
By David Futrelle
Is this real life, or have we somehow all become bit players in some badly written parody of the world we once knew? I have no idea, but here are some tweets. Including some cute animals, which are the one constant in this Bizarro world of ours.
does trump not realize putin did not fire these people and we are still in fact paying them pic.twitter.com/bjEqDZ8j5m
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) August 10, 2017
"Look, if Mr. Putin continues to insult & undermine America, I will offer him thanks the likes of which the world has never seen." https://t.co/ZSARXVaXez
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/darth/status/895724394953056258
Liberals are snowflakes and also the Statue of Liberty triggered me pic.twitter.com/okRWdKM29z
— Teeps🏞 (@TJP3991) August 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/mkliney1/status/895713852003934209
CNN has finally cut ties with Jeffrey Lord — Here is some of the insightful commentary they were paying him for: pic.twitter.com/wjzcN59voM
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 10, 2017
How the Jeffrey Lord experience started: CNN took requests from Trump himself on who they should hire https://t.co/WDlXxjcVC6 pic.twitter.com/KJce89n59G
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 10, 2017
An actual article that was written: attendees of a "Michigan Republicans for Trump" rally love Trump. https://t.co/cZjdIYaXgR
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) August 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/miliondollameat/status/894990133237346305
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they hate democracy almost as much as they hated having a black family in the White House. pic.twitter.com/FPLVNVKNXn
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 10, 2017
Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan) pic.twitter.com/HJfToozs6E
— Nicholas Friedman @ SDCC (@NMFreed) August 9, 2017
This thing about Obama is interesting https://t.co/B8glzFsqSH pic.twitter.com/Tcy618g1Ou
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) August 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/PeterJ_Roth/status/895642323920592897
https://twitter.com/xeni/status/895605198055452675
And in honor of World Lion Day
https://twitter.com/bestcataccount/status/895705321745903622
Life imitates “reality” shows.
2016 was a roller coaster but 2017 has been that tunnel scene in Willy Wonka.
@ Haise
I don’t think 2016 ever actually ended.
@Haise
Combine the Willy Wonka tunnel with the Star Trek IV time travel sequence minus the whales (because whales are good).
CNN finally dumped Lord?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
You guys, this is awesome. People are leaving notes in the women’s rooms at Google.

Edit: boo, the image isn’t showing. It has positive messages like “we value you working at Google” and “you matter”
@ kupo
YESSSSS
It’s like that dream I have where I’m in a hole and trying to climb out but the walls crumble as I try to climb them n they crumble faster the faster I try to climb….
Do you think if someone shot some interracial porn with Obama and Ivanka look-alikes and then managed to send Trump a copy it would enrage him into a fatal stroke?
Willy Wonka, the 1971 version I hope.
In 1995, Trump declared approximately 900 million in business losses from his Atlantic City casinos and other businesses on his taxes. You’re allowed to keep deducting a loss from certain types of income over a number of years, which means Trump probably paid close to $0 in taxes for a few years based on how much his businesses made in the 1990’s. So, most likely, he’s only made a significant amount of money from The Apprentice and the rest is from his dad.
Trump’s resume is that he graduated from UPenn and then worked at his family’s business, which usually isn’t the type of job you worry about getting fired from. Then he oversaw a bunch of business failures until finding a job as a game show host. He probably sincerely believed the diplomats weren’t on the payroll anymore.
A good song, not by me.
I should point out that some white supremacists like to watch interracial porn. Liking interracial porn doesn’t make you an ally or progressive.
Some of the people that lost their jobs at the US facilities in Russia were Russians, but they probably weren’t earning all that much.
I… I can’t even. We thanked Russia for expelling our staff (And more then likely intelligence personnel) I have no idea how to deal with this.
Also has anyone tried telling trump that Obama finished his first term? I mean, way to be just like Obama donny. Better resign if you don’t wanna copy him.
Lastly, yes. Make America Great Again but the Statue of Liberty is considered an attack on the MAGAts. I am waiting for the day they decide that the Constitution triggers th…
“In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would be ok with trump suspending the 2020 election.”
And there it is.
@History Nerd, in addition, since like 2001, Trump’s been floated on a massive influx of Russian oligarch money laundering. He sold a $40 million house in Florida for close to $100 million, for instance, and a lot of his real estate is rented/leased/other by Russians.
MAGAts burn down the house because “others” are also living in it… then say “nyah, nyah, showed you”
Yeah, because it’s not called the “Statue of White Privilege”
ETA; “white xian privilege ”
ETA; “white xian heterosexual privilege ”
ETA; “white xian heterosexual male privilege ”
ETA; … aww, fuck it….
Alan! I assume you’re asleep right now, but when you get a chance, you need to read this:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3911409-Wvnd-19902323086.html
(Everyone else is free to read it. It’s a legal document but it’s far from dry.)
Trump has consistently overvalued his properties for awhile. That, by itself, doesn’t prove anything, but overvaluing your properties or overestimating the scale of your operations is a textbook money laundering strategy. You consistently make it seem as though the large transactions are to be expected, because it’s less likely the investigators will go and actually do the work to see whether people are actually buying from you at fair market value.
@kupo
It’s creepy. A number of conservatives have argued that biased reporting on environmental and social issues should be prohibited under libel laws. Or that a network must offer “equal time” to people with explicitly bigoted views.
Kupo, I’ve seen that before, and I literally laughed for a half hour…who knew that the ACLU were so funny?
Just the headings alone are hilarious!
@PeeVee
I know! My sister only shares legal stuff that’s funny, but I was a bit intimidated by the length of it until I skimmed the table of contents, then I settled in with some popcorn.
@History Nerd
That’s why I donate to ACLU.
@Nequam
Like, I 100% get the sentiment and desperately want him out of office, but do we really want to engage with the racist viewpoint that people of colour somehow “lower” their sexual partners? Or, for that matter, the sexist viewpoint that a daughter’s choice of sexual partners is in any way a reflection of the father?
That ACLU brief is a masterpiece.
@ Imperator
Was there “lowering” in that? I thought it referred to how Trump in general has decades of well-documented animosity towards black people and sexist possessive attitudes towards women, and in specific either petty grievances or a massive inferiority complex towards President Obama and a creepy relationship with his daughter, so implying sexual relations between the two would hit almost every apoplectic button.
I might not be well informed enough about American politics (I’m from Quebec) or online trolling/twitter, but why the hell is that dude so pist about the Vogue cover? Yes, the Statue of Liberty is considered an icon of immigration and open border thanks to the famous poem ”The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, one of the most famous and defining poem in american history. How is it supposed to be odd to put a picture of a woman beside the Statue of Liberty (who is mind you a feminine symbol)? Plus, what the hell is MAGA supposed to mean?