A round up of Trumpian events 🖕🍊🤡

[milliefink]

You bet, only the best values. Supreme ones!

[Gyrofrog]

“To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to accept public donations to fund the construction of a barrier on the border between the United States and Mexico, and for other purposes.”
https://black.house.gov/sites/black.house.gov/files/documents/Border%20Wall%20Trust%20Fund%20Act.pdf

Lawmaker Introduces Crowdfunding Bill To Pay For Trump's Border Wall

[sosumi]

@Wanderfound

Michael McFaul (McFaul)
… Do business with him @realDonaldTrump if you must, but dont check your values at the door. twitter.com/Acosta/status/…

10:57 PM - 21 May 2018

Values? VALUES? Is he from this planet?

ETA
@anon50609448
Beat to it again!

[alahmnat]

NBC News (NBCNews)

One part “when in doubt, do the cruelest thing”, one part “everything Obama did was bad and must be undone”.

[anon50609448]

@mr_raccoon

Texas lieutenant governor blames shooting on “too many entrances”

I just told a friend of mine about this. Their response was: “Aren’t entrances also exits?”

[mr_raccoon]

The guy who ate lead paint chips as a kid just basically blamed kids eating potato chips for school shootings

NRA board member Ted Nugent blames school shootings on unhealthy diets

[anon50609448]

@mr_raccoon

Nugent: “Check out what we are feeding our children and you will find the answer to this calamity”

Okay, Nugent, fucking do something about it. Same thing as I think about the mental health bullshit. If that somehow translated into actual action to help people who were suffering, then that would end up being a big plus, even if it didn’t reduce school shootings. But instead it’s, make up a thing to blame and then don’t even try to solve that problem. The transparent backpack people have more integrity than this stupidity.

[alahmnat]

You’d think the NRA brass would be smart enough to get their story straight on what not-gun thing is causing this week’s tragic loss of life at the hands of an angry white kid with a firearm. This incoherence might make people suspect that they’re grasping at literally any possible straw to distract from the actual commonality in school shootings.

[ficuswhisperer]

As far as I’m concerned, NK has already won. They got everything they wanted by forcing the US to treat them as equals on the world’s stage and all while giving up absolutely nothing in the process.

[ficuswhisperer]

It reads like something I’d expect from a South Park episode, not something actual hunters would do. I mean for fuck sake - shooting at caribou from boats, killing hibernating bears and their cubs. That’s just state sanctioned animal cruelty.

[ficuswhisperer]

I just love how the conservatives are bending over backwards to blame everything on school shootings.

You know, other than guns.

[Wanderfound]

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-revolutionary-implications-of-stacey-abramss-victory/

Recognizing that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, Abrams chose a sounder strategy, backed up by mathematical data and aligned with population trends. In the last gubernatorial election, there were 1.5 million eligible people of color who didn’t cast ballots. It’s that pool of voters that Abrams is focused on to close the gap. About 80 percent of Georgians of color vote Democratic, the return on investment from mobilizing those voters is well worth the investment. And last night’s results proved the success of the strategy. If Evans’ efforts to woo whites couldn’t even garner enough Democratic support to prevail in a primary election, how did she expect to win in the general election?

Equally important as which voters to target is the question of how to attract that support. What Abrams is proving is that the way to increase voter turnout is by inspiring progressives, not coddling moderates and conservatives. Towards that end, she has unapologetically championed progressive causes that many Democrats continue to tiptoe away from. While consultants propound anachronistic notions of distancing candidates from “special interest” groups and “identity politics,” Abrams unequivocally embraced the whole litany of constituencies and causes that comprise the stripes of the modern-day rainbow coalition. She publicly and repeatedly expressed solidarity with and welcomed support from LGBTQ groups, labor unions, pro-choice groups, and gun-control advocates. She even explicitly condemned white supremacist Confederate monuments.

[sosumi]

Trump admitted he attacks press to shield himself from negative coverage,...

“He said you know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.”

[Akimbo_NOT]

"Quelle Surprise" I’d never thought much about Star Trek being dubbed in French. Kirk speaking French is well, something something…

[FGD135]

[tekna2007]

Ukraine 'paid Trump lawyer for talks'

[HMSGoose]

Jesus, if I were Cohen, I’d turn myself in to Mueller personally just to keep from sleeping with the fishes.

[tekna2007]

Yep. Apparently Cohen’s business partner (I didn’t know he had a partner?) did just that, now cooperating with the investigation.

[Akimbo_NOT]

It's unconstitutional for @realDonaldTrump to block you, court says.

Have at it folks!

[mr_raccoon]

Kaivan Shroff (KaivanShroff)

Donald Glover said it best… this is America.