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So this isnt a joke, does anyone else have a "he looks like hes on LSD or psilocybin" vibe? I cant put my finger on it but jesus the main players in this thing have this general detached from reality vibe that is really sketching me out. Ya i know they are all just stupid but jesus.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Do you think the other world leaders ever laugh about Trump together in private? Didn't they do it in public last year? His UN speech was met with laughter at one point. Lucania fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 04:46
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Paradoxish posted:85% of Republicans being against impeachment is a pretty clear message for them not to remove, though. Polls like this aren't promising if the goal is actually removal, although it's at least a bit heartening that Republican support isn't totally static. Was this poll done before, after or during the release of the transcript?
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Sep 27, 2019 04:46
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cr0y posted:So this isnt a joke, does anyone else have a "he looks like hes on LSD or psilocybin" vibe? I cant put my finger on it but jesus the main players in this thing have this general detached from reality vibe that is really sketching me out. Early stage Alzheimers. If you've been around it you can see the signs and little ticks / issues he has.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:47
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sexpig by night posted:he will 100% be holding a rally He is the new Ringling Bros. Olde Man Trump's Wandering CHUDathon.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:47
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mod sassinator posted:I was at the climate strike last week and it was truly inspiring to see kids so fired up and active about it. Like this generation is going to be unbelievably good if they're getting forged in the fires of activism before they're even in highschool. Unfortunately, it's too late.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:48
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Rigel posted:Trump didn't have any leverage there. Kennedy basically told them he'd only retire if the white house picked someone on a short list he gave them and the white house said ok..... we'll pick Kavanaugh. This veers a little bit into speculation territory but I find it plausible that Trump sat each one of the short list down and asked them for loyalty or some other benefit...and Kav bring the absolute shitbird that he is, someone who’s never faced the consequences of his actions, agreed to whatever Trump was demanding.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:49
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Rudy's Al Gore impression is the best thing I've ever seen
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Sep 27, 2019 04:49
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sexpig by night posted:he will 100% be holding a rally I'm still interested in how the chuds react if Trump loses after they have a month to process his defeat. No one is faster to turn in politics than Republicans against a losing candidate. Hell, they even don't really like GWB anymore. The true cultists who never voted until Trump showed up might attend one last rally, but the Republicans who supported Trump are going to turn real fast when Trump has the stench of loser on him and its time to support the next winner to deliver those all-important, delicious tax cuts.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:50
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mod sassinator posted:Early stage Alzheimers. If you've been around it you can see the signs and little ticks / issues he has. Ya this is probably it.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:51
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Kavanaugh was picked because of what he had written about indicting a President and Mueller was still working. That's it, it doesn't go any deeper than that because Trump has never been able to look further beyond the current news cycle.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:52
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theflyingorc posted:Rudy's Al Gore impression is the best thing I've ever seen SNL writers can just gently caress off and party all Friday night, this week's show writes itself.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:53
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Charlz Guybon posted:Was this poll done before, after or during the release of the transcript? The polls that came out so far were in the field too early. We'll know more in the weekend polling. As far as 10% being low, if it gets up to 20%, that would be extremely high. Forget Nixon, that is a different world. In this world you always get about 95% of your party on everything, with the other 5% probably lying to the pollster about their party to screw with them. A world where 20% of the GOP thinks Trump should have been removed from office is horrific for the GOP. They have no choice but to continue to kneel to their base or they get primaried, and then its a bad uphill climb to November if those 20% say gently caress this and stay home. (Utah is still in the 1970's, so they are a bit different)
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Sep 27, 2019 04:54
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cr0y posted:So this isnt a joke, does anyone else have a "he looks like hes on LSD or psilocybin" vibe? I cant put my finger on it but jesus the main players in this thing have this general detached from reality vibe that is really sketching me out. "Reality vibe" tax for new page:  Yep, no joke. Edit: there's more, and it's always worse. Otteration fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Rabble posted:This veers a little bit into speculation territory but I find it plausible that Trump sat each one of the short list down and asked them for loyalty or some other benefit...and Kav bring the absolute shitbird that he is, someone who’s never faced the consequences of his actions, agreed to whatever Trump was demanding. I mean, is there even a point to asking for loyalty from a SCOTUS nominee in general? If he/she lies, what is the president going to do, fire them?
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Sep 27, 2019 04:56
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Zophar posted:Kavanaugh was picked because of what he had written about indicting a President and Mueller was still working. That's it, it doesn't go any deeper than that because Trump has never been able to look further beyond the current news cycle. Yep, ok this makes sense.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:57
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mod sassinator posted:SNL writers can just gently caress off and party all Friday night, this week's show writes itself. Isn't that what they do anyway. 
