Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

dude acting like people whose entire families have been killed by drones should play by your rules is nagl

As far as I know the people behind these attacks are not people whose families have been killed by drones. Probably more importantly ISIS does not understand itself to be retaliating against the West because of the Iraq War. They see themselves as being engaged in a war of ideas against the West.

dude acting like people whose entire families have been killed by drones should play by your rules is nagl

What you call "your rules" are the principles underlying a civil society with respect for human life. One you either feel like living in and preserving, or you don't. Now you can quite easily and plausibly argue that drone warfare is a fucked-up thing, but to extrapolate that to "well, if someone's family was killed by the US military then all bets are off" is, I would argue, much more nagl.

"Arabs clean yr doorstep" never agl iirc

Like this is not excusing drone attacks at all. It's not even saying that the violence purveyed by the West doesn't contribute to an environment where people become drawn to ISIS or similar. But I also don't think it's a good idea to just say this attack is simply "blowback." Why target an Ariana Grande concert in that case?

Xp sleeve again

I would buy t-shirt or print of

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 23, 2017

i'm a little worried about josh marshall

is there an option for his deleted porn query tweets

Hooray oh wait

Leaked transcript: Trump praised Duterte for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem”

He's murdering people.https://t.co/KvuaSjDMM6 pic.twitter.com/1pyBJs4s2H

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 23, 2017

He left it up!

Xp mayor j.

Yeah ned thats chilling

Are ISIS suicide bombers really that different from the Eric Hoffer's True Believer of early 20th century authoritarian mass movements? More than half of the pull quotes here apply equally to Edwardian anarchists, Bolsheviks, Nazis or ISIS suicide bombers.

young guys throwing epic temper tantrums?

I'm not sure I understand how Trump's Duterte comments are breaking news. Duterte has been unambiguously promoting the murder of his people for months, and Trump has been unambiguously championing Duterte's actions for months. Horrifying, of course, but nothing new.

when will werner herzog make a trump documentary?

Doc about Sean Spicer would be better

spinsly man

There are a heap of people replying to that Jaffy tweet saying basically "theyre drug dealers, whats the problem?" Urrrrghh.

(I mean ok I'm not gonna take anything a fucking pepe frog says seriously but still)

masculinity is the most undiagnosed mental illness: the story of 2017

^^^

fuck yeah

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/23/resistance-shows-real-flipping-state-seat-democrat-won-nh.html

GOP held another seat in a pretty similar NH district tho

But Dems flip a very red NY assembly seat in Long Island

FUCK DONNY T

just three bros back from Fire Island after a night of poppers and boys

@DKElections @NHDems Just how Republican is Wolfeboro? This local photo gives you an idea. pic.twitter.com/dzRFzv1lt5

— Dean Barker (@deanbarker) May 24, 2017

LOL

"young guys throwing epic temper tantrums?"

expert type of guy on pbs said this bomber was 2nd gen brit and that he often sees young people rebelling against their parent's non-hardcore version of islam/assimilation to the west and they think everything is shitty where they live and thus they are ripe for internet fire-stoking/neighborhood hotheads. i'm paraphrasing...

Christie looks like he's melting

Melting hearts!

Or maybe just rendering in the heat, it's hard to tell.

xp Scott, that's the narrative that seems to recur.

Just going to commend HRC for quoting Sarah Kendzior in her keynote at the Children’s Health Fund Annual Benefit:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAjiWk1WAAACduE.jpg

masculinity is the most undiagnosed mental illness: the story of 2017

― maura, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:40 (two hours ago) Permalink

otfm

may I direct you to the thread maleness? it throws a different, but worthwhile side-light on this observation.

important update: trump lost the handshake game to the president of tajikistan

http://i.imgur.com/rMHZ7VQ.gif

http://boingboing.net/2017/05/23/trump-lost-the-alpha-male-ha.html

and they think everything is shitty where they live

mom/dad why did you force me to grow up in Manchester when I could've been livin on easy street in Libya FUCK IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

so the pope gave Yam his encyclical on climate change

important update: trump lost the handshake game to the president of tajikistan

Poseur meets real strongman.

The Pope has met Donald Trump... Think this AP picture just about sums it up pic.twitter.com/0E96npzQJa

— Louise Burke (@Louiseontwitr) May 24, 2017

Trump is a boilerplate bully. He's historically used his physical size and the accoutrements of 'wealth' in an attempt to dominate others, but he's such an insecure little pisspot that it probably doesn't take much effort to overwhelm his attempts at dominance. Would love to see some world leader give him a 'two for flinching', perhaps followed by a swirlie.

... especially if that world leader was the Pope.

Melania looks devastated in that pic

The picture kind of looks like he has just climbed out of the coffin at his own funeral and everyone regrets not nailing the lid down.

Anyone who's ever had the naked and sweaty corpus of Donald Trump writhing atop them gets a lifetime pass on looking devastated in photographs.

work it

https://patch.com/new-york/massapequa/9th-assembly-district-flips-democrats-pellegrino-defeats-gargiulo

again on pbs they talked to a pope expert and they said if the meeting was short it was a sign that the pope didn't really want to talk to trump and had had enough. it was short.

Has he been given a better direction as to running the catholic church now though?
Do wonder what a meeting like that would consist of .

I've never seen a woman photographed, dressed, and posing so unflatteringly as Melania there.