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- kona8
Trump's Shitshow Checklist
✓ Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
✓ Disdain for Human Rights
✓ Identification of Enemies as a Unifying Cause
✓ Supremacy of the Military
✓ Rampant Sexism
✓ Controlled Mass Media
✓ Obsession with National Security
✓ Religion and Government Intertwined
✓ Corporate Power Protected
✓ Labor Power Suppressed
✓ Disdain for Intellectuals & the Arts
✓ Obsession with Crime & Punishment
✓ Rampant Cronyism & Corruption
✓ Fraudulent ElectionsThe Checklist is now full.
Oh btw for you mouth breathers (omg/jaxz) this is the Fascism checklist, now complete.
- #FillTheSwampRamanisky2
- #TheSwampRunnethOverkona
- You forgot...
✓ Trump drinks tears of Liberals daily
https://youtu.be/BD7…robotron3k - #TriggeredSnowflakekona
- Don't go nuts konut, these last 7 years will fly by quickly...robotron3k
- it's just theatre, comedy goldfadein11
- "these last 7 years will..." it's these NEXT 7 and lol to that you colossal cunt.kona
- Your checklist sounds much like what marxism was against.IRNlun6
- Irrelevant comparisonmonospaced
- A classic whatabout response from our Republican friend, straight out the Russian rule book.monoboy
- If you're interested, The aim of Marxism is to force upon the laborers in society an awareness of their exploitation by the bourgeoisie, the managerial class.monoboy
- You should probably get back to work, that lease won't pay itself.monoboy
- Trump and all his Y'all Qaeda friends are
fascists.monoboy - let's see: this touches on classism, labor vs capitalism, stateless society, anti-religion... funny that you mention Russia.IRNlun6
- Yeah, cause I'm a big fan of defunct sate run by a mafia. So it is rather funny you mention it.monoboy
- Russian rulebook? Whatabout response? You're implying Soviet style tactics, and also a not-so-subtle defense of marxism.IRNlun6
- Nope and nope. Merely pointing out the predictable whataboutism from apologists of a corrupt facsist administration using constructs they don't understand.monoboy
- Of all examples, you happen to choose awareness of the exploitation of laborers by the bourgeoisie. #10 in the fascist shithole checklist.IRNlun6
- Irrelevant comparison.monospaced
- Genius Post®utopian
- allthethings4
Mike Flynn will plead guilty to Making False Statements at 10:30 AM EST today (Friday).
- "Deals like this are offered *only* when a witness can incriminate someone "higher up the food-chain" than them."allthethings
- "In this case, the *only* people above him in the executive-branch hierarchy are the President and the Vice President."allthethings
- omg, you there? *crickets*CygnusZero4
- robotron? lolzzzzCygnusZero4
- Well, this should be fun!Continuity
- lock her up!monospaced
- What I want to know is: what has he told Mueller to earn this comparatively sweet deal?Continuity
- (Also, I keep wanting to actually type: Müller)Continuity
- "If i did a tenth, a tenth of what she did,
I would be in jail" - Flynn
How propheticRamanisky2
- CygnusZero45
- There's ya collusion folks!CygnusZero4
- This is going to be a hot mess!Continuity
- Get ALL the popcorn!CygnusZero4
- As far as Christmas presents go, this one's not bad!Continuity
- https://media.giphy.…aslip
- aliastime1
I don't understand this mentality.
- How is a person dealt deal with people Alabama style?PhanLo
- ^ a family dinner with some a frank, and enlightening conversation.Gnash
- ^ That sounds pretty good.
Thought she meant hanging him or something.PhanLo - ^ ya, or that, it's a toss upGnash
- not sodomy?monospaced
- I think Alabama style is all three. Family dinner, sodomy, hanging.
