US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

Soros going against Zuckerberg would really break the antisemitic conspiracy theorists' brains if they weren't already broken

unrelated Q: would it be annoying to also have a rolling 2020 non-presidential election thread (i.e. for Senate/House/State races?)

NO

too many goddamn threads. I've wanted to bury the fucking Bloomberg thread in eight tons of concrete.

i would like that but maybe it is time for a separate politics board...

(i feel like this may have been broached in the past? but i have no idea where ilx folks came down on it)

0bv there's no "Politics" board so

xxxp the narrative

2016: fake news
2020: fake jews

maybe it is time for a separate politics board

strongly agree, might i suggest reddit or styleforum.net

strongly disagree, wtf difference would it make beyond requiring an extra click

that's what they said about the fleshlight

turn on your fleshlight

i was under the impression that minimizing the number of unique areas that we talk about US politics was a good thing, but hey, let's create a politics board and make sure to create ten mini-threads on micro topics.

i already frequently have difficulty remembering if we talked about this thing in Thread A or Thread B

I guess you can file this one under getting pay back on an election year.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/14/mitch-mcconnell-celebrated-key-securing-army-hq-fort-knox/4754106002/

CNBC reports:

President Donald Trump has issued a pardon of Michael Milken, the former junk bond king who became a face of the insider trading financial scandals of the 1980s.

Trump cited the “incredible job” that Milken has done supporting cancer research since his conviction for racketeering and securities fraud.

Milken, 73, originally was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his crimes while heading the bond department at the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, and fined $600 million.

gee wonder why he is suddenly pardoning a bunch of white collar criminals

xpost, I feel like all the politics threads need to be locked for 48 hours. I used to read all of them in their entirety but there is so much chum on them now.

Trump pardons are like when the Joker releases all the criminals from Arkham Asylum

Well here's to hoping they result in the same degree of street justice.

he should pardon Avenatti

the pardons on Trump's final day in office will be hilarious

aaaand the only white collar felon in jail in 2022 is...DONALD J. TRUMP MIWIONAIRE

The facts are just washing over us with numbness, as intended, but it's worth taking a second to try and remember that three years ago it wasn't normal to pardon convicted criminals because you repeatedly saw them on Fox News asking for pardons, or they gave you hundreds of thousands of $ in a couple of months.

Totally missed that Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's sentence. Motherfucker's on a roll, huh.

Good morning!!

for someone so convinced the democrats are crooks he seems to have no problem with the one who is demonstrably a crook

Saw that ol' Blago now referring to himself as a 'Trumpocrat'.

People are just so fucking gross.

Blago was on the Apprentice. Trump said some weird thing about how he admired him because he knew people who gave up and curled up under their desks when faced with less.

don't do your job, or you might lose your job

A top Defense Department official who internally raised concerns about freezing military aid to Ukraine has been asked by his national security superiors to resign and is stepping down.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon John Rood authored emails pushing for the aid to be released, according to CNN.

those national security advisers are spineless fucks

sorry, national security "superiors"

imagine that it's five to ten years and a time hole rips through a cumulus and delivers this news from a random day in the distant year of 2020:

The suggestions of resignation came at the end of a day when the president asserted his dominance over a justice system that had long sought to insulate itself from political pressures. Calling himself “the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” Mr. Trump demanded a new trial for Mr. Stone, urged federal judges to address the “tremendous” abuse of the special counsel investigation of his campaign and bypassed the traditional pardon process to grant clemency to celebrity convicts recommended by his friends, allies and political donors.

Never before have I witnessed a person so driven by making people who already hated him deeply yesterday hate him even more today. Like you'd think we'd reach a saturation point where our collective hate waves would finally melt him down or something. That's science, right?

can't wait to vote. i'm going to vote ten times!

Calling himself “the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” Mr. Trump demanded a new trial

The judiciary is a separate branch of government from law enforcement. This is why.

It's almost like he's taking cues from Tim Heidecker's On Cinema universe character now instead of the other way around.

my state legislature is busy trying to curtail the power of the state supreme court

yelling about checks and balances in the street right now tbh

It's almost like he's taking cues from Tim Heidecker's On Cinema universe character now instead of the other way around.

Can't wait to see the Trump equivalent of Dekkar. Something country-flavored?

Calling himself “the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” Mr. Trump demanded a new trial

what's sad is that the real quote was “I’m allowed to be totally involved. I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country.”

fall debate response: "guess again"

Axiom literally donating his hand to Tim and Tim subsequently dismantling Dekkar was a pretty Trumpy thing to do now that I think about it

the only only only person who could probly legit ruin trump is putin, but he’s got no motive tbh.

If it's looking like a big Trump loss this fall, I could see him cutting the puppet strings, revealing loads of kompromat and laughing "SUCKERZZZZZ" to rub US noses in its own mess. Maybe I'm just fantasizing.

my fantasies usually involve him being run over by the same car 30 or 40 times

let other cars have a chance

Given a Putin goal is to remove the US from sole superpower status through encouraging internal fracturing and destabilizing alliances, he has little reason not to surreptitiously dump info about Trump's puppet strings, after a reelection.

At any rate, evidently some in the FBI are following up on forensicnews.net's reporting on Trump Org's financing from Gazprombank via DeutscheBank (even if mainstream media is avoiding the subject). It'll all come out eventually, so Putin may just time it to cause maximum damage to the US.

40 months in jail for Stone, but will probably be more like 9 when Trump pardons him

The nonpartisan election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted its rating of the Colorado Senate race to “leans Democratic” from a “toss-up” on Thursday.

The rating switch comes as recent polling has shown Colorado voters are more disapproving of Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) than they are of President Trump.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball cited polling in the state, noting polls in Colorado have been sparse and that the GOP senator is in a tough spot, risking losing some of his own base voters if he criticizes Trump.

Just 37 percent of Colorado voters approve of Gardner, and 48 percent said they disapprove of him, according to a poll from Global Strategy Group conducted between Jan. 31 and Feb. 4.

The same poll found 44 percent of Colorado voters approve of Trump and 56 percent disapprove of the president.

Trump’s approval was also stronger than Gardner among “very conservative” and “not very conservative” Republicans, although both men had the overwhelming support from this group, according to the poll which surveyed 818 registered voters.

I forget the difference between "leans" and "toss-up," which to me are virtually synonymous. Does this mean Colorado looks worse for Dems as a blue pickup in the prez election?

No, it looks better. It's leaning toward a Democratic pickup.

oops sorry -- missed "from" in first line. Carry on.