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02-23-2017 , 08:18 PM
How have the "will finish 1 term" markets moved in light of recent news
02-23-2017 , 08:20 PM
Just saw the Congressman invoking Gabby Giffords to explain why he won't be holding townhalls. What a slimy coward.
02-23-2017 , 08:20 PM
BUT...BUT... HILLARY EMAILS GUYS, lessor of two evils amirite?
02-23-2017 , 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
(Am I "sew"?)

We must stop this invasion of privacy!! Freedom is NOW at stake.


Again, me criticizing you does not mean I agree with whatever the government did here (honestly, I'm guessing they were looking for a specific passenger....but what do I know), but WOW it is SO good watching you guys.

Meanwhile, as libertarian activists were refusing to show their IDs at the border, were protesting the security theater of the full body scanners, for years. But now one flight has IDs checked on exit, and freedom is starting to trend down.

So good.
This should make you happy. After all, isn't it better late than never?
02-23-2017 , 08:21 PM
Rube Io just sprints away when one of his constituents approach him, just straight up terrified
02-23-2017 , 08:22 PM
In more "Lolibertarians for Trump" news:

In August of last year, the DOJ set a policy to start phasing out the use of private prisons. Sessions just sent out a memo rescinding the guidance, giving the green light to keep existing facilities (and probably build more).


http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...rivate-prisons
02-23-2017 , 08:23 PM
Never thought I'd miss George W Bush as much as I do now. It's all a simulation...
02-23-2017 , 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Namath12
Rube Io just sprints away when one of his constituents approach him, just straight up terrified
It's because they know they are evil piles of filth only in this whole government thing for themselves. When you are hired to represent the people and represent none, yeah, some of them are going to be righteously pissed off.

Those who are the most scared of their constituents are the ones who have no interest in serving their constituents.
02-23-2017 , 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul D
The video of a biker looking guy calling Richard Spencer a piece of **** at CPAC has me laughing

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0780bac27263b
Joke is on the biker guy. Like why does he think Spencer is even AT that thing in the first place? "You don't represent us! You're a piece of ****!" Yah, sure, ok, but Spencer apparently held court and talked to reporters for an hour at the Gaylord Convention Center (*snicker*). He's not doing that at goddamn Netroots Nation is he? He's got the platform at CPAC.

Maybe biker guy just scootered on in from his hillbilly shanty shack out in the woods or something and has never heard of CPAC or been to it before. If he had been there anytime in the last several years he'd have witnessed panels, booths, and sponsorships featuring straight-up white nationalists all over the damn place. (Some of them set up by Breitbart News (sic)... whose staff or alumni are now like 1/2 the damn speakers at the whole thing. Breitbart as recently as a couple of years ago was kind of on the fringe of CPAC, but now the whole thing is totally taken over by Bannon and crew.)

Frank Gaffney is a swivel-eyed lunatic who would be laughed out of any self-respecting gathering for his long list of crazy crap. But, Gaffney has been at CPAC for years.... until around 2011 when he got BANNED from CPAC... not for his non-stop rabid anti-Muslim hate speech, but for his theory that CPAC itself was being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood through Grover Norquist! lol. Ofc, that ban was short-lived and he's been back at CPAC since then with his usual stuff. What's he doing now? Oh, yah, he's an advisor to Trump!

But, as reprehensible as Frank Gaffney might be to anyone still with their wits about them, I'm not even talking about the likes of him. At CPAC it's a spectrum and there has always been plenty of even further out right-wing types like Peter Brimelow and the VDARE crowd. One time recently there was even a panel on "Multiculturalism" put on by John Derbyshire!

So, sure, CPAC, not for white nationalists but #1 gateway drug for conservatives who want to go that next step.

From that article on Spencer today, “They are nothing but garden variety left-wing fascists". This is dumb as hell but it reminds me of the old thing about them being so far right they are kind of far left. At CPAC you have ALWAYS found elements of that ultra-right hanging around. Biker guy has had his head in the sand.
02-23-2017 , 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Just a quick check in with Alex Wice's post in the predictions thread...



lol libertarians supporting Trump.
lol what a ****in luckbox
02-23-2017 , 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by master3004
How have the "will finish 1 term" markets moved in light of recent news
only odds I see right now is impeached in 2017 is at 18% and not president by the end of 2018 is 32%
02-23-2017 , 08:31 PM
This is a crazy rabbit hole

https://storify.com/YourAnonCentral/...rs-trafficking
02-23-2017 , 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by master3004
How have the "will finish 1 term" markets moved in light of recent news.
Will Donald Trump be Impeached in his First Term as President of USA
YES. +160
NO -185

Will Donald Trump Serve a Full Term as President of USA
YES -145
NO. +125
02-23-2017 , 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Kirbynator
only odds I see right now is impeached in 2017 is at 18% and not president by the end of 2018 is 32%
Yeah seems unchanged on predictit but Comey as FBI director on June 30 2017 has dropped a little.

Also Flynn to face charges has spiked noticeably.
02-23-2017 , 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Just a quick check in with Alex Wice's post in the predictions thread...



lol libertarians supporting Trump.
The Alex wice thing is hilarious because he was wrong about trump on virtually every single position (he'll pivot!), but right on that he would win.
02-23-2017 , 08:50 PM
All the "Hillary and Trump are both the same!" dip****s are also not looking very prescient.
02-23-2017 , 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by thethethe
I don't come in Politics often, but as Mercer has been mentioned, I was wondering what folks views were on Cambridge Analytica?

This is a fascinating, and frightening, article about their supposed role in recent events:

The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
From what I read their input was the pretty generic input that data companies do, but their CEO is a good hype man trying to cash in on his winning horse by claiming the company did a lot of stuff that everyone else said they didn't do.
02-23-2017 , 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ASAP17
This is going to spend years in the courts like most things in the Trump administration.
Uh, sort of. The courts will be involved, but not in the way you seem to be implying.

Right now, today, the FBI can go to a Denver yellowpages, look up a dispensary, and then arrest the owner of that dispensary.

That's how we'll know this is coming through, it won't be from NORML filing an injunction or whatever(they have no standing), and the court cases that result from this will be pretty straightforward criminal prosecutions.
02-23-2017 , 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by fuluck414
CNN now saying White House wants intel report to help justify Travel ban. Some in the IC are concerned about what they are being asked to do.
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President Donald Trump has assigned the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice Department, to help build the legal case for its temporary travel ban on individuals from seven countries, a senior White House official tells CNN.

Other Trump administration sources tell CNN that this is an assignment that has caused concern among some administration intelligence officials, who see the White House charge as the politicization of intelligence -- the notion of a conclusion in search of evidence to support it after being blocked by the courts. Still others in the intelligence community disagree with the conclusion and are finding their work disparaged by their own department.
This is within the first month. These guys are going to make Bush's politization look like the minor leagues.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politi...als/index.html
02-23-2017 , 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ASAP17
This is going to spend years in the courts like most things in the Trump administration.
If the past month is any indication, the DOJ is going to come in and shut down these pot shops and raid them. So these business owners won't be able to sell anything while in the courts.
02-23-2017 , 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by General Tsao
Oh yeah, that reminds me, before being President, Obama voted to fund both Iraq/Afghan wars, and voted for a border fence.

As far as Syria, not propping up rebels would have been a good idea.
Right, we need to let people like Assad commit genocide in peace.
02-23-2017 , 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by RV Life
If the past month is any indication, the DOJ is going to come in and shut down these pot shops and raid them. So these business owners won't be able to sell anything while in the courts.
The backlash to that will be as big as any there has been to date, not to mention despite being schedule 1 it's completely ****ting on the GOP's beloved states rights.
02-23-2017 , 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ASAP17
The backlash to that will be as big as any there has been to date, not to mention despite being schedule 1 it's completely ****ting on the GOP's beloved states rights.
They dgaf about either of those.
02-23-2017 , 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ASAP17
The backlash to that will be as big as any there has been to date, not to mention despite being schedule 1 it's completely ****ting on the GOP's beloved states rights.
Not only state rights but state rights voted on by the people.
02-23-2017 , 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ASAP17
The backlash to that will be as big as any there has been to date, not to mention despite being schedule 1 it's completely ****ting on the GOP's beloved states rights.
There will be tens of thousands of people roving around as a deportation force. They will be raiding dispensaries. They will shut the border to refugees. Net neutrality will be a thing. I will be shocked if these aren't all done and dusted within a year.

      
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