Octopus Overlords

Your collective disservice to The Motherland has been noted.

The animosity.

What a shame. What on earth have we enabled here by giving this man the office of POTUS? WTF. ((Venting))
This President is actually trying SO HARD to give credibility to not just Russian Love, but also White Supremacist arguments that I can't fathom this county surving this without unified rejection of Trump. RIP, if you give a rat's fucking ass about this world - you would find the balls to denounce this mother fucking piece if shit.

Care to respond?

He's too busy enjoying the salty elixir of your tears to respond. This Presidency is everything he could have hoped for.

Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Unagi wrote:Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Andrew Jackson is his man now.

Unagi wrote:Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Rip and em2naugt showed their colors long ago, as did almost 50% of the electorate: they prefer racism and mysogony over having a black man be president. This election was always about the pent up rage the white supremacist like Trump had about Obama being elected. The fact that Obama was a good president only made them angrier. Trump's whole platform was "undo everything Obama ever did."

I despair for this nation. Half of the voters are selfish bigots with no moral code. Perhaps even worse: half of the country couldn't be bothered to care. They were just as happy to have a racist, misogynist as have a women for president. Their lack of vote was a nod that America wasn't worth lifting a finger to save.

We are well on our way. My gues. Is within the year Trump will try to dissolve Congress (because they aren't enacting his agenda). This is why he has so many former generals at the White House. He hopes that their friends will support him. If they do, the American experiment is over and Democracy in this country is dead and gone for at least 100 years, probably much longer.

We have learned lots of lessons, but I suspect no will will pay attention to them. I hope they do, for the future's sake.

Oh I think he is a walking caricature and manages to screw up even the most basic of interactions.

I also think he gets a lot more hate than he deserves or is worthy of.

Maybe now we can elect Rand Paul this time.......

Alefroth wrote:

Unagi wrote:Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Andrew Jackson is his man now.

I thought it was the third Doctor.

Rip wrote:I also think he gets a lot more hate than he deserves or is worthy of.

So, unlike Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton?

At least Trump hate is based on the things he says and does (or at least incompetently tries to do). All of the above faced hate generated by smear campaigns often with little or no reality behind them. The only smear campaign Trump seems to face is that he keeps dragging HIMSELF through the mud.

Rip wrote:
I also think he gets a lot more hate than he deserves or is worthy of.

...is this thing on? can you hear me? good...okay

BENGHAZI!

But seriously, remember the right's outrage when Obama dared to say anything about the Trayvon Martin shooting? How Obama's effing birth was even questioned? The difference is, Obama knew how to roll with the punches and act like a goddamn adult. Trump is a friggin' pile of ego and human waste who shouldn't be allowed to even sit with adults at any table.

He's going to learn in a few years that the KKK, Neo-Nazi and religious fanatic voting block isn't going to be enough to get his sorry ass into a damn aldermen position.

Kraken wrote:

Alefroth wrote:

Unagi wrote:Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Andrew Jackson is his man now.

I thought it was the third Doctor.

Wait a minute...the Doctor is a time traveler. Could...could he...

Kraken wrote:

Alefroth wrote:

Unagi wrote:Honestly, I think RIP is more self focused and is finding this mess more than he cares to defend, but I could be reading him wrong (as an OO member I keep thinking he has any value)... But being so self focused, he is about 50/50 to defend 'his main charge again the man' vs. 'the bullshit Trump has been supporting'.

Where are you right now? Ready to stand by your country yet, RIP? Are you? or are you really still behind this man?

Andrew Jackson is his man now.

I thought it was the third Doctor.

It's Jefferson Davis after a shave.

The alt-right is all about style, you know.

Looks like he's back to going after the Washington Post...er...Amazon again.

“Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost!” the president wrote online just after 6 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Trump did not specifically accuse Amazon of any particular crime or tactic in his Wednesday morning post to Twitter, but he has in the past accused the retailer of reaping a competitive edge by not paying enough in taxes.

Unsurprisingly, for someone who claims to be such a great businessman, he is remarkably ignorant about how the business world actually works.

I thought evading taxes made you smart. He said so.

Repeat the mantra: Every criticism is an admission.

Hope Hicks has been named the interim White House Communications Director.

This should end well.

Skinypupy wrote:Hope Hicks has been named the interim White House Communications Director.

This should end well.

I'm ignorant. What is the specific issue, other than she may squirm uncomfortably behind the podium more than the others since she has to continually dodge Trump's pu$$y grabbing while fielding questions.

Freyland wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:Hope Hicks has been named the interim White House Communications Director.

This should end well.

I'm ignorant. What is the specific issue, other than she may squirm uncomfortably behind the podium more than the others since she has to continually dodge Trump's pu$$y grabbing while fielding questions.

Who knows, maybe she'll be good at it.

