US Politics Mega-thread - Page 9814

On January 31 2018 20:47 oBlade wrote:

The fundamental attribute of any politician is they're desperate never to show you themselves to begin with. Not when they're reciting someone else's words from the teleprompter anyway. Having access to Trump's genuine bluster is just a bonus.

On February 01 2018 04:22 Mohdoo wrote:


You didn't even address his question lol

On February 01 2018 05:21 Danglars wrote:

I have no interest in addressing stupid tangents founded on faulty pretenses. The process does not succeed or fail on a single member, and attempts to pretend otherwise are just indicative of his unserious treatment of the matter. It’s like you’re operating from the presumption that failure to attach relevance to the issue is a virtue.

On February 01 2018 05:27 Plansix wrote:

Then don’t make stupid statements like the FBI is stone walling anyone. They are not. They know what is in that memo and what it is based on. They are not authorized to declassify it and Nunes has not been able to convince anyone to do it outside of the committee.

Don’t make stupid statements, avoid getting asked stupid questions. EZPZ.

On February 01 2018 04:30 hunts wrote:


Well your people did try to shoot up a pizzaria to free non existant child hostages. If you had paid any attention to the actual happenings and not kept your nose in fox breitbart and zerohedge, you would see that republicans are very literally selling America out to the russians in front of everyones faces, it's literally not a conspiracy theory.

On February 01 2018 06:05 GreenHorizons wrote:


Part of the reason the pizza place got shot up is because people genuinely believed there was something terrible happening (regardless of how crazy that was), and no one was doing anything to stop it.

So as we all watch the President of the US "sell America out to the Russians" I wonder, what are liberals going to do if the entirety of the media, establishment of both parties, and the legal system is unable to stop him or punish him/his administration?

Just shrug and move on?

On February 01 2018 06:06 Leporello wrote:


Obviously we'll gather our militias and AK47s and retake our freedom.
We're being sarcastic, right?

On February 01 2018 06:09 GreenHorizons wrote:


That wasn't what I meant to imply. I just mean selling out the country is a pretty big deal and I don't know how liberals could think we have a functioning system if they spend 4 years talking about how unbelievably unfounded and essentially criminal/treasonous the president is just for him to retire wealthier and more powerful than when he started and the US worse off?

It would seem that would force their hand to admit the system is broken if it can't stop a president from selling us out to a foreign enemy.

On February 01 2018 06:09 GreenHorizons wrote:


That wasn't what I meant to imply. I just mean selling out the country is a pretty big deal and I don't know how liberals could think we have a functioning system if they spend 4 years talking about how unbelievably unfounded and essentially criminal/treasonous the president is just for him to retire wealthier and more powerful than when he started and the US worse off?

It would seem that would force their hand to admit the system is broken if it can't stop a president from selling us out to a foreign enemy for his own personal profit. But I sincerely think "shrug and move on" is the plan for a lot of them.

On February 01 2018 05:52 Danglars wrote:

That has been the history of the house intelligence committee investigation from start to finish. You distract with “blah blah one member wants do declassify blah blah release of memo” ... saying jack shit about the stonewall and jack shit about compliance with oversight. You move the issue and goalposts because you don’t have anything. It’s crazy, but true.

I think you’re deliberately confusing the investigation with the current release of memo when it suits you.

On February 01 2018 06:17 Gorsameth wrote:

As a European I would say your system was already broken before Trump.

But the people have a way to get rid of a such a President. Elect a Congress that will impeach him.

The problem in this case imo isn't the system, its that one side is ok with whats happening.
(funny enough in a non 2-party system where multiple parties hold Congress this may well not have happened)

On February 01 2018 06:17 Leporello wrote:


I think the silver-lining to Trump, regardless of "how it ends", is an incoming wave of newfound political activism. And not the kind that comes from people who listen to talk-radio and Fox News.

On February 01 2018 06:02 Doodsmack wrote:
Not very patriotic to support House Republican partisan attack dogs who have composed a narrative memo containing classified info, and for the first time in history have used an obscure rule allowing them to release classified info, when the FBI and DOJ warn that such release would be dangerous. The oversight clowns are running an interference campaign with the justice system, and that is what Danglars et al are putting their support behind. And that's not even to mention the precedent that's being set.

On February 01 2018 06:18 Plansix wrote:

This topic has nothing to do with oversight of the FBI. You keep trying to shift the earth from under us and run to safe ground. This has nothing to do with the FBI stone walling anything.

On February 01 2018 06:34 Plansix wrote:
To be fair, that was every government out of Europe at the time, only if focused on title and heredity. Empowering educated men that were not connected to the aristocracy was a super liberal idea. One might say revolutionary. The land part was just because we didn’t have great ways of telling who belonged to which state.

On February 01 2018 06:39 Leporello wrote:
CNN killing it today -- reporting Strzok, the agent "so unfair" to our poor persecuted President, actually helped write the letter the FBI released a week before the election announcing Hillary was under investigation...


You get that, Danglars?

GH, your nation is undergoing a unique history, and the greatest political crime perhaps in the history of modern democracy. If you want to be apoplectic (I wonder why), at least enjoy the show.