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“It’s like Alex Jones is the President”
-Alex Joneshttps://t.co/3gr5fnKPqG— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 19, 2017
“Donald Trump’s omnipresent spokes-cobra … “
That’s a pretty good start.
SNL portrays her as having a conscience and being remorseful for inflicting Trump on America. I don’t see that at all.
She’s Goebbels with a bad dye-job. That’s all.
Things we need:
Someone must do Conway comments/tweets in Harley Quinn’s voice.
What will you do for the inauguration? Why party like it’s 1899! No Roe V Wade, no emancipation yet, no civil rights law yet… pic.twitter.com/jEBZmArkro
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) January 19, 2017
“Soulless Machiavellian deathbot America deserves…”
MSNBC currently gushing adoringly about the Trump Horror. pic.twitter.com/P0PoMZ5Vwq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
BREAKING: President-elect Trump will name the owner of NFL’s NY Jets, Woody Johnson, to be ambassador to the United Kingdom, official says.
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) January 19, 2017
This does not surprise me.
Welcome to the corporate-run military state: U.S. missile launcher facing the #NoDAPL camp of unarmed citizens. Pipelines>people #Merica pic.twitter.com/EKlARM2QVo
— tara houska (@zhaabowekwe) January 18, 2017
Are you all paying attention? Missile launchers facing Native people on treaty land in the name of defending oil interests. #NoDAPL https://t.co/l0sM7Na8ab
— Tonya Song @ ANE (@Tonya_Song) January 19, 2017
That moment when a Cabinet nominee namedrops the Octomom. And down the rabbit hole we go. pic.twitter.com/2Cn3P2cpIx
— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 19, 2017
That moment when a Cabinet nominee namedrops the Octomom. And down the rabbit hole we go.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
President-elect Trump will name the owner of NFL’s NY Jets, Woody Johnson, to be ambassador to the United Kingdom, official says.
As a long-suffering Jets fan, this fills me with confidence.
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‘Hey, I went 4-12 on my diplomatic assignments this year! Why Change anything?’
Woody Johnson’s estimated net worth: $6.3 billion.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
re: #11 makeitstop
As a long-suffering Jets fan, this fills me with confidence.
////////////‘Hey, I went 4-12 on my diplomatic assignments this year! Why Change anything?’
If only Jimmy “1-15” Haslam could be assigned an ambassadorship position. Then the Browns could finally be mediocre.
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Alex Jones On Trump: “It’s Like Alex Jones Is The President” https://t.co/4fbWrY99wg
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 19, 2017
Most damning thing about this statement is that he’s not really wrong. And that’s more terrifying than if it was just ego talking https://t.co/RrsYtN561m
— Citizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 19, 2017
the American people. I have no doubt that we will, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2017
Future generations will remember you as a fraud, a liar, and a malignant tumor on American history https://t.co/2Evu00iClV
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 19, 2017
re: #5 Unshaken Defiance
I have a plan for the Inauguration….to ignore it. I am working, then getting a manicure and pedicure and other girlish grooming rituals. Potentially some mild shopping. The grown up version of “I’m washing my hair that night.”
The husband teaches AP Poly Sci and Economics and he’s kinda obligated to watch it. Which means being out of the house is a good idea because all I will hear is, “That’s a lie! That’s not the right numbers! What the fuck are you talking about?!?!” The man has so much factual information in his head that he yells numbers and figures at the TV real-time.
I am, genuinely, not interested in the ritual. I’m marching Saturday, and I’ll start paying attention to Trump when he finally does something concrete. Until then, I have more important things to do. Like getting my eyebrows waxed.
Alex Jones On Trump: “It’s Like Alex Jones Is The President” https://t.co/4fbWrY99wg
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 19, 2017
And he’s absolutely correct, for once. @owillis https://t.co/l2fzABggC6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I noted this before…but I don’t trust anyone from the Jets to speak on behalf of a competent football team. How will Johnson speak on behalf of a country?
Obama sends letter to Congressional leadership on Guantanamo pic.twitter.com/EtiegLUHCY
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 19, 2017
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) January 19, 2017
A salute from that draft dodging sack of shit might as well be a middle finger to every veteran https://t.co/WFer40v3VY
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 19, 2017
@Tonya_Song What. WHAT. WHAT. Do the Natives have tanks there or something? What is this? A dream?
— Fractus (@Fractusrat) January 19, 2017
@Fractusrat @Tonya_Song It’s a Freddy Krueger-type of nightmare; only it’s real life simultaneously.
— Nathan Obral 📎😸❄️ (@myronfalwell) January 19, 2017
Hearing derailed after senator suggests colleague needs Valium https://t.co/jYFWJkdUSd pic.twitter.com/ObjihTxfK1
— The Hill (@thehill) January 19, 2017
Currently running on Google Adsense. pic.twitter.com/yGPfBpjZqD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a fucking shitshow.
About 50 people on hand for #inaug2017 Voices of the People concert on National Mall. pic.twitter.com/MWfHWPNtwo
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) January 19, 2017
Attendance seems a tad sparse https://t.co/kXiPVN7xtM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 19, 2017
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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These hearings just supposed to be a rubber-stamp and nominee-love-in.
Welcome to DT world.
re: #26 Myron Falwell
Couple that with a chance of rain and it doesn’t look too promising for Trump’s ego trip tomorrow afternoon.
Me? I’m going to purposefully ignore it.
I won the largest landslide in history! My cabinet is highest IQ of all time! My inauguration was the most highly attended inauguration ever!
It will actually be an abdication tomorrow not an inauguration, - of responsibility to protect environment, civil rights, health for poor ..
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) January 19, 2017
re: #15 Kragar
@realDonaldTrump America is already great. Dismantling education, and acting like a tin-pot dictator, can only harm America.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) January 19, 2017
#BREAKING: Trump team is planning to ELIMINATE the DOJ’s 25 Violence Against Women grant programs (listed below). https://t.co/DPNHiW38SZ pic.twitter.com/O2LtGPUAn5
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 19, 2017
Human Rights Watch recently classified the US as a top threat to human rights b/c of Trump agenda. And here we are. https://t.co/MHe3oZSkdE
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 19, 2017
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #29 jaunte
…an abdication of a healthy, functional government.
60% of salaried workers qualified for overtime pay in 1975. If the new rule never takes effect, that number will stay under 10%. #TimeforOT pic.twitter.com/h81am96lCx
— Ben Spielberg (@BenSpielberg) January 19, 2017
Millions of people getting paid a little more, and circulating that money right back into the economy?
Naaah.
re: #3 lawhawk
Something you mentioned a few days ago has been kicking around in my head… you said you wouldn’t be surprised if 2016 turned into The Year of the Four Presidents. I’ve been trying to game this out, and I’m not sure how I see it happening.
Let’s say real evidence comes out about Trump and Pence actively coordinating with the Russians. Wouldn’t both be impeached at the same time? Or do you see a situation where Trump gets impeached/convicted and on his way out decides to implicate the new President Pence; which leads to a second round of impeachment/resignation nightmares.
And who becomes the fourth president? Because I could see the wingnuttiest portion of the GOP caucus turning on Ryan in the House if he lets articles of impeachment go forward and him being forced out. So, line of succession wise, does that mean we get left with a President Orin Hatch (as president pro tem of the Senate)? Or is it possible that Pence nominates a VP that gets confirmed before he’s impeached?
I would not be surprised if Trump ends up getting impeached or faces a 25th Amendment challenge (which I can’t imagine he’d take well). But trying to game out the obvious constitutional crisis is kind of a nightmare.
