The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

The BBQ Pit
4738

I think you’re asking how to type HTML tags like <this>? There are a few ways.

Use backtick character like so, which lets you post arbitrary code of any kind verbatim:

`<this>`

Or, escape the brackets with a backslash like so

\<this\>

I would also posit that the ellipsis is perhaps a better way to do this, e.g.

A person said blah blah blah …

Just type two or three periods and we’ll convert it to the fancy typographical entity on your behalf, &hellip; which looks like …

If you are interested there are some tutorials and cheatsheets at Markdown Reference

4739

Or how about just marking your snips with
:scissors: :scissors: :scissors:

4740

Thank you for the response. What I was really asking for was a restoration of the ability to use pretend HTML tags, one of which is

dammit

one of which is

DAMMIT!

All right, fuck it, one of which is <snip>

*(and where the fuck did those serifs come from? What’s the workaround for getting these back in Arial?)

BTW, I don’t want to hijack the thread, so 45 SUCKS!

4741

To do <this>, use the escape character (backslash, \) before the character you don’t want parsed.

\<like this\> to get <like this>

4742

And we all know that Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

4743

Heartily seconded :beers:

4744

These were my thoughts as well with the added note that so long as they aren’t released and revealed to be a nothing burger, they can pretend that they are damning continue to include them in talking points. “It’s going to be huge! Just wait and see!”

4745

Also, he did the exact same things as Trump when he paid off his “indiscretion.” Even to using the same aliases.

4746

And the same “lawyer”, IIRC

4747

Yeppers. Now felon lawyer.

4748

Actually, you only need the first backslash
\<like this> to get
<like this>

4749

So I wonder what happens if the Durham report comes out after the election but before January 20th, and Barr moves to have Biden arrested. I know it sounds nuts, but these people are hanging by a thread and are likely to grasp at it.

4750

Leni lives

(at 1600 – video at link)

4751

Presidents can’t be indicted, 'member? Or charged with anything, even shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. The Pubs were very, very firm on that point. Yes, I know Biden would only be President-Elect but I’m sure they would not go back on their word.

4752

Not that I want to defend this, but I will say that there are a lot of narrative stories featuring someone traveling by plane which features the same shots, in the same sequence. It’s just how the process goes: You board the plane. It takes off. It flies. It lands. You get off.

Sometimes the dog whistle is just the dog.

(I don’t know what I mean by that, but it sounded good when it came to mind.)

4753

So according to WaPo, Pompeo says he has Hillary Clinton’s “lost emails” and is going to release them any day now. (Link, maybe paywalled)

Can someone please translate from Crazy to English? Why is this relevant? Has Pompeo been asleep for the last 4 years and thinks Clinton is still the candidate? Why does the WH think this will sway voters?

4754

And while you’re explaining that, can you also explain why it’s OK to release them? Wasn’t the whole criticism that she was saving confidential emails on her own server? Am I not understanding what “confidential” means here?

4755

Because the Turd campaign will claim that “Trump was right! Vote for him! He’s right!”

4756

Yeah… yeah. They never do that. Their word as their bond. You can take their word to the (Sber)bank.

4757

Oh, no. According to this doozy of a thread (especially when read in retrospect), having these 30,000 CLASSIFIED emails stolen like this was severely damaging to US relations and, for many people, a disqualifying action though it was never proven that (a) the emails had anything sensitive to them and (b) they were not even proven to have been stolen.