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Robotic Cats, "Pooptime Robot Pal" Among The Hot New Gadgets At C.E.S. 2020
Robotic Cats, "Pooptime Robot Pal" Among The Hot New Gadgets At C.E.S. 2020
I'm sitting here generating some memes while waiting to meet with a contractor.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212848079
That will assure laughs, sympathy and a quick turnaround from a straight male tech or a gay female tech.
Transgender tech means ambivalence and an 'I'll get around to it later' response.
Have YOU ever considered dealing with the actual content of the posts you respond to?
As in identify a single fictional word, sentence or paragraph in my post.
It would be novel, for you, if you did,
Hard Times & War Crimes: News From Hell
http://showercapblog.com/hard-times-war-crimes-news-from-hell/
Monday, January 6th, 2020
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 1 comment
I was looking over some old blog entries the other day, and it seems almost quaint to have written about comparatively trivial crap like, “wow, Scott Pruitt buys really expensive lotion haw haw haw” now that we’re breaking shit that won’t get fixed in my lifetime, but here we are. Might as well do the news, I ‘spose.
Tonight’s theme is Entirely Predictable Consequences, because, shockingly, the killing of Qassem Suleimani has not resulted in a spontaneous downpour of delicious frosting mingled with hailstones of moistest red velvet cake, but rather the fecal hurricane that any rational person could have seen coming from miles away, and isn’t it a dang shame there are no such people to be found anywhere in the executive branch of the United States federal government in this fresh new year? Like, you’d settle for a pushy intern at this point, wouldn’t you?
We learned Lil’ Donnie Two-Scoops couldn’t help but slink around Marm-a-Lago over the holidays, desperately trying to impress the wealthy dirtbags who line his pockets with membership fees in exchange for the opportunity to wield the power of the American presidency simply by manipulating his fragile ego, teasing them something big and bomb-shaped, that rhymes with Munconstitutional Massassination, was coming soon regarding Iran, even while hiding the plans from the congressional Gang of Eight. It might behoove House Democrats to join Every Intelligence Agency on Earth and set up a little surveillance equipment down at the “Winter White House.”
Thuggish Theocratic Diplogoon Mike Pompeo is all peeved n’ pissy because America’s traditional European allies have proven somewhat less than eager to share the credit for Shart Garfunkel’s latest colossal blunder. Shit, even Boris “no, I look like this on purpose” Johnson is smart enough to tell Littlefinger “Actually, you can have the terrorist retaliation all to yourself, old boy.”
Yeah, Mike, it’s just an indecipherable fucking mystery why these people you’ve been pelting with shit for three long years aren’t gleefully leaping into the car you’re driving off a cliff (and in a stupid, suicidal, way, not an awesome, life-affirming, Thelma & Louise way, for the record). IS THERE ANYBODY IN THIS ADMINISTRATION WITH EVEN A PASSING FAMILIARITY WITH THE IDEA OF CAUSE AND EFFECT?
Pentagon officials have convened a hasty game of Pin the Blame on the Dotard, leaking to the press details of what only the profoundly charitable would call the “decision-making process” behind the Drone Strike That Fucked Literally Everything Up.
Seems Dorito Mussolini’s military advisors were in the habit of presenting him with a buffet of options, including one extreme “only a braindead moron would pick this one” choice, designed to make the other plans look more reasonable by comparison. Whoever could’ve imagined that playing silly little psychological games with an idiot manchild would backfire so spectacularly? Who, except, y’know…everybody? Fucking EVERYBODY?!?
Oh, and all that stuff about having two scoops of plump, juicy, intelligence that the strike was necessary to prevent an “imminent” attack? Yeah, that’s quickly turning out to be pure horseshit as well, and there’s no Colin Powell to razzle-dazzle the U.N. this time, but if you try to trot out, say, Stephen Miller to bamboozle the world, I will buy front row seats.
Some bored pollster/aspiring horror writer decided to ask a bunch of Republicans who they wanted to see run for President in 2024, and two of the top choices turned out to be Turdwaffle, Jr., and Princess Ivanka Turdwaffle, I guess because rank and file conservatives just like paying rich people to golf.
Like, I get the concept of a cult of personality, but I guess I always figured there would something appealing about the personality, y’know? A mouth-breathing 40-year-old boy who looks like he diligently collected stray pubes from the locker room and glued them to his cheeks because he can’t grow a beard on his own? For PRESIDENT? Fuck, I’d get up and move if he sat next to me on the train.
