UPDATE about 5 minutes after this went up: TRUMP ORDERS MISSILE STRIKES ON SYRIA
Here are a few initial reactions to the strikes on Twitter, followed by my original post:
We are all so so so so dumb pic.twitter.com/vfEOFwUNve
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 14, 2018
Could be a coincidence that this military strike is launching just as his "fixer" and longtime attorney's office has been raided and a reports emerge that Mueller has confirmed a critical part of the dossier.
But it also could not be a coincidence.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/jkfecke/status/984961579270721536
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/984964446400450560
This year we have admitted 11 (eleven) refugees from the country we are striking today. https://t.co/3kPLZmBOFd
— . (@swordsjew) April 14, 2018
Never fucking forget. Use every word Trump has ever said against him. pic.twitter.com/HwwRONRIpi
— Deniz S. (@MrFilmkritik) April 14, 2018
By David Futrelle
So much going on today.Trump is losing it on Twitter as he contemplates firing Rod Rosenstein — which would basically trigger a constitutional crises — and/or launching what will almost certainly be a disastrous attack on Syria (even by normal US foreign policy standards).
But wait there’s more! Apparently Mueller has evidence that Michael Cohen lied about not being in Prague for a meeting discussed in the Steele dossier. Gosh, that “dodgy dossier” seems to be full of actual true things, while Michael Cohen’s mouth seems to be full of lies. Oh, and Comey started his book tour today. And Trump fucking pardoned Scooter Libby!
The day isn’t even over yet.
Here’s an actual tweet from the actual president today:
DOJ just issued the McCabe report – which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey – McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
And here’s an old Tweet from his dodgy lawyer:
I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/CMil9Rha3D
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 11, 2017
NARRATOR: But he had been to Prague.
Here’s Mr. Cohen today:
when ur incredibly stressed and someone says not to worry pic.twitter.com/r4urrv4TK2
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) April 13, 2018
Meanwhile, some fans of pretty alt-lite ladies are having a little trouble trying to create artistic tributes to their goddesses:
https://twitter.com/JABinjail/status/984445917834162176
https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/984882127421485057
Some transphobes are having trouble with pronouns. The CONCEPT of pronouns, that is.
https://twitter.com/princess_stef69/status/984888016551464961
In other news:
Black teen misses bus, gets shot at after asking for directions in Rochester Hills https://t.co/SwP839pQTE
— deray (@deray) April 13, 2018
JFC.
I envy Zelda:
It's been a roller coaster 24 hours. I was awake for two of them. pic.twitter.com/z8hV7KqbYP
— Curious Zelda (@CuriousZelda) April 13, 2018
And here I woke up in a surprisingly good mood.
How is he still president? How the everliving fuck is anybody still supporting him? Especially anybody with anything even approaching political sense?
In general purpose, none bomb them all news …
It’ll come as absolutely zero surprise that Ivanka has been dispatched to represent Trump at the Summit of the Americas in Lima.
@Jules
I have some suggestions.
Volunteering is great, I’ve done it and helped some great people
Support refugee owned businesses (my state has many and yours probably does too)
Write state leadership about supporting them
Listen to them and don’t impose your views of anything on them
Hope these helped
A team from the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) was due to arrive in Douma today, to investigate the alleged CW attack. So I guess that won’t happen now?
Nothing going to change, Assad will say he’s destroyed all of his chemical weapons. Putin will agree and block any investigation. Dotard will find something else to bloviate on on Twitter.
If you’re in the UK, Jules, then CitizensUK is organising “refugees welcome here” events, helping resettle displaced people here, and lobbying MPs to raise the number of refugees we’re taking in from the current shocking less than a hundred to a still-offensively-too-low several thousand.
The UK is a very xenophobic place right now, but that doesn’t excuse us from our basic human duties. We just need to fight harder for it.
Question, though. Alex Jones and the entire alt Reich have been incoherently screaming (more than usual)… That they don’t like Trump anymore. What the hell? I thought the senseless bombing of a random Middle Eastern country was everything they’d been clamouring for?
@SFHC
They love Assad. Trump’s not being consistent enough to their agenda, hence they’re dumping him again, like every other time he’s slipped up and pissed them off, like with net neutrality.
In practice it might mean that Assad himself may fall out of grace soon though, because they’re gonna figure out eventually that he’s not as useful to them as Trump ?
Hugs from another southern sister!
You probably didn’t know this but adding ‘tard’ to another word or name comes from r*tard which is a ableist term.
They haven’t had all Muslims and brown people banned and sent back to the Middle East, once they do that THEN bomb them sky high.
@Fruitloopsie: “Dotard” is a word all in itself:
It might still be ableist, but not for the reasons you were thinking.
Nequam
Oh my bad I didn’t know that thanks
And of course the GOP is going to let Trump ignoring the constitution slide yet again. This fucking country.
Assad launched a chemical attack on his citizens in April, 2017. The US retaliated by bombing deserted air bases. After giving lots of warning via Twitter.
Assad launched a chemical attack on his citizens in April, 2018. The US retaliated by bombing deserted air bases. After giving lots of warning via Twitter.
Is this going to become an annual fucking event?
When you elect a clown president, you get a president clown.
off-topic, Matt Bevin, governor of Kentucky, blames teachers:
So, governor (note the lower case “g”), it’s the teachers’ fault that single parents in your state can’t afford day care for their children when school is not in session? It’s the teachers’ fault that children in your state are vulnerable to sexual assault? It’s the teachers’ fault that drug use is epidemic in your state?? It’s the TEACHERS’ FAULT??? This is what passes for analysis among conservatives??
GEEZ, TOO BAD YOUR STATE DOESN’T HAVE A GOVERNOR INSTEAD OF A “governor”.
I saw the Matt Bevins tape yesterday, and there aren’t enough synonyms for ‘contemptuous’ to describe how I feel about his completely stupid position.
Fuck him, and Kentucky, I’m sorry.
There was a South Park episode just before the election with “Mr. Garrison” as trump (I hated the story arc because of the transmisia in the casting of Caitlin Jenner), but it showed Garrison as president, then his mouth got him in trouble and a nuclear war was inevatible. He’s running around the War Room like a scared 5-year-old begging someone to tell him what to do.
I see that coming.
Well, the advice I always got for that particular circumstance was “get under a sturdy table or into the bathtub or a corner of the basement, stick your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye”…
yeah… I’m 4000 feet from the intersection of the two runways of a primary target (bomber refueling base)….
PolicyofMadness, if you’re reading this, I’m so sorry for the difficulties in your state.
I wish Policy of Madness would come back. ?
Just read an article on the Titanic (the anniversary is today) and learned of a writer, Jacques Futrelle, who died in the disaster. Any connection?
regarding the Brennan Walker incident, for pity’s sake, he was just knocking on their fucking door!?!?!?!? What is WRONG with us????
watch, the man accused of firing at the boy will claim it was justified because they had heard about a break-in on the block last month…
and the igno-right will say the boy is a “crisis actor” in a staged event designed to gin up sentiment to allow the gumming to take our guns…
the defense attorney will show the surveillance video showing the boy preparing to knock on the door, freeze the vid and say “the ‘perpetrator’ is clearly reaching for the door handle to break in to these peaceful citizens’ home”…
and who the fuck knows what a jury will say….
*gummint, not gumming….
I’d blame autocorrect but it’s not active on my ‘puter…
🙂 🙁
Yes, David is related to him. I forget precisely how though.
@ wwth, @ Steven Dutch;
they’re both writers…?
I’ll show myself out….