By David Futrelle
Today seems to be a bit of a slow news day, at least for the Trump Era, though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.
But, hey, there are still many appalling things (and a few good ones) going on in the world. Let’s get to them!
https://twitter.com/HireMeImFunny/status/920368520164204549
— lena headey (@IAMLenaHeadey) October 17, 2017
Trump is not going to save Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s Humanitarian Crisis, by the Numbers https://t.co/I6un7W7tin#TuesdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/fpASDwWGAE
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 17, 2017
Anthony Scaramucci has started his own lil media outlet. Things are not going well there.
https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/920276930842292224
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/920303213852504066
A non-apology Holocaust denial apology!
Some depressing polls:
Gallup on Trump job performance by race; white 47% approve 49% disapprove; black 5% approve 88% disapprove; Hisp 17% approve 77% disapprove
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 16, 2017
In a new Quinnipiac Poll, 46% of Republicans support a first strike with nuclear weapons on N. Korea.
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) October 16, 2017
Exciting new videos of Trump lying and acting like a complete creeper!
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/920038542851616768
Unearthed footage shows Donald Trump squeezing and kissing a woman while talking about offering a job to a 'beautiful' teenager pic.twitter.com/3KqGpj4RPH
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) October 15, 2017
Can you say “hostile work environment?”
But, hey, there’s some good news:
https://twitter.com/lawdavisito94/status/920421563832336385
BREAKING: A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked enforcement of the new Trump travel restrictions. It's a nationwide ban.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 17, 2017
I’m going to make up for the relative lack of news tweets today with MOAR KITTIES!
phew. what a day 😴 pic.twitter.com/Qzusc1GWaC
— Serenity Discko (@serenitydiscko) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/lordflaconegro/status/919622676574035968
Determined To Fit https://t.co/6ZiYcTHnwb
— Dog and Kitty (@dognkitty) October 17, 2017
🎈😽🎈😻🎈😸🎈😽🎈😻🎈
Triple trouble 🎉🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/JBvTyb4J6u
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 17, 2017
Why no, Harvey Weinstein wasn’t at all a totally vindictive, petty sack-o-shite who took casting-couch refusals personally! Why do you ask?
Also, yay! The Scaramucci Post apologizes IF anyone was offended by its antisemitism! Give it up for the Conditional Apology, folks! (And for all the stupid fucking emojis, too!)
Did you get my tweet?
We regret to inform you the Monty Python duck is a huge asshole.
Related note: Me, too is still going on. And it’s always dozens of women being harassed by three or four men saying we’re liars or that our trauma isn’t traumatic enough for their liking.
Shouldn’t they note that 48% of republicans is just about 1/8th of the population? <__< Of course they're the population in power now. le sigh
though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.
He did. You’ve already seen it though. Scumbag.
Which makes two monstrous things in the past two hours. That’s what David gets for tempting fate like that. =P
(For the morbidly curious: This and this. Massive TW for the second one.)
Oh good god. I hadn’t seen the second one you linked, only the first 🙁
@Sandra:
As usual, the (antifeminist) male response to anything having to do with feminism is proof of why we need feminism.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1NW8uF64650/UZC0Q3RgH9I/AAAAAAAAFe0/pQfbF6xQez8/s1600/headdesk.jpg
@Bina
Exactly! Like five dudes (Or four socks) came after me cause my story includes a time when a guy assaulted me without either drugging me or initiating physical violence (I read from his body language he’d hurt me if I didn’t screw him), and it escalated to, like, 240 comments and one of them trying to dox me and calling me a man and literally stealing a picture of mine and leaving threats on my profile.
Necessity for feminism: Amply demonstrated!
@IgnoreSandra,
Are you ok? That’s effing horrible. And so many women are reporting similar treatment 🙁
Y’know… even after almost a year, it’s still hard to process what you’re hearing every time the merciless void crabs open the facial port of their POTUS skinsuit and some other horribly cruel bullshit comes oozing out. How somebody can effortlessly display such a breathtaking lack of basic human empathy is continually staggering, even if it has ceased to be surprising.
I am, however, happy to report that spell check did not flag the word “skinsuit,” which I find amusing and slightly disturbing.
@Sandra:
Ugh, that is so awful that I can’t even begin to look for the words to describe how it made me feel.
And yeah, I’ve been assaulted without drugging or explicit violence, too…at least that’s what I’d call it, since one minute I was making out with a good-looking guy I thought was a friend, and the next, he’d suddenly climbed up over me so that his knees were on either side of my neck, his zipper was down, and he was inserting himself in my mouth without so much as a by-your-leave. But no, there wasn’t any violence! I guess permission isn’t necessary when you can do serious damage just by sitting your ass down on someone’s throat.
I suppose those same guys (or socks) would call me a slut. Fuck ’em, I’d call them rape apologists. And the guy who did that to me? Yup, I call him a rapist. A slick one, too, since he pulled that fast one on me with such blinding speed that only years later did I realize that he must have been a repeat offender. He’d clearly had a fair bit of practice, to get it to where he could do that and not hear me utter so much as a “WTF, dude”. Heaven only knows how many other women or girls he did it to before he did it to me…
Ugh.
@Sandra
@Bina
Hugs and kitties as required. I’m so sorry that happened to you.
Me too
@Sandra and @Bina
Hugs and:
I’m so sorry that happened to you!
@Sandra, @Bine … fucking hell. I’m so sorry people have inflicted this violence and shit on you, and I hope you are ok.
And in other disgusting news:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/most-of-them-didn-t-make-calls-trump-on-predecessors-consoling-fallen-soldiers-families-1.3635814?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvnews%3Apost&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=59e6aea819694a0007c79e06&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
Lying self-aggrandizing sack of pus.
@Sandra @Bina I second hugs and kitties!
@ Jesalin
I quite like Duffelblog’s take on this.
As a historian, and as a fucking human being, the idea of “twitter polling” to determine how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust makes me so angry I can barely put together a full sentence.
Eff Terry Gilliam. Not just because of the horrible tweet defending Johnny Depp but also because of Lena Headey’s own account of how she was bullied by Gilliam while working on Brothers Grimm.
David, did you happen to see this article?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2017/10/17/im-reason-women-posting-metoo/
My heart goes out to you all.
?
Trump’s full of shit.
Obama called every family. No exceptions, no one missed.
GWB not only called every family, he actually attended as many box flights as he could
– @Alan, if I’ve got your timeline right, you can back me on that.
NEITHER of them would be so stupid and callous as to say “He signed up for it.” to the fucking widow!