Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Kaleredar]

And in other exciting What the Fuck News..George Papadopolous is going to attempt to run for Katie Hill's vacant seat. Because a Democrat woman having an affair is so much worse than a convicted felon:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/77473...9T4LUibhnGE4SQ

This is a tweet by old George himself:

"I'm smelling blood in the water now that Katie Hill has resigned. California's 25th congressional district is wide open for the taking," his tweet read. "Someone has to step up. I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no action, and a bunch of sell outs."

If they're incensed about a politician having an affair, then boy howdy are they going to be in for a rude awakening when they find out about Trump...

[Captain N]

If they're incensed about a politician having an affair, then boy howdy are they going to be in for a rude awakening when they find out about Trump...

Oh but you know it's only bad when Democrats do it. It's in the Abridged Bible of Modern Conservatism don't ya know?

[Orbitus]

And in other exciting What the Fuck News..George Papadopolous is going to attempt to run for Katie Hill's vacant seat. Because a Democrat woman having an affair is so much worse than a convicted felon:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/77473...9T4LUibhnGE4SQ

This is a tweet by old George himself:

"I'm smelling blood in the water now that Katie Hill has resigned. California's 25th congressional district is wide open for the taking," his tweet read. "Someone has to step up. I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no action, and a bunch of sell outs."

I mean, Republicans are known for running convicted felons and other unsavory characters for seats. Look at Roy Moore, Duncan Hunter, and many others. Including that one that body slammed a reporter.

[Kaleredar]

Oh but you know it's only bad when Democrats do it. It's in the Abridged Bible of Modern Conservatism don't ya know?

Like I said in another thread (or maybe it was this one? I don't know these all kind of blur together) the republicans like to flaunt the occasional moral failing of democrats because they know democrats still have morals.

[D Luniz]

I mean, Republicans are known for running convicted felons and other unsavory characters for seats. Look at Roy Moore, Duncan Hunter, and many others. Including that one that body slammed a reporter.

ex-congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm

[Orbitus]

ex-congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm

Pretty sure there is another one from Montana. Oh, nevermind, that was the Governor, same thing though considering he still committed assault.

[Zaydin]

ex-congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm

No, the body-slamming GOPer was Gianforte from Montana.

Michael Grimm threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony.

[Omega10]

I will make a short report here, since it's slightly OT (now it's more on topic than before though, since the APEC and UN COP25 were canned):
My country has high inequality, high cost of living, problems with health, pensions, housing and public transportation.

Shit blows up because of a 4 cent fare hike on the subway. My president, in his infinite wisdom, decides to enact a state of emergency, and send the troops out to control the protests/riots (with predictable results, we are currently with 20+ dead people).
Shit's fucked, the dollar/peso converison skyrocketed, our government is impotent, our legislative branch is also impotent (or worse, trying to win some political points), and because of that, and also because they don't think that thing will return to normal in 3 more weeks/6 weeks, they cancelled the APEC and the UN COP25

https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comme...ests_in_chile/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...protest-unrest
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/ameri...ntl/index.html

Thank you for the information and the links. Here are two sentences that really stood out:

The per capita income of the bottom quintile of Chileans is less than $140 a month. Half the population earns about $550.

My first impression is that the President severely underestimated the mood of the people thinking that calling the protestors evil and killing a few protestors would work. What seemed to happen instead is that it made the situation much worse. Then he made some changes to the economics of Chile which I find interesting - he can single handedly just make these kinds of changes? Or did the Chilean version of Parliament or Congress pass a bunch of laws very quickly? But it seems that the people of Chile have essentially said "not enough".

I'll be looking for more articles about Chile. Thanks for the heads up about this. And my condolences for what you are going through. It does not seem fun at all. And being the target of tear gas also does not sound fun either

Take care. Good luck.

[Xeones]

Anyone catch the Trump judicial nominee who was crying on stage again after the ABA gave him one of the harshest reviews the senators had seen?

The strongly worded review drew equally strong reactions at a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee — from Democrats who called the ABA findings unusual and troubling as well as from Republicans who called it a low attack from a group they’ve long accused of bias against conservatives. But one charge was particularly upsetting to VanDyke himself: The ABA’s report that he “would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community.”

Asked if that was correct, the nominee struggled almost 15 seconds to find his words.

He started to cry.

“I did not say that,” he said in a shaky voice. He apologized to his listeners as he halted again, apparently too overcome to speak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...r-association/

Maybe I don't get it, they aren't accusing him of saying something. They're accusing him of not saying something.

Not as juicy as the monster trying to blame democratic senators because he wanted to murder sick children, so I can see how it was overlooked.

[Rasulis]

And in other exciting What the Fuck News..George Papadopolous is going to attempt to run for Katie Hill's vacant seat. Because a Democrat woman having an affair is so much worse than a convicted felon:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/77473...9T4LUibhnGE4SQ

This is a tweet by old George himself:

"I'm smelling blood in the water now that Katie Hill has resigned. California's 25th congressional district is wide open for the taking," his tweet read. "Someone has to step up. I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no action, and a bunch of sell outs."

Not going to happen. The district voted for Obama in 2012, Brown in 2014, Clinton in 2016 and Newsom in 2018. Steve Knight lasted till 2018 because he was legacy Republican. He has been the rep for so long that people just kept checking his name each election. Once GOP lose a district like that, there is no getting it back. That's why Issa is not running in his old district. Instead he is going after Hunter's district.

