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Post by quinlove on Nov 10, 2018 16:04:09 GMT
( hop2 ) nice reply to allipeas. Love your - he’s an asshole playing with fire. 🔥
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Post by quinlove on Nov 10, 2018 16:08:02 GMT
Could dt be any more transparent. Not just here, always.
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Post by imsirius on Nov 10, 2018 16:19:28 GMT
This kid has a real future.
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Post by purplebee on Nov 10, 2018 16:20:24 GMT
He is publicly scolding California for their "responsibility" for the devastating and deadly wildfires in order to absolve himself of any whiff of accountability.
He is leaving HIS country and HIS military to go to Paris on Veterans Day weekend, and since it's raining, he's not going to take a chance of getting his hair wet to honor fallen Americans, but sending others to DO HIS FREAKING JOB.
He is rewarding his mega-donor with the Medal of Freedom.
This is just what I have learned today.
Will somebody please wake me up so I can hear Bobby Ewing saying it was only a dream??
Holy crap. We are doomed.
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Post by imsirius on Nov 10, 2018 16:25:53 GMT
It's responses like this that just make me love twitter
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Post by imsirius on Nov 10, 2018 16:28:15 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 10, 2018 17:00:25 GMT
He is leaving HIS country and HIS military to go to Paris on Veterans Day weekend ......but Obama cut too much funding for the military, left it in shambles. dt still has not visited the troops overseas... and he has sent more over! I sure hope he enjoys the French parade! He didn't get his here!!! BTW: OUR military, not his.
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Post by Merge on Nov 10, 2018 17:03:35 GMT
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Post by 50offscrapper on Nov 10, 2018 17:35:18 GMT
He is wrong. I am a Christian and is he is wrong. People like him are worshipping their idol TRUMP. So they may not be godless but the are worshipping idols.
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Post by 50offscrapper on Nov 10, 2018 17:42:40 GMT
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Post by 50offscrapper on Nov 10, 2018 18:02:43 GMT
linkFrom the Atlantic.. “Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This”
On Tuesday, October 16, President Trump started tweeting. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!”
" We have today informed the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador that if they allow their citizens, or others, to journey through their borders and up to the United States, with the intention of entering our country illegally, all payments made to them will STOP (END)!," Vice President Mike Pence also tweeted: Spoke to President Hernandez of Honduras about the migrant caravan heading to the U.S. Delivered strong message from @potus: no more aid if caravan is not stopped. Told him U.S. will not tolerate this blatant disregard for our border & sovereignty,"
The apparent impetus for this outrage was a segment on Fox News that morning, which detailed a migrant caravan thousands of miles away in Honduras. That caravan began sometime in mid-October, made up of refugees fleeing violence in their home country. Over the next few weeks, Trump would do his best to turn the caravan into a national emergency. Trump falsely told his supporters that there were “criminals and unknown middle easterners” in the caravan, a claim that had no basis in fact, which was meant to imply that terrorists were hiding in the caravan—one falsehood placed upon another. Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered more troops to the border. A Fox News host took it upon herself to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen whether there was “any scenario under which if people force their way across the border they could be shot at,” to which Nielsen responded, “we do not have any intention right now to shoot at people.” Pence told Fox News on Friday that “What the president of Honduras told me is that the caravan was organized by leftist organizations, political activists within Honduras, and he said it was being funded by outside groups, and even from Venezuela … So the American people, I think, see through this—they understand this is not a spontaneous caravan of vulnerable people.” The Department of Homeland Security’s Twitter account “confirmed” that within the caravan there were people who are “gang members or have significant criminal histories,” without offering evidence of any such ties. Trump sought to blame the opposition party for the caravan’s existence. “Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws!” Trump tweeted on October 22. “Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally.” In the right-wing fever swamps, where the president’s every word is worshipped, commenters began amplifying Trump’s exhortations with new details. Representative Matt Gaetz wondered if George Soros—the wealthy Jewish philanthropist whom Trump and several members of the U.S. Senate blamed for the protests against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and who was recently targeted with a bomb—was behind the migrant caravan. NRATV, the propaganda organ of the National Rifle Association, linked two Republican obsessions, voter fraud and immigration. Chuck Holton told NRATV’s viewers that Soros was sending the caravan to the United States so the migrants could vote: “It’s telling that a bevy of left-wing groups are partnering with a Hungarian-born billionaire and the Venezuelan government to try to influence the 2018 midterms by sending Honduran migrants north in the thousands.” On CNN, the conservative commentator Matt Schlapp asked pointedly, “Who's paying for the caravan? Alisyn, who's paying for the caravan?,” before later answering his own question: “Because of the liberal judges and other people that intercede, including George Soros, we have too much chaos at our southern border.” On Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, a guest said “these individuals are not immigrants. These are people that are invading our country,” as another guest asserted they were seeking “the destruction of American society and culture.” In the meantime, much of the mainstream press abetted Trump’s effort to make the midterm election a referendum on the caravan. Popular news podcasts devoted entire episodes to the caravan. It remained on the front pages of major media websites. It was an overwhelming topic of conversation on cable news, where Trumpists freely spread disinformation about the threat the migrants posed, while news anchors displayed exasperation over their false claims, only to invite them back on the next day’s newscast to do it all over again. In reality, the caravan was thousands of miles and weeks away from the U.S. border, shrinking in size, and unlikely to reach the U.S. before the election. If the migrants reach the U.S., they have the right under U.S. law to apply for asylum at a port of entry. If their claims are not accepted, they will be turned away. There is no national emergency, there is no ominous threat. There is only a group of desperate people looking for a better life, who have a right to request asylum in the United States, and have no right to stay if their claims are rejected. Trump is reportedly aware that his claims about the caravan are false. An administration official told the Daily Beast simply, “it doesn’t matter if it’s 100 percent accurate … this is the play.” The "play" was to demonize vulnerable people with falsehoods in order to frighten Trump's base to the polls. Nevertheless, some took the claims of the president and his allies seriously. On Saturday morning, Shabbat morning, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 people. The massacre capped off a week of terrorism, in which one man mailed bombs to nearly a dozen Trump critics, and another killed two black people in a grocery store after failing to force his way into a black church. Prior to committing the Tree of Life massacre, the shooter, who blamed Jews for the caravan of “invaders” and who raged about it on social media, made it clear that he was furious at HIAS, founded as the Hebew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish group that helps resettle refugees in the United States. He shared posts on Gab, a social-media site popular with the alt-right, expressing alarm at the sight of “massive human caravans of young men from Honduras and El Salvador invading America thru our unsecured southern border.” And then he wrote, “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” The people killed on Saturday were killed for trying to make the world a better place, as their faith exhorts them to do. The history of the Jewish people is one of displacement, statelessness, and persecution. What groups like HIAS do in helping refugees, they do with the knowledge that comes from a history of being the targets of demagogues who persecute minorities in pursuit of power. Ordinarily, a politician cannot be held responsible for the actions of a deranged follower. But ordinarily, politicians don’t praise supporters who have mercilessly beaten a Latino man, as “very passionate.” Ordinarily, they don’t offer to pay supporters’ legal bills if they assault protesters on the other side. They don’t praise acts of violence against the media. They don’t defend Nazi rioters as “fine people.” They don’t justify sending bombs to their critics by blaming the media for airing criticism. Ordinarily, there is no historic surge in anti-Semitism, much of it targeted at Jewish critics, coinciding with a politician’s rise. And ordinarily, presidents do not blatantly exploit their authority in an effort to terrify white Americans into voting for their party. For the past few decades, most American politicians, Republican and Democrat alike, have taken care not to urge their supporters to take matters into their own hands. Trump did everything he could to fan the flames, and nothing to restrain those who might take him at his word. Many of Trump’s defenders argue that his rhetoric is mere shtick. That his attacks, however cruel, aren’t taken 100 percent seriously by his supporters. But to make this argument is to concede that following Trump’s statements to their logical conclusion could lead to violence against his targets, and it is only because most do not take it that way, that the political violence committed on Trump’s behalf is as limited as it currently is. The Tree of Life shooter criticized