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Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


If someone like Mitch McConnell was President we would already be hosed and the system would have virtually no way to stop him.

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DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/876394578777174021

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

Radish posted:

If someone like Mitch McConnell was President we would already be hosed and the system would have virtually no way to stop him.

Exactly. There's empathy and there's feeling bad for the dude stabbing you because he can just NOT hit your vital organs

Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account
We have to wait for later today to get the Android tweet solemnly wishing the families of the dead sailors well

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?


Not only is he just plain old wrong on Obama's numbers, 50% is pretty fuckin awful for how recent his election was. :psyduck:

Also that's without even mentioning that rasmussen is full of poo poo and most other places still have him significantly lower.

Robot Hobo
May 18, 2002

robothobo.com

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

Why would I be sad any of these idiots die? They don't give a poo poo about anyone their policies kill.
It's the Nazi punching argument all over again. Yes, some people desperately deserve to have bad things happen to them, but it is tactically a terrible idea to make those things happen, because it'll play into their favor, not yours. Even if it would be emotionally satisfying.

Indiana Jones is the gold standard of punching Nazis in the face because it's awesome, but even he knew not to punch Hitler himself when given the opportunity (in Last Crusade) because it would have worked against what he needed to accomplish.

Radish posted:

If someone like Mitch McConnell was President we would already be hosed and the system would have virtually no way to stop him.
Exactly. As hosed up as it is, Donald Trump is our shield, and we need him until the more competently evil fuckers beneath him can be removed. Impeaching him just puts someone horrible AND competent (well, less incompetent) in charge.

Robot Hobo fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jun 18, 2017

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

You know, I was mostly joking when I said last week that Trump would probably brag about the Rasmusen poll again after seeing all the other ones in the mid 30s. I didn't really think he'd do it two days in a row.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

AbsolutelySane posted:

Everyone seems to assume it was something like ITT or ECPI, but it was really just another one of those 'get rich in real estate' seminar scams. I think every idiot that has a fix and flip show has attached their name to one at this point. Basically, they draw you in with a free seminar, then offer more and more expensive seminars and 'mentoring' from 'experts'. The problem is the 'experts' tend to be people picked up off the street and the 'mentoring' can cost upwards of $30-50,000 dollars. If you see 'I Buy Houses' signs scrawled in lovely handwriting littering the side of the road where you live, chances are that person went to one of these things. I don't know the details of Trump University, but I imagine it was something similar.

No, you're pretty much spot on.

smoke sumthin bitch
Dec 14, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Yardbomb posted:

Not only is he just plain old wrong on Obama's numbers, 50% is pretty fuckin awful for how recent his election was. :psyduck:

Also that's without even mentioning that rasmussen is full of poo poo and most other places still have him significantly lower.

Actually 50% is pretty drat good considering the extent of wich the legacy corporate media is doing everything it can to promote his assassination, demonise and push insane conspiracy theories about him. In reality its probably much higher than 50%, those kind of polls are mostly rigged as weve seen during the election.

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

insane conspiracy theories

:ironicat:

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Not higher than President Romney's, however.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

:mmmhmm:





:flip: NOT LAST :flip:

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

smoke sumthin bitch posted:

Actually 50% is pretty drat good considering the extent of wich the legacy corporate media is doing everything it can to promote his assassination, demonise and push insane conspiracy theories about him. In reality its probably much higher than 50%, those kind of polls are mostly rigged as weve seen during the election.

serious question

what brand of floor cleaner is your most favorite to huff

and do you prefer sealed jars or open basins that you can shove our whole fat head into

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


Why the hell is GHWB so drat high up? And how did he gently caress up that good will?

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Yardbomb posted:

Not only is he just plain old wrong on Obama's numbers, 50% is pretty fuckin awful for how recent his election was. :psyduck:

Also that's without even mentioning that rasmussen is full of poo poo and most other places still have him significantly lower.



Those Rassmussen poll numbers were from the day before, day of and day after the shooting at Alexandria.

Gallup's polls were day of, two days after, and suggest a ~2 point upswing in Gallup from previous numbers, which is incidentally about how much higher Rassmussen is as well.

This is basically the "Syria Cruise Missile Bump" and a lot of goons (not including myself) were asserting this is what would happen, so kudos to those goons.

This also probably means these gains will evaporate in a few days. :shrug:

edit:

Of course if you compare it to the average of recent polls, it actually looks like his numbers WENT DOWN with the Gallup polls somehow, while going up with the Rasmussen polls somehow.

That's just more proof that Rassmussen = Republican.

Chilichimp fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jun 18, 2017

Ralepozozaxe
Sep 6, 2010

A Veritable Smorgasbord!

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Why the hell is GHWB so drat high up? And how did he gently caress up that good will?

"Read my lips, no new taxes."

and then he had to raise taxes.

Tatsuta Age
Apr 21, 2005

so good at being in trouble


Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Why the hell is GHWB so drat high up? And how did he gently caress up that good will?

He said no new taxes, then he raised taxes

E;fb

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Why the hell is GHWB so drat high up? And how did he gently caress up that good will?

The greatest crime of all: raising taxes

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
Jesus look at that 911 spike on Ws.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Jesus look at that 911 spike on Ws.

