Tweets from a lunatic

[Dee*Jay]

Oscar is sad b/c he doesn't have a job. No job means no foods on the table for his family.

Don't you worry, Oscar is well supplied with kibble and those fancy rawhide twisty things he likes to wolf down and then puke back up in the middle of the night. He's also given free shelter and healthcare, and his taxes are also not going to go up, even though he was promised he would get a tax cut. Oscar has no reason to be sad -- he's doing just fine!

 

[House Cat]

Aww, maybe in Twumpy-poo’s mind, that was his way of extending an olive branch.

Or maybe it was the equivalent of pulling a girl’s pigtails to show that he likes her!

Next thing we know, Kim Jong-un and Trump will be sitting in a hot tub together, making rap videos.

 

[AGBF]

What follows is excerpted from an Op-Ed piece in "The New York Times" called, "We're With Stupid".

"It would be much easier to sleep at night if you could believe that we’re in such a mess of misinformation simply because Russian agents disseminated inflammatory posts....

(snip)​

But the problem is not the Russians — it’s us. We’re getting played because too many Americans are ill equipped to perform the basic functions of citizenship. If the point of the Russian campaign, aided domestically by right-wing media, was to get people to think there is no such thing as knowable truth, the bad guys have won.

As we crossed the 300-day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency on Thursday, fact-checkers noted that he has made more than 1,600 false or misleading claims. Good God. At least five times a day, on average, this president says something that isn’t true.

We have a White House of lies because a huge percentage of the population can’t tell fact from fiction. But a huge percentage is also clueless about the basic laws of the land. In a democracy, we the people are supposed to understand our role in this power-sharing thing.

Nearly one in three Americans cannot name a single branch of government. When NPR tweeted out sections of the Declaration of Independence last year, many people were outraged. They mistook Thomas Jefferson’s fighting words for anti-Trump propaganda.

Fake news is a real thing produced by active disseminators of falsehoods. Trump uses the term to describe anything he doesn’t like, a habit now picked up by political liars everywhere.

But Trump is a symptom; the breakdown in this democracy goes beyond the liar in chief. For that you have to blame all of us: we have allowed the educational system to become negligent in teaching the owner’s manual of citizenship.

Lost in the news grind over Roy Moore, the lawbreaking Senate candidate from Alabama, is how often he has tried to violate the Constitution. As a judge, he was removed from the bench — twice — for lawless acts that follow his theocratic view of governance.

Shariah law has been justifiably criticized as a dangerous injection of religion into the public space. Now imagine if a judge insisted on keeping a monument to the Quran in a state judicial building. Or that he said “homosexual conduct” should be illegal because his sacred book tells him so. That is exactly what Moore has done, though he substitutes the Bible for the Quran.

I don’t blame Moore. I blame his followers, and the press, which doesn’t seem to know that the First Amendment specifically aims to keep government from siding with one religion — the so-called establishment clause.

My colleagues at the opinion shop on Sunday used a full page to print the Bill of Rights, and urge President Trump to “Please Read the Constitution.” Yes, it’s come to this. On press freedom, due process, exercise of religion and other areas, Trump has repeatedly gone into Roy Moore territory — dismissing the principles he has sworn to uphold.

Suppose we treated citizenship like getting a driver’s license. People would have to pass a simple test on American values, history and geography before they were allowed to have a say in the system. We do that for immigrants, and 97 percent of them pass, according to one study.

Yet one in three Americans fail the immigrant citizenship test. This is not an elitist barrier. The test includes questions like, “What major event happened on 9/11?” and “What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?”

One reason that public schools were established across the land was to produce an informed citizenry. And up until the 1960s, it was common for students to take three separate courses in civics and government before they got out of high school.

Now only a handful of states require proficiency in civics as a condition of high school graduation. Students are hungry, in this turbulent era, for discussion of politics and government. But the educators are failing them. Civics has fallen to the side, in part because of the standardized test mania.

