Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[smeags]

Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/politics/tom-price-bill-aiding-company/index.html

[PhillyPhreak54]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/us/in-texas-a-test-of-whether-the-voting-rights-act-still-has-teeth.html?referer=https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/

[MDS]

It's ridiculous to think that he's always acting on impulse. You don't make it in the business world like he has without being extremely calculating.  Controlled and deliberate chaos. That's Trump.

he didnt make it in the business world.

he borrowed millions from his dad and went bankrupt multiple times. he "rebounded" because he had the appearance of wealth and success and got a dumb reality show out of it. then he got a twitter feed, said some racist stuff and ran for president. he happened to run against a loathed candidate. combined with low turnout in some states and convincing the dumbest white people on the planet he was going to save their crumbling lives, he won the presidency.

success!

[Tomahawk]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/16/germany-hits-back-at-trump-criticism-of-refugee-policy-and-bmw-tariff-threat

"I believe BMW's biggest factory is already in the US, in Spartanburg [South Carolina]," Gabriel, leader of the centre-left Social Democratic party, told the Bild newspaper in a video interview.

"The US car industry would have a bad awakening if all the supply parts that aren't being built in the US were to suddenly come with a 35% tariff. I believe it would make the US car industry weaker, worse and above all more expensive. I would wait and see what the Congress has to say about that, which is mostly full of people who want the opposite of Trump."

If only Congress was really full of people that wanted the opposite of Trump.

[Tomahawk]

NSFW languange, but Snoop Dogg is the shizzle:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z03dlN2BDlA

[Tomahawk]

https://thenib.com/the-unbelievable-baby-man

[Beermonkey]

Is it just me or do others constantly refresh their favorite news webpages all day in the hopes of some horrifying new story coming out that will take out Trump?

[hunt]

still waiting for those tom arnold vids to leak. 

[General_Failure]

I'm trying to find news sources that don't include up to the minute updates on the orange goblin's rants. This torrent of nonsense is exhausting, which of course makes it easier for him to do all the dumb shtein he wants to do because fewer people are fighting too many battles. Who the hell is gonna call their representative every day because this guy wants to do another stupid thing?

[Beermonkey]

still waiting for those tom arnold vids to leak. 

Saw this story today that had me excited for about 10 secs until I realized nothing will ever come out of it.

https://www.rt.com/viral/373954-anonymous-warn-trump-twitter/

[smeags]

why does this all feel like the beginning of the events that led to "V for Vendetta" ?

[Rome]

I was reading an article earlier where the author suggested that protesting Trump's inauguration should be viewed and treated as an act of sedition.  And he was serious. 

Go ahead and try that shtein.   You want gun fights in the street... come get some. 

[smeags]

amazing how these neocons that spent 8yrs spewing hate towards Obama suddenly want the left to treat a president with respect, regardless of what you think of him and his policies.

I got into it on FB with one of my sister's uber religious, zealot friends over it.

she then went on to tell me how I am a hypocrite to back liberals when I am an outdoorsman (she saw the profile pic of me and my lil guy) as they obviously want to take all guns away from us.

I told her first off, that's a fish in the picture, not a deer and i doubt liberals would ever go after my fishing tackle. also i had to educate her on the fact that assault rifles aren't used for hunting.

oh and she was one of those who didn't realize that obamacare and the ACA are the same thing.

[Rome]

Barry commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence.  Holy shtein.

[smeags]

and pardoned james cartwright.