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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#172726: Feb 5th 2017 at 10:40:54 PM

97 companies have joined up in opposing Trump's Muslim ban in the court case of Washinton state v. Trump.

Notable companies include Apple, eBay, Google, airBnB, Lyft, Uber, Twitter, Intel, Netflix, Reddit, Wikimedia

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#172727: Feb 5th 2017 at 11:02:49 PM

[up] At first I figured Trump's reaction would be along the lines of "Et Tu, Twitter?" Then I realized Trump's probably too uncultured to make that reference. I'd be surprised if he ever read a single work of Shakespeare's.

Disgusted, but not surprised
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#172728: Feb 5th 2017 at 11:25:53 PM

Reddit huh? Imagine that won't go well for some of the subreddits.

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#172729: Feb 6th 2017 at 12:55:14 AM

if california gets defunded, and witholds taxes, suddenly the us government loses a lot of money and more than a handful of red states go flat fucking broke.

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Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#172730: Feb 6th 2017 at 1:37:54 AM

A bipartisan group of former senior US officials have made a filing stating that Trump's Muslim refugee ban further endangers national security. The full text of the filing is available at the site.

The ten officials include Secretaries Albright, Kerry, Napolitano, and Panetta; General Michael Hayden and Ambassador Rice among others.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#172731: Feb 6th 2017 at 1:45:35 AM

[up][up] And if that happens, I'll wager that the people in the Red States who get screwed over will blame California instead of Trump.

edited 6th Feb '17 1:46:29 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#172732: Feb 6th 2017 at 1:47:39 AM

And the irony is that are the same states whose electorate vote against receiving welfare and complain about other people being supported with someone's else money.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Ingonyama Since: Jan, 2001
#172733: Feb 6th 2017 at 2:06:56 AM

[up][up] They already blame and hate the "coastal liberal elities" for everything anyway. Might as well protect our people and not give a damn what they think of us. And yes I know this sounds like their own rhetoric, but the difference is we're actually in danger, they're not. At least not any they haven't brought on themselves by voting against their own interests.

edited 6th Feb '17 2:07:49 AM by Ingonyama

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use political terms to describe, not insult
#172734: Feb 6th 2017 at 2:18:29 AM

This article and the last EO Trump did where he didn't know what he was signing makes me think of the unnamed president from The Simpsons Movie with Bannon as the Big Bad EPA secretary.
It was Schwarzenegger.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#172735: Feb 6th 2017 at 2:41:32 AM

If all of this culminates in Bannon getting knocked out by a baby, it will be Worth It.

Disgusted, but not surprised
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#172736: Feb 6th 2017 at 2:46:13 AM

They should re-release that movie, with the only change being that Arnold is now Donald.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#172738: Feb 6th 2017 at 4:22:05 AM

tclittle: now that I've read that article...

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.
[lol] I can't believe they're that stupid.

Usually around 6:30 p.m., or sometimes later, Mr. Trump retires upstairs to the residence to recharge, vent and intermittently use Twitter.
Lazy bum.

Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week.
Good. You deserve to suffer, Trump.

Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. “Did you hear that, this guy thinks it’s been terrible!” Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.

Beat Panel

But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.
evil grin

By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.
So there was a chance to quietly slip a resignation form on his deck and him signing it without knowing? Someone should try to anyways.

Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.
Beat Panel

It was discarded — a senior Trump aide made a show of tossing it into a garbage can —
You know, I'm starting to pity Chris "Reek" Christie.

He often has to wait until the end of the workday before grinding through news clips with Mr. Spicer, marking the ones he does not like with a big arrow in black Sharpie — though he almost always makes time to monitor Mr. Spicer’s performance at the daily briefings, summoning him to offer praise or criticism, a West Wing aide said.
You're telling me he actually makes Spicer say that kind of bullshit?

Flanking his desk are portraits of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He will linger on the opulence of the newly hung golden drapes, which he told a recent visitor were once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt but in fact were patterned for Bill Clinton.
[lol][lol][lol][lol]

For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, Mr. Trump was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options.
Trump in a nutshell.

With most of his belongings in New York, the only family picture on the shelf behind Mr. Trump’s desk is a small black-and-white photograph of that boss, Frederick Christ Trump.
I suppose/ Old man Trump knows/ Just how much/ Racial hate/ He stirred up/ In the bloodpot of human hearts...

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#172739: Feb 6th 2017 at 4:50:28 AM

Check out Cheeto twitter.

He's basically saying any polls showing that Americans don't support his travel ban is going to be branded fake news

New Survey coming this weekend!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#172740: Feb 6th 2017 at 4:54:19 AM

Colin Powell was wrong. Trump isn't just a national disgrace. He's a planetary one. If aliens visited our planet, they'd engage in their equivalent of mocking laughter at seeing what the world's most powerful country elected to be their leader.

At this point I wish he would Just. Stop. Tweeting.

What is more likely to happen I wonder...Trump releasing his tax returns, or Trump acknowledging a poll that is not in his favor as accurate?

edited 6th Feb '17 4:56:32 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#172741: Feb 6th 2017 at 4:55:44 AM

[up][up]Okay, that's the dangerous kind of insanity. I hope someone will talk some sense into him over that before he does something particularly stupid.

edited 6th Feb '17 4:55:52 AM by Kayeka

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#172742: Feb 6th 2017 at 4:58:13 AM

[up] Yeah, it's always bad when a head of state lives by a Never My Fault I Reject Your Reality code, but it's even worse when said nation state is the most powerful one on Earth.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#172743: Feb 6th 2017 at 5:37:43 AM

There's a chance that the light switch thing is less stupid than it sounds. A lot of office buildings have weird touch panel light switches for dynamic lighting. Like, the pattern you move your finger in controls what lights are actually turned on. The thing is that these touch panels tend to be featureless white squares flush against the wall without any labelling. So if those are the ones there, then it means that the aides are looking for a normal switch, and a switch type they've never seen before, with no indication of what it even is, is in plain sight.

It means that either the aides are too scared to try things out in case they accidentally set something off, or they're too proud to admit they don't know how to turn the lights on and don't ask for help. And the janitorial staff probably won't bother volunteering any information.

Either that or the switch is behind a bookshelf or something, and no one bothered to look.

edited 6th Feb '17 5:38:43 AM by Zendervai

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#172744: Feb 6th 2017 at 5:39:15 AM

So, Make America Kittens Again now has the option to block images of several other people:

  • Mike Pence
  • Marine La Pen
  • Nigel Farage
  • Geert Wilders

Genius, although I don't know if I'm going to add more, I'm having a difficult enough time seeing infographs when Trump is blocked. Wonder if they're going to put Bannon on there?

[up] No one ever thinks to bring a flashlight? The whole thing is a bit odd.

edited 6th Feb '17 5:40:15 AM by Pseudopartition

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#172745: Feb 6th 2017 at 6:10:53 AM

I wouldn't worry about Trump heading "the most powerful nation on Earth" for too long. For one thing, the 800+ foreign bases depend on allies to host them.

And Bannon and Ryan working on the tax code. That could only mean good. No worries here. None at all...

Also, the Falcons lost the Superbowl after shilling a 21 point lead in the first quarter...(bleep)... and I don't even like sports. On the other hand, the commercials seemed to have heavy diversity and "better together" themes; though I stopped watching after the first quarter.

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#172746: Feb 6th 2017 at 8:05:33 AM

This article and the last EO Trump did where he didn't know what he was signing makes me think of the unnamed president from The Simpsons Movie with Bannon as the Big Bad EPA secretary.

"I was elected to lead, not to read."

As others noted, that President was Arnold Schwarzenegger, and it's Hilarious in Hindsight because of Schwarzenegger's recent challenge to Trump, paraphrased: "You can do my job since you care so much about ratings, and I will do your job, and then Americans can sleep soundly again."

Despite the fact that he's ineligible due to not being a native-born citizen, I would gladly take President Schwarzenegger over the clusterf*ck we have right now.

edited 6th Feb '17 8:05:59 AM by TobiasDrake

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#172747: Feb 6th 2017 at 8:11:14 AM

I wouldn't have to worry about the future of american democracy and the health of information under Arnold, and also probably not the rights of LGBT people because unlike Donald I'd like to think Arnold has a spine and some scruples and he wouldn't just do whatever republicans wanted him to do.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#172748: Feb 6th 2017 at 8:14:49 AM

I'd just have to worry about normal republicans fuckery under Arnold other than the whole world possibly ending

New Survey coming this weekend!
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Lost in Space
#172749: Feb 6th 2017 at 8:26:08 AM

Plus, it's hard to make a portmanteau of "President" and "Terminator" that doesn't sound stupid.

edited 6th Feb '17 8:26:37 AM by Fighteer

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#172750: Feb 6th 2017 at 8:32:51 AM

So Tulsi Gabbard was being interviewed about her trip to Syria on NPR this morning.

Asides from the fact that her voice is creepily robotic, she claimed that the House Ethics Committee had approved the trip. But wasn't it controversial to begin with because it was a secret until recently?


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