Though it is giving me ideas for a novel/film…
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
“It’s like Alex Jones is the President”
and the contributors to the comments section are the cabinet members
Trump’s Cabinet picks are an insane Mad Libs game.
His [SECRETARY OF THE ARMY] once [PUNCHED] a [CONCESSION WORKER] at a [HORSE AUCTION]— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 19, 2017
re: #7 Charles Johnson
BREAKING NEWS! TRUMP HAS THREE BALLS!!!
re: #35 KGxvi
We already have two “Purge” movies. I don’t want to think of a third. ////
Seriously, this is going to get real ugly, real fast.
re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BREAKING NEWS! TRUMP HAS THREE BALLS!!!
That’s why he’s always so testie.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
If not for the Conservative mind-virus, Conservative women would be working to stop this madness, but it seems going Conservative destroys awareness the rest of their identity.
re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BREAKING NEWS! TRUMP HAS THREE BALLS!!!
And they are big, yuuuge balls!
Trump camp says Kanye West isn’t ‘traditionally American’ enough for the inauguration 🤔 https://t.co/ZOpGMVsqGj pic.twitter.com/ELtnokq0pT
They use you for a photo op to make Trump seem popular w/ POC, then they discard you. Take note, future Trump Tower human ornaments. https://t.co/Y5DhLwa1Mt
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 19, 2017
re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BREAKING NEWS! TRUMP HAS THREE BALLS!!!
Sounds like a good time to remind people about the merits of a prostrate exam.
Every one of these Trump nominees has serious issues with corruption that would have disqualified anyone else in previous administrations.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
re: #34 jaunte
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Millions of people getting paid a little more, and circulating that money right back into the economy?
Naaah.
Nicely designed infographic.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
@theGrio No more room for people who aren’t WASPS.
The wicked Conservatives voted for this!— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) January 19, 2017
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re: #45 Dr Lizardo
SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO?!
re: #35 KGxvi
Obama -> Trump -> Pence -> Ryan is the most logical route, but it could also devolve into
Obama -> Trump (Pence gone at same time) -> Ryan -> President pro tem in Senate.
On and on it goes, and depending on which GOPers get sucked up in this mess we’ll see someone down the line getting cast into a position they are not likely prepared to be in (mostly because they’re unprepared/unqualified - from Sec. State on down to AG - see the order of succession).
Via @t_b_toro @NewYorker pic.twitter.com/UvJYkMeeeu
— Ryan Adams (@filmystic) January 19, 2017
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Every one of these Trump nominees has serious issues with corruption that would have disqualified anyone else in previous administrations.
Trump skirted, violated or outright trampled every rule and convention of modern politics.
On one hand, it is an admirable feat: he accurately gauged that people are fed up with politicians and politics as usual and knew he could act with impunity as long as he presented himself as the anti-establishment anti-politician.
One the other hand, it is a recipe for disaster and catastrophic collapse.
re: #46 Charles Johnson
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Any one of these candidates being nominated by a Clinton transition team would have been the source for months of endless screeching. But Trump nominates a whole parcel of them and it’s “Hey, they’re ‘controversial,’ but nothing to go worked up over…”
re: #51 gocart mozart
It’s getting so bad that New Yorker cartoons are actually beginning to make sense.
re: #54 Targetpractice
Any one of these candidates being nominated by a Clinton transition team would have been the source for months of endless screeching. But Trump nominates a whole parcel of them and it’s “Hey, they’re ‘controversial,’ but nothing to go worked up over…”
Dems are just sore losers!!! Why won’t everybody unite behind our greatest prez of all time and make America great again!?!?
Has DT nominated a Secretary for Agriculture yet?
re: #58 The Vicious Babushka
Sonny Perdue
former governor of GA?
Georgia getting two cabinet heads (Price at HHS).
re: #57 Sir John Barron
Has DT nominated a Secretary for Agriculture yet?
Probably trying decide between the Green Giant and the Keebler elf.
As a thank you to his staffers, Barack Obama had Bruce Springsteen play a two-hour acoustic concert. https://t.co/noIR8bvUXY pic.twitter.com/yTZECyg79N
— U.S. News (@usnews) January 19, 2017
After that cover band pulled out of the inauguration this is just expert shade https://t.co/Y1uCGprTNn
— Ira Madison III (@ira) January 19, 2017
And he still can’t buy a Championship football team. #JetsSuck @Green_Footballs
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 19, 2017
re: #53 jaunte
They must have jumped that wall in the back……
One of the documents Biedermann seeks support for is a “Declaration of Muslim Reform Movement” that repudiates “institutionalized Sharia” and declares support for secular governance, democracy and liberty. The second is a “Muslim Pledge for Religious Freedom and Safety from Harm for Former Muslims,” which renounces persecution of so-called apostates who leave Islam. The third is federal legislation that designates the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.
Since when do Texas Republicans give a shit about secular governance when they’re shoving Creationist bullshit down our throats?
re: #64 lawhawk
Hey, hey, hey….
Come on now…
UPDATE on DeVos story: Portman suggests Trump education nominee does not need to pay Ohio fine b4 confirmation https://t.co/NoEbyv8T5g
— Deirdre Shesgreen (@dshesgreen) January 18, 2017
I had to pay a six years-old parking ticket before I was allowed to join DOJ in 2009. But ignoring a $5.3 million campaign fine is 👌 https://t.co/Ow9sFXlIfU
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 18, 2017
Betsy DeVos in 2015: Many Republicans oppose school choice because they fear “poor minority kids” invading schools https://t.co/0fUBzDxxZL pic.twitter.com/ahUjM1Kj4b
— CNN (@CNN) January 19, 2017
During #Obama’s 8 years, not one administration official was indicted. How do the other President’s stack up? Notice a party bias? pic.twitter.com/r2alnlMzDE
— Pitt Griffin (@pittgriffin) January 19, 2017
Despite 8 years of trying to claim Obama was corrupt and that there was all kinds of criminality, the GOP came up with nothing - nothing on Benghazi, nothing on emails. Nothing.
Trump’s already coming in with a mess of lawsuits and investigations, and none of it is going to go away. His cabinet picks aren’t much better, and the odds of corruption are … well… no odds are given because it’s stuck at 100%.
And then there were 41. Obama moves 4 more detainees from Guantanamo less than 24hrs from Trump taking oath. SCOOP: https://t.co/ZrKE447Lgu
— Molly O’Toole (@mollymotoole) January 19, 2017
re: #63 jaunte
I thought the idea of a band singing Springsteen lyrics to a Trump crowd was akin to Paul Ryan claiming to listen to Rage Against the Machine for his workouts…Trump fans can’t possibly want to listen to those lyrics.
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
Bruce Springsteen has this little guitar player in his band named Nils. Nils Lofgren. Him and his brother had a band called Grin back in the 70’s they were a vastly underrated group. Nils also appeared on a Crazy Horse album backing Dirty Dirty. He used to have a trampoline at a 45 degree angle between the amps and he would run off and fly back on stage doing a backflip as he played. Seen them 3 times and they delivered each time.
Law firm that that threatened @CNN lawsuit over Tom Price stock purchase story withdraws threat because it represents @CNN on other issues.
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 19, 2017
L to the O to the L https://t.co/jZw2eSYNIM
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) January 19, 2017
Still curious how @realDonaldTrump plans to round up and deport 11 million people by 1pm tomorrow like he promised. https://t.co/nd9lX6eVwG pic.twitter.com/hM5jBFksaj
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 19, 2017
For allegro and maybe any other Lizards who are interested in ways to ignore the inauguration, my mom sent me this link.