A related concern is historical ignorance. By a 48 percent to 38 percent margin Americans think states’ rights, rather than slavery, caused the Civil War. So Trump’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, can say something demonstrably false about the war, because most people are just as clueless as he is.

There’s hope — and there are many ways — to shed light on the cave of American democracy. More than a dozen states now require high school students to pass the immigrant citizenship test. We should also teach kids how to tell fake news from real, as some schools in Europe are doing.

But those initiatives will mean little if people still insist on believing what they want to believe, living in digital safe spaces closed off from anything that intrudes on their worldview."

Link to article...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/...t&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

 

[E B]

This is a real tweet. From our president.

Well done, voters. Next up: a known child molester is elected to the Senate!

Are things even salvageable at this point?

 

[redwood66]

Frankly the entitled brats should have been left there. Who steals $20k of LV in a foreign country? Especially China.

 

[minousbijoux]

Frankly the entitled brats should have been left there. Who steals $20k of LV in a foreign country? Especially China.

Maybe so. But that's missing the forest for a tree.

Through his actions, the current president has destroyed the dignity of the most important diplomatic position in this country. As a country, due to one selfish man, I'm not sure we can ever go back to the respect the position engendered.

In the meantime, I'll find some small enjoyment from the clash of the titan egos that undoubtedly will go on and on between LaVar Ball and idiot Trump...

 

[VRBeauty]

"is unaccepting of what I did for his son" - sounds like something badly translated from its original language. I wonder who wrote it for him?

Just kidding, but his ineptness with his native tongue is astounding.

 

[redwood66]

Maybe so. But that's missing the forest for a tree.

Through his actions, the current president has destroyed the dignity of the most important diplomatic position in this country. As a country, due to one selfish man, I'm not sure we can ever go back to the respect the position engendered.

In the meantime, I'll find some small enjoyment from the clash of the titan egos that undoubtedly will go on and on between LaVar Ball and idiot Trump...

I don't care about that particular forest enough to comment on it anymore MB.

 

[Tekate]

If he thought this he should NOT have said it. He lessens the integrity of the presidency every time he speaks. He assisted in the Warmbler return form North Korea, should he have been left there? No. It's up to Trump to act presidential, not a dope.

Frankly the entitled brats should have been left there. Who steals $20k of LV in a foreign country? Especially China.

 

[Dancing Fire]

This is a real tweet. From our president.

Well done, voters. Next up: a known child molester is elected to the Senate!

Are things even salvageable at this point?

Trump is right. He should have had left them in China. The father shows no appreciation for what he did for his son...

 

[AGBF]

Trump is right. He should have had left them in China. The father shows no appreciation for what he did for his son...

I guess at least one person on Pricescope believes that the sins of the father should be visited on the children.*

(I may be having a Judge Ray Moore moment. Forgive me for quoting scripture.)

*Deuteronomy 24:16-18
"The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."

 

[Dancing Fire]

The father...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/lavar-ball-interview-cnntv/index.html

 

[minousbijoux]

Wow, amazing to me that even Lavar Ball comes across as diplomatic and logical compared to Trump!

 

[ABKIS]

I'm just going to leave this here:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...s-down-trump-speech-staggering-145616438.html


Copied from above link:

John Oliver obliterated Donald Trump for 24 straight minutes on last night’s “Last Week Tonight” season finale. And why not? It was the HBO host’s last chance to take a bite at that apple (pumpkin?) for a while.

“It’s staggering how incoherent he is,” Oliver said of the past year’s worth of Trump speeches.

The “Daily Show” alum then rolled audio of someone flatly reading our leader’s recent remarks on nuclear power. The words were completely un-doctored, and the message totally unintelligible.

“Holy s—. That is not a functional use of language,” Oliver reacted. “That is a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of Alphabet Soup. Trump’s actual speech patterns sound like when you write a long text by choosing only the predictive text your iPhone suggests for you.”

So the “Last Week Tonight” writers did exactly that — beginning simply with “The nuclear” — and Oliver’s point was quite easily proven.

