By Patd, a Trail Mix Contributor
He, She or It giveth and taketh away. God Google reigns. On the road to secular Damascus, it was either bow down and believe or lose my youtube soul music. No longer could the sinner hide. Name, email address and age are now written in the books of the mighty, building many mansions and amassing gold for the google galaxy.
OMG, please be merciful and hear our pitiful plea to protect this ignorant trusting participant from evil hackers.
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Trump’s morning tweet bomb:
“…Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They…. …want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”
We’ve had good presidents and we’ve had bad presidents, but we may now have the first Evil president. What a nasty little man.
Unless you count Cheney as president.
Nixon may have done plenty of evil stuff, but I don’t think he was evil, per se. Like Trump is.
And the current GOP is filled to the brim with evil little men. It’s a sad situation.
that despicably evil retort from the twit was in response to this according to
cnn:
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz made her message clear on her black shirt that read: “Help Us, We Are Dying.”
“People are drinking out of creeks here in San Juan,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday night. “You have people in buildings and they’re becoming caged in their own buildings — old people, retired people that don’t have any electricity.”
“We’re dying here. We truly are dying here. I keep saying it: SOS. If anyone can hear us; if Mr. Trump an hear us, let’s just get it over with and get the ball rolling,” she said.
[….continues….]
the twit led off first with “The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump….” then proceeded as craig posted above.
always always, it has to be about the twit and nothing but the twit.
here’s another female figure he can tweet about being “nasty”
usatoday:
If you walk along the National Mall this November, you’ll see the Smithsonian Museums, the Washington Monument, Capitol Hill, and, possibly, something else: a 45-foot tall nude sculpture of a woman.
The Amazonian figure would tower over the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, directly facing the White House until March 28 to promote women’s equality.
Organizers are trying to raise funds to transport the R-Evolution sculpture from San Francisco to Washington. They’ve gotten approval from the National Park Service to have the structure on the grounds of the National Mall.
[….]
In 2015, the series debuted where it was born, at Burning Man. The other two pieces, Bliss Dance and Truth is Beauty, have found homes on the Las Vegas Strip and the San Leandro Tech Campus in California.
The sculpture is being brought to Washington, D.C. by the organizers of Catharsis on the Mall, an annual three-day event that features 24-hour activities, music and an effigy burn. The theme of the event this year is “Nurturing the Heart.”
“This year’s theme is in response to a lot of the social disconnect and politics going on in our community right now,” said Sanam Ememi, an activist and community organizer.
“We felt that R-Evolution represented that,” she said. “That’s why we’ve placed it in America’s front lawn.”
The four-month long vigil is also intended to raise awareness of the Equal Rights Amendment. The constitutional amendment, proposed in 1972, would outlaw discrimination based on sex, but it has yet to be ratified.
The statue above
Bliss Dance
Part Three
Jamie, thanks for posting the sculpture. the one from usatoday was just a rendering and I couldn’t find the real one. what’s it made of and will it be the effigy they say will be burned? I think those naked trump statues should be resurrected and placed around it for perspective.
Trump sux. Dumb puck doesn’t get it. He’s a despicable ash hole and needs to shut the puck up and send the phucking armed forces to INVADE PR with every goddam truck, personnel carrier, helicopter and bridging apparatus they can move to the damn island. Good news, my ass.
I saw a video of PG slow dancing with Melania……it struck me that he “dances” like a nervous 13 yr old kid at his first dance…..it’s amazing somehow……
Side-step, Side-step, Side-step, Side-step…….while kind of going around in a circle…..I’d like to know what she was really thinking.
Patd
We finally did get the Trump official portrait.
I just saw a tape Mark Zuckerberg made in which he tells a big fat lie.
He said they exhibit no editorial control over ads and that is NOT true. They actually have a whole list of things/words/style they find unacceptable and they refuse ads
He is full of shit
Bloomberg:
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who had begged Trump to intensify relief efforts, said in an interview after the Twitter attack that the president was turning a humanitarian catastrophe into a self-centered political debate.
“I have only one goal and it is saving lives, and I will do and I will say whatever needs to be said or done to be able to do that,” she said outside the city’s coliseum. “There should be no distractions. There’s no time for anything else. No time for politics. No time for bashing. There’s just time for one thing: saving lives.”
curious article that questions Russians’ motives for facebook dabbling in racial unrest when steve bannon made it quite clear in his interview that he found it helpful to trump to stir up things re civil rts and black lives matter.
the guardian: Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?
The popular ‘Blacktivist’ account claimed to be a force for community organizing. Now it looks to have been part of Russia’s effort to influence politics
Tom Price is a sleazy guy and everyone knew and chose to ignore it. Now they are trying to pretend he was seduced by being surrounded by wealth. What stupid thing to say. He was a con before and still is
Re. Trump’s tweet.
Trump dug out the oldest play from the oldest playbook. When your incompetence and ineptitude are fully revealed for all the world to see, you have to blame the victims in order to shield yourself. Nothing new here, just a callous disregard for the plight of other human beings who are in a desperate situation.
This is not the President of The United States but rather the Pestilence ofThe United States that just happens to reside in the White House.
Every voter that made it possible should be forced to share in the indignity and the shame.
Why the Ken Burns Vietnam is wrong
the program begins with the claim, “..the war was begun in good faith by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandings”
I guess the Pentagon Papers were fiction
excerpt from the intercept story “Lindsey Graham on Obamacare Repeal: I Had No Idea What I Was Doing“
[….]
Now that it has fizzled out, the lead author of the measure, known as the Graham-Cassidy bill, has an admission to make: He had no clue what he was doing.
“It’s been the most amazing journey of my life. I’ve taken the eye off the ball on terrorism, I’m just amazed the whole planet hasn’t crumbled because I wasn’t on it,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said of the weeks he’s spent leading the health care repeal effort.
Toward the end of the senator’s bid to rewrite the health care system, as the mirage of the bill’s momentum began to be exposed, the typically charming and witty Graham began to turn acidic in the halls of the Senate, denouncing colleagues in both parties who were objecting to his legislation. “I’m speaking English, right?” he snapped at one reporter.
But now that it’s over, the old Graham is back and more than willing to laugh at how improbable it was that a national security expert briefly held the national limelight as a supposed health policy wonk.
Graham, though, said he was not alone in his lack of understanding of health care. “Nobody in our conference believes Obamacare works. It must be replaced. But until now, we didn’t know how to do it,” Graham told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday, audio of which is posted below.
[….audio of interview….]
A reporter pointed out that such ignorance at this late stage is hard to understand. “You’ve been working to overhaul this for seven years. Why is this so hard?” she asked.
“Well, I’ve been doing it for about a month. I thought everybody else knew what the hell they were talking about, but apparently not,” Graham clarified, adding he had assumed “these really smart people will figure it out.”
[…continues….]
Things really getting back to normal. Just put our squirrel proof bird feeder back up and the birds are very happy.
kgc, burns was talking about 1945
here’s an excerpt from piece (in a way kinda agreeing with you but from a different perspective) by jeff stein at newsweek:
At an early screening of the film’s highlights in Washington, D.C.this spring, Burns said that, “for us, the war begins in 1945,” not 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson dispatched the first U.S. ground combat unit to South Vietnam. Good start. But in episode one, he stakes the proper context for the starting point in France’s mid-19th century conquest and colonization of territories that would eventually become Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. For the next 80 years France plundered the region for its rubber, tin and other resources, impoverishing its workers while creating a servile class of French-speaking native bureaucrats to carry out its orders, all largely financed by the opium trade. By the early 20th century, Vietnamese patriots began organizing a resistance. One of them was Ho Chi Minh.
it still was a great tour d force with unbeforeseen film, tape and emotional confessions/memories of participants from both sides. just like the people who made histoy, it’s hard to find any history book or film that doesn’t have some fault, bias or omission about it.
KC I wish I could disagree with anything you said today. Sadly, I can’t. Your comments are IMHO dead on.
Patd, I watched Lindsey and Bernie! In the debate last Monday night. It was clear to me that Lindsey had no fucking idea what he was talking about. And I have to say Bernie! Came off much better than I ever expected he might. And Cassidy- world class asshole.
Patd
anyone can distort history for their own purposes
still there is only one set of facts and if you aare allowing emotions to manipulate what you believe then you can undestand why people think that Gone with the Wind is true and the Pentagon papers ae fiction
It wasn’t a good idea in 1945 an it wasn’t a good idea from well meaning people through out the entire mess