People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

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just impeach him again, seriously. who cares if it works. just impeach the living fuck out of him. flag post on his presidency, everyone, ban the filibuster, reduce FP threshold to 2, jfc

Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:38 (five years ago)

https://t.co/8E0bOt5ahP pic.twitter.com/DjdYDq3H8s

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) September 6, 2020

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:54 (five years ago)

lmaoooooooooooo

frogbs, Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:55 (five years ago)

What a petty little bitch.

"...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:11 (five years ago)

Who's the actor? I want to check his IMDB page and see if he was properly credited. (There's a tiny part of me that believes work is work and is reluctant to criticize.)

clemenza, Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:16 (five years ago)

Here's the video. This was a subplot in 2012 that was pretty well known, but since Trump was just Trump-the-TV-guy at the time, it's understandable that people missed it. https://t.co/GIxiH54ati

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 6, 2020

"...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:17 (five years ago)

I wish left twitter would turn off the Lathe of Heaven.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:18 (five years ago)

vcb0424
5 years ago
Am I the only one who thinks that this may have filled in the BLANKS of the Romney candidacy at the end of the race??? If it was even possible to counter the ballot box stuffing of the stolen election by localities to get the right electoral votes...at least this could have helped. Way to go GOP. Stupid #RINO

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:19 (five years ago)

i thought everyone already knew about this? i'm pretty sure this is the same 2012 video i have in my own clip archives.

here's a short twitter length video clip. i also just uploaded the full 3:42 long video here too: https://t.co/QtmCH1xM5ghttps://t.co/81Yu1crwtf pic.twitter.com/O610NmZMB7

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) September 6, 2020

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:20 (five years ago)

Amazing he never tweeted out that video.

"...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:25 (five years ago)

I know trump is predictable but that is still very funny

unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:28 (five years ago)

Is it really, though?

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:29 (five years ago)

Because no, it really isn't.

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:29 (five years ago)

It’s an inside joke

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:31 (five years ago)

I mean the p4reene thing not the video

unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:31 (five years ago)

sheesh

unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:31 (five years ago)

It is incredibly funny that this didn't make the cut for the 2012 GOP but Clint Eastwood yelling at a chair did.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:34 (five years ago)

^^Probably the real reason Trump ran, aside from Racism.

"...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:35 (five years ago)

Sorry, Simon, I've seen way too many 'you gotta admit, this particular instance of Trump vomiting words is totes hilar' shit of late and jumped to conclusions.

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:39 (five years ago)

no worries!

unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:40 (five years ago)

look, i know the corporate media had a rough 2016, but i'm sure that the major networks took a serious audit of their past wrongs and won't make the same mistakes this time around...oh no.

We're left with this dilemma: Jeffrey Goldberg, who authored The Atlantic piece insists the story is true. President Trump insists the story is false. Both of those views can't be right, writes Chris Cillizza https://t.co/dXfqFJFWLz

— CNN (@CNN) September 5, 2020

ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:49 (five years ago)

say what you will about the media -- most of it true, i'm sure -- but cillizza still stands out for his astonishing stupidity and uselessness. an intern could write this shit for a lot less money

mookieproof, Sunday, 6 September 2020 04:26 (five years ago)

I say we let goldberg and trump duke it out

unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 04:28 (five years ago)

i almost admire him for being so uniquely terrible at his job

frogbs, Sunday, 6 September 2020 04:29 (five years ago)

Slizz hate-reads probably get CNN more clicks than anything else

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 6 September 2020 05:17 (five years ago)

Who's the actor? I want to check his IMDB page and see if he was properly credited. (There's a tiny part of me that believes work is work and is reluctant to criticize.)

― clemenza, Saturday, September 5, 2020 10:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Pareene's 2012 Salon piece led me to a Mediaite article where the actor is identified as Kevin Michel. He's not on IMDB. Since his social media accounts are now devoted to his self-published book about the power of the subconscious mind, I'm guessing that the Obama impersonation was just something he did for a few extra bucks back then.

jaymc, Sunday, 6 September 2020 05:38 (five years ago)

just your periodic reminder that Chris “Ivanka is Such a Boss” Cillizza once bragged on Twitter that he makes 8 figures

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 6 September 2020 13:12 (five years ago)

Trump will literally steal the art off the walls of his hotel room.

After Donald Trump’s planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines was canceled in November 2018, the U.S. leader had some extra time on his hands in a mansion filled with artwork. The next day, he went art shopping -- or the presidential equivalent.

Trump fancied several of the pieces in the U.S. ambassador’s historic residence in Paris, where he was staying, and on a whim had them removed and loaded onto Air Force One, according to people familiar with the matter. The works -- a portrait, a bust, and a set of silver figurines -- were brought back to the White House.

...

