Call Me Charlie posted:

https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/status/839976858380804096

MaxxBot posted:

Of course that guy's sending a bunch of tweets to Louise Mensch, who is being treated as a serious person by desperate Russia-obsessed liberals despite being as nutty as Alex Jones.

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/ChazBono/status/840614443167842309

MaxxBot posted:

https://twitter.com/ChazBono/status/840614443167842309

FuzzySkinner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLKnCeeAW48

FuzzySkinner posted:

On another note

Sam Bee kept calling people at CPAC "PEOPLE WITH NAZI HAIRCUTS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0G6FauoFTY

As it turned out? The person she mocked has STAGE FOUR Brain Cancer. (pretty much meaning you know...he's terminal), isn't a republican (is actually a registered Democrat), and a journalist.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Fiction posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLKnCeeAW48

echinopsis posted:

it reads like its fake but lol

Sun Wu Kampf posted:

Harveygod posted:

What is the "Aryan Girls in Wheat Fields"? Is that a thing?

Grondoth posted:

It's clearly fake and a joke. Aryan women in wheat fields might as well be the punchline.

quote:

WILMINGTON, Ohio — Thousands of miles from here, the Kremlin is denying accusations that it meddled in the U.S. presidential election. But in this town of rolling farmland and main streets shaded by grain elevators, the barrage of news coming out about the Trump administration’s ties to Russia has fallen on mostly indifferent ears.

“The Russia thing doesn’t fit too well here,” Harold Rowland said in between bites of his breakfast at McDonald’s. “Nobody really cares.”

Rowland, 75, comes almost every morning to this McDonald’s on the outskirts of town to sit and talk with three other Wilmington residents who have formed an informal breakfast club.

[Feeling forgotten by Obama, people in this Ohio town look to Trump with cautious hope]

They’ve only discussed Russia once in recent weeks — when former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned over revelations about his potentially illegal contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

“He was out of bounds for sure,” said Rowland, who last voted for a Democrat in 1964.

Wayne Smith, 74, said he’s skeptical about all the stories of ties between President Trump’s associates and Russia.

“Is there something there? Probably,” said Smith, who walks with a cane and stands up about every 10 minutes to relieve the pressure on his back, a lingering reminder of his half-century working as a barber before he retired. “But Judas Priest, don’t go overboard.”

Smith said he thinks the media and Democrats have “made a mountain out of a molehill” and killed off any chance for a rational discussion. When he watched Trump’s joint address to Congress last week, he felt buoyed by it.

“I saw 72 percent approved or something like that,” said Smith, likely alluding to a joint CNN/ORC poll following the speech that reported that about 7 in 10 who tuned in were more optimistic about the direction of the country.

“It’s a start, but I wish he was more upright, more presidential,” Smith said, smiling. “But you know, he still speaks our language … the language of the country boy.”

Tom Speer, 70, seemed more perturbed by the news on Russia. “Do I think it affected the outcome of the election?” Speer said. “No, but they have no business meddling in ours.”

As for Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador, Speer said the retired lieutenant general had just “put the cart before the horse.”

The four men at the table said they are pleased with how Trump is running the country and remain optimistic, no matter the news coming out of Washington.

“Trump is doing great,” Speer said. “He’s not God or Superman, but he’s done what he could with his executive orders.”

Since the election and Trump’s inauguration, the town has been more focused on local issues. In early February, retail giant Amazon.com decided to pull a burgeoning shipping hub and plans for as many as 3,000 new jobs at Wilmington’s airpark, opting instead to take a $10 million dollar tax break to relocate to Kentucky. That news dashed hopes that the town would be able to pump new life into its economy soon. (Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, owns The Washington Post.)

At a coffee shop six miles away and closer into town, Emma Heyo, 20, said the Russia news had barely crossed her radar, appearing only sporadically on her social media feeds.

“Russia stuff? I really don’t know much about it,” said Heyo, a part-time barista who is studying medical massage in nearby Dayton. “We’re friendly with Putin, right? And friends are better than enemies.

“To be honest, politics is something I try and avoid,” she added.

Mostly white and with a population of roughly 12,000 people, Wilmington’s surrounding county of Clinton has gone Republican in every presidential race since 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson was elected. In November, it cast more votes for Trump than any other Republican candidate in the county’s history. In another first, more than 70 percent of Wilmington’s eligible voting population came out to the polls.

