Phobophilia posted:

btw i know left twitter is obsessed with making GBS threads over the russia intel stuff because partially because they think its a distraction from changing the economic policies of the democratic party, and partially because a good portion of the frothing anti russia people are idiots

but holy poo poo, we've known that trump has been compromised by putin and is playing into putin's attempts to fracture western liberal democracies into ethnonationalist enclaves, in an attempt to maintain the prestige of his own crumbling ethnonationalist kleptostate. we've known this for months, guccifier 2.0, rt, jokes about kompromat, all this was talked about before the freaking election

one of the problems with democrats is that their messaging tends to be over complicated, here is a super simple one: trump is a puppet of putin. bing bang bong simple. we're just trying to delegitimize trump and weaken his ability to run roughshod with his policies

CortezFantastic posted:

based on Trump's meltdown and what he has said in the past about Russian women, there has to be a kernal of truth, although the piss story may be false

GalacticAcid posted:

Trump has joined YPG

Puppy Galaxy posted:

I feel like those docs are probably all fabricated but also am 100% certain that Trump loves getting pissed on by Russian hookers

Ron Jeremy posted:

That'd be pretty funny if the story is deflated by a honeypot document that was easily disprovable but had the real nugget (or stream in this case) of truth in it. Kind of like GWB's vacation from the national guard and the keening bullshit.

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

This is an excellent article and you should all read it.

quote:

I am despising myself for a coward today. I stopped for gas on the way to the polls, and noticed a hole in the frame of the car that you could push a parrot through. Dammit, I can’t afford a new car, and I don’t know if I can afford a welded patch- I don’t even know what would be involved, since so much has to be stripped off before you can bring a torch near a car body. I was in a pretty bad state when I got to the polls.

Let me explain my conundrum: all democratic primaries are proportional, among candidates who get 15% or more of the votes. The republicans have a whole slew of delegate procedures, but ours is winner take all. [I could contribute one fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a delegate to Sanders, or help push Trump over the top.]

What’s the outcome here? Sanders isn’t going to win. He doesn’t have the delegates- hell, he doesn’t have the votes. Doesn’t have the support. Clinton is the democratic nominee, and frankly she’s favored to win in the general election, even though in a head-to-head she gets trounced by Cruz, Kasich, or Rubio. Right now she polls ahead of Trump, but Trump is the one factor in this race that could completely kick the whole thing over. What happens if Clinton wins? For me, nothing- nothing good anyway. I still can’t afford car repairs, I still have to buy medication in cash raised by selling hay bales. No, I didn’t bale them, I trucked them across the county. If you bale them yourself, you make money at it, but I just had some extras to unload. That’ll still be the shape of things in a Clinton presidency.

Lets be honest- Clinton doesn’t give a poo poo about me. When Clinton talks about people hurt by the economy, she means you: elite-educated white-collar people with obvious career tracks who are having trouble with their bills and their 401k plans. That’s who boomed under the last president Clinton, especially the 401ks. Me, or the three guys fighting two nights ago over the Township mowing contract, we’re nothing. Clinton doesn’t have an economic plan for us. Nobody has an economic plan for us. There is no economic plan for us, ever. We keep driving trucks around and keep the margins above gas money and maybe take an odd job here or there, but essentially, we’re history and nobody seems to mind saying so.

And let me be honest again- Trump doesn’t have an economic plan for me either. What Trump’s boys have for me is a noose- but that’s the choice I’m facing, a lifetime of grueling poverty, or apocalypse. Yeah I know, not fun and games- the shouts, the smashing glass, the headlights on the lawn, but what am I supposed to do, raise my kid to stay one step ahead of the inspectors and don’t, for the love of god, don’t ever miss a payment on your speeding ticket? A noose is something I know how to fight. A hole in the frame of my car is not. A lifetime of feeling that sense, that “ohhhh, shiiiiiit…” of recognition that another year will go by without any major change in the way of things, little misfortunes upon misfortunes… a lifetime of paying a grand a month to the same financial industry busily padding the 401k plans of cyclists in spandex, who declare a new era of prosperity in America? Who can find clarity, a sense of self, any kind of redemption in that world?

gently caress it. Give me the fascists, I’ll know where I stand…

But I went ahead and took a democratic ballot regardless. And voted for Sanders. And as long as chumps like me keep doing that, we’ll keep getting the Clintons we deserve.

uber_stoat posted:

Everyone's favorite Chapo Trap House Tulpa Eric Garland has given us our marching orders for the new year. put on your Resist t-shirt and get cracking.

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/819350025713098752

uber_stoat posted:

Everyone's favorite Chapo Trap House Tulpa Eric Garland has given us our marching orders for the new year. put on your Resist t-shirt and get cracking.

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/819350025713098752

super fart shooter posted:

Matt was on another podcast today to talk about failsons in the trump administration. The segment starts around 24 minutes in

https://twitter.com/samsacks/status/819330047714750465

super fart shooter posted:

Matt was on another podcast today to talk about failsons in the trump administration. The segment starts around 24 minutes in

https://twitter.com/samsacks/status/819330047714750465

Nanomashoes posted:

power botton posted:

I would love just a 30 minute attack like Chelsea Perretti at tech crunch but after that she's probably been blacklisted.

power botton posted:

I would love just a 30 minute attack like Chelsea Perretti at tech crunch but after that she's probably been blacklisted.

Phobophilia posted:

btw i know left twitter is obsessed with making GBS threads over the russia intel stuff because partially because they think its a distraction from changing the economic policies of the democratic party, and partially because a good portion of the frothing anti russia people are idiots

but holy poo poo, we've known that trump has been compromised by putin and is playing into putin's attempts to fracture western liberal democracies into ethnonationalist enclaves, in an attempt to maintain the prestige of his own crumbling ethnonationalist kleptostate. we've known this for months, guccifier 2.0, rt, jokes about kompromat, all this was talked about before the freaking election

one of the problems with democrats is that their messaging tends to be over complicated, here is a super simple one: trump is a puppet of putin. bing bang bong simple. we're just trying to delegitimize trump and weaken his ability to run roughshod with his policies

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

Bakoon done broke this Dude's brain
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/819713491711967234

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/819747185222971400

Die Sexmonster! posted:

Screenshots, people!

Bryter posted:

it was a tweet showing a screenshot of a Peter Daou tweet, but the Daou tweet was fake

GalacticAcid posted:

does anyone who doesn't live on twitter know who peter daou is

GalacticAcid posted:

does anyone who doesn't live on twitter know who peter daou is

GalacticAcid posted:

The Right has discovered the Trap

quote:

Much of the commentary from the dirtbag Left sounds more like Peter Thiel’s speech at the Republican National Convention than something you’d hear at Occupy Wall Street.

ManoliIsFat posted:

Dang, they really know how to needle the boys.