5450

Trump is still an imbecile. If he suddenly starts siding with the Democrats to piss of McConnell, I’ll laugh, because fuck Mitch McConnell, but Trump will continue to be an imbecile who is doing tremendous damage to our country and our place in the world.

5451

Yeah but… but… Ann Coulter doesn’t like him!

5452

True. In balance, that does count in his favor but still doesn’t outweigh all the bad. I say let’s find someone she’ll dislike even more :)

5454

You rang for me? Or were you thinking @ArmandoPenblade

5455

LMAO - yeah, I’d say either of you would do, but Armando may have that … um … let’s say “blunt” approach that Coulter seems to understand so well.

5456

Technically I’ve never smoked weed

5457

Heh.

5458

“The university stands for freedom of speech,” [University of Baltimore president] Schmoke said. “My bottom line conclusion is the university stands for debate on controversial issues. I do feel that having the U.S. Secretary of Education on our campus is something that’s very important for the university, and in the long run, I believe that students will recognize that whether they agree with her position on issues or not.”

Dozens of students participated in a “class walk out” demonstration Monday afternoon, the first of two protests planned for the day.

Tracy Johnson, a junior, was among them. She stood up midway through her global ethics class and walked out, carrying a neon orange sign that read, #NeverBetsy.

“Commencement is not the place for Betsy DeVos,” Johnson said. “We’re a public institution. She stands against everything we represent.”

5460


In case you don’t know who Clay Travis is:

5461

Why do these douches get to be on TV in the first place?

5462

Yeah, I don’t know if this was the cause of the dude I saw in the grocery store near downtown Dallas today or it was his everyday attire, but he was wearing a confederate bandana, confederate belt buckle, and a cowboy hat with photos of confederate generals on one side and HAIL TRUMP stenciled on the other.

Good times, I tell ya.

5463

Send us all your info, though.

5464

They actually believed Donald Trump – Donald Trump of all people – could somehow bring them some vague undefined victory in the Middle East. That he would somehow secure 10,000 miles of porous American borders and make a profit doing it. That he would give them great high-paying jobs complete with healthcare that didn’t require any effort or education or initiative on their part whatsoever while at the same time sticking it to everybody they considered lazy and unworthy and unfit to be an American. And somehow – somehow – he would cut taxes and reduce the size of government while at the very same time increasing spending by untold billions on some mightily “restored” military and he was going to eliminate the national debt through some magical new trade deal that he would personally work out with the rest of the world.

And he was going to power the whole damned thing with clean coal.

And they actually believed him.
[…]
Reality is setting in, both for Trump and for them.
There are no simple answers.
[…]
Now, to some extent, America can abide foolish leaders – our founders expected such an eventuality and they planned for it.

They built in safeties.

You.

You are that safety.

America can abide a foolish leader, for a while anyway, but it cannot long survive as a nation of fools.

If you want a better nation, a better civilization, then you have to be better citizens.

5465

Jim is in rare form today, I see.

5466

As I’ve heard it said elsewhere, “The investigation is the tip of the spear, but we have to drive it in.”

5467

This is the key point.

5468

The official said Cohn made it “very clear” to those at the breakfast that the U.S. will withdraw from the agreement pending future negotiations.

“Consistent with the President’s announcement in June, we are withdrawing from the Paris Agreement unless we can reengage on terms more favorable to the United States,” the official said. “This position was made very clear during the breakfast.”

5469

Well, that sucks.

5470

This thread, dear God, this is all of it.

5471

Religionlol. Reminds me of the djinn conversations I’ve had with university graduates working in investment banks.