Also, in defense of the NPR debacle, are you sure those aren't trolls? I can't tell without searching through what must be dozens of tweets; surely if these Pro-Trumpers posted several times in a row while being proved wrong then they wanted a reaction. Maybe I'm reaching a little,but I feel that Trump's supporters have an equal chance of being stupid or trolls, if not both.
They were absolutely genuine idiots.
A lot of them deleted their posts after the context was pointed out to them.
Poland has a creepy authoritarian-curious government right now, so much like the Saudis they basically fully understand what President Pudding Brain wants and what he likes right now.
He's going to friendly territory.
They do want some NATO assurances though.
When you know you're incompetent at something, and rather than admit it you issue a challenge to see if someone can do it better.
@Medical:
That's what I would normally do, but I know that some users who post here are mods, so I assumed the mods considered it within the rules. The possibility of it being overlooked didn't cross my mind, so I apologize for publicly calling attention to it instead of reporting it as I should have done.
Definitely overlooked. Nah, people report stuff we don't catch all the time, it's quite helpful. As long as it's someone breaking the rules and not people abusing the reporting function, we always appreciate reports.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/us-confiscates-ancient-iraqi-artifacts-hobby-lobby
Fine, upstanding Christian businessmen.
Trump seems a tad lost…
Trump seems a tad lost…
This is funny until you remember he's the President.
Then it becomes disconcerting.
I guess that it's totally possible that he could have been walking to another vehicle, like a helicopter or something. Even so, yeah, this looks bad.
It doesn't look like anything to me tbh. I mean, it could have happened to me, and I'm like 20 and sane.
I'm not trying to be the reasonable smartass here, but well, this kind of things happens right ? Like rarely though.
My bet: no one was holding the door open for him so he assumed that wasn't his ride.
When will Democrats start questioning his sanity? Republicans made Hillary's health an issue and her approvals promptly cratered. But Dems want to play fair again so they don't do anything and wait for the nice people at cable media to make mention of it.
When will Democrats start questioning his sanity? Republicans made Hillary's health an issue and her approvals promptly cratered. But Dems want to play fair again so they don't do anything and wait for the nice people at cable media to make mention of it.
Because even if evidence is mounting, it's still speculation as to him actually having some mental health problem. And of the dozens of factual criticisms you can point out and rally voters under, doing it under non medically diagnosed conditions is a risky gambit. You are right on the point of them trying to play fair.
Look at how the right tosses around the phrase "tolerant left" whenever someone makes a joke out of what the GOP is doing. They pretty much act as if the left is a whiny crybaby who needs a safe space and then points and makes insults when they can. That's how they portray Democrats. So to lob theories about Trump's mental health out, when you can instead throw ideas on Healthcare reform, tax reform, etc. it's a no brainer.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marcusengert/donald-trump-hotel-room-g20
A well oiled machine in every aspect.
"Ja, I believe we have plenty of luxury suites still available. …Oh? For Herr Donald Trump, you say? Please hold.
...
So very sorry, but we're all booked up. Be sure to make your reservations earlier for the next G20."
How it actually went down, probably.
But jeez- I wouldn't want to be South Korea or Australia, staying at the Park Hyatt with Putin... Guy could be taping you while you pee!
Some WTF News: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/07/06/Day-168/
A few headlines that caught my eye:
3/ Trump reaffirmed NATO's mutual defense clause.
5/ The Trump Organization renewed its Russia-related domain names.
7/ The voter fraud commission may have violated the law.
8/ Steve Bannon's ally on the National Security Council has been reassigned.
10/ 18 states are suing Betsy DeVos for delaying student loan regulations
Clay Higgins, the current Republican Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, created a stir with a Facebook post recently, where he said any Muslim suspected of being “radicalized” should be murdered.
He has followed that up with a video that's pretty much a Homeland Security P.S.A. He does this from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, which doesn't actually help the point he attempts to make. Overall, I found it to be a blatant example of fearmongering. It's worth mentioning he's on the House Homeland Security Committee and the Veterans' Affairs Committee too.
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Why aren't they all sleeping in the same room? A big room with bunk beds. Scout atmosphere ya know. They would have passionate discussions such as "who's fart am I smelling?" or "hey Putn and the Chinese guy, I'm sure you can both do something about Kim. okay? just make him hold on a little bit, ok ? please? do that for me. I don't care about eastern Europe, just care about the UK and in Asia about Korea, okay? So we're cool? I'll drop the countries between Germany and Russia, kay? fine. oh sorry it's late and when it's late I'm tired and starts talking a lot. haha (eventually time to tweet) " or usual stuff like "please world leaders, stop snoring".
Kathy Griffin Reportedly Interviewed by Fed Agents For More Than Hour
I don't really care for Kathy Griffin, but this seems like a bit much. It's also really stupid. Taxpayer dollars are being spent on bullying a comedian over a bad joke.
Edit: Oh hey, I was going more research on this thing. It seems Mike Huckabee is making jokes about this incident. What a dick.
Huckabee: Secret Service agents in 'de-tox' after interviewing Kathy Griffin
Huckabee is like 1 part dad jokes to 1 part folksy metaphors to 700 parts evangelical grand inquisitor.
A few personally interesting headlines from today's https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/07/07/Day-169/
The forest half is mostly stuff that's come up already.
3/ Trump tweets: "Everyone" at the G-20 is talking about why Podesta wouldn't give a server to the FBI and CIA.
7/ ICE officers were told to take action against all undocumented immigrants they encounter while on duty.
8/ A judge denied Hawaii's motion to limit the scope of Trump's travel ban.
9/ Trump still wants Mexico to "absolutely" pay for his border wall.
In the healthcare debacle, I mean… debate...
10/ Mitch McConnell: Republicans will be forced to compromise with Democrats to shore up Obamacare.
11/ Ted Cruz aligned himself with Trump, calling for a "clean repeal" of the ACA.
12/ Republican lawmakers are buying health insurance stocks as they attempt to repeal Obamacare.
https://t.co/s8Tw5q5Ahw
Fair warning, this one's The Intercept
poll/ 28.2% support the GOP health care bill – the most unpopular legislation in three decades.
According to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Medicaid won't be cut, instead you should think of it as a Medicaid spending increase. While Senator John Cornyn apparently likes to think of losing health insurance as "freedom of choice".
“I thought of Godzilla as the embodiment of violence and hatred for mankind, because he was created by atomic energy. He's like a symbol of humanity's complicity in their own destruction. He doesn't have an emotion. He is an emotion.” — Jun Fukuda
Freedom's just another word for no health care at all.
It would be refeshingly honest if one of these guys just flat-out said "Look, we just really hate poor people, minorities and women, and we're out to fuck them over any way we can".
In an extraordinarily long 2 hour + meeting….
Trump believes Russia over his own people and comes right out and admits it.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/trump-and-putin-had-a-cozy-two-hour-meeting-want-to-mo-1796722195
Also, Russia tries to influence our elections through hacking and our solution is to “set up a joint working group on cybersecurity”?
Also, our National Security Advisor, wasn’t included. Nor Fiona Hill (who handles Russia matters for the National Security Council). How are those people not in the meeting.
In an extraordinarily long 2 hour + meeting….
Trump believes Russia over his own people and comes right out and admits it.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/trump-and-putin-had-a-cozy-two-hour-meeting-want-to-mo-1796722195
Also, Russia tries to influence our elections through hacking and our solution is to “set up a joint working group on cybersecurity”?
This fits Trump's pattern of behavior. I recall a while ago he heard from Saudi Arabia, a country he accused of funding terrorism, that Qatar funded terrorism. He believed them and tweeted that he was on the path to ending terrorism once and for all. The guy seems to believe that last person he's spoken too.
I'm thinking he's not well. Between these incidents and getting lost on the walkway of Air Force One, I'm not sure how cognizant Trump is of reality anymore. That or he's an idiot. I mean, you're right to call out this BS–there's no good answer for why this is happening.
http://time.com/4849939/mike-pence-nasa-marco-rubio-touch/
Of crying out-loud, Mr. vice president, are you eight? Actually, that would explain why you call Mrs. Pence "mother."
According to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Medicaid won't be cut, instead you should think of it as a Medicaid spending increase. While Senator John Cornyn apparently likes to think of losing health insurance as "freedom of choice".
lol, it's like the whole "Right to work" thing.
Gosh! Isn't it great?? You have a RIGHT to work! That sounds so freedomtastic! God bless America! It means getting to work is a wonderful right, so no complaining if you are fired for flimsy bullshit! Appreciate your right! Fuck you!
Reading the articles Robby and Bugs posted fills me with a sense of déjà vu.
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Apparently Ivanka took Trump's place at the G20 today.
Uhm. You're not an elected official, and you're not qualified. Why are you there? This isn't a king and a princess.
Can you imagine the blowback if it was Chelsea Clinton?
The vibe I get from Trump and Putin is that Trump sees Putin as some sort of rock star and Trump is the starstruck groupie who will do anything for his idol.
Il Douche had a meeting with Xi Jinping; official White House transcript calls him President of Republic of China.
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/latest-trump-meets-discuss-trade-security-48517947
Complicating things since 2009.
Il Douche had a meeting with Xi Jinping; official White House transcript calls him President of Republic of China.
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/latest-trump-meets-discuss-trade-security-48517947
Its cool that as a prospective high school teacher working minimum wage atm, that I am objectively more qualified for high level state department jobs then much of the current staff.
–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Trump Staffer 1: EY LENNY, WE GOTTA WRITE LIKE DA FORMAL NAME OF DA COUNTRIES IN DA TRANSCRIPT.
Trump Staffer 2: I LOOKED UP DIS HERE CHINER PLACE ON THE COMPUTER, "REPUBLIC OF CHINA"
Trump Staffer 1: YOU SURE DATS RIGHT?
Trump Staffer 2: AL CMON, WHAT, IS THERE MORE THAN ONE CHINA NOW?? DATS THE PLACE.
Apparently Ivanka took Trump's place at the G20 today.
Uhm. You're not an elected official, and you're not qualified. Why are you there?
On an unrelated note, what strikes me about the meeting Trump had with Putin, is that several media outlets have cited that Trump possesses a short attention span concerning anything beyond himself. Which means Putin would have to shower Trump with flattery for over two hours to hold his interest for that long.
Nothing holds attention better than blackmail via tapes of golden showers
When Trump meets with authoritarian leaders he routinely comes away having been groomed and petted like a big stupid dog.
The only time it went wrong so far was when the Tajik leader gave him a rough handshake, but that seemed more like the guy was also a macho doofus doing the Trump handshake thing on his own, almost coincidence. Trump was probably impressed. Caveman to caveman.
Trump probably wishes he could be like them and declare himself Generalissimo and have his own secret police and crap like that.
Trump Jr and Manafort met with Russians to find info to damage Hillary
This seems pretty big. I'm wondering how much of an impact this story will have.
Also, back to that voter fraud panel, so far Arkansas is the only state to comply with Trump's request. So…yeah I hope they're proud of that.
This seems pretty big. I'm wondering how much of an impact this story will have.
Probably nothing, at least for the short term. Especially as long as trash papers like the NYT keep publishing articles about how nobody outside of out of touch coastal elite states care about Russia.
There's a profoundly dumb contingent on the left also pushing that sort of narrative.
Like GUYS THIS IS POINTLESS, WE NEED TO FOCUS THE MESSAGE ON JOBS AND HEALTHCARE TO BEAT TRUMP.
They're not wrong entirely, its just for some harebrained dipshit reason they use this point to try and push away the other huge weapon against Trump.
Like as the comparison has been made "Oh no no no! Why are you going after Al Capone for tax evasion! He's a murderer and mobster!"
The worst of them are the far-left useful idiots naturally who are bugged by Putin being besmirched or connected to Trump. Putin would NEVER connect with Trump because is the face of the glorious modern anti-imperialist people's front against Amerikkka.
@Monkey:
The worst of them are the far-left useful idiots naturally who are bugged by Putin being besmirched or connected to Trump. Putin would NEVER connect with Trump because is the face of the glorious modern anti-imperialist people's front against Amerikkka.
Pretty much the closet equivalent to the alt-right on the left.
"The only way to win West Virginia is with a STRONG left wing alternative to Trump."
"The only way to win West Virginia is with a STRONG left wing alternative to Trump."
"Wait, it's not the earl 1900s anymore?" drops IWW shirt and collected Joe Hill songbook in shock
The Earl Of 1900 should join the rest of us in 2017…so they be just as miserable as the rest of us.
"The only way to win West Virginia is with a STRONG left wing alternative to Trump."
Yeah that's the other thing. These "hardboiled political realists" who want to focus on what really matters on the street, are the sort of people who are whining that John Ossof should have been a Bernie Corbyn, so that the well off conservative Atlanta suburb would totally vote for him.
A few Reuters headlines
"Trump's son says 'happy' to work with Senate intelligence panel on Russia" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-committee-idUSKBN19V2GX
"Senate's No. 2 Republican eyes healthcare vote next week: The Hill" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-hill-idUSKBN19V2FA
"ACLU in lawsuit alleges Trump's election panel is too secret" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vote-idUSKBN19V29W
Waldorf: You know Statler, after watching the last one thousand episodes of One Piece, I think I've come to a conclusion.
Statler: No you haven't.
Both: DOHOHOHOHOHO!
Seems that Jr is lawyering up now via Reuters.
Completely normal that POTUS, his family, his veep and their campaign people have all lawyered up less than six months into a presidency. Focus less on Russia investigations nothingburger and more on economic anxiety!
