Hey, my town is hosting its own anti- Trump march. It’s called “Mommy March” which I find confusing. Trump never said anything specifically anti-Mommy, did he?
Mommy March
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Hey, my town is hosting its own anti- Trump march. It’s called “Mommy March” which I find confusing. Trump never said anything specifically anti-Mommy, did he?
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Way back in August, the media (and of course, Hillasry’s campaign) spread the lie that Trump kicked a mother with a crying baby out of one of his rallies.
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No, he would never do that to Putin and Lavrov.
:-)))))))))))
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Why would either of them cry at a Trump rally???
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Tears of joy. . .
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Off-topic, but — since tonight is the Obamas’ last night on the job, let’s pause to remember that Barak and Michelle are at least good-hearted people.
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Amazing people.
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Beautiful dogs, too! Anybody who loves dogs can’t be all bad.
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Oh, that’s a dog? I thought Obama was being nice to Trump’s wife.
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Looks to me that the pervert is grabbing her…
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He’s giving her a chance at least to find out what it means to be touched by a man.
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Well, at least between Bo and Sunny, Obama is fondling the female dog.
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Sigh…
(lyric video)
Someone I knew had scheduled a White House tour the day after the election. She didn’t want to go. “[It] would feel too much like saying goodbye.” I urged her to go with her two kids anyways, because she’d be saying goodbye anyways.
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I had a meeting in DC just after the election and it did feel like saying goodbye, and I was so glad to get the chance.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+dean+martin+so+long&rlz=1C1ASUM_enUS689US689&oq=youtube&aqs=chrome.1.69i60j69i59j69i57j69i60l3.3211j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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DON’T BOTHER CLICKING! The WRONG video got linked.
(I was trying to add Dean Martin’s “So Long Baby, Goodbye.”)
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Re The Hill website: Team Trump wanted tanks and missile launchers in his inauguration parade just like the parades in Moscow. The new president is now Our Leader.
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Look on the bright side. A good nuclear winter will delay global warming by at least 5,000 years. 🙂
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He wants to show his penis to Putin, of course.
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This country has really debased itself. Jesus, this buffoon will be president tomorrow.
I was thinking about something you said an year ago. Something like nature abhors a vacuum and if the US didn’t fill in the #1 spot, someone else will. Maybe you were thinking of Clinton at the time. If this piece of shit is not an argument for a multi-polar world and of balance of power in the world, I don’t know what is.
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Your media file won’t play, Stringer Boy — even after I delete all the junk in my server cache, empty my recycle bin, and reboot from scratch. Unless my computer is the exception, I suggest you try posting the video again.
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“even after I delete all the junk in my server cache, empty my recycle bin, and reboot from scratch”
lol. All this to watch a twitter video. Have you considered wiping your hard drive and reinstalling your operating system? Maybe that’ll help.
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When read as a metaphor, this comment makes profound sense.
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Haha!
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SO THIS IS HOW THIS THREAD ENDS??
With multiple back-and-forth teases, and an ultimate video that supposedly shows the bleak dispair of a Trump armageddon-at -hand — yet won’t run because of technical difficulties?
Looks like I’m the last man standing in this specific thread, so we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see if this thread reawakens in the dawn…
OR DIES — to be replaced by another thread showing both the eager, unrealistic hopes of the New Order, and the infantile, doomsday fears of those too dismayed to even consider facing it.
The Inauguaration Scenes that will be televisized all day tomorrow will give ample ammunition to both the true believers and fear-mongers of both sides — and all degree of skeptics in-between —
So let’s all get a good night’s sleep and see how the world shakes out in the morning!
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There is too much hysteria on both sides to see anything with clarity. Trump’s supporters are clearly shitting themselves with fear and trying to drown out the creeping disappointment with fake cheering. The opposition camp hasn’t found a way to shut up the freaks who wail “The brownshirts are coming for me.” In the end, only the voices of the freakiest freaks are breaking through. Example: http://feministing.com/2017/01/19/ill-pass-on-unity-and-the-womens-march/
Put a bow on this freakazoid and she’s the best gift to Trump’s next campaign.
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Trump’s supporters are clearly shitting themselves with fear and trying to drown out the creeping disappointment with fake cheering
What fear? I’m not seeing any fear, just a lack of happiness strange from people who just bought into a compelling fairy tale.
