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- whatthefunk3
Conservative activists refuse to believe Trump is spending more on travel than Obama
“When Obama put his dog on Air Force One and then told us to give more to help poor people, it was a slap in the face to the entire country,” Chaulk, 60, a graphic designer from Columbus, Ohio, said on Wednesday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the marquee annual gathering for conservative activists.
Her friend Elaine Kent, 58, chimed in: “And when Michelle Obama and her friends went to Spain and spent millions of dollars on a vacation? They did so much nickel-and-diming of taxpayers."
They are less concerned — which is to say, not concerned at all — with recent reports that suggest President Trump cost taxpayers nearly as much in his first month in office as Obama did in a year. Their sentiments were widely shared here at CPAC, where attendees gave a wide array of explanations for why they were outraged by Obama’s travel spending but not Trump’s.
- 60 year old graphic designer?fooler
- maybe this guy?
http://somamagazine.…_niko - Designers don't live that long, fake newsyuekit
- this article is our resident Asshat omg in a nutshell. can't see the fucking wood for the trees.BuddhaHat
- lol, foolerGnash
- < https://www.google.c…Gnash
- @Gnash - I did the same thing, can't find her work anywhere ;)whatthefunk
- lol, me neither :)Gnash
- The first sentence is a real knee slapper. Member when GWB would take his dog on Air Force One... these fucking people, I feel sorry for them.kona
- https://southernlivi…
Here's GWB coming off of AF 1 with 2 dogs!... that's like... 5x as bad!kona - Big box of cuntssee_thru
- Lock the fire doors and throw in a burning rag.face_melter
- yuekit3
Trump government wants ‘greater enforcement’ of recreational marijuana use
http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/2…
"There's a big difference between [medicinal] and recreational marijuana, and I think when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people."
- Ah, the 'ol slippery slope argument. Classic.DRIFTMONKEY
- So much for states rightsR_Kercz
- god forbid people be enjoying themselves safelyscarabin
- i'm okay with this. being a parent of teens, i see that most of these fuckers can't manage the shitGnash
- The criminalization of marijuana creates an overcrowded penal system and is a major burden economically. It's better bottom line to decriminalize weed.monospaced
- just keep the shit out of kids hands. grownup pot heads can blow their brains out, if they like.Gnash
- Blow their brains out really? I don't see how it's any worse than drinking (less dangerous in fact).yuekit
- Legalization doesn't mean you encourage people to do something, it's just a more sane way of dealing with the problem.yuekit
- I'm saying it doesn't matter what a grown-up chooses to do -- it's their own biz. kids get fucked upGnash
- legalizing signals to kids that it's safe. they're not mature enough to understand the political motives for legalizingGnash
- also, "greater enforcement" doesn't mean criminalizing. But there should be a diff between medicinal and recreationalGnash
- Even in states where it's legal no one is allowed to buy weed under age 21, so how is that affecting kids?yuekit
- i said that it 'signals' to kids that it's safe, when it's notGnash
- I do understand the financial benefits of legalizing, and putting people in jail for smocking pot is ridiculous, of course.Gnash
- Weed is pathetic distraction, people addicted to over-the-counter and prescription drugs is a real, horrible, problem.face_melter
- after one marijuana:
https://www.youtube.…Gnash - Compared to alcohol, weed is safe. You have far more important things to worry about w your kids than weed. It's the least harmful thing they'll try.formed
- I'd be more worried about them smoking an illegal joint laced with whatever vs. them getting something that was bought at a dispensary.formed
- To be scared of weed is living with your head in the sand. Worry about alcohol, worry about recreational use of pharmaceuticals, weed is harmless.formed
- lol Gnash, what do you image "one marijuana" is?monospaced
- That's at least two or three marijuanasyuekit
- I once did 7 marijuanas in one night ... we did 3 each and when they didn't kick in after an hour, we took 4 more, and I'm pretty sure I killed someone.monospaced
- http://i.imgur.com/y…Gnash
- https://i.ytimg.com/…Gnash
- proof enoughGnash
- lolmonospaced
- you don't want to see after 3 injectionsGnash
- yuekit2
Private prison companies, which stand to make big gains under President Trump’s tough new immigration orders, also have contributed big sums to pro-Trump groups, including the organization that raised a record $100 million for his inauguration last month.
GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison operators, donated $250,000 to support Trump’s inaugural festivities, Pablo Paez, the company’s vice president of corporate relations, told USA TODAY.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ne…
Justice Department reverses directive to phase out private prisons
- waterhouse1
Boehner: Obamacare repeal and replace 'not what's going to happen'
- teh3
The Supreme Court Just Advanced A Lawsuit To Nullify The 2016 Election.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/…
- whatthefunk5
- so they can perpetually feel that they're the underdog despite currently holding power, and using their power in the last 8 years to subvert political progressBuddhaHat
- butt-hurt over downvotes I supposemonospaced
- false narrative. unrepresentative. these folks could easily have been Clinton supporters too. try waving the american flag once in a while.omg
- because a 'billionaire' who made his money fucking over the 'unrepresented' will now fight for them. they deserve to remain stupid and unrepresented.kona
- lol, so mean.omg
- @omg, those weren't Clinton supportersmonospaced
- how do you know mono?omg
- lol, omg, wake upmonospaced
- you will never find a confederate flag or nazi flag-waving asshole who supported Clinton no matter how much you lie to yourselfmonospaced
- because those ignorant assholes think Clinton was the ISIS founder, pro terrorist, baby killer ... can't have both dumb shitmonospaced
- Yes, I often saw people waving Swastikas at Clinton rallies...tit.see_thru
- What about this anti-Trumper?
http://bit.ly/2lRWc6…
[boom]omg - Not all trump supporters are racist but certainly all racists support trumpwhatthefunk
- lol, omg thinks an untitled image of a flag outside a house is a slam dunk [boom]. what a feeble-minded fucking idiot.BuddhaHat
- lol. I remember that story came out for a hot second then was quickly debunked. What an idiot still latching onto a lie.kona
- sted3
- inteliboy1
I like how trump and co keep crying about mainstream corporate media...
Tho wait, isn't the epitome of mainstream corporate media Murdochs' empire inc. Fox News - the very media outlet he keeps calling out as being A OK? Insane.
- precisely - "but MSM, but pizza... but snowfl... oh Fox is part of that? oh god"fadein11
- allthethings3
A little light reading. Feel better? I don't.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02…
The Shallow State
Forget the conspiracy theories. Something much more dangerous is seeking to gut our government and change the character of our society.
"Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don’t understand, and what they don’t understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don’t dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman. The same is true for experience, skills, and know-how. These things require time and work and study and often challenge our systems of belief. Truth is hard; shallowness is easy."
- Ah, the irony.set
- pretty much the same script can be used on the left.Gnash
- lol, rightmonospaced
- one needs to look no further than this thread.Gnash
- Poor guy, the author is really sad Hillary didn't win. Don't let him rub his sadness on you...robotron3k
- @Gnash - there aren't too many (or any) on the left denying climate change, the economic and social benefits of medicare, or that think constantly producingBuddhaHat
- demonstrable lies from the White House is a good idea. That is solely the domain of the stupid, the unhinged, the factually deficient right side of politics.BuddhaHat
- and for robotard to come up with a 'waagh, Clinton didn't win' response perfectly exemplifies how shallow and stupid his thinking on this really is.BuddhaHat
- With the GOP unable to put together an effective legislative counter to the ACA, imagining something like the 'deep state' is truly ridiculous.BuddhaHat
- They can't even craft an effective piece of legislation, yet simultaneously their supporters think a cabal of experienced military and intelligence staffBuddhaHat
