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[WedgeX]

So to recap:

• Bannon, a white nationalist ideologue and the biggest pusher of the Alt-Right, will be Trump's chief strategist.
• Sessions, a man so racist that 80's GOP turned its back on him, will probably be the new AG.
• Flynn, who was utterly despised at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is a crazy islamophobe, appears on RT, dines with Putin and retweets Prison Planet articles will be the new national security advisor, no approval required.
• Pompeo, a total wingnut with no intelligence credentials (let alone actual acumen) and who has gone on the record to proclaim his desire of changing Iran's regime, will be the new head of the CIA.

Here's what your meme magic brought, numbnuts.

Oh Jesus.

 

[dave is ok]

Well, at least he's not from Covington and Burling or something I guess.

 

[jmdajr]

Maybe people will actually show up in mid term now.


maybe

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

Is marijuana legalization effectively dead if Sessions gets through the confirmations? Surely Trump will stick by his word to let the states decide on how to enforce the law...

 

[JeTmAn81]

Let me quote frag.

To be fair, he's the third of the name so he was named after his father rather than after secessionist heroes directly. :/

 

[Kimawolf]

What does this mean??

Well Michale Flynn was such a hack he was fired from his previous job IN INTELLIGENCE! Oh and he also believes Islam is not even a real religion,. just a propaganda tool. SOOO, black people will be stopped and frisked at will in rural and some cities, and Muslims should just PRAY that guy is not confirmed.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

So to recap:

• Bannon, a white nationalist ideologue and the biggest pusher of the Alt-Right, will be Trump's chief strategist.
• Sessions, a man so racist that 80's GOP turned its back on him, will probably be the new AG.
• Flynn, who was utterly despised at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is a crazy islamophobe, appears on RT, dines with Putin and retweets Prison Planet articles will be the new national security advisor, no approval required.
• Pompeo, a total wingnut with no intelligence credentials (let alone actual acumen) and who has gone on the record to proclaim his desire of changing Iran's regime, will be the new head of the CIA.

Here's what your meme magic brought, numbnuts.

God help us all

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

I have yet to see a Trump supporter say anything regarding these picks.

Trump supporters have nothing to say about anything. They're brain-dead, awful human beings and the ones on this board are almost certainly part of the alt-right crowd.

 

[Skilletor]

I have:

Sorry, I meant anything negative.

If it was about economic anxiety or whatever and not racism, then everybody would be mad about these picks.

But they aren't.

So...

 

[B-Dubs]

Well Michale Flynn was such a hack he was fired from his previous job IN INTELLIGENCE! Oh and he also believes Islam is not even a real religion,. just a propaganda tool. SOOO, black people will be stopped and frisked at will in rural and some cities, and Muslims should just PRAY that guy is not confirmed.

Flynn's role doesn't require Congressional approval. Unless the Dems fillibuster Session will make it through and even then they might nuke it and force him through.

 

[Palette Swap]

Let me quote frag.

I assume my reading of "He spoke earlier this year about his regrets about not getting involved in the civil rights movement as a young adult." is generous and the opposite of what he meant?

 

[onadesertedisland]

So dickbag president elect is going full racist?

 

[rokkerkory]

we are screwed

 

[Nafai1123]

Just give it a chance...right?

 

[roytheone]

So to recap:

• Bannon, a white nationalist ideologue and the biggest pusher of the Alt-Right, will be Trump's chief strategist.
• Sessions, a man so racist that 80's GOP turned its back on him, will probably be the new AG.
• Flynn, who was utterly despised at the Defense Intelligence Agency, is a crazy islamophobe, appears on RT, dines with Putin and retweets Prison Planet articles will be the new national security advisor, no approval required.
• Pompeo, a total wingnut with no intelligence credentials (let alone actual acumen) and who has gone on the record to proclaim his desire of changing Iran's regime, will be the new head of the CIA.

Here's what your meme magic brought, numbnuts.

Is it possible to downgrade from a civilized, developed country back down to a developing one? Because on social issues, you guys are hard at work to make that a reality.

