trump is serious!!!!!

[Burning Petard]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... 18-21--UTC

This is a story from Australia about the local Foreign minister and a visit from the persona with the similar job in China, visiting the ANZAC (is that term even meaningful now?) and it reveals that no, the USA is NOT out of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). No matter what out president says for the news, or posts on a tweet, it is not official communication, just puffery and posing. Interesting.

snailgate.

[rubato]

BoSoxGal wrote:
In addition to Alec Baldwin's Chump impression, I'm finding much solace in the political cartoonery happening in the wake of the Chumpanzee's rise to power.

A word of caution:

Lehrer has commented that he doubts his songs had any real effect on those not already critical of the establishment: "I don't think this kind of thing has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted... I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin kabaretts of the 1930s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War."[32]

In 2003 he commented that his particular brand of political satire is more difficult in the modern world: "The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban land mines... I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them."[17]

yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

I don't give a shit about the unconverted; I want to hold onto things that preserve my sanity and allow me to find some humor in all this shitstorm.

The unconverted - i.e., diehard Trump fans like wesw and his ilk - aren't swayed by facts or by the gross lies of this administration, so I seriously doubt there is anything that can be done to convert them. When we get this shitgibbon out of power, as well as the spineless party bending over for him, we'll be nice to them anyway like we always are.

The meek will always be with us.

[rubato]

I don't give a shit about the unconverted; I want to hold onto things that preserve my sanity and allow me to find some humor in all this shitstorm.

The unconverted - i.e., diehard Trump fans like wesw and his ilk - aren't swayed by facts or by the gross lies of this administration, so I seriously doubt there is anything that can be done to convert them. When we get this shitgibbon out of power, as well as the spineless party bending over for him, we'll be nice to them anyway like we always are.

The meek will always be with us.

So you don't care about actually making the future different? There's a lot of that going around. *** And coming around.


Unless we learn more about how to communicate more effectively with some of the group who voted for Trump we will never be successful




yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

I've tried, graciously and with much focus on facts. They're not interested. I've dedicated 25 years of my life to public service and I'm still volunteering - but right now it's time to take care of me and try to avoid being in a wheelchair before I hit 50. So pardon my self-centeredness. Or fuck off.

[Econoline]

• • SATIRE FROM THE BOROWITZ REPORT
    TRUMP SAYS HE HAS BEEN TREATED VERY UNFAIRLY BY PEOPLE WHO WROTE CONSTITUTION
    By Andy Borowitz | February 10, 2017
    
    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Hinting darkly that “there’s something going on,” Donald J. Trump complained on Friday that he has been treated “very unfairly” by the people who wrote the United States Constitution.
    
    “If the Constitution prevented me from doing one or two things, I’d chalk that up to bad luck,” he said. “But when literally everything I want to do is magically a violation of the Constitution, that’s very unfair and bad treatment.”
    
    Lashing out at the document’s authors, Trump said that “America is a great country, but we have maybe the worst constitution writers in the world.”
    
    “Russia has much better constitution writers than we do,” he said. “I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems.”
    
    “The situation is very unfair!” he added.
    
    In an ominous warning, Trump said that, as of Friday, he was putting the writers of the U.S. Constitution “on notice.”
    
    “I don’t have their names yet, but that’s something I’m looking into,” he said. “These jokers are not going to get away with this.”

[Lord Jim]

“Russia has much better constitution writers than we do,” he said. “I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems.”

The sad, (and scary) thing is, I'm sure he's genuinely envious of that...

[BoSoxGal]

That's a hilarious article!

[Joe Guy]

My thoughts on the Russian/US election conspiracy....

To 'Trump' is to put a card into play that beats all other cards. Note that the trump card must be put in to play in order for it to succeed at winning. After the recent election, Donald Trump was put in to power as our president. In 2012, Vladimir Putin trumped all of the other candidates to become the president of Russia.

Donald Trump

Vladimir Put in

Coincidence? I think not.

[BoSoxGal]

[Bicycle Bill]

"Anyone point out that a Donald Trump anagram is Lord Dampnut?"

Also anagrams to:

Land Turd Mop
Mad Lord Punt
Damn Turd Pol
Damp Old Runt
Lord Mudpant

I've been working on this for a while and finally came up with —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP → DESPONDENT PRIMAL TURD

-"BB"-

[RayThom]

My thoughts on the Russian/US election conspiracy....
Donald Trump
Vladimir Put in
Coincidence? I think not.

Impeccable political logic -- hard to argue.

Joe Guy for President.

[Lord Jim]

Just watched Stephen Miller, (the supposed "brain" behind the original immigration ban EO...) on Meet The Press...

He comes across as a really creepy, bicycle seat sniffing type...

Snarling, snide; he reminds me of a young Roy Cohn...

and not in a good way...

ETA:

One thing I found interesting was that Roy Jr. declined several opportunities that Chuck Todd provided him to come to the defense of Michael Flynn...

That suggests to me that the good general may be about to find himself lying in front of the 16 Mission St....

Which would be A Good Thing for the country...

It would be a Better Thing of course if Trump would resign, but getting this Putin worshiping crackpot out of the most influential national security position in the government would certainly be a step in the right direction...

[RayThom]

Just watched Stephen Miller, (the supposed "brain" behind the original immigration ban EO...) on Meet The Press...
He comes across as a really creepy, bicycle seat sniffing type...
Snarling, snide; he reminds me of a young Roy Cohn...
and not in a good way...

I agree, and Roy Cohn came to mind as I watched this automaton ever-so-slightly move his lips. Miller is so creepy he had me longing for Kellyanne Cryptkeeper.

Lord Dampnut could not have appointed better sycophants to kiss his flabby ass.

[Scooter]

Just watched Stephen Miller, (the supposed "brain" behind the original immigration ban EO...) on Meet The Press...

He comes across as a really creepy, bicycle seat sniffing type...

Snarling, snide; he reminds me of a young Roy Cohn...

and not in a good way...

You may have missed his even more outrageous ranting on Face the Nation

[Lord Jim]

the good general may be about to find himself lying in front of the 16 Mission St....

Like Dandy Don used to say, "Turn out the lights...The Party's Over"...

The Dead Man Is No Longer Walking:

Michael Flynn Resigns as National Security Adviser: Official

Michael Flynn abruptly resigned as President Donald Trump's national security adviser Monday night, hours after it was learned that the Justice Department informed the White House that it believed he could be subject to blackmail, a senior White House source told NBC News.

Flynn's status was considered perilous after it was disclosed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the United States, a senior U.S. official told NBC News.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jus ... al-n720476

[BoSoxGal]

[RayThom]

And call out the border guard.
The kingdom is crumbling.
The king is in the counting house,
Laughing and stumbling.
His armies are extended,
Way beyond the shore.
As he sends our lovely boys to die...

The queen is in the garden,
Moaning and weeping.

The Cryptkeeper will be next.

[Bicycle Bill]

Michael Flynn Resigns as National Security Adviser: Official

Michael Flynn abruptly resigned as President Donald Trump's national security adviser Monday night, hours after it was learned that the Justice Department informed the White House that it believed he could be subject to blackmail, a senior White House source told NBC News.

Flynn's status was considered perilous after it was disclosed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the United States, a senior U.S. official told NBC News.

Resigned, or maybe directed to fall on his sword?

-"BB"-

[Scooter]