Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 128: Total Eclipse of Breitbart

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

So there is a pretty nasty storm headed toward Houston. This might wind up being a turning point for Trump as he deals with the real-world impact of his role as president, or an unmitigated disaster if the federal response has been anything like the rest of his presidency.

God is giving him every chance to make W look better
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/900780127444971521
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LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/900780127444971521

Top reply

"I'm shocked!" said absolutely no one.

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On one hand, I don't really anybody to look much into the posting history of people they retweet, and the image that Trump did retweet was innocuous.

On the other, he's the fucking president and why is he retweeting memes?
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LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/900780127444971521

You don't say.


As far as the hurricane in Texas goes, you know he'll complain about how someone besides himself is obstructing him. For instance, that the Senate hasn't confirmed his picks for government jobs to handle it! When in reality it's that he doesn't have nearly enough people, and the ones who he does have don't give half a shit.
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Anyone read that Trump officially sent a memo to Mattis about kicking out Transgender Soldiers in six months?
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

So there is a pretty nasty storm headed toward Houston. This might wind up being a turning point for Trump as he deals with the real-world impact of his role as president, or an unmitigated disaster if the federal response has been anything like the rest of his presidency.

Hopefully the way trump handles it will not live up to Kanye west's standards and Kanye will abruptly talk shit about trump on national television. That would be neat.
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Hannity: "Look, Trump said everything you could have asked for. He apologized to the families of lost loved ones that he demanded FEMA not respond, he offered his condolences to all Confederate monuments hit by the storm...and the media will never be satisfied!"
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TheRock1525 posted...

Anyone read that Trump officially sent a memo to Mattis about kicking out Transgender Soldiers in six months?

Yeah you'd think that would have happened BEFORE he tweeted blanket statements with no details

I would be pissed if I was in the military, taking troops out of the fight right as you say we need to send more over.
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Jakyl25 posted...

TheRock1525 posted...

Anyone read that Trump officially sent a memo to Mattis about kicking out Transgender Soldiers in six months?

Yeah you'd think that would have happened BEFORE he tweeted blanket statements with no details

I would be pissed if I was in the military, taking troops out of the fight right as you say we need to send more over.

Seriously. You'd think we'd want every willing fighter!
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

So there is a pretty nasty storm headed toward Houston. This might wind up being a turning point for Trump as he deals with the real-world impact of his role as president, or an unmitigated disaster if the federal response has been anything like the rest of his presidency.

Forecasts for 10-20 inches of rain over 3-4 days, it's going to be miserable. For context, the floods Houston has had the last couple years were around that level, but mostly on a localized level. This time there are chances that there are a couple counties with at least that much.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

So there is a pretty nasty storm headed toward Houston. This might wind up being a turning point for Trump as he deals with the real-world impact of his role as president, or an unmitigated disaster if the federal response has been anything like the rest of his presidency.

God is giving him every chance to make W look better

Its true - with every passing day I wish for the Party of W to come back
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/yoojin_cho/status/900725436556161024

Just listen

That is no slip of the tongue

yeah this is the county in SC that is due South of Charlotte and houses a bunch of Charlotte suburbs and while its pretty metropolitan its really discouraging that this still goes on here.
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Speaking of Dubya:

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

Misleading title, but Dubya and Bill Clinton share a nice long interview together from this summer. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, just go to their last question at 45:42 and see how differently they answer it from what we expect out of Donald.
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I watched that interview already harrich.


It just made me sad.

To see two previous presidents both acting with such dignity and poise. And then to contrast that with reality.


I still don't agree with some significant W policies, but at least he's not a parody of a human being.
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I still want to make very clear that the handling of the Iraq war is worse than anything Trump has done to date

but it's adorable to think back on the idea that GWB was ever a laughingstock of a president

we really didn't know

So with Trump's complete incompetence, do you think this will mean that in the future there is not as much power in the hands of the executive? Because that would be nice.
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https://twitter.com/chet_cannon/status/900777218787336192

Alice since deleted the tweet, but it's a glimpse into what the far left thinks. These are sick people.

UltiXX posted...

https://twitter.com/chet_cannon/status/900777218787336192

Alice since deleted the tweet, but it's a glimpse into what the far left thinks. These are sick people.

What does it say?
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Frankly, however sick ulti thinks the left is, he has his own bedfellows who delight in murder and imagined genocide. And that's his issue. Not ours. Please stop quoting him.
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If you're that interested in what Ulti has to say, just click the stupid Twitter link. It's not going to kill you. You shouldn't need people to transcribe them for you just because "I don't do Twitter"
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StealThisSheen posted...

If you're that interested in what Ulti has to say, just click the stupid Twitter link. It's not going to kill you. You shouldn't need people to transcribe them for you just because "I don't do Twitter"

It might. What if it has a seizure-inducing video.
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SupremeZero posted...

StealThisSheen posted...

If you're that interested in what Ulti has to say, just click the stupid Twitter link. It's not going to kill you. You shouldn't need people to transcribe them for you just because "I don't do Twitter"

It might. What if it has a seizure-inducing video.

Well then it wouldn't get posted because the person who would've posted it would instead be having a seizure

Checkmate
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Peace___Frog posted...

Frankly, however sick ulti thinks the left is, he has his own bedfellows who delight in murder and imagined genocide. And that's his issue. Not ours. Please stop quoting him.

