US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by vienna

Apparently, among other things, Trump is heavily into bondage...
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Explains the new special relationship between the US and Russia.

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Explains the new special relationship between the US and Russia.

Is this all you people have, unsubstantiated rumors, snarky comments and sexual innuendo?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

Is this all you people have, unsubstantiated rumors, snarky comments and sexual innuendo?

Would you prefer if we grabbed Obama's birth certificate?

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Would you prefer if we grabbed Obama's birth certificate?

Maybe you should ask Clinton as it's her people who started the whole scandal.

Besides if Trump starts dropping F-bombs in his Tweets are you going to post those as well or is demeaning women something you're into?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

Maybe you should ask Clinton as it's her people who started the whole scandal.

Besides if Trump starts dropping F-bombs in his Tweets are you going to post those as well or is demeaning women something you're into?

I could post them, but it would upset Steve and Jim, so I'll leave that. Demeaning women? Sure, why not, it's the presidential way!

[Mr Quatro]

Happy days are here

https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-come...221627353.html

With just three days to go until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, movers were spotted Tuesday hauling boxes and furniture off of two big trucks and into the new D.C. digs of Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2210...al-initiative/

Report: Clinton Foundation Shutters Clinton Global Initiative

The Clinton Foundation has filed a notice with the New York Department of Labor saying that 22 employees with the main office of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) will lose their jobs as a result of the “discontinuation of the [CGI],” essentially marking the end of the organization.

Reason un-given is that no one can benefit anymore from giving to the Clinton's

St Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Happy days are here

https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-come...221627353.html

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2210...al-initiative/

Report: Clinton Foundation Shutters Clinton Global Initiative


Reason un-given is that no one can benefit anymore from giving to the Clinton's

St Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Man, that speaks volumes about the Clintons. Can't peddle influence without a political office.

[Jeff-Groves]

And people wonder why I don't hang out at SubSim much now days.

[em2nought]

It feels like tamarrow will never come! It's worse than waiting for Christmas as a child(a child who learned how to spell most words even with snow days, and if I was too dumb to spell it I learned where I could find the proper spelling. No teacher firing required.).

[Oberon]

Sounds like Bush Sr might be angling for 2017s Deadpool thread...

[Bilge_Rat]

From Rick Perry's confirmation hearing, a lighter moment with Al Franken:

[Bilge_Rat]

so Al Franken in 2020?

He was elected in 2008 and mostly kept his head down so people would forget SNL, but with the diminished Dem bench, he has been given a more prominent role in the confirmation hearings and doing a good job:

Meanwhile, we do have an obvious breakout star from these confirmation hearings on the Democratic side: Sen. Al Franken, the only senator who’s repeatedly drawn blood from the nominees.

First came Sessions, whom Franken embarrassed -- by the end of the questioning, it appeared that Sessions had embellished his record of prosecuting civil rights cases. Then he scored a direct hit against the pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, who came across as ignorant after Franken asked her about the proficiency-versus-growth debate among education wonks. He asked her what metric should be used to judge test scores: proficiency, which correlates with how much a student knows about a subject given certain baselines, or growth, which correlates with how much a student has improved.

Befuddled by the question, DeVos confused proficiency with growth. Franken corrected her. DeVos immediately looked like someone with a shaky grasp of the issues she’s supposed to adjudicate. Franken looked tough, savvy and knowledgeable – the kind of Democrat who can make his Republican opponents look dumb.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commenta...-age-of-trump/

[mapuc]

Obama better hurry up if he will implement martial law before Trump is taking the oath and thereby staying in the White House.

Read a comment yesterday, where someone claimed Obama would do this, so if the persons fear that this will happen, Obama better hurry up.

I understand that a President can use some decree 51.

From what I understand, a President that use this decree has to defend his or her move in front of either the Senat, Congress or House of representatives

Of course Obama is not going to do such a thing.
Tomorrow Trump is taking the oath and give his speech.

Markus

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I understand that a President can use some decree 51.

The National and Commercial Space Program?

Could use an orbital bombardment I guess.

Unless of course you're talking about this:

The Military Governor or his deputy may issue written directives to take all or some of the following actions or measures, and may refer violations to military courts:
a. Impose restrictions on the freedom of persons in terms of holding meetings, residence, transport, movements, and detaining suspects or people threatening public security and order on a temporary basis, authorizing the conducting of investigations related to both persons and places at any time, and requesting any person to perform any task.
b. Monitor all types of letters, phone calls, newspapers, bulletins, books, drawings, publications, broadcasts, and all forms of expression, propaganda, and advertisements prior to publication. It is required to seize, confiscate, discard, cancel their concession and close their printers’ shops.
c. Specify the times during which public places are opened and closed.
d. Withdraw licenses for keeping arms, ammunitions, explosive materials and other types of explosives, withdraw their delivery orders and seize such materials and close arms stores.
e. Evacuate or isolate some areas, organize transportation vehicles, restrict and limit transportation between different areas.
f. Seize any movable property or real estate, impose temporary guarding on companies and firms, and postpone due debts and liabilities incurred on the seized portion of the property or real estate.
g. Specify punishments imposed on violations of these orders provided that the punishments are not more than imprisonment for three years and a fine of S£3000 or either punishment. In the event that the order does not specify the punishment for violation of such rules, the perpetrator of the violation should be punished by imprisonment for a period of not more than 6 months and a fine of S£500 or by either punishment.
However, all the above mentioned punishments should not be incompatible with the stronger punishments indicated within other laws.

Which is actually from Syria.

Besides, Obama is a Star Wars fan, it would be Order 66, not 51.

[Oberon]

Oh, found it now, National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Decree, aka HSPD 51.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...tial_Directive

A catastrophic emergency...well...



ALL HAIL KAISER OBAMA!!