What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[scifisam]

Get a grip, folks. This is not any sort of useful memetic comparison. The first picture, of a flowering crab and a border full of tulips represents about 3 weeks of a gardens lifecycle (and nothing, that I can see to follow on apart from a rather dull shrub). Cannot really be held up as any definitive sign of anything, since I have no idea when the second pic was unveiled but it also represents a teeny amount of time (and space). Gardens are a process, not an event and resist comparisons based on singular images.
Absolutely no need to sully horticulture with tawdry political shittery (although I realise capitalism has it's filthy fingers in everything...including many of the wholly ridiculous conceits of garden design).

Yup. I've seen that white flowers picture before and I think it was in January, or at least some time when you'd expect most flowers in DC blooming to be white, with a few blues perhaps. The other picture was in June or so, where you'll see lots of vibrant colours.

The actual controversy was about cutting down the crabapple trees. They were said to be diseased and had to cut down. I'm often sceptical about trees needing to be cut down, and property developers tend to hate trees, but crabapples do get diseases. The last remaining tree is not a crabapple, is it?

It does fit with the minimalist goth Christmas horror movie set Melania apparently had a hand in, but for once it's fake news.

 

[killer b]

well, yes, agreed. I wans't looking down on him, more criticising 'the content of his character' (to borrow from MLK)

You were criticising their aesthetic choices over a fucking rose garden and some Christmas trees. Whats that got to do with the content of his character?

 

[krtek a houby]

Every rose has its thorn

 

[Yossarian]

see also sneering pricks who go on about him having ketchup on steak. It doesn’t fucking matter. Putting children in cages matters, yes. An ‘unsophisticated diet’ so what.

Ketchup on steak was, weirdly, the one issue where Democrats and Republicans, black and white, men and women, and young and old were united in opposition - those who called themselves "very liberal" were most likely to approve, but hard to see a way Trump could play that to his advantage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/survey-even-trump-voters-are-appalled-by-ketchup-on-steak/

 

[a_chap]

Ketchup on steak was, weirdly, the one issue where Democrats and Republicans, black and white, men and women, and young and old were united in opposition - those who called themselves "very liberal" were most likely to approve, but hard to see a way Trump could play that to his advantage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/survey-even-trump-voters-are-appalled-by-ketchup-on-steak/

Shamed as I am to admit it but ketchup on steak isn't at all bad.

When I lived in South Africa in the 70s Monkey Gland Steak was pretty much on every restaurant menu.

When I eventually plucked up the courage to try one I discovered:

1. it's really very nice
2. it's basically tomato sauce on a steak
3. it doesn't contain any money parts

 

[krtek a houby]

Shamed as I am to admit it but ketchup on steak isn't at all bad.

When I lived in South Africa in the 70s Monkey Gland Steak was pretty much on every restaurant menu.

When I eventually plucked up the courage to try one I discovered:

1. it's really very nice
2. it's basically tomato sauce on a steak
3. it doesn't contain any money parts

Not even a 50p baked in there for good luck?

 

[two sheds]

You were criticising their aesthetic choices over a fucking rose garden and some Christmas trees. Whats that got to do with the content of his character?

It was originally just a throwaway comment, not sure it's all that important. Is it something socialists should be arguing about like this?

I take your point that we should be criticizing Trump for his policies rather than his (her) taste in gardens. And there's also the danger of playing into Trump's tactics of winding up the libs. But in that case we should only be criticizing the tories for their policies and not Johnson's propensity to hide in a fridge or Rees Mogg putting his feet up on the parliament comfy chairs.

 

[Streathamite]

You were criticising their aesthetic choices over a fucking rose garden and some Christmas trees. Whats that got to do with the content of his character?

err, taste? which I mentioned several times. You really are making a huge, entire mountain range over a semi-mythical molehill. Frankly, your arguments are bizarre.
And I have criticised Trump over his policies and values - repeatedly.

 

[killer b]

Who decides what's tasteful? You think that's something 'innate', not something that rich people hand down to us?

 

[two sheds]

artists more like, I'd have thought, not always renowned for having money

 

[Streathamite]

Who decides what's tasteful? You think that's something 'innate', not something that rich people hand down to us?

Jesus, get off this ridiculous, clapped out high horse of yours. It can be something dictated by class - and it can, equally, be down to each and every individual's gut feeling

 

[Streathamite]

artists more like, I'd have thought, not always renowned for having money

yes, that as well

 

[Streathamite]

Jesus, get off this ridiculous, clapped out high horse of yours. It can be something dictated by class - and it can, equally, be down to each and every individual's gut feeling

to add ; do let the rest of us know when you've finished chassing down this daft ideologicl rabbit-hole

 

[butchersapron]

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France’s leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind.