XFD this guy is so mad

Unlike the holy liberal media calling Antifa "counter protestors" and endorsing their garbage, conservative media has been disavowing white supremacist trash for decades.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I still want to make very clear that the handling of the Iraq war is worse than anything Trump has done to date

but it's adorable to think back on the idea that GWB was ever a laughingstock of a president

we really didn't know

It's scary to think how bad the next President could be without getting much backlash simply because they're still better than Trump
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The whole "Liberals are literally always wrong" comment he made earlier confirmed(Even for hopefuls like me) two things.

1. He isn't interested in having an actual intellectual conversation. That's the same mentality of a polititroll, or a Trump bot on Twitter.

2. He hasn't really changed. His claim that he wants to "remove negativity" doesn't hold water when he's all too eager to spread negativity.

He's still the same shitposter we've grown tired of. So there's really no need to pay him any attention. He only wants to cause trouble.

Which is really a shame.
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Dark Young Link posted...

1. He isn't interested in having an actual intellectual conversation. That's the same mentality of a polititroll, or a Trump bot on Twitter.

This really hits the point. Trying to talk to Ulti at this point is actually literally the same as trying to talk to a bot. He will occasionally claim he's changed to try to convince people otherwise, but it's always just fucking lies from him.
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Do not engage him.
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Fuck, Ulti, even I'm getting to this point.
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Rasmussen today:

Strongly approve - 26%
Approve - 42%
Disapprove - 56%
Strongly disapprove - 47%
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Lightning Strikes posted...

So with Trump's complete incompetence, do you think this will mean that in the future there is not as much power in the hands of the executive? Because that would be nice.

The more Trump gets into clashes with McConnell the more and more likely it gets that the Senate takes more and more power from the executive.

We already saw it with Russian sanctions where Congress voted to tie his hands.

If Trump somehow serves out his term i expect that by the end Congress will essentially be in control of most things other than the military.
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I kinda doubt the executive loses much power. I think there's not many issues where they'd have a veto-proof majority ready to do so. Plus, cynically I feel like Congress may not want those powers because it means they can be held accountable for those decisions.
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Eddv posted...

Lightning Strikes posted...

So with Trump's complete incompetence, do you think this will mean that in the future there is not as much power in the hands of the executive? Because that would be nice.

The more Trump gets into clashes with McConnell the more and more likely it gets that the Senate takes more and more power from the executive.

We already saw it with Russian sanctions where Congress voted to tie his hands.

If Trump somehow serves out his term i expect that by the end Congress will essentially be in control of most things other than the military.

So rather than fucking the establishment, he'd be... empowering and establishing it. *smokes the irony*
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xp1337 posted...

I kinda doubt the executive loses much power. I think there's not many issues where they'd have a veto-proof majority ready to do so. Plus, cynically I feel like Congress may not want those powers because it means they can be held accountable for those decisions.

Theyre already talking about overriding Trumps threatened veto of the debt ceiling.
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Eddv posted...

Theyre already talking about overriding Trumps threatened veto of the debt ceiling.

As they should. The debt ceiling is not something to be fucking around with.
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xp1337 posted...

I kinda doubt the executive loses much power. I think there's not many issues where they'd have a veto-proof majority ready to do so. Plus, cynically I feel like Congress may not want those powers because it means they can be held accountable for those decisions.

I think that there's some weight to this, but i do expect the executive branch to have some power loss over the next few years.
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Eddv posted...

xp1337 posted...

I kinda doubt the executive loses much power. I think there's not many issues where they'd have a veto-proof majority ready to do so. Plus, cynically I feel like Congress may not want those powers because it means they can be held accountable for those decisions.

Theyre already talking about overriding Trumps threatened veto of the debt ceiling.

That's not taking power from the executive branch! Veto overrides are part of the system! (In fact that issue is Congress's to begin with, a veto is simply a check on their power). I thought you meant like Congress claiming authority over actions that have been granted to the executive.
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https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/900694777519374336

Fuck Sherrif Joe
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As they should. The debt ceiling is not something to be fucking around with.

Help me out with this
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XIII_rocks posted...

Help me out with this

If the debt ceiling were to be reached, the US would default on its debts and it's pretty much agreed that would cause a global economic disaster.
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You know what happens if you owe the government money and you don't make your payments?

Now imagine it's the US not making its payments to various global powers
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Gotcha
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Oh god now I remember campaign Trump threatening to get out of our debt to China by just not paying it and daring them to do something about it.

Fuck.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Gotcha

No problem. It's confusing because the Debt Ceiling is once removed from the actual issue. We need to raise our self/imposed debt ceiling so that we can borrow more money to make our current due payments
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I'm pretty sure Congress won't allow that to happen.

...i wish i could make a stronger declaration than "pretty sure"

But really I think only the HFC would be willing to go along with that. The Democrats will step up and avoid that kind of disaster if it really came to it.
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xp1337 posted...

The Democrats will step up and avoid that kind of disaster if it really came to it.

I like Trump trying to paint the picture that they really won't though.

Trying to spook the GOP into playing his game
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they'd have to have short memories for that to work though

one of the biggest reasons the base turned on Boehner is because he had to keep turning to Pelosi to get things done like this because the HFC wouldn't go along with them

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dammit it might just work
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I bet Boehner has been really enjoying this Trump term
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Oh hey, remember when Trump said he was declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency?

He...never filed the paperwork.

Is this like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy?
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Peace___Frog posted...

Frankly, however sick ulti thinks the left is, he has his own bedfellows who delight in murder and imagined genocide. And that's his issue. Not ours. Please stop quoting him.

I want to know what the Twitter thing said. I only quoted him because of that. Anyone else feel free to post what it said (note: may have been done already. Posting without catching up because I'm in a corriky mood)
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