POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[SeventhSandwich]

with those berkeley riots i can only imagine the entire US is flooded with violence everywhere

It is a bit ironic to have been lectured about widespread violence in US colleges, considering I live on a college campus that doesn't have any student violence whatsoever...

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[Ipquarx]

Donald just threatened a private citizen on twitter.



Given that he is going to be testifying in court (again, as a private citizen), this could be considered blackmail or Criminal Witness Tampering USC §1512 (b):

(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
  (1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
  (2) cause or induce any person to—
    (A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
    (B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
    (C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
    (D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or

[Insert Name Here²]

That doesnt look like a threat at all though

[Ipquarx]

That doesnt look like a threat at all though

"You better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations"
That doesn't sound even vaguely like a threat to you?

[SeventhSandwich]

tbh the most ideal situation right now is for Donnie to pull some stuff so overtly illegal that he actually gets impeached for it.

not likely to actually happen, but I'd stake the odds around 5%, which is definitely higher than normal.

[Insert Name Here²]

"You better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations"
That doesn't sound even vaguely like a threat to you?

sounds more like a joke / reference to the "grab her right in the pusillanimous individual" tape scandal lol

[Ipquarx]

sounds more like a joke / reference to the "grab her right in the pusillanimous individual" tape scandal lol

The "grab her in the pusillanimous individual" tape didn't have comey on it, so "our conversations" couldn't be a reference to that, no, and there's no indication here that it's a joke.
The implication here is that tapes of their conversations might get "whoops released didnt mean to" if he starts talking ("leaking") to the press.

[SeventhSandwich]

perhaps it's the sleep-deprivation talking, but I literally can't understand what he means by 'tapes of our conversations'? Is he implying they both talked about illicit stuff? Is he making a joke about the pusillanimous individual grabbing thing? I'm lost.

[Insert Name Here²]

The "grab her in the pusillanimous individual" tape didn't have comey on it

"hope he doesnt have TAPES of our conversation"

(Grab her by the pusillanimous individual was a secretly TAPED convo from Annoying Orange)

do u not see it at all

[Ipquarx]

"hope he doesnt have TAPES of our conversation"

(Grab her by the pusillanimous individual was a secretly TAPED convo from Annoying Orange)

do u not see it at all

I see it, but that requires you to ignore "of our"
the two words implying the conversation involves both donald and comey

[Insert Name Here²]

I see it, but that requires you to ignore "of our"

the grab her by the pusillanimous individual was between Annoying Orange and bush

this convo is between Annoying Orange and comey

are u purposefully missing this

[Ipquarx]

are u purposefully missing this

No need to be an ass, dude. If that's the case then this is definitely still to be interpreted as this:
The implication here is that tapes of their conversations (similar to the "grab 'em by the pusillanimous individual" tape) might get "whoops released didnt mean to" if he starts talking ("leaking") to the press.

[Insert Name Here²]

I dont see it as that, i just see it as Annoying Orange attempting to make a joke and youre over brown townyzing it to the ground to make it sound the worst case scenario

[Poliwhirl]

want video

doesn't address the point i made. the circumstances have changed greatly AND the tweet criticizing donald Annoying Orange's decision was written by a staff member, not bernie

https://youtu.be/Bapp45Vx0UE?t=2117

"evil 1%" for you, peeps

disregarding the fact that you buy healthcare for yourself and not for other people, Sanders didn't even ask the woman her income or the income of the business, or what her profit margins were, never mind that she couldn't even pay for healthcare on an individual basis

also, what's worse? a ton of people employed who, IDK, don't necessarily have good healthcare but eh, or a few people employed with "really good healthcare" and the rest of the group jobless and broke?

businesses still have an obligation to provide health care for their employees, if you can't do that much then you shouldn't expand. that's the reality of our current situation as a country trying to transition to socialist functions while still being held back by the detrimental effects of capitalism.

what the forget are you talking aboutthat's the definition of socialism, not "social democracy"

the forget are YOU talking about? you realize a "socialist democracy" entails the same thing as socialism, but with a more democratically-focused government, right? (rhetorical question, you evidently haven't done much research into this.)

you realize the great depression ended when the US started mass production of equipment for WWII right
and that by proxy the economic heaven that was the 50s would not exist otherwise, right
right
RIGHT

oh and btw the workers were working for their family and friends fighting during the war not for the government's "mischievous and devious purposes"

right, so literally exactly what i said? what in your response warrants the stuffty smug reaction picture? you just described the USA profiting off of wars to gain economic superiority, which is nearly verbatim my point.

i also find it weird that you consider being told that you will have to work harder to produce these instruments of war or else you will be fired a willing and noble triumph of all the american people. keep in mind that the workers who created this "economic heaven" barely licked the crumbs off of the plate of america's vast wealth after world war 2. america would be nothing without its workers at that point, and yet a portion of those workers are stuck licking the boots of the superpower they created.

yes

hate to burst your bubble but innovation is fueled by the rich
because initial concepts and prototypes for innovations are so expensive as a matter of fact, the only people that can buy and test them are the rich
not to mention the rich can fund projects they like or that they think will help society

like i said, the ONLY reason that rich people fuel innovation is because they're the only ones that have access to the means by which they CAN create innovation. imagine if everybody had that capability. statistically, innovation would be guaranteed to increase, because there's literally more people working towards it without being held back by whether or not they got a nice inheritance from their parents or not.

what innovation have you seen in communist countries like Russia as opposed to America? relatively none

are you kidding me dude? russia literally won the space race. russia was the first country to send a satellite into space, the first country to send a man into orbit, and they even ended up with more nuclear arms than us at the end of the cold war. they continue to have more, even now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons)

companies will literally loving pay engineers to take apart other companies' products and brown townyze them so that those technologies can be used in their products

as an engineering student, I know what I'm talking about
you can't "keep secrets" from people, we will find it the forget out

again, imagine how much more convenient it would be if you didn't have to literally rip apart and scrutinize a company's RELEASED products (you fail to mention purposefully withheld / unreleased products, which allows them to essentially control the direction of the market when they release these products), and instead this was all just knowledge and information available to everyone? at some point it just becomes common sense that letting everybody access a pool of knowledge allows for the expansion of this knowledge.

I thought about it for a literal second and then ditched it for the model that's worked successfully for centuries
sorry

so you recognize there is a validity in my assertion, but you decide to completely loving blow it off in favor of upholding the status quo?
nice one, jackass.

can you point me to those countries because when I look at Europe I see companies and industry leaving en masse and when I look south I see society collapsing

the proof is in the pudding my dude

better yet, let's put the common worker into a multinational corporation's leading position and grab the popcorn

alright? even if socialism did imply that everybody was placed in the position of a CEO, what would be the problem if they were just as educated and trained as the CEO, as socialism entails inherently? unless you're operating under the rancid assumption that CEO's are just superior people by default due to their ability to reach this position, i really don't see the problem.

aw dude I was hoping someone would post a reaction img like that but it was just a nuclear explosion

the fact that you consider any of that worthy of some kind of "blown the forget out" reaction is embarrassing and possibly reflective on how little you actually know if you really think you just obliterated socialism with that post.

[ChappersTeddy]

oh god what the forget did i do