By David Futrelle
In today’s Tweetpile: Stephen Miller takes on the tired and poor, Trump tries to pay attention in meetings, white people convince themselves that black people get to go to college for free, and some record-breaking polls for the Trumpster!
Stephen Miller angrily saying the Emma Lazarus poem carved on the Statue of Liberty is meaningless because it was added later. pic.twitter.com/QEvndKn28j
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) August 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/892592278744813570
BREAKING: Justice Department to investigate why girls won't go out with nice guys.
— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) August 2, 2017
— Commuter Pigeon (@john_frogurty) August 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/darth/status/892779677906948097
The president of the United States says he asks foreign leaders how many people their countries have, and then is amazed. pic.twitter.com/FonpzkboE6
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 1, 2017
So he thinks the White House is a dump. He's realllly gonna hate prison.
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) August 2, 2017
Q poll: Trump his hits lowest job approval since the inauguration.
33 Approve
61 Disapprove
NET -28https://t.co/ZJey8nyeF3 pic.twitter.com/ThU1bbniAr— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 2, 2017
Q poll:
54% Embarrassed Trump's POTUS
57% Trump's abusing powers of his office
60% Trump believes he's above the lawhttps://t.co/ZJey8nyeF3— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 2, 2017
Gallup: Trump hits 60% *disapproval* for the second time, falling 24 points underwater to 36-60. pic.twitter.com/fLPrgnFh12
— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) August 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/892792108867649537
scott adams is a coward who once again refused to answer my questions about dilbert's genitals pic.twitter.com/1fobzyoNQe
— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) August 2, 2017
This tweet is the start of a pretty amazing thread:
https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892557827675480064
And now the Philosophical Stumper of the Day:
https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/892512259972489216
Must confess, this got me scratching my head too.
I think Drumpf is going for the record on lowest-approval ratings. He saw Chris Christie only had 15% and got on the Tee Vee and went viral at a baseball game and EV’RYTHING!
Even if that was true, wouldn’t the solution be making college available to everyone?
That Twitter thread was really astonishing and sad.
Re Stephen Miller dismissing Emma Lazarus’ poem … does the doofushead not know that the Bill of Rights was “added later”? Does he even realize that the Constitution was a replacement for the Articles of Confederation? What about the 19th Amendment? Should women lose the right to vote because the 19th was “added later”?
We’re ALWAYS a nation in progress, ya doofushead. Otherwise we stagnate and die. Feel free to do that on Snake Island.
Shhhhh, not too loud! I’m sure Stephen would be in favor of rolling the right to vote back to white male property owners.
When in the hell is someone going to stand up to this lying sack of shit? My God, how these people can sleep at night is beyond me.
Every day is a shit storm, and nobody is doing a fucking thing about it!
@ dreemr
Oh, I wouldn’t doubt it!
@Alan
I had this coworker who liked to dress well, which stands out quite a bit in the tech sector. Most of us wear jeans and a t-shirt every day, but he would dress in suits. He liked to look nice. One day we’re sitting in a meeting and he leans back and crosses his legs so that one of his feet is visible. He’s wearing those “barefoot” toe shoes with his suit. My officemate starts cracking up and cannot stop laughing through the entire meeting. Every time she sees him for the rest of the day she cracks up again.
There’s no point to this story; I just think of it every time I see those shoes.
Just noticed on the news that Miller also called a reporter (Jim Acosta) a “cosmopolitan,” which is such a Nazi dogwhistle me might as well have simply shouting out “1488.”
@ kupo
That’s my favourite genre of story.
I got thoroughly confused with this barefoot running thing because I assumed…well, the obvious. But then someone told me you actually wore ‘special’ shoes for it. But I can’t see what’s special about shoes you wear over your bare feet. Surely that’s just, you know, ‘shoes‘?
” in favor of rolling the right to vote back to white male property owners”
You left out “Christian”.
@Alan
They’re shoes that allow you to feel the flow of the Earth beneath you or some B.S. like that. I have flat feet, so I don’t want it to feel like I’m barefoot when walking (because ouch!), so I don’t understand the appeal.
It’s just a way to be snobbish and consumerist about exercise.
Like every single rock, twig, pebble, and all other detrius?
forgive the off-topic-ness fellow Mammothteers, but is there a thread active right now where the commentary has veered off into bread-making exploits? (I mean it’s not like a WHTM thread that does that is unique….)
Ms. Pavlov’s House is off working wonders of modern nursing and compassion on her patients while I am working on class preparation *but* a flatbread experiment is afoot….
@ kupo
Ouch, my sympathies.
I must confess I am quite a fan of barefoot. But the whole point is that you’re barefoot, and you get to scrunch sand between your toes or feel grass underfoot, it’s the airiness and the tactile feeling (although paganreader does rather elegantly illustrate how daft that is).
Wearing the special footwear though just seems to defeat the object. It’s like the worst of both worlds. I’ll wear footwear when necessary, whether that’s because it’s required socially or for safety. But the special shoes don’t even seem to supply that. If you want to avoid all the pointy stuff then why not just wear regular trainers?
@Pavlov’s House
I don’t think there’s one currently active like that, but I think these tweet of the day threads veer off-topic rather quickly so I wouldn’t object to bringing it up here. Others may have different preferences.
@Everyone re: “barefoot” shoes
I can kind of see the appeal after spending many summers wandering around barefoot through long-needled pine forests as a child. To be able to feel the ground without cushioning to dampen it, but not get poked might be nice. But then I still feel like that’s half the experience of going barefoot. Though the people who wear them run, and I cannot due to my knee, so maybe there’s a difference in running with these vs. trainers.
@ kupo
Yup, and don’t forget tetanus jabs are free here. 🙂
@Banned
Of course not. Black people would still be going to college in that scenario.
@Victorious Parasol
Wow, does the Schoolhouse Rock thing bring back memories…that is so cool that you posted that. But listening to it again I noticed something I sure didn’t as a kid: in the beginning the song lyrics don’t exactly quote the first words of the preamble. Instead of “We the People of the United States, in order to….” they just have “We the People, in order to….” Maybe that makes the song work better? But having that “…of the United States…” in there has been something that, over the years, commentators [I thought for ex. Lincoln in the First Inaugural, but I don’t think that’s correct] have thrown back in the face of Secessionists and Confederate apologists, who (like Davis) tried to justify what they did by saying the Constitution was a compact between states (implying you could withdraw from it) but *nope* the Constitution doesn’t come from the states, it comes from the people of the United States so (especially with the Supremacy Clause in there too) the Union is indissolvable. (Did I spell that last word correctly? Doesn’t seem like it. Is that the wrong word?)
@kupo
Thanks. I’m trying to do this really simple thing I found where you take oatmeal and a baked sweet potato and a little salt and smash it all up with some liquid and then make a flatbread from that. I’m not sure I understand how that’s not some kind of potato cake (?) but I’m going to see what happens. I don’t usually do this but I figured what the hell. I’m working on my War of the Spanish Succession class. (yes, that is a non-sequitur, I know.)
As for the whole barefoot shoes thing, I don’t get that either.
I do heavy squats, power cleans, and snatches in just my socks because I don’t have any weightlifting shoes and my running shoes are too padded for to be able to ground my heels enough to squat heavy without my upper body bending forward too much (which it does if I don’t ground my heels). So maybe I ought to get some flat-soled shoes but I don’t think it’ll be “barefoot shoes”!
@ dalillama
You’ve just reminded me that I meant to send you details about this programme if you can view it. Some great music, but also the history and context. The bit that springs to mind was Rick Hall talking about recording with Aretha Franklin whilst Governor Wallace was literally across the street giving his speech on the courthouse steps.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j93lq
@Pavlovs House
Interesting! I’d love to hear the results. I’ve seen sweet potato flour but I haven’t purchased it yet as I’m not sure what I would make with it. I’ve heard sweet potato rolls are delicious, though.
Pavlov: I think you’re going for indivisible or undissolvable, but the dictionary police are off trying to work with Trump this week, trying to reduce his violence to imprisoned words.