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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#244651: Jun 6th 2018 at 7:38:19 PM

@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.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#244652: Jun 6th 2018 at 7:47:41 PM

Isn't she Ms. "Alternative Facts"?

i'm tired, my friend
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#244653: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:10:18 PM

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."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244654: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:20:59 PM

Once you acknowledge that Trump is a man with the empathy of a tree frog, it becomes a lot harder to be surprised by anything coming out of that piehole of his.

edited 6th Jun '18 8:24:43 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#244655: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:26:11 PM

[up] 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 Dictionary
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.
#244656: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:44:43 PM

I'm sure tree frogs can be very empathetic. Most animals are. More so than Agent Orange, anyway.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#244657: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:52:40 PM

Wait, is Kellyanne Conway no longer in the Trump Team? If not I think I missed it.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#244658: Jun 6th 2018 at 9:09:04 PM

I believe Trump genuinely believes he's filming another season of the Apprentice and fires one person week at a minimum.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#244659: Jun 6th 2018 at 9:21:24 PM

Conway was out a while ago. I think Huckabee Sanders is her replacement, but it's hard to tell when they all so generously give of their time to lie to the public.

It's been fun.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#244660: Jun 6th 2018 at 9:34:06 PM

I thought she was still employed by the "administration".

Do not obey in advance.
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#244661: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:03:30 PM

Huckabee Sanders replaced Sean Spicer, guys. Conway, as far as I'm aware, is still sort of nebulously employed but no longer part of the inner circle like she was during the campaign.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#244662: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:13:01 PM

Ah, whoops. Sorry about the confusion.

It's been fun.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#244663: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:32:11 PM

The "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 Feynman
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#244664: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:49:10 PM

[up]Any dirty info Putin might be holding over Trump 's head pales beyond the certainty that Moscow is his biggest creditor and has been for years.

Trump suddenly losing liquidity beats any other form of extortion.

SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#244665: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:01:24 PM

Gun-toting Kent State grad wants to arm wrestle Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg.

"I have a challenge for you @davidhogg111," Bennett tweeted.. "Let's arm wrestle. If I win, we get to keep the 2nd amendment. If you win, we turn in our guns. Deal?"

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."
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#244666: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:03:35 PM

Something something overcompensating something.

Seriously though, what a small-minded person.

It's been fun.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244667: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:07:31 PM

[up][up]Good on Hogg for not even dignifying this with a response.

Disgusted, but not surprised
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#244668: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:09:06 PM

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.

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#244669: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:12:03 PM

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.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#244670: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:23:59 PM

The "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.

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

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#244671: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:25:21 PM

[up] ...I really could have done without the mental images this post brought to mind.

Disgusted, but not surprised
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#244672: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:54:27 PM

The irony is that Trump seems to feel no shame about anything, ever

Do not obey in advance.
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#244673: Jun 7th 2018 at 12:47:33 AM

[up]Cracked.com said that well before him becoming President was on anyone's radar.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#244674: Jun 7th 2018 at 7:43:19 AM

“I am posting this because fuck it, if my brain has to suffer, EVERYONE'S brain has to suffer.“

Damnit man, I have work tomorrow .

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#244675: Jun 7th 2018 at 11:06:26 AM

Putin does a victory lap all over the USA and Europe on Russian tv.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trumps-tariffs-teach-europe-a-lesson-putin-says/2018/06/07/483a2f38-6a5d-11e8-a335-c4503d041eaf_story.html?utm_term=.bd02387f8a8d

As he watches Europe’s confrontation with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be enjoying an “I told you so” moment.

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.

...

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.”

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |

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