“An iPhone would be a more coherent president of the United States,” he added.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Wow, amazing to me that even Lavar Ball comes across as diplomatic and logical compared to Trump!

Maybe the father can go to jail in place of his son. ... The least he can say is thank you Mr. Prez. and then shut up, but what can you expect from a father who thinks stealing is no big deal...

 

[telephone89]

@ABKIS I fricken love John Oliver

 

[minousbijoux]

Ooh, I gotta go check this out...love it when they use their own garbled speech!

 

[Dee*Jay]

Since we have a jury of our peers, I guess it's only appropriate to have a turkey pardon a turkey.

 

[minousbijoux]

Since we have a jury of our peers, I guess it's only appropriate to have a turkey pardon a turkey.

Good one DeeJay!

 

[E B]

Oh my god.

 

[tkyasx78]

:roll Time magazine released a statement explaining to everyone that trump is “ incorrect” and they did not do that call.

his ego is bigger than the diameter of the sun yet his soul is more shallow than the smallest wading pond.

Its a wonder he hasnt proclaimed his birthday a national holiday and had a song written in his honor yet.

 

[Calliecake]

He is insane. Did he really think this would not be proven to be a lie? Then again, I doubt his supporters do much reading. I guess when you have told over 1,500 lies in 11 months, what's one more.

Ssshhhhhh @tkyasx78 He still has three more years to make his birthday a national holiday.

I'm still waiting for the giant TRUMP sign to be put up on the outside of the White House.

 

[Calliecake]

The Liar is at it again...

Newsweek tweeted this morning that Trump is now saying the tape on which he boasted of "grabbing women by the pussy" is fake.

When the tape was released he came out saying it was "locker room talk"
Now he changes his mind and says it's fake. I'm sure Fox will be all over this.

It hasn't occurred to him that Billy Bush would have been screaming from the roof tops it was fake, if it was. He did lose his very lucrative job over the tape.

 

[ABKIS]

https://www.mediaite.com/online/who...-person-of-the-year-claim-they-dont-call-you/

I don't watch the view anymore but this made me chuckle (2 minute video). One of the best lines in my opinion: "he can't get out of his own way with his narcissism."

 

[tkyasx78]

Trump’s retweeted videos of a boy getting pushed off a roof, of a man destroying a Virgin Mary statue, of a boy getting beat on crutches, ignored his past with sexual harassment while slamming others for it and called for a boycott of CNN & called it fake news and attacked NBC calling it fake news.

And congress and his base do nothing

 

[tkyasx78]

It looks like twitter has removed the videos
Which is good becuase they were disgusting

 

[Dee*Jay]

Trump’s retweeted videos of a boy getting pushed off a roof, of a man destroying a Virgin Mary statue, of a boy getting beat on crutches, ignored his past with sexual harassment while slamming others for it and called for a boycott of CNN & called it fake news and attacked NBC calling it fake news.

And congress and his base do nothing

They're not doing nothing! They are jamming through a tax bill that will make health care unaffordable for millions of people and at the same time raising taxes on all but the wealthiest Americans, supporting a pedophile for Senate, turning a blind eye toward a President who has repeatedly assaulted women -- and bragged about it, and standing silent while one unstable megalomaniac taunts another toward nuclear war.

They're doing PLENTY.

 

[Calliecake]

Exactly Dee-Jay!!!

I've been leaving messages for the Republican senators who may vote against the tax bill. At least I know I tried to stop this from being passed.

Numbers (202) 224-****

Corker 3344
Collins 2523
Flake 4535
McCain 2235
Moran 6521
Murkowski 6665
Young 5623

 

[Dancing Fire]

If this tax cut bill passes our economy will boom and Trump will be re-elected in 2020. If it doesn't pass then the Dems. will take back a lot of seats in 2018.

 

[ABKIS]

@Dancing Fire

This is all the reaction I have left when I read your posts. Which I'm sure is exactly what you're going for. So job well done! You deserve a cookie