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Warbler said:

That has to be an alternative fact.

I dunno, it’s petty and juvenile. Seems legit.

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Hey, the GOP actually put the country first for once.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/politics/congress-sanctions-russia.html?_r=0

Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on sweeping sanctions legislation to punish Russia for its election meddling and aggression toward its neighbors, they said Saturday, defying the White House’s argument that President Trump needs flexibility to adjust the sanctions to fit his diplomatic initiatives with Moscow.

The new legislation would sharply limit the president’s ability to suspend or terminate the sanctions — a remarkable handcuffing by a Republican-led Congress six months into Mr. Trump’s tenure. It is also the latest Russia-tinged turn for a presidency consumed by investigations into the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian officials, including conversations between Trump advisers and Russian officials about prospective sanctions relief.

Now, Mr. Trump could soon face a decision he hoped to avoid: veto the bill — a move that would fuel accusations that he is doing the bidding of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — or sign legislation imposing sanctions his administration has opposed.

I hope he vetoes it and then they override it. Best of both worlds!

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I have some thoughts about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/britain-ads-gender-stereotypes.html?smid=tw-share

LONDON — One ad for baby formula showed a little girl growing up to be a ballerina and a little boy becoming a mathematician.

Another ad, for a weight-loss drink, asked if viewers were “beach body ready” and showed a bikini-wearing woman whose bronzed image, critics said, promoted an unrealistic standard of beauty.

A third ad, for the video game “Game of War,” showed the American actress Kate Upton scantily dressed on a horse, making it seem as though sexual desirability were a prerequisite for leadership.

Britain’s advertising regulator, reacting to these ads and similar ones, announced Tuesday that new rules would be developed to ban advertising that promotes gender stereotypes or denigrates people who do not conform to them; sexually objectifies women; or promotes unhealthy body images.

Obviously, I think that those ads do contain some possibly regressive gender stereotypes. But I’m less sure that a government agency should be “cracking down” on ads like those.

At first glance, when I read the title of the article, I thought that it might be an impairment of free speech. Why should the government be regulating such things? I’d be all for corporations deciding on their own to remove these viewpoints from their advertisements, I thought.

As I read the article, however, I started to see where the other side might be coming from. This paragraph, in particular, made me think about parallels to the banning of tobacco ads on television here in the United States:

“Our review shows that specific forms of gender stereotypes in ads can contribute to harm for adults and children,” said Ella Smillie, the lead author of the report. “Such portrayals can limit how people see themselves, how others see them, and limit the life decisions they take.”

Does the promotion of certain gender stereotypes have similarities to the promotion of tobacco products to children? For right now, I don’t know.

In the end, I’m still iffy on this new policy. I’m still concerned on the impact this might have with the protection of freedom of speech by the government. Maybe I’m holding regressive viewpoints, I just don’t know.

Your thoughts?

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They’re getting upset over this?
https://youtu.be/nLLBnE-22mo
It’s a medieval fantasy world setting, not a game set at an accounting firm. One might as well complain about Conan The Barbarian’s pal Red Sonja running around in that chain mail bikini.

And now a bunch of people are going to google Red Sonja. 😉

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Yikes.

https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/888809731099435008

Full transparency: I’m deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn’t be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that’s all that matters

This is Trump’s new communications director.

Because once you delete stuff on the internets, it’s gone for good!

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I feel really betrayed by these partisan hacks that convinced me that somehow people on the right aren’t as full of shit as people on the left. The final nail in the coffin for me was a video I saw from a popular conservative on Youtube claiming that the AIDS epidemic was a “hoax” because it primarily effected the gay. Obviously, that mindset is absurd, but what really got me is that the video was almost unanimously received positively, which is a good reminder as to why I hate people. Left-wingers may be nuts, but right-wingers are evil. Both can do equal damage though.

Also, keep in mind that I said “left-wingers” and “right-wingers”. I’m referring specifically to these agenda driven creeps, not normal liberals and conservatives.

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I missed this a few weeks ago but holy crap.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/26/lynne-patton-trump-party-planner-new-york-federal-housing-239963

Six months ago, Lynne Patton was a party planner. On Monday, she took the helm of New York’s federal housing office, a promotion she won after making enemies at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fumbling a job as senior adviser to Secretary Ben Carson.

It pays to have been a party planner for the Trumps.

Patronage is as old as politics, but Patton’s swift rise to power has startled even some Trump administration insiders.

When President Donald Trump dispatched her to HUD in February — a month before Carson’s arrival — industry lobbyists mostly shrugged it off. But the former events planner quickly made a mark, big-footing experienced staffers and flubbing the rollout of Carson’s first public appearances as secretary, according to people close to the secretary.

During his confirmation hearing, Carson had promised to take a nationwide listening tour to get his bearings, a move widely praised by housing activists. Planning the tour fell to the professional — Patton.

It didn’t go well. The launch was barely publicized, denying the new HUD secretary news coverage as he visited his hometown of Detroit. In other cities, Carson praised programs targeted for budget cuts, a blunder that suggested he hadn’t been properly coached by staff.

In April, the secretary was ridiculed when he got stuck in an elevator at a Miami housing project. Soon after, his staff suspended the listening tour, which his own allies chalked up as a disaster.

I guess since Trump has been failing upwards his whole life, it’s a quality he admires in others too?

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I missed this a few weeks ago but holy crap.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/26/lynne-patton-trump-party-planner-new-york-federal-housing-239963

Six months ago, Lynne Patton was a party planner. On Monday, she took the helm of New York’s federal housing office, a promotion she won after making enemies at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fumbling a job as senior adviser to Secretary Ben Carson.

It pays to have been a party planner for the Trumps.

Patronage is as old as politics, but Patton’s swift rise to power has startled even some Trump administration insiders.

When President Donald Trump dispatched her to HUD in February — a month before Carson’s arrival — industry lobbyists mostly shrugged it off. But the former events planner quickly made a mark, big-footing experienced staffers and flubbing the rollout of Carson’s first public appearances as secretary, according to people close to the secretary.

During his confirmation hearing, Carson had promised to take a nationwide listening tour to get his bearings, a move widely praised by housing activists. Planning the tour fell to the professional — Patton.

It didn’t go well. The launch was barely publicized, denying the new HUD secretary news coverage as he visited his hometown of Detroit. In other cities, Carson praised programs targeted for budget cuts, a blunder that suggested he hadn’t been properly coached by staff.

In April, the secretary was ridiculed when he got stuck in an elevator at a Miami housing project. Soon after, his staff suspended the listening tour, which his own allies chalked up as a disaster.

I guess since Trump has been failing upwards his whole life, it’s a quality he admires in others too?

You laugh now, but when you start seeing dolphin ice sculptures in federal housing, you’ll change your mind.

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TV’s Frink said:

I made a few minor edits to this Trump tweet.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889473486506385409?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Sleazy Donald Trump, the totally incompetent President colluding with “Russia,” spends all of his time on Twitter pushing the Fake News excuse!

If you haven’t watched yet, check out Tony Schwartz’s lecture to the Oxford Union…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxF_CDDJ0YI

IIRC he observes that everything Trump says about others, is in fact about himself. Schwartz wrote Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ book and wants to tell everyone what a dreadful mistake it. It was given before the result…

“10 days from now… God save us… that man could become leader of the free world”

The guy looks absolutely haunted (and says as much) by what he has done in helping to promote Trump to the world.

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TV’s Frink said:

I missed this a few weeks ago but holy crap.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/26/lynne-patton-trump-party-planner-new-york-federal-housing-239963

Six months ago, Lynne Patton was a party planner. On Monday, she took the helm of New York’s federal housing office, a promotion she won after making enemies at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fumbling a job as senior adviser to Secretary Ben Carson.

It pays to have been a party planner for the Trumps.

Patronage is as old as politics, but Patton’s swift rise to power has startled even some Trump administration insiders.

When President Donald Trump dispatched her to HUD in February — a month before Carson’s arrival — industry lobbyists mostly shrugged it off. But the former events planner quickly made a mark, big-footing experienced staffers and flubbing the rollout of Carson’s first public appearances as secretary, according to people close to the secretary.

During his confirmation hearing, Carson had promised to take a nationwide listening tour to get his bearings, a move widely praised by housing activists. Planning the tour fell to the professional — Patton.

It didn’t go well. The launch was barely publicized, denying the new HUD secretary news coverage as he visited his hometown of Detroit. In other cities, Carson praised programs targeted for budget cuts, a blunder that suggested he hadn’t been properly coached by staff.

In April, the secretary was ridiculed when he got stuck in an elevator at a Miami housing project. Soon after, his staff suspended the listening tour, which his own allies chalked up as a disaster.

I guess since Trump has been failing upwards his whole life, it’s a quality he admires in others too?

You laugh now, but when you start seeing dolphin ice sculptures in federal housing, you’ll change your mind.

I changed my mind as soon as I read this.

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It didn’t go well. The launch was barely publicized, denying the new HUD secretary news coverage as he visited his hometown of Detroit. In other cities, Carson praised programs targeted for budget cuts, a blunder that suggested he hadn’t been properly coached by staff.

This part irks me. Carson believes these programs work and publicly praises them, but only because his staff hasn’t coached their leader on the proper talking points.

We have very few leaders in positions of power — mostly just talking heads with advisors.

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I had a parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence when I was a kid. It was probably a Bicentennial thing since my family visited Philly in '76.

I have one of the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They sold those things at historic sites in Philly. The did so in the 80’s as well. For all I know, they still might.

I was just in Philly today visiting the Museum of the American Revolution.

They still sell the parchment copies of the various historic documents.

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Trump can’t even address the Boy Scouts without turning it political. He probably would have been kicked out of a troop as a kid.

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And he went down memory lane on the election again. Those poor scouts! It’s like that one relative you can’t avoid at family reunions who tells the same boring story over and over again.
He also seems to think he can somehow compel people to say Merry Christmas this year whether they want to or not. Talk about going off on a random thought.

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People with certain political leanings might not think that this is a good omen for the future of America.

https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/889617053447008256

Trump tells the Boy Scouts he’s going to kill Obamacare; Boy Scouts respond with chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!”

I mean, jeez, why does this have to be so political?