Photo of the Day: Trump Meets With Japanese PM in Garish Living Room With Daughter Ivanka Sitting In
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And we are sure that space is secure and not bugged?
Putting my appropriate tweet here:
@IvanCNN When did the US get a palace? When did we get a king?
— ()(Lonnie Mask)() (@LonnieMask) November 18, 2016
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
And we are sure that space is secure and not bugged?
It’s only bugged by the Russians.
re: #4 Belafon
Nothing to worry about then!
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
Anyone with a direct line of sight to the windows can tape everything said.
SO?? get over it….Ivanka not bothering anyone sitting there…..move along now #Petty https://t.co/7uCcbmQaE7
— Rictracee (@Rictracee) November 18, 2016
I’m guessing Rictracee never had a security clearance, and never will.
Orwell emphasized systematic destruction of language as a way to power. Looks like “blind trust” is now dead and soon to be forgotten.
My brain just keeps having an impossible time trying to process what my eyes are doing to it.
In dystopian sci-fi movies, evil (or at least amoral) technocratic dictators live in admirably stylish (if cold and soulless) opulence.
Why do real-world dictators almost invariably live in horrendously gaudy, tasteless ugliness that looks like a truck carrying QVC jewelry crashed into a Trinity Broadcasting Network set?
re: #12 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Narcissistic personality disorder makes them think that’s the kind of decoration that will make more people admire them.
too late…
Earlier, Donald and Ivanka Trump, & Gen Flynn met w/ Japanese PM Abe. I deleted handout photo after learning Trump had denied press access.
— Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) November 18, 2016
Trump spokesman says that “appropriate precautions” taken on phone calls between President-elect and world leaders https://t.co/i83wZE2nh4 pic.twitter.com/bcdzP6d72g
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 18, 2016
Totally secure, believe me.
Lurve the ridiculous useless candelabra.
So Saddam.
re: #15 jaunte
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Totally secure, believe me.
THAT is an exceptionally bad hair photo.
re: #4 Belafon
It’s only bugged by the Russians.
No need for bugs, they get the transcripts from team tRump through EMAIL.
Now Trump trying to take credit for Ford not moving operation to Mexico that was never in the works.
This is literally the entire article @Reuters just posted. It all seems so plausible. pic.twitter.com/ovwBnIx2nW
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) November 18, 2016
1 Take credit for a factory that wasn’t going to go to Mexico for not going
2 Say the media is biased when they point this out
3 Repeat— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) November 18, 2016
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
No need for bugs, they get the transcripts from team tRump through EMAIL.
Yeah, but how else do they know for sure it’s accurate?
So CBS News made one of their reporters roll over and play dead in a softball interview with a FUCKING GODDAM NAZI, Fox “News” preoccupies their time with a ghost child in a digital picture, and no one gives two shits that a horribly unqualified meathead is talking to a FUCKING WORLD LEADER in HIS GODDAM PERSONAL VERSAILLES WITH HIS EQUALLY UNQUALIFIED DAUGHTER.
Got it.
re: #18 Stanley Sea
THAT is an exceptionally bad hair photo.
The comb-over turnaround is reaching Judge Napolitano levels.
Pres. elect 💩could only be reached by Australian govt on unsec line by golf buddy. When you run govt like a biz https://t.co/tsVdyjjz4G
— Hillary (@HillaryLehigh) November 18, 2016
re: #20 blueraven
Now Trump trying to take credit for Ford not moving operation to Mexico that was never in the works.
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I wonder if CEO Ford was doing a little trolling?
re: #23 jaunte
The comb-over turnaround is reaching Judge Napolitano levels.
It also could be the closeness of the moon that’s wrecking havoc on the comb-over.
Trump isn’t coming after gay marriage. He’s going straight for making LGBT folks second-class citizens. https://t.co/v3ISkaXZJF
— Ali Davis (@Ali_Davis) November 18, 2016
Was he telling them how much protection is going to cost or telling them to start a nuclear program.
/both
Take a guess on who has mishandled classified info at least 2x in the past?https://t.co/ElGpDnll2u
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 18, 2016
So, no press were allowed in to the meeting, even for a pool spray, so those photos — 2 in Reuters story & deleted 1 — came from … Japan.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 18, 2016
re: #15 jaunte
He totally looked over his shoulder first, and then said all the secret stuff in igpay atinlay.
re: #18 Stanley Sea
THAT is an exceptionally bad hair photo.
He’s not going to get through four years without a major humiliating hair malfunction.
re: #30 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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I really want to know how mass media in Japan is treating this. They can’t be rolling over like OUR sad-sack mass media is.
re: #29 Kragar
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And this pompous asshole had the gall to go in front of the RNC and act like Clinton was so awful. Fuck Flynn and his Putin loving ass.
re: #33 Myron Falwell (no relation)
I really want to know how mass media in Japan is treating this. They can’t be rolling over like OUR sad-sack mass media is.
I might have the husband look tonight but I would say that the media in Japan is very conservative. There is very, very little of the editorializing that we see in the States.
re: #36 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I might have the husband look tonight but I would say that the media in Japan is very conservative. There is very, very little of the editorializing that we see in the States.
Interesting.
re: #30 klys (maker of Silmarils)
In this tweet, I get the distinct impression that “pool spray” is journalist slang that probably has a common ancestor with certain slang that is specific to the porn industry.
Seems to me that Flynn should be something that Congressional Dems should hit hard on. As much as I despise Breitbart and Bannon, if I have to use some capital on fighting one, I take Flynn since this is a much more important position.
re: #37 HappyWarrior
Interesting.
Just to give you an idea, when a major event happens and they’re doing live coverage, what the reporter says is typically limited to describing exactly what the viewer is seeing on the screen.
mr. klys and I joke about this.
‘So, can you tell me? What the f is going on?”
re: #40 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Just to give you an idea, when a major event happens and they’re doing live coverage, what the reporter says is typically limited to describing exactly what the viewer is seeing on the screen.
mr. klys and I joke about this.
Thanks, Very good to know having never been to Japan like you and Mr. Klys have nor knowing too much. It’s sort of interesting to see the differences in media between various countries.
I’ve seen whorehouses which look classier than Trump’s lair
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 18, 2016
re: #43 Jenner7
This is going to be a looooong four years.
Sigh…
I know and this isn’t even the real beginning yet. I’m trying to find any silver lining I can but there are really none here.
I’m just worn out from anxiety, worn out from waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about what’s going to happen, worn out from seeing yet another fucking lunatic/racist/dumbfuck chosen for a powerful position, worn out from thinking what might have been.
I go through periods of resolution and periods of abject panic. And I’m a fairly affluent white guy who will probably suffer least from this. I worry for friends, neighbors, family who are more vulnerable.
re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m just worn out from anxiety, worn out from waking up in the middle of the night, and worrying about what’s going to happen, worn out from seeing yet another fucking lunatic/racist/dumbfuck chosen for a powerful position, worn out from thinking what might have been.
I go through periods of resolution and periods of abject panic. And I’m a fairly affluent white guy who will probably suffer least from this. I worry for friends, neighbors, family who are more vulnerable.
That’s what I worry about too. Hell, the Trumpers if they saw us may not even suspect we voted for her and against him. But with a younger woman or especially a minority? They would. I’m not liking who Trump is surrounding himself at all. Flynn is about the worst person that he could have chosen for this position. It makes me really worried about his Supreme Court, DOJ, SOS, and other picks.
re: #23 jaunte
The comb-over turnaround is reaching Judge Napolitano levels.
My refuge, I cannot wait to watch that awful looking cheeto age 1 year in.
puke.
Do Trump voters understand that golden palaces and rule by family dynasty, shit like that, is what the Founders were trying to escape?
— Jason Fagone (@jfagone) November 18, 2016
re: #50 jaunte
Nope. No understanding of history will damn us all.
re: #50 jaunte
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Nope. Most of them failed basic civics classes and couldn’t find Japan on a map if you pointed it to them. All they want is their beer, their guns, their stupid red hat and their Jesus.
re: #33 Myron Falwell (no relation)
I just tweeted your comment with partial attrib. Didn’t feel correct to put your last name. I have minimal followers so.
re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m just worn out from anxiety, worn out from waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about what’s going to happen, worn out from seeing yet another fucking lunatic/racist/dumbfuck chosen for a powerful position, worn out from thinking what might have been.
I go through periods of resolution and periods of abject panic. And I’m a fairly affluent white guy who will probably suffer least from this. I worry for friends, neighbors, family who are more vulnerable.
That is exactly what pisses me off about so many of the Trump supporters in my circle. Even they have minority friends. Either they don’t believe anything will change, or they just don’t give a shit because “they won’t come for me!”. Either way. I see them in a completely new light.
These are academics Turkish police rounded up from several universities today. More than 1,000 faculty are already imprisoned. pic.twitter.com/k7LvHc6pJV
— Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) November 14, 2016
Flynn’s client, rounding up innocent professors in a purge. https://t.co/NeJDwgfftP
— Jason Fagone (@jfagone) November 18, 2016
Basically: Dems believed in demographic destiny & took a cultural posture that stirred a backlash that helped Trump https://t.co/jVjMU9NnTU
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 16, 2016
This risks sanitizing the true nature of the backlash. We need actual evidence that Dems’ “cultural overreach” is the culprit. https://t.co/gKAHpKckOG
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 16, 2016
Pretty clear what “cultural overreach” means - it means that a lot of white people don’t REALLY believe in equality, whether racial, marriage, or gender.
Incoming national security adviser makes dubious claims so often that his staff have a name for them. Day 9. https://t.co/4P61jciYYd pic.twitter.com/uCkwc0spxU
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) November 18, 2016
They’re still ignoring the fact that Hillary got a majority of the popular vote. Her message was just fine, but explaining it to people in swing and battleground states failed. Plus, Comey and Wikileaks BS didn’t help at all.
re: #65 wheat-dogg
They’re still ignoring the fact that Hillary got a majority of the popular vote. Her message was just fine, but explaining it to people in swing and battleground states failed. Plus, Comey and Wikileaks BS didn’t help at all.
A BIG majority.
re: #54 Stanley Sea
I just tweeted your comment with partial attrib. Didn’t feel correct to put your last name. I have minimal followers so.
Ha, it’s only a pseudonym. 🙂
Long story short, I played a character in a LARP mod of “Vampire: The Masquerade” that was one of seven vampire children of Jerry Falwell (each representing a deadly sin). So of course Myron represented “sloth.”
I love using the name, so much so that I insisted that my family named our Maine Coon cat Myron.
re: #66 retired cynic
A BIG majority.
You bet, and that’s a fact we need to remind people about at every opportunity. Trump may have gotten more EVs, but his message did not win over a majority of the voters.
re: #69 wheat-dogg
You bet, and that’s a fact we need to remind people about at every opportunity. Trump may have gotten more EVs, but his message did not win over a majority of the voters.
And my vote should could just as much as someone’s anywhere else.
re: #25 Cheechako
I wonder if CEO Ford was doing a little trolling?
Read this tweetstorm by Jesse Singal. He notes that Trump just lied about the whole Ford thing, and most of the media is letting him get away with it.
1/ Something really really scary appeared to have just happened and I hope people understand why it matters amidst all the other chaos.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White
Things are looking pretty bleak But in the end things will get righted. The cavemen were conned by the talking Yam.
Progression has never been easy. In the end hard fought gains have been that and still we move forward. It’s going to be a rough few years. In the long term real progressives will inspire people and move us all forward.
The world survived WWII. Trump won’t be as bad as that. We will go forward in space. People will buy electric cars. Clean cheap energy will become more common. We will stand up to the bullies and their attempt to drag us backwards will fail as it always has.
Don’t lose hope. The throwbacks have always lost to the evolution of the spirit to make our world better. In the end we will get over this and continue the march forward.
Time for bed here. Need to get up early for the Zen of bike commute to work tomorrow.
Trump’s team tells Japanese delegation not to take “each word” that the president-elect says “literally.” https://t.co/6QcGEnh70N pic.twitter.com/egJIWEASKT
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) November 17, 2016
It is hard to overstate the potential consequences of foreign leaders being forced to guess at whether Trump means what he says. https://t.co/28c8NVIprR
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) November 18, 2016
re: #3 Charles Johnson
I’m pretty sure Trump has his kids sit in on all meetings because he’s not confident in his ability to comprehend and recall what is discussed. It’s pathetic and terrifying. And that’s aside from the insanity of having the children of the president elect so tied in to government functions.
re: #68 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Ha, it’s only a pseudonym. 🙂
Long story short, I played a character in a LARP mod of “Vampire: The Masquerade” that was one of seven vampire children of Jerry Falwell (each representing a deadly sin). So of course Myron represented “sloth.”
I love using the name, so much so that I insisted that my family named our Maine Coon cat Myron.
LOL. Sloth Falwell.