Oh, but Son of Shart is out to prove me wrong, showing off his political bonafides by…sigh…by posting pictures of himself holding a gun decorated with this sad little cartoon of Hillary Clinton behind bars, and grinning like he finally, after years of humiliating failure and declining expectations, switched to pull-up diapers.
You should most definitely nominate this kid, Republicans. The platform can be owning th’libs and…and…let’s face it, that’s all you care about anymore, so why not line up behind Sultan Spraytan’s Subpar Son?
I can’t tell if it really falls under the mission of this blog to mention that Meat Loaf and Greta Thunberg are feuding, but for what it’s worth, Meat Loaf and Greta Thunberg are feuding.
But let’s get back to those consequences. It’s almost as though the Treasonweasel Administration felt bad about killing Suleimani, and decided to give him more or less everything he ever wanted to make up for it. So when the Cult45ers in your social media feed squawk WHY U LUV TERRORISTS SO MUCH, you can point out all the pesky real-world effects of the Bonespur Buttplug’s recklessness.
Huge anti-American protests erupted all over Iraq and Iran, and god only knows how many angry young people will now wind up forgoing that long-shot theatre degree to pursue a career in terrorism instead. Anyway, as far as ominous signs go, you could do worse than the unfurling of a red flag, symbolizing vengeance, over the Jamarkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran. Increased hatred of the USA? Strengthening the autocratic Iranian regime? Point Suleimani.
The Government of Iran, of course, promptly announced they would no longer abide by agreed-upon restrictions placed on their nuclear program, golly, that’ll sure stick it to Obama, right? Anyway, back to the ol’ uranium enrichment labs, I bet it’ll be super-fun, like Breaking Bad meets Jack Ryan, oh wait, I keep getting TV and reality confused since we put a game show host in charge of national security.
And in Iraq, the Parliament voted to expel all U.S. troops from their borders, because, as anyone who’s ever read Miss Manners understands, it’s really quite rude to conduct drone strike assassinations when you’re a guest in someone else’s home. Anyway, in the aftermath of the attack, Iraq has been pushed further than ever into Iran’s willing arms, in case you’re wondering why Suleimani’s corpse has that sloppy grin on its face.
(In an apparent effort to forever eradicate the perception of American military competence in front of the entire world, the Cud-Brained Dolt Administration issued a letter announcing immediate and total compliance with Iraq’s request to Kindly Get the Fuck Out, only to walk that bad boy back a couple hours later, sending the Fucking Chairman of the Joint Fucking Chiefs of Staff out to announce, “Whoopsie, our bad, didn’t mean it, it turns out we are massive fuck-ups. Anyway, stand by, we’ve got some equipment en route that should help us pull our heads out of our asses, but don’t get your hopes up.”)
Oh, and U.S. troops in Iraq have now suspended anti-ISIS operations so they can hang around and wait for potential Iranian retaliation instead, that’s a fun rearrangement of priorities, isn’t it?
It’s weird to have a President who’s done more to benefit ISIS than, say, the U.S. manufacturing sector, which is in recession due to Weehands McNodick’s Dumbass Trade War™?, and weirder still to have the party of “fiscal conservatism” and “national security” enabling him every disastrous step of the way, but y’know…interesting times and all that.
Anyway, this is what happens when you hand the keys to the most powerful military machine in history to a tantrum-prone narcissist with an insecure third-grade boy’s idea of “toughness”; the sugar rush of a button pushed and half a day’s worth of sensational headlines, followed by the inevitable, totally avoidable, crash, a price to be paid by untold thousands for years to come. History, scrawled in crayon, by a sociopath with a single, dried-out, rabbit turd for a soul.
Indeed, the Tangelo-Tinted Taint Tumor has responded to the snowballing pile of shit of his own making with his trademark brand of apocalyptic childishness, threatening to bomb cultural sites inside Iran (a war crime, of course, but get in line, The Hague), and to levy sanctions against Iraq for kicking him out before he could finish working his way through their complete set of Everybody Loves Raymond DVDs. Y’know, you catch more flies with honey than with pompous, belligerent, and ultimately hollow, bluster, Dotard.
As for the violence that’s almost sure to come, don’t worry, Mike Pompeo has already written off the casualties as merely “a little noise,” a casual reminder that he is a religious nutcase trying to use the powers of the U.S. government to give the end times an encouraging nudge whenever possible, sleep tight.
Meanwhile, Paul Gosar is still out there doin’ his best to provide a role model for all the shittiest kids in America, proving you can be an unrepentant bag of moldy dicks, and still get rewarded with wealth and power. You like photoshop so much, Paulie? Tonight’s graphic is for you.
