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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.
Donald Trump's Campaign Is Becoming an Exercise in Public Insanity
If it doesn't work out in his favor, someone is always conspiring against him.
This is the only #1 hit ever written by a US Vice President. It was composed in 1911 by then-banker Charles Gates Dawes, who became VP under Calvin Coolidge in 1925.
And the rest of the story....
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/tommy-edwards/its-all-in-the-game
The lyrics were added in 1951 by the Brill Building songwriter Carl Sigman, who also changed the song's name to "It's All in the Game."
In The Carl Sigman Songbook, Sigman's son Michael writes:
The most interesting story-behind-a-song saga in Carl's career began with a phone call from a publisher. For years Carl had thought about writing a lyric for a tune he remembered from his classical training.
"The Dawes Melody," or "Melody in A Major," was a classical violin and orchestra piece composed in 1911 by none other than Charles G. Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. Dawes composed the piece in a single piano sitting. "It's just a tune that I got in my head, so I set it down," he told an interviewer.
He played it for a friend, the violinist Francis MacMillan, who liked it enough to show it to a publisher, and Dawes was officially a composer. The tune garnered some popularity when Jascha Heifetz used it for a time as a light concert encore. Early in 1951, Carl decided to try and write a lyric to the theme, believing that it was in the public domain, as free of complications as an old Mozart melody.
He knew the two-octave range would be a problem, but figured he could fool around with the melody, take out the high notes and make it more singable. By sheer coincidence, Warner Brothers publishing executive Mac Goldman called one day to ask Carl to consider writing a lyric to "The Dawes Melody," the copyright for which, it turned out, was owned by Warners.
Once Carl recovered from the news that the song was in fact already copyrighted, he rejiggered the tune and realized that a phrase from another song he was working on, a conversational phrase he'd plucked from the vernacular, was perfect for this tune. Once he plugged that title into its proper place, the lyrics to "It's All In the Game," to quote Carl, "wrote themselves."
It's All In the Game: Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game All in the wonderful game that we know as love You have words with him and your future's looking dim But these things your hearts can rise above Once in a while he won't call but it's all in the game Soon he'll be there at your side with a sweet bouquet
And he'll kiss your lips and caress your waiting fingertips And your hearts will fly away
Carl also wrote this never-recorded intro, to be sung prior to "Many a Tear…" Where love's concerned At times you'll think your world has overturned But if he's yours, and if you're his Remember this… Unfortunately, the vice president never got to hear the lyric.
On the day Carl handed in the finished assignment, Dawes died of a heart attack, prompting Mac Goldman to quip, "Your lyric must have killed him."
Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Wikipedia
Born: August 27, 1865, Marietta, OH
Died: April 23, 1951, Evanston, IL
Charles Gates Dawes House
https://openhousechicago.org/sites/site/evanston-history-center/
I bike right by it. LOL! They used it for interior scenes for the TV series Empire and for the Playboy Mansion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Edwards
Although Edwards recorded a number of other songs, none came close to achieving the same level of success, though several of his songs later became hits for other artists, such as "A Fool Such As I" by Elvis Presley, "It's All in the Game" by Cliff Richard and the Four Tops (Eddie Holman's version of it was the B-side of his hit "Hey There Lonely Girl"), "Please Love Me Forever" by Cathy Jean and the Roommates (1961) and by Bobby Vinton (1967), and "Morning Side of the Mountain" recorded by Donny and Marie Osmond.
Died October 23, 1969 (aged 47)
He died from massive internal hemorrhaging due to esophageal varices linked to cirrhosis of the liver (alcoholism). This is per his death certificate.[7] Buried at the Quioccasin Baptist Church Cemetery in Henrico, Virginia.[8] His headstone says he was born 15 October 1922 but his death certificate says 12 October 1926. The 1930 census eludes that his correct birth year is 1922. The informant was his sister, Buena.
Edwards received a Virginia Highway Marker in 2008, erected near Pemberton Elementary School, off Quioccasin Road, in Henrico County. In July 2008, Richmond mayor L. Douglas Wilder signed a proclamation declaring October 15, 2008 "Tommy Edwards Day."
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Monday, August 19, 2019
By Oliver Roeder
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-monday-aug-19-2019/
$0.001 per image
Amazon’s Rekognition facial-recognition software had been able to place faces on a scale for seven emotional categories — “happy,” “sad,” “angry,” “surprised,” “disgusted,” “calm,” and “confused.” Last week, Amazon AI engineers added an eighth category — “fear.”
The system can detect fear at a cost of $0.001 per image, with a discount for those totally normal people who analyze more than a million images. Alexa, I’m scared. [Wired]
5 linguists
Five linguists at the City University of New York are nearing the end of a three-year project to document the “New Yawk” accent and “to catalog just what makes the dialect so distinctively New York.” The researchers employed undergrads across the five boroughs to record interviews.
They found dropped R’s, nasally A’s, and “a trademark spin on the first vowel in words like coffee, making it cawfee.” Hey, undergrad, I’m walking heeah. [New York Daily News]
“$700 million a year”
President Trump wants to buy Greenland — which, if you’ve seen “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” you know was once covered with ice and which, if you’ve followed the climate news lately, you know is less true every day. Anyway, Trump said: “Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done. It’s hurting Denmark very badly, because they’re losing almost $700 million a year carrying it.” [Associated Press]
US negotiator Charlie Brown says Taliban promises not to yank football away again
August 19, 2019
By Bull Winkle ?
DOHA, Qatar — U.S. representatives in continuing talks with the Taliban are confident of finally achieving the illusion of victory in Afghanistan, sources say.
Top American negotiator Charles “Charlie” Brown has told the State Department that the US is offering significant troop withdrawals in exchange for a Taliban agreement to cease supporting transnational terrorism.
Although experts note that the Taliban has a perfect record of tanking previous such accords, “We’re not about to let facts and history influence these negotiations” Brown is reported to have said.
According to attendees at the talks, Taliban lead negotiator Lucy al-Vanpelt gave Brown a seemingly heartfelt promise to honor the agreement, the latest in a series of commitments.
“I think it’s the sincerest promise yet,” said Brown, “Lucy’s also the center-fielder on our Kabul softball team and she always gives me good pitching advice, so I know she’s legit.”
Doug Schroeder, and analyst in Washington, acknowledged that the Taliban is reliably unreliable in keeping its peace promises.
“Beginning with cease fire violations with the Soviets in the 1980s, they’ve been amazingly good at duplicity and untrustworthiness with every American administration and the Afghan government since 2001, even after receiving concessions,” Shroeder said. “That’s just at the national level. We’d need a data scientist to crunch the numbers on locally broken promises.”
The only time the Taliban honored a cease-fire was once in 2010, when the group called a two-hour halt in fighting at a town in Herat Province so they could watch the season finale of “The Bachelorette,” according to Brown’s records. “A lot of Taliban are still angry about the outcome,” he said.
Regardless of history, US representatives remain hopeful. Brown said, “to use a football analogy, we’re ready to kick a field goal for the final points to win the game. I think Lucy really means it this time. This year I’m going to kick that football right over the goal posts!”
As Brown prepares for final negotiations, several American negotiators have reportedly scheduled sessions with Lucy for psychiatric help, a service she offers for five cents.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/08/us-negotiator-charlie-brown-says-taliban-promises-not-to-yank-football-away-again/?utm_source=Normal+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7fcbb3e90b-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-7fcbb3e90b-23791221&goal=0_6d392bc034-7fcbb3e90b-23791221&mc_cid=7fcbb3e90b&mc_eid=cc8af7284a
Yeah, we have several of us who swim. I'm not a fisherman but there are edible salmon and perch swimming around in it.
Mostly I ride my bike north onto a bike path that begins about 3 blocks from me and goes North up along and behind the NU campus.
I'm good to go through most of Oct. Better riding than in April and May because cooler near the lake prevails big time in the Spring, but those 70-80 degree temps takes awhile to lose their warmth from late Summer into early Fall
This is the part that is going to get washed over....
80 degrees along the shore lately, cooler out where they measure it. Now is the peak summer temp for the lake before the long slide to when the winds of Nov. come early.
The increased water levels, highest since '86, will insure a violent washing over of bike and jogging paths and the apt named Lake Shore Drive.
Why this site calls it a 'sea' is beyond me. I have no success when I try to order Lake Michigan crab.
Chicago Sea Temperature
(Today) 19th Aug 2019
21.9°C / 71.5°F
https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/chicago.htm
The submerged concrete on the left is the lowest of 3 levels leading down from our condo to our private 'beach'. It was not underwater a year ago.
The Army Corps of Engineers built that breaker with the sea gulls on it about 25 years ago. It saved our property and a condo across the street, and the street from being inundated and frozen over in the winter.
Amazing how it breaks the waves such that either side of the breaker the energy of the waves is dissipated for many yards.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-lake-michigan-high-water-levels-impact-20190801-jmhmy4ylgbatlavbny3lv26dui-story.html
Lake Michigan has swallowed up 2 Chicago beaches this summer. Experts say the worst could still be on the way.
By Tony Briscoe
Chicago Tribune |
Aug 01, 2019 | 2:24 PM
This graphic shows up better in the linked story
Water level by month
Monthly average surface water elevation
for Lake Michigan-Huron, in feet
They all know it was a bug and not one of my feetures.
More up to date…..
Notwithstanding the near constant gunfire, still building away.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=411382&page=409