After the tragedy in Jimmy’s hometown of Las Vegas, he sends love to everyone affected, talks about the major gun violence problem we have in this country, calls out the senators who are in the pocket of the NRA, and asks for common sense and action from our elected officials to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Our country is so fortunate that the Jimmy Kimmel’s of the world are not afraid to speak up and out against the insanity of this failed administration and of the important political and moral issues of the day.
.@realDonaldTrump entrega suministros durante su visita a la isla. #TrumpPuertoRico #huracánMaría pic.twitter.com/aAsND3HRd6
— El Nuevo Día (@ElNuevoDia) October 3, 2017
As I downstairs: What does it say about us when late night comedians have to act as our nations conscience?
Not politicians, not the media, not business leaders.
Comedians.
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As I downstairs: What does it say about us when late night comedians have to act as our nations conscience?
Not politicians, not the media, not business leaders.
Comedians.
Hurr hurr leave the gun laws to the experts not talk show hosts celebrities but RESPECT TRUMP MAGA!!!!
Trump: “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack” https://t.co/sYZ09oUwUG https://t.co/CqdM8KQdi9
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2017
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
As I downstairs: What does it say about us when late night comedians have to act as our nations conscience?
Not politicians, not the media, not business leaders.
Comedians.
It’s because decades of dumbing down the populace have left us with children in major political offices, a complicit media obsessed with ad revenue, and business leaders who are playing both to further line their pockets.
We know Trump is irked with GOP leadership. Now, thanks to leaked audio, we get a peek into Pence world’s view: https://t.co/dcz3vNeUuR pic.twitter.com/sCOLJvYZyn
— Matthew Nussbaum (@MatthewNussbaum) October 3, 2017
Great scoop by @AndrewRestuccia & @MatthewNussbaum: Pence chief urging a “purge” of noncompliant Republicans >https://t.co/uSgTOdn8Be
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) October 3, 2017
I know this administration likes to take its cues from Russia, but a purge is a little too on the nose. https://t.co/spEoOEmj6P
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 3, 2017
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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Translation: “The money we’re spending on you people is totally hurting our plans to cram trillions in tax dollars into the pockets of the .01%.”
There’s video of Trump shooting paper towels into the crowd and it does not disappoint pic.twitter.com/KPfJ1AeAqk
— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) October 3, 2017
Someone get this guy a t-shirt cannon. https://t.co/q9QpIyexxL
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 3, 2017
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
Well, reading into it, the law doesn’t apply to the President or Vice-President.
So I guess it’s okay for the VP to threaten purges in his own party.
I wonder how many will tell him to ship off.
Ha!
BREAKING: Paul Ryan urged the White House to reconsider firing of Tom Price, a source familiar with the situation confirms to NBC News.
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) October 3, 2017
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Tirando las cosas como si los puertorriqueños seamos animales!! A$$!
— Frances M. Alvarado (@fralvarado114) October 3, 2017
@ElNuevoDia @realDonaldTrump Throwing things as if Puerto Ricans are animals! A$$!
re: #8 jaunte
Great scoop by @AndrewRestuccia & @MatthewNussbaum: Pence chief urging a “purge” of noncompliant Republicans >
We know Trump is irked with GOP leadership. Now, thanks to leaked audio, we get a peek into Pence world’s view: https://t.co/dcz3vNeUuR pic.twitter.com/sCOLJvYZyn
— Matthew Nussbaum (@MatthewNussbaum) October 3, 2017
— Alex Burns
Obama is so divisive and partisan.
///
“We need diesel fuel, manpower to clear roads, infrastructure repair.”
“Paper towels! You got it!”
re: #8 jaunte
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And Pence’s chief of staff looks exactly what you’d think Pence’s chief of staff would look like.
.@AndrewRestuccia scoop on Pence COS Nick Ayers calling for a GOP lawmaker “purge.” https://t.co/LIXNWHV1rl
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) October 3, 2017
re: #18 jaunte
“We need diesel fuel, manpower to clear roads, infrastructure repair.”
“Paper towels! You got it!”
Better than Play-Doh, I guess
Sheriff: Machine guns, 900 rounds found during traffic stop https://t.co/A7lWkPLoHf
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) October 3, 2017
“Edmisten threatened the arresting officer and lunged toward investigators who tried to question him after he was taken to a detention center.”
The copycats are lining up and rarin’ to go.
These 13 countries voted against UN ban of death penalty for being gay. Please share widely. #HumanRights #LGBT #LGBTQI #article2 pic.twitter.com/yaToncx8H4
— Shaun Dellenty (@ShaunDellenty) October 3, 2017
Not even Russia and Iran stooped as low as we did. Nice job, guys. https://t.co/5tUtIPHttB
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) October 3, 2017
Have to wonder at the people who when confronted with a mass shooting that kills 59 and injures 500+ say “Now, let’s not get all emotional.”
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 3, 2017
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
“What have you got to lose?”
Oh, abuela. 😭
Trump, you’re going to hell for this.
Life or death as Puerto Rico’s elders go without essentials https://t.co/zSjJzAGsWI pic.twitter.com/RLJW50iQrx— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 3, 2017
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Pres. Trump in Puerto Rico: “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.” https://t.co/TEC3yon6kc pic.twitter.com/GTlZ8z9onF
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 3, 2017
Only a sociopath would equate the need to make sure people get food, water, & power with the “budget” while GOP pushing for massive tax cuts https://t.co/20fiHjXvnm
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 3, 2017
This is entirely about Puerto Rico; Trump thinks they’re not truly American citizens, or that debt should figure in limiting disaster aid?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 3, 2017
re: #22 jaunte
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“Edmisten threatened the arresting officer and lunged toward investigators who tried to question him after he was taken to a detention center.”
The copycats are lining up and rarin’ to go.
And he lived. Lucky he didn’t have a BB gun.
re: #18 jaunte
“We need diesel fuel, manpower to clear roads, infrastructure repair.”
“Paper towels! You got it!”
So Trump in Puerto Rico today:
- Did his “everybody at the table praise me” routine
- Dissed the San Juan mayor AGAIN
- Called PR expensive— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 3, 2017
re: #29 lawhawk
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Trump says this at the same time his Budget Director is saying we need to run new federal budget deficits to fund Trump’s massive tax cuts for the rich.
I’ve got to see this tape. —>
(From the WH pool reporter w POTUS) pic.twitter.com/SjAtu0H27o— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 3, 2017
“He picked up a can of tinned chicken breast and held it aloft for the crowd to see.” https://t.co/gyyJPydJ70
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) October 3, 2017
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump and the The Miracle of the Canned Chicken.
Feckless oaf Donald Trump throws toilet tissue at hungry Puerto Ricans, in the fashion of a base peasant torturing his donkeys with carrots. pic.twitter.com/5TANz4OKqo
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) October 3, 2017
Trump, asked about continued lack of electricity in Puerto Rico: “the power grid was devastated before the hurricane even hit”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 3, 2017
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“….entered a multi-purpose room to cheers inside the Cavalry Chapel.”
JFC, does NO ONE know how to spell?
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
Add a Muslim or Illegal Immigrant or Democrat to the story and they’d be a lot more emotional, believe me.
Terrible story can’t do anything about it can’t legislate morality and YOU WHINY UPPITY NFL PLAYERS BETTER STAND FOR THE ANTHEM AND FOR THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND FLAG OR I’M TEARING UP MY SEASON TICKETS!
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
“….entered a multi-purpose room to cheers inside the Cavalry Chapel.”
JFC, does NO ONE know how to spell?
Re-purposed stable.
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
“….entered a multi-purpose room to cheers inside the Cavalry Chapel.”
JFC, does NO ONE know how to spell?
No. Education is a liberal elite plot to confuse our children.
Trump’s budget:
Trillions in tax cuts for the rich
Billions pissed away on a border wall#PuertoRico is what throws it out of whack pic.twitter.com/zTdMO7oJry— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2017
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reuters pic of Trump shooting paper towels into the crowd in Puerto Rico pic.twitter.com/3nX1sQA9ZE
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) October 3, 2017
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trumpworld. They don’t need no stinkeen’ copy editors.