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re: #72 Maxwell Not So Smart
I hope you are right! I’m old, and I guess I’m not as much of a retired cynic as I used to be!
re: #74 Bensoner
I’m pretty sure Trump has his kids sit in on all meetings because he’s not confident in his ability to comprehend and recall what is discussed. It’s pathetic and terrifying. And that’s aside from the insanity of having the children of the president elect so tied in to government functions.
I’ll give it two years tops before we find out that he’s suffering from dementia.
It’ll become obvious by then, when press conferences and public appearances have all but stopped altogether. I predict he’ll have at least one public appearance where he’ll completely embarrass himself. The media, of course, will whitewash the fuck out of it.
re: #71 wheat-dogg
Read this tweetstorm by Jesse Singal. He notes that Trump just lied about the whole Ford thing, and most of the media is letting him get away with it.
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Thank you.
re: #77 makeitstop
I’m not sure about dementia, but in addition to the obvious narcissism and being an unfeeling sociopath, he has some signs of a thought disorder- when he speaks he’s basically incoherent. He interrupts himself and goes on bizarre tangents. Those are symptoms. He’s also delusional. He has delusions of grandeur. E.g. In a debate (I think the 2nd vs Clinton) he claimed NATO got more focused on terrorism after he was quoted in the WSJ saying they need to focus more on terrorism. That’s a symptom. This is all very very disturbing
re: #79 Bensoner
I’m not sure about dementia, but in addition to the obvious narcissism and being an unfeeling sociopath, he has some signs of a thought disorder- when he speaks he’s basically incoherent. He interrupts himself and goes on bizarre tangents. Those are symptoms. He’s also delusional. He has delusions of grandeur. E.g. In a debate (I think the 2nd vs Clinton) he claimed NATO got more focused on terrorism after he was quoted in the WSJ saying they need to focus more on terrorism. That’s a symptom. This is all very very disturbing
He’s also said he has a great brain, and that he knows more about military and defense matters than actual military and defense experts.
re: #79 Bensoner
Listening to videos of him from 8-20 years back, he sounds soft-spoken, speaks in complete sentences. Something has gotten a lot worse.
re: #75 Stanley Sea
LOL. Sloth Falwell.
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Aww… I still have to wait a few days until I can read private comments. 😞 I’ll bookmark the page, though.
Oh, and another quick note: I was given the option to name the Sloth vampire Falwell. I spotted “Myron” in the pages of a phone book. 😹
re: #81 retired cynic
Listening to videos of him from 8-20 years back, he sounds soft-spoken, speaks in complete sentences. Something has gotten a lot worse.
I’m not saying he always wasn’t a short sighted crook, because I think he was, or his father wouldn’t have had to keep bailing him out until the end of his life.
i hate when people make simpson’s references
but this is what trump didhttps://t.co/c6M2hS4KQV— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 18, 2016
2 days ago, @realDonaldTrump told me he was working w/ @Ford to keep smaller vehicle production in KY & in USA..Tonight they delivered..TY!
— Matt Bevin (@MattBevin) November 18, 2016
here’s the gop governor of kentucky reinforcing trumps MADE UP STORY about keeping a factory open in the state. total lie. https://t.co/pgl3xyt50q
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 18, 2016
re: #81 retired cynic
Listening to videos of him from 8-20 years back, he sounds soft-spoken, speaks in complete sentences. Something has gotten a lot worse.
Could be a number of factors: declining mental health, exhaustion from the campaign, after-effects of medication/drug use, lack of preparation (i.e., winging it all the time), or all of those. None are advisable for a person filling a critical post in a very large organization. If he were seeking a CEO post in another corporation, he wouldn’t even make the first cut.
.@ananavarro @IvanCNN taken in the same room as this absolutely iconic photo. pic.twitter.com/ShXo9T1dzJ
— Anson Ling (@ns0n) November 18, 2016
You guys, really, Trump’s taste in decor is Versailles meets Saddam Hussein’s Palace, meets Liberace’s foyer, meets Elvis’ “Jungle Room”. https://t.co/Q8AcyijHP8
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) November 18, 2016
HGTV is obviously not holding my attention AS IT SHOULD.
بحلول الوقت الذي كنت أقرأ هذا وسوف يكون حلقت في 2 نفث من الماريجوانا
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) November 18, 2016
$100 fine if she gets caught.
It still amazes me that people rejected Dems as ivory-tower elites, so voted in someone who is literally a Golden Tower Elite.
— Kryptik (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 18, 2016
re: #85 Stanley Sea
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re: #88 Stanley Sea
Ah Million Dollar Listing LA is on. Wheeee.
I can’t take anything else. I gave too much tonight as it is
This piece of shit: Anti-Muslim Buddhist Monk in Myanmar: Trump ‘Similar to Me’
Why can’t these new-age hippie “liberals” come out and denounce this asshole? The ones I’m talking about are the ones that usually share “inspirational” pseudo-Buddhist sayings and are just faux-hippies.
Words can’t further describe how much I despise Wirathu.
I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016
Which was then retweeted by the Lexington Herald Leader.
I respond:
Hey @heraldleader could you ya know be some journalists and find out if the Lincoln plant was ever moving to Mexico…I’ll wait right here..
— Agent P (@Mr25Smith) November 18, 2016
20 Min later:
Trump tweets that Ford Motor’s Lincoln production will stay in Kentucky. But was that ever in doubt?https://t.co/Lzapsc8L0B
— heraldleader (@heraldleader) November 18, 2016
Still…
re: #94 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
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Well, you started turning that ocean liner around!
re: #94 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
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Seriously, we are living in a scam where everyone is contributing.
Has this ever happened before?
That was sarc. Pray for no deaths. Just economic destruction.
Trump and co are going to rob us blind for the next 4 years.
The government expense account balances are going to be YUUUGE.
This really does feel so much more like a coup than an election and transition process
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) November 17, 2016
Some nights you restrain the derp… other nights the derp restrains you.
Tonight is definitely feeling like the latter.
@HistoryFeller @Anomaly100 @XxXxGrantxXxX @Marmel and his name wasn’t Jesus. pic.twitter.com/FvSKR5MnCe
— Fred Mertz (@S3nt13ntB31ng) November 18, 2016
It makes me almost wish I had HGTV.
FFFUUUUUUUUUUU….
Two transition sources tell me ERIK PRINCE on list as potential SecDef.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 18, 2016
Erik Prince.
re: #102 Sherlock Hound
FFFUUUUUUUUUUU….
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Erik Prince.
Who the hell is that again? I can’t keep these nutjobs straight.
re: #102 Sherlock Hound
FFFUUUUUUUUUUU….
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Erik Prince.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? BLACKWATER ERIK PRINCE?!?
This going to be an even bigger disaster than the Bush Admin.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the hell is that again? I can’t keep these nutjobs straight.
Blackwater/XE CEO, hardcore Catholic nutjob, wannabe Crusader.
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re: #106 electrotek
Blackwater/XE CEO, hardcore Catholic nutjob, wannabe Crusader.
*headdesk*
That is all.
Erik Prince is being mentioned as SecDef?
So Trump apparently wants to privatize the military as well.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 18, 2016
He would have to be confirmed for that position. I don’t think it will fly.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the hell is that again? I can’t keep these nutjobs straight.
re: #102 Sherlock Hound
FFFUUUUUUUUUUU….
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Erik Prince.
No.
No.
No.
If this is accurate, it proves the yam has NO ONE legit who wants to serve.
And with that, I’m out.
My sweet crazy savior, Chica.
(not a fat cat, just spread)
re: #114 Stanley Sea
Skritch, skritch, skritch…
This is almost getting comical. It’s like who are the worst assholes in the US of fucking A and toss their names out to fill the most inappropriate offices they could possibly be in.
Really, this is a joke right? All part of a reality series like that bloated orange meatwagon envisions in his failing mind.
re: #116 allegro
This is almost getting comical. It’s like who are the worst assholes in the US of fucking A and toss their names out to fill the most inappropriate offices they could possibly be in.
Really, this is a joke right? All part of a reality series like that bloated orange meatwagon envisions in his failing mind.
He has no one who has confidence. Only money & power hungry assholes.
i guess.
Nighty. OUT
Another head’s up of a company that probably needs our support for having taken a stand. Added bonus: they do have good spices.
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— Staci D Kramer (@sdkstl) November 18, 2016
And this little exchange about the bullshit story about the KY Ford plant kind of says it all:
Trump surrogate Paris Denard (who is this asshole—hadn’t seen him before)
“When it comes to Ford, Mr. Ford, Trump was very factual and talking about, how he was not going to allow that to happen under his watch, meaning leave the American soil and go across the boarder to Mexico.”
Sellers seemed as if he didn’t believe what he was hearing. “But they weren’t going to,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter,” Denard said, before continuing what he was saying.
Host Don Lemon pushed back. “Paris, are you sure it doesn’t matter?”
“It’s not about the truth. It’s about raising awareness,” he insisted.
And that’s where we are, ladies and gents—the truth doesn’t matter; it’s not about the truth; it’s about raising awareness.
Gah-not sure I can take another week of this crap, let alone 4 years.
Remember all those weeks of people saying the didn’t want a dynasty, didn’t want to feel as though they lived in an aristocracy?
Good times.
re: #119 BeachDem
Paris Denard is a real jerk. They had him do some Republican commentary on NPR opposite a Democratic spokesman, and truthiness was on the menu.
re: #121 retired cynic
Paris Denard is a real jerk. They had him do some Republican commentary on NPR opposite a Democratic spokesman, and truthiness was on the menu.
I guess I’m happy I’ve missed him then—still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch any “news” shows since about 9:30 last Tuesday night.
re: #122 BeachDem
I guess I’m happy I’ve missed him then—still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch any “news” shows since about 9:30 last Tuesday night.
He has a real whiny voice that just is fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Blah!
Arguing with Trump supporters is a fruitless exercise. No matter how many facts and legitimate sources you throw at them, they will always keep throwing the “HURR HURR HURR MEDIA” card always.
Paradoxically, I feel like an Evangelist because deep down I want to save them from Trumpture.
One more and I’m out—Charles P. Pierce on Romney maybe taking a position in the Trump regime.
If Trump hires Willard to work for him, it will be because he wants to tell people that Mitt Romney came to him begging for a job and that, He, Trump, nature’s nobleman, was a big enough guy to give him one. He’s going to mount Willard’s head on the wall of his den, right above the Tiffany vase that holds Chris Christie’s balls. By next March, he’ll be sending Romney out for another bucket of KFC.
re: #56 GlutenFreeJesus
From what I understand, a lot of people are going through this process. It hasn’t just destroyed friendships, it’s destroyed family relationships, too. Whoo boy! What an amazing Thanksgiving you people are going to have,
PS That photo is horrible. Never mind the sheer tackiness of the surroundings, what the everloving fuck is Ivanka doing there? You guys are in for a world of hurt for the next four years. So, unfortunately, is the world. This is repulsive!
re: #126 Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
From what I understand, a lot of people are going through this process. It hasn’t just destroyed friendships, it’s destroyed family relationships, too. Whoo boy! What an amazing Thanksgiving you people are going to have,
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re: #102 Sherlock Hound
From the Eric Prince wiki page-
“Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos.”
re: #129 teleskiguy
I think we’re going to need a LOT of trainwreck gifs and analogies over the next few years.
re: #128 ckkatz
From the Eric Prince wiki page-
“Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos.”
And THAT’S the positive part of his resume.
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re: #131 teleskiguy
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re: #133 electrotek
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Christ on a cracker, there really is just no good news to be had coming from this “administration”, is there? It says something when Mitt Romney is the least offensive name being thrown around. I’m still in a state of what I can best describe as numb despair. I can’t stop checking the updates, it’s like one of those asteroid disaster movies where you see it slowly approaching, and can’t do anything about it.
I will be distracting myself with my niece’s birthday party/sleepover for her 10th birthday. Plus, I will be attempting to utilize a glue gun for the first time to make some fancier decorations and a candy table. Pray for me.
re: #134 teleskiguy
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re: #135 RinaX
I will be distracting myself with my niece’s birthday party/sleepover for her 10th birthday. Plus, I will be attempting to utilize a glue gun for the first time to make some fancier decorations and a candy table. Pray for me.
Glue guns aren’t that hard to use. Just remember the glue is always hotter than it looks, and there’s at least one bit of glue you won’t see at all.
re: #136 electrotek
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re: #138 teleskiguy
Ah, memories!
I’m spoiled-ass rotten. I’ve seen so many shows at Red Rocks in Colorado. Bob Dylan. Joe Walsh. Tom Petty. Cypress Hill. Slightly Stoopid. Ziggy Marley. Galactic. Slayer. Widespread Panic. Dweezil Zappa. Wilco. Queens Of The Stone Age. Seen them all at Red Rocks.
“Not anymore, Jews, Not anymore.”
A message that the new National Security Advisor retweeted 116 days ago https://t.co/PLSmKoKR3Q— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) November 18, 2016
Trump’s criteria in making appointments so far seems to be going with who will use the position to do the most lasting damage to humanity.
