Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 180: The Summit All Fears

(+) Yeah! (+)

Everything about the NK "deal" makes sense when you realize Trump has no intention to follow through on any deal they end up making.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Panthera posted...

Would you really be okay with Trump not taking questions about North Korea at all or would you think it was a sign of him hiding something?

yeah, perhaps not giving any interviews at all is impossible, but did he really need to go on fox to give this particular interview? it seems like he's seeking out the media to gush about all the things he likes about kim. that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If you look at Trump statements in the past he literally only gushes or criticizes. There is no middle ground. He doesn't do nuance. Kim would take equivocation as suspicious, and he'd be right to do so given Trump's record.

At the same time, we should also look at that same record and understand not to take what Trump says literally. At this point it's pretty much a reading comprehension issue.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

yeah, perhaps not giving any interviews at all is impossible, but did he really need to go on fox to give this particular interview? it seems like he's seeking out the media to gush about all the things he likes about kim. that just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Honestly this is probably the smarter path, since he can make it seem like he was speaking more off the top of his head and focusing on the positive because he feels the process is going well. If he avoided interviews he'd get hounded for it until he gave in, and then he'd be clearly giving a statement that you'd expect to have a lot more thought put into it.

This, of course, assumes Trump really is the 5D chess master and not just a buffoon rambling about whatever crosses his mind, but that's kind of the point <_<
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https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1007271591372304384?s=19
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Trump saluted a NK general. The fuck?

https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/1007258389305536513
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the general extending his hand and trump saluting lmfao
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lol. can someone make a gif out of that?
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Kim's smile says it all.
They won this, no contest. Trump has the negotiating power of an ant in an abandoned cabin.
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SgtSphynx posted...

https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1007271591372304384?s=19

Correct me if I'm wrong:

1) This is the first time the Trump Foundation has been sued since Donald was elected.

2) This is the first time Donald Junior, Eric, and Ivanka have been sued since Donald Senior was elected.

3) This is the second or third time Donald has been sued since he was elected (Stormy Daniels and this, with Colin Kaepernick recently being on the verge of subpoenaing him).
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@Jakyl25 please remember the tag it's worthless if you don't use it
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Peace___Frog posted...

Trump saluted a NK general. The fuck?

https://twitter.com/Hadas_Gold/status/1007258389305536513

55 seconds in

https://twitter.com/BBCMonitoring/status/1007152848847634433
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I REALLY hope this whole North Korea thing goes somewhere...

Raise your hands if you feel more and more like Trump's election victory was inevitable with each passing day.

And on the whole Canada thing, apparently Canada has been the butt of jokes from the American right for a while for being "too liberal"...congrats.

But obviously it's worth destroying Canada because it's Anita Sarkeesian's country! Totally not being sarcastic.

Seriously, I'm astonished people hate the left THIS much, to vote in Trump and stand by him no matter what he does.
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My Chinese buddys text the morning after the election remains both hilarious and haunting: So, hows that democracy going?

This was the buddy who actually wants to move here anyway, not the College Communists dude
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics/76710515

There's details posted throughout the topic (it's not in any one source). It's incredibly disturbing to say the least.
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I know I said that the lack of adequate response to Puerto Ricos crisis is Trumps most despicable thing, but this migrant issue is making a hard push.
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maybe he'll just try to combine the two and start shipping the kids to puerto rico
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KamikazePotato posted...

There's details posted throughout the topic (it's not in any one source).

The link I posted this morning threaded most of that journalist's tweets on the subject. Not to say it's the whole story, obviously.

xp1337 posted...

https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1007071603887362048

A bit of a thread, but... Honestly, I don't really know what to say.

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So my question is, say you are a parent. If you offer to leave with your kids, will they let you leave into Mexico or where you came from?
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I've been avoiding politics for a week and I catch back up to a nightmare.
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red sox 777 posted...

So my question is, say you are a parent. If you offer to leave with your kids, will they let you leave into Mexico or where you came from?

https://media2.giphy.com/media/63vbL2hhmxDkk/200w.gif
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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao
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LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao

Yeah, and Trump and staff have been notably lax on computer security standards. It is literally unbelievable in retrospect that Clinton's emails remained such a huge issue leading up to the election. It really speaks to how shameless republicans are, and how bad news media can be with their "both sides" shtick.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao

Ahem. I counter.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1007376361101582336
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I just saw that too fool. Incredible.
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GildedFool posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao

Ahem. I counter.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1007376361101582336

Extraordinary.
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GildedFool posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao

Ahem. I counter.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1007376361101582336

lordy
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Ok Ill vote for you now Hill
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Hillary made a funny!
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GildedFool posted...

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1007376361101582336

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God dammit. https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1007395022227066880?s=19
https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1007395357465153536?s=19
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Icehawk posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

lmao

Yeah, and Trump and staff have been notably lax on computer security standards. It is literally unbelievable in retrospect that Clinton's emails remained such a huge issue leading up to the election. It really speaks to how shameless republicans are, and how bad news media can be with their "both sides" shtick.

oh word? i thought you were dead
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Gee. I wonder which party wants to limit voting?
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I just realized this lawsuit against the Trump Foundation came out on Donald's birthday.

"Happy birthday -- you and three of your children can celebrate in court."

Impressively petty.
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HaRRicH posted...

I just realized this lawsuit against the Trump Foundation came out on Donald's birthday.

"Happy birthday -- you and three of your children can celebrate in court."

Impressively petty.

They must be WWE fans.

"Hope you have a good marriage, CM Punk. You're fired."
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I feel like there's been another time or two bad information hit Donald on an important day for him.

Almost every day, sure, but work with me.

Maybe it was Christmas, maybe New Year's, maybe President's Day, maybe an anniversay -- anybody know what I'm talkibg about? I don't wanna look up holidays.
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HaRRicH posted...

