Trump Thread

[Greyblades]

They ever figure out who toppled the tombstones?

Im going to refrain from comment untill then, not going to set myself up for embarrassment should the suspected perps turn out to be the exact ones to make me look like an idiot.

Edit: oh these are new ones, not yet it seems.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

They ever figure out who toppled the tombstones?

Im going to refrain from comment untill then, not going to set myself up for embarrassment should the suspected perps turn out to be the exact ones to make me look like an idiot....

The coming of wisdom...

[Greyblades]

Hallelujah brother.

[Montmorency]

That's "father" to you.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

That's "father" to you.

Nah...the trope he is riffing on is the "we are all brothers in Christ" slogan. And that version kindly does NOT emphasize that I am old enough to have sired him.

[Husar]

Unless they have the perps on camera or someone saw them, it would seem that we're all reserving comment until kingdom come.
Next time someone drives a car into a group of people....oh wait, that just happened, driver turned out to be a native German but some say the police can't be trusted on that anyway, has to be a refugee.

http://www.the-postillon.com/2017/02...-to-japan.html

Washington (dpo) - US President Donald Trump today offered his condolences to the Japanese government. He said that he was deeply moved by the devastation wreaked upon Tokyo by Godzilla and that he was shocked to the core when he saw the bloodbath on television yesterday evening.

[Beskar]

I will just leave this Bern right here...


https://twitter.com/SenSanders/statu...88569850494976
Really, why is he still President? He is a petulant child.

[Shaka_Khan]

They ever figure out who toppled the tombstones?

Im going to refrain from comment untill then, not going to set myself up for embarrassment should the suspected perps turn out to be the exact ones to make me look like an idiot.

It was the erosion from severe rainfall, climate change denier.

[Greyblades]

I'll get to husar when I find the time.

They ever figure out who toppled the tombstones?

Im going to refrain from comment untill then, not going to set myself up for embarrassment should the suspected perps turn out to be the exact ones to make me look like an idiot.

Edit: oh these are new ones, not yet it seems.

Turns out I was right not to comment but, funnily enough, it turns out husar shouldnt have commented either. As Shaka khan mentioned: this time it it was the weather:

Headstones were found toppled in Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery on Sunday morning. Early reports characterized the incident as a 'possible hate crime' however the cemetery director confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the tombstones in question had long been deteriorating and some had toppled over years ago.

In other News they found the guy behind some of the bomb threats; it wasnt the KKK or the Islamic State, no, it was allegedly a false flagger:

A former journalist has been charged with being behind a wave of hoax bomb threats against Jewish organisations that led to fears of a rise in anti-Semitism across the United States.

Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri as part of an investigation into more than 100 threats made by phone and email since January to Jewish community centres, schools, and child care facilities in three dozen states.

Until last year Thompson, was employed by The Intercept, a campaigning news website where one of the editors is Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who revealed classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden.

In a statement The Intercept said it was "horrified" by Thompson's actions, and that he was fired last year for making up sources and quotes. It added: "These actions are heinous and should be fully investigated and prosecuted."

Prosecutors charged Thompson with cyberstalking in relation to eight threats, and it was not clear whether they believed he was responsible for scores more.

It was alleged that Thompson carried out the fear campaign with the intention of blaming it on a girlfriend who had ended their relationship last summer.

He made up an email address to make it seem like the woman was sending the threats, prosecutors said.

In one message he said the woman "hates Jewish people" and wanted to "kill as many Jews asap".

And for the kicker, this was the fellow:

[Husar]

Turns out I was right not to comment but, funnily enough, it turns out husar shouldnt have commented either.

That's like, your opinion. Without commenting on it here I might have never found out what actually happened since I don't scour US news for the latest updates every day. And then you should not forget that it was apparently not the only incident:
I'll go out on a limb here and say this was not the weather at least: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Chicag...-attack-480598
What's more interesting is this: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...t-why-n2294553
Although his question why there was no reporting under Obama seems a bit weird given that his own numbers talk of a continuing decline, there'd have to be actual data for 2017 to see whether there is actually a considerable uptick now.

And for the kicker, this was the fellow:

What exactly is the kicker here?

[AE Bravo]

What exactly is the kicker here?

Why would you even bother asking. We all know at this point.

Continue.

[Husar]

Why would you even bother asking. We all know at this point.

Continue.

Well, it would be rather weird for Greyblades to try and absolve his political movement of anti-semitism by making a clearly racist argument for what seems like no good reason at all.
Obviously he will now say that we're the racists for thinking about racism first and he posted the picture because the guy is clearly wearing his shirt and pullover in traditional British style, pointing out how terrible British culture is.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Well, it would be rather weird for Greyblades to try and absolve his political movement of anti-semitism by making a clearly racist argument for what seems like no good reason at all.
Obviously he will now say that we're the racists for thinking about racism first and he posted the picture because the guy is clearly wearing his shirt and pullover in traditional British style, pointing out how terrible British culture is.

His political movement?

I *think* the kicker is that we would all have assumed it was White Supremacists or Islamists, and that guy looks like neither.

[Greyblades]

Exactly, a hate crime is in all the news, one side says radical islamist, another says nazi thugs, and all along its some ex journalist with a grudge against a former lover who seems to be the epitome of the middle class african american.

It coupd only be more absurdly out of left field if it turned out he was a Buddhist.

[Husar]

His political movement?

I think they go by the name "Hydra" and Trump appears to be a leading figure.

As for the rest, I may have slightly misinterpreted Greyblades post, but since you always defend people for not getting my humor without smileys of explanations, you will probably understand how merely posting a picture can easily lead to misunderstandings.

On the topic of pictures, the one in your signature seems to be broken.

[Gilrandir]

Probably, because Paul Ryan said:

This is also illustrating how flawed it is to rely on various comedy/late night shows to digest the news for you, which I see a lot of people doing. They don't have deep enough understanding of politics and their primary function is to entertain.

Even serious news organizations are starting to rely on questionable sources, and news are getting published with less and less expert scrutiny beforehand.

The key word in my post was "surreptitiously", that is without notifying the boss. Evidently this very fact (and not that the talks did take place) was what got the Americans' hackles up.