Oh, and I see John Bolton is once again strutting around, tantalizingly flaunting his filthy mustache lingerie, promising to tell a tantalizing tale of treason, if only Mitch McConnell and the GOP-controlled Senate will subpoena him. Flash all the ankle you like, old man, I’m not buying your book.
In the wake of Murderstache’s tease, Marco Rubio reached miles up his own ass, past all the just-in-case plastic water bottles, to offer the theory that the Senate shouldn’t hear Bolton’s testimony because an old witch laid a curse upon the Upper House that forbids them from hearing new evidence in an impeachment trial, which is as silly as it is craven, and therefore awfully fucking silly indeed.
Looking on the bright side, I think it’s cool that, even as a slovenly, drunken, moron in a beat-to-hell Captain America bathrobe, I still have more integrity and self-respect than a U.S. Senator.
Ok, that’s what I’ve got for y’all tonight. Anyway, we’re launching the kickstarter for the comic book very soon, tentatively on January 15th.
If you don’t contribute, I’m gonna drink a bunch of cheap beer, eat some shitty bar food, come over to your house, and commit a war crime in your bathroom. You’ve been warned.
How ‘bout another teaser image for that comic, huh?
Hard Times & War Crimes: News From Hell
http://showercapblog.com/hard-times-war-crimes-news-from-hell/
Monday, January 6th, 2020
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 1 comment
I was looking over some old blog entries the other day, and it seems almost quaint to have written about comparatively trivial crap like, “wow, Scott Pruitt buys really expensive lotion haw haw haw” now that we’re breaking shit that won’t get fixed in my lifetime, but here we are. Might as well do the news, I ‘spose.
Tonight’s theme is Entirely Predictable Consequences, because, shockingly, the killing of Qassem Suleimani has not resulted in a spontaneous downpour of delicious frosting mingled with hailstones of moistest red velvet cake, but rather the fecal hurricane that any rational person could have seen coming from miles away, and isn’t it a dang shame there are no such people to be found anywhere in the executive branch of the United States federal government in this fresh new year? Like, you’d settle for a pushy intern at this point, wouldn’t you?
We learned Lil’ Donnie Two-Scoops couldn’t help but slink around Marm-a-Lago over the holidays, desperately trying to impress the wealthy dirtbags who line his pockets with membership fees in exchange for the opportunity to wield the power of the American presidency simply by manipulating his fragile ego, teasing them something big and bomb-shaped, that rhymes with Munconstitutional Massassination, was coming soon regarding Iran, even while hiding the plans from the congressional Gang of Eight. It might behoove House Democrats to join Every Intelligence Agency on Earth and set up a little surveillance equipment down at the “Winter White House.”
Thuggish Theocratic Diplogoon Mike Pompeo is all peeved n’ pissy because America’s traditional European allies have proven somewhat less than eager to share the credit for Shart Garfunkel’s latest colossal blunder. Shit, even Boris “no, I look like this on purpose” Johnson is smart enough to tell Littlefinger “Actually, you can have the terrorist retaliation all to yourself, old boy.”
Yeah, Mike, it’s just an indecipherable fucking mystery why these people you’ve been pelting with shit for three long years aren’t gleefully leaping into the car you’re driving off a cliff (and in a stupid, suicidal, way, not an awesome, life-affirming, Thelma & Louise way, for the record). IS THERE ANYBODY IN THIS ADMINISTRATION WITH EVEN A PASSING FAMILIARITY WITH THE IDEA OF CAUSE AND EFFECT?
Pentagon officials have convened a hasty game of Pin the Blame on the Dotard, leaking to the press details of what only the profoundly charitable would call the “decision-making process” behind the Drone Strike That Fucked Literally Everything Up.
Seems Dorito Mussolini’s military advisors were in the habit of presenting him with a buffet of options, including one extreme “only a braindead moron would pick this one” choice, designed to make the other plans look more reasonable by comparison. Whoever could’ve imagined that playing silly little psychological games with an idiot manchild would backfire so spectacularly? Who, except, y’know…everybody? Fucking EVERYBODY?!?
Oh, and all that stuff about having two scoops of plump, juicy, intelligence that the strike was necessary to prevent an “imminent” attack? Yeah, that’s quickly turning out to be pure horseshit as well, and there’s no Colin Powell to razzle-dazzle the U.N. this time, but if you try to trot out, say, Stephen Miller to bamboozle the world, I will buy front row seats.