Glen Roven to Premiere Star-Studded Operatic Work on Inauguration Day
Inauguration day protests have a long history in our country, from the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade on the eve of President Wilson’s inauguration, to the Women’s March on Washington scheduled for the day after Donald Trump takes office. Popular and respected musical guests are also spotted in the political landscape at this time, either as voices of celebration or dissent.
On Friday, Emmy Award-winning composer Glen Roven will continue both unofficial traditions with his premiere of “The Hillary Speeches,” a vocal setting of Clinton’s 2007 campaign announcement and her 2016 concession. The performance was recorded as a film, with individual singers taped separately and edited together. It will be screened at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn at noon — which is the same time Trump will be sworn in as president.
They’re streaming it online.
re: #66 electrotek
re: #72 Sir John Barron
re: #66 electrotek
So, do all Sharia Laws expire tomorrow after DT is inaugurated?
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I took the bait and responded to this comment on the DallasNews page:
Joyce_Andrews 11 minutes ago
I guess I haven’t been hearing enough Muslim leaders loud and clear when they condemn the acts of jihadists. I know they themselves are peaceful. But they also tend to be quiet about it. Most won’t stand up and make it loud and clear for all to hear. that this is not the way to solve problems. Get themselves some P.R. people, if they have to! What could possibly be wrong with supporting the 3 documents? Either you do or you don’t. If you can’t support the documents without offending your peers, then maybe you really are in a country whose laws are in conflict with your personal ones. I do not hate muslims. I have them as loving kind friends. I just am surprised that they won’t take a stand PUBLICLY about what some of their supposed -Muslim brothers do. Terrorism should be rejected loud and clear with them taking and making public announcements and action to keep their own families, neighbors and mosques safe and peaceful and on track. Better now than when Trump gets going and really aggravates more people with his lack of knowledge and understanding.
My response:
discotheque 7 minutes ago
@Joyce_Andrews Did you ever denounce Norwegian anti-Muslim fascist Anders Breivik when he killed kids at a youth camp in the name of European Christendom? The 3 Trump supporting “Crusaders” who plotted to bomb apartment complexes where immigrants lived in Kansas? The massive hate-crime spree that erupted after Trump’s election win?Do you denounce Dominionism? Do you denounce efforts to outlaw abortion as your fellow Texas Republican men have continued to advocate? Do you denounce Donald Trump and his boasts of sexual assault? Do you also denounce attacks against Planned Parenthood and shoving Creationism down our throats?
Take your own advice before lecturing others, old white lady.
re: #77 jaunte
The Trump administration considers Monday, Jan. 23rd, as “day 1”
Orrin Hatch now gushing about how incredibly wonderful Steven Mnuchin is. pic.twitter.com/DfoPtsDn9X
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
This really is @realDonaldTrump’s official inauguration photo. #Dour pic.twitter.com/0KXJHZF8pr
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 19, 2017
re: #76 FormerDirtDart
Well, they used to represent CNN on other issues. How in the ever loving fuck did that get past a conflicts check? I have to imagine someone is getting a call from at least one state bar
re: #80 FormerDirtDart
The Trump administration considers Monday, Jan. 23rd, as “day 1”
A whole weekend to deport 11 million? Easy peasy!
Decision of Principal Dep Director of Nat Intelligence Stephanie O’Sullivan to leave rather than stay w/ Trump is a devastating intel loss.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 19, 2017
re: #83 KGxvi
Well, they used to represent CNN on other issues. How in the ever loving fuck did that get past a conflicts check? I have to imagine someone is getting a call from at least one state bar
There are no more conflicts because there are no more checks
or balances
re: #82 Stanley Sea
I want to believe that this was taken just seconds after he learned that there is no alien spaceship stored in Area 51
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are no more conflicts because there are no more checks
or balances
Were it so simple for us lawyers…
re: #78 klys (maker of Silmarils)
For allegro and maybe any other Lizards who are interested in ways to ignore the inauguration, my mom sent me this link.
Glen Roven to Premiere Star-Studded Operatic Work on Inauguration Day
They’re streaming it online.
That looks amazing. Bookmarked and looking forward to it. Thank you!
Soon to be on the walls of American high schools pic.twitter.com/XzWuKF9SJy
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) January 19, 2017
re: #86 InfidelOfFreedom
I guess he’s supposed to LOOK TOUGH. He looks like he’s trying to shit. That may be tough for him, who knows.
re: #80 FormerDirtDart
The Trump administration considers Monday, Jan. 23rd, as “day 1”
Maybe Obama-holdovers can use the weekend to confiscate all the guns and put all the wingnuts in FEMA camps.
re: #89 KGxvi
Were it so simple for us lawyers…
Trump will work to make it simpler for you all…by the time he is done, there will ardly be any laws left to enforce
re: #85 Kragar
A part of me would like for these competent folks to stay on and try to keep this ship afloat, but I can’t say I blame anyone for not wanting to spend a day working for this incompetent asshole.
The internet is really making me consider taking a nap,
until maybe 2020
Eager to fill your house with the thrilling smell of political triumph? Here’s a Trump-scented candle: https://t.co/jJIHiIzZqW pic.twitter.com/CYKnzv3E9i
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 19, 2017
The scent is described as a combination of steak and suntan lotion, with “hints of something tropical/coconut-y.”
Trump voters got their wishes granted. Too bad they were granted by a cursed monkey paw, and we’ll all have to deal with the consequences.
re: #82 Stanley Sea
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— Franklin (@franklinftw) January 19, 2017
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
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glad CBS News is on the story.
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Two former WH chiefs of staff say they expect @realDonaldTrump will learn how to use nuclear launch codes by tomorrow morning before oath
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) January 19, 2017
The entire world is serious danger from this egomaniac. But at least he didn’t have a private email server. @KellyO https://t.co/vSER4kiWTJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2017
re: #90 allegro
That looks amazing. Bookmarked and looking forward to it. Thank you!
I’m glad to contribute to providing a positive distraction for someone!
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re: #82 Stanley Sea
Mnuchin failed to disclose $95 million in assets. When a 90-year-old woman underpaid by 27 cents, he took her house. https://t.co/g6uTS1GIlH
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 19, 2017
HAPPENING NOW: President-elect @realDonaldTrump and VP-elect @mike_pence attend wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington. pic.twitter.com/uUh67qYluJ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 19, 2017
Hope his bone spurs don’t bother him on the way down those steps. https://t.co/BFAXAzdLL2
— George Zornick (@gzornick) January 19, 2017
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
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Glad CBS Money is spending time covering the important news.
re: #82 Stanley Sea
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hard to believe he let that photo be used, what with the horrible hair combover gap thing.
re: #92 ericblair
I guess he’s supposed to LOOK TOUGH. He looks like he’s trying to shit. That may be tough for him, who knows.
Sure has a glaring bald spot there. Surprised that got by him.
re: #92 ericblair
I guess he’s supposed to LOOK TOUGH. He looks like he’s trying to shit. That may be tough for him, who knows.
He looks like he absolutely loathes himself.
re: #110 makeitstop
He looks like he absolutely loathes himself.
Not as much as most Americans loathe him.
Just realized I will walk into work at my fed gov agency on Monday morning to find a picture of that goon staring back at me.
re: #114 Sir John Barron
Just realized I will walk into work at my fed gov agency on Monday morning to find a picture of that goon staring back at me.
Get a pair of googly eyes and perk it up.
re: #106 jaunte
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re: #114 Sir John Barron
Just realized I will walk into work at my fed gov agency on Monday morning to find a picture of that goon staring back at me.