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Sep 27, 2019 05:02
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cr0y posted:So this isnt a joke, does anyone else have a "he looks like hes on LSD or psilocybin" vibe? I cant put my finger on it but jesus the main players in this thing have this general detached from reality vibe that is really sketching me out. This is what it looks like for sane people to interact with brain rot.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:04
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It'll be fun watching republicans come to grips with worshipping a senile man
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Sep 27, 2019 05:06
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unwantedplatypus posted:It'll be fun watching republicans come to grips with worshipping a senile man Yeah I agree. Imagine their faces when they realize Reagan was senile.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:08
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The Glumslinger posted:Oh, and please ignore all of the obvious crimes in the call memo that was released, or the obstruction of justice involved in keeping the whistleblower's info from congress oh hey, that goon was basically correct edit whoops timestamps nm, was catching up on olderposts from eight weeks ago at 1pm September 26
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Sep 27, 2019 05:09
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Bizarro Watt posted:I mean, is there even a point to asking for loyalty from a SCOTUS nominee in general? If he/she lies, what is the president going to do, fire them? Didn’t Trump just fire Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House?
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Sep 27, 2019 05:10
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I think about that episode of SNL where Tina Fey, (was she dressed as the statue of liberty) sang "Will you still love me tomorrow?" To Rudy Giuliani, a lot lately.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:10
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Sep 27, 2019 05:11
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Huh I wonder if and how hard the NYT is going to back peddle.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:11
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The Super-Id posted:Yeah I agree. Imagine their faces when they realize Reagan was senile. Isn't this significantly worse than Reagan? Without removal, he'll very visibly degrade before leaving office
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Otteration posted:There was a whole lot less of a divide at the time, in both directions. "Left" and "Right were a bit more murky; lot's had to do with what reps could bring back to their constituencies. Representatives and Senators still had to go back to their voters and argue their positions about impeachment to an unsure electorate, at least at first. Then more information came out and it went bad for Nixon and the polls tanked on both "sides". yeah i know all that, it's not exactly what im searching for im guessing in that early 70s era it was more like "united states is an irrevocable contradiction that cannot be solved merely by impeachment of nixon, bomb more recruiting offices" and less https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1177421847555649536
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Sep 27, 2019 05:12
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The Super-Id posted:Yeah I agree. Imagine their faces when they realize Reagan was senile. The somewhat-sane GOP voters who could be shook out of the tree are now self-identified conservative "independents" who hate life and hope to return someday. (so im not worried if independents lean right in polls, former leftish independents now said gently caress it and joined the team, so its a turnout game now for us) Every remaining crazy apple in the GOP is going to applaud happily if Trump starts throwing literal poop at Warren in a debate. Rigel fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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unwantedplatypus posted:Isn't this significantly worse than Reagan? Without removal, he'll very visibly degrade before leaving office Alzheimer’s is a 10 year, give or take, process from when you notice symptoms.
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cr0y posted:So this isnt a joke, does anyone else have a "he looks like hes on LSD or psilocybin" vibe? I cant put my finger on it but jesus the main players in this thing have this general detached from reality vibe that is really sketching me out. Maybe we could make this an HBO dark comedy series. Old senile man on LSD thinks he's president, but then — plot twist — he actually is the president.
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Lote posted:Alzheimer’s is a 10 year, give or take, process from when you notice symptoms. This aint year 0
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Lote posted:Alzheimer’s is a 10 year, give or take, process from when you notice symptoms. Yeah but he's already been degrading for at least 4 or 5 years now.
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unwantedplatypus posted:Isn't this significantly worse than Reagan? Without removal, he'll very visibly degrade before leaving office Probably. I was just joking mostly. With Trump, I think it’s especially apparent because he’s always been so shallow. Now that he’s started to go he’s just paper thin bluster and swiss cheese brain. I kind of doubt it will get through to most of his supporters though, because half are probably as senile or mush brained as him and the other half never had functioning brains to begin with.
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Sep 27, 2019 05:19
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picturing a 1970 Michael Tracey writing "CIA "whistleblower" claiming Nixon sabotaged the Paris Peace Accords to end the war that Lyndon Johnson started??"
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I decided to approach an extremely right-wing crazyass message board thats just a tinge to the left of kooks (its for a sports team where their political guys were quarantined to a politics forum) to poke them before bed, which is fun to do every couple months when things are going badly. It is a good way to get a pulse of the non-Q GOP right-wing normal everyday base. I backed away very slowly and closed the window. They are DEEEEEEEP into crazytown guys. They have no choice, this is so very bad, that cognitive dissonance is forcing them to believe Giuliani is some kind of messiah. Rigel fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 05:21
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pahuyuth posted:When they leave office, Presidents customarily leave a letter giving advice to their successor. What do you think Trump's would say? It'll be this: 
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Rigel posted:I decided to approach an extremely right-wing crazyass message board thats just a tinge to the left of kooks (its for a sports team where their political guys were quarantined to a politics forum) to poke them before bed, which is fun to do every couple months when things are going badly. It is a good way to get a pulse of the non-Q GOP right-wing normal everyday base. I live in south mississippi and mentioning this at all to republicans around here makes them start getting mad instantly, more so than usual. I'm actually not even going out to the bar this weekend because I don't want one of them to drunkenly start screaming about trump at me, which actually has happened to me a few different times already.
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unwantedplatypus posted:Isn't this significantly worse than Reagan? Without removal, he'll very visibly degrade before leaving office Maybe. Nancy and co kept Reagan from the public a lot toward the end. He didn’t even campaign for HW. The Gipper was apparently pretty far gone toward the end, but it’s not like he had a device to send his ramblings straight into our pockets like Trump has.
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