The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!
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I’m not a fan of her comedy style. I never really found her funny. I always fast forward past her appearances on The Daily Show. Having said that..... the truth hurts, huh? She was brutally honest. I don’t feel sorry for anybody she went after. They all deserved it. They all deserved to be called out. I’m sure she’ll be on The Daily Show this coming week. That should be fun.
I haven't watched The Daily Show in a long time except for a few clips here and there on Facebook. I've never seen her comedy either except now that you mention her being on The Daily Show, that's why she looked familiar. I didn't listen to anything from the event but just found it funny the amount of crying over it.
The answer to bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Guns should be in schools. Oh, but if the VP is speaking at an NRA conference, no guns allowed.
(Admittedly, that's not the NRA's choice, it's law based on the Secret Service being there, but the optics are still poor.)
(Admittedly, that's not the NRA's choice, it's law based on the Secret Service being there, but the optics are still poor.)
The 57 most outlandish, outrageous and offensive lines from Trump's Michigan rally
1. "You want to see a lot of people? Go outside. We could have filled this place up five or six times."
Heeeeeeeeere's Donald! And, yes, within 20 seconds of taking the stage, Trump was talking about how the crowd was huge -- and could have been far bigger.
2. "I said, couldn't you have gotten one larger? That would've been nice."
Reminder: LOTS of people are there but even MORE wanted to be there. Why didn't these Michigan people think of that???
3. "Where is Bill? Where? All right. Wherever the hell he is."
Trump is looking, unsuccessfully, for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. Wherever the hell he is.
4. "I wish you could have given us a larger arena but what are you going to do?"
For the third time in his first few minutes on stage, Trump is talking about the size if the crowd -- and why it could have been much bigger. Big is good. Bigger is better. His calculus isn't more complicated than that.
5. "They said, 'Donald Trump has won the state of Michigan' -- won the state of Michigan. And we won a lot of other states also. That was some night."
The 2016 election ended 536 days before Trump took the stage Saturday night. As you may have heard, he won. And he carried Michigan. No one said he could do it. But he did.
6. "We are appointing judges like never before. Great conservative, Republican judges. We're setting records. By the time we finish, I think we will have the all-time record."
There's no doubt that Trump is appointing lots and lots of judges. As for "setting records," he appointed 12 federal circuit court judges in 2017 alone, the most ever. Also, never forget how much doing things other presidents haven't done is to Trump. Setting records for crowd size, for appointing judges, for getting tax cuts through -- this is his lifeblood.
7. "We have the worst laws anywhere in the world."
... Says the President of the United States.
8. "We don't have borders."
... Says the President of the United States.
9. "I said, 'Let's not do it there. Let's let them put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown. Moonbeam.'"
So: Trump says San Diego is begging for the wall. And the money for it has been secured. But that maybe he won't do it to force a political opponent to feel some pain. So, OK.
10. "I can't pay the extras. I hate extras."
Same.
who met with Donald Trump Jr and other top campaign officials at Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 -- promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Although Veselnitskaya denied at the time that she had any ties to the Russian government, she has now acknowledged ties to the country's legal office. That admission, according to Trump, is because Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks Trump is being so hard on Russia that the only way to relieve pressure is to get Veselnitskaya to say she worked with the Russian government.
See? See? It's all falling into place ...
20. "Look at how these politicians have fallen for this job."
This is classic Trump. No one sees the conspiracy theory except him and the people in the room where he is speaking. All of these politicians don't see it. But he sees it.
21."The only collusion is the Democrats colluding with the Russians, the Democrats colluding with lots of other people."
NO COLLUSION! YOU'RE THE COLLUSION!
George Papadopoulos bragging to an Australian official that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
24. "They did that to Admiral Jackson. They are doing it for a lot of people."
So:
a) Who is "they"?
b) What "lot of people" are we talking about?
25. "In the old days, when the newspapers used to write, they would (put) names down. Today they say, sources have said that President Trump -- sources. They never say who the source is."
