The Trump presidency

[Ming]

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

Thing is i grew up believing that ownership of important parts of society (like opinion forming platforms) were best not left in public hands. Russian propaganda. The usual jive. But then you grow up, read Manufacturing Consent and realize its just one propaganda machine against another. The 21st century seems to be the age of the bullshitter. It's always about power. Just that.
ETA: basic error!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Protests planned as Trump sons visit Vancouver for Trump Tower grand opening

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donald Trump Managed to Make Oscars Screw-Up About Him

 

[J Ed]

I saw that. The only way I can sleep tonight is to believe that is a programmed clone sent to confuse us.

Watch liberals embrace the man responsible for so much of what is wrong in the world today, all in the name of opposing a president who it is difficult to imagine existing without him.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I don't see anyone 'embracing' Bush. Bush as President was an idiotic, destructive clown.

That's the whole point: in comparison with Trump, an idiotic, destructive clown looks like more of a statesman.

 

[Yossarian]

More ketchup on your steak, Mr President?

What asshole goes out to dinner at one of the nation capital’s most-acclaimed steakhouses, orders a 30-day dry aged New York strip, then asks the chef to cook it well done? And if that’s not enough, eats it with ketchup like a 5-year-old?

http://www.avclub.com/article/president-trump-orders-his-steak-well-done-ketchup-251081

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Turns out that the Fox News 'Swedish Immigration Expert' was himself a violent immigrant - to the US:

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter also said Bildt had been convicted of a violent offense while living in Virginia and was given a one-year prison sentence in 2014. According to documents from Arlington General District Court in Virginia, 11 months of Bilt's sentence were suspended, reports the Independent.

Fox News' 'expert' on violent immigrants in Sweden convicted of a violent crime in the U.S.

 

[J Ed]

I don't see anyone 'embracing' Bush. Bush as President was an idiotic, destructive clown.

That's the whole point: in comparison with Trump, an idiotic, destructive clown looks like more of a statesman.

The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return | Editorial

 

[bimble]

Is there nothing that Soros won't do ?

(20 bomb threats just yesterday to jewish community centres / schools in 13 States). He also found the time to smash up another cemetery, this time in Philadelphia.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return | Editorial

Fair enough: I wasn't thinking about, nor including, the opinions of the Manchester Guardian or British liberals [or at least one - the writer of the op/ed piece] in my comment. Possibly, liberals in Greece might like Bush: it's equally [ir]relevant.

 

[Pickman's model]

More ketchup on your steak, Mr President?



President Trump orders his steak well done with ketchup

Is Jackie Kennedy so soon forgotten?

 

[belboid]

Generally when the liberal press in the US say Democrats need to "reach out" and "understand" they don't mean that at all though. It's just a message to the left wing of the party and left-wing activists to stop it and get back with the programme as usual, the same as it is when people tell Corbyn to "reconnect with the Labour base".

Oh yes, as a rule it means either 'give them something token' (50c on the minimum wage) or 'play up to the racism' (call out, say, 'superpredators').

But there are other ways of doing it, and refusing to countenance any notion of doing so just says 'fuck you' and drives such people further into the arms of the bigoted right.

 

[belboid]

Works pretty well Stateside. The association of lower decile labor labour to being exploited 19th century slaves is sticky. Thanks to their crazed healthcare arrangements even comfortably professional Americans are dependent on their employers in a way Europeans are not. It's plagued by far too many predatory lawyers. I quite like it but it's a land of the differently free.

Name me a country that doesn't completely fuck over its lowest decile (who are also the least likely to vote, so, hey, fuck 'em).

 

[killer b]

More ketchup on your steak, Mr President?



President Trump orders his steak well done with ketchup

it's like a snobby take on this hit:

 

[killer b]

Seriously, who the fuck are they talking to in that article? The only people who give the slightest shit about how someone else has their steak are boorish snobs, and everyone else - everyone - thinks they're wankers.

 

[CrabbedOne]

Name me a country that doesn't completely fuck over its lowest decile (who are also the least likely to vote, so, hey, fuck 'em).