- are seeking to subvert institutional power to advance their personal goals. It's fucking retarded, and there isn't anybody on the left that actually thinks thatBuddhaHat
- so, no @Gnash, the script, as detailed in this article, cannot be equally applied to those on the left. That is just wrong.BuddhaHat
- Those on the left don't think it's a good idea to cut funding for fact-based fields of inquiry that contradict their views, ie. climate science.BuddhaHat
- People on the left don't consider the press 'the enemy of the American people', by doing their job, which is critical to sustaining democracy.BuddhaHat
- The left don't think electing a billionaire with no experience to the education dept is smart. The right seek to actively dumb down the US, and it's working.BuddhaHat
- Dude, Buddha you hit it out of the park.kona
- gat damn son, preachdigitdaily
- I was referring to the posted script, not the entire article, which I had not readGnash
- don’t assume that i’m supporting the rights positions — I disagree with much of their policy.Gnash
- The script is full of assumptions and hyperbole. I am suggesting that the left is just as myopic than the right.Gnash
- The left absolutely ’skims the media’ for the feel-good, world-view confirming, news just as much as the right.Gnash
- The right do not all think that “the press is the enemy of the people,” Trump is the one suggesting that the press is untruthful.Gnash
- There may well be fringe right that agree, but remember that there are also fringe left that think trump is ‘literally hitler’Gnash
- Yes, repubs are more skeptical of the theory of evolution, but it’s only by a surprisingly slim margin...Gnash
- ...with 39 percent of repubs rejecting it as compared to 30 percent of Dems.Gnash
- Also surprisingly, Dems and Repubs believe in the false link between vaccines and autism at roughly equal levels.Gnash
- Repubs are divided evenly on the GMO question. Democrats rate them unsafe by a 26-point margin, despite almost 2,000 studies spanning a decade saying otherwiseGnash
- On the big issue of global warming it’s true that 64% of Dems believe in man-made global warming, while only 22 percent of Repubs do...Gnash
- ...when it comes to solutions, the Dems aren’t always as science-minded. Only 45% of Dems support expanding the use of nuclear energy as compared to 62% of RepubsGnash
- both sides have blind spots when data-based evidence contradicts their political preferencesGnash
- Believe me, I would much rather have another person in office. But the myopic hyperbole is a bit much sometimes.Gnash
- and I'm not speaking from the POV of a conservative. I've voted NDP in every election here except one, and that was for the LiberalsGnash
- Ramanisky21
- Trump is so much more entertaining than the previous guy who was President, what was his name again....?robotron3k
- only idiots think a president should be entertainingmonospaced
- his staff are equally if not more entertaining lol...fadein11
- yeah, Melissa spicer is pretty goodmonospaced
- teh2
- warning: omg triggered in 3 ... 2 ...monospaced
- lol - this is omg's handwriting no?fadein11
- Probably his dad's.monospaced
- this is just one big face palm.omg
- Agreed. Trump is so fucking stupid, and so is anyone who supports him, that you have to face palm. The stupid is palapabe.monospaced
- whatthefunk5
- well, he said it was secretGnash
- I'm going to hit poison golf balls in their general directionkona
- golfballs packed with C-4Ramanisky2
- he'll say that he meant it'll take 30 days to defeat isis once the secret plan was executedGnash
- http://i.imgur.com/X…face_melter
- (humming to himself)
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
He's only three feet tall
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins
The bravest little hobbit of them allkona - (thinking to himself)
I wonder if I could eat a whole Cow. I think I could. I bet I could. No one can eat like me. I'm the best eater I know.
Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbkona - but still "the best billionaire golfer"fadein11
- secretly spread VX(nerve agent) onto ISIS branded loo roll?fruitsalad
- zaq4
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- HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA...kona
- ahaha FTW!sted
- embarrassing time to be a conservative republicanmonospaced
- this had to be a prank, someone must have handed these out knowingly. good one.Gnash
- And a bunch of morons didn't realize it.monospaced
- omg wank ragfadein11
- https://www.theatlan…whatthefunk
- :)Gnash
- Troll level: Master
https://i.imgur.com/…omg - LOLpango
- son of a bitch; good prankIRNlun6
- Too bad it was a Huffington post writer who was caught passing out the Russian flags at CPAC. #fakenewiesomg
- Why too bad? It's not fake that people were so fucking stupid they didn't realize they were waving Russian flags. It's 100% real news you troll.monospaced
- well, I imagine it's because a serious"news" organization shouldn't be the one trolling. but it's huffpo, so I guess it's coolGnash
- It wasn't. It was two young men on their own with almost no effort required to dupe the fucking morons cheering for the biggest moron, trumpmonospaced
- You must be reading fake shit news if you think that this was orchestrated by a msm org. Fucking idiot.monospaced
- huffpo is about as msm and breitfart.Gnash
- it may be a prank but what's not fake is that the crowd fell for it. lolpango
- Ramanisky22
- you don't have to add any additional comment to clips like that... it's so idiotically self-incriminating, nothing else needs to be said.BuddhaHat
- lol, is that real -- it hasn't been edited??Gnash
- i actually laughed out loud at thatGnash
- Even more idiotic are people who voted for him or continue to support him. Just as deserving of ridicule as anyone.monospaced
- capn_ron1
White House blocks news organizations from press briefing
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/…
I am really excited to hear the explanation behind this!
- it's because the white house is butt hurt over downvotesmonospaced
- probably a better explanation than they will give. I'm sure they will say the words "FAKE NEWS" 100 times to explain this happening.capn_ron
- same thingmonospaced
- This is seriously the most shocking and dangerous thing they have done to date.inv
- a limited pool is going to favor broadcast in the US rather than paid cable networks of the Clinton News Network.omg
- and it begins.sted
- I am surprised Twitter is not banned. There is a lot of negative shit there about Trumpzaq
- there is a lot of dark people in the world now that I have been paying attention to the twitter comments to stuff.capn_ron
- twitter isn't a news org, and this won't stop CNN from reporting the factsmonospaced
- omg doesn't understand the importance of freedom of the press in a democracy - what a surprise eh. Heil mongfadein11
- omg - so the alternative is Breitbart - you looking for a Kremlin controlled RT media situation like in Russia - state funded and edited by govt officials -fadein11
- This doesn't infringe on the freedom of press. It's just a butt hurt response that will result in nothing at all except more scrutiny and ridicule of the WHmonospaced
- reminds me of communism - your ultimate enemy. you can't have free markets and expect 100% free media - it's business. But the idea the Clinton's own the mediafadein11
- and by effect own capitalism is really stupid - like the most stupid you have ever been here, aside from saying Sweden was the rape capital of the world becausefadein11
- of immigrants.fadein11
- what do you know of communism fadein?omg
- Freedom of press is not being attacked when NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News is there reporting from the WHomg
- "the news today has been brought to you by the following approved Whitehouse outlets"fadein11
- fadein doesn't understand limited seating. Most Americans get their TV News from Local/ Network TV. Not everyone pays for their TV access.omg
- I get nothing omg - please enlighten me with your pathetic memes, retarded cartoons and clickbait news stories... please I wanna be like you - dribbling intofadein11
- Unfortunately your friends at Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN and Boomerang will have to wait for the real news to comment from.omg
- my TV dinner while getting a semi over the latest Fox news weather girl lol. Seriously please enlighten me - I want to understand.fadein11
- Every major television network is there from Viacom, News Corp, Comcast, and Disney.omg
- thanks for clearing that up for me. what websites do you get your simple memes from, oh and those cartoons with labels? I'd like to share more of that stuff plsfadein11
- omg is right it doesn't infringe on anything, it just makes his administration look like butt-hurt children who can't take criticism ... also it changes nothingmonospaced
- cnn will still have the facts and will still report on them, and the trump team will realize their little stunt was fruitless and just makes them look butthurtmonospaced
- lol - every reporter on the plant wasn't invited to the "the gaggle"...robotron3k
- @robo - really? I thought all publications of the planet fit into the Tardis Whitehouse press room... no?fadein11
- Not shit robo. He just kicked out the ones who actually conduct real journalism and who report the fact that trump is as stupid as you.monospaced
- Continuity2
White House confirms conversation with FBI about Trump and Russia
