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Madonna Drops F-Bombs at Anti-Trump Rally: ‘I’ve Thought a Lot About Blowing Up the White House’
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- whatthefunk4
- A more gooder potusutopian
- https://docs.google.…face_melter
- ^ transcription of his remarks at the CIA. Read it and weep.face_melter
- i doubt any smart person has actually said that....pango
- utopian2
'Largest Audience Ever to Witness an Inauguration, Period' - Trump's Press Secretary
In his first official White House briefing, Sean Spicer blasted journalists for “deliberately false reporting,” and made categorical claims about crowd-size at odds with the available evidence.
- You can not make this shit up!utopian
- so it goesface_melter
- he's worst than a god damned spoiled toddlermoldero
- What an embarrassing, lying sack of shit. Anyone who still supports this guy is just pathetic.monospaced
- sted6
- set-5
Who is trump responsible for murdering? Anyone?
Obama is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people in the middle east, and yet Trump is the bad guy because he's said a few things you disagree with?
Get your priorities straight you sick fucks.
- You are the problem in this world. Believing the mainstream media narrative like thick headed monkeys.set
- and utter half-wits like 2002 assume I support trump because I say Obama was not a good man. How fucking black and white moronic can you get?set
- priorities. Obama's not running anymore. Trump is. Just his business practice and ethics along are troublesome.pango
- His business practice and ethics are more troublesome than relentlessly bombing seven countries? What?set
- How many people had Obama killed after two days in the job?Fax_Benson
- We have one bomb in the west and its a travesty, yet Obama sent bombs to the middle east relentlessly for 8 years and you all call him a great man. Embarrassingset
- and trump is the devil? I'm embarrassed to be the same species as some of you.set
- not one single us president i can remember who hasn't bombs another country. they love that shit.pango
- So that makes it OK?set
- What's your point?set
- huh? Obama just finished 2 terms as the president for a country tied up in multiple conflicts.inteliboy
- has there ever been a president with no blood on his hands?inteliboy
- not defending him but think about the military / mid-east scenario Obama inherited. Think about what Trump's inherited and his comments re that.Fax_Benson
- nope just an invalid comparison. you can't compare something that hasn't happen yet. and i'm certainly not betting trump wont bomb another country.pango
- the more trump acts like a buffoon, the more his supporters play the "b-b-b-but Hillary and Obama are worse!" card.inteliboy
- if you do want to compare trump and obama. you can compare what they've done before they were president.pango
- Of course you can compare what hasn't happened yet, moron. That's like saying you can't compare a mass murderer to an innocent man. Utterly moronic.set
- Trump has an amazing track record of being a poor ethic dick head.pango
- basically, if Trump gets through 8 years without killing a load of people and furthering the western policy of bombing people peaceful, good on himFax_Benson
- then why are you comparing his presidency with trumps?pango
- you know, it's possible to bring up your views without calling everyone morons. that said, the way you post matches the way your angry face looks.inteliboy
- I'm comparing a man who is responsible for murdering thousands upon thousands of people with a man that has said a few things people don't agree withset
- and yet the media have you brainwashed in to thinking trump is the bad one. If you can't see the madness in that then you are truly lost.set
- the media? what do you mean by that?inteliboy
- because if you haven't noticed, the most successful mainstream media has been run by Murdoch's far right empire which has smeared Obama for 8 yearsinteliboy
- Now I have to explain what the media is and its effects on people's opinions? Kill me now.set
- yeah, I don't know what the media is. ffs. I'm off. I like a good ranty debate. But you're one grumpy fucker. Get some sleep or have a wank or something.inteliboy
- Don't do it set. we would hate to see you go.pango
- You asked me what I mean by the media. Did I read it wrong?set
- Or did you just say that by accident?set
- You are calling everyone hypocrites. I get that. Or at least I like to think I do. And like georges you do have a point. But I don't think it's a valid comparispango
- On you've or its as simple as that. I'll come back again when I wake up. See if I can explain it better.pango
- Don't botherset
- Obama also wasn't responsible for killing innocents on his first day. The comparison is absolutely ridiculous.monospaced
- If we elected an actual professional entertainment bozo clown as president you could make the same claim.monospaced