Anonymous sources have existed since the start of journalism.
26. "They don't have sources. The sources don't exist in many cases. The sources in many cases don't exist."
This is simply not true. Every mainstream media organization has a rigorous process to ensure not only that their sources exist but that the sources are in position to know of what they speak.
27. "You remember Jon Lovitz? A liar. Comey's worse. He is a liar and a leaker."
"Comey is like Tommy Flanagan. Yeah, that's the ticket." (Also, Trump has compared other people to the world's most famous pathological liar before.)
28. "I did you a great favor when I fired this guy. I'll tell you. I did you a great favor."
What can I say except you're welcome!!
29. "What about the guy who took $700,000 for his wife's campaign. Nobody even talks about. Nobody even talks about it."
A total and complete distortion of facts. Trump is referencing former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife ran for the Virginia state Senate in 2015. Then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe moved several hundred thousand dollars via an allied super PAC. Andrew McCabe never received any of the money -- as Trump, of course, knows.
30. "Ultimately, I love my farmers."
Look, at the end of the day, it it what it is. Also, farmers!
31. "Long-term, you are going to be so happy."
Short-term and medium-term would like a word.
32. "Chrysler is moving back to Michigan from Mexico."
Nope!
33. "Cars are coming back to Michigan."
Auto manufacturing employment numbers dropped in 2017.
34. "Six years ago, I wasn't even running. The Republican of the year award. Maybe they knew what was going to happen."
Trump has claimed to have won this award before. It's not obvious a) he won it or b) it exists at all.
35. "Nobody in the first year of office has done what we have done."
It's very, very hard to fact-check this claim given that we don't know what metric Trump is using to measure having done more than anyone ever. But, by virtually any metric, it's not true.
36. "After years of rebuilding other countries, we are finally going to rebuild our country."
I actually think this is one of Trump's best lines of the speech -- and his presidency. If he just focused on rebuilding infrastructure and reinvesting in America, this presidency could look very different.
37. "We have spent 7 trillion dollars in the Middle East."
Nope!
38. "We have a great site that we are going to buy. The best site."
He's talking about the site of the planned US embassy in Jerusalem. And, yes, of course it is the best site in all of Israel.
39. "Now, as you know, in the UK, in London, we have the best site in all of London. The best site."
The best site. In every city. And on every planet.
40. "We are at the top of the charts. And they are talking about it all over the world."
The top of the pops. The highest heights. The summit. The acme. Everyone is talking about it.
41. "Our laws are so corrupt and so stupid -- I call them the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on Earth."
... Says the President of the United States.
42. "And the laws are so corrupt, they are so corrupt"
... Says the President of the United States.
43. "If we don't get border security, we'll have no choice. We'll close down the country."
Trump threatens that unless he gets full funding for the border wall this fall, he will force a government shutdown. Mark that down.
There were 4,200 people there. Not 32,000.
47. "We have to win the House. We are going to win the House."
"I will sell this house today."
48. "We are not the patsies anymore."
"Here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." -- Mike McDermott
49. "We are getting rid of Obamacare. Some people would say that we have essentially gotten rid of it."
Nope!
50. "And nobody knows what a community college is."
Huh. Um. Huh.
51. "Not come in based on some random lottery system."
[narrator voice] It's not a random lottery system.
52. "It is all happening."
I know it wasn't, but I am going to tell myself Trump made a purposeful Ron Paul meme reference.
53. "We will have crystal clean water. We will have beautiful, clean air. We will be great."
This all checks out.
Yes, yes they do.
55. "Mars is waiting for us."
Remember that last month, Trump said this: "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it. Wouldn't be thinking about it."
Hillary Clinton was very anti-Mars. Everyone is saying it.
56. "They hate your guts."
Trump is talking about the media here. And, no, the media doesn't "hate your guts." And Donald Trump knows it.
57. "We are higher now than we were on Election Day. We are higher now."
