Good news of the day, the house pulled the bill to sell off federal land! This makes me happy.
I also got through and left a voicemail about Bannon on the NSC!MH was laughing at me trying to read a script that I hadn't pre-read thoroughly, but I doubt they actually listen.
Oh and the rogue POTUS staff twitter is saying that all women must look feminine and he's suggested they wear his brands. Even if this is bogus liberal bait, it's all believable and I enjoy checking it.
tallblonde if only someone could convince him to wear one of his own tie clips! And congrats on getting through to vm
Lol I know, if he wants people to look sloppy in ill-fitting suits, but Trump!
I did read that Nordstrom will reduce their Ivanka clothing inventory due to boycotts. I personally will never buy a trump product now, but I'm sure the other side is seeking it out now.
tallblonde when rogue Wh Tweets come through would you mind sharing them here? I don't Twitter, but I'm interested in them. Like you say, who knows if they're legit, but most of what I've seen is believable.
I don't have twitter, but I just go to the page and refresh it a couple times a day, they seem to go in spurts every couple hours.
I'm obsessed with the Rogue POTUS Twitter. Also checking a few times a day.
Who knows if it's true, but if it is, that's the source of the most terrifying information.
And hanging up on Australia's PM because he was tired and deciding on the Yemen raid over dinner? After talking to his son-in-law and Bannon?
Fucking unconscionable.
Jon Favreau was talking about what if Obama, Axelroad, and Valerie Jarrett tried approving an attack over dinner one week in? He said everyone would have lost their minds and he probably would have quit.
We aren't dealing with the usual Democrat vs Republican issues.
The lunatic in the White House is being advised by a Neo Nazi. His rhetoric has given rise to hate crimes. He's trampled our civil liberties. This man is destabilizing our democracy.
I need to know that people find this to be a problem.
I get that some people don't like to discuss politics, but I'm here every day talking about what's on my mind and everyone else does the same. Why should important issues be ignored because they might make people uncomfortable? I talk to my IRL friends about this, I don't know why the board should be any different?
I was a registered Republican. Canvassed for local reps, worked phone banks, made donations. I saw what was starting to happen to the party a few years ago and decided to run away from this catastrophe as quickly as I could. No, I would have never imagined that their next nominee would be this deranged.
So, no, I'm sure I don't understand "I'm voting Republican because I'm a Republican."
When the Republicans or any party collectively lose their mind and don't condemn fascism and white nationalism, that's not enough to wash your hands of them?
And again, if you voted for him, what's done is done, but help us fix this mess or you're on the wrong side of history.
ETA: wrong thread, I'll CP to daily when I'm on my PC.
I keep waiting for that, cagoldi. His supporters realizing he's off the rails - and a danger to all of us - or for a few of those senators on the right to grow a pair. I think I may be developing an ulcer, no exaggeration, because I can't even get away in my dreams. He's in my damn nightmares.
Also I have been trying to wrap my head around voting for him, with tax breaks or whatever other possible justification. Forget SCOTUS, because if it's about Roe v. Wade, I can't even go there because f* that. The government does NOT belong in my damn uterus.
So I was thinking it comes down to your worldview. I can't justify voting against other people's rights for any $$ reason. I can't get all up in arms about them vs. us, because we're all human. But some people draw the line by who looks, acts, thinks like them, or who is from the same country, or whatever. To me, that shit is arbitrary. I can't turn my back on Syrian KIDS because they weren't born on the same mound of dirt I was. Though some people have a far narrower idea of who counts - their race, religion, their family. Or just themselves. Either way, it's more narrow than I can understand.
I also don't get saying screw the environment because it costs more. Um, pretty sure it'll cost us far more dearly when we've completely destroyed the Earth. And don't even start on the right to bear arms somehow superseding my right to LIVE.
I feel like I am just coming from a whole different worldview. Maybe his supporters aren't all bad? But I can't understand - or honestly, respect - their worldview anyway, so it probably doesn't make a difference.
Sorry, just rambling. These last few months have been so hard and I have been trying to find a reason not to write a lot of people off. But so far, no luck.
JoeLies I get you. I do not want a tax break, I want a country that is nice to live in and takes care of everyone. And the kids and sick kids that are denied entry is killing me. Thank God Canada is stepping up. This is so humiliating. I remember pretending to be Canadian in 2004 abroad for safety reasons...I bet that will be a thing again.
Also big court win tonight! Maybe this time airlines will listen..And more importantly Trump. It makes me happy that the protests at airports are showing the world that we aren't all bad.
Milo was planning to publicly out undocumented students at Berkeley the the other night, that's why they weren't going to let him speak. Apparently there were about 20 Milo supporters that approached the protestors and they made it clear they were looking to fight. There were definitely some Antifa present and they hit one of the Milo dudes with a rock.
Also, Richard Spencer now tweeting jokes about putting people in camps.
Yes, because what is funnier than joking about camps in a country that has an actual history of putting people in camps?
It's worse than that.
It was a Nazi soldier (complete with Swastika armband) telling a Jewish woman behind a barbed wire fence, "we didn't want to open camps, but they wouldn't stop punching us."
How's everyone feeling? I am feeling a little better about the latest injunction and failed appeal and that people are able to get in for now. Still feel like we are doomed, but slightly better than Friday.
Can't link on my phone, but has anyone read the Daily Kos article that says they are so incompetent that the members of his administration can't even figure out how to turn the lights on? Literally.
And that Trump is signing EO's he doesn't read.
I've read speculation that he is dyslexic and can't read? Again, only speculation, and I don't mean that to be an insult to those who are dyslexic. Trump isn't bright because he has no intellectual curiosity, other issues aside.
