American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS (Archive)

[Drak]

Violence is what Bannon wants.

[burn_this_city]

Milo is obnoxious but rioting over his speech does more harm than good to your cause.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Drak

Violence is what Bannon wants.

I was thinking about that last night when the people in black were being violent, I wonder if Bannon likes or dislikes this?

Another thought I had was it was too bad people, didn't stop the dudes in black from wrecking their school. They had numbers, I don't think it would have been hard to just stand inbetween their school and the destructive people, and keep them from breaking the windows, that are just going to have to be replaced with money from somewhere out of their budget.

The protest itself was great, just don't see the point in letting a very small handful of people get destructive.
Bannon probably loved it though, maybe they were Bannons people.

[MrMastodonFarm]

How happy must Milo be right now? His fame is at an all time high right now, name all over the place. His talks have been protested before but obviously not on this level. Guy is such a cartoon though, he's beyond Ann Coulter level. Don't know how anyone takes him seriously. You've got to be an idiot to buy a ticket to see him speak or riot about it.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Given the Ukraine is getting shelled right now (shockingly, it heavily picked up on January 21....), and given that President Bannon and co would love to invade Iran, how about this trade proposal? Russia gives up Iran in exchange for the US leaving NATO, allowing for a Russian takeover of Ukraine, plus a Baltic country to be named later.

[Drak]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trum...school-1604426

Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's nomination to replace the late Antonin Scalia in the US Supreme Court, was the leader of a student group called the Fascism Forever Club during his high school days, according to reports.

The Colorado judge was the president of the right-wing club during his time at the prestigious Georgetown Preparatory school in the 1980s.

According to his yearbook, the Fascism Forever Club was set up to oppose the "liberal" views of the school's administration, reported the Daily Mail.

A description in the yearbook added: "In political circles, our tireless President Gorsuch's 'Fascism Forever Club' happily jerked its knees against the increasingly 'left-wing' tendencies of the faculty."

Yearbook photos of the 49-year-old Gorsuch, the youngest Supreme Court nominee since 43-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991, also show him reading William F Buckley's influential 1959 conservative book Up From Liberalism.

During his time at the school, Gorsuch also co-founded a magazine called The Morningside Review, and The Federalist newspaper, both of which were set up to oppose the liberal views at Georgetown at the time.

[HotHotHeat]

"You have a bunch of bad hombres down there," Trump told Pena Nieto, according to the excerpt given to AP. "You aren't doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it."

WTF???

https://apnews.com/0b3f5db59b2e4aa78cdbbf008f27fb49

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Drak

Violence is what Bannon wants.

No doubt about it, and there's no doubt those are his sticky fingerprints all over that tweet from Trump. As if Trump knows who that creepy little weasel Milo is, or cares in the least if he can give his little speech.

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I was thinking about that last night when the people in black were being violent, I wonder if Bannon likes or dislikes this?

Another thought I had was it was too bad people, didn't stop the dudes in black from wrecking their school. They had numbers, I don't think it would have been hard to just stand inbetween their school and the destructive people, and keep them from breaking the windows, that are just going to have to be replaced with money from somewhere out of their budget.

The protest itself was great, just don't see the point in letting a very small handful of people get destructive.
Bannon probably loved it though, maybe they were Bannons people.

I don't know if I would consider 150 people to be "a very small handful".

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/mil...ulos-berkeley/

The university blamed "150 masked agitators" for the unrest, saying they had come to campus to disturb an otherwise peaceful protest.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

I don't know if I would consider 150 people to be "a very small handful".

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/mil...ulos-berkeley/

It looked like less than 20 on TV, but you know CNN is dishonest media, so I could be wrong.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Maybe you should block a few of his nominees to humiliate him back, I don't know...

Paul Kane ‏@pkcapitol 12m12 minutes ago
This is stunning from McCain: "I called Australia’s Ambassador to the United States this morning to express my unwavering support ...

https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/827186291620069377

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Drak

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trum...school-1604426

Personally I usually don't take things seriously when people talk about the high school histories of a 50 year old man unless it involves murder or pet killing.

I mean frankly how many stupid politically incorrect things would I have been a part of during high school. Probably a lot.

Teenagers are stupid and they tend to do stupid things. They tend to name things to the extreme because it will draw attention or they think its hilarious.

Was he part of a fascist movement in college, did he talk about throwing Jews and minorities into ovens in law school?

I'm not here to support Trump, I think that's pretty clear, but I think that this is probably a bit silly.

Anyways, that prayer breakfast speech was a dogs nightmare of a speech that would calm nobodies nerves down.

"You've heard about the rough phone calls with other world leaders" Pause and smirks "Don't worry about it"

Sounds so mafia.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Maybe you should block a few of his nominees to humiliate him back, I don't know...



https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/827186291620069377

I think that we're seeing a major split in the Republican Party that's suddenly becoming very overt. With two Republicans refusing to confirm the Educational nominee, and things like McCain going against Trump's phone manners.

I still doubt we see any kind of movement to impeach for a while though.

[bigtmac19]

The National Prayer Breakfast, and he uses his speech to take a dig at Arnold and his ratings on Celebrity Apprentice? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this man never ceases to amaze with his ignorance.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Personally I usually don't take things seriously when people talk about the high school histories of a 50 year old man unless it involves murder or pet killing.

I mean frankly how many stupid politically incorrect things would I have been a part of during high school. Probably a lot.

In my high school (1984 Grad) our model Parliament had The Groucho Marx Party, and R.A.S.P. - the Radical Alternative Survivalist Party. No one was harmed.

[ernie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I think that we're seeing a major split in the Republican Party that's suddenly becoming very overt. With two Republicans refusing to confirm the Educational nominee, and things like McCain going against Trump's phone manners.

I still doubt we see any kind of movement to impeach for a while though.

This is where the center dems and center republicans need to get together and start putting together some laws that allow governance from the center. There should be enough of those people to get something done.

They won't but that is what they should be doing....rushing to have a give and take to limit the damage being done by the administration.

[troutman]

People are demanding odds to bet on Donald Trump being assassinated

Bookies such as Paddy Power and William Hill are refusing to give a price on Trump being killed.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/people-are-...inated-1602557

Donald Trump impeachment odds halved as bookies reveal flood of bets on President failing to complete term

Arithmetic and history are against punters, but bookmakers described betting trends ahead of Republican's inauguration as 'one-way traffic'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7535696.html

[CaptainCrunch]

Trump might be crazy, however anyone that is hoping for an assassination is far more damaged then he could ever be.

Besides that, lets say that Trump is killed and Pence has to take over, the clamp down on civil rights in the name of security would be unbelievable.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by bigtmac19

The National Prayer Breakfast, and he uses his speech to take a dig at Arnold and his ratings on Celebrity Apprentice? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this man never ceases to amaze with his ignorance.

The funny thing is he is still the executive producer so he benefits from Arnold's ratings. Troll in chief.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by troutman

In my high school (1984 Grad) our model Parliament had The Grouch Marx Party, and R.A.S.P. - the Radical Alternative Survivalist Party. No one was harmed.

We elected an kid that was a sworn anarchist as our student council president because he was also the school papers cartoonist and had a mohawk. also like the girl who ran against him was totally like way to fashionable, came from a rich family and screamed establishment . . . totally.

It was great, because our President never showed up for a single meeting, his cartoons suddenly became really over the top hilariously insulting to the principal and he renamed the strip, from the desk of the President. And we all learned, that the Student Council didn't really mean anything it was a make believe institution to make us believe that we had a voice in the running of the school.

IIRC he was eventually removed from power by the principal who simply booted him out of office, and held new elections.

We should have rioted.