Omg Michael Bloomberg offers to pay the share of the #ParisAgreement To the UN that Trump is pullin out. 15 mil! https://t.co/IVZLHL5Ku2
— Bobby Hall (@BobbyTBD) June 2, 2017
… The US would have been required to contribute that amount towards efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change under the historic agreement between 195 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
The billionaire philanthropist added: “Americans will honour and fulfil the Paris agreement by leading from the bottom up — and there isn’t anything Washington can do to stop us.”…
Also on Thursday, The New York Times cited a letter from Mr Bloomberg to UN Secretary-General António Guterres in which the businessman said other elements of US government and society should take the lead on climate change where Mr Trump had failed to do so.
Mr Bloomberg is a UN special envoy for local leaders, tasked with meeting the Paris climate targets…
My translation: “Since I’m an actual self-made NYC billionaire, Donny, we both know how much your bigly Rich Guy bafflegab is just fronting for the flyover rubes. Here’s my couch-cushion money, so you can pay today’s tab and stop embarrassing us in front of the rest of the world, okay?”
Earth needing a gofundme is even more depressing tbh https://t.co/dEtHEcAWWX
— pineapple pizzaface (@ZeddRebel) June 2, 2017
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Fuck the Motherfucking
even-the-liberalNew York Fucking Times.ruemara
I’m a little upset. The friends I was going with to San D said their families have gone full metal Trump to the point even they’re uncomfortable staying with them, so they can’t have me over. Boy, this has been a year.
trollhattan
@ruemara:
Strange days. A buddy’s MiL recently died and he’s vowed to never again be dragged to his Orange County BiL’s, as they’re unrepentant Trumpers and RW assholes decades prior.
Interestingly, this MiL was a girl in Germany coerced into joining the Hitler Youth and whose mother was jailed after being reported to the authorities for saying something disrespectful about herr Hitler.
debbie
Wasn’t Bloomberg among those who quit Trump’s economic advisory board?
ThresherK
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): “Area Man Supports Trump” keeps showing up in the Times doesn’t it?
satby
@ruemara: will you be able to go anyway?
Kenneth Kohl
Bloomberg just laid the wood to Trump, showing him how legitimate businessmen operate.
lollipopguild
@Kenneth Kohl: You are correct but trump and his followers do not care, they live in their own alternate universe.
Jeffro
One quick note, post-‘March for Truth’: I hope the next one is a ‘March for Shame’, with five million people carrying enlarged pictures of GOP House members’ faces up to Capitol Hill. That would be awesome and seems to be the next logical step, as there’s certainly more than enough out there by now about Trumpov and his gang of looters to have them all drawn and quartered.
(I got there a little late today…my fat, heavy wallet from the morning’s garage sale was slowing me down…=)
Anyway, good people and a good time, but let’s have next time be a day when Congress is in session and let’s surround the Capitol with pictures of their own ugly mugs and SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! posters for the viewers back home.
dmsilev
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Your second link is just wow. I mean, that’s a classic abusive relationship line. “I didn’t want to hit you, but you made me do it.”
Elizabelle
@Jeffro: March for Shame. I like it. GOP Congresscritters.
And maybe photos of horrible, horrible Trump supporters, like those middle aged whack jobs wearing “Fuck Your Feelings” tee shirts and smiling at their very daring.
Shame on all of them. Shame.
kindness
Bloomberg is a kind of Republican I grew up around. Pragmatic. Willing to fund things that make sense.
ruemara
@satby: Working out the where to stay aspect as we speak. I don’t want to be the first to return Comic-Con tickets.
Alright, off to take pictures of cute kiddos dancing.
Cacti
@ruemara:
Remember, you’re not the one who’s changed.
Cult-like behavior by your friends.
Cacti
The most eyeroll inducing part about the Trumpists complaints on the costs of the Paris Accords:
$15 million was the cost of about 30 minutes of the Iraq war.
debbie
@Cacti:
Or a handful of golfing weekends.
ruemara
@Cacti: To be fair, it’s their parents and I’m sad, cos I liked their parents and they must be real bad if my friends don’t want me exposed to them. I feel for my friends.
debbie
@ruemara:
Most of my family went for Trump and they were very anti-Obama. When my sister-in-law’s parents visited over the holidays, politics were avoided. In the eight years of Obama, they only slipped up once, very briefly. Maybe your friends should reconsider?
randy khan
Awful that it’s necessary, but it’s a classic troll by Bloomberg – “$15 million? That’s nothing. I might not even stop to pick it up off the street. Sure I’ll give it to the U.N. to save the world.”
efgoldman
@debbie:
Not even, figuring in transportation and security.
LurkerNoLonger
@Cacti: I wish Republicans would just be honest about their evil. Enough of this shit about patriotism, religious freedom, and small government. Just be loud and proud. Of course, they would never win another election if they were honest, so I can see why they lie.
Another Scott
@debbie: I didn’t recall Bloomberg ever being on it – he’s smart enough to avoid things like that. B-I has a listing and Bloomberg wasn’t on it.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: Or a picture of Richard Spencer Nazi-saluting…or that woman at the one Trumpov rally with the t-shirt, “Trump can grab this p____”…or an enlarged news article about a noose being left in the African American History Museum…or the number of times Trumpov’s been golfing since his sad, sad inauguration (22, counting today’s outing)…and so on…
Heck, we could get really edgy and have a few “TRUE conservatives…come join us! You know this isn’t right! We know you love your country first!” signs…whoa…
SiubhanDuinne
@kindness:
Well, I certainly never grew up around anyone, Republican or otherwise, with Bloomberg’s kind of money. But yes, the Republicans of my childhood and early adulthood were very much in his mold. If they were around today, I might not vote for them, but I would surely be able to talk to them without irreparably harming the friendship or relationship. Everett Dirksen. Chuck Percy.
efgoldman
@LurkerNoLonger:
It’s the one thing about which they are honest. Granny Starver trying to nuke the ACA? He’s not disguising it (although he is trying to justify it). Mulvaney’s “budget”? Right out there for all to see.
Persimmon Pustule is honestly a clueless, stupid, racist, ignorant asshole.
Applejinx
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): It’s most unfair to criticise the Small Business Owner for wearing the same green pullover in both pictures/articles.
This is America, obviously he can only afford one shirt. If they wanted to talk to someone with more than one shirt they could have asked Michael Bloomberg.
zhena gogolia
I just heard Laurence Olivier say, “Release the Kraken.” Cool!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro:
I’m so old that I remember when presidential golfing was a sign of the President being shiftless and lazy.
Lyrebird
more world-class trolling…
with rolls…
of
TOILET PAPER!!
flippin love it
Anyone know any venture capitalists?
LurkerNoLonger
@efgoldman: I think Ryan and the rest of the Republicans are telling blatant lies about what the AHCA will do. (Somehow cutting 800 billion in Medicaid won’t effect the people currently receiving Medicaid?) You are right about Trump’s budget, though. That was pure, uncut, Republican evil and people were rightly horrified by it.
germy
Brachiator
@zhena gogolia:
Weird. I used to think it was “Release the Covfefe.”
lamh36
Ok, what the fuq is a “Young Turk”…see some TYT dude claiming Maxine Waters shoved him when he tried to ask her a question, claiming he had video of the shoving.
He posted the video of the “incident”. Here it is: @zatchry
Michael Tracey tweeted Maxine Waters “shoved” him. Here’s the video. This is what he is calling a shove.
He is rightly getting dragged for the bullshit whiner he is…smh.
This mofo made it seem like Maxine Waters bumrushed his azz…instead…
Oh and for good measure, he made sure to get his Black guy cameraman on camera to mock Maxine Waters and the “Obama is like Jesus” Blacks…
Mahn…fuq this guy, fuq TYT, and fuq the cameraman for allowing dude to use him as some sort of “Black friend” shield…
debbie
@Another Scott:
Thanks. I couldn’t find anything either.
zhena gogolia
@Brachiator:
Okay, here it is again — “I Covfefe the Waterfront.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@germy: “Work smarter not harder”, Senator. Then again, if you’re worked smarter you’d be a Democrat.
lamh36
@lamh36: Oh and then when the fucker is called on his BS…he releases the entire video which he still thinks makes him look like anything but a BS artist
debbie
@lamh36:
He stood too close to her for it to be comfortable. He deserves an actual shove.
JPL
This probably belongs down below but Trump’s response to the attack in London
NBC response
what a fking ass.. President dumbass indeed
Jeffro
@lamh36: I’ll cover her bail if she punches him in nose instead next time.
