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What's really sad is that he probably got a significant portion of the military vote.

YellowKing wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 11:33 am What's really sad is that he probably got a significant portion of the military vote.

And even after that tweet, still does.

As he should. Trump served in the military with distincti….

wait...what's that?

Bone spurs? Really? That's a thing? He really said he had...

You know what, never mind.

That tweet really gets me more than most. How dare he turn the fallen into his adoring supporters.

The name Trump should be stricken from all public records after he's indicted.

Don't forget, the MAGA Memorial Day sale is real and totally classy. Because The President of the United States of America telling you to use the code REMEMBER to get 25% off a #BuildtheWall T-shirt is totally the same thing as someone selling you a discount mattress.

He’s only got a few months before the con falls apart. He’s gonna milk this for all it’s worth. His suckers/supporters are gonna pay for Ivanka’s first divorce, and Melania’s prenup battle after she decides she’s put in her time.

hepcat wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 7:50 pm His suckers/supporters are gonna pay for Ivanka’s first divorce,

That's gonna be one expensive get.

All Trumps are born with mutant divorce powers. Although Eric and Ivanka still haven’t shown theirs in public yet.

Smoove_B wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 7:19 pm Don't forget, the MAGA Memorial Day sale is real and totally classy. Because The President of the United States of America telling you to use the code REMEMBER to get 25% off a #BuildtheWall T-shirt is totally the same thing as someone selling you a discount mattress.

I saw that earlier today and...man that's just unbelievable. Absolutely appalling.

When I was working regularly in the public sector, I refused to take even a glass of water from the business owners I was inspecting as a way to make sure there wasn't ever a question of inappropriate behavior. I'm sure this is totally legit though.

On Sunday, China granted the first daughter’s company final approval for its 13th trademark in the last three months, trademark office records show. Over the same period, the Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump’s company provisional approval for another eight trademarks, which can be finalized if no objections are raised during a three-month comment period.

Oh Smoove. That's not corruption, that's smart business which will employ Americans and MAGA.

And remember, she's not involved in her company's daily operations. She just gets profits so how can there be a conflict of interest?
(insert winky emoji here)

Smoove_B wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 7:19 pm Don't forget, the MAGA Memorial Day sale is real and totally classy. Because The President of the United States of America telling you to use the code REMEMBER to get 25% off a #BuildtheWall T-shirt is totally the same thing as someone selling you a discount mattress.

You must have missed actually going to the site. They were featuring Trump MAGA Memorial day swimwear and patriotic Trump/Pence beach towels.

Smoove_B wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 8:50 am When I was working regularly in the public sector, I refused to take even a glass of water from the business owners I was inspecting as a way to make sure there wasn't ever a question of inappropriate behavior. I'm sure this is totally legit though.

On Sunday, China granted the first daughter’s company final approval for its 13th trademark in the last three months, trademark office records show. Over the same period, the Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump’s company provisional approval for another eight trademarks, which can be finalized if no objections are raised during a three-month comment period.

GG caused me to go back and review something I hadn't looked at in over 30 years. In it I read the words "Cartel Capitalism" to describe the anti Nixon conservative disapproval of mixing government leverage with private business. A tool of democratic socialism to allow the billionaire class to enforce their will and to limit the exchange of ideas. It's like I'm in a timewarp, but rather than looking trying to understand how a time before I was born led me to the world of 1980s fiction, I'm seeing how the underground from before I was born has become guardian of and slave within the prison they have spent their whole lives trying to stay free of.

whoa

Smoove_B wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 7:19 pm Don't forget, the MAGA Memorial Day sale is real and totally classy. Because The President of the United States of America telling you to use the code REMEMBER to get 25% off a #BuildtheWall T-shirt is totally the same thing as someone selling you a discount mattress.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, second July 1863

Dear'st Charlotte,

On the eve of battle with the Rebs, my fears stir in my heart and I tremble at the possibility of my own extinction, yet my soul is set on duty. How I long to see you when this terrible war is over. How I shall remember the bravery and love of my comrades in arms, the living and the dead. Most of all I beg that, should I fall, our great-great-grandchildren shall always take advantage of any 25% sale on MAGA hats.