The story unfolded like this: While in Paris with other world leaders to commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I, Trump stayed at the official residence of U.S. Ambassador Jamie McCourt, the palatial Hôtel de Pontalba. The mansion, in Paris’s chic 8th arrondissement, dates to 1842. It has served as a flagship of the State Department’s “Art in Embassies” cultural diplomacy program, and is open to tours.

The president’s planned visit to the Belleau Wood cemetery was canceled when rainy weather grounded the presidential helicopter, according to a redacted email the White House released to rebut the Atlantic story. The U.S. Secret Service ruled out a motorcade for the 56-mile drive, according to two people familiar with the matter.

That left Trump with about six hours of free time in the ambassador’s residence.

The next day, Trump pointed out a Benjamin Franklin bust, a Franklin portrait and a set of figurines of Greek mythical characters, and insisted the pieces come back with him to Washington.

McCourt, the ambassador, was startled, but didn’t object, according to people briefed on the incident. Trump later quipped that the envoy would get the art back “in six years,” when his potential second term in office would be winding down.

The art, worth about $750,000 according to one of the people familiar with the episode, was loaded aboard Air Force One while Trump visited another cemetery before the flight back to Washington.

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Trump’s move prompted some hair-pulling and a furious exchange of emails back home between the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations and White House officials who organized the art transfer. Ultimately, because the art is U.S. government property, the move was deemed legal.

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:04 (five years ago)

My boat sank in Lake Travis pic.twitter.com/EOsLk7sA9L

— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) September 5, 2020

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:22 (five years ago)

Shut up, it was insured

the hardline according to shrimp on the b'arby (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:32 (five years ago)

SS MAGARITAVILLE

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:35 (five years ago)

One couldn't write a more hilariously stupid statement in parody... "A bunch of nautical terms happened... I'd be flying my flags at half mast if they weren't at the bottom of the lake."

BrianB, Sunday, 6 September 2020 14:39 (five years ago)

Well, it *is* parody. He's a comedian and has a bunch of videos like that.

jaymc, Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:03 (five years ago)

Was gonna say........

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:08 (five years ago)

I’m guess there’s no point in parodying these people anymore

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:12 (five years ago)

I guess

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:12 (five years ago)

haha, really did fool me at first, up until "A bunch of nautical terms happened"

Karl Malone, Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:24 (five years ago)

I want to call cillizza 'sillyzilla' all the time but I also know that's like a trump-level insult.

anyway I abhor that guy. I'm so tired of clicking on an 'analysis' on CNN and finding out that he wrote it, where he vomits words for 20 paragraphs, says a bunch of obvious shit, and comes to no conclusions. Buzzfeed listicles are of more value and I don't have to look at his laughing face at the top of them.

akm, Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:25 (five years ago)

It's not even a conscious misreading but it always scans as 'Clitzilla' to me.

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:26 (five years ago)

Chris Cilizza reminds me of local clowned sports reporter Mike Bianchi, in that he says some things you agree with (but this is not impressive as they are fairly obvious things) but then he concern-trolls leftist readers in a shit attempt to create the illusion that he's impartial in a way none of them are.

that and the way he writes as if he's the first to cross the finish line where in reality, thousands of people got there hours earlier which is why it's so empty that he thinks he won.

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:54 (five years ago)

I'm just waking up, someone smarter rewrite that in a way that makes me sound witty, I'll pay you in boxes of Nerds

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:54 (five years ago)

xxp lollll

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:56 (five years ago)

https://files.cults3d.com/uploaders/13382474/illustration-file/90aa9a4a-cfb0-4cf2-8659-a80e706b7eda/20200312_111822_medium.jpg

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:56 (five years ago)

oh dear Gorn

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:57 (five years ago)

now will never be able to read that any other way

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:57 (five years ago)

tbf it was a killer Blue Oyster Clit song

Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:58 (five years ago)

that's Clït to you

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:58 (five years ago)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by a practice that left many employees feeling pressured to make political contributions to GOP candidates — money DeJoy later reimbursed through bonuses, former employees say.

seems like this guy might not be on the level

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 September 2020 17:02 (five years ago)

Anyway, as hilarious as this is, maybe not great for the country that another figure with a crucial election security role will almost definitely go to prison if Trump doesn't win!

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) September 6, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza#Campaign_finance_violation,_felony_guilty_plea,_conviction,_and_pardon

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 September 2020 17:08 (five years ago)

“Trump held a meeting at Trump Tower with prominent evangelical leaders, where they laid their hands on him in prayer. Afterward, Trump allegedly said: ‘Can you believe that bullshit? Can you believe people believe that bullshit?’”

- Michael Cohen https://t.co/mnZcYafpzN pic.twitter.com/ulStycHBvi

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 6, 2020

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 6 September 2020 17:10 (five years ago)


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