I'm just thinking that shoving a 28-year-old with no prior experience in a public communications role out in front of of cameras to defend the most high-profile insanity we've seen in the public service space in...well...ever is a remarkably bad idea.

The fact that Trump and other Trump apologists are trying to use the "She was asking for it" defense is abhorrent. Anyone still defending this miserable excuse of a human should be ashamed of themselves.

Scraper wrote:The fact that Trump and other Trump apologists are trying to use the "She was asking for it" defense is abhorrent. Anyone still defending this miserable excuse of a human should be ashamed of themselves.

Hope Hicks?

This is fine.

Pure damage control. Now every resignation won't be reported through end of week. That is almost a normal reaction! The pivot is imminent!

Skinypupy wrote:

Freyland wrote:

Skinypupy wrote:Hope Hicks has been named the interim White House Communications Director.

This should end well.

I'm ignorant. What is the specific issue, other than she may squirm uncomfortably behind the podium more than the others since she has to continually dodge Trump's pu$$y grabbing while fielding questions.

Who knows, maybe she'll be good at it.

I'm just thinking that shoving a 28-year-old with no prior experience in a public communications role out in front of of cameras to defend the most high-profile insanity we've seen in the public service space in...well...ever is a remarkably bad idea.

Heh, just another disposable meat puppet for the Asshat in Chief.

More time for golf.

Two will take its place! Anyone? Bueller? You're fired!

Time to end those corporate advisory councils before they call me out for more bullshit! reuters

Trump is probably fuming over the fact that Obama won Twitter.

Considering all his insane ramblings about crowd size and ratings, it's got to hit him where it hurts.

Zaxxon wrote:

This is fine.

Ah yes, let us hearken back to the halcyon days of yore (i.e. yesterday) and be reassured that there are plenty of people willing and able to serve on this council.

But they were dissolved not because he couldn't fill the vacancies, but because there was too much pressure on the poor, poor CEOs that were serving.

This is leadership at work, folks.

Looks like they were going to disband anyways. Instead, Trump just said "I'm taking my ball and going home".

Trump appeared to be making an effort to get ahead of the news as the councils began to disintegrate. The strategy forum, which is led by Blackstone Group LP’s Stephen Schwarzman, planned to inform the White House Wednesday before making the announcement public, according to another person familiar with the matter, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the news publicly.

Winning bigly.

Zaxxon wrote:But they were dissolved not because he couldn't fill the vacancies, but because there was too much pressure on the poor, poor CEOs that were serving.

Sure.. I bet they were lining up out the door to get on this sinking ship.

Now he's free to form THE LEGION OF DOOM!

...he already ordered the table, and the gold plated serpent statues are being flown in from his Atlanta hotel.

Anyone have a link to that Vice news clip on the VA protests I keep hearing about?

Perhaps he was just practicing dissolving things before he hits the Senate?

Moliere wrote:Anyone have a link to that Vice news clip on the VA protests I keep hearing about?

Please post this in the new sub-forum on links to Vice news clips on Charlottesville.

Swinging back to the Dreamhost warrant discussion yesterday. Here is an opinion piece that at a high level talks from the legal side about what I was describing at a lower level. Aka the government needs a way to sift data from web sites to identify individuals.

Orin Kerr explains why the Dreamhost warrant is *not* unprecedented and is fairly normal. It isn't 100% clear cut aka SCOTUS settled law but there is little alternative to this course of action.

Edit: *POTUS != SCOTUS. Especially now.

Zaxxon wrote:Perhaps he was just practicing dissolving things before he hits the Senate?

I'm pretty certain it will Chancellor Putintine who will dissolve the Senate. Darth Trump will simply the assassin who destroys our establishment and its defense, while MitchMcBinks calls for vote of no confidence.

malchior wrote:Edit: *POTUS != SCOTUS. Especially now.

I believe you meant to type "Especially for now."

No vestige of the Obama legacy is too minor to escape Trump's notice.

The Trump administration has dismantled aspects of Obama’s legacy, big and small — including the Capital Bikeshare station that was installed on the White House grounds at the request of the Obama administration.

The District’s Department of Transportation confirmed Wednesday that it removed the nine-slot Bikeshare station this week at the Trump administration’s request.

Unlike every other Bikeshare station in the region, this one was not accessible to the public and could only be used by commuters who had access to White House grounds. The Obama administration requested the station in 2010.

I know he has repeatedly denied hiring prostitutes to pee in the bed President Obama used while in Moscow, but the more President Trump continues to root out and undo anything and everything associated with the former administration the more I'm inclined to believe the pee-pee tape really exists. A bikeshare station? Really? That was so important to dismantle?

$iljanus wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Somewhere, I've run the numbers. Odds are not good that he drops dead.

Best to encourage him to eat more ice cream.

and buckets of KFC