I framed it that way semi-sarcastically because i've never seen such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era, to this much of a cartoony extreme degree.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era
When your job depends on figuring out what an amorphous blob of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of voters might "think" in the aggregate, you adopt a very heuristic attitude. Trump did things no professional politician would have dared to try before 2016, but he succeeded, so it became monkey-see, monkey-do time in DC.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Del. Lee Carter, the Virginia General Assembly's sole Democratic socialist, just passed his first bill. It prevents employers from classifying workers as tipped employees if they're prohibited from soliciting tips. https://t.co/ucRe1p5Mpi— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
He appears to be celebrating by shitposting from the House floor https://t.co/Z5jyeC3dvT— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020
that's a good tweet
― j., Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I agree w TRAINS
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Ruining the non-sequitLOLs a bit, but if you click on Lee's tweet, it's in regards to a separate train bill that passed afterwards
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
Still a good tweet tho
Are we sure it's not a zombie who can't correctly spell BRAINS?
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
Don't trains have . . . BOXCARS?!!!
― nickn, Friday, 24 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
rarely ime
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 24 January 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
Trump promised his mileage standards would make cars cheaper and safer. New documents raise doubts about that.Top Senate Democrat argues that revised rule “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel-efficient.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/01/23/trump-vowed-his-mileage-standards-would-make-cars-cheaper-safer-new-documents-raise-doubts-about-that/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
The Trump administration on Thursday signed its long-promised regulation to remove millions of miles of streams and roughly half the country’s wetlands from federal protection, the largest rollback of the Clean Water Act since the modern law was passed in 1972.
The move delivers a major win for the agriculture, homebuilding, mining, and oil and gas industries, which have for decades sought to shrink the scope of the water law that requires them to obtain permits to discharge pollution into waterways or fill in wetlands, and imposes fines for oil spills into protected waterways.
But Politico contends:Legal experts say the Trump rule is likely to be placed on hold by federal courts in at least some states, if not nationwide, as the litigation works its way through the courts. In the meantime. developers and other industries will have to decide how much of a risk they're willing to take.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/23/trump-epa-curbs-water-protections-102779
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
doubts are raised and democrats argue but god forbid the washington post weigh in either way
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
Doesn’t get more humiliating than this. Trump is in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani, but he mistakes him for the leader of the Syrian Kurds & goes on & on talking “safezones” in Syria & Turkey. Truly astounding ignorance.pic.twitter.com/YQbu4SA3it— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) January 22, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
president toddler fuckaduck is a a big boy who knows a lot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
can't humiliate the unhumiliatable
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
As such, it's genuinely a wonder that he wears a diaper in lieu of just copping a squat wherever he happens to be when the spirit moves him. He's pure shameless id made manifest, what's really stopping him.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
think it might've made the news if Barzani had treated it like a gameshow and at the end said "I am ACTUALLY..."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
you fools, haven't you learned how to be right all the time? he didn't mix the two leaders up. no he didn't. that didn't happen.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
yup, just gotta play your kurds right
― Evan, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
and what many people are saying is how bad it is when YOU mixed up the two leaders. you did that. very dumb of you.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
I was shitposting! Haha and you guys fell for it. I love winding you up. God it’s so easy! Try harder n00bs! 😂😂😂
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct? If not, it's really only a matter of time, I assume.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Can't wait until he has a mini-stroke in the midst of naming the country that he's president of and then insists at every subsequent turn that he absolutely meant to call it Amrilkull because that's what it's called, and maybe even has the presidential seal altered accordingly.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
i mean, shifty schiff keeps going by adam, even though trump keeps correcting him
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct?.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
he was honoring the unknown soldiers, whose name by definition is disputed
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
also, YOU did that
only when you did it, it was a specific soldier with a real name and you got it wrong
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
If he insisted George Benson wrote and performed the Ghostbusters theme and got corrected, the Justice Department would have the deepfake music video by Tuesday
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Reagan asked his HUD secretary -- only black Cabinet member -- "how are things going in your city, Mr Mayor?" once
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
^that was shortly after he'd been shot so
I won't finish my thought
mea culpa km, you are right, apologies to Dear Leader
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
thank you, hadrian. now, please face the other direction and walk down this long hallway
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
outside is in that direction!
but my children
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
the state will take care of themjust kidding
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
ugh, the feeling when someone passes your impromptu "point at ukraine on an unmarked map" test, which you thought to be impossible
Wow. @NPR's @NPRKelly just now on @npratc says @SecPompeo was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just...shocking.— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) January 24, 2020
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
can trump point to ukraine
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Currently is iirc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
XP He did, and it was perfect!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
I think I.F. Stone wd've told Pomp to fuck off
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
for the last 20 hours, the pinned tweet of the president has been this
pic.twitter.com/Acyh0HStm8— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
i guess he's retreating to the base within his base: trolls
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
Someone asked Trump to point out Ukraine on a map and he confidently stabbed his finger in the direction of a stapler on an adjacent table, just like any good American with a sound sense of world geometry. Geology. Maps, the...the, uh, class that was about maps.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
Trump apparently will be speaking at the March For Life, a Pro-Life rally. He's the first President to do so.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
It's sort of amazing how many contenders there are for "no wait -- that guy, THAT GUY is the very biggest asshole in the building." (Today I'm thinking Pompeo but a day will pass and there'll be some other astonishing feat of assholery from another human sphincter in a position of high responsibility)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
oh my fucking GOD pompeo, jfc
The Secretary of State has issued this statement regarding his NPR interview: pic.twitter.com/Jp6vl3wny9— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 25, 2020
for those who may have missed this, i'm sad to say this is real:
after throwing a tantrum because he was a fucking moron during an interview, he pulled Kelly into a separate room (off mic) and yelled at her for several minutes, then asked her to point to Ukraine on a map and asked his aides to produce an unmarked global map. then she pointed to Ukraine on a map, according to Kelly. I believe her. i at least believe that she would point to the correct continent, which should go without saying except that...in Pompeo's statement above, he is clearly hinting that she pointed to Bangladesh.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
Ukraine is not particularly difficult to find for someone with a basic sense of geography and geopolitics. The Crimean peninsula is fairly recognizable. But on the chance that she did get it wrong, I find it extremely hard to believe that she would've pointed somewhere not even close to eastern Europe. Like, if you're going to make shit up, say she pointed to Belarus or Georgia or something.
― jaymc, Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link