Yet there is a small core of residents who are less enamored of Trump.

The Page Turners’ Book Club, which meets once a month in the basement of Wilmington’s library, had just finished their discussion of the 2016 bestseller “The Nest” by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney before talking about a recent piece in the New Yorker titled “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War.”

“Our hair’s on fire, and this stuff can’t come out fast enough,” said Mary Thomas Watts about the flood of news about Russia and Trump. A former journalist from Mississippi, Watts sits on the board of the library, leads the Page Turners’ discussion and usually helps organize the weekly progressive happy hour at the General Denver Hotel in town.

After learning that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had potentially misled Congress by saying he did not have contact with the Russians during Trump’s campaign, the group of six women and one man was incensed.

“They all have got to go,” Watts said.

Watts attended the Women’s March on Washington, while others in the group participated in a smaller march at Wilmington’s courthouse the same day. “Just imagine this group all in pink hats,” Watts said.

The small group and their liberal leanings are a rarity in Wilmington, a fact they’ve become acutely aware of as the town turned out in droves for Trump.

Julie Butcher, member of the book club and an employee at a local insurance company, said that her 14-year-old daughter has “Trump!” yelled in her face regularly at school after she admitted to voting for Hillary Clinton during a mock election in the fall.

“You can’t say anything, and you can’t post anything because you just get attacked,” Butcher said.

Baloogan posted:

i gave a little poo poo then i realized lol the cold war is over and russia isn't trying to take over the world just like, eastern euro countrys

The Brown Menace posted:

The Russia thing is being pushed hard mostly because dems think (wishfully) that they can continue being bad and still win if they do so

Harveygod posted:

"They undermined our election by revealing that we were undermining the election but pay no attention to that, fruit of the poison tree and whatnot!"

Also lol at every Democrat who blames Comey's letter but not Bill Clinton's clandestine meeting on the tarmac to "talk about our grandkids."

FuzzySkinner posted:

The only that wikileaks did was successfully confirm what anyone who voted for Bernie already knew. The Clintons and their pals have a stranglehold on the party, and that they're very crooked.

Harveygod posted:

A lot of the GOP openly disliked Trump while the DNC secretly worked to guarantee Clinton the nomination. The DNC is literally the more corrupt party and liberals' brains are rejecting it, leading to "RUSHINS!!!"

FuzzySkinner posted:

https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/status/840442119227637760

(my comic book geek friend has told me that ironically "cap" is a Nazi)

logikv9 posted:

don't go down the primary road dudes

breaklaw posted:

It's unbelievable that the only people doing serious postmortems on Clinton's loss are liberal YouTubers, who are now just as anti-establishment as the Tea Party was in 2014.

What are the real Democrats with power saying? What is Shumer and Booker and Perez's answer on how to move forward? Are they really just going to keep up the "Trump BAD!" poo poo for the next 2 years? Are rank and file dems going to let them? WTF

breaklaw posted:

It's unbelievable that the only people doing serious postmortems on Clinton's loss are liberal YouTubers, who are now just as anti-establishment as the Tea Party was in 2014.

What are the real Democrats with power saying? What is Shumer and Booker and Perez's answer on how to move forward? Are they really just going to keep up the "Trump BAD!" poo poo for the next 2 years? Are rank and file dems going to let them? WTF

logikv9 posted:

don't go down the primary road dudes

mgreen42 posted:

Why not? The primary -is- the only debate we have left now. Unless you'd like to face the reality that politically, and with regards to anyone remotely in power, it's Conservative VS Ultra-Conservative for the next eight years.

breaklaw posted:

It's unbelievable that the only people doing serious postmortems on Clinton's loss are liberal YouTubers, who are now just as anti-establishment as the Tea Party was in 2014.

What are the real Democrats with power saying? What is Shumer and Booker and Perez's answer on how to move forward? Are they really just going to keep up the "Trump BAD!" poo poo for the next 2 years? Are rank and file dems going to let them? WTF

Grognan posted:

Wondering if another forum is an ok topic for this thread now that most of the people in this thread are banned if they post in said forum.

BexGu posted:

https://twitter.com/Tzereter/status/840763175201062912

Grognan posted:

Wondering if another forum is an ok topic for this thread now that most of the people in this thread are banned if they post in said forum.