a really good writeup from larry summers on the economic prospects under trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...c9c_story.html

Holy shit, it happened.

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl...b0c5eff4a5ea4c

Yay!

"After I discovered who Trump is and the way that he conducted himself, I was never going to go to the inauguration. I never planned, I never contemplated even going near any of those activities or those events. I don't like the way he has, you know, misled people, the way he has lied; I don't like the way he has disparaged folks; I don't like the way he mimicked and mocked a disabled man; I don't like the way he talked about women and grabbing their private parts. So there's nothing about him that I would want to be involved with. And certainly the inauguration is a way of welcoming in someone to the presidency and honoring them and respecting them. I don't honor him, I don't respect him, and I don't want to be involved with him."—Rep. Maxine Waters,

wow, she really drank the kool aid.

meanwhile, the outgoing administration leaves us this turd:
When it comes to the forthcoming GMO pineapple, that is once again the case: the FDA has said that Del Monte’s proposed creation is “safe” based solely on information submitted by the company itself. There is a distinct lack of information on long-term potential health effects, however.
The new GMO pineapple has been given a rubber stump, and it could be headed to store shelves. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Assange MUST NOT allow himself to be extradited until Manning is free and in a safe harbor, out of the country. And I think he's stupid to do this.

I seriously could give a fuck about Assange, he's a tool of the Republicans now. There are so many other things he could have done to expose real corruption and crime. What a turd

Agree. Completely. Ever seen that move "The Promised Land?" Probably not, because it painted an unflattering but accurate picture of the power of the natural gas and fracking industry, so it was blackballed by Hollywood and went to DVD after about a month. Anyway, point is, in that film the natural gas industry asserts itself so strongly in one small town that they control every possible variable, including hiring a henchman to pretend to be the "local environmentalist presence" to fiercely protest their practices, and even gain the town's support, only to be (deliberately and publicly) discredited, leading the town to toss aside any and all reservations about fracking on their farmland because the main opposing protestor was driven out of town by the shame of his (planned) public humiliation.

Anyhoo.. fuck Assange. At this point I'm open to the theory that he was working for the Repukes all along.

Also, funny you should say "turd," because one Ted Nugent (yes, that Ted Nugent, the political science expert, sociologist and historian) had been making posts on social media deriding everyone from the educated and wealthy to the uneducated and impoverished for having "TURD" (Trump Unacceptance and Resistance Disorder) and being "TURDS" for not wanting the country to be great again.

Really. He's doing that. And thousands of people are chiming in to voice their approval.

So... death threats? Anyone?

assange is a truly disgusting human being but it's not as if he hasn't always been, he's a pure anarchist with no real end goal or agenda to anything he does other than incite infighting and draw up divisions, the motivations for which are unclear and almost certainly ethically void.


but at the same time you have to feel for him, I mean he's from fucking queensland which is a crocodile infested humid shithole where people run over chicken carcasses for fun because it makes a funny sound. although townsville has a bunnings.


another fine contribution from the beautiful sunburnt land.

some good loyal Romans here!

the morons speak

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.27d8c737bbe1

wow, that was the lousiest speech any president has ever given
so many promises that he will never be able to accomplish
taking power away from establishment, while he IS the establishment

y'all will be speaking Russian in 2-3 years, mark my words

oh no wait, that won't happen.
you will get a minister of education who knows NOTHING about education
(I watched Daily Show yesterday, which is over here the Yesterday Show because it's a day old)

lucky you!

Fuck me, the asshole quoted Bane in his speech? Makes me wonder who's his Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul... Putin, probably.

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl...91a3634d21abc2

And he's seriously the President of the United States of America.

We have an immigrant in the White House now. Or will, once junior finishes school this spring.

Sounds like a source of pride for you. If your previous posts are anything to go by, I hope you get trampled underfoot at the Lee show you're attending.

yeah yeah we get it you're full of hate and self loathing and violence and you like comics.

I don't hope you get trampled to death at a concert, but I do say this with every fiber of my being:

FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK.

you all need to pace yourselves. we got four years of this. four years of fuck, asshole, redneck, nigger, dumb fuck, racist, crazy right, libtard, cuck, and whatever other keywords used to describe each other.

plenty of time for name calling and developing high blood pressure. have fun!!:)

well, I won't go as far as the TSN, but I think you're really far off base and not dealing with reality.

I think it's quite telling that the board's solitary trump supporter is also our greatest nutjob conspiracy theorist pseudo-intellectual blank canvas cumstain.

I warned you 2 years ago the nazis were making moves but you scoffed at me. You have nothing but your insecurity, ignorance and name calling. Good luck!

Oh, the Oligarchs want to thank the women who marched yesterday for providing us with millions in revenue. The women paid for their transportation and gas and lodging and food, and also talked incessantly on their cell phones, which provides a nice data dump for us to understand who is funding and organizing the women. And revenues. You see, we always win.

Y'all get back to your cell phones and video games. We don't need to chain you up. You do that to yourself.

i dont think guest was referring to you

wait so there's not just one trump supporter but 2

guest was wrong all along

Why do you come here?

to warn you about the nazis and the oligarchs he just voted for

...And why, why do you hang around?
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry

Why do you come here
When you know it makes
Things hard for me?
When you know, oh
Why do you come?

Why do you telephone
And why send me silly notes?
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry

Why do you come here
When you know it makes
Things hard for me?
When you know, oh
Why do you come?

You had to sneak into my room
'Just' to read my diary
It was just to see, just to see
All the things you knew
I'd written about you
Oh so many illustrations

Oh but I'm so very sickened
Oh, I am so sickened NOW
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, it was a good lay
It was a good lay, good lay, good lay
It was a good lay...

Because his brain is so unfathomably miswired that instead of jammin' that Toby Keith he's into this... this left-wing... miscreant!:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...7&postcount=16

I'm afraid of Americans │ I'm afraid of the world │ I'm afraid I can't help it │ I'm afraid I can't...

By the by, just for the record, I don't own a single comic book. None. I don't think they're intrinsically silly or that they can't be art or anything — it's just not something I put dough into. The Dark Knight Rises reference I made was to the movie, not the graphic novel. Which would annoy real comics fans, I guess...

how can I miss you when you won't go away

From Under The Radar:




Get it now at www.quasiband.com!

GOOD LAWD so now bullshit is called "alternative facts". For real. For example, fact: I'm single. Alternative fact: I'm dating Selma Blair. I'm sticking with the alternative fact. Because we're in the post-truth world.

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl...803adc31d9dd40

tesla I understand that people like you are fed up with the prevailing system because to be honest I can't see why most people wouldn't be, however look at that right there^^: was this man really the one you pushed your country over the precipice for? any sort of critical engagement with reality here would show you that he is merely a concentration of everything he and you are railing against...

either that or you're just a deadshit contrarian faux-anarchist which I'm currently leaning towards.

yes. me too.

democracies are not immune to decadence.

just look at ancient rome, or athens, or the american civil war.

this is the american civil war part 2

i hope the separation is peaceful this time around

I honestly don't understand why anyone would vote for Trump, the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic liar who also mocks disabled. Surely you've got to be that way inclined yourself, mental ill or just incredibly stupid to vote for him. I'm not saying Hillary Clinton is squeaky clean, far from it but if I was an American and had to choose between them, Trump would never be an option for me.

I find it very worrying he is now in power and it looks like yr country is heading for another civil war...