I feel like there's been another time or two bad information hit Donald on an important day for him.

Almost every day, sure, but work with me.

Maybe it was Christmas, maybe New Year's, maybe President's Day, maybe an anniversay -- anybody know what I'm talkibg about? I don't wanna look up holidays.

Rusev Day?
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Personally I always thought it was fishy that people were so hung up on Hillary's e-mails when Trump's scandals go relatively downplayed.

However I think a lot of it is Hillary being a victim of her own overexposure, combined with Trump being a new personality to politics so people haven't had the time to digest his crap.

I'm honestly amazed Trump didn't win more easily than he did.
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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Personally I always thought it was fishy that people were so hung up on Hillary's e-mails when Trump's scandals go relatively downplayed.

However I think a lot of it is Hillary being a victim of her own overexposure, combined with Trump being a new personality to politics so people haven't had the time to digest his crap.

I'm honestly amazed Trump didn't win more easily than he did.

Trump outright admitted he wasn't a normal politician, or politically correct, or a whole bunch of other things you'd expect a Presidential candidate to be. So if you actually were willing to accept him despite that, scandals that make him look like he's not a competent, experienced politician do jack shit. His supporters know he isn't and doesn't care. Clinton on the other hand, her selling point was basically "I've been in politics forever so you can trust me to be competent at the job". The email thing then makes it seem like she can't even follow the most basic instructions to do her job properly. It goes against the entire image she wanted to sell. So it ended up hurting her far worse than much worse Trump scandals, simply because anyone who would care about Trump's problems was never his target audience to begin with, while Clinton's scandals undermined what some of her supporters saw in her.

Also doesn't help that not getting email security is like the most "out of touch old person" stereotype imaginable, and Clinton was relying on young people to vote for her, and young people tend to refuse to vote for anyone they don't relate to, anyone they think is out of touch or old fashioned...really anyone that doesn't seem like someone they'd want to hang out with.
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1007650252575379456

Manafort sent to jail after judge cancels his house arrest, according to Bloomberg. https://t.co/6MBZf4ADZT

"Nothingburger"
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Panthera posted...

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Personally I always thought it was fishy that people were so hung up on Hillary's e-mails when Trump's scandals go relatively downplayed.

However I think a lot of it is Hillary being a victim of her own overexposure, combined with Trump being a new personality to politics so people haven't had the time to digest his crap.

I'm honestly amazed Trump didn't win more easily than he did.

Trump outright admitted he wasn't a normal politician, or politically correct, or a whole bunch of other things you'd expect a Presidential candidate to be. So if you actually were willing to accept him despite that, scandals that make him look like he's not a competent, experienced politician do jack shit. His supporters know he isn't and doesn't care. Clinton on the other hand, her selling point was basically "I've been in politics forever so you can trust me to be competent at the job". The email thing then makes it seem like she can't even follow the most basic instructions to do her job properly. It goes against the entire image she wanted to sell. So it ended up hurting her far worse than much worse Trump scandals, simply because anyone who would care about Trump's problems was never his target audience to begin with, while Clinton's scandals undermined what some of her supporters saw in her.

Also doesn't help that not getting email security is like the most "out of touch old person" stereotype imaginable, and Clinton was relying on young people to vote for her, and young people tend to refuse to vote for anyone they don't relate to, anyone they think is out of touch or old fashioned...really anyone that doesn't seem like someone they'd want to hang out with.

Yes I read what she had to say about it in her book. She made it seem like people were generally against her using her private e-mail account for government-related info, despite that tons of politicians have done so in the past (and continue to do so, e.g. Mike Pence).

Though I personally think that with the exception of horrible timing on James Comey bringing back the case mere days before the election, the e-mail thing didn't hurt much. People would have just looked for more excuses to paint Hillary as incompetent.
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Peace___Frog posted...

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1007650252575379456

Manafort sent to jail after judge cancels his house arrest, according to Bloomberg. https://t.co/6MBZf4ADZT

"Nothingburger"

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1007679422865006593?s=21

What an incredible, horrendous embarrassment to America this guy is.
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He didnt know Manafort was the head of the mob! Plausible deniability!
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This is your reminder that Manafort led the campaign for longer than Bannon did.
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Donald's tweet reads to me as "Republicans, hooooo!"

Manafuck'd.
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He also expressed distress for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's ambassador.

"I feel badly for General Flynn. He's lost his house, he's lost his life. And some people say, 'he lied' and some people say, 'he didn't lie.' Really it turned out maybe he didn't lie," he told reporters.

That string of sentences alone would get most Presidents (rightfully) impeached.
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The most disgusting lie Trump is telling at he moment is his blatantly false claim that he has no choice but to separate families at the border because of the Democrats refusing to change the law

The law has not changed since he became president, and the Obama administration wasnt ripping kids away from their parents and essentially jailing them. Furthermore, Jeff Sessions and John Kelly have explicitly said that they made this policy change in the hopes that such cruelty would act as a deterrent.

He cant even own his own fucking human rights abuses. What a piece of shit.
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The absolute worst thing about Trump is that his supporters will blindly support him because "It makes the libs mad"
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Ashethan posted...

The absolute worst thing about Trump is that his supporters will blindly support him because "It makes the libs mad"

You mean like this trash

https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1007291904948670465

Her claim to fame was posing for senior pictures with rifles... at Kent University, which kind of has a history with guns on campus.
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Maybe we should start doing things just to 'own the cons'. I say instead of kneeling, football players should just give the finger during the anthem. Do it at least once. Take the fine, and be like "Yeah, well fuck you."
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Ashethan posted...

Maybe we should start doing things just to 'own the cons'.

Worked for Donald Trump!
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