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TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#165751: Jan 8th 2017 at 8:11:53 PM

I swear, these far-right lunatics just cannot be reasoned with. At times like this, I really wish I had a certain magic notebook to use against them, even knowing full well that I'd quickly plummet into a full-on, Yagami-esque god complex and probably manage to make the world even worse somehow, just because absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165752: Jan 8th 2017 at 8:16:46 PM

This never stops becoming relevant.tongue

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165753: Jan 8th 2017 at 8:24:35 PM

Honestly. If Hillary came out on stage and said "I tried, ya'll fucked yourselves...deuces." And retreated back to NY, I wouldn't even be mad.

Hell, I'd give her standing ovation.

New Survey coming this weekend!
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#165754: Jan 8th 2017 at 8:27:16 PM

She's gonna style herself into the Democratic Party's eminence grise for women in the party, and more broadly the faction that isn't as left as Bernie but not willing to go GOP or third party either.

TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#165755: Jan 8th 2017 at 8:27:39 PM

[up][up] Something like this, then?

edited 8th Jan '17 8:28:09 PM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#165756: Jan 9th 2017 at 12:37:22 AM

Bernie Bros: Quite honestly, assuming they weren't /pol/ plants, they are still a smaller faction that the sorts of people who go "but the Overton Window is far to the right of Europe/Scandinavia/the USSR/Cuba/North Korea, why should I bother voting for late stage capitalists? JILL STEIN FOR HEAD DICTATOR OF THE PROLETARIAT!" today, quite possibly because they were /pol/ plants. And quite honestly given the desecration of everything Robert Byrd ever worked for, I doubt it matters anyway.

In case it hasn't been posted, former Mexican President Vicente Fox is not buying the feasability of the wall.

Yet another Twitter thread (I wonder what Storify's bottom line looks like at this rate: Of Bayrock LLC and Russian funding of Trump projects when no one else would.

Just look at that maze of companies.

EDIT: Twitter thread on the likelihood of Trump's casino losses being used to hide money laundering.

I really am left wondering whether the cable news channels really did decide that you needed to be a certified accountant to understand money laundering on any level.

edited 9th Jan '17 12:48:48 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165757: Jan 9th 2017 at 1:16:16 AM

@Kreiger 22

What really irks me is that the mountain of evidence of Trump's corruption and incompetence could rival Kilamanjaro at this point, and this didn't bother the millions of idiots who voted for him.

One reason I voted for HRC (among many) was that I treated the vote as a job interview. I would never hire someone with Trump's track record of incompetence and dishonesty and possible criminality who has little to no understanding of what his job would actually entail. Especially if he kept spouting boorish xenophobic racist comments and tweets during the interview.

HRC might not have been my ideal candidate (though she was damn close), but the decision to pick her over Trump for the job? Not even a remotely difficult one for me.

edited 9th Jan '17 1:16:39 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165758: Jan 9th 2017 at 2:06:41 AM

[up][up]@Vicente Fox's tweets: I like these two tweets more.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#165759: Jan 9th 2017 at 2:09:52 AM

I agree...I didn't had a vote, but if I could have voted, this would have been no question for me. What shocked me so much about Trump getting that many votes was less the notion that so many people would give into their worse instincts and verge to the right, it was the notion that voters could be so stupid. I mean, I kind of get it with Brexit, the UK government spend ages to blame the EU for everything, it is no wonder that so many people bought into the notion. But Trump? That he was entirely unsuited for the job and corrupt through the core couldn't have been more obvious if there had been constantly a noisy, red-flashing sign over his head with the writing "last man on earth you want in a position of power".

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165760: Jan 9th 2017 at 3:01:55 AM

Hillary was one of the most qualified candidates in modern history, and ran an extremely progressive campaign.

Trump is a fascist, a bigot, a fool, and an existential threat to the human race.