POLL: Americans are trusting the MEDIA more and the “president” less nearly nine months after he was sworn in https://t.co/ArJcjczZr6
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 3, 2017
re: #44 lawhawk
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I’m askeert to even imagine what he’ll throw at people in Vegas tomorrow…
re: #37 jaunte
Translation: MAGA doesn’t include this shty island.
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
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NONE of the people in that room were needy.
It was a disgusting photo op.
He held up a mini flashlight, “who needs one of these?”
re: #46 HappyWarrior
Good God.
“The country was a mess before I got here. Carnage! Did you expect me to make it better?”
re: #51 Stanley Sea
NONE of the people in that room were needy.
It was a disgusting photo op.
He held up a mini flashlight, “who needs one of these?”
“Got some playdo here, who’d like some of that? Got some Trump Steaks here, too.”
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m askeert to even imagine what he’ll throw at people in Vegas tomorrow…
Comped room keys.
Trump in Puerto Rico…”nobody’s ever heard of a category 5 hurricane hitting land.”
Except for the 33 that have since 1924. #Dotarded pic.twitter.com/FAwUYRAYC4— Jody DelBrocco (@JodyDelBrocco) October 3, 2017
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
“….entered a multi-purpose room to cheers inside the Cavalry Chapel.”
JFC, does NO ONE know how to spell?
It was wrong on their readout from yesterday as well—and was pointed out—and is still wrong.
From the pool report, one quiet act of protest in Puerto Rico: pic.twitter.com/IBvRVCtgpQ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2017
Goes to PR to a staged photo-op in a closed building, hands out staged supplies to people who don’t need it, and won’t step his sorry ass out the doors.
Say what you will about Dubya, he actually went out and talked to the people of NOLA, listened to their stories, and offered words of comfort. This prick sees a natural disaster as only one thing: An opportunity for more free press.
re: #55 jaunte
Trump, at least once a week: “Who has ever hear of this kind of thing before?” pic.twitter.com/94PaXJw4VZ
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2017
re: #11 jaunte
At what point will Trump ride a chopper over an adoring crowd and piss on them to cheers?
Compassionate conservatives.
Thune to @HallieJackson:”I think people are going to have to take steps in their own lives to take precautions..As somebody said, get small” pic.twitter.com/KtP2BXJ6fM
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 3, 2017
re: #48 Dr. Matt
That jacket is just all wrong. At least two sizes too big, and not even appropriate for the occasion.
Start with this: we have no reliable idea of the actual death toll. Reporting of fatalities has broken down. 3/ https://t.co/JVpaT75quu
— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) October 3, 2017
Meanwhile jackass is throwing paper towels.
tr*mp really needs to go to Hell. Go directly to Hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
re: #60 Targetpractice
Goes to PR to a staged photo-op in a closed building, hands out staged supplies to people who don’t need it, and won’t step his sorry ass out the doors.
Say what you will about Dubya, he actually went out and talked to the people of NOLA, listened to their stories, and offered words of comfort. This prick sees a natural disaster as only one thing: An opportunity for more free press.
I think W was bad in many ways but never malicious at least to his own people.
re: #66 EPR-radar
tr*mp really needs to go to Hell. Go directly to Hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
He needs to get a one way trip to ADA Florence.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
Dubya had a modicum of empathy. Laura too.
Trump has none. Melania is useless as an influence. No one in Trump’s sphere cares about empathy. It’s all about what benefits Trump personally.
re: #63 BeachDem
Compassionate conservatives.
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No money for hurricane relief; there are billionaires in need of tax cuts!
p.s. I didn’t notice that he was callously talking about the victims of the Las Vegas shooting instead of the victims of Hurricane Maria.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But they get emotional when NFL players take the knee. Funny that.
re: #63 BeachDem
Compassionate conservatives.
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Translation: “Your only proper response to events like these are to arm yourselves and live in fear that one day you’ll have to shoot another person to protect yourself.”
re: #69 lawhawk
Dubya had a modicum of empathy. Laura too.
Trump has none. Melania is useless as an influence. No one in Trump’s sphere cares about empathy. It’s all about what benefits Trump personally.
I liked Laura. Didn’t like W as a President but I felt he was capable of human decency and unlike Trump didn’t make tragedies about himself.
Charlottesville “Unite the Right” organizer indicted on suspicion of felony perjury. https://t.co/HxkqV028z3
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) October 3, 2017
re: #63 BeachDem
Get so small that bullets can’t hit you. Wow. They are really that dumb.
re: #64 wheat-dogg
That jacket is just all wrong. At least two sizes too big, and not even appropriate for the occasion.
It hides his pendulous gut.
Mayor of PR just described potus talk as Alice in Wonderland.
She’s badass
re: #77 Stanley Sea
Mayor of PR just described potus talk as Alice in Wonderland.
She’s badass
She’s not afraid of him or his bullshit. Watch wingnut media who loves to claim we’re too “PC” as a society whine at her for being politically incorrect in how she feels about Trump.
He again praised officials for doing “a fantastic job,” as residents showed him the storm’s damage to their homes, pointing out broken windows and power outages.
“We’re going to help you out,” he told them. “Have a good time.”
Have a good time?? WTF is wrong with him? (Rhetorical question)
And why the fuck does Melon go on all of these trips? And why does she have to change clothes en route? And what is up with her idiotic hats?
I know—I’m sweating the small stuff, but I can’t help it—they both disgust me to the core of my being.
re: #44 lawhawk
Yum!! Paper towels are so delicious!
re: #79 BeachDem
He again praised officials for doing “a fantastic job,” as residents showed him the storm’s damage to their homes, pointing out broken windows and power outages.
“We’re going to help you out,” he told them. “Have a good time.”
Have a good time?? WTF is wrong with him? (Rhetorical question)
And why the fuck does Melon go on all of these trips? And why does she have to change clothes en route? And what is up with her idiotic hats?
I know—I’m sweating the small stuff, but I can’t help it—they both disgust me to the core of my being.
YEah he says that a lot. “Have a good time?” FFS you idiot, they’re not going to a concert, they’re people who have been affected by a natural disaster.
re: #79 BeachDem
Both of them are just going to look at the pictures and think to themselves “I look good in that one.” They won’t read the text, because they don’t care.
re: #79 BeachDem
He again praised officials for doing “a fantastic job,” as residents showed him the storm’s damage to their homes, pointing out broken windows and power outages.
“We’re going to help you out,” he told them. “Have a good time.”
Have a good time?? WTF is wrong with him? (Rhetorical question)
And why the fuck does Melon go on all of these trips? And why does she have to change clothes en route? And what is up with her idiotic hats?
I know—I’m sweating the small stuff, but I can’t help it—they both disgust me to the core of my being.
He’s treating it like a damned potluck dinner or picnic, that he’s not there to provide support or comfort to these people, he’s just there to make appearances before he disappears back into AF1 to scrub his hands while complaining that he had to touch a peasant.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
YEah he says that a lot. “Have a good time?” FFS you idiot, they’re not going to a concert, they’re people who have been affected by a natural disaster.
I sometimes wonder if Trump thinks he is playing the President on TV and this is his studio audience.
I’ve seen more empathy and caring from Mitt Romney than I have from Donald Trump.
San Juan mayor on meeting President Trump: “I told him, ‘Mr. President, this is about saving lives,’ ” not politics https://t.co/hq96nIzDcX
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2017
re: #72 Targetpractice
Translation: “Your only proper response to events like these are to arm yourselves and live in fear that one day you’ll have to shoot another person to protect yourself.”
True-believing gun nuts don’t fear the day they end up shooting someone else. They look forward to it.
re: #87 Targetpractice
I’ve seen more empathy and caring from Mitt Romney than I have from Donald Trump.
And that’s saying something.
re: #89 EPR-radar
True-believing gun nuts don’t fear the day they end up shooting someone else. They look forward to it.
