8 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

You guys who responded are lovely, patient souls. I guess in an ideal world, I'd be more open to trying to call out and rectify ignorance when I see it but it was simply easier to hit the ignore option. Tee-hee!

 

Speaking of giggles, I was reading this blog post by Awesomely Luvvie and have to applaud her for the new nicknames she's managed to come up, as I had believed I'd heard them all. The NATO G7 Summit Group Texts We Won’t Get To See 

 "Fanta Fascist" and "Mango Mussolini".  I know we're in serious times but I have to have a sense of humor, if I'm going to get through this wasteland of an administration.

 

 

Hell, yes. I can't bang my head against troll bridges at this stage of my life. It's block and forget for me.

12 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Hell, yes. I can't bang my head against troll bridges at this stage of my life. It's block and forget for me.

Did the very same thing. too old to argue with someone, anyone who won't at least TRY to have a civil discourse. 

28 minutes ago, Roman said:

Did the very same thing. too old to argue with someone, anyone who won't at least TRY to have a civil discourse. 

That's the thing. I'm happy to interact with economic conservatives.  I think they have some good points. We really cannot run huge deficits forever, for example. However when people come into the thread with an "in your face" attitude they are only here to get a reaction, not to interact.  That said, the responses they elicited were pretty spot on.

3 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

That's the thing. I'm happy to interact with economic conservatives.  I think they have some good points. We really cannot run huge deficits forever, for example. However when people come into the thread with an "in your face" attitude they are only here to get a reaction, not to interact.  That said, the responses they elicited were pretty spot on.

 

I'm always amazed at people who jump into conversations and just start showing their ass. What kind of lousy home training does it take to come out the gate with insults and threats? We've got way too many people in this country with no self-control. You see it with all these viral videos of people popping off in stores and on planes. What these folks call "political correctness" used to be referred to as acting like a functional adult. 

Now politicsusa is a left leaning sight, but it looks like Trump is setting up a war room with Bannon in charge to discredit the Russia investigation

 

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/26/trump-admits-guilt-russia-collusion-plan-set-war-room.html

 

And these fools will believe every piece of Nazi propaganda that comes out of it because frankly they want to

 

 

 

 

Information on California's Single Payer proposal(good article setting things straight). And it's cheaper than expected.

 

http://mattbruenig.com/2017/05/25/idiot-commentary-on-californias-single-payer-push/

Edited May 26, 20178 yr by JaneAusten

 

 

1 hour ago, marceline said:

 

I'm always amazed at people who jump into conversations and just start showing their ass. What kind of lousy home training does it take to come out the gate with insults and threats? We've got way too many people in this country with no self-control. You see it with all these viral videos of people popping off in stores and on planes. What these folks call "political correctness" used to be referred to as acting like a functional adult. 

I thank God for the iphone.  I guess I just had my head in my ass, but I had no idea how awful some people are until I had the video proof.  At the same time there are nearly 350 million people in the country, so I try to remind myself that it's still a small sample.  It's like how everyday there is a story on Yahoo about a toddler who has been killed by her parents or caregiver.  It makes me a little paranoid, but in a country this big awful things are going to happen regularly, but it's still not the norm.  Not yet.

The decline of Breitbart and a twitter thread commenting on the article

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/breitbart-traffic-numbers-are-cratering?mbid=social_twitter

 

 

Let's talk about Breitbart's decline: https://t.co/oLEeoi1itP pic.twitter.com/3kVUIOzrGK

— ᴘᴇᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴏғғɪɴ🔑 (@petercoffin) May 26, 2017

More Trump regrets but there is a very interesting nugget about Trump's budget that is not being discussed but it is mentioned in this article.  Apparently Trump's disaster of a budget seeks to cut job training by 40%!

This seems the antithesis of trying to create a jobs-rich environment but logic seems to be at the bottom of the list with this administration.

 

‘It’s my only income’: Trump voter shocked after learning he plans to cut key program she needs

In case you thought it couldn't get worse for TrumpCo: Surprise! Jared Kushner tried to set up a secret communications network with the Kremlin.

 

 

Meanwhile: this piece about Clinton is a must-read.

 

Quote

Talking about Comey, even the day after his firing, is a risky thing for Clinton to do. The last time she did it was in a conversation a week earlier with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour at a Manhattan lunchtime gala for Women for Women International. Amanpour had asked Clinton about why she thought she had lost the election. “I take absolute personal responsibility,” Clinton replied. “I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had.” But she had also talked about other factors she believes contributed, citing FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver’s research on the impact of Comey’s October 28 letter. “If the election had been on October 27,” she said, “I’d be your president.”

