U-S-A! The American Politics Thread. (Read 506746 times)

SA Chris · January 25, 2017, 06:42:09 pm

I was thinking about you Andy, thinking it must feel like a pretty bad thing to be living there right now, but then I thought it must also be (morbidly) fascinating to see all this unfolding first hand?

dave · January 25, 2017, 07:53:32 pm

The voter fraud thing is weird. As someone said in twitter, Trumpolini is implying the Democrats organised 5million illegal votes, yet they didn't bother to get 77000 of them into the right states to win it. Fucking bollocks. My guess is the whole thing is to justify some kind of dubious "voting security" initiative, i.e. armed voter suppression by security forces/police/millitia going on next election.

This cunt needs impeaching tout suite, or he's going to win again in 2020 with 105% of the vote.

Oldmanmatt · January 25, 2017, 07:58:21 pm

On the subject of resistance:

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/national-park-service-creates-unofficial-twitter-account-that-donald-trump-cant-touch/1159/

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slackline · January 25, 2017, 08:11:33 pm

Quote from: Oldmanmatt on January 25, 2017, 07:58:21 pm

On the subject of resistance:

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/national-park-service-creates-unofficial-twitter-account-that-donald-trump-cant-touch/1159/

Quote from: slackline on January 25, 2017, 05:31:44 pm

There is also now @AltNatParkSer

Although I can't take credit for 'discovering' it first, Will Hunt re-tweeted them.

I'll throw in these too...

@AltMtRainierNPS
@BadHombreNPS
@AltUSFWS

Whilst useful to combat what sounds like censorship they're likely all 'preaching to the converted' (or making noises in echo chambers) and after the initial furore dies down will end up in slanging matches with those who believe "alternative facts".

Oldmanmatt · January 25, 2017, 09:08:05 pm

Looks like the resistance is paying off:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/trump-officials-suspend-plan-delete-epa-climate-web-page?utm_source=newsfromscience&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=suspendepa-10685

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webbo · January 25, 2017, 10:34:28 pm

Anyone catch the 3 Trumpettes singing Woody Guthrie's " This is my land, this is your land"
Then going on about praying to god to keep the immigrants out.
If it wasn't for his impact on the rest on the world. You could say they have got what they deserve.

andy popp · January 25, 2017, 10:55:48 pm

Quote from: dave on January 25, 2017, 07:53:32 pm

The voter fraud thing is weird. As someone said in twitter, Trumpolini is implying the Democrats organised 5million illegal votes, yet they didn't bother to get 77000 of them into the right states to win it. Fucking bollocks. My guess is the whole thing is to justify some kind of dubious "voting security" initiative, i.e. armed voter suppression by security forces/police/millitia going on next election.

This cunt needs impeaching tout suite, or he's going to win again in 2020 with 105% of the vote.

This undoubtedly a prelude to regulations that will make voting harder (though the root cause is probably Donny's bottomless depths of vanity). That is bad enough, but the repeated questioning of the electoral process, without a shred of evidence, by a sitting president who actually won the election threatens to do irreparable damage to confidence in the US democracy. It is reckless in the extreme.

dave · January 25, 2017, 11:13:46 pm

Quote from: webbo on January 25, 2017, 10:34:28 pm

Anyone catch the 3 Trumpettes singing Woody Guthrie's " This is my land, this is your land"
Then going on about praying to god to keep the immigrants out.

Saw that, proper creepy.

tomtom · January 26, 2017, 06:37:41 am

This'll cheer y'all

Oldmanmatt · January 26, 2017, 08:21:40 am

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SA Chris · January 26, 2017, 08:46:42 am

Quote from: dave on January 25, 2017, 11:13:46 pm

Quote from: webbo on January 25, 2017, 10:34:28 pm
Anyone catch the 3 Trumpettes singing Woody Guthrie's " This is my land, this is your land"
Then going on about praying to god to keep the immigrants out.

Saw that, proper creepy.

Woody Guthrie (one of the original protest singers) must have turned in his grave.

slackline · January 26, 2017, 08:52:01 am

Prof. Smith Goes to Washington

Oldmanmatt · January 27, 2017, 08:27:52 am

It is worth trying to persevere though this, just to truly get an insight to how confused this man is. I pity the reporter (never thought I'd say that):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/26/donald-trumps-brazen-first-interview-as-president-annotated/?utm_term=.3aed35123c88

I imagine Kim Jong-un would be a more coherent dinner guest. Put them in a room together and they could argue all night about which of them invented Oxygen and was the best Neurosurgeon, or which was the first to play 18 holes in 7 strokes...

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dave · January 27, 2017, 08:41:54 am

Tried to read that but have to walk away at sentences like:

"The bigness also hits because the — the size of it. The size."

The guy is a fucking lunatic. The Republicans have got a lot to answer for by putting this imbecile on the ballot paper.

fatneck · January 27, 2017, 10:11:55 am

Insane....

andy popp · January 27, 2017, 04:20:29 pm

Quote from: andy popp on January 25, 2017, 06:25:57 pm

Quote from: Oldmanmatt on January 25, 2017, 06:10:26 pm
people are genuinely starting to panic.

People are very frightened. Day to day life is going on, of course, but this does not feel normal, very far from it.

Counterpoint: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/donald-trump-michigan-voters-media

Oldmanmatt · January 27, 2017, 07:02:58 pm

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Oldmanmatt · January 27, 2017, 11:31:54 pm

Erika.
Professor of Education (Retired) Col. Us Army (retired), now living in Vermont.

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tomtom · January 28, 2017, 08:22:01 am

I was half way through writing a post about his latest exec orders on immigration from Muslim (but not muslim as that violates the constitution etc..) countries..

And gave up as it made me feel really quite sad.

Who knows whats going to happen next...

Oldmanmatt · January 28, 2017, 08:25:12 am

A friend, in California, wrote yesterday "I dread waking up each day and wondering "what the fuck will he do today"".

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andy popp · January 28, 2017, 01:31:58 pm

Lying in bed this morning, the house is full of the sounds of the seven member, three generation Pakistani refugee family who arrived last night. They'll be with us for the next few days until a more permanent home is found. We are also helping with the resettlement of four Eritrean refugees who similarly stayed with us for a few days before Christmas.

Our newest guests pretty much made it in at the last hour. People are already being turned away at airports, including Green Card holders.

I am sickened to my stomach. I have nothing to say.

Well, maybe one thing: that's 11 refugees in.

Oldmanmatt · January 28, 2017, 03:11:18 pm

Y'know, we really need that "like" button.

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tomtom · January 28, 2017, 05:05:36 pm

Turning away existing green card holders (there were 500k green cards given to people from the now banned countries in the last ten years) is a level of cruel higher than I thought...

tomtom · January 28, 2017, 05:05:55 pm

And we'll done ANDY and Christine.

dave · January 28, 2017, 08:31:38 pm

Nice one Poppstar.