US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

people on twitter who claim to know things are saying that people close to her are saying she intends to run. take that as seriously as you will.

oprah is our spartacus

I mean, who the fuck cares? let her run, let her win. the bar is as low as can be.

Give America a Car Again

she's like reverse polarity Trump. Self made, generous, kind, liked, female etc.

first stedman

For better or worse, Oprah is the only candidate I'd absolutely put money on to win if she ran in 2020. We might as well accept that presidential elections are just going to be a Battle of the Network Stars now that we've broken the (seventh) seal.

Josh, I believe the hot quip for that sentiment is "black is the new orange"

i'm sure she would win

#fuckthisworld

crossposting to the direction of the democratic party thread, but it's possibilities like this - Oprah runs for president and wins in a landslide - that make me think that neoliberalism is not quite thoroughly discredited yet among the democratic party. i have no idea what oprah's politics are (which you'd think would affect her chances of becoming president, but no, it doesn't actually matter much), but i'm pretty sure she would just take assemble a dreamteam of advisors from the clinton/obama era.

No slam on Oprah in particular, but worth keeping in mind one of the many unintended consequences of a Trump presidency: the bar has now been set so incredibly low that literally anyone is a more viable candidate for president.

michael moore was pushing oprah for president like 10+ years ago in one of his books

there's a guardian piece from 2015 that's been making the rounds that literally hails her as neoliberalism's brightest light lol

(XP to Karl)

There has always been something a little messianic about Oprah and a little overly-pious about her fanbase that's made me slightly uncomfortable. Reese Witherspoon's eyes were glazing over as she introduced her Glorious Leader at the Golden Globes last night.

But hey, she does at least seem concerned with the well-being of others, so Oprah '20.

this one, i guess?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

god, if you're out there, i'm sorry that i worship baal, and also please don't make me get into a debate with friends on why they shouldn't vote for oprah for president of the united states

in a perfect world Oprah would just cool her heels and see what kind of candidate the Democratic Party can muster up as a nominee. I wouldn't like to see her getting in the way of someone like Gillibrand, for instance. but if the Dems step on their own dicks aggressively enough to nominate some garbage person like Cuomo or Tim Kaine then sure I'd be more than happy for her to swoop in like people were hoping Biden would swoop in last time and save us from Donnie Two-Terms.

'if' the Dems step on their own dicks

2020 is the biggest gimme in the history of gimmes. I don't see how the Dems could possibly fail to take advantage of that. But I'm sure they'll find a way.

Yeah but in case you forgot 2016 was also supposed to be the biggest gimme in the history of gimmes so

imagine a oprah/dr phil ticket

an

Dr Phil would at least make Pence cry in the vp debate

oh man, dr phil with a penetrating question, then a loooong silent shot of pence trying to compose himself enough to respond, and eventually being saved by wolf blitzer blurting out something

we're all going to die

Eventually.

By which I mean 'within the year'.

psyched for surgeon general dr oz

tom hanks VP

Rhonda Byrne for director of 'The Secret' Service

she's like reverse polarity Trump. Self made, generous, kind, liked, female etc.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 8, 2018 11:52 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, she is the mirror image of Trump, and people have been speculating about her running for prez as long as they speculated about Trump running. and Oprah has been as coy as Trump was.

8 years baby

idk it beats when people kept chattering about george clooney for ages. and warren beatty in 2000 iirc.

it beats very little.

Look, can we get serious about this? No celebrity has any business running for president unless he or she has previously portrayed the president in a movie or television series. I might allow a voiceover role as president in a videogame, but that's stretching it.

Terry Crews 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTCXUiEWAAAXJFL.jpg:small

It’s true that North Korea could retaliate for any attack by using its conventional rocket artillery against the South Korean capital of Seoul and its surroundings, where almost 20 million inhabitants live within 35 miles of the armistice line. U.S. military officers have cited the fear of a “sea of fire” to justify inaction. But this vulnerability should not paralyze U.S. policy for one simple reason: It is very largely self-inflicted.

cool, cool

yea but you were otm old lunch about the seal being broken. Oprah is a shoe-in

a shoe-in is different from a shoo-in

ie if we are to only have celeb candidates henceforth, i will vote by throwing my shoe

Terry Crews 2020

Look, can we get serious about this? No celebrity has any business running for president unless he or she has previously portrayed the president in a movie or television series. I might allow a voiceover role as president in a videogame, but that's stretching it.

trump might be sitting down with mueller soon:

WASHINGTON — Anticipating that special counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Lawyers for Trump have been discussing with FBI investigators a possible interview by the special counsel with the president as part of the inquiry into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/initial-talks-underway-about-trump-interview-mueller-russia-probe-n835506

do not surrender in advance xp

mods someone has hacked morbs’ account pls investigate

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/367927-senate-dems-demand-release-of-fusion-gps-interview

everyone but the repubs want this out, I wonder why?

make trump testify on camera like clinton had to do

make it 14 hours too

Trump should help deregulate food handling laws and then eat at the same unregulated KFC for the rest of his term

sometimes i sit back and stare at the stars and wonder, 'did the president really settle a $25,000,000 education fraud case after he won the election?'

Of course he didn't, don't be ridiculous, everyone would be talking about it.