A day without stupid?

[Loren Pechtel]

He still thinks he has done more in 9 months than any other President. The man is deluded. W had already passed the massive tax cut at his point.

Of course he has. You just left out "stupid stuff", it comes before "more".

 

[bilby]

He still thinks he has done more in 9 months than any other President. The man is deluded. W had already passed the massive tax cut at his point.

Of course he has. You just left out "stupid stuff", it comes before "more".

You left out "unbelievably fucking"; It comes before "stupid".

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Of course he has. You just left out "stupid stuff", it comes before "more".

You left out "unbelievably fucking"; It comes before "stupid".

That's just an intensifier, it doesn't negate the meaning. Thus I'm not wrong.

 

[bilby]

You left out "unbelievably fucking"; It comes before "stupid".

That's just an intensifier, it doesn't negate the meaning. Thus I'm not wrong.

I didn't say you were wrong; Just incomplete.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

That's just an intensifier, it doesn't negate the meaning. Thus I'm not wrong.

I didn't say you were wrong; Just incomplete.

Give LP a break. He just volunteered to take over this board and the Secular Cafe so his attention is elsewhere at the moment.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump has handed the microphone over to Cohn to help contribute to the stupid.

If we allow a family to keep another $1,000, they can renovate their kitchen, they can buy a new car, they can take a family vacation.

That'd be the family of 4 making $100k a year. That extra $1000 in tax savings would lead to all sort of possibilities, maybe even buy a sports franchise!

 

[sharon45]

Trump has handed the microphone over to Cohn to help contribute to the stupid.

If we allow a family to keep another $1,000, they can renovate their kitchen, they can buy a new car, they can take a family vacation.

That'd be the family of 4 making $100k a year. That extra $1000 in tax savings would lead to all sort of possibilities, maybe even buy a sports franchise!

That could buy almost two pairs of earrings, or a pair for great evenings out on the town, and another only worn during house and garden work.

 

[Ford]

So by now you've no doubt heard that the Mayor of San Juan (that's in Puerto Rico, an American territory) was critical of the federal response so far - which to be fair makes the Katrina-era Bush administration look like Johnny On The Spot - and Trump responded with the following:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

Three and a half million American citizens without power, potable water, food, etc. in the wake of two hurricanes, and Trump's main concern is that he's not being complimented.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So by now you've no doubt heard that the Mayor of San Juan (that's in Puerto Rico, an American territory) was critical of the federal response so far - which to be fair makes the Katrina-era Bush administration look like Johnny On The Spot - and Trump responded with the following:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

Three and a half million American citizens without power, potable water, food, etc. in the wake of two hurricanes, and Trump's main concern is that he's not being complimented.

Really, just how more unprofessional and spiteful can someone get in this job?

 

[blastula]

Heckuva job, Orangey!

 

[LordKiran]

So by now you've no doubt heard that the Mayor of San Juan (that's in Puerto Rico, an American territory) was critical of the federal response so far - which to be fair makes the Katrina-era Bush administration look like Johnny On The Spot - and Trump responded with the following:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

Three and a half million American citizens without power, potable water, food, etc. in the wake of two hurricanes, and Trump's main concern is that he's not being complimented.

And that's how Puerto Rico became independent.

 

[Ford]

NBC's slogan for their long-running weekly politics show is: "If It's Sunday, It's Meet the Press"


That's been eclipsed by "If It's Sunday, It's Another Idiotic Tweet-storm from Trump."

Recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that he was attempting to open back-channel negotiations with North Korea via China. You know, to keep us out of the whole nuclear war thing. Rex is (in addition to being the only cabinet level guy named Rex I can think of) one of the alleged "adults in the room" in the Trump administration.

Well this morning, Fragilego Mussolini tweeted:

I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...

And then:

...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!

What the actual fuck?

The President publicly kneecapped his own Secretary of State, and appears to have abandoned any and all possibility of resolving our conflict with North Korea by diplomacy.

 

[LordKiran]

NBC's slogan for their long-running weekly politics show is: "If It's Sunday, It's Meet the Press"


That's been eclipsed by "If It's Sunday, It's Another Idiotic Tweet-storm from Trump."

Recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that he was attempting to open back-channel negotiations with North Korea via China. You know, to keep us out of the whole nuclear war thing. Rex is (in addition to being the only cabinet level guy named Rex I can think of) one of the alleged "adults in the room" in the Trump administration.