— Franksgiving (@goddamnedfrank) November 18, 2016
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Nice paint job! Now you have me thinking I need to dig up my Napoleonics and fantasy figures from the basement. I don’t think that they have been out of their boxes since the 1970’s.
re: #146 goddamnedfrank
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I’m more and more convinced that most of Trump’s picks are not his idea, but those around him.
re: #147 ckkatz
Nice paint job! Now you have me thinking I need to dig up my Napoleonics and fantasy figures from the basement. I don’t think that they have been out of their boxes since the 1970’s.
Thanks. I think that’s the last time I’ll be applying a gloss finish, it looks good in person but makes the photography a huge pain in the ass.
re: #106 electrotek
Blackwater/XE CEO, hardcore Catholic nutjob, wannabe Crusader.
His sister Betsy DeVos (married to an Amway VP) is one of the driving forces behind getting rid of pubic schools completely and going all charter.
More money for the RWNJ grifters.
re: #148 Targetpractice
I’m more and more convinced that most of Trump’s picks are not his idea, but those around him.
Oh, I was convinced of that months ago. And I’m now convinced that those people at least get their ideas from the Kremlin.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
I took the Red Gobbo from Gorkamorka and gave him Commissar Yarrick’s hat because reasons.
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Operation #TrumpCup
1) Go to Starbucks & tell them your name is Trump
2) If they refuse take video
Pls share & spread the word pic.twitter.com/huPj4g6cqY— Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) November 18, 2016
Starbucks is reported to be super pissed that people are going into their stores and spending money there https://t.co/OmyWYLr8BG
— Psych Vernon (@bookofloob) November 18, 2016
re: #149 goddamnedfrank
Interesting point. And very good photography as well.
Most of my friends in the group used oil paint. I preferred acrylics. Which, if I remember correctly were flats, except for the metallic ones. I do not even remember what I used on top of the paint. I probably also have the dried tube of whatever it was, in a box somewhere in the basement.
re: #145 Kragar
Grotz don’t need reasons
I’m about to drop a bunch of money on Forgeworld to complete my Ork Army, just waiting for Black Friday so I don’t miss any deals. Already have a large backlog of unbuilt models but with exchange rates so low it’s kind of irresistible.
re: #156 goddamnedfrank
I’m about to drop a bunch of money on Forgeworld to complete my Ork Army, just waiting for Black Friday so I don’t miss any deals. Already have a large backlog of unbuilt models but with exchange rates so low it’s kind of irresistible.
I’ll be honest. I got some of the FW knock off stuff from China for my kid’s Space Wolf Legion 30K army. Probably going to get a MkIIB Land Raider for him as well.
Sigh. I know…bad bad bad. I can’t afford FW stuff though. I did manage to pick up an unbuilt original Rogue Trader Rhino tonight on ebay though.
re: #156 goddamnedfrank
I was going to pick up the 3 pack of FW Deimos Rhino, but think I’m going to hold off till GW put them out in plastics.
Just waiting till the 25th, when 1k Sons new codex goes on pre-order
re: #158 Kragar
I was going to pick up the 3 pack of FW Deimos Rhino, but think I’m going to hold off till GW put them out in plastics.
Just waiting till the 25th, when 1k Sons new codex goes on pre-order
I need to take pictures of the scratchbuilt Deimos Predator turrets I made with heavy conversion beamer weapons. :)
I’ll put up here this weekend.
re: #157 Scottishdragon
Got a venerable dread from them a few years back, other than that, I just order bits. Picked up some Proteus Missile Launchers and some Ryza Lascannons to build some Havocs
re: #159 Scottishdragon
I made some relic Predators, using the lascannon turret. Cut off the barrels, replaced one with the neutron cannon from the Skitarri Dunewalkers, and made the other a spot light.
re: #160 Kragar
Got a venerable dread from them a few years back, other than that, I just order bits. Picked up some Proteus Missile Launchers and some Ryza Lascannons to build some Havocs
I have some MkIV armor jetpacks coming right now via Chinese Air.
I have no idea why forgeworld doesn’t sell those separately.
re: #161 Kragar
I made some relic Predators, using the lascannon turret. Cut off the barrels, replaced one with the neutron cannon from the Skitarri Dunewalkers, and made the other a spot light.
That was the slightly teardrop shaped turret from about 1997, right?
re: #154 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Baked AlaskaTM ✔ @ bakedalaska
Operation # TrumpCup1) Go to Starbucks & tell them your name is Trump
2) If they refuse take video
Pls share & spread the word
3) Wonder what that odd taste in your coffee is….
re: #163 Scottishdragon
Originally yeah, but I’m using the current angular pattern turrets for the base
re: #155 ckkatz
Interesting point. And very good photography as well.
Most of my friends in the group used oil paint. I preferred acrylics. Which, if I remember correctly were flats, except for the metallic ones. I do not even remember what I used on top of the paint. I probably also have the dried tube of whatever it was, in a box somewhere in the basement.
I’d like to use oils but they take forever to dry and I just don’t have the patience. I have some matte photographic print finishing spray around here somewhere in my inkjet supplies, I might give the model a blast to see if it tones down the reflective glare on the flats.
re: #165 Kragar
Originally yeah, but I’m using the current angular pattern turrets for the base
I have a couple Predators where I married the current turret with a Rogue Trader Deimos Rhino chassis (the backstory being that the tank has been repaired etc and the turret had to be replaced because of combat damage).
The new Deimos turrets I made from old plastic Christmas ornaments and plastruc sheet styrene were to replace those whenever we were going to play 30K and the new turret would be inappropriate.
re: #152 Jayleia
Oh, I was convinced of that months ago. And I’m now convinced that those people at least get their ideas from the Kremlin.
New National Security Adviser Mike Flynn is not susceptible to Russian influence, he IS Russian influence.
re: #166 goddamnedfrank
Some friends got incredible results with the oil paints. Particularly with shading. I never had the enthusiasm for the solvents. So I used water soluble acrylics instead.
Which, I guess, was kind of strange as a lot of the same friends were also into shooting. And I got quite used to “Eau de” Hoppes.
Interesting point on the inkjet matte spray, I hadn’t even made that connection. But I also have a can of that someplace from when I was looking at printing on canvas some years ago.
The best thing about building up an Ork Army in my opinion is that they come pre fucked up, you really have to work overtime to make them look even worse. At the same time the grots and all the little gubbins and bits do provide somewhat of a challenge for detail. Gonna go with a combination Bad Moons / Deathskulls painting theme just because yellow, blue and green go well together.
Also, I went nuts on Grot Tanks awhile ago, when I finally build them all up I’m gonna have a squadron of those ridiculous little shit boxes tearing up the table attempting to tank-shock every model in range.
re: #57 jaunte
These are academics Turkish police rounded up from several universities today. More than 1,000 faculty are already imprisoned.
This is the new normal
re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White
Pretty clear what “cultural overreach” means - it means that a lot of white people don’t REALLY believe in equality, whether racial, marriage, or gender.
A lot of them seem to be very uncomfortable with a woman or a black talking to them about equality.
@GailSimone Embryos of the Corn #HorrorFirstDrafts
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) November 18, 2016
re: #88 Stanley Sea
HGTV is obviously not holding my attention AS IT SHOULD.
The Property Brothers and Love it or list I is where I live!
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the man Donald Trump has asked to be his national security adviser, built a reputation in the Army as an astute intelligence professional and a straight talker.What set Flynn apart after he shed his uniform in 2014 was the blistering public criticism he quickly leveled at the White House and Pentagon, taking issue with a wide range of national security policies, including the administration’s approach to fighting the Islamic State group and, more generally, its handling of global affairs.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A lot of them seem to be very uncomfortable with a woman or a black talking to them about equality.
Looking at the election returns here in CA, where Clinton is up to 6.9 million, I wonder if she will reach Obama’s 2012 numbers, which were about 900k more. There are still 3 million unprocessed votes, split roughly between mailed ballots and provisional ballots. She very well may surpass Obama’s 2012 numbers, but not his 2008 numbers.
It’s hard to tell why Clinton did relatively poorly back in the Obama states of WI, MI, and PA, the loss of which secured Trump’s win.
I propose that most voters are not that self-aware of why they choose what they do.
The outrage machine certainly hurt, but the outrage machine raged against Obama and he still carried those states.
Its really quite easy to tell in Wisconsin: guns, abortion, hatred of Hillary (especially by democratic women) and voter suppression in roughly descending order of impact.
re: #179 freetoken
The outrage machine certainly hurt, but the outrage machine raged against Obama and he still carried those states.
Obama was an affable, likable guy to most anyone who was not a dyed-in-the-wool bigot. That is why the mud slinging and swiftboating bounced right off him. But Hillary did not share that ability to deflect attacks against her, too much if it stuck, warranted or not.
re: #180 William Lewis
Its really quite easy to tell in Wisconsin: guns, abortion, hatred of Hillary (especially by democratic women) and voter suppression in roughly descending order of impact.
Yet Obama carried the state, even with his statement about Americans clinging to guns and their Bibles.
“Don’t worry, the camps aren’t for you guys this time” pic.twitter.com/EG3UfPyW0Q
— Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta) November 18, 2016
re: #182 freetoken
Yet Obama carried the state, even with his statement about Americans clinging to guns and their Bibles.
The evangelicals split on him. They didn’t this time. And Hillary had Bill’s (meaningless) assault weapons ban on her that Obama did not.
re: #182 freetoken
Yet Obama carried the state, even with his statement about Americans clinging to guns and their Bibles.
all we recall is the guns and bibles part, not the bit about them feeling betrayed and forgotten…
At least everyone here reminds me, there are a lot of my countrymen who aren’t assholes.
re: #186 Edge of a dream AKA Cankles Mccellulite
At least everyone here reminds me, there are a lot of my countrymen who aren’t assholes.
I would even say a plurality are not. But the assholes are the loudest and rudest. And currently quite insufferable in their arrogance.
re: #126 Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
From what I understand, a lot of people are going through this process. It hasn’t just destroyed friendships, it’s destroyed family relationships, too. Whoo boy! What an amazing Thanksgiving you people are going to have,
PS That photo is horrible. Never mind the sheer tackiness of the surroundings, what the everloving fuck is Ivanka doing there? You guys are in for a world of hurt for the next four years. So, unfortunately, is the world. This is repulsive!
Ivanka is apparently our first female president. I don’t think trump can read or comprehend so his kids do the work.
re: #179 freetoken
Looking at the election returns here in CA, where Clinton is up to 6.9 million, I wonder if she will reach Obama’s 2012 numbers, which were about 900k more. There are still 3 million unprocessed votes, split roughly between mailed ballots and provisional ballots. She very well may surpass Obama’s 2012 numbers, but not his 2008 numbers.
It’s hard to tell why Clinton did relatively poorly back in the Obama states of WI, MI, and PA, the loss of which secured Trump’s win.
I propose that most voters are not that self-aware of why they choose what they do.
The outrage machine certainly hurt, but the outrage machine raged against Obama and he still carried those states.
Obama didn’t have the FBI, US Senate investigative committees, Russia’s FSB, Wikileaks, Snowden, Greenwald / Intercept bros, the Greens, Libertarians, elements of his own party and the entire mainstream media all working in conjunction to tear him down.
re: #188 MsJ
Ivanka is apparently our first female president. I don’t think trump can read or comprehend so his kids do the work.
Yep, she’s sitting there like one of those old Soviet minders who used to follow their athletes around.
In 2008 the biggest so called scandal Obama faced was that his pastor Reverend Wright turned out to be somewhat of a loon. Imagine if the media had actually applied that standard to Trump himself and all the insane shit he’s personally said, let alone the veritable lunatic asylum of associates and surrogates he surrounds himself with.
re: #190 Timothy Watson
Yep, she’s sitting there like one of those old Soviet minders who used to follow their athletes around.
I remember those days when we had teachers’ groups over from the USSR. Whenever we proposed an activity, there was always one person they turned to for approval, and their word was final
re: #191 goddamnedfrank
In 2008 the biggest so called scandal Obama faced was that his pastor Reverend Wright turned out to be somewhat of a loon. Imagine if the media had actually applied that standard to Trump himself and all the insane shit he’s personally said, let alone the veritable lunatic asylum of associates and surrogates he surrounds himself with.
And as far as I know, only SOMEWHAT of a loon, only about as loony as the Cavalcade of Christian Cultists that claim that because the US has done something that their version of G-d disapproves of (usually involving buttsex or women’s bodies) that their G-d would JUDGE the US…
Egads…..it’s like Penthouse Magazine circa 1980 was hired to decorate under orders to use the tackiest materials possible. Caligula wasn’t that garish or tasteless.
re: #137 Jayleia
Glue guns aren’t that hard to use. Just remember the glue is always hotter than it looks, and there’s at least one bit of glue you won’t see at all.
As a glass fuser and artist who also works with hot glue guns, I apply the same logic to glass and glue: unless I’ve had eyes on it or a thermocouple near it, it is hot. Hot glass and hot glue look like cold glass or glue.
re: #149 goddamnedfrank
Thanks. I think that’s the last time I’ll be applying a gloss finish, it looks good in person but makes the photography a huge pain in the ass.
The technique I use when photographing glass (same gloss issues) is to use fluorescent light on an off white background, no flash (obviously) set object in middle — no reflection, no glare.
re: #25 Cheechako
I wonder if CEO Ford was doing a little trolling?
Bill Ford is Chairman. CEO of Ford is Mark Fields.
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Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 8, 2016
Shorter Mitt: But, yeah, I’ll totally work for him in his administration. https://t.co/tPN7dLHow2
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 18, 2016
re: #102 Sherlock Hound
FFFUUUUUUUUUUU….
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Erik Prince.
Just fucking calm down. This is reality TV. They want an assortment of raving nutjobs and if some liberals freak out, that’s icing on the cake.
But yeah that sucks.
Trump needs one of his kids or Kushner around at all times. He’s legitimately sick (Alzheimer’s?) and knows he can’t be trusted.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) November 18, 2016
re: #200 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #198 Dr. Matt
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My guess is Mitt is desperate to be part of the WH any way he can.
re: #201 makeitstop
I’m with Rude on this one. The man’s mind is going.
I’m no doctor or anything like that but it really would explain a lot. There’s something not normal with how Trump acts. I mean he’s always been en egotistical asshole but the past few years especially.
@prairiewindspr @Roddee He was in, “Pimping my daughter out to Asian businessmen” mode.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 18, 2016
re: #201 makeitstop
I’m with Rude on this one. The man’s mind is going.
I thought I’d read somewhere - and TBH, I don’t know it’s just rumor or not - that dementia runs in Trump’s family.
Twenty-three companies that received public money for projects during a 10-year period failed to meet state grant requirements, according to an audit released this week.The state should have recouped an estimated $8.7 million, but the agency in charge - the Virginia Economic Development Partnership - didn’t seek to recover the money, the report said.
That was just one part of a highly critical audit of the partnership released Monday by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the state’s legislative watchdog agency. JLARC concluded the companies failed to meet at least one of three performance requirements: jobs created, capital investment or average wages.
The rationale used by the partnership staff for not seeking repayment of all or a portion of the grant - referred to as a “clawback” - in some cases “does not appear legally permissible,” the report said.
The companies in question were involved in projects across the state. They include Philip Morris USA, now within Altria, which won approval for a $3 million grant from a fund administered by the economic development partnership to create a research and technology center in Richmond.
Jeff Sessions, considered too racist to be a judge in 80’s, is Trump’s AG. Best to go back to sleep, America. I’ll wake u up when it’s over.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) November 18, 2016
I’m In Love pic.twitter.com/3qfX4w3M27
— YOU’RE GONNA…WIN? (@Bro_Pair) November 18, 2016
Harsh but fair https://t.co/6IQVBeF4T7
— James Joyner (@DrJJoyner) November 18, 2016
Has it been actually confirmed that Flynn is NatSec director & Session is AG or is this just raw meat to sow panic and confusion?
This just makes me laugh
You name it we got it…well, almost. 😂 #eatdrinkbesocial #unameitchallenge
re: #206 Dr Lizardo
Fred Trump suffered from Alzheimers for six years, so there’s a history.
The “liberal” news don’t think Democrats understand “America” and its all about the economy. I kept trying to remind the Hillbilly’s, with bad fashion sense. (I can say this because I’m half Hillbilly) ever since the Republicans declared Rush Limbaugh the leader of the Republican party, in the 90’s, (remember that?) that if someone like Rush ran, he would win.
re: #217 makeitstop
Huh. I still don’t think the band did it, though.
And Chairman Mao’s wife has long been indisposed.
Great quote by @ DADanConley - 3 teenagers charged with hate crime on Red Line - @BostonGlobe https://t.co/arFuQOaLmj pic.twitter.com/nKkhujSsX0
— Bad Hombre (@franklinftw) November 18, 2016
re: #215 Edge of a dream AKA Cankles Mccellulite
The “liberal” news don’t think Democrats understand “America” and its all about the economy,
The economy where the average gas price is $2.15/gallon (7 year low), the unemployment rate is 4.9% (8 year low), the median household income is $56,516/year (7 year high), and the DJI is at 18,903 (all-time high). Yeah…..the “economy”….and even yet, the deplorables re-elected every GOP incumbent….the same incumbents that have held the purse strings for the last 6 years. I’m so sicked of our incompetent librul media.
re: #219 Franklin
Oops, typo in tweet. s/b @DADanConley
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Has it been actually confirmed that Flynn is NatSec director & Session is AG or is this just raw meat to sow panic and confusion?
I’m leaning towards the raw meat option.
But we’re also going into a new age of total disinformation.
LIVE Air Force One just left Berlin and is flying over Paris now pic.twitter.com/BQ0FGhSS3i
re: #213 Jayleia
Fred Trump suffered from Alzheimers for six years, so there’s a history.
OK. I know that dementia runs in my mom’s family, on the female side. My mom died of it as well as her sister and her mother.
Hate to say it, but Donald’s more-or-less around the right age for onset. I just looked up his grandfather, who died young at the age of 49; interestingly, his death was one of the early cases of the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump official: Rep. Mike Pompeo to be nominated for CIA director. pic.twitter.com/b1QsKI3EBw
— Fox5NY (@fox5ny) November 18, 2016
Pompeo’s has a military background and a legal background, but nothing indicates he has the slightest idea of what the CIA does. But he’s apparently okay with keeping Gitmo open and probably is open to Trump’s idea to waterboard and engage in war crimes, which seems to be Trump’s overriding concern on intel gathering.
This is going well.
re: #220 Dr. Matt
Nothing @realDonaldTrump said about the economy was accurate. Nothing. Not unemployment rates. Not growth. Not any metric.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 18, 2016
Will the “Jewish concpiracy” Take over already. We need you.
re: #225 lawhawk
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Pompeo’s has a military background and a legal background, but nothing indicates he has the slightest idea of what the CIA does. But he’s apparently okay with keeping Gitmo open and probably is open to Trump’s idea to waterboard and engage in war crimes, which seems to be Trump’s overriding concern on intel gathering.
This is going well.
He’s not even on the Intel committee. He is on the BENGHAZI! committee though.
Meanwhile, in the land of Brexit:
The Supreme Court today threw a further hurdle in the way of Theresa May’s hopes of a smooth Brexit, when it ruled the Scottish and Welsh governments can intervene.
Edinburgh and Cardiff will be allowed to make their separate cases to the court for the right to have a say over the triggering of the Article 50 notice period.
The decision raises the possibility - albeit thought to be slim - of the Supreme Court agreeing with the SNP that the Scottish Parliament should have a veto over the Brexit strategy.
That would plunge the United Kingdom into a full-blown constitutional crisis, as well as potentially sink the Prime Minister’s exit timetable.
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, in the land of Brexit:
The German election next year is going to be important. I’m not a huge Merkel fan but I think it’s important she wins.
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
So, after all is said and done, if the court rules Scotland and/or Wales can veto Brexit, and they do, then will the UK remain in the EU? IOW, status quo?
re: #230 HappyWarrior
The German election next year is going to be important. I’m not a huge Merkel fan but I think it’s important she wins.
Same here - if that could be combined with a defeat for Marine Le Pen in France’s upcoming presidential election, it’s possible to turn the tide of bad right-wing craziness.
re: #232 Dr Lizardo
Same here - if that could be combined with a defeat for Marine Le Pen in France’s upcoming presidential election, it’s possible to turn the tide of bad right-wing craziness.
It is. Hopefully those two follow Canada and not US and the Brits.
So we have Flynn and Pompeo in Nat Sec positions. Not impressed at all. Don’t even want to know what he’s going to with SOS and SOD.
re: #233 Dr. Matt
You know those little cards some folks bring the blackjack table, telling you when to hit/stand? There should be one like this for those that need them for Thanksgiving dinner.
When Uncle Lou goes on and on about how the spread in the popular vote doesn’t matter and the all-powerful Electoral College is beyond reproach. Just tell them about Wyoming.
re: #235 HappyWarrior
My problem with the EC in a nutshell.
After 2000 I thought we would never see another popular vote loss/EV win. Enough is enough. The EV is bullshit. This isn’t democracy and freedom.
re: #237 Franklin
Forget “dead” Chicagoans voting! You’re basically letting the LITERAL sheep and cows of Wyoming have a vote!
re: #238 Dr. Matt
After 2000 I thought we would never see another popular vote loss/EV win. Enough is enough. The EV is bullshit. This isn’t democracy and freedom.
It really is. It’s something that comes from our days when only landowning whites could vote. A relic.
It doesnt matter. We women know what you think of us.
re: #240 HappyWarrior
It really is. It’s something that comes from our days when only landowning whites could vote. A relic.
If the GOP lost two popular vote elections in < 20 years, you know damned well they would be working to overturn it this very moment.
re: #243 Dr. Matt
If the GOP lost two popular vote elections in < 20 years, you know damned well they would be working to overturn it this very moment.
Of course, they would be. Hell, they talked about using district based electoral voting which would mean they would get more votes here in VA despite LOSING the state.
re: #201 makeitstop
I’m with Rude on this one. The man’s mind is going.
What does that say about the people who voted for him?
re: #227 Edge of a dream AKA Cankles Mccellulite
Will the “Jewish concpiracy” Take over already. We need you.
Jared Kushner is ON IT.
Seems that Trump’s idea of people experienced for various natsec jobs is their willingness to take the job - not their actual experience and whether they have any proficiency in the job they’re after.
Their entire notion of qualifications runs counter to everything that makes sense. Which is exactly how Trump and his supporters want it. They want to blow up the system as it currently exists, and what better way to do it than to hand the keys to a bunch of know-nothings who are in over their head.
re: #246 The Vicious Babushka
Jared Kushner is ON IT.
Omg Babushka, please tell me everything will be alright?
re: #182 freetoken
Yet Obama carried the state, even with his statement about Americans clinging to guns and their Bibles.
But, would he have done it a third time?
General Flynn’s son (who is also his chief of staff):
andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son and chief of staff routinely tweeted conspiracy Marco Rubio was gay and into coke and foam parties: cnn.com …
andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son frequently RTed an editor of InfoWars, can be seen in InfoWars t-shirt in his Facebook, Twitter avatars cnn.com …
re: #248 Edge of a dream AKA Cankles Mccellulite
Omg Babushka, please tell me everything will be alright?
If there is any “Jewish Conspiracy” at work here, it’s Kushner, and he fits the stereotype of sneaky conniving Joo that every anti-Semite cherishes.
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1. New reality for the press: the president-elect’s Twitter account is a competing media outlet spreading fake news. https://t.co/VPvjKnW5PI
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) November 18, 2016
re: #250 Barefoot Grin
General Flynn’s son (who is also his chief of staff):
andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son and chief of staff routinely tweeted conspiracy Marco Rubio was gay and into coke and foam parties: cnn.com …andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son frequently RTed an editor of InfoWars, can be seen in InfoWars t-shirt in his Facebook, Twitter avatars cnn.com …
Flynn’s qualifications to Trump is that he’s a true-believer in the same conspiracy crap that Trump believes in.
This is going to be spectacular in its failure. And we’re all going to pay the price for it.
“Calvin and Hobbes” made its debut in newspapers 31 years ago today… one of the greatest (and most innovative!) comic strips of all time.
— Nathan Obral 📎😸📎 (@myronfalwell) November 18, 2016
Creator Bill Watterson, who spent his formative years in the tiny town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio (the back cover of the Essential Calvin and Hobbes treasury has a giant Calvin wreaking havoc on the town square), is said to still live there in relative anonymity.
re: #251 The Vicious Babushka
If there is any “Jewish Conspiracy” at work here, it’s Kushner, and he fits the stereotype of sneaky conniving Joo that every anti-Semite cherishes.
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I know, But I’m scared. No I’m not Jewish But I think they are superior. And I love black people because my dad asked me to fight for them. Omg Wtf?
re: #246 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #236 HappyWarrior
So we have Flynn and Pompeo in Nat Sec positions. Not impressed at all. Don’t even want to know what he’s going to with SOS and SOD.
The news on the radio last night was speculating on Mitt for SoS.
Could be worse, I guess.
And I can’t believe I just typed that.
NONE OF THESE NOMINATIONS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED OR APPROVED.
Right now it’s just all a bunch Reality Show contestants. You know they have to assemble a whole bunch of batshit nutjobs in order to keep the public glued to the teevee. We’ll see who gets voted off the island.
But whoever remains, we’re still fucked.
George Takei recalls life in an internment camp in stinging rebuke of Trump’s Muslim registry proposal https://t.co/VGhkLBoGGk pic.twitter.com/rXL2PD1iZB
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 18, 2016
re: #259 makeitstop
The news on the radio last night was speculating on Mitt for SoS.
Could be worse, I guess.
And I can’t believe I just typed that.
Mitt’s the first person I’ve heard who sounds remotely qualified PLAUSIBLE for the job he’s been speculated for.
