trump is serious!!!!!

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

I love that meme, but wish they'd used who & which in place of that.
And a comma after stupid, too.

[wesw]

I like the choice of KT McFarland as deputy nat sec advisor....

[RayThom]

I like the choice of KT McFarland as deputy nat sec advisor....

Man, does The Donald know how to stock the tank, or what? He won't know what pussy to grab next. I can't wait for his next gaffe. Four more years... four more years...

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

Hamilton Just Shattered Another Box-Office Record After Trump Supporters’ Hamilton Boycott

Well, well. It’s now really clear the #BoycottHamilton movement was pointless. Why? Because the musical just set an all-time box office record for most money grossed in a week on Broadway.

“Hamilton” made $3.3 million last week. This was after future vice president Mike Pence attended the musical, only to be booed by the crowd and called out by the actors. What followed was a Twitter meltdown by President-elect Donald Trump and the #BoycottHamilton ‘movement’. Nevermind that “Hamilton” has been sold out for months…

For context, note that most successful Broadway shows do little more than $1 million in a week. “Hamilton” has tripled that.

According to The New York Times, the show “also set a record for the highest premium ticket price ever charged by a Broadway box office — $998 — although some people have paid more buying tickets from resellers.”

“It is not clear how many seats ‘Hamilton’ sold for a $998 box office price, but the show’s high average paid admission last week — $303, which is also a Broadway record — suggests that a substantial number of seats were sold for a premium,” reported the paper.

What’s more, The New York Times declared “it now seems clear that, barring a dramatic and unforeseen reversal of fortunes, ‘Hamilton’ will be the top-grossing show this season”.

Perhaps the President-elect might do better spending his time, gee, I don't know, attending national security briefings, rather than obsessively tweeting about Broadway shows for days at a time.

[BoSoxGal]

It's too bad the experience of Hamilton will be essentially inaccessible to the vast majority of US.

[wesw]

the vast majority of americans hate musicals.....

[Bicycle Bill]

the vast majority of americans hate musicals.....

Speak for yourself, nimnul.
And by the way — 'Americans' is capitalized, especially in Trump's AmeriKKKa.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

don t cry, sweetie. here, I ll put a Disney movie on for you.....

[Bicycle Bill]

don t cry, sweetie. here, I ll put a Disney movie on for you.....

Yes, please do.  Unlike this latest election in which evil emerged supreme, in a Disney movie the bad guys — The Wicked Queen in 'Snow White', Maleficient, Captain Hook, Lady Tremaine (the stepmother in 'Cinderella'), Cruella de Vil, Prince John, Ursula, Hades, Jafar, even the bratty kid next door in 'Toy Story' — usually get what's coming to them.

-"BB"-

[Bicycle Bill]

-"BB"-

[dales]

the vast majority of americans hate musicals.....

I dunno, wes.

I've always enjoyed this one:

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[Burning Petard]

"the vast majority of americans hate musicals....." Hard for me to believe, with the number of song-and-dance shows on tv now.

snailgate

[BoSoxGal]

I think the touring revenues of Cats, Phantom, and numerous other musicals over the years would tend to discredit that assertion, not to mention several recent big musical movies that did more than okay at the box office.

[Scooter]

Trump Bitches About Air Force One Upgrade He Won't Get to Enjoy, Lies About Costs

President-elect Donald Trump woke up from a Big Mac-induced coma this morning to send off a tweet about Air Force One. Big Donny says the latest versions of the Air Force One being built by Boeing have become too expensive, and that the order should be canceled.

Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
8:52 AM - 6 Dec 2016

It’s worth wondering if Trump actually wants to keep his luxurious private jet just like he’d rather live in his Fifth Avenue tower than the White House. But regardless, the president-elect is demanding the United States cancel an order for a plane that he won’t even get to use. The latest version of the Air Force One won’t carry a president until 2024. If Trump doesn’t get to use it, well, why should he give a fuck?

The two Air Force One planes currently in use, highly modified Boeing 747-200B airliners known as VC-25s, are close to reaching the end of their 30-year life expectancy, and both require significant maintenance to stay in the air. Kevin W. Buckley, an Air Force executive who is overseeing the new planes, told Military.com earlier this year that “it’s becoming way too expensive and way too difficult,” to maintain the current pair of Air Force Ones. It’s unclear where Trump is getting the $4 billion number from, as it’s being widely reported that the Air Force budgeted $1.65 billion for the new planes between 2015 and 2019. Furthermore, the model selected to replace the old VC-25 airliners, the Boeing 747-8, has a list price of just $379 million. How Trump’s math adds up makes no sense.

It remains to be seen whether Trump will demand to stay on his gold filled Boeing 757. Last month a US official told CNN it would be “nearly functionally impossible” for him not to fly on Air Force One. That’s because the plane is equipped with communications equipment to receive classified information, as well as a myriad of defense measures. The plane can evade surface-to-air missiles, and has shielding to protect passengers from a nuclear blast. But with Trump, who knows! “No one tells the president he can’t do something,” the official told CNN. “Instead, you lay out all the reasons it’s functionally impossible.”

“[Trump’s tweet was] completely nonsensical and based on exactly nothing,”Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst, told The Washington Post. “But it’s very difficult to adjudicate on complicated program management and military requirements questions with Twitter as your medium.”

In other words, this Air Force One tweet kinda makes it seem like Donald Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. Go figure!

Update 11:34am: Boeing has issued a statement in response to Trump’s tweet. According to CNBC:

We are currently under contract for $170 million to help determine the capabilities of these complex military aircraft that serves the unique requirements of the President of the United States. We look forward to working with the US Air Force on subsequent phases of the program allowing us to deliver the best plans for the President at the best value for the American taxpayer.

It remains unclear where Trump came up with the project’s price tag of “over $4 billion.”

He pulled it out of his smelly flabby ass, like everything else. And he can rely on the Trumpanzees to believe it and repeat it.

[RayThom]

"HAIR FARCE ONE"

[wesw]