I really like that cliff on Ford's, which I assume was the day he announced Richard Nixon was cool and good and would not be going to prison.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Jesus look at that 911 spike on Ws.

The world gave him one free shot and he blew it.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

The best part of these graphs is the seeing the obviously recent uptick in polling frequency.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/876446947221155841
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/876446702785482756
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/876430130024816640
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/876427062076223488
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875701471999864833
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/876448546282774528
https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/876402910992748548
https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/876434992611590145
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/876401649669074944
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/876445280647995393

https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/876218548523327488

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer
Adam Schiff needs to get some proper-fitting shirts, drat. Did he lose a bunch of weight recently or something?


loving hahahahahahahahahahaha

Chilichimp fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jun 18, 2017

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep
This election certainly caused me to lose weight, Grimm the stress.

Ah, page 777

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Kavros posted:

This election certainly caused me to lose weight, Grimm the stress.

Ah, page 777

:pray:

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

oohhboy posted:

The world gave him one free shot and he blew it.

No he didn't he ruined the gently caress out of the economy giving most of the money in the world to all his friends and flipped us off on the way to a peaceful retirement

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
Article on Trump's lawyer that I missed:
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/876450301586419713
https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/876449161104822272
https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/876450123169103873

Also Twitter is a great service:
https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/876130803591368709

Seriously though; the more you spend on Twitter the more absurd the absolute lack of competent moderation team it has. Even Facebook does a better job with this kind of poo poo (nevermind the fact that they have to rotate people out of the moderation team pretty quickly due to all the corpses and child porn giving mods PTSD)

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jun 18, 2017

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

No he didn't he ruined the gently caress out of the economy giving most of the money in the world to all his friends and flipped us off on the way to a peaceful retirement

On top of that, now thanks to Trump he will probably get a more favorable treatment by history because "at least he wasn't as bad."

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Why the hell is GHWB so drat high up? And how did he gently caress up that good will?

The high represents Gulf War I. It was basically a very clean and overwhelming military victory without years of open ended occupation. GHWB and General Schwarzkopf became America's Greatest Heroes as a result. Most including me assumed GHWB was a shoo in for reelection and were shocked when the "no new taxes" thing did him in.

Raylen
Aug 1, 2003

You just killed the nice deranged chick from the juice bar that I was gonna score with someday maybe!
Pillbug

Chilichimp posted:

Trump University wasn't actually a university.

Got it. No national/regional accreditation so it couldn't except federally subsidized student loans like the Stafford, etc? Like I realize that Trump University wasn't an actual institute of higher education but what are the barriers to being able to accept student loans at for-profit scams like theirs? Didn't we just have the debacle with Corinthian Colleges? I met a few people who went to school at Heald and could either have their credits transferred (if they were accepted) or have their student debt forgiven.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
I saw that Errol Morris post up above and it had a link to an interview he did with Trump 15 years ago for the Oscars, concerning Citizen Kane. In it you can see that Trump at 55 has already been reduced to the simple speech that underlies the way he speaks now, but that he can still talk reasonably well. The big words he used in his forties are gone but the thought processes are there.

If you can't watch much skip to the last 20 seconds or so when Morris asks him a question about marriage. It's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQOJZ-QzBk

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/346050284222558209

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Buglord

The weirdest thing about this is that he defined "loser" to be his new word for terrorists. Is he wishing terrorists a happy father's day?

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

Jesus tapdancing christ that's real. :suicide:

demonicon
Mar 29, 2011

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

The weirdest thing about this is that he defined "loser" to be his new word for terrorists. Is he wishing terrorists a happy father's day?

The tweet is from 2013

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

KickerOfMice posted:

Jesus tapdancing christ that's real. :suicide:

It's from 2013 but that man is President.

Raylen
Aug 1, 2003

You just killed the nice deranged chick from the juice bar that I was gonna score with someday maybe!
Pillbug

So the ranking member of the House Intel Committee just said he thinks there is evidence of collusion? That seems like kind of a big accusation to make because I'm sure he has seen a ton of classified documents that we might never find out about or know the details of except in the abstract. Or would Schiff be making a bigger deal about this if there was more conclusive evidence pointing towards collusion?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Dick Trauma posted:

I saw that Errol Morris post up above and it had a link to an interview he did with Trump 15 years ago for the Oscars, concerning Citizen Kane. In it you can see that Trump at 55 has already been reduced to the simple speech that underlies the way he speaks now, but that he can still talk reasonably well. The big words he used in his forties are gone but the thought processes are there.

If you can't watch much skip to the last 20 seconds or so when Morris asks him a question about marriage. It's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQOJZ-QzBk

People mistake his normal fluent gibberish as decline due to age, but he has always talked this way when not carefully edited or reciting from cue cards/teleprompter. Even that piece is really heavily edited, have a look at some less-filtered old footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5kA2r2SE7g&t=480s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soNbfTYMb24&t=699s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8wJc7vHcTs&t=3s

He never speaks in sentences, it's just a rambling flood of continuous bullshit :shrug:

Also he's always been a whiny little bitch baby even all the way back to the early 80s.

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KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

It's from 2013 but that man is President.

That does not make me feel better at all.

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