Trump for not being racist or anti-Semitic enough. But with respect to the caravan, the shooter merely followed the logic of the president and his allies: He was willing to do whatever was necessary to prevent an “invasion” of Latinos planned by perfidious Jews, a treasonous attempt to seek “the destruction of American society and culture.” The apparent spark for the worst anti-Semitic massacre in American history was a racist hoax inflamed by a U.S. president seeking to help his party win a midterm election. There is no political gesture, no public statement, and no alteration in rhetoric or behavior that will change this fact. The shooter might have found a different reason to act on a different day. But he chose to act on Saturday, and he apparently chose to act in response to a political fiction that the president himself chose to spread, and that his followers chose to amplify. As for those who aided the president in his propaganda campaign, who enabled him to prey on racist fears to fabricate a national emergency, those who said to themselves, “This is the play”? Every single one of them bears some responsibility for what followed. Their condemnations of antisemitism are meaningless. Their thoughts and prayers are worthless. Their condolences are irrelevant. They can never undo what they have done, and what they have done will never be forgotten.” Remember Trump exhibits physiological projection when he keeps accusing Hillary of rigging the election. I think the Republicans or their donors somehow started the caravan. It helped put fear in the base to bring out the vote. It was a fear tactic that worked to have the Republicans keep the Senate. He accused Jim Acosta of being a rude & terrible person, because Trump is a rude terrible person. Same thing with calling another reporter stupid. You get the idea. Who agrees with me on this?
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 10, 2018 18:22:53 GMT
Here's a funny!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 18:47:03 GMT
Kurt Eichenwald..
“I know hypocrisy is the heart of modern GOP but this one calls for exposure:
Imagine what Fox and the GOP would say if Obama had refused to go to a military cemetery because the weather was bad. You know, remember Obama? The last president who ever visited troops in war zones?”
So I see trump is out there embarrassing us as well as giving the finger to our veterans yet again.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 10, 2018 19:24:34 GMT
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 10, 2018 19:28:52 GMT
Nope. He doesn’t. You’d be happy with the alternative then—Screw the ballots people have placed? The ballots are not manufactured, they’re real—people voted and expect their votes to count. But given your history, it doesn’t fit your narrative and your preference sides always with the GOP—party of disgrace, dishonesty, and divisive. If the tables were turned Republicans would be filing lawsuits in court hand over fist. No, I don't want to screw the ballots. I want her to follow the rules just like every other county, including the devastated hurricane area, managed to do. This woman has a history that makes it hard to believe she's doing her job properly. If Nelson had been ahead and suddenly fell behind by a massive discovery of votes he would have been running to the courts too and given the history of this woman I wouldn't have blamed him for doing so. I have no problem accepting the outcome as long as it's legitimate and the process was handled correctly and according to the law. Interesting because most of the “found” ballots (that had not been counted) were for the democrats. If someone cannot do their job, especially when it comes to voting, they need to be out. Same with Kemp, Kobach. Interesting that it seems to be the heavily democratic leaning areas that ballots are just being found/counted. Interesting that a disproportionate majority of the gerrymandering does NOT favor the democratic districts.
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Post by PLurker on Nov 10, 2018 19:45:24 GMT
No, I don't want to screw the ballots. I want her to follow the rules just like every other county, including the devastated hurricane area, managed to do. This woman has a history that makes it hard to believe she's doing her job properly. If Nelson had been ahead and suddenly fell behind by a massive discovery of votes he would have been running to the courts too and given the history of this woman I wouldn't have blamed him for doing so. I have no problem accepting the outcome as long as it's legitimate and the process was handled correctly and according to the law. Interesting because most of the “found” ballots (that had not been counted) were for the democrats. If someone cannot do their job, especially when it comes to voting, they need to be out. Same with Kemp, Kobach. Interesting that it seems to be the heavily democratic leaning areas that ballots are just being found/counted. Interesting that a disproportionate majority of the gerrymandering does NOT favor the democratic districts. Meanwhile here in Wisconsin, Paul Ryan land: Analysis of gerrymandering’s effects on the WI Assembly: Dems got 54% of vote and 36 seats. GOP got 45% and 63 seats. #fairmaps #crazytown
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 20:29:00 GMT
Lis Smith...