“I bet if I’d been there, I’d have known to rush up 32 floors, kick that specific door open, and kill him with a single shot from my trusty Colt M1911A1 with the laser sight and pearl grips before he knew what was happening! I’d have saved all those lives!”
re: #91 Targetpractice
“I bet if I’d been there, I’d have known to rush up 32 floors, kick that specific door open, and kill him with a single shot from my trusty Colt M1911A1 with the laser sight and pearl grips before he knew what was happening! I’d have saved all those lives!”
They all think they’re Dirty Harry.
re: #91 Targetpractice
“I bet if I’d been there, I’d have known to rush up 32 floors, kick that specific door open, and kill him with a single shot from my trusty Colt M1911A1 with the laser sight and pearl grips before he knew what was happening! I’d have saved all those lives!”
Stop channeling Hannity’s fantasy life…it could be dangerous for your mental health…
re: #25 HappyWarrior
But Trump is pro LGBT.///
And Ivanka is such a huge ally to the LGBT community.
re: #94 Patricia Kayden
And Ivanka is such a huge ally to the LGBT community.
So much that she never objects to their anti-LGBT policies heh.
Defense Secretary James Mattis: It is in the interest of US national security to stay in the Iran deal https://t.co/9llCaNiPsl pic.twitter.com/0KIIQcKx75
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 3, 2017
Thereby ensuring that Trump will wreck the Iran deal. https://t.co/qYZlc0pJnE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2017
re: #88 jaunte
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Unfortunately, Trump probably didn’t hear a word she said to him. He only cares about women to whom he is physically attracted. Like his daughter.
re: #63 BeachDem
Compassionate conservatives.
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I think it reasonable to assume that a major part of American gun nuttery is that many gun nuts are sexually aroused by violence and their weapons, and find it difficult to get it going any other way.
re: #98 EPR-radar
I think it reasonable to assume that a major part of American gun nuttery is that many gun nuts are sexually aroused by violence and their weapons, and find it difficult to get it going any other way.
What do you think this guy is fantasizing about? pic.twitter.com/M7bM5wsBnW
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) October 3, 2017
When there’s a white gunmen, terrorism is “the price of freedom.” With Muslims, it must be stopped at all costs. https://t.co/CwGkzb98qK
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 2, 2017
After 9/11, the entire US govt reoriented itself to face the threat. Reorganized the US govt, enacted the Patriot Act, and set about doing all kinds of actions domestically and overseas.
Since 9/11, there have been far more killed in gun violence than Americans killed on 9/11 (or 9/11 plus the first responders who succumbed to their injuries/ailments), and the GOP response has been…
*crickets*
When there’s a white gunmen, terrorism is “the price of freedom.” With Muslims, it must be stopped at all costs. https://t.co/CwGkzb98qK
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 2, 2017
Only when the perpetrator is a terrorist of the right physical persuasion will the GOP move heaven and earth, but they do nothing when the violence/carnage is the background noise that they think is music to their ears.
we elected fucking david brent pic.twitter.com/vOFI0JPnaT
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) October 3, 2017
re: #100 lawhawk
They won’t stop white men from having guns. When non-white men kill, they don’t go after the guns. If they stop white men from having guns, then how will white men dominate?
re: #100 lawhawk
GOP attitudes to gun deaths in America are worse than just depraved indifference. So far, having ridiculously common mass shooting incidents in the US has been politically favorable for the GOP, so they are presently doing all that they can to increase the frequency of massacres.
For example, there is no other credible explanation for the rollback of Obama-era restrictions on unstable people having access to guns they did early this year.
.@realDonaldTrump has a cult of personality in mind, and he is going to destroy the country through his incompetence
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 3, 2017
re: #100 lawhawk
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We live in a country where the biggest concern during “Fast & Furious” was that a border patrol agent was killed and not that the agents involved had recorded hundreds of straw purchases that the local and state prosecutors would not touch due to the slip-shod fashion in which this nation regulates firearms. Or that the “whistleblower” they championed had initiated the only illegal sale during the investigation in order to spite his superiors, lost track of the guns after the sale, and then “blew the whistle” to save his own ass after one of the guns turned up at the border agent’s murder.
Within a month, they want to get 25% power restored? In what world is that considered acceptable? Hint: It isn’t.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 3, 2017
It’s clear that Trump failed Puerto Rico, and that FEMA is signaling that they hope to get 25% of Puerto Rico back on the grid in a month is a sign that they severely underestimated the problems and lack the means to restore power faster (insufficient utilities crews on the island, rebuilding from scratch, lack of equipment, etc.)
re: #104 EPR-radar
Depraved indifference is Trump’s entire approach to the general welfare of everyone but the rich. It’s his worldview in a nutshell.
re: #65 jaunte
Puerto Rico hasn’t updated the Hurricane Maria death toll in 6 days
The outdated death count is a sign the government is broken.
Just doing their job of not making Trump look bad.
re: #96 Charles Johnson
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Will Trump slap “Mad Dog” down in a tweet like he does Tillerson?
Foo Fighters With Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
London O2 Arena 19 September 2017
Yeah, they went there…..
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
Will Trump slap “Mad Dog” down in a tweet like he does Tillerson?
I doubt it. He knows Mattis eats pieces shit like him for breakfast.
re: #87 Targetpractice
I’ve seen more empathy and caring from Mitt Romney than I have from Donald Trump.
I’ve seen more empathy from a milk carton than from Drumpf.
re: #107 lawhawk
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It’s clear that Trump failed Puerto Rico, and that FEMA is signaling that they hope to get 25% of Puerto Rico back on the grid in a month is a sign that they severely underestimated the problems and lack the means to restore power faster (insufficient utilities crews on the island, rebuilding from scratch, lack of equipment, etc.)
Ah behold the power of no expectations.
This administration keeps wanting to have it both ways, one day insisting that the damage wasn’t that bad and the recovery is being bogged down by deliberate acts, then the next day whining that the slow progress is due to the devastation the island has suffered.
Tropical rain in Austin. Think I’ll step outside for a quick shower.
USNV Comfort arrives in Puerto Rico, two weeks after Maria battered the island. @JonKarl reports from San Juan: https://t.co/Wmml2Wx53l pic.twitter.com/FzXTqEzUWi
— ABC News (@ABC) October 3, 2017
re: #111 Dr. Matt
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Yeah, they went there…..
okay, that’s just mean.
re: #110 Big Beautiful Door
Will Trump slap “Mad Dog” down in a tweet like he does Tillerson?
He can’t fire Mattis or Kelly; he can’t afford for them to be able to call in the cameras and tell us what they really think.
re: #116 Dave In Austin
Tropical rain in Austin. Think I’ll step outside for a quick shower.
Nice, isn’t it?
Oxfam is the kind of org you see helping folks in the Third World. They’re coming to Puerto Rico, because Trump. https://t.co/f0dyHUfLob
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 3, 2017
re: #108 lawhawk
Depraved indifference is Trump’s entire approach to the general welfare of everyone but the rich. It’s his worldview in a nutshell.
In four hours, Trump has scolded, diminished and lied to Puerto Ricans while joking around and congratulating himself.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2017
re: #115 Targetpractice
This administration keeps wanting to have it both ways, one day insisting that the damage wasn’t that bad and the recovery is being bogged down by deliberate acts, then the next day whining that the slow progress is due to the devastation the island has suffered.
or claiming that PR was a complete piece of crap before the hurricanes even hit.
re: #117 FormerDirtDart
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It’s sad that the best that can be said is “Better late than never.”
He’s literally the worst President we ever had and as someone who prides himself as being mindful of history, I don’t say that lightly.
re: #117 FormerDirtDart
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If I am not mistaken, the flag on there is half-mast for Las Vegas, not Puerto Rico.
So the cost of freedom is periodic mass shootings and people with uteri losing their freedom the moment they become pregnant?
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 3, 2017
And one unarmed Black person being shot and killed by police each day. https://t.co/VJhbSFC3wV
— Touré (@Toure) October 3, 2017
re: #117 FormerDirtDart
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IN PHOTOS: This is how #HurricaneMaria hit #PuertoRico https://t.co/hzFjZ9lKuK pic.twitter.com/faG5MIm7pX
— Samy Nemir Olivares (@Samynemir) September 23, 2017
President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens. https://t.co/J2FVg4II0n
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 24, 2017
it took another 5 days for the White House to give that order.
Meeting with WH staff productive. They REALLY understood the disconnect between how things are supposed to happen and how they really happen
— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) October 3, 2017
re: #128 sagehen
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it took another 5 days for the White House to give that order.
She gets it. It’s why she should be President.
Trump’s Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets
re: #131 Skip Intro
Trump’s Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets
This is Trump off the telemprompter. Twitter Trump. Trump’s real personality — when words are not being carefully selected for him.
Trump knew — because everyone wrote about it and TV talked about it relentlessly — that the big question today in Puerto Rico was whether he could show some actual empathy, some human kindness to people he didn’t know but who were still his constituents.
And, even knowing that, Trump delivered a navel-gazing, self-championing, victimhood-seeking speech that reeked of tone-deafness and out-of-touch-ism.
Even for this President, who has redefined presidential — and not for the better — this is a truly remarkable low.
But he wasn’t done.
!!! Dana Rohrbacher met Natalia Veselnitskaya in Moscow 2 months before she traveled to NYC for mtg w Trump campaign https://t.co/mzc5HxIwwt
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) October 3, 2017
Trump is clearly unwilling to commit the resources and manpower to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electrical grid more quickly.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2017
To be fair, Trump has probably never read that book.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 3, 2017
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
* “She was saying such nice things about all of the people who have worked so hard. Jenniffer, do you think you can say a little bit about what you said about us?”
Trump is referring here to Puerto Rico Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, who he says he “watched’ (on TV of course) say nice things about how Trump and his administration handled the hurricane. After Gonzalez-Colon finished praising Trump, the president added: “We saw those comments and everyone saw those comments.
good dog…..
re: #133 wheat-dogg
Cillizza for once finding the nail and hitting it.
Even the usual media slobberers have had enough.
re: #137 Stanley Sea
Dana’s a he. Not talking about Dana.
re: #141 Sir John Barron
good dog…..
Jenniffer must have made those comments on Fox because I never saw/heard any comments complimenting Trump, other those from the yam himself.
re: #136 Dr. Matt
He is such an imbecile. How completely embarrassing. How can any deplorable/supporter listen to that and feel any pride in their choice for potus?
Because tr*mp really is their God-Emperor. The main reason deplorables are deplorable is total lack of empathy. They like seeing that same deficiency in tr*mp. Ditto for all the rest of tr*mp’s innumerable character defects.
re: #141 Sir John Barron
good dog…..
“Jenniffer, do you think you can say a little bit about what you said about us?”
Jesus Hare Krishna. “Tell everyone how great I am!”
This reminds me of a bit from a comedy years ago, where someone self-obsessed is on a date, and starts out by blathering about herself for minutes, then says,
“But enough about me. Let’s talk about you! What do you think of me?”
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jenniffer must have made those comments on Fox because I never saw/heard any comments complimenting Trump, other those from the yam himself.
Faux is doing its part by filtering out any unflattering words about Orange Overlord.
*thud*
Mitch McConnell, post-Las Vegas massacre, says “I think it’s premature to be discussing legislative solutions, if there are any.”
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) October 3, 2017
Charles Pierce’s take on the latest shitshow :
“Jesus H. Christ on a dome of high pressure, somebody get the hook.
Too late.”
at esquire.com
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
But here is our anti-abortion legislation and our 89th Obamacare repeal.
re: #22 jaunte
Threatened officers? Lunges at them? Taken alive? Gee…
Sometimes, with the help of LGF, I make my own tweets.
— yntbe (@yntbe) October 3, 2017
…we got chaotic self-congratulatory leadership where the highest priority is messaging that everything is going totally fine. 26/ pic.twitter.com/ZyYv0jhHBU
— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) October 3, 2017
thread starts with this one:
Trump says the hurricane that crushed Puerto Rico wasn’t a “real catastrophe” like Katrina https://t.co/9kU4tEMDMl pic.twitter.com/PIW6wQtYJw
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 3, 2017
“Never tweet angry” is usually good advice and I try to adhere to it. But right now, the hell with that. THIS IS APPALLING. 1/ https://t.co/QENmxTjIu1
— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) October 3, 2017
JFC:
Trump denies Puerto Rico request to let hurricane victims use food stamps for prepared hot meals: report https://t.co/bR45arvxfC pic.twitter.com/ulasVC6tkK
— The Hill (@thehill) October 3, 2017
“1.3 million people on food stamps in #PuertoRico—almost 40% of population—unable to use program to buy fasts food or pre-prepared meals” https://t.co/wpPn3hD9Sm
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 3, 2017
— Frankly My Dear 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) October 3, 2017
“Mine!” said the dragon, sitting on piles of laws, flags, and monuments. “This is MY hoard. You’re not taking my democracies.”
— Rabbi Ruti Regan (@RutiRegan) October 3, 2017
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC:
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I FUCKING HATE DONALD TRUMP.
I’m going to keep posting this every day because it makes me feel better to get it out.
San Juan mayor attacked by fake news army during Trump’s Puerto Rico visit https://t.co/zQ4TiX5bT2 pic.twitter.com/QZkDIR1pal
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 3, 2017
yep. I was watching the twitter feeds going all out.
my fave was “omg! she’s in a disaster area and she’s wearing a suit and stilettos when she meets the glorious golden yam!”
(ok, i made up that ‘glorious golden yam’ part…)
NEWS: All 3 billion Yahoo accounts were affected by an August 2013 data breach, the company said in a statement. pic.twitter.com/mX5QJVVtuM
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) October 3, 2017
Trump to Puerto Rico: Your hurricane isn’t a “real catastrophe” like Katrina https://t.co/EM5hBTWb5l pic.twitter.com/4a4xuXDxzo
— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 3, 2017
Just wait until he goes to Vegas. ‘Well, it could have been worse!!’
— Kaycee ⚢ Nightfire (@KcNightfire) October 3, 2017
re: #163 FormerDirtDart
It’s hard to believe any action/informatoin I send online is secure.
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC:
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Trump denies Puerto Rico request to let hurricane victims use food stamps for prepared hot meals
But it gets waved for Florida and Texas
Yah.. he really hates brown people..
usda.gov
nacsonline.com
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why? Speechless.
I guess I’m dumb but I don’t understand what the *content* of the feud between the White House and GOP leadership on the Hill is.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 3, 2017
It’s really simple: the GOP caucus in the House and Senate exists to provide Trump with ‘victories’ he can tout, bills he can sign with a flourish, and unending praise for his leadership, all without him having to expend any effort.
They haven’t been doing enough to make Trump look good. That is unforgivable.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
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Never the right time for gun reform or Black protests. Got it.
I’m gonna lay on the couch and watch an episode of T.J. Hooker
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
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McConnell on Calls for Gun Control: ‘Premature to Be Discussing Legislative Solutions’ https://t.co/MseqYORKks (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/glvq9hVoaz
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) October 3, 2017
2017: 46,699 incidents, 11,689 deaths, 23,722 injuries, 274 mass shootings.
Premature though. https://t.co/fI69mnXQ5d— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 3, 2017
Regarding the Las Vegas incident. I didn’t think a bump stock would work with a tripod, too much added mass to get enough recoil to move the gun and reset the trigger. Is there any news that Paddock had modified the guns for full auto (meaning receivers, sears and trigger groups) or did he really just use bump stocks to get the same effect?
Either way they’re a horribly irresponsible product and there’s no reason for them to be legal. I’d wondered how long it would be before one was used in a mass shooting incident, and Las Vegas just proved their capacity to maximize carnage.
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
Regarding the Las Vegas incident. I didn’t think a bump stock would work with a tripod, too much added mass to get enough recoil to move the gun and reset the trigger. Is there any news that Paddock had modified the guns for full auto (meaning receivers, sears and trigger groups) or did he really just use bump stocks to get the same effect?