Wait…dang it…I’m supposed to ‘go high’…arrghh!
Actually fuck that. I’ll ‘go high’ when nooses quit appearing in the African American History Museum, and when Tea Party morons apologize for posters of President Obama with a bone in his nose.
Not really expecting to have to ‘go high’ anytime soon, unfortunately…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@lamh36: He was impeding her exit from the interview with his mic, she pushed out of her way to leave. He didn’t seem to have been injured in the exchange, especially since he was smiling afterwards.
Yoda Dog
@lamh36: Yea the young turks are the fucking worst and have been since forever. Wilmerwankers to the core.
Jeffro
@JPL: When he isn’t grifting, golfing, or taking instructions from Moscow, the guy is just terrified…all the time. It’s not a good look.
Gelfling 545
@lamh36: I think if Ms. Waters had wanted to shove him, he’d be showing some effects. She is a lady who can take care of herself.
lamh36
@dabeard
Challenger to immigrant-baiting Iowa Republican Steve King drops out, citing death threats. Kim Weaver’s statement:
JPL
@Jeffro: someone is trying to clean it up.. here’s the latest
It’s amazing that NBC wouldn’t retweet the first one.
Who ever is in charge of reading his tweets must be in panic mode.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
since I’m not the only one who’s thought it…
not hard to imagine that will cross The Rough Beast’s screen at some point
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@lamh36: Tracey is part of the Griftwald wing of Putin apologists. They support Trump, because Putin supports Trump.
they hate the russia stuff, and therefore Maxine who won’t be played for a fool on the collusion.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
These attacks on London wouldn’t be happening if we had someone who would use the words “radical islamic terrorism”.
oh wait…..
Jeffro
@JPL: he’s just fucking scared of everything…he can’t even handle a hard handshake from a FRENCHMAN, fer crying out loud…somebody give the man a Purple Heart band-aid…
lamh36
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Frankensteinbeck
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I hate to specifically label anybody as paid by Putin, but at this point Greenwald is so consistent in holding insane positions that have nothing to do with his professed beliefs, he’s either a hyper-partisan Republican ratfucker or on Russia’s payroll. I can’t think of any other explanations that match the facts.
amk
Jeffro
@Frankensteinbeck: the latter reason
efgoldman
@amk:
She should have tasered him.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Frankensteinbeck: I don’t think he’s on their payroll.
He simply is appreciative of Russia granting Snowden asylum. But that’s not all, Gritwald is anti American government, so he will gravitate to anyone who opposes the american policy. The same thing is true of the mini-griftwalds (the enemy of their enemy is their friend).
What is sad is the people who knew better and nevertheless helped normalize Griftwald simply because they projected their mommy/daddy issues onto Obama. This includes liberals who post on this very blog.
Baud
@amk: Michael Tracy needs to worry about Trump grabbing him.
germy
@amk: And then Michael grins proudly into the camera after the “incident”
Christ, what an asshole.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I see what you did there.
Omnes Omnibus
I am back from the Madison Rally for Truth. Only about 100 people were there. 90+ degrees. I had already spent too much time in the sun today so I stayed for about an hour.* My two favorite t-shirts were: “I can’t believe I still have to protest this crap” and “‘REPEAL and go fuck yourself!’ [signed] GOP.”
*Half an hour in the A/C plus a bunch of fluids and I am feeling more human.
lamh36
Me and Maddie as we were waiting to watch Wonder Woman this afternoon
Notice I’m wearing my FAV jacket..lol
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/871159537868263425
I really enjoyed it. It was just as good as the reviews has said.
Took Maddie, along with the nephew, sis and my cousin.
It got a thumbs up from Maddie. I wasn’t sure if it was too much for her, she’s 6 going on 50, but she really wanted to see it. I’m sure she was kinda bored with the exposition stuff, but she loved seeing the fighting and Wonder Woman and the Amazons kicking azz!
So I’d recommend maybe 10 or 11 for the kiddos.
Either way, I loved really enjoyed it, so when’s the sequel…lol
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: *Rimshot – audience laughter
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: My nurse tells me to always take water and use sunscreen.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know these things; I just failed to do them. I also was out riding today and I went to the old car show. A lot of time in the sun and heat – it was the first 90 degree this year.
