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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165026: Jan 2nd 2017 at 4:18:00 PM

[up][up][up]No clue. The official story says that while some military experts say it is, others say it's a load of bullhockey, but that at the same time, they still expect it to get finished by the end of Trump's first term.

edited 2nd Jan '17 5:43:53 PM by kkhohoho

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#165027: Jan 2nd 2017 at 4:55:20 PM

I kind of pity Kentucky. They've got a senator in Mitch Mc Connell who appears to care about nothing short of winning the next election cycle. His whole platform is that he is the speaker of the house. That's it.

The state I have the most connection to, North Carolina, as my parents own property there, is just horrifying, as has been elaborated on before.

I'm actually preparing a set of villains for the story I'm writing based on the current GOP. (No Trump though, the Mc Connell-alike is the leader of that group.)

edited 2nd Jan '17 4:57:07 PM by Zendervai

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#165029: Jan 2nd 2017 at 5:09:54 PM

"The bullshit piled up so fast, you needed wings to stay above it." — Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now

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henry42 [REDACTED] from Western Hemisphere Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#165030: Jan 2nd 2017 at 5:35:09 PM

I'd say I'm glad to have Elizabeth Warren as a senator. I don't agree with all of her positions, but with a few exceptions, most of my criticisms of her boil down to "I want her to do what she's already doing, but louder and more aggressively." grin

My other senator is Ed Markey, and I don't really have any strong opinions on him one way or the other.

My representative (Niki Tsongas) is fine, I guess. I don't recall her doing anything extraordinary, but she did take the time to visit my hometown, and I had some reasons to vote for her aside from there being a "D" next to her name on the ballot.

edited 2nd Jan '17 5:43:33 PM by henry42

One does not shake the box containing the sticky notes of doom!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165031: Jan 2nd 2017 at 5:35:16 PM

I don't have any real problems with my state's Congresspeople for the most part. Granted, I'm from California.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#165032: Jan 2nd 2017 at 5:56:33 PM

And The Donald's tweeting just keeps going....

edited 2nd Jan '17 5:57:04 PM by Wyldchyld

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165033: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:03:48 PM
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165034: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:04:12 PM

Didn't we just finish talking about how China was the main thing hindering North Korea's nuclear program?

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165035: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:10:45 PM

Do you think Trump would know that? Shit, we'd all be better off if Trump had to ask for permission before tweeting.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165036: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:13:51 PM

Honestly, Twitter needs to ban him. There probably Ain't No Rule against using Twitter to incite nuclear war, but that seriously should not be a thing twitter lets you do.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165037: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:18:21 PM

Whoever bans Trump from Twitter will be a goddamned international hero IMHO.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#165038: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:22:58 PM

Twitter aren't stupid, Trump is both good for business and banning him would probably get Twitter HQ shot up. They aren't going to ban him.

But yes China has been starting to help over North Korea, it's been very slowly but they're starting to realise that North Korea with nukes isn't good for anyone, they've been onboard with a number of the recent sanctions.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165039: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:29:48 PM

Honestly, it would probably do a lot to help Trump's image if his Twitter account stopped being a thing. Remember how his staff took away his twitter account at the end of the campaign and then that made him prove he could go two weeks without creating another scandal, and then that won him the election?

Or how one of GOP electors turned faithless because of the way he wouldn't stop embarrassing himself on Twitter?

Despite talk about how he might use Twitter to bypass standard media outlets and just get his message out directly and how ominously autocrat-ish that sounds, twitter consistently makes him look bad in a way that even supposedly liberal-bias media sources don't. Because of the way there's absolutely no filter on his monstrous personality.

edited 2nd Jan '17 6:31:19 PM by Gilphon

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165040: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:34:56 PM

[up] Twitter is not only a window into his abhorrent — dare I say deplorable — personality, it's also a window into his mind-numbing stupidity. Keith Olbermann once referred to Trump's mind as a maze of fun-house mirrors. An apt description, that.

edited 2nd Jan '17 6:35:28 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165041: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:49:13 PM

Did he just say "Nice!"in a tweet about China and trade wars?

Like...really? REALLY?

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RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165042: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:50:08 PM

House GOP seeking to eliminate a independent Office of Congressional Ethics

So the GOP have control of the House, and their first action in 2017 is to eliminate ethics, paving the way even further for corruption and kleptocracy. Disgusting.

And they're just getting started.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#165043: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:53:13 PM

And he's not even officially President yet...

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165044: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:55:12 PM

[up][up][up] Trump really hates China. The very personal animosity he has shown for them in the past — one that existed long before 2016 — is one of the reasons I think he really will push for a trade war. This isn't something I think he will flip-flop on or is just an act to appease the people who hate the CCP. Trump genuinely wants to hurt China.

I just hope this doesn't lead to a situation where the USA shoves a bunch of their citizens of Asian descent into camps again. Partly because I'm Asian-American.

Also, I still find it very galling that Trump talks shit about China trade despite my own dislike for the CCP since Trump buys cheap Chinese steel and uses Chinese sweatshops to make cheap clothes.

edited 2nd Jan '17 6:59:02 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165045: Jan 2nd 2017 at 6:58:59 PM

Which I fear will have disastrous consequences. Even if we avoid actual war (which could be literally apocalyptic, since we're both major nuclear superpowers), he's already made clear his desire for trade war, which could wreak havoc in and of itself. Not to mention we would lose their help against North Korea - which could also be potentially calamitous.

Anti-Asian sentiment would also be inevitably galvanized in the States, further incensed by the current atmosphere of xenophobia and white supremacy. So if things get out of hand, we're looking at war, economic collapse, nuclear threat, and the possible return of things like internment camps.note 

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165046: Jan 2nd 2017 at 7:01:15 PM

[up] Since Republicans are notorious cheapskates when it comes to federal gov't spending on anything but the military, Asian-Americans and Muslims (read: people who look like Arabs including Sikhs) will probably end up sharing the same camps.

Disgusted, but not surprised
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165047: Jan 2nd 2017 at 7:14:16 PM

On a marginally less grim note - Rebecca Ferguson was asked to sing at King Trump's crowning ceremony.

She said "sure" on one condition - that she can sing "Strange Fruit.":

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165048: Jan 2nd 2017 at 7:15:52 PM

If they bother with the camps. They might try to make the Purge a real thing.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165049: Jan 2nd 2017 at 7:51:43 PM

[up] I thought The Purge was a Kill the Poor thing, not an ethnic cleansing thing. And the GOP usually prefers to do that without resorting to actually gunning them down.

edited 2nd Jan '17 7:52:36 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165050: Jan 2nd 2017 at 8:16:29 PM

I'm only half-joking about the Purge, but the Republicans are putting Jeff Sessions in charge of the justice department. He was the man who was too racist for the Reagan administration back in the eighties. I think we're heading back to the Jim Crow era in spirit, and maybe officially too.


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