“.@justintrudeau drops umbrella (& the mic): “As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet, and our hair gets wet...it’s all the more fitting that we remember on that day in Dieppe the rain wasn’t rain, it was bullets.”
Annnnd Justin Trudeau for the win in making our president look like the asshole that he is.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 20:33:41 GMT
This from trump...
“Had very productive meetings and calls for our Country today. Meeting tonight with World Leaders!”
Prompted this reply from Mike McFaul..
“With whom did you meet today? Looked like most leaders were at commemorative services.”
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Post by wellway on Nov 10, 2018 20:35:18 GMT
The grandson of Winston Churchill, Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, isn't impressed either.
"They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realdonaldtrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 20:44:36 GMT
Julia Loffe...
“If a football player kneeling during the national anthem is an act of appalling disrespect to the men and women who serve, what is it when the Commander in Chief refuses to go to the cemetery to honor fallen soldiers because of a little rain?”
Good question.
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Post by Skellinton on Nov 10, 2018 21:55:50 GMT
Lis Smith... “.@justintrudeau drops umbrella (& the mic): “As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet, and our hair gets wet...it’s all the more fitting that we remember on that day in Dieppe the rain wasn’t rain, it was bullets.” Annnnd Justin Trudeau for the win in making our president look like the asshole that he is. Dear Canada, Please consider annexing Washington into your lovely country. I promise most of us all well behaved, polite, and realize how embarrassing 46 is. We do not support or condone him in any size, shape or fashion. I promise we will embrace Tim Hortons with vim and vigor and will do our best to make you proud. Thank you for your consideration, Washington State
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Post by lizacreates on Nov 10, 2018 22:50:35 GMT
Update:
Florida’s secretary of state announced Saturday that there will be recounts in the Senate and gubernatorial races after the races became tight enough to trigger them -- amid controversy over the handling of the counts, with President Trump warning that he will be "watching closely."
Secretary Ken Detzner issued the order after the unofficial results in both races fell within the margin that by law triggers a recount. The results of the machine recount will be due by 3 p.m. ET on Nov. 15. The votes in the Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott, and the gubernatorial race between Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis and Democratic mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum, will be recounted. There will also be a recount for the race for agriculture commissioner.
The mandatory recount occurs if the winning candidate’s margin is less than 0.5 percent. If the margin is less than 0.25 percent, the recount must be done by hand.
Source: Fox News
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Post by artgirl1 on Nov 11, 2018 0:36:34 GMT
Karma:
guess who CNN sent to Paris to cover Trump this weekend (where trump has no control over who is in the press corp) - Jim Accosta.
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Post by imsirius on Nov 11, 2018 1:02:35 GMT
This is a beautiful photo....just amazing. 100 years later.
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Post by PLurker on Nov 11, 2018 1:40:02 GMT
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Post by imsirius on Nov 11, 2018 4:16:37 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 11, 2018 4:24:42 GMT
Excellent point!!
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Post by artgirl1 on Nov 11, 2018 11:03:00 GMT
Past Administrations have always had alternative weather plans for these events. Unless you are part of this incompetent WH staff who do not know the slightest thing about protocol and planning.
Personally, I like a president who is not afraid of a little rain.
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Post by pjaye on Nov 11, 2018 11:52:23 GMT
Personally, I like a president who is not afraid of a little rain.
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Post by wellway on Nov 11, 2018 11:53:37 GMT
Personally, I like a president who is not afraid of a little rain.
And can close an umbrella.
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