The Inauguration crowd size wouldn’t have been near the story it is now if Trump and his White House had not lied about. Here’s an interesting look at the technology behind the definitive number to come on Saturday’s Women’s March:
The Atlantic: A weather balloon with a nine-lens camera attached (unavailable for the Inaugural count due to closed air space}. Three days of work then commences to measure the density of different parts of the crowd. Researchers at the private firm doing this then literally count the heads.
boss, he don’t need no stinkin’ balloon (unavailable for the Inaugural count due to closed air space) when he’s got alternative facts in his smart person head. btw, must be some satellites circling during the anointment that took head countable pictures and guess who has access to them… those to whom bbronc referred in his comment: Last night, after the double whammy of the CIA visit and the WH Lyin’ Eyes Spicer presser, there was a thread with a mention of an IC guy. The IC guy was mentioned as saying many were virtually roaming the halls of Langley yesterday, quoting the… Read more »
any bets on how far up the judicial chain this goes? and will there be a new ninth tie breaker from the dark side if it gets to scotus? wapo: A liberal watchdog group says it plans to file a lawsuit against President Trump in federal court on Monday alleging that he is in violation of a little-known constitutional provision that bars him from taking gifts or payments from foreign governments. The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that because Trump-owned buildings take in rent, room rentals and other payments from foreign governments, the president has breached… Read more »
for all you linguists out there wapo: ‘Make America big again?’ The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages. Since the beginning of his political rise, Trump’s remarks have been translated into a slew of languages worldwide, and his official swearing in only elevates the power of his words. For some, his simple vocabulary and grammatical structure makes his speeches easy to follow. But for others, his confusing logic, his tendency to jump quickly from topic to topic and his lack of attributions for so-called facts make his remarks sound like a puzzling jumble, and creates a headache when translating Trump’s speeches for non-English audiences. worthwhile to… Read more »
It was so sweet watching Trump nuzzle Comey’s cheek after blowing him a kiss across the room.
Trumps behavior did what it always done. The news of the biggest grass roots movement ever just disappeared. With the discussion turning to Trumps outrageous behavior.
As to size Saturday is starting to look a lot like the 2009 inauguration. DC metro numbers had a million riders Saturday compared with 1.1 million in 2009. The official DC numbers for 2009 was 1.8 million, if so then Saturday was well over 500,000 and if the official eatimate isn’t close to 1 million then it is being lowballed in an attempt to dismiss the tremendous accomplishment of this movement, imo.
Jack
“The news of the biggest grass roots movement ever just disappeared. With the discussion turning to Trumps outrageous behavior.”
jack, so this will be the way it goes until he does. gonna be hard though for him to distract us once he launches his very own war.
There’s a tremendous tool within the intelligence community–analyst-analyst communications that bypass all the normal chains of command and other filtering agencies. This is how we ensured unbiased information was received by the people who would be preparing the intel estimates for the leaders that would ultimately act on our information.
FWIW, if I were in an Intel shop and people started talking gleefully about the 25th, there would be heads rolling.
mj panel critique
I circulated the Bee Movie Story and it was false. But entirely bee-lievable.
Because Trump is a big fat liar and is surrounded by people equally willing to lie.
I think we all have to be very careful in the stories we re post or use to support
Arguments
We certainly don’t want to be like the tin pot Condom living in a world of alternate facts.
There is enough bad stuff that is true.
joe and mika worthless next week they will be kissing his butt
1457 days to go
Crowd size has been a constant meme of the floater’s life. Everything, including crowds, have to be the biggest ever. Everything is the biggest ever. His mental conditions require that everybody and everything pay homage to him by being the biggest ever. It is extremely sad that he is so insecure and mentally unstable as to require those saluting or bowing to him are part of the biggest ever whatever. His loonyship cannot believe anything he does not see in person, and if it is as small as his impotency staff is, he will make it the biggest ever. He… Read more »
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Santa Rosa Ca march
Yesterday was another busy day. Time to play catch-up! Re: Sunday Jace: Beautiful and soothing! I definitely needed that after 2 busy but enjoyable days. PS: We’re all in for a bumpy ride, hopefully it won’t be for four years! Of course he could do enough damage in 1 year to screw us for years to come. Pat: Relaxing was the plan but I got this idea for a meme Sat night when I finally went to bed, but couldn’t turn my head off. When I got up yesterday I started working on it. Turned into a complicated project and… Read more »
Oops, guess I can’t post 2 pix! Here’s the sign from the Phoenix march.
granny, thanks for telling us about it
here’s sports illustrated version: How Vladimir Putin acquired one of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl rings
trump will never be able to handle this!!! That picture is from a WMoW sister march in Nairobi! The New York Times updated their coverage with this amazing page of images from around the world! As you scroll down the page the little globe tells you where you are. Love it!
