Daily News Thread 4/16

Undoubtedly.

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What a shithole

Of course

NAPOLEON LIVES

This is just gonna haunt us forever isn't It?

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Poll: Democrats’ advantage in midterm election support is shrinking

Dems in the US are gearing up to choke during the midterm elections
Poll: archive.li/hkx8Q
Article: wapo.st/2H2Mdr3

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It would be hilarious if they botched this - and well deserved.

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I can see them managing to come back around on this.
I hope they don't though.

After his new national security adviser gets enthusiastic applause, Trump says he might have to fire him
President Trump, who doesn’t like to be overshadowed by those who work for him, joked Monday that John Bolton, his new national security adviser, could soon be out of a job.

At an event in Hialeah, Fla., staged for Trump to tout the Republican tax cut bill passed last year, he took a moment to crow about the U.S. military strikes in Syria on Friday and pointed out that Bolton was traveling with him.

The crowd erupted in applause.

“Whoa,” Trump said, seemingly taken by surprise. “John, that’s pretty good. I didn’t expect that. I’m a little jealous.”

After a brief pause, Trump playfully asked the crowd: “Are you giving him all the credit? You know that means the end of his job, you know.”
washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/04/16/after-his-new-national-security-adviser-gets-enthusiastic-applause-trump-says-he-might-have-to-fire-him/

Want Trump to fire someone? Give them more spotlight than Trump himself.

They're more interested in fending off left wing challengers than actually winning elections or accomplishing anything. I hope they choke and the party itself dies or splits in two.

A whole lot of nothing.

DEATH TO JEFF BEZOS
AMAZON UPRISING NOW!

Fox News host Sean Hannity revealed as Michael Cohen's mystery client

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-wants-review-some-materials-seized-cohen-fbi-raid-n866226

Can't wait to see the skeletons in his closet.

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And he reinstalls the French Mandate of Syria.

Let’s hope Socialist Alternative wins the Burger elections despite how unlikely it is. Even though there trots there pretty cool and anti-sectarian.

If Trump fires Bolton I’d be so happy.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Of course it will. If, a big if, we survive the collapse of US empire, the F-35 will be its fucking poster child. This will make Nazi Germany's miracle weapon seeking and stupid tank motherfuckery look sensible and level headed.

I'm just imagining Trump in a room with all of the documents and just grabbing as many as he can carry yelling "PRIVILEGED".

...

That's literally what he wants to do too.

Both Trump and Cohen's efforts are completely absurd. The best they could hope for is a neutral reviewer, but that won't do shit to help them.

You just know there'll be some software glitch that renders them unable to fly when they're actually needed and they'll blame it on "Russian cyberwarfare".

Speak of the devil.

Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Review Seized Cohen Materials

nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/michael-cohen-court-hearing.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Again, a special master won't help Trump or Cohen for shit. At best, it'll delay the inevitable.

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On a scale of "nothing burger" and "Nixon 2.0" how fucked is Trump?

Not quite as fucked as Nixon, but this could blow up massively depending on what exactly those documents reveal

Cohen is Trump's longtime go to lawyer, and Trump has a massive record of shady deals and very embarrassing shit in his closet, Cohen has likely helped Trump get away with serious criminal activity in the past

No matter what the news cycle vomits up about how evil Trump is there needs to be a large majority in congress willing and able to impeach him. IMO he's more useful as a punching bag to blame all the failures of "American democracy" on than Pence would be, so he'll stay.

Fuck
rt.com/news/424333-syria-missiles-defense-homs/

Wasn't that where the US struck last time? It says the Pentagon is denying activity though. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's the Israelis again

Depending on what they find, he could be very fucked

I remember initial rumors involved Trump's lawyer being involved with bank fraud

I keep hearing this but keep in mind, even though they would love this, if the charges of Cohen being involved with bank fraud are true; there's really no reason to believe Trump wouldn't be fucked up beyond recognition at that point.

I mean if it's really bank fraud and obstruction of justice and money laundering, and all that together; yeah even if they want him he's still fucked

We won't know until we get charges. However, the fact that they were able go through with the raid in the first place suggests it will not be pretty for anyone involved.

Currently, Trump's inner circle sees the Cohen investigation as a greater threat to Trump's presidency than Mueller.

While the F-35 was a waste of resources, it is a pretty cool feat of engineering. During and after the revolution we will use them. They are pretty advanced, even if the resources needed to invent them is gigantic. Similar to how the Soviets used the V-2 rocket as a base to build the Soyuz engines.

They are only good for bombing civilians and enriching defense contractors. We will improve upon them once we have the state.

He’s Benghazi level fucked. And this is good. Pence would be a lot better at leading an imperialist war machine than Trump.

Some of these plains can land vertically on aircraft carriers. If this technology could be used for passenger plains this could be revolutionary tech.

