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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-thursday-aug-22-2019/
4-0 vote
By a unanimous 4-0 vote, the commissioners of rural Lincoln County, Nevada, declared a state of emergency.
The looming threat? A joke Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” to which more than 2 million people have RSVPed, some of whom might actually show up in the desert, hoping to raid the military site in the hopes of finding extraterrestrial life.
“We have no pickin’ idea what we’re going to face — if anything,” said one commissioner. [USA Today]
$1 trillion
Yeah, where are your teabaggers now?
The U.S. federal deficit is forecasted to reach $1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. That debt has been increasing following a $1.5 trillion tax cut and a budget deal that increases government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. “The nation’s fiscal outlook is challenging,” the director of the CBO said. [CNN]
I had my limits stretched as well. Try saying Sneering Sarah Slanders aloud 3 times. That worked for me.
That's because cognitive dissonance is particularly painful for people lacking a single set of standards, a coherent philosophy.
"...... meth addict and alternative facts spokeswitch of the trump administration,...."
Sounds like a good sentence to go at the top of her resume.
My first question in the interview. Kellyanne can you tell me a little about how your workday began?
I mean was there a locker where you checked your integrity, morality and truthfulness, such as they were? Just sayin'.
Well they still have the Tiki torch marcher vote. Pitchfork crowd? Guess not anymore.
Good, everything I post is fungible for use on this and the other board.
Shop anytime in my Cudgel Store. 'Clubs' from Shower Cap, the Rude Pundit, Esquire Mag. and free range Dem Underground pieces move off the shelves quickly.
Sean Spicer Will Join Dancing With the Stars.
Host Tom Bergeron Isn’t Thrilled
What an appropriately bleak lead-in to 2020.
By Laura Bradley
August 21, 2019
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/dancing-with-the-stars-2019-cast-sean-spicer?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_CH_082119&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d70d24c17c6adf3edd69&cndid=24399211&hasha=4598f2b6c0cd59a7a59daee9f650852d&hashb=671cd628e76263b323d81893330770d25227e6a4&hashc=bf3b42645b84b560d7a701f6a774e86e26ef76ed150095ebb2489a9ecea9251d&esrc=bounceX&utm_campaign=VF_CH_082119&utm_term=VYF_Cocktail_Hour
Update (12:10 P.M.): Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron is evidently less than thrilled with the show’s decision to include Sean Spicer in its Season 28 line-up. In a statement posted on Twitter, Bergeron wrote, “A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new Executive Producer, I offered suggestions for Season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement.”
“Subsequently (and rather obviously),” the statement continues, “a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.’ It is the prerogative of the producers, in partnership with the network, to make whatever decisions they feel are in the best long term interests of the franchise.
We can agree to disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it’s their call. I’ll leave it to them to answer any further questions about those decisions.”
“For me, as host, I always gaze into the camera’s lens and imagine you on the other side, looking for a two hour escape from whatever life hassles you’ve been wrestling with,” Bergeron concluded. “That’s a connection, and a responsibility, which I take very seriously, even if I occasionally season it with dad jokes.
Hopefully, when Erin Andrews and I look into those lenses again on September 16, you’ll be on the other side looking back, able to enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm that has defined DWTS since 2005.”
Friends, countrymen, let us all release a collective “ugh.” On Wednesday, ABC announced that former White House press secretary and haunting Easter bunny Sean Spicer will join Dancing With the Stars season 28.
The series returns this fall, making Spicer’s reemergence seem portentous; what could be a more appropriate lead-in to an already bleak 2020 presidential race than a reality-competition franchise embracing an ex-press secretary who spent his time at that job berating and lying to the press about crowd size?
We knew this day would come, especially since Spicer has reportedly been mulling the prospect for years—but still, you really, truly hate to see it.
What’s particularly galling about this move—beyond the fact that a man who helped undermine democracy is now getting a lighthearted TV comeback—is that ABC is, essentially, playing right into Spicer’s hands.
He’s been angling for a TV comeback basically since he left the White House in 2017. Given how annoyed some viewers were by Spicer’s 2017 Emmys stunt, it seems fair to wonder if our collective patience will be even thinner now that we’re being asked to watch him learn to cha-cha.
As for the rest of the cast? According to People, the roster includes Karamo Brown, Hannah Brown, Christie Brinkley, James Van Der Beek, Lamar Odom, Kel Mitchell, and many more. We’re sure they’ll all have a lot to talk about when the season premieres on September 16.
If You're Not Anti-Fascist, You're Pro-Fascist
8/20/2019
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/08/if-youre-not-anti-fascist-youre-pro.html
This weekend, I called the Proud Boys and other marching fascist fucknuts "Nazis." When this was posted by a pal on Facebook, one of his FB friends was quick to say that this was tin foil hat-worthy and that I was degrading history.
I explained that I called them "Nazis" because they want to kill all Jews and non-whites and that the easiest way to explain to people what the marching fascist fucknuts support is to call them "Nazis."
