http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/05/the-devils-workshop
As you may have noticed, it’s quite possible that Donald Trump could be a lame duck president for fully two and half months, starting on November 4th of next year, until noon on the following January 20th.This is for obvious reasons a terrifying prospect. Among the many crises that could arise as a result is a refusal on Trump’s part to acknowledge the legitimacy of the result if he loses (I would say the odds of this happening if he does in fact lose can be calculated as roughly 100%).
This is for obvious reasons a terrifying prospect. Among the many crises that could arise as a result is a refusal on Trump’s part to acknowledge the legitimacy of the result if he loses (I would say the odds of this happening if he does in fact lose can be calculated as roughly 100%).
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 1 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Whether or not Trump personally accepts the result of the election is of trivial concern to me. What matters is how many people he can convince he's right and the election was a fraud to the point where they get violent.
The tradition in the USA is to peaceably abide by election results, no matter how suspicious or questionable the results may be. It is so strong a tradition that we had no actual street violence after the 2000 election. That wasn't solely because Gore chose not to incite his followers, but conceded. No one was going to riot on his say-so.
My sense is that Trump doesn't have nearly enough pull with the public to override the 2020 election, if he loses. His allies in Congress only put up with him as a necessary evil. More importantly, there's not one state governor who would take the risk to back him up. Sure, he'd whine, but most of the USA would shrug it off.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
More importantly, there's not one state governor who would take the risk to back him up.
let's remember that Paul LePage was governor of Maine for 8 years, and Kris Kobach didn't miss by much. the GOP produces insane governors at a regular clip
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
they need to do way instain governor
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
The tradition in the USA is to peaceably abide by election results, no matter how suspicious or questionable the results may be, as long as the nominal winner is a representative of the Republican Party.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Otm
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
@realDonaldTrump3 minutes agoWashington Post got it wrong, as usual. The U.S. is charging 25% against 250 Billion Dollars of goods shipped from China, not 200 BD. Also, China is paying a heavy cost in that they will subsidize goods to keep them coming, devalue their currency, yet companies are moving to..... @realDonaldTrump3 minutes ago....U.S. in order to avoid paying the 25% Tariff. Like Mexican companies will move back to the United States once the Tariff reaches the higher levels. They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen, and now they will come back unless Mexico stops the.....@realDonaldTrump3 minutes ago...travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S., not to mention the Drugs & Human Trafficking pouring in through Mexico. Are the Drug Lords, Cartels & Coyotes really running Mexico? We will soon find out!
Washington Post got it wrong, as usual. The U.S. is charging 25% against 250 Billion Dollars of goods shipped from China, not 200 BD. Also, China is paying a heavy cost in that they will subsidize goods to keep them coming, devalue their currency, yet companies are moving to..... @realDonaldTrump3 minutes ago
....U.S. in order to avoid paying the 25% Tariff. Like Mexican companies will move back to the United States once the Tariff reaches the higher levels. They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen, and now they will come back unless Mexico stops the.....
@realDonaldTrump3 minutes ago
...travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S., not to mention the Drugs & Human Trafficking pouring in through Mexico. Are the Drug Lords, Cartels & Coyotes really running Mexico? We will soon find out!
so let me get this straight. we will punish mexico for not solving our border problem by imposing tariffs that are good for the united states, because "mexican companies will move back to the united states once the tariff reaches the higher levels"...unless mexico solves our border problem? what?
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
those tariffs sure do sound like win-win-win-wins! you add them and you win, and you take 'em away and you win too! wow!
