American Politics Thread 2014

yep, easily the president with the most entertainment value, dude is just endlessly fascinating

yeah -- nixon is so deeply messed up and conflicted and sad and weird that he makes most of the nuts who came after him look downright boring by comparison. even oliver stone couldn't find very much interesting stuff going in in bush's head.

"in" Bush's head

with Nixon it's the self-pity, cold command, meanness, blubbering, inability to imagine life in anything but in campaign mode, and genuine intelligence that fascinate me, which is why no movie's ever nailed him.

reese witherspoon in 'election' comes closest.

thx now hearing Nixon saying "Fuck me Mr. McAllister"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRZvlZZ0DY

^^ lousy fucking actor

delivered as if he's just noticed an old friend from Japan

Tracy Flick: You might think it upset me that Paul Metzler had decided to run against me, but nothing could be further from the truth. He was no competition for me, it was like apples and oranges. I had to work a little harder, that's all. You see, I believe in the voters. They understand that elections aren't just popularity contests. They know this country was built by people just like me who work very hard and don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. Not like some rich kids who everybody likes because their fathers own Metzler Cement and give them trucks on their 16th birthday and throw them big parties all the time. No, they don't ever have to work for anything. They think they can just, all of a sudden, one day out of the blue, waltz right in with no qualifications whatsoever and try to take away what other people have worked for VERY, VERY hard for their entire lives! No, didn't bother me at all!

^^ unmistakable from a Nixon-written caption about the California governor's race.

*indistinguishable, that is

man I don't know how Nixon comes off to people who didn't grow up on that shit but it's just SO fucking riveting to me, watching him in all his pathology

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:15 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every time just... this guy was president?

“David and I were not friends in high school,” he said. “I was class president and an athlete. I don’t know what David was doing at that time.”

lol what a total douche

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/01/contrite-christie-one-story-away-from-oblivion.html

Christie is totally flunking gym now....

Interesting.. some of these people are keeping quiet now, but I wonder if they can be 'persuaded' to come out with their version of events during the primaries/general, if not sooner.

Maddow promoted alt theory that traffic gate was aimed at dem senate prez seems as likely as mayor theory.

it seems very unlikely that somethings not gonna come out show christie knew something about this before yesterday

even if he didnt order it its been in the news for a few months now hes got to have uncovered something before yesterday, i guess he didnt really have any other choice, but he set himself up

but hey he answered reporters questions for 2 hours yesterday so he is absolved of any wrongdoing.

Authentic, transparent, unscripted and sincere. Very powerful.

very talking
much press confernce

pizza

fat

cone on his head

every time just... this guy was president?

this excellent if hard to watch documentary sorta catalogues how incredible it is: he'd been around for a long time. he'd already done plenty of stuff that you'd think would permanently rule him out. instead he got elected twice.

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And now Politico suddenly cares about Christie's past:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/15-chris-christie-controversies-you-missed-101999_Page2.html

15 Chris Christie Controversies You Missed

The GWB scandal wasn’t the governor’s first dip in hot water.

By OLIVIA NUZZI

January 09, 2014

this excellent if hard to watch documentary sorta catalogues how incredible it is: he'd been around for a long time. he'd already done plenty of stuff that you'd think would permanently rule him out. instead he got elected twice.

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, January 10, 2014 11:38 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool ill check that out, he is pretty magical

Rachel Maddow's theory about Christie.

n 2010, Christie took the unprecedented step of refusing to reappoint a New Jersey Supreme Court justice for another term, which set off the New Jersey Democrats, who got back at Christie by shooting down all the other Supreme Court justice nominees he put forward. So when a Republican member of the New Jersey Supreme Court came up for reappointment last year, NJ Senate Democrats promised to make it a brutal fight, so Christie decided to stop the reappointment. He was furious at Senate Democrats, and held a press conference getting really angry with them. That press conference, expressing much anger with Senate Democrats, was held on August 12, 2013, a day before the Bridgegate e-mail was sent. And Fort Lee, the town that got backed up, is part of the legislative district represented by Loretta Weinberg. The leader of the Senate Democrats.

She also sez the installation of a new speaker with no history of animus towards Christie suggests he was hoping to run the clock.

first time I've seen a 2-page news spread inside the NY Times with the blurb heading in the top corner "CLOSED LANES."

Nixon and Christie have been successful pols even tho they are/were bad liars, bcz they tell lies ppl want to hear.

(ditto Obama obv)

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y462/staffpicks/Animated_GIFs/2qdy5o0.gif

I'd like to imagine that was 46 minutes of fighting the urge but then giving in to the inevitable.

lol

hah

all i know is if we fire public workers, jobs will rain down from the heavens

that's true. public workers like to keep all the other jobs in a little box that can only be unlocked after being fired

a lockbox, if you will

my favorite zelda puzzle xp

really, libs deserving Perrin tweets over this penny-ante NJ shit

no one deserves perrin tweets; they're inhumane

It does seem pretty silly in the scope of things, which is why I've only vaguely been paying attention (the most I learned about it came from that Maddow segment, and the worst thing from that seemed to be not renominating that judge).

starting to feel like we deserve a president chris traffic-jam christie for how disgusting/uncompassionate we are as a public tbh

^^^ how neo cons are born

lol if you think libs are the ones reveling in this

despite the growing gap between the riches and the poors, the sophisticates among us are conducting longterm stealth games that'll all work, don't worry

it seems very unlikely that somethings not gonna come out show christie knew something about this before yesterday

don't know why you'd say this christie is true-blue just watch his thursday press-conference he was authentic, transparent, unscripted and sincere

Authentic, transparent, unscripted and sincere. Very powerful.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

wait, are you serious?

traffic-jam is standing up for what is best in america, sticking it to the libs, beating them at their press conference gotcha games

wait, are you serious?

― Daniel, Esq 2, F

One of the most fascinating, indeed riveting two hours in recent American political history.