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 What a crazy month July was! Between various shootings and political conventions on this side of the Atlantic and a whirlwind of coups, terrorist attacks, and leadership transitions on the other, you could hardly be faulted for wanting to take a breather for a while (hell, everything in this post is just the tip of the iceberg when it came to news this month, and I probably forgot a lot). But you can be sure that August only promises to be even crazier, so you might as well sit down and settle in for USPOL August 2016!  114th Congress Bingo Card Congress was in session for 8 days this month, and will be off all of August (by law!), so there’s not much to say on this end…
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Sup August. Don't do anything crazy.
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Aug 1, 2016 08:07
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We're now three months from the election. Don't forget to never forgive your friends and family for supporting Trump!
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Aug 1, 2016 08:08
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Trump is going to make America so great, probably the greatest country ever, just a country of winners, we're going to be tired of winning so much
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Aug 1, 2016 08:14
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Did the last thread talk about how Roger Stone called Mr. Khan a Muslim Brotherhood agent hired by Hillary? Boy this election sure is wacky.
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Aug 1, 2016 08:22
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The Never Forgiving Your Friends and Family for Supporting Trump FAQ Q: Should I forgive them when Hillary wins? A: No. They must know isolation and misery unto death, or this will keep happening because it's "just politics." Q: But they babysit my kids! A: They'll turn your kids evil. Q: But they paid for my college! A: I don't care Q: But Thanksgiving will be really awkward! A: You know what's awkward? Getting murdered by obese paramilitaries, whom your Trump-worshiping friends and family are in love with. woke wedding drone fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Aug 1, 2016 08:24
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SedanChair posted:The Never Forgiving Your Friends and Family for Supporting Trump FAQ Plus, they probably cook a really lovely turkey
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Aug 1, 2016 08:24
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How long until the debates start? Is Johnson going to be included?
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Aug 1, 2016 08:30
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Luna Was Here posted:How long until the debates start? Is Johnson going to be included? late-september somethingth
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Aug 1, 2016 08:30
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SedanChair posted:We're now three months from the election. Don't forget to never forgive your friends and family for supporting Trump! What if my mom thinks Hillary is shifty but hasn't voted in years? Can I still have a mom? I really like her.
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Aug 1, 2016 08:32
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:What if my mom thinks Hillary is shifty but hasn't voted in years? No. 10 years Gulag for Mother
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Aug 1, 2016 08:34
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:What if my mom thinks Hillary is shifty but hasn't voted in years? Tell her she better shift her rear end off the couch and vote for Hillary anyways.
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Luna Was Here posted:How long until the debates start? Is Johnson going to be included? September 26. No, unless Trump tries to skip the debates, then perhaps.
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A Bag of Milk posted:Did the last thread talk about how Roger Stone called Mr. Khan a Muslim Brotherhood agent hired by Hillary? Boy this election sure is wacky. No, but I did include a link in the OP. You did accidentally jog my memory that I somehow completely forgot to mention that Roger Ailes was booted last month. I will rectify this.
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Aug 1, 2016 08:38
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ParliamentOfDogs posted:What if my mom thinks Hillary is shifty but hasn't voted in years? Why do you like your Trump-loving mom? *puts you in the same category as your mom*
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Aug 1, 2016 08:44
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Here's hoping the 1000 posts every day settles down to something more manageable until november. Still wishing election season was over 
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Aug 1, 2016 08:55
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Freakazoid_ posted:Here's hoping the 1000 posts every day settles down to something more manageable until november. My bet is it'll be slowish until the first debate, and then there'll be some variation of "Please proceed, Donald" and the thread will be 10,000 posts of  E: Now that I think of it, someone needs to photoshop Hillary and Tim's faces onto the hoodie dude and guy going across the gif respectively. Lprsti99 fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Aug 1, 2016 09:04
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i really can't read these threads that effectively anymore due to the sheer volume, but sometimes i do catch an occasional page with some comedy gold on it and that makes me happy us politics has never been better but i feel like we might be building up a resistance to insane conservative politicians, to get the same high in 2020 we're going to need some real awesome candidates, like maybe a for-real white nationalist with a big swastika on his forehead, running against sarah palin after she's been possessed by the ghost of mussolini, and herman cain will show up again because he's pretty cool
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Freakazoid_ posted:Here's hoping the 1000 posts every day settles down to something more manageable until november. Haha, no. We're just entering election season. This thread is only going to accelerate as more posters get interested in politics throughout the late summer and fall. Plus, new posters brings new trolls, and each new troll causes at least a five page derail. And if two thread regulars can rehash an argument once a week, you should see two fresh-faced "woah politics, huh?" posters go at that same argument as if it's never been had before. And then see those people gradually become more than half the thread's population. We won't have sub-1000-post days until December. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Aug 1, 2016 09:15
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I'd say if its a Trump win the 1000 posts a day dont stop till January. If Hillary, they'll stop right after she's elected
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Aug 1, 2016 09:26
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If Trump wins it'll stop when he finally clamps down on Internet access. So like a week or two after the elections.
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Luna Was Here posted:I'd say if its a Trump win the 1000 posts a day dont stop till January. If Hillary, they'll stop right after she's elected EDIT: ^^^ 
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Aug 1, 2016 09:31
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:If Trump wins it'll stop when he finally clamps down on Internet access. So like a week or two after the elections. (Presidents don't take power immediately after the election. They take power in late January, and are sworn in on my birthday. Which is just a coincidence, probably.)
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Ditocoaf posted:(Presidents don't take power immediately after the election. They take power in late January, and are sworn in on my birthday. Which is just a coincidence, probably.) Since when has Trump followed the rules?
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Luna Was Here posted:I'd say if its a Trump win the 1000 posts a day dont stop till January. If Hillary, they'll stop right after she's elected You mean January 2021?
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Does anyone actually follow the entire thread in crazy 1k-per-day mode? I tried and couldn't. Did anything worth mentioning happen over the weekend? I had made it to the 29th when this thread opened. Edit: the entire poem should be in the OP, not just the punchline in the title. For shame.
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Grundulum posted:Does anyone actually follow the entire thread in crazy 1k-per-day mode? I tried and couldn't. Did anything worth mentioning happen over the weekend? I had made it to the 29th when this thread opened. Sometimes when I'm really bored late at night and have no interest in reading anything else, I'll try to catch up with this thread the hard way. It makes for entertaining/horrifying entertainment, but for the rest of the time I just read the last few pages to keep track of what's going on.
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He's been flailing around for weeks though. Remember the Trump in the debates that expertly baited the poo poo out of Jeb! and knew when to keep quiet and give Cruz enough rope to hang himself? Yeah, I don't remember him either, because he burned out months ago.
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Ghetto Prince posted:...he burned out months ago. if prester jane is right he probably doesn't sleep at all
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Reminder https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...:homepage/story https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/758847018127065088
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Grundulum posted:Did anything worth mentioning happen over the weekend? Well, in the same 48 hour period Trump got trapped in an elevator and then proceeded to verbally attack the firefighter who rescued him in a speech at a rally 30 minutes later, nude pictures of his wife were leaked to the New York Post who subsequently published them on their front page and it's very possible that Trump's office either leaked them or approved of their printing, Trump has been engaged in a very public and damaging feud with the father of a Gold Star winning veteran who was killed in Iraq, Trump has been complaining about the debate schedule with seems to be a prelude to him backing out and has possibly been caught lying about whether the NFL contacted him to complain about the dates of the presidential debates, and gave an interview that strongly suggested he doesn't actually know what's happening in Crimea with respect to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. If you knew all of these things happened then I imagine you're pretty caught up with the events of the weekend
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Serrath posted:If you knew all of these things happened then I imagine you're pretty caught up with the events of the weekend I feel like someone needs to keep to keep a running list of all the various gently caress-up that would sink a candidate had they occurred in any other election year and the republican electorate were still sane. Assuming he continues at the rate of 5 per every 2 days, he'll generate another 230 before the election. Historians will want to know what he did on his path to becoming emperor Trump.
