*Look at their faces* and the whispering as Trump admonishes leaders over NATO financial obligations. pic.twitter.com/gLCYgKTdi3
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 25, 2017
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Look, Donald, I’m dyslexic (too), so it’s hard for me to read something out loud and not sound like a moron. That’s why, when I know I’ll have to do so, I always practice my script in advance. It’s a two-minute speech, you putz! You could’ve pre-read the thing during the commercials on your favorite Fox News shows! Get “your guys” to print it out on a big card, using Comic Sans!
Of course, the speech would still be a thuggish demand for tribute from a guy who famously can’t back up his threats, but at least you wouldn’t look like a second-grader told to read Granny’s hand-written blessing at the family Thanksgiving table…
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Apart from [facepalming], what’s on the agenda for the evening?
chopper
this fucking guy.
ruemara
I can’t believe Americans chose to Rosewood their country rather than let a woman continue the policies of the black guy. I gotta get my new passport.
Baud
Reddit is going nuts over this.
Betty Cracker
@ruemara: “Rosewood” — never thought of it that way, but it rings true to this ol’ Cracker, who grew up down the road from that haunted little ghost town. ☹️
Brachiator
Been trying to avoid most Trump news. His antics tire me out. I had barely heard about the handshake of death, and then stuff was dribbling out about his knocking over government officials like they were bowling pins.
When is he due back? Can we oppose a travel ban?
Elsewhere. Is anyone watching “The Handmaid’s Tale?” I keep hearing and seeing insightful reviews, but have not had much time for tv recently..
I finished watching “The Exapanse” on syfy. There were a few rough spots, but overall, the series I thought was tremendously enjoyable and fascinating. I’m going to have a free day over a longish holiday weekend, and might binge watch something if it’s worthy.
ruemara
@Betty Cracker: It took me a while to understand it, but once I remembered the problematic history white America has with minority success and how it’s been successfully repressed for a pretty long time, toss in some internet and it made a horrible sense. I’m conflicted. I’m mixed with a lot, but I look black enough and I’m reasonably scared of both the racists and the “failing to realized these people are as dangerous as the people with far more experience with danger are telling me”.
schrodingers_cat
@Brachiator: T – crazy chain emails have assumed a corporal form.
Major Major Major Major
I’m sure Trump calls it the Comic Sans.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Baud: Never, ever gettin’ out of the boat into Reddit. What’s it about?
Baud
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Click. It’s ok. It’s just a gif.
ruemara
@Brachiator: I read it. And like my own upcoming short script, I can’t bear it in Trump’s America.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator:
You must be more tired then you thought. You want to oppose a ban of Trump entering the country again?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Baud: Oh. Yeah, I saw that on the news, along with Macron outplaying the Pusillanimous Pamplemousse in the handshake game. I particularly enjoyed the latter because French handshaking custom seems so limp and wimpy by American standards,* so Macron must have practiced.
*I’m not suggesting that the American way is right or that any cultural norm is superior to others on that – just an observation of the difference.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
It only hurts the first time.
Major Major Major Major
@Brachiator:
I watched the first episode and found it almost unviewable because of the sound mixing, and not compelling enough to be worth the trauma. YMMV. I’ve been watching Kimmy Schmidt and Dear White People.
Jeffro
Man he sure screwed the pooch by not mentioning/defending NATO’s mutual defense provisions (article V?)
And now his spokesperson is telling reporters on AF 1 that the administration doesn’t have a position on Russia sanctions?!?!
TenguPhule
@Jeffro:
Putin hasn’t told him which position to assume yet.
ArchTeryx
@TenguPhule: I think he meant IMPOSE a travel ban. On Trump.
I’d be down with him getting banned from reentering the country, though.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Other than, of course, the position.
Scott
It was embarrassing to watch him speak as if he were talking to a bunch of school children.
My answer to demand for more money for defense is to say we can’t have tax cuts when we are at war.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TenguPhule: I think we can push an enemerancy ban flights from Brussels on the grounds Belgium doesn’t exist and see if that stops Trump. That or post a fake news story on the internet that the US captial was moved to Quebec when Trump was out of the country.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: The Shove Heard ‘Round The World.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
It would be poetic justice.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
The Ugly American.
debbie
@Brachiator:
Speaking of bans, today’s court decision was certainly happy news. Isn’t the 4th District the one conservatives thought would go their way?
Gelfling 545
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Pusillanimous Pamplemousse? OMG, I love it! Still chortling.
Kenneth Kohl
Trump carping about people not paying their full freight struck me as a bit WTF
Brachiator
@schrodingers_cat: Don’t know if you saw this. Chinese movie goers love them some Aamir Khan.
A local Los Angeles digital broadcast channel has started to show Indian films in the evening (previously movie trailers and music video shorts were far more common). Unfortunately, there do not appear to be English subtitles.
lamh36
oldgold
Fails to endorse article 5 of Nato Charter, shoves PM of Montenegro and then this:
“The Germans are evil, very evil,” Trump reportedly complained in the meeting, attendees told German newspaper Der Spiegel. “Look at the millions of cars they sell in the U.S. We’ll stop that.”
Some are saying he said “bad” as opposed to “evil.”
Putin could not have done a better job of undermining NATO than trump did today.
debbie
@Baud:
Is that serious? Did he really push someone out of the way so he could be in the middle? I hope this was early in the day so Colbert can provide the appropriate commentary tonight.
Central Planning
@TenguPhule:
If it hurts you’re doing it wrong.
Or:
If it hurts you’re doing it right.
Immanentize
@Brachiator: my son and I have enjoyed Expanse. It’s nice to have us, with him at 26, focus on the same thing together for even a bit
Cheryl Rofer
Suspicions confirmed: It’s Jared Kushner that the FBI is investigating for Russian connections.
The same Jared Kushner that accompanied Trump in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu to the exclusion of the National Security Advisor and the Secretary of State.
The same Jared Kushner that is going to bring peace to the Middle East and reorganize the federal government.
Trump has said he wants to hire Flynn back. He failed to explicitly back NATO’s Article 5 today and said nothing about Russia. He never says anything bad about Russia.
And that doesn’t include the emoluments and all the other dishonesty Trump is perpetrating.
It’s time to inundate Congress, particularly the Republicans, with demands that the President’s flouting of the law and insulting the citizens of this country stop.
ETA: Flouting, not flaunting.
Immanentize
@debbie: The 4th used to be perhaps the most conservative Circuit in the system. (Running a close race with the 5th). But both are now center right because of retirements and appointments.
Thanks, Obama!
Patricia Kayden
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I’m on my way to Canada. Hell naw. You’re not going to pawn him off on guiltless Canadians.
lamh36
Anyone want to explain the “subject of inquiry” bit please?