 

After the exchange, Clinton and her aides had appeared upbeat. The crowd had been enthusiastic, and there was a sense that Clinton had done something that she has long found difficult in public: She had been herself — brassy, frank, funny, and pissed. But on cable news and social media, another reaction was taking shape. The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush, who has reported on Clinton for years, tweeted “mea culpa-not so much,” suggesting that the former candidate “blames everyone but self.” Obama-campaign strategist turned pundit David Axelrod gave an interview claiming that while Clinton “said the words ‘I’m responsible’ … everything else suggested that she really doesn’t feel that way.” Joe Scarborough called her comments “pathetic”; David Gregory suggested she was not “taking real responsibility for the fact that she was not what the country wanted.” And in the Daily News, Gersh Kuntzman delivered a column that began, “Hey, Hillary Clinton, shut the f— up and go away already.”

 

Later, Amanpour would tell me how surprised she was by the negative reaction. “The idea that she shouldn’t mention the Comey letter when the entire nation and the most respected statisticians are considering its impact is so strange,” she said. “If she were a man, would she be allowed to mention it? As a woman, I am offended by the double standards applied here. Everyone shrieks that Hillary was a bad candidate, but was Trump a good candidate?”

 

In the natural biorhythms of popular response to Hillary Clinton, which have been trackable for more than two decades, this is the period during which even her detractors would usually be starting to feel rugged admiration for her. Clinton has typically been most loathed when she is running for office, and most beloved after she has lost but is soldiering on, especially if the loss was sufficiently humiliating. But it’s been six months since the cataclysm of November 8, and feelings about her remain fiercely divided. Social media is awash with Hillary fans who imagine alternative universes in which she’s the president, and Etsy booms with crafts made from the words of her concession speech; yet many of her critics — even those who voted for her — are determined that Clinton bear the mantle of worst politician who ever lived, their evidence being that she lost to … the worst politician who ever lived.

 

The unusually prolonged pummeling is partly because Clinton’s Election Day loss was not just hers but the nation’s; her defeat this time left us not with an Obama presidency but with an out-of-control administration led by a man so inept — and so reviled — that even (some) Republicans are voicing concerns. The nation is grasping for a way to understand how we got here, and blaming Clinton wholly and neatly takes the heat off everyone else who contributed: from the critics who derided her supporters as empty-headed shills to those supporters who were cowed into secret Facebook groups; from the journalists who treated Trump as a ratings-pumping sideshow and Clinton as the suspiciously presumptive president to all of us who permitted cheerful stories about America’s progress on gender and race to blot out the real and lingering inequities in this country.

 

The anger at Clinton from some quarters — in tandem with the beatification of her from others — reminds us just how much this election tapped into unresolved and still largely unexplored issues around women and power. In the aftermath, the media has performed endless autopsies. We have talked about Wisconsin, about Comey, about Russia, about faulty messaging and her campaign’s internal conflicts. We have fought over unanswerable questions, like whether Sanders would have won and whether Clinton was particularly mismatched to this political moment, and about badly framed conflicts between identity politics and economic issues. But postmortems offering rational explanations for how a !@#$%^&*]-grabbing goblin managed to gain the White House over an experienced woman have mostly glossed over one of the well-worn dynamics in play: A competent woman losing a job to an incompetent man is not an anomalous Election Day surprise; it is Tuesday in America.

 

 

Much more at the link.

Edited May 27, 20178 yr by Vee

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Wow. Just when I think they've hit rock bottom, they stoop even lower...

Here's the original WP piece on Kushner.

 

Also:

 

 

These new details re. Jared Kushner's mtg w/the head of Russian-state owned VEB (a mtg arranged by Kislyak)... WOW.https://t.co/YVIU5bNa5A pic.twitter.com/iwOr2lwef7

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 27, 2017

Ok. I am a bit nervous. What was he trying to pass through this secret communication network? 

RIP, Dr. Z!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/zbigniew-brzezinski-dead/

A bit of satire by the folks at the Simpsons.

 

The Simpsons takes on Trump-Comey (complete with Nixon cameo) and it’s the *perfect* way to start your weekend. pic.twitter.com/uA0VdhkMXd

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 26, 2017