US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

Who cares what ol nail-hands doofus-ix thinks

and lo jesus said unto them, 'fuck trump lmao'

It’s true. Check ur gnostic gospels

Yeah seriously why is nobody digging into that?

Probably at least somewhat because of this, coincidentally published in the NY Times the day before the Trump article:

I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts

can anyone decipher this

The Failing New York Times did something I have never seen done before. They used the concept of “time value of money” in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. Added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. Never recovered from bad election call!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2018

i understand what "time value of money" is...and i don't think he does

Thesis: nicknames are lame and suck
Antithesis: if we waste time thinking about how effective nicknames are trump WINS
synthesis : please kill me

is it just me or is that tweet, somehow, measurably less coherent than his usual? we're approaching "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" territory.

That time value tweet is too meta-trump to be actually trump imo. It is amazingly stupid tho
Xp

obviously the time spent illegally transferring all that money was equal to that much money so it evens out and is legal

i know that he's just trying to make a joke using a financial/policy term. but in doing so he conflates at least 3 different concepts, mixes measuring units, and the joke makes no sense

nicknames are beneath the dignity of many here. they are not effective. fortunately while 2scoops is president* we still have charles pierce

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23579738/donald-trump-mock-christine-blasey-ford-sexual-assault/

Calling people by dismissive or insulting nicknames is a form of micro aggression, or actual aggression, and should not be encouraged. Even if any of these were momentarily amusing, which they were not, the practice creates a model for a climate of hostility in many other real environments that are difficult for people to navigate and manage. DO NOT CALL our president stupid, dismissive nicknames. It is dumb, and the problems he has created are too real to risk popular acceptance. Resist. But only in sincere, meaningful, and EFFECTIVE ways.

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:39 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this

it bothers me even more when people excoriate evil men and women via aspects of their physical appearance. mitch mcconell is not evil because he looks like a turtle

i am more than okay with specific value negative slurs such as piece of shit, garbage person, worthless stain etc

“mitch mcconell is not evil because he looks like a turtle”

turtlegangers are good not evil

giving you all annoying nicknames FYI

My wild guess is that he's talking about the figure "$413 million in today’s dollars" and is confused.

tweet reads like it's from trump_ebooks

Hey, at least his handlers stopped him tweeting “it was actually only $xm in the money of the day”

Trump bein his usual assholish self is a good thing in this case, cuz it makes it harder for the Senate swing votes to support his nominee. Keep it up, asshole!

I kinda don't care about NYT's "bombshell" tbh - it's too late, it confirms what anybody paying attention already knew/suspected, and it won't get prosecuted (if at all) until well after he's already gone from office.

Graham defends Trump's insulting of Dr. Ford last night. "Everything he said was factual," he says. "This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a 00 bill." Audience gasps. Somebody in my row: "Are you fucking kidding me?"

— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) October 3, 2018

lol @ this code

"This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill."

to be fair that's a james carville line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money. trump appears to argue that the story boils down to: he's rich now because he made money early in life.

"This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill."

A tenured psychology professor?

"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"

republcians hate women and constituents of theirs that happen to live in trailer parks

is it just me or did lindsey graham totally lose his fucking mind after mccain died? he's always been bad but i wouldn't have put him in the inner circle of hell until this fall

It seems like he needs a big shot to latch onto and now he’s all in for trump

It is his nature to be a sidekick

"I don't like what the president said last night," Sen. Lindsey Graham says about Pres. Trump's mockery of Dr. Ford at a rally.

Booed by the audience when he says Kavanaugh "was treated like crap," Graham responds, "Yeah, well boo yourself." https://t.co/03Z8GCYmx6 pic.twitter.com/WqrTvSEZhn

— ABC News (@ABC) October 3, 2018

sick burn, Aunt Pittypat

this is silly and anecdotal, but it seems like in recent years it's become more common and acceptable to boo or heckle public figures in public, on camera, at events where people once sat quietly. public heckling of public figures used to lead to the shaming of the public figure, both at the moment it occurred and afterward, in accounts of the event. that all seems to have changed. now the heckling and the booing is more common, but it's also standard practice for the person being booed to essentially say "fuck you" and move on. if a joe wilson type would yell "you lie!" at trump during a state of the union, for example, instead of sternly looking back at him, trump would be expected to say "no, you're the liar, and you're lucky i don't tell the lying media about what you did, you know what you did, a lot of people are saying that you did that, but i'm not going to say that because i'm a nice guy", or whatever. trump takes hitting back to the extreme, of course, but his childishness seems to have spread to other politicians in ways that were once unthinkable

I think Graham has been promised a 2020 cabinet position by Trump

Is he afraid to lose his senate seat? I’d rather be a senstor than work for Trump and get the jeff sessions treatment

remember when Republicans were aghast that Obama would weigh in on black men getting murdered cause it wasn't right for the President to involve himself with ongoing investigations? lol

i think he's really into the idea of becoming secretary of defense and getting to do smart and realistic things like convincing china to assassinate kim jong un and replace him with a US-controlled puppet

^^^

he wants out of the Senate and sees Trump as his ticket to the executive branch

lindsay graham wants to live his dream of incinerating random poor brown people around the world like he's been pining for for decades

My friends who went to DC area private schools in the first half of the ‘80s/knew guys who did say the FFFF thing was in a song by the Mentors, a band fratty douchebros really liked because of that song.

― suzy, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this is basically a (obviously gross) stoner metal song not what i expected

DO NOT CALL our president stupid, dismissive nicknames. It is dumb, and the problems he has created are too real to risk popular acceptance. Resist. But only in sincere, meaningful, and EFFECTIVE ways.

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:39 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is this, 2003

i mean if someone is trying to actively harm me and my loved ones and people I do not know but know to be on my wavelength I'm going to kick them in the nuts, fair fight or not. the complaint is just that all ur nicknames suck imo

but hey ive helped start this debate again...

friendly fire is very helpful. i'm sure that if ideologically-sympathetic non-"conservatives" tell each other off enough the GOP will lose this time

Question for those who might know better than me: Here in NJ I'm seeing lots of TV ads about what a piece of shit Bob Menendez is (which he kinda is), and lots of ads about what a swell guy Bob Hugin is (he's not, he's a rich pharma scumbag), but no pro-Menendez ads at all. Either he thinks he's got it in the bag, polls be damned, or he's already surrendered. Does anybody know which it is?

Bush Jr was the proper level of patronizing dismissiveness without sounding like nails on a chalkboard IMO

This FiveThirtyEight piece says things look bad for Menendez, but it's the only thing I've really read about the race.

I thought Ford’s testimony might stick because she went to a superior private school to BK, obviously posh etc so Graham can GTF with the trailer park shit.

It’s disgusting to imply, as graham did, that people with less money and education are more likely to lie

Fuck that trailer park comment. Fuck people who make similar comments about ghettoes and projects, like the countrywide (i think) lenders who called their subprime borrowers “mud people”