Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

Ok lol

The original was posted here 4 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6jy5xo/trump_takes_down_fake_news_colorized_2017/

This feels disturbingly accurate:

There is no president, there is a delusional old man who tweets and occasionally performs the ceremonial parts of the job.

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) July 1, 2017

If there was a way to hit the reset button and live just about anywhere else, I would

💅

Ugh media going with the "this is a literal threat" angle

president kayfabe

related

http://deadspin.com/triple-h-donald-trump-is-unclear-on-whether-wrestling-1790037536

See the thread title is perfect now

My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL.

this is the most literally true thing he has ever said

This is pretty powerful

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-a-midwestern-town-that-went-for-trump-a-muslim-doctor-tries-to-understand-his-neighbors/2017/07/01/0ada50c4-5c48-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, July 1, 2017 7:37 PM (yesterday)

cried a lot reading this. i cringed for him when he started to go off the rails a bit during the third lecture. seems like a decent, ordinary guy who has to deal with things no one should have to. incredible reporting.

ugh this story

that's an incredible piece.

yes.

So apparently Trump is gonna try and sneak into England for a visit, because he wants to avoid protests. Except a) the Independent is already reporting the plan, and b) it's being said that if it happens, it will happen as part of his trip to France for Bastille Day, which is July 14. So if he's going to "sneak in," it's going to be either the day before or the day after. I'm pretty sure the protesters will be able to mobilize and execute on that kind of notice, don't you?

That Ziggy thing is killing me, because C-SPAN is literally nothing but a live feed of congress most of the time.

Not only that, Trump seems to think that was an actual Ziggy cartoon, not a fake he plucked off the internet.

unperson, these are people who can't keep Russian photographers out of the Oval Office, of course they can't imagine protesters being able to add and subtract from a specific and obvious date

Did Trump actually tweet the ziggy cartoon? I can't find it on his feed

i fully endorse the president doing more skulking.

hate to break it to you but the ziggy tweet is actual fake news

I believe it is meant to be an example of Literal Things That Could Happen and as such has poignancy becz Ziggy!

reading this, about just one pesticide that Pruitt has delayed action on, which seems to cause developmental problems in children:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/pesticides-epa-chlorpyrifos-scott-pruitt.html

and actually literally thinking there needs to be a Nuremberg trial for these people.

Spiders from Mars feeling very left out rn

Oh and

There is no president

THERE IS ONLY ZUUL

i cringed for him when he started to go off the rails a bit during the third lecture.

This was awesome, a bit scattered maybe but totally righteous anger and exasperation.

i feel sorry for dude having to read the fucking bible just to debate his audiences

Tbf everyone should read the bible (and the koran)

Especially if it's illustrated imo

Tbf everyone should read the bible (and the koran)

Speaking as someone who is currently required to read the Bible (mostly double-checking quotes) for a freelance project, uh, fuck no they shouldn't.

everyone should be required to read Deeper Thoughts by Jack Handy, the sequel to Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy. It's just as good if not better than the original

Actually, most writers should read Bible stories at some point. I was lucky to read them at the same time as Greek mythology in 7th grade.

oh man that article about the Muslim doctor. kind of a nice ending, though!

i haven't read it yet but i hope the ending is that he is now president of the united states

haha me too :(

btw my mom doesn't live in Dawson, Minnesota or anything and she doesn't wear hijab but a couple of months ago she started carrying her passport with her everywhere she goes "just in case," she told me and it makes me quietly despair

i mean there are a lot of people who have it worse than she does in trump's america, but i feel confident that she had some encounters that made her decide to do that that she's not telling me about and it is just sad

xp: Doubt he'll still be in rural Minnesota in 3 years, TBH.

I still know every time I walk the dogs which houses had Trump signs.

The 'says who?' guy has his troubles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/us/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump.html

But learns from the master:

Like Mr. Trump, he lashes out at critics on Twitter, where he also spends quite a bit of time fighting with anonymous critics, or trolls — calling them “haters” and “idiots,” sometimes within the comment threads of Mr. Trump’s tweets.

In one such exchange last week, a Twitter user named Corvetteman, who has 88 followers and a profile photograph of an orange cat, called Mr. Cohen “a joke.” Mr. Cohen replied: “Reminder...@realDonaldTrump won! Wake up #hater.”

I am also now remembering a while back (post 9/11, pre-Obama) my dad had a neighbor who was nasty to him about being Muslim in a series of escalating incidents (my stepmother does wear hijab). I remember telling him he needed to make a big stink about it and that his other neighbors would have his back. he seemed less confident about that than I was. now I wonder if I was wrong. he's a pediatrician and he had cared for some of those neighbors' kids. at the time I couldn't imagine they'd be okay with him getting harassed on the daily.

Speaking as someone who is currently required to read the Bible (mostly double-checking quotes) for a freelance project, uh, fuck no they shouldn't.

― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 July 2017 04:00 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it the mandatory nature that you're against, or do you consider it, like, a dangerous book?

more that it's really boring

Genesis, Judges, the Chronicles, and the Kings are where it's at imo.

I think it also helps to read what Biblical scholars have to say (both the religious folk and the agnostics like Bart Ehrman). the latter is really eye-opening and he writes in a very easy to follow format for laymen.

the Bible is great

I suppose I could imagine reading an annotate edition, like "The Annotate Alice" or something. We're talking the Old Testament, right? I'd totally read that or the Koran, thought just a lifetime of Jew stuff, however casual, as exposed me to most of the former, I suspect.

I just read the dirty parts.

Well, yeah. I bet the copy fell right open to them.

The Bible contains both great literature and "pernicious nonsense" (I think that's a Penn Jillette quote, someone I'm generally not apt to quote)

it's more for me that I got my fill of it the 4 years I spent in a Fundie church and their stupid interpretation of it ruined the parts I liked even though I knew the Methodists (where I grew up) had a far more forgiving look at things.

but understanding what Fundies think about it, or Baptists, or any of the fire and brimstone crowd does allow you some deeper insight into why these people are so impossible to appease on everything.