(including glorification of himself in the “cheap gold plating” obv)
― maura, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
Speaking of immense mineral wealth, when he was elected I figured he’d be all about oil and gas exploration in the conveniently opened Northern Passage (its crazy, in the summers all the ice there magically melts for no reason now! No one has any idea why!!!!!!!!). He definitely supports it, or at least it’s important to the stooges that he appointed positions of power, but he doesn’t seem to have made it a personal issue. It’s just kind of surprising because it the mineral rights disputes up there seem perfect for him - lots of other countries with claims that he could provoke conflict with, an element later of science and statistics that he could completely abuse and ignore, a huge cash reward for whoever wins by fucking everyone over, etc
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
is anyone up there calling him names?
― maura, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
maybe someone can tell him it’s rife with sharks
but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level. what a disgusting liar
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Seriously, he’s probably looking at the sea ice extent from this winter (when most of it re-solidifies) and comparing it to the summer, when it melts. He’s really that dumb. You have to think of the dumbest possible thing.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
This is the dumbest apocalypse ever.
― jmm, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
That’s not a giant meteor hurling toward earth, with an eta of 2 hours and 99.9999% chance of collision according to nasa! That is tv. It is a big tv screen showing a new movie that we haven’t seen. The Chinese have installed a big tv screen in the sky to scare us. I hope that I am on that tv screen
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
it's basically Mars Attacks! but the aliens are from here
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
I’m sure Piers Morgan quickly corrected him on this. He gets asked to be on television all the time so he must really deserve it
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
"people keep falsely saying New York is besieged by monsters. why just yesterday I saw fresh delicious Hi-C pouring through the streets. I am sure liberals will insist it's blood"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
If #2020election were today, 52% of #Trump voters would “definitely” re-elect him (was 49% last April) @FoxNews #Poll https://t.co/YHLWBp4GFX pic.twitter.com/UtSal0fpp3— Fox News Poll (@foxnewspoll) January 28, 2018
that seems extremely low
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
sure but remember that trump voters have a record of lying to polls
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
yeah i'd like to see how obama voters answered that in 2010
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
probably with non-sequiturs
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
'we'll see what happens, we'll see what happens'
― j., Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
a long read on manafort: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 28 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
If only there were a platform to semd a targeted message to one particular person while everyone else could also see it
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
I wasn't going to watch the SOTU, but everyone seems to think he's finally getting ready to become presidential.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
SOTU? More like STFU.
I read that Fox poll as 'more people who voted trump would not now, as opposed to April".
― Mark G, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
New go-to Trump pic:
https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/266926e/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fdd%2F7e%2F22b7778141508db111d8712ebf53%2F180126-trump-pliers-ap-1160.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
i think it's a shame that they stop doing voter polls on how people will vote on an election after the election ends. seriously, somebody poll people and ask them how they voted in 2016. i'd love to know what the results are.
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Trump in a landslide.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Stupid:https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/schumers-to-do-list-fix-daca-win-the-senate-manage-trump/2018/01/28/2d0ba4ea-02a6-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?__twitter_impression=true
― Frederik B, Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
So Kurtz wasn't being a sock. He was quoting and apparently has not heard of retweeting or quotation marks.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
Paywalled, what's the gist of the WaPo piece?
― Simon H., Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
Skimmed, but ... DACA fails, Republicans get blamed, giving cover to red state Dems to toe away from immigration, helping them get reelected while Chuck works on snagging 2 seats and defending 10 others?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
infinity chess!
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
Pretty much, yeah. Also, moderate Dems successfully pressured to end the shutdown, which means there was no strategy at all going into it.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
Oh, and Schumer thinks 'economic populism' means saying 'no WE'RE the ones working for the middle class'
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
One suspicion is that ending the shutdown was what Manchin demanded to run again. He was ready to retire.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
Are the Democrats making themselves a remotely attractive Opposition at the moment.I keep hearing things taht sound like mishandling and wondering if that is going to counter a swing back to sanity come the mid terms.
― Stevolende, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
good mourning!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
where's the tax returns?
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article125859554.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 29 January 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
Reading a different reported story, it sounds like the Dems (and some GOP) want DACA separate so that it can get passed away from all the poison pill limits to legal migration, and in return they'd tack some border/wall money into the budget. That keeps Trump from scuttling discussions with hardline immigration demands, punting it to a future debate, which gives cover to Dems running in more conservative districts. That doesn't seem like a terrible strategy. The longer they delay the elective stuff, the closer we get to elections, when in theory the entire balance may change.
Regardless, Trump will fuck it up, whether or not he finally becomes presidential tomorrow. Because he will always be a piece of shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
It's not a horrible strategy, but I can't see it working without the threat of another shutdown.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 January 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
I for one am ready for a rush of idiot journalists to tell us how "encouraged" we should be by a teleprompter SOTU that only includes a few references to genocide
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
good piece from Jeet on how the global elite are perfectly fine (or better) with Trumphttps://newrepublic.com/article/146797/davos-trump-became-leader-global-1-can-learn-love
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
“A year later, many of the business and political elites remain dismissive of him, privately rolling eyes and using words like ‘madman,’ but there was excitement about economic growth, and the tax cuts and regulatory rollback he has ushered in,” the Times added.
cor it's almost like business and political elites are amoral monsters bent on profit at the detriment of literally everything else
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
it's almost like trump is part and parcel w/ a monstrous set of phenomena more than he is a gross outlier!
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Yeah, business-centric articles about Davos have been pretty pro-Trump. Again, the feeling being that the bar is so very, very low that they're relieved that he didn't once smear his own feces on anything or anyone.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
The bar is low for anyone with the keys to capital.
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
Like, you shouldn't be impressed that the dipshit who carelessly threatened to start a nuclear war didn't actually start a nuclear war (yet). It's like I threatened to murder your whole family but you can't help but admire the restraint I showed in only stealing your identity and bankrupting you.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
otm, and trump's few accomplishments so far have all worked to put more capital in the hands of those who already have too much of it
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
Which really adds a tragicomic air to the efforts by that one Davos protestor.
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
When I see 'Davos' I often briefly confuse it with 'Davros' and 'DeVos' but it's all the same thing in the end, really.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
And of course this is already a thing. Of course it is.
https://i.redd.it/e4aosqy18ofy.jpg
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
can we not bring "bars" into the conversation plz
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link