Your Devoted Andrew

Next up:

Buy your official MAGA 4th of July fireworks, with 25% off your next eye patch coupon inside!

Holman wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 11:06 am

Smoove_B wrote: Mon May 28, 2018 7:19 pm Don't forget, the MAGA Memorial Day sale is real and totally classy. Because The President of the United States of America telling you to use the code REMEMBER to get 25% off a #BuildtheWall T-shirt is totally the same thing as someone selling you a discount mattress.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, second July 1863

Dear'st Charlotte,

On the eve of battle with the Rebs, my fears stir in my heart and I tremble at the possibility of my own extinction, yet my soul is set on duty. How I long to see you when this terrible war is over. How I shall remember the bravery and love of my comrades in arms, the living and the dead. Most of all I beg that, should I fall, our great-great-grandchildren shall always take advantage of any 25% sale on MAGA hats.

Your Devoted Andrew

I'm playing Ashokan Farewell from Ken Burns' Civil War documentary as I read the above letter. Sort of sets the atmosphere.

One score and five percent off, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new giftshop, conceived in personal gain, and dedicated to the proposition that all Donald Trump's (but not JR) are smarter than everyone else.

Fitzy wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:06 pm One score and five percent off, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new giftshop, conceived in personal gain, and dedicated to the proposition that all Donald Trump's (but not JR) are smarter than everyone else.

That sounds like something out of Red Dwarf.

BUT, WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!

Jolor wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:56 pm BUT, WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!

Everyone needs a presidential song. Perhaps Tom Waits will release rights to "Step Right Up" to the 45th administration.

LordMortis wrote:

Jolor wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:56 pm BUT, WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!

Everyone needs a presidential song. Perhaps Tom Waits will release rights to "Step Right Up" to the 45th administration.

I think the theme to The Apprentice fits nicely.

Paingod wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:54 pm

Fitzy wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:06 pm One score and five percent off, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new giftshop, conceived in personal gain, and dedicated to the proposition that all Donald Trump's (but not JR) are smarter than everyone else.

That sounds like something out of Red Dwarf.

I've heard of it, but never seen it. Should I laugh or be offended?

10-1 odds that Trump takes the Rosanne thing and uses it as another dog whistle. He will ignore what she said and say they cancelled it because she was a Trump supporter. Fox will then pickup Season 2.

Octavious wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 3:11 pm 10-1 odds that Trump takes the Rosanne thing and uses it as another dog whistle. He will ignore what she said and say they cancelled it because she was a Trump supporter. Fox will then pickup Season 2.

There seems to be a lot of people involved with the show that were in the process of bailing when ABC made their announcement. Fox might need to round up a band of their cretins as supporting cast; I'm not sure any of the other actors will care to be associated with it.

Jeff V wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 3:54 pm

Octavious wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 3:11 pm 10-1 odds that Trump takes the Rosanne thing and uses it as another dog whistle. He will ignore what she said and say they cancelled it because she was a Trump supporter. Fox will then pickup Season 2.

There seems to be a lot of people involved with the show that were in the process of bailing when ABC made their announcement. Fox might need to round up a band of their cretins as supporting cast; I'm not sure any of the other actors will care to be associated with it.

Saw this too. It looks like some writers and co-stars forced ABC's hand here.

https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1001547501726466049

It's almost as if there's some sort of connection between being a strong Trump supporter and posting racist things online.

I'm sure this will be spun as "liberal over-reaction to a joke" but it's important that this kind of behavior is not normalized. The GOP has been bending over backwards to explain and justify and soften this kind of talk ever since Trump was elected, and the only way to curb it is to hold those responsible accountable every single time they do it. If you can't talk reason, hit them where it hurts - in the pocketbook.

Fox is already spinning it exactly the way I said. Herman Cain is on the front page saying that they were looking for an excuse to cancel the show. So predictable. It's f'n crazy how this entire country has done a 180 because of one f'n idiot.

The talking points seem to be mostly misplaced whataboutism, as far as I can tell:

- Jemele Hill did the same thing and still kept her job. (Narrator: she didn't)
- ESPN didn't fire Keith Olbermann for calling Trump a Nazi. (Narrator: once again, not the same thing)

They mostly seem to be trying to create an false equivalence between calling someone a racist because they say and do racist things (i.e. what Hill and Olbermann did) and actually saying and doing racist things (i.e. what Roseanne did).

