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We need more journalists to explain sacrifice.

 

ROFLMAO. "Without nefarious motive"?!

White House: Conway acted 'without nefarious motive' in promoting Ivanka Trump's brand

Do you have to have a nefarious motive for it to be illegal to be a commercial shill for the Presidents family while acting as the President's mouthpiece?

 

Kansas shooting victim's wife asks the question in every immigrant's mind - CNN.com


"She ends it with "the question that is in every immigrant's mind, DO WE BELONG HERE?
Is this the same country we dreamed of and is it still secure to raise our families and children here?"

You want to feature a widow at your fucking speech and use her to sent a message, Trump? You picked the wrong woman. A SEAL's wife knows that he could die in training or on a mission on any given day. He knew that higher command sometimes screws the pooch and sets up fucked up missions, or uses bad intel.

This woman's husband stopped for a drink with a friend on the way home from work in a bar where he was a regular. Because he had brown skin and an accent some ignorant peckerhead shot him because all furriners are here to steal jobs and commit terrorism, especially the sand n******.

 

I have a higher bar, as well. But he did actually look more presidential this time, so it's not bullshit. It's reality.

Maybe he sinks right back into his childish nonsense. I hope he doesn't.

Seems like the liberal wing would rather he continue to be a dumpster fire, so they can continue to bitch about that.

 

Nothing to get all burned up about

 

I want the end result of this to be him and his dumbshit army to be shamed back into silence and/or irrelevance. No more, no less.

I'm not going to celebrate him for last night as if two hours of being a normal, slightly delusional adult makes up for 40-plus years of insufferable douchebaggery.

The praise for him this morning reminds me of the old Chris Rock bit:

"I take care of my kids!"

"So what? You're supposed to take care of your kids, you dumb motherfucker!"

 

It's more that there is no trust that this time he's learned his lesson, grown up, determined to discipline himself and to act presidential. How many times has he said or done things that no one thought he could possibly get away with as a candidate? How many times have we said "Surely, after surviving that one, he's got to stop saying stupid and ill-considered things"? Hell, the Republicans were hoping desperately that after the election he would set aside crazy candidate Trump and don the mantle of Commander in Chief, and instead we got an ongoing tweetstorm about the crowd on the mall for his inauguration and how the only way that Hillary got more popular votes was because of millions of illegal ballots? I mean, surely it couldn't be because she got a shitpot of votes in New York and California, right?

He's *going* to be the President of the United States. Sure, there are those who would love to see continuing pratfalls for political reasons, but the vast majority of us intend to live here and would greatly prefer something resembling competence and effective governance of our country. This guy makes us long for the good old days under Bush and Cheney, and I'm not sure I have the rhetoric to improve on that.

Compare that last sentence to the fact that I still have this picture, and consider the implications.

 

I don't see why Trump should get credit for using a quieter voice to say he's going to create a government department of propaganda to demonize immigrants. That's some seriously Fascist shit right there. But so much of the Washington media routine is based on sucking up to power I'm not too surprised he got the credit.

 

that quote from Baldwin is a bit extreme and overarching. People who are sentimental are actually cruel at heart? Hmm. Most people I know who are weepy about wedding videos or looking at old photo albums are the furthest things from cruel or violently inhuman. I guess he's referring more to people who are showy about it.

 

#widowsareevil

 

Do we know if she was wearing something from Ivanka on the couch in the Oval Office?

 

Is Trump going to send a tens of thousands of troops back to Afghanistan?

Losing a War One Bad Metaphor at a Time