Ian G.
Perhaps I’m late to the party here, but German media is reporting that Shitgibbon is saying he will “stop” German car companies from selling in the US.
The 8000 employees of the BMW plant in South Carolina will be happy to hear that. But I’m sure in another 250 million years, the swamps of coastal SC will have produced plenty of coal for those people to mine.
TenguPhule
@lamh36: No criminal charges contemplated. For now.
Brachiator
@debbie:
This did appear to surprise some court watchers.
lamh36
@Cheryl Rofer: I see CNN not yet confirming, but I imagine it will soon
WashPo has already…
TenguPhule
@Kenneth Kohl:
Particularly when you remember he has a personal history of stiffing his own contractors ALL THE TIME.
Patricia Kayden
@oldgold: Germans are “very evil” for selling cars? Really Dude? Bizarre.
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
And I predict, with 100% accuracy, that Congress will do nothing because the Republicans in charge of it will find a squirrel to chase.
AdamK
He’s demented. https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/?s_campaign=tw
hovercraft
@Jeffro:
How the hell can the President not have a position on Russian sanctions?
Aren’t McMaster and Powell on this trip, don;t they know how important this shit is?
hedgehog mobile
@Ian G.: The fuck????
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden:
Worse then the Holocaust! Because Money!
/do I even have to attach sarcasm here? Well, better safe then sorry.
debbie
@Immanentize:
But this is priceless:
I need a cigarette!
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
When your bribes depend on you not knowing something, you tend not to know it.
Cheryl Rofer
@TenguPhule: Enough of your defeatism. If we listen to you, indeed, nothing will be done.
jl
Trump promised he would learn this stuff after he got elected. But gosh golly gee, he hasn’t.
Can some one give him a multiple choice test to find out whether he know anything at all about how NATO works and how its paid for?
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule: It takes a whole lot of gall to accuse others of what you are actually doing. Trump does it with flair.
Seanly
@Major Major Major Major:
Sound can be a big issue. I can barely make out the dialogue in this season of Dr Who due to terrible mixing. The reboot of X-Files had the same issue in spots.
I know Trump is an idiot, but doesn’t he have speechwriters? Is there no one in the current administration who understands how NATO works? Each member contributes a little to NATO directly, but the 2% minimum stuff is just a guideline for what each country should spend ON THEIR OWN DEFENSE. This is so stupid
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
I cannot wait to hear Adam Schiff’s reaction!
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer: I didn’t say the action isn’t worth taking. But its been clear for months now that the GOP really are on a murder-suicide pact with Trump.
The legal methods all have to be tried first. But don’t count on them to save us.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: hey buddy, what are the good reddit threads to scan on a daily basis (other than the porn, of course).
schrodingers_cat
@Brachiator: Did see a similar report on BBC. I am thinking of reviewing the 2006 Rang De Basanti for our Balloon Juice Movie Club. I have found a streaming site with the subtitled movie, as well.
I like Amir Khan, he along with Shahrukh and Salman have dominated the Hindi film industry for the last 20 or so years.
Cheryl Rofer
@TenguPhule: And we have to make their lives miserable until they do something about him.
Mnemosyne
Since this is an open thread — I’m considering getting an Asus Chromebook Flip (the new one that’s about $499). This would basically be a replacement for my iPad Mini that would allow me to do a lot more writing tasks with a better keyboard and more portability. The fact that it’s pretty stripped-down and I can’t install a ton of programs is part of the appeal, since I want something portable that will allow me to write without a lot of distractions. Thoughts?
jl
@Ian G.: Again, my German not too good anymore, but the German version of his statements on German auto industry indicated Trump is an ignorant deluded nutcase living in a fantasy world.
I thought the Europeans were studying up on how to have a good Trump visit. But they are talking business. Where are the folk dances with cute local costumes, food festival, medal bestowings and such and so forth? Looks like the Saudi’s had it figured out. Lots of loud ceremonies and as little public talking as possible.
Major Major Major Major
@Patricia Kayden: Of all the reasons to think Germans are evil…
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Don’t know. I mostly keep to the front page and a couple of techy subreddits. I like the animal and nature of stuff that makes the front page. And some of the comedy posts (but many are lame).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule:
Missionary with the lights off, Putin’s a good Christian after all.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Why not just get a 13 inch Dell XPS. I have a 15 inch one and I love it. You can get good deals if you buy them refurbished.
Brachiator
@Ian G.:
Conservative media were happy that Trump seemed to be doing so well with his International Relations tour. Now, he seems to be hitting some speed bumps.
Is he still sending out Twitter messages? Or is the time zone and Internet issues slowing him down?
I’m trying hard to make the holiday Trump free. But just when I’m out his dumbness pulls me back in.
?BillinGlendaleCA
WaPo news alert tells me Jared is the focus of the Russia investigation.
Aleta
I like to imagine that the white bugs whizzing through the air are paper spitballs from the audience.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: I have an Asus windows tablet, and it is defective. Based on that experience, I don’t recommend the brand
TenguPhule
@Cheryl Rofer:
I’m good with just making their lives miserable forever.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Oblig.
hovercraft
@Cheryl Rofer:
What are the chances that Mossad doesn’t know all about whatever ties Kushner has with Russia?
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Also too, check your email. I has a proposition for you.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
No Windows. I’m barely willing to allow Android into our Apple-only home. ?
Plus, like I said, I like the idea of something that would essentially be a word processor without a lot of messing around with programs and updates and operating systems.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I have always bought Dells and they have served me well. My 10 year old Inspiron still works! I did change the hard drive and added more memory.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne: I love Chromebooks. I have a Toshiba (since discontinued). I think some of the newer Chromebooks are slightly overpriced, but the model you mention has received good reviews. I have an inexpensive Windows PC (Lenovo) with flip features I never use.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I’ll take a look — I’m just getting caught back up after that damn flu last week. It really knocked me back.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Hooray for the Apple purists!
lamh36
CNN now reporting that NBC News and WashPo report on Kushner
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: You can buy a small MacBook Pro but it will be double the price of XPS 13.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I swore off Dell for a while but I have one now and it seems to work ok.
different-church-lady
@lamh36: Thank god the country avoided all this controversy and scandal by not electing Hillary.
Mike in NC
Trump will never be anything more than a crude slumlord, bully, and con artist.
Sadly, John Oliver is on hiatus and won’t return until sometime in June. Man-baby’s overseas adventure is sure to provide him with lots of excellent material.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I love my Surface Pro 3*.