 

[BigWeather]

What does this mean??

It means the press has A LOT of work to do. Hammer, hammer, hammer.

 

[Shadybiz]

I see that the swamp has reconstituted into the Golgothan shit demon. Everything going according to plan.

"Law and Order" to make a grand re-entry soon.

White people (like myself), do your fellow human beings a favor. If you're walking or driving around, and you see a police stop involving a POC...stop, pull out your phone, and record it. It is within your rights to do this. Your presence may de-escalate the situation, if one develops. ...And it really hurts to have to say that.

It's only just begun.

 

[SURGEdude]

Not even sure Bannon is worse than this asshat racist fuck.

 

[DerangedHermit]

So dickbag president elect is going full racist?

He has never not been a full blown racist.

 

[RDreamer]

Sorry, I meant anything negative.

If it was about economic anxiety or whatever and not racism, then everybody would be mad about these picks.

But they aren't.

So...

I know. It was a joke to keep myself from crying.

Truth is that most people who voted for him probably aren't listening right now or even seeing this. Instead they're seeing that Trump's bringing business back from Mexico already!

 

[SURGEdude]

He has never not been a full blown racist.

I think being a racist is one of the few views Trump has maintained during his entire life.

 

[ahoyhoy]

He looks like a 12 year old boy suddenly became 60+ overnight

Dude looks like he just escaped The Shire.

 

[Kai Dracon]

I know. It was a joke to keep myself from laughing.

Truth is that most people who voted for him probably aren't listening right now or even seeing this. Instead they're seeing that Trump's bringing business back from Mexico already!

I expect the most the average Trump voter will ever hear is "The new AG is TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION" and they'll get a rush of joy as "wall wall wall!" floats through their mind.

 

[GPsych]

I know. It was a joke to keep myself from crying.

Truth is that most people who voted for him probably aren't listening right now or even seeing this. Instead they're seeing that Trump's bringing business back from Mexico already!

The parent of one of my clients showed up to a meeting yesterday at my school talking about how much Trump has already done to bring jobs back to the U.S. She legit thought that he was already the president. I'm willing to bet a good chunk of his supporters don't even know what the cabinet actually is.

 

[cilonen]

Are Jefferson Beauregard even that good?

What were their first and second Sessions albums like?

 

[BuggyDClown]

So when does the rebellion start?

 

[Captin Quacker]

I see that the swamp has reconstituted into the Golgothan shit demon. Everything going according to plan.

"Law and Order" to make a grand re-entry soon.

White people (like myself), do your fellow human beings a favor. If you're walking or driving around, and you see a police stop involving a POC...stop, pull out your phone, and record it. It is within your rights to do this. Your presence may de-escalate the situation, if one develops. ...And it really hurts to have to say that.

It's only just begun.

for now

 

[Trojita]

Dude looks like he just escaped The Shire.

The Racist Shire.

He'd probably lock up Gandalf for smoking.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Goddamn.

Here's praying that 3 GOP Senators find themselves some principles.

 

[shadow_shogun]

Wonder what spot Trump has in mind for his boy, David Duke.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

At this rate pretty sure brown people are going to have to keep so low that by the time they can safely see daylight again they'll be the whitest people on earth.

lol its like The Mole People

 

[A Link to the Past]

Is marijuana legalization effectively dead if Sessions gets through the confirmations? Surely Trump will stick by his word to let the states decide on how to enforce the law...

I hope he kills it. As Cali showed us with the death penalty vote, people care way more about their weed than a lot of things.

Goddamn.

Here's praying that 3 GOP Senators find themselves some principles.

We've got two already

 

[dramatis]

Maybe someone else has already reported it, but Cosmopolitan (yes, Cosmopolitan) also had their own list of "things to know about Jeff Sessions", and this one stood out:

5. He prosecuted black civil rights workers during his time as U.S. attorney.

One of Sessions's most notorious cases was against the activists Albert Turner, his wife Evelyn Turner, and Spencer Hogue, who worked to give African Americans more political control after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Sessions brought so many charges against them that they were facing 100 years in prison. "They called them voter fraud cases, and we called them voter persecution cases," said Hank Sanders, a defense lawyer for the activists. A jury found them not guilty on all counts.

