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#243126: May 22nd 2018 at 3:10:55 AM

Doesn't the very first episode have a joke about "taking a knee" when they're praying before dinner? Roseanne and her show are both bad.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#243127: May 22nd 2018 at 3:43:52 AM

[up]So I'm assuming Roseanne is one of those morons? The fact that their Muslim neighbors in that episode had to prove that they weren't terrorists isn't "combating Islamophobia" in any way whatsoever.

Roseanne is one of those morons, yes, which is why she's ashamed of herself.

The immigrants don't have to prove anything. Which is the point of the episode. They're annoyed at Roseanne, irritated at being awakened at 2:00 in the morning, and have to deal with a bunch of racists in Lanford which Roseanne realizes she's one of them. One of the best bits of writing is they're actually scared of being murdered by racists (i.e. being victims of terrorism).

It's not a special episode either since they're now recurring cast members.

edited 22nd May '18 3:45:05 AM by CharlesPhipps

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#243128: May 22nd 2018 at 3:47:50 AM

And again...quoteblocks. Please figure out how to use them.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TextFormattingRules

edited 22nd May '18 3:49:01 AM by M84

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#243129: May 22nd 2018 at 3:48:42 AM

If you actually don't know how to format quoteblocks, which to be fair is completely understandable since the "Show Markup Help" button isn't really working nowadays, here's how:

[[ quoteblock]] Here's where the text you want to put in the quoteblock goes. [[ /quoteblock]]

Just remove the spaces after the first set of brackets.

It should look like this:

Here's where the text you want to put in the quoteblock goes.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#243130: May 22nd 2018 at 3:50:49 AM

Thank you very much.

I actually just found the markup code helper a week ago.

Before I couldn't do Youtube videos.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#243131: May 22nd 2018 at 4:28:00 AM

Re: Roseanne

Roseanne the actress lost any claim to liberal cred when she spouted, apparently without irony, conspiracy theories like QAnon and the idea of liberal backed, pedophilia rings being broken up by the Trump Administration.

I can't speak for the show, since I wasn't interested in watching it. The only thing that struck me was that Roseanne the character's apparent pro-corporal punishment stance went against her previously established character of not wanting to be an abusive parent like her father was. An entire episode of the original series got dedicated to that.

edited 22nd May '18 4:32:20 AM by sgamer82

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#243132: May 22nd 2018 at 4:31:12 AM

Yep.

Roseanne Barr is a terrible person.

The show is quite interesting as a mostly honest portrayal of the poor working class of America being abused by society.

Then again, maybe I just wish more shows would show people struggling.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#243133: May 22nd 2018 at 4:33:46 AM

I dunno. Like I said I can't speak as I haven't actually watched it but I can't help but get the feeling that, compared to everyone else, you're looking at this show through some very rose colored glasses.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#243134: May 22nd 2018 at 4:38:13 AM

Eh, the controversy over the show is some of the most interesting parts of it and it's divided a lot of liberals.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/columns/roseanne-revival-liberal-defense-1202739877/

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/politics-roseanne-reboot-are-more-complex-trump-or-liberals-believe-ncna861266

http://ew.com/tv/2018/03/27/roseanne-conner-trump-supporter/

I could very well be wrong on my opinion but I'm a huge Sarah Gilbert fan and loved the original Roseanne. I have a good deal of Broken Pedestal to Roseanne Barr but I also tend to note that television is a medium bigger than any individual actor.

edited 22nd May '18 4:38:49 AM by CharlesPhipps

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243135: May 22nd 2018 at 6:13:08 AM

From Fox News, but [lol]

Trump border wall crowdfunding possible under Tennessee lawmaker's 'trust fund' bill [1]

Those who want to see President Trump’s border wall built may get a chance to help fund the project if a recently introduced bill is passed.

The legislation, introduced by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., last week, would create a “border wall trust fund.” People could donate any amount of money to it, with the funds specifically designated for “whatever it takes to build the wall” — from supplies to salaries. It would be overseen by the Treasury Department, according to Black.

“Real immigration reform cannot be achieved without a secure border — President Trump has been clear about this since day one,” Black, a member of the House Budget Committee, said in a statement. “The most important job of the federal government is the safety and security of the American people, and if citizens in our country wish to contribute to this effort, they absolutely should be given the opportunity.”

In an interview with Fox News, Black said while anyone can donate money to the U.S. Treasury now, this trust fund would ensure donations would specifically go toward the construction of the border wall.

“I support President Trump in building the wall. It’s going to take big funds to do that,” Black said, adding that she doesn’t believe Congress has done enough in terms of allocating funding for the wall.

Oh my God! You're really that desperate for a wall? 😂

And it gets better!

Black stressed that the trust fund wouldn’t be the first time the government used crowdfunding to complete a project. She said the fund could be patterned after the private donations used to construct the Washington Monument.

Created in 1833, the Washington National Monument Society fundraised to begin construction of the Washington Monument. The society was given land, raised money and hired architect Robert Mills to design the memorial. However, the group ran out of money, and construction of the memorial was stalled for more than 20 years until Congress took it over, according to the National Park Service.

Corporations, including Target, also paved the way monetarily for restorations to the monument beginning in 1996, according to the National Park Service.

Black, who is running for governor in Tennessee, said she’s already heard from a number of her constituents who support the idea of a public trust fund. If established, Black said she and her husband would be first to donate.

