Hail to the Thief: A Politics Thread

by **jamiethekiller** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:45:01

JFLNYC wrote:That's because everyone who was convicted in the scandal has now fully served his or her time.

you mean have been appointed by trump to some high ranking position

by **Phred** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:48:04

Executive order has been signed pulling out of TPP, making it harder for women to get abortions and freezing government hiring (exceot for the military obviously).

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-issues-executive-orders-freezing-federal-hiring-targeting-trade-n710886

by **Stay_Disappointed** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:51:39

Why is the press secretary such a bad speaker

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:52:41

loved the joke to start only bc no one laughed. should have brought in the staffers to cheer for it!

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:54:00

republicans are now deeply pro union

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:55:12

A November 2015 article penned by Barney Frank:

Again, part of the root of the problem is voters who don’t show up. Obama supporters who abstained in 2010 and 2014 helped create the stalemate. Moderate and mainstream conservative Republicans who disagree with their party’s militantly anti-compromise wing but eschew the primaries and vote only in November make the stalemate hard to break.

Public opinion polls that show a majority of Republicans oppose the tactics of the tea party-Freedom Caucus wing do not mean much to the winners of GOP primaries in which most of that majority has not voted. However, many nonvoting conservatives committed to responsible government offer little encouragement to Republicans in the House and Senate who are understandably worried about challenges from the far right.

This is not a matter that can be resolved by greater personal efforts to promote cooperation in Washington. The problem is deeply rooted in the behavior of the voters, and, as we’re just a year away from the 2016 election now, the ballot box is the only arena where this conundrum can be resolved.

welp, we decided to not solve it, simply exacerbate it.

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 14:55:39

CalvinBall wrote:republicans are now deeply pro union

news to me

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:01:02

I guess the AP always gets the first question at these things.

Spicer did not do that.

by **drsmooth** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:03:17

Warszawa wrote:Why is the press secretary such a bad speaker

Imagine how good a speaker you'd be if you hadn't taken a shit since you were 15

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:05:40

they have a mandate! to make healthcare more accessible and lower cost!

great! what's your plan to do exactly that?!

by **drsmooth** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:05:51

Warszawa wrote:Why is the press secretary such a bad speaker

also just lying your ass off frequently makes you sound bad. For example, he knows NOTHING about health policy, so just prattles on & on piling pathetic lie on pathetic lie. If I'm a reporter, I just doodle clown faces and report that "today, drumpf's press secretary emitted fart-smelling, word-shaped noise"

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:07:12

CalvinBall wrote:I guess the AP always gets the first question at these things.

Spicer did not do that.

NY Post, Christian Broadcasting Network, Univision, FOX News (twice)

a new dawn

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:09:03

pacino wrote:they have a mandate! to make healthcare more accessible and lower cost!

great! what's your plan to do exactly that?!

meeting with people for ideas. will keep asking him for their best ideas.

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:09:41

Pentagon said we are not coordinating airstrikes with Russia in Syria.

Spicer wouldn't say the same?

and now he has no clue what multilateral agreements are

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:12:19

doubles down on the inauguration lie

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:14:14

sean spicer lecturing the media on telling the truth. lol.

by **pacino** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:14:31

"Sometimes we may disagree with the facts."

by **CalvinBall** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:15:43

the CIA was hooting and hollering when Trump walked in.

it was his staffers.

holy shit.

by **drsmooth** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:17:03

holy shit, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on MSNBC an hour or so ago just making up shit about a) Rs "plan" for ACA replacement and b) costs of ACA. He claims "a friend", presumably in Louisiana, paid THIRTY NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS for marketplace policies for himself/his wife. That's about FIVE TIMES what a similarly situated couple would pay, with ZERO tax credit subsidy. In other words, a stupendous lie.

Cassidy's bullshit is EASY to disprove, but of course no media boneheads know how, so they just nod in silence

by **Grotewold** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 15:17:28

CalvinBall wrote:the CIA was hooting and hollering when Trump walked in.

it was his staffers.

holy shit.

Why would they even have thought anyone would expect the CIA to be hooting and hollering? It's not The Arsenio Hall Show.

Whole thing is so bizarre.

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