New From Keith Olbermann: The 50 Craziest Things Trump Has Done as President
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Can’t. Won’t.
Got shit I have to get done today.
Will look at this later, because: damn.
Can’t afford to lose another 2 hours to disgust & rage.
@POTUSBathrobe I see no purity blue verified checkmark! #FakeBathRobe
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 6, 2017
Had a weird dream last night that I signed on to Twitter and all the tweets were nothing but “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2017
NBC News: Yemen raid target was leader of Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula, who survived, now taunting President Trump https://t.co/4tjfWjYPQn pic.twitter.com/9gmLl9NCBP
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 6, 2017
Turnabout Is Fair Play. pic.twitter.com/fpx1bfiQkw
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) February 6, 2017
re: #3 Charles Johnson
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
— endless screaming (@infinite_scream) February 6, 2017
@Green_Footballs Better that than … https://t.co/hiJhvcnzQi
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 6, 2017
A dyslexic, on the other hand might not appreciate the difference.
re: #6 lawhawk
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A dyslexic, on the other hand might not appreciate the difference.
I was looking for one of those, and got distracted. There may be a challenger to Charles to dominate the GFY category of Twitter.
Fuck you, fuck your woman, fuck your kids fuck your dog, fuck your cat, fuck your motherfucking turtle you spineless fucking maggot 18
— Patrick👊 (@QuadCityPat) February 6, 2017
Ends at 19/19. Other good ones are in there, but not of the GFY category.
Federal appeals court decides to schedule a hearing on Trump travel order, via @mattzap https://t.co/fLJ2ui6ruv
— John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner) February 6, 2017
I don’t think there’s a single thing about Trump’s laundry list of faults that angers me more viscerally than his association with Alex Jones.
re: #10 A wild WITHAK appeared!
I don’t think there’s a single thing about Trump’s laundry list of faults that angers me more viscerally than his association with Alex Jones.
A good argument could be made that his susceptibility to the lies of Alex Jones and his ilk is the root of most of his bad traits and actions.
re: #10 A wild WITHAK appeared!
I don’t think there’s a single thing about Trump’s laundry list of faults that angers me more viscerally than his association with Alex Jones.
It’s certainly up there.
MN GOP moves to block sick leave, wage hikes. @JohnCroman reports https://t.co/soS756jkkI pic.twitter.com/tPKIsZ9wi5
— KARE 11 (@kare11) February 6, 2017
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Republicans are moving to block cities from implementing their own sick leave policies or minimum wage hikes.
The effort comes amid mandatory sick leave requirements that are set to take effect this summer in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Both cities are also home to long-brewing efforts to raise wages to as much as $15 hourly.
Republicans say a patchwork of different regulations across the state is confusing and costly for businesses.
Those poor oppressed businesses are so easily confused….
gaaaaaaaahhhhh
I love it when Mike Huckabee talks that hip music lingo. @yashar
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 7, 2017
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Prolife my fucking ass.
re: #6 lawhawk
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A dyslexic, on the other hand might not appreciate the difference.
Old MacDonald had a farm, 3-1-3-1-0!
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Those poor oppressed businesses are so easily confused….
gaaaaaaaahhhhh
One of the most enraging ironies of this is that the state GOP is fighting sick leave while our governor is working through prostate cancer treatment.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Those poor oppressed businesses are so easily confused….
gaaaaaaaahhhhh
And one more reason the GOP was bound and determined to get rid of ACORN—in addition to voter registration, they were huge fighters for living wage ordinances. (If there’s anything that pissed me off about the Dems, it was that they rolled over and didn’t fight for ACORN)
re: #17 A wild WITHAK appeared!
One of the most enraging ironies of this is that the state GOP is fighting sick leave while our governor is working through prostate cancer treatment.
This is why I refer to state legislatures as the Lavatories Of Democracy.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Those poor oppressed businesses are so easily confused….
gaaaaaaaahhhhh
It’ll never get past Gov. Dayton.
From the last thread but I got here late…
I find it amusing that of all things in that article the only thing Spicer denied was the bathrobe. Guess that confirms the EO Trump didn’t know he was signing.
bunny rabit pic.twitter.com/Q1Nc3EBqKZ
— Trump Draws (@TrumpDraws) February 6, 2017
re: #20 stpaulbear
It’ll never get past Gov. Dayton.
Consider yourself lucky. My state has a GOP governor that rubber stamps just about anything the legislature comes up with.
President Trump, the Quebec attack, and “rebranding” extremism so as not to include white nationalists: https://t.co/pccaUBZClZ
— Michael Powell (@powellnyt) February 7, 2017
The @realDonaldTrump Bio Pic looks like it might be pretty good. #ResistTrump pic.twitter.com/2RKhmXRA39
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 7, 2017
Since Democrats can’t seem to play the role of an effective opposition party, Greens will gladly step in. https://t.co/p3E5sxsZbj
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) February 6, 2017
Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November
Say hi to Putin and Flynn for us. https://t.co/k8FvlXfRA6— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 7, 2017
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Consider yourself lucky. My state has a GOP governor that rubber stamps just about anything the legislature comes up with.
Oh yeah, I’m very aware of how lucky we are. As WI was screwing over everyone, MN passed marriage equality. I’m glad Dayton wasn’t up for re-election during last year’s wave of conservative crazy.
WH produces list of terror attacks it believes were inadequately covered. But on list are Paris, San Bernardino, Nice? h/t @danmericaCNN
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 7, 2017
as an aside, this statement’s still up https://t.co/DxWKO71X3F pic.twitter.com/2pVRirP6Bb
— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) February 7, 2017
re: #30 FormerDirtDart
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You know, it says something that the last two administrations tried to be low-key about terror attacks, tried to enforce the idea that even in the face of terror that life goes on. Now here’s Trump screaming “TERRORTERRORTERROR!!!!”
This one just astounds me:
California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant for the state’s high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed…The letter asks Chao to stop approval of a $650 million grant that the Transportation Department could make as early as next week as part of an effort to install an electrical system that the bullet train would eventually use from San Jose to San Francisco and that the Caltrain commuter rail system would use as well.
Anyone from California who can make sense of this?
Donald Trump owns a hotel chain. How could he not own a bathrobe?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 6, 2017
re: #29 stpaulbear
Oh yeah, I’m very aware of how lucky we are. As WI was screwing over everyone, MN passed marriage equality. I’m glad Dayton wasn’t up for re-election during last year’s wave of conservative crazy.
Minnesota has a Republican controlled House and Senate, does it not? I thought things had been going relatively well their, and the start was still relatively liberal. Is there are particular reason for the red legislature?
re: #33 BeachDem
This one just astounds me:
California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant for the state’s high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed…The letter asks Chao to stop approval of a $650 million grant that the Transportation Department could make as early as next week as part of an effort to install an electrical system that the bullet train would eventually use from San Jose to San Francisco and that the Caltrain commuter rail system would use as well.
Anyone from California who can make sense of this?
CA Republicans’ idea of working on public policy is to bay at the moon and find fire hydrants to piddle on. It’s a waste of time looking for any sense in their actions.
re: #35 Weaselone
Minnesota has a Republican controlled House and Senate, does it not? I thought things had been going relatively well their, and the start was still relatively liberal. Is there are particular reason for the red legislature?
The Trump effect, mostly, from what I’ve read and heard.
re: #33 BeachDem
This one just astounds me:
California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant for the state’s high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed…The letter asks Chao to stop approval of a $650 million grant that the Transportation Department could make as early as next week as part of an effort to install an electrical system that the bullet train would eventually use from San Jose to San Francisco and that the Caltrain commuter rail system would use as well.
Anyone from California who can make sense of this?
Kevin Drum explains. It’s all about killing high-speed rail, indirectly.
re: #36 EPR-radar
CA Republicans’ idea of working on public policy is to bay at the moon and find fire hydrants to piddle on. It’s a waste of time looking for any sense in their actions.
QFT.
JUST IN: Senators introduce bipartisan resolution in support of Australia after Trump call https://t.co/b47juBB6Bb pic.twitter.com/mC6fU0vWTp
— The Hill (@thehill) February 7, 2017
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dont want to hurt no kangaroos
So…according to InfoWars, all real terrorist attacks are fake, but there are millions of real ones we’ve never heard of? @washingtonpost
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) February 7, 2017
Tom Brady has 4 more Super Bowls rings than @PutinRF_Eng … but they both have a friend in @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Quh8oZnIbr
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) February 7, 2017
re: #36 EPR-radar
CA Republicans’ idea of working on public policy is to bay at the moon and find fire hydrants to piddle on. It’s a waste of time looking for any sense in their actions.
You just don’t often see Reps turning down money for their states. Unless they’re getting payoffs from whoever would benefit from NOT having high speed rail—airlines? Oil companies? Auto manufacturers? Certainly they’re not doing it to benefit their constituents—why, that would be plain silly.
When you’ve lost John Yoo….
NYTimes: Executive Power Run Amok
A successful president need not have a degree in constitutional law. But he should understand the Constitution’s grant of executive power. He should share Hamilton’s vision of an energetic president leading the executive branch in a unified direction, rather than viewing the government as the enemy. He should realize that the Constitution channels the president toward protecting the nation from foreign threats, while cooperating with Congress on matters at home.
Otherwise, our new president will spend his days overreacting to the latest events, dissipating his political capital and haphazardly wasting the executive’s powers.
re: #25 FormerDirtDart
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So on point. Despair is the only word I have after reading.
re: #44 BeachDem
You just don’t often see Reps turning down money for their states. Unless they’re getting payoffs from whoever would benefit from NOT having high speed rail—airlines? Oil companies? Auto manufacturers? Certainly they’re not doing it to benefit their constituents—why, that would be plain silly.
High speed rail is somewhat divisive out here, but not terribly popular in the more rural areas of CA.
One of the ballot measures in November was another indirect attempt to kill it (along with some of the delta water projects, I believe). That got defeated (I think) but they’re bound and determined to kill it somehow.
re: #32 Targetpractice
You know, it says something that the last two administrations tried to be low-key about terror attacks, tried to enforce the idea that even in the face of terror that life goes on. Now here’s Trump screaming “TERRORTERRORTERROR!!!!”
Because he’s as scared as any wuss. A big baby.
re: #42 InfidelOfFreedom
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Pretty much. In the minds of the wingnuts, Islam is running amuck and the media has been suppressing news of such for years at the orders of Washington bureaucrats who are either secret Muslims or are selling out America to spare themselves from the coming jihad.
re: #44 BeachDem
You just don’t often see Reps turning down money for their states. Unless they’re getting payoffs from whoever would benefit from NOT having high speed rail—airlines? Oil companies? Auto manufacturers? Certainly they’re not doing it to benefit their constituents—why, that would be plain silly.
Funny Euro-Japanese stuff? I really dont get it either. Drum is opposed to the bullet train on cost grounds (I think) but strongly opposes this bullshit move because upgrading the San Jose–San Francisco link makes total sense. Gov. Brown is strongly in favor of the bullet train, reverting to his old high-tech-progressive ways. Personally, I think Brown is right and Drum’s metaphorical grandkids will be glad it’s there. But it does require a lot of government money. Which of course will be spent mostly in-state, presumably creating j-o-b-s.
Trump probably wants to put a finger in Brown’s eye …
re: #35 Weaselone
Minnesota has a Republican controlled House and Senate, does it not? I thought things had been going relatively well their, and the start was still relatively liberal. Is there are particular reason for the red legislature?
re: #37 A wild WITHAK appeared!
The Trump effect, mostly, from what I’ve read and heard.
Yep. Also, there’s always been a donut of conservative (white flight) suburbs around the Twin Cities. They have a lot of voting power. Once you get past the donut the state is a bit more progressive, but it can also bounce back and forth. Before the 2016 election, the house was republican but the senate was democratic. The Trump wave tipped both houses more republican.
A White House official says “most” of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media. pic.twitter.com/v66rcHxAFI
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) February 7, 2017
@emilys525 @colincampbell @yashar Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nicols, Dylan Roof, Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder, Wade Page, Millers (Jared/Amanda)
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 7, 2017
A White House official says “most” of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media. pic.twitter.com/v66rcHxAFI
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) February 7, 2017
And these hapless clowns managed to misspell “San Bernardino.” @danmericaCNN https://t.co/IbAOeanWaV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 7, 2017
re: #50 petesh
There’s a non-trivial amount of NIMBY going on up on the peninsula regarding the upgrades required for high speed rail too, since it has to be grade separated and OH HEAVENS THE PROPERTY VALUES but I’d like to think common sense will win out there.*
* Look let me have my delusions, okay?
re: #54 Charles Johnson
@Green_Footballs @danmericaCNN Not to mention the word “attacker” is spelled “attaker” in most places.
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 7, 2017
re: #54 Charles Johnson
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And let me guess, the majority of those attacks are in foreign locales which wingnuts don’t give a flying fuck about until a bomb goes off and they can blame Muslims for it.
re: #47 klys (maker of Silmarils)
High speed rail is somewhat divisive out here, but not terribly popular in the more rural areas of CA.
One of the ballot measures in November was another indirect attempt to kill it (along with some of the delta water projects, I believe). That got defeated (I think) but they’re bound and determined to kill it somehow.
I see resistance to public transit of every type, every day, in parts of California (mostly in northern counties with totally crap transit service and Republicans in city government. Hey, they have cars, so what if the buses only run three days a week) but this grant phase is for the electrical grid, which I would think would provide other benefits even if the high speed rail never gets built.
re: #58 BeachDem
I see resistance to public transit of every type, every day, in parts of California (mostly in northern counties with totally crap transit service and Republicans in city government. Hey, they have cars, so what if the buses only run three days a week) but this grant phase is for the electrical grid, which I would think would provide other benefits even if the high speed rail never gets built.
Yes, but you and I think about infrastructure like rational people.
In which Melania Trump admits her intent to illegally profiteer off the presidency in her legal pleading: https://t.co/iBVO4EaFBx pic.twitter.com/DrWBnhdWHU
— Laura (@SheWhoVotes) February 7, 2017
re: #50 petesh
Funny Euro-Japanese stuff? I really dont get it either. Drum is opposed to the bullet train on cost grounds (I think) but strongly opposes this bullshit move because upgrading the San Jose–San Francisco link makes total sense. Gov. Brown is strongly in favor of the bullet train, reverting to his old high-tech-progressive ways. Personally, I think Brown is right and Drum’s metaphorical grandkids will be glad it’s there. But it does require a lot of government money. Which of course will be spent mostly in-state, presumably creating j-o-b-s.
Trump probably wants to put a finger in Brown’s eye …
Thanks for the explanation—but re: Trump wanting to put a finger in Brown’s eye—it’s CA Republican reps, led by McCarthy who are requesting that the money be stopped.
He’s on fire today. pic.twitter.com/mnQYH4l1tA
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) February 6, 2017
re: #47 klys (maker of Silmarils)
High speed rail is somewhat divisive out here, but not terribly popular in the more rural areas of CA.
One of the ballot measures in November was another indirect attempt to kill it (along with some of the delta water projects, I believe). That got defeated (I think) but they’re bound and determined to kill it somehow.
And people who are stuck in freeway hell want it more than anything.
First Lady Melania Trump has re-filed her claim against the Daily Mail in New York, her lawyer says. Case was dismissed in MD.
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) February 6, 2017
That would be called forum shopping https://t.co/nvH6P267ko
— Laura (@SheWhoVotes) February 7, 2017
In which Melania Trump admits her intent to illegally profiteer off the presidency in her legal pleading: https://t.co/iBVO4EaFBx pic.twitter.com/DrWBnhdWHU
— Laura (@SheWhoVotes) February 7, 2017
P.S. @MELANIATRUMP: you might want to get yourself a better lawyer because this one writes like Donald and will be laughed out of court. https://t.co/DPiQIEfc6Q
— Laura (@SheWhoVotes) February 7, 2017
re: #53 MsJ
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“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but so far all Muslim terrorists have been Muslims.”
re: #60 jaunte
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The entire Trump Presidency (I threw up in my mouth) is a massive grift from beginning to end, and GOP protects it because they see a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy Medicare and Social Security once and for all, enriching the 1% and throwing the rest of the population into abject destitution.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Remember when AP had that “bombshell” report about how Hillary was corrupt for meeting with a Nobel Prize winner?
Good times.
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I feel like we’re in month 5 of this administration.
re: #55 klys (maker of Silmarils)
There’s a non-trivial amount of NIMBY going on up on the peninsula regarding the upgrades required for high speed rail too, since it has to be grade separated and OH HEAVENS THE PROPERTY VALUES but I’d like to think common sense will win out there.*
* Look let me have my delusions, okay?
Those of us who live West of El Camino Real plan to use the grade separation like a dyke when the sea level rises. Foster City will be truly fucked by then.
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re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Yes, but you and I think about infrastructure like rational people.
Well, yes, there’s that.
Bloomberg View: Donald Trump Is the Singularity
There’s been some controversy over when Donald Trump decided to run for president. Some say it was at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, when he was roasted by both Seth Meyers and President Obama. I think it happened much earlier: August 29th, 1997, the date that Skynet became self-aware.
Skynet is the artificial intelligence in the 1984 James Cameron movie “The Terminator.” Its original purpose was beneficent: Make humans more efficient. But once it became self-aware, it realized things would be much more efficient without humans altogether.
Skynet is an example of a dystopian singularity, the popular Silicon Valley-esque notion of an artificial intelligence that has somehow evolved beyond a point of no return, wielding power over the world. Some imagine that this will happen soonish, depending on how much one believes in Moore’s Rule of Thumb.
I think Trump is Skynet, or at least a good dry run. To make my case, I’ll first explain why Trump can be interpreted as an artificial intelligence. Then I’ll explain why the analogy works perfectly for our current dystopia.
…
This is exactly how an algorithm is trained. It starts out neutral, an empty slate if you will, but slowly “learns” depending critically on the path it takes through its training data.
Trump’s training data during the election consisted of rallies and Twitter, but these days he gets a daily dose from three sources: close advisers such as Steve Bannon, media outlets such as Fox News, and, of course, his Twitter feed, where he assesses reactions to new experiments. This data has a very short “half-life,” meaning he needs to be constantly refreshed, as we’ve seen by his tendency to quickly pivot on his policies. Back when he hung out with the New York crowd, he spouted mostly Democratic views. He manufactures opinions directly from his local environment.
Seen this way, his executive orders are not campaign promises kept, but rather consistent promptings from Bannon, with assistance from his big data company Cambridge Analytica and the messaging machine Fox, which reflects and informs him in an endless loop.
His training data is missing some crucial elements, of course, including an understanding of the Constitution, informed legal advice and a moral compass, just to name a few. But importantly, he doesn’t mind being hated. He just hates being ignored.
We have the equivalent of a dynamic neural network running our government. It’s ethics free and fed by biased alt-right ideology. And, like most opaque AI, it’s largely unaccountable and creates feedback loops and horrendous externalities. The only way to intervene would be to disrupt the training data itself, which seems unlikely, or hope that his strategy is simply ineffective. If neither of those works, someone will have to build a time machine.
Here’s the list the White House sent of attacks they feel “did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources.” pic.twitter.com/lj8eOZQfnY
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) February 7, 2017
we literally won a Pulitzer for covering one of the things on this list https://t.co/JCLcqq3ZlL
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) February 7, 2017
Syrian govt has executed as many as 13,000 dissidents in mass hangings at the notorious Sednaya prison since 2009:https://t.co/OHU3x2772x
— Omar Ghabra (@omarghabra) February 7, 2017
Testimony from former Syrian prison official and judge on how confessions obtained under torture are used to execute dissidents: pic.twitter.com/iMBFSQjEzb
— Omar Ghabra (@omarghabra) February 7, 2017
Doctor was present at hangings to observe.”Some didn’t die because they are light. The assistants would pull them down to break their necks” pic.twitter.com/1F2hryRgCh
— Omar Ghabra (@omarghabra) February 7, 2017
re: #61 BeachDem
Thanks for the explanation—but re: Trump wanting to put a finger in Brown’s eye—it’s CA Republican reps, led by McCarthy who are requesting that the money be stopped.
I know. I was just throwing that in, because I think it’s their best hope of “succeeding.” As you surely know, Dems have a currently solid majority in CA, but the state is after all the land of Reagan, Nixon and the John Birch Society, and their political grandkids are still all over the place. Locally, they are complaining that the Santa Cruz Sentinel has become a liberal rag that only attacks Trump. This can politely be described as a minority view, but the Sentinel does publish their letters.
re: #58 BeachDem
I see resistance to public transit of every type, every day, in parts of California (mostly in northern counties with totally crap transit service and Republicans in city government. Hey, they have cars, so what if the buses only run three days a week) but this grant phase is for the electrical grid, which I would think would provide other benefits even if the high speed rail never gets built.
On this topic to you & Klys - there’s an East-West rail that was put in - Escondido to Oceanside. The Sprinter. They bitched & moaned & bitched & moaned about approval.
It was done.
Every single time I drive by it, the cars are PACKED. Every single time.
And I laugh every single time remembering the total freak out opposition.
re: #69 JasonA
I feel like we’re in
monthyear 5 of this administration.
He will cancel the 2020 election & declare himself President For Life & the GOP will rubber stamp it.
Here’s the list the White House sent of attacks they feel “did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources.” pic.twitter.com/lj8eOZQfnY
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) February 7, 2017
we literally won a Pulitzer for covering one of the things on this list https://t.co/JCLcqq3ZlL
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) February 7, 2017
Spicer: THE MEDIA WON’T REPORT TERROR ATTACKS!
Media: How do you know?
Spicer: I saw it on TV!
Media:
Spicer:
Media:
Spicer: Shit— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 7, 2017
re: #33 BeachDem
This one just astounds me:
California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant for the state’s high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed…The letter asks Chao to stop approval of a $650 million grant that the Transportation Department could make as early as next week as part of an effort to install an electrical system that the bullet train would eventually use from San Jose to San Francisco and that the Caltrain commuter rail system would use as well.
Welp. Best as I can figure, if the bullet train is built by the eeebil gubmint, and people actually ride it & figure out that the government is actually, you know, good for something, then they might not vote for the swivel-eyed glibertarian whacktards that populate the outer reaches of the deep-red counties in the Big Valley.
That’s my guess. Or maybe it’s the airlines behind the scenes, pulling the strings? Or oil companies afraid that people will drive less and thus use less gas?
Anyone from California who can make sense of this?
Vanity Fair: Fake News is about to get even scarier than you ever dreamed
At corporations and universities across the country, incipient technologies appear likely to soon obliterate the line between real and fake. Or, in the simplest of terms, advancements in audio and video technology are becoming so sophisticated that they will be able to replicate real news—real TV broadcasts, for instance, or radio interviews—in unprecedented, and truly indecipherable, ways. One research paper published last year by professors at Stanford University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg demonstrated how technologists can record video of someone talking and then change their facial expressions in real time. The professors’ technology could take a news clip of, say, Vladimir Putin, and alter his facial expressions in real time in hard-to-detect ways. In fact, in this video demonstrating the technology, the researchers show how they did manipulate Putin’s facial expressions and responses, among those of other people, too.
heh
Sorry for going MIA. I took a day off to recharge. Did i miss any important @realDonaldTrump news? pic.twitter.com/hebEeHaB2S
— Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) February 7, 2017
There it is pic.twitter.com/IVklzeY7ju
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) February 7, 2017
re: #84 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
and people actually ride it & figure out that the government is actually, you know, good for something, then they might not vote for the swivel-eyed glibertarian whacktards that populate the outer reaches of the deep-red counties in the Big Valley.
probs
Here’s the list the White House sent of attacks they feel “did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources.” pic.twitter.com/lj8eOZQfnY
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) February 7, 2017
Literally first one on the list got more than 200,000 views on our site alone https://t.co/zpok59iGfC https://t.co/kmi2XxxrCU
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) February 7, 2017
You know what’s missing from this list?
• Colorado Springs
• Quebec
• Charleston
I wonder why…— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) February 7, 2017
A White House official says “most” of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media. pic.twitter.com/v66rcHxAFI
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) February 7, 2017
[SPICER]
Quick — I need a list of attacks the media didn’t cover!
[AIDE]
Okay, boss!
(*types ‘terrorist attacks’ into Google News*) https://t.co/Nk5taMSVgw— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) February 7, 2017
New York Review of Books: Was Snowden a Russian Agent?
One evening in the fall of 2015, the writer Edward Jay Epstein arranged to have dinner at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side with the director Oliver Stone. At the time, Stone was completing Snowden, an admiring biopic about the former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, who disclosed a vast trove of classified documents about National Security Agency surveillance programs to journalists in June 2013 and had since been living as a fugitive in Russia. Epstein was working on a book about the same topic, which has now been published under the title How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. As the writer recounts in that book, their conversation took a testy turn:
Toward the end of our dinner, Stone told me that he did not know I was writing a book about Snowden until a few weeks earlier. He learned of my book from Snowden himself. He said Snowden had expressed concern to him about the direction of the book I was writing. “What is it about?” Stone asked me.
I was taken aback. I had no idea that Snowden was aware of my book. (I had not tried to contact him.) I told Stone that I considered Snowden an extraordinary man who had changed history and was intentionally vague in my description of my book’s contents. Stone seemed to be reassured….
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They’ve seized the executive, got the legislative totally cowed, now it’s time to clear the judicial of all those who will not serve the Trumpenfuhrer unquestioningly.
The 9th Cir. will now livestream the oral argument in #WAvTrump on Tuesday at 3 p.m. PST at https://t.co/IC9QtvKsLi pic.twitter.com/vNIbq3lh3W
— Brian Goldman (@briangoldman) February 7, 2017
re: #85 Eric The Fruit Bat
Vanity Fair: Fake News is about to get even scarier than you ever dreamed
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The real news media needs to step up its game.
This was “Captain Moroni” from the Malheur terrorist occupation… (Not on the White House list)
Full list of firearms forfeited by Dylan Anderson, who pleaded guilty today to his role in #oregonstandoff. There’s a few. pic.twitter.com/YYYZJucx6M
— Ryan Haas (@ryanjhaas) February 7, 2017
re: #79 Stanley Sea
On this topic to you & Klys - there’s an East-West rail that was put in - Escondido to Oceanside. The Sprinter. They bitched & moaned & bitched & moaned about approval.
It was done.
Every single time I drive by it, the cars are PACKED. Every single time.
And I laugh every single time remembering the total freak out opposition.
One of my most enjoyable projects was doing a test with seniors from Laguna Woods to see how they could negotiate the buses/trains to Los Angeles. Took them on a field trip to the Disney theater in downtown, bought them lunch at a swanky restaurant—documented everything (buying tickets/determining which platform to stand on/how to get in and out of the transit stations, etc.)
It all went great. They loved being able to go to the city without having to drive. Then the client dropped the whole project. (But I got to spend time in Laguna Beach and points south on somebody else’s dime!)
Does no one in the WH proof read anything before releasing? This is basic stuff here. @monkeyes2 @thegarance @danmericaCNN
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 7, 2017
Then again, if they used Google, all the news coverage of same would appear and skewer entire premise that they were undercovered.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 7, 2017
Yesterday, #SCOTUS nominee Judge Gorsuch met with Senators all over the Capitol…he also met with this puppy. #JusticeGorsuch pic.twitter.com/2S6so0mHPy
— Gorsuch Facts (@GorsuchFacts) February 3, 2017
Boy, this is solid marketing. Camera filter, good staging & doggie treats on hand. cc: @AdvanceGuyNotes https://t.co/pXqTxK4i30
— mcbc (@mcbc) February 4, 2017
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