I find this much more funny on a slow work day than I probably should.
i did not think this was real at first, but there is no other reason for jenna ellis to react that way if she did not hear that squeak out of rudy's butt.
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I find this much more funny on a slow work day than I probably should.
i did not think this was real at first, but there is no other reason for jenna ellis to react that way if she did not hear that squeak out of rudy's butt.
Ruddy Ghouliani just trying to gas the enemies of the state. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I find this much more funny on a slow work day than I probably should.
i did not think this was real at first, but there is no other reason for jenna ellis to react that way if she did not hear that squeak out of rudy's butt.
Ya I saw a couple of other vids and they all line up with the same reaction and sound. I mean I am not a Rudy fan and this stuff happens I just find the whole situation hilarious. This one with Trump had me in almost tears as well mainly because of the reaction. I am a child I know this lol.
I find this much more funny on a slow work day than I probably should.
i did not think this was real at first, but there is no other reason for jenna ellis to react that way if she did not hear that squeak out of rudy's butt.
Ya I saw a couple of other vids and they all line up with the same reaction and sound. I mean I am not a Rudy fan and this stuff happens I just find the whole situation hilarious. This one with Trump had me in almost tears as well mainly because of the reaction. I am a child I know this lol.
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Donald Trump, Confederates and the GOP — brethren in the new Lost Cause
Don’t dismiss the folly of president seeing himself as the election winner
Trump
supporters demonstrate outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on
Nov. 28. The new Lost Cause of Trump could do great harm to the country,
just like the earlier post-Civil War narrative, Curtis writes. (Rich
von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)
You can tell a lot about people by studying their priorities.
President
Donald Trump is not spending too much time worrying about coronavirus
surges and more than 270,000 Americans dead, as Dr. Anthony Fauci offers
warnings about being vigilant while waiting for vaccine distribution.
You did not hear the president express sympathy for those waiting in
long lines for food over the holidays.
Instead, he has played a
lot of golf and wailed on Twitter and television, refusing to accept his
loss last month to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Oh, yes, and the
Justice Department found time to amend protocols to allow firing squads and electrocutions as a means to execute as many federal prisoners as possible before a new administration takes over.
Trump is also forging ahead with his campaign promise to veto the annual National Defense Authorization Act
if changes are not made. There are several items in both House and
Senate versions, including on troop movement and, most recently, liability protection for social media companies,
over which legislators themselves and the president are still haggling.
However, a bipartisan provision that has set Trump off for quite awhile
is one that would rename bases and remove symbols from military installations
that honor Confederate generals and leaders. This is despite consensus
not only from both parties but also from members of the military that
it’s time to move on and stop fighting this last battle of the
Confederacy.
On the one hand, Trump’s stubbornness doesn’t seem logical. As someone who likes to avoid the loser label — reportedly even hesitating about naming his son after him for fear of how the boy would turn out — why would Trump want to stand up for the losing side in the Civil War?
But
then, as the president racks up loss after loss in his futile attempts
to overturn the results of a fair election process — in Georgia, in
Arizona, in Wisconsin, where a recount he shelled out $3 million for
only increased Biden’s lead — he has nowhere to go except to his
faithful followers, many of whom are still fighting that long-ago war.
Remember how the president defended those marching in Charlottesville, Virginia,
protesting plans to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from the public
square? He showed more emotion toward the tiki torch-carrying mob than
he ever did for Americans who dared vote for a candidate not named
Trump.
It was not about erasing history, then or now, despite the
halfhearted arguments to make that reasoning make sense. The war that
divided the country and defended an institution that enslaved men, women
and children is well-documented; and there are certainly many who
fought for the Union and in wars since who deserve the honor of having
their names and sacrifice immortalized.
With Trump, it’s more
about grudges and spite than the history lessons I doubt he ever paid
much attention to. It’s to please the Proud Boys he instructed to stand
by, and the supporters who made a detour during a recent Washington
march supporting the president to tear down signs and posters bearing the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Trump’s
actions now would seem to confirm reports of him calling those who sign
up to serve, fight and sometimes die for their country “losers” and
“suckers.” Does he care less for veterans and military members of today,
of every race and gender, than for the traitors of yesterday? It
certainly looks that way. The only question is whether Republicans in
the Senate will acquiesce once again and try to compromise on something
about which there is no shade of gray.
Repeating history
What
does it matter, though, especially since Biden has said his
administration would surely favor bringing the bases into the 21st
century?
Well, history tells us it matters a lot. The South may
have lost the Civil War, but it won the post-war narrative, painting its
Lost Cause as just and its plantation life —built on torture, rape and
cruel exploitation — as the height of genteel living. After an
all-too-brief period of Reconstruction that attempted to provide a
semblance of equality to the country’s citizens, Jim Crow crushed
all-American freedoms for African Americans for the greater part of the
last century.
In just one example, in Wilmington, North Carolina,
in 1898, an elected, integrated city government was overturned in a
planned, murderous coup, an event, as described by David Zucchino in “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy,” that was shocking for its brutality and for how long it remained distorted and justified in the retelling.
Preserving the myth is far from harmless.
Yet
Trump is among many who prefer the lie, naming “Gone with the
Wind,” with its rosy depictions of plantation life and enslaved humans, one of his favorite films.
That he disliked the thought of the South Korean film “Parasite,” with
its critique of class inequality, winning top Oscar honors this year is
almost too on brand for The Donald.
Long-term harm
But it
would be wrong to laugh at the folly of Trump trying to turn back the
clock to an alternate vision of reality, which this time ends with the
South, and his own presidential run, emerging as winners.
As the
post-Civil War myth of the South as victim rather than aggressor stunted
the country’s progress, and prevented it from developing the potential
of all its citizens, so too does the Lost Cause of Trump hobble a
country whose strength comes from embracing an inclusive reality. He and
other GOP officials, though blessedly not the ones certifying vote
totals in most states doing the counting, have convinced millions that
voter fraud, concentