Trump

[KlaxonCow]

A little light relief.

Trump visited a school and, joining the kids for a colouring exercise, coloured in his American flag incorrectly, inexplicably adding a blue stripe to it.



(And it's not even on an alternating line, for pity's sake.)

[IronGiant]

Trump refusing to respond to reporters when asked about John McCain

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status ... 4708436993

What a giant man baby he is.

[PFVA]

Trump is too busy to pay attention to the death of a national hero he didn't like and who didn't like him. He's busy tweeting:

President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging the search results for the phrase "Trump news".

In a tweet, he accused the technology giant of prioritising negative news stories from what he described as the "national left-wing media".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45331210

[gilesgoat]

Trump is too busy to pay attention to the death of a national hero he didn't like and who didn't like him. He's busy tweeting:

President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging the search results for the phrase "Trump news".

In a tweet, he accused the technology giant of prioritising negative news stories from what he described as the "national left-wing media".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45331210

All this time he spends complaining about this and that .. has he actually done ANYTHING for USA that actually resulted in "something good"

[F-ZeroOne]

Allegedly, the economy. Whether thats directly down to him (as he claims; remember, if he goes everyone in the US will be paupers) or coincidence is debatable.

[F-ZeroOne]

Question, Mr. Trump - if CNN are "fake", why do you keep letting them into White House press conferences and the like? Are your press screening procedures that bad?

[tufty]

Impotent tweetstorm in 3 - 2 - ... https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/stormy ... o-minutes/

[Rubisco]

Question, Mr. Trump - if CNN are "fake", why do you keep letting them into White House press conferences and the like? Are your press screening procedures that bad?

They have the first amendment right to be there, but it doesn't say anything about a right to be treated with respect

[Deckard]

Oh dear Mr Trump - at least get the right logos if you are going to start photoshopping stuff....

https://www.carbonated.tv/news/trump-ob ... -promotion

[F-ZeroOne]

Extract from John McCains daughter eulogy at his funeral, can't imagine who she might be alluding to:

"We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served.

"The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold, she is resourceful and confident and secure, she meets her responsibilities, she speaks quietly because she is strong.

"America does not boast, because she does not need to. The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again, because America was always great."

(I am fully aware that there are lots of people who disagree with the idea of John McCain as a "great man"; I would almost certainly have disagreed with him on many things).

[IronGiant]

In light of the recent events concerning the GOP and Kavanaugh, here's an extremely 'on the nose' cartoon

https://twitter.com/jwoodgett/status/10 ... 7270162432

[KlaxonCow]

The cartoon in question:



(I'm also just pulling a copy off Twitter's servers, as there's already talk of folks being "triggered" and the politics are incendiary, so I don't trust Twitter to maintain "freedom of speech" anymore.)

[merman]

Do you know what struck me the most about the Kavanagh hearings this week (apart from how hysterical and out of control he sounded in comparison to his accuser)?

That the man he is nominated to replace on the Supreme Court - Clarence Thomas - ALSO went through a Senate hearing on allegations of sexual assault before his confirmation.

Sheer proof that the system needs to change, and that the GOP is definitely not the party to change things.

But then, the Republican states are doing their best to save the party at the midterms - from gerrymandering (redrawing district boundaries) to voter suppression (requiring photo ID in some of the poorest states, where those voters are least likely to have that sort of ID - and both tactics the Tories are planning to use over here in the UK).

[PFVA]

But then, the Republican states are doing their best to save the party at the midterms - from gerrymandering (redrawing district boundaries) to voter suppression (requiring photo ID in some of the poorest states, where those voters are least likely to have that sort of ID - and both tactics the Tories are planning to use over here in the UK).

Interesting contradictions as republicans in general and the extreme right ones in particular were the ones who most opposed Picture IDs, and even IDs of any kind.

[F-ZeroOne]

Trump continues as contender for Worlds Most Articulate Man; here he is on the FBI investigation into the Kavanaugh situation:

" 'They're going to do whatever they have to do, whatever it is they do. They'll be doing things that we have never even thought of. And hopefully at the conclusion everything will be fine,' the president said."

Meanwhile. the worlds least likely love affair continues:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... t-virginia