I think Ivanka's original face looked better.
sycasey said:
I think Ivanka's original face looked better.
That's what Trump is really about. Incompetent, chaos and diversion = no one is guarding the hen house, and corporations have wrecked havoc.bearister said:
The Sack Of Washington
https://apple.news/A6SvMaUo3TUmH6jS_BLaTsQ
"While Donald Trump mouthed populist, blue-collar bombast on the campaign trail, once sworn into office, he immediately put old-school commerce chiefs in position to run his empire. For the last two years, these corporate warriors have been chiseling through the barricade of laws, safety rules, and common-sense agreements that protect us from marauding commercial interests."
chazzed said:
You can't make this stuff up. Such goalpost moving nicely sums up both the Fox entertainment channel and, more soberingly, right-wing leadership.
Another Bear said:
Besides the foreign policy hypocrisy, there's also the deficit that the GOP and wing nuts have b*tched about FOR-FCCKING-EVER...now it's no big deal to them.
Straight up lying and doing a 180 flip-flop on hardline core issues seems to be the Republican way.
Sorry, but I think this angle is in poor taste.bearister said:sycasey said:
I think Ivanka's original face looked better.
She told the surgeon to select from the Dolly Parton Line.
Gee, what a surprise that he manipulated voters.Another Bear said:That's what Trump is really about. Incompetent, chaos and diversion = no one is guarding the hen house, and corporations have wrecked havoc.bearister said:
The Sack Of Washington
https://apple.news/A6SvMaUo3TUmH6jS_BLaTsQ
"While Donald Trump mouthed populist, blue-collar bombast on the campaign trail, once sworn into office, he immediately put old-school commerce chiefs in position to run his empire. For the last two years, these corporate warriors have been chiseling through the barricade of laws, safety rules, and common-sense agreements that protect us from marauding commercial interests."
Cant wait for that guy to die, either!bearister said:Another Bear said:
Besides the foreign policy hypocrisy, there's also the deficit that the GOP and wing nuts have b*tched about FOR-FCCKING-EVER...now it's no big deal to them.
Straight up lying and doing a 180 flip-flop on hardline core issues seems to be the Republican way.
"You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due." Dick Cheney, Remarks on Paul O'Neill (January 9, 2004)
If there was a top 5 list of heart attack candidates, who would be on it in order to reestablish respectability to the party?Quote:
Besides the foreign policy hypocrisy, there's also the deficit that the GOP and wing nuts have b*tched about FOR-FCCKING-EVER...now it's no big deal to them.
Straight up lying and doing a 180 flip-flop on hardline core issues seems to be the Republican way.
Sad to have to say, people are too stupid to recognize.chazzed said:
You can't make this stuff up. Such goalpost moving nicely sums up both the Fox entertainment channel and, more soberingly, right-wing leadership.
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The other day, former President Jimmy Carter smacked a whole bunch of gobs with his assertion that Russian ratfcking pretty much had elected El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago and that, therefore, what we have on our hands is an illegitimate president* leading an illegitimate administration*. Carter is an international expert on rigged elections. He's also over 90 and ran out of fcks to give sometime during the administration of Daddy Bush.
Nevertheless, one former president saying this about a current president* is pretty much the definition of news. (It also raises the uncomfortable question of where in the hell is the most recent Democratic president in this fight.) Now, thanks to some folks at the University of Tennessee via The Conversation, Carter has some data behind him as well.Quote:
In a statistical analysis published in First Monday, my team and I tracked the activity of Russian social media trolls on Twitter in the run up to the 2016 election. We then compared the fluctuating popularity of this propaganda with that of the two presidential candidates: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. We found that exposure to Russian propaganda may have helped change American minds in favor of Republican candidate Trump.Quote:
Our results show that the weeks when Russian trolls were accumulating likes and retweets on Twitter, that activity reliably foreshadowed gains for Trump in the opinion polls. This finding survived a number of our additional checks, including accounting for the popularity of Trump's own personal Twitter account. It turns out that the activity of Russian Twitter trolls was a better predictor of Donald Trump's polling numbers than his own Twitter activity. Yet Hillary Clinton's popularity was not affected. That is particularly surprising given that much of the Russian propaganda was designed to discredit her. ...Quote:
My research suggests that Russian trolls helped shift U.S public opinion in Trump's favor in 2016. But was this enough to affect the outcome of the election? The answer is that we still don't know. A closer look at the battleground states that were decided by handful of votes may give us an answer. But given that all Clinton needed to flip the election in her favor was an additional 75,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, it is a prospect that should be taken seriously.
Great point. The best self-management strategy available for most citizens is to vote for someone who isn't completely unfit to be president. The democratic field isn't particularly strong compared to prior cycles but the bar couldn't be any lower right now so hard to imagine a more effective way to eliminate the problem than, you know, eliminating the problem.GBear4Life said:
LOL ... stress and choas brought on by the WH occupant is a personal problem. Maybe better self-management strategies.
Like when? I'd say it's pretty strong.Unit2Sucks said:
The democratic field isn't particularly strong compared to prior cycles
GBear4Life said:
Uh, no it isn't because that accepts the premise that the WH occupant affects your day-to-day well being. If it does, you've got bigger problems than politics.
sycasey said:Like when? I'd say it's pretty strong.Unit2Sucks said:
The democratic field isn't particularly strong compared to prior cycles
bearister said: