US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

Seems like the comment of someone who holds your authority in contempt.

Kinda counting down to the day when the reaction shifts from 'smiled' to 'pulled out a flick knife and sliced off his right ear'.

We'll be counting our way into the camps

Regardless of the likelihood of this guy getting locked up—what the fuck is the purpose of taking it off the table and making a joke out of it?

These people are just greasing the skids.

Maybe you need to be Canadian to fully appreciate the evil that is Conrad Black but this is jaw-dropping to me tbh: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-conrad-black-1.4424348?fbclid=IwAR335QVupznWL-6zMZozmFA0TpdW5dByMJ3rHBgBg8ANYcJcHc16GQcvLUY

Is there even any attempt at an argument that Black did not engage in fraud on a large scale or is this just nakedly because he wrote a biography of Trump?

And I enjoyed Black's huge FDR bio a decade ago

So apparently there was. (Two of three mail fraud convictions were eventually overturned but not the obstruction of justice conviction.)

If the accusation is untrue you are obstructing ~injustice~.
-bob marley

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In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders described Black as “an entrepreneur and scholar”

What's the American equivalent of "gammon"? pic.twitter.com/b7h9Eh2aaB

— Ana Oppenheim 🌹#LP4MEP (@AnaOpp) May 15, 2019

country ham

I am starting to blame women that they didn't stab these guys in the dick when they had the chance.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-televangelist-jim-bakker-sells-trump-coin-point-of-contact-god-20190516-n6hcry3hprcxjorzkfwxd5nrri-story.html

Trump will shut that shit down if he's not getting a cut.

that is fucking horrifying

So bizarre I kind of want one.

Looking forward to the Vic Berger supercut.

(Vic Berger's Jim Bakker videos)

The fact that Jim Bakker wasn't instantly reduced to a puddle of goo after foisting that into the world is possibly the strongest argument against the existence of god that I've ever encountered.

time travel
god

We've really been on a roll these last few years.

One spoonful of cheese slop will restore your faith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH37W0jPpA

there's something weirdly mesmerizing about all those videos. I think Vic is best when he stays away from Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVz6owGeQX0

like how does he manage to make this so hilarious and terrifying at the same time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4h_VXG8xrM&feature=youtu.be&t=4m

good morning!

I am pretty much convinced that the Dems are going to do absolutely nothing to hold Trump accountable, fuck around during the primaries with a stage full of morons, then hand Trump a convincing electoral college victory. Only hope now is the economy crashes before Election Day, which is some shit.

catastrophizing itt has always sucked and continues to suck, don't do it

ugh, I was too early for the good morning.

.....where are the tax returns?

Where are the saxophones

Do you guys like trump?

honestly, not really a big fan

Me neither. Glad to have some fellowship on this point.

PBKR OTM

can y'all get your own board

or log off for a while until you calm down

"Alienation is the craze" -- Ric Ocasek

https://psmag.com/news/research-suggests-trumps-election-has-been-detrimental-to-many-americans-mental-health

right or wrong. i melt down a lot and i don't think it's the best use of time. but a lot of people feel this way

can y'all get your own board

Sorry, I haven’t done a lot of that here, but I’ve been feeling enraged by the House fucking around lately. You are right, it’s not that helpful.

thanks! i understand the impulse to catastrophize v much, which is prob why i have a huge anxiety attack every time it happens

god, why do i want that stupid $45 coin?

(note that i could ask god this directly if i had the coin)

i suggest we designate some old thread to post existential meltdowns on. it can be like the area 100 feet away from a campsite that everyone agrees is the place to take a dump (in wilderness campsites that don't have bathrooms, i mean)

this is a really good post

talk to the coin

Treeship even started a meltdown thread and won't keep it there -- Is Donald J Trump a psychopath?

re: the mental health article, i was already a little fragile for various reasons prior to trump, so can't say that he's entirely the reason, but having it confirmed that i basically have no future to look forward to and instead will experience a slow-grinding catastrophe for the rest of my (surely and unnecessarily) shortened life upon his election was a nice clincher into some real problems. at least now i know i can live fully in the present as that's all that exists, etc. idk do they really need a study to show that he's bad for people's brains

They don’t need a study. But it is worth pointing out that his “disruptive” style that allowed him to hack the news cycle is basically torturing people.

AMERICA TAKES DRUGS IN PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE

I must have missed in the thread title that this is supposed to be some kind of repository for optimism.

ffs it’s a politics thread. It’s not “catastrophizing” to assess the bleak prospects right now and acknowledge them. Nor do ilxor posts have fuck all to do with the fate of the nation.