lot and said she helped elect President Trump,” sources told American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan.

Manigault had to be escorted from the building after Kelly told her she was out

[TakingBackSunday]

Kaptur is an old fogey in the Cleveland area who needs to retire

[Tasty]

cleavage so deep it was down to the floor

So she was really old...?

[thehunter116]

https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/941004081392480256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmatthewjdowd%2Fstatus%2F941004081392480256

A slim hope but non-Evangelical white people might be good after all.

[Himu]

Evangelicals

[benjipwns]

A slim hope but non-Evangelical white people might be good after all.

You Bernie or Bust people will just not give up will you.

[Himu]

[thehunter116]

A slim hope but non-Evangelical white people might be good after all.

You Bernie or Bust people will just not give up will you.

We're gonna drag you to a socialist utopia like it or not

[Mandark]

Steve Bannon getting treated like a genius after Trump won was like Vince McMahon getting all those fawning profiles after lucking into Stone Cold.

I feel very good about this comparison.

[Brehvolution]

Evangelicals

Fake Christians 

[MIMIC]

its so stupid to read bullshit about 'sanity reigns' or some shit

look at this

(Image removed from quote.)

does this look like 'sanity reigns'?? if not for black people moore would have won with a +30 margin of victory or some shit

sanity does not reign

Jesus fuck....

[Nola]

its so stupid to read bullshit about 'sanity reigns' or some shit

look at this

(Image removed from quote.)

does this look like 'sanity reigns'?? if not for black people moore would have won with a +30 margin of victory or some shit

sanity does not reign

Jesus fuck....

It really strains the argument that us whitey’s are the superior race of people when we consistently, and often overwhelmingly, rally behind the most vacuous politicians that skirt by on their pseudo science policies by simply dangling shiny neanderthalic appeals to our lowest tribal qualities.

...Just sayin

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/trump-economy-tax-reform-speech-295327

“I’m here today to tell you that we will never let bad things happen with respect to the economy of our country,” the president said in a tax-reform speech delivered from the White House.

oh boy

[seagrams hotsauce]

Steve Bannon getting treated like a genius after Trump won was like Vince McMahon getting all those fawning profiles after lucking into Stone Cold.

I feel very good about this comparison.

You should, they're even copy-pasting Vince's press releases regarding firings:

“Omarosa Manigault Newman resigned yesterday to pursue other opportunities,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Her departure will not be effective until January 20, 2018. We wish her the best in future endeavors and are grateful for her service.”

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/CorkOnTheNFL/status/940823917123506176

[Nola]

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/trump-economy-tax-reform-speech-295327

“I’m here today to tell you that we will never let bad things happen with respect to the economy of our country,” the president said in a tax-reform speech delivered from the White House.

oh boy

This will age well I'm sure.

[Nola]

Fascinating article in and of itself, but I was reminded of this part in particular today:

To an extent that would stun outsiders, Mr. Trump, the most talked-about human on the planet, is still delighted when he sees his name in the headlines. And he is on a perpetual quest to see it there. One former top adviser said Mr. Trump grew uncomfortable after two or three days of peace and could not handle watching the news without seeing himself on it.

During the morning, aides monitor “Fox & Friends” live or through a transcription service in much the way commodities traders might keep tabs on market futures to predict the direction of their day.

If someone on the show says something memorable and Mr. Trump does not immediately tweet about it, the president’s staff knows he may be saving Fox News for later viewing on his recorder and instead watching MSNBC or CNN live — meaning he is likely to be in a foul mood to start the day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmaggie-haberman&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection&_r=0

It's been close to 48 hours and an election defeat since Trump did something to capture away the headlines, that 71 year old man child has to be ready to throw an attention seeking tantrum pretty soon.


....As a side note, I always attributed at least some foresight and low level strategy to his outbursts, like a pending shoe drop in the Mueller investigation, but in retrospect, Trump just gorging on Fox News all day and getting pouty when he isn't the center of attention or being constantly fawned over on Fox and Friends for more than a few days makes perfect sense.

[Trurl]

I was hoping to see more Republican meltdowns.