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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Look at M84's sig again: Trump suggests Texans were taking their boats out to watch Harvey go by, increasing the number of Coast Guard water rescues.
Although, I have known some people who will open their garage doors or go out and sit on their porches to watch the storm go by if it's not too bad, but not in a boat.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
What did tree frogs ever do to you to warrant such an insulting comparison?
edited 6th Jun '18 8:27:07 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryThe "Putin has compromising material on Trump" idea does not sound particularly plausible to me - Trump has never given the impression that he's afraid of any kind of compromising information and he's been accused of many bad things.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanGun-toting Kent State grad wants to arm wrestle Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg.
She followed up by posting a photo of Hogg and tweeting: "It's alright guys, the 2nd amendment is safe," and later referred to him as "twig arms."
I am posting this because fuck it, if my brain has to suffer, EVERYONE'S brain has to suffer.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."On the one hand, she probably fully expected that he wouldn't take her up on it and this is mostly just immature posturing because she knows that. On the other hand, it's fucking ridiculous that a twenty two year old woman doesn't know how to behave better and not, you know, heckle a guy whose friends just died recently.
You know that episode in South Park where Cartman pretended to have tourettes and then he couldn't stop saying everything that came to his mind because he unlearned how to filter his words? This is what we are dealing with right now. That and no shame for anything.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.A couple of people over the years, including I believe the ghost writer(s) of Trump's various books and some journalists that covered him up close as far back as the 80s and 90s, have said that Trump is pathologically afraid and avoidant of any kind of humiliation and embarrassment. He always has to be big and powerful and important, and anything that makes him appear not those things terrifies him and causes him to overreact to prevent people from seeing him as weak. Putin probably doesn't need anything more to blackmail Trump than proof that he has a small penis.
The fact that Trump's wealth is probably an illusion and he is being kept financially afloat by Russia would probably do it to. Trump, I'm sure, lives in terror every day that somebody will realize that the Emperor has no clothes, and that we'll all point and laugh once the truth is out.
edited 6th Jun '18 11:25:52 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Putin does a victory lap all over the USA and Europe on Russian tv.
European leaders long ignored his warnings about the dangers of a world dominated by the United States, Putin said Thursday during his nationally broadcast annual call-in show . With Trump’s new metals tariffs, Putin said, Europeans are now finally getting their comeuppance for showing excessive deference to Washington — and getting a taste of the way the United States had long treated Russia.
“In essence, these are sanctions,” Putin said of the tariffs. “What, did they ‘annex Crimea,’ as many of our partners say?”
Putin went on: “Our partners probably thought that these counterproductive policies would never affect them. . . . No one wanted to listen, and no one wanted to do anything to stop these tendencies. Here we are.”
One of the show’s hosts responded, “They got what they deserved.”
Putin’s 16th call-in marathon, which lasted 4½ uninterrupted hours, provided a window into the president’s mind-set — and a prime display of the stagecraft that the Kremlin deploys to boost Putin’s image and promote his worldview to Russian households. During the broadcast, state TV correspondents fanned out nationwide to deliver live footage of Russians showing their leaky floors or describing the sorry state of their small-town hospitals. After hearing a complaint, Putin often turned to one of Russia’s scores of state governors who were at the ready in live video.
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There were no questions about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, but Putin brought up the subject. One of the hosts asked him to tell a joke. Putin mentioned seeing a German news headline declaring, “Donald Trump pushes Europe into Putin’s arms.”
“So, we influenced the U.S. elections, and he gifted us Europe in return?” he asked. “Utter idiocy.”

@megaeliz: Just like all the rest of Trump's enablers and complicit allies, she got out and is now trying to win back points by reading the sea change and pretending she wasn't a big part of it. Seems pretty typical.
It's been fun.