I'm pretty sure trying to privately fund a border wall is not the same thing as giving donations to fund the restoration of a monument.

edited 22nd May '18 6:18:03 AM by megaeliz

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#243136: May 22nd 2018 at 6:17:51 AM

Trump's wall will be a picket fence easily surmounted and ignored,but he'll still make a huge deal of it

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#243137: May 22nd 2018 at 6:17:52 AM

"And I'll make Mexico pay for it"

i'm tired, my friend
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#243138: May 22nd 2018 at 6:22:13 AM

Crowdfunding the wall?

Hey, if they're donating that money to the wall, they're not donating it to campaigns. Imagine Republican voters donating funding repeatedly that gets stolen by the contractors repeatedly, or is wasted on schedule slips and cost overruns.

edited 22nd May '18 6:23:09 AM by CrimsonZephyr

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Oh, bother.
#243139: May 22nd 2018 at 6:28:35 AM

Crowdfunding a border wall...

And here I thought Mighty No. 9 was a waste of crowdfunders' money.

Disgusted, but not surprised
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#243140: May 22nd 2018 at 7:01:59 AM

Assuming that it's evenly split between all Trump voters it'd amount to 350 $/capita. That ignores any "big funders", other revenue sources and cost overruns.

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#243141: May 22nd 2018 at 7:05:24 AM

[up][up] Hey, at least the MN9 Kickstarter (eventually) produced something that was better than nothing.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243142: May 22nd 2018 at 7:05:26 AM

‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security [1]

The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.

President Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn’t equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications, according to two senior administration officials — a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance.

The president, who relies on cellphones to reach his friends and millions of Twitter followers, has rebuffed staff efforts to strengthen security around his phone use, according to the administration officials.

The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones — one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites — are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications.

While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was “too inconvenient,” the same administration official said.

The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump’s call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.

President Barack Obama handed over his White House phones every 30 days to be examined by telecommunications staffers for hacking and other suspicious activity, according to an Obama administration official.

The White House declined to comment for this story, but a senior West Wing official said the call-capable phones “are seamlessly swapped out on a regular basis through routine support operations. Because of the security controls of the Twitter phone and the Twitter account, it does not necessitate regular change-out.”

Trump’s call-capable cellphone has a camera and microphone, unlike the White House-issued cellphones used by Obama. Keeping those components creates a risk that hackers could use them to access the phone and monitor the president’s movements. The GPS location tracker, however — which can be used to track the president’s whereabouts — is disabled on Trump’s devices.

The West Wing official refuted the idea that the presence of a camera and microphone on the president’s phone posed any risk, telling POLITICO, “Due to inherent capabilities and advancement in technologies, these devices are more secure than any Obama-era devices.”

Trump’s reluctance to submit to White House security protocols that would limit his ability to tweet or contact friends freely is a case of the president’s personal peculiarities colliding with the demands of his office — a tension created in part because of society’s growing attachment to mobile technology over the past decade.

Obama, who relied on email and text messages, was the first president to speak publicly about his desire to hang on to his cellphone in office and to be photographed repeatedly with it in hand. Trump, who doesn’t use email in office, entered the White House eight years later with a long-established Twitter habit and a lifelong attachment of doing business, dealing with the press and gabbing with associates over the phone.

Former national security officials are virtually unanimous in their agreement about the dangers posed by cellphones, which are vulnerable to hacking by domestic and foreign actors who would want to listen in on the president’s conversations or monitor his movements.

“Foreign adversaries seeking intelligence about the U.S. are relentless in their pursuit of vulnerabilities in our government’s communications networks, and there is no more sought-after intelligence target than the president of the United States,” said Nate Jones, former director of counterterrorism on the National Security Council in the Obama administration and the founder of Culper Partners, a consulting firm.

While the president has the authority to override or ignore the advice provided by aides and advisers for reasons of comfort or convenience, Jones said, “doing so could pose significant risks to the country.”

edited 22nd May '18 7:05:41 AM by megaeliz

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#243143: May 22nd 2018 at 7:15:19 AM

[up]How will he feed classified information to his handlers in Moscow if the FBI interferes?

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#243145: May 22nd 2018 at 7:25:43 AM

Guys, let's be real. This is Trump we're talking about - he's not feeding info to Moscow, he just legitimately believes that it's more important for him not to be inconvenienced slightly than it is for the US to maintain informational secrecy. That's exactly what he's like.

It's been fun.
TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Unreasonably Quirky
#243146: May 22nd 2018 at 7:28:39 AM

This is Trump we're talking about - he's not feeding info to Moscow, he just legitimately believes that it's more important for him not to be inconvenienced slightly than it is for the US to maintain informational secrecy.

It's borderline comical how fucked up Trump's priorities are. Every day I feel like we elected Peter Griffin.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#243147: May 22nd 2018 at 7:32:22 AM

I... the... wow. Just.

Wow. "But her emails"?

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#243148: May 22nd 2018 at 7:35:27 AM

It's Okay If You Are A Fucking Republican.

[down] That too. One of those things that's not really news to anybody who's been paying attention, although more exposure is good.

edited 22nd May '18 7:37:54 AM by Reflextion

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#243149: May 22nd 2018 at 7:35:37 AM

I don't think any of us are really surprised by this. I sure as hell am not.

edited 22nd May '18 7:35:53 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#243150: May 22nd 2018 at 7:48:24 AM

I just wish the GOO would codify it’s hypocrisy rather than skirting around it whenever someone calls them out on it. Like bruh we know what you mean

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