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Even here on the blog they behave like people who know that their idol will sell them down the river for a dime. Hence the rage.
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\ In the end, only the voices of the freakiest freaks are breaking through. Example: http://feministing.com/2017/01/19/ill-pass-on-unity-and-the-womens-march/
I read this post and was surprised by her statement:
“I need to know that when Trump comes for my undocumented family, these women will literally put their bodies on the lines for us.”
May be, it’s because of living in Israel, where Israeli Jews are against (non-Jewish, of course) undocumented illegal migrants, but when I read the words “undocumented family”, my first thought was “Aren’t those people criminals? Why should American feminists be for radically open borders in their nation state?”
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I would support illegal immigrants but only until I read a screed like this one. This useless fool needs to understand that she is not entitled to anybody’s support. If people choose to support her “undocumented” ass, it will be an act of kindness. And she should be deeply grateful and appropriately contrite for putting people to all this trouble on her behalf. Until she gets it through her thick skull that trying to guilt people into being on your side only works on a handful of spoiled rich brats, she’ll end up losing. Problem is, we are all tainted by association with this brand of loud and stupid creatures.
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I mean I’d support them if they are Hispanic, of course.
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With multiple back-and-forth teases, and an ultimate video that supposedly shows the bleak dispair of a Trump armageddon-at -hand — yet won’t run because of technical difficulties?
It’s a joke…that you won’t get because you’re not up on mid-90s rock bands. The snafu is funny too.
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I am not pro-Trump, but I cannot be for those protesters either:
\Dozens of protesters are lined up at the “blue gate” entrance to a seating area on the West Front of the US Capitol, holding signs that read “Free Palestine” and “Let Freedom ring.” Some are wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods over their faces, protesting US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
You can guess which sign immediately made me angry. Btw, aren’t those people patriotic Americans? Why is “Palestine” so central that it displaces any and all American concerns?
As for Guantanamo Bay, Obama promised to get rid of it and then hasn’t done it well enough, at least according to those protesters. It looks a weird thing to blame Trump for.
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When I read this kind of comment from you, I feel the need to stop mentioning the nation-state because I’m afraid of sounding obsessive.
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\ When I read this kind of comment from you, I feel the need to stop mentioning the nation-state because I’m afraid of sounding obsessive.
Because I was sounding this way? 🙂
Do you support such protests?
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\ When I read this kind of comment from you, I feel the need to stop mentioning the nation-state because I’m afraid of sounding obsessive.
If you wanted to offer your take on the situation, I would love to read it.
That’s why I commented in the first place.
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I’m afraid the bastard will use nukes. That’s my central fear right now. That he will take apart the nation-state is a given, so whatever. But there is danger of a really bad final salute to it, and that’s what the real problem is.
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Is this for real? Are you asking her to provide a ‘take’ on the nation-state ‘situation’? Do you even read this blog?
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\ Are you asking her to provide a ‘take’ on the nation-state ‘situation’?
If you read my comments, you would understand I asked about her take on those Trump protesters.
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“If you read my comments, you would understand I asked about her take on those Trump protesters.”
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/el
Surely you are aware that the so-called “feminist” movements in America and Europe are RAPIDLY anti-Israel. They ridiculously consider all Israeli Jews to be evil white colonialists, identical to the the evil white colonialists who conquered the American continent — and to those feminists’ minds, nothing in the world is more evil than “white imperialism.”
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Obviously I meant “RABIDLY”…!
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https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/822473794933526528
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“Even here on the blog they behave like people who know that their idol will sell them down the river for a dime. Hence the rage.”
Yeah, we’ve discussed this before. Never have I seen a more joyless group of people after having won such a consequential election. This was last night, at the ‘Deploraball’ in DC.
https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/822261043489636352
It’s almost as if they don’t have any beliefs of their own. Except, of course, this:
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“It’s almost as if they don’t have any beliefs of their own.”
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And yeah, the obsession with Hillary is beyond unhealthy at this point.
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This looks serious now:
US intel sources warn Israel against sharing secrets with Trump administration
Israeli intelligence officials fear that top-secret information that has been exposed to the United States will be leaked to Russia—and from Russia to its close ally, Iran.