*The Surface Pro 3 is the older model, and is about half the price of the current Surface Pro 4.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I have always had good luck with them 3 laptops and 2 desktops. I had a crappy HP laptop too, somewhere in the early aughts.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Yeah, I started looking at Chromebooks and liked that the Asus one had the flip feature. It’s really a Chromebook that I want.
Baud
@different-church-lady: It would have been worse with Hillary. It would have all been fake, but it would have been worse.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: Every so often around here I see a bumper sticker or t-shirt or graffito and have to remind myself that it’s just German for ‘the techie scum’.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Asus is on my shitlist right now due to their very slow update to my watch.
hovercraft
@jl:
Why bother, what he knows would fit on a book of matches. I’m not surprised he doesn’t know anything, I’m just surprised that as scripted as everything is on this trip is, why aren’t they making sire that he doesn’t do and say so much stupid shit. Sending Spicey out there to say they have no position on Russia sanctions is stupid, you just left Brussels where you pissed off all your NATO allies, you must know that you’ll be asked about about Russia, why the fuck don;t you have a real answer?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Opposite here. Fairly good luck with HP, although I don’t have one currently.
TS
@AdamK: He is a rude ignorant excuse for a person. Some folks like to consider the mental health/dementia issues to excuse his behavior – rather than except that he is what he shows us – nothing more, nothing less.
different-church-lady
@hovercraft:
Because they’re just as incompetent as he is.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t really need a new laptop — my current laptop is fine. I essentially want an iPad with an attached keyboard, which is why I have my eye on a Chromebook.
Immanentize
@debbie: I know. The “drips” language is so amazing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: All of my desktops are HP, they work pretty well. Though I had to replace the CMOS battery in my 8 yo test machine last Sunday.
ETA: I did have a problem on my primary machine with a BIOS upgrade that went horribly wrong, sent it back to HP and they put in a new motherboard and it was good to go.
Aleta
There’s an expose of the practices of Jared’s apartment rental company in the NYT mag. Cases of hounding tenants who had never rented from his company, years after they had vacated, some who had legally ended their lease with permission from the previous owner, years before Jared bought the units.
Going after “women who work,” single parents, spouses of the deceased, for years. Expense far exceeding what they might have owed. Getting judgements that included Kushner Co.’s legal fees and then attaching the wages of a working mother.
Cases of maintenance failures, unlivable conditions. Distressed housing that Jared bought up in the rust belt or where there is no low income housing program, bought not for appreciation but for cash flow.
“Kushner’s largest concentration of multifamily units is in the Baltimore area, where the company controls 15 complexes in all — which, if you assume three residents per unit, could be home to more than 20,000 people.”
5,500 of the multifamily units he owns in the Baltimore area were bought with $371 million in financing from Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage lender.
SgrAstar
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
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That is brilliant, Comrade! Merci mille fois.
lamh36
@Baud: I’ve exclusively used HP laptops, mainly cause of cost, but also because I can just hop to local big mart and pick one up, ready to go…
If I had the money, I’d def be going for a Macbook…but at $1000 a pop…hell naw…I’d have to actually save for that…but hey I might start a Christmas fund and save money that way…hmmm
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Eight years is a good run.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
Because admitting that they’re in favor of Russia at this point of the coup would be self defeating.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
I think you forgot to highlight that the decision was 10-3. So this was not some split decision where trump just barely lost; this was a solid majority that went against him, and in a conservative circuit.
Baud
@lamh36: The cost is what has kept me away from Apple. Secondarily, compatibility with work and old personal docs.
chris
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I’ll butt in here to plug r/worldnews. It gathers news without internal US news and politics. Because I need a break from time to time.
Also anything from the r/earthporn network. Lately I’ve been going to r/roomporn because I might win the lottery one day. Maybe I should buy a ticket…
mai naem mobile
Jared Kushner has a law degree. For some reason I thought he had only an MBA but he has a JD and an MBA. He was intensely involved in the transition. Why would he let a lot of this scandal stuff go on? I honestly don’t get it. He really thinks they’re going to get away with this stuff ?
TenguPhule
@oldgold:
And he only called the suicide bomber “loser”.
Let that sink in for a moment. Trump thinks German competition is worse then suicide bombers.
PsiFighter37
I am in China and don’t have access to NYT (for some reason) or FB. Seems like a good time to be blissfully ignorant of what is going on.
Major Major Major Major
@mai naem mobile: nobody ever said he was smart.
@PsiFighter37: slate is a decent news source while you’re over there.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I just poped open the cover pulled a couple of cards out, replaced the battery and was good to go.
MJS
I haven’t seen it mentioned, and it will surprise no one, that Trump’s 2 minute speech was chock-full-o-lies. Josh Marshall has a good post on it. To paraphrase – the 2% GDP payments are a target to be achieved by 2024 and any missed “membership” payments go into the NATO pot, not to the U.S.
weaselone
@different-church-lady:
Nobody who is good at their job is willing to join the administration and get covered in the Shitgibbon’s shit. On top of that, the Fascist Frito’s been driving out career civil service people and replacing them with political hacks and ass kissers. It’s essentially the coalition provisional authority applied to the US government.
TenguPhule
@mai naem mobile:
Look who’s in control of both houses of Congress. He had reason to be optimistic about his chances.
different-church-lady
@PsiFighter37:
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
Crooks always think they’re going to get away with it. That’s what makes them crooks.
TenguPhule
@PsiFighter37:
Unfortunately, what you don’t know can and will hurt you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Apple works great if you have only Apple stuff, it doesn’t play well with others. You also pay about half again as much for the logo. Support is excellent, but it’s extra.
different-church-lady
@weaselone: Add to that: someone like Trump is threatened by competence in others, and won’t hire anyone who is.
lamh36
Anyone else think Ivanka and Jared look like they are male/female versions of the same person?
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/867881628026126336
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
I’m curious — did he actually pass the New York bar? It’s notoriously one of the toughest in the country.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TenguPhule: Stop selling German cars here in the US? There goes the Armenian vote.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Right. Too much to spend for Juicing and word processing.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Let’s face it, they were already lost. Who did you think turned Glendale blue?
Keith P.
@Brachiator: Try “Legion”. “American Gods” just started but it’s excellent. Fargo is great to binge watch. I’m obsessed with Twin Peaks right now, but I’m a huge Lynch fan.
lamh36
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I’ve heard that California’s is also one of the hardest from my lawyer friends.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: great for the web development stack though!
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I was trying not to think that, but ewwww, yes. There’s a definite Jaime and Cersei vibe there.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Wearbear loves her Chromebook IIRC. I have never used one, so no idea.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: It’s interesting, the Armenian voters used to be pretty Republican. Guess they pissed them off as well as the Asians.
Roger Moore
@mai naem mobile:
Yes, he does think they’ll get away with it, or at least that it’s worth a shot. My guess is that he has a backup plan of fleeing the country and living on money/property stashed somewhere he thinks we can’t get it.
efgoldman
@Ian G.:
Yeah, most “German” (and “Japanese”) cars are assembled in the US, (or North America) now. Cheaper than shipping them across the ocean. In the last thread, someone posted a map of just the VW plants. There are a shitload.
SgrAstar
@hovercraft: He is saying exactly what “they” want him to say. The Pusillanimous Pineapple has been programmed by Bannon and Miller (and their handlers). Who do you suppose wrote those crazy remarks? They want to stir up as much shit as they can. That is the purpose and the plan. The PP is simply their tool. I don’t know how I’m gonna take 3 more years of this…and that’s assuming that our beloved fellow voters have learned a few things by then. UGH.
CarolDuhart2
@TenguPhule: Of course, all the BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and other German car dealers here are all very happy about Orange’s Cheetos statement as well.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: Isn’t most of his(and his family’s) money in Real Estate, that shit’s kind of hard to move.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Since when have the Armenians been Democrats?
Uncle Cosmo
@TenguPhule: @Mnemosyne: I hear Odonal ben Dovah is a position of interest…=;^p
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Rs think they are targeting the “illegals” or “Messicans” but all immigrants hear it and make a note. Even the Russian immigrants I know don’t like T.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@CarolDuhart2: Here in Southern CA, those are the guys that got Nixon and Reagan elected.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He has a bunch of other stuff, certainly enough to live on for the rest of several lifetimes. Besides, that can cut both ways; if his real estate is overseas, it makes it really hard to confiscate.
trollhattan
@Baud:
Spousal unit mostly gets Dells and has had such an array of issues to the point I swore I’d NEVER buy one, but I was recently lured by a laptop deal (XPS series) and took the plunge. A whopping week in it seems fine, but I’ve not uploaded all my software so jury is out until then.
The mere act of updating can be its own reward since everything is faster and this display is mindbogglingly good, as well as being a touchscreen. No optical drive is a PITA but it’s skinnier as a result.
bemused
Trump’s body movements and facial expressions after he pushed his way in front of NATO members tells you all you need to know about him. No matter how many times I see him, this 16 sec clip captured who he is.
The guy isn’t happy when he’s not adored and punishes. Even when he is adored, I don’t think he can last five minutes without bullying and making people suffer. That’s what he lives for. How his idiot voters think or thought he would just bully everyone they hated and treat them differently is beyond me.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
That doesn’t seem too surprising; I’d guess that a lot of Russian immigrants are none too fond of his puppet master.
trollhattan
@bemused:
Charlie Pierce posted the GIF this morning, titling it “Beep, beep here comes America.” The little kid at the Big Truck’s wheel in front of the White House is who he is.
CarolDuhart2
@efgoldman: And it makes for timely delivery of parts and maintenance, another reason to manufacture here, and that’s important in making sales as well. Few people want to wait 2 weeks for an important part to come over the water, and another week to have a repair.
So he will also piss off people who repair the dammned things as well.
TenguPhule
@lamh36: Context required, is that the AHCA?
lamh36
fox news poll from yesterday:
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
Unless he runs to Russia or North Korea there really isn’t any place he can escape the CIA.
Brachiator
Even the conservative UK Daily Mail reports that Obama is received like a rock star in Germany. Ask Trump how huge the crowds are.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4541136/Obama-receives-rock-star-welcome-Germany.html
piratedan
so, do we know when the Montana polls close?
lamh36
@TenguPhule: someone asked the same in response on twitter, was it pushback on Trump or ACHA…
lamh36
If Kushner is under FBI scrutiny, shouldn’t that mean he should lose his security clearance until he is no longer under inquiry?
Peale
@TenguPhule: I wish there would be another report on this speech beyond Der Spigel. It’s actually the type of speech a leader would give for the audience at home and not the leaders in a room. It’s not that I don’t trust Der Spiegel. But I want this out there.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne: Can’t find any evidence that he is licensed to practice law in NY.
CarolDuhart2
Probably the ACHA. But I bet a lot of people besides liberals are feeling embarrassed by Trump’s sheer immaturity. Even people who weren’t fond of Obama felt that he didn’t embarrass them on the world stage and that he at least kept things together.
trollhattan
@piratedan:
When the last cow enters the milking barn.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@lamh36:
It’s their nose jobs. Hell, they probably went to the same plastic surgeon.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Roger Moore: I don’t want to give a figure because I don’t remember, but I recall reading that Jared’s younger brother, the one who attended the women’s march, runs the family investment trust. IIRC it was several hundred million.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
Since James Rogan got tossed out on his ear in 2000. And Glendale’s only gotten more Democratic since then.
SiubhanDuinne
@piratedan:
Funny, I just looked that up (for me). They close statewide at 8:00 p.m. Mountain Time. That’s 10:00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific. Don’t know where you’re located.
(Lightly edited.)
Aleta
@lamh36: Jared looks like a character in the Animal House frat who graduated to a job in white collar crime, lost all sense of fun and feeling, and quadrupled his sociopathy in record time.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What kind of watch?
piratedan
@SiubhanDuinne: in AZ, so that will be 7pm methinks, ty ma’am
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: ZenWatch 2.
debbie
@lamh36:
A Macbook would last much, much longer…
Uncle Cosmo
@schrodingers_cat: Ran into an old friend for the first time since the election the other night. He’s an ethnic Serb who lived in Croatia before he immigrated to the Statessome years ago, & he told me he’s very, very disturbed over the way things are evolving. From the perspective of having been caught up in the Yugoslav fratricide. Can’t say I blame him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: just saw a tweet that they are historically a slow counting state. Dem primary took till 2 am, last gov’s race till next day.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yeah, but you don’t often need support. That’s important.
debbie
@lamh36:
Trump’s tweeted a link to a Rasmussen poll that has him at 48% approval. Go figure.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Okay, Mr. Android fan, apparently the Asus Flip is “Google Play ready” but there isn’t a version of the OS available yet that would let me install Android apps? Confused about the differences outside my walled garden.
germy
@debbie: I’m disappointed the new macbooks don’t play CDs/DVDs
I like watching DVD movies on my current MacBook Pro as well as the occasional music CD.