- Ridiculous how? That's like saying you can't compare hitler to mother teresa because before hitler killed millions, he was innocent.set
- This is getting silly, my point is simply that people are glorifying a man who is responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of people. Not ok.set
- and vilifying Trump, who, as of right now, has done nothing anywhere near as awful as Obama.set
- set - your naivety on US foreign policy really surprises me. I agree with a lot of what you say but to think Obama didn't inherit a total shit storm is a littlefadein11
- bit stupid. To also think Trump won't do the same is also v.stupid. But let's see how it goes. People dislike him because he regularly makes a disgrace offadein11
- himself in public and people are a little bit scared than an unstable narcissistic idiot is the most 'powerful' man on Earth. I epxect you to call me a smallfadein11
- brain/simpleton in response but some of your recent comments are a little bit simplistic imho.fadein11
- Well no, I agree for the most part. Inheriting a shit storm is irrelevant though if you add to it. I never said Trump will be any different.set
- I'm just shocked and saddened at how the world glorifies Obama, due to media influence. The media could spin it that he's the war mongering tyrant that he is...set
- Just as easily.set
- yep agreed. I want to love Obama but cannot at all. Said this to a few people recently and I think the sentiment is quite common. People are not all brainwashedfadein11
- They had the world believing Hussein was the worst man on the planet when in reality Obama is equally as bad..set
- You see him on TV and he's a fucking cool guy, and that's all most people see. Pretty sad.set
- People aren't all brainwashed, no. I love in Brighton and most people here are a little more aware of what's really going on. I think the world is slowly...set
- .. changing for the better. Trump and brexit represent that change. Even if they turn out to be bad decisions, they represent people's want for changeset
- The sheer hatred towards trump, though, is representative of the fact that people are still massively influenced by the mediaset
- I agree to certain extent - but not on Brexit and Trump being signs of change. Yes people want change but they were also sold a lie. Brexit in particularfadein11
- was a product of mainstream media brainwashing. And yep you were for it but for valid considered reasons. A lot of people were sold a lie but Murdoch etc.fadein11
- Also the smear campaign against him represented the fact that the establishment didn't want him to win, which was a glimmer of hope at the very least.set
- A revolution isn't driven by corporate media.fadein11
- by not butfadein11
- yep I think most people want change but who have filled the gaps - weasels. Where are the good people? Corbyn's popularity exploded because he became a symbolfadein11
- of integrity post Brexit - and a victim of the system. But so many of those new Labour members probably don't even know he has wanted to leave the EU throughoutfadein11
- his whole political career.fadein11
- Anyone with a brain knows change is needed but surely not at any cost?fadein11
- BuddhaHat4
^ This faulty line of questioning falls over from the outset. A fairer comparison might be: Prior to Obama's inauguration, how much uproar was there regarding his lack of temperament for the job? What about concern about his intelligence, and his commensurate ability to fulfil the tasks required of him? What was his history of shady political or business dealings prior to taking office? And how do the answers to those questions compare to the lead-up to Trump's inauguration?
First of all, nobody is disputing Obama's military record. He has been extremely aggressive with drone strikes and military actions in the Middle East. He didn't close Gitmo. He didn't send Wall St bankers to jail after the GFC (one of the biggest failings of his time as President, imo).
However, the question either ignores or takes advantage of the fact that until his swearing in, Trump has held no government position of any kind in his entire life. The domain in which he did operate, business and real estate, suffered massively at his hands instead. Numerous bankruptcies, unpaid workers, sexually harassed employees, failed businesses, ripping off the uneducated with sham universities.
On the campaign trail, he was perpetually lying. I'm sure the media has lost count of the number, and the scale of his lies.
- His control over the English language is so poor that French translators are having a difficult time translating what he says for their readers.
- He wanted to roll military trucks through D.C. as part of his election parade, as a show of military might (Pyongyang? Beijing? USSR?)
- His press secretary's first statement was to scold the media for 'lying' about the turnout at his inauguration, illustrating how incredibly narcissistic and petty the new President is, and will continue to be.
- He has made countless ad hominem attacks on people who have said things about him that he didn't like, that were based on evidence.
- At his speech to the CIA, after stating the the US should have 'kept the oil', he told them not to worry, because they might get another chance at it, hinting at further/increased military actions in the Middle East.
- He starts his presidency with the lowest trust levels, and the lowest popularity ratings in recent history, possibly for all time, I'm not sure on the last bit. Maybe Nixon was worse?
- All mentions of LGBTQ policy, and environmental policy was removed from the whitehouse.gov website at exactly midday when he took office.Trump takes office with the GOP holding control of the Senate, and the House. Countless military hawks with concerning and factually questionable positions on Iran and other countries in the Middle East will now be unchecked in ramping up possible military aggression abroad.
Set, your question was framed in such a way to make the answer irrelevant. And you're seemingly not concerned about any of the points listed above, and why they might concern people about Trump's suitability for the highest office in the world.
As for Trump's death count after 4, or maybe 8 years in office? Sadly, we'll just have to wait and see.
- I completely agree. Yet I constantly see people sad that Obama is leaving and people constantly vilifying Trump...set
- When the fact is that he's simply a man who has said some things they disagree with, compared to a man who is accountable for thousands upon thousands of deathsset
- People judge a man, a politician, by his character, not his actions, and that's a scary thing.set
- 'he's simply a man who has said some things they disagree with' is a gross over-simplification of the issues at hand, in my opinion.BuddhaHat
- What else has he done?set
- I'll refer you to my original answer on that one, set.BuddhaHat
- The question you asked above couldn't be adequately responded to in comment boxes, hence the long-form response to the left.BuddhaHat
- Well I appreciate your intelligent input, thank you .set
- I like how you added a point of Trump's 0 death count in the last sentence. Nice touch.robotron3k
- Everyone here except you and maybe a couple of others know how stupid and pointless your comment is, robo. Run along now.BuddhaHat
- @set - let's just wait to see how many people Trump kills before we say Obama was worse. You are making similar assumptions about a man you know little about.fadein11
- I hope you are right. But I would have expected you to understand that presidents don't really decide US foreign policy, "puppets" as you have often said.fadein11
- If Trump makes any attempt to change that he won't be alive for v.long.fadein11
- I never said trump will be any different. Unfortunately I don't think he will.set
- set give American voters some credit...they are not against Trump just because he "said some things they disagree with," that's pretty condescending.qoob
- Trump and the Republicans are going to transform American society in a much more conservative direction...makes sense that many people would be against this.qoob
- It would be like saying in 1979 Margaret Thatcher just said some things people disagree with.qoob
- Most people I've spoken to over here know nothing of his policies, they simply hate him because he said pussy and called immigrants rapistsset
- They hate him for no reason other than the media persuading them to hate him. It's embarrassingset
- @set - how can the media persuade anyone simply by repeating audio of what a man says. He said these things, media just played it over and overwhatthefunk
- I could understand if media posted blatant lies but he literally said these things on audio/video and media just plays it and people deny he said these things..whatthefunk
- set most people here hate him for his decades of being himself, in pop culture and for what he actually says and does ... we aren't brainwashed by mediamonospaced
- He said a lot of very specific things during the campaign too...for instance, build a giant wall on the Mexican border,qoob
- ban all Muslim people from entering the country, bring back torture and waterboarding, expand the death penalty, "take the oil" from Iraq.qoob
- None of that is made up by media...it's Trump saying what he's going to do when in power. People react negatively to that, and then you say brainwashed?qoob
- For starters.monospaced
- Leave it to liberals for campaigning for weak border protection and a solid immigration policy. They're better at cuddling terrorist values than American ones.omg
- @qoob - well said mate. the whole blame the media thing is wearing v.thin now... bullshit.fadein11
- The media is the only way most people have ever perceived him. If you don't think that perception can be nudged in one way or another then you're a fool...set