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The main thing that finally sunk in for me this last week or so is that Trump's supporters will be his supporters until the day they die and absolutely nothing can change that, but that that doesn't matter since neither are they numerous enough or in the right positions to win the election. They can be completely ignored and cut out of the equation entirely. The only question is whether his antics will earn him any new supporters and the answer is no. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Serrath posted:Well, in the same 48 hour period Trump got trapped in an elevator and then proceeded to verbally attack the firefighter who rescued him in a speech at a rally 30 minutes later, nude pictures of his wife were leaked to the New York Post who subsequently published them on their front page and it's very possible that Trump's office either leaked them or approved of their printing, Trump has been engaged in a very public and damaging feud with the father of a Gold Star winning veteran who was killed in Iraq, Trump has been complaining about the debate schedule with seems to be a prelude to him backing out and has possibly been caught lying about whether the NFL contacted him to complain about the dates of the presidential debates, and gave an interview that strongly suggested he doesn't actually know what's happening in Crimea with respect to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. I... I keep telling myself to not be surprised by things anymore.
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Serrath posted:Well, in the same 48 hour period Trump got trapped in an elevator and then proceeded to verbally attack the firefighter who rescued him in a speech at a rally 30 minutes later, nude pictures of his wife were leaked to the New York Post who subsequently published them on their front page and it's very possible that Trump's office either leaked them or approved of their printing, Trump has been engaged in a very public and damaging feud with the father of a Gold Star winning veteran who was killed in Iraq, Trump has been complaining about the debate schedule with seems to be a prelude to him backing out and has possibly been caught lying about whether the NFL contacted him to complain about the dates of the presidential debates, and gave an interview that strongly suggested he doesn't actually know what's happening in Crimea with respect to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. You rear end in a top hat. I was going to say that these were obvious jokes, but the longer I kept reading the more grounded in reality they seemed. Time to go back and skim those last 50 pages, I guess!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I... I keep telling myself to not be surprised by things anymore. Listing things in some sort of chronological order like this has so much more impact than watching each train wreck one at a time. because, among those different stories that occurred in just 2 days there's so much more nuance and detail to be explored. Like the fact that the firefighter trump smeared was civilian of the year a couple of years ago for his response during a mass casualty event (and the fact that the elevator failed due to mechanical interference from Trump's own security detail) or the transcript pertaining to the answers he gave to the question of Crimea (seriously read it, it's a thing of beauty) actually copies, word for word, the responses he gave when he was confronted with the same question in an interview several months ago. Like, everything that happens is uniquely bad but each thing is also a thread that you can pull at to reveal even more poo poo. Every single crisis seems specifically engineered to be as depraved and damaging as possible. This election is amazing... Serrath fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Serrath posted:Listing things in some sort of chronological order like this has so much more impact than watching each train wreck one at a time http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/donald_trump_is_unfit_to_be_president_here_are_141_reasons_why.html Your brain just sort of shuts down about 20 deep into it, and you no longer get an emotional response from anything else on the list. It's sort of like how severe frostbite is described. At a certain point, the nerves die and the brain realizes it is no longer beneficial to send pain signals. All that's left to look forward to is that last burst of adrenalin and endorphins, but it's probably not coming until late October.
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Inferior Third Season posted:Not really. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the actual strategy of the handful of non-yes men in Trump's campaign: let him spew his gibberish until the public goes completely numb.
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Man, the pronunciation by news anchors of Khizr is all over the place. On Morning Joe just now we got Keezer. And on Fox & Friends they're trying to privot from Khan to Vilerat, saying the media is biased because nobody covered Vilrat's mom live while everyone covered the Khans. This Morning Joe segment on Trump flip-flopping on Putin is a better editing job than anything Daily Show or Last Week Tonight had ever done. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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