The_Metatron wrote:Donald Trump has fired all foreign US ambassadors with nobody to replace them

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States, all foreign ambassadors were fired and with no concrete replacement ambassadors lined up.

Mr Trump had demanded that every ambassador in countries all over the world, who had been appointed by former President Barack Obama, were told to leave their offices by midday on 20 January and with no grace period.

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The move now threatens leaving many countries without Senate-confirmed envoys for months and cutting off a direct line to the President, and some in countries which have sensitive relations to the US.

"Oh, let's give him a chance", people say. Fuck that. This isn't a goddamned burger flipping job. There are real things at stake for a lot of people.

Ffs.

had to come ..


runs backwards too ..

As a mate of mine put it, Trump's inauguration looked like a cross between a Billy Graham fundagelical meeting and a Nazi rally.

anarchists are libtards?

Well a mate of mine said that if you throw enough shit against the wall some of it will stick,,,

Then he added… to fellow Libtards.

I had to correct him, more’s the pity, I said:

‘If you throw enough shit against the wall most of it will be bought by Libtards.’

Skinny Puppy wrote:

SkyMutt wrote:David Duke is still spewing racist shit.

And that has nothing, and I do meaning nothing to do with Trump… period!

OK, that's your opinion. However, racists such as Duke are celebrating Trump's presidency. They're doing so because Trump has said things that they believe align with their view of the world. Plenty of people who oppose racism see those same things in Trump.

Skinny Puppy wrote:Well a mate of mine said that if you throw enough shit against the wall some of it will stick,,,

Then he added… to fellow Libtards.

I had to correct him, more’s the pity, I said:

‘If you throw enough shit against the wall most of it will be bought by Libtards.’

Why do you use the term Libtards? It seems to me a device to shut down discussion and civil exchange.

Skinny Puppy wrote:

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.

One has absolutely no control over whom or what organization gives them an endorsement. It's that simple.

That does not make the endorsement or congratulations of David Duke irrelevant. It shows us what kind of followers Trump attracts.

And while Trump has no control over what or who congratulates him or gives him an endorsement, he is in full control of his reaction to those endorsements or congratulations.

Nicko wrote:

What are the people making these threats going to do if a President is elected who doesn't want a black singer at his inauguration? A President who doesn't drape himself in a gay liberation rainbow flag? A president who doesn't tweet a - admittedly bizarre - picture of himself eating a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo.

This post prompted me to look around to see if I could find what Trump has been doing to actually solidify his use of the rainbow flag during his campaign. It certainly looks like he was playing around with that flag in a typically Trumpian (mendacious) manner.

"Trump meets with SCOTUS candidate who compared being gay with pedophilia, incest"

Donald Trump met one of his candidates to fill the spot on the Supreme Court this weekend, Judge William Pryor.

The President-elect and Pryor had a meeting on Saturday, reports Above the Law, and confirmed by the AP.

As we previously reported, Pryor wrote a legal brief defending Lawrence v. Texas, which outlawed gay sex, in which he compared homosexuality with “polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery,” and further claiming that the rights of LGBTQ people are not covered by the Constitution. The law was struck down in 2003.

“This Court [the Supreme Court] has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,” he said. “Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilization.”

In 2005, Lambda Legal called him “the most demonstrably antigay judicial nominee in recent memory,” in opposition to his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

He is believed to be at the top of the list of candidates at this point.

[Continues]

Calilasseia wrote:the Republican Party turning on him like piranhas.

I can''t help but read that and think 'pariah', the whole GOP/right wing/Trumpettes should be pariahs, but they're not. And that disturbs.

The_Metatron wrote:Donald Trump has fired all foreign US ambassadors with nobody to replace them

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States, all foreign ambassadors were fired and with no concrete replacement ambassadors lined up.

Mr Trump had demanded that every ambassador in countries all over the world, who had been appointed by former President Barack Obama, were told to leave their offices by midday on 20 January and with no grace period.

...

The move now threatens leaving many countries without Senate-confirmed envoys for months and cutting off a direct line to the President, and some in countries which have sensitive relations to the US.

"Oh, let's give him a chance", people say. Fuck that. This isn't a goddamned burger flipping job. There are real things at stake for a lot of people.

No "with no concrete replacement ambassadors lined up.". I think ambassadors made out of concrete would do a better job than any Trump might appoint. Yeah, this is worse than bush-league, or even Bush-league BS. We need Western world leaders to start making fun of Trump, and us, the US. Ridicule is a powerful weapon when wielded well and by the right people.

SkyMutt wrote:

Skinny Puppy wrote:

Wait for it folks... you couldn't make this shit up in your wildest dreams.

<snipped video>

Byrd disavowed his KKK past, and his views on race evolved. So much so that when he died, the NAACP issued a statement mourning his passing.

Well said.

SkyMutt wrote:David Duke is still spewing racist shit.

True. He was, however, explicitly clear during the campaign that he did not endorse Donald Trump, as he expounded in unironically-titled article, "The ZioMedia Lies: I Have Not Endorsed Donald Trump!". Again, this is not an ironic title, it is an unpleasant diatribe of bigoted idiocy penned by an unpleasant bigoted idiot. He repeats his position in this interview for those who don't want to give his site traffic.

Trump was also explicitly clear that he rejected any Duke endorsement that may have been given.

The whole kerfuffle appears to be that one interview where he gave a non-answer to the question of whether he would accept Duke's support. Then lied and said his earpiece wasn't working and he didn't hear the question properly despite using Duke's name in his answer.

The thing is, the whole Duke/KKK connection with Trump is based on that one interview, whereas Trump's public opposition to Duke goes back to 2000 when he cited Duke's (who he described as a "racist" and a "neo-Nazi") joining Ross Perot's Reform Party as among the reasons why he was withdrawing from the contest for that party's nomination.

This bullshit accusation actually helps Trump. Because, when his supporters find out the claim that he is somehow connected to Duke is false (which anyone who even attempts to fact-check it will do almost immediately), they become that much less likely to believe the bad stuff about him that is demonstrably true.

The US is faced with four years of Trump. He has a Republican Senate, a Republican Congress and an open Supreme Court slot. Even if he's impeached, that just means you get President Pence.

This is serious fucking shit.

But by all means, harp on about the turnout at his inauguration (as if we didn't already know he was the most unpopular Presidential candidate ever to run). Keep making demonstrably false allegations of white supremacist links about a guy who sought and got more black and Latino support than the last Republican candidate. Keep trying to sabotage his ability to keep literally the only sensible promise he made that he looked serious about.

Keep bullshitting, sneering and denigrating the people who voted for him.

All you'll get is two terms of the fucker.

hats?? ....Dumpf couldn't even get that right....

So was it made in America?

"I don't know where it was made actually," Young said. "Let me check." She took off the hat to check the label. "Oh no," she cried. "It's made in Vietnam!"

In his speech, Trump struck a fiery, protectionist tone.

"From this moment on, it's going to be America First," he said. "We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American."

yeah right .......
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t ... SKBN1542YL

CdesignProponentsist wrote:

Skinny Puppy wrote:Well a mate of mine said that if you throw enough shit against the wall some of it will stick,,,

Then he added… to fellow Libtards.

I had to correct him, more’s the pity, I said:

‘If you throw enough shit against the wall most of it will be bought by Libtards.’

Why do you use the term Libtards? It seems to me a device to shut down discussion and civil exchange.

Please tell me you’re joking. Please!

Hang on for a second... I’m just wading through some Nazi references that have been posted and some of the most outrages things that no one, not even in the world of Alice in Wonderland would say, which if taken at face value, would make one assume that Dorothy and Toto really do live in Kansas...

Okay, I’m back in the room.

What were you asking again?

Corneel wrote:

Skinny Puppy wrote:

Corneel wrote:

Skinny Puppy wrote:

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

(I pray to god that I don’t.)

Yes.

One has absolutely no control over whom or what organization gives them an endorsement. It's that simple.

That does not make the endorsement or congratulations of David Duke irrelevant. It shows us what kind of followers Trump attracts.

And while Trump has no control over what or who congratulates him or gives him an endorsement, he is in full control of his reaction to those endorsements or congratulations.

[Reveal] Spoiler: nitpick

And also, don't use whom if you don't know how (who is the subject of the verb "gives", not the complement of "over", the complement of over is "who or what organization gives them an endorsement"), it gives of a pseudo-intellectual vibe.

Announcement over the PA system:

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Desperation Train is about to leave for Desperateville with a stopover in Spelling Bee Township, please have your tickets ready. Please note that only nitpickers, who are out of ammo, may disembark at Spelling Bee Township. In addition... please be aware of the fact that all streets in Spelling Bee Township are one-way only.”

BWE wrote:Do you think a Nazi comparison with Trump is unwarranted.

Well let’s use some facts.

Do you or does anyone else in this thread have any proof whatsoever that there is such a connection?

Not cartoons, snide remarks, innuendoes, off-the-cuff statements, but real and verifiable proof, because this is a forum for rational thinkers and we require data and facts.

I don’t think that that’s too much to ask.