Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Paranoid Android]

Angry about Portland? Remember none of the DHS leaders were Senate confirmed. We have an acting Sec, acting Dep Sec, acting head of CBP, acting head of ICE. It’s been that way for over a *year*.

https://twitter.com/vermontgmg/statu...191683072?s=19

This has been a nice little trick Trump has done. Basically shedding any type of oversight and responsibility.

I and some of us always say 'if a Democrat did this', but idk if this is true. Would a Democrat circumvent the system by not having Senate confirmation. Or as usual Trumpkins did Trump set the norm so don't cry when the next President does it.

[eschatological]

The Linkin Park tweet about ordering a cease and desist has comments that......man, should be nuked from the face of the Earth.

Basically, Chester Bennington (the lead singer of Linkin Park who killed himself a couple years ago after a long history of depression) was big on anti-sex trafficking causes. Apparently, so was Anthony Bourdain. So there's a shit ton of Trump supporters saying that these two men were actually secretly huge supporters of Donald Trump (who has lied repeatedly about his record of pursuing sex traffickers), and they were KILLED (and not suicides) by leftists looking to protect their secret sex trafficking trade.

Like, holy shit.

[Edge-]

Basically, Chester Bennington (the lead singer of Linkin Park who killed himself a couple years ago after a long history of depression) was big on anti-sex trafficking causes. Apparently, so was Anthony Bourdain. So there's a shit ton of Trump supporters saying that these two men were actually secretly huge supporters of Donald Trump (who has lied repeatedly about his record of pursuing sex traffickers), and they were KILLED (and not suicides) by leftists looking to protect their secret sex trafficking trade.

Just...ugh, humanity was a fuckin mistake.

[Kaleredar]

The Linkin Park tweet about ordering a cease and desist has comments that......man, should be nuked from the face of the Earth.

Basically, Chester Bennington (the lead singer of Linkin Park who killed himself a couple years ago after a long history of depression) was big on anti-sex trafficking causes. Apparently, so was Anthony Bourdain. So there's a shit ton of Trump supporters saying that these two men were actually secretly huge supporters of Donald Trump (who has lied repeatedly about his record of pursuing sex traffickers), and they were KILLED (and not suicides) by leftists looking to protect their secret sex trafficking trade.

Like, holy shit.

Reason number 10,000,000 that Trump needs to be out of the white house... so that these loons don't feel like they're being represented by the highest office in the land.

[pathora44]

The Linkin Park tweet about ordering a cease and desist has comments that......man, should be nuked from the face of the Earth.

Basically, Chester Bennington (the lead singer of Linkin Park who killed himself a couple years ago after a long history of depression) was big on anti-sex trafficking causes. Apparently, so was Anthony Bourdain. So there's a shit ton of Trump supporters saying that these two men were actually secretly huge supporters of Donald Trump (who has lied repeatedly about his record of pursuing sex traffickers), and they were KILLED (and not suicides) by leftists looking to protect their secret sex trafficking trade.

Like, holy shit.

Trumpsters are self blinded fools that believe a con man is looking out for them. The man would step right over you if you were lying on the sidewalk dying as he strolled down the street. If he would give only a single strand of his hair to save their lives, hell it could be but a single word. Yet Trump wouldn't give it to save even a single life of his devoted cultists.

[zorkuus]

The Linkin Park tweet about ordering a cease and desist has comments that......man, should be nuked from the face of the Earth.

Basically, Chester Bennington (the lead singer of Linkin Park who killed himself a couple years ago after a long history of depression) was big on anti-sex trafficking causes. Apparently, so was Anthony Bourdain. So there's a shit ton of Trump supporters saying that these two men were actually secretly huge supporters of Donald Trump (who has lied repeatedly about his record of pursuing sex traffickers), and they were KILLED (and not suicides) by leftists looking to protect their secret sex trafficking trade.

Like, holy shit.