See? You automatically think, "Oh, shit, they wanna do some genocide." I know this because of all the hate-tweets and hate-messages I get telling me that I'm a Jew (which I already knew) and will be exterminated.
But, obviously, I was insulting the marching fascist fucknuts.
On Sunday morning, I made the mistake of turning on the television. I try to avoid the Sunday gabfests like they are testicle-eating lizards hungry for more testicles.
Uh, that sounds like it might work; think I'll try it.
And then I made the bigger mistake of thinking, "Huh. Wonder what bullshit they're slinging over on Fox 'news'?" There, on the Doocy-free weekend Fox and Friends (Who Are Blonde), the top story was that evil Antifa was going to rampage through Portland, Oregon, and that they were throwing food at some people.
Indeed, on its website, Fox referred to the events in Portland as "planned protests involving supporters of the far-left Antifa movement and supporters of several conservative groups." You see that? Antifa is "far-left" but the white supremacists and, you know, Nazis? They are just "conservative groups." Another piece called Antifa "one of the core drivers of violence" in protests right now.
Yes, in other articles and on-air pieces, Foxeteers have spoken out against "Antifa and far-right" groups. No less a motherfucker than Sean Hannity said, "To each and every single person on either side that has an extreme agenda, you must stop this insanity — this lawlessness."
The Chin of Doom declared that Antifa and white supremacists are two sides of the same coin: "They're all tied to sick, ugly, twisted, evil ideologies."
And we should kumbaya ourselves out of any conflict: "Let's not forget, we can have political disagreements but at the end of the day, we are all Americans. We're all created equal. We're all one nation under God."
But the context is so fucked up. It's saying that white nationalism, Neo-Nazis, and other assorted racist, heinous, violent shitheels should be given the same consideration as those whose ideology is (checks a dozen websites) stopping white nationalism, Neo-Nazis, and other assorted racist, heinous, violent shitheels.
Oh, and also support immigrant rights, health care for all (including white supremacists), and other mainstream progressive ideas. In other words, it's fascists versus, you know, anti-fascists. Seems pretty easy to pick a fuckin' side here.
I'm not saying that Antifa groups and individuals haven't committed violence. Every movement has moments of violence, but incidents are isolated and blown out of proportion, usually by whiny pukes like "journalist" Andy Ngo, who is desperately trying to grift his way into relevance.
Hell, in Portland, Ngo just outright lied about supposed violence. And, honestly, you know how fucking lame you look crying about a tossed milkshake and some Silly String sprayed at you when people on the right are literally shooting children to death for being non-white?
Also, violence and threats against Antifa supporters are far more prevalent than violence against, for lack of a simpler word, Nazis.
Of course, conservatives have to condemn Antifa because they'd lose a big percentage of their base of inbred mutants and anxious pigfuckers if they said, "You know what? I'm anti-fascist. Cut this Nazi shit out."
It's no different than the condemnation of anti-war protesters or civil rights marchers in the past. Right-wing bitches will be right-wing bitches.
Gotta say, though, this is some weird ass shit. The right in this country just wants to erase all the history that makes it uncomfortable. Yeah, let's pretend that the rise of the Nazis in Germany happened overnight, not that it took years of propaganda and refusal to take the threat seriously before things got all Holocausty.
Frankly, if you're saying let's be nicer to Nazis in this country, I'm gonna say, "Go fuck yourself. I'm not waiting for another Kristallnacht to call evil 'evil.' I'm gonna call Nazis "Nazis.'"
Fascist motherfuckers have the right to speak. They have a right to gather. They have a right to freely write any idiot hate they want.
They can get their 88 tattoos all up and down their faces. And we have the right to raise our voices louder and in bigger numbers and tell them to shut the fuck up and go back to their holes in the ground like the piles of shit they are.
But we still want them to have health insurance.
This will be the final lesson learned from the Trump presidency.
No one in the entire world wins when you elect a lunatic to be the president of the United States. It may be a very painful lesson.
In the end everyone loses. Some people may win short term, long term they will lose.
Putin thinks he won when Trump was elected. He didn't get all the sanctions lifted. Soon Putin will have to face the Democrats and they are not going to forget how Putin attacked the election. Putin is going to lose.
Israel thinks they won. Trump did what they wanted, He ended the Iran deal. That did not help Israel, that made the middle east more unstable. Israel injected themselves into our politics, they lost friends doing that. Democrats will not forget their love affair with Trump. They will not forget Israel convinced Trump to end the deal with Iran, a deal Obama and Democrats spent years working on. Israel will lose in the end.
Republicans in congress think they won when Trump was elected. They got their judges, their tax cuts, however Trump has destroyed their party and it may never recover.
Trump voters think they won when Trump was elected. It is being reported people are losing their farms because of Trumps tariffs and some of them are committing suicide. Did they win?
Business leaders thought they won because Trump gave them giant tax cuts. Some of them have been hurt, put out of business because of Trumps lunacy. Will they win if Trump wrecks the economy?
Everyone loses when you elect a lunatic president. From the moment Trump was elected I understood the entire world was in great danger.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212396796
11. I think this is just the latest aberration of the GOP. Call it GOP 4.0
Reagan (another actor)started the fire in 1980 buy attacking unions, worshiping tax cuts, trickle-down economics, and making government the bad guys. Then along came his sidekick Bush I and his "American exceptionalism","War on Drugs", Invasion of Panama, Pardoning of Iran-Contra Criminals, The Dirty Wars in Central America, and The Launch of The Gulf War. Then a short reprieve with Clinton and we got Bush II who invaded Iraq for no reason, cut taxes during a war, almost destroyed the American economy and is basically a war criminal. Then we get Trump who is openly and proudly racist, xenophobic, and basically made America look like the "Jerry Springer" show.
It just gets nastier and nastier as time goes on. The electorate has become tribal, taken sides, and make no apologies for their support for these immoral leaders. They literally worship them as if they were Gods.
If there was a mental health hospital for institutions the Republican Party and its top leaders would be admissible as clinically insane.
All Empires crumble and we are witnessing ours twirling down the toilet fast. Things will get worse before they get better or until we wake up and reject this insanity.
U.S. created 501,000 fewer jobs as of March 2019 than previous reported
Source: Marketwatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy had 501,000 fewer jobs in March 2019 than previously reported, government revisions show, suggesting that hiring was not as strong in the past year as it seemed. Hiring was weaker in retail, restaurants and hotels. The annual revision is much larger than is typically the case. The preliminary revision in 2018, for example, was just 43,000. Every year the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates its figures based on unemployment data that nearly all employers are required to file with the states. The current revision is one of the largest ever.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-created-501000-fewer-jobs-as-of-march-2019-than-previous-reported-2019-08-21?mod=bnbh
Just for emphasis:
The current revision is one of the largest ever.
The President Is Currently Serving Up Several Flavors of Batshit on Twitter
Donald Trump, American president, shares the view that he is the Second Coming after spazzing about Greenland and suggesting efforts to limit car pollution are Political Correctness.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28771200/president-trump-tweet-king-of-israel-greenland-denmark/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=082119&src=nl&utm_campaign=17837358
By Jack Holmes
Aug 21, 2019
And thus begins another day where we as a nation throw up our hands in the face of overwhelming evidence that the president is completely insane. Sure, the Secretary of Energy—the man in charge of safeguarding the United States nuclear arsenal—got conned by a Boomer-bait Instagram scam.
US Secretary of Energy on his personal Instagram account.
(Folks, your post on a social media platform is not some sort of binding contract with the company running that platform just because you say so. You signed your life away long ago when you agreed to the terms of service.)
But the real action is on the Tweet Machine, where the big man himself is going absolutely intergalactic about...everything.
There was a brief injection of normal behavior last night, where El Jefe congratulated his son and daughter-in-law on the birth of their child. Unfortunately, that was sandwiched by total lunacy.
Earlier in the evening, the President of the United States was tweeting clips from Fox News—including a segment from Lou Dobbs, the fashy Benjamin Button, who offered his views on The Fake Left-Wing Media and The Radical Dems.
It apparently no longer merits a discussion that the world's most powerful man is in a full-on Symbiosis of Stupid with a right-wing propaganda channel that, in a quintessentially American way, is a private entity serving as State TV in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
And then there was this.
Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time........The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!
This is nuts, right down to the ellipses, which seem to have been getting longer and longer ever since he learned how to do tweet threads. The president has canceled a diplomatic trip because the country he was gonna do diplomacy at would not sell him a piece of said country. Or so he says.
President Donald Trump Meets With Romanian President Klaus Iohannis At The White House
The president says a lot of things.
Some are speculating that this could have something to do with former President Obama's trip to Denmark, scheduled for a few weeks after Trump's. While Obama has his critics, it's almost certain he'll be received warmly by the Danish public as an "emotionally stable human being" who "doesn't show his ass in front of the world on the daily"—a throwback to happier times, when every second of every day wasn't dominated by presidential horrors big and small.
The current chief—or his staff—will remember the reception he got in London back in June, and expect something similar in a place that's far more sane even than Britain. (The Brits, after all, have found their own fool.) The contrast with Obama would not be pretty, and neither would Trump's response. He might invade Greenland then and there.
But then it was time for another flavor of batshit.
“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him........like he’s the King of Israel.
They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for..........all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job.” Wow! @newsmax @foxandfriends @OANN
Again, with the ellipses. In case you're wondering, Wayne Allyn Root is a conspiracy theorist who has trafficked completely evidence-free stories about Obama's birthplace, Seth Rich, the Las Vegas shooting, and Charlottesville. He is nuts.
So it's no wonder he called Donald Trump "the King of Israel," or suggested the Jewish people—who do not believe in a Second Coming—think Trump is the Second Coming. Who cares! Just say anything.
No, the truly incredible thing is that the President of the United States blasted this wacked-out nonsense to his 60 million-plus followers. Well, it's incredible if you think his goal is to convince American Jews to vote for him, just like he appeared to yesterday as he seemed to wander into the same dual-loyalty tropes that caused conservatives to freak the fuck out at Ilhan Omar a little while back.
Of course, Trump previously referred to Benjamin Netanyahu as "your prime minister" while addressing a group of Jewish Republicans, so none of this is new.
But accusing any Jewish people who vote for Democrats—so, between 70 and 80 percent of American Jews—of "disloyalty" is historically dangerous, and it's not likely to win any of their votes.
It's almost like he's not trying to win their votes, but to send a message to some other constituency about where he's at.
Still, though, he had time for a casual incitement against four sitting congresswomen using a weaponized claim of anti-Semitism.
The cynicism on show here is truly gobsmacking. The idea that, after Charlottesville alone, anyone takes Trump's anti-Semitism policing seriously is absurd.
But right after he essentially called himself the "King of Israel"? It's fucking loco. And it's here where we might again state for the record that criticizing the policies of the Israeli government is not anti-Semitic.
Then the president went after the Federal Reserve, an attack on an arm of the government that is meant to make policy independently from the White House, and an action that under any other president would cause huge outcry.
Now, it barely merits a mention. Then came another attack on the central bank. "....WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?" And in between, there was a Presidential Take on cars:
Here, the president is suggesting that car manufacturers are bowing before Political Correctness because many are choosing to abide by California's stricter car emissions standards.
They've chosen the state over Trump, who's seeking to roll back the Obama administration's standards enacted in 2012, which ought to cut down on pollution and carbon emissions. In reality, according to The New York Times, the four companies—and, it appears, Mercedes-Benz could soon be a fifth—are siding with California because they fear the U.S. car market will be split in two, where some states have stricter standards and others abide by Trump's lax federal ones. They want to nip that in the bud.
But even if they were really doing this for environmental reasons, that would not be "political correctness," it would be "trying to preserve the planet as a habitat for human civilization as we know it." You know, liberal shit.
Because, contrary to the president's characterization that all this has "very little impact on the environment!", the Obama administration's vehicle pollution standards are, in the Times' estimation, "the single largest policy enacted by the United States to reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions."
No reason to worry about any of that, though. Just say whatever. When you're King of Israel, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Outsmarting whom, specifically? Trump is who scared people think of as courageous, dumb people think of as smart and moral imbeciles think of as decent.
I'm using the word 'think' both rhetorically and sarcastically.
In Case You Missed IT. I know, OOTMDO....One Of The More Difficult Ones.
“Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. .?.?. They should let Russia come back in,” he said ahead of the group’s 2018 meeting in Quebec.
But, but, no collusion. Trump could kiss Putin's ass at high noon on 5th Avenue and his supporters wouldn't say shit. It's not correct in any sense, dumb-ass.
As The New York Times noted, Trump was — and remains — alone among G-7 members in this unconditional support of Russia’s return. Though other leaders have expressed an interest in engaging with Russia, most have said the Kremlin will need to change its behavior before a return is considered.
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said during a meeting with Putin that the Kremlin could rejoin the G-7 but only if it helped to resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, a bloody war that has left at least 13,000 dead and displaced over 1.5 million people.
Between 50 and 100 air mattresses
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-wednesday-aug-21-2019/
Some 150 beds and pillows were arranged in Denver this past weekend for an outdoor summertime screening of “Captain Marvel.” When the wind picked up, dozens of the air mattresses took flight, “a herd of air mattresses” according to a witness who filmed an estimated 50 to 100 beds “rampaging” over walls and into pools.
The video has since been set to “Ride of the Valkyries” and the theme from “Jurassic Park.” Life, uh, finds a way. [The Washington Post]
99 percent of bananas
Ninety-nine percent of exported bananas are of the Cavendish variety. And the Cavendish is facing an “existential crisis” in the form of a fungus called Tropical Race 4 which infects bananas plants through their roots and has spread from Asia to Latin America. Salvation may come, however, thanks to Crispr gene-editing which could make Cavendishes that are resistant to the fungus.
Mmmm, crisper bananas. [Wired]
Oh man, new SNL and Melissa McCarthy's Spicer please be there for us soon.
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found a huge drop in support for Trump among women.
The president trails by 32 points among registered women voters when they were asked if they would vote for the president or the eventual Democratic nominee.
https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/nbc-news-poll-trump-losing-support-among-women-voters-66615365949
It gets better. Go MOOCH, tear Donald a new one!
The Mooch: "I can take five points off him". It's WAR!
Breaking News: The Mooch tells @davidaxelrod and I on the new @HacksOnTap that he’s launching and funding a new Superpac to run ads against Donald Trump... says “I can take five points off him”. It’s WAR!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212395557
The surely geographically illiterate probably thought his visit to Poland would put him in the 'neighborhood'.
Or maybe Melania asked him to pick up some Danish?
Maybe someone got wind of this Danish editorial to Trump and he decided to avoid the humiliation of a disinvite?
