Weekend President Moron

[sparrowsong]

Friday morning, two women in the process of making history paused to take a call from a man.

“Space station, this is President Donald Trump, do you hear me?” Trump started the call, with Vice President Mike Pence and first daughter Ivanka Trump on either side, cameras in front of them. “We’re thrilled to be speaking live with two brave American astronauts,” he continued in his remarks, appearing to read from some notes. “This is the first time for a woman outside of the space station.”

That is very incorrect: The first woman went outside of a space station in 1984. Women have been spacewalking for a while since. What is unique about Friday is that this is the first time everyone outside of the space station is a woman.

slate.com/technology/2019/10/finally-two-can-be-moon-queens.html

[VillainV]

I read that article too. I love how they pointed out that even ASTRONAUTS ON A SPACE WALK had to stop to gently explain to him why he was wrong. I’m amazed he didn’t throw a fit anyway. Standby for NASA’s funding to get cut....

[WOT?*]

Oct 19, 2019 11:58:19 GMT -5 VillainV said:

I read that article too. I love how they pointed out that even ASTRONAUTS ON A SPACE WALK had to stop to gently explain to him why he was wrong. I’m amazed he didn’t throw a fit anyway. Standby for NASA’s funding to get cut....

Pictures going around the internet of him using his middle finger to "rearrange his hair" during the call are apparently not faked. www.theamericanmirror.com/mystery-did-trump-give-middle-finger-to-media-during-white-house-meeting-today/

[mbcdefg]

I’m on the NY Thruway and a Nice White Lady in front of me not only has a Trump bumper sticker, but a Ben Carson bumper sticker. That’s a new one.

[isabel]

Oct 19, 2019 12:13:44 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I’m on the NY Thruway and a Nice White Lady in front of me not only has a Trump bumper sticker, but a Ben Carson bumper sticker. That’s a new one.

I saw a Carson 2016 sticker in the Home Depot parking lot the other day. That was a first. Lol

[mbcdefg]

Not Trump, but:


Just days after Chick-fil-A's first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company's opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/world/europe/chik-fil-a-uk-lgbtg.html

[al320]

Oct 19, 2019 15:18:45 GMT -5 isabel said:

Oct 19, 2019 12:13:44 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I’m on the NY Thruway and a Nice White Lady in front of me not only has a Trump bumper sticker, but a Ben Carson bumper sticker. That’s a new one.

I saw a Carson 2016 sticker in the Home Depot parking lot the other day. That was a first. Lol

In 2014, there was a car in my work parking lot with a Carson 2016 sticker. Thats....something.

[isabel]

Oct 19, 2019 16:30:03 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Not Trump, but:


Just days after Chick-fil-A's first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company's opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/world/europe/chik-fil-a-uk-lgbtg.html

Well done, Reading!

[mbcdefg]

Trump tweets that Doral is not going to host the G7 after all, even though he was doing the country a huge favor, because of The Media and The Democrats.

apnews.com/d3a7b2d762c9472c8eeec811f33afc47?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Goddamn it, this is fucking exhausting.

[sparrowsong]

Man that must been tough to get him to backdown from that. (Please be the rage fit that gives him a stroke)

[isabel]

I'm dying that he backed down that quickly and spectacularly. Can this still be used against him? Because the fact that he was willing to do it and is only withdrawing it from award/consideration because of the "democrat crazed and irrational hostility" should really be considered along with alllllll the other shit.

[isabel]

This is just fucking infuriating

Joe Cirincione: For months, nytimes put stories of Hillary Clinton’s email on its front pages. The final investigative report clearing all of wrongdoing? That is on page 16 today.

Meanwhile, republicans are calling this impeachment inquiry a sham after they spent how many years investigating her for the email shit and Beghazi? And the final report clearing any wrongdoing is fucking buried? Fuck that.

[AAM2012]

Oct 19, 2019 16:30:03 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Not Trump, but:


Just days after Chick-fil-A's first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company's opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/world/europe/chik-fil-a-uk-lgbtg.html

I love that Chick-fil-a is all “we were only planning on being here for 6 months anyways...!”


Sure Jan!

[suburbanzookeeper]

Oct 19, 2019 16:49:32 GMT -5 al320 said:

Oct 19, 2019 15:18:45 GMT -5 isabel said:

I saw a Carson 2016 sticker in the Home Depot parking lot the other day. That was a first. Lol

In 2014, there was a car in my work parking lot with a Carson 2016 sticker. Thats....something.

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The former leader of our PTA had a Carson 2016 sticker on her car and I can't look at her the same ever again.

[mrsukyankee]

Oct 19, 2019 16:30:03 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Not Trump, but:


Just days after Chick-fil-A's first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened and amid protests by activists about the company's opposition to same-sex marriage, the chain said on Saturday it will close the site in six months.

