Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Meanwhile, there are other dumb explainer takes being shared out there that are almost as much fun

Ohhh, I see now. Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping

Oookay, now I get it. Conway denies suggesting wider surveillance of Trump

I like the implication that Trump is v deliberate with the use of quotes in his tweets

The biggest textbooks makers(I.e. the most popular ones) are restructuring their history books to fit with the ideological demands of the Texas state board of ed some such, b/c TX is the largest single consumer of these these things.

Yeah and as long as Texas requires Texas-specific school books, then they're gonna need a place to put them. Like, um, a Depository of Texan School Books, you could call it.

Now we just need Trump's motorcade to pass by with an open top car.

Ride, Melania, Ride

serious question, is brotherlovesdub larry appleton?

No

Bro's been on the dub threads (duh) for years

"abandoned red states are where a majority of black Americans live"

pretty sure there are more african-americans living in new york, new jersey, d.c., and philadelphia than every southern state combined.

i just made that up. but it sounds true.

I kinda think a separate thread on "The West Balkanizes Itself" speculative slash could have some entertainment value

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population

damn, it really wouldn't take you long to meet every black person in montana...

ok my bad, sorry. i normally wouldn't ask in-thread but the search fuction's down.

not sure whether you're being serious, scott, or which red states we're talking about abandoning but FWIW, wiki does provide this helpful table: List of U.S. states by African-American population

NY: 3,073,800
NJ: 1,204,826
DC: 305,074
PA: 1,377,689 (a red state this time around but okay why not)
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= 5,351,241

here's your top twelve african american populations in red states (2016 election):

GA: 3,150,435
FL: 2,999,862
TX: 2,979,598
NC: 2,048,628
LA: 1,506,534
OH: 1,407,681
MI: 1,400,362
PA: 1,377,689
SC: 1,290,684
AL: 1,251,311
MS: 1,074,200
TN: 1,055,689
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= 21,542,493

secession thing is like the dumbest idea ever and from now on i'm FPing anybody who puts it forward even half-sincerely as a good idea, a makes u think, or any other such thing. not to be a dick but having to talk about it degrades the conversation here from an adult level to teenage stoners speculating. the popularity of the band 'rush' around here also factors into this and has been duly noted.

xpost

why isn't north carolina a blue state? it should be. virginia is blue though, right?

yeah, i don't really think anyone is seceding. i called that rant "sad" when i linked to it above. i think i called it a sad liberal rant. and like i said i live in massachusetts so i'm cool. though we need more people of color here. hey, alabama, come on up here! you get used to the snow! sorta.

ah sorry, i'm not beefing with you scott, just annoyed at the conversation from earlier in the day.

NC was blue in 08 and otherwise hasn't gone Dem since Carter. not even for clinton! it keeps seeming like it might be appropriate to just call it purple - the margins have changed a LOT since the bush years - and IIRC it was solidly in clinton's column circa september/october. but in the end it wasn't close.

yeah for the record "secession" is ridic and in no way would i support it. but gotta wonder if a Trump WH and v possibly a GOP majority gone wild for 4-8 years might have the left reexamining their stance on "states' rights"

There is no fighting the Trump part of the country. Let them have their racist, tax-free heartland.

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, March 13, 2017 1:40 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What the fuck was all of this about?

In any case, this person's understanding of "red state" America is an obscene cartoon. Lots of different kinds of people live lots of different kinds of places. Demonizing all of them just plays into the hands of right wing demagogues who tell their audiences that liberal elitists demonize them.

you're talkin like he isn't here

"red state" America is an obscene cartoon

Ralph Bakshi & Vaughn Bodē present TEXASSES

Would watch

I had a moment of weakness after the 'he didn't really mean wiretapping' shit today and went full-blown worst case scenario. it was a bad trip that I brought you along on. Apologies. I know it's absurd, but I want things to be different.

Hey man, we get it. Oh btw you now have to do penance with the rest of us on this endless thread.

lol I think I dissed the "post children's drawings of Trump and their positive comments from suburb youth" campaign my house rep was running on Facebook enough they stopped

Hey man, we get it. Oh btw you now have to do penance with the rest of us on this endless thread.

― El Tomboto, Monday, March 13, 2017 10:35 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DO WHAT?!?! Oh, "penance" sorry... never mind

Apparently the Trump camp put together their own AHCA estimates that were even uglier than the CBS ones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/tillerson-used-alias-email-for-climate-messages-n-y-says

New York says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to discuss climate change while he was Exxon Mobil Corp.’s chief executive: Wayne Tracker.

Tillerson sent messages from the account to discuss the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a court filing about his office’s fraud investigation of the company. Tillerson, whose middle name is Wayne, used the Wayne Tracker account on the Exxon system from at least 2008 through 2015, Schneiderman said.

and donald trump saw a kindred spirit

yet again, that is so ridiculous that i laugh out loud at it if it were a plot element in a movie or a book

yeah you'll never guess what happens next

"he fixes the cable?"

dear exxon employees,

as a reminder, climate change is a hoax and also exxon is a leader in renewable energy development AND we might believe in climate change, but more research is needed. in the meantime, please send all messages related to climate change to our new environmental specialist, my top assistant who shall never be seen with me in the same room at the same time, that's right, i'm talking about "Wayne Tracker". please send emails about climate change to wa✧✧✧.r✧✧.trac✧✧✧@exxonmo✧✧✧.c✧✧.

Thanks!!

Rex

Wayne Tracker, lmao

https://www.facebook.com/GreatLakesAntiFa/videos/1679923378967793/

Wayne FruityLoops

where's that "so not gonna happen" podcast

wayne (trac)ker

Every time I hear about people suggesting secession I'm reminded of the French aristocracy wanting to just before the French Revolution. Not sure how they thought they could physically secede and it didn't work out very well for them in the end as they were disposed of in other ways.

Every time? No exceptions?

the vienna secession worked out pretty well

Another one bites the dust?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ukranian-businesman-russia-and-donald-trump-dies-michael-cohen-michael-flynn-donald-trump-vladimir-a7612866.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6MJIjCJ20

(didn't realise the thumbnail would be so graphic, sorry)

Conspiracy theorists have pointed to a number of recent deaths of Russian diplomats in the past four months.

Aren't we past the 'theorist' stage yet?

good mourning!

Oronov died aged 69 after spending three months at a specialist terminal cancer hospital in the US. His family gave a statement to the press iirc. He was neither Russian, nor a diplomat.

But...what if he was? Gotcha.

j/k, you are a good and necessary voice of temperance ITT, ShariVari.

Cue Someone to point out that old people die frequently and suddenly and skepticism is warranted in these situations. Xpost lolol lol lol you are here.