Can't link on my phone, but has anyone read the Daily Kos article that says they are so incompetent that the members of his administration can't even figure out how to turn the lights on? Literally.
And that Trump is signing EO's he doesn't read.
I've read speculation that he is dyslexic and can't read? Again, only speculation, and I don't mean that to be an insult to those who are dyslexic. Trump isn't bright because he has no intellectual curiosity, other issues aside.
I have seen multiple claims that he allegedly never read whatever order moved Bannon to the National Security Committee and is allegedly pissed. He's supposed to be such an amazing businessman and he's signing things he hasn't read? Either he's lying to try to cover his ass (even though it makes him look dumb) or he's really that unintelligent. I'm not sure which option would be worse.
When a family friend got divorced, he got the house. He left for a weekend so the ex wife could pack. When he came back, she had taken every single light bulb from the house! Even in the refrigerator lol. Are we sure Biden didn't just steal all the light bulbs? Lol.
All the memes about Biden playing tricks on him we're genius. You'd think there would be staff to help with this stuff?
A friend from high school will be on CNN tomorrow asking a question in the healthcare debate! Definitely tuning in. I am glad they have pushed it off for a while and hope they actually come up with some sort of plan, any plan besides just repealing it.
Eta: his daughter had a heart transplant at 8 months so I suspect his question will be related to that.
Okay, @surelycantbesrs. Here's the list a friend said he came up with:
"13 Clues to Donald Trump Hiding His Dyslexia: Circumstantial Evidence
1. Never reads anything in public, eg, speeches, teleprompters, notes, etc. He didn’t prepare for the debates with Clinton because he couldn’t. Written notes are useless to him.
2. Doesn’t know many of the basic things we do – let alone current events -- because he doesn’t read and therefore doesn’t get the same information we do, or maybe any of the information we do. (Actually, it’s kind of funny when you think about all the books he’s had ghost-written about his own personal glory. He can’t read them.)
3. Tweets because that’s the limit of his writing capability.
4. Always needs someone around he can trust to read to him, eg, he’s planning to install his own daughter in the White House – a choice he made over his own wife, who is Eastern European. Ivanka’s function will probably be to read to him, or confirm written documents described by others.
5. Sees images in the printed media, but cannot read the captions, so he tends to hang onto the images in his memory, but later assigns them whatever he can make that he believes will fit, eg, Muslims dancing in the streets of New Jersey on 9/11 was probably based on an image he saw of them dancing in, say, Tehran or Kabul (which aren’t in NJ).
6. Handles his many legal problems in ways that do not require him to read, write, or otherwise review written material, eg, a bullying phone call; a rabid lawyer, etc. On the global stage, his answer to how he was going to handle people like world-class bastard Kim Jong-Un was the knee-jerk, characteristic response: “I’ll talk to him.” (Does anyone think anything at all can be constructively solved by having Donald Trump talk to someone?)
7. Projected a vague, unnamed, debilitating medical condition onto Clinton during the campaign when there was absolutely nothing to go on, and claimed she was trying to hide it. It seemed like a bizarre tactic at the time, but now it makes sense – or at least we can tell where it came from. Projecting his own criminality onto others is a well-established behavioral trait of his.
8. Doesn’t read daily intelligence briefings, claiming they say the same thing in the same words day after day. That’s what it would look like to a dyslexic, but the important thing to note here is that he knows he can’t read them and he just doesn’t care.
9. Seems to make everyone he meets sign a lifetime non-disclosure document forbidding them to say anything that he can construe as being harmful to himself. Most of the people signing it probably don’t know he’s dyslexic, but it’s also another preventive measure he uses to keep the public from finding out.
10. The note he presented from his doctor during the campaign giving him a clean bill of health to run for president was obviously dictated by someone whose only familiarity with such things is the memory of bringing in parental excuses in grade school. Though not indicative of dyslexia in itself, it fits the overall pattern in that he (assuming he was the author) obviously has no experience with how doctors write because he’s never been able to read any example of how they write. Most of us have even if only in, say, printed articles about true crime or advances in medical science. Just for kicks, someone should ask him what books he’s read. His answer, however, would be either he’s too busy to read them or too smart to need the opinions and advice of others.
11. Throughout the campaign – and even before the campaign – Trump has always seemed to be oblivious to his own self-incriminating statements that have appeared in print and should have quashed any notion he could successfully run for president. (I don’t consider his tainted and sullied run “successful”.} For example, in at least one of his books he talks about how he has bribed politicians to do “anything” he wanted. He’s oblivious to them because he’s never read them. He can’t.
12. It came out during the campaign that Trump had no staff to find the dirt in his background so they could neutralize it before the opposition found it. It’s a normal function in presidential campaigns. Trump was so brazen, however, through his various recorded media that the only thing left to discover was the one thing he feared the most – dyslexia – so he didn’t assemble such a team with the hope that that would remain a secret.
13. In his characteristic way of pre-empting failure by making up an excuse for failing ahead of time, he’s already working on why he won’t be reading an inaugural speech. He says he’s writing his own, but whatever he does, I can guarantee he’s not going to be reading one at that event (if it still happens).
Ramifications:
He cannot discharge the duties and responsibilities of the office of the President. He cannot go through the piles of paperwork, scan them, assign priorities to them, and carry on from there – at least, not in a necessarily timely manner, if he needs someone to read them to him. This is an incredibly dangerous situation, and – on top of colluding with the Russians – is another disqualifying point on which to deny him the office. We can put the doubt to rest easily by just handing him something he’s never seen before to immediately."
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