Someone on Twitter pointed out that the fire and fury book release was just this week even though so much shit has happened it feels forever ago. I was slightly shocked to realize that's true. So much has happened this week.
I follow him on FB and share his stuff pretty frequently, because I hope it will make some of the Catholic conservatives (the ones who ignore the whole social justice part of Catholicism, which is basically the part that I admire most, as a non-Catholic) possibly think about things from a more generous point of view.
Someone on Twitter pointed out that the fire and fury book release was just this week even though so much shit has happened it feels forever ago. I was slightly shocked to realize that's true. So much has happened this week.
Was thinking earlier about the volume of things that have happened in just a week. The breakneck pace at which this shitshow proceeds is exhausting!
Post by litebright on Jan 12, 2018 18:21:07 GMT -5
OMG. Even a run of the mill public company with a reasonably competent team can run con calls in listen-only mode. I sit in on them frequently and I have never in more than a decade run into a debacle like that. With the resources at its disposal, this WH can't even manage that?!?!
I don't know why the incompetence is still shocking, but this one really gets to me. These idiots are running the country!
This is bugging me a lot... But all these folks complaining about the word shithole. It's a vulgar word yes but just think of all the people he offended when he said it. It has to be said on TV to have a full impact.
Sorry that your kids have to hear this but use it a good teaching moment of what is happening in the world and explain why it's not acceptable. I have to hold my tongue with DD when I want to tell them what a fucking asshole our president is. But I know she knows already because she says things like when will our president do good things for our country etc. I am sure if she heard this on the news she would call him out in heartbeat.
EXACTLY! I had a friend tell me that her Haitian babysitter was in tears because of this yesterday. So boohoo to everyone clutching their pearls that they have to hear it on the news and their kids are hearing it. This affects real human beings with real emotions and it is a disgusting and untrue description of the homes that they love. So wah wah someone doesn't like hearing "shithole" on CNN. That's so besides the point. It wouldn't even be an issue if the president wasn't such a giant shitstain himself.
Does anyone else think of The West Wing when talking about the presidential medical exam?
I do wonder if anyone gets to see the actual result (doubt it though) and i wonder if the doctor has any sort of requirement/recommendation of talking to someone if they feel the president isn't physically or mentally capable of doing the job. Like how you'd report someone who wasn't safe to be driving. I'd hope they'd do something if they determined the president wasn't mentally sound enough to control the football.
But doing something would probably mean telling the VP or the speaker and that wouldn't do any good anyway, I suppose.
He should tell Diane Feinstein. She'll make sure the information gets out there because she's not standing for this shit anymore.
I'm listening to MSNBC and Ari Melber sounds really funny talking about 45's messiness. He's so formal and it's cracking me up to hear him bounce around between the shithole talk and the adult film star payoff.
Worse than listening to him bumble-fuck his way through the word-salad of the SOTU and the self-congratulations you know he has planned for himself, is watching his orange-kool-aid drinking GOP suck-ups talk about how fucking tremendous squirrel-wig is doing at wrecking 'Merica.
The person who tried to tell April Ryan to be quiet at the MLK proclamation today has been identified. Dr. Darrell Scott. He was told off on Twitter by Ms. Ryan herself.
The person who tried to tell April Ryan to be quiet at the MLK proclamation today has been identified. Dr. Darrell Scott. He was told off on Twitter by Ms. Ryan herself.
Thank you for solving the mystery! This was bugging me.
I feel as if this is important, as I didn't know the specific connection:
Quick lesson in white nationalist/nazi speak. "Shithole" does not mean sewer; nor, does it mean chamberpot. It has a very specific meaning in this lexicon related to a turn of phrase coined by Thilo and popularized by Kielar to refer to Auschwitz. The term Anus Mundi referred to places in which life for the degenerate races was short, hard, and finally extinguished. Quite literally they are the places through which the world becomes rid of the "human waste" that is the degenerate races. As I keep trying to tell folks, white nationalism is of a whole different species than white supremacy; with the difference having lethal consequences for Black and Brown people.
So Rachel is saying she thinks that statement is not really from the doctor but some shit the White House made up. The doctor’s name is spelled wrong. I did think it was odd that a doctor would say someone who is overweight, eats McDonald’s, drinks 12 diet cokes and has no soul is in excellent health.
OMG. Even a run of the mill public company with a reasonably competent team can run con calls in listen-only mode. I sit in on them frequently and I have never in more than a decade run into a debacle like that. With the resources at its disposal, this WH can't even manage that?!?!
I don't know why the incompetence is still shocking, but this one really gets to me. These idiots are running the country!
And he is supposed to be a business man. The best business man! (Which I would assume would have conf. calls regularly, no?). Idiots.