Politics Thread

[Caf]

Once again, huh? I just asked if you consider yourself a citizen of planet Earth. You're now talking about Trump and Hillary. As one great poster used to say, "Stay on topic."

Earth is on planet America so teknikly were citizins of both.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

Earth is on planet America so teknikly were citizins of both.

Semantics, too many of us see the world as French, Irish, South African, Japanese, and straight on down the list of 200 or so countries. In reality it's one world, if we mess it up for one it's going to go down for us all.

So yeah, I view myself as just another human on this Earth. Now my Trump/Hillary piece of my post pertained to a previous post. You can address two posts in the same one you do....that's ok right?

[bobbiemcgee]

Nikki Haley would make a great President. Just saying.....

[Caf]

Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign

Manafort is looking more and more like the fall guy.

[GoMuskies]

I'm no Donald Trump as president fan, but him calling Kim Jong-Whatshisname "Rocket Man" at the UN was the kind of comedy gold I counted on out of a Trump presidency.

Also, Ta-Nehisi Coates can eat a bag of dicks.

[xu82]

I'm no Donald Trump as president fan, but him calling Kim Jong-Whatshisname "Rocket Man" at the UN was the kind of comedy gold I counted on out of a Trump presidency.

Also, Ta-Nehisi Coates can eat a bag of dicks.

I thought we'd be more likely to see that in a Saturday Night Live skit, but never underestimate the Trumpster!

[boozehound]

Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign

Manafort is looking more and more like the fall guy.

I don't really know a lot about the guy, but the stock photo they keep using definitely ranks in the top 10 of assholish-looking photos. It will be interesting to see (1) if he snitches and (2) if that gets anywhere.

At this point it would be pretty tough news to deal with if there was concrete evidence of collusion on a criminal level. We also don't really have a mechanism to deal with that sort of thing in America. Do you just invalidate the the whole election like we are some kind of African Republic? Then what?

[Caf]

I don't really know a lot about the guy, but the stock photo they keep using definitely ranks in the top 10 of assholish-looking photos. It will be interesting to see (1) if he snitches and (2) if that gets anywhere.

At this point it would be pretty tough news to deal with if there was concrete evidence of collusion on a criminal level. We also don't really have a mechanism to deal with that sort of thing in America. Do you just invalidate the the whole election like we are some kind of African Republic? Then what?

The campaign manager giving private access to foreign oligarchs looks pretty concrete. I think the question is more 'who done it?' now. It's totally possible that Manafort acted completely alone or that the team insulated Trump. Either way Manafort is toast.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

The campaign manager giving private access to foreign oligarchs looks pretty concrete. I think the question is more 'who done it?' now. It's totally possible that Manafort acted completely alone or that the team insulated Trump. Either way Manafort is toast.

To think Trump had no idea this was happening is head in the sand stuff. A guy with an ego like his knew all the minutiae in his campaign. That said, this is looking like Manafort will probably take the fall leaving the administration out of it. Trump already pardoned Arpaio, why not pardon Manafort if jail time is a possibility. His supporters won't budge, they just don't care.

[STL_XUfan]

To think Trump had no idea this was happening is head in the sand stuff. A guy with an ego like his knew all the minutiae in his campaign. That said, this is looking like Manafort will probably take the fall leaving the administration out of it. Trump already pardoned Arpaio, why not pardon Manafort if jail time is a possibility. His supporters won't budge, they just don't care.

Is Manafort still in the USA? You have to imagine that he can see the writing on the wall and is hopping a plane out of the country.

Maybe him and Snowden can be roommates? Would make for a great reality TV show.