American Politics Thread 2014

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.

i can't even believe how insincere his tone of voice was, for two solid hours! that's impressive

libs AND righty morons who think Christie's a 'moderate' are reveling in this, yes

it's a union of the nation's two most robotic demos, let's sing Kumbaya

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

j0e, yr kinda repeating yrself, just like Obama

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

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

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 10, 2014

are you serious?!? i think you might be serious!

Hugh Hewitt and I have timed our statements.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHuI0E2nHfM/URGdUhSSdAI/AAAAAAAApbg/TooKrt9jPTM/s1600/Chris_Christie_Corpulent_Clown.jpg

is there an echo in here

xp

fucking bridges, how do they work

this is traffic-jam's reverend wright moment, mark my word, libs

j0e, yr kinda repeating yrself, just like Obama

okay this did make me lol

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19c500pesn4mhjpg/ku-medium.jpg

harsh

lol liberal clown shops are so much more competent than conservative ones

their skills are more comparable when it comes to fixing climate change

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

is that gif from one of those awful Batman movies? i know u luv em

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gc87V3Urc_o/TsHcrOWYXCI/AAAAAAAAArM/Ca_bxJIB2KU/s1600/princesmilestartle.gif

lol