Draw a giant mustache on it.
re: #106 jaunte
“Can’t stay long. We must get ready so we can gut Veterans benefits once we gain office,”
re: #120 Sir John Barron
How long till Fox News grants DT Reagan-level Sainthood?
He achieved that when he beat Clinton.
re: #120 Sir John Barron
Their audience is already spinning the “man of his word” myth.
re: #114 Sir John Barron
Just realized I will walk into work at my fed gov agency on Monday morning to find a picture of that goon staring back at me.
I remember seeing Dick Cheney sneering down from the wall at federal courthouses for eight years. Ugh, this is worse.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
Draw a giant mustache on it.
Not a giant one. Just a tiny little one, on the upper lip. Kind of square-ish.
You know, like Hitler’s.
re: #123 Big Beautiful Door
I remember seeing Dick Cheney sneering down from the wall at federal courthouses for eight years. Ugh, this is worse.
yeah that was really bad, too, but I agree with you that this is worse.
The most difficult shoes to fill in the White House will be Pete Souza’s.
Pete Souza, Obama’s Chief White House Photographer, on Making Pictures | GQ https://t.co/PS3tGhk3hx
— Robert Cohen (@kodacohen) January 19, 2017
The last time 3 Doors Down was popular on the radio was also the last time I was popular on the radio.
— Matt Haze (@MattHaze) January 19, 2017
re: #123 Big Beautiful Door
I remember seeing Dick Cheney sneering down from the wall at federal courthouses for eight years. Ugh, this is worse.
that Cheney smirk…
Private insurers can replace Obamacare, Trump says. But they are Obamacare https://t.co/xDJoAB0IYE
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 19, 2017
OH DEAR GOD. #EatingMyFingersRightNow https://t.co/fDqLYKyxYX
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) January 19, 2017
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
The internet is really making me consider taking a nap,
until maybe 2020
So it reeks of urine, vodka, racism, misogyny and failure?
Obama commutes more than 300 more sentences, bringing the total to more than 1,700, more than any other president. https://t.co/C5mgoZFjJO pic.twitter.com/XN9KAPqkI5
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) January 19, 2017
Proud to make this one of my final actions as President. America is a nation of second chances, and 1,715 people deserved that shot. https://t.co/4hPxG7hqHL
— President Obama (@POTUS) January 19, 2017
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re going to have to redefine vaporware when this shit finally lets up.
re: #133 Myron Falwell
We’re going to have to redefine vaporware when this shit finally lets up.
Trump actually believes that Obamacare is an actual insurance policy/plan.
jeebus.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
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‘That is your job!’: McCaskill hammers Treasury pick Mnuchin for being clueless about Trump’s foreign ties https://t.co/okaUKhxB4j pic.twitter.com/AzdGldTbIS
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 19, 2017
“We are living in a rupture, and we might not make it back.”
My latest: https://t.co/kJhMn2yEkr— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 19, 2017
Most chilling quote:
As anyone who lives in an authoritarian state knows, once authoritarians get in, it is very hard to get them out. Politicians looking at 2018 and 2020 fail to comprehend that authoritarians rewrite rules, that laws are only as good as the people who uphold them, that the constitution is a piece of paper unless it is honored in practice.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump actually believes that Obamacare is an actual insurance policy/plan.
jeebus.
It’s a government-run plan, run by HHS staff, telling every patient which government doctor they can and cannot see, rationing their care, determining what surgeries they can have or not have.
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re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
And I can’t wait for the inevitable Trump twits who’ll swarm saying he’s straight talking all while explaining what he ~meant~ @NBCPolitics
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 19, 2017
re: #74 Flying Squirrel Girl
Just because they listen, doesn’t mean they understand.
Inaugural Chair Barrack on Trump address: “He has the best speechwriters available, but he wrote it himself. He’s written 13 best-sellers”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 19, 2017
So he’ll plagiarize President Obama’s inauguration address. Good to know. https://t.co/2PGj70KJZB
— Nathan Obral 📎😸❄️ (@myronfalwell) January 19, 2017
I am sick to my stomach thinking about tomorrow.
Robert Reich captures my emotions:
Tomorrow, Donald Trump becomes president. This is a sickening event in the history of the United States, a tragedy for America and the world, and a victory for hatefulness, racism, misogyny, and authoritarianism…
Tomorrow we say farewell to the first African-American President —a man of decency, integrity, and dignity — and turn the national reigns over to a thin-skinned, vindictive, impulsive, sociopath. Trump is a conman and bully who is ignorant about democracy and disdainful of its basic institutions. He lies constantly. He has cheated his customers, investors, and contractors. His countless tweets and stream-of-consciousness statements at his rallies reveal a nasty, greedy, mendacious, bigoted human being, with a level of egotism and narcissism rare even among politicians and celebrities.
NEW: Pres. Obama writes a final thank you letter to Americans: “You made me a better President, and you made me a better man.” pic.twitter.com/V0Hmt4q81D
— ABC News (@ABC) January 19, 2017
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #71 lawhawk
For Trump and his entire cabinet, the entire point is to personally profit from their actions in office.
re: #147 EPR-radar
For Trump and his entire cabinet, the entire point is to personally profit from their actions in office.
But as long as the Clinton Foundation is out there, none of us is safe from pay to play.
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re: #144 BeachDem
I am sick to my stomach thinking about tomorrow.
Robert Reich captures my emotions:
Tomorrow, Donald Trump becomes president. This is a sickening event in the history of the United States, a tragedy for America and the world, and a victory for hatefulness, racism, misogyny, and authoritarianism…
Tomorrow we say farewell to the first African-American President —a man of decency, integrity, and dignity — and turn the national reigns over to a thin-skinned, vindictive, impulsive, sociopath. Trump is a conman and bully who is ignorant about democracy and disdainful of its basic institutions. He lies constantly. He has cheated his customers, investors, and contractors. His countless tweets and stream-of-consciousness statements at his rallies reveal a nasty, greedy, mendacious, bigoted human being, with a level of egotism and narcissism rare even among politicians and celebrities.
Yeah, but Bob, how do you really feel?
re: #150 Sir John Barron
“…Barrack endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States in 2016.[14] He is a major fundraiser for Trump’s campaign through the “Rebuilding America Now” Super PAC.[15][16] He spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention.[17] He was also rumored to be considered for Treasury Secretary in the Trump administration.
en.wikipedia.org.
re: #149 Belafon
We’re just going to have to fight, then.
Start from the assumption that 100% of the GOP will cave/capitulate/let trump do whatever the hell he wants. That’s how they’ve acted so far, after all…
Obama’s final call with a foreign leader: Merkel pic.twitter.com/pOmohKBO8O
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 19, 2017
I think it is meaningful that Merkel is from eastern Germany. They tore down that wall more than the westerners did, I think. And she has memories of living behind it.
re: #154 Interesting Times
Start from the assumption that 100% of the GOP will cave/capitulate/let trump do whatever the hell he wants. That’s how they’ve acted so far, after all…
And then have to run from town halls and avoid their constituents.
re: #102 Charles Johnson
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I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
re: #137 Interesting Times
As bad as these authoritarians are, they are also incompetent authoritarians. In time of crisis, I don’t have any semblance of trust in them to uphold ANY order whatsoever, let alone order of the goonish variety.
Sarah may be optimistic here.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
Putin won’t let him do that.
re: #159 Belafon
And then have to run from town halls and avoid their constituents.
Chickenhawking in all its forms is fundamental to Republicans’ grievous character flaws.
That’s why accusations of same are often the fastest way to get booted from RWNJ web sites — they know what they are, and are not happy when this is pointed out.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
No, he will just let Putin and Assad do whatever they want, up to and including the use of chemical weapons.
Once you find that one person that makes you happy in a way that no one else can,dont ever let them go and never ever take them for granted pic.twitter.com/jnQkovLZ6D
— Wina Aprilia (@winaApr10041979) January 18, 2017
re: #159 Belafon
And then have to run from town halls and avoid their constituents.
I’m old enough to remember when you could yell at (Democratic) congressmen and they didn’t turn tail and run.
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
Putin won’t let him do that.
He has been wanting to use them since last summer, and he has pledged to “bomb the hell outta ISIS”.
I think he uses a couple of B61 bombs.
He stares and judges us all… https://t.co/wRdYthC8ao #kitty #litterkit #cat #cats pic.twitter.com/RCzSq8mArT
— Litter Kit (@Litter_Kit) January 1, 2016
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
Quoth the kitty: Nevermore!
re: #159 Belafon
And then have to run from town halls and avoid their constituents.
That’s why the nihilist GOP wants to destroy everything right now, because this is their last chance to do so, and they know it.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
They’ll never forgive us for Trump alone.
It will take nanoseconds for China to assert itself as the dominant superpower.
From The Podium: @seanspicer lauds the “stunning” Trump Hotel in DC: “I encourage you to go there, if you haven’t been.”
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) January 19, 2017
.@seanspicer congrats on your new gig, fyi, a statement like this will be an ethics violation by you if u do it 26 hours from now @crewcrew https://t.co/uuusxHHGgD
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) January 19, 2017
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons
in Syriaagainst whatever or whoever says mean things about him within 3 months of taking office.
Fixed.
re: #173 Kragar
congrats on your new gig, fyi, a statement like this will be an ethics violation by you if u do it 26 hours from now
but nobody will give a fuck because, as quoted earlier earlier by Interesting Times:
laws are only as good as the people who uphold them, that the constitution is a piece of paper unless it is honored in practice.
re: #165 Big Beautiful Door
No, he will just let Putin and Assad do whatever they want, up to and including the use of chemical weapons.
Trump will wants the credit. His biographers and reporters who have been around him for years agreed on that last night in a group discussion over at The Atlantic.
That means he has to be seen as the tough guy who blew up ISIS and tough guys use the biggest bombs around. We know he is fascinated with using nuclear weapons. Blowing shit up in Syria and west Iraq with tactical nukes will provide his tough guy bonafides to his 45 year old rust belt worshippers, horrify the “PC liberals” (and all the rest of the world) while also proving he is an “agent of disruption”.
There would be utterly no downside from his perspective.
re: #174 Interesting Times
“Sir, the British Prime Minister just made a rather crude remark about your hair…”
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
If he uses them (and honestly it’s still a big if) it won’t be in Syria, it’ll be against hardened underground enrichment facilities in Iran after attempts to tear up and renegotiate the nuclear treaty fail. I’ve been saying for awhile that one of the easiest ways for him to engineer a needed distraction by way of crisis and reward Putin at the same time is to start a shooting war that closes off the Straight of Hormuz. That would spike oil prices enormously overnight, which is the one thing Putin wants more than a lifting of the US sanctions against Russia.
re: #172 Myron Falwell
They’ll never forgive us for Trump alone.
It will take nanoseconds for China to assert itself as the dominant superpower.
What the hell is China going to do about Trump in Syria?
China wants the South China Sea and would be delighted if we took a giant shit on our international reputation. The more we are distracted elsewhere, the more bases they build on artificial islands.
The only thing that has not made me cry today: a retrospective on Michelle Obama’s dresses and gowns. Not the most important thing by any means, but just one more tribute to a beautiful woman and the best First Lady ever.
The dresses:
tomandlorenzo.com
tomandlorenzo.com
The gowns:
tomandlorenzo.com
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
Trump is going to have things work out in the media so that a large and vocal part of the American public is calling for war and he will be in a position to present himself as a man of peace forced to make a tough call but eventually do what is right before plunging us into war…
Do not underestimate his ability to manipulate.
re: #178 goddamnedfrank
Fun fact: Stupid high oil prices were partially responsible for the 2008 economic collapse.
re: #176 Scottish Dragon
There would be utterly no downside from his perspective.
Except that his name is plastered on chintzy hotels and gaudy vanity project resorts all over the world, in high population centers.
They are all sitting targets.
re: #168 Scottish Dragon
He has been wanting to use them since last summer, and he has pledged to “bomb the hell outta ISIS”.
I think he uses a couple of B61 bombs.
Pfft. Drumpf likes things YUGE!
Why use a 340 kt popgun when you’ve got 1.2 MT B-83’s?
I see we’re into the doom and gloom portion of the day. Sounds like a good time to go get some grocery shopping done.
Also maybe take down the Christmas lights, since it’s not raining this afternoon. (Only chance I’ve got until next Wednesday.)
re: #179 Scottish Dragon
What the hell is China going to do about Trump in Syria?
China wants the South China Sea and would be delighted if we took a giant shit on our international reputation. The more we are distracted elsewhere, the more bases they build on artificial islands.
In general, the more politically dysfunctional we are as a nation, the more other countries can do as they please.
And we are well on our way to fulfilling the first part of that equation.
re: #143 Myron Falwell
He ghost-wrote those books. Fact check that nonsense with @tonyschwartz. The Trump cabal can’t stop lying. @JohnJHarwood
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 19, 2017
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am more concerned with how easily he is manipulated.
re: #183 Myron Falwell
Except that his name is plastered on chintzy hotels and gaudy vanity project resorts all over the world, in high population centers.
They are all sitting targets.
Agreed. I feel terrible for anyone who works at any of them.
re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg
I am more concerned with how easily he is manipulated.
They manipulate him, he manipulates the press. A union forged in the Fires of Mordor.
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So far that manipulation has netted record low approval ratings. (That the Branch Trumpidians scream “FAKE NEWS!!!” says it’s true.)
re: #192 Myron Falwell
So far that manipulation has netted record low approval ratings. (That the Branch Trumpidians scream “FAKE NEWS!!!” says it’s true.)
That manipulation got him onto the podium to be sworn in tomorrow…
re: #192 Myron Falwell
Side note: I really fucking hate the term “Fake News”.
re: #185 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I see we’re into the doom and gloom portion of the day. Sounds like a good time to go get some grocery shopping done.
Also maybe take down the Christmas lights, since it’s not raining this afternoon. (Only chance I’ve got until next Wednesday.)
Concur. The driveway isn’t going to shovel itself and I also need to get dinner started.
Back in a bit Lizards.
@JohnJHarwood
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do for me.”
“The only thing we have is fear itself”— Harry Tuttle (@HarryTuttle11) January 19, 2017
re: #183 Myron Falwell
Except that his name is plastered on chintzy hotels and gaudy vanity project resorts all over the world, in high population centers.
They are all sitting targets.
They already are targets. If he really gave a shit, he never would have run for office.
I guess (based on utterly nothing than a vague feeling, mind you) about a 50% chance there will be some sort of an attack on one of his properties overseas tomorrow. Most likely would be a single gunman, or possibly a small group.
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That manipulation got him onto the podium to be sworn in tomorrow…
… including just enough Bumfuck Counties.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Side note: I really fucking hate the term “Fake News”.
You and me both. Gah.
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. I feel terrible for anyone who works at any of them.
This would be the time to get the fuck out. Now.
Especially if you were working in a property in India, Indonesia or on the Persian Gulf.
re: #158 wrenchwench
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Passing the torch - the last American leader of the Free World to the next one.
re: #185 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I see we’re into the doom and gloom portion of the day. Sounds like a good time to go get some grocery shopping done.
