US politics general thread

[Pitbull]

O the irony

 

[scudsucker]

O the irony

Shem

 

[RanzB]

You have some gall to accuse others of being one trick ponies, when your entire modus operandi consists of posting troll articles then running away from debate when you get challenged on the specifics.

It's almost like he forgot about how he lied about Obama instating those border control laws then ran away when he couldn't provide evidence.

As someone succinctly put it:

Comes in all guns blazing
Forgot he had loaded blanks

 

[Pitbull]

Full circle.

Completely ignore the fact they are wetting their panties about a handshake, instead lets moan about Pitbull

 

[scudsucker]

Coming from the side of people who complained when Obama "dared" to wear a tan suit, this is a little rich.

 

[Pitbull]

Coming from the side of people who complained when Obama "dared" to wear a tan suit, this is a little rich.

Ok, I'll give you that one

 

[RanzB]

Coming from the side of people who complained when Obama "dared" to wear a tan suit, this is a little rich.

Can you say 'dijon mustard'?

 

[scudsucker]

@Pitbull you can add as many smiley faces as you wish; that is not going to cure your hypocrisy.

In the words of your orange god: "sad"

 

[Pitbull]

@Pitbull you can add as many smiley faces as you wish; that is not going to cure your hypocrisy.

In the words of your orange god: "sad"

I never in my life claimed to have a higher standard nor belief... Just think you guys have an unhealthy obsession with Trump and the Republicans. But that's just me. The same handful of people circle jerking at the sight of someone lying about a handshake...

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Few more additions for Dan Drezner's thread:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/856876322001432581

Also, there's always a tweet, nr. 49375897584:

Well, the triggered one has started going on about changing the libel laws again.

 

[cerebus]

think you guys have an unhealthy obsession with Trump ...

More unhealthy than the cult of devotees who support him no matter how much he lies and fails on his campaign promises? I'm doubtful. You need to be able to swallow a mountain of pure bullshyte to believe the kind of things you spouted in that article.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Roy Moore sues Sacha Baron Cohen, CBS' Showtime in $95 million defamation case

(Reuters) - Roy Moore, the former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, on Wednesday filed a $95 million lawsuit accusing Sacha Baron Cohen of defamation for duping him into appearing on the actor’s Showtime television series “Who Is America?”

Roy Moore, a Republican and former chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, also brought defamation claims against Showtime and its parent, CBS Corp (CBS.N), over a sketch broadcast on July 29 that appeared to portray him as a sex offender.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-sacha-baron-cohen-cbs-showtime-idUSKCN1LL2P0

 

[f2wohf]

Active.Measures.2018.1080p.HULU.WEBRip.AAC2.0.x264-NTG

Been waiting for this since the 31st and it's a really, really good watch... 'tho not for you rietrot, or you Techne, or you NarrowBandFtw... Fish on a hook don't like to be reminded they're on a hook.

It has all of Tre45on's greats hits; Putin, Semion Mogilevich (finally), Firtash, Deripaska, Sater, Assange, Manafort, Flynn, Page, Alfa Bank and more.

On the scale we use in the movie review thread, I give it a Trump is going to die in jail/10

Just watched it.

It is way way way creepier than I ever imagined when put together.

 

[greg0205]

Just watched it.

It is way way way creepier than I ever imagined when put together.

Yep. Its really well sourced, told and structured... They pick up a string, follow it to it's conclusion and as they get there, they introduce a new string that you kinda knew was part of the knot, but the way they do it makes it clear *how* it was part of the knot... And that's one big knot.

(My string metaphor, spoiler-free review)

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Yeah, I am not buying the author's arguements:


Just consider that judgement for a second. If you allow racial voting in one place, you allow it everywhere. The author is too much of a rank leftist and postmodernist to see the implications of that.

Ah, the "why can they say the n-word and we can't" defence.

Anyway, well done on ignoring all the evidence of him injecting his opinion into cases he ruled on, making a mockery

Not to mention the whole process has been absurd. The Trump admin invoked executive privilege over 100k documents, so no one knows what's in them. And they dropped 42k documents the night before the confirmation hearing started, after refusing to release any of it before. Totally a reasonable and rigorous process for lifetime appointments.

 

[greg0205]

In other news... Oh my God Becky, there *is* a deep state!

No, not that deep state... Rather folk *in* the WH running interference for, you know, the rest of the world... Basically, they're a live-action 25th amendment. Good times.

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.

President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

I would know. I am one of them.

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

 

[OrbitalDawn]

lol, Marco Rubio got into a tiff with Alex Jones in the Senate building.

Marco Rubio Clashes With Alex Jones In Capitol: 'I'll Take Care Of You Myself'

 

[OrbitalDawn]

A Daily Caller Editor Wrote for an ‘Alt-Right’ Website Using a Pseudonym

Well, imagine my surprise that a white nationalist worked for the 'news' site founded by Tucker Carlson...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Oh look, seems Kavanaugh blatantly lied in his confirmation hearing. Not expecting any consequences, though.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037349168732430338

"I have never taken a position on the Constitution" on question of president being subject to criminal process (reply to Sen Feinstein). He says wrote only advice for Congress. That's not accurate, as Bob Bauer and I wrote.

Bauer and I show how he clearly did -- plus we dug up two op-eds Kavanaugh wrote in 1999.

Brett Kavanaugh Lied About Receiving Stolen Documents

 

[greg0205]

Apropos a previous discussion... This photo, right here...