Well this morning, Fragilego Mussolini tweeted:


And then:

...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!

What the actual fuck?

The President publicly kneecapped his own Secretary of State, and appears to have abandoned any and all possibility of resolving our conflict with North Korea by diplomacy.

For. Fuck's. Sake.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

NBC's slogan for their long-running weekly politics show is: "If It's Sunday, It's Meet the Press"


That's been eclipsed by "If It's Sunday, It's Another Idiotic Tweet-storm from Trump."

Recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that he was attempting to open back-channel negotiations with North Korea via China. You know, to keep us out of the whole nuclear war thing. Rex is (in addition to being the only cabinet level guy named Rex I can think of) one of the alleged "adults in the room" in the Trump administration.

Well this morning, Fragilego Mussolini tweeted:


And then:



What the actual fuck?

The President publicly kneecapped his own Secretary of State, and appears to have abandoned any and all possibility of resolving our conflict with North Korea by diplomacy.

For. Fuck's. Sake.

Is this the moment he became President?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Someone elsewhere was telling me that Trump is just saying what a lot of Americans are thinking.
I asked if America really needed a National Mood Ring in the Oval Office...

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Trump Dedicates Golf Trophy to Hurricane Victims

“On behalf of all the people in Texas and all of the people of ― if you look today and you see what’s happening, how horrible it is, but we have it under really great control ― Puerto Rico, and the people of Florida who have suffered over this last short period of time with the hurricanes. I want to just remember them,” Trump said.
“And we’re going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love, a part of our great state, really a part of our great nation,”

If I lived in Puerto Rico, I'd be feeling pretty good right now. A trophy? For...me?

 

[sharon45]

Trump Dedicates Golf Trophy to Hurricane Victims

“On behalf of all the people in Texas and all of the people of ― if you look today and you see what’s happening, how horrible it is, but we have it under really great control ― Puerto Rico, and the people of Florida who have suffered over this last short period of time with the hurricanes. I want to just remember them,” Trump said.
“And we’re going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love, a part of our great state, really a part of our great nation,”

If I lived in Puerto Rico, I'd be feeling pretty good right now. A trophy? For...me?

Hey, you get a trophy, and you get a trophy...

 

[DrZoidberg]

So by now you've no doubt heard that the Mayor of San Juan (that's in Puerto Rico, an American territory) was critical of the federal response so far - which to be fair makes the Katrina-era Bush administration look like Johnny On The Spot - and Trump responded with the following:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

Three and a half million American citizens without power, potable water, food, etc. in the wake of two hurricanes, and Trump's main concern is that he's not being complimented.

USA has quite a deep problem of infrastructure. They've always upheld the ideal of small government, and pro private initiative. This has consequences. One consequence is that there's not much they can do when there's a disaster. People in a disaster zone usually have their money tied up in property. Property now gone. So they can't pay for aid. And nobody will give them loans.

Taipei sits in a similar location to New Orleans. Whenever there's a typhoon they're fine. Why? Because of a strong central government capable of planing. Everybody knew it would come sooner or later. New Orleans kept putting it off to next year, in favour of short term investments. Taipei didn't.

All choices have a trade off/cost. Americans want cheaper iPhones and cheaper sneakers, instead of disaster relief. It's a choice they've made. Democracy... fuck.. yeah.

 

[Ford]

Taipei sits in a similar location to New Orleans. Whenever there's a typhoon they're fine.

Taipei...that's in Formosa, right? Just trying to put it into terms Trump will understand.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Taipei sits in a similar location to New Orleans. Whenever there's a typhoon they're fine.

Taipei...that's in Formosa, right? Just trying to put it into terms Trump will understand.

I think Taiwan is perhaps easier for him to understand. That's what's stamped on the underside of his gilded dog-kicking boots and his jug of child tears he drinks from.

They were also a brutal dictatorship under Chiang Kai Shek. When he died and his son took over he immediately started democratisation. He just handed over power without much of a bump. It's one of the smoothest democratisation processes ever. Which is doubly interesting, since Chiang Kai Shek was so against it. Because Taiwan was so ethnically diverse. There was a lot of tension between the mainland "invaders" and the local population. So... really well done that he pulled it off. As far as I know it's been smooth sailing all the time.