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#289626: Sep 9th 2019 at 11:30:14 AM

Nothing will happen because of McConnell. That's it; this session is now fully described.

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#289627: Sep 9th 2019 at 11:38:26 AM

Evil Turtle historically has led budget discussions happen, as government shutdowns usually didn't work out well for him. And of course judiciary confirmation votes.

In fact, I wonder if that last point is basically his grand plan:

  1. Reduce Congress's legislative output to (almost) zero, to the point that people now go to ask courts to get laws enacted, in the form of court rulings.
  2. Fill the American judiciary with conservative judges by using the confirmation process.
  3. Enjoy the Brave New World of judiciary-enacted conservative policy.

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#289628: Sep 9th 2019 at 11:48:17 AM

I'm pretty sure Mitch's master plan is as follows:

Step 1 - Fill the Judiciary with as many young conservatives in lifetime-appointment seats as possible in order to guarantee a decades-long Republican control over the Courts.

And then there are no more steps.

EDIT: Or, to be more specific, we're in the endgame of the master plan he's been enacting since the Obama Administration, where he was blocking court appointments to hold those seats open for the next Republican President to fill.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 9th 2019 at 12:49:20 PM

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#289629: Sep 9th 2019 at 2:41:43 PM

Cheng Guangcheng: Trump has the right strategy on Beijing. As a Chinese dissident, I'd know.

Presidents before Trump naively believed that China would abide by international standards of behavior if it were granted access to institutions like the World Trade Organization and generally treated as a "normal" country. But that path proved mistaken, and Beijing ignored Western pressure on matters from human rights to the widespread theft of intellectual property.

Trump, whatever his flaws, grasps this reality. Unlike many of his predecessors in the White House, Trump appears to understand innately the hooliganism and brutality at the heart of the CCP. He comprehends that - whether in the realm of trade, diplomacy or international order - dictatorships do not commonly play by the rules of democratic nations. While past administrations have curried favor with the CCP ("appeasement" is not too strong a word), Trump has made excising the party's growing corrosion of U.S. society - from business and the media to education and politics - a focus.

For decades, U.S. presidents have allowed themselves to be taken in by China. Think of Richard Nixon marveling at staged supermarkets and shoppers in Beijing, and paving the way for the severing of ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) in favor of the communist regime. Or Bill Clinton, after talking tough, declining to make "most favored nation" status for China conditional on human rights reviews, effectively eliminating any leverage the United States had over China with respect to fair trade, not to mention rights. As China's entrance into the World Trade Organization moved toward reality, in 2000, Clinton described it as "the most significant opportunity that we have had to create positive change in China since the 1970s."

He said there would be no downsides to freer trade: It was "the equivalent of a one-way street." Following the attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush turned a blind eye when Beijing used the U.S. war on terror as cover for persecuting ethnic minorities; Barack Obama repeatedly shied away from mentioning human rights to CCP officials, notably during a visit in 2009.

Some contend, with justification, that Trump has not made democracy and freedom central to his foreign policy. But where China is concerned, dissidents, both within China and in the diaspora, note and appreciate what he is doing. Most activists agree that civilized talks behind closed doors have never elicited concessions from the CCP. The only way to make progress is by landing pointed blows, particularly against the party elites and their bank accounts (which are reliant on party-owned, nepotistic, monopolist companies).

We have to be clear about our values. China is a deep-pocketed, rapacious regime that poses a significant threat not just to American interests but to the entire civilized world. Yet after decades of empty talk about nudging China toward reform, we're at a point where it is American companies, news outlets and universities that feel pressured to play by Beijing's rules or risk losing access to its markets and resources.

Trump, with an admittedly unorthodox style, is trying to break down the systems, and the concessions, that have allowed the CCP to operate unchecked for too long. He deserves credit, not criticism, for saying: Enough.

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#289630: Sep 9th 2019 at 2:52:23 PM

The problem with that assessment is that Trump doesn't seem to actually be landing any blows, and is also a thug himself. Therefor, any good he's doing (and he's not actually doing any good in regards to China) is entirely accidental and can be reversed if the Chinese president decides to start flattering him the way Kim Jong Il apparently does.

