Pulsar wrote:

Top: Obama 2009
Bottom: Trump 2017

Spot the difference.

Mike_L wrote:

Pulsar wrote:

Top: Obama 2009
Bottom: Trump 2017

Spot the difference.

The crowd in the top picture is a lot blacker than the crowd in the bottom picture.



(Kidding)

Corneel wrote:

Mike_L wrote:

Pulsar wrote:

Top: Obama 2009
Bottom: Trump 2017

Spot the difference.

The crowd in the top picture is a lot blacker than the crowd in the bottom picture.



(Kidding)

FIFY

I don’t think we’ve ever had a president who seems not to care at all about the institutions of our government. He may care, I suppose, deep down, in some corner of his soul that stands as-yet unrevealed to us. But presidential campaigns are grueling, raw affairs; such passions are usually exposed at one point or another. In the 17 months since Trump announced his candidacy, though, he’s said nothing that I can recall that expresses the slightest reverence for our institutions or our system. When he has spoken of our institutions or traditions, it’s been to disparage them or to display his ignorance and indifference to them. He cited a section of the Constitution that doesn’t exist. He called our government a “swamp.” He disparaged the military and intelligence services. He said the election would be legitimate—if and only if he won.

This is new. Mitt Romney didn’t say the election would be legitimate only if he won (and to those who would counter that Trump was “joking,” I ask you to consider what Trump would have said if Hillary Clinton had won the electoral tally but lost the popular vote by 3 million). John McCain didn’t call the government a swamp. George W. Bush may not have been a constitutional lawyer, but I dare say he probably read the document once or twice anyway. I’m not favorably inclined toward any of these men ideologically, and in their times, I wrote very critically of them.

But I wrote critically of their ideological positions. I thought their ideas about what the Department of Justice should do or how the Fourteenth Amendment should be interpreted were anathema.

With the new president, though, the argument is something different. He thinks the Department of Justice and the Fourteenth Amendment should serve one thing: Trump. That’s it. He has no theories about them. Surely no American is naïve or self-deluding enough to think that Trump has ever read a book about the Department of Justice or the Fourteenth Amendment. It’s doubtful he’s ever read a newspaper article about either. They, and all our laws and branches of government, have no meaning to him, except, now, as instruments that can serve Trump.

That’s what makes this different. Trump has no belief system that fits into the existing American political schema in any logical way. He has no ideas. The idea that he adopted, the one that won him the presidency, about workers and trade, is just something he picked up and pounced on when he saw that it could help him. He saw three things. He saw that Bernie Sanders had lit a prairie fire on the issue; he saw that Hillary could be boxed into a corner on it, since she’d been for free trade; and, crucially, he saw that he could bend the ninnies in his party—that is, his new party, to which he has no actual loyalty—to his will. Reince Priebus chief among them, but almost everyone.

One thing he’s not stupid about is seeing openings; it’s how he’s survived bankruptcies that would have put lesser men—no, better men; think about that—in the poor house or in jail. He was right about all three things, and it was these three hunches that won him the White House. But he doesn’t actually care about them. He embraced them because they helped Trump. When the day comes that they don’t help Trump, he’ll toss them aside.

Pulsar wrote:

Top: Obama 2009
Bottom: Trump 2017

Spot the difference.

ronmcd wrote:

BlackBart wrote:It appears to be doctored does it? How do we conclude it's been doctored exactly?

Police injured in protests, nearly 100 arrested at Trump inauguration

By Gregory Krieg, CNN

Washington (CNN) - A pair of police officers were injured and 95 protesters arrested after they smashed windows, damaged cars and threw rocks at police near Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Friday in Washington, D.C.

Two DC police officers and one other person were taken to the hospital for undetermined injuries after run-ins with protesters, DC Fire Spokesman Vito Maggiolo told CNN. The injuries are non-life threatening.
Protesters "acting in a concerted effort engaged in acts of vandalism and several instances of destruction of property," the police said in a statement. "More specifically, the group damaged vehicles, destroyed the property of multiple businesses, and ignited smaller isolated fires while armed with crowbars, hammers, and asps."
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Corneel wrote:

Mike_L wrote:

Pulsar wrote:

Top: Obama 2009
Bottom: Trump 2017

Spot the difference.

The crowd in the top picture is a lot blacker than the crowd in the bottom picture.



(Kidding)

FIFY

Skinny Puppy wrote:

ronmcd wrote:

Do I have to even begin to explain how that is totally irrelevant?

(I pray to god that I don’t.)

Corneel wrote:

Skinny Puppy wrote:

ronmcd wrote:

Do I have to even begin to explain how that is totally irrelevant?

(I pray to god that I don’t.)

Yes.