Either way they’re a horribly irresponsible product and there’s no reason for them to be legal. I’d wondered how long it would be before one was used in a mass shooting incident, and Las Vegas just proved their capacity to maximize carnage.
gfd, didn’t you post something last night from a vendor who sold the parts to convert an AR15 to full auto, but basically said, “But don’t use these! That’d be illegal! *wink,wink*”?
Sheriff says Las Vegas shooter had camera in food cart outside hotel room, possibly to see if police were coming. https://t.co/6CtmsuAPQr
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2017
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
It demonstrates John Ralston Saul’s point that, “Comedy is the least controllable form of language and therefore the most threatening to people in power.”
There are no comedians in authoritarian governments, or at least not for long.
re: #125 HappyWarrior
He’s literally the worst President we ever had and as someone who prides himself as being mindful of history, I don’t say that lightly.
By far, in my lifetime. That’s not even debatable. I wish Republicans would suffer because of him but I doubt it. Their voters are hanging in there for the most part.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Mr. Trump? (No way I am calling you President.) Fuck you with a lit stick of dynamite and without lube.
And with that, off for dinner. Bad night. Too tired to cook. Hoping my local pub has that nice Oktoberfest ale on tap.
Later lizards.
I seem to remember hearing a clip of Trump last year during the campaign, an old tape of him yucking it up on the Howard Stern show, when Howard asked when was the last time he cried. And Trump said he didn’t remember. So Howard asked what would make him cry. Trump says he doesn’t know. Howard asked, “if Melania was in a car accident, would you cry?” And Trump said, “I don’t know, maybe if she was hurt in the boobs.”
I might not be remembering this correctly, but a lot of shit was said on the Howard Stern show.
I don’t believe Trump has ever cried about anything, and if Melania was shot in the boobs he wouldn’t cry either. But he would yell at her for getting her boobs all shot up.
re: #105 lawhawk
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Can you imagine if President Obama or VP Biden had made such an assertion? This is not normal.
re: #175 Blind Frog Belly White
gfd, didn’t you post something last night from a vendor who sold the parts to convert an AR15 to full auto, but basically said, “But don’t use these! That’d be illegal! *wink,wink*”?
Yes, and that’s deeply fucked up too but so far I haven’t seen any info that Paddock did this work. And it is work, even with a jig it takes some machining skill and a mill to modify the receiver and then you’d still need an auto sear, auto selector switch and a auto trigger group. Bump stocks are far more insidious because you can just mail order them in most States* and with a little practice you largely get the same effect.
* California made bump stocks and other “multi-burst trigger activators” illegal to manufacture, use, import, sell or possess in 2010.
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
Regarding the Las Vegas incident. I didn’t think a bump stock would work with a tripod, too much added mass to get enough recoil to move the gun and reset the trigger. Is there any news that Paddock had modified the guns for full auto (meaning receivers, sears and trigger groups) or did he really just use bump stocks to get the same effect?
Either way they’re a horribly irresponsible product and there’s no reason for them to be legal. I’d wondered how long it would be before one was used in a mass shooting incident, and Las Vegas just proved their capacity to maximize carnage.
The people I’ve talked to around here think the sound of the gun fits something like a bump stock rather than full auto.
Daubenmire: we all know “about mind control being used to create super soldiers.” pic.twitter.com/Sipywc4yx3
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2017
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
As I downstairs: What does it say about us when late night comedians have to act as our nations conscience?
Not politicians, not the media, not business leaders.
Comedians.
Jokers telling the bitter truth is an ancient thing.
Pence’s chief of staff floats a “purge” of anti-Trump Republicans to wealthy donors, in audio obtained by POLITICO https://t.co/ydBUa2RTIk pic.twitter.com/7A53WhVrBl
— POLITICO (@politico) October 3, 2017
A perfect example of Backpfeifengesicht. https://t.co/Byl1FaxgLd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2017
re: #182 goddamnedfrank
Yes, and that’s deeply fucked up too but so far I haven’t seen any info that Paddock did this work. And it is work, even with a jig it takes some machining skill and a mill to modify the receiver and then you’d still need an auto sear, auto selector switch and a auto trigger group. Bump stocks are far more insidious because you can just mail order them in most States* and with a little practice you largely get the same effect.
* California made bump stocks and other “multi-burst trigger activators” illegal to manufacture, use, import, sell or possess in 2010.
I still cannot grasp how it’s legal to sell something, the ONLY POSSIBLE USE for which is to make an illegal weapon, with the fig leaf of telling buyers that it’s illegal to actually use the parts you just bought.
It’s like Prisoner 777 in ‘Invader Zim’, when Zim asks him for the plans for the schematics for the Massive:
“That would be wrong! It’d infuriate the armada!
“I helped design that ship, you know. (*Beat*) Here you go!”
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
If McConnell doesn’t want to consider legislative solutions to gun violence in the US, fine.
Staking McConnell and Wayne LaPierre out on anthills is a perfectly reasonable alternative to legislative solutions. Scorpion pits may also be useful.
re: #186 Charles Johnson
Speaking of which…
There’s 3 million registered voters in Puerto Rico — My guess: Those will be 3 Million Trump voters come 2020
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) October 3, 2017
Somebody get a wallet under his tongue. He’s having an episode. Ask if he can smell toast or taste colors. https://t.co/3JuwOBHPs2
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 3, 2017
The DOM MutationObserver API is freaking awesome. Just started using it for a project and wondering why I waited so long.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2017
re: #189 Kragar
Speaking of which…
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Oh yes voters love how Trump treated them. This guy’s an even bigger hack than Lumpy or Mitchell.
re: #191 Nyet
CT videos are already out.
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That didn’t take long. FFS there’s a fucking conspiracy theory industry it feels like.
re: #189 Kragar
I have never seen a more efficient demonstration of being fractally wrong.
re: #189 Kragar
Speaking of which…
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I read things like that, and I really wonder whether the guy writing them believes them. I mean, even Chris Fucking Cillizza couldn’t find a way to ‘Both Sides’ out of The Horror That Is Trump after today’s Fiesta of Tone Deaf Narcissism.
re: #193 HappyWarrior
That didn’t take long. FFS there’s a fucking conspiracy theory industry it feels like.
I wonder how many of them are Russian.
re: #193 HappyWarrior
I hear its based out of Russia…
re: #192 HappyWarrior
Oh yes voters love how Trump treated them. This guy’s an even bigger hack than Lumpy or Mitchell.
Not to mention that there is no such thing as a tr*mp voter in PR.
re: #201 Nyet
Exactly what you would expect them to say…
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Sometimes people surprise you with their political views or if they have any. Guy I went to school with called out another guy I went to school for posting Tomi Lehren’s “commentary” on the shooting.
re: #201 Nyet
If anything the US doesn’t need help with from Russia, it’s the conspiracists.
True that. I don’t think they made fueling the flames though.
re: #201 Nyet
If anything the US doesn’t need help with from Russia, it’s the conspiracists.
Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t do it, considering the ROI they got from basically reprinting right and left wing talking points during the election.
re: #177 Romantic Heretic
It demonstrates John Ralston Saul’s point that, “Comedy is the least controllable form of language and therefore the most threatening to people in power.”
There are no comedians in authoritarian governments, or at least not for long.
e.g., Bassem Youssef, Yakov Smirnoff.
re: #197 Kragar
I hear its based out of Russia…
I kinda figure that somewhere in Russia, there’s a Random Wingnut Name Generator, to name Facebook groups for gullible American wingnuts.
The first word has to be something like Liberty, Patriot, Freedom, Conservative, American, etc.
Then the second word has to be some noun that compliments it, like Tribune, Eagle, Soldier, Centurion, Patriot, Warrior, etc.
Of course, someone has to vet the output to avoid “The Patriot Patriot”, etc.
re: #186 Charles Johnson
Pence’s chief of staff floats a “purge” of anti-Trump Republicans to wealthy donors, in audio obtained by POLITICO https://t.co/ydBUa2RTIk pic.twitter.com/7A53WhVrBl
— POLITICO (@politico) October 3, 2017
Did anyone see Breitbart Alex Marlow’s hot take. “Maybe you should hit the treadmill if you want to survive a shooting.” Yep lovely news outlet that the President gets his news from said that. I’d love to see that pathetic prick in a life and death situation like that. He’d probably shit himself just like Bannon does every day when he realizes what an utter peice of shit he is.
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
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Aw come on. Aaron Eckhard’s not a bad looking dude and he’s not a Trumper as far as I know. You’re right though. They do look alike.
re: #189 Kragar
Speaking of which…
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Does he understand the “registered voters” of Puerto Rico can only vote in Puerto Rican elections? They don’t get to vote for President of the United States.
re: #209 HappyWarrior
Did anyone see Breitbart Alex Marlow’s hot take. “Maybe you should hit the treadmill if you want to survive a shooting.” Yep lovely news outlet that the President gets his news from said that. I’d love to see that pathetic prick in a life and death situation like that. He’d probably shit himself just like Bannon does every day when he realizes what an utter peice of shit he is.
You too can outrun a bullet with my patented new training method, only $39.95. And there’s more. As a free gift, get my video, Kevlar Hard Abs.
re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White
I kinda figure that somewhere in Russia, there’s a Random Wingnut Name Generator, to name Facebook groups for gullible American wingnuts.
The first word has to be something like Liberty, Patriot, Freedom, Conservative, American, etc.
Then the second word has to be some noun that compliments it, like Tribune, Eagle, Soldier, Centurion, Patriot, Warrior, etc.
Of course, someone has to vet the output to avoid “The Patriot Patriot”, etc.
You forgot Christian, Common Sense, Pro Israel, 2nd Amendment, etc.
New Jennifer Rubin
If your political base is irrational, get a new base
I like this paragraph:
Now with the reins of power firmly in hand, the shell of a great national party finds itself at the whim of what amounts to a mob. The populist mob, amplified by the right-wing media, seeks contradictory things (repeal Obamacare, but don’t touch their health care) and remains mesmerized by a set of economic fables (e.g. immigrants steal jobs). Its political identity is warped by resentment of minorities, secular Americans and immigrants. The mob seeks emotional catharsis, not tangible, incremental change. Unsurprisingly, its political leaders are now virtually indistinguishable from the right-wing entertainers who for a couple decades fanned their white grievance. The core of Trump’s base is immovable because it is irrational; experience and evidence will not influence it.
re: #214 Amory Blaine
New Jennifer Rubin
If your political base is irrational, get a new base
I like this paragraph:
I can’t believe I’m saying this but Jennifer Rubin is spot on.
re: #214 Amory Blaine
New Jennifer Rubin
If your political base is irrational, get a new base
I like this paragraph:
They only way they will learn is through pain.
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
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Hey, look! He’s lived long enough to see himself become the villain!*
*“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
You forgot Christian, Common Sense, Pro Israel, 2nd Amendment, etc.
Hence ‘etc.’
re: #216 Belafon
They only way they will learn is through pain.
Which is why we need a landslide in 2020 to wipe not just Trump out but their majorities in Congress and the state legislatures too. They need to learn the hard way that they’re not the majority.
re: #218 Blind Frog Belly White
Hence ‘etc.’
Sorry missed your etc. But yeah I imagine it’s like how you say it goes. Ooooh Christian Warrior! I got a good one!
re: #220 HappyWarrior
Sorry missed your etc. But yeah I imagine it’s like how you say it goes. Ooooh Christian Warrior! I got a good one!
I block about 3 of those a week, that my wingnut cousin has liked, due to Facebook’s self-radicalizing algorithm.
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
I FUCKING HATE DONALD TRUMP.
I’m going to keep posting this every day because it makes me feel better to get it out.
+1000 updings.
re: #215 HappyWarrior
I can’t believe I’m saying this but Jennifer Rubin is spot on.
For the moment. However, I suspect that Jennifer Rubin still worships St. Reagan without having the slightest clue that Reagan made major contributions to nearly all of the perversions of tr*mpism.
If tr*mp is now wingnut Jesus, then Reagan was the corresponding John the Baptist.
re: #221 Blind Frog Belly White
I block about 3 of those a week, that my wingnut cousin has liked, due to Facebook’s self-radicalizing algorithm.
Yeah I see a lot of stupid stuff that my conservative friends and family like too. Lotta ignorant people out there. One guy was even posting the often debunked “Democratic shooters list” that included the Virginia Tech shooter whom I’m not even sure was a U.C. citizen and if he was, we wouldn’t know his party registration since we don’t have that here in Va.
re: #223 EPR-radar
For the moment. However, I suspect that Jennifer Rubin still worships St. Reagan without having the slightest clue that Reagan made major contributions to nearly all of the perversions of tr*mpism.
If tr*mp is now wingnut Jesus, then Reagan was the corresponding John the Baptist.
No doubt. And I agree. Reagan definitely deserves scorn for his indirect role in Trumpism. Reagan made plenty of childish insults at people too but more importantly did plenty of disasterous policies.
I wonder if tomorrow’s shitshow in Las Vegas will outdo the one today?
Stupid question. Of course it will.
We should obviously put all single digit millionaires under surveillance and pressure chambers of commerce and the like to publicly disavow their violence. We should also deport those who are not citizens and stop admitting any as immigrants.
re: #224 HappyWarrior
Yeah I see a lot of stupid stuff that my conservative friends and family like too. Lotta ignorant people out there. One guy was even posting the often debunked “Democratic shooters list” that included the Virginia Tech shooter whom I’m not even sure was a U.C. citizen and if he was, we wouldn’t know his party registration since we don’t have that here in Va.
Yeah, a lot of them were insisting that the USNS Comfort couldn’t have been sent any earlier than it was because the hurricane was still there.
It escaped the lot of them that you cut orders NOW so the ship can be ready to get to Puerto Rico the minute the storm passes….
re: #228 gwangung
Yeah, a lot of them were insisting that the USNS Comfort couldn’t have been sent any earlier than it was because the hurricane was still there.
It escaped the lot of them that you cut orders NOW so the ship can be ready to get to Puerto Rico the minute the storm passes….
So many of our fellow Americans live in alternative realities man. It’s just mind boggling. I mean it’s one thing for me when it’s a stranger on Twitter but when a friend or family memebr, someone I thought intelligent enough to know better posts that crap, I just shake my head.
Now as I said though, sometimes people do surprise you. Now I’ve always known my Dad’s older brother to be left of center like my Dad is, after all they had the same father who shaped them but man my Uncle really dislikes Trump. I feel bad for him though since a lot of his friends and golfing buds are big Trumpers.
re: #117 FormerDirtDart
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Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative isn’t fooled.
Be vewy quiet. I’m observing mutations.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 3, 2017
re: #226 Skip Intro
Oh yay. I can’t wait for the Dumpster to show up. /s
Looks like I better figure out when he’s coming so I can plan my route around him accordingly.
re: #232 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative isn’t fooled.
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Is he fucking kidding? ISIS does this all the time.But way to get conned dumbass. You’re doing ISIS’s job for em.
Let’s just say it is ISIS. Can we have some reasonable gun control to prevent ISIS from purchasing fucking machine guns and slaughtering people? That would be the next logical step.
re: #236 I Would Prefer Not To
Let’s just say it is ISIS. Can we have some reasonable gun control to prevent ISIS from purchasing fucking machine guns and slaughtering people? That would be the next logical step.
No shit.
re: #234 alloutofcrazyhere
Oh yay. I can’t wait for the Dumpster to show up. /s
Looks like I better figure out when he’s coming so I can plan my route around him accordingly.
At least Natasha will be able to wear her high heels and won’t need that stupid cap. I expect Trump will spend a lot of time talking about golf courses and hotels.
re: #238 Skip Intro
At least Natasha will be able to wear her high heels and won’t need that stupid cap. I expect Trump will spend a lot of time talking about golf courses and hotels.