Also maybe take down the Christmas lights, since it’s not raining this afternoon. (Only chance I’ve got until next Wednesday.)
I’m thinking of making some beer cheese dip, using shredded taco cheese instead of sharp cheddar.
re: #192 Myron Falwell
So far that manipulation has netted record low approval ratings. (That the Branch Trumpidians scream “FAKE NEWS!!!” says it’s true.)
upding for Branch Trumpidians
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Side note: I really fucking hate the term “Fake News”.
It has joined “politically correct” as a term that is now so subjective and nebulous as to be meaningless in any discussion.
But before I go. New Keith Obermann video.
NEW VIDEO: Boycott. The. Inauguration. pic.twitter.com/wbBpMGzNLD
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 19, 2017
Fascinating article on how some of America’s oldest Muslim communities - having arrived as immigrants from… https://t.co/5yxKl71Skr
— Alex Shams (@seyyedreza) January 19, 2017
re: #197 Scottish Dragon
They already are targets. If he really gave a shit, he never would have run for office.
I guess (based on utterly nothing than a vague feeling, mind you) about a 50% chance there will be some sort of an attack on one of his properties overseas tomorrow. Most likely would be a single gunman, or possibly a small group.
James O’Keefe could set off a firecracker at the Trump tower tomorrow, and RWNJ media would be all for martial law to combat “liberal terrorism”.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Side note: I really fucking hate the term “Fake News”.
Fake News is The Onion
Agitprop (aka propaganda) is what Fox, RT, and right wing blog/media outlets spew on a daily basis.
That right wing outlets are busy trying to claim that legitimate news sources are fake news is itself agitprop. Trying to counter this is news, and the same right wing outlets claim fact-checking is also fake.
It’s lies all the way down for these fuckers, and who benefits? Putin. Billionaires. And people who are insulated from the consequences of losing the safety net and environmental protections and safety that federal programs provide.
In other words, very few people are going to benefit, and a whole mess of people are going to needlessly suffer. #GOPDontCare
re: #207 EPR-radar
James O’Keefe could set off a firecracker at the Trump tower tomorrow, and RWNJ media would be all for martial law to combat “liberal terrorism”.
Dreher and Jonah Goldberg would be calling for martial law.
re: #208 lawhawk
Fake News is The Onion
Agitprop (aka propaganda) is what Fox, RT, and right wing blog/media outlets spew on a daily basis.
As soon as “trending on Twitter” became a valid news topic, I knew that it did not bode well for our republic.
People like Drudge and Breitbart quickly figured that all you have to do is float a story out there long enough and it will develop a life of its own and eventually get picked up by the MSM as if it actually had any merit of its own.
I just realized that someday, there will be a Donald Trump Presidential Library, and my gag reflex just triggered. pic.twitter.com/MWk41Krp8d
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 19, 2017
re: #185 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I see we’re into the doom and gloom portion of the day. Sounds like a good time to go get some grocery shopping done.
Also maybe take down the Christmas lights, since it’s not raining this afternoon. (Only chance I’ve got until next Wednesday.)
We are hours away from a situation where the use of US nuclear weapons depends almost entirely on the whims of a morally depraved and easily provoked malignant narcissist.
A certain level of gloom and doom is to be expected, especially since this cheerful prospect is merely one of hundreds of disasters the Republicans are planning to provide.
re: #209 Scottish Dragon
Dreher and Jonah Goldberg would be calling for martial law.
And fucking Jonah Goldberg can do it on fucking NPR.
The GOP is going to start pushing tax cuts and major policy changes at the federal level. The result will be a slowdown in federal revenues, because that’s what happens when there are tax cuts (you lose revenue).
In many cases, those federal changes are automatically picked up by states that follow the federal changes. Those states will also see a loss in revenue without any changes of their own. That means they’ll have to affirmatively decouple from the federal changes, or set new conformity dates to avoid the revenue hit (and they know it will be coming; some states have fixed conformity dates to avoid getting blindsided by federal changes the state legislatures don’t want to adopt).
This applies to not only the estate tax area, but to corporate and individual taxes. After all, pretty much every state’s income tax returns start with federal taxable income, and if you’ve computed a lower amount as a result of federal law changes, that flows to the state tax return.
So, what you’ll end up seeing is states pushing back against moving quickly to amend the tax code, because the consequences could be budget busters for states.
re: #213 wrenchwench
And fucking Jonah Goldberg can do it on fucking NPR.
That’s a revolting development I wasn’t aware of. RWNJ scum like Jonah Goldberg can stick with Stormfront lite (i.e., National Review). There’s no reason to invite that kind of infection of the airwaves on the taxpayer’s dime.
re: #214 lawhawk
The GOP is going to start pushing tax cuts and major policy changes at the federal level. The result will be a slowdown in federal revenues, because that’s what happens when there are tax cuts (you lose revenue).
…
So, what you’ll end up seeing is states pushing back against moving quickly to amend the tax code, because the consequences could be budget busters for states.
Anything that facilitates the complete collapse of government as we know it is a good thing to those currently in power
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has joined “politically correct” as a term that is now so subjective and nebulous as to be meaningless in any discussion.
We just need to call it what it really is. Propaganda.
re: #215 EPR-radar
That’s a revolting development I wasn’t aware of. RWNJ scum like Jonah Goldberg can stick with Stormfront lite (i.e., National Review). There’s no reason to invite that kind of infection of the airwaves on the taxpayer’s dime.
For all I know, it was a strategic maneuver to keep that taxpayer’s dime.
re: #217 austin_blue
10,000 copies of “The Art of the Deal”, all in pristine, never even opened condition.
re: #218 Myron Falwell
We just need to call it what it really is. Propaganda.
I recall a major kerfuffle when the Right Wing claimed that Facebook Feeds were being tweaked to cover “left wing” news over “conservative” news.
To which I could only ask back then, what kind of idiot gets their news from their Facebook feed? FB is for finding out what your friends and family are up to, funny cat videos, recipes and stupid jokes…
At least that is what I thought back then…
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Anything that facilitates the complete collapse of government as we know it is a good thing to those currently in power
Until it isn’t. People not getting their SS checks tends to make them angry.
re: #211 Kragar
Hmm. Which is a worse prospect: 1) Global thermonuclear war or 2) The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library?
i’m wearing all black tomorrow. maybe we all should. #realblackfriday
— Jean (@JeanEschenbach) January 19, 2017
That’s almost every day for me.
re: #217 austin_blue
What’ll they do if someone checks out the book?
Trump’s going to put everything in that library, even his tax returns. He’s going to fill it with every document, contract, photo that he never released. Then it will mysteriously burn down.
re: #222 Belafon
Until it isn’t. People not getting their SS checks tends to make them angry.
Anger doesn’t interest me, unless it is directed at the right targets. The Republicans could kill Social Security and Medicare tomorrow and polling in the country would be 50/50 on whether Republicans or Democrats are to blame.
Damn these photos from the Tehran high-rise fire are just so horrible and depressing.
re: #211 Kragar
It wil be the biggest library! The classiest, the best!
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
To which I could only ask back then, what kind of idiot gets their news from their Facebook feed?
wingnut idiots (and probably some dudebro idiots, too).
re: #211 Kragar
Entirely in paperback and magazines.
re: #222 Belafon
Until it isn’t. People not getting their SS checks tends to make them angry.
Keep your government hands off my Social Security!!!
BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas from ousting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 19, 2017
sad, but so true…
So McConnell admits that Trump’s claims of bringing back coal jobs not likely https://t.co/5wsaMnGDB0
— Jim Marston (@JimMarston) January 19, 2017
However, the good news all of those poor West Virginian coal miners who voted for MAGA will dead from lack of healthcare, so, win win! https://t.co/zy0H5T9t3t
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 19, 2017
re: #229 Sir John Barron
To which I could only ask back then, what kind of idiot gets their news from their Facebook feed?
wingnut idiots (and probably some dudebro idiots, too).
Real-life examples: I called out my liberal nephew for falling for a fake DT quote from 1990 where he was purported to say that if he ran for President he would run as a Republican because they are all idiots and would take anyone.
Days later, I had to take my conservative brother to task for getting outraged over a fake story about illuminating the White House in purple in honor of Prince.
And the fact that the RW outrage machine could generate outrage over fake reports about FB manipulating news feeds was enough to remind me that we have entered into an alternate reality.
Or was that a fake report?
Rick Perry, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, says he will defend all scientists: https://t.co/tJpbyci50X pic.twitter.com/aZVeR8j5cI
— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) January 19, 2017
This from a guy who worked for *years* to destroy the teaching of biology in Texas. https://t.co/fhlhKDJw0W https://t.co/KmHQm0jPAo
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) January 19, 2017
My mind continues to reel over what has happened to this country. I have never been so scared about the future, and aside from my parents, I don’t know anyone else personally who shares my level of concern. I’m so tired of being treated like a hysterical partisan. I’m tired of turning on the news and seeing smiling newspeople talk about this transition like it’s normal. I’m tired of running various doomsday scenarios through my head. I’m tired of people telling me to give this monster a chance. I’m especially tired of being told to empathize with voters who harbor such contempt for democracy that they would vote to place this country in the hands of a genuinely stupid, narcissistic fascist.
Thankfully I’m not too tired to totally give up. I’ll be at the Saturday march in Austin and I will protest, vote, and fight in every way I can but I still feel so much despair and fear. Thanks all for being such a great outlet and source. I really treasure my time here. I know I’m going to need this more than ever in the days ahead.
Friggin Obama, waits to the last day to herd us all into FEMA camps and round up the guns
Worst socialist space lizard dictator EVER!— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 19, 2017
re: #222 Belafon
Until it isn’t. People not getting their SS checks tends to make them angry.
And that’s when the shit will hit the fan. The GOP, despite their wet dreams of authoritarianism, won’t be able to suppress the inevitable backlash.
re: #237 InfidelOfFreedom
My mind continues to reel over what has happened to this country. I have never been so scared about the future, and aside from my parents, I don’t know anyone else personally who shares my level of concern. I’m so tired of being treated like a hysterical partisan. I’m tired of turning on the news and seeing smiling newspeople talk about this transition like it’s normal. I’m tired of running various doomsday scenarios through my head. I’m tired of people telling me to give this monster a chance. I’m especially tired of being told to empathize with voters who harbor such contempt for democracy that they would vote to place this country in the hands of a genuinely stupid, narcissistic fascist.
Thankfully I’m not too tired to totally give up. I’ll be at the Saturday march in Austin and I will protest, vote, and fight in every way I can but I still feel so much despair and fear. Thanks all for being such a great outlet and source. I really treasure my time here. I know I’m going to need this more than ever in the days ahead.
See you there!
re: #239 nines09
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Coal stands on the bones of the miners and still to this day buries them.
I was there when part of that was going down.
I saw and heard things there that still make me SMH today.
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rick Perry, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, says he will defend all scientists: go.nature.com
He meant to say “defund”
re: #240 Myron Falwell
And that’s when the shit will hit the fan. The GOP, despite their wet dreams of authoritarianism, won’t be able to suppress the inevitable backlash.
Why? These are people who will happily kill enough of them directly so the rest are happy to go crawl off and die eating grass and freezing to death in abandoned buildings.
This is what gives Ryan a woodie and he’s been working toward for his whole life - the ability to condemn thousands if not millions to death for being poors. If he has to have the police and army kill some of them, he won’t care any more than the Argentinian Army officers who threw teenagers out of helicopters to their death in the Atlantic Ocean. After raping them first, of course.
re: #239 nines09
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Coal stands on the bones of the miners and still to this day buries them.
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@sarahdal_moths https://t.co/72SMYPDPF1
— Dan Jackson (@northumbriana) January 14, 2017
Hehhehehehhehe….
I really hope the Secret Service is like that bus driver…
A hi-vis vest is your key to the world. Free visits to the zoo, the movies, and even free access to see my favourite awesome band, Coldplay.
The world is a stratified place. Important people get into exclusive places. Everyone else has to pay shit loads of money, or watch longingly through the fence. But there’s a loophole into getting into places for free, if you’re so inclined. You just need to pretend to be an important person. And people who wear hi-vis are important in the sense that they fix things no one else cares about. If you see someone in hi-vis stepping through a barricade, or marching past a bouncer, you naturally assume they’re headed to fix something. This makes a hi-vis vest the keys to life.
re: #245 William Lewis
Ryan is a horrible man, but he’s not that smart. I remember seeing Biden fucking demolish him on national television.
In a way, that makes it worse.
re: #248 William Lewis
Hehhehehehhehe….
I really hope the Secret Service is like that bus driver…
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re: #249 Myron Falwell
Ryan is a horrible man, but he’s not that smart. I remember seeing Biden fucking demolish him on national television.
In a way, that makes it worse.
None of these Republicans are all that smart. The GOP has merely done the obvious in terms of spreading its propaganda via Faux News, hate radio and government agencies where they rule, and this simply works depressingly well for these barbarians.
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was there when part of that was going down.
I saw and heard things there that still make me SMH today.
I saw a lot of that part of the world while driving truck. I had a friend who left Philly to avoid confinement back about 1972-3 and he was hiding out in the hills outside Christiansburg Va. I drove on dirt and gravel and through two streams for about 15 miles to get to his shack. Sheriff came by looking for a still…….Pennsylvania has a lot of coal related issues. I’m close by the anthracite region. They stripped for bituminous a bit further west of here. Now we sit on Marcellus shale. Fun times. I will not be here for that environmental breakdown as the well caps decay. When I think about what all I saw, I’m surprised I’m not more fucked up.
re: #251 EPR-radar
None of these Republicans are all that smart. The GOP has merely done the obvious in terms of spreading its propaganda via Faux News, hate radio and government agencies where they rule, and this simply works depressingly well for these barbarians.
And they did it in flyover country, where Bumfuck County voters outweigh Orange County voters by 10,000 to 1.
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
OK, back from shoveling the drive and cooling down.
This is not NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Get it? Get it now.
There are procedures in place to PREVENT just such an incident from happening.
The POTUS can not upon a whim just decide to release nuclear weapons. There are checks and balance in place to prevent this.
One of the first one is the JCS. If they don’t sign off on a release order it’s not happening.
The first time (and last) time tRump orders such a strike without JCS approval he will be shut down and he will be removed.
U.S. policy (after WW II) is that we will not innate a first strike and our Military knows this.
Oh and just as a follow up. Our Nuclear Deterrence stance is set up for a RETALIATORY RESPONSE not a first strike.
Oh, dammit. I tweeted in support of the women who are standing up to the goddamn mindless #GamerGate fucksticks, and now my Twitter feed is blowing up.
Sigh.
I ain’t got time for all this trolling. (Said in best Jesse Ventura voice)
Well this sucks. Nobody should come to downtown LA to the Jewelry district shopping tomorrow. Most of our street front stores will not be opening due to fears of riot or vandalism as a major anti Trump protest may come through here.