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
If we tariffed the rest of the world at 100% I'm pretty sure we would have all the money.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Because the other side don’t care to fight, do they folks? The Democratic Party don’t want to fight for democracy, it’s sad. That’s why I call them the Democrat party. They don’t like it, but that’s okay. That’s okay. We’re gonna keep calling them it anyway! But they don’t want to fight. Won’t fight for this big, beautiful democracy, and won’t fight for, with, their ...your big, beautiful GUNS. We love the second amendment. Some say the best amendment. But the Democrats ...don’t want you to have those guns. Want to take them away. So you won’t be able to fight them.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Other posters are much better at that than you
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
Matt Gaetz milkshaked outside town hall meeting in Pensacolahttps://t.co/APFuQmVHQQ— jordan (@JordanUhl) June 1, 2019
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
shdn't have gone 2 the brew ha ha if he didn't want to get in a tilly
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
Wow, just saw where this month's title came from. This is truly the dumbest timeline.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 June 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
Just in to say this thread title is sublime
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
good morning!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
Mr. Sotosyn if you're nasty
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Trump thinking of nominating a major lunatic to the Fed, who thinks it's Gosplan. She wants to hold a new Bretton Woods conference at Mar-a-Lago and create a gold-linked monetary system. Let's see how this flies with the big boys. https://t.co/MPEAN1DVes via @financialtimes— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 1, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
says it right there on the money though
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
ron paulbots should be pleased?
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
ha I thought that said God! Something now totally plausible
weren't stephen moore and herman cain also gold standard fans?
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
idk its hard to keep with all this bullshit and i have a masters in poli sci
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Ron Paul is/was a fan.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
A return to the gold standard's never going to happen. The economy would throw a piston.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
Trump has pretty much been a daily illustration of what would happen if your crazy loud uncle at Thanksgiving were to become president.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Yep. And mine is dead
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
skim milk burn!
The Hill reports:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday said Democrats who support impeaching President Trump should “buy a spine” and do it. But he also said they’d regret it, pointing to polls that show a minority of voters back impeachment.
“Impeachment polls right up there with skim milk with the American people. But my advice to my Democratic friends is, if you want to do it, go hard or go home,” Kennedy said CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Go to Amazon, buy a spine. If you’re not going to do it, let us get back to work.”
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
That's not a bad angle of attack.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 June 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
Amazon has body parts now?
― jmm, Monday, 3 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
Only for Ultra-Super Prime subscribers.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 June 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
Introducing Prime (TM) Rib
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Monday, 3 June 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
Skimmed milk is unamerican?
― Mark G, Monday, 3 June 2019 06:27 (four years ago) link
You can't drink skimmed milk and expect to have a functioning backbone everyone knows that.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
o fuck trump is hot now, libs completely destroyed
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8HCpCZUEAAmuCd.jpg
― naked rollercoaster-riding world record holder (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 June 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
he’s wearing Eric as a skinsuit
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 3 June 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
The new visa application forms list a number of social media platforms and require the applicant to provide any account names they may have had on them over the previous five years.
https://www.apnews.com/c96a215355b242e58107c2125c18fc4a
sure fine totally okay
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 3 June 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
Platform: I Love MusicUsername: t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
tim AT kfc.edu
how are the visa folks gonna know if i choose not to list a social media account? are they going to undertake a forensic search of every social media platform? how are they gonna know that in addition to my regular twitter handle under my own name i also have an alt where i share my detailed manifestoes on how best to cook and serve every member of trump's cabinet?
― naked rollercoaster-riding world record holder (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
i'm sure google and facebook will be happy to help however they can
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
they just want an excuse to jail you when they find out you've an unreported ilx sockpuppet to 51 the usual suspects
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
I read that as Visa credit card. There is almost no way they can do a timely search for your social media unless you just suck at using the internet and have everything on full display. They are hoping you will give it all to them voluntarily.
― Yerac, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
i think this is probably intended more as a means to expand ways to later deport someone for submitting supposedly misleading/false documents or whatever bullshit.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
exactly
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
or even remove your citizenship later
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
how are the visa folks gonna know if i choose not to list a social media account?
having talked to people who use a bunch of different data sources to aggregate potential customer data, I really assume anyone with enough money to buy bulk data can throw this stuff together
I guess if you've used a different account on a different device that doesn't use wifi, isn't paid for by any account linked to your name, doesn't have gps, has never logged into any website whatsoever other than that account, and uhhh maybe has never opened a web browser to go to anything other than the one site, you may be in the clear
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
This is why I tell people to never put their dob, pob or even full name on any type of social media website.
