U.S. Presidential Election 2016 (Sponsored by Betty Croker's Hamburger Helper)

[mikem]

Sessions has offered his resignation.

There can't ever have been a more chaotic regime at the helm of a civilised country.

Us Dem's have forgotten what the first year of Clinton looked like. Different issues but I wouldn't be surprised if Gallup polls didn't have Clinton and Trump at similar popularity levels. Difference being that his people could get replaced by boring insiders in a way that doesn't seem possible for Trump.

It is amazing that people think Comey's testimony is nothing. Impeachment is primarily a political question so nothing is going to happen as long as Ryan is the congressional majority leader. But it is no longer news reports; the former head of the FBI, who beat an admin before, under oath testified both that the President is a liar and that all the building blocks exist to start a criminal case for obstruction.

[phonics]

Still can't believe his lawyers haven't forced a Twitter password change.

What do you get out of losing a case that ends in your client being impeached? The money can't be that good.

[John]

Good heavens.

[Lewis]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarz...66Z#.puLMxxAAb

Heroes. Legends, even.

[Pepe]

The resistance.

[Pepe]

The whole thing is just tragic. I'm glad I've never bothered with Twater.

[Lewis]

It's like Facebook. If you post loads and follow idiots then it's obviously going to be balls. If you just follow Donald Trump for a lol amongst the SERIOUS things you're interested in then you're alright.

[Pepe]

I just use this place as my Twitter filter. Figure whatever is proper good will make it here.

EDIT: Like that shit phonics and Boydy like.

[Byron]

I'll have a browse of the Donald's twitter for a good lol, but I never have Twitter and never will, it's all mindless drivel.

Probably why I restrict friends on Facebook to people I actually talk and associate with, rather than having 5 billion friends.

[GS]

The Donald is actually spot on regarding NATO. These countries refuse to pay their way, criticise the Americans for their domestic audience, and continue to assume that if something happens they can trigger Article 50 and the Americans will come rushing in with tomahawks and aircraft carriers.

It's all fair and well sheltering under the American military and spending the money on something else, but you can't then be aghast when you're called out on it in public.

[Jimmy Floyd]

“Trump’s very predictable, so sometimes it’s just like ‘BOOM!’ Two minutes after Trump’s tweet I have a seven-part response that’s topical and engaging.”

[Disco]

I liked this bit:

Within 24 hours, Elgan’s account grew by 300 followers — proof that mere proximity to a 6:00 a.m. presidential diatribe is among the most reliable ways to boost one’s Twitter account.

Great, fucking retire off that shit.

[Boydy]

The whole thing is just tragic. I'm glad I've never bothered with Twater.

I just use this place as my Twitter filter. Figure whatever is proper good will make it here.

EDIT: Like that shit phonics and Boydy like.

There's basically loads of different subcultures on it though. There are so many twats with blue ticks who think their opinions are important or their shit jokes are funny. The most interesting people are generally just ordinary folk who aren't using it for self-promotion.

This basically sums them up:

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So many liberal dickheads on it who think some smartarse tweets will bring Trump down.

Left Twitter is good though. Plenty of hatred for those cunts and they made some dickhead pundit eat his stupid Brexit book on Sky News the other day because he was wrong about Corbyn.

[GS]

If you follow wankers, it's going to be a waste of your time. If you follow interesting people, it's a perfectly useful tool.

[Lewis]

Dominic Cummings was calling book-eating man a FRAUD long before the left got at him.

[GS]

Is it Carswell who fucking hates him, too?

[John]

Trump apparently wants to bring back all the sanctions on Cuba and start limiting tourism etc again. No matter what it is, if Obama did it it's for the chop.

[Disco]

50 years of sanctions (or whatever it was) against Cuba was unbelievably childish so I guess it's right in his wheelhouse.

[Bernanke]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/12/po...ing/index.html

This is just bizarre .

[Pepe]

The state of that lot.

[bruhnaldo]

Why can't people just write the news? Why does everything read like an opinionated blog post?

This goes for both sides, not even just CNN.

[phonics]

Chris Cilizza is a giant dumbass who can't write, that's why.

[Pepe]

The article is shit. That video though. I mean, who cares in the end. Still a bit lol to see all those old men sucking his dick.

[Lewis]

This geezer who shot (badly) at Republicans playing baseball appears to be an anti-Trump nutcase. When that Democrat woman got shot in the face conservative media outlets took all of the grief, so let's see how this one pans out. I'm going for complaints about guns.

[Pepe]

Fifty or sixty shots, Rand Paul () says. That is very little bang for your buck. I guess those limp wrists are not very good for aiming.

[Lewis]

Imagine being radicalised by John Oliver.

[mikem]

It is all such nonsense though. The left will hyperventilate about guns and the right about radical leftist campus violence. Honestly, with the amount of guns in this country we would be Raqqa if this actually mattered.

[Pepe]

Turns out he was a 'Bernie Bro.'

[Henry]

Well, this is interesting, politically.

Republicans were due to legislate today to make it easier for people to buy silencers for their guns, on the grounds that it would protect the hearing of gun users.

Of course, the real reason is that silencers are expensive and manufacturers stand to make a lot of money from them.

[mikem]

So was the guy in Portland. At least it is a change.

[phonics]

I found a bot that puts Trump tweets into the format of an official press statement and the ridiculousness of the timeline we live in shines through.

[mikem]

Strangely, the Fed declaring the Phillips Curve flat is probably the biggest news from yesterday.

Well, and the Congressional baseball game being actual baseball and not softball.

[John]

Trump has binned the Cuba deal 'effective immediately'. One sided, he said.

[GS]

Obama must be constantly seething.

[Pepe]

What's the point? So much focus on useless things.

[Henry]

It's only a small part of the Cuban thing that he's rolling back. Presumably there are business interests making money from it, so he can't/won't just bin it all.

Also, is Trump now trying to blame someone else for his firing Comey?

[Lewis]

I thought selling Qatar twelve billion quid of arms to defend itself from Saudi Arabian aggression prompted by his visit was good. 4D chess. The Deal-Maker in Chief.

[Pepe]

So killing black men is still legal.

[mikem]

So killing black men is still legal.

The silence from 2nd Amendment NRA crowd is so telling. The Seattle killing has the potential to be really ugly as well. The immediate victim blaming that both sides get up to is so abhorrent. Like the shooters had any real idea of "the background".

[bruhnaldo]

So killing black men is still legal.

If you're a police, yes.

[Pepe]

The Seattle killing has the potential to be really ugly as well.

Fuck me, just found out about that one.

[John]

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Christ.

[GS]

It seems the travel ban was legal after all.

[Disco]

Which just leaves unbelievably moronic, which I think will stick.

[phonics]

It seems the travel ban was legal after all.

Yeah that's not what has been said.

[niko_cee]

He just needs to off a few more democrat supreme court judges and he'll be able to do whatever he wants. Should have a word with Vlad cf that article Mikem posted the other day.

[Reg]

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Christ.

What the hell is that? Odd even for Trump.

[Bartholomert]

It seems the travel ban was legal after all.

I said this from Day 1. Any law student who had ever taken a class on constituonal law could have told you as much, only hack partisan judges ever ruled differently.

[Reg]

Probably legal if based on countries (I dunno, correct me), but not if based on religion, right?

[niko_cee]

Probably more the fact that (almost) anything (the President does) is lawful in America if you control the Supreme Court (and plead National Security).