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If Israel’s secrets are indeed not kept confidential, this is a serious danger to the state’s national security: Since the early 2000s, the cooperation between the Israel and US intelligence communities has been intensified.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4906642,00.html
The article provides interesting info about the history of Israeli-American cooperation. SB, since it mainly concerns Iran, you may want to read it too. 🙂
It also confirms I have all reasons to hate Edward Snowden, unlike some progressives who hailed him as a hero. For instance, Feministing has a recent post (a week ago) about the “Trans activist, author, and civil liberties advocate Chelsea Manning.” The post’s title sounds like a religious invocation (of some fanatics):
PLEASE, 2017, GIVE US THIS: CHELSEA MANNING COULD BE FREED IN THE NEXT EIGHT DAYS
Notice what is the first, most important identity they mention “trans.”
I do not care whether he/she/zhe/it is/are Trans/hetero/homo/ a pink panter with purple dots.
If the behavior of so called “civil liberties advocates” puts my relative and other Israelis in combat forces (and civilians) in more significant danger of death, I sincerely wish them burn in hell. (Is occasional strong language OK on your blog?)
I heard that what Snowden leaked had long been known to everybody who cared, but I do not think the details he gave to Russians had been known and did no harm.
Of course, if Trump’s adventures with whores in Moscow hotels lead to more dead Israeli Jews, I will wish him to burn in hell too.
I am democratic this way.
On a slightly another topic, I consider myself a feminist and in America would be called a progressive. And I refuse to accept that being those two things requires one to support illegal migrants and traitorous “whistleblowers,” like Snowden and Manning.
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“I consider myself a feminist and in America would be called a progressive.”
Nope. You’re the definition of a low-information Trump supporter, given your rampant islamophobia, lack of knowledge about the world, support for an ethno-nationalist state, and most importantly an acute lack of self-awareness.
Tell us more about how Arabs are taking your women.
lol @ progressive.
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\ You’re the definition of a low-information Trump supporter, given your rampant islamophobia, lack of knowledge about the world, support for an ethno-nationalist state, and most importantly an acute lack of self-awareness.
RE islamophobia, does the context count for nothing in your eyes? I am at war with Arabs from numerous different groups, not only with Palestinians, and it is unlikely to change during my lifetime. Why is acknowledging this fact and not wanting contact with one’s enemies the same as a WASP American turning his nose up at an American Muslim coworker because of the latter’s accent (or something equivalently superficial)?
Btw, have you ever noticed how Arab and Muslim states (and most their citizens) view Jews? At least one small example of “Jewphobia”? Because it looks like you see my “islamophobia,” while being completely blind to the views of the other side.
I do not hate people because of being Muslim. There were and are Muslims in FSU countries, and sometimes Jewish-FSU Muslim couples immigrate to Israel. Druze serve in IDF and die in battles with us. I have nothing against those Muslims. However, if I am in conflict with a certain group, I want to protect myself by not interacting with them, if possible. And I honestly don’t care if they’re Muslims, Christians or something else.
As for support for an ethno-nationalist state, I am not ashamed of being a Zionist. If an American version of nationalism is much more civic than the traditional European one, it doesn;t mean the entire world’s dream should be becoming America number 2. Clarissa says we’re moving towards it, but during our lifetime a nation state will survive, especially in Israel’s case with our “friendly” neighbors.
Are you against supporting a Palestinian ethno-nationalist state too, or should only Jews be ashamed of having it?
” an acute lack of self-awareness.” – For example?
\ Tell us more about how Arabs are taking your women.
They do not. We mainly live in separate communities, divided by the Palestinian conflict and the cultural gap. The fear and hatred from both sides are significant; thus, it’s no surprise that Arab-Jewish couples are extremely rare. A dozen marriages a year kind of rare.
In such marriages, a Jewish woman usually converts into Islam, and is often cut off her children in case of divorce. I have witnessed myself such a case: an Arab older woman was coming to work with her small daughter, who called her “mother,” of course. Turned out it was her granddaughter. The woman’s son married a Jewish woman, they divorced and a mother was erased from the picture after returning to the Jewish society.
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Another thing. You’d love to know that the coalition that Trump has assembled includes anti-semites who, strangely enough, love Israel.
Richard Spencer, a neo-nazi and an ‘alt-right’ leader loves the policies of the state of Israel and wishes America emulated those policies. So much so that he calls his movement ‘White Zionism’.