Aleta
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Is that the one that always reads Now is the Time?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: They question is, would you want it to? The lifetime of hardware tech is about 3-5 years(better displays, processors, and ports). So it might be a better investment to buy cheaper and upgrade more often. My 8 yo desktop works fine, but there have been advances in the hardware(USB3, processor capabilities…) that make sense to have a newer machine.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this seems almost quaintly embarrassing
Yashar AliVerified account @ yashar 3h3 hours ago
debbie
@germy:
I’m not happy with Tim Cook, to be honest. Also, those wireless earphones are creepy.
efgoldman
@trollhattan:
You can buy an outboard USB drive now for $20- $30
Cheryl Rofer
@piratedan: Montana polls close at 10 pm Eastern.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Google Play ready means you could install apps from the Google Play store(Android apps), I think the original Chromebooks could only use the Chrome apps store. Do the current Chromebooks have on board storage. I’ve never been much of a fan since they relied on cloud storage in the first incarnation.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: he’s bragging about being only a little bit underwater
bless his blood pump
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Why would Armenias be republican?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and this is not at all quaint, and worse than embarrassing
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Parody? Can’t be real. Too cringeworthy and I hate Trump’s guts. What the hell must the Danish think of us?
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I don’t game or stuff like that, but I was freelancing graphic design and editing. I didn’t have a problem being able to do stuff with my 10-year-old PPC desktop. I still use it for scanning and Photoshopping because I’m not paying for either of those for my Intel laptop.
My laptop is now 4 or 5 years old (I forget). I didn’t even bother updating the OS until a couple months ago when my version of Google stop accessing sites. I upgraded from 10.8 to 10.12. Literally, the only issue I had was not remembering that the request for a WP2 Key was a request for my network password. My laptop’s running better now than before.
Peale
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m sure that prince of Denmark or whatever had lots to say to Vanessa.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The specs are that it has 64GB of internal storage, plus you could plug in a USB thumb drive or SD card.
kdaug
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: /r/askReddit
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden: Yashar Ali doesn’t strike me as the type to make things up, he was the first person I saw to finger Jared as the second FBI target, as soon as news of the close adviser works.
@Peale: Is this that Hamlet guy? Funny name. Is that like a ham omelette?
Peale
I didn’t realize that the “pay your bills” crap happened at a speech to commemorate a memorial to 9/11. Christ, what an asshole.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Cheryl Rofer: To be fair, he’s been flaunting his flouting of the law.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Heh!
hovercraft
@Baud:
See this is shows that you made a mistake running for president, you should have started the cult of Baud with @lamh36: as your associate pastor, the prosperity gospel is very big right now, heck several of them have told their flocks that God wants them to have private jets, and their parishioners are paying up. If you started your own church, you could have everything FSM wants you to have.
Baud
@Peale: Me either.
I’m not embarrassed by Trump because I’ve mentally disassociated myself from him. He is everything I expected him to be.
lamh36
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Good.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
There’s also the Samsung Chromebook Plus — smaller storage, a little slower, but Google Play ready.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Neo-Liberal Obama mobbed in Berlin
Photo #1
Photo #2
Photo #3
They treat him like he’s a big deal or something. SMH.
Baud
@hovercraft: In Baud! We Trust!
Patricia Kayden
@different-church-lady: Lol! And imagine all the scandals she’d be kicking up with her email server. We dodged a bullet!
Cheryl Rofer
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Well done.
jl
@Baud:
” I’m not embarrassed by Trump because I’ve mentally disassociated myself from him. He is everything I expected him to be. ”
Met too. I had to learn how to do that after the disgraceful implosion of the Baud campaign.
JanieM
@Baud: I’ve seen a lot of commentary and smark about the shove (it’s running on loop on nbcnews.com, for crying out loud). But the shove itself is just the preliminary to the rest of the show — the looks that pass across his face (irritation, satisfaction at having achieved what he sees as the dominant position, etc.) and the rearranging of the jacket, as if by rearranging it he could prove that it was never disarranged.
I am running out of face palms.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: and Jebbie was still trying to make the case that he would restore respect for the US around the world
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This crew makes the Beverly Hillbillies look like sophisticates.
lamh36
Major Major Major Major
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: well, keep in mind those lousy Greece-bankrupting Germans love them some neoliberal globalism.
TenguPhule
@Peale:
Yes, the only time article 5 was invoked. By the USA.
And Cheryl wonders why I’m in despair about this.
Baud
@JanieM: Someone on Reddit said it looked like a sketch comedy.
Gravenstone
@lamh36: If the sanctions are lifted, Trump becomes officially of no further use to Putin. Best watch his back and triple his food tasters.
TenguPhule
@lamh36: What’s the Russian equivalent of “Treason Bingo!”
TenguPhule
@Gravenstone: PeePee Tape time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I’d go to one of the stores(Best Buy, Fry’s etc) and play with them and see how they meet your requirements.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft:
Where would you like your internets delivered?
Peale
@lamh36: yep. Sanctions lifted to Russia. Threats made to stop auto sales from German companies who make their cars here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
my two years of college German tell me this guy missed the umlaut on his computer, but I think he might be on to something
I’ve seen the preferred translation as “very bad”, which I think makes sense, “very evil” doesn’t strike me as trump-speak. I wonder if he didn’t say “nasty”, he goes to that one when he’s taking it personally.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s what TPM suggested.
Peale
@Gravenstone: not really. He needs Trump to cancel missile defense systems and replace the dollar as a reserve currency.
hovercraft
@Peale:
They were unveiling the monument! The only time article V was ever invoked was for 9/11 and he couldn’t be bothered to reaffirm our commitment to it. Just an asshole on every level.
debbie
@lamh36:
Doesn’t lifting sanctions need to be run by Congress?
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The Flip seems to be selling out everywhere — Frys doesn’t have any in stock. I may try Best Buy first and then see if they have a display model at Frys.
The big difference seems to be the keyboard, and since the keyboard is the biggest reason to get one ….
TenguPhule
@debbie: Republicans are complicit.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne: You may do this already, but look for reviews that talk about the keyboard. There is a bjas among some tech reviewers who concentrate on the screen and touchpad or mouse, but discount the importance of a good keyboard to a writer. 4gb RAM is essential and 32g SSD is most workable. Like the simplicity of bootup and not having to spend long times for updates. I was lucky to get a great screen, since I do watch videos.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
And remember, what they didn’t pay in funding, they paid in blood to help us in Afghanistan and Iraq. And look what that got them.
SiubhanDuinne
@MJS:
Do you have a link to Josh’s piece? I scrolled through TPM, didn’t see anything except a very brief AP article.
Thanks!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Back to health care for the moment:
Time to scare them sumbitches
scott (the other one)
@TenguPhule: Today’s Republicans are spineless, self-centered, greedy, craven bastards…but they also tend to have eyes in the back of their heads. If they get the feeling from their constituents that helping Trump fellate Putin’s not popular, I don’t see them helping him out here, unless it personally enriches them (which is entirely possible), and maybe even then.
