The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

institutions like the federal election commission and the EPA tho

they don't want president baby to suffer the indignity of only getting 90% of the primary vote.

this is hilarious, extra-funny since it's twitter grifter Joe Walsh upset about getting marginalised, and good news for the unlikelihood of there being anyone vaguely competent from the GOP on the ticket

Maybe it's because I was a teenager who knew jack shit about politics during Dubya's first term but I don't recall there being a problem convincing people that 2 plus 2 was 4

― frogbs, 6. september 2019 22:47 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Eh, the whole run-up to the Iraq War really felt like people insisting a thousand times zero was a lot. Every week a new piece of 'evidence' that Hussein had done 9/11 with nuclear weapons from Nigeria, and nothing ever added up, but people insisted there was too much smoke.

lmao

pic.twitter.com/J3aTzBG7ao

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2019

Oh my fucking god

I am so confused, how can CNN simultaneously be fake news and cited as not fake news?

thats_how_the_tabloid_mentality_works

Are you fucking kidding me? Some rando at NOAA lying for Trump now?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/06/noaa-backs-president-trump-alabama-hurricane-forecast-rebukes-weather-service-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/?tid=sm_fb

We are a joke

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS NEW TWEET FROM DONALD J. TRUMP!!!!

CHECK OUT THIS NEW SHIT THIS MORON SAID! OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!

FUCK YOUR JOKE-ASS POTATO, BITHC

Actually it's an example of the head of the fucking NOAA throwing their own National Weather Service under the bus but hey you got your pointless smug rejoinder in

i know man but its just like jesus christ at what point can we just forget about this and maybe focus on the actual left

not to get all political or anything

Why don't ya fuck off

The constant stupid politics of the "acceptable topics" in this thread has gone beyond tedious and into Star Trek subreddit

FUCK OFF BITHC WE TRYIN TO TALK BOUT SOME REAL SUPER POLITICAL SHIT UP IN HERE BITHC

Have one drink less maybe

hm well I am actually 100% sober, so methinks u perhaps have the intelligence of a Neanderthal. fuck whose potato now bithc

but for reals though, let's get to the bottom of this map trajectory nonsense, then the poor and powerless will have won

I am actually 100% sober

well, there goes your best excuse

Hey Aimless, Dorian? More like Dorkian. Cause I don't care if you're a republicrat, demopublican, black, white, purple, green, lavender, LGBTQ, whatever - if you're a weather system trying to encroach on MY property without my permission? well then you're a str8 up DORK and you can go FUCK yourself bithc!!! and that's whats up

for a sober person you sure are falling down a lot

so does that mean you think the left, generally speaking, isn't getting distracted by a bunch of bullshit lately and by lately I mean the last two or three years?

I remember reading these threads in 2004, 2005 and seeing lots of really long and thoughtful posts and actually learning things. from seemingly educated, knowledgable people. Isn't it sad that my way of asking for that is to chip in some of the shit I hate? I don't get it either but here I am

does that mean you think the left, generally speaking, isn't getting distracted by a bunch of bullshit lately and by lately I mean the last two or three years?

I'm not sure who you mean by the left or what you consider to be distractions. I do think that the way the US system works that it becomes very hard for ordinary citizens to accomplish much between elections, when the people occupying high office are not inclined to assist you in your goals.

Scanning the real state of politics in the USA the past two or three years, I think the mid-term elections went pretty well from the standpoint of taking the punch bowl away from the Republicans by re-taking the House.

The Senate is heavily weighted to reward small rural states with disproportionate power and it only exposes a third of its seats to the will of the people during any election, so that was and remains a much harder nut to crack. The president was rebuked but not removed by the mid terms.

There have been suits filed and injunctions issued over as many of Trump's policy moves as could have been filed. The president's erratic, childish, petulant and bullying behavior is correctly called such by the left. Ridicule is a decent political weapon, too.

I'm not sure what more the left was supposed to do during the past few years that you think would have allowed 'the poor and powerless to win', considering the 2016 election results?

del is correct we’re on year 3 of fixating on asinine shit that doesn’t matter for the sake of tripping on the negative heightened affect it induces, but I certainly don’t think you all need to stop. Anyway there’s other threads

Treeship needed to stop though so I’m glad he did

Lol focus on the left

There’s enough time in the day to organise all sorts of resistance and make fun of Trump.

The hilarious part being the link I posted wasn't about something TRUMP said or posted but it's clear del g was just waiting to pounce on the thread with this narrative for hours.

Fuuuuck this thread.

LOL GUYZ EVERY TIME U POST ABOUT SOMETHING TWUMP TWEETS HE GAINS MORE SEXUAL POWER AND WE LOSE 2 ELECTORAL VOTEZ

*makes time to organize resistance to Trump on ILX*

wit hthis post, he shall be banished!!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

lol focus on what we really want

i flag any post containing 'methinks'

sorry, those are the rules

see also 'smacks of'

it was ironic and therefore acceptable you cluleless cumbublble

ah

irony

I think del may have been fibbing about "100% sober".

we’re on year 3 of fixating on asinine shit that doesn’t matter

tbf it's not us who are generating unprecedented amounts of asinine shit.

(a giant baby demanding that federal agencies issue statements that he fell over on PURPOSE, and the most the agency can do to resist is to type "no one here will agree to be credited with this" at the top of the press release, is the sort of thing that normally ends careers in ridicule within a day or so. regardless of the baby)

for the sake of tripping on the negative heightened affect it induces

I'll admit I'm surprised that in posts vmnic, Neanderthal has not been focusing joyously on DJT audibly cutting a long wet fart on camera yesterday

del's not actually wrong, but he is making me want to have a drink. to the kitchen!

Admittedly i missed the fart vid. Can't say i am in a good enough mood today that it woulda had the usual effect tho!

don't do that if you don't wanna do it, I wouldn't.

I'm mostly just trying to get Aimless to admit that he either is, or is close with friends with, Chargers hall of famer Dan Fouts, or childrens book author Dennis McGregor.

P.S. Neantderthanl I am hoped you haved survived the Hurricanes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8nRQJaRV9E

Dennis McGregor lives in Sisters, OR. I have a relative by marriage who lives in Sisters, OR. I have driven through Sisters, OR, many times. This is as close as I'm ever going to get to being him.

As for Dan Fouts, pffft, we live in wholly different universes, but I do remember his epic battles as a Duck against Sonny Sixkiller and the U of W Huskies.

aimless otm

Anyway a majority of the House democratic caucus is now cosponsoring Jayapal’s M4A Bill.

ball's in your corner nance(?)

I thought this was pretty good.