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The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan
Michael Bloomberg, Corey Booker, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Holder and Deval Patrick are all on my list of 2020 Jeb!s to watch

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CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

comedyblissoption posted:

are billionaires already talking with the dnc to buy sole unilateral control of all of their strategy and hiring decisions for the 2020 primaries in exchange for money

because apparently the liberal media has concluded that's okay

extremely smart liberals have been saying now for years that money is speech (or using the artful dodge that money enables speech) so therefore outright bribery and owning political decisionmakers is ok

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Nothus posted:

Why is the GOP putting up with this circus around Kavanaugh. Don't they have the votes to just ram him through?

He's kind of crappy and they're not sure what to do with the promise to Anthony Kennedy about confirming kavs

Just put up one of the insane white lady who is immune to metoo and be done with it

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
didn't she become a resistance icon or whatever


https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1041694109646417921

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Scary! posted:

Imagine a Trump and Bloomberg debate lmao

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

gradenko_2000 posted:

my wife got it for me as a gift because she knows I always post on "those forums about politics"

freckle posted:

lmao owned

ElNarez
Nov 4, 2009

Jose posted:

didn't she become a resistance icon or whatever

I mean so did Glenn Beck, so it's not like that had any worth

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Jose posted:

didn't she become a resistance icon or whatever


https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1041694109646417921

She was for a second when Trump accused her of being on her period because she talked to him, but then everyone remember how god awful she was

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Scary! posted:

Imagine a Trump and Bloomberg debate lmao

There’s no question if he won the primaries Trump would get a second term. Trump won because while he was a NY fancy boy he talked about how unfair the economy has gotten. And now the democrats want to run a billionaire that doesn’t have that rhetoric and wants to ban big gulps and guns. How do they think they’re going to win with these choices?

People on the left hate Bloomberg because of stop and frisk, people on the right hate Bloomberg because of banning guns and soda, and non-political people will hate Bloomberg because he's tiny shrill billionaire.

That's the kind of unifying force Democrats can get behind!

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

Jose posted:

didn't she become a resistance icon or whatever


https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1041694109646417921

Which is more likely:

1. holy poo poo this rapey dude from back in the day is about to get on the SC, i should do something
2. after 30 years i can finally get back at this guy who wouldn't gently caress me
3. piss fart goku

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Jose posted:

didn't she become a resistance icon or whatever


https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1041694109646417921

Lmao, Megyn Kelly trying to stay relevant after leaving Fox. Whatever happened to her new show?

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Money, mainly. Austin has its pride in August. Staggering them like this means there's more money to be made since they're not all competing in the same month / weekend.

These events are big business now. Northrop Grumman even had a float with a stealth bomber model floating above it. Not kidding. Well, not a bad ally to have IMO. Around 2009 or so I remember going to Austin pride and seeing all these big corporations and banks sponsoring floats and knew right then the religious right was loving doomed. These companies are way bigger, meaner and more ruthless than the religious right.

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
Reminder: Charlize Theron is playing her in a movie

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/JLeeMurphyESQ/status/1041477756830326784?s=19

Il Federale
Oct 10, 2012



bloom posted:

Which is more likely:

1. holy poo poo this rapey dude from back in the day is about to get on the SC, i should do something
2. after 30 years i can finally get back at this guy who wouldn't gently caress me
3. piss fart goku

easily #3

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
He should also become part of Dollar Shave Club

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Raskolnikov38 posted:

what does the friend list even do on these forums

It lets you be my friend

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar


only #LGBT people

Bezos is cool with gay people workin, since he doesn't discriminate and treat only some people like inhuman garbage, he treats everyone like garbage, especially gay people.


HRC is a neoliberal joke

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lmao i'm not being totally serious

but seriously the megacorporations have really destroyed the religious right

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
this michael bloomberg guy is....

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1041665615918981121

bad

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
but yeah i snapped these pics.

raytheon:



northrop:



anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

cannot loving wait for people to somehow pretend this guy is good about #metoo poo poo because he might tax them the least. twitter is gonna be lit in 2020

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lmao

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

but yeah i snapped these pics.

raytheon:



northrop:





lmao that stealth bomber float is the most absurd thing

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005


thank loving god it's only the paperback sales for her book that has her emerging from the woods this time.

I'd read that she's gonna be on maddow & colbert this week and for a moment when I saw your post too I thought she just can't resist the lure of the campaign trail again and she's thinking third time's the charm.