As the New York Times points out, "As attorney general, Mr. Sessions would be responsible for upholding civil rights laws," but Sessions has received consistent F scores from the NAACP on its legislative scorecard. He was called "a leading voice for the Old South and the conservative white backlash vote" in The Nation.

"There was discrimination that impacted adversely the ability of the African American community to progress. People were in denial about that fact," Sessions said on Politico's Off Message podcast. "I began to realize it. I don't feel like I did anything to damage the advancement of racial reconciliation and civil rights, but I wasn't any hero in it either."

He supported Trump when he claimed that voter fraud was the only way that Hillary Clinton could win in Pennsylvania. "Well, there's cheating in every election," Sessions said. According to Zachary Roth in his book The Great Suppression, "studies have found that people are more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter impersonation fraud."

 

[Shadybiz]

for now

....good point.

 

[Macam]

Call your Senators, and keep calling.http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/

He has to be confirmed by the Senate, and this is something they can actually do (whether he gets thru or not because of the majority is a different matter).

 

[kess]

The South Rises Again!

 

[Vena]

Goddamn.

Here's praying that 3 GOP Senators find themselves some principles.

I can think of a few who will openly oppose this.

The bigger question is if any democrats will turn out to also be racist bigots or not, if all of them maintain their sanctity as decent humans, then almost none of these nominations should ever make it past congressional hearings.

 

[takriel]

He looks like a 12 year old boy suddenly became 60+ overnight

He actually looks decent. Fuck, I thought I could tell which ones were evil based on their looks alone.

 

[Mega]

It means that someone who once prosecuted black voters in Alabama for ...voting has been appointed US attorney general.

WTF... that reads like something out of the 1950s, not the mid 80s.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Leave it to Beaver looking motherfucker.

 

[PsychoSoldier]

He actually looks decent. Fuck, I thought I could tell which ones were evil based on their looks alone.

We Southeners can be very deceptive like that. We hide our dark hearts with politeness.

 

[QuiteWhittle]

Goddamn.

Here's praying that 3 GOP Senators find themselves some principles.

No more northern RINOs to give people like this the finger. After 20 years of fraternization in the Senate, this guy is coming through.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

He looks like a 12 year old boy suddenly became 60+ overnight

You know he has some grand wizard robes in his closet.

 

[Dr.Acula]

I can think of a few who will openly oppose this.

The bigger question is if any democrats will turn out to also be racist bigots or not, if all of them maintain their sanctity as decent humans, then almost none of these nominations should ever make it past congressional hearings.

It'll be funny if the Democratic strategy will be the opposite of the one the GoP has employed for most of Obama's tenure. Make the POTUS look bad not by blocking him at every turn, but by enabling him.

Like, who knows, the whole world's gone mad.

 

[Topfuel]

Non US based poster. Do the Republican party have any heavyweights that are sane and anchored in reality that can oppose Trump within the party?

 

[Doc Holliday]

Tired of saying it, but this is why you should fucking vote. this pisses me off to no end.

 

[Trojita]

The drained swamp is full of racists.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Call your Senators, and keep calling.http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/

He has to be confirmed by the Senate, and this is something they can actually do (whether he gets thru or not because of the majority is a different matter).

and say what? I have no idea what to say.

 

[RDreamer]

Non US based poster. Do the Republican party have any heavyweights that are sane and anchored in reality that can oppose Trump within the party?

No.

That pretty much ended when he won the election. Before the election some were coming out against him but not really in a big way.

Also it's hard to find a "sane" republican nowadays.

 

[Funky Papa]

Just wonder about what kind of message the GOP will be sending if they accept Session's nomination after blocking him in the 80's for being a racist douchelord.

The drained swamp is full of racists.

The scum is all that is left.