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus: Still beat out the attendance at Trump’s Lafayette Square rally, I believe.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: Friends this has been the dream of the GOP since FDR died(especially the Taft/Goldwater wing) Reagan was the camel’s nose.
hovercraft
@Yoda Dog:
The Young Turks are on parr with Katrina Van de whatever and Ed Schultz, they derided Obama as a sellout, urged people to stay home in 2010, are Russian apologists and BernieBros. Cenk like Ed is a recovering winger, but like so many converts he went so far left, he ended back on the fringes of right wing nuttery.
Fuck them all.
mainmata
@debbie: Pretty certain Bloomberg would never have anything to do with the Orange Monster, so no.
Iowa Old Lady
@japa21: According to ABC online, Trump’s rally had about 200 people. Sad.
gene108
@LurkerNoLonger:
You think more highly of Republican voters than I do.
As long as the alternative to Republican* evil is living in a multicultural society, tolerant of others and striving for true equality for all, the Republican brand is safe.
I think the candidacy of Trump proves this on a national stage, but other unsavory Republicans, like Jesse Helms, were doing this for decades before Trump.
* Evil is what Republicans are proposing. There is no religion, or moral philosophy, which I can think of that views a ruler(s), who takes from the poorest to give more wealth and power to his already wealthy friends as anything but evil.
JPL
@Iowa Old Lady: It was the biggest Pittsburgh not Paris rally ever though.
amygdala
@Omnes Omnibus: Those “I can’t believe…” shirts might be the best all-purpose attire for the times. I saw them at the Women’s March and the Science March.
Thanks for being out there today.
hovercraft
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
It’s almost like saying the magic words doesn’t work or something.
Terrorist attacks haven’t stopped, Little Kim has been launching more missiles than ever, having a “strong leader” who says the right combination of words, drops bombs to show strength and tells Jhyina to tell Kim to stop, doesn’t seem to be making us safer for some reason. Strange.
Omnes Omnibus
@amygdala:
That should go out to all the Juicers who were out there today and every other day. We all need to do what we can.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
that’s from the Pod Save America podcast group, FKA “The Obama Bros”
ETA: did you see the picture floating around the internet of the kid wearing one at a pancake breakfast in Janesville who got Paul Ryan to pose for a selfie with him?
hovercraft
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
No, I think just anti-establishment, or anti-the status quo, because he’s not anti Twitler. I think he and Bannon are the same, they want to destroy the government and all it’s institutions. They may have differences in some of their positions on certain issues, but at their core they want the same thing.
Quinerly
Evening read: http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-climate-change-saved-steve-bannons-job?mbid=nl_170603_Daily&CNDID=32281485&spMailingID=11175103&spUserID=MTMzMTgzNjU0NTA5S0&spJobID=1180197316&spReportId=MTE4MDE5NzMxNgS2
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I do remember seeing that pic floating around.
efgoldman
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I don’t understand why anybody gives a flying fuck what he says. Does have any real influence other than with a small group of leftier-than-thou naifs? Does he move any votes? Influence any real-world policy? No, no and no.
Fuckem
amygdala
@Omnes Omnibus:
Indeed. It’s gonna be a long slog.
On those days when starting to seem a little too exhausting, I remember Sarah Kendzior’s good advice:
Jeffro
@Iowa Old Lady: Sad indeed. We should probably send ABC a note of thanks for being brave enough to report the obvious in these times.
magurakurin
@lamh36:
what a punk that piece of shit is. I wish he would show up here with that bullshit. The Jackals would put him in his place right quick. I call you out, punk. Show up here and try to peddle that shit.
Anne Laurie
@lamh36:
The mother hive of BernieBros. Only ‘name’ you might’ve run across is Cenk Uygur, who was semi-sane during the later Dubya years. But then President Obama turned out to be the “wrong kind” of not-progressive-enough-for-these-white-boyz Negro, and even worse: the Democrats had the gall to nominate a woman in 2016!!!!
I’m not surprised Rep. Waters’ epic ‘talk to the hand’ brush-off has Treacy flopping around like a soccer player looking for a sympathetic ref. He’s one of the “True Progressives” who’s gone so far left he ended up agreeing with the “alt-right” Nazi sympathizers, because at least those guys
have penisesunderstand that centrists are the real enemy…Anne Laurie
@Baud:
Sorry, dude — we double-XX folk have enough problems without having to clean up after *this* putz.
