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A parade of military hardware would have been cool. Don't you guys ever go to airshows and gak like that? It's fun stuff to watch.
They are, and they are appropriate for occasions featuring the military.
I don't think they are appropriate for occasions that feature the civilian leadership of our government. I think the current ways the military is included are pretty good.
I'm definitely not disappointed that there was no hardware, I just think this issue even if it were true would have been much to do about nothing.
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Cothonian wrote: Eh, when the government shutdown noone was hurt, killed, attacked. Nobodies place of business was burned down or looted. To top it off, the mass majority of government stayed up and running.
The only people hurt were those who wanted to take a walk in a national park but weren't able to. I'd hardly compare that to being attacked, or having one's business burned down.
Government workers went without pay, so there's that. But I know that to a good chunk of Americans, government workers are subhuman.
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I affirm your full humanity. My neighbor works for the feds and her finances went to absolute gak with the furlough because she was living paycheck to paycheck. I was just responding to the assertion that no-one got hurt by the shutdown.
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They're a half-step away from HuffPo/Breibart level...
And, this was reported that this'll happen everytime a new President get elected.
The entire web site was essentially redone to match the incoming President's agenda, not to "disappear" anything.
So we can assume that the President's agenda officially does not include civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and climate change?
We can assume they're not an agenda item in and of themselves. That doesn't mean the jack-boots are coming to kick in doors and take people to the camps like some people seem intent on insinuating.
The ones in jack boots are attacking Trump supporters. with bottles, mace, and clubs
It's Trump's parade, he's the client/boss so anyone working on the parade is working for Trump. Whether its a professional parade planner hired to work the inauguration for Trump or a dedicated Trump campaign staffer, the person is still working for Trump.
And thus the demand that all be silent before glorious leader begins.
If the person is just a hired professional then there's no reason to contact HuffPo for the sole purpose of making your client look bad,
I explained this on the previous page.
In any given room involving politics there are always people who want to talk to the press, and especially in something like a transition team, there are people working the trenches who eventually don't want to be in the trenches anymore. Cultivating relationships with news media is a basic skill for progressing in anything related to politics that isn't being an actual politician.
There is always someone willing to talk to the press, and there are always reporters who can get people who don't to tell them things anyway (seriously, did people learn nothing from all that McCrystal stuff?)
that's unprofessional and if the person is on Trump's staff there's no reason to contact an antagonistic media outlet and provide them with a quote that makes Trump look bad.
I'm kind of disturbed that the focus of this is on how an anonymous person must be a bad employee for giving a news outlet a quote, rather than Trump idolizing the kind of state displays of power you only use when you want to remind your own people who has all the power (because all those parades back in the 40s and 50s in the USSR, Germany, the US, and Britain, weren't just about impressing foreigners with how well your soldiers can march in straight lines). I'm going to go ahead and predict that in the next four years, someone will propose removing presidential term limits, and when it happens a staggering number of people will continue to ignore that Trump is bringing onto the table a disturbing focus on aggrandizement and pandering.
People don't need to be silent in regards to Trump, people should just be professional. Dropping anonymous quotes that amount to telling people that somebody had a bad idea so we should all snort with derision and roll our eyes or point and laugh is poor form when the person being mocked is your boss or client.
I don't question the ability for people to overhear Trump's comments I question the coincidence of somebody overhearing something that fits perfectly with a narrative they're pushing in regards to Trump. The way that fits together strains credulity for me.
I don't trust HuffPo to convey to me a truthful representation of what Trump thinks about anything. Trump's statements and actions do a better job of that than any HuffPo article ever could.
If Republicans propose legislation to end Presidential term limits it will be because they think Trump will win reelection in 2020 and have a shot at winning again in 2024 if he ran. If the next few years manage to convince people that's a possibility then Trump will have done a far better job as PotUS than most people expected so while ending term limits is a bad idea, Trump gaining support would probably be indicative of the country doing very well.
I affirm your humanity. My neighbor works for the feds and her finances went to absolute gak with the furlough because she was living paycheck to paycheck. I was just responding to the assertion that no-one got hurt by the shutdown.
