Our Embarrassing President: Trump Escalates Trade War, Threatens European Carmakers

Politics • Views: 32,252

Ugh. This embarrassing fool in the White House is now wrecking the trade agreements and partnerships and understandings that have helped international trade work relatively smoothly for many years, and ginning up a moronic trade war for no good reason at all except that he’s an idiot.

I repeat, ugh.

President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.

Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, appeared to be responding to warnings from European leaders that his promised tariffs on aluminum and steel would trigger retaliation from numerous major U.S. trading partners.

Bring it on, Trump wrote.

Jump to bottom

301 comments
1
freetoken  Mar 3, 2018 • 12:55:22pm

So much winning.

2
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 12:56:37pm

I disagree.

He’s stirring up a trade war because he’s an idiot and he has a fanbase of people who think this is some kind of aggressive alpha-country move and therefore a good idea.

3
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 12:59:15pm
4
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 12:59:30pm

Isn’t this madness also manipulating the stock/commodity market so shareholders can make money? Because if that’s what’s happening, isn’t that insider trading?

5
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:02:35pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Two crops I would not be able to identify: Sorghum, and Alfalfa.

6
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:02:54pm

re: #4 A Mom Anon

Carl Icahn: just lucky I guess.

7
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:03:50pm

My read of the article, from witness statements, I think it’s likely the shooter took the weapon from his parents car, and brought it back into the facility before he shot anyone.

8
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:04:25pm

Uh, he does know countries can choose to stop importing cars from us right?

9
PhillyPretzel  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:04:29pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Solar tariffs. Wonderful. ::: quickly hiding my panels from the uncouth one :::
I know but solar makes a great back up especially with those storage batteries.

10
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:05:15pm

I guess he thought the CNN Town Hall counted…

11
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:05:32pm

Secret Service Statement Regarding March 3,
2018 Shooting Incident Near the White House.

At approximately 11:46 AM, a white male suffered a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head outside the North White House fence line.
The subject is deceased. The subject approached the vicinity of the North White House fence line and removed a concealed handgun and fired several rounds, none of which appear at this time to have been directed towards the White House.

The President and First Lady were not in the White House at the time of the incident.
The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department will be the lead investigative organization for this shooting, supported by the U.S. Secret Service Washington Field Office and other law enforcement organizations.

No other persons were injured as a result of this incident to include Secret Service and responding law enforcement and medical emergency response personnel.
Note: The deceased has been identified by Secret Service and MPD authorities - name intentionally withheld pending next of kin notifications.
###

12
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:05:49pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

Uh, he does know countries can choose to stop importing cars from us right?

GERMANY can choose to stop importing GERMAN cars from us, speaking of things he doesn’t seem to know.

13
Ace Rothstein  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:07:06pm

This jackass does know that BMW and Mercedes-Benz make some of their models in the United States, right? In the states that voted for him, right?

14
Belafon  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:07:34pm

re: #13 Ace Rothstein

This jackass does know that BMW and Mercedes-Benz make some of their models in the United States, right?

That’s too complicated for him.

15
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:10:28pm

re: #13 Ace Rothstein

This jackass does know that BMW and Mercedes-Benz make some of their models in the United States, right? In the states that voted for him, right?

Also VW, in TN.

16
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:10:40pm

“…And what is painfully obvious in these moments, isn’t simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being—it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, amening him, probably is too.

At this point, the only reason left to support this President, is that he reflects your hateful heart; he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your ignorant bigotry, your feeling of supremacy.

A white President calling countries filled with people of color shitholes, is so far beyond the pale, so beneath decency, and so blatantly racist that it shouldn’t merit conversation. It should be universally condemned. Humanity should be in agreement in abhorring it.

And yet today (like so many other seemingly rock bottom days in the past twelve months) they will be out there: white people claiming to be good people and Christian people, who will make excuses for him or debate his motives or diminish the damage.”

17
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:15:08pm

re: #13 Ace Rothstein

No he doesn’t know that. He doesn’t know a fucking thing.

18
sagehen  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:15:43pm

re: #4 A Mom Anon

Isn’t this madness also manipulating the stock/commodity market so shareholders can make money? Because if that’s what’s happening, isn’t that insider trading?

Members of congress, their staff, and admin appointees are specifically exempted from laws about insider trading.

Convenient, huh?

19
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:15:58pm
20
Ace Rothstein  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:16:52pm
21
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:23:25pm

“It pays to be king” is the new ‘It’s good to be King”

22
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:24:15pm
23
Charles Johnson  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:28:18pm
24
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:33:57pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

For the record, the lemmings had to be herded off that cliff by the people shooting that “documentary.”

People: not rational.
Animals: rational in ways that are pretty fucked up.

25
Charles Johnson  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:34:29pm
26
Jay C  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:35:27pm

OK: Serious question time: while I like to think I’m a bit more conversant with things like governmental practices than the “average” citizen (low bar, etc.): one thing about the Orange Anus’s stupid “trade war” moves puzzles me. Is setting tariff rates and other trade policies solely in the purview of the President (“Executive Orders” or something?) - or does Congress have any say in the matter? I realize US Presidents have a fairly wide range of powers (assuming no legal/Constitutional challenges) - but is US trade policy really ONLY in the (diminutive) hands of the Executive?

27
SteelPH  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:36:28pm

28
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:37:02pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

I seriously wonder if these spontaneous announcements and threats are done to make the markets bounce. Like with Carl Icahn’s happy sell-off “accident” before this tariff.

I mean, that would be a truly Trump move, in keeping with his previous business practices: fuck everybody to benefit a small number of inside players, mostly family and “friends.”

eta: Consider—because of the instant-reaction nature of both media and the stock market, policies don’t even have to stick. You can just toss out something stupid that panics sellers, cause a dip, then things recover.

There’s actually multiple exploits to the combo of fast trading and having the most powerful mouthpiece in the world.

29
SteelPH  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:38:03pm
30
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:38:42pm
31
Belafon  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:38:51pm

re: #26 Jay C

OK: Serious question time: while I like to think I’m a bit more conversant with things like governmental practices than the “average” citizen (low bar, etc.): one thing about the Orange Anus’s stupid “trade war” moves puzzles me. Is setting tariff rates and other trade policies solely in the purview of the President (“Executive Orders” or something?) - or does Congress have any say in the matter? I realize US Presidents have a fairly wide range of powers (assuming no legal/Constitutional challenges) - but is US trade policy really ONLY in the (diminutive) hands of the Executive?

From what I’ve read, the president has some flexibility in setting tariffs if they are considered to be done in the interest of national security, which can include economic security depending on the interpretation.

32
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:40:48pm

That buck and a half tax cut a week for the Little People just looks better and better, doesn’t it?

33
Belafon  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:41:47pm

re: #32 Skip Intro

That buck and a half tax cut a week for the Little People just looks better and better, doesn’t it?

Someone posted in the previous thread that Republicans are pulling ads touting the tax cut in the upcoming PA special election.

34
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:41:48pm

re: #11 jaunte

The President and First Lady were not in the White House at the time of the incident

As it’s the weekend the president was nowhere near his desk

He actually plays this like a 9-,5 weekday job
And with extra executive (break) time

35
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:42:20pm

36
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:43:27pm

re: #16 jaunte

Terrible = deplorable

37
DobermanBoston  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:44:21pm

“Extremism in the defense of nostalgia is no vice!”
-Trumpist attitude on trade.

38
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:44:38pm
39
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:45:48pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Well no president before has done what this family has

40
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:46:07pm
41
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:47:07pm

re: #39 dangerman

Well no president before has done what this family has

And no president before had such an army of media ass kissers ignoring every single rotten thing he does.

42
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:47:20pm

Every photo I see of Trump he looks like he’s either pissed off or doesn’t know what’s going on…or both.

43
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:48:34pm

I’m having a real hard time giving a shit about right wing farmers and trades people who stand to lose money. Maybe they can go out and get better jobs. I would rather Mexican farmers build up their own farms and help their own than american farmers using slave labor to pad their own pockets.

44
SteelPH  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:48:55pm

re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg

Every photo I see of Trump he looks like he’s either pissed off or doesn’t know what’s going on…or both.

Or giving off that disgusting fake smile of his.

45
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:51:49pm

Watch Trump jump out of the SUV and run up the stairs as though the draft board was right on his tail.

46
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:52:54pm

re: #26 Jay C

OK: Serious question time: while I like to think I’m a bit more conversant with things like governmental practices than the “average” citizen (low bar, etc.): one thing about the Orange Anus’s stupid “trade war” moves puzzles me. Is setting tariff rates and other trade policies solely in the purview of the President (“Executive Orders” or something?) - or does Congress have any say in the matter? I realize US Presidents have a fairly wide range of powers (assuming no legal/Constitutional challenges) - but is US trade policy really ONLY in the (diminutive) hands of the Executive?

It’s unclear and it depends.
There ought to be a fight between trump and Congress over whose turf this is. There won’t be.

47
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:53:22pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Watch Trump jump out of the SUV and run up the stairs as though the draft board was right on his tail.

[Embedded content]

he was askeert that the wind would reveal his bald spot again

48
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:55:08pm

re: #41 Skip Intro

And no president before had such an army of media ass kissers ignoring every single rotten thing he does.

And a complicit congress

49
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:56:18pm

re: #43 Amory Blaine

I’m having a real hard time giving a shit about right wing farmers and trades people who stand to lose money. Maybe they can go out and get better jobs. I would rather Mexican farmers build up their own farms and help their own than american farmers using slave labor to pad their own pockets.

Hey if the conditions of your job change and you’re unhappy, just move. Right?
Easy peasy

50
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:58:06pm

The never ending welfare payments to farmers has promoted their deluded sense of entitlement that they are, somehow, special. That they are a protected class that deserves, while urban areas, don’t.

51
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:58:43pm

re: #49 dangerman

“No American has a right to a job”.

GOPer and Golden Parachute recipient Carly Fiorina.

52
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 1:59:54pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Watch Trump jump out of the SUV and run up the stairs as though the draft board was right on his tail.

[Embedded content]

It was windy. He didn’t want to leave himself exposed to another embarrassing video on his ridiculously complex comb over

And, he’s piece of garbage

53
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:01:26pm
54
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:02:47pm

You Need to Know: The Slavery Conditions on Tomato Farms

How are higher wages achieved?

Through a penny-a-pound premium pledge. Tomato pickers earn less than two cents for every pound of tomatoes they pick (which we buy for $1 to $4 per pound in the grocery store). The “penny-per-pound” pledge provides an extra penny per pound, which goes directly to the tomato pickers. “The extra penny a pound means that participating companies together pay an additional $4 million a year for tomatoes,” reports the the New York Times. This translates into an extra $60 to $80 a week for tomato pickers, or a 20-to-35 percent weekly pay increase.

This is what I’m talking about. 1 penny a pound to pick. The ground it grows in is subsidized. The water that grows them is subsidized. The equipment used in production is subsidized. The sun that actually grows the tomato is free, no capitalist required. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE VALUE OF THE FARMER?

55
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:03:46pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jesus H. Christ.

56
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:05:22pm

LOL! Wingnuts have finally figured out that they do not own all of the guns…

57
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:06:22pm

re: #54 Amory Blaine

There’s a book called Tomatoland that they recommend at the end of that piece.

Everybody should read it and never, ever buy a fucking Florida tomato.

I won’t say every red state farmer needs to go out of business, but Florida tomatoes are the worst-possible pile-up of everything shitty in agriculture (including a shitty end-product that you don’t realize is shitty, because it’s the kind of tomato you’re used to).

58
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:06:25pm
59
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:07:00pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

“Start to recover”

to where, to what condition?????

You can’t recover if you haven’t ever, er, covered

60
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:08:20pm
61
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:08:28pm

re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

Bert and Ernie sit and shiver?
///

62
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:09:25pm
63
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:09:47pm

re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White

Bert and Ernie sit and shiver?
///

Good now I don’t have to

64
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:10:27pm

I may be crabbier than usual as my dad is in the hospital, recovering from a breathing incident. Fucking 45 years of smoking 3+ pack of Kools a day.

65
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:11:08pm

Mission Accomplished!

66
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:12:34pm

re: #28 The Ghost of a Flea

I seriously wonder if these spontaneous announcements and threats are done to make the markets bounce. Like with Carl Icahn’s happy sell-off “accident” before this tariff.

I mean, that would be a truly Trump move, in keeping with his previous business practices: fuck everybody to benefit a small number of inside players, mostly family and “friends.”

eta: Consider—because of the instant-reaction nature of both media and the stock market, policies don’t even have to stick. You can just toss out something stupid that panics sellers, cause a dip, then things recover.

There’s actually multiple exploits to the combo of fast trading and having the most powerful mouthpiece in the world.

It’s just Trump being his dumbass self and some people around him seeing such moves telegraphed in private and quickly moving to capitalize on them prior to their announcement. There were rumors early in the week that Trump was thinking about steel tariffs, but at the same time nobody actually in charge was prepared for them because there was no official policy paper. Under the fog of confusion Wilbur Ross then snuck the steel executives in without notifying any other cabinet secretaries and Trump made the call during an epic temper tantrum following the departure of Hope Hicks and the continuing fallout with Kelly over Kushner’s security clearance and the Rob Porter fiasco. He was also probably in a mood over having to grovel before the NRA and reverse his bizarre comment about wanting to take guns from people without due process. On top of all that he’d just started a new diet, which will put anybody on edge. Point being, it’s probably a mistake to ascribe the decision itself to any rationale beyond Trump’s need to lash out in anger and feel once again like he’s in control.

Reportedly Trump was baffled about the market reaction on Thursday and asked Kelly what was going on. Kelly’s response was reportedly a rare bout of brutal honestly verging on rebuke, telling Trump that this was exactly what Cohn and Mnuchin told him would happen.

67
PhillyPretzel  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:13:17pm

Pww/VtC7mDxzQB4O+v1FAc9Jh11SQsORaZ/+Vpd0Wn5Dp6Efg1h2Ya2FwHT0eESQihyUtl0LhrsshkDQhZMX2L8LLtKDEDZ62yGcHTNZC1BSluIxi03CBtjoasbeSkYE1e6/37oNuKRgwJUyaDSoVmv4eL5WLp+NZ0iKvW6olDFvL8rT7NjcSDTnt++JzEFDW32OF63DcL6MzaJdCU1fVIKwjaNYQblw9jkI3KjzrAHPy3RzYxpbn0lDHKJwQTQl61psLjPllqc3zw0YimKTBUHkJKmgbqmcUupy91fK6In5aG7eIqOJAW2p9lr9A26vt0QYRo8WIvzXJuGjT785D4hSDn2vqG7J9Xe1DFjUkAlxUPBcWVn/Ite6boUT+hMLC0sufoWzj/Q=

68
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:14:13pm
69
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:14:55pm

With the tariff crap, my seething hatred of Prez Racist Grandpa has once again popped to the surface. Booze time.

70
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:16:02pm

re: #67 PhillyPretzel

iVlMXOikTWS2blSun+Uu1mdPXwn2ICkE55P2272PFr4=

71
PhillyPretzel  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:17:38pm

re: #70 plansbandc

vjSBmokSA11k0Kz2LfQrrg==

72
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:18:03pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

You’re right.

It’s hard to remember that “doesn’t know what they’re doing” is an option.

73
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:18:33pm

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

74
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:18:37pm
75
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:19:42pm

re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

It’s not like it costs him anything to do it.

76
Targetpractice  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:21:07pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Mission Accomplished!

I’m old enough to remember when “serious” pundits were assuring us he’d settle down, grow into the presidency, and America would benefit from having an “unconventional” president.

77
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:21:17pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

I knew Burning Man would go to shit when they moved the Playa.

78
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:21:20pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

Whatever you’re taking, mail me some.

79
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:22:04pm

And then the next morning, he announced the steel and aluminum tariffs.

80
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:23:44pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

That escalated quickly.

81
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:24:02pm

Since I, and I think many others here are sick of seeing Trump’s ugly face on so many threads may I suggest we use this as his official picture instead?

Thank you.

82
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:24:53pm

re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

83
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:25:00pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

Reading this kind of analysis takes me back to histories of child kings like Richard II, where the person with all the executive power is like that goat carcass they use for buzkashi.

84
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:25:17pm

re: #80 goddamnedfrank

Heh. He’s quite the character.

85
sagehen  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:25:44pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Mission Accomplished!

Try to imagine any other president, EVER, being angry that the AG, Deputy AG and Solicitor General ate dinner together.

86
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:26:50pm

re: #81 Skip Intro

Yes!

87
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:26:59pm

re: #85 sagehen

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

88
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:27:02pm

re: #81 Skip Intro

Anyone else see a Cenobite that wasn’t cool enough to hang with the others?

89
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:27:49pm

re: #64 Amory Blaine
I can commiserate. My husband is in ICU for the next few weeks. After well over 15 yrs of not managing type 2 diabetes leading to necrotizing fasciitis. AKA as His Own Damned Fault. And he’s being a full fledged pain in the ass.’ I’ve had to leave the ICU more than once to keep from punching him in the sternum. I know he’s scared and in pain, but I’m over it. I’m exhausted and I have not a single fucking friend who has my back. So it’s me and the kid and it’s just not enough. The Husband’s employer has offered help for various things. Monday I begin asking, IDGAF what The Husband thinks. Cranky is an understatement to describe my mood. I hope things go much smoother for you and yours.

90
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:28:41pm

re: #87 Skip Intro

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

He has not fulfilled his destiny—to teach us all to get off our asses and GOTV.

91
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:28:47pm

re: #85 sagehen

Try to imagine any other president, EVER, being angry that the AG, Deputy AG and Solicitor General ate dinner together.

Try to imagine any other President, EVER, where the AG, Deputy AG, and Solicitor General having dinner together would be seen as defiance.

92
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:31:38pm

re: #87 Skip Intro

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

Semi-serious answer: a lot of “angry all the time” people are having a great time. There may be a source of frustration that causes them stress, but their soothing mechanism is raging at people. The outward expression we associate with anger doesn’t mean they’re experiencing the health-damaging stress that’s the product of long-term parasympathetic arousal.

93
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:32:55pm

re: #89 A Mom Anon

That’s horrible. I can’t imagine having that condition or dealing with some one who does.

I hope you can find a way to get some peace while the doc’s are dealing with it.

94
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:33:46pm

re: #92 The Ghost of a Flea

That would explain why total assholes seem to live so long.

95
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:34:32pm

re: #94 Skip Intro

Caring about people the same way you care about an ashtray removes a considerable quantity of the stress that eats at people.

96
Interesting Times  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:37:05pm

re: #92 The Ghost of a Flea

The outward expression we associate with anger doesn’t mean they’re experiencing the health-damaging long-term stress that’s the product of long-term parasympathetic arousal.

I can’t find it now, but I could swear there was a study that showed psychopaths had their heart rate decrease when they engaged in raging/violent behavior.

97
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:37:43pm

re: #89 A Mom Anon

((A Mom)) I’m so sorry to hear this. Please don’t forget to take care of yourself also.

98
Jay C  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:37:47pm

re: #91 Blind Frog Belly White

Try to imagine any other President, EVER, where the AG, Deputy AG, and Solicitor General having dinner together would be seen as defiance.

Probably guilt. The top three officials at Justice might have been simply going over inter-office minutiae over dinner, and of course, our Embarrassment-in-Chief goes ballistic that they’re - what? - plotting against him? We should only be so lucky…..

99
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:38:28pm

re: #32 Skip Intro

That buck and a half tax cut a week for the Little People just looks better and better, doesn’t it?

What tax cut?

My health insurance premium went up by 18%.

Add in the 5% rent increase…

After this great $1.50 tax cut my paycheck has gone down by $58!

Thank You Lyin’ Ryan!

100
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:39:06pm

re: #96 Interesting Times

I know the study you’re talking about…I think.

Data like that was featured in a book called “When Men Batter Women” (that’s at least 18 years old—I read it in college) where the worst abusers (the most calculating, the more likely to use extreme violence) experienced the drop, even while “arguing” with their wives during a controlled study that involved counseling while hooked up to a cardiograph and (I think) a GSR monitor.

Since I’ve seen studies that there’s people who experience that BP drop who aren’t psychopaths, but as a consequence do very well in stressful tasks.

edited for a few added details

101
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:40:13pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

a new twist on Burning Man, was it?

102
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:41:36pm

re: #89 A Mom Anon

1aLEcWK4MgxRA0WfBa5Ud3UTx0UYFvJ7u9ryzgk26ChnYXaArclvHeUk1IaYJYkyTzsVO9LzpGsWBk9wbhtN4976Cq0KCxiuZ9qXPcHabLMyZrzCjI349fCjbFFbvnl1dMPWpOm019qdwZqiKZ+hmvXWN3zcsc0C5fLUfO5B7lJgP0bXD8UKcq+N1GUinMx8O423MFHfxFusP+5D3g+1mnlLx2OPVlsxDKQwiCE0PnmT0osCAeY9Bu2XmGAq5RQjvnzMa7//QtLZD6cLuJMhU12Dq06HFJxL+Hr6hhycZlg=

103
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:42:19pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

Burning Wang

104
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:44:16pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

Probably. He doesn’t do Burning Man anymore because of his COPD and emphysema with all the dust. But he does do regional stuff and some of the side parties him and his hippy friends do. He still does drum circles every edit:Sunday ( I think they still do that out at Red Rock Canyon)

105
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:44:38pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

Oh balls.

I just realized the safety of this nation may be impacted by the president’s dislike of salads.

The Mar-a-Lago barrow wights probably aren’t very happy. Kale is like holy water to them.

106
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:47:14pm

re: #104 Amory Blaine

Some of his pals:

LAZERWOMAN® Drumming, Red Rock, Las Vegas

107
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:47:30pm

re: #93 Skip Intro
I keep telling myself that the good thing is that it’s not antibiotic resistant, it’s two types of staph which can be treated with specific antibiotics. The first skin grafts come on Monday, then we wait. I know he’s hurting and scared, but he needs to quit demanding that I fetch him coffees and run out for special food. Or texting me while I’m on the way to the freaking hospital to get him yet some other thing when there is no place on the way to get whatever. And then acting like I don’t love him when I just can’t. I’m doing all I can not to have a fight in the ICU.

108
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:48:10pm

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

What tax cut?

My health insurance premium went up by 18%.

Add in the 5% rent increase…

After this great $1.50 tax cut my paycheck has gone down by $58!

Thank You Lyin’ Ryan!

I don’t understand. They said you be getting more money, and even better health care for next to nothing.

You must have added things up wrong.

109
Interesting Times  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:49:56pm

Just the kind of person you want carrying an AR-15 e_e

110
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:50:29pm

re: #107 A Mom Anon

I had never heard of that condition before, looked it up and scared myself. I hope it’s not as bad as it sounds.

111
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:53:19pm

re: #102 Joe Bacon 🌹

8vkZlG+/SBNpFf1tg//my6zHZ69boTeF/qvydL/28CkLi5LMZXSZ1xqgT6WlD4+IfHNqfxhDFkP9xBxADcqoYckQyEHO4mAZ05hGRdUfEx1LN7qiIz5J/dVp4zD29wM7naBpd8qACHMi6TRrpxkP4svyon+D6UvAOc2J8n7I1l0p0UE43TDcyz7RR+LSu53+HecxfN953D8QbpAAVWobxHHr9z27a6JyN1IlKqD+2pgQ4asEj4qzw4Fy0KbzNsV1DtQFoxZN0vt1RS7YXWSdX+2nPlX8i5N8fJaf5xZWI2wxjD+HctTMhCUEgCmomF5H18YGlcfYJVerABm+z7aZomOifDqWOGZizasp5WdoX/k/AXoaZjRKeqyOp1h+Kmuc9lKOWrbKZa+xEpJPE596wI2EQRBdYiih6NzTeN2gk4M=

112
Targetpractice  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:55:30pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

…kinky.

113
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:55:31pm

re: #110 Skip Intro

Um yeah it is that horrid. Sadly. Really, the last year can just go kiss my ass, I’m about one more disaster away from a crime spree.

114
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:56:01pm

Looks like Melon has a new book coming out.

115
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:57:29pm

re: #113 A Mom Anon

I’ve been having a pretty crappy health year myself, for what it’s worth, and there’s more to go.

Just try to relax if you can.

116
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:58:37pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Mission Accomplished!

Is it a race of who can drive who out of office quicker now between Jeff Sessions and Donny Trump?

Actually, Sessions has the advantage here. Be funny if the little imp fucked over Trump as payback for how he’s been treated.

117
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:59:01pm

re: #111 A Mom Anon

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

118
fern01  Mar 3, 2018 • 2:59:23pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

“The president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability…”

Media still looking for a way out - what they should be saying

the president has NO emotional stability - never has, never will

119
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:00:23pm

Greenstock Slideshow

This was a party dad took me to ~8 years ago (apologies for the techno). I ate about a half ounce of mushrooms.

120
Targetpractice  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:00:30pm

re: #118 fern01

Media still looking for a way out - what they should be saying

They keep holding onto this hope that this is just a small aberration, that the man’s not cracking under the pressure, he’s just finding the job more stressful than he was expecting. But the reality is that the man is totally unsuited for this job, he’s showing that day by day, and it’s a wonder he hasn’t stroked out with all the anger and hatred he’s stoking by the hour.

121
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:01:09pm

re: #111 A Mom Anon

[Embedded content]

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

122
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:01:41pm

Chris Wallace also states the Hope Hicks was “the person closest to the President amongst his White House staff”
Of course, I immediately thought “Ivanka, and Jared are members of the his staff…”

I’ve included the video from Youtube, so you can skip going to The Hill’s web site. I find their pages always gum up the work in my computer.

Chris Wallace Presses Shepard Smith Over Trump’s Gun plan “That’s your Opinions not mine” (3/2/18)

123
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:03:42pm

This photo is at least a couple of months old, but what the hell is/was eating his elbow?

splinternews.com

124
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:03:53pm
125
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:04:58pm
126
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:05:31pm

re: #123 dirkdigglerjr

This photo is at least a couple of months old, but what the hell is/was eating his elbow?

splinternews.com

eeeeeewwwwwww

127
mmmirele  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:06:09pm

re: #113 A Mom Anon

Um yeah it is that horrid. Sadly. Really, the last year can just go kiss my ass, I’m about one more disaster away from a crime spree.

I am counting my lucky stars. I just had an argument with my elderly, not especially mobile, legally blind, deaf mother. She wanted to go to the Baby Lock and Bernina dealers. To look for books on thread painting, she says. But no, that’s not why she really wants to go. She wants to see if they have a stitch regulator for sale that will fit one of her machines. And they don’t. Because her machines are older models and no, stitch regulators do not fit them. On top of that, she’s legally blind. So I pretty much told her no and said I’d order her a book off Amazon. But she has to see what it is, first, because she might already have it.

I keep reminding myself how she could be asking me to drive her over to one of the Indian casinos so she can blow her Social Security check on the slots. Pushing her away on the whole sewing machine thing is manageable.

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

128
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:11:18pm

An amoral traitor running our country (into the ground). Not what I ever thought would happen to us, but here we are. Fuck.

129
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:13:43pm

re: #89 A Mom Anon

I can commiserate. My husband is in ICU for the next few weeks. After well over 15 yrs of not managing type 2 diabetes leading to necrotizing fasciitis. AKA as His Own Damned Fault. And he’s being a full fledged pain in the ass.’ I’ve had to leave the ICU more than once to keep from punching him in the sternum. I know he’s scared and in pain, but I’m over it. I’m exhausted and I have not a single fucking friend who has my back. So it’s me and the kid and it’s just not enough. The Husband’s employer has offered help for various things. Monday I begin asking, IDGAF what The Husband thinks. Cranky is an understatement to describe my mood. I hope things go much smoother for you and yours.

Mom. Please do ask for all the help you can get. You deserve it. Sending as much strength your way as I can with words.

130
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:17:32pm

re: #73 Amory Blaine

I talked to my dad last Saturday. He was on his way out the door to a soup party out in the desert. Dozens of different kinds of soup. Also, they burned a 16 foot penis.

I like him

131
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:20:26pm

re: #87 Skip Intro

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

Ah
The makings of a plan…..

132
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:23:06pm

re: #92 The Ghost of a Flea

Semi-serious answer: a lot of “angry all the time” people are having a great time. There may be a source of frustration that causes them stress, but their soothing mechanism is raging at people. The outward expression we associate with anger doesn’t mean they’re experiencing the health-damaging stress that’s the product of long-term parasympathetic arousal.

Doctor to Oscar Madison (tv show,)
“You’re what we call a yeller”

133
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:24:52pm

re: #87 Skip Intro

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

I really don’t want to go there. I remember when right wing preachers like H L Hymers here in Los Angeles prayed for Obama and Bill Clinton’s death numerous times. Hymers also prayed for the death of pro-choice Judges.

134
plansbandc  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:24:53pm

There’s some serious shit going on here.

135
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:25:24pm
136
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:25:47pm

re: #134 plansbandc

[Embedded content]

There’s some serious shit going on here.

Blast from the Past! Is that Jane Byrne smoking in front of Bozo?????

137
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:26:28pm

re: #136 Joe Bacon 🌹

Blast from the Past! Is that Jane Byrne smoking in front of Bozo?????

My thought exactly!

138
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:27:57pm
139
ozharas  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:28:34pm

Our Prime Minister and Trade Minister had just arrived back from a visit with Washington and Trump, when this tariff news broke.

So much for the US-Aus special relationship - can’t even get an answer to a simple question, about our steel/aluminium exports to the US.

theguardian.com

The Turnbull government still doesn’t know if the US steel tariffs will apply to Australia, as a decision has not yet been made by Donald Trump.

The Australian trade minister, Steve Ciobo, revealed that he had spoken to the US trade secretary, Wilbur Ross, but was still unclear about whether the tariffs would apply to Australia.

On Friday Trump announced the US would this week impose impose tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on imported aluminium, sparking concern from the Australian government, which believed it had negotiated an exemption from US protectionism on steel.

On Sunday Ciobo told Sky News it was unclear whether Australia would be captured by the US policy because the reach of the tariff had “yet to be determined”.

140
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:28:49pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

My thought exactly!

I remember back in Pittsburgh when they had a Bozo show, a kid told a dirty joke on live TV and Bozo replied, “That’s a Bozo No-No”. The kid told Bozo to do a rather naughty act…the next day Bozo was fired from WPGH 53…

141
Sea Mexican!  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:29:37pm

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

What tax cut?

My health insurance premium went up by 18%.

Add in the 5% rent increase…

After this great $1.50 tax cut my paycheck has gone down by $58!

Thank You Lyin’ Ryan!

There are rumors here at work that we will be hit by a $150+ increase in the health care plan. And last year the government wanted to cut 2 work days per month, effectively a 10% salary cut. And we haven’t seen a salary raise in more than 10 years.

Between hurricane María, the high incompetence of the local government, the oversight board’s insistence on paying vulture capitalists over growing the economy, and the Ryan Tax Scam, it looks like things in Puerto Rico can get more dire.

142
Slump-chan  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:29:53pm

re: #105 The Ghost of a Flea

Jeez, just let Trumpy have his damn KFC and big macs.

143
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:30:11pm

re: #123 dirkdigglerjr

This photo is at least a couple of months old, but what the hell is/was eating his elbow?

splinternews.com

That Voldemort is a real scamp!

144
dangerman  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:31:58pm

re: #109 Interesting Times

[Embedded content]

Just the kind of person you want carrying an AR-15 e_e

Its souther in North florida

145
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:32:16pm

re: #141 Sea Mexican!

There are rumors here at work that we will be hit by a $150+ increase in the health care plan. And last year the government wanted to cut 2 work days per month, effectively a 10% salary cut. And we haven’t seen a salary raise in more than 10 years.

Between hurricane María, the high incompetence of the local government, the oversight board’s insistence on paying vulture capitalists over growing the economy, and the Ryan Tax Scam, it looks like things in Puerto Rico can get more dire.

All the time Ah-Nold was Governor here in California, he furloughed the State’s Disability Determination Service workers 1 day a week, paying them only 80% of their salary and the end result was that cases backed up to the point that there was a 7 month minimum processing time. Other states had to step in and help reduce California’s backlog.

Another reason why I hate that steroid junky and rank him as the worst Governor California ever had!

146
Jay C  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:32:17pm

re: #123 dirkdigglerjr

This photo is at least a couple of months old, but what the hell is/was eating his elbow?

splinternews.com

I hate to say what that looks like, so I’ll paraphrase:

A) The President is growing a (one of his favorite grabbing-objects) on his arm.

B) It’s just saggy old-man elbow flesh flapping because he’s extended the arm straight.

Gonna go with B)

147
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:39:57pm

re: #142 Slump-chan

Jeez, just let Trumpy have his damn KFC and big macs.

oh…somebody is sneaking them to him…

148
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:41:38pm
149
A Mom Anon  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:42:43pm

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

I love this more than anything today.

150
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:43:06pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh…somebody is sneaking them to him…

“I’m the goddam President! Get me a bucket of original with extra gravy!”

151
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:43:40pm

re: #149 A Mom Anon

I love this more than anything today.

me, too!

152
wrenchwench  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:46:16pm

Tour de France to drop podium girls following Formula One and darts
Race organisers hold talks about ending tradition of using models to greet stage winners at this year’s Tour

[…]
The Times say race officials have held extensive talks about ditching the use of the ladies, who flank the winner on the podium each day.

They are as much a recognised part of the Tour as the cycling itself - but bosses believe the time has come to end the practice.

Like those in charge of darts and F1, they believe the use of scantily clad women to promote their events is becoming outdated.
[…]

The decision was criticised by the podium girls who lost their jobs, claiming they were being denied work because of the demands of feminists.

There’s always a complainer…

153
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:46:23pm

re: #149 A Mom Anon

I love this more than anything today.

It was reported that she asked the guy to her left, “Is she a queen?”

I hope he replied, “Yes, my dear, yes she is”.

154
Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:48:25pm

re: #104 Amory Blaine

Probably. He doesn’t do Burning Man anymore because of his COPD and emphysema with all the dust. But he does do regional stuff and some of the side parties him and his hippy friends do. He still does drum circles every edit:Sunday ( I think they still do that out at Red Rock Canyon)

Didn’t realize he lived in my city!

155
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:49:41pm

re: #152 wrenchwench

Tour de France to drop podium girls following Formula One and darts
Race organisers hold talks about ending tradition of using models to greet stage winners at this year’s Tour

There’s always a complainer…

It was a legal issue. Last year, over 50% of the podium girls grew moustaches and chest hair after smooching the athletes.

156
Ace Rothstein  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:50:27pm

re: #87 Skip Intro

If I believe the reports, Trump seems to spend the time he isn’t watching Fox in a boiling rage. So why hasn’t he stroked out yet?

There’s time.

157
wrenchwench  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:50:49pm

re: #155 austin_blue

It was a legal issue. Last year, over 50% of the podium girls grew moustaches and chest hair after smooching the athletes.

I see a future for Lance Armstrong as a Russian coach.

158
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:51:40pm

re: #152 wrenchwench

Why not put a woman AND a man at the podium to congratulate winners? Modest dress of course.

159
sagehen  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:52:09pm

re: #145 Joe Bacon 🌹

All the time Ah-Nold was Governor here in California, he furloughed the State’s Disability Determination Service workers 1 day a week, paying them only 80% of their salary and the end result was that cases backed up to the point that there was a 7 month minimum processing time. Other states had to step in and help reduce California’s backlog.

Another reason why I hate that steroid junky and rank him as the worst Governor California ever had!

One of Reagan’s budget moves was to release 1/4 of the inmates from the penitentiary. It did save a ton of money, and was actually very popular in some circles…

160
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:52:32pm

heh…

161
wrenchwench  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:53:26pm

re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg

Why not put a woman AND a man at the podium to congratulate winners? Modest dress of course.

Pay increase would have to happen. Cheaper this way.

162
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:55:15pm

indeed

163
Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 3, 2018 • 3:56:47pm

re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea

Burning Wang

Nah. Burning Manhood.

164
mmmirele  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:00:17pm

A friend of mine from college who now lives in NYC was paid $100 to participate in a focus group for a new television network.

CAc3d7q+xCwcdGAZN5dlo6VCt0J646VVlDXuMzhRl7e/KWqxzD9aw29O1q+6C1e4tkMHpAycQYG/fDe8ucnPrd8s7ImXjSIj8o56IBRn1PTwXWCO+C6j5K09rsSYTOKTzmw/mVIXxFsIMqhKNZDko8Asp+RgQ85vOl/h8+0OtlLsY/0bVjXssFzYbo7TV3JMS6lV+6+egGFkBPsCGIiASE46t68sDuVDs4hXnU8pOVzW4gIYFMABnrzZd/5D8sfVF1N5hGdRUVdH8qvCmUvNBYiQvstU6RYFEdQLHkxOkXI8tZMB2pWIelt8CwOlQIgvHaKLgLVHSorLKpS8nkN4XAGByg8q5yEW1N8JcSia6x2aXocD5TUFCIOCOur6sFCWxD0gU0yXPk+2dXXz+ZTeDO+xzUbsakUo8xMDsGn3n5zUJMXKACySu2Ux3BVk1Unp6MLzHDG4eoLamC46OkOH51CTneF9/wq0odIpm3WqBxJwVtcVsiUGe5xkg8EC7485SEORlDsScYljJhllvwwNchRMkhnDv10gC+dFdraruubrrVlUV+XyQgufsobuZwQwYXN86R+FgRrbAEMKm2ic7cOB9PU8ZXlICw2+31J8uoSnNXjaL9lCW/NObVkF8ytDj4fkU+wr5qSguaWQ9W+8FrJU6FjWquXVjtd+8x2DqnziFF6GmXpxOf8tKdFw8HY3OFUrTtzTgBhzgXtK5dsyIaxQ6OHN0O7MBknvEFln9KvTSd9d2sl5eoH94AZmb4JlP4fAZZjXaFkdUHY+FqYtMlPnB0OKSQpmYJgD5TpVsPwV/m2rMNoZwenoQdu3b8BKD0vTLVGZozVwn3uKt6h5S0Ag208fjCLWGntF/wj4nlQ1sn8fk2c3wvGHPCMWCdfU

165
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:01:05pm

Stephen, the kids are ON IT!

166
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:02:46pm
167
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:04:06pm
168
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:04:27pm

re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

And another day without a peep from the GOP. They are complicit in the destruction of our country.

By any reasonable measure, Trump should have been gone months ago.

169
HappyWarrior  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:06:19pm

re: #167 jaunte

[Embedded content]

The mistake is assuming Romma is an adult.

170
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:08:12pm
171
TedStriker  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:11:30pm

re: #132 dangerman

Doctor to Oscar Madison (tv show,)
“You’re what we call a yeller”

The Odd Couple, such a classic (the original series, not the ho-hum reboot).

172
wrenchwench  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:13:56pm

re: #167 jaunte

[What inspires grown adults to throw this kind of cult-like adulation unprompted?]

It’s her job. The phrase, ‘putting lipstick on a pig’ came to mind.

173
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:15:34pm

re: #172 wrenchwench

Next she’ll be praising his swim across the Yangtze.

174
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:17:46pm
175
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:17:53pm

re: #167 jaunte

[Embedded content]

That tweet’s a keeper. When Trump is sitting on his golden shitter on some distant island, it must never be forgotten that he is the GOP, and the GOP is Trump.

176
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:19:04pm

I half think that eliciting this exact response was China’s real goal here.

177
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:21:16pm

re: #176 goddamnedfrank

I half think that eliciting this exact response was China’s real goal here.

“Maybe we’ll give that a shot some day.”

Don’t ever think that’s a passing fancy.

178
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:22:00pm

re: #155 austin_blue

It was a legal issue. Last year, over 50% of the podium girls grew moustaches and chest hair after smooching the athletes.

HA!

Of course, given the drug-of-choice for cycling, they’re more likely to stroke out from all the red cells making their blood as thick as pudding.

179
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:23:39pm
180
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:24:14pm

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

Same story here. Work for local government but insurance is issued through the state. Premium increase of 10 percent means I pay nearly 800 per month pre-tax for me and mrsdirk. She is retired but due to changes in retiree insurance she would be paying the same non-pre-tax if she had taken that option. Based on the February check that included the new rates, my tax cut “earnings” are a $10 decrease per month.

181
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:24:22pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh…somebody is sneaking them to him…

Barrow wight: FRIED CHICKEN FOR THE MASTER. HE SHALL OVERCOMB ALL.

Health advisor: He can’t eat that. This new diet is supposed to help with his heart issues and stress.

Wight: HEART? HEART? A VESTIGIAL ORGAN. THE HAIR REQUIRES GREASE. THROUGH THAT OLEAGINOUS LUSTER ITS CHANNELS THE POWERS OF THE NECROPOLIS OF THE INFARCTED DITTOHEAD.

Health advisor: Hey, we’re sort of on the same side here…I think. The…um, hair…is attached to an aging man I’m responsible for the health and welfare of. Maybe throw in some boiled vegetables, or a sala—

Wight: SAY NO MORE I WILL SUMMON A LETTUCE WEDGE FROM THE FLAVORLESS PIT.

Health advisor: It’s covered in blue cheese, bacon bits, and boiled eggs. You’ve nullified what little benefit there was to eating a green And iceburg lettuce is pretty much crunchy water.

Wight: IT IS THE CONDENSED EMPTINESS OF THE EIGHTIES ON A PLATE. DURAN DURAN, BUT SLIGHTLY LESS EDIBLE.

Health advisor: Yeah, but maybe we could try something with some fiber or nutrients. Kale, arugala, watercress, mache….

Wight: CEASE THIS CURSE…*withers to ash*

Second barrow wight: YOU HAVE TURNED THE CHEF DE CUISINE. BY UNHOLY RIGHT I, THE SAUCIER, CLAIM HIS TOQUE. TONIGHT WE SHALL MAKE A TOPHET OF THE BAKED ALASKA! IA! IA!

Health advisor: I give up. I clearly don’t understand how the kitchen around here works. Just…please…steam some broccoli or something. Anything.

182
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:24:41pm

re: #152 wrenchwench

Tour de France to drop podium girls following Formula One and darts
Race organisers hold talks about ending tradition of using models to greet stage winners at this year’s Tour

There’s always a complainer…

I’m an F1 fan…and I have heard the complaints. Some guys are threatening to stop watching the sport. I thought they liked racing, but you never know. Tradition!

F1 was tossing around the idea of using kids from the various countries to do the grid number thing before the race start instead of local models.

183
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:25:05pm

I see on a family member’s Facebook page that Alex Jones got his third You Tube strike…is this confirmed????

184
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:27:12pm

re: #161 wrenchwench

Pay increase would have to happen. Cheaper this way.

Kids, yeah kids. You barely have to pay them t all

185
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:28:15pm

re: #159 sagehen

And also mental institutions

186
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:28:25pm

FFS

187
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:29:37pm

Trump President for life? Just shoot me.

188
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:29:51pm

re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

FFS

[Embedded content]

If he becomes President For Life, I suspect he’ll have a short Presidency.

189
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:29:54pm

re: #181 The Ghost of a Flea

Kitchen Liches is a show I would watch the absolute hell out of tbh.

190
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:30:19pm

re: #187 Unshaken Defiance

Trump President for life? Just shoot me.

Right idea. Wrong target.
//

191
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:30:22pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

The mistake is assuming Romma is an adult.

The head of the damn party committee. It’s nuts all the way down. Or up. It’s all nuts.

192
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:30:24pm

re: #187 Unshaken Defiance

Trump President for life? Just shoot me.

That’s acceptable, as long as he’s out of office before 2020.

193
Barefoot Grin  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:30:43pm

Maggie’s tweet is a bit on the “duh” side, but the comments are golden.

194
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:35:13pm

re: #193 Barefoot Grin

Maggie’s tweet is a bit on the “duh” side, but the comments are golden.

[Embedded content]

You’d think he’d be accustomed to being called dumb, after all this time.

195
ozharas  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:37:57pm

re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

FFS

[Embedded content]

And…

On Saturday, among donors gathered in the grand ballroom named for himself at Mar-a-Lago, Trump pondered the happiness of his former rival, wondering aloud whether she was enjoying life after the campaign.
“Is Hillary a happy person? Do you think she’s happy?” he said. “When she goes home at night, does she say, ‘What a great life?’ I don’t think so. You never know. I hope she’s happy.”

196
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:40:16pm

Awright, Texans—ya got me. WTF?

Donations of deer semen make up majority of contributions in Texas candidate’s race: report

thehill.com

197
mmmirele  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:41:37pm

re: #183 Joe Bacon 🌹

I see on a family member’s Facebook page that Alex Jones got his third You Tube strike…is this confirmed????

I don’t know about that, but there’s an article on CNN from a couple of hours ago with this headline:

Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel

money.cnn.com

A quick Twitter search didn’t show any outrage over a third strike, so probably not true, at least right now.

198
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:42:22pm

re: #196 Decatur Deb

Awright, Texans—ya got me. WTF?

Donations of deer semen make up majority of contributions in Texas candidate’s race: report

thehill.com

Wife looking over my shoulder at your post… “How do they”… DONT ASK I (quickly) say.

199
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:42:51pm

re: #193 Barefoot Grin

Maggie’s tweet is a bit on the “duh” side, but the comments are golden.

[Embedded content]

200
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:46:06pm

re: #198 Unshaken Defiance

Wife looking over my shoulder at your post… “How do they”… DONT ASK I (quickly) say.

Thought it was bad when Daughter1 gave SIL1 deer piss for his birthday.

201
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:48:19pm

I would be okay with a President for life, if it meant we got to shoot them whenever we decided it was time for a new President.

/half

202
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:48:57pm

re: #201 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I would be okay with a President for life, if it meant we got to shoot them whenever we decided it was time for a new President.

/half

That’s how it works historically.

203
BigPapa  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:49:52pm

Are you a homeless dog or hooman

204
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:51:08pm

re: #203 BigPapa

I had a pizza today that was pinapple and bacon. PINEAPPLE AND BACON. It was yum.

205
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:51:08pm

“I hereby declare myself President For Life!”

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!
//

206
stpaulbear  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:51:23pm

re: #195 ozharas

And…

On Saturday, among donors gathered in the grand ballroom named for himself at Mar-a-Lago, Trump pondered the happiness of his former rival, wondering aloud whether she was enjoying life after the campaign.
“Is Hillary a happy person? Do you think she’s happy?” he said. “When she goes home at night, does she say, ‘What a great life?’ I don’t think so. You never know. I hope she’s happy.”

Every word he says in that article is soooo much projection.

I think it’s great that someone is recording events that Trump wants to be media-free. I wonder if one of the members is a plant for CNN? I don’t even wonder if any of the staff are Russian plants. That’s a given.

207
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:51:25pm

And suddenly the thread turns.

Not sure where to, but it is turning.

208
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:52:22pm

re: #207 ObserverArt

And suddenly the thread turns.

Not sure where to, but it is turning.

I knew we shoulda taken a left turn at Albuquerque.

/Ha, I spelled it right the first time, and without spell check! I are smrt!

209
BigPapa  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:52:43pm

re: #204 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I had a pizza today that was pinapple and bacon. PINEAPPLE AND BACON. It was yum.

Yeah, well, like, bacon is cheating, man.

210
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:53:45pm

re: #204 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I had a pizza today that was pinapple and bacon. PINEAPPLE AND BACON. It was yum.

It’s godless man! This is why even the Evangelicals will not have you.

Repent! Cast out the fruit. Go forth without Pizza Sin.

211
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:53:56pm

re: #195 ozharas

And…

On Saturday, among donors gathered in the grand ballroom named for himself at Mar-a-Lago, Trump pondered the happiness of his former rival, wondering aloud whether she was enjoying life after the campaign.
“Is Hillary a happy person? Do you think she’s happy?” he said. “When she goes home at night, does she say, ‘What a great life?’ I don’t think so. You never know. I hope she’s happy.”

One wonders whether he’s musing on how great it would be to have lost and not have all his shit being looked into, not have all these people demanding his time and attention, and all these decisions to make. Sniping from the sidelines is easy and fun - he still does it, even though he’s the guy with the ball.

212
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:54:34pm

re: #210 ObserverArt

It’s godless man! This is why even the Evangelicals will not have you.

Repent! Cast out the fruit. Go forth without Pizza Sin.

Ahem…Tomatoes and peppers would like a word.

213
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:54:54pm

re: #210 ObserverArt

It’s godless man! This is why even the Evangelicals will not have you.

Repent! Cast out the fruit. Go forth without Pizza Sin.

The irony of that statement is that I had it at lunch with my church, as we are setting up for a combined service and I had a hard day of work setting up the tech stack. They ordered us pizza.

214
Decatur Deb  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:56:20pm

re: #213 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The irony of that statement is that I had it at lunch with my church, as we are setting up for a combined service and I had a hard day of work setting up the tech stack. They ordered us pizza.

So we can assume you’re not Jewish or Italian.

215
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:56:24pm

re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White

Ahem…Tomatoes and peppers would like a word.

Come on this is religion. We aren’t going to get picky here are we? You’re sorta blowing the game. Move along with your questions.

216
Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:57:35pm

re: #215 ObserverArt

Come on this is religion. We aren’t going to get picky here are we? You’re sorta blowing the game. Move along with your questions.

I thought religions were all about being picky.

217
BigPapa  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:58:17pm

Prelim planned vaca with my sis from Australia: fly in to LA road trip to Grand Canyon, come back doing the Route 66 thing, fly out of LA. Her Aussie keiki will get their minds blown at Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon.

Been a while but I need some long hours out in the desert.

218
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 4:59:04pm

re: #198 Unshaken Defiance

One of the best articles I ever got to write was about the theft of $250,000 in bull emissions. Money quote from the local sheriff’s office: “This was some prized bull semen.”

219
majii  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:04:15pm

re: #183 Joe Bacon 🌹

“I see on a family member’s Facebook page that Alex Jones got his third You Tube strike…is this confirmed????”

I read about this a few days ago. I don’t know if it’s been confirmed, but I certainly hope it’s true. If he gets booted from the platform, it’s a definite win for America.

220
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:05:09pm

Huh. Live NHL hockey game from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Leafs and Caps. Should be good, as Toronto is hot as a rocket right now.

221
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:05:25pm

re: #176 goddamnedfrank

I half think that eliciting this exact response was China’s real goal here.

[Embedded content]

O G_D that article. He’s out of control and out of fucks.

222
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:06:39pm
223
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:06:46pm

re: #197 mmmirele

I don’t know about that, but there’s an article on CNN from a couple of hours ago with this headline:

money.cnn.com

A quick Twitter search didn’t show any outrage over a third strike, so probably not true, at least right now.

I know what a bullshitter he is. That’s why I wanted to touch base here and see if anyone else can confirm. Really hurts to have relatives who worship the ground Jones walks on…

224
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:07:48pm

re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

From NBC:

…whom he had looked upon as one of his own children.

Perhaps the way he looks at Ivanka?///

225
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:08:10pm

I bet this changes pretty fast

226
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:10:22pm

re: #203 BigPapa

I look at that and it reminds me of how Mom could doctor up a Chef Boyardee Pizza Kit with fines herbs and very thin slices of real mozzarella Sometimes she would add green pepper, onion and mushroom slices.

But mom would NEVER put pineapple slices on a pizza. She would save fresh pineapple slices and cloves for her baked hams…

227
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:11:16pm

Heh, was digging through some music at YouTube and came across this.

I don’t know. Seems kind of fitting for the times.

I give you (I Am The God of Hell and Fire) Arthur Brown doing Sea of Vodka.

The tune will be familiar. They say it is a classic in its influences.

Arthur Brown - “Sea of Vodka”

228
ObserverArt  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:12:48pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

I thought religions were all about being picky.

Not mine. We go with what works. Good for the collections.

229
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:12:52pm

re: #64 Amory Blaine

Kools were my brand for years. I forgot when I stopped smoking, it’s been almost two years, that’s certain.

230
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:14:25pm

re: #229 teleskiguy

Kools were my brand for years. I forgot when I stopped smoking, it’s been almost two years, that’s certain.

Yeah, it’s been a while. I remember when you started on the quitting.

231
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:15:06pm

re: #227 ObserverArt

Heh, was digging through some music at YouTube and came across this.

I don’t know. Seems kind of fitting for the times.

I give you (I Am The God of Hell and Fire) Arthur Brown doing Sea of Vodka.

The tune will be familiar. They say it is a classic in its influences.

[Embedded content]

He lives here in Austin, now. House painter. Plays guitar for old folks in nursing homes. Nice guy. Also, like 6’ 8”.

Oh, and the hockey game is on NBC.

232
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:18:22pm

Oh, they’ve got the US Men’s curling team on the ice pre-game.

233
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:21:40pm

re: #211 Blind Frog Belly White

Well that and the threat of jail time.

234
stpaulbear  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:29:51pm

re: #231 austin_blue

He lives here in Austin, now. House painter. Plays guitar for old folks in nursing homes. Nice guy. Also, like 6’ 8”.

Oh, and the hockey game is on NBC.

Does he have any scars on his head from malfunctioning flaming helmets that he wore while perfoming “Fire”?

Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown @ TOTP 1968

235
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:30:19pm

re: #89 A Mom Anon

Egads! All I want to do now is hug you and take you for a walk in the woods to some gorgeous mountain vista.

236
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:31:42pm

re: #189 goddamnedfrank

Kitchen Lich sounds like the world’s most terrifying magical convenience gadget.

How much would you pay for a thousand years of accumulated cooking skill? It slices, it dices, it makes longevity potions from the litter box contents…it’s the Kitchen Lich (tm) ! The one-stop solution for all of your food preparation and necromancy needs. As long as you hold the phylactery, it will make dinner while you’re at work and reanimate meat scraps to attack your neighbors. Watch it cut through a tin can, the carving board, and most of the German Shepherd without dulling or chipping the blade of its balefire-forged knives. Makes soup in seconds with spells that obliterate the coherence of organic matter! Save on power bills and heating with an oven that connects to Hell! Start dinner while still at work by screaming directions at the mummified head or eery glowing crystal that contains the lich’s essence—the ultimate in convenience for the double-income household.

You haven’t eaten Thanksgiving turkey until you’ve had one roasted with the turkey’s soul still trapped in the carcass! Mother-in-law always complaining about holiday dinners? Not after a taste of the damnation that awaits her! Picky kids will buckle down and eat their vegetables rather than listen to the unending wailing of broccoli florets bestowed crude sapience.

And all of this value comes with an after-lifetime guarantee! If your Kitchen Lich(tm) fails to continue its bleak existence until the sun is a cinder, we’ll provide your accursed family line with a new one at cost!

Kitchen Lich(tm) is controlled entirely by its phylactery. Company is not legally responsible for injury or soul theft caused by misplacing this item. Staring into the empty eyes sockets of the Kitchen Lich is not suggested, and may result in oily discharge from the crown chakra, squid eye, or eternity trapped in aspic. Company is also not legally culpable for loss of True Name, eternal thralldom, Sudden Infant Tentacle Syndrome, haunted pelvis or any other phenomenon speculated but not proven to occur around Kitchen Lich(tm) .

Do not allow pets or pregnant women to touch Kitchen Lich(tm) , dream about Kitchen Lich (tm) or inhale the greenish miasma Kitchen Lich(tm) emits while operating.

Kitchen Lich(tm) is safe to operate and easy to handle, but certain precautions will increase ease of use and decrease likelihood of a wave of the undead pouring forth and covering the world in endless shadow:
- do not leave anything that can be made into a horcrux within the reach of Kitchen Lich(tm)
- ignore whispered secrets or telepathic suggestions from the Kitchen Lich(tm) itself, the hellfire oven, or any of the implements fashioned of bones and Animal Crackers that the Kitchen Lich(tm) creates in its spare time.
- rinse meat in holy water thoroughly before and after processing by Kitchen Lich(tm) . Chicken carcasses should be staked before disposal.
- Kitchen Lich(tm) does not need hugs to function, no matter how often it insists otherwise.
- attempting to operate more than one Kitchen Lich(tm) will result in dungeon construction, riddle contests, and root vegetables singing in the disembodied voice of August Escoffier.

Warranty void in homes containing prophesied children and in cases of divine intervention.

237
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:33:36pm

re: #230 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Yeah, it’s been a while. I remember when you started on the quitting.

At work, I’d say two-thirds of my co-workers smoke. Whenever they ask me if they can take a smoke break I always oblige and I *always* tell them “I think you should quit.”

238
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:38:16pm

re: #234 stpaulbear

Does he have any scars on his head from malfunctioning flaming helmets that he wore while perfoming “Fire”?

[Embedded content]

Ha! No, he’s pretty bald.

2-1 Caps after 6:10 seconds. Fun!

239
whitebeach  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:38:17pm

re: #220 austin_blue

Huh. Live NHL hockey game from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Leafs and Caps. Should be good, as Toronto is hot as a rocket right now.

Fortunately when that came on I was able to find some Columbo reruns. No offense to hockey fans, but the whole sport leaves me … cold.

re: #232 austin_blue

Oh, they’ve got the US Men’s curling team on the ice pre-game.

My lord, the excitement just keeps building.

240
freetoken  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:38:46pm

So, Trump wanted to reward his friends with billions of dollars, and so did the GOP in Congress, so they gave their friends huge tax breaks.

Which will lead to giant deficits.

Which in turn means huge borrowing by the Treasury.

That is, the selling of US notes/bonds around the world to raise money.

At the same time, Trump wants a trade war with China, the EU, Canada, and everybody else.

The same people the US Treasury expects to pick up trillions of dollars of future Treasury notes/bonds.

Am I getting this correct?

241
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:41:52pm

re: #240 freetoken

So, Trump wanted to reward his friends with billions of dollars, and so did the GOP in Congress, so they gave their friends huge tax breaks.

Which will lead to giant deficits.

Which in turn means huge borrowing by the Treasury.

That is, the selling of US notes/bonds around the world to raise money.

At the same time, Trump wants a trade war with China, the EU, Canada, and everybody else.

The same people the US Treasury expects to pick up trillions of dollars of future Treasury notes/bonds.

Am I getting this correct?

Yes and watch what happens when they refuse to buy Treasury securities and then turn around and dump the securities they already have…which leads Standard & Poors to further downgrade the United States from the A’s to the B and possibly C categories…requiring the Fed to jack the interest rates on those securities to double digit levels…inflation triggers…

242
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:43:32pm

re: #107 A Mom Anon

gPlmuYlDJSd5UiewzQvNu/H3MgGFsHmPLzEw5l04I2pSL6rvQUu7/tKxZB5tPz0mV51HNnYbjUWHHgvD1FG+lh+z9LtQXXrWqKuRM7GJtZeuhArZ3aKXmjg+3BBwoyzF1fIhJR1vzRUzd3i6ItCD+RMkO64VWP1xdx9S8Jo6iOFYWR9Ogss+oZIYupafVlrbRu9XvAG9TV+CftaAygYDTPTIMXGmMvJAapVW5hoQyROJfjNe0Mu4U7z66XpAZUXKQ9jB4W9RHg3XZh+nBxrZCPKOdduOE8hAmtdKJsEIA5kuQDG+bBKtzwalPNdeStsiK05LuFpxxf6u+5wcJup/q+50aIchf4hw0cztFzWaVQI=

243
Citizen K  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:43:40pm
245
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:45:11pm

re: #241 Joe Bacon 🌹

Yes and watch what happens when they refuse to buy Treasury securities and then turn around and dump the securities they already have…which leads Standard & Poors to further downgrade the United States from the A’s to the B and possibly C categories…requiring the Fed to jack the interest rates on those securities to double digit levels…inflation triggers…

Right about the time our enemies pull the trigger on all that stolen personal and bank data. SWIFT goes down.

246
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:46:29pm

re: #245 Unshaken Defiance

Right about the time our enemies pull the trigger on all that stolen personal and bank data. SWIFT goes down.

I would not be surprised to see Trump and the Republicans default on the debt the next time the limit comes up for a vote.

247
The Major  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:48:56pm

re: #12 Blind Frog Belly White

GERMANY can choose to stop importing GERMAN cars from us, speaking of things he doesn’t seem to know.

Yeah, that nice Mercedes-Benz Alabama plant may start to have some layoffs thanks to Hair Furor….

248
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:49:17pm

Dude, this thread is heavy. Sending vibes throughout.

249
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:50:23pm

re: #246 Joe Bacon 🌹

I would not be surprised to see Trump and the Republicans default on the debt the next time the limit comes up for a vote.

Trump said he’d do that on Treasurys during the campaign. Nobody paid any attention because of Hillary’s emails.

250
stpaulbear  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:51:02pm

YouTube rabbit hole time:

Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites (1969). This was a pretty big hit, even with the line “Wife and my kids, they fuck off and-a leave me…”

Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites (1969) HQ

251
Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:52:05pm

Wow! Will Texans give George P Bush the boot?

Bush has run an anaemic - one might say low-energy - campaign, with scant media availability and no events listed on his website. He is still the favourite, but if he fails to get above 50% of the vote on 6 March - when Texas holds the country’s first primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms - he will face a potentially dangerous runoff.

“It’s quite possible that the Bush political dynasty, at least for this generation, could end in the spring of 2018 because if George P Bush fails to win the GOP nomination for land commissioner it’s tough to see him coming back from that any time soon,” said Mark Jones, a political scientist at Rice University. The dynasty began with Prescott Bush - George P’s great-grandfather - becoming senator for Connecticut in 1952.

Even in Texas, being a Bush is no longer much of an asset in an election that typically sees a high turnout from a base of far-right conservatives.

“The Bush name hurts George P Bush more than it helps him with Republican primary voters,” Jones said. That may explain why, despite the insults flung at Jeb Bush, and though George HW and George W Bush hold the present occupant of the White House in low esteem, lthe 41-year-old embraced Trump a couple of months before the presidential election.

theguardian.com

252
The Major  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:56:55pm

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

253
Interesting Times  Mar 3, 2018 • 5:59:30pm

Well played:

254
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:05:24pm

re: #244 freetoken

David Ogden Stiers, Emmy nominee from ‘M*A*S*H,’ dead at 75

That’s sad. He played the *best* prig.

255
Amory Blaine  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:08:09pm

256
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:18:34pm

re: #181 The Ghost of a Flea

Do you have a book for sale? I’ll buy it right now.

257
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:19:23pm
258
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:21:43pm

re: #217 BigPapa

259
The Major  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:23:28pm

re: #258 teleskiguy

260
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:24:10pm

My RW Trumpster brother had these “insights” today:

>>In a couple months, Mueller will come out with a report that there is nothing there.
>>Trump will not go through with the tariffs.

Let’s hope the second comes true.

261
Unshaken Defiance  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:28:36pm

re: #260 Hecuba’s daughter

My RW Trumpster brother had these “insights” today:

>>In a couple months, Mueller will come out with a report that there is nothing there.
>>Trump will not go through with the tariffs.

Let’s hope the second comes true.

First one requires a rather severe state of denial. We already have more than nothing.

262
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:29:01pm

re: #258 teleskiguy

Out of all the pictures I took at Hoover Dam this one is my favorite.

263
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:29:05pm

re: #256 teleskiguy

Do you have a book for sale? I’ll buy it right now.

Little Green Footballs exclusive.

264
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:30:05pm

re: #263 The Ghost of a Flea

Little Green Footballs exclusive.

Your writing is much appreciated!

265
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:31:08pm

re: #251 Joe Bacon 🌹

Wow! Will Texans give George P Bush the boot?

Bush has run an anaemic - one might say low-energy - campaign, with scant media availability and no events listed on his website. He is still the favourite, but if he fails to get above 50% of the vote on 6 March - when Texas holds the country’s first primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms - he will face a potentially dangerous runoff.

“It’s quite possible that the Bush political dynasty, at least for this generation, could end in the spring of 2018 because if George P Bush fails to win the GOP nomination for land commissioner it’s tough to see him coming back from that any time soon,” said Mark Jones, a political scientist at Rice University. The dynasty began with Prescott Bush - George P’s great-grandfather - becoming senator for Connecticut in 1952.

Even in Texas, being a Bush is no longer much of an asset in an election that typically sees a high turnout from a base of far-right conservatives.

“The Bush name hurts George P Bush more than it helps him with Republican primary voters,” Jones said. That may explain why, despite the insults flung at Jeb Bush, and though George HW and George W Bush hold the present occupant of the White House in low esteem, lthe 41-year-old embraced Trump a couple of months before the presidential election.

theguardian.com

Possible. Texas R’s are pretty nuts right now. Abbot, Patrick, and Paxton are somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun. And Bush is, let’s face it, half Cuban. Not a beaner, maybe a black beaner, therefore suspect. Also, he’s kind of a lightweight, and he got sideways with the Alamo people. You do *not* piss off the Alamo people in Texas.

So, yeah, he could lose, or get taken to a runoff and lose that.

266
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:33:15pm

re: #261 Unshaken Defiance

First one requires a rather severe state of denial. We already have more than nothing.

He is so totally brainwashed. He may still believe Hillary will be indicted — 2 weeks ago he was muttering about the Uranium one nonsense

267
Jay C  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:33:43pm

re: #261 Unshaken Defiance

First one requires a rather severe state of denial. We already have more than nothing.

The second one also assumes facts not particularly in evidence. Unless Trump can somehow convince himself that he can convince the ROW that he was merely bullshitting about all those tough-talking tariffs he’s been pushing….
Or, find someone else to blame…Obama? Hillary?

268
Belafon  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:35:21pm

re: #254 austin_blue

That’s sad. He played the *best* prig.

The first time I saw him on Two Guys and a Girl (and a Pizza Place) I howled with laughter.

269
MsJ  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:36:48pm

re: #261 Unshaken Defiance

First one requires a rather severe state of denial. We already have more than nothing.

Nothing matters to then but collusion. Pleas of guilty don’t matter. They ignore them. Russian influence, nope. Don’t care. The only thing they talk about is No Collusion!!!11!!! And that’s all you’ll see or hear.

270
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:37:02pm
271
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:37:19pm
272
Skip Intro  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:41:56pm

re: #271 The Vicious Babushka

Every time I read things like this I have to wonder if any of it is true. Are the leakers just planting more Trump bullshit just to keep everyone else off balance?

You just can’t trust anything that comes from this administration.

273
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:42:53pm

re: #272 Skip Intro

Every time I read things like this I have to wonder if any of it is true. Are the leakers just planting more Trump bullshit just to keep everyone else off balance?

You just can’t trust anything that comes from this administration.

Whatever is leaked is a distraction from the actual real bad stuff.

274
Ace-o-aces  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:44:14pm
275
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:46:08pm

re: #274 Ace-o-aces

276
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:55:00pm
277
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:55:56pm
278
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 6:56:22pm

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

What an incredibly beautiful, poignant photo.

279
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:00:02pm

re: #278 dirkdigglerjr

What an incredibly beautiful, poignant photo.

It’s a ray of light in this dark world, that’s for sure.

280
austin_blue  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:03:07pm

5-2, end of the second, Caps. US Women’s Hockey Team showing off their gold medals during the break. Bad ass women, throwing shade.

Although I’m sure it wasn’t planned that we are showing of our Gold’s in Curling and Hockey while the Leafs are in town.

;-)

281
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:03:49pm

282
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:11:01pm

re: #239 whitebeach

Gotta say that an in-person hockey game is one of the best sports experiences. Hockey on TV largely sucks.

283
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:14:32pm

re: #244 freetoken

He was “only” 75? I would have thought he would have been in his mid-80s at least. Regardless, what a funny, funny man.

284
jaunte  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:17:56pm
285
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:22:56pm

re: #251 Joe Bacon 🌹

Imagine if H.W. had won the battle with Reagan in 1980. At the time, H.W. favored federal payment for abortion and had been known as “Rubbers” from his earlier time in Congress. Having no doubt that he would have defeated Carter, how much would this have changed the trajectory of “conservatism” compared to what it has metastasized into today.

286
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:31:46pm
287
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:33:13pm
288
whitebeach  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:37:16pm

re: #250 stpaulbear

YouTube rabbit hole time:

Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites (1969). This was a pretty big hit, even with the line “Wife and my kids, they fuck off and-a leave me…”

[Embedded content]

Video

Aw, man, everybody I knew in San Francisco at that time loved this song.

But you don’t need YouTube to go down a musical rabbit hole. I just watched an insurance commercial in which a woman had dented a fender of her car. The music expressing her agony was Nirvana’s “Love Hurts.” Opinions may vary greatly, but to me this is one of the most original and most haunting songs on the theme of love ever made.

Jesus not only wept, but in the next verse he said, “Dad, can’t we do something about these fucking philistines?”

289
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:37:30pm

re: #287 teleskiguy

And directly below there’s multiple instances of people using that “triple bracket equals Jew.”

290
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:38:43pm
291
goddamnedfrank  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:39:03pm

re: #254 austin_blue

That’s sad. He played the *best* prig.

I can understand why they didn’t list his role as John Cusack’s Dad in Better Off Dead in the article but the world should never forget this.

292
Patricia Kayden  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:40:14pm

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Stephen, the kids are ON IT!

Yes. Vote out the NRA hostages and replace them with politicians who will strengthen gun laws. Otherwise we will have more mass shootings and nothing will change.

293
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:41:20pm

re: #290 teleskiguy

I think Jennifer Lawrence should quit smoking cigarettes.

294
Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:41:55pm

re: #259 The Major

Back then we knew how to build shit. These days, we’d rather outsource it….

When the Hoover dam was built, materials were expensive; labor was cheap. You added flourishes to all architecture, even utilitarian .

Now, materials are cheap and labor is expensive. Buildings get put up as fast as possible to save on labor; everyday utilitarian buildings tend to not to get those flourishes.

295
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:45:18pm

re: #176 goddamnedfrank

I half think that eliciting this exact response was China’s real goal here.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter
CNN obtained a tape of Trump at a closed-door fundraiser. He said this about China’s president: “He’s now president for life. President for life. And he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot some day.” cnn.com
6:15 PM - Mar 3, 2018

Of course, his supporters will claim Trump is just joking here. There is no doubt that this represents his real desires. Maybe this can be weaponized — to persuade enough Republicans to turn against him.

296
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 7:54:59pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Where’s Waldo?

297
dirkdigglerjr  Mar 3, 2018 • 8:02:24pm

re: #290 teleskiguy

As if I could not love her any more than I already do.

298
teleskiguy  Mar 3, 2018 • 8:12:51pm

re: #297 dirkdigglerjr

The universe is a vast place where anything can happen.

299
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 3, 2018 • 8:22:18pm

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

“We’ve decided to put the Foxes in charge of all hen related matters.”

300
petesh  Mar 3, 2018 • 10:12:14pm

re: #293 teleskiguy

I think Jennifer Lawrence should quit smoking cigarettes.

Ms Lawrence can do whatever she wants, say I. Whenever and wherever, too.

301
John Hughes  Mar 5, 2018 • 8:58:41am

re: #258 teleskiguy

Pretty sure they’ve got this detail in FO:NV.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT
LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal
Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh