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gis for bottomless donald trump
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
wait has luck replaced charisma? damned millennialsOops, it’s still charisma. Still though, those millennials
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
Like, of all the periods when the span of my life could've transpired, why did it have to overlap with a period where the federal government is morphing into a late-period Zucker-Abrams-Zucker production?
The fact that these things overlap is not at all coincidental.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Are you suggesting that I'm somehow responsible for the horrific events that are currently unfolding?
I mean, I guess it isn't entirely outside of the realm of possibility.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
it's a democracy, man
you gotta responsibility
― j., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Whoops!
Roy Moore's communications director has resigned, @elainaplott reports https://t.co/RJQKjIcYn9— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) November 22, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
Don't worry, Roy, the president isn't super busy at the moment, I'm sure he can help you out.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Roy's response "I don't know what to say..."
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Texas Congressman Joe Barton Apologizes for Sending Nude Pic to Woman, Not His Wife
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
ARGH NSFW, life, my eyes, anything.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
NOOOOOO that pic. Do not look.
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
looooool
― marcos, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Artist's rendition:
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/DC21024lg.jpg
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
Thank u for insta-sterilizing the world with that digital saltpeter, TMZ.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
trump called moore "tough on crime" compared to doug jones, so i guess being blasé about the age of consent is more important to the nation's well-being than putting away members of the kkk
― maura, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
also why are dick pics always captioned in the fucking cheesiest ways. porn has ruined dirty talk
Of course Trump wouldn't want to be put away?
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
sounds like barton might be added to this list soon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RhR9oZZpyKKceyLO3C5am84abKzu2XqLWjP2LnQDgI/edit#gid=0
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/evefairbanks/mark-halperin-poisoned-our-politics?utm_term=.rpLknd9V9#.ufW2b0X8X
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
that was a good read
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
All of these "why are these allegations happening NOW" questions are dumb. Like, no shit someone may feel more urgency to come forward when the person who abused them looks poised to ride easily into the Senate AND the current cultural climate is the least hostile towards victims alleging sexual assault and rape than it has been in most of their lifetimes?
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
Barton should apologize ahead of time for nude selfies
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
A friend of mine who was assaulted quite a while back felt told me she felt like a weight had been lifted when the Weinstein story broke; she experienced a palpable wave of validation. xp
― Simon H., Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
it is the expected response from the conspiracy theorist mindset coupled with a total lack of understanding of what it's like for a female victim of sexual "transgressions"
xps to mr perry
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
That Halperin piece falls victim to some of the same sins he lays at Halperin's feet. As the author himself says a few paragraphs in, power is so diffuse that there is no small insider's club that runs everything.
Surely, Halperin had influence, but that piece magnifies his influence to the point of distortion. Retailing gossip as news is as old as the yellow press and likening D.C. to the court at Versailles is a trope that dates back almost as far. Halperin didn't invent that world or its rules. He was just another in a long line that runs back through the Alsops and Walter Winchell to others too far back to recall.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
she
― maura, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
re the writer
Yes. You are correct. I made a factual error because I was too lazy to go back and check the byline. My criticism of the author's premise stands.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
what are you thankful for pic.twitter.com/YUFKlF8zGM— Mens-hevik Rights🌹 (@timerube) November 22, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
I can do without pictures, but I love how specific the apologies have to be in Moore-world:
Republican Rep. Joe Barton apologizes for a nude selfie, admitting in a statement that he "had sexual relationships with other mature adult women"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
he’s a mature woman?
― It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
Ha.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
(I assume he meant "other than my wife")
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
I see your point, Aimless, but the author's argument still stands that obfuscating the workings of our elected government as if it's the star chamber while also diminishing the life-and-limb significance of what goes on is a bad thing and Halperin has always been a wet buttsock for perpetuating that; if his ultimate replacement(s) keep that behavior up while managing to not jerk off in front of their colleagues at work, we're still not going to be doing great as a country.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
obfuscating the workings of our elected government as if it's the star chamber while also diminishing the life-and-limb significance of what goes on is a bad thing and Halperin has always been a wet buttsock for perpetuating that
Oh, I agree completely with that part.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
(I assume he meant "other than my wife")― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, November 22, 2017 1:50 PM (forty-eight minutes ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, November 22, 2017 1:50 PM (forty-eight minutes ago)
I read it more as "...unlike the other pedophiles and pederasts in the news".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
It's as part of the quote that this happened while he was separated but not divorced from his wife.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
not gonna look for this Barton pic
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
good thinking
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
Joe Barton's dick can mean something beautifulJoe Barton's dick can mean dreams that are coming true
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
A powerful argument that DJT writes his own tweets:
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 November 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
specifically that it was in response to
New post:Trump's rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern.Trump regularly attacks high-profile African Americans to feed his supporters' belief that the system is rigged for minorities:https://t.co/vlWbUj10T2— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 22, 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 November 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
So... he's agreeing?
― Evan, Thursday, 23 November 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
trump flipped out on one of his own supporters because he’s too stupid to read, then deleted and covered his tracks with a retweet pic.twitter.com/rsqY8oOzOY— 👹 (@HonoredSpirit) November 22, 2017
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
Thank her, corrupt ass.
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/politics/flynn-mueller-russia-trump.amp.html
flynn’s legal team has notified trump’s that they can no longer share information, likely indicating they’re at least now discussing cooperation with mueller
― sciatica, Thursday, 23 November 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
Conspicuously timed thanksgiving announcement
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
Seth Abrams has thoughts:
(THREAD) Here's a brief itemization of the factual errors in the New York Times' breaking news story, below, about Michael Flynn possibly having signed a cooperation deal with Bob Mueller. The errors are inexplicable, and it's important they be called out. https://t.co/KYQvl4gFpP— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 24, 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 November 2017 08:35 (six years ago) link
Bah, sorry for autocorrect.
Useful thread, crank or not. Especially the implication that if Flynn takes a deal then clearly he is not the primary target, which means Trump and high level associates likely formally in the cross hairs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 November 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link