he's a weird dude. why is he so comfortable giving 86 minute speeches when he can't read a page of text?
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link
Supposedly the arena did eventually fill up. They allocated more tickets than seats largely because of no-shows and protest ticket claims.
Also the people who lined up days in advance were like less than 100 people lol. Some friends snapped pics of the losers
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 05:01 (four years ago) link
not really the "white working class" tbh
― Vape Store (crüt), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
It isn't socioeconomic status that binds them but rather an ill-defined and unending sense of grievance, of something having been taken from them or tarnished, probably by someone(s) brown. America has been whipped up into an incoherent froth and some people really dig a dude who'll keep up the whipping instead of calmly explaining that we should maybe just chill and appreciate that we don't have all that much to grouse about. Or didn't have, anyway.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
I just dont get it. A man so conspicously show-offy rich he has GOLD FUCKING TOILETS, and a foreign snoooty wife, and kids with trust funds and snooty handed-on-a-platter jobs, and fucking country clubs.
And this is the man white, working class, hardscrabble americans think is on their side?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce)
the money isn't the problem -- FDR and JFK had dough. It's, as OL said, the sense of grievance.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
I have friends and family members who are sensitive to trump news and have learned to avoid too much exposure or talking about it and I know there are ILXors who feel the same. But I haven't really felt that way...my feeling has been that's it is the (perversely compelling) reality, you can't just hide from it.
But I just saw clips from last night's rally and really don't think I'm cut out for this all over again.
This situation is sickening.
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
There's always the Madonna album.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
if it comes to that okay fine
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
My parents, on the verge of their ninth decade, have begun to say that they'll emigrate from the USA if the current president wins a second term. Given the heat I've gotten from them for quitting the country, I've been struck by that. The lack of seriousness of USA politics juxtaposed with their daily experiences with USA healthcare, have tipped them into despair. Obviously they're resorting to cliché, but I'm surprised to hear it from people as old and settled as they are.
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
I just dont get it. A man so conspicously show-offy rich he has GOLD FUCKING TOILETS, and a foreign snoooty wife, and kids with trust funds and snooty handed-on-a-platter jobs, and fucking country clubs.And this is the man white, working class, hardscrabble americans think is on their side?
well, yeah...he's just like them isn't he? whines about everything, desperate for approval, scared of dark-skinned people...yeah, he lives a lavish lifestyle, but isn't that exactly how these folks would live if they had megarich dads?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
It's also aspirational. If a bloviating, spasmic blob of fetid flesh can coast to worldwide fame and the highest office of the land with no demonstrable skillset and an overinflated sense of his worth (both personal and financial), why, anybody can! USA! USA!
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
he lack of seriousness of USA politics juxtaposed with their daily experiences with USA healthcare, have tipped them into despair.
feel this. the stupidity is part of what is so horrifying.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
I think it's because a lot of the unserious people don't yet have first-hand experience of the consequences of their lack of seriousness. Or, having experienced it, lack an understanding of causation sufficient to grasp that their persistent black eyes are a consequence of continually punching themselves in the face.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
"I just dont get it. A man so conspicously show-offy rich he has GOLD FUCKING TOILETS, and a foreign snoooty wife, and kids with trust funds and snooty handed-on-a-platter jobs, and fucking country clubs.And this is the man white, working class, hardscrabble americans think is on their side?"
He represents the most easily imaginable rich guy fantasy for lots of (not all!!!) lower middle class suburbanites; in particular those who don't fantasize about winning the lottery and investing in stocks and art, instead fantasize about excessive gaudy vegas trophy shit like GOLD FUCKING TOILETS and buying toys.
― Evan, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
xpost woke up, sheeple!
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
the information age and social media have mainly empowered moron-americans by constantly stimulating them into persistent and effective political action let’s deal with it.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
I think they just vote for him because he's a white supremacist. I can't think of a single Republican belief that doesn't ultimately boil down to "if it helps minorities or immigrants, I'm against it".
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
xpost If by 'deal with it' you mean 'start snatching smartphones from everyone I encounter and chucking them into the nearest storm drain or garbage disposal' I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Idiot Schumer Part 9637
Ask your local Death Squad... https://t.co/YbB9QeUsaZ— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 19, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Normally the idea is that they would ask at embassies, no?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
I mean, that is the idea when it's proposed by the left in Europe.