And I have to suspect a lot of really heavy hitter GOP donors are not at all happy with Trump’s comments today on NATO and German cars.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
I’m trying to figure out if this is serious: Breathed posted what appears to be a cease and desist that insists that Trump still retains the rights to “both his and his family’s image”.
Barbara
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: He so deserves to be canned but he will probably just show up somewhere else. This poor man’s death was not part of any sensational or newsworthy event. They literally fabricated this story and have used it without a thought to the torment they are causing his parents. Hannity is a ghoul.
hovercraft
@lamh36:
This afternoon Nicole Wallace and John Heilman were both saying that his nasty little speech at NATO and his refusal to reaffirm all for one, struck them as him being petulant, because their sources from with in his advisors had emphasized to him that all he had to do to get on their good side was reassure them, but he doesn’t like being told what to do so like a spoilt brat he went out there and thumbed his nose at them. With the shit hitting the fan over this Russia shit why the fuck would he lift sanctions now? To show us all that NO ONE IS THE BOSS OF HIM!!
We are being led by a petulant pustule. The one good thing is that he seems to be digging his own grave.
Peale
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I’ve been waiting for the crackdown on souvenir sellers at the Washington Mall.
Barbara
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: My senators are midnight blue. However, my mom and other family members live in Pennsylvania so I will see what I can encourage her and anyone I still know in Pennsylvania to do with regard to Toomey, who has made some statements that make me think he might be a little bit wobbly. I browbeat a few of my in-laws to write for all the good it ended up doing. But they did do it.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Even the best reviews of the Samsung seem to hate the keyboard, so that’s definitely an issue. But I have a fairly high tolerance for smaller keyboards, so I may just have to try it out.
Felonius Monk
@Mnemosyne:
Why not just get a bluetooth keyboard for your iPad?
TenguPhule
@scott (the other one):
If they don’t help him they’re dead meat now. If they do help him, they’re probably dead meat later.
So they’ll keep supporting him, because its always better to Die Another Day.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: You don’t need 4gb of RAM on Android; in fact, you’d be hard pressed to find an Android device with 4gb of RAM.
efgoldman
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
No he doesn’t. Any first year law student knows that. Apparently Kantrowitz will do anything for a buck.
amk
Someone here made the excellent observation that how the bully of a scum was all obsequious with the world’s worst tyrants just coupla days back and how he is lecturing democratically elected governments two days later. If his ugly mouth gets punched repeatedly, I would be the happiest man.
Skepticat
@Mnemosyne: I have a Bluetooth keyboard with my iPad, and I’ve seen cases that combine the two.
Barbara
@hovercraft: The other thing is, nobody except for Trump and Rohrabacher actually like Putin. It’s not even like Saudi Arabia where we rely on them for certain strategic reasons. Russia is basically Venezuela without the chaos having been dialed up yet.
clay
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: That letter is ridiculous. IANAL, but that seems like it’d be laughed out of court in 2 minutes.
Cole should photoshop Trump holding some BJ swag, see if he can get Trump to sue him.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
One of the pictures shows a sign saying OBAMA, YOU ARE A BERLINER. Thought I saw one this morning in German (Du bist ein Berliner) but can’t find it now so probably imagined it. But either way, LOL.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale: If they’re going after Opus, it’s only a matter of time.
hovercraft
@debbie:
Yes, and Lindsey said he is re-introducing new sanctions for their election meddling, he might be able to get his pool boy ZEGS to go along, but there’s no way he gets the senate to. They are not that dumb, this stinks to high heaven. Not that I think he knows this, he probably thinks that all he has to do is say he’s lifting them and voila!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Felonius Monk: Good question.
Barbara
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s just infuriating that if Obama had the identical trip that Trump did people would be calling for impeachment. It. Just. Sucks.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
But it undermines the value of having a super-thin laptop if you have to use a clunky outboard USB drive. This is my fundamental problem with Apple’s design aesthetic. They want to have a super-minimal design, but they’ve pursued it beyond its logical conclusion. They’ve eliminated so much stuff from the inside of the computer that you wind up having to buy clunky add-ons to get the features you want, spoiling the elegance of the design.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I have logitech keyboard for my iPad that I like.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft:
I thought he was the ice cream guy.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
If it ends up being close, could take a while then. If it’s a blowout one direction or the other, I imagine they’d call it pretty soon. Of course they have all those mailed ballots, and I have no idea whether they have to wait until after the polls close on Election Day before they can start counting those, or whether they already have a pretty good idea of the mail-in numbers.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Holy Christ
Chris Hayes just went “both sides” on the gianforte assault and battery on Ben Jacobs
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: What does that mean?
Omnes Omnibus
I expect we will be at war with France soon. I am sure Macron got under T’s skin bigly.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
That’s what I decided. Primary drive use is installing software, which is pretty front-end intensive with a new PC. After, not so much (don’t tend to rip music to a laptop).
As a followup, holy crap SSD computers boot fast. Zoom!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Chris was good on his weekend show where he had the time to absorb the news, he’s dreadful on his weekday show.
Mnemosyne
@Felonius Monk:
@Skepticat:
I don’t want a separate keyboard, even a separate keyboard that’s part of a case. I want something that’s attached. I’m trying to reduce the number of parts I can lose.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne: Absence of Android apps is not a huge deal if you are mainly word processing. You will have Google docs,Google sheets,etc
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Because he is young and good looking?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m on the fence on war. Still kind of think Trump’s inherent cowardice might save us.
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Did you see he invited America’s soon-to-be-unemployed/jailed climate scientists to France so they can continue their work? I like this guy.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: I’ve got SSD’s on all my desktops(the Surface Pro only has a SSD). Zoom, Zoom!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: He also beat Trump at the handshake game.
Peale
@Barbara: obama’s early trips weren’t exactly smooth and they knocked him off his stride. His popularity seemed to dip early on whenever he was seen out of the country. There were clear failures. He got brushed off by the Chinese at a climate change summit if I recall. Also there was that trip to bring the olympics to Chigago (thank god he lost that one) where he came back with nothing. But I don’t think he ever considered behaving like this.
lurker dean
@Mnemosyne: i have the older asus chromebook flip, which is 10.1 inches. i use it for travel, which it’s great for – it has a keyboard if i need to send email, or if, heaven forbid, i actually need to do some work on vacation and log into the work system, which it can do. it doesn’t store data so i don’t really about it getting stolen. i can use it as a tablet for easy surfing.
the flip function works well. BUT, even the 10.1″ version, it is noticeably heavier and thicker (because of the keyboard) than a tablet. i don’t think i’d want it as my only tablet. i think you really need to handle one in person before you make the jump, esp since the new one is even bigger at 12.5″.
i was going to say you need an internet connection to write in google docs with a chromebook, but apparently that’s not true. i guess i need to set up my chromebook to do this.. http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-activate-google-docs-offline-on-your-chromebook
Roger Moore
@Gravenstone:
I don’t think so. Putin still wants NATO destroyed and he wants as much cover as possible for the next time he wants to invade one of his neighbors. Having a flunky run the US will never stop being valuable to him.
schrodingers_cat
@trollhattan: My mom’s best friend used to be a senior admin at the EPA, she retired a couple of years ago. Dodged a bullet, she says. There is a funereal atmosphere at the EPA these days she was saying, when she called me to wish me for my birthday last month.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Macron pantsed Trump twice with handshakes. More here.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
Oh FFS. This is just getting ridiculous.