Opinion: Denmark should cancel Trump’s state visit
https://www.thelocal.dk/20190819/opinion-denmark-should-cancel-trumps-state-visit
Why would Denmark want to welcome Donald Trump after his show of ignorance over Greenland? Photo: Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Ritzau Scanpix
michael.barrett@thelocal.com
@MLBarrett15
19 August 2019
US president Donald Trump thinks he can show up in Denmark, offer to buy Greenland and treat two Nordic nations with arrogant disregard.
The divisive American leader confirmed on Sunday last week's reports that he is interested in buying Greenland, a nation in its own right and a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
That is despite Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen calling the idea an “absurd discussion” and Greenland’s ministry of foreign affairs stressing the icy territory is “open for business, not for sale”.
In comments given to American media, Trump has described an envisaged deal to buy Greenland as “essentially… a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done.”
His economic advisor Larry Kudlow, speaking to Fox News, described Greenland as having “a lot of valuable minerals.”
“I don’t want to predict it now… I’m just saying the president, who knows a thing or two about buying real estate, wants to take a look at a potential Greenland purchase,” Kudlow said.
In other comments, Trump seemed to suggest Denmark owed the United States subservience due to its NATO membership.
“Denmark essentially owns (Greenland). We’re very good allies with Denmark, we protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world. So the concept came up and I said, ‘Certainly I’d be (interested)’,” he said.
Denmark is a member of NATO, which is regularly criticized by the US president, who says member nations do not pay a high enough proportion of their GDP for mutual defence alongside the US military.
While all this is going on, advertising hoarding at Copenhagen’s City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) appears to be smoothing the way for (or warning of) Trump’s scheduled state visit to Denmark on September 2nd and 3rd.
That visit is likely to see wide-scale protests against Trump by a Danish public amongst which he is highly unpopular. They are probably aghast at the idea of the uncouth president being given the ceremonial treatment by Denmark’s royal family and government.
Even so, Trump himself on Sunday cast doubt as to whether the visit—for which huge amounts of Danish taxpayers’ money are presumably going into planning and security—would happen at all.
“I’m supposed to be going there,” Trump said in reference to the visit, in connection with his Greenland comments.
"I’m thinking about going there. I’m not necessarily, definitely going there, but I may be going. We're going to Poland and then we may be going to Denmark – not for this reason at all, but we're looking at it," he said.
Why is he now casting doubt on whether the visit will take place? Is it a veiled threat that he will not grace Denmark with his presence if it doesn’t play ball over the bizarre Greenland purchase plan? He says they’re not connected, but there’s little reason to trust what he says. Is it just because Trump himself doesn’t really know what he’s supposed to be doing?
Whatever the case, Denmark should save itself the trouble and just cancel the visit.
Trump is the political embodiment of an impolite dinner guest.
If you invited someone to eat at your home, prepared your finest food, got out your antique cutlery and renovated the driveway so they could safely park, you probably wouldn’t appreciate it if they started talking about buying your brother, before then suggesting they might not bother coming anyway.
Denmark owes Donald Trump nothing and Greenland is not a piece of meat or real estate to be sold off.
But the United States is a vital ally for Denmark, so Denmark must therefore be accommodating and diplomatic and do all it can to keep relations between the two countries strong. Normally, that would include providing for presidential visits the public doesn’t want.
Nevertheless, neither Denmark nor Greenland should have to put up with Trump’s staggering arrogance and ignorance while affording him a state visit.
Perhaps getting in first and withdrawing the invitation would make the US president consider a little more courtesy, even if only for a second.
What a fuckin' feckless invertebrate POS, both of 'em.
The last person to speak with Trump wins.
Now THAT'S a good read!
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'I Thank God Everyday Donald John Trump Is President'
They tell us who they are, they tell us what they want to do and they tell us whom they admire. And the right's reaction to the plain facts of the matter?
Squirrel/ANTIFA!! As predictable as it is stupid.
That is what a Neo-Nazi said as the FBI arrested him for threatening to kill Hispanic women
“The time will come when Miami will burn to the ground — and every Latin Man will be lined up against a Wall and Shot and every Latin Woman Raped or Cut to Pieces,” Lin allegedly wrote on August 8.
The Miami New Times also reported that Lin sent several messages celebrating President Donald Trump, and at least one image of his face superimposed atop an image of Adolf Hitler’s body with the caption: “Composite of my face with the Führer and Reichskanzler Deutschland.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-thank-god-everyday-donald-john-trump-is-president-fbi-arrests-neo-nazi-for-allegedly-threatening-hispanic-women/
But nobody cares ... Trump will continue inciting these monsters into mass murdering Americans and won't even be censured by Congress
Oh that's just Trump being Trump and the bodies pile up
Anecdotal info from someone who goes from an alleged leftist terrorist group to working for the conservative Leadership Institute, whatever TF that is.
As usual you buried the lead(s).
Sure seems to me that these are the most salient points as they are based upon facts and not anecdotes from an individual.
From your own article, thank ya very much.
President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have pushed for labeling the decentralized left-wing group's activists, who fight back against far-right white nationalism and fascism, as terrorists. But unlike white nationalists and supporters of the far-right, Antifa members have never been responsible for any deaths, although they routinely brawl with far-right demonstrators at protests.
Nonetheless, Gabriel Nadales, who now works with the conservative Leadership Institute, views the ideology and its activists as a significant threat.
'Nonetheless' as in 'aside from that what did you think of the play, Mrs. Lincoln?'
White supremacy-related violence, hate crimes and hate groups are on the rise nationally. An FBI report showed that hate crimes increased by 17 percent from 2016 to 2017, marking the third straight year of a rise in hate crimes.
The Anti-Defamation League reported that extremist-related murders spiked 35 percent between 2017 and 2018, "making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995." Right-wing extremists carried out every one of those murders.
An enlightened move? Or are the CEO's hearing the footsteps of a likely Dem win in '20, and this is their way of saying 'don't hurt us, don't jack the corp. tax rate up too high, we're trying to do better.'?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-tuesday-aug-20-2019/
181 CEOs
Nearly 200 CEOs belonging to the Business Roundtable — including the chiefs of J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Apple, Amazon, Boeing and GM — signed a statement Monday concerning “the purpose of a corporation.” The statement appears to shift away from the ultimate notion that shareholder value is the main objective. Rather, it says, that the companies commit to delivering value to customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers and supporting communities in which they work. We shall see. [CNBC]
Even for an hallucinatory Trumpanzee dimwit like you, a fatuous comparison.
Please identify who those people 'is'. A link/quote would be helpful too.
Funny, no such pictures of Antifa 'boys' tried and convicted for similar violence.
Can you imagine the mount of lost shit reflected in posts and pictures of the aftermath of a trial of Antifa members by some of the righties who post here, IF?
Says a semiliterate denizen of a trailer park. Go polish the hubcaps on your home.
How Many White Supremacist Terrorists Does it Take to Screw in a Light Bulb, and Other Hilarious Jokes
Monday, August 19th, 2019
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal |
http://showercapblog.com/how-many-white-supremacist-terrorists-does-it-take-to-screw-in-a-light-bulb-and-other-hilarious-jokes/
Jane, I have asked, repeatedly, to be let off this crazy thing. This whole The West Wing, Only Stupid and Awful gimmick has more than run its course, and I’d very much like to watch something else now. All I want is to change the channel, but I can’t find the fucking remote, and oh shit this is still real life, isn’t it?
Turns out the President who has to pay for sex also has to pay to turn out an audience for the Barnum-esque Come See Dementia Deterioration in Real Time exhibitions he calls “re-election rallies.”
Yes, Shell Oil had to bribe its employees to sit through one of Strawberry Shartcake’s rambling rants, and, as the empty seats in New Hampshire last week prove, without such payoffs, he’s simply declining as a draw; by 2020 he’ll be opening for Night Ranger at state fairs.
Republicans on the Federal Election Commission blocked an investigation into allegations that Russia used the bloodthirsty death merchants over at the rapidly-imploding-and-ain’t-that-a-shame National Rifle Association to launder rubles for the benefit of the Treasonweasel Campaign back in 2016, because there are only two types of Republicans these days; robbers, and getaway drivers.
One of the big problems the NRA is facing these days is that all of their arguments are shit, and as such, they’re increasingly rejected by an American public that’s growing tired of living in fear of being massacred every time they go out in public.
And since the old crap isn’t landing anymore, they’re reduced to belching up gonzo nonsense like, and this is a 100% real quote, not one of the ones I make up for laffs sometimes, “How do you tell a 10-year-old little girl who got a Ruger 10/22 with a pink stock for her birthday that her rifle is an assault weapon and she has to turn it over to government or be arrested for felony possession?”
Now, on the one hand, when your opponents are reduced to making “arugments” as farcical as that plateful of hot garbage, you’re definitely winning. On the other, think of how shamelessly insane you have to be to go, “I BOUGHT A FOURTH-GRADER A WEAPON OF WAR AND YOU’LL HAVE TO PRY IT OUT OF HER COLD DEAD HANDS?”
The emotionally stunted fascist manchild brigade known as the Proud Boys staged another of their trademark Rallies to Raise Awareness of the Sexual Inadequacies of the Proud Boys, but Portland police managed to keep them from getting into too much trouble this time.
Naturally, Hairplug Himmler took these dorky little thugs’ side, hoping to stir up enough fear of the imaginary Antifa menace that nobody notices all the failure and regression and atrocity and whatnot.
Meanwhile, a scuzzy new trio of shitty white boys have been apprehended by law enforcement before they could fulfill their terrorist mass-shooting fantasies. Racist social media posts? Check. Arsenals suited to an Afghan battlefield? Check. Depressingly rapid normalization of Angry Young Man American terrorists? That’s a double-check, folks.
You look at the mugshots of these miles-below-average-on-the-best-day-of-their-life losers, or the gaggles of doughy basement-dwellers in Portland, and you can’t help but wonder just how they came to reject the evidence of Every Mirror in the World and somehow conclude they’re exemplars of the master race. Like, if Brad Pitt came out as a white supremacist, you’d be pissed, but then he’d take his shirt off, and you’d go “ok, I kinda get it, seriously, how the fuck are you 55 years old?” but you look at these dudes who’re like “what if soggy Captain Crunch was a person,” and you’re almost more confused than angry.
Probably more dangerous than even these heavily-armed scumfucks is Steven Menashi, Shart Garfunkel’s latest nominee to the federal judiciary, another choice specimen, with an equal-parts-horrifying-and-idiotic (horridiotic?) history of writings praising ethnonationalism. Really looking forward to a lifetime of this guy interpreting the Constitution for the rest of us, aren’t you? Anyway, big thanks to the third party voters out there, your “principled stance” just keeps on bearing fruit.
The weekend brought not one but two profiles of White Nationalist Tapeworm Stephen Miller, because if there’s a market for scat porn, I suppose there are folks who might want to spend their downtime exploring the Lifestyles of the Detestable and Subpar. With all due respect to the Washington Post and the New York Times, I think I already had this one covered.
The big picture, as far as Miller is concerned, is that a man with an poorly maintained litter box for a soul shouldn’t be given power over a Sunglass Hut, let alone America’s immigration policy. Never have I seen a person so passionately focused on harming and terrorizing other human beings. The little shitmaggot worked, for MONTHS, on a plan to keep undocumented children out of public schools, only to be thwarted by that Constitution he hates so much. But as long as he’s in the Shart House, he’s never going to stop looking for new ways to wield the awesome power of the federal government to hurt brown people, especially children.
And don’t forget young Stephen has a new study buddy in Ken Cuccinelli, someone to go on field trips to spray-paint ethnic slurs on the State of Liberty with, someone to banter over the finer points of Mein Kampf while the Klan robes go through the dryer at the laundromat. CNN tells us the Cooch has belonged to a crazed, anti-immigrant, hate group since 2007, so I’m sure the two hateful little twerps never run out of vile shit to talk about, like Mean Girls, only they’re boys, older, and also Nazis.
Somehow, in the midst of this epidemic of racist fuckery n’ terror, the OG Congressional White Nationalist, Steve King, is demanding an apology, cuz he insists there’s some sort of magical “context” where his creepy “y’know what gets a bad rap? RAPE AND INCEST, THAT’S WHAT” comments were anything other than the mouth-turds of a demented jackass. You go ahead and hold your breath on that one, Steve-O.
Hey look, we’ve finally got a story that isn’t about a white supremacist trying to hurt and/or kill people! Wow, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? Anyway, the economy is about to blow up.
Ah, but what better way to calm the markets than to pump Shambling Cretin Larry Kudlow full of scotch and drop him off on the Sunday Shoz? Larry says everything’s just peachy keen, there certainly isn’t a recession hiding under the President’s bed with all those crusty photos of Ivanka, but then the hosts reminded him he said the exact same fucking thing in 2007, because he’s a moron who’s always wrong about everything. Well, maybe not everything. Maybe he’s really good at like, pairing craft beers with tapas, but at economics, yeah, he’s basically Beavis, which is regrettable, considering he’s Littlefinger’s CHIEF MOTHERFUCKING ECONOMIC ADVISOR.
And this initially feels like a fun little Hah Hah You Doofus moment, until you realize that doddering old twit walks away from that interview and goes back to work, whispering nonsense directly into the Rube-in-Chief’s ears, and while the rest of us might enjoy a snicker at his expense, we also have to live with the consequences of his suddenly-much-less-amusing economic misconceptions.
Hot off the mind-boggling imbecility of the Let’s Buy Greenland gambit, word is the Velveeta Vulgarian wants to run a full naval blockade of Venezuela, I guess because the people there aren’t starving hard enough for his liking. I’m worried that the rule of threes might just dictate that there’s one more of these stories out there, like maybe he’s ordered John Bolton to draw up a plan to saw the Baja California Peninsula off the continent and then steal it when it floats away.
Donnie Two-Scoops conducts foreign policy like a second grade-boy jacked up on Mountain Dew and Chuckles, and it’s a testament to military discipline that the Joint Chiefs don’t have him carted away when he starts jabbering about running a naval blockade on a nation with 1,740 miles of coastline, also surely insisting that each American ship be equipped with this totally badass mega-robot that’s also a ninja, and maybe you could make it a sex doll, too, just for efficiency’s sake.
Unsatisfied with his already-impressive collection of flaws and shortcomings, Tangerine Idi Amin has decided to expand into an exciting new realm of personal deficiency: raving paranoia! It’s like looking at a sandwich made of pubic hair, broken glass, and used bandaids, and saying to yourself, “this would be REALLY good if I pissed on it.”
See, signs of imminent recession are multiplying like tribbles, and with his known allergy to taking responsibility for his failures (“Mulvaney! Who keeps filling up my adult diapers with poo?”), Fat Q*bert has decided that the whole thing is one giant conspiracy to deny his re-election. The media is in on it, y’see, because they keep reporting the objective truth about all the ways his curdled-yogurt-brained trade war is crotch-punting the American economy, rather than dutifully presenting his preferred narrative, that everyone is bored with money now because they have so much of it.
Even the once-loyal propagandists of Fux Nooz are in it, as demonstrated by their recent poll showing Weehands McNodick getting his begolfpantsed ass handed to him in 2020 by every Democrat from Biden to Warren to a worn-out I’m With Her t-shirt. Giving multiple white nationalists prime-time hate speech extravaganzas is no longer enough; reality must be bent to conform to the Turd Emperor’s wishes, dagnabbit!
There totally is a conspiracy to wreck the economy and elect a Democrat in 2020, by the way. It’s between Donald Trump and the craven enablers who keep letting him do all this stupid shit that everybody hates. The call is coming from inside the house, you blithering simpletons.
And like that one Uncle back home who went from sending you chain letters about the Clinton Murder Machine back in college to using numerology to decipher QAnon posts, the Candycorn Skidmark wasted no time at all in discovering even bat-shittier conspiracy theories to spread FROM HIS PULPIT AS FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE FUCKING UNITED STATES, and now he’s babbling something about Google changing millions of votes with alien mind worms or some shit, who knows what goes on in that Adderall-and-experimental-hair-tonic-ruined brain?
Anyway, I figure we’re only a few months away from the old fart going full Harry Caul, ripping up the carpet in the Oval Office in search of the little elves he’s certain Obama left behind to spy on him.
After five years, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner has been fired, and while it’s wonderful that he won’t be patrolling the streets anymore, in a few years we’ll stumble across an article somewhere, detailing just how much money he’ll have made on the extremely lucrative conservative victimhood media circuit, and on that day, we will all need a fucking DRINK.
And the Shart Administration “succeeded” in pushing Planned Parenthood out of the Title X program, over a new rule that bans providers from referring women for abortions, because we can’t have people understanding their constitutional rights, now can we? And if a few million people had to lose access to healthcare to give Drumpfy’s dirtbag fake Christian base another handjob, well, so be it.
But hey, at least the rat finks down in Georgia will have a harder time stealing elections going forward, as a federal judge ordered the state to switch to paper ballots by 2020. So the news isn’t all bad. Hell, considering we got to the terrorist white boys before they could kill anybody this time, it’s practically an MGM musical up in here. Cue the kick line and confetti.
I don’t actually have a punchline to the white supremacist light bulb joke, by the way, I just needed a title. You can’t trust anybody these days, not even a bloviating nutcase in a mask and a bathrobe.
A desperate narcissist is going to get his ass kicked in the 2020 election for these reasons.
Trump has a long history of quitting when he knows he is going to lose. However, Trump knows the presidency is protecting from being indicted. That may stop him from quitting the race. Trump is going to become extremely desperate and he will make mistakes, commit more crimes trying to stop the inevitable, He is going to lose.
Trump won the 2016 election through a series of freak events that will not repeat itself this time.
Clinton is not running this time. She had disapproval numbers ( because of years of propaganda) nearly as bad as Trump.
Many Sanders voters were pissed off at Clinton so they voted for Trump because of trade policies.
Many voters did not like Trump or Clinton, the majority of them voted for Trump. They decided to try something new. There was Clinton fatigue.
Many people who voted for Trump did not know him. Now they do. They thought Trump was a great business man who would not act so crazy once he became president.
Trump has not gained one voter since he became president, he has lost many voters. That math says he can't win.
People are locked in when it comes to their view of Trump. His base will stay with him and the rest of the American people have had enough of his bullshit. He can't change that.
The economy will probably get worse over the next year. That will hurt Trump badly.
The investigations will continue and pick up steam. This will be bad news for Trump.
The good news is Trump is going to lose the election. The bad news is, what will a desperate narcissist do in order to save himself?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212388955
You didn't even know WTF a metaphor was until I posted an example.
Top five racist Republican dog-whistles
Sometimes, there’s more to a “gaffe” than meets the eye.
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2012/07/top-five-racist-republican-dog-whistles
It's a metaphor which means it's not literally a dog whistle.
Dog whistle
Dog whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message that the general population will take a certain meaning from, but a certain group that is "in the know" will take away the secret, intended message. Often involves code words.
Republicans say they want to make civil rights for gays a state issue, which is really just a dog whistle strategy for saying that they will refuse to grant equal rights on a federal level.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dog%20whistle
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.[1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared to other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile.[2] One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature comes from the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances ...
—William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7[3]
This quotation expresses a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey an understanding about the mechanics of the world and the behavior of the people within it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Policies, actions, executive orders.
No, it is bigoted nonsense for its sweeping generalizations and misinformation.
Not a credible statement, your posts confirm that you're too prone to fall for misinformation and conspiracy theories which would have had you all over Obama's ass. It's where the derangement syndrome came from.
Another dumb ass projection. Discussing race is NOT the same as talking and behaving like a racist. A distinction that clearly eludes you.
Please, Obama took up residence in your studio sized craniums for 8 years.
'Thanks Obama' for everything you didn't like or didn't understand, which is pretty much everything. And that birther insanity too.