Good. Lord.
re: #259 makeitstop
The news on the radio last night was speculating on Mitt for SoS.
Could be worse, I guess.
And I can’t believe I just typed that.
Still someone with no foreign policy experience.
A Trump spokesperson named the Internment as “precedent” for a Muslim registry. Here are my thoughts. https://t.co/uTUHkNXLLb
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 18, 2016
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
NONE OF THESE NOMINATIONS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED OR APPROVED.
Right now it’s just all a bunch Reality Show contestants. You know they have to assemble a whole bunch of batshit nutjobs in order to keep the public glued to the teevee. We’ll see who gets voted off the island.
But whoever remains, we’re still fucked.
The confirmation process for each of these is setting up to be a goat rodeo on acid.
re: #258 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #263 Timothy Watson
Still someone with no foreign policy experience.
True. But he’s the only candidate for anything so far who has ‘not barking mad’ on his resume.
#Breaking: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was named attorney general by President-elect Donald Trump, sources tell NPR. https://t.co/mK2ICtrLPW
— NPR (@NPR) November 18, 2016
Read my statement on the potential appointment of Gen. Michael Flynn to National Security Advisor here: https://t.co/5Vm4QQG5QU pic.twitter.com/DKrI7JIklO
— Steny Hoyer (@WhipHoyer) November 18, 2016
1st & 2nd black AGs will be followed by a guy named for Confederate leaders who was deemed too racist to be a judge https://t.co/p85hR9qoqg
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 18, 2016
who’s gonna call @jillstein for comment? https://t.co/f2Rl7nTrca
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 18, 2016
re: #270 Dr. Matt
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We will have a swarm of contestants. This is not normal for government as we know it but it is normal for reality TV and that’s what this is.
Okay, I Was mistaken, Mike Pompeo has been on the Intel committee before but compare that with past CIA director picks.
Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016
1. Lincoln plant was never going to Mexico https://t.co/1vDOJeshp5
2. Ford told Trump this weeks ago https://t.co/yuBf8uVwWF https://t.co/EO2bisojX1— Bill Scher (@billscher) November 18, 2016
re: #274 HappyWarrior
Okay, I Was mistaken, Mike Pompeo has been on the Intel committee before but compare that with past CIA director picks.
John Brennan is probably sitting in his office trying to figure out how to stop the United States intelligence community from being destroyed.
I know 6 people who’ve worked directly for Flynn. 1 loves him, other 5 use terms like “raving asshole,” “maniac” and “shitstain with stars.”
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 18, 2016
One of the narratives that is going to happen over the next couple of years is that, as Republicans propose things like overturning gay marriage and making it harder to vote is that Democrats only care about social issues while they care about the economic status of “everyone” (who’s white). They’ll do this in part by attaching those things to stimulus and budget bills.
One of the things we have to figure out is how to talk to white people about the fact that while they keep accepting the myth that there’s a difference between social and economic issues, they will keep getting screwed by Republicans. The thing is, while you might not have to meet your Trump supporting relatives for dinner, everyone still gets to go to the voting booth.
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Great Pick! - Gen. Flynn’s retweet shows he knows that the Saudis, ISIS & the Jewish-NeoCons are the real enemies - NOT Assad & NOT Russia! pic.twitter.com/Z9D9CHHXeQ
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) November 18, 2016
Well there you go https://t.co/Rq4oFDnVBO
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) November 18, 2016
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@MattBevin @Ford Trumps balls on you chin is not a good look.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) November 18, 2016
Forget the basket. The truly deplorable ones end up in the cabinet.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) November 18, 2016
re: #100 Dave In Austin
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@Green_Footballs Unless he means her as a gift.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 18, 2016
It’s probably better if we just remove the word ‘normal’ from our vocabulary for the next few years.
re: #283 steve_davis
regret, one upding…yadda yadda…
“This isn’t the first time @realDonaldTrump has misstated facts about a Ford move.” https://t.co/EOgVF057QS @TheDemocrats
— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) November 18, 2016
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
Great Pick! - Gen. Flynn’s retweet shows he knows that the Saudis, ISIS & the Jewish-NeoCons are the real enemies - NOT Assad & NOT Russia! pic.twitter.com
— David Duke
It’s a shame how I’ve missed the transition to Assad is Great, Putin is Great. What a Brave New World we are living in. //
Also, Flynn looks like an older version of footballer Johnny Manzel.
Seriously, perhaps the most understated and under examined feature of this election was Trump’s foreign policy views, such as they are. As president, that’s where his major power will lie, and I believe he has remarkably different inclinations and allegiances to any recent U.S. leader.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #285 darthstar
It’s probably better if we just remove the word ‘normal’ from our vocabulary for the next few years.
“Is that normal?” needs to be asked, a lot.
Here’s the internal DIA memo sent out under Flynn telling female employees to wear make up https://t.co/8f2k3C8Chj pic.twitter.com/wA0dC3IG9k
— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) November 18, 2016
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Not named Attorney General, nominated is the correct term, NPR.
You’re welcome.
re: #250 Barefoot Grin
General Flynn’s son (who is also his chief of staff):
andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son and chief of staff routinely tweeted conspiracy Marco Rubio was gay and into coke and foam parties: cnn.com …andrew kaczynski @KFILE 12h12 hours ago
Flynn’s son frequently RTed an editor of InfoWars, can be seen in InfoWars t-shirt in his Facebook, Twitter avatars cnn.com …
Everything is fi….
Not wait, it’s not.
I’m waiting for NASA’s budget to be slashed, because Trump’s administration does not accept either heliocentrism or the Moon landings as factual.
re: #296 Sir John Barron
Everything is fi….
Not wait, it’s not.
And the media is going to normalize all this shit. The bar has been lowered so far that it’s 6 feet under ground. They will long for the day when the most outrageous thing was the president wearing a beige suit.
I called in sick today. I’m in the FMLA program due to chronic depression so taking a day when I need to doesn’t get me in trouble, although if I use too much time it’s unpaid.
It’s dark enough in St. Paul that the streetlights are on and we’re having a thunderstorm and it’s raining cats and dogs. Western MN is getting blasted with snow right now and it’s supposed to change over to snow here too later this afternoon (glad to see that ice isn’t in the forecast).
I got a call from my youngest sister this morning kind of upset because she made the mistake of trying to have a discussion with the sister who’s lost her mind to hateful conservative ‘christianity’. She knows that it’s a lost cause, but she was trying to counteract one particular lie that crazy sister was hammering. We both agreed that she should make the point one more time and then give up.
The crazies are emboldened everywhere:
Jerusalem - Complaints Filled Over Jerusalem Chief Rabbi’s LGBT Death Penalty Remarks https://t.co/GPKBJynbGP
— VosIzNeias (@VINNews) November 18, 2016
re: #298 Dr. Matt
And the media is going to normalize all this shit. The bar has been lowered so far that it’s 6 feet under ground. They will long for the day when the most outrageous thing was the president wearing a beige suit.
They’ve already normalized it.
They enabled Trump to win. They ignored the racist cesspool Trump surrounded himself with - as advisers and through and by his own actions and words.
The media simply decided they wanted this orange warthog from hell instead of a competent woman and equivocated between everything Trump said and did - each more outlandish than the last, and Clinton’s email non-scandal. The media - and especially network media - decided that Clinton’s emails were worse than everything else, even though there was nothing there. They lumped wikileaks stolen emails re: DNC with Podesta emails with the Clinton server - and none of Clinton’s actions were illegal or criminal. But none of that mattered when Trump simply labeled her as corrupt. That’s what stuck, and the media let him get away with it.
Now, we’ve got Trump claiming credit for something that was never going to happen - and his idiot followers and sycophants are repeating the lie. That is what we’re in store for here.
re: #200 The Vicious Babushka
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Ugh. My dad died two years ago from complications of Alzheimers. He forgot the ability to swallow, had stated in legal documents he didn’t want heroic measures if something like this happened, and we let nature take its course. Longest six days of my life. If Trump has Alzheimers or dementia…*rubs eyes* God, I hope not. I wouldn’t wish Alzheimers on my worst enemy. It’s a horrible way to go.
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re: #304 mmmirele
Ugh. My dad died two years ago from complications of Alzheimers. He forgot the ability to swallow, had stated in legal documents he didn’t want heroic measures if something like this happened, and we let nature take its course. Longest six days of my life. If Trump has Alzheimers or dementia…*rubs eyes* God, I hope not. I wouldn’t wish Alzheimers on my worst enemy. It’s a horrible way to go.
Reagan had Alzheimer’s during his second term. AND HE WANTED A THIRD TERM.
re: #154 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Wasn’t there a similar boycott-but-spend-your-money-here campaign against Starbucks last year over the color of the Xmas cups or some equally important issue?
You all probably saw the little video of the guy who yelled “TRUMP!” at a barista at a Starbucks in Miami. He claimed he wasn’t being served fast enough because he was white.
Well, it turns out this guy is a known quantity, this David Sanguesa. From the Miami Herald:
But it seems Sanguesa has had many bad days. Wednesday was just the latest. *snip details about incident*
Previous bad days: the one in 2008 when he was arrested on a DUI charge. The one a week later when he was again charged with DUI. And the day in 2014 when he was charged with domestic violence, which was later dropped. And there were all those days, going back years, when he emailed the Miami Herald with rants against Cubans, women, immigrants, gays and lesbians, President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
More at the link:
I guess we’re going to have to keep a look out for these known kooks having bad days.
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
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It would have been nice if they’d directly said in the letter that Trump had nothing to do with it, but at least they linked to articles saying it.
re: #308 mmmirele
You all probably saw the little video of the guy who yelled “TRUMP!” at a barista at a Starbucks in Miami. He claimed he wasn’t being served fast enough because he was white.
Well, it turns out this guy is a known quantity, this David Sanguesa. From the Miami Herald:
More at the link:
I guess we’re going to have to keep a look out for these known kooks having bad days.
But, but, economic anxiety!1!!
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re: #307 BeachDem
Wasn’t there a similar boycott-but-spend-your-money-here campaign against Starbucks last year over the color of the Xmas cups or some equally important issue?
I don’t like Starbucks but maybe I should patronize them (there is a shop here in the building)
I know others have mentioned the “chaos” theory, but is this really part of the “art of the deal”? Is he putting up extreme outliers so that the real picks, who would normally raise eyebrows, will be deemed acceptable?
re: #311 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t like Starbucks but maybe I should patronize them (there is a shop here in the building)
I like their lemon bars and rice crispy bars.
re: #311 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t like Starbucks but maybe I should patronize them (there is a shop here in the building)
I’ll stick to Wawa.
(Never bought anything from Starbucks, and it’s fun for me to say that.)
re: #312 Barefoot Grin
I know others have mentioned the “chaos” theory, but is this really part of the “art of the deal”? Is he putting up extreme outliers so that the real picks, who would normally raise eyebrows, will be deemed acceptable?
If that’s true, it’ll only work if we accept the less extreme versions. Give me a choice between cutting off a leg or cutting off an arm, and I’ll tell you neither.
re: #312 Barefoot Grin
I know others have mentioned the “chaos” theory, but is this really part of the “art of the deal”? Is he putting up extreme outliers so that the real picks, who would normally raise eyebrows, will be deemed acceptable?
This is “The Apprentice: U.S. Government”
re: #314 Timothy Watson
I’ll stick to Wawa.
(Never bought anything from Starbucks, and it’s fun for me to say that.)
Wawa is THE BEST
re: #301 stpaulbear
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re: #315 Belafon
If that’s true, it’ll only work if we accept the less extreme versions. Give me a choice between cutting off a leg or cutting off an arm, and I’ll tell you neither.
I agree.
re: #317 The Vicious Babushka
Wawa is THE BEST
I buy their ground coffee to use with my coffee maker at home. :)
re: #203 HappyWarrior
I’m no doctor or anything like that but it really would explain a lot. There’s something not normal with how Trump acts. I mean he’s always been en egotistical asshole but the past few years especially.
Which then speaks so highly of those who voted for him…
re: #307 BeachDem
Wasn’t there a similar boycott-but-spend-your-money-here campaign against Starbucks last year over the color of the Xmas cups or some equally important issue?
2016: Green = Muslims = Islamic terrorism
2015: Plain red = war on Christmas
As ever, Snopes is on the case. snopes.com
Can’t wait for the inevitable “no admission of wrongdoing” clause and Trump touting settlement as proof he did nothing wrong.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 18, 2016
This @Kringlebros lede, FTW: https://t.co/0nsKuSlweW pic.twitter.com/VOwiEgfdUE
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) November 18, 2016
Kanye West says he didn’t vote in the presidential election, but if he had, he would have voted for Republican President-elect Donald Trump.Fan video shows West making the comments on stage at a concert in San Jose, California, on Thursday night. The announcement was mostly met with boos from the crowd. West told fans that “sometimes you might have to not get your way in order to really understand what to do in the future to be able to get your way.”
re: #301 stpaulbear
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re: #306 The Vicious Babushka
Reagan had Alzheimer’s during his second term. AND HE WANTED A THIRD TERM.
And he would have been re-elected handily…
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Has it been actually confirmed that Flynn is NatSec director & Session is AG or is this just raw meat to sow panic and confusion?
I am now with you in your thinking VB. It is all a show.
It seems to me not only a show but also a way to mess with heads, extract some payback and screw with and control the media by making them jump at everything they spew.
In essence, the whole process is broken, our media is foolish, America is half 47% crazy and not a damn thing is actually making clear sense.
I figure the best thing to do right now is just stand back, peek at it every so often and wait until January 20th to see what we actually have for a Government and then just go from there. Luckily we have the Holidays coming to distract from it all and maybe actually have some reflection about the past and steady everyone for the future.
To simplify: Fuck it. Wait for the cleanup.
re: #214 makeitstop
Looking around earlier, I saw the (probably fake) headline ‘15 year old Trump Supporter Beaten by Gang of Four.’
I doubt these guys would do that.
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Hey, thanks for the video. I kind of forgot about Gang of Four…had this album (vinyl) and loved this tune. I may need to digitize that sucker and burn a CD.
Trump team talking to Sen. Moran for Agriculture secretary https://t.co/FtXC85ipWV pic.twitter.com/uevxdizqmM
— The Hill (@thehill) November 18, 2016
Jeff Sessions prosecuted black voters in Alabama…for voting. pic.twitter.com/0OPS1etfkx
— Dr. Anthony M. Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) November 18, 2016
Goats and monkeys living together!
17 NOV: A monkey seems to have found a new family after joining a herd of goats on a farm in southern China. It appeared in a private farm in the city of Yichun, and rode on the goats’ backs for several days, state media reported. Find out more: bbc.in #Monkey #Goat #Animals #China #BBCShorts #BBCNews @BBCNews
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It won’t matter because “Byrd.”
aaaannd, I killed the thread. Thank you, thank you…
re: #330 ObserverArt
Hey, thanks for the video. I kind of forgot about Gang of Four…had this album (vinyl) and loved this tune. I may need to digitize that sucker and burn a CD.
To hell with poverty! We’ll get drunk on cheap wine! :)
Don’t worry about the fake news, problem, y’all. There are a bunch of angry young men who take ethics in journalism VERY seriously.
— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) November 18, 2016
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/a34t5sS6p2
— Ashley Esqueda (@AshleyEsqueda) November 18, 2016
re: #189 goddamnedfrank
Obama didn’t have the FBI, US Senate investigative committees, Russia’s FSB, Wikileaks, Snowden, Greenwald / Intercept bros, the Greens, Libertarians, elements of his own party and the entire mainstream media all working in conjunction to tear him down.
And it took a few years for the voter suppression to go into effect. There was none in 2008, and only small half-assed measures in 2012.
re: #262 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Mitt’s the first person I’ve heard who sounds remotely
qualifiedPLAUSIBLE for the job he’s been speculated for.Good. Lord.
which means he wont get the job. :-|
re: #285 darthstar
It’s probably better if we just remove the word ‘normal’ from our vocabulary for the next few years.
I’m going with my favorite Brit pronunciation where they tend to drop the “l” and say:
Normo.
re: #292 Dr. Matt
hahahahahahah
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That was great. I love the little girl with the words! All the kids were great…like a modern “Our Gang!”
Could Trump be the catalyst for an all-American iPhone?
Short answer: No. “American education is lacking”. https://t.co/pmAtDv8Jq9— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) November 18, 2016
On the back of every iPhone are engraved the words “Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China”. But could China soon be replaced by America?
It’s no secret that President-elect Donald Trump isn’t happy that iPhones are manufactured in China rather than the US. During his campaign he pledged that he would “get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China,” and it appears that this prompted Apple to look into the feasibility of shifting production.
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And even if cost or assembly plants weren’t an issue, there’s the issue of speed. Take this quote from a 2012 CNN Money entitled “Why Apple will never bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.”:The real stumbling block is speed. Unlike U.S. plants, Foxconn and other Chinese manufacturing operations house employees in dormitories and can send hundreds of thousands of workers to the assembly lines at a moment’s notice. On the lines, workers are subjected to what most Americans would consider unbearably long hours and tough working conditions.
The same piece goes on to highlight the skills gap:
Steve Jobs, Apple’s late CEO, brought the issue up during an October 2010 meeting with President Obama. He called America’s lackluster education system an obstacle for Apple, which needed 30,000 industrial engineers to support its on-site factory workers.
“You can’t find that many in America to hire,” Jobs told the president, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. “If you could educate these engineers, we could move more manufacturing plants here.”
Then there’s workforce flexibility. Here is a quote from a January 2012 New York Times piece:
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
The same article goes on:
“They [Foxconn] could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?”
And it goes on to touch on just how big the skills gap actually is:
Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the United States could not match. Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.
In China, it took 15 days.
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
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Page it…maybe Charles will make it a headliner and you and LGF will get some more credit for actual journalism.
re: #341 MsJ
If we eliminate the Department of Education and move all the white people to charter schools where they’ll learn the power of prayer based manufacturing, we’ll totally be able to fill those roles.
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re: #303 lawhawk
The media simply decided they wanted this orange warthog from hell instead of a competent woman and equivocated between everything Trump said and did - each more outlandish than the last, and Clinton’s email non-scandal.
It’s a lot simpler and stupider than that — the media decided they wanted Spectacle. Ratings. Extravaganza. Excitement. for the campaign, and they didn’t give two seconds’ thought to actual implications of when the election is over and it matters who won.
The “news” division is just a segment of the entertainment division, there’s very little Journalism going on. The reporters try, oh god some of them try so hard, but the producers and station managers and advertising sales teams and Corporate have the means to rein them in.
re: #341 MsJ
Yup, the chinese have us beat in sheer numbers of people let alone numbers of skilled people because our education system is shit.
re: #308 mmmirele
You all probably saw the little video of the guy who yelled “TRUMP!” at a barista at a Starbucks in Miami. He claimed he wasn’t being served fast enough because he was white.
Well, it turns out this guy is a known quantity, this David Sanguesa. From the Miami Herald:
More at the link:
I guess we’re going to have to keep a look out for these known kooks having bad days.
I don’t want to associate the case as a “kook” but your comment reminded me of the follow up to the Ohio State University demonstration the other day.
As some might remember, A student with a megaphone was addressing the demonstration from a few steps above the floor when another student rushed down the steps and pushed him down causing him to land hard, bust the megaphone and break his glasses, etc.
The student victim decided to not press charges as the young man that pushed him has been said to be diagnosed with Asperger’s.
I have no idea if the University will hold to kicking him out in light of that.
Here’s an essay by author Charles Stross on the rise of international fascism.
His suspicion is that the increase in fascism in the US, the UK, and likely increases in France, Germany, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere is a matter of careful planning by Russia. He worries that focusing on local problems will end up ignoring the problem worldwide. And he also worries that the solution may be more complex than we’ll be able to enact. :(
re: #259 makeitstop
The news on the radio last night was speculating on Mitt for SoS.
Could be worse, I guess.
And I can’t believe I just typed that.
Now you’ve done it! /
re: #315 Belafon
If that’s true, it’ll only work if we accept the less extreme versions. Give me a choice between cutting off a leg or cutting off an arm, and I’ll tell you neither.
He’s trying to break us the way Negan broke Rick.
Whoa. 🔥🔥🔥 from @RepGutierrez on the Sessions AG nomination. pic.twitter.com/MkJ6daQGkq
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 18, 2016
Here’s one for the guitar geeks…
re: #341 MsJ
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JFC. Steve Jobs knew all this in the first place. And Tim Cook is no dummy, either.
These “all-American iPhone!” advocates are no different from the “bringing back the coal mine!” advocates… they are pining for a long-gone perception of American life that is never coming back; or if it does come back, not in the narrow way they picture it.
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Let us not forget either that Jeff Sessions was the first actual major endorsement for Trump way back when. He was one of the first to normalize this shit.
re: #341 MsJ
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All of which goes back to Reagan-era education cuts…
If only so-called conservatives would expand their cost-benefit analysis; when your horizon is one election cycle to the next, you can’t make the decisions that are hugely superior when looked at on a generational scale.
THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONFIRMATIONS OF SESSIONS OR FLYNN OR MITT OR RUDY OR JARED OR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE NAME HAS BEEN THROWN OUT.
This is just a Pavlovian training session for the media to get them to drool on command.
The more libtard head that explode, the better.
The whole point of this exercise is to get everyone all riled up ALL THE TIME.
1. A brief guide to keeping yourself informed during the Trump transition
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 17, 2016
Good thoughts here about why we should ignore superficial process questions in transition & focus on real news. https://t.co/qAsvcguh1M
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 18, 2016
re: #354 sagehen
All of which goes back to Reagan-era education cuts…
If only so-called conservatives would expand their cost-benefit analysis; if your horizon is one election cycle to the next, you’re never going to make the decisions that are hugely superior when looked at on a generational scale.
The desired outcome. This is your lot in life. Appreciate the crumbs we allow you to have.
And keep spitting out them babies. Food is overrated anyway.
re: #355 The Vicious Babushka
THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONFIRMATIONS OF SESSIONS OR FLYNN OR MITT OR RUDY OR JARED OR ANYONE ELSE WHOSE NAME HAS BEEN THROWN OUT.
This is just a Pavlovian training session for the media to get them to drool on command.
The more libtard head that explode, the better.
The whole point of this exercise is to get everyone all riled up ALL THE TIME.
It worked for the Tea Party.
I will say that Democrats ought to use this as a training session. Keep working on building your endurance. When it feels like you’re heading toward despair, take a break, recharge your batteries, and come back a little later. We’re going to need people trained when the shit really does hit the fan.
Donald Trump told his foaming fans at one rally after another that he would “repeal and replace Obamacare.” He also said that he would build a wall on America’s southern border and that Mexico would pay for it. He repeated until he was orange in the face that he would deport or arrest up to 11 million undocumented immigrants via a “deportation force.” These were some of the “yuger” arrows in his campaign quiver. Only days after winning the election, “repeal and replace” was repealed and replaced by an openness to “amend” the Affordable Care Act. The wall was walked back to fence and 11 million became 3 million.
Word to Trump supporters: Your hero went from grabbing pussies to being one. Oh, the butthurt.
Then there is the Electoral College and the popular vote. The former, steeped in antiquity, elitism and, at this point, convenience, probably would stick bigly in the craw of many Trump supporters if they understood why it was put into place and if Trump had experienced the opposite outcome by winning the general and losing the electoral. The hard truth for the president-elect’s millions of fans is that he got fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. That is to say — he lost.
re: #360 ObserverArt
Regarding the Electoral College…anyone else hearing a bunch of Trumpers saying “if the election was a popular vote only, Trump woulda and coulda campaigned differently and would have absolutely crushed Hillary…so don’t start crying about the popular vote?
I am. A lot.
Yes.
re: #360 ObserverArt
Regarding the Electoral College…anyone else hearing a bunch of Trumpers saying “if the election was a popular vote only, Trump woulda and coulda campaigned differently and would have absolutely crushed Hillary…so don’t start crying about the popular vote?
I am. A lot.
Yes. Even Trump is saying that now. He’s claiming he would have campaigned in CA and NY differently and gotten millions of votes.
re: #361 Amory Blaine
Been like 10 days for Bob and Chez show…
I must have missed the note they would be off, but Bob said they will record Mon and Wed next week.
“Our side is empowered.” David Duke celebrates Trump’s appointments of Bannon, Flynn, and Sessions: https://t.co/U5DM4geNTG pic.twitter.com/944eEmQOR4
— Media Matters (@mmfa) November 18, 2016
re: #179 freetoken
Looking at the election returns here in CA, where Clinton is up to 6.9 million, I wonder if she will reach Obama’s 2012 numbers, which were about 900k more. There are still 3 million unprocessed votes, split roughly between mailed ballots and provisional ballots. She very well may surpass Obama’s 2012 numbers, but not his 2008 numbers.
It’s hard to tell why Clinton did relatively poorly back in the Obama states of WI, MI, and PA, the loss of which secured Trump’s win.
I propose that most voters are not that self-aware of why they choose what they do.
The outrage machine certainly hurt, but the outrage machine raged against Obama and he still carried those states.
OK, you can call me paranoid, but there are Republican governors in those state. Didn’t take many votes to flip those states.
re: #345 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Yup, the chinese have us beat in sheer numbers of people let alone numbers of skilled people because our education system is shit.
Promising young minds from poor families cannot afford to go on to higher education in too many instances. So you have a bunch of mediocre to poor students from families of means going on to get a mill certificate and bill themselves as competent (not all, but far too many. I went to school with many of them). Cost of higher education is one large hindrance to the remedy.