Seen this before, August 2000 DNC riots
Those of us that have jobs upstairs will be coming in anyway and hope we can bank, get things shipped in and out etc etc. Apparently LAPD notified the local building managers and they send letters out. I really hope nothing violent or destructive happens. We jewelry folks on Hill street are all small biz largely family operations.
re: #256 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)
Oh, dammit. I tweeted in support of the women who are standing up to the goddamn mindless #GamerGate fucksticks, and now my Twitter feed is blowing up.
Sigh.
I ain’t got time for all this trolling. (Said in best Jesse Ventura voice)
Whats your twitter handle?
Okay, gang, we only have 18 hours left and the Obama legacy is in our hands.
-Remember to take your guns to the end of the driveway so the ACORN volunteers can finish collecting them in the time available.
-The RWNJs only THINK there is no time to throw the Christians, dissidents, and rt.com readers in FEMA camp. Won’t they be surprised! 12 million spaces are finally ready and stocked with shabby uniforms, cheap sandals, and instant gruel rations. 26,000 black helicopters are poised for take off at nightfall with 96,500 cattle cars and thousands of re-tasked school buses ready to roll. Be sure to clear the streets after dark.
-curfew is at 10 PM local and the satellites are watching.
-If we pull together and support our volunteers we can make this a rousing success, so let’s get going!
I’m am not a phone call kind of person, but I just made my first political calls to John Ratcliffe’s and John Cornyn’s offices. For Ratcliffe, I told the person answering his phone to not repeal the ACA, my reasoning being because it helps people start small businesses (I suspect that ones not used very often). For Cornyn, I told his staff to not vote for DeVos. I tried calling Cruz, but his office line was busy.
re: #256 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)
Oh, dammit. I tweeted in support of the women who are standing up to the goddamn mindless #GamerGate fucksticks, and now my Twitter feed is blowing up.
Sigh.
I ain’t got time for all this trolling. (Said in best Jesse Ventura voice)
You’ll learn who to block. Make sure you call them cowards on the way out.
re: #257 Unshaken Defiance
Turnout may be low it’s going to be pouring rain tomorrow (at least an inch expected). Then again people are truly pissed about what is going to happen tomorrow.
re: #213 wrenchwench
And fucking Jonah Goldberg can do it on fucking NPR.
Once the GOP turns Public Broadcasting corporate, NPR will become the Rush Limbaugh Network and Jonah will have a job for life.
re: #259 Shiplord Kirel
Okay, gang, we only have 18 hours left and the Obama legacy is in our hands.
-Remember to take your guns to the end of the driveway so the ACORN volunteers can finish collecting them in the time available.
-The RWNJs only THINK there is no time to throw the Christians, dissidents, and rt.com readers in FEMA camp. Won’t they be surprised! 12 million spaces are finally ready and stocked with shabby uniforms, cheap sandals, and instant gruel rations. 26,000 black helicopters are poised for take off at nightfall with 96,500 cattle cars and thousands of re-tasked school buses ready to roll. Be sure to clear the streets after dark.
-curfew is at 10 PM local and the satellites are watching.
-If we pull together and support our volunteers we can make this a rousing success, so let’s get going!
Call me on my Obamaphone when it’s time. I’m wrapping up the last details of Jade Helm and will surely forget.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
I haz a few of those…
I sell ‘em. For a while, I had ones with blinky LED lights in stripes. Had ‘em for years. finally sold one, and gave the other way.
re: #178 goddamnedfrank
If he uses them (and honestly it’s still a big if) it won’t be in Syria, it’ll be against hardened underground enrichment facilities in Iran after attempts to tear up and renegotiate the nuclear treaty fail. I’ve been saying for awhile that one of the easiest ways for him to engineer a needed distraction by way of crisis and reward Putin at the same time is to start a shooting war that closes off the Straight of Hormuz. That would spike oil prices enormously overnight, which is the one thing Putin wants more than a lifting of the US sanctions against Russia.
Yeah, I kinda see that coming as well. Putin needs oil prices to be high, and the easiest way to do that is to go crazy in the Middle East, and then blame all the day-um Ay-rabs for the high gas prices.
They say that in Russia, the war is between the TV and the refrigerator. Propaganda vs. hunger. Here in the U.S., it’ll be between talk radio & the gas tank.
Wonder which one will win?
Dennis Hastert demands hush money back from alleged sex abuse victim
Brazen s.o.b huh?
Betsy Nichols (@betsythebeaver) is such a tremendous artist … she’s drawn my avatars including my LGF avi. So I’m still in shock that she adopted my thank you gesture as her Twitter avi.
Cropped this pic from @myronfalwell for my icon :) pic.twitter.com/OIr92k1Fr3
— Betsy 💬 (@betsythebeaver) January 19, 2017
re: #268 Unshaken Defiance
Dennis Hastert demands hush money back from alleged sex abuse victim
Brazen s.o.b huh?
Hush money don’t work that way, Dennis.
re: #270 wrenchwench
Hush money don’t work that way, Dennis.
Hastert is an old white fart…he thinks things still work like they did back in his heyday.
re: #261 Belafon
You’ll learn who to block. Make sure you call them cowards on the way out.
They’re already whining about the women they mass-assault using a “Gamergate Bot” to block them so they can’t abuse them more.
“Hey! Come back here and let me threaten to rape you with a knife more! Where’s your sense of humor?”
re: #160 Scottish Dragon
I fully expect Trump will use tactical nuclear weapons in Syria within 3 months of taking office.
The rest of the world will never, ever forgive us.
I wonder what happens when he orders the launch and the officers refuse to comply with what they consider an illegal order?
re: #274 KGxvi
I wonder what happens when he orders the launch and the officers refuse to comply with what they consider an illegal order?
What indeed.
During the first months of the war, scores of commanders, most notably General Dmitry Pavlov, were made scapegoats for failures. Pavlov was arrested and executed after his forces were heavily defeated in the early days of the campaign. Only two of the accused were spared: People’s Commissar of Armaments Boris Vannikov (released in July) and Deputy People’s Commissar of Defense General Kirill Meretskov (released in September). The latter had admitted guilt, under torture.
About 300 commanders, including Lieutenant General Nikolay Klich, Lieutenant General Robert Klyavinsh, and Major General Sergey Chernykh, were executed on October 16, 1941, during the Battle of Moscow. Others were sent to Kuybyshev, provisional capital of the Soviet Union, on October 17. On October 28 twenty were summarily shot near Kuybyshev on Lavrentiy Beria’s personal order.
In November Beria successfully lobbied Stalin to simplify the procedure for carrying out death sentences issued by local military courts so that they would no longer require approval of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court and Politburo for the first time since the end of the Great Purge. The right to issue extrajudicial death sentences was granted to the Special Council of the NKVD. With the approval of Stalin, 46 persons … were sentenced to death by the Special Council. They were executed on the Day of the Red Army, February 23, 1942.
re: #274 KGxvi
I wonder what happens when he orders the launch and the officers refuse to comply with what they consider an illegal order?
Trump has enough low cunning to avoid that scenario. Trump will not try to play with the nukes unless he has made sure the relevant chain of command is filled with his creatures.
re: #274 KGxvi
Summary executions for mutiny till they find people willing to turn the keys?
re: #277 William Lewis
Summary executions for mutiny till they find people willing to turn the keys?
I’d put the over under of summary executions ordered before there was a military coup at 0.5
The fact that we even have to contemplate these kinds of things is… less than good.
@DavidCornDC @realDonaldTrump
His signature is literally a failed polygraph test. pic.twitter.com/mARjsC1JRL— Harry Tuttle (@HarryTuttle11) January 19, 2017
re: #237 InfidelOfFreedom
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