Trump, October 2017: Apologize for untruth, u bum

Meanwhile, the usual garbage

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/jared-kushner-email-account-white-house-243389

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-dog/2017/10/02/0ed509a0-a78c-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.9c7ac3526018

See Rex.

Rex is a big dog. Rex is the top dog. Rex has a good job. Rex can fly! Rex has a jet. Fly, Rex, fly. Rex flies to other lands. Rex sits. Rex shakes. Rex speaks. When Rex speaks, Rex thinks he speaks for the U.S.A.

See Donald. Donald owns Rex. Rex is Donald’s dog. Donald is loud. Donald is big. Donald is bigger than Rex. Donald is mean to Rex. When Rex speaks, Donald tweets. Donald tweets like a bird. Tweet, Donald, tweet. Donald’s tweets hurt Rex. Donald says: Bad, Rex! Do not speak, Rex. Rex, you do not speak for the U.S.A. Only Donald speaks for the U.S.A.

...

DANG.

old throbbing gristle sounds so good in 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-watchdog-opens-probe-into-travel-by-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke/2017/10/02/3f24fbf8-a7ad-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_zinkeprobe-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

cheap-ass rich people.

The news was making me feel shitty so I figured, hey, I'll watch some lighthearted episodes of Newsradio while I do stuff around the house. I shit you not: back-to-back, an episode about Mr. James absurdly running as an unqualified billionaire president followed by another with a b-plot about a hilarious Dilbert strip which was capped off with a Scott Adams cameo. And now I want to die.

― this is ridcolus (Old Lunch), Monday, October 2, 2017 4:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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weirdly I also watched these two episodes last night. somehow the presence of Scott Adams was much more disturbing than the Trump parallels

I immediately skipped to another episode when Adams showed up, the one where Phil Hartman was fretting about a psychic having predicted his death. And then I turned the TV off.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353571-trump-what-happened-in-las-vegas-is-in-many-ways-a-miracle

he really does have the best words

managing to go lower than expectations every time

ok even I have to admit that's pretty jaw-dropping

"What happened in Las Vegas is in many ways a miracle. The police department has done such an incredible job, and we’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,” Trump told reporters.

“But I do have to say how quickly the police department was able to get in was really very much of a miracle. They’ve done an amazing job.”

eh, he's obviously talking about the police response being a miracle. this is nothing.

TBF (as loath as I am TBF to Trump), he's talking about the swift police response being miraculous.

xpost

I wish news orgs would refrain from issuing headlines that mislead the reader into believing that Trump said something mind-blowingly offensive when there are so very many instances in any given day when similar headlines would be wholly accurate.

yeah, it's entirely unnecessary, but CLICKS

Yeah, as much of a moron as he already is on a daily basis, the frequent willful misreading of his statements is tiresome and pointless.

Going all the way back to "bigly" (I'm on team "big league")

Trump: "I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, you've thrown our budget out of whack"

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 3, 2017

god what a fucking dick

See? It takes him no time at all to vividly illustrate his crippling sociopathy with a single utterance.

It's not miraculous that the police responded. This is still an example of this insane fartballoon's inability to process anything in terms other than that of the huckster, slathering inelegant and inappropriate adjectives of praise onto whatever subject that circumstances require to come out of his mouth.

“In Texas and in Florida, we get an ‘A+’, and I’ll tell you what, I think we’ve done just as good in Puerto Rico and it’s actually a much tougher situation,” he continued.

he was *THIS* close to giving himself a grade for Puerto Rico even as the power is still out for everyone

this close to saying "I" and not "we", too.

"Just as good" sets my teeth on edge, even tho I know he's a moron.

we’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by

Sure you will.

We absolutely will be talking about them. Talking and talking and talking. So much talking.

a friend posted on FB that his abuela's best friend died in PR because he couldn't get to a hospital in time

But the budget

Trump to PR official: "So what’s your death count? Sixteen? You can be very proud, only sixteen instead of thousands in Katrina."

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) October 3, 2017

sic otm

progress of a sort

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-wake-of-las-vegas-shootings-no-plans-to-bring-gun-silencer-bill-to-house-floor-ryan-says/2017/10/03/04575ce6-a848-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_house-guns-1225pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.70985d5c6e7a

(bill almost certainly would have passed)

Opponents of the measure say that the silencer provision, in particular, could make it harder to identify a shooter during an incident such as the one in Las Vegas.

But Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), the bill’s sponsor, said in an interview Monday that the silencer provision would have had little bearing on the massacre in Nevada — pointing to media reports that the shooter may have had more than a dozen firearms, some of which may have been illegal.

“He’s already breaking the law shooting an automatic weapon that wasn’t registered, so what’s going to stop him, had he chosen to shoot a suppressed weapon, to do that?” Duncan said. “The thing is, and the thing he probably realized is, it doesn’t make any difference — it’s still loud.”

"i mean what can ya do right fellas??"

I wonder how long we have until every American will be required to be constantly discharging at least one firearm (except while sleeping or using the restroom).

We should abolish all US laws. I mean, people are just gonna break them anyway, right?

Okay Jeff Duncan, can we talk about the more than a dozen maybe illegal firearms then. Or is this not a good time?

Actually 23 at the hotel, 19 at his home? Does any of this seem excessive? In any way?

Just out of curiosity: by the time the Constitution had been amended a second time, had weapons tech progressed beyond that shit where you had to tamp some gunpowder down into a gun before you could shoot it one time?

Except? Where do you think the phrase "Shoot the shit" comes from?

Posts obv.

https://thinkprogress.org/united-nations-gay-death-penalty-36e6a5101ec9/

The United Nations approved a resolution Friday condemning the use of the death penalty in a discriminatory fashion, including its use to punish “apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, and consensual same-sex relations.” But the United States joined a minority of states who voted against it . . .

Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were among the 13 countries that joined the United States in rejecting the resolution, which was introduced by Belgium, Benin, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, and Switzerland. A total of 27 countries supported it.

The resolution notably doesn’t call for the end to the death penalty. It simply condemns its usage in a discriminatory fashion. Besides the implications for people with same-sex orientations, ILGA also notes that when used to punish adultery, the death penalty is disproportionately imposed on women.

Just keepin' our options open, I guess.

had weapons tech progressed beyond that shit where you had to tamp some gunpowder down into a gun before you could shoot it one time?

nope. a well-trained soldier could fire at a rate of about one round per 90 seconds, until his gun got too hot and could explode in his hands or in his face.

Roffle

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/tom-price-ouster-paul-ryan-243413

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, called the Wisconsin Republican minutes before the departure was announced Friday afternoon. It was a heads-up call, one White House official said.

Ryan urged Kelly to reconsider and touted the Georgia Republican’s experience in Congress and work in the administration, one of the people familiar with the call said.

Price has long had the speaker’s ear on policy matters and was part of Ryan’s old “Jedi Council,” a group of fiscal conservative rabble-rousers who used to powwow when Republicans were in the minority.

But Kelly made clear that Price was out, and the call quickly ended, one of the people said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/13/the-men-who-wrote-the-2nd-amendment-would-never-recognize-an-ar-15/?utm_term=.6f7c2fa3a491

There's apparently a supposed prototype gun that's held up as proof that automatic/repeating fire(?) weapons did exist, experimentally, at the time of the constitution, and this one prototype gun has been held up in legal arguments and used as the basis for policy.

Soooo there's a BONKERS TWITTER THREAD that I can't find right now, in which someone reveals that the famous prototype gun is a FAKE, manufactured in fact BY HIS GRANDFATHER. It gets more bonkers from there. If anyone has seen it, pls link.

trump throwing rolls of paper towels into the crowd at chapel. “A lot of love in this room,” he says pic.twitter.com/Q2wDEsYWfQ

— Justin Sink (@justinsink) October 3, 2017

I wish news orgs would refrain from issuing headlines that mislead the reader into believing that Trump said something mind-blowingly offensive when there are so very many instances in any given day when similar headlines would be wholly accurate.

oh I definitely agree with this but the fact that the president is rushing to find the silver lining in a historic massacre seems a bit tone deaf to me, idk

GOT IT.

So in the 1970s the Smithsonian acquired a rifle that right wingers use as evidence that the founding fathers anticipated machine guns. 1/x

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) October 2, 2017

Ryan's old “Jedi Council,” a group of fiscal conservative rabble-rousers who used to powwow

METAPHOR. OVERLOAD. CANNOT. COMPUTE.

Did they smoke a peace pipe and have a luau while thy muckraked, hobnobbed, and had a come-to-Jesus meeting about overthrowing the galactic empire?

lol