*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[BananaStand]

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...0-viewers.html

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[OngBonga]

Someone do a Borat meme saying "death to infidels"

[oskar]

Or remember when Roosevelt said both sides were to blame and he will be working with Japan on their harbor security. Or when Reagan famously said "This is a great wall you have there, Mr Gorbachev." and congratulated him on his strong borders.

[Poopadoop]

Trump World tour 2018.

First, goes to G7, shows up late, leaves early, claims great success, then turns on Trudeau and rips up joint statement in tweet.

Then, goes to meet KJU. Brags about not preparing, speculates about winning Nobel prize, praises awful dictator to the sky, comes away claiming historic victory, by all accounts accomplished nothing.

Then, visits NATO and immediately starts ripping into them, claims historic meeting when he actually did nothing but stoke fear in his allies that America is now an unreliable ally.

Then,goes to UK, shits all over May and praises her rival, keeps the Queen waiting, and claims great success.

Somehow finds time to go golfing at his golf course in Scotland at taxpayer expense, getting free advertising on top of it.

Next goes to meet Putin, by all accounts doesn't prepare, has secret meeting presumably to discuss if pee tape still exists, then comes out and licks Putin's nutsack in presser, claiming he believes him over his own intel service, brags about election win, and complains (again) about Hillary's emails. Gets in hot water back home, and tries to pretend he meant to say the exact opposite of what he did say and coincidentally, didn't happen to catch his own misstatement and correct it when he said it.

You just can't make this shit up.

[BananaStand]

You just can't make this shit up.

Democrats need to realize that this is their PUNISHMENT

You have massive populations in left leaning states that spend all their time smoking pot and hating corporations. 10% of their population can actually afford to live there and the rest live in tents on the sidewalk and do heroin. Yet they think they can dictate economic policy over rural america in the name of income equality.

Then they said, "fuck borders". Anyone can come over. For any reason. At any time. It doesn't matter if they have skills. It doesn't matter if they have an education. It doesn't matter if they speak the language. It doesn't matter if they have a criminal record. Their kids can go to our schools for free, and they'll get medicaid all funded by the American taxpayer. God bless the U S A

They villainized anyone successful. They glorified and glamorized victimization. They adopted foolish equity doctrines. And forced post-modernism through our schools. They monopolized academia and raised a generation of adult-babies in debt.

They ran a corrupt presidential campaign by conspiring with a chosen candidate instead of allowing for a fair fight. US intelligence agencies were corrupted to facilitate an investigation into Trump's campaign.

And it's all happening within a chaotic social justice pissing contest.

Trump represents everyone who is pissed off by the above, and it's a lot of people. He's saying what they think, and doing what they want him to do. He's fumbled a few times, no doubt. But I still say nothing objectively terrible has happened, and the country is actually running pretty great.

You guys seem to think that there are people out there that think Trump is infallible and Trump can do no wrong, and Trump is beyond criticism, etc etc etc etc. You think that Trump has duped these people into buying into his rhetoric and believing in his perceived greatness.

I can see why you would think that, but it's completely wrong. Those people would think that way about ANY republican. They don't love Trump. They HATE the radical left direction the country was going in (see above). They were fucking pissed off, and anyone who echoed their anger would be loved. Trump just happened to be that guy. He's merely an avatar for the middle-class, middle-American sentiment that rages against the rapidly increasing overreaches of the left.

That's actually a really good way to put it. He's an avatar.

It really could have been anybody. But it helps that he's a disgusting, foul-mouthed, grouchy, outspoken pig of a man. I mean that's one way to really spike the football in the democrats faces. And it's EXACTLY why the left's failure to learn their lesson, and their doubling-down on the identity politics bullshit will cost them in the midterms. You watch.

[oskar]

Democrats need to realize that this is their PUNISHMENT

So basically exactly this:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...munity/2163878

A resident of one of the apartments told police that his neighbor, Kenneth Haskins, 58, admitted to setting the fire, according to an arrest report.

Haskins, who lives in the apartment where the fire started, later told detectives that he wanted to get back at the company that manages Mar Plaza, police said.

His reason: They had recently told him to stop masturbating in front of his open windows and front door, according to police. He was arrested on a charge of first-degree arson and held in the Orient Road Jail without bail...

