The Politics Thread

You know what, if Obama wants to work him and keep him from blowing up the world, I say do it. As I said a few days ago, Trump can be manipulated.

Really threatening someone, Kellyanne?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BcMH0Azc2I

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by cassadine1991

2 hours ago, Khan said:

Not attempting to cast aspersions or start/spread rumors here, but it has been my experience that men such as Mike Pence dislike homosexuals so strongly because they remind them of their own, deep-seated gay tendencies.

 

IJS.

That is something that I thought about, but I think Pence is just one of those super religious types who is fanatical without any underlying reason.

 

 

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by ReddFoxx

The German people aren't taking Trump's win very well-

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxCVXXLXcAAHRVW.jpg

 

(That says It's the end of the world as we know it)

55 minutes ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

The German people aren't taking Trump's win very well-

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxCVXXLXcAAHRVW.jpg

 

(That says It's the end of the world as we know it)

 

Chilling. It reminds me of artwork from the '20s or '30s. 

 

John Oliver pretty much says it all for me.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJBqhhzcguM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSDUsMwakI

 

I saw a lot of pooh-poohing saying he's part of the problem because he gave Trump attention and he thought he could influence the election, and so forth. He always criticized Trump, he never just treated him as an obscurity. And I don't believe for a minute that any voters out there flocked to Trump because of a geeky British guy on a cable channel most either don't have, or likely wouldn't be getting just to somehow magically rebel against one politinfotainment show. It's an easy out to avoid real questions. He really is trying to help, he's always been trying to help, and that's more than I can say for most of the late night frathouse. 

 

The only complaint I have is he had Amy Schumer in that last clip - someone else I try my best to avoid seeing. 

 

I did get a good laugh when I looked at the Daily Mail comments section and someone said they knew they had to write Oliver off when he criticized Jill Stein. Yes, let's not say a bad word about a deluded narcissist who is about as good at finding cities in Ohio as she is at running for office. I wonder if Susan Sarandon wrote that comment.

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by DRW50

The Der Spiegel article basically made allusions to Hitler (without saying his name) and Nazi Germany and laid out the similarities to Trump and white supremacy in the U.S.

 

Trump tell his racist supporters to "Stop It" but it looks like they're not listening.

 

Police Investigate Swastika Spray-Painted in 'Heart of Jewish Crown Heights'

 

This reminds me of how historical, there is usually pushback after progress in America.  Think of the post-Emancipation period A.K.A. the Reconstruction Era when former slaves are asserting themselves, gaining political power as Blacks are elected to public office in astonishing numbers.

Do you know what happens shortly after?

The emergence of the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist organization (that lynched and beheaded people- sound familiar?) Blacks being terrorized/lynched in their neighborhoods, the burning of Black Wall Street.

 

This feels like pushback in America after the Obama Era.

 

ETA. Also in NYC, In Staten Island (not known for being racially tolerant or that diverse), a man has been arrested after being caught pouring gasoline on a Church.

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by DramatistDreamer

Trump denies remarks on Japan's nuclear armament

 

"The fact that 1 party made it deliberately harder to vote...is one of biggest ignored scandals of 2016."—@AriBerman https://t.co/bmznrlN21g

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 13, 2016

 

I still don't understand why people choose to discount the vast importance of this.

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by DramatistDreamer

Okay now I can't get twitter links to embed grrrr

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by dragonflies

Someone stop him from talking:  "I come from the white working class...I feel deeply humiliated that the Dem party cannot talk to the people I came from" @SenSanders on CBS

Yeah, helpful, thanks, Bernie.

This idiot is going to alienate the bedrock of the current democratic party, black women, I just can't with this fool.

I will hate that man forever.

Considering how he shilled products during the campaign, nobody's surprised by this, right?

 

Donald Trump '.gov' Transition Website Plugs Firm's Properties

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Trump denies remarks on Japan's nuclear armament

 

 

I still don't understand why people choose to discount the vast importance of this.

 

Ask yourself who does it affect and you'll get your answer.

Oh @DeeeDee it was definitely a rhetorical question.

Edited November 14, 20169 yr by DramatistDreamer