Shana
@bemused: That’s what struck me too, in addition to the crassness of the move. His attitude afterwards was all “Yeah, I did that. What are you going to do about it?”
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: saying both the left and right commit violence
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: Just took the dogs out for a walk. Somebody had left a large stuffed animal leaning on a telephone pole at the end of the street. When we got down there the 12lb YorkiePom looked across the street at the stuffed animal and started growling and then barking.
ETA: The cocker didn’t care.
efgoldman
@Roger Moore:
Meh. I buy refurb Windows machine from Woot (mrs efg’s Lenovo notebook) or from a local Gyro Gearloose (desktop). They work. We don’t play games, we don’t do art.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Left wing candidates? Like who?
Obviously, violence is generally universal.
Peale
@Omnes Omnibus: give it a week. He’ll have him confused with Justin Trudeau and we’ll be witnessing the seige of Montreal.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Is SNL still on, or are they done for the season?
Brachiator
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My Chromebook has 4gb RAM. I keep a lot of tabs open. Reviewers consistently reported sluggish performance with only 2 gb RAM. If this is the standard, it is a step back, and curious with the tendency to charge a higher price than the first two generations of Chromebooks.
CarolDuhart2
@Barbara: Sure, he could show up elsewhere, but no major network is going to hire him.
Elsewhere is smaller, isn’t daily without effort. People would have to look for him and actually pay for him. Sure, people pay for cable and through that, FOX, but that’s not the same as actually having to pay forhim. People watch Fox like they watch regular tv: turn the tv on and leave it there. There may be favorite hosts, but it’s a package deal. Indeed, does Hannity have a following big enough that he could sustain himself on his own?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
“It does seem, not just the right, but the left as well – we have seen violence rise up in this Trump era.” ~ Chris Hayes commenting on the Republican on reporter assault
schrodingers_cat
@Peale: It didn’t go so well in 1812.
Barbara
@SiubhanDuinne: Would that be Edward Cox or David Eisenhower? My money is on Cox.
dogwood
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
That’s why Chris Hayes has a secure job at MSNBC. Clips I see of Nicole Wallace don’t even play that both siderism stuff, and she’s a republican. Hayes is just insecure, so he sucks up to management. He’s a self-loathing liberal. There’s an entire generation of them out there in media.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: Most of my experience with Android is with phones and tablets, so I sit corrected.
Davebo
@Roger Moore:
But only the olds like us care about DVD’s/CD’s. Hell, I went through 8 tracks, CD’s still seem new to me!
But I’d never buy one.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Barbara: IIRC, Julie Nixon Eisenhower voted for Obama.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
My Pixel has 4 GB of RAM. So do the Galaxy S8 and the LG G6. I think it’s the new standard for flagship phones.
Mnemosyne
@lurker dean:
Thanks! I’m actually half-tempted by the 10″, but the newer one has such rapturous reviews. And since I definitely need a keyboard, I would have to take into account the weight of a Flip vs a tablet+separate keyboard.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Did he give an example?
Is he the one engaging in violence? Maybe he has a inner Mr. Hyde.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: Yup, the newest flagships have 4gb. It was a big deal when the Note3 came out with 3gb a few years ago.
Baud
@Roger Moore: How do you like the Pixel? I might get the next version, if I don’t go with the S8.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m pretty sure he’s the wiener man. Or at least he was back in college.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
Cites facts clearly not in evidence!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m sticking with my Note Edge for another year and a half.
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Not quite. The Beverly Hillbillies never, ever had golden showers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: I did notice that younger world leaders with French associations seem to be able to fuck with Trump easily.
ETA: I know my sample size is small.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: He was the ice cream guy on the SNL opening a few weeks ago(“Two scoops Mr. President?”).
eclare
@trollhattan: Saw that ad, someone here probably linked to it, yes, loved it.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I might look at the new Note too, but it will probably be more than I want to spend.
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne:
Getting?
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Tried to post a link to the wirecutter site. Good Chromebook review
http://m.thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-chromebook/
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Treats his guests poorly, acts like a boor when he is a guest. Can’t shake hands or hug like a normal person. The best way to greet him would be a namaste. No touching required.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: I’ve read stories about that house, you might be surprised.
ETA: Right behind the Beverly Hillbilly’s house is the Reagan house, where St. Ronnie and Nancy lived after leaving the White House.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: No bread, no salt. And a pointed invitation to the door.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne: did you see the wirecutter Chromebook reviews
Have problems posting a link with my phone
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: no. not a single example. not one. He had a republican (Ben Howe of Red State) on to discuss last night’s violence and I think Hayes didn’t want to seem like he was piling on his guest, so he goes “both sides” in blaming the climate of violence.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Pointing and laughing might work well.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Asshole.
debbie
@hovercraft:
Actually, that’s reassuring. Thanks!
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
You, sir or madam, are engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Please cease and desist forthwith or you will face censure and sanctions up to and including the loss of the bar license you do not possess.
Please govern yourself accordingly.
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Good idea.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
I like it fine. The hardware is solid, though I’m not the most demanding user. I mostly get the Google branded phones because I like the Google version of the OS. I get regular updates and no vendor and carrier crapware. My biggest complaint is that they’ve shrunken the bezel too much. On previous phones, I got along fine without a case, but when I try that with the Pixel my fingers keep hitting the edges of the screen and messing with the UI.
Chet Murthy
@Mnemosyne: After scanning all the replies to your query, but not looking for replies-to-replies ….
(1) I’ve had a first-gen ASUS Chromebook Flip since …. well, just about when it came out (2yr)
(2) I LOVE IT. Unlike others, I find that it’s perfectly usable as a tablet, and no longer bother to keep my Nook HD+ charged. Heck, I think I’ve lost the charging cable.
(3) The internal SSD (actually eMMC fwiw) was kinda small. Happily, there’s a microSD port, and I stuffed in a 128G microSD card — no problemo.
(4) Not that you’d want to do this, BUT …. there’s a “developer mode” where you can get a “real shell”, and in there you can run a script called “crouton” that can install “real Ubuntu” on your disk (or (heh heh) that microSD card). When it’s all done, you can fire up your favorite desktop and just switch over with a multi-key-chord-stroke. And back, of course.
(5) I’m a 20th century guy, with 20th century thumbs. This “typing emails on your phone” … *barbaric*. Before getting this Flip, I INVARIABLY carried my laptop, b/c shit, even if I use the smartphone for tethering, I NEED a real keyboard to send anything other than a two-line email (!!!!!) But with this flip, I often just carry the Flip, and don’t bother with the lappie. B/c unless I’m doing real development, it JUST AIN’T NECESSARY. And that’s with the cramped keyboard and all. I can only guess that the new model’s keyboard is sufficiently larger thatn I wouldn’t even find the keyboard cramped.
(6) The default configuration (difficult to break out of, on purpose ;-) is very safe — every time it reboots, it reverifies the O.S., etc, etc. I think that’s a good thing, for people who don’t want to worry about the detalis of computer security.
(6) OK. So I bought mine for $250. That was sweet, b/c while a little pricey, it was certainly within the range of a nice (ok, -nice-nice-, I’m a cheapskate) meal for two. It’s nice that I can walk around with it, and because it’s secure, I don’t worry about losing it, and because it’s cheap, *ditto*.
At $500, I’m not sure point #6 still applies. But I’m betting the others still do.
Baud
@Roger Moore: Thanks. That’s why I’m interested in it, plus I heard it’s smooth. Interesting take on the bezels. The trend is smaller bezels.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
That last bit about reaching for Melania’s rump is a real kicker.
Doug R
@Brachiator: Looks like Disney has picked up Dangal, so it should be on Netflix soon. Dangal trailer here.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
I can read. Famous case in Massachusetts in the late 70s. Governor Ed King depicted as a clown in full getup, editorial cartoon by Paul Szep in the Boston Globe. He sued Szep and the paper. Lost at every level up to the state Supreme Judicial Court, unanimously. Same court that later decided Goodridge.
ETA: ‘Fie wuz Breathed, I’d mail Kantrowitz a five dollar bill, with a letter saying this is the fee for use of the image.
But that’s me. As you note, I’m practicing law without a license.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The right side of my phone has no bezel(the display is curved).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: There goes your non-existent bar license.
Chet Murthy
@schrodingers_cat:
*If* you’re ok with Chrome as your “world”, the biggest reason I’d suggest that a Chromebook is better, is this: for many people, they “just” need the Web. And for that, the “locked-down” nature of the Chromebook is just safer. [Per the question I asked about why otherwise-indubitably-intelligent people use Winders] Lots of people would have difficulty installing and maintaining a Linux distro on their laptop. That -is- effectively what ChromeOS is. So …. if you can deal with the environment, you’re getting something that’s simply safer, and maintained/managed by a company that has an interest in keeping it safe.
ETA: two more things: (1) for -me-, the safety of a Chromebook is -nil-. I maintain lots of Unix boxes. (2) But the “flip” is …. oh man, I so would like that for my main laptop.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman:
Now you’re just showing off. You think you’re better than the president?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Chet Murthy:
I take it you never read the answers.
schrodingers_cat
@Chet Murthy: I am pretty happy with my Dell XPS 15. I prefer Firefox and I use the computer for other things besides surfing the web. I like the flexibility a Windows machine offers and the cost.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Unix users are even worse snobs than Apple devotees.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: But with more money in their pockets.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I keep thinking of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest saying “A haaaandbaaag?” and changing it to “A haaaandshaaake?”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Mac-OS is UNIX based.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know, I was think of the old school Unix workstations, Sun, Silicon Graphics etc. They weren’t all that cheap either.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m also amusing myself thinking of Trudeau and Macron chatting away in French about Trump (maybe Belgium too).
Serious question: Does Donald Trump know, even at a 10th-grade level, any language other than English? (Yeah, yeah, does he even know English?)
Melania is reputed to be at least somewhat fluent in, I think it is five different languages. I’ve never heard that DT has even a passing familiarity with any other language.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Unix workstations were expensive and what BillinGlendale said.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: I can answer that. Yes. Yes, he does. As we both do. As rocks do.
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
Any third-grader reads better than Tangerine Torquemada.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: Hence, why they needed that extra money in the pockets.
Chet Murthy
@Roger Moore: If the machine has a microSD port. you can get a 256G microSD card. Which is …. enough for anything you’d need while mobile, I’d think. I have only a 128G card, and it’s …. capacious.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Even there, I think there are significant differentials. I play, every day, six solitaire card games, the NYT crossword, and five on-line word/anagram puzzles. But in no sense would I refer to myself as a “gamer.” As for art, I confess I have a few iPad apps that are essentially glorified coloring books, mandala makers, and similar. Every now and then I’ll go on a tear and devote half a day to designing pretty patterns. But serious art? No, not really.
SiubhanDuinne
@Barbara:
Cox, according to the original post.
I liked Ike, so I pretty much like David Eisenhower (in a passive kind of way) and would not care to think of him as facilitating an introduction of this kind.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Even though she was the more visible of her dad’s defenders, Julie always struck me as way more sensible than Tricia.
Don’t feel like tracking down the stories right now, but I do seem to recall that the Nixon sisters had a major falling-out some years ago. Anyone know whether they’ve repaired their estrangement (if it actually happened)?
Gin & Tonic
@Chet Murthy:
That was answered the last time you asked it.
randy khan
@Seanly:
SATSQ: No.
And, as Josh Marshall pointed out, the agreement on countries reaching that threshold doesn’t require them to hit 2% until 2024.
randy khan
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Someone has pointed out that the letterhead is different from the letterhead on the nastygram sent to the New York Times last fall, so it’s probably a joke.
randy khan
@Roger Moore:
Speaking only for myself, I don’t really have a problem with that. With the right software, you can create an image of the DVD on your laptop and run it from the computer’s memory (which has the advantage of not using the battery up as fast as running a DVD drive). I use the DVD drive so rarely that the tradeoff in weight, etc. seems to be massively in my favor. But of course that’s a YMMV thing (and I was a little annoyed by it at first, I admit).
AdamK
@TS: How does an observation morph into an “excuse?”
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Mnemosyne: I have a Samsung Chromebook which I got earlier this year–can’t recall the model just now. It’s done ok so far for what I wanted, which is basic word processing. The keyboard is smaller than many laptops, but I have small hands so it isn’t really a struggle to use. There are a few things I find irritating (diacritals, goddammit!) but for what I paid it’s adequate for my purposes.
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
So, are they saying that Obama’s a jam doughnut, or that he’s a cocktail sausage?