Lostwingman

Loughner cannot be put in a right/left spectrum and the Portland stabber was a Berniebro.
 
And 'my party' is a centerist Democrat who hasn't bought into progressive identity politics.

Every day that goes by has me incrementally more convinced that Trump is the Grand Master Persuader that Dilbertman believes he is. I am watching him throw meat to the sharks, and get everything he wants while they are distracted. In a few months, his opponents will wake up to a bright, sunny day where the birds are singing, grab their phones to start the days reading of tweets, and find that Trump has quietly delivered on every. single. one. of his campaign promises. The wall will be built, tax reform passed, healthcare reworked, the VA restructured, etc. Trump will declare victory, and for many folks the illusion of a chaotic, out-of-control manchild will be broken. They'll have been roundly defeated, because they were too worried what "covfefe" meant to notice that he was getting shit done.
 
Whether any of this will be good for America, I have no idea. But the opposition is currently demonstrating the political acumen of a pack of alligators. Trump is a cajun with some chicken fillets he bought at a gas station and a 20 gauge shotgun. They don't stand a chance.

Jill Stein was ahead of the curve.  Overnight, she developed the genre of cynical Trumpsploitation by fundraising for a recount that everyone knew couldn't possibly work.  After that, she dispersed the monies using a highly transparent process.  By "transparent" I mean "you can't see it."
 
But of course, some slow-in-the-mind didn't understand the joke.  The hashtag resistance isn't about meaningfully delaying Trump.  The man works like a ratchet.  Trump keeps getting ahead in areas where there isn't much media scrutiny, which is why a sugar trade deal with Mexico recently was renegotiated.  Hashtag resistance and the Trumpsploitation genre of clickbait outrage are all about getting money and saving face.  Dumb fuck.  You're not supposed to actually do anything, much less go shoot up Washington DC.
 
Noodly-armed catamite couldn't even shoot center mass.

With the guy being a union hack, life long democrat, and Bernie supporter, is it any surprise he was a lousy shot?

Not necessarily but being a shill is.
 
 
Interesting that it's Erdogan's Turkey that's sitting opposite the Saudis. I wonder what it would take to knock Erdogan's regime down and if there are enough elements of secularists there to properly regain control of the country.
 
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Putin going on a tear recently.
 

IT BEGINS
 
 
Also, Kurds are tired of this shit.
 
 

To summarize Comey's testimony.
 
-Trump is not under investigation
-Trump did not order Comey to end the Flynn or Russia investigation
-Trump wanted to be investigated to clear his name
-Comey is a leaker

Here are the reasons.
 
1) It might make Americans sympathetic to Philippines President Duterte. That's because Duterte = Trump > Hitler.
 
2) Because we have our own news story about an ISIS jihadist beheading here in the US.
 
3) Because Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Paris. Climate Change. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump. Trump, Russia. Russia, Trump.
 
4) Because it validates the War on Terror/Radical Islam narrative.
 
5) Because it's in a foreign country that most Americans haven't visited when they were on Spring/Summer break in College.

Kind of displeased with how little attention this is getting in the states, I mean it's not like the Philippines was part of the US a half century ago or anything.
 
 

#AustinCanBeSaved
 
Actually it can't but maybe those fucking hippies shitting up downtown and the East side can go fuck off elsewhere.
 
I can't wait. Jack shit will happen but it will be interpreted as "absolutely conclusive" and "another nail in Drumpf's coffin".
 
The media is absolutely worthless. They've lost their monopoly on the narrative and can't handle it.
 
The future of public political discourse is here. A twitter thread with countless articles "explaining" what each tweet meant because 140 characters leaves a lot unsaid.

At least it was not the treaty of Paris from 1783. It's good to know we are not going back to war with England.

I'm supposed to care what one of the biggest recipients of corporate welfare from the Federal and various state governments thinks about Climate Change?
 
Elon Musk is the guy who watched the Monorail episode of "The Simpsons", took notes on the Music Man-inspired con artist's schtick and said "That just might work!"

Trump got us out of the Paris Climate Agreement fulfilling another campaign promise.
 
Watched the speech and the thrust was that the US shouldn't be penalized for already lowering CO2 emissions while economies like China and India which have serious pollution problems are allowed to kick the can down the road.
 
The President kept the door slightly cracked maintaining that another deal could be negotiated later.
 
The text of the speech should be available soon.

CNN has canned her.
 
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/31/media/cnn-kathy-griffin/index.html
 
Edit: Cue the memes of Pepe the Frog holding Griffin's severed head while the anthem of Kekistan is playing in the background.
 
 

I have full on given up on the traditional/mainstream/mediawingDNC and no longer watch any of the letter networks or fox. The state of political discourse is so bad, mostly because the two main parties are run by senile old assholes like McCain and Pelosi, or spineless new people. I really think once the baby boomer politicians die off things will get better. 

All the media outlets believe he's doing a shit job, including FOX. Remember, FOX was aligned against the guy during the election, until they had to get on the train or be left behind.

I'm gonna be honest and say that what the media thinks has absolutely no bearing on how I feel about something. The media - including FOX - is a bag of dicks.
 
Now does that mean Trump is doing well? No idea! With the first non-political, non-military President in our history, how do you even begin to measure that, anyway?

So there was a Harvard Study of media coverage for Trump's first 100 days.
 

 
Is it ironic that Fox has been the only 'fair and balanced' network?

That was a fast change of heart.

Regardless of your thoughts on this, the salt over this is absolutely enormous.  It's almost like Trump won the election again.  Dictartorship confirmed.