Quinerly
@amygdala:
Sarah kicked ass at the St. Louis march today. I will say that she is much better on tv and in print than addressing the rally at the end of our march. She was a bit nervous but hit all the marks.
J R in WV
I have to admit I’m a little surprised by Bloomberg’s action, I wouldn’t have expected it of him. He seems so conservative so often, and then he does something generous and forward thinking like this.
Was it mostly to slap Trump for shaming his nation? Maybe so. Trump certainly deserves it, $15 million dollars, seems like a lot more than pocket change to me, but I guess to a real billionaire it is small change. I had no idea it was that small a sum Trump was going on about. It points out how embarrassing it is for Trump to basically spit on the rest of the world.
Hoping Trump is more angry than ever before now!
patrick II
So, just watched Niki Haley say that President Trump does in fact believe that the world is getting warmer and a contributing factor is pollutants. Of course the key word here is “pollutants”. “Clean” coal will have the pollutants removed, but still pump CO2 into the air when burned. I hate their attempts to mislead with “clever” wording even more than their straight if lies.
hovercraft
@J R in WV:
Bloomberg believes in global warming, he floated banning cars from Manhattan.
Bookeater (formerly JosieJ)
Was this Tracy guy one of those who was contemptuous of Ben Jacobs complaining when he was actually assaulted? Because if he was, it would be really ironic for him to be claiming he got his ass kicked by an elderly black woman.
(Oh, and Bloomberg endorsed Hillary and gave a speech at the Democratic convention. Trump wouldn’t ask him to serve on any commission and Bloomberg wouldn’t serve even if he was asked. They hate each other.)
amygdala
@Quinerly: I’m thinking St. Louis and DC may have been the marches to be in today! Found a transcript of her remarks, which were spot-on. I’m not surprised large venue public speaking isn’t her superpower, given that she’s an academic and print journalism. But practice makes perfect and she seems to be in demand enough to get lots of that.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Maddie looks great??
Knight of Nothing
It’s a good deed, and some righteous trolling — Bloomberg deserves thanks for thumbing his nose at Trump on this and many other occasions.
But honestly, it also worries me — does he have ulterior motives? He vowed to run for president if Sanders had been the nominee, and he stands to the right of where the Democratic party is in 2017. Is he positioning himself for a run for president in 2020? We don’t need another centrist politician, especially one who is a billionaire.
I welcome his work and money on the environment and in hammering at Trump. But he’s not a great, or even good, standard bearer for the progressive movement.
Maybe I’m too suspicious and cynical right now.
Calouste
@Knight of Nothing: Where does Bloomberg all stand to the right of the Democrats? I guess finance, but what else?
He is certainly way to left of the bullshitter from Burlington on guns.
SatanicPanic
@Knight of Nothing: Bloomberg has been pretty consistent in his climate advocacy, plus I’m sure he thinks Trump is a tool. Probably not more than that
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
if he wants to destroy the government and all it’s institutions, then why has he strongly supported Trump’s efforts to lift oil and banking sanctions on Putin. I mean, occam’s razor.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
January 19, 2017?
Amir Khalid
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
What amazes me is the political naiveté of these self-sufficient, independent small-business owners.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: You know this as well as I do, of course, but… it’s not politics with these guys. They’re cult members, of the ever-popular IGOTMINESOFVCKYOU cult, whose grasp on their minds is stronger even the self-preservation.
And the “reporters” who dutifully copy down their ranting — or, more likely, the editors who assign these deeply dishonest stories — are minor priestlings of that cult.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Amir Khalid: it’s confirmation bias. The politics of middle aged, upper income, white guys are well known and obvious.
Notice how they never do articles on young, struggling, single moms, who work multiple jobs.
Sab
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Young struggling single moms with multiple jobs generally don’t have time to be interviewed by reporters.
Knight of Nothing
@Calouste: Bloomberg is pro-Wall Street, pro stop-and-frisk, pro-school privatization, anti-teacher union, and embraces a neocon foreign policy. To be fair, there are some democrats who share similar positions, but there are a lot fewer of those now than, say, 20 years ago.
@SatanicPanic: This is a good point — I knew he thinks Trump is a tool, but I didn’t know that one of his interests was fighting climate change. I hope you’re right that there is nothing more to it!