There's a pretty wide difference in that respect between the US and say Iceland, take a look at Gini stats here. The US is basically a 3rd world country in terms of inequality.

On the other hand its actually very prosperous and awful lot of Americans are doing rather well but still prone to kick down hard at folks trying to claw their way up the food chain. It's a Devil take the hindmost society where a lot of people see poverty as the mark of the damned. It just got more so and Trump is a pretty fitting leader for them.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On MEE 13 US Jewish centres hit by bomb threats amid far-right hostility

I really thought the US had put its historically virulent anti-semitism to bed; a "Judeo-Christian" country of Israel lovers. But put a vocal bigot in the Whitehouse and up it bubbles like reflux. Even one with a Jewish daughter.

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Bloomberg Trump: Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated

Except everybody in Congress.

 

[teqniq]

The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return | Editorial

Fuck. Irony is truly dead.

 

[belboid]

There's a pretty wide difference in that respect between the US and say Iceland, take a look at Gini stats here. The US is basically a 3rd world country in terms of inequality.

On the other hand its actually very prosperous and awful lot of Americans are doing rather well but still prone to kick down hard at folks trying to claw their way up the food chain. It's a Devil take the hindmost society where a lot of people see poverty as the mark of the damned. It just got more so and Trump is a pretty fitting leader for them.

Isn't the (now) traditional comparator Denmark?

 

[8den]

Seriously, who the fuck are they talking to in that article? The only people who give the slightest shit about how someone else has their steak are boorish snobs, and everyone else - everyone - thinks they're wankers.

I think it's about Trump's personal image "classy", "the best" and whenever we see him he's acting anything but.

We can discuss the merits vs a vie well done v medium rare (some people have dietary, or personal reasons not to like semi cooked meat. But we can agree on thing. Ketchup? On a 24 day aged steak. Thats like ordering a fifteen year old single malt scotch with diet coke.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[killer b]

But we can agree on thing. Ketchup? On a 24 day aged steak. Thats like ordering a fifteen year old single malt scotch with diet coke.

I don't give a shit. People can have their steak however they like.

TBH I'd happily drink 15 year old malt scotch with coke too, just to piss off the scotch wankers. This is how everyone in the world feels, apart from scotch wankers.

 

[TomUS]

On Bloomberg Trump: Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated

Except everybody in Congress.

Even congressional Repubs didn't know it could be so complicated. They screamed for years repeal and replace, but still no replacement plan at all. They are in a bind of their making.

 

[8den]

I don't give a shit. People can have their steak however they like.

TBH I'd happily drink 15 year old malt scotch with coke too, just to piss off the scotch wankers. This is how everyone in the world feels, apart from scotch wankers.

 

[camouflage]

I think it's about Trump's personal image "classy", "the best" and whenever we see him he's acting anything but.

We can discuss the merits vs a vie well done v medium rare (some people have dietary, or personal reasons not to like semi cooked meat. But we can agree on thing. Ketchup? On a 24 day aged steak. Thats like ordering a fifteen year old single malt scotch with diet coke.

you are simply too... common, to understand the many and various subtle dimensions of Ketchup.

 

[camouflage]

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Olga Korbut: "You mean... I could have been eating this stuff all along? Why was I not informed of this sooner!!?"

 

[8den]

you are simply too... common, to understand the many and various subtle dimensions of Ketchup.

Quite possibly I once spent a fiver by accident one posh organic ketchup in a shop in Madia Vale. But by the time I got around to eating it, it had mold in it. So clearly my plate has not developed. I just know my four year old likes to slather everything in ketchup, and he once ate dog biscuits

 

[camouflage]

Quite possibly I once spent a fiver by accident one posh organic ketchup in a shop in Madia Vale. But by the time I got around to eating it, it had mold in it. So clearly my plate has not developed. I just know my four year old likes to slather everything in ketchup, and he once ate dog biscuits

Pedigree Chum's the best, anything less would be weird.

 

[8den]

People are freaking out over a photo of Kellyanne Conway in the Oval Office

Imagine if there was photo of Michelle Obama feet up shoes on in a couch in the oval office. Fox & Friends would have 5 Aneurysms on their hands.