And, of course, Trumpers are buying it 100%.

Octavious wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 4:49 pm Fox is already spinning it exactly the way I said. Herman Cain is on the front page saying that they were looking for an excuse to cancel the show. So predictable. It's f'n crazy how this entire country has done a 180 because of one f'n idiot.

Well as excuses go I think Rosanne's tweets are pretty good ones. (as an excuse for firing, not the content itself of course)

Also, ABC deserves whatever negative blowback results from this. It’s not like Roseanne’s opinions were some unknown quantity but the execs just wanted to capture all the demographic groups it could.

On a positive note. Rudy was at the Yankees game and when they announced his name the crowd booed like crazy. The one time I like Yankees fans.

Octavious wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 4:49 pm Fox is already spinning it exactly the way I said. Herman Cain is on the front page saying that they were looking for an excuse to cancel the show. So predictable. It's f'n crazy how this entire country has done a 180 because of one f'n idiot.

The real problem is that it isn't one f'n idiot. It is an entire horde of them. The racist minority is making its voice heard over the silence of the majority. Moves such as cancelling that show are only baby steps toward pushing their narrative back into the whispers of the self-ashamed where it belongs. Fox acting again and again to reinforce the racist message only shows how many folks buy into it as without viewership they would end up off the air.

Octavious wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 4:58 pm On a positive note. Rudy was at the Yankees game and when they announced his name the crowd booed like crazy. The one time I like Yankees fans.

I'm trying to imagine telling someone from 2002 that Rudy was booed on his birthday at a Yankees game and trying to collect guesses as to the reason why.

Really, if I had a time machine, and could only do one thing in the past, I'd be really torn between going back and investing heavily in Apple or Amazon, and going back to tell people what's happened over the last three years.

Chaz wrote:Really, if I had a time machine, and could only do one thing in the past, I'd be really torn between going back and investing heavily in Apple or Amazon, and going back to tell people what's happened over the last three years.

Apple or Amazon.

Idiots weren't born with the Trump presidency. You'd get no where.

Skinypupy wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 4:53 pm The talking points seem to be mostly misplaced whataboutism, as far as I can tell:

- Jemele Hill did the same thing and still kept her job. (Narrator: she didn't)
- ESPN didn't fire Keith Olbermann for calling Trump a Nazi. (Narrator: once again, not the same thing)

They mostly seem to be trying to create an false equivalence between calling someone a racist because they say and do racist things (i.e. what Hill and Olbermann did) and actually saying and doing racist things (i.e. what Roseanne did).

And, of course, Trumpers are buying it 100%.

They're probably not going to mention the name Kathy Griffin in any of these analogies being vomited onto us by Fox talking heads.

Skinypupy wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 4:53 pm The talking points seem to be mostly misplaced whataboutism, as far as I can tell:

- Jemele Hill did the same thing and still kept her job. (Narrator: she didn't)
- ESPN didn't fire Keith Olbermann for calling Trump a Nazi. (Narrator: once again, not the same thing)

They mostly seem to be trying to create an false equivalence between calling someone a racist because they say and do racist things (i.e. what Hill and Olbermann did) and actually saying and doing racist things (i.e. what Roseanne did).

And, of course, Trumpers are buying it 100%.

Yep. They're claiming an equivalence between racism and criticizing the president.

Or not even that. They're implying that the latter is more serious and wrong.

LordMortis wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 1:02 pm

Jolor wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 12:56 pm BUT, WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!

Everyone needs a presidential song. Perhaps Tom Waits will release rights to "Step Right Up" to the 45th administration.

Trump don't need no stinking rights.

tjg_marantz wrote: Tue May 29, 2018 5:24 pm

Chaz wrote:Really, if I had a time machine, and could only do one thing in the past, I'd be really torn between going back and investing heavily in Apple or Amazon, and going back to tell people what's happened over the last three years.

Apple or Amazon.

Idiots weren't born with the Trump presidency. You'd get no where.

Bingo.

They can see for themselves every day. Many don't care and some are getting off on it.