The order is interchangeable in Alabama.kona - Sodomy. Hanging. Family Dinner (with the hung butt raped family)
Hanging. Family Dinner. Sodomy. You get the idea.kona - lolGnash
- Not believing the accusation is one thing, but this is pretty twisted.IRNlun6
- utopian2
#MakeRussiaGreatAgain
- greatest christmas evarrrrrCygnusZero4
- #fakenews
***airhorn blas***monospaced - oh yesfadein11
- not a crime but ok, LET’S KEEP THE SHITSHOW ROLLING!IRNlun6
- lol, trumptards are all over the internet arguing that lying about russian ties isn't criminal, and should therefore be ignoredmonospaced
- All we know is he lied and is pleading guilty. Anything else is pure speculation. But everyone is enjoying this so have fun...IRNlun6
- and you continue to support and defend this shitshow of an administration, along with all the idiots and assholes ... have fun.monospaced
- here's the justice department docs https://www.justice.…IRNlun6
- 'statement of the offense' lays it all outIRNlun6
- Yes it lays out that the trump administration, including him, were lying about connections to Russia. Not a crime so okay? Ffs wake up.monospaced
- did you read it?IRNlun6
- yupmonospaced
- Thanks for sharing and letting me confirm that he was in fact lying to the FBI and that he is pleading guilty to the criminal charge associated with that.monospaced
- cool, because that’s true. the timeline though shows it was after the election.IRNlun6
- ...monospaced
- And that he was under surveillance, which is how they got him on this. Trumps team was being surveilled.IRNlun6
- Him meeting those officials as part of the transition team is not unlawful, but for whatever reason he didn’t admit to it.IRNlun6
- His lawyer says he wants to tell the story. Soon he will and should be real interesting however it goes.IRNlun6
- Right. He lied about it. Kushner lied about it. Donald Trump senior and junior lied about it. Manafort did too. Real interesting indeed.monospaced
- What's weird is that the fbi cleared him.IRNlun6
- tried to post a link but it's too long. NYTimes article titled "FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit"IRNlun6
- That's Jan 23, 2017. In those court documents, the date he's charged with lying on is Jan 24. Why would he lie to the fbi after he got cleared? Makes no sense.IRNlun6
- Yeah. Because he LIEDmonospaced
- If you're trying to argue he didn't lie, give up.monospaced
- IRNlun6 = #youmad
/threadsofakingback - I agreed he lied, he plead guilty to it. It's just very odd that he lied after the FBI had already cleared him. And lied about a meeting that wasn't illegal.IRNlun6
- A conversation he full well knew was likely being recorded and where nothing illegal was discussed.IRNlun6
- Not making any guesses but I think the Dems are celebrating pre-maturely again...IRNlun6
- Here's what truly sad. You consume your energy on DEMS, as if the world depends of one being right or wrong. Its clearly all you care aboutsofakingback
- and all the while you negate that the guy you voted for was clouding with a foreign government to rig an election and knowingly undermining foreign policysofakingback
- Facts are there. but you feel personally invested and would rather back a man that lies to you and betrays your country over having to admit that you are wrongsofakingback
- I often wonder how nazi supporters feel now after all these years have passed. Do they have remorse? I hope I can ask you the same question, in time. ;)sofakingback
- Ramanisky24
- hahahaha! We ordered the office pizza and are breaking out the champagne! It's a fukn party!kona
- /pol/ is doing so much mental gymnastics they have qualified for the next three Olympics. Delicious.face_melter
- _niko2
The ultimate poetic justice would be for Trump and his cronies to be thrown in a jail full of blacks and muslims and even black muslims lol
- HAHA!kona
- White collar crime, unfortunately. But as damning as all this could be, the political will for impeachment is severely lacking.face_melter
- this would never get to impeachment. he would resign before that if he knew full well they had him nailed to the wall.CygnusZero4
- Yeah, the cunt has made a career out of weaseling out of things.face_melter
- well i wouldnt say resigning is weaseling out. he, his family, and every person that voted for him would be disgraced... forever.CygnusZero4
- am I being detained?IRNlun6
- IRN so triggered he can't even see the point of the comment.monospaced
- just curious about what will happen to the disgracedIRNlun6
- You would be used as currency in prison.face_melter
- lolIRNlun6
- chukkaphob2
the next US president for the nect 3 years
- honestly think that would be worse. at least trump is an open bookGnash
- MSM won't allow this to happen, their ratings and the stock market will crumble. Not to mention your 401k and home value...robotron3k
- LOL^ bwahahahahaRamanisky2
- I read somewhere that Trump is worth $2 billion to TwitterGnash
- ^ O_OMrT
- allthethings3
In other news: Flake, Corker and Collins now say they will vote Yes on the tax bill, with its massive cuts for the wealthy, tax hikes for the not wealthy, and myriad hidden provisions that will establish fetuses as full-fledged humans and rip healthcare from millions of people.