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#289631: Sep 9th 2019 at 3:03:30 PM

I'd argue that the trade war at least is pressuring American businesses to withdraw their manufacturing from China and replace them in other Asian nations that are democratic or simply far more friendlier to the US than China, such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, or Malaysia. This way, American businesses can at least escape from what I term the "abusive relationship" with the CCP, which demands as many concessions that it can milk from foreign businesses while persuading them to stay in China by threatening to cut them off from muh lucrative Chinese market and thus muh extra profits.

No really, one of the latest memes on the Chinese internet is "what foreign brand is apologizing to us this week?".

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#289632: Sep 9th 2019 at 3:12:11 PM

Maybe a trade war with China could have some benefit....if Trump was waging it remotely intelligently, and not starting other trade wars with nearly every ally and partner the US has.

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#289633: Sep 9th 2019 at 3:51:25 PM

Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who was outed by Dick Cheney's then Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is running as a Democrat for the House of Representatives in New Mexico's 3rd congressional district.

Trump granted Libby a full pardon in April of 2018.

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#289634: Sep 9th 2019 at 4:08:18 PM

I'd argue that the trade war at least is pressuring American businesses to withdraw their manufacturing from China and replace them in other Asian nations that are democratic or simply far more friendlier to the US than China, such as Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, or Malaysia. This way, American businesses can at least escape from what I term the "abusive relationship" with the CCP, which demands as many concessions that it can milk from foreign businesses while persuading them to stay in China by threatening to cut them off from muh lucrative Chinese market and thus muh extra profits.

Do you think America can decouple economically from China without horrific cost? Seriously?

Frankly, I don't give a damn about China's bad habits when this utterly pointless and idiotic trade war is causing such pointless damage to the US and her people.

Of course that Chinese dissident praised it, it's in their interests for everything to burn. They don't get a post-CCP government without chaos, and if it takes the US down with it (comparatively) too bad so sad.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Sep 9th 2019 at 4:09:57 AM

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#289635: Sep 9th 2019 at 4:55:11 PM

[up] What are these "horrific costs to the US and her people?" Less profits for the MN Cs who makes millions from relying on cheap Chinese labor with poor conditions? The real horrific cost IMO is American soft power and our economy being trapped in an abusive relationship with China, whose government is damnably clever enough to use the capitalist free-market economy that we are so proud of to cause our business leaders to happily apologize and surrender on everything ranging from how to label places on clothing, destinations on airline websites, and self-censorship in our film industry.

PBS made a documentary on the trade war that featured a cyber-security expert as a talking head. He described how the Obama Administration received reports of mass Chinese industrial espionage from the American companies affected, only to have those same companies urge the government not to take any actions against China out of fear of being shut out of their coveted Chinese consumers.

Alperovitch was called to the White House Situation Room to brief Obama’s top national security officials.

DMITRI ALPEROVITCH: I briefed them on what we were seeing with both Aurora, Night Dragon, Shady Rat.

LAURA SULLIVAN: What did they say?

DMITRI ALPEROVITCH: My impression was none of this was a surprise. And when I pressed them on why they were not taking stronger action against China, their response was, "It's complicated."

LAURA SULLIVAN: "It's complicated." Did they explain that?

DMITRI ALPEROVITCH: Well, they were telling me straight out, those same customers that are getting victimized by China, they are the same companies that are coming in to tell us, "Don't do anything to harm the relationship with China. We want to continue to do business there. We want to continue making money there. We need that market."

JAMES Mc GREGOR: You know, the U.S. government listens to companies, so if the companies are saying, "Chill" they'll chill.

LAURA SULLIVAN: How can businesses walk into United States agencies and complain about being treated unfairly if they're the ones that are preventing any action from being taken? How do they get to have it both ways?

JAMES Mc GREGOR: Sometimes two things can be true at the same time.

I mean, their incentives are to make money. If your business is in China, Xi Jinping is more important to you than Donald Trump or Barack Obama. And it's not that these are bad people who don't care about America, but their incentives are to shareholders, not to the government of the United States.