How dumb are the fuckers? They seem to jump on board every conspiracy theory out there, as easily as it is to breath. Maybe eugenics wasn't such a bad idea.

[Masark]

Maybe eugenics wasn't such a bad idea.

The problem with eugenics is that these are the people who think they're superior.

[Omega10]

I don't think anyone will take any chances 2016 is still painfully fresh in a lot of people's minds.

We absolutely must stay completely vigilant all the way through Jan 20.

But we can still enjoy some good news

Two polls, both of which have Trump below 40%. I'll link one of them:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden...193500582.html

Title: Joe Biden opens up biggest national poll lead over Trump since securing nomination as independents abandon president

Gist of the article: Biden has opened up a 52-37 lead. The other poll has Trump at 39%.

This is a good sign. Upper 30s gives a BIT of breathing room. Lower 30s is better, upper 20s is the goal.

EDIT: 538 has Biden leading 50.5 to 41.6. Hopefully a new set of polls will show some deterioration in Trump's numbers. Rasmussen is the main outlier, showing Biden +3. All the rest have Biden up with nice leads.

[zorkuus]

The problem with eugenics is that these are the people who think they're superior.

That's ok, we'll just tell them the sterilizer/poison protects them from HAARP and gay frogs.

[Wilian]

If unidentifiable thugs in unmarked military garb came and dragged you to random van unconstitutionally would you be within your rights to shoot in self-defense in Portland?

[rayvio]

I'd be willing to cut random strangers, especially anyone outside of the US, a lot of slack about mixing up Lewis and Cummings. Millions of Americans wouldn't be able to tell you the name of most politicians, even their own representatives, if you showed them a picture.

But if you work in congress or have been in politics for any amount of time then there's really no excuse.

I have facial blindness so most people look the same to me. but if I was posting a picture of somebody I'd still know to make sure it's the right person first by getting it from a reliable source

[Elegiac]

I have facial blindness so most people look the same to me. but if I was posting a picture of somebody I'd still know to make sure it's the right person first by getting it from a reliable source

See this is a sensible answer why can't you be in Congress.

[PhaelixWW]

It's always nice to see what's new on The Lincoln Project's website.

Just from the last week:

[Elegiac]

You know it's wild to think that it's 3AM and I'm here eating pasta while there's like actual gestapo in Portland.

Oh, point of order: we should start referring to this as the Trump regime rather than the administration.

[Twdft]

If unidentifiable thugs in unmarked military garb came and dragged you to random van unconstitutionally would you be within your rights to shoot in self-defense in Portland?

Yeah I think so: “A person reasonably believes another person is using or about to use deadly force against him or her.”

[SirBeef]

Trumpsters are self blinded fools that believe a con man is looking out for them. The man would step right over you if you were lying on the sidewalk dying as he strolled down the street. If he would give only a single strand of his hair to save their lives, hell it could be but a single word. Yet Trump wouldn't give it to save even a single life of his devoted cultists.

Don't forget they also believe that Stephen Colbert when playing Stephen Colbert on the Colbert report was in fact a savvy GOP talking head not a satirist making fun of them the entire time.

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We absolutely must stay completely vigilant all the way through Jan 20.

But we can still enjoy some good news

Two polls, both of which have Trump below 40%. I'll link one of them:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden...193500582.html

Title: Joe Biden opens up biggest national poll lead over Trump since securing nomination as independents abandon president

Gist of the article: Biden has opened up a 52-37 lead. The other poll has Trump at 39%.

This is a good sign. Upper 30s gives a BIT of breathing room. Lower 30s is better, upper 20s is the goal.

EDIT: 538 has Biden leading 50.5 to 41.6. Hopefully a new set of polls will show some deterioration in Trump's numbers. Rasmussen is the main outlier, showing Biden +3. All the rest have Biden up with nice leads.

Next we will have GP post a poll showing how strong Trumps numbers are when he gets back up to 40%.

