Tell us your favorite travel memory – was it a picture, a souvenir, a sunset? We'd love to hear it!
— Trump Hotels (@TrumpHotels) October 11, 2011
Who thought responding to anodyne marketing campaigns could be a form of political resistance?
Meeting my grandmother who survived the Nazis and escaped the Soviets before latter could put a wall up. https://t.co/4D1mxR310h
— Zeddy (@ZeddRebel) January 29, 2017
.@TrumpHotels Being abroad when Obama was elected and seeing how happy everybody was for both America and the world.
— jdh (@502eire) January 28, 2017
@TrumpHotels They escaped concentration camps and a country devastated by war. They weren't turned away and I'm here today because of it.
— Cate Sevilla (@CateSevilla) January 29, 2017
.@TrumpHotels My asylum grant. Thanks for asking pic.twitter.com/yRftCMNsah
— Aminatou Sow (@aminatou) January 28, 2017
Chanting "Shame" outside your Washington D.C. hotel with a million people last weekend! @TrumpHotels
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels That time my parents fled apartheid South Africa and immigrated to America where my father became an advocate for abused children.
— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) January 29, 2017
That time I fled Communist Romania to a refugee camp in Austria, came to America, & years later became an exec @Google creating 10ks of jobs https://t.co/iaerM5gLHc
— Laszlo Bock (@LaszloBock2718) January 29, 2017
oh thanks for asking @TrumpHotels My day at #turnberry = awesome wifi – great security & knowing Trump was watching through the window. pic.twitter.com/jEUgNONtVH
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) January 28, 2017
BlueDWarrior
We can only hope this bleeds into any business who wants to break bread with Trump and co. on any level greater than “begrudgingly”
WereBear
Well, they asked. :)
aimai
Sometimes I love people so much.
rikyrah
and, once again, my spirits are lifted.
Wag
What an amazing post. I love it when people speak truth to power.
aimai
Oh, in the “best of” from that thread:
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Suzan
I was at the Anne Frank house this summer. I’d been before but didn’t remember this part: After walking through that sad place there is an informational sign about how the Franks’ request to immigrate to the US was turned down. It broke my heart and made me ashamed of my country. I have often wondered if Trump would have the same (human) reaction if he toured the house.
aimai
Sorry, that is in response to a guy posting throughout the thread defending Trump and saying that he hasn’t done anything to anyone yet so what’s the fuss about.
aimai
@Suzan: No, because Anne Frank was, at best, a three.
oldster
You know, I normally object strongly to any use of the c**t word.
But that Scots women with the sign–god that had me laughing. Too perfect.
zhena gogolia
First time I wish I had Twitter.
Ruckus
@oldster:
When you go for it you might as well go all the way.
Ian G.
I’ll say that traveling by train between Munich and Prague, and recognizing only after the fact that I had crossed the former Iron Curtain without so much as showing a passport, had a profound positive impact on me. That was back in 2008. It’d be nice to not see any new Iron Curtains go back up.
EBT
@oldster: I usually object to using it as a pejorative. I enjoy it as an anatomical word, and linguistically it is fun to say. It just sounds nice to me. But I am the Notorious Strange Person here.
Served
He’s coming for LGBT Americans next. The EO is rumored to allow federal contractors to fire LGBT workers and apparently even touches on adoption, and probably more.
FlipYrWhig
@aimai: “I like Jews who weren’t arrested and sent to camps, OK?”
aimai
@Served: Adoption came up in my Immigrants and Refugee’s class today because they will take DNA from some people who are trying to bring relatives in and if you adopted a child you would be shit out of luck trying to bring that kid in since they would not share your DNA.
cosima
@oldster: I just had that conversation with my girls the other day. Told my oldest ‘your little sister just told me that T$%^p is a ‘see you next Tuesday” (she would never use the real word) My oldest (they are 15 yrs apart) said ‘what’s that?’ I said ‘C U N(ext) T(uesday)’ She said ‘where’d she hear that?!’ and I’m guessing that she heard it at school — I didn’t like to ask lest I make it a forbidden and therefore exotic (must be used) word. Then we segued into a conversation about the difference between how it is used here in the UK vs the US.