Edited by FluffyMcChicken on Sep 9th 2019 at 5:14:32 AM

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#289636: Sep 9th 2019 at 5:04:55 PM

[up]Even if (and that's a big if) this tactic was valid and effective, you can't really endorse it when Trump is starting a multifront trade conflict. Any benefits it might have (realigning trade towards other countries, getting companies to move away from China) is basically negated because everyone is ticked with the US on this front right now.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289637: Sep 9th 2019 at 5:20:23 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/09/09/day-963/

    Day 963: "NOTHING TO DO WITH ME" 
1/ An Air National Guard crew stayed at Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland in March. The Air Force plane stopped at a nearby airport to refuel both en route to the Middle East and back, with the crew staying at the resort, which lost $4.5 million in 2017, but revenue went up $3 million in 2018. The Air Force confirmed that crew members stayed at Turnberry, but said "it did not appear" that they stayed at the hotel on the way back. There are more than two dozen hotels, guesthouses and inns a few miles from the Prestwick airport with most of them much less expensive than the $380/night advertised rate at Trump Turnberry. The fuel would have also been cheaper if purchased at a U.S. military base. (Politico / New York Times)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337

2/ Trump denied being involved in the stays at Turnberry by Air Force crews, tweeting that "I know nothing," but that "they have good taste!" Air Force crews will typically stop at U.S. military bases in Europe to refuel, where it's cheaper to do so. Trump added: "NOTHING TO DO WITH ME." (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/09/trump-air-force-scotland-resort-1486440

The Air Force ordered a review of how it chooses hotels after military personnel stayed at Trump properties on multiple occasions. In one case, air crews were found to have occasionally stayed at Trump's Turnberry resort in Scotland while refueling at Prestwick Airport, a nearby commercial airport. Another time, the Maine Air National Guard also landed at Prestwick on its way back from Qatar and stayed at Turnberry. An Air Force spokesperson said the branch is reviewing "all associated guidance" related to personnel lodging because "lodging at higher-end accommodations, even if within government rates, might be allowable but not advisable." (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/08/trump-resort-air-force-probe-1485447

3/ In 2017, the U.S. extracted one of its highest-level covert spies from inside the Russian government. The previously undisclosed secret mission was driven, in part, after Trump shared classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador in a May 2017 Oval Office meeting. (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html

📌 Day 111: Trump met with Putin’s top diplomats at the White House. The talks came one day after Trump fired the FBI Director, who was overseeing an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Sergey Lavrov met with Rex Tillerson earlier in the day and sarcastically acknowledged the dismissal of James Comey by saying "Was he fired? You're kidding. You're kidding." The Kremlin said Trump's firing of Comey will have no effect on bilateral relations between the two countries. Trump also met with Sergey Kislyak, a key figure in the Flynn investigation. (Associated Press / Reuters / Washington Post / NPR)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-idUSKBN1861V4

📌 Day 112: The White House was misled about the role of the Russian photographer and were surprised to see photos posted online showing Trump not only with Sergey Lavrov but also smiling and shaking hands with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Russian officials described the person as Lavrov's official photographer without disclosing that he also worked for Tass, a Russian state-owned news agency. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-meet-russian-foreign-minister-at-the-white-house-as-moscows-alleged-election-interference-is-back-in-spotlight/2017/05/10/c6717e4c-34f3-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html

📌 Day 118: Putin offers to provide Congress with the transcript to prove Trump didn't pass Russia secrets, turning up the pressure on the White House to provide its own transcript of the meeting. Putin said Russia could hand over a transcript of Trump's meeting with Lavrov, if the Trump administration deemed it appropriate. (Reuters / New York Times / CNN / Washington Post)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin-idUSKCN18D1EA