It's that simple. I almost feel like at this point, if someone can't see that, there's no point in trying to persuade them otherwise.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165761: Jan 9th 2017 at 3:17:55 AM

[up] If they still can't see it by the time the 2018 midterm elections roll around...

Disgusted, but not surprised
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165762: Jan 9th 2017 at 3:49:14 AM

Predictably, the spoiled brat is going on a twitter rant against Meryl Streep.

edited 9th Jan '17 3:49:29 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165763: Jan 9th 2017 at 4:00:43 AM

The last sentence (where he yet again calls the media "very dishonest!") should frighten everyone. Because this is how autocrats operate. They discredit the media, insist that they're the only reliable source, make their worshipers think they're the only ones they can believe. That way, when journalists cover the horrible things they say and do, nobody believes them.

Benedict Donald has outright said that people should only believe something if it came from his orange lips. And it's worked. His horde of Trumplings are lightning-quick to cry "fake news!" at literally any news story they don't like. While the media seem to just sit there and take it, rolling over like scared dogs.

Also, obligatory mention of how the soon-to-be second most powerful man in on Earth is acting like a bratty toddler in front of the entire geopolitical world. And how he's told a bald-faced yet again.note 

My mayor just called him a childish liar on Twitter. Have I mentioned that I love my mayor? Hate my congressman, have mixed feelings about my senators (but still mostly positive), adore my mayor.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#165764: Jan 9th 2017 at 4:11:39 AM

I was more than frightened enough when he told Secretary Clinton, she'd be in jail if he was in charge back during the debates. Somehow that line wasn't all over the news.

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#165765: Jan 9th 2017 at 4:18:18 AM

He backpedaled that one as soon as the election results came in and probably the Republicans don't want her to get trialed for that, because that shit might fall on their heads as well, because they did the same thing with their own emails.

Inter arma enim silent leges
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165766: Jan 9th 2017 at 5:57:34 AM

Russian embassy twitter account accuses British PM of distrusting " Britain's best friend and ally" with a pepe meme.

[down]in case you want to see the standards he set for Obama cabinet appointees.

edited 9th Jan '17 6:01:16 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#165767: Jan 9th 2017 at 5:58:24 AM

I saw in the news today that Congress is trying to rush Trump's Cabinet picks into office before their ethics reviews can be completed.

Honestly, not only does that not surprise me, but here's my prediction: It will be allowed, Congress will get all or most of them in before ethics reviews are done, and even when the reviews reveal ethical breaches or conflicts of interest after the fact, nothing will happen.

It's been fun.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#165768: Jan 9th 2017 at 6:02:06 AM

Here's hoping that the breaches show up in the office, and that the Trump admin is hounded by scandals from the very start. No president maintains their teflon status in office, and their party usually bears the brunt on the negativity.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165769: Jan 9th 2017 at 6:13:59 AM

On that subject, once again people are being asked to call their Senators on the matter ASAP. A script is available here.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#165770: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:12:29 AM

[up][up][up][up]Oh dear, the cringe...

That is official, the Russians are the masters of shitposting and trolling.

Inter arma enim silent leges
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#165771: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:19:21 AM

I realized a thing.

We haven't yet seen the apex of Trump's gaudiness.

Because one day in the future there will be the Donald J Trump Presidential Library.

"You can reply to this Message!"
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165772: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:23:35 AM

[up]Two or three copies of the books he paid someone to gosthwrite and signed wrote plus maybe a "bible for dummies"?

edited 9th Jan '17 7:23:45 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#165773: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:24:59 AM

Let's hope that by that point Trump has ended up like a certain Korean president is just ending up as...

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165774: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:25:34 AM

[up][up][up]And in its' great orange halls there will be, in all its' glorious splendor, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Gift Shop, wherein it will contain a dead ferret toupee on every rack.

edited 9th Jan '17 7:25:53 AM by kkhohoho

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#165775: Jan 9th 2017 at 7:32:45 AM

It'll look like the 20th Century Fox sign, just with 'TRUMP'

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