Alternative facts my ass. Chuck was right – those are called lies. To thinking human beings trump and his handmaiden Spicer and consigliere Conway looked like the scheming reality denying liars they are. With those two around and in him he has no need for a colonoscopy, so the 25th amendment won’t need to be invoked for the only reason it’s been invoked in the past.
Apparently, Trump is a uniter, not a divider, just not in the way he intended.
crackers – The Cheeto-In-Chief is already saying 8 years. He’s already calling his second term, so that countdown clock may not be accurate. It sounds like the DumpTrump movement lives on with lucky number 25, though.
Spicer is the worst of the worst. What rock did Donald find him under?
Congrats to the Pats! and impending congrats to Jace.
Ms Cracker, The Usurper-in-Chief is one very sick dude. He has 1,457 days at most. (I hope)
Children of America, take note: in politics and sports, cheaters usually prosper. Conduct yourselves accordingly.
I presume the spicerpalooza was staged to step on the todays stories of actual Deadbeat Junta failures.
Be alert for tactical upstagery on a grand scale.
Remember reagan’s smashing combined arms defeat of Grenada, an island the size of Santa Barbara, CA, with no government and an army of 6 ? The Grenada story stepped all over the story of reagan’s humiliating defeat in Lebanon by a private army called hezbullah that no one in the US had ever heard of.
We’re going to see and hear a lot more smoke and screaming before the Usurper is deposed.
even conservatives are muttering about the 25th excerpt from op ed at usatoday: What if Trump loses his mind?: Gabriel Schoenfeld It may seem churlish to bring this up now, but not terribly long ago, we were in a phase of perpetual astonishment at how someone with so many obvious signs of narcissistic personality disorder and impulse control disorder could come so far. Even those favorably disposed toward Trump were expressing fears about his equilibrium. “Our candidate is mental! Do you realize our candidate is mental?” is what Ann Coulter had to say about Trump back in March. “When you act as… Read more »
Okay. Grenada’s army numbered 14, but 8 were disarmed and confined to their barracks.
Granny, I found that Propaganda Barbie image online. Wish it were my creation, but I’d say go for it. Spread it around.
Spicer is giving his first official press conference. It looks like a doozy. He is really into lying. What a bunch of corruptions these people are.
Things you learn on Twitter:
This via linguist Susie Dent: the name for a dishonest politician is a snollygoster.
What do you bet Trump will get his own word, just like Albert Fall, the fall guy, from the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Aye chihuahua…. of course frump has to exaggerate about the size of…. everything.
Christ sakes… I thought most schools read Animal Farm and 1984 in the 9th grade. Guess most conservative thinking people didn’t pay attention.
BBronc… hope you heal soon.
Bink…. yeah, baby…. my Pats are gonna cheat their way to another SuperBowl…. deal with it…
another worthy read to contemplate from a conservative is this Jennifer rubin column at wapo today: The first lawsuit: What can we learn about Trump’s income?
The high-profile legal team includes Laurence Tribe, Norman L. Eisen, Erwin Chemerinsky, Richard Painter and Deepak Gupta. One interesting wrinkle: “Mr. Eisen said the legal team intended to use the lawsuit to try to get a copy of Mr. Trump’s federal tax returns, which are needed to properly assess what income or other payments or loans Mr. Trump has received from foreign governments.”