Some bored pollster/aspiring horror writer decided to ask a bunch of Republicans who they wanted to see run for President in 2024, and two of the top choices turned out to be Turdwaffle, Jr., and Princess Ivanka Turdwaffle, I guess because rank and file conservatives just like paying rich people to golf.
Like, I get the concept of a cult of personality, but I guess I always figured there would something appealing about the personality, y’know? A mouth-breathing 40-year-old boy who looks like he diligently collected stray pubes from the locker room and glued them to his cheeks because he can’t grow a beard on his own? For PRESIDENT? Fuck, I’d get up and move if he sat next to me on the train.
Oh, but Son of Shart is out to prove me wrong, showing off his political bonafides by…sigh…by posting pictures of himself holding a gun decorated with this sad little cartoon of Hillary Clinton behind bars, and grinning like he finally, after years of humiliating failure and declining expectations, switched to pull-up diapers.
You should most definitely nominate this kid, Republicans. The platform can be owning th’libs and…and…let’s face it, that’s all you care about anymore, so why not line up behind Sultan Spraytan’s Subpar Son?
I can’t tell if it really falls under the mission of this blog to mention that Meat Loaf and Greta Thunberg are feuding, but for what it’s worth, Meat Loaf and Greta Thunberg are feuding.
But let’s get back to those consequences. It’s almost as though the Treasonweasel Administration felt bad about killing Suleimani, and decided to give him more or less everything he ever wanted to make up for it. So when the Cult45ers in your social media feed squawk WHY U LUV TERRORISTS SO MUCH, you can point out all the pesky real-world effects of the Bonespur Buttplug’s recklessness.
Huge anti-American protests erupted all over Iraq and Iran, and god only knows how many angry young people will now wind up forgoing that long-shot theatre degree to pursue a career in terrorism instead. Anyway, as far as ominous signs go, you could do worse than the unfurling of a red flag, symbolizing vengeance, over the Jamarkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran. Increased hatred of the USA? Strengthening the autocratic Iranian regime? Point Suleimani.
The Government of Iran, of course, promptly announced they would no longer abide by agreed-upon restrictions placed on their nuclear program, golly, that’ll sure stick it to Obama, right? Anyway, back to the ol’ uranium enrichment labs, I bet it’ll be super-fun, like Breaking Bad meets Jack Ryan, oh wait, I keep getting TV and reality confused since we put a game show host in charge of national security.
And in Iraq, the Parliament voted to expel all U.S. troops from their borders, because, as anyone who’s ever read Miss Manners understands, it’s really quite rude to conduct drone strike assassinations when you’re a guest in someone else’s home. Anyway, in the aftermath of the attack, Iraq has been pushed further than ever into Iran’s willing arms, in case you’re wondering why Suleimani’s corpse has that sloppy grin on its face.
(In an apparent effort to forever eradicate the perception of American military competence in front of the entire world, the Cud-Brained Dolt Administration issued a letter announcing immediate and total compliance with Iraq’s request to Kindly Get the Fuck Out, only to walk that bad boy back a couple hours later, sending the Fucking Chairman of the Joint Fucking Chiefs of Staff out to announce, “Whoopsie, our bad, didn’t mean it, it turns out we are massive fuck-ups. Anyway, stand by, we’ve got some equipment en route that should help us pull our heads out of our asses, but don’t get your hopes up.”)
Oh, and U.S. troops in Iraq have now suspended anti-ISIS operations so they can hang around and wait for potential Iranian retaliation instead, that’s a fun rearrangement of priorities, isn’t it?
It’s weird to have a President who’s done more to benefit ISIS than, say, the U.S. manufacturing sector, which is in recession due to Weehands McNodick’s Dumbass Trade War™?, and weirder still to have the party of “fiscal conservatism” and “national security” enabling him every disastrous step of the way, but y’know…interesting times and all that.
Anyway, this is what happens when you hand the keys to the most powerful military machine in history to a tantrum-prone narcissist with an insecure third-grade boy’s idea of “toughness”; the sugar rush of a button pushed and half a day’s worth of sensational headlines, followed by the inevitable, totally avoidable, crash, a price to be paid by untold thousands for years to come. History, scrawled in crayon, by a sociopath with a single, dried-out, rabbit turd for a soul.
Indeed, the Tangelo-Tinted Taint Tumor has responded to the snowballing pile of shit of his own making with his trademark brand of apocalyptic childishness, threatening to bomb cultural sites inside Iran (a war crime, of course, but get in line, The Hague), and to levy sanctions against Iraq for kicking him out before he could finish working his way through their complete set of Everybody Loves Raymond DVDs. Y’know, you catch more flies with honey than with pompous, belligerent, and ultimately hollow, bluster, Dotard.
As for the violence that’s almost sure to come, don’t worry, Mike Pompeo has already written off the casualties as merely “a little noise,” a casual reminder that he is a religious nutcase trying to use the powers of the U.S. government to give the end times an encouraging nudge whenever possible, sleep tight.
Meanwhile, Paul Gosar is still out there doin’ his best to provide a role model for all the shittiest kids in America, proving you can be an unrepentant bag of moldy dicks, and still get rewarded with wealth and power. You like photoshop so much, Paulie? Tonight’s graphic is for you.
Oh, and I see John Bolton is once again strutting around, tantalizingly flaunting his filthy mustache lingerie, promising to tell a tantalizing tale of treason, if only Mitch McConnell and the GOP-controlled Senate will subpoena him. Flash all the ankle you like, old man, I’m not buying your book.
In the wake of Murderstache’s tease, Marco Rubio reached miles up his own ass, past all the just-in-case plastic water bottles, to offer the theory that the Senate shouldn’t hear Bolton’s testimony because an old witch laid a curse upon the Upper House that forbids them from hearing new evidence in an impeachment trial, which is as silly as it is craven, and therefore awfully fucking silly indeed.
Looking on the bright side, I think it’s cool that, even as a slovenly, drunken, moron in a beat-to-hell Captain America bathrobe, I still have more integrity and self-respect than a U.S. Senator.
Ok, that’s what I’ve got for y’all tonight. Anyway, we’re launching the kickstarter for the comic book very soon, tentatively on January 15th.
If you don’t contribute, I’m gonna drink a bunch of cheap beer, eat some shitty bar food, come over to your house, and commit a war crime in your bathroom. You’ve been warned.
How ‘bout another teaser image for that comic, huh?
The 20s: The Decade Is Off With A Bang
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212844416
Not outside of the toughest Chicago bars sanctioned for this high risk type of arm wrestling.
Scroll to 3:50
https://vimeo.com/193904729
I emailed this 'tongue in cheek' to some friends this morning...…
I wonder if a policeboat presence has been upped on the Chicago River approaches to Trump Tower? I’d check up river too. Goose Island would be a good launch point for explosives laden rubber boats. Rev the mercury outboard Amoud, it’s fucking cold out here!
George Conway Retweeted
TwoArticleHat
@Popehat
BREAKING: intel suggests Iranians have successfully launched a covert attack on Trump properties, infesting them with bedbugs and sabotaging them with bad food, ugly formica, and a design scheme stolen from Saddam's abandoned palaces
Iran officials hint at possible attacks on Trump properties
Senior Iranian officials are using Twitter to hint at threats against President Trump’s properties -- including his Mar-a-lago resort in Florida and Trump Tower in Manhattan
nypost.com
Good job, now I don't have to wait until the GOP convention to read the planks in their platform.
I've visited, posted and been banned. Their sources, when they deign to post them, bury the needle on the far right meter.
Truth to them is as garlic, sunlight and crosses are to a vampire.
They project the very snowflakeism that they attribute to others by clutching their pearls and retiring to their fainting couches, to gather their strength to implement their many permanent bans.
Since sunlight, together with ridicule, sarcasm and fact checks, are the best disinfectants, permanent bans are few on this side of the political spectrum boards.
You are proof of the truth of that statement.
You could visit a couple of conservative boards on iHub and encounter like minded posters to a count of 4 or 5.
Or just be content to commune with those voices in your head that you often share with us.
Susan Hennessy is saying Bolton agreeing to testify means McConnell's effed...
Link to tweet
Susan Hennessey ? @Susan_Hennessey
Bolton saying he will testify if subpoenaed effectively forces McConnell's hand. It's hard to imagine how Senate Republicans could possibly justify not calling him.
John Bolton ? @AmbJohnBolton
I have posted a brief statement regarding testimony on the Ukraine impeachment matter before the Senate at: https://www.boltonpac.com/2020/01/statement-of-john-r-bolton/ …
Susan Hennessey ? @Susan_Hennessey
Even if McConnell had votes to prevent Bolton from testifying, Bolton is clearly going public with story (either in Senate or in interviews/his book). If a small delay in story getting out is worth political hit, that's surely a sign McConnell is TERRIFIED of what Bolton knows.
12:04 PM - Jan 6, 2020
Things just got real for Moscow Mitch!
Thanks for the heads up.
Sasha Baron Cohen's intro of the movie JoJo Rabbit.
“The hero of this next movie is a naive, misguided child who spreads nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry this is an old intro for Social Network”.
Not only do I recognize sarcasm, as you well know I manifest it.
This is NOT inconsistent with the certitude displayed in many of your black and white, us VS them, hyper-nationalistic posts.
So no, sarcasm not evident from you.
Ok, thanks, I see it now. Looks like someone weaving unopposed through the Hawks' less than consistent defensemen.
I don't see the specific video/article on street hockey.
Ayatollah Mystified That He Is the Only Dictator Trump Dislikes
By Andy Borowitz
10:54 A.M.
Photograph from Iranian Supreme Leader Press Office / Anadolu Agency / Getty
TEHRAN (The Borowitz Report)—Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is “completely baffled” as to why he appears to be the only dictator whom Donald J. Trump does not like, the autocrat said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran, the long-reigning tyrant expressed puzzlement and dismay that Trump had not given him the adulation that he has showered on seemingly every other totalitarian in the world.
“Trump loves Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman, and he’s even given Kim Jong Un a cute nickname, but, for some mysterious reason, I leave him cold,” the visibly saddened Ayatollah said. “I just don’t get it.”
Khamenei initially tried not to take Trump’s distaste for him personally, he said, “but when it became clear that he liked even second-tier strongmen like Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of Turkey, and Rodrigo Duterte, of the Philippines, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hurt.”
One possible reason Trump might dislike him, the Ayatollah theorized, is that “he just doesn’t realize how repressive I am.”
“If he did his homework, he’d see that I trample press freedoms, shred basic human rights, and persecute political opponents,” he said. “In terms of the things that are important to him, I really check all the boxes.”
Ayatollah Mystified That He Is the Only Dictator Trump Dislikes
By Andy Borowitz
10:54 A.M.
Photograph from Iranian Supreme Leader Press Office / Anadolu Agency / Getty
TEHRAN (The Borowitz Report)—Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is “completely baffled” as to why he appears to be the only dictator whom Donald J. Trump does not like, the autocrat said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran, the long-reigning tyrant expressed puzzlement and dismay that Trump had not given him the adulation that he has showered on seemingly every other totalitarian in the world.
“Trump loves Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman, and he’s even given Kim Jong Un a cute nickname, but, for some mysterious reason, I leave him cold,” the visibly saddened Ayatollah said. “I just don’t get it.”
Khamenei initially tried not to take Trump’s distaste for him personally, he said, “but when it became clear that he liked even second-tier strongmen like Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of Turkey, and Rodrigo Duterte, of the Philippines, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hurt.”
One possible reason Trump might dislike him, the Ayatollah theorized, is that “he just doesn’t realize how repressive I am.”
“If he did his homework, he’d see that I trample press freedoms, shred basic human rights, and persecute political opponents,” he said. “In terms of the things that are important to him, I really check all the boxes.”
I take your certitude on ANY matter you post about as an indicator for a better informed and not so easily frightened poster to take the exact opposite position.
We fought a cold war by proxy for over 40 years. Contain and deter are the prudent ways to proceed whether one has a nuclear monopoly against an adversary, or not.
Ask Russia about Afghanistan, which has accurately been described as their Vietnam. Great power does not assure great decision making. Especially when a weak, amoral, insecure moron is at the helm.
This is an emotional silly-ass remark on your part. You and several others should always preview your posts, less for grammar and spelling than to reflect and to review for cogency, coherence and bat-shit content. More of the first two and none of the last would be helpful.
Do you see a mental chiropractor, I mean to help untie you from the mental knots you twist yourself into while ascribing competence and guile to a POTUS who exhibits the exact opposites?
When Iran demonstrates untied hands, how would you like your crow prepared?
Please noooooooo. Unless there IS a board named Flogging the Deceased Equine.
He was only 23.
Chicago-area U.S. soldier killed in attack in Kenya
https://wgntv.com/2020/01/06/chicago-area-u-s-soldier-killed-in-attack-in-kenya/
No you willfully ignorant nitwit, we have Trump ignoring what all of our intelligent services have said about Russian interference in our election right the fuck in front of his handler.
No real man, much less a real POTUS, behaves like that.
He couldn't possibly have sucked Putin off more if he'd walked across that stage and opened Putin's zipper. He certainty did it figuratively.
Trump's a treasonous prick, so are his supporters.
As I said asshole, post an apology, an actual 'I'm sorry', from Obama to any leader or to any country.
Know why you can't? All you have are allegations from insecure RW morons, like yourself, who have difficulty with the meaning of words.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/politics/fact-check-apology-tour/index.html
The facts:
When President Obama began his term, he made a number of speeches in the Middle East and elsewhere -- all designed to forge better ties with Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Critics such as Romney have said Obama apologized for past actions in such addresses.
Obama did indeed mention past U.S. flaws in speeches. But in those addresses, Obama never uttered an apology for the United States.
Those statements were snippets, part of larger and grander narratives about repairing ties, building friendship and working together.
Fact Check: Romney, Obama and Iraq
During an address in Strasbourg, France, in April 2009, Obama did utter words Romney referenced in the debate.
In that speech, Obama said, "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
But in the very next sentence, Obama called out the Europeans for an "anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad."
He then goes on to talk about forging "common solutions to our common problems."
"America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America. So I've come to Europe this week to renew our partnership, one in which America listens and learns from our friends and allies, but where our friends and allies bear their share of the burden. Together, we must forge common solutions to our common problems."
An April 2009 speech before the Turkish parliament praised both the United States and Turkey. It focused on common bonds and threats, such as extremism, the economy, and energy issues.
During that speech, he said "another issue that confronts all democracies as they move to the future is how we deal with the past" and touches on a major blemish on U.S. history.
"The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history," Obama said. "Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans."
After that statement, Obama segued into a similar stain on Turkey's history -- the massacre of Armenians during World War I, and how both Turks and Armenians should work toward a "new day."
Trump has bowed to Putin, the Saudis Prince and Kim. Not a fine person among the lot. Obama never debased this country as Trump does every fucking day.
Post a link to Obama apologizing, rather than acknowledging mistakes the U.S has made. If you don't know the difference, well, that explains why you mistake Trump for a real man.
No real man mistakes Trump for such. He is an insecure, unprincipled, amoral, ignorant, gutless piece of shit.
Bone spurs my ass.
These two opening scenes are the most evocative that I've seen among all of the Vietnam War movies.
Mind on the ballgame = word not in the ballpark.
LOL! All of Trump's marital infidelities were successful assignations.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Oh yes, let's go back to the halycon days of 1910!
Who needs social security, rural electrification, work-place safety enforcement, environmental protections, the FAA, state troopers, an interstate highway system, or state parks? Surely if we just stopped taxing people, those things would just take care of themselves - like magic!
As for that big middle class and mom staying home with the kids because many jobs provided a family wage, your confusing 1910 with the 1950s. The 1950s were the era of a big middle class and high wages. The 1950s were also an era of progressive taxation and high union participation. (Gee...do you think there could be a correlation?)
Meh - ok article to a point, but not really all that informative. The usual whining without providing much of a solution.
https://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/search?q=charlie+reese
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921098406878065065&postID=5571844435383427860&isPopup=true&bpli=1&pli=1
Then, as another post said, a mashup of stupid anti-tax whines and bad "poetry." If teabaggers don't enjoy all of the separate taxes and fees on various types of services, then they need to go back to their politicians and demand increasing the tax rates of the obscenely wealthy.
The reason why all of these separate taxes and fees have been instituted is that the tax structures have become incredibly regressive, and those that have the most (which is a huge amount) are paying the least.
Same old victimizing whining. Go live in Somalia and report back on how fantabulous it is to live in a country with no taxes and no government. I would seriously like to hear about that. Go for it! Somalian utopia awaits!
PS Guess I'll avoid being an "American" bc I wouldn't annoy my friends by passing this on.
Anonymous tootseye said...
Yes, go look up the tax rates for the 1950s to see how high the top of the pyramid money-makers were taxed back then. Just take a gander at that. But suggest to a teabagger that we - shriek gasp moan wimper - increase the tax rates even a teensy bit at the top, why that's just unabashed socialism (and why is that bad?) and Obama is a nazi sending granny down a death chute.
And let's not forget how the socialism of the GI Bill enabled many returning soldiers to attend college. Many who took advantage of this eeeeevul socialism advanced in their careers and earned better money than their parents; said parents often having been destitute during the preceding depression. GAH! Can anyone imagine anything WORSE the eeevuls of a GI Bill now??
Makes no sense. As some other post said, these people should try living in Somalia and report back on how great the lack of taxes and government works out for them. Must be an Ayn Rand wet dream for sure. No doubt John Galt would be starbursting all over that country.
07 April, 2010 14:34
Which word does not belong with the other two?
….rationally defend Trump
Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike
Interest in the draft and “World War III” surged online, stalling the government website where young men are required to register. Here’s what you need to know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/military-draft-world-war-3.html
Army inductees pledged their service in New York City in 1965, while protesters burned draft cards and shouted antiwar slogans outside. The draft was abolished in 1973.Credit...Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
By Sarah Mervosh
Published Jan. 3, 2020Updated Jan. 5, 2020, 9:51 a.m. ET
For decades, American men over the age of 18 have gone through the ritual of registering with the government in case of a military draft. In recent years, this action has felt more like going through the motions, simply checking a box.
But on Friday, after a United States drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s top security and intelligence commander, prompting concerns about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East, that oft-forgotten paperwork became a reason for spiking anxiety among many Americans.
“World War III” started trending on social media. Young men suddenly recalled registering after their 18th birthdays, many having done so while applying for college financial aid. One Twitter user posted that he had blocked the account of the United States Army, with the (faulty) reasoning that: “They can’t draft you if they can’t see you.”
That genius just disqualified himself from being eligible to carry a loaded weapon. 'They' had no trouble finding people before the Internet, numbnuts.
Interest was so high that it apparently crashed the website for the Selective Service System, the independent government agency that maintains a database of Americans eligible for a potential draft. “Due to the spread of misinformation, our website is experiencing high traffic volumes at this time,” the agency said on Twitter, adding, “We appreciate your patience.”
Here is an explanation of the current military system and what it would take to enact a draft in modern times.
Is there going to be a military draft?
The United States first conscripted soldiers during the Civil War, and continued to use the draft in some form on and off through the Vietnam War, said Jennifer Mittelstadt, a professor of history at Rutgers University who has studied the military.
But there has been no conscription since 1973, when the draft was abolished after opposition to fighting in Vietnam. “There was huge support for ending the draft across the political spectrum,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.
The modern-day military is now an all-volunteer force, with about 1.2 million active-duty troops.
To change that, Congress would have to pass a law reinstating the draft, and the president would have to sign it, actions that would likely require broad political support.
What is the draft age?
All men from 18 to 25 years old are required to register with the Selective Service System. Many young men check a box to register when getting a driver’s license. Others sign up when applying for federal student aid to attend college.
But just because you have registered does not mean you will be drafted. “Right now, registering for selective service really means nothing about the likelihood of you serving in the current military,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.
Joe Heck, the chairman of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service, a committee created by Congress to evaluate the Selective Service System, put it this way: “Registration is ongoing. A draft would require an act of Congress.”
What are the consequences if you don’t register?
If you do not register for Selective Service as a young man, you can be subject to lifetime penalties. For example, men who did not register cannot receive federal financial aid, and they cannot work for the federal government, Dr. Heck said.
To check if you have registered, visit the Selective Service System’s website (once it is up and running again).
Can women be drafted?
No.
Historically, only men have been eligible for the draft. But the question of whether to register women has gained traction in recent years, as women have taken on broader roles within the military.
In 2015, the Pentagon opened up all combat jobs to women. Last year, a federal judge in Houston ruled that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional.
As part of its work, the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service is considering whether to expand the registration requirement to include women. The group’s final report, on that and other issues, is expected to be released in March.
Are there arguments for reinstating the draft?
In the 1860s, mobs of mostly foreign-born white workers took to the streets in New York City to protest conscription during the Civil War, burning down buildings and inciting violent attacks against black residents.
A century later, burning draft cards became a symbol of protest against the war in Vietnam.
“I think it’s fair to say that the draft has never been wildly popular,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.
But she said there were arguments in favor of a modern-day draft, including the potential to make the military more representative of society. The current all-volunteer force is more likely to recruit people from the working class, she said, with higher percentages of nonwhite Americans serving in uniform.
“I don’t know what it means in a democracy that you let some people fight your wars and everybody is not responsible,” she said. “American citizens are not implicated in the consequences — bodily human life, economically — of war, and they should be.”
Brian Tyler Cohen Verified account?
Replying to @ThomTillis
You able to add your signature from inside of Trump’s colon?
George Conway? @gtconway3d · 8h8 hours ago
Replying to @ThomTillis
is this a parody account
Down w/ the NotSees? @Mr___Sub · 7h7 hours ago
I'm afraid not, George -- But it is a parody Senator.
The funny/sad fact is that the states ranked worse in each category are almost all Old Confederacy states where people wring their hands over shit on the streets of SF. New name for a reprise of the old TV series?
A turtle, a racehorse and a coal miner walk into a KY bar. Bartender announces to the bar; 'see now, right here, this is why KY is so fucked up.'
War, Too? Sure, Why Not? or, America Was Fun While it Lasted!