Haskins, who has lived there for more than a decade, suffers from facial disfigurement that is the result of having previously shot himself in the face with a shotgun

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Democrats need to realize that this is their PUNISHMENT

You have massive populations in left leaning states that spend all their time smoking pot and hating corporations. 10% of their population can actually afford to live there and the rest live in tents on the sidewalk and do heroin. Yet they think they can dictate economic policy over rural america in the name of income equality.

Then they said, "fuck borders". Anyone can come over. For any reason. At any time. It doesn't matter if they have skills. It doesn't matter if they have an education. It doesn't matter if they speak the language. It doesn't matter if they have a criminal record. Their kids can go to our schools for free, and they'll get medicaid all funded by the American taxpayer. God bless the U S A

They villainized anyone successful. They glorified and glamorized victimization. They adopted foolish equity doctrines. And forced post-modernism through our schools. They monopolized academia and raised a generation of adult-babies in debt.

They ran a corrupt presidential campaign by conspiring with a chosen candidate instead of allowing for a fair fight. US intelligence agencies were corrupted to facilitate an investigation into Trump's campaign.

And it's all happening within a chaotic social justice pissing contest.

Trump represents everyone who is pissed off by the above, and it's a lot of people. He's saying what they think, and doing what they want him to do. He's fumbled a few times, no doubt. But I still say nothing objectively terrible has happened, and the country is actually running pretty great.

You guys seem to think that there are people out there that think Trump is infallible and Trump can do no wrong, and Trump is beyond criticism, etc etc etc etc. You think that Trump has duped these people into buying into his rhetoric and believing in his perceived greatness.

I can see why you would think that, but it's completely wrong. Those people would think that way about ANY republican. They don't love Trump. They HATE the radical left direction the country was going in (see above). They were fucking pissed off, and anyone who echoed their anger would be loved. Trump just happened to be that guy. He's merely an avatar for the middle-class, middle-American sentiment that rages against the rapidly increasing overreaches of the left.

That's actually a really good way to put it. He's an avatar.

It really could have been anybody. But it helps that he's a disgusting, foul-mouthed, grouchy, outspoken pig of a man. I mean that's one way to really spike the football in the democrats faces. And it's EXACTLY why the left's failure to learn their lesson, and their doubling-down on the identity politics bullshit will cost them in the midterms. You watch.

I actually think most of this is correct. We may differ on degrees, but yeah, Trump is a big fuck you to the political establishment, those benefitting from progress without giving a care to those who suffer from it, etc.

Now that we've come to this common ground, how do we keep this clown from destroying the world? His primary attribute, as you've said, is that he enrages the other side. What happens when his inclination to do so results in what is not unreasonably causing the word treason to be floated*? We get it, you're mad, and you have a right to be, but now that you've lashed out, how do we actually move forward and fix the problem?

*I don't agree that he's committed treason, but we are in a situation where the word entering the conversation isn't as absurd as it should be. He's certainly flirted with treason in publicly entertaining the idea of handing over a former US ambassador for interrogation by a adversarial foreign power.

[BananaStand]

Now that we've come to this common ground, how do we keep this clown from destroying the world?

Stop with this. He's not going to destroy the world, nor could he. And actually, there's a hell of a lot less nuclear testing and saber-rattling than their has been in a while. So give some credit where credit is due. You can't say he's a potential world-destroyer when he's still a potential candidate for the nobel peace prize. Seriously wtf?

*I don't agree that he's committed treason, but we are in a situation where the word entering the conversation isn't as absurd as it should be.

He's been called racist, misogynist, sexist, fascist, nazi, dictator, totalitarian, puppet, cheater, liar, and a vast number of other seemingly disqualifying epithets. In fact, this isn't even the first time the word "treason" has been thrown around. In fact, the first time it was Trump's guy, Bannon, who said the word. It wasn't some left leaning journalists who needed a new buzzword to sell papers. What makes you think this even matters?

[wufwugy]

I actually think most of this is correct. We may differ on degrees, but yeah, Trump is a big fuck you to the political establishment, those benefitting from progress without giving a care to those who suffer from it, etc.

A question is why is he a big fuck you to the establishment? As an insider, I can say it's because the view is that the establishment is screwing people over. Which means that for Trump to be a successful politician according to his supporters, he has to make things better.

This brings us to what I use, the prediction model of reality. So far, the prediction model of reality has shown that virtually every Trump-specific concern anybody had was wrong.