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Trump thanks Putin for expelling American diplomats as apocalypse looms: Today in Tweets

Vlad watches the news

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.

https://twitter.com/darth/status/895724394953056258

https://twitter.com/mkliney1/status/895713852003934209

https://twitter.com/miliondollameat/status/894990133237346305

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

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GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
7 years ago

Life imitates “reality” shows.

Haise, the husky puppy
Haise, the husky puppy
7 years ago

2016 was a roller coaster but 2017 has been that tunnel scene in Willy Wonka.

Ray of Rays
Ray of Rays
7 years ago

@ Haise

I don’t think 2016 ever actually ended.

kupo
kupo
7 years ago

@Haise
Combine the Willy Wonka tunnel with the Star Trek IV time travel sequence minus the whales (because whales are good).

PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
7 years ago

CNN finally dumped Lord?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

kupo
kupo
7 years ago

You guys, this is awesome. People are leaving notes in the women’s rooms at Google.
comment image

Edit: boo, the image isn’t showing. It has positive messages like “we value you working at Google” and “you matter”

Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
7 years ago

@ kupo

YESSSSS

Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
7 years ago

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….

Nequam
Nequam
7 years ago

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?

History Nerd
History Nerd
7 years ago

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.

Troubelle: Moonbeam Malcontent + Bard of the New Movement
Troubelle: Moonbeam Malcontent + Bard of the New Movement
7 years ago

A good song, not by me.

History Nerd
History Nerd
7 years ago

I should point out that some white supremacists like to watch interracial porn. Liking interracial porn doesn’t make you an ally or progressive.

GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
7 years ago

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.

Sinister Pigeon: Sombrero Golem
Sinister Pigeon: Sombrero Golem
7 years ago

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.

Falconer
Falconer
7 years ago

@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.

Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
7 years ago

MAGAts burn down the house because “others” are also living in it… then say “nyah, nyah, showed you”

Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
Weird (thumper of trumpanzees) Eddie
7 years ago

Again but the Statue of Liberty is considered an attack on the MAGAts.

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….

kupo
kupo
7 years ago

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.)

History Nerd
History Nerd
7 years ago

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.

History Nerd
History Nerd
7 years ago

@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.

PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
7 years ago

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!

kupo
kupo
7 years ago

@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.

Imperator Kahlo
Imperator Kahlo
7 years ago

@Nequam

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?

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.

Ray of Rays
Ray of Rays
7 years ago

@ 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.

epronovost
epronovost
7 years ago

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?