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer
for gently caress's sake, dems

bloomberg?

dem party gonna split after 2020. just can't have a party where one half hates billionaires and the other half hates socialists and every election they keep running one of each. someone's gonna have to take their ball and go home.

gently caress the dems. utter trash

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

but yeah i snapped these pics.

raytheon:



northrop:





I used to think the GTA game series social commentary takes were over the top and too absurd. Not do much anymore.

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008


they put a loving drone on their float :wtc:

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Bloomberg will run, and then honorably step aside for Clinton.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
theres gonna be two leftists and a million neolibs and its gonna be amazing to witness

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

but yeah i snapped these pics.

raytheon:



northrop:





this has to be like ironic right? sarcastic? something just please give me something?

Tars Tarkas
Apr 13, 2003

Rock the Mok



A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.


Shear Modulus posted:

yeah from the article it definitely seems like he won over the entire california congressional delegation

They definitely want the $80 million he's pledging this election for House candidates, but giving this guy platforms to spew his garbage opinions will actually cost them close elections as he turns off thousands of voters with every word he utters.

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer
the bloomberg thing is incredibly stupid too because it legitimizes bernie

one effective, stupid and ideologically worthless, but effective attack on bernie is the whole "not even a democrat" thing

just lol when people think its ok so long as you're to the right, not the left

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




https://twitter.com/SteeleDanusia/status/1041697606223753216

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
in awe at the depth of the democrat's bench

absolutely shallow

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

I didn't know you could concentrate so much succ into a single tweet

bonus: @SteeleDanusia is Canadian

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War
https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1041133996472709120?s=21

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Your DailySucc.

Not the diary, which is a rational push-back against the conspiracy theories among dems about the presidential emergency alert system, but the comments following.

quote:

It’s not an invasion of privacy. It’s an affront to American democracy.

Imagine if, after the Emergency Broadcast System had been created in 1963, and served its purpose well for ten years, Nixon, during the height of the Watergate scandal, had decided EBS was going to become the “Presidential Broadcast System.” And his smirking picture would be plastered across your TV screen every time there was a flood alert, or a hurricane warning, or wild fire. Or even a mandatory test of the system. “Attention all Americans, here is an official message from ME, your glorious President, Richard Nixon,” would precede all warnings and tests.

Wouldn’t that have been creepy and smacked of Big Brother? Isn’t that the sort of thing you see in places where the cult of personality bullshit infests the public sphere? In totalitarian dictatorships?

So now we have exactly that being done by Trump. He is hijacking the EAS to promote himself and pretend HE is somehow keeping us “safe” by warning us of dangers when he obviously doesn’t understand a word of it, doesn’t actually give a flying gently caress about America, and has no clue about any of it.

He’s just taking a big golden, garish, Trump logo and slapping across the system as he does with other people’s hotels and golf courses. It’s offensive. It’s insulting to the purpose of the system and the intelligence of the American people. It’s an abuse of his office.

This is Trump grabbing every American by the EAS, shoving his fat, greasy, slobbering mug in our faces and screaming “Look at ME! Look at ME! ME! ME! ME!” every time there is an emergency or a test of the system. It’s perverse.

The EAS is a public service, administered by federal agencies for the good of all Americans. It should not have “the President’s” name on it, regardless of who the President is.

When there is an emergency, I want a meteorologist, or a disaster management specialist, or a relevant federal department administrator to tell me about it. Not some venal insane narcissist who thinks he is a god emperor and can’t even let disasters go by without making it all about himself.

The system should remain the EAS and have nothing to do with the President, no matter who sits in the Oval Office.

Trump’s attempt at hijacking is an insult to every American who thinks our government should serve all Americans without the taint of partisan politics or cult of personality. America should reject it utterly and en masse.

Protecting the nation should be about America. It should NOT be about Trump.

someone rightly points out if this system were operating under Pres. Yaas Queen it'd be the rightwingers furthering the same crazy-rear end paranoia that liberals are now propagating.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

"why not use 50 systems instead of one?"

quote:

There are state and regional systems in place. They can send out any alerts that need to be made. As I said the other day, if ANY other president had access to this system, it wouldn’t be a problem. But it’s Don the Con. That’s what people are up in arms about. His disregard for rules and “norms” is well-known and he will abuse any and every system to which he has access. We KNOW this. Thirty years of his law-breaking life prior to the White House and 2 years in it shows us this time and again.

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docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Yeah, I'm not sure that "maybe a literal narcissist will abuse a system designed to send out communications to every American that cannot be ignored or rejected" is actually paranoia.

But the remedy there is "maybe don't elect the literal narcissist" and/or "maybe run a credible candidate against the literal narcissist".

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