4/ Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire NOAA employees after the agency's Birmingham office contradicted Trump's claim that Alabama would be hit "harder than anticipated" by Hurricane Dorian. Ross directed Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, to fix the agency’s perceived contradiction of the president. Jacobs initially objected to the demand, but was told by Ross that the political staff at NOAA would be fired if the situation was not resolved. NOAA then sided with Trump over its own scientists, stating that Alabama was in fact threatened by the storm at the time of Trump's tweet that Alabama would "most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated." NOAA is a division of the Commerce Department. (New York Times / Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/06/noaa-backs-president-trump-alabama-hurricane-forecast-rebukes-weather-service-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/

NOAA officials warned staff not to contradict Trump. The warning came nearly a week before the NOAA publicly backed Trump over its own scientists. After Trump claimed Alabama "would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated" by Hurricane Dorian, NOAA staff were told to "only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon." They were also told not to "provide any opinion" on the matter. The order was understood internally as a reference to Trump and his false statements about Dorian. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/noaa-staff-warned-in-sept-1-directive-against-contradicting-trump/2019/09/07/12a52d1a-d18f-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html

NOAA's acting chief scientist is investigating whether the agency's response to Trump's Hurricane Dorian tweets constituted a violation of policies and ethics. The director of the National Weather Service, meanwhile, broke with NOAA leadership, calling the agency's response "political" and a "danger to public health and safety." (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/09/noaas-chief-scientist-will-investigate-why-agency-backed-trump-over-its-experts-dorian-email-shows/

5/ Trump dismissed the idea of allowing Bahamians into the United States on humanitarian grounds following the destruction of Hurricane Dorian. Hours earlier, the acting Customs and Border Protection chief suggested that the idea was worth considering. Trump said that those struggling in devastated areas of the Bahamas should go to the "large sections" of their country that were not hit, because he's concerned that "bad people" could exploit the U.S. refugee process. (NBC News / Washington Post)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dismisses-idea-allowing-bahamians-u-s-after-hurricane-dorian-n1051576

6/ The House Judiciary Committee will vote this week to define its ongoing "impeachment investigation." The vote would detail the parameters of its investigation and formalize procedures for an impeachment inquiry. Democrats say the move will allow the panel to work faster and potentially acquire more information about possible obstruction of justice and abuses of power by Trump. The resolution will also mark the first recorded vote related to impeachment by lawmakers, even though the committee has already informed federal courts and the public that it is currently in the midst of a full-scale impeachment inquiry. (New York Times) / Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/house-judiciary-dems-impeachment-trump-1484435

7/ Trump called off a secret meeting with Afghan and Taliban leaders at Camp David to negotiate a peace deal to end the 18-year-long war. Trump called off the meeting after the Taliban admitted to a suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint near the American Embassy in Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 others. The secret peace talks were slated to happen two days before the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (New York Times / NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / Bloomberg / New York Times)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/secret-taliban-peace-talks-camp-david-floated-scrapped-within-week-n1051286

8/ Michael Flynn refused to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee's subpoena for testimony and documents as part of its Russia investigation. The committee is now demanding that Flynn appear on September 25th and provide documents by September 18th. (Politico / CNN)

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/09/adam-schiff-michael-flynn-1486508

poll/ 58% of Americans have confidence that stricter gun laws would reduce mass shootings, while 41% remain skeptical. 76% think improved mental health monitoring and treatment would reduce mass shootings. 89% support background checks for gun purchases, including for sales at gun shows. 86% support "red flag" laws that allow police to take firearms away from people found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others. (ABC News / Washington Post)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/10-fear-mass-shooting-gun-laws-poll/story?id=65414785

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#289638: Sep 9th 2019 at 5:31:51 PM

Alaskan here: The PFD is not a universal basic income. It's an annual bonus, not something you can live on. What it does is it provides a buffer. Sometimes in the past, I either let my phone and electric bills slide in September or called Mom to ask for a loan, because my finances were running right on the edge. Then in October, the state waves a magic wand and I'm solvent again and can pay everything back. That happens a lot right up to the lower middle class. (Then for those of us in the black, October is a sale season. Think Christmas season, but for more big ticket items - Sears goes all out advertising new mattresses, I'm probably getting a new computer chair, and similar things.)