There's nothing revolutionary about Short takeoff vertical landing, we've had VTOL aircraft since the 70's IIRC

Its not really all that useful for passenger planes because it adds an enormous amounts of complexity and expense to the aircraft, the entire point of it is that it allows planes to take off from very short runways and land vertically without needing a runway, speeding up the rate at which you can launch aircraft and reducing the size of landing area required, great for aircraft carriers and field produced runways where space may be at a premium, but not very useful in commercial aviation as you need a long runway and large runway system anyway to manage lots of different types of aircraft using it and for safety incase a landing or takeoff goes wrong

If the dems fuck up this mud terms I'm convinced they'll be dead as a party and start splitting

I'd say he's getting dangerously close to "Saturday Night Massacre 2.0", if we're following Watergate as an example.

We're past the point where that will be effective though. Trump now has TWO major investigations to deal with. Even if he fires Rosenstein and Mueller, the Cohen case will keep going. Trump's fucked.

His staff are hoping his summit this week with Shinzo Abe (yes, that Shinzo Abe) will distract from the Cohen scandal. What a joke.

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Watch full UK parliamentary debate here: youtu.be/IyYZDL8Adbk?t=496

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It was cool when it was Yak-141, now it's just lame and embarrassing. Literally civvies designing weapons without any idea how war is conducted.

why though

HAHAHAHA
Milo Djukanovic has been president of Montenegro as long as Montenegro has existed. This is no news. News would be if he croaked or got replaced.

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Nice Aqua

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rt is infested by the russian marxist deep state.

Russia is pro-Syria. Corbyn is against the FSA. I wonder why?

Baseline rationality maybe.

Not really. It's really slim pickings over here.

A few days ago, an old member of Communist Party of Brazil (a Maoist offshoot of the Brazilian Communist Party, from the Sino-Soviet split), Aldo Rebelo, officialy went over to PT. I'd bet my left hand that this is a PR move, as a nominally commie candidate would make things unnecessarily more difficult, and that party has been a remora to PT for a while anyway. So they'll keep trying to find some loophole to allow Lula to run, with Aldo being plan B. He has some public visibility, especially since many of the older (and dirtier) big names are laying low, and more importantly, he's one of the very, very few federal-level politicians with an absolutely spotless record. This is currently an even better advantage at the polls than ever, especially seeing as PSDB, PT's rival and the biggest beneficiaries of the Car Wash operation, has 3 big names for candidacy, and all 3 are being investigated by Car Wash, and 2 of them are that type of politicians that everyone knows is rotten despite the media mentioning their misdeeds only because not reporting on them would be way too obvious. And 1 of the 2 lost some internal power struggle and is getting the Lula treatment in the media. Strangely enough, the third one, that has a mostly clean reputation, has been getting air smear time lately too, despite becoming party president recently and having it all set to be their candidate.

There's also this surprising poll an user posted in some other thread and my dumb self forgot to save. It seems that PT's popularity hit its lowest in 2015, but has been increasing since (tho in a wild zigzag), and is currently the most popular party by a fair margin, whereas PSDB's absolutely cratered, despite the media barely mentioning the accusations against them. If this trend holds, PSDB won't even be a contender, let alone reach the run-off election. I frankly expected one of their 3 big fish to have been annointed years ago to win this presidency by bumping Lula off, but I really didn't expect this complete inversion. My only guess is that the media laid it on too thick, and every normie that doesn't have class hatred against PT could see the blatant persecution and favoritism. Meanwhile, PSDB simply didn't have any exposure what with the circus surrounding Lula. Wew lad, as they say. The only bad news is that the second most popular party was a rent-a-party for a rightwing dungtick called Jair Bolsonaro, such a perfect convergence of ignorance, stupidity and bigotry that he makes Trump look like Lenin. Thankfully they were far behind PT and he switched parties since then kek, the poll ended at late 2017. But let me tell you, the mere possibility of him reaching power is enough to have me look into requesting an European passport by ancestry.

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The absolute madman

so drumpff is over right? I guess the revolution really is unbeatable

Believe me, that's good by our legislators' standards.

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well fug, I could swear I heard it on TV he switched to PT. My bad.

Yeah I'd rather the left's candidate face him than PSDB too, he'd be much easier to beat on a one-on-one than one of those wolves in sheep's clothing of PSDB.

It's an advantage, not a golden ticket. It's not enough to carry a candidate, they have to have the usual "electable candidate" package, you know, all thet bullshit that bougie pseudo-democracies require; look respectable, shmooze with people on the campaign trail then never again, have the right connections etc. Once they're past that hurdle and the pre-candidate herd thins out, people really begin comparing them with themselves, and that's when a clean rap sheet is a huge plus.

Also let's face it, there's no way Bolsomito isn't making money on the side. I'd even bet that the media and PSDB (implying there's a difference) have a nice juicy Car Wash-related dirt on him just waiting for the right moment to be exposed. Whether it's actually true won't matter in the end either. Just slip some dosh to Joesley Batista and he'll testify under oath that he saw Bolsonaro personally gas the 6 gorillion.