- The sheer hatred for him has most certainly been encouraged by mainstream media.set
- The rhetoric that Trump is the devil and Obama is a saint is rather worrying. People clap and praise Obama and cry when he left office...set
- ...Yet if that war mongering tyrant was on the opposition, the media could spin it that way effortlessly and most of the country would lap it up and despise himset
- and yet, people like you are claiming that they know and understand him in some other way than the media has portrayed him, and that seems crazymonospaced
- I have notset
- lowimpakt4
the women's marches were the right antidote for trump's dystopian and grim inauguration
- Soros has funded, or has close relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s groups - Wall StJournalDillinger
- So?monospaced
- Anytime you bottle up all that hate and anger towards men for long periods of time. It's always good to let it all out. You'll feel much better the next day.omg
- I think omg is offering instructions for masturbation. Being a gigantic wanker himself, he is considered somewhat of an expert on the subject.BuddhaHat
- BuddhaHat is such a Nasty Womanomg
- Go and count words in Wikipedia, pea-brain.BuddhaHat
- Hey OMG, dumbass, there were a lot of men there as well. I was there. No hate to be found anywhere. Clearly women threaten you. Sad.monkeyshine
- The fact that omg doesn't know any women who marched should be very concerning and revealing.monospaced
- mg334
OMG... just watched Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press, asked by Chuck Todd why Sean Spicer had to come out and litigate Trump's crowd size, by lying about what that crowd size was. She said he presented "alternative facts" about it.
Todd asked here probably eight times to explain why Spicer did that, and she did nothing but deflect.
i can't even imagine how people like Todd can sit there and remain composed when talking to that idiot.
- 'Alternative facts'? Fuck me. Holy fucking shit. Is this for real? Am I in an alternate universe now?Continuity
- They rail against fake news and yet Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon are the epitome of living, breathing spin and fakery....ironic really.see_thru
- where do you think omg and robo get it from?whatthefunk
- This is so embarrassing. For his support staff and his legacy on day one. I've never seen adults act so sore over such a sad reception.monospaced
- it's all starting to sound like a counter trollwhatthefunk
- i have to post this because it's such an awesome pr fail textbook example.sted
- R_Kercz1
- that's unpresidentedsted
- as if being exposed as unfavorablu financially would change a damn thing, we've reached a point where his supporters simply wouldn't care.monospaced
- predictable...whatthefunk
- You might be glad to know since foreign conflicts of interest is the issue, after 20 years in business the Clinton Foundation has closed up shop.omg
- As an independent I am glad to see the end of any bad practice. No partisan tribalism necessary.R_Kercz
- Who said it was foreign conflict? All we know right now is there is something Trump really doesn't want people to find out about his finances.qoob
- ^checks pizzagate on issues regarding Trump.omg
- omg with two completely pathetic attempts at deflecting ... more embarrassing and stupid than Kelly Anne Conway.monospaced
- Your new daddy may have bigger issues of concern. Have fun searching through his pockets. Who knows what you might find.omg
- take them pleasemonospaced
- the medsmonospaced
- whatthefunk3
- "lowercase kkk"whatthefunk
- If the shift or caps-lock button on your keyboard fails you, or gets stuck. Don't expect the alt left or right to help you when things get case sensitive.omg
- I'll just take command of other options thenwhatthefunk
- the scarier issue may be that Aziz Ansari just co-founded the lowercase kkk movement.omg
- So sorry we never thanked you for your service ;)whatthefunk
- omg what? take your medsmonospaced
- Why don't you go play in traffic, omg? Or maybe stick something metal in a power socket? Who knows, it might make you smarter.BuddhaHat
- sted2
complete pr fail
- Oh, they don't care about negative PR, sted.Continuity
- This is all faked. 100% cgi from the totally fake CNN. Duh!monospaced
- #alternativefactswhatthefunk
- i'm with the squirrel who leaves the scene before it becomes too ridiculoussted
- R_Kercz0
Probably a good bill to watch
H.R.193 - American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017
https://www.congress.gov/bill/11…- Kiss Some Russian Ass Bill I.
(second one will be about the NATO)
wonder why WHO is included?sted - This shit show is going be long and gruelling ... oh, boy ...Continuity
- Doublespeak title.dorf
- Kiss Some Russian Ass Bill I.