- Which, I should add, none of them have read. But they'll vote Yes anyway.allthethings
- It's bullshit and this Flynn shit is going to work for as a massive smokescreen. Yay.garbage
- Barely even news today lmaoCygnusZero4
- As hopefully as I'd like to be with Flynn, I think the passing of this tax bill cements financial disaster for this country. We're so screwed.FNP14
- Aaaand scene.garbage
- BusterBoy1
If this is all true, and proven in court, surely it's game over for Trump's Presidency? I don't see how he and Jared won't end up in jail.
- Nice bubble yr living in. Trump'll pardon and the gop congress won't give a shitjaylarson
- There’s no way anyone goes to jail.dopepope
- These people don't go to jail. ever.sofakingback
- no way. In fact, they'll release a talking point just like "locker room talk", that all his supporters will parrot over and over and over.inteliboy
- If Kushner is found guilty of a criminal offence, is handed jail time and Trump pardons him, he’s finished. Parsons don’t just happen like that.BusterBoy
- ********-6
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- https://media.giphy.…GuyFawkes
- you've nothing to celebrate so you're re-celebrating trump's election? pathetic.dorf
- did you buy a poster of his inauguration?monospaced
- Hope you lke paying taxes.monoboy
- And dying of easily treatable conditions.monoboy
- yawngarbage
- allthethings1
Drain the Swamp!
https://theintercept.com/2017/12…
SPECIAL GIVEAWAYS IN TAX CUT BILL BENEFIT FAMILY MEMBERS, COLLEAGUES OF KEY GOP SENATORS
https://theintercept.com/2017/12…
GOP’S LIST OF ECONOMISTS BACKING TAX CUT INCLUDES GHOSTS, OFFICE ASSISTANTS, EX-FELONS, AND A SPRINKLING OF REAL ECONOMISTS
- sarahfailin4
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson…
Seth Abramson explains on Twitter the significance of Flynn's plea deal, and its dire indications for the President.Scuttlebutt out of DC was that Trump threw a coffee pot in the west wing and has locked himself in his office.
- I'm currently picturing him with his arms crossed and tucked under his arms, barricaded under his deck, screaming for more juice.shellie
- MrT1
A sobering read on the Australia economy. This is seriously messed up stuff.
eg. the current frenzy of apartment building: There are more cranes in Sydney (350) than in LA, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, Boston, and Honolulu combined.
- Who's buying?robotron3k
- chinasted
- same in toronto & vancouverGnash
- Apartments have no real effect on real estate prices though. It's a completely separate economy in itself. If apartment prices plummet, life will go on.BusterBoy
- I didn't think it was that straightforward since so many are bought as 'investments' with equity from other properties. Dunno.MrT
- Either way, there's way too many of the fucking things going up all over Melb & Syd especially.MrT
- That's insane. Weird not to include Seattle in the combined stats, we have the most in the US.garbage
- https://www.seattlet…garbage
- monoboy6
So, this tax bill lets the rich keep more money instead of investing it in infrastructure, public services and education and as a result America is made great again?
Despite all historical economic evidence to the contrary.
The only thing stopping a revolt in a decades time will be control of the media and a militarised police force.
Better hope they get caught before they dismantle your system of government.
- I am very interested to see how much my taxes increase.R_Kercz
- Well currently the economy is booming, so let's see how long this goes on for...robotron3k
- “booming”scruffics
- Seriously. The rot goes well deeper than Trump. And robo "the economy" is booming in the sense that the market is up, butallthethings
- most of my friends haven't gotten raises since 2007. Those that were laid off during the past decade (like me) are making a lot less than we didallthethings
- And I am not a coal miner.allthethings
- When the middle class can no longer afford housing, healthcare or education, your economy will begin its death spiral.monoboy
- The working class used to be the ones getting fucked endlessly, now it's the middle class as well. Shit gonna hit the fan soon.fadein11
- Also, the reason the stock market is so high central is because banks have printed trillions since the crash in 2008.monoboy
- Zombie economic system propping itself up through quantitative easing. It's all bent tax payers are liable for. It's a fucking joke.monoboy
- *moneymonoboy
- And it looks like this new tax plan will add trillions more to the debt. The rich are taking your money and making you pay for the privilege.monoboy
- Trump has been played by the Chinese who are going to try and crash the dollar.monoboy
- allthethings2
http://thehill.com/business-a-lo…
Analysis: More than 6,000 lobbyists have worked on taxes in 2017