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/world/europe/chik-fil-a-uk-lgbtg.html

Glad I can be proud about something in the UK. 

[NewOrleans]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arrived in Jordan on Saturday, where the House's top Democrat is leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to meet with top Jordanian officials.

A statement from the Speaker's office Saturday night confirmed that Pelosi and a number of lawmakers including Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), a ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee and the delegation's lone Republican member, had met with officials at the U.S. embassy as well as the country's King Abdullah II and other top officials.

thehill.com/homenews/house/466608-pelosi-arrives-in-jordan-with-bipartisan-congressional-delegation

[NewOrleans]

McConnell wrote an op ed about Syria.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-withdrawing-from-syria-is-a-grave-mistake/2019/10/18/c0a811a8-f1cd-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

[isabel]

HUD officials knowingly failed 'to comply with the law,' stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hud-officials-knowingly-failed-comply-law-stalled-puerto-rico-hurricane-n1068761


Two top officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development admitted at a congressional hearing this week that the agency knowingly missed a legally required deadline that would have made desperately needed hurricane relief funding available to Puerto Rico.

HUD’s chief financial officer, Irv Dennis, and David Woll, the department's principal deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, made the admission Thursday before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

[aliciabella]

Oct 19, 2019 23:35:10 GMT -5 suburbanzookeeper said:

Oct 19, 2019 16:49:32 GMT -5 al320 said:

In 2014, there was a car in my work parking lot with a Carson 2016 sticker. Thats....something.

@@@

The former leader of our PTA had a Carson 2016 sticker on her car and I can't look at her the same ever again.

I do have to say, even though it fucking pains me, Carson was on with Teri Gross of NPR, and they were talking about HUD, their financing, etc etc, but.....and a big but...but, lol, he had some good things to say which made sense. He increased budgeting, he understood the complexity of crime rates and homelessness and spoke at great lengths about it. I have no idea if it would come to head but it has fucked me up inside that this man made actual sense. Not right, lol.

[oliverboliverbutt]

Oct 20, 2019 15:52:44 GMT -5 aliciabella said:

Oct 19, 2019 23:35:10 GMT -5 suburbanzookeeper said:

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The former leader of our PTA had a Carson 2016 sticker on her car and I can't look at her the same ever again.

I do have to say, even though it fucking pains me, Carson was on with Teri Gross of NPR, and they were talking about HUD, their financing, etc etc, but.....and a big but...but, lol, he had some good things to say which made sense. He increased budgeting, he understood the complexity of crime rates and homelessness and spoke at great lengths about it. I have no idea if it would come to head but it has fucked me up inside that this man made actual sense. Not right, lol.

I don't know if examples of Carson being terrible can cancel out the feeling from him sounding like he knew what he was talking about, but:

"Two top officials with the Department of Housing and Urban Development admitted at a congressional hearing this week that the agency knowingly missed a legally required deadline that would have made desperately needed hurricane relief funding available to Puerto Rico." Because they don't trust Puerto Rico with the money, they say.


www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hud-officials-knowingly-failed-comply-law-stalled-puerto-rico-hurricane-n1068761


In clicking on the thread again... Oops, I must have skimmed over where this was previously posted :-p

[AAM2012]

So DH and I went to a small, liberal town this weekend for a race and saw the following pics.

I cut out Putin on the right, Rudy was on the left. Brownie points for those who can name the guy below Drump because for my life of me I can’t think of his name...

[AAM2012]

[AAM2012]

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[mbcdefg]

Mitt Romney’s (probable) secret Twitter account uncovered - “Pierre Delecto.”

slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-a-secret-twitter-account-and-it-sure-looks-like-its-this-one.html

Whomever is posting under this account has used it to defend Romney against criticism:

[bowies]

Ashley Feinberg discovered Comey’s account too. When we lived across the street from someone semi-famous, tabloid reporters managed to track *us* down in our daily lives. Reporters are right up there with intel officers in investigative abilities.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Romney confirmed he is Pierre Delecto
Wapo link above, but the key part:

In a follow-up call with Atlantic reporter McKay Coppins, Romney confirmed that the account, which has since been made private, is his.

“C’est moi,” Romney said after being asked about Delecto.

Ashley Feinberg deserves a raise.

[mbcdefg]

I first got wind of the Romney twitter account when Conan O’Brien tweeted a joke about needing a more recognizable name (because Romney said in the interview that he follows “the big red headed guy from Boston”).

[msmerymac]

AAM2012, Gorka?

[sporklemotion]

I know that Pierre Delicto isn’t the same as Carlos Danger, but I just can’t stop making the connection.