American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[GioforPM]

That's actually a flattering picture of Trump. Normal skin tone, no vagina neck.

[troutman]

The Best Trump Burns at Conan O’Brien’s Kennedy Center Celebration

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...er-celebration

John Mulaney joked that the Kennedy Center would soon be renamed “The Roy Cohn Pavilion for Big Strong Men Who Love Cats.” Stephen Colbert declared that two new members were joining the board: “Bashar al-Assad [the ousted president of Syria] and Skeletor.” Will Ferrell quipped that he had no time to be at the ceremony because he was “supposed to be shutting down the Department of Education.”

During his acceptance of the Mark Twain Prize, O’Brien invoked the honor’s namesake. “First and foremost, Twain hated bullies,” he began, according to The Hill. “He punched up, not down, and he deeply, deeply empathized with the weak. Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance,” O’Brien continued, “Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. He loved America, but knew it was deeply flawed. Twain wrote, ‘Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.’”

[#-3]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Gift article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...campaign=share

This is BONKERS

This is wild in the context of the Hillary cell phone controversy only 9 years ago. The decent is just wild.

[photon]

Funny how they fail both on both sides of transparency.. they're using a commercial app for that kind of thing and inviting a random journalist by accident, too much transparency.

AND they're setting the messages to auto delete so they're not preserving records for the American people as they're required to by law. Not enough.

But yeah there'll be zero negative impact from this.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

That's actually a flattering picture of Trump. Normal skin tone, no vagina neck.

Yeah, I was hoping it was much more amusing than that. I don't even see what he's upset about because it's a nice portrait.

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Gift article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...campaign=share

This is BONKERS

A must read for everyone I think.



Now the question is, who was Michael Waltz trying to include in the signal chat instead of the journalist? Any name close to Jeffrey Goldberg?

[Firebot]

Honestly i think the journalist should have stayed in the chat, could have seen direct connections to Russia being leaked.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Firebot

A must read for everyone I think.



Now the question is, who was Michael Waltz trying to include in the signal chat instead of the journalist? Any name close to Jeffrey Goldberg?

The guy is Editor-in-Chief, so perhaps someone saw the title and assumed it was a government position, because these people are all morons now.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Honestly i think the journalist should have stayed in the chat, could have seen direct connections to Russia being leaked.

I was thinking the same thing. He should have laid low to see if he gets more invites to chats.

[Harry Lime]

I've always wondered how Americans could be so laissez Faire with whom they allow to have firearms, considering the massive amount of damage they do.

This Atlantic article kind of put that into perspective for me. Everything is literally a game to these people, even at the highest level.

The biggest concern were the DAMN EUROPEAN FREELOADERS. none of the people on that thread should have clearance to own a gun, let alone access to the military.

Not a single one of them spoke like a responsible adult. Firing off a hope and prayers during the attack, that you authorized? Wtactualf.

[Cappy]

Loves to #### on European freeloaders and extracting remuneration for this operation, given the amount of trade through the Suez.

Fails to acknowledge the "Israel" question of what led to these Houthi attacks.

Every other country seems to be a freeloader to the American teat, except Israel...

edit: also, did any European nation ask for this to be done? This is low-key protection racket. "Hey, Europe. You didn't ask for this, but we just spent a bunch of money protecting YOUR sea lanes! We want something in return now"

[GGG]

4D chess question

Was this a Vance loyalty test. His camps immediate reaction was oh #### I disagreed with Trump rather than wholly crap we leaked classified information

Or alternatively this is done with deleted messages to permit the discussion of anti trump thoughts without creating records.

Or most likely - They are just dumb and don’t understand the implications of non secure servers and screwed up when someone added all the chiefs.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Cappy

edit: also, did any European nation ask for this to be done? This is low-key protection racket. "Hey, Europe. You didn't ask for this, but we just spent a bunch of money protecting YOUR sea lanes! We want something in return now"

I was thinking the same thing.

Europe's response to everything isn't just to smash it. Besides, the situation in the region has a tonne to do with America policy. There is a reason why "death to America" is in the Houthi mantra (and every other Islamist group), and not "death to Europe".

[Senator Clay Davis]

I mean, I know we're scale grading to the extreme, but at least Hegseth drunk texted a reporter and not a woman he sexually assaulted. Progress?

[chummer]

Prick

https://twitter.com/user/status/1904256989016064218

[CroFlames]

Uh, Justin Trudeau isn't the leader here anymore.

[Drak]

Russian assets would rather go to Russia. What a shock.

[direwolf]

Wasn’t that idiot saying just last week that the trade war is dumb and that he wanted to go back to Canada & the U.S. being friends? Make up your mind, ya jackass.

[Paulie Walnuts]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1904246943376662740

[Cecil Terwilliger]

What makes him think he’s welcome?