Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1)

[ThelmaLou]

@Ukulele_Ike

See you at the Abortionplex! Cocktail lounge, six o’clock!

And pizza served by immigrant children.

[dasmoocher]

@Rick_Kitchen

“The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks - in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious - less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1049638803177127936

The idiocy of this is that there are plenty of people who are happy to protest the Republicans for free. Hell, I’m sure some would even pay for the chance to give it to some of them in person as like Hatch or Flake in the elevator.

[Monty]

@ThelmaLou

@Ukulele_Ike

See you at the Abortionplex! Cocktail lounge, six o’clock!

And pizza served by immigrant children.

In the basement!

[Siam_Sam]

@ThelmaLou

We need to remember that the Republicans have no sense of humor.

Psychology Today agrees.

[Ike_Witt]

If Soros is funding all the left wing protests and rallies, who is funding all the right wing ones? Mercer or Koch?

[bobot]

Mexico! Believe me!

[Folacin]

@Ike_Witt

If Soros is funding all the left wing protests and rallies, who is funding all the right wing ones? Mercer or Koch?

No one - all of those folks are patriotic American’s who want what is best for the country and are willing to sacrifice time and money to show it.

The only way someone would show up to protest for *progressive *issues is if they were paid.

[dasmoocher]

@ThelmaLou

We need to remember that the Republicans have no sense of humor. Don’t make jokes that will be quoted as fact later. Actually, who cares, 'cause facts don’t matter anymore…

There’s a more serious problem with a lot of Trump supporters. Packman is pretty left, but this is an interesting segment. A phenomenon I’ve seen with my Trumpster Facebook friends–the ones that post memes that Chelsea Clinton is a Satanist who wears an upside-down cross and that her husband’s uncle is George Soros.

Trump Appeals to Cognitively Challenged Voters

Trump Appeals to Cognitively Challenged Voters

It helps explain why they eat up Trump’s bullshit.

[Buck_Godot]

@ThelmaLou

And pizza served by immigrant children.

I think you mean with immigrant children

[Skywatcher]

Come to think of it, my writing ability is barely above 8[sup]th[/sup] Grade level but at least I can string coherent sentences together. Unlike the Chief Twit.

[mhendo]

@Rick_Kitchen

Way to dismiss half of the country.
“You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern. Republicans believe in the rule of law - not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1048745061888880640

In preparing to teach a class on Progressive-era politics a couple of weeks ago, I was reading a Teddy Roosevelt speech from 1910, given in Paris, France. It’s a really fascinating speech, full of Teddy’s masculine individualism, but also of his progressive politics. This section, in particular, stood out to me:

Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or antireligious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest. The very last thing an intelligent and self-respecting member of a democratic community should do is to reward any public man because that public man says that he will get the private citizen something to which this private citizen is not entitled, or will gratify some emotion or animosity which this private citizen ought not to possess…If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest.

[Ukulele_Ike]

Don’t you wish T.R. could come back to life for just one hour, to take Trump on in a bout of bare-knuckled fisticuffs?

[Nava]

That’s the Roosevelt which did not come up with that list of “bad reasons to discriminate” which has ended up being treated as exclusive, right? The concept of “you won’t purposefully screw up your fellow citizens” appears to have been strong in that family.

[jasg]

@mhendo

In preparing to teach a class on Progressive-era politics a couple of weeks ago, I was reading a Teddy Roosevelt speech from 1910, given in Paris, France. It’s a really fascinating speech, full of Teddy’s masculine individualism, but also of his progressive politics. This section, in particular, stood out to me:

Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or antireligious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest. The very last thing an intelligent and self-respecting member of a democratic community should do is to reward any public man because that public man says that he will get the private citizen something to which this private citizen is not entitled, or will gratify some emotion or animosity which this private citizen ought not to possess…If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest.

Thank you for sharing that.

[PlaceboTarget]

@mhendo

In preparing to teach a class on Progressive-era politics a couple of weeks ago, I was reading a Teddy Roosevelt speech from 1910, given in Paris, France. It’s a really fascinating speech, full of Teddy’s masculine individualism, but also of his progressive politics.

I would have expected someone to be able to express those ideas with such clarity about half a century later. What a longsighted thinker.

[Fiveyearlurker]

Donald Trump:

“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!”

Also, Donald Trump:

At a 2015 campaign stop, Trump bragged to the crowd about his business dealings with the Saudis. “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Trump said. “They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

[Ambrosio_Spinola]

Our President continues his quest to make The Onion superfluous with his insightful legal analysis:

@The Actual President

“Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees.” @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!

I would note that in addition to calling a US citizen “Horseface”, he also misspelled her name.

[Procrustus]

@Fiveyearlurker

Donald Trump:

“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!”

Also, Donald Trump:

At a 2015 campaign stop, Trump bragged to the crowd about his business dealings with the Saudis. “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Trump said. “They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

He should be banned from Twitter, among other things.

[Defensive_Indifference]

@Ambrosio_Spinola

Our President continues his quest to make The Onion superfluous with his insightful legal analysis:

I would note that in addition to calling a US citizen “Horseface”, he also misspelled her name.

Stormy Daniels isn’t really my type, but I think “Horseface” is just a little uncalled for.

Sigh. Remember the Obama years? How, even when we thought he was badly miscalculating or pre-conceding to Republican demands, we could count on him to conduct himself with dignity and integrity? Remember that time when we had a little debate about whether he was checking out that one girl’s butt as she walked up the stairs, but really he was probably just offering a hand to help the woman behind him? And that time when, in an unguarded moment, he called Kanye West a jackass and asked the reporters in the room to “give the President a break” over his brief lapse in professionalism? Eight years with the world watching almost every move, and the only things we ever saw the man do that were kinda-sorta undignified were possibly (but probably not) casting a glance at a girl’s butt and calling a jackass a jackass.

Man, I miss those days.

[ThelmaLou]

@Defensive_Indifference

Stormy Daniels isn’t really my type, but I think “Horseface” is just a little uncalled for.

Sigh. Remember the Obama years? How, even when we thought he was badly miscalculating or pre-conceding to Republican demands, we could count on him to conduct himself with dignity and integrity? Remember that time when we had a little debate about whether he was checking out that one girl’s butt as she walked up the stairs, but really he was probably just offering a hand to help the woman behind him? And that time when, in an unguarded moment, he called Kanye West a jackass and asked the reporters in the room to “give the President a break” over his brief lapse in professionalism? Eight years with the world watching almost every move, and the only things we ever saw the man do that were kinda-sorta undignified were possibly (but probably not) casting a glance at a girl’s butt and calling a jackass a jackass.

Man, I miss those days.

QFT.