I'm wondering if it will be even worse tomorrow with the Women's March on Washington. Hope everyone stays safe and the protests are civil, but I won't hold my breath.
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jasper76 wrote: I'm wondering if it will be even worse tomorrow with the Women's March on Washington. Hope everyone stays safe and the protests are civil, but I won't hold my breath.
I just feel bad for the people that have to clean the bathrooms. It seems counterintuitive but women's restrooms get trashed way worse than men's restrooms. Every place I've worked that's had public bathrooms that's been the case.
You don't think women have just cause to be upset that President Donnie "Grab Em By the Pussy" Drumpf is an actual fething thing now?
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
So many people who can't accept the democratic process.
I dislike Trump as much as the next person (well, maybe not judging by some of these people), but the fact remains he was elected President by the system we have in place.
No amount of destroying private property will change that.
Peaceful protest? Fine, as long as nobody gets hurt and you don't disrupt people's lives by making them late for work or disrupting emergency services routes on the freeway.
But these people who start destroying their own communities because things happened the way they are supposed to sicken me.
I dislike Trump as much as the next person (well, maybe not judging by some of these people), but the fact remains he was elected President by the system we have in place.
No amount of destroying private property will change that.
Peaceful protest? Fine, as long as nobody gets hurt and you don't disrupt people's lives by making them late for work or disrupting emergency services routes on the freeway.
But these people who start destroying their own communities because things happened the way they are supposed to sicken me.
Ehh.... we riot when our hockey team doesn't win.
At least the election of such a obviously terrible human gakstain is something despicable enough to actually worth rioting over.
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
feeder wrote: You don't think women have just cause to be upset that President Donnie "Grab Em By the Pussy" Drumpf is an actual fething thing now?
It's not that...
I'm thinking...
So your response to a woman who is upset about a man who said "grab them by the pussy" getting elected as the president of the United States of America is lol Star Wars gif? Good to know.
So your response to a woman who is upset about a man who said "grab them by the pussy" getting elected as the president of the United States of America is lol Star Wars gif? Good to know.
Who cares what he said if he doesn't actually do it
feeder wrote: You don't think women have just cause to be upset that President Donnie "Grab Em By the Pussy" Drumpf is an actual fething thing now?
It's not that...
I'm thinking...
So your response to a woman who is upset about a man who said "grab them by the pussy" getting elected as the president of the United States of America is lol Star Wars gif? Good to know.
I for one support glorious leader. Just because a man spends an entire year fueling division with literally no help from anyone but his own Twitter Account, doesn't mean he can't turn around and ask "why so serious?"
So, I came across a headline of an article on MSN and it read, "Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech Borrows Line from Batman Villain Bane". Is it bad that the quote which immediately came to mind was, "Kill them all" from that Auralnauts Bane parody video on Youtube?
Breotan wrote: So, I came across a headline of an article on MSN and it read, "Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech Borrows Line from Batman Villain Bane". Is it bad that the quote which immediately came to mind was, "Kill them all" from that Auralnauts Bane parody video on Youtube?
I don't know, it is appropriately similar to Mr. Garrison's "feth them all to death" campaign pledge
Gordon Shumway wrote: So your response to a woman who is upset about a man who said "grab them by the pussy" getting elected as the president of the United States of America is lol Star Wars gif? Good to know.
Given that her reaction was just as over the top, I'd say so.
Breotan wrote: So, I came across a headline of an article on MSN and it read, "Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech Borrows Line from Batman Villain Bane". Is it bad that the quote which immediately came to mind was, "Kill them all" from that Auralnauts Bane parody video on Youtube?
I don't know, it is appropriately similar to Mr. Garrison's "feth them all to death" campaign pledge
I mean, we had Bannon - and he's still in there, right? - who named Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, and Satan as inspirations. Whether or not that was bait, Bane's probably somewhere on that list.
Breotan wrote: So, I came across a headline of an article on MSN and it read, "Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech Borrows Line from Batman Villain Bane". Is it bad that the quote which immediately came to mind was, "Kill them all" from that Auralnauts Bane parody video on Youtube?
Yes. The line which should have come to mind was "This is your body without fiber!"
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