US Politics VIII

[LuckyNumber7]

Guys, both of your points can be factors.

 

[BEAL]

Anyone but the fucking GOP. They’ve been exposed for what a lot of us have known for a while. A white nationalist party

I’ll agree there is a lot of anger towards any sort of “establishment” candidates. The government has let us down but let’s not put it all on them. We’re fucking idiots too.

The difference it seems from “progressives” and then whatever you want to call us other Democrats is that we would have voted for Bernie (or this chick) versus Trump.

I don’t need my candidate to be pure and uncompromising.

I want liberal social issues
I want liberal policies WITH a solid plan to pay for them (like reducing our military budget for starters)

There’s never going to be a perfect candidate. Everyone has skeletons, especially now when something you said or joked about 10 years ago can cause you to lose your job or drop out of a race. But that’s another topic

Back to the subject, with the heat on Trump me thinks war with Iran comes sooner than later

 

[Pearl]

Even conservative voices like CNBC are starting to get worried about what Trump is doing...

Officials from previous administrations say the web of longstanding global relationships has staying power.

“That webbing is dense, and it can sustain a lot of damage,” said Kori Schake, a former national security aide to President George W. Bush who now helps run the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “This is not the first time there are troubles in the trans-Atlantic relationship.”

But Schake added, “This is the first time that a president of the United States did not appear to believe in the liberal order.”

But the global order was under strain even before Trump’s presidency. Now, some fear it has already been damaged too much.

“Things will not be OK,” conservative foreign policy expert Robert Kagan wrote recently in The Washington Post. “The world crisis is upon us.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/donald-trump-disrupted-the-liberal-world-order.html

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Even conservative voices like CNBC

? since when was CNBC a “conservative voice”?

 

[Pearl]

������ since when was CNBC a “conservative voice”?

Usually business news outlets tend to be fiscally conservative, and Republican leaning. WSJ for example. And I believe a CNBC commentator was the one who started the Tea Party because he didn't like Obama's"overspending".

 

[Hewson]

?????? since when was CNBC a “conservative voice”?

Yeah I don't think I'd label an NBC subsidiary as conservative.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

She won because she was the right person for that District.

This is literally all anybody is saying. Conservative Democrats can win in western PA. Latina socialists can win in Queens. You get nothing progressive if you don’t have the seats in Congress. Get the seats in Congress.

for fucks sake yes.

Stop the infighting and just take back Congress.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Usually business news outlets tend to be fiscally conservative, and Republican leaning. WSJ for example. And I believe a CNBC commentator was the one who started the Tea Party because he didn't like Obama's"overspending".

We desperately need to take away the image that being economically capitalistic equates to conservativism. There is no direct relationship between social and economic views. We have allowed tribalism to equate them.

CNBC is a consumer network. It has little to say about politics and federalism or anti-federalism.

Overall, when that network does get political, I would say they’re center-left.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

We desperately need to take away the image that being economically capitalistic equates to conservativism. There is no direct relationship between social and economic views. We have allowed tribalism to equate them.

CNBC is a consumer network. It has little to say about politics and federalism or anti-federalism.

Overall, when that network does get political, I would say they’re center-left.

Fucking A to this, too

 

[trojanchick99]

Apparently two guys dressed as Russian soldiers and holding Russian flags are guarding Trump’s star on the Walk of Fame today.

Sometimes, America still does us proud.

It was for a bit on Jimmy Kimmel.

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[cobl04]

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My younger sister heads into a mental health clinic for three weeks on Sunday.

It's going to cost us ~$500.

In your shithole of a country, it would cost at least $18,000 (it's $1,000 a night).

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Yea but would she be at risk of being shot at any moment for that $500? Didn't fucking think so. Suckers!!

 

[Danny Boy]

Dear Mr. Trump,

Please, please, please shut down the government right before the midterm elections.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Dear Mr. Trump,

Please, please, please shut down the government right before the midterm elections.

Ya actually don’t do that, I like getting paid.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Ya actually don’t do that, I like getting paid.

If we shut down, Mexico can pay your salary

 

[LuckyNumber7]

They took err jerbs

 

[Irvine511]

Ya actually don’t do that, I like getting paid.

Make like a farmer and get a Trump bailout.

 

[Hewson]

Ya actually don’t do that, I like getting paid.

He has to keep paying you if he wants to get the Space Force up and running.
Never know when the Empire might strike back.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

He has to keep paying you if he wants to get the Space Force up and running.

Never know when the Empire might strike back.

You mean when the empire may need to strike.

 

[Hewson]

You mean when the empire may need to strike.

Empire on Empire crime.

 

[BEAL]

Obama - I’ll meet with leader of Iran with no preconditions

GOP - YOURE A TRAITOR!!!

Trump- I’ll meet with the leader of Iran, no preconditions

GOP - This is leadership!!!!

 

[LuckyNumber7]

And I think it’s good that Trumpypoo is willing to toss out the bullshit and just meet with the Kims and ayatollahs of this world.

It’s a shame he’s a fucking moron and doesn’t know what he’s doing.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

"I could have had Tom Brady as a son in law, instead I got Jared Kushner"

 

[Danny Boy]

I see that Sessions is creating a religious liberty task force.

This is, no doubt, to protect Muslims from being persecuted, right?

Spoiler

Or perhaps to protect the evangelicals' rights to discriminate against others?

 

[trojanchick99]

Never did I think I'd read the words "Bigfoot erotica" in relation to a Congressional race.

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Click at your own risk.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

*Blinks*

All right, then. *Slowly backs away*

(Honestly, though, I do think about that sometimes when it comes to fandom/fanfic/fanart/etc.. Knowing how weird and out there that stuff can be, I can easily see that being brought up in political races someday. Which would be...a bizarre scenario, to say the very least.)

At the end of the day, though, I'd be more concerned about the potential white supremacist connections.

 

[Danny Boy]

Not sure what's under that censor box, but you know what they say about guys with big feet...

Maybe some irony to his opponent being named "Cockburn?"

 

[DaveC]

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Shocking I tell ya, just shocking. Trump administration mulls unilateral tax cut for the rich.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-rich.html

 

[dazzledbylight]

Those two tweets are made up. Though I can see how you would mistake them for the real thing, given they’re about the same level of maturity as his actual tweets.

Oh, then.