That said, it does distort our politics, but it doesn't distort our politics enough - we have a line-item veto that allowed Walker to pull his stunt in the first place, but getting that out of our Constitution is impossible as long as we're a red state, and the veto on PFD funding won't be enough to fix that.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289639: Sep 9th 2019 at 7:25:26 PM

Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, files for divorce over 'incompatibility of temperament' – Todd Palin filed to dissolve the couple's 31-year marriage with Anchorage Superior Court on Friday

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sarah-palin-s-husband-todd-files-divorce-over-incompatibility-temperament-n1051636


Trump dismisses idea of allowing Bahamians into U.S. after Hurricane Dorian – "I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dismisses-idea-allowing-bahamians-u-s-after-hurricane-dorian-n1051576

Edited by sgamer82 on Sep 9th 2019 at 8:27:27 AM

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#289640: Sep 9th 2019 at 7:33:57 PM

For the second article, Trump proving once again he's a colossal dick.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#289641: Sep 9th 2019 at 7:39:59 PM

Do you think America can decouple economically from China without horrific cost? Seriously?

Do you think it's better to continue supporting them?

Isn't it better to decouple than financing a regime like that?

Shouldn't we decouple from hideous human rights abusers?

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#289642: Sep 9th 2019 at 7:43:02 PM

So, Trump has laughed off the idea that the U.S. should allow in refugees from the Bahamas, and also gone on about gangs coming in from there.

Anyway surprised by the language used to refer to the people of a predominately black nation? No? Didn't think so.

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Oh, bother.
#289643: Sep 9th 2019 at 7:43:18 PM

[up][up]Again, the human rights abuses aren't why the trade war is happening. The trade war is happening because a couple of nationalist assholes are butting heads and dragging entire countries into it.

[up]After the way he mishandled Puerto Rico, no, it's not a surprise.

Edited by M84 on Sep 9th 2019 at 10:44:25 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#289644: Sep 9th 2019 at 8:20:31 PM

For a little laugh and to show off how much I pay attention, that Trump/Bahamas story is #5 in today's WTF Just Happened Today.

In my defense I was mostly just posting quickly because tonight's one of my D&D nights.

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#289645: Sep 9th 2019 at 10:45:13 PM

[up]x3 At this point, I'm surprised he hasn't outright said the n-word when talking about them.

Edited by CookingCat on Sep 9th 2019 at 10:48:59 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#289646: Sep 9th 2019 at 10:52:57 PM

Not in public at least. Maybe he will if he gets caught up in a "heated gaming moment" or something.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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#289647: Sep 9th 2019 at 10:59:52 PM

The Hill - "Warren gains support but Biden retains delegate lead in new poll".

So, this is a purely hypothetical count, right? I ask because I'm seeing a whole bunch of people (mostly Bernie supporters) screaming about rigged primaries on Twitter.

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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#289648: Sep 9th 2019 at 11:04:25 PM

It's a measure of how many delegates each would win based on polling in individual states. We're a ways off from that. So hypothetical, yes.

Edited by TheRoguePenguin on Sep 9th 2019 at 11:04:52 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#289649: Sep 9th 2019 at 11:20:44 PM

Of course Sanders supporters are bringing up the "rigged primaries" crap again...ugh.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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#289650: Sep 10th 2019 at 4:50:13 AM

This is just how people deal with situations/phenomena they don't like these days: by making up BS conspiracy theories. Yang supporters were doing the same thing after the first Democratic debates wrapped up by claiming his mic was cut. Hell, even The Hill got in on this, claiming that the media is ignoring the bottom three candidates because they "spoke out against the Democratic establishment" or something. Trump supporters did the same thing when Eminem dropped his anti-Trump BET freestyle, claiming it wasn't even really him. This even happens outside of politics; look at all the people calling Billie Eilish and Cardi B "industry plants".

People just assume the world is naturally supposed to do only what they want it to do, and accuse someone somewhere of pulling the strings whenever it doesn't.

Edited by PhysicalStamina on Sep 10th 2019 at 7:55:32 AM

i'm tired, my friend

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