[Felya]

How dumb are the fuckers? They seem to jump on board every conspiracy theory out there, as easily as it is to breath. Maybe eugenics wasn't such a bad idea.

Been saying this for years... I can’t find the article, but I think post finally had an article on it last week.

QAnon is the convergence of all conspiracy theories... I don’t know how to explain it, but it starts at JFK... that’s how wide the net is. The only constant is that Trump, who is on record saying shit like Epstein likes them young and has been in all the elite circles they claim democrats are in, is the pure hearted fighting it all. It’s amazingly bizarre and even more stupid... but, it convinces people that they are smarter than anyone else for knowing it, so it works on dumb people with major ego issues.

In fact, I have a great slogan for QAnon...

QAnon: ‘If you feel like an idiot in the real world, be a genius in ours.’

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I have facial blindness so most people look the same to me. but if I was posting a picture of somebody I'd still know to make sure it's the right person first by getting it from a reliable source

I like your avatar... Kind of implies that people not wearing masks are dumber than a murloc... 2 thumbs up! Solid smile on my face... thank you!

[s_bushido]

If unidentifiable thugs in unmarked military garb came and dragged you to random van unconstitutionally would you be within your rights to shoot in self-defense in Portland?

It would seem strange if you couldn't legally defend yourself against armed people with no identification rolling up on you and trying to abduct you. But the way things are, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if you couldn't.

Nor would it surprise me if they were doing this specifically to provoke a violent reaction so that they could escalate further.

[Felya]

Sadly we have assholes like Flynn signal boosting their shit by literally ending the oath of office with QAnon’s actual slogan.

Why wouldn’t they? QAnon is the base that’s letting Trump and his cronies get away with all this shit. All of the crazies that used to take arguing against corruption to an extreme of conspiracy theories, are now defending corruption by attacking mostly civilians with no actual power. Can you imagine any other pre-Trump conspiracy, where hiring Acosta as the labor secretary, was a way that Trump will punish these people that let Epstein get away? Having Mark Foley in a prominent position during a Trump rally?

It’s the same thing as Hillary and Bill Gates being globalist, because each has a huge charity. While the guy fighting them, had a pandemic travel ban, that literally excluded his golf courses, until people tossed a fit. That doesn’t make any sense...

Again, same as blaming Gates for covid, because he needs more money or something about mind control. Being fought by a hospitality mogul, demanding that hospitality business open up, as they are the heaviest hit by covid. Again, bizarre conspiracy, that defends Trump, who owns hotels, golf courses and other real state directly impacted by shut downs aimed at stopping the virus.

Edit: People keep asking how the rest of the world seems to mostly be doing better than US... which seems like a silly question to me... no one else has a mogul, in the industry heaviest hit by solutions to stop the virus, as their president. You really think that if this virus somehow spared hospitality, but attacked IT industry, the reaction would be the same?

[Klosenvasten]

Why wouldn’t they? QAnon is the base that’s letting Trump and his cronies get away with all this shit. All of the crazies that used to take arguing against corruption to an extreme of conspiracy theories, are now defending corruption by attacking mostly civilians with no actual power. Can you imagine any other pre-Trump conspiracy, where hiring Acosta as the labor secretary, was a way that Trump will punish these people that let Epstein get away? Having Mark Foley in a prominent position during a Trump rally?

It’s the same thing as Hillary and Bill Gates being globalist, because each has a huge charity. While the guy fighting them, had a pandemic travel ban, that literally excluded his golf courses, until people tossed a fit. That doesn’t make any sense...

Again, same as blaming Gates for covid, because he needs more money or something about mind control. Being fought by a hospitality mogul, demanding that hospitality business open up, as they are the heaviest hit by covid. Again, bizarre conspiracy, that defends Trump, who owns hotels, golf courses and other real state directly impacted by shut downs aimed at stopping the virus.

Yeah we get it your evil racist plutocrat corrupt rapists are better than theirs for reasons. Change the record. Do fuck off.