Renee – yesterday they cheated by playing better football. Congrats, and although there is a special place in my heart for Julio Jones, I’ll be pulling for the favorite in 2 weeks.
reuters at msn: Trump rejects new lawsuit over foreign payments to his firms Trump told reporters at the White House that the lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was “without merit.” The nonprofit contended that Trump is “submerged in conflicts of interest” from his ties to countries such as China, India and potentially Russia, potentially posing a “creeping, insidious threat” to the country. Its lawsuit seeks to stop Trump from accepting any improper payments, saying a constitutional provision known as the “emoluments” clause bans them. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. It is… Read more »
so is this lawsuit only just the beginning of attempts to depose him under oath as well as release financial info?
thinking back to how gopers hounded and pursued the big dawg, karma is a bitch ain’t it
Day 1 (OK, 3) of the Reign of Orange Julius Caesar:
From Your Department of Defense:
“Social media postings sometimes provide an important window into a person’s #mentalhealth. …..”
http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2017/01/social-media-offers-tools-to-improve-mental-health-reduce-suicide/
Orange Julius Caesar has also deleted some of his offensive Tweets regarding the Women’s March and replaced them with mundane pap. Either he’s on heavy meds now or someone else is tweeting for him. Deletion of Tweets could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act. Maybe, like Al Capone, they’ll nail him for something minor like Tweet deletion, not treason or bribery or theft or tax evasion or conspiracy or whatever else is out there.
poor spicer, someone keeps giving him faulty numbers. latest of his “alternative facts” according to wapo: The Trump administration just told a whopper about the size of the federal workforce President Trump on Monday signed an executive order instituting a hiring freeze on all nonmilitary federal employees. At a press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that the move “counters the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years.” In both raw-number and percentage terms, this is an inaccurate statement. According to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 2.8 million employees on the federal payroll as of… Read more »
A Pillar of Ignorance and Certitude
I haven’t seen it but unless there is an actually injured party (Hilton for example) who can show actual harm I don’t give the CREW lawsuit much hope of surviving a standing challenge. I hope I’m wrong.
mrdoodle – you are onto something. Using republicanillogic EVERY communication sent through a private serve must be saved. I suspect the new admin will argue that the prez is exempt based upon the argument that conflicts prohibitions don’t apply to the prez – wonder if they will argue the same for emoluments? I digress. Note to Judicial Watch – file suit, issue subpoenas to Twitter for all tweets from noon, 1/20/17 forward from @therealknuckleheadCheeto or whatever his twitter handle is.
The 2017 word of the year: emoluments
How hard is the family gonna fight? Yikes.
If we ignore everything Sean Goebbels says, will he just go away? They should just go ahead & give him the Pants-On-Fire Lifetime Achievement Award.
In the on deck circle, # 46, Mike Pence.
Learn the Mr. Peebody salute folks. He has decided that Jan 20 is now “national day of patriotic devotion”. Yeah. The guy is a real piece of work. It is so very humourous that there are people trying to convince the world the guy has a genius IQ. I give that he might be a genius among sea slugs, but not humans. Now that the hiring and pay freeze is in effect for federal employees all the waste and corruption in the WH will disappear. Even Nixon’s second inauguration did not crash to the floor the way this scummy group… Read more »
The Sean Spicer v Dippin’ Dots twitter fued is hilarious. And, I don’t think it’s fake news, either.
The bizzaro world.
Maximus Craxious
On Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, newly installed Orange Julius Caesar has decreed Jan. 20, 2017 a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.”
I wish I could write this is according to The Onion. I wish.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/01/23/trump-sets-day-of-patriotic-devotion.html?via=mobile&source=copyurl
BlueBronc, sorry to repeat your post on National Donald Trump Is Ill Day. Timing.
Geez, couldn’t he have decreed it “Show Your Tax Returns Day” or “Shut Donald’s Pieholy Day”?
Just saw an ad for something called apprentice (I missed most of the title) with Schwarzenegger, not exactly sure what it is, but it must be real bad if Mr. Peebody does not like it (he tweeted it). Arnold looks ill and he needs to fire his stylist, his hair is as weird as the floater’s. What little I saw in the ad was enough for me to continue to avoid commercial American television, okay I do think it has something to do with people running a company, but that is it. Happiness is Netflix and Amazon prime. I may… Read more »
BB – Trumpet is still Executive Producer of show. Yet, he hates it since he’s not on it anymore. He has a severe case of attention-deficit disorder; he needs ALL of the attention.
Is it time to put out a revised edition of Attack The Messenger?
Ack
What does one DO on National Patriotic Devotion Day? Anyone? Anyone? Beuhler?
If the ACA is repealed, here is what Women’s healthcare could cost by state for IUD, Mammograms, and Tubal Ligations