Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #D208
 
AFAIK the only thing Reps seem to be holding on to is an errant line spoken by an FBI agent of ‘We’ll either catch him in an admission or catch him in a lie.’
 
Which in a vacuum sounds like attempted entrapment, until you realize they already had proof of him doing the crime. So it wasn’t a case of ‘We’re gonna nail him on bogus charges’ but ‘He’s guilty. Now we just need to see how far he’s gonna dig himself into a hole.’
 
It’s Lisa Page and Peter Strzok again.
 
 
@Background Pony #6300
 
The fourth or so firing that by Trump’s own admission was because they were investigating him and nothing else.

@Dustcan  
What crime did they have proof of him committing?

@Background Pony #449A
 
Details of the case here.

inb4 "CNN is fake news, give me an article from The Federalist / Drudge Report / Free Thinker / True American / etc."

Publically, Senate Reps are bending the knee to Trump.
 
Privately, they honestly don’t care one way or the other if he wins reelection.
 
working Serving under Trump is a trying affair for them and they think they could manage a Biden presidency just fine (they totally could). So their primary concern is maintaining a Senate majority so they can not only keep some collective power but also keep their individual jobs.

@Dustcan  
No, I asked for the crime he committed that they had proof of. Talking to his Russian counterpart when he is a part of the incoming administration isn’t the crime. If it was (People kept tossing around the Logan Act) they should have charged him with that. My point is they didn’t have an underlying crime they had proof of him committing, which is why they charged him with a procedural crime of lying to the FBI. The deal he made was after the lie.

Trump committed the crime of terrorism, just like his predecessors. Lock them all up!!! Down with Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton!!!!!!!

@UserAccount  
Given the low standards for the role of President, it really is amazing how he’s managed to carve out a level of terribleness unprecedented in modern times.

@Latecomer  
*unpresidented (that’s how he spells it himself)

@UserAccount  
Oh, shut up and go to bed you.

@Latecomer  
The parts he’s screwing up are the parts that are supposed to be easy. Like bullshit inspirational speeches. Even the C student with no grasp of English and the cowboy actor with Alzheimer’s could sell bullshit inspirational speeches when they had to. And what we’re learning the hard way is that those bullshit speeches are important. They bring the country together in times of crisis. Without them… well, it’s every man for himself out here.

@UserAccount  
You are beginning to look like a troll. If you are sincere, then cut out the histrionics. If you are trolling, then stop.

@Derpy Whooves  
I’m being serious. We blow up children overseas all the time. During the Obama Administration, we had a 90% civilian kill rate. You know what that makes us as a nation? Mass-terrorists. We act like 9/11 was the greatest travesty of all time, yet we’ve killed far more of their people. So why do we call one terrorism and not the other? Because the victims of one are brown people, almost all of which speak a different language and practice a different religion than us. This country is racist and genocidal. Not to mention that every war the US has entered post-WWII has been complete bullshit and based on lies. Literally every single one after that, we have been the bad guys terrorizing them.
 
We have so much innocent blood on our hands and it kinda disgusts me that the biggest controversies a president can do according to most people are things like wearing a tan suit, eating Dijon mustard, wiretapping a different president, getting some dirt on their opponents, misusing campaign donations, using vulgar language and tweeting about celebrities. None of that stuff actually matters. What really matters is taking the lives of innocent people.
 
People always say I sound like a troll no matter what I’m talking about. I think it’s just because I like to use hyperbole and make strong statements with lots of emotion, but that’s just how I communicate. Also, I was serious about considering running for office. If I do decide to, I’ll use this same communication style. I think it’ll get me lots of attention.

@UserAccount  
Then cut out the histrionics and dial back the hyperbole.

@UserAccount  
Attention, yes - election, no. Or at least, that’s what I would say, but who would have guessed that the current gui would get in?
 
And while doing bad things elsewhere in the world may be a Presidential norm, screwing around in America, where the voters are, will tend to be more scandalous if exposed. But then, that man seems to be breaking that rule too…

@UserAccount  
With the way you state your intentions, you’d make an even worse president than 45, which is saying a lot. You’re just no more than an anarchist.

@Latecomer  
Exactly, people voted for Trump because they perceived him as an outsider. In reality, he’s just as much of an insider as the rest of the ruling class due to his massive wealth. I think an actual outsider would crush it!
 
@MethidMan  
If I were president, we wouldn’t kill people overseas, we’d be doing proper preparations for COVID-19, we’d be paying people emergency UBIs until the pandemic ends, massive corporations would be forced to bail the people out rather than the other way around, Jeff Bezos would be tried and jailed as a terrorist, Edward Snowden would be brought back home and given a hero’s medal, all my predecessors would be thrown in prison, we’d end homelessness and I’d lead a working class revolt to destroy the rich and the rest of the government. (Which I doubt would require us to actually use any violence.) I’d also be the last president and would help build the new government to replace the current one. To me, those things all sound good.
 
I won’t be eligible for president for over 10 years, though. I hope we’ve already had our last president way before then, but if not, I’ll have to step in. Hopefully I’m already a senator by that point.

@UserAccount  
But an actual outsider wouldn’t have the money and connections to be elected, especially in a functionally two-party system. Or at least, it hasn’t happened so far…

@Latecomer  
Bernie Sanders was the closest thing to an outsider America’s ever had and I truly believe he would’ve won if he’d actively made the media, all his opponents and the DNC his active enemy and exposed what corrupt pieces of shit they were. Instead he was too weak and let himself get crushed by these scumfucks.
 
If I were running, I’d challenge Chuck Todd to a televised cage match, photoshop Tom Perez as a They Live monster, call Liz Warren a lying cunt, make fun of Joe’s inability to speak, call out Mayor Pete as a CIA operative and just be an irritable, angry asshole that yells and screams over everyone.

@UserAccount  
And I’d say you can’t win that way… but after last time, never say never I guess. Now, whether someone who behaves like that should be President is another story - but as you’ve pointed out, standards for the position are low.

Hijacking this thread because y’all never talk about international politics even though it’s more important, you f*cking cowards.
 
Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators got kicked and locked out of the house by CCP’s pro-Beijing police, so that their CCP candidate would get voted unanimously.
 
There’s actual video evidence for this. There is no way this would stand up publicly.

@Scrabbleman  
Honestly, the situation over there’s escalating too much. Something needs to be done about China by the global community but I know that they won’t because China has most of the world’s resources under lock and are doing heavy activities in Africa…
 
Not to mention that they have the largest resource concentration of Rare Earth Minerals which are key to modern technology’s function. The world can’t really do anything about China and it knows that, so it’s doing all this.

@Zintenka  
One vageulu feasible option might perhpas be offering open asylum for Hong Kongers?

@Latecomer  
As far as Hong Kong goes this is probably the best solution. It is Chinese territory and you’ll never have global support for putting a halt to what they are doing there. The world doesn’t even care that much that the country is running reeducation camps for their muslims.

Trump says he’s taking poison to fight COVID-19, against FDA warnings.
 
I hope this is one of the few times he isn’t lying!!! He should also convince Pence to join him!