[Omega10]

I will make a short report here, since it's slightly OT (now it's more on topic than before though, since the APEC and UN COP25 were canned):
My country has high inequality, high cost of living, problems with health, pensions, housing and public transportation.

Shit blows up because of a 4 cent fare hike on the subway. My president, in his infinite wisdom, decides to enact a state of emergency, and send the troops out to control the protests/riots (with predictable results, we are currently with 20+ dead people).
Shit's fucked, the dollar/peso converison skyrocketed, our government is impotent, our legislative branch is also impotent (or worse, trying to win some political points), and because of that, and also because they don't think that thing will return to normal in 3 more weeks/6 weeks, they cancelled the APEC and the UN COP25

https://www.reddit.com/r/chile/comme...ests_in_chile/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...protest-unrest
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/ameri...ntl/index.html

I checked out the English version of the reddit forum, and started to do Spanish to English translations of the Spanish version.

If I were to compare this to America, it would be like if the standard of living for Americans got worse, and then the Trump supporters and the anti-Trump people merged together as one big group to protest the President in power. The goals of the protesters seem pretty clear: more money for the working class and poor (or lower prices for them which is kind of the same thing).

Chile seems to have the exact same media issues that the US has. No one believes any of the mainstream media. And the protestors are working on ways to report what is happening and finding ways of getting these reports to the outside world.

A big similarity between Chile and the US is the following: before Pinera, there was a "socialist" government that didn't do anything socialist at all. It seems that the "socialist" government was just a continuation of the right wing government before that, and that Pinera is just a continuation of the "socialist" government that preceded it. Kind of like how Obama continued a lot of Bush's policies on foreign policy, and as much as Trump tries to be the anti-Obama, the Trump economy is basically the Obama economy with a few adjustments that Trump has made (the tax cut and the tariffs).

I find the Chile protests quite interesting, and I can see these protests spreading to other countries. Chile is not the only country with huge income inequality issues. I hope that these protests stay fairly violence free, and also that structural changes are made to the economy benefitting working class and poor people, and even middle class Chileans as well if there are any of those.

Where does the Chilean middle class stand on all of this? Is there a Chilean middle class?

[Orbitus]

I guess the name of the dog is now declassified?

Can someone explain why it was apparently classified in the first place? It's called Conan, ffs. Not exactly some super secretive name that nobody could guess.

Because if you know the name of the dog, then you can know the name of the handler, if you know the name of the handler, you know the unit and who could have been there.

[Fuiking]

Because if you know the name of the dog, then you can know the name of the handler, if you know the name of the handler, you know the unit and who could have been there.

Lets thank the doggo's first trainer before he become a K-9 unit.

[Beefhammer]

Lets thank the doggo's first trainer before he become a K-9 unit.

You mean dog.

[Mayhem]

†Your example is a good one because yeah 1 heroin user doesn't mean you a city is collapsing, however one you start tolerating it and even pass a law lowering the criminalization of it it all of a sudden people flock to your city to do it as some CA cities are starting to learn.

Do tell how one person being arrested for heroin possession brought you to this argument?

[Breccia]

Farm bankruptcies are up 24% to the highest level since 2011.

More info: The Agriculture Department projects that farm incomes will reach $88 billion in 2019 but nearly 40% of that — $33 billion — will come from trade aid, disaster assistance, the farm bill and insurance indemnities.

That's right: forty percent of US farming income wasn't from farming. It was from being bailed out, one way or another, by the federal government.

[kaid]

I guess the name of the dog is now declassified?

Can someone explain why it was apparently classified in the first place? It's called Conan, ffs. Not exactly some super secretive name that nobody could guess.

In theory knowing the name of the dog may clue somebody in to who the handler is. Knowing who the handler is tells you the unit and the probable location of it. So it seems odd but it does have some logic.

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More info: The Agriculture Department projects that farm incomes will reach $88 billion in 2019 but nearly 40% of that — $33 billion — will come from trade aid, disaster assistance, the farm bill and insurance indemnities.

That's right: forty percent of US farming income wasn't from farming. It was from being bailed out, one way or another, by the federal government.

There is nothing hard core rural republicans like more than some good old fashion socialism as long as it does not go to brown folk.

[Breccia]

Hey fellas, remember the trade war?

Trump says new location for the signing of Phase One coming soon.

So here's a question for the rabid fanbase: why not just sign it, right now? This is supposed to be the biggest help for farmers since Einstein invented seeds or something, right? So if it's so bigly and yuge, why not sign it, right now? Just pick up a Sharpie, and sign it. Who cares about a meeting or photo op? If it's for the good of the country, why delay until you can find a venue?

[Paranoid Android]

Trump judicial nominee cries over scathing letter from American Bar Association https://t.co/5N7If6pQqP

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...792525312?s=19

Fitting for this administration.

I believe this is not the first judicial nominee not endorsed by the ABA? I believe multiple?

Yes this show they want ideologues, who care more about right wing agenda. Since I'm a Woke Independent, both are putting up nominees for their ideas. Yet Trump is next level.

[Elegiac]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...792525312?s=19

Fitting for this administration.

I believe this is not the first judicial nominee not endorsed by the ABA? I believe multiple?

Yes this show they want ideologues, who care more about right wing agenda. Since I'm a Woke Independent, both are putting up nominees for their ideas. Yet Trump is next level.

Homophobes bursting into literal tears in front of Congress when being called out on their BS and yet the left is full of snowflakes.

*shrugs and sips tea*