No comment.
1. "You want to see a lot of people? Go outside. We could have filled this place up five or six times."
Heeeeeeeeere's Donald! And, yes, within 20 seconds of taking the stage, Trump was talking about how the crowd was huge -- and could have been far bigger.
2. "I said, couldn't you have gotten one larger? That would've been nice."
Reminder: LOTS of people are there but even MORE wanted to be there. Why didn't these Michigan people think of that???
3. "Where is Bill? Where? All right. Wherever the hell he is."
Trump is looking, unsuccessfully, for Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. Wherever the hell he is.
4. "I wish you could have given us a larger arena but what are you going to do?"
For the third time in his first few minutes on stage, Trump is talking about the size if the crowd -- and why it could have been much bigger. Big is good. Bigger is better. His calculus isn't more complicated than that.
5. "They said, 'Donald Trump has won the state of Michigan' -- won the state of Michigan. And we won a lot of other states also. That was some night."
The 2016 election ended 536 days before Trump took the stage Saturday night. As you may have heard, he won. And he carried Michigan. No one said he could do it. But he did.
6. "We are appointing judges like never before. Great conservative, Republican judges. We're setting records. By the time we finish, I think we will have the all-time record."
There's no doubt that Trump is appointing lots and lots of judges. As for "setting records," he appointed 12 federal circuit court judges in 2017 alone, the most ever. Also, never forget how much doing things other presidents haven't done is to Trump. Setting records for crowd size, for appointing judges, for getting tax cuts through -- this is his lifeblood.
7. "We have the worst laws anywhere in the world."
... Says the President of the United States.
8. "We don't have borders."
... Says the President of the United States.
9. "I said, 'Let's not do it there. Let's let them put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown. Moonbeam.'"
So: Trump says San Diego is begging for the wall. And the money for it has been secured. But that maybe he won't do it to force a political opponent to feel some pain. So, OK.
10. "I can't pay the extras. I hate extras."
Same.
who met with Donald Trump Jr and other top campaign officials at Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 -- promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Although Veselnitskaya denied at the time that she had any ties to the Russian government, she has now acknowledged ties to the country's legal office. That admission, according to Trump, is because Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks Trump is being so hard on Russia that the only way to relieve pressure is to get Veselnitskaya to say she worked with the Russian government.
See? See? It's all falling into place ...
20. "Look at how these politicians have fallen for this job."
This is classic Trump. No one sees the conspiracy theory except him and the people in the room where he is speaking. All of these politicians don't see it. But he sees it.
21."The only collusion is the Democrats colluding with the Russians, the Democrats colluding with lots of other people."
NO COLLUSION! YOU'RE THE COLLUSION!
George Papadopoulos bragging to an Australian official that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
24. "They did that to Admiral Jackson. They are doing it for a lot of people."
So:
a) Who is "they"?
b) What "lot of people" are we talking about?
25. "In the old days, when the newspapers used to write, they would (put) names down. Today they say, sources have said that President Trump -- sources. They never say who the source is."
Anonymous sources have existed since the start of journalism.
26. "They don't have sources. The sources don't exist in many cases. The sources in many cases don't exist."
This is simply not true. Every mainstream media organization has a rigorous process to ensure not only that their sources exist but that the sources are in position to know of what they speak.
27. "You remember Jon Lovitz? A liar. Comey's worse. He is a liar and a leaker."
"Comey is like Tommy Flanagan. Yeah, that's the ticket." (Also, Trump has compared other people to the world's most famous pathological liar before.)
28. "I did you a great favor when I fired this guy. I'll tell you. I did you a great favor."
What can I say except you're welcome!!
29. "What about the guy who took $700,000 for his wife's campaign. Nobody even talks about. Nobody even talks about it."
A total and complete distortion of facts. Trump is referencing former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife ran for the Virginia state Senate in 2015. Then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe moved several hundred thousand dollars via an allied super PAC. Andrew McCabe never received any of the money -- as Trump, of course, knows.
30. "Ultimately, I love my farmers."
Look, at the end of the day, it it what it is. Also, farmers!
31. "Long-term, you are going to be so happy."
Short-term and medium-term would like a word.
32. "Chrysler is moving back to Michigan from Mexico."
Nope!
33. "Cars are coming back to Michigan."
Auto manufacturing employment numbers dropped in 2017.
34. "Six years ago, I wasn't even running. The Republican of the year award. Maybe they knew what was going to happen."
Trump has claimed to have won this award before. It's not obvious a) he won it or b) it exists at all.
35. "Nobody in the first year of office has done what we have done."
It's very, very hard to fact-check this claim given that we don't know what metric Trump is using to measure having done more than anyone ever. But, by virtually any metric, it's not true.
36. "After years of rebuilding other countries, we are finally going to rebuild our country."
I actually think this is one of Trump's best lines of the speech -- and his presidency. If he just focused on rebuilding infrastructure and reinvesting in America, this presidency could look very different.
37. "We have spent 7 trillion dollars in the Middle East."
Nope!
38. "We have a great site that we are going to buy. The best site."
He's talking about the site of the planned US embassy in Jerusalem. And, yes, of course it is the best site in all of Israel.
39. "Now, as you know, in the UK, in London, we have the best site in all of London. The best site."
The best site. In every city. And on every planet.
40. "We are at the top of the charts. And they are talking about it all over the world."
The top of the pops. The highest heights. The summit. The acme. Everyone is talking about it.
41. "Our laws are so corrupt and so stupid -- I call them the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on Earth."
... Says the President of the United States.
42. "And the laws are so corrupt, they are so corrupt"
... Says the President of the United States.
43. "If we don't get border security, we'll have no choice. We'll close down the country."
Trump threatens that unless he gets full funding for the border wall this fall, he will force a government shutdown. Mark that down.
There were 4,200 people there. Not 32,000.
47. "We have to win the House. We are going to win the House."
"I will sell this house today."
48. "We are not the patsies anymore."
"Here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." -- Mike McDermott
49. "We are getting rid of Obamacare. Some people would say that we have essentially gotten rid of it."
Nope!
50. "And nobody knows what a community college is."
Huh. Um. Huh.
51. "Not come in based on some random lottery system."
[narrator voice] It's not a random lottery system.
52. "It is all happening."
I know it wasn't, but I am going to tell myself Trump made a purposeful Ron Paul meme reference.
53. "We will have crystal clean water. We will have beautiful, clean air. We will be great."
This all checks out.
55. "Mars is waiting for us."
Remember that last month, Trump said this: "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it. Wouldn't be thinking about it."
Hillary Clinton was very anti-Mars. Everyone is saying it.
56. "They hate your guts."
Trump is talking about the media here. And, no, the media doesn't "hate your guts." And Donald Trump knows it.
57. "We are higher now than we were on Election Day. We are higher now."
No comment.
I didn't think they were allowed to in the past even without president/vice-president was there. Either way lol. What happens if tyranny happens while there is a convention?!?
Remember kids, sexually asaulting women, peeking at young, teegange girls nude, discrimination, advocating violence is ok, but speaking the truth is bad.
Act quickly; seems like a lot of the people involved are already in the process of getting locked up.
I saw a Wapo article about Trump allies in the House starting to draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. Uh yea ok traitors.
Yep here we go. I'm sure Iran just stores all of its current info on a nuclear program in an unguarded warehouse. Sure. Netanyahu giving Trump a reason to exit the plan and possibly go to war. Weeee
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...ent-that-said-iran-has-secret-nuclear-weapons
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...ent-that-said-iran-has-secret-nuclear-weapons
If people are not frightened by this, they need to be. They're lying. They're flat out lying. They're trying to start a war. These people are dangers. These people are dangerous to the stability of the world. Something needs to be done to them. This cannot continue to happen.
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