― Yerac, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
can't believe i'm gonna be denied entry to the states because the opsec around my marxist naruto slashfic tumblr wasn't watertight, smdh
― Aspen Jortstein (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Are they expecting to get links to all my long-forgotten livejournal accounts? even TSA don't deserve having to look through that
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 June 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
I hate that this is the timeline I wound up in. I just hate it.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Saturday, 29 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Trump giving speech from Lincoln Memorial steps before fireworks and military flyovers was bad enough, but now of course they’re creating special ticketed only access area for his pals there. I had gone to DC fireworks the last few years, but gonna skip this. Code Pink Group is trying to get permission to fly baby T balloon. I doubt they’ll get approval
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-plans-ticketed-access-area-for-vips-friends-and-family-at-july-4-celebration/2019/06/28/005fd56a-99a4-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Trump appeared to think
bullshit
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
gah, I wish the DC 4th fireworks were not awesome so that people would just stay home, but there will be crowds and there will be crowing.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
maybe he'll lose an eye or a finger
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Maybe somebody already linked this?https://theintercept.com/2019/06/29/concentration-camps-border-detention/
― DJI, Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
good afternoon!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
so Yam met Kim at the NK border and thanked him for not making him "look bad"
the new press secy got bruised in a security kerfuffle
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 June 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Amazing video of @IvankaTrump trying to butt in to actual world leaders’ conversation and their unconcealable irritation. pic.twitter.com/WuZfWpQpgA— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) June 30, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
there is one alternate universe out of billions where ivanka is a really cool and nice person despite her upbringing, and i feel sorry for her because she's placed in these insane situations where she has be around political leaders and pretend like she belongs. must be excruciating for her, in that alternative universe. in this one, though, she fakes it til she makes it and later is like 'i architected the fuck out of that greet and meet, j kush'
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
i guess she'll just have to settle for this universe, where she's smoking hot and her dad is the president :(
― lumen (esby), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Time4FiftyOne
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
esby's not so much out-of-bounds as just annoying and inane. it would be like killing a flea.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
annoying and inane
Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
go screw, you dusty farmer's almanac
― lumen (esby), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Let he who is without sin
/annoying and inane/Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".
― badg, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
tbh yes they probably are just tolerating her in that video, and she does look awkward but this feels a lot like when we try to pretend Trump is "obviously miserable" in a picture where really he's just winding up for a sneeze or something.
― Evan, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
esby = SB, do you see? He's askin' for it!
― nickn, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
whatever happened to that guy ephpea?
― Evan, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Ahh good old Ephraim P Gilbert
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
wow i didn't know that the June 2019 politics thread was nasty
― omar little, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
It's like esby is Paul Pierce's ass and we're all Michelle Beadle
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
One of these men is 5'7". The other claims to be 6'3".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-VIDAcWsAErVwy.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
wgas
― brimstead, Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Kim's on a hoverboard made of bones.
― nashwan, Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
vaguely let down that kim wasn’t like ‘sure, i’ll meet you in the dmz. . . with an artillery shell’
― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
Trump is tallKim wears liftsjpg: who gives a shit
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
bc it’s funny to imagine the negotiations— sure, you can stand on a box, but you still have to be two inches shorter
i mean the thing he hates most about comey is having to look up at him
― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
it's amazing to me that trump insulting the prince's wife before his visit to britain was only a month ago! the history of this era is gonna have to be like 48 volumes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 1 July 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
Trump is good at headline-making, but he is rarely history-making.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 July 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
Trump insulted the prince’s wife?Finally something positive about him
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 1 July 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/donald-trump-meghan-markle-nasty-boris-johnson-good-prime-minister/index.htmlwho's gonna do july
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 1 July 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
I don't know how safe for work the title has to be, but "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t" would be good.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t. https://t.co/9YpgVF7qEP— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) June 30, 2019
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Monday, 1 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Fox used to rage about Obama being willing to meet with NK without preconditions. Trump goes for a photo op and he's a fuckin genius.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 1 July 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
😐 pic.twitter.com/A8MM7Cxzf1— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) June 30, 2019
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 1 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Monday, 1 July 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
yeah, I was going to suggest "You know, there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools" but this is much better.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 1 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link