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The best tweet I saw today said this:Oh right, everybody's laughing at #Covfefe now, but may I remind you that NOBODY was laughing about it at Bowling Green.
As you know, I consider myself a fine connoisseur of such. Edit: I try to consolidate some white rabbits, so as not to flood the site with them. They've been breeding like crazy. Anyway, a lot happens in a day, these days:President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor … and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.
Pffft. Kim Jong-il shot 11 holes in one the first time he ever played. My brother, who is an avid golfer that does not follow politics, asked me why so many people hate Trump. I said you do not need to know anything about his politics to know why: he is a good golfer who is a notorious cheater. That was enough for him and so I have used the same line with a few other sports guys. If he is a con man on the golf course, he is a con man in life.
Dude it's easy to filter. As a politics junkie this shit is damn near interesting again. Nonetheless if you decide to post a Daily Rabbit I'll just add on. One of my favorite politics books is The Clothes Have No Emperor which is basically a timeline of news stories from Reagan's inauguration to Bush's inauguration and who knows? "Today in Rabbits" might be a hell of an archive to browse ten years from now.
Says us! Anyone haplessly browsing the site still has a chance of running amuck in our Trumpspam, komrad. <--- And then, in the case of am_Unition, needing to wade much too far back into a user's post history to deduce that no, perhaps they're not entirely an imbecile, they're just a sarcastic bag of garbage. This. Hubski's the only (IMAGINABLE) place online that I can share an interactive diary with people I'd actually want to weigh in. And, the 'rabbit keeps delivering. Maybe young pieces of garbage/kids, someday, will have to tune me out as I broadcast the evolution of sillyseason to seriousseason to the whiterabbit from my implanted optical nerve.Dude it's easy to filter.
"Today in Rabbits" might be a hell of an archive to browse ten years from now.
I think Spicer's already been fired or put in his two weeks. Meanwhile, Hannity has spent years auditioning for the role.
No less than the 1600 daily ran with a picture of Marlon Bundo the morning after Trump fired Comey. I printed out the goddamn email. It's amazing. Literally: 1) I fired Comey 2) I'm meeting with Kislyak 3) Here's a fuckin' white rabbit. follow him on Instagram.
You're watching the wrong movie. Tora! Tora! Tora! ends with this: - Adm. Isoroku Yamamato Have you... seen the Washington Post lately? This is an organization that Jeff Bezos bought at a fire sale so that he could get better coverage out of Wonkette. Shit was over. We were all banking on maybe hopefully kinda sorta Pierre Omidyar might let Glenn Greenwald do journalism when it didn't bite him in the ass. Now all of a sudden a deeply complacent majority finds itself energized and engaged. Look at this shit: One of the benefits of my job is the Helicopter Channel. See, I work for a large, three-lettered network on a lot that they own and that large, three-lettered network has a cable plant. Unlike analog TV, digital TV has virtually no limit on the number of channels it can carry; all you need to do is crank down the bandwidth and up the QAM and you can stuff 128 channels down a single analog TV band (should you so choose). And since it's a large, three-lettered network with a lot of content, they distribute pretty much everything they have across everywhere they are which means, for example, that I can tune one of my spare monitors to 127.8 and see a constant live feed of everything coming out of their local helicopter. You may not have thought of this, but the way "helicopter" and "news" collide is that generally, the helicopter goes up at 6am and 3pm and stays up for one or two tanks of fuel. They fly around looking for stuff to report on and meanwhile, they shoot traffic jams, sunsets, carnivals going up, whatever. Literally, you have a roving news crew flying around looking for trouble. This is one reason car chases in LA get so much coverage: if it happens during prime commute times, there are at least three and up to seven helicopters that can be on top of it in ten minutes or less to stream it live for as long as it takes. We were watching the Helicopter Channel a lot following the election. Know what we saw? Protests. None of them made the news, really, because okay, there's fifty disorganized guys stomping down the street. Three blocks over, another 25 guys stomping down the street. Uptown, 40 more guys stomping down the street. Will they meet up? no. Do they know each other exists? No. Do they have a plan? No. Do they have a message? sure - this shit sucks and we're mad. but it went on for weeks. Literally weeks. Pissed off people with signs stomping around Los Angeles. No organization to speak of, no greater organization. That comes later. That's been happening. That's the emboldening of an electorate. The Right likes to point out that Obama cost the Left a thousand elected positions. They're not wrong; fuckin' rednecks hated Obama. They were batshit against Obama. And that rage motivated the Tea Party, the Alt Right, all of it. Ohhhh shit there's a niXXer in the white house. Ohhhh shit the first lady looks like an orangutan. Ohhhh shit better buy me an AR15. Ohhhh shit better pay ten bucks on the dollar for 5.56 'cuz THEYZ COMINZ TO TAKEZX MY GUNZ. The left? the left had to deal with the fact that their guy was largely making things better for them while also perpetrating a clandestine remote air war and forwarding a neoliberal-lite globalist agenda. Now? One of my first home-grown political philosophies was that music sucks under a Democratic administration because generally, artists are liberals and generally liberals are democrats. It really is easier to get worked up when you feel under threat and right now? Everybody smart feels under threat. Not just leftists, fuckin' choke-on-a-dick republicans like Andrew Sullivan are all twitterpated. Frickin' Ann Coulter is experiencing a crisis of faith. Right now? Everybody with the tiniest bit of political conscience without a heapin' helpin' of Trumpist power is all riled up. - Adm Isoroku Yamamoto, 1940 You need to watch this. It is not a particularly hopeful piece, but it's a piece that puts our current political situation in a cold, analytical light... and that's something that people aren't doing a lot of these days. I'm reading John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash right now. In addition to proving that Rumsfeld's "known unknowns" word salad used to be much better ("One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know"), he makes the point time and time again that crises are caused by a lack of information. The crash of 1929 was inevitable given the climate but the proximate cause was trading volumes increasing above the ability of stock tickers to provide real-time information which forced panic. A less proximate cause was speculation by people who lacked the information to evaluate what they were speculating on. Knowledge is power and the more knowledge we have about the Trump administration (the "House of 'Tards" as one of my friends has been calling them), the more we see that they aren't making bold moves, they're making unforced errors. Which is exactly what you would expect a group of people with zero experience in diplomacy to do when they're driven entirely by vanity and ideology and have no basic indoctrination into the daily practice of governance. This movie is not sad. This movie is fucking Lord of the Rings and although the hobbits haven't made it to the volcano yet, they're on their way.I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
"I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success."