Casinos. Can’t forget how he had the best casinos. // A lot of people don’t know that.
re: #239 HappyWarrior
Casinos. Can’t forget how he had the best casinos. // A lot of people don’t know that.
But not in Vegas, right? Though he does have a yuuuge hotel there, IIRC.
re: #232 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Lubbock’s Mr. Conservative isn’t fooled.
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If you Google that name (which looks made-up, as in not even Arabic), you’ll see every RWNJ website parroting the same information.
re: #60 Targetpractice
Goes to PR to a staged photo-op in a closed building, hands out staged supplies to people who don’t need it, and won’t step his sorry ass out the doors.
Say what you will about Dubya, he actually went out and talked to the people of NOLA, listened to their stories, and offered words of comfort. This prick sees a natural disaster as only one thing: An opportunity for more free press.
On Sept. 9, 1965, category 4 Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans and overnight caused flooding that would not be exceeded until Katrina. The next afternoon LBJ flew on Air Force One to the city. He didn’t content himself with staged events but went out among the people, most famously to a church being used as a shelter by black New Orleanians. There were of course no lights, and he had to hold up a flashlight to his face so that people would recognize him when he announced, “I’m your president, and I’m here to see that you get some help.” The next day he sent a 16-page (that’s right) telegram to Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana detailing relief plans.
I hated LBJ for several reasons, but not for his handling of this disaster. We’ve fallen very, very far.
re: #240 petesh
But not in Vegas, right? Though he does have a yuuuge hotel there, IIRC.
Oh right. His failed casinos were in AC.
re: #226 Skip Intro
I wonder if tomorrow’s shitshow in Las Vegas will outdo the one today?
Stupid question. Of course it will.
“If I’d been in that room, I would have done a much better job than him. You’re lucky it wasn’t me. Be happy.”
sigh…
What a great pleasure to speak with our President @realDonaldTrump. Thank you for your phone call, your support and your prayers. #LVMPD pic.twitter.com/VEVYwogm2J
— Joseph Lombardo (@Sheriff_LVMPD) October 2, 2017
Leaving Puerto Rico now for D.C. Will be in Las Vegas early tomorrow to pay my respects. Everyone is in my thoughts and prayers. https://t.co/dBvZUIUfr0
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2017
Great meeting with Governor Mapp of the #USVI. He is very thankful for the great job done by @FEMA and First Responders. pic.twitter.com/AtBGEpDF9C
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2017
re: #244 Belafon
“If I’d been in that room, I would have done a much better job than him. You’re lucky it wasn’t me. Be happy.”
A horrible thought for a Ben Garrison cartoon comes to mind. Hidden because eww. You have been warned:
tr*mp in the crowd saving the day by firing a kill shot at the sniper from his dick.
re: #241 wheat-dogg
And it appears the first site to make the announcement was Pam Geller’s or Robert Spencer’s.
re: #246 EPR-radar
A horrible thought for a Ben Garrison cartoon comes to mind. Hidden because eww. You have been warned:
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They’re so weird.
re: #247 wheat-dogg
And it appears the first site to make the announcement was Pam Geller’s or Robert Spencer’s.
They’re credible.//
re: #239 HappyWarrior
It’s very telling that Trump has never had a casino in Vegas. He knows that he couldn’t compete with the “legit,” and I use that term loosely, casino operators on the Las Vegas Strip.
From what I gather, he has tried to buy some shares in certain casinos, but there’s no financial institution at this point dumb enough to risk prime real estate on him.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
They’re credible.//
Yup. I’m convinced!
Odds are someone pranked one or both of them, and they fell for it.
re: #250 alloutofcrazyhere
It’s very telling that Trump has never had a casino in Vegas. He knows that he couldn’t compete with the “legit,” and I use that term loosely, casino operators on the Las Vegas Strip.
From what I gather, he has tried to buy some shares in certain casinos, but there’s no financial institution at this point dumb enough to risk prime real estate on him.
I gather he couldn’t get past the Gaming Commission, and probably some members of the Mob were not keen on having him around, either.
re: #226 Skip Intro
I wonder if tomorrow’s shitshow in Las Vegas will outdo the one today?
Stupid question. Of course it will.
Well after the debt shaming, then bringing up the “hundreds of millions of dollars worth of F-35 fighters” in PR while being asked about the USAF role in the recovery efforts, maybe he will take a moment and have a word to support deregulating the silencer and pat himself on the back for restoring gun rights to mentally ill persons. Like the NRA wanted.
re: #254 Unshaken Defiance
I’m hoping Natasha borrows Katrina Pierson’s bullet necklace to class things up.
Liberal Redneck - On Guns
(excerpt, full video on YT channel) Love y’all. pic.twitter.com/Alu8mh5C5c— Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) October 3, 2017
As an addition to what I said about Trump and his casinos, Steve Wynn is the opposite. Like Trump, the guy is a bastard, but he does know how to operate a casino.
Unfortunately, when it comes to his employees, he sure loves to squeeze them like a sponge to get everything possible out of them and then some.
re: #250 alloutofcrazyhere
It’s very telling that Trump has never had a casino in Vegas. He knows that he couldn’t compete with the “legit,” and I use that term loosely, casino operators on the Las Vegas Strip.
If he had tried some of the shit he pulled in Atlantic City in Vegas, he probably would have, as the slogan goes, “stayed in Vegas,” or at least in some desert location within thirty or forty miles of town.
The full transcript of Trump’s Puerto Rico briefing this afternoon is really something. https://t.co/K9TPRTezD9 pic.twitter.com/2EcoI4GdxY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2017
Today in American history: the president praised Vince McMahon and the WWE at a hurricane crisis briefing. pic.twitter.com/COo9LxeotP
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 3, 2017
Will he be meeting Las Vegas city council member Michele Fiore to discuss the gun violence problem in America?
re: #259 whitebeach
If he had tried some of the shit he pulled in Atlantic City in Vegas, he probably would have, as the slogan goes, “stayed in Vegas,” or at least in some undisclosed desert location within thirty or forty miles of town.
FTFY
re: #214 Amory Blaine
New Jennifer Rubin
If your political base is irrational, get a new base
I like this paragraph:
Here’s the problem: Jennifer is the problem. Conservatives like Jennifer have been the problem for years, have been cultivating and reinforcing this mob again and again to reach their goals. When people pointed out how the angry mob was getting out of hand, how it was getting violent, and how it was on the verge of taking over, Jennifer and her fellows attacked the people sounding the alarm. Like a pack of von Papens, they assured folks that the mob could be controlled, that it could be harnessed for “good.”
But now, like in all violent revolts, the rebellious mob has turned on those who nurtured and grew it, seeing in their calls for moderation and incrementalism the very sort of “liberalism” they were convinced to rebel again. And now Jennifer is speaking out, not because she’s had a change of heart, but because the mob has turned on her.
I keep thinking of the “good guy with a gun” thing as it pertains to Vegas and how utterly fucking usless it would be.
Just play out the scneario:
You’re Joe American with a CCW and a handgun on you. You happen to be on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay and know there is an active shooter at the end of the hall.
So you decide to make the decision to try and stop him (boneheaded, I know but let’s just go with this).
Obviously the shooter isn’t going to let you in to the room. Trying to shoot through the wall isn’t the best idea. The easiest way would be to break through the door.
Even if you somehow manage to do this (guess what? Most hotel doors are pretty thick) , you’ve lost the element of surprise. If the shooter is armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, all he has to do is turn around and spray the doorway with gunfire as soon as you bust in. Then you’re down before you can even aim and pull the trigger and he can go back to his killing spree.
Being able to squeeze a shot off in time and hit him would be a minor miracle. Getting a shot off that incapacitates him would be a once in a lifetime stroke of good luck.
You have much better odds of winning the jackpot at most slot machines in Vegas than coming out of this scenario anything other than dead.
re: #255 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Note “Turned evil 1977.” That was the year that conspiracist radicals took over the NRA in a move that as been likened to a coup d’etat. Young Wayne LaPierre had a role in that and has been around ever since. The radicals had been around since the early 60s, a probable reaction to the Civil Rights movement, but it took them quite a few years of scheming, lying, and subversion to take over completely.
re: #264 Targetpractice
Here’s the problem: Jennifer is the problem. Conservatives like Jennifer have been the problem for years, have been cultivating and reinforcing this mob again and again to reach their goals. When people pointed out how the angry mob was getting out of hand, how it was getting violent, and how it was on the verge of taking over, Jennifer and her fellows attacked the people sounding the alarm. Like a pack of von Papens, they assured folks that the mob could be controlled, that it could be harnessed for “good.”
But now, like in all violent revolts, the rebellious mob has turned on those who nurtured and grew it, seeing in their calls for moderation and incrementalism the very sort of “liberalism” they were convinced to rebel again. And now Jennifer is speaking out, not because she’s had a change of heart, but because the mob has turned on her.
In other words, another clueless Dr Frankenstein seeking help vs. his rampaging monster from the same villagers the monster was supposed to destroy instead of going after Dr. Frankenstein.
re: #253 wheat-dogg
According to what I have read, Trump did have problems obtaining a license during say the 1980s-1990s, but he was granted one in 2004.
The mob is always an interesting topic here. No one is really sure what their role is here anymore. I really doubt they just blew away like a sagebrush in the wind.
I have heard that they were involved with the local waste disposal here in Vegas at some point, but that might just be speculation and conjecture based on the fact that has occurred in other metropolitan areas.
re: #254 Unshaken Defiance
Well after the debt shaming, then bringing up the “hundreds of millions of dollars worth of F-35 fighters” in PR while being asked about the USAF role in the recovery efforts, maybe he will take a moment and have a word to support deregulating the silencer and pat himself on the back for restoring gun rights to mentally ill persons. Like the NRA wanted.
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I couldn’t watch/listen to it for fear of projectile vomiting, but I did read the transcript. (Here annotated by the WP)
JFC—he sounds like he’s at an awards show with all the self-congratulations and almost no factual information.
Also, why the fuck did he need to take Mulvaney, McMahon and all his other sycophants along with him? (not to mention Melon—who brings precisely nothing to the party) Just what the people of Puerto Rico needed was a recap of Linda McMahon’s illustrious career. Spit.
re: #268 nines09
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I just realized Trump is wearing a white polo and tan pants under that oversize jacket.
Remind you of anything?
All the fucked up shit that’s happened with Trump this year and we’re barely 9 months into this Presidency.
re: #267 EPR-radar
In other words, another clueless Dr Frankenstein seeking help vs. his rampaging monster from the same villagers the monster was supposed to destroy instead of going after Dr. Frankenstein.
Ayep, whether you’re talking about Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, Erick Son of Erick, all the #NeverTrump crowd are not having changes of heart or suddenly becoming supportive of liberalism. They’re simply despairing over how they went from being the leaders of the revolution to being next under the guillotine. They oppose Trump not because he’s a vile pustule on the underside of American democracy, but because he’s bringing attention to just how many such pustules have been elevated by modern conservatism.
Laura Loomer is hot on the case, helping foster another CT.
Sources who work for @MGMResortsIntl @MandalayBay are telling me the company/resort has DELETED ALL RECORDS of #StephenPaddock’s reservation pic.twitter.com/aZnZmF4cIY
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 3, 2017
I joined the NRA in 1963 as a youth member. Younger people would not recognize it as it was in those days. It really was a public service non-profit mainly concerned with competition shooting and with improving the general level of marksmanship and gun safety. It commented on proposed legislation but was as likely to support new controls as to oppose them. It supported the National Firearms Act of 1934, for example, and was normally opposed to open carry.
re: #274 Targetpractice
Right now, and up to the impeachment, I’ll take any support I can get.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
—Winston Churchill
This is fine…
IRS awards Equifax no-bid contract to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud after huge security breach. https://t.co/ttxsfnR4xr
— Paul Volpe (@pvolpe) October 3, 2017
Jesus F. Christ.
United States rejects UN resolution condemning use of death penalty to target LGBTQ people https://t.co/Gybe6LY4JG pic.twitter.com/nNn3IIevuf
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 3, 2017
re: #276 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Yes, I remember wishing I could be a member and some of my friends fathers hunted. And we lived in North Philly. Imagine that escape. They were at one time a good thing. I had old patches given to me by a cop friend of my dad. He hunted, and talked of one day me going. I never went as everything went to hell. But the NRA was once a good thing. Not any longer for quite some time. You know, as I do. Yes.
re: #278 BeachDem
Every time someone breaks in and steals stuff, I hire the burglar … /s
Republicans today said abortions after 20 wks were part of a “culture of violence” & said they were being “first responders” by banning them pic.twitter.com/rUeg8tE3aP
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 3, 2017
re: #283 Charles Johnson
I just can’t today.
The shooters brother seems like the kind of guy I could hang with. He’s genuinely dumbstruck.
Surface Tension by Ken Gonzales-Day: Murals, Signs, and Mark-Making in LA ~ Opens October 6… https://t.co/g60SrOZ2bd pic.twitter.com/eTiZ5rIqoG
— L.A. TACO 🌴🌮 (@LATACO) October 3, 2017
It’s a bicycle mural!
re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg
All the fucked up shit that’s happened with Trump this year and we’re barely 9 months into this Presidency.
June of 1972 was the break in. August 8, 1974 was the resignation. I wish things moved faster but sometimes they don’t & I’d rather that time was taken carefully so that in the end there is no escape for the Pumpkin Pinochet.
re: #280 Charles Johnson
Jesus F. Christ.
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Yep, it was only us, some Middle East Nations, some African Nations and, oddly enough, Japan that refused to endorse.
re: #288 William Lewis
I hope Muellers report ends up bringing Trump down but I have my doubts.
re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White
I kinda figure that somewhere in Russia, there’s a Random Wingnut Name Generator, to name Facebook groups for gullible American wingnuts.
The first word has to be something like Liberty, Patriot, Freedom, Conservative, American, etc.
Then the second word has to be some noun that compliments it, like Tribune, Eagle, Soldier, Centurion, Patriot, Warrior, etc.
Of course, someone has to vet the output to avoid “The Patriot Patriot”, etc.
That can be written into a CheckString method checking for pre-defined bad strings.
re: #288 William Lewis
June of 1972 was the break in. August 8, 1974 was the resignation. I wish things moved faster but sometimes they don’t & I’d rather that time was taken carefully so that in the end there is no escape for the Pumpkin Pinochet.
An important reminder. Also, we knew about the break-in before the election (just as we knew who Trump was before the election), but a large chunk of the electorate simply paid no attention or did not believe it. It really took Senate hearings before public opinion made Nixon’s leaving inevitable, though some of us did see it coming much earlier, notably when the Attorney General and his deputy both quit rather than obey a Presidential order.
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
What the country group that performed before the shooting thought, until it actually happened to them: m.dailykos.com
I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life.
Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was. We actually have members of our crew with CHL licenses, and legal firearms on the bus.
They were useless.
We couldn’t touch them for fear police might think that we were part of the massacre and shoot us. A small group (or one man) laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of fire power.
Enough is enough.
Writing my parents and the love of my life a goodbye note last night and a living will because I felt like I wasn’t going to live through the night was enough for me to realize that this is completely and totally out of hand. There rounds were powerful enough that my crew guys just standing in close proximity of a victim shot by this fucking coward received shrapnel wounds.
We need gun control RIGHT. NOW.
My biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn’t realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it.
We are unbelievably fortunate to not be among the victims killed or seriously wounded by this maniac.
re: #228 gwangung
Yeah, a lot of them were insisting that the USNS Comfort couldn’t have been sent any earlier than it was because the hurricane was still there.
It escaped the lot of them that you cut orders NOW so the ship can be ready to get to Puerto Rico the minute the storm passes….
It could have been to Benghazi in, like, 30 minutes …
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