The Isolated Political Blurt Thread

[sr71plt]

Apologists still exist for Trump? That's weird. Has anyone checked out if they are in the Russian Internet troll stable?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The old warning, was to never vote for a presidential candidate, who has no Elvis in him (or her!).

Trump has no Elvis in him.

But, which Elvis ?

"I'm on your side," Elvis told Nixon, adding that he'd been studying the drug culture and Communist brainwashing. Then he asked the president for a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

"Can we get him a badge?" Nixon asked Krogh.

Krogh said he could, and Nixon ordered it done.

Elvis was ecstatic. "In a surprising, spontaneous gesture," Krogh wrote, Elvis "put his left arm around the President and hugged him."


In 1988, years after Nixon resigned and Elvis died of a drug overdose, a Chicago newspaper reported that the National Archives was selling photos of the meeting, and within a week, some 8,000 people requested copies, making the pictures the most requested photographs in history.

Smithsonian magazine
December 2010
When Elvis Met Nixon


Drugs!


"...during the seven and a half months preceding Elvis’s death, from January 1, 1977, to August 16, 1977, Dr. Nichopoulos had written prescriptions for him for at least 8,805 pills, tablets, vials, and injectables. Going back to January 1975, the count was 19,012. The numbers defied belief, but they came from an experienced team of investigators who visited 153 pharmacies and spent 1,090 hours going through 6,570,175 prescriptions and then, with the aid of two secretaries, spent another 1,120 hours organizing the evidence. The drugs included uppers, downers, and powerful painkillers such as Dilaudid, Quaalude, Percodan, Demerol, and cocaine hydrochloride in quantities more appropriate for those terminally ill with cancer."

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/the...erica_didnt_hear_about_the_death_of_the_king/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"His speech devolved into a contradictory muddle, punctuated by at least one egregiously offensive idea."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-doctrine-no-sense-article-1.3506589

 

[Hypoxia]

"His speech devolved into a contradictory muddle, punctuated by at least one egregiously offensive idea."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-doctrine-no-sense-article-1.3506589

NY Daily News liked his threats against N.Korea and Venezuela but saw philosophical shortcomings with the rest. Yawn.

Where do we go from here? Tromp bluffs about destroying NK. Kim pulls his bluff by firing more ICBMs across Japan. Tromp shoots. China shoots back. WW3 erupts. We're all dead. That's the prospect -- and if your asshole hasn't clenched yet then you're on opioids.

Tromp is threatening The End Of The Fucking World. Is he joking?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"As at Trump’s Inauguration, the crowd at this opening of the United Nations may not have been as large as the President had hoped."

- Robin Wright

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-war-doctrine-debuts-on-the-world-stage

 

[JackLuis]

Harvard Business School: The U.S. Political System Has Been 'Hijacked'

A new case study by Harvard Business School asserts that U.S. politicians have rigged the system to such a degree that the U.S. is becoming a failed democracy. The authors of the case-study use the word 'hijacked' to describe what the political parties have done to governance in the United States.

The authors of the piece note how the Founders of the United States would find the rules that govern the country unrecognizable today.

" The result: America’s political system today would be unrecognizable to our founders. In fact, certain of our founders warned against political parties. John Adams, our second President, said, “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.”2 Our founders— and most Americans today—would be shocked by the extent to which our democracy has been hijacked by the private and largely unaccountable organizations that constitute today’s political industrial complex."

Maybe if they didn't vote a $700 Billion defense appropriation we could afford single payer for just $54 Billion?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Official White House Liars for Trump, are perfectly acceptable guests for TV talks shows. Scarramucci in the morning, and Sean Spicer in the late evening.

Both were using their indoor voices.


Panelist Joy Behar asked the Mooch who his preferred impersonator was between Bill Hader and Mario Cantone, and, unwittingly playing right into the show’s plans, he chose the latter. In response, out walked Cantone dressed in a matching suit and exaggerated masculine posturing. Kissing Scaramucci on the cheek, Cantone remarked, “He’s my doppelgänger. Wasn’t that the name of the movie Ted Cruz was watching?”

Scaramucci seemed less than thrilled, giving off an apparent groan when Cantone first walked out and firing off the barb, “How bummed were you when I got fired? You were on your way, and then you got shot down like a little bird.” Cantone easily shot back, “You got nothing. Spicer got the Emmys and you’re sitting here with four bleeding-heart chiacchierones.” Breaking character, the Sex and the City actor also noted, “This is horrifying to do this in front of your mother.”

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/mario-cantone-surprises-anthony-scaramucci-on-the-view.html

Jimmy Kimmel asks Sean Spicer about Trump-

(Freud's curse has an influence-)

"His heart's in the right price."

(I suppose that Spicer meant that "Trump's heart is in the right place.")

 

[Hypoxia]

Harvard Business School: The U.S. Political System Has Been 'Hijacked'

"The political system of the United States shall be controlled by two private non-profits incorporated in Delaware. Neither shall be accountable to any outside agency." That's in the Constitution, right?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Waiting for the inevitable words,"failing NFL."
As is usual, the fact that he led the fall of the USFL, will not stop him.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

WTF ?

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the first far-right party to enter parliament with a significant number of seats in 65 years. The AfD won 12.6% of the vote and 94 seats – and with those seats will come financial resources and greater visibility.

The far-right party managed to win a number of direct mandates in several constituencies, and was the largest party in the state of Saxony.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonar...ts-explainer?utm_term=.lkpD2braog#.bmrper3k5a


AfD has been mired in controversy: Nationalist rhetoric and themes of the past have resurfaced, candidates’ social media profiles reveal evidence of far-right extremism, and the party has shifted its focus from Europe’s financial crisis to immigration and identity. It ran a campaign based mostly on an anti-migrant and Islamophobic platform.

http://www.dw.com/en/german-electio...-csu-spd-afd-fdp-left-party-greens/a-38085900

The AfD was originally created by a group of euroskeptic academics as a protest against the single European currency - specifically sparked by Merkel's decision to bail out Greece in 2010 following Europe's financial crisis. But a power struggle in 2015 ended with the ouster of party leader Bernd Lucke who was replaced by Frauke Petry. Petry, along with other prominent figures, set a much more overtly nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islam agenda, a policy that scored some success during the refugee crisis of 2015.


In 2016, the AfD was the only major German party to welcome the election of US President Donald Trump and Britain's decision to leave the EU.


Platform: The AfD wants to seal the EU's borders, institute rigorous identity checks along Germany's national borders and set up holding camps abroad to prevent migrants from heading to Germany at all. The party wants to immediately deport anyone whose application for political asylum is rejected and to encourage foreigners to return to their home countries. The party insists on the primacy of "traditional" German culture and rejects Islam as a part of German society. It also questions the notion that climate change is man-made and wants to reverse Germany's ongoing transition to renewable energy sources.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

100,000 human beings, stranded at airports. How are they allowed to sell tickets, that are worthless ?

"No more flights."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Remember when Republicans rolled back Obama's rule to stop the mentally ill from buying guns?

Vegas Massacre 2017

The Associated Press @AP
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BREAKING: Sheriff says 59 people killed, 527 injured in Vegas shooting

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

October 1, 1924 ex- President Jimmy Carter's birthday.



The ex- Presidents had a very pleasant time, playing golf, Tromp the Drumpf came along and spoiled it all, yoinked the gold golf trophy. Made it all about himself.



U.S. team clinched its seventh straight Presidents Cup victory over their international rivals.

Tromp the Drumpf handed the trophy to U.S. captain Steve Stricker.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ss...on_the_golf_course_an.html#incart_river_index

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/trump-honors-crisis-stricken-puerto-ricans-with-golf-trophy

 

[Bacigalupo]

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[gotsnowgotslush]

One thing is missing, baci- A gun to Uncle Sam's head.

I am guessing that the corporations in alliance with the NRA, are not above a bit of group blackmail.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

yikes

Emperor Carrot's sexslave, Melania, performed an inadvertent imitation of Geoff Peterson, Craig Ferguson's animatronic human skeleton puppet.

Granted, Melania has an exterior that is similar to a sexdoll. She resembles a mannequin, when her animatronic face is not activated.

(From today's Emperor Carrot photo op, on ABC TV. The research at M.I.T. and California, has paid off, handsomely. A bit "uncanny valley," but effective.)

 

[JackLuis]

Harvard Study: Big Pharma, US Gov. Behind Opioid Epidemic

Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: Researchers follow with a primer on the rise of opioid prescriptions and how pain became “the fifth vital sign.” By the 1990s, doctors realized that chronic pain was often ignored, and pain management became a hot topic. Physicians were urged to make greater use of opioids, with experts in the field downplaying the potential for misuse and addiction – a view largely based on experience with morphine.

But this was before OxyContin came along.

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“Purdue was able to patent extended-release oxycodone in the United States despite the fact that its constituent elements—the active ingredient oxycodone and the controlled-release system Contin—had been developed decades earlier…Oxycodone was used in clinical practice in Germany as early as 1917, and was first introduced in the United States in 1939.”

Purdue’s angle was to develop a controlled-release version of oxycodone, banking on its success with the patented MS Contin for morphine. Here’s where the feds stepped in to help.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) initially rejected Purdue’s patent request for extended-release oxycodone, citing the combination as “obvious.” But Purdue responded with a statistical falsehood – which the company knew was false – and the patent office made an about-face, granting the 20 year patent for OxyContin.

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The study notes that today, “Over four million Americans misuse opioids each month” at a societal cost of $80 billion annually. 300 million prescriptions were written in 2015 in the U.S., which has a population of 323 million. This is reflected in the fact that 80 percent of the world’s opioids are consumed in the U.S., which has 5 percent of the world’s population.

But Weed is bad for you!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"White House aides, (the source said), are getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of any legislative accomplishments in Trump’s first year..."

October 9, 2017

https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarr...reality-show?utm_term=.bx4mKawDAx#.oa82dbR1ly

“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else. And I’m going to say ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning.

Donald Trump

May 26, 2016

 

[Bacigalupo]

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[gotsnowgotslush]

Keep those Homeland Security funds flowing! After all, states will need to protect White Supremacists from getting a boo- boo.

“I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent and hereby declare a state of emergency in Alachua County.”

"Officials estimate the school will pay $500,000 in security fees."

University of Florida president Ken Fuchs is allowing the same Nazis that damaged Charlottesville, and killed a woman, on campus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/us/florida-richard-spencer.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

White Supremacist bullied the University of Florida into renting a space to him, for his Pro-Nazi/Pro- KKO "rally."

The White Supremacist speaker was not invited to the University of Florida by students.

The White Supremacist booked the venue himself. When the school tried to block his appearance, he threatened a free speech lawsuit, prompting the university to reverse course and take extraordinary precautions.

"...the university, as a state entity, must allow the free expression of all viewpoints."

2,500 demonstrators largely drowned out the White Supremacist's speech.

White Supremacists wanted another Charlottesville. They did not get it.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontg...-event-florida?utm_term=.ybBKRaQ3N#.sovg3yMw0

One provocateur, and one arrogant arsehole that decided that no guns, no weapons rule did not apply to him.

He claimed that he was hired by Fox News for armed security for a TV station in Jacksonville, Fl. He had a knife, handcuffs, and had a loaded firearm underneath his shirt.

Price tag for free speech, for a White Supremacist ? $600,000.00 to the university ?


The White Supremacist will not be paying for that. Where did he get $10,564 to rent the facility, use equipment and have security ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

This week's shocker-

The media will not enquire after the facts, or the truth, and will not seek after verification of information, because it is "highly inappropriate."

Reid persisted: “Well, he was wrong yesterday in talking about [Wilson] getting the money.”

“If you want to go after General Kelly, that’s up to you,” Sanders said. “I think that if you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general —”

“That would be great if he would come out here and do it,” Reid interjected

Sanders then finished her sentence, saying, “that’s highly inappropriate."

Inappropriate ?

Is slander appropriate ? Slurs ? Libel ? Defamation ? Insults ? Racism ?

 

[LincolnDuncan]

NY Daily News liked his threats against N.Korea and Venezuela but saw philosophical shortcomings with the rest. Yawn.

Where do we go from here? Tromp bluffs about destroying NK. Kim pulls his bluff by firing more ICBMs across Japan. Tromp shoots. China shoots back. WW3 erupts. We're all dead. That's the prospect -- and if your asshole hasn't clenched yet then you're on opioids.

Tromp is threatening The End Of The Fucking World. Is he joking?

Trump has declared himself to be a doomsday machine.

 

[neci]

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[Bacigalupo]

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