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

are you not excited for donalt trump piss tape neanderthal? what is wrong with you? here we like piss tape

Why do you still hang out here?

I want more contrarians but you’re so obnoxious and don’t even have allies on the boards.

what kind of contrarian would you like treeship

A better one

nakhchivan

i like sleepingbag, i am sleepingbag's ally

ppl on these threads for over a year now salivating over, unquenchably thirsty for a 'donald trump pee tape'... i'm not really sure if that's fixable through rational argument exactly

xp thank you, likewise

Pee tape is just a placeholder, really. Name a debased act and chances are better that Trump has engaged in it than that he has not. And, no, I don't think it makes any practical difference. The only chance the country had to survive the car crash of his election was to not steer into it, and welp.

I want Trump to choke on his own vomit for the next 35 years

Problem with the stock market as any sort of useful metric right now is that it is so wildly overvalued that it can afford to fall down several hundred points and still be astronomically high.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, January 30, 2018 10:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm having flashbacks of rooting for a stock market crash during the bush administration (then it actually happened. sorry everyone)

Only neocons were shocked by it tbf

banking on the pee tape is like banking on an Alzheimer's diagnosis, it's empty wishful thinking. Like hoping Rick Wilson's twitter would win Hillary the White House.

My prediction: if he gets impeached it will be because of his polling and the midterms and the general air of febrile ineptness getting through to “independents” and “moderates” but the actual legal case will be this sanction stuff and nothing to do with what mueller finds.

Piss tape is absolutely real

I don't believe in the pee tape, but even if it's real why would it ever come to light? The Russians have their man in the White House, why would they want to jeopardise that?

what do you do with your man once he's no longer useful (eg when he's about to be impeached)? you instantly turn on him, share whatever shit you have on him and watch the country tear itself apart. i imagine they're just waiting for that shift in balance between trump being useful to them to no longer being useful. when he's done, you trigger the time bomb

if the pee tape is real, it just shows him chortling while ordering women to piss on a bed that Barack and Michelle Obama once slept in. this is not going to damage his standing with either MAGA doofuses or the Republican party.

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https://apnews.com/95c0de495cda4636ba94b8ad2976430a/Amid-publicity-tour,-porn-star-denies-affair-with-Trump?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

jet fuel can't something something

Wtf

they got to her

trump just said that he is making reducing the prices of prescription drugs one of his "top priorities of the year"

then he said that prescription prices "will drop - watch", as the audience muttered with audible doubt

say what you will about this guy, he actually made his hair into a cap, kudos

hahahaha the cosmic trolling continues, this thing happening w/ the moon tonight is literally called THE BLUE-BLOOD ECLIPSE

trump talks about the loss of lives that illegal immigrants have caused, democrats audibly groan. one second later, he pivots to a story of how two people were murdered by illegal immigrants, as the audience gives a standing ovation to the crying family members in the audience.

the tradition of exploiting people who have suffered immensely for the purpose of political gain stands stronger than ever

This exploitation of people's tragedies in a political speech has got to stop.

— Elizabeth Drew (@ElizabethDrewOH) January 31, 2018

"americans are dreamers too"

wow.

everyone stood up to applaud that one

what if you drank every time he said MS-13

he's going to win in 2020 and we'll all still be here pulling our fucking hair out

"My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans. To protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American dream. Because Americans are dreamers too." This is the sort of rhetoric expected from the president who said there were beautiful people On Both Sides of the Charlottesville protests; from the sort of toad you meet on social media who claims that blacks are racists too.

Second reaction shot of Mitch McConnell, bored and not applauding and thinking of his endangered majority.

I’m calling it. #coreybookerface is a thing now. @benshapiro @scrowder @chicksonright @EWErickson pic.twitter.com/LTUCNgUiFQ

— Kendall Cameron (@kn_cameron) January 31, 2018

The Rev Dr Barber is speaking tonight, for those who’d like a worthwhile speech:

Tune in! @RevDrBarber joins us on #RolandMartinUnfiltered: The Real State Of Our Union. Watch live: #YouTube https://t.co/tQmyuvEOa2 #Periscope https://t.co/KyIoDjuR6F #RolandMartinUnfiltered #SOTU #SOTUBoycott #StateOfTheUnion #StateOfTheUnionBoycott pic.twitter.com/Qo4fQoGZCk

— Roland Reports (@RolandReports) January 31, 2018

just signed an EO to keep guantanamo open

just before that, btw, while talking about terrorists he said we had duty "to annihilate them", and that "they should be treated like the terrorists they are"

we learned nothing from iraq
we learned nothing from 9/11
we learned nothing from vietnam

He’s threatening countiries with withdrawing aid if they don’t vote the way he wants at the UN wrt Israel? Is there a precedent for this? (Stating it so directly that is)

This speech represents the presidential performance that Trump observers have been waiting for – brilliant mix of numbers and stories, humility and aggressiveness, traditional conservatism and political populism.

Only one word qualifies: Wow. #SOTU

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 31, 2018

wow, the USA chant

get ready to read a lot of takes like that. the fucked up things that underly the text are getting lost in these insanely emotional stories of tragedy (almost always inflicted by a foreign person)

longest SOTU since 1995, second-longest in 50 years

prescription prices "will drop - watch"

...in an initiative to be headed up by my new FDA Commissioner Martin Shkreli...

luntz is a right winger, no?

he's the top of class GOP messaging guru advice god

so ... did you expect anything else?

I think the Kennedys need to work on bringing in some genetic diversity.

nope. but i expect to see a lot of takes like his - "This speech represents the presidential performance that Trump observers have been waiting for", not just among the right wing media but the rest as well. it's going to be nauseating

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Why is this Kennedy doing the rebuttal and not like Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris