that north korean letter in full https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg0CSwqUkAALbf3?format=jpg
― capybaras are friend shaped (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
jackietreehorn.jpg
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
summit back on
― frogbs, Friday, 1 June 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
this is all so stupid
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 June 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
kim jong un's back on the "very honorable" list, eh?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
hey remember when Obama bent the knee and assured wall street there would be zero retribution from his admin for their cratering of the world's economy? and then how corporate america spent the next 8 years whining about "uncertainty", implicitly (and some very explicitly) laying the blame for a sluggish recovery at this feet?
haha that was fun
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 1 June 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
I feel like such a fool for prematurely selling all my challenge coins.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
More detail on propping up uneconomic coal plants.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/doe-plans-to-order-guaranteed-profits-for-coal-nuclear-power-plants#gs.LxHabMg
Quote from the heritage foundation at the end hopefully supports this theory:
I kinda support Trump overtly hatefucking the economy like he's been doing this week because I've long predicted that it would take him pissing off the moneyed elites before any real move to chuck him into the street would begin in earnest.― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 11:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink]
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 11:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink]
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 1 June 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
This story seems to fit our paranoid times. Raise the rhetoric, raise the blood pressure and seemingly some are going bang.
The blind fold detail with an immigrant worker is such a strange detail.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/01/paranoid-millionaire-charged-in-death-of-worker-hired-to-dig-personal-nuke-shelter/
What was on this guy's CD player? "Paranoid Chant" by the Minutemen.
― earlnash, Friday, 1 June 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
Whomp whomp
new SCOOP from Singapore: The U.S. is trying to find a discreet way to pay for Kim Jong Un’s luxury five-start hotel: https://t.co/jk9WVgBYBc— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 1, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
> Democracy Dies in Darkness
Or if you have adblock installed
― koogs, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
(that link gives me a page containing just the Washington post banner)
― koogs, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
Sure hope 'discreetly' means 'on the American taxpayer's dime'.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
can this, or any of this, be corrected still?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
open that shit in incognito/private mode, my guy
xxp
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
Are we paying for Kim's hookers too?
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
Are we paying to have some substance rubbed on anyone's face?
― nickn, Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
Donald Trump says his letter from Kim Jong-un was “a very nice letter”.Eight minutes later, he says he hasn’t opened it yet. pic.twitter.com/ZOgqODlsY7— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) June 1, 2018
This is some kind of rodeo alright
― frogbs, Saturday, 2 June 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
they gave him a comedy oversized envelope. he likes it because it is yuge. the content does not matter to him, because he does not, and possibly cannot, read. he certainly cannot process anything he does read.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Saturday, 2 June 2018 07:02 (five years ago) link
"Thank you Kim, the letter is very nice. Very interesting. I'm told it's for me! That's very generous."
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/cf/9c/13/cf9c138b4d1622d9382e96c72daa34b6.jpg
― Evan, Saturday, 2 June 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 June 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
well, good mourning!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Don’t worry it’ll be over in 6 years
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird
don't even joke about that, i can't live through six more years of this shit
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
Florida will!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
eh if the economy stays "strong", or even if it takes a hit following Dems taking back House or maybe Senate, allowing the GOP/ Trump/ complicit MSM to effectively place blame on them, i could easily see Trump winning again in 2020.
this is who we are now.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Fuck off, he lost by 3 points, you idiots.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZIwwf1onKM
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah I wasn’t joking, he’s the incumbent. I remember 2004. Preparing myself now.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
eh if the economy stays "strong", or even if it takes a hit following Dems taking back House or maybe Senate, allowing the GOP/ Trump/ complicit MSM to effectively place blame on them, i could easily see Trump winning again in 2020. this is who we are now.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Although hey if your miserable fantasies come true you won’t have me to kick around any more, that’s for fucking sure.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Killfiled
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Here's the thing: how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point? People have become largely inured to the notion of corrupt politicians. They're all crooks, this is what they do, etc. If the actual lives and livelihoods of a significant number of citizens don't appreciably degrade over the next two and a half years, and in a way that is somehow easily attributable to Trump, I honestly don't know if Trump's status as one of the worst living humans is going to be enough to persuade people to rock the boat. Particularly if the Democrats don't offer a compelling alternative (and even more particularly if they think harping on Trump's awfulness should be a significant part of their messaging). I won't be surprised if a lot of right-leaning never-Trumpers hold their nose a second time. Because just like all of the GOP POS-es in Congress, they know that maintaining their control is about more than the paramecium-in-chief.
Clearly, I don't want Trump's reelection to happen (I will be leaving the country if it does), and I don't think it'll happen, but if he even survives that long (which is a super big if), I don't think his loss will be as decisive a rout as we might prefer.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
FYI, it makes me almost physically ill to acknowledge pretty much any of that. But my blind optimism is pretty much depleted at this point.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point?
Having Republicans in charge of health care law and policy has already adversely affected large numbers of people and the repeal of the individual mandate will drive insurance premiums sky high next year. Trump's new tariffs will adversely affect many more. A lot of these affected people live in rural America. It will interesting to see how tribal loyalty withstands such direct hits.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
the appointing of SCJ Gorsuch & the other lifetime-term federal district court judges may have a much more lasting effect on us than any straight policy tbqh.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I do want to stress that I was talking about Trump's perceived real-world impact in the present moment. I do think things will get a lot worse for a lot of American citizens over the next couple of years. It remains to be seen to what extent people hold Trump responsible (when we all know that it's really the fault of Clinton and Obama and Soros and CNN and the monster under the bed and spirit cooking and fluoridated water).
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NakXoLE.jpg
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Here's the thing: how adversely have the lives of most Americans been affected by a Trump presidency at this point?
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch)
god jesus, what on earth is your bar for "adversely affected"? i mean, even if you're one of the approximately 40% of americans who are literally cartoon dogs in burning rooms - roseanne got her show cancelled! do you know what sort of a catastrophe that is?
also, anybody who is seriously speculating about the president being re-elected is catastrophizing and needs to talk to a therapist instead of trying to exacerbate the problem on internet message boards.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice, asserting that he cannot be compelled to testify and arguing in a confidential letter that he could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.ahahahaaaahshisbdinsnjajhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/politics/trump-lawyers-memo-mueller-subpoena.html
― maura, Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
“Ensuring that the office remains sacred and above the fray of shifting political winds and gamesmanship is of critical importance,” they wrote.ahahahahhahahsboobsbosboabaobanbdobdonrono
― maura, Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
I feel like the safest bet is to begin from the assumption that Trump absolutely could be reelected and then figure out how to prevent that from occurring. Telling ourselves that it couldn't possibly happen in a million years proved to be pretty ineffectual the last time around.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
It's the absolute last goddamn thing in the world that I want to seriously consider, trust me, but if no one who's opposed to that outcome wants to confront the possibility, it feels like we're opening ourselves up to a very rude shock. History is replete with things that could never ever happen but that happened anyway.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election, so, yes, assume history is on his side and work to thwart it.
or, as OL said.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
is it possible that we've all been misunderstanding trump this entire time?
when he says "NO OBSTRUCTION" we've all been taking it for granted that he's implying "...on my part"
but really what he means is "...because it doesn't exist, conceptually, for a president"
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Only one president in the last thirty years has lost re-election, so, yes, assume history is on his side and work to thwart it. or, as OL said.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 June 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
tbf tho no president with polling data available has had this sustain level of lower approval ratings
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 2 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
The distinction between "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" and "the american people deserve this guy, after all, we elected him he won the electoral college" is an important one to me. and yeah anybody who sounds like they're taking the latter position is catastrophizing.
Blaming the dems for running a sad sack with a shitty message in 2020 when we haven't even made it through the midterms is also pathetic self-flagellating crap.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 2 June 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
The new name has always been a surprise.
Just sayin.
― Mark G, Monday, 2 July 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
US Politics, July 2018: FART
Surprise!!
― Mark G, Monday, 2 July 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link