In the US it has heavily anti-women connotations and therefore is not a word used by polite people. Here is it basically the same as calling someone an asshole to the 10th power. I’m more or less too old & boring to move in circles where it’s used as creatively as the youngsters use it (or at all amongst our crowd).
That sign makes me laugh, and even more grateful that I live in Scotland (which is saying a lot, because I really love it here).
zhena gogolia
@cosima:
Isn’t it particularly common in Scotland?
EBT
@Served: Trans rights too. Our rights federally are basically based on everyone being afraid of saying something negative and being fired.
sharl
@zhena gogolia: More often than not, you can click on a Twitter link and get access whether or not you are signed up. If you get a pop-up window asking you to sign-up or sign in, just ignore it.
You can try it above, by clicking on one of the “time stamps” in the tweets AL has in the original post; it should take you to the tweet in question. The time stamps have this format (this one from Zeddy’s tweet, second one listed at top):
Note than some front pagers here don’t post tweets with active links, instead posting images of tweets. Those are just like photos or any other image, rarely (if ever) containing links to the actual tweet at the Twitter website.
Hellbastard
JUst had an Iranian student in my office, in tears because of Trump’s EO and concerns about her future here. Tough times…
WIll be at a protest rally tomorrow…
hilts
Thank God for Samantha Bee
h/t http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-samantha-bee-to-host-not-the-white-1485798681-htmlstory.html
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
My favorite travel memory was “staying at the Park Hyatt in Chicago, as opposed to your shitty hotel”.
cmorenc
They’re going to update the inscription on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty to read:
“Give me your tirade, you poor, muddled assholes“.
cosima
@zhena gogolia: It is, just not amongst our crowd of boring engineers & scientists. We’ve got a few friends who probably let the ‘see you next Tuesdays’ fly regularly at home & the pub, but I don’t get to hear it nearly as much as would be beneficial to my mental health.
Mary G
On Darrell Issa’s telephone town hall now. I pressed the keys to ask a question and was informed I was in the line to ask a question. Then he rambled on about there were no questions yet. Then oops! my bad! I was in the wrong place, sorry. First 3 questions in favor of ACA! Yay.
Anne Laurie
@sharl: You can do everything on Twitter without signing up, except for responding to tweets (which is what I suspect Zhena Goglia means).
I’m not signed up on Twitter myself, because there’s only so many hours in a day, and it’s a choice between tweeting and posting here. (But I’m told embedded tweets are a bigly metric for Twitter’s advertising fees, so I figure it’s a fair trade — I aggregate their users’ wit & wisdom, they count BJ embeds in their rates.)
trollhattan
@cmorenc: That was the first rewrite. They decided on, “Give me your hotties, nothing under a nine or over twenty-five.”
zhena gogolia
@Anne Laurie:
Right, I wanted to post about my father’s fun trip to Ellis Island in 1910.
sharl
@Anne Laurie: Ah, got it.
cmorenc
My grandmother was a classic Ellis Island Immigrant – arriving as a poor, frightened 13-year old German immigrant c. 1912, not speaking a word of English yet, her passage over paid with a contract to be what amounted to an indentured servant for the bulk of her teenage years on a dairy farm in the then-rural outskirts of Boston.
The Moar You Know
I’ll never give that tangerine bastard the satisfaction, but Trump Las Vegas is the only cheap, habitable (the rooms are actually quite nice and not at all gaudy) hotel in the town. Reason? He COULD NOT get a gaming permit. Every 7-11 style Quikee store in Nevada can get one, but he can’t. Think about how bad you’ve fucked up (and what a disaster your finances must be) if you can’t get a gaming permit in Vegas.
And I’ll bet it’s cheaper now than it was in 2012 and getting cheaper by the second. Doesn’t matter to me, I’ll never set foot in it again, nor Las Vegas.
Lavocat
Trump is such an easy mark that he should have the word “D’OH!” branded onto his forehead.
Elizabelle
@The Moar You Know: That’s hilarious. Couldn’t get a gaming permit.
But he’s POTUS. Fuck.
Barbara
@aimai: This is a tough subject, because the DNA tests can also identify when people are trying to pass off trafficking victims as their own children. If a child is adopted, there should be official paper work, but this is also potentially problematic where adoption is unofficial and not always permanent. Just saying that sometimes these requirements are not intended to be exclusionary at all, but to protect children and families from exploitation.
Rommie
The inside of the Wingularity is stranger than you *can* imagine. When it’s an open question WHO will give the SOTU address, let alone what proposals are offered – Wow.
At least we’ll get to see the regular GOP in action after the SCOTUS nominee is announced tomorrow. *They* will be the ones to kill the filibuster and side with Herr Trump once and for all, or defy him. I’m heartbroken they’ll have to make that decision.
(If they get 8 D votes for anyone but Garland, then the Democratic Party can safely be nuked from orbit. I do not think there are 8 fools available to turn, however)
Roger Moore
@Rommie:
I had not heard that one. What’s going on?
Mary G
Looks like Darrell Issa is mainly taking questions from Republicans: “I’m excited with the speed in which Donald Trump is taking action to fulfill his campaign promises as long as they are legal.” WTF?
It’s all white people so far.
HeleninEire
I love Dublin. Right now I am in a pub and as always the music is Awesome. So good that a bunch of tourists from Malta, of all places, are dancing their feet off. But I feel kinda bad not being in America to join the resistance.
The Moar You Know
@Rommie: I expect that lousy bastard Manchin to turn. If anyone else does…I’m out. Called and told both my Senators exactly that. I’m not concerned about Harris but Feinstein…I have concerns.
burnspbesq
Holy moly. Today’s abominable executive order really takes the prize for stupidity.
unreal
catclub
@The Moar You Know:
Sheldon Adelson probably blackballed him there.
Cacti
I enjoy the many trips I’ve taken to different places in the United States and abroad.
Not a single night of which was spent in any garish, Trump-brand property.
Barbara
@burnspbesq: I keep singing in my head, “Two girls for every boy . . .”
dmsilev
@Rommie:
Wait, what?
trollhattan
Non-Trumpian entertainment for the family last night was a performance by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. If you’re not familiar, these guys Both hilarious and good enough dancers to pull it off. Think even my high-schooler was amused, but one never knows for sure.
cmorenc
@Elizabelle:
On a less hilarious note, er bank note – most American banks refuse to lend to Donald Trump, due to his pattern of strategically not repaying money when he can get away with it. The American President, too much of a deadbeat for banks to be willing to deal with him. (Recall also that the reason he apparently avoided paying any federal income tax for the past one to two decades is because of a loophole in tax law permitting him to take the write-down loss for money he was lent by banks on real estate deals which went bad – i.e. it was really the banks who took the loss).
Only a more high-risk department of Deutsche Bank and other foreign lenders have been willing to loan him money.
Brachiator
@cmorenc:
And Putin.
Elizabelle
@cmorenc: Yup. Why those tax returns would be so fascinating. What is his financing structure?
cmorenc
Here’s the link to a story about American bank refusal to lend to Donald Trump I inadvertently left out of my earlier post. Among the prime sources for that article is the Wall Street Journal.
oldster
@Mary G:
Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises, alright.
When I talked to my Republican Congress-critter’s office this morning, I started by asking the nice intern whether Rep. Reed supports Trump’s Muslim ban.
“Actually, sir, it’s not a Muslim-ban,” she began.
“But on the campaign trail,” I replied, “he promised his supporters a Muslim ban, using those very words. Are you saying that he broke his promise, or that he kept it?”
“Oh, he kept his promise!”
“Right; so it’s a Muslim ban. Now: does Rep. Reed support it or not?”
“Well, but it does not explicitly exclude Muslims–”
“Oh, because Trump is now too politically correct to say what he’s really doing? He was more honest on the campaign trail. And his closest advisors like Giuliani and Flynn are calling it a Muslim ban right now. So: does Rep. Reed support the Muslim ban or not?”
Oddly enough, it took her some time to tell whether I was pro-Trump or anti-Trump. I thanked her for her time.
ItinerantPedant
@oldster: In Britain it’s a dirty word but not an unspeakably filthy one. Such that a Brit, unaware, would be surprised at the level of reaction Americans would have.
Timurid
My contribution.
For Schrodinger (in the now dead thread).
I’m actually Latino and a native-born American, but I’m a historian of South Asia.
I know plenty of desis, but Fair and Lovely or similar products are used anywhere where intra-ethnic skin tone hysteria is a thing. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much everywhere.
And in other news, Darrell Issa is still a Quisling sack of shit.
FlipYrWhig
@oldster: Clever!
The Moar You Know
@burnspbesq: Not that stupid. Military excluded.
Shalimar
@The Moar You Know: They vote for political and personal reasons. Schumer’s job is to hold 41 filibuster votes together. How they choose amongst themselves who is most at risk is their problem as long as they keep Trump’s appointment from the Supreme Court. If enough of them vote with Republicans to get the new Justice to the bench, then all of the selfish assholes should be primaried.
trollhattan
@Timurid:
He should go on a fact-finding trip to BENGHAZI! After which we can not let his ass back in (“Ooh, sorry mister, Libya’s on the bad list, you see.”)
vhh
Maybe we should all visit Trump Hotels and put dead rats in the HVAC ducts and shrimp shells in the curtain rods. After a few weeks, the smell will be fulsome. To be on the safe side, one might want to avoid staying there and just go to the lobby for a few drinks and then slink off to do the job. That probably cuts out the curtain rod hack, sadly. An alternative strategy is to get on the city inspection crew and do it then, they won’t be able to track back.
Mary G
@Timurid: Yes Darrell is tap dancing as fast as he can on this telephone town hall. I have been in the line to ask a question for 40 minutes now and he keeps telling people to log in to ask questions like he doesn’t have any. He finally took a question from a man named Manuel who had no accent, but was obviously a Democrat and Issa was rude, dissmissive, and cut him off consistently.
debbie
@aimai:
I can’t believe companies are still trying to use Twitter. These “campaigns” never end well. Chase’s “Ask an Investment Banker” met a similar response. Google for details.
NotMax
Not The Onion.
montanareddog
@ItinerantPedant: or they slide around it in comic fashion with rhyming slang – “you fucking Sir Anthony” in reference to the infamous Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
Stacy
@The Moar You Know: 538 is tracking how Congress members vote for 45’s positions. Feinstein is at %100 agreement..
Jim, Foolish Literalist
debbie
@cosima:
It’s in more than a few of the Scottish novels I’ve read over the years. When I see the word, I can only hear it with a Scottish accent.
The Lodger
@oldster: Usually when I hear or read the word in a British context, it’s applied to male people.
debbie
@burnspbesq:
With this:
Hasn’t he already broken his own order? He’s going to spend millions of dollars to find the millions of votes by illegal immigrants that cost him the popular vote. //
Patricia Kayden
@burnspbesq: What is it? When I clicked on the link, it took me to a page to sign up for White House updates, which I don’t want to do. Couldn’t get past that page.
Hellbastard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Reminds me of George Costanza securing a black “friend” to prove to his boss that he’s not racist. HaHa…
cosima
@debbie: It does sound a lot better when spoken by a Scot, though the English also do it well. It definitely doesn’t get the clutching at pearls response here, but as I said, that’s because it’s not used primarily to denigrate women here. If it were, I do think it would get the pearl-clutching, and rightfully so.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Picture a house of cards…
cosima
@burnspbesq: Was this maybe the Kon-Mari’ing of regulations, add one regulation, repeal two?
The first thing that I thought when I read about it was ‘must have been reading Kon Mari’ and I noticed there were a few twitter responses that were along those lines.
NotMax
@The Lodger
Pace Britwit Jimmy Carr: “I apologize, sir, for calling you a c*nt as you obviously have no warmth, no depth and provide no one pleasure.”
(General “you,” not in any manner directed personally at the commenter.)
debbie
@cosima:
Sort of like the way the Irish throw the word “hoor” around in their books. Sometimes, it seems it could refer to anything.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: I got the same thing and had a similar reaction.
01jack
@Patricia Kayden: That is the front page for The White House.You have to scroll down to find the button to skip to the rest of the site. Classy.
A Ghost to Most
Denver police may have some ‘splainin to do
Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech.
sukabi
@debbie: not to mention wasting billions of $$ building a fucking wall
jake the antisoshul soshulist
I would like to throw something back in the anti -immigrants’ faces. But from what I can find out, most of my ancestors were British citizens coming to a British Colony. Though somewhere between 2 and 4 of my direct ancestors did go to war to correct the British part.
Bill Arnold
Open thread, so another activist opsec link (just noticed), for the genuinely paranoid:
Twitter Activist Security
According to a friend, “the grugq” does not look like the pic on the site, FWIW.
(Also, other interesting material there. I don’t agree with all of it but it’s at least thought through.)
Note: the article is not US-specific; many other countries are much worse, so far at least.
NotMax
@burnspbesq
Also too, Trump’s draft cybersecurity policy has no role for FBI
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m at the Louisville rally – 3000-5000, maybe more. Mayor is pissed off and on fire. His wife is Greek, and her parents came here as refugees from the Greek civil war.
He’s kicking ass.
And tomorrow, Mitch McConnell’s office gets a protest.
And the mayor has proclaimed Sanctuary.
Aleta
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I didn’t even know Collins was a drinker
bemused
@oldster:
Next time don’t forget to remind staffer(s) that Giuliani bragged on cable news that Prez FUBAR asked him how to ban Muslims legally.
leeleeFL
@aimai:”Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Everybody, look! What’s going down!
Thanks to all who shared their thoughts. May there be many, many more!
Miss Bianca
@A Ghost to Most: “stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit”? Jesus Chicken-Fried Christ. So now Colorado gets to take its turn in the “You can’t even make shit up that sounds as ridiculous as real life” Hall of Shame…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Looks like the good Senator picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
aimai
@Barbara: I know,I was thinking about that as I typed. Its a complicated subject and in a lot of places with big families and extended clans kids who are orphaned may end up being raised by people who are technically only distantly related to them. There are other ways of preventing trafficking–like by monitoring families afterwards to make sure the kids are being treated as members of the family, going to school, etc… than by excluding people based on DNA.
Chris
@jake the antisoshul soshulist:
Yeah? So were mine.
Which is why as far as I’m concerned, every right wing prick whose pedigree is Irish, Italian, Polish, etc and thinks my ancestors had a moral obligation to let his in, but that he has no such obligation today (and good Christ, are there a lot of them) can eat a big bag of salted dicks and then fuck himself.
There’s no reason Mayflower Americans can’t use their heritage to score points for immigrants’ rights too. What I just said won’t cover your every interaction with immigrant-hating whites, but it’ll cover a hell of a lot.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“What if Spartacus had a Piper Cub?”
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
You’ve never met her cousin Tom?
Kathleen
@Barbara: “Serf City, here we come!”
Rommie
Re: SOTU Address – Sorry, I wasn’t implying some Secret Info, just that it’s already a non-zero chance that Trump isn’t the one to give it, in only 10 days!
trnc
I’m partial to this one – can’t quite put my finger on why.
https://twitter.com/TheMikePistons/status/826199477778268161