JUST IN: President Trump, fearing the North Koreans might beat him to the punch, wanted to be the one to cancel first, multiple officials told NBC News. https://nbcnews.to/2IN5iOQ
Okay obviously this is highly bigotted to start with but this dude is going to bat for the supposed sanctity of McDonald's, which is it's own level of sadness
Unfortunately no, he came up and assaulted some folk eating in the parking lot with a taser
In an interview with @FresnoBee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, was asked if he planned to host any local forums or town hall meetings. "Your paper is a joke to even bring these issues up or raise these issues," Nunes responded. http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article201659539.html
Ah fantastic, everyone's favourite foreign agent Dana Rohrabacher has taken a break from his busy schedule of subverting US interests to be a bigotted ass:
GOP lawmaker: Homeowners have a right to refuse to sell to LGBTQ people http://hill.cm/qagJwqB
@quartata if i was on the committee i would say "i would have considered it, if you then didn't went and tote you nuclear capabilities with a vague threat to use them"
@Memor-X I should sleep but I'm hungry. And I don't have anything to cook with that's healthy (I could make some fries I guess but I already had a ton and spiro and stuffs). And there's no open stores around me. oof.
One fight between Kirstjen Nielsen and Stephen Miller: He sought to put language in a government report saying children of foreign-born nationals are more likely to commit terrorism. She said that was not based in fact. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/were-closed-trump-directs-his-anger-over-immigration-at-homeland-security-secretary/2018/05/24/4bd686ec-5abc-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html?utm_term=.2e8b0865f49c
Noted almost in passing: "Defense Secretary James Mattis wasn't involved in the discussions Wednesday, though Trump said that he called Mattis about it Thursday morning."
Well, glad we didn't need to be prepared for uhhh nuclear war
#Canada: Police seek two suspects after bomb explosion at Mississauga restaurant injures 15 people https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-police-seek-two-suspects-after-bomb-explosion-at-mississauga/
@puzzlepiece87 I'd say almost singlehandedly canceling a peace summit between two nations that have been at war for 50-odd years qualifies as "really really not deserving".
Sure, Pence chimed in but apparently the job listing for Republicans includes "licking Trump's boots" in their current requirements.
@Yuuki I agree with you but that's kind of borderline compared with Kissinger. If Trump is able to start a war with Iran or prop up a ruthless dictator somewhere that would really bolster his case.
CNN obtained a tape of Trump at a closed-door fundraiser. He said this about China's president: "He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot some day." https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html
Two victims have been transported to a local hospital following an active shooter incident at a middle school in Noblesville, Indiana, according to a police spokesman https://cnn.it/2ILNm6S
I'm not sure if they've determined conclusively that some of the students weren't shot in crossfire with the shooter the other week, unfortunately :/
Our reporting shows members of President Trump’s inner circle, including Giuliani and Bolton, have deep ties to an Iranian group that was once classified as a terrorist organization. Tune in 9pm EST @MSNBC @OARichardEngel
Giuliani and Bolton are regular speakers at events organized by the MEK/MKO, which was removed from the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2012. https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1000035409735372800
Does not seem like a particularly favourable regime to the current one, but uh you do you Bolton
Defense Secretary James Mattis: “we have got some, possibly some good news on the Korea summit, where it may, if our diplomats can pull it off, may have it back on, even.”
In Brazil, the military are being sent out to try and disperse strikes currently happening, including blocking off roads.
Safety and solidarity to those currently on strike. https://twitter.com/g1/status/1000050863396868097
Invitations offer wealthy Chinese access to President Trump at fundraiser https://wapo.st/2GOAfMF?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.6bad83507fce via @myhlee @anu_narayan @emilyrauhala @simondenyer
The U.S. is now defending minority Muslims, the Uighurs, at the U.N. from Chinese accusations of supporting terrorism. But in the past, we sent them to Gitmo. From @columlynch: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/25/u-s-once-jailed-uighurs-now-defends-them-at-u-n/
/cc @GnomeSlice, who asked about why this wasn't being talked about more before
@Yuuki lol yes I thought the same thing
This is the Starbucks at PSU campus where a man driving an SUV drove up onto the sidewalk and sped down it hitting at least 3 young women sending them to hospital
Which I mean in theory that was probably a good idea to their chimp brains but are you serious about putting your money in there in front of homeless people lol
A 100% surreal, this-is-America moment from the Las Vegas massacre, told by one of the police officers at the scene. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-police-shooting-2018-story.html
President Trump pointed to a window in the White House.
"She’s doing great. She’s looking at us right there."
Reporters turned to look. There was no sign of the first lady. https://wapo.st/2KVJygd
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He seems to have a fetish for using only the most literal definitions of things so that his followers can look them up on Wikipedia and see same words and think wow he must have 2 trillion IQ
as is the case with a lot of people who get praised for good writing but bad ideas
His MO is using a lot of words to say a kind of true thing that sounds really profound but is just an inane aphorism when you analyze it past a surface level
It's like that one argument in Obergefell v. Hodges that gay marriage doesn't exist because the dictionary defines marriage as "between a man and a woman". Uhh... that's exactly what this is about, changing the definition of "marriage".
Its not even that. No Marxist school of thought created after the 1960s is unironically going to call itself """postmodernist</div> while promoting the essentialism of the state
It's just a mashup of him being dumb and using dictionary definitions with him also using "neo Marxism" as a dog whistle for da SJWs hurr
(pending official tally but the exit polling shows a landslide win for repealing the 8th Amendment)
Publix says it suspended corporate-funding political contributions as it reevaluates the giving process.
This after @davidhogg111 called for die-ins at the grocery store chain in response to its support for FL Gov candidate Adam Putnam (major NRA supporter)
Full Press Release:
Yeah, I just noped out of that one because it's so, so dumb
COREY LEWANDOWSKI has insisted (implausibly) that he has nothing to do with the lobbying firm based in THE HOUSE WHERE HE LIVES. But somehow the firm's clients keep getting the impression that they're paying for his advice. https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-says-it-hired-lobbying-firm-tied-to-former-trump-aide-corey-lewandowski-1527273066
Y'know how everyone thinks the Alien movies make no sense because Weyland-Yutani must be the dumbest tech corp ever to keep trying to experiment with xenomorphs? Yeah, I'm not so sure "dumb tech company" is a plot hole now.
Trump signs executive orders cracking down on employee unions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-25/trump-signs-executive-orders-cracking-down-on-employee-unions via @bpolitics
Irish Times #Referendum2018 exit poll:
Yes (#repealthe8th): 68%
No (#savethe8th): 32%
via https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/irish-times-exit-poll-projects-ireland-has-voted-by-landslide-to-repeal-eighth-amendment-1.3508861