“Richard Spencer, an author and activist associated with the Alt Right movement, is one of the people lending intellectual legitimacy to the Donald Trump campaign. Spencer and his ilk envision a world where Europeans have control over their own geographic region, somewhere, and other colors of human beings are kept out by force to maintain a “monoculture” for light skinned people.
Articulate and casually dressed, they don’t look like Nazis. They look just like anybody else.
Spencer also has a complex conceptual relationship with Israel. He admires Israel as striving for a “monoculture” and its aims at racial purity but he disdains the Israel lobby. He’s much less ambivalent about the Official Republican Party Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, nominated officially Wednesday. “Trump is a peace candidate,” Spencer proclaims.
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/spencer-explains-admiration/
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Yeah, this guy sounds like a real winner.
http://forward.com/news/356336/alt-right-leader-ties-white-supremacy-to-zionism-leaves-rabbi-speechless/
Spencer went on to argue that Jewish continuity is predicated on resistance to assimilation. He framed that cultural imperative as similar to the movement for so-called white rights in the U.S.
“Jews exist precisely because you did not assimilate,” Spencer went on. “That is why Jews are a coherent people with a history and a culture and a future. It’s because you had a sense of yourselves. I respect that about you. I want my people to have that same sense of themselves.”
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This is precisely the message that Sokhnut spread in FSU countries. And that’s why I hated it with a passion. There is a very short distance from this to measuring noses.
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I’d love to hear about this in more detail.
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I think they get paid per head or how many people they convince to move to Israel. And the goal is to isolate people, break their links with everybody else. The worst thing is they do it even to little kids, scare them with how assimilation is a horrible thing, and then the kids don’t know if it’s ok to play with their non-Jewish friends any more, and they cry, it’s very heartbreaking. I’ve seen it all 20 years ago, and I’m still not over it. When all of a sudden your best friend or your husband begin to treat you as a pariah because you make it clear that you are not giving up your interest in the Ukrainian culture to avoid assimilation. It’s very hurtful and I’m still not over it.
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Snowden is a Russian spy and Manning is an unhappy sick person in need of medical care. I wouldn’t bundle them together.
The glorification of Snowden contributed to the Democrats’ incapacity to accept that Trump was working for the Russians. And now we have the result that we have.
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\ My take is that I’m afraid of a nuclear conflict.
With whom?
If Trump is Putin’s man, how would he go nuclear on Russia?
And I do not believe Putin and others around him are completely insane either.
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No, not Russia of course. If he released his business records, we’d be able to know. But he’s not releasing them, so it’s impossible to say.
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With whom?
If Trump is Putin’s man, how would he go nuclear on Russia?
And I do not believe Putin and others around him are completely insane either.
Oh good grief. Congress doesn’t get to check in on any President’s decision to use nukes. The cabinet doesn’t.
You assume he could only go nuclear on Russia. There are many many other places to drop bombs. Ask Japan. The entire world remembers. No state with a nuclear program and any sense is going to let go of their nukes. Ever. Especially now.
He is unstable, petty, vengeful and impulsive or has the consistent decades long persona of someone who is like this with only his money. He has never actually de-escalated a situation with his mouth that we know of.
For example, India, Pakistan, Kashmir & China have been fighting over the LoC since India’s independence. When I was in school, my program head who had worked in the State Department, told me that every simulation in which either India or Pakistan fired a nuclear missile ended in mutually assured destruction with China stepping in. Every one.
He has so many positions in the NSA unfilled — including the ones where he’d just have to appoint people. This is a problem when you’ve just spent the last several months crapping all over the people who’d stay in these jobs while you find replacements.
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\ When all of a sudden your best friend or your husband begin to treat you as a pariah because you make it clear that you are not giving up your interest in the Ukrainian culture to avoid assimilation.
If your former husband was so afraid of assimilation, he should have put his money where his mouth was and immigrate to Israel, instead of Canada.
Otherwise, such people are simply hypocritical deplorables who should shut up about interest in other cultures and/or dangers of assimilation.
I believe one has to be a horrible human being to behave so, and refuse to put most of the blame of Sochnut workers.
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He would have gone to Israel, yes, but I obviously didn’t brook any discussion of that. We all understand that when I’m around, everybody goes where I say, don’t we? 🙂 The friend in question did emigrate to Israel. That lasted all of 2 years.
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