He is "smart" and "educated" and "successful" and "cosmopolitan" yet has the same boorishness, same Dunning-Krugerness, same facile solutions to complex problems, same prejudices as they do
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
The lesson being that, for some, the loud + persistent repetition of utter bullshit trumps (pardon the pun) readily-observable reality.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
He represents the most easily imaginable rich guy fantasy for lots of (not all!!!) lower middle class suburbanites; in particular those who don't fantasize about winning the lottery and investing in stocks and art, instead fantasize about excessive gaudy vegas trophy shit like GOLD FUCKING TOILETS and buying toys
i def think this extends beyond "lower middle class suburbanites"-- there are extremely comfortable upper-middle class ppl ) who feel this way. so many shitbags who inherited their dad's chevy dealership who think their imagined travails would be lessened by getting rid of the minimum wage and getting to say the "n" word with impunity.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Petit bourgeoisie, basically.
― suzy, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Roy Moore is running for senator in Alabama again, in 2020
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Asked what he'll do differently now versus his 2017 Senate bid, Roy Moore says: "I would like to make more personal contact with people."— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 20, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEPwn47XkAMHMUa.jpg
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
ts: roy moore vs todd t. squirrel
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
the good people of Alabama would never make such a terrible decision as to choose roy moore as their candidate
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
maybe i'm late here but i for one can't wait for Hope Hicks to deliver the decisive blow to Trump's presidency, i heard she's not returning his calls and has been completely cooperative. Think we finally got him~
― omar little, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Every time I see her name, I have a mental image of Hope Solo testifying, only I keep forgetting what Hope Solo looks like so I end up imagining Lindsey Vonn
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
omar def onto something, this will be the moment he finally becomes not president.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1503081239534.gif
― omar little, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
lohan plays her in the biopic
― hollow your fart (m bison), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Thought for sure she was going to take a big bite out of something at the end there, perhaps like a baked ham or a kitten.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
she should have thrown a rock into a lake at the end
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
6 of the 18 members of Illinois' congressional delegation, and another 70 of the state legislature, have gone on record saying that impeachment proceedings should begin. i'm sure the same is true in many other states. seems like the momentum is continuing to shift against trump on impeachment
― i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
The level of obstruction to congressional oversight warrants it imo
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
you'd think all the crimes committed by cabinet members would warrant it, too. did that fleshy bitch Tom Price ever reimburse taxpayers for his travel expenses what feels like a thousand years ago?
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
it's amazing someone my age was a major player in this ghoulish saga
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Hope Hicks, Who Saw Everything and Said Nothing, Just Exposed Donald TrumpHer stilettos clicking down the marble halls of the Rayburn Building was the sound of the stone wall cracking, from the inside out.
from the daily beast. lol.
this is the most nothing story.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
uhhh?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-approves-strikes-on-iran-but-then-abruptly-pulls-back/ar-AADaA3K?ocid=spartanntp
― frogbs, Friday, 21 June 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
There it is...
AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning the U.S. against using force on Iran, saying it would have catastrophic consequences.— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 20, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 21 June 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
This is obviously part of a threaded tweet, but still feels awfully deliberate:
....Death to America. I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 21 June 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
So 150 are still alive this morning who would have been dead so that's got to be a good thing, right?
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 21 June 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
I mean Fuck Trump obviously.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 21 June 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
A source told me 30 minutes ago that Trump was pleased with his own performance last night, loved being in command by ordering the strikes and by then ordering the stand-down. And the president just... tweeted it. https://t.co/tUPSym7inn— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 21, 2019
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 June 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
of course "sir" is the real chef's kiss in that tweet. really surprised we didn't hear the General was in tears
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 21 June 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
A source told me 30 minutes ago that Trump was pleased with his own performance last night, loved being in command by ordering the strikes and by then ordering the stand-down. And the president just... tweeted it. https://t.co/tUPSym7inn— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 21, 2019― Frederik B, Friday, June 21, 2019 9:34 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fucking hell, can't we get someone to turn this motherfucker on to video games?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 21 June 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link