In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdieu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a French person’s choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions—that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the “California sports” such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgment.

 

[tim]

Shamed as I am to admit it but ketchup on steak isn't at all bad.

When I lived in South Africa in the 70s Monkey Gland Steak was pretty much on every restaurant menu.

When I eventually plucked up the courage to try one I discovered:

1. it's really very nice
2. it's basically tomato sauce on a steak
3. it doesn't contain any money parts

The fact that you needed to blend in whilst using restaurants to covertly meet comrades, and plot the overthrow of the Apartheid Regime fully justifies your decision to opt for ketchup slathered steak.

 

[krtek a houby]

Wonder if Trump supported the apartheid regime, back in the day? He certainly supports white farmers. Or he did two year back.

Trump’s Peculiar Sympathy for White South Africans

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

So in his latest interview the dangerous orange buffoon was rambling about “people arriving on a plane in “black uniforms”, but that he “ can’t talk about it”.....implying it was some secret briefing, or alternatively, some conspiraloon shit he read on a tinfoil site that his advisers told him not to talk about publicly for fear of appearing even more of a paranoid fool than we already knew him to be.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Trump also said he believes that Biden is being controlled by people in the “dark shadows” who are also controlling what happens on the streets.....

 

[bimble]

yep just saw it Jeremiah18.17

Hard to imagine that anyone not already in his camp would be swayed by these mad mutterings but who knows, i am usually wrong. When he says this army of anti-Americans thugs in dark uniforms come from 'a certain city' does he mean new york ? what is he on about?

 

[existentialist]

yep just saw it Jeremiah18.17

Hard to imagine that anyone not already in his camp would be swayed by these mad mutterings but who knows, i am usually wrong. When he says this army of anti-Americans thugs in dark uniforms come from 'a certain city' does he mean new york ? what is he on about?

Atlantis, I expect

 

[Johnny Doe]

Have we had this:

Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted

Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics that was made by a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory -- a post that President Donald Trump had retweeted earlier in the day.

edition.cnn.com

My friend, who has gone down a conspiraloon rabbit hole, now genuinely believes that America only has 9k COVID deaths and the 183k reported previously was artificially inflated.

 

[steveo87]

Every rose has its thorn

Thanks for the ear worm!

 

[tim]

yep just saw it Jeremiah18.17

Hard to imagine that anyone not already in his camp would be swayed by these mad mutterings but who knows, i am usually wrong. When he says this army of anti-Americans thugs in dark uniforms come from 'a certain city' does he mean new york ? what is he on about?

He means Jews, of course. Who else in the world of conspiracies pull strings and come from that "certain city". The rumours online , which may well be true, that the two men murdered at Kenosha are Jewish is something he is clearly keen to use to his advantage to bolster the racist vote.

 

[bimble]

He means Jews, of course. Who else in the world of conspiracies pull strings and come from that "certain city". The rumours online , which may well be true, that the two men murdered at Kenosha are Jewish is something he is clearly keen to use to his advantage to bolster the racist vote.

I’m not sure. Think it’s deliberately vague , so all his listeners can fill in with the scary monsters of their choosing.

 

[WouldBe]

So in his latest interview the dangerous orange buffoon was rambling about “people arriving on a plane in “black uniforms”, but that he “ can’t talk about it”.....implying it was some secret briefing, or alternatively, some conspiraloon shit he read on a tinfoil site that his advisers told him not to talk about publicly for fear of appearing even more of a paranoid fool than we already knew him to be.

Men in black eh. Trump had better watch out then as he's the one that looks most like an alien.

 

[Spandex]

Men in black eh. Trump had better watch out then as he's the one that looks most like an alien.

Wait til he watches Wild Wild West before his next interview and then claims Biden has unleashed a giant steam powered tarantula on Texas...

 

[gosub]

I'd be more worried about zombies

Herman Cain Tweets Coronavirus Not That Deadly—Despite Having Died From It

A Sunday tweet from an undead Cain sparked derision and raised questions about who controls verified accounts after the owner is deceased.

www.forbes.com

 

[a_chap]

Atlantis, I expect

That explains why he hates CNN so much.

 

[agricola]

I suppose the question is whether it would be possible to hide in light shadows?

 

[sunnysidedown]

Welcome aboard anarcho airlines