President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

RickStain · Nov 30, 2016

It is notable that regardless of what he said or didn't, Obama *did* deport millions

heyabbott · Nov 30, 2016

RickStain said: ↑

It is notable that regardless of what he said or didn't, Obama *did* deport millions
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Not enough. Not fast enough. But with due process. And not aribtrarily and capriciously. And not children.

And the tide of illegal immigration has been tolled. Less are coming each year. But illegal aliens are still a drain on local taxpayers and the federal government should be prosecuting them for committing local crimes.

QYFW · Nov 30, 2016

Free s

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First off, I’d like to extend a hearty fuck you to the national news media.

This is for spending more time talking about my emails than all policy issues combined. This is for outsourcing your headline writing to a racist grandpa’s Twitter feed for a year and a half. This is for constantly saying I “am flawed” or “have flaws” …… motherfucker name one!!! My fucking charity that gives HIV meds to poor people? Are you for real with this shit?

And the Monday morning quarterbacks right now? Y’all need to sit the fuck down. You’re gonna criticize my campaign?? Bitch I won the popular vote and I was running against America!

I gave a flawless convention and three flawless debates. You idiots wanted a reality show and I gave you a damn reality show. Maybe we lost because you literally gave the leader of the birther movement a year and a half to come up with a counterargument to “I’m smarter.”

Well, now the president-elect of the United States wants to expand libel law and punish dissent. Sick click-through rates, though, guys!....
Okay, wait, actually, I have to spare some words for our fuhrer-elect. Then I promise I’ll get out of here.

Look. Donald. I can’t even really be mad at you. You’re an empty shell of a human with a heart of gold-spray-painted coal. All you wanted was a bigger podium where you could talk about your penis.

You don’t give two shits about politics/policy/other human beings. You just kept saying random shit until you got applause and retweets, and stuck with whatever worked. You gave the people exactly what they wanted. It just turns out what they wanted was for a white guy who inherited a bunch of land to erase the first black and first female presidents at the same time.

U! S! A!!! U! S! A!!!

Just goes to show: In this country, if you want something, and you work your goddamn ass off for it, you can get really close and then smile stoically while they give it to some rich guy’s son.

-HRC

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Just think how much the media would have screwed ol' Hillary if 90 percent of them didn't support her.

Riptide · Nov 30, 2016

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She's got a face only a father could love. And he does.
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Every time I see Eric, I think: "That guy's a werewolf."

three_bags_full · Nov 30, 2016

NSFW language

Ace · Nov 30, 2016

JohnHammond said: ↑

Speaking of safety pins, encountered the first person I've seen wear one.
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Say hi next time.

Ace · Nov 30, 2016

YankeeFan said: ↑

Has Borowitz ever been funny?
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Yes

HanSenSE · Dec 1, 2016

Vendettas. They're just not for president-elects any more.

Breitbart launches #DumpKelloggs petition after food company pulls ads

heyabbott · Dec 1, 2016

HanSenSE said: ↑

Vendettas. They're just not for president-elects any more.

Breitbart launches #DumpKelloggs petition after food company pulls ads
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So they are done with #BoycottHamilton ?

The Big Ragu · Dec 1, 2016

Thought there was at least one person here who would appreciate this. Exec. Editor Marty Baron of the Washington Post, received an award honoring the memory of Christopher Hitchens earlier this week and I thought his speech was quite good -- especially the part about Donald Trump and his rhetoric regarding the press. Here is a story with the transcript.

Marty Baron’s Message to Journalists in the Trump Era

And here is the excerpt:

We will have a new president soon. He was elected after waging an outright assault on the press. Animosity toward the media was a centerpiece of his campaign. He described the press as “disgusting,” “scum,” “lowlifes.” He called journalists the “lowest form of humanity.” That apparently wasn’t enough. So he called us “the lowest form of life.” In the final weeks of the campaign he labeled us “the enemies."

It is no wonder that some members of our staff at The Washington Post and at other news organizations received vile insults and threats of personal harm so worrisome that extra security was required. It is no wonder that one Internet venue known for hate and misogyny and white nationalism posted the home addresses of media executives, clearly inviting vandalism or worse. Thankfully, nothing that I know of happened to anyone. Then there was the yearlong anti-Semitic targeting of journalists on Twitter.

Donald Trump said he wanted to “open up” libel laws. And he proposed to harass unfriendly media outlets by suing them, driving up their legal expenses with a goal of weakening them financially.

With respect to The Washington Post, he ordered our press credentials revoked during the campaign, barring us from routine press access to him and his events, because our coverage didn’t meet with his approval. Even before we were subjected to his months-long blacklist, Donald Trump falsely alleged that our owner, Jeff Bezos, was orchestrating that coverage. And he openly hinted that, if he became president, he would retaliate.

Jeff Bezos himself addressed this perfectly at one point—on several occasions actually.

“We want a society,” he said, “where any of us, any individual in this country, any institution in this country, if they choose to, can scrutinize, examine, and criticize an elected official, especially a candidate for the highest office in the most powerful country on earth.

“We have fundamental laws and . . . we have Constitutional rights in this country to free speech. But that’s not the whole reason that it works here. We also have cultural norms that support that, where you don’t have to be afraid of retaliation. And those cultural norms are at least as important as the Constitution.”

Getting elected didn’t change anything. After his election—in the midst of protests against him—Donald Trump resorted to Twitter to accuse the media of inciting violence when, of course, there had been no incitement whatsoever by anyone.

The other night, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour eloquently explained the gravity of such deliberately false accusations emanating from a future head of state. She was speaking when she was honored by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

“Postcard from the world,” she said, “This is how it goes with authoritarians like Sisi, Erdoğan, Putin, the Ayatollahs, Duterte, et al . . . First the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating—until they suddenly find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives. Then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prison—and then who knows?”

When the press is under attack, we cannot always count on our nation’s institutions to safeguard our freedoms—not even the courts.

At times throughout our history, they have shamefully failed to do so—whether it was the Sedition Act of 1798 under President John Adams, harshly repressive Sedition and Espionage Acts under Woodrow Wilson in the context of World War I, or the McCarthy Era that still serves to remind us of what comes of a dishonest and reckless search for enemies.

The ultimate defense of press freedom lies in our daily work.

Many journalists wonder with considerable weariness what it is going to be like for us during the next four—perhaps eight—years. Will we be incessantly harassed and vilified? Will the new administration seize on opportunities to try intimidating us? Will we face obstruction at every turn?

If so, what do we do?

The answer, I believe, is pretty simple. Just do our job. Do it as it’s supposed to be done.

Every day as I walk into our newsroom, I confront a wall that articulates a set of principles that were established in 1933 by a new owner for The Post, Eugene Meyer, whose family went on to publish The Post for 80 years.

The principles begin like this: “The first mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained.”

The public expects that of us. If we fail to pursue the truth and to tell it unflinchingly—because we’re fearful that we’ll be unpopular, or because powerful interests (including the White House and the Congress) will assail us, or because we worry about financial repercussions to advertising or subscriptions—the public will not forgive us.

Nor, in my view, should they.
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cyclingwriter2 · Dec 1, 2016

Riptide said: ↑

Every time I see Eric, I think: "That guy's a werewolf."

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I prefer the description (not created by me), "looks like a vampire selling ecstacy in the background at a Prague night club in a blade movie."

Starman · Dec 1, 2016

cyclingwriter2 said: ↑

I prefer the description (not created by me), "looks like a vampire selling ecstacy in the background at a Prague night club in a blade movie."
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His hair ... was PERFECT.

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