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #368 Bass Reeves
Looks like extreme vetting is not for the cleared and influential inner circle. Just at the border of the country.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Jeff Sessions. JEFF SESSIONS. I think Charles P. Pierce wraps it up clearly:
But nothing puts the rotting fish atop the cholera sundae quite like the nomination of Sessions, a rank segregationist and career opponent of everything for which the Civil Rights movement stood for, to run the Department of Justice. Sessions is a thoroughgoing horror, and he’s also a product of the rather successful attempts by the Reagan administration 30 years ago to pander to the detritus of American apartheid, and to reinstate white supremacy by any covert means necessary…
Not to fight someone like Jeff Sessions is to surrender hard-won gains that, quite frankly, were won by people with their blood….You don’t squander the legacy that John Lewis nearly paid for with his life. That would be an obscenity.
re: #370 BeachDem
One of the things we need to remind women of is that a number of things that cover them are also in the CRA. It wouldn’t just be minorities that would be hurt.
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re: #370 BeachDem
Jeff Sessions. JEFF SESSIONS. I think Charles P. Pierce wraps it up clearly:
esquire.com
“Yeah, but, Hillary would have been worse”
~Co-signed Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon
re: #363 Belafon
Yes. Even Trump is saying that now. He’s claiming he would have campaigned in CA and NY differently and gotten millions of votes.
Can’t wait till the election when GOP wins popular vote and Dem wins ECV. GOP will be screaming, demanding Amendment abolishing EC, demand that Dem not take office, that electors pledge to vote for the winner of popular vote winner, etc.
re: #353 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Let us not forget either that Jeff Sessions was the first actual major endorsement for Trump way back when. He was one of the first to normalize this shit.
He was Trump before Trump ran.
re: #373 Dr. Matt
“Yeah, but, Hillary would have been worse”
~Co-signed Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon
OK but at least Hillary was punished for using a private email server.
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re: #373 Dr. Matt
“Yeah, but, Hillary would have been worse”
~Co-signed Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon
HURR HURR ROBERT BYRD WAS HILLARY’S MENTOR!!!!11!!!
Gov. Nikki Haley at the Federalist Society convention says PEOTUS Trump didn’t win the presidency in a way that celebrates Republican values
— Marianna Sotomayor (@MariannaSotomay) November 18, 2016
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gov. Nikki Haley at the Federalist Society convention says PEOTUS Trump didn’t win the presidency in a way that celebrates Republican values
Okay, then. No cabinet post for her.
AG Lynch: DOJ probing whether post-election attacks are federal hate crimes https://t.co/wrZzgaetUL pic.twitter.com/oY171GZprp
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 18, 2016
A 555-foot-tall windowless, fortified building in Manhattan has been identified as a NSA listening post https://t.co/7LyQD9fLOi pic.twitter.com/xNYtoMPujn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 18, 2016
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Republican values of not explicitly stating what you mean?
Bye, Felicia.
James Woods Quits Twitter in Protest of Alt-Right Censorship
Since @Twitter is now in the #censorship business, I will no longer use its service for my constitutional right to free speech. #GoodbyeAll pic.twitter.com/bismJDb3wh
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 18, 2016
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
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Is this like the eleventieth time he’s quit Twitter in solidarity with some RWNJ?
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
James Woods Quits Twitter in Protest of Alt-Right Censorship
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The oddest tweet to make into one’s pinned tweet. Just delete your account already!
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
James Woods Quits Twitter in Protest of Alt-Right Censorship
BAHAHAHA! Butthurt.
May all good conservatives follow Woods’ example.
(The term ‘good’ used extremely loosely.)
re: #387 wrenchwench
The oddest tweet to make into one’s pinned tweet. Just delete your account already!
Didn’t you hear me!??~?? I’m quitting Twitter!!!! I’m leaving!!! Really!!!!
Chihuahua puppy pic.twitter.com/rgZfy9SQnP
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) November 18, 2016
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
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I wonder when Nikki’s going to find out she’s a minority.
re: #392 Belafon
I wonder when Nikki’s going to find out she’s a minority.
By end of business today, probably.
McConnell: “I strongly support the President-elect’s intention to nominate Senator Jeff Sessions to be the next US Attorney General.”
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) November 18, 2016
my shocked face…
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
James Woods Quits Twitter in Protest of Alt-Right Censorship
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He’ll return unannounced in a few weeks/days/hours once he realizes that no one is going on Gab but whack jobs like him.
The funniest kind of quitting is always the unserious rage quitting.
So if Trump had campaigned harder in NY and CA to run up the popular vote, where would those votes have come from? As it was, turnout was quite high across upstate NY. Trump voters were plenty energized. I don’t know whe he’d have found another half million votes in NY.
AND IF TRUMP HAD CAMPAIGNED HARDER IN NY, HILLARY WOULD HAVE TOO. And we know there were D voters who stayed home.
Thank you @SusanSarandon for voting your conscience. With each racist pick Trump makes, we’re one step closer to that progressive paradise.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) November 18, 2016
McConnell’s evolution from Liberal Republican to Moderate Repub to Moral Majority to Pork King to Tea Party to Trump Army(?) is breathtaking
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) November 18, 2016
Trump is really out here trying to select the Legion of Doom for his cabinet.
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 18, 2016
The Legion of Doom is an elite organization, proud of its achievements in supervillainy and wants nothing to do with that garbage fire. https://t.co/rozrxiN1RH
— Lex Fucking Luthor (@LuthorCEO) November 18, 2016
AAAHHHHHHHH
— endless screaming (@infinite_scream) November 18, 2016
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
Marianna Sotomayor @MariannaSotomay
Gov. Nikki Haley at the Federalist Society convention says PEOTUS Trump didn’t win the presidency in a way that celebrates Republican values
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Nikki Haley most likely: “I do not want the job.”
Trump sat alone in a boggy marsh…
One Week After Trump Election, the Presidents of the United States of America Announce Breakup
re: #404 ObserverArt
Nikki Haley most likely: “I do not want the job.”
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re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sabrina Siddiqui ✔ @SabrinaSiddiqui
McConnell: “I strongly support the President-elect’s intention to nominate Senator Jeff Sessions to be the next US Attorney General.”
12:35 PM - 18 Nov 2016my shocked face…
Ahem…I’m tellin’ ya boys…I say, I say…the Saweth Willa Rhize Ag’in!
re: #400 Sir John Barron
Liberal Republican? When was he that?
For all we know, some RWNJs probably still think that he is a liberal Republican.
Trump, ever the master of misdirection and spectacle, is going to keep floating these unserious cabinet contenders for weeks.
— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) November 17, 2016
re: #409 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Misdirection and to what end? That whoever is picked is slightly better? Or a whole lot worse?
Trump’s idea of an orderly transition seems to be throwing everything into a Blendtec and watching it all blend. Will it blend? Yup.
Should we blend it? Absolutely not.
@count_01 @LuthorCEO no no no.. he came in a gestation matrix that opened on earth… therefore he was born in the USA
— Baronesa (@Baronesa1980) November 18, 2016
re: #410 lawhawk
Misdirection and to what end? That whoever is picked is slightly better? Or a whole lot worse?
Trump’s idea of an orderly transition seems to be throwing everything into a Blendtec and watching it all blend. Will it blend? Yup.
Should we blend it? Absolutely not.
It’s to make the media look foolish and untrustworthy and also helps to make the media a little gun-shy on reporting about the Trump administration. Eventually, in the future when the Trump Administration moves to do something controversial, the media will hold back on releasing any information it gets and the public will question any initial media reports. By the time anyone takes the news seriously, the policy or action will already be fait accompli leaving little opportunity to organize opposition to it.
re: #412 Jayleia
So, you’re saying that he’s dry-foot immigrant? He’s here, even though neither genetic parent is a US citizen. And his US-born foster parents never actually submitted papers?
Had he been stopped in territorial waters, he’d be sent “back”.
@Baronesa1980 @LuthorCEO …huh. So one of those rare native-born citizens who falls through the paperwork cracks. #themoreyouknow
— Jared James (@count_01) November 18, 2016
Not me saying it. :-P
So, Trump doesn’t drink because his bother died. Okay.
But he wanted to be a movie mogul? Gee, sounds like Kim Jong Un. Similar style too, right down to the bad hair, cult of personality, and surrounding himself with yes-men.
.@realDonaldTrump says he ‘never drank alcohol’ due to his brother Freddy’s death https://t.co/kZ6JHeibkZ
— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 18, 2016
There are other lesson’s Trump could have taken from Freddie and his toxic father’s relationship.
re: #416 lawhawk
So, Trump doesn’t drink because his bother died. Okay.
But he wanted to be a movie mogul? Gee, sounds like Kim Jong Un. Similar style too, right down to the bad hair, cult of personality, and surrounding himself with yes-men.
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Jake Tapper, MBF Supreme:
“Both Trump supporters and Trump opponents… it almost seems as though people are not even willing to acknowledge the hurt feelings of the people on the other side.”
Yes, Jake—fearing deportation, incarceration, hate crimes, loss of basic human rights, voting rights, etc. is IDENTICAL to having your feelings hurt because people are saying mean things about you and the talking yam.
“Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!”
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard: https://t.co/z8C6VaTNmB (love it when news revives interest in old books)
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) November 18, 2016
“….My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations. It reported that New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in 1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy League school. At the time, Harvard accepted about one of every nine applicants. (Nowadays, it only takes one out of twenty.)
I also quoted administrators at Jared’s high school, who described him as a less than stellar student and expressed dismay at Harvard’s decision.
“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”
Corn belt states Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio & Wisconsin voted for Trump. Mexico is their #1 buyer of corn https://t.co/e8cMMiTJM9
— N. Parish Flannery (@NathanielParish) November 18, 2016
re: #425 jaunte
“Affirmative action Harvard man.”
But, but one of Trump’s surrogates said that Jared is the new Alexander Hamilton!
re: #385 Dr. Matt
Bye, Felicia.
James Woods Quits Twitter in Protest of Alt-Right Censorship
Since @Twitter is now in the #censorship business, I will no longer use its service for my constitutional right to free speech. #GoodbyeAll pic.twitter.com/bismJDb3wh
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 18, 2016
From the “Absolutely No Loss” file. https://t.co/3C015vqmuL
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) November 18, 2016
re: #425 jaunte
“Affirmative action Harvard man.”
Affirmative Action for whites or as they call it, Daddy’s money meaning more than anything.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Mitch McConnell looks like he didn’t keep his promise to Ursula pic.twitter.com/tdjsCyqv2k
— Nicola Foti (@soundlyawake) November 18, 2016
re: #428 HappyWarrior
Voting their frustrations.//
I’ll bet you 90% of the citizens of those states have no clue where their corn goes. Does Mexico have another place it can turn to?
Well there’s one silver lining to Republican control. The economy will do better. At least for a little while.
WHAT?! Am I nuts?
All that doom and gloom stuff Republicans and their lap dogs have been spouting *does* affect people’s confidence. For at least the short term, the message is going to be the economy is now doing awesome — and people will now believe it and go out and spend and that in and of itself will start to boost the economy.
“Member when” the Drudge Report would take a glowing economic report and highlight one or two not so great points in it? Well now’s he’s going to do the opposite. Downplay the bad things. Now all of a sudden U6 unemployment won’t be talked about, we’ll just be mentioning U3. That job participation stat will never be mentioned again.
HAPPY ECONOMIC DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! LET THE PEOPLE KNOW!
re: #431 Belafon
I’ll bet you 90% of the citizens of those states have no clue where their corn goes. Does Mexico have another place it can turn to?
That nearby? Nope.
re: #431 Belafon
I’ll bet you 90% of the citizens of those states have no clue where their corn goes. Does Mexico have another place it can turn to?
Especially since their own farmers fave gone under, not being able to compete with cheap US mass produced corn.
re: #435 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Especially since their own farmers fave gone under, not being able to compete with cheap US mass produced corn.
And where do they turn for employment in those circumstances?
Latin American Leaders Open Door to Tighter China Trade Ties https://t.co/rf1sQTyrTN via @WSJ @ASCOA
— Eric Farnsworth (@ericfarns) November 18, 2016
Build a wall, reject trade with our neighbors, make China Strong Again. https://t.co/UVVL403i2D
— Enrique Acevedo (@Enrique_Acevedo) November 18, 2016
Even if the economics of Arctic drilling improve and a Trump administration wants to reopen the area to exploration, both oil company officials and environmental groups say, Trump would be unable to toss out the five-year plan immediately. To undo the Obama administration’s ban, a new administration would have to prepare a supplemental report, which could take as long as two years, depending on whether it needs to prepare a new environmental impact statement.
On its way out, Obama administration tries to slam the door shut on Arctic drilling https://t.co/KZk4cuxjmO
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 18, 2016
re: #439 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Obama has nothing to lose, so please Obama lay the trap shut.
re: #437 Barefoot Grin
Especially since [Mexico’s] farmers have gone under, not being able to compete with cheap US mass produced corn.
And where do they turn for employment in those circumstances?
and thus the Circle of Life is complete
re: #440 electrotek
Obama has nothing to lose, so please Obama lay the trap shut.
Hopefully President Obama has quite a few more of these moves to make…
My boy Craig strutting his stuff this morning. Happy #Friday pic.twitter.com/KzZI6jHou7
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 18, 2016
Did anyone see this?
Greece soccer body apologizes to Bosnia for fan’s banner
TAGS:Soccer
Greece soccer officials have apologized to the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina after a fan’s banner referred to the Srebrenica massacre at a World Cup qualifying match.
In a statement Monday, the Greek soccer federation condemned the “unacceptable posting of a banner with fascist content … which it condemns in the most absolute and categorical way.”
A banner with the slogan “Noz, zica, Srebrenica” (“Knife, wire, Srebrenica” in Serbian) was displayed among Greece fans during the teams’ 1-1 draw in Athens on Sunday.
In 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica by ethnic Serb forces during a four-year war after the break-up of Yugoslavia. International courts said the killings were genocide.
“The Greek Football Federation feels obliged to apologize, on behalf of those few who participated in this sectarian act, to the Bosnia-Herzegovina Football Federation and the friendly people of that country,” the statement said.
The banner “insults in the most abhorrent way the sporting spirit of football and Greek hospitality,” the federation said.
FIFA is expected to open a disciplinary case and charge the Greek federation for breaching rules prohibiting offensive and political statements in stadiums.
“We are in the process of analyzing the different match officials’ reports and gathering all the necessary information,” FIFA said on Monday.
Many Greeks feel traditional ties with Serbia because of their shared Orthodox religion, and the game was played in a tense atmosphere after reported attacks on Bosnian fans around the stadium.
Fireworks were lit in the stadium by both sets of fans, and both teams ended the game with 10 men after each had a player sent off.
Bosnian forward Edin Dzeko was shown a red card after a clash with Greece players during which he pulled down the shorts of an opponent.
Greece earned the draw by scoring in the final minute of stoppage time and is in second place in the six-team Group H, which is led by Belgium. Bosnia-Herzegovina is third.
The return match is scheduled for June 9 in Zenica.
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Touchdown confirmed! Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng & Chen Dong back on Earth after record-setting 32 days in orbit https://t.co/ODcqdj0fWk
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) November 18, 2016
Those poor astronauts. It’ll be like The Planet of the Apes, except with white nationalists instead of monkeys. https://t.co/1XlAPMhZAg
— Daniel Lin (@DLin71) November 18, 2016
Mike Flynn’s office told women: ‘Makeup helps’ https://t.co/EwAuY0Gn23 pic.twitter.com/re8mWsqHyv
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 18, 2016
Trump fans putting his name on Starbucks cups to punish the company https://t.co/W4mM18SJDN pic.twitter.com/BmLuRfkK5W
— The Hill (@thehill) November 18, 2016
“And I made them write TRUMP on my $6 cup of coffee! That will teach them a lesson!”
The “mind” of a Trumper https://t.co/AjzWugeRXT— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 18, 2016
At least a third of the people arrested last week for blocking the travel lanes of the Downtown Expressway after Donald Trump was elected president didn’t vote in the election they were protesting, voter registration and election participation records indicate.Four of the 12 young protesters arrested, or 33 percent, either weren’t registered to vote in Virginia or didn’t cast a ballot on Nov. 8, a Richmond Times-Dispatch review of state and local records show. A fifth protester wasn’t a registered Virginia voter but it couldn’t be determined with certainty whether she was registered in another state and cast a ballot there.
re: #410 lawhawk
Misdirection and to what end? That whoever is picked is slightly better? Or a whole lot worse?
Trump’s idea of an orderly transition seems to be throwing everything into a Blendtec and watching it all blend. Will it blend? Yup.
Should we blend it? Absolutely not.
It’s reality TV!
re: #447 Kragar
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Trump supporters are so stupid they don’t even know how to boycott correctly.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one.”
~ Edmund Burke#FridayFeeling— Marguerite (@margcellent) November 18, 2016
re: #448 Timothy Watson
It wouldn’t have really helped in VA, but hopefully they’ve learned their lesson.
re: #452 Belafon
It wouldn’t have really helped in VA, but hopefully they’ve learned their lesson.
We know that now, we didn’t know that on election day.
re: #447 Kragar
The Hill ✔ @thehill
Trump fans putting his name on Starbucks cups to punish the company hill.cm
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What a bunch of morAns!
I bet this actually drives sales up for a week or two.
Starbucks will probably get a letter from Trump’s lawyers asking for a cut of the sales or they will sue.
re: #452 Belafon
It wouldn’t have really helped in VA, but hopefully they’ve learned their lesson.
It could have helped in down-ticket races, such as closing gap in House and retaking the Senate (not just VA, but elsewhere).
re: #453 Timothy Watson
We know that now, we didn’t know that on election day.
I know. Someone should contact these people and ask them about registering to vote, and asking their friends to vote.
re: #455 lawhawk
It could have helped in down-ticket races, such as closing gap in House and retaking the Senate (not just VA, but elsewhere).
I was specifically talking about these four. As to your point, I think, on the Democratic side, we need to tell these people “What lesson did we learn here? Do you need to vote?” They’re really the easiest people to get through.
What the hell are “Persian world leaders”
How did this guy ever get to lead the Defense Intelligence Agency? @GerardMorrison @DMPACE1 pic.twitter.com/ie2dBPAg6T— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) November 18, 2016
re: #458 jaunte
Memo to Flynn: Persia hasn’t existed since 1935.
America, 2016 - Idiocracy Realized:
Kanye West stunned fans Thursday night in San Jose, declaring his allegiance to Donald Trump and revealing he didn’t vote, but he was Team Donald all the way.
The crowd was none too pleased … booing Kanye as he went on to talk about Trump’s awesome performance during the debates.
But … he thinks Hillary has a place in Trump’s administration.
“It will be as exciting as the 1930s” https://t.co/RvNiywbLNy
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 18, 2016
There are many ways to describe the 30s.
Exciting is not the first term that leaps to mind. https://t.co/efeaXSsWI2— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 18, 2016
re: #458 jaunte
Islam as a religion has more than a billion adherents. Pakistanis and Indonesians and Malaysians and Filipinos all must wonder how they’re all Arab and must renounce their “ideology”. Same with Indian Muslims.
Flynn’s got not a clue about ideology, though his seems to be based on Christian supremacy and hate.
re: #462 lawhawk
Islam as a religion has more than a billion adherents. Pakistanis and Indonesians and Malaysians and Filipinos all must wonder how they’re all Arab and must renounce their “ideology”. Same with Indian Muslims.
Flynn’s got not a clue about ideology, though his seems to be based on Christian supremacy and hate.
Islamism vs Islam. Too much nuance for these bags of hammers.
Might as well try to explain the difference between Judaism and Zionism…
Some people get it.
This Irish politician just said what many American leaders are too scared to say about Trump pic.twitter.com/Q2MeB815jz
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 17, 2016
Going to boycott @ChickfilA by going there for lunch, ordering 3 spicy chicken sandwiches & waffle fries & telling them my name is “Gay”.
— Benghazi Jim Halpert (@Wilson__Valdez) November 18, 2016
Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon. Islamophobe, Racist, Anti-Semite. This isn’t a cabinet. It’s a KKKabinet.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 18, 2016
The only thing worse is bringing that nutcase Boykin into the mix.
re: #405 makeitstop
Trump sat alone in a boggy marsh…
One Week After Trump Election, the Presidents of the United States of America Announce Breakup
I can’t be the only one that thinks this comment wins the day, right? Needs more updings.
Just a reminder:
Trump University has a 98% approval rating. I could have settled but won’t out of principle!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 29, 2016
Rumors flyinghttps://t.co/OSriTIy22thttps://t.co/Z3E0B0d0Qc
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) November 18, 2016
re: #470 Timothy Watson
What could possibly go wrong?
Alex Jones crony @prisonplanet is trying to smear @Snopes as “fake news” because his fraudulent BS has been exposed by them over and over. pic.twitter.com/jgIQN3a5Pd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 18, 2016
.@PrisonPlanet @snopes And look how many retweets and likes @prisonplanet’s dishonest smear attack gets.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 18, 2016
Pray for our once-great nation. pic.twitter.com/lTaIqKjTQA
— I’m with US. (@MaryHartmanx2) November 18, 2016
She supports “school choice, vouchers, and ending teacher tenure” - what could go wrong? https://t.co/zoEZOnG3w7
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 18, 2016
Unemployment is low, wages are surging and layoffs are rare. Once again, its time for a Republican to wreck an economy healed by a Democrat.
re: #475 Big Beautiful Door
Unemployment is low, wages are surging and layoffs are rare. Once again, its time for a Republican to wreck an economy healed by a Democrat.
Republican House + Republican Senate + Republican POTUS = total disaster.
We’re hopelessly screwed for the foreseeable future.
re: #464 Skip Intro
Some people get it.
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Too bad Ireland has one of the most horrific anti-abortion laws in the world.
re: #476 Lidane
Republican House + Republican Senate + Republican POTUS = total disaster.
We’re hopelessly screwed for the foreseeable future.
They may burn it down in 2 years rather than the usual 8.
re: #476 Lidane
Republican House + Republican Senate + Republican POTUS = total disaster.
We’re hopelessly screwed for the foreseeable future.
I hope Trump will be a one term president.
re: #447 Kragar
Starbucks’ upper-management folks are fucking geniuses: “Hey, these dopes constantly vote against their economic self-interest, we HAVE to be able to capiltaize on that!”
re: #478 The Vicious Babushka
The Intercept: Glenn Greenwald’s fake news site.
I know, still thought I should past that link on. Especially when the WSJ link says they are going to name Adm. Michael Rodgers as DNI even after he publicly stated multiple times that Russia was hacking the DNC, etc.
re: #481 Mike Lamb
Starbucks’ upper-management folks are fucking geniuses: “Hey, these dopes constantly vote against their economic self-interest, we HAVE to be able to capiltaize on that!”
If you’re in line behind someone who puts his name down as Starbucks Trump, buy something like a pastry, but tell them you want them to call out at the same time as the previous order and your name is “is monkey poo.”
Edit: Can’t even get the joke right.
re: #476 Lidane
We’re hopelessly screwed for the foreseeable future.
I prefer to see it this way: news will have to get a lot worse before it can start to get any better
4. US sanctions against Russia are crippling Russia’s economy. Putin is desperate to disrupt US and end sanctions https://t.co/fub1d7QWYh
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) November 17, 2016
re: #480 Big Beautiful Door
I hope Trump will be a one term president.
Trump will be lucky to be a half term president. Impeachment will be in his future.
re: #480 Big Beautiful Door
I hope Trump will be a one term president.
I’m hoping that WE survive to the end of his term
re: #483 Belafon
If you’re in line behind someone who puts his name down as Starbucks, buy something like a pastry, but tell them you want them to call out at the same time as the previous order and your name is “is monkey poo.”
I was in England in 1990, right after Iran had issued a notorious fatwa against an apostate Indian novelist. I was at a call-out-your-name service cafe and one of the fellows I was with (a German) gave his name as “Salomon Rushdie”.
re: #475 Big Beautiful Door
Unemployment is low, wages are surging and layoffs are rare. Once again, its time for a Republican to wreck an economy healed by a Democrat.
Gas prices are low, DJI is at a record high, the GDP has been steadily increasing for nearly 3 years….yeah, America is such in dire straights.
Is it wrong of me to want the first question at the next press conference for Trump to be “What did President of the United States Vladimir Putin tell you to do today?”
re: #475 Big Beautiful Door
Unemployment is low, wages are surging and layoffs are rare. Once again, its time for a Republican to wreck an economy healed by a Democrat.
“Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ “
re: #487 Jayleia
I’m hoping that WE survive to the end of his term
With Michael Flynn as the national security adviser? Might as well be Gen Jack D. Ripper.
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re: #492 Big Beautiful Door
Nope. To much a pacifist. This is his assistant: @HaroldItz pic.twitter.com/XSfPcXr27R
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 18, 2016
Harold’s choice was Gen. Ripper as well.
re: #491 mmmirele
“Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ “
Who knew The Onion could be so prophetic? I shudder to read their predictions for the Trump Administration.
re: #486 MsJ
Trump will be lucky to be a half term president. Impeachment will be in his future.
So we end up with Pence as President and Ryan as VP (order of succession).
Thanks but no thanks.
If there’s impeachment, it’ll need to include everyone involved at the highest level of govt.
re: #496 lawhawk
So we end up with Pence as President and Ryan as VP (order of succession).
Thanks but no thanks.
If there’s impeachment, it’ll need to include everyone involved at the highest level of govt.
There’s no reason Ryan becomes VP. A new one can be nominated by the president.
When I meet President Trump, I may first grab his crotch — to get his attention — then discuss Science with him.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 18, 2016
re: #496 lawhawk
So we end up with Pence as President and Ryan as VP (order of succession).
Thanks but no thanks.
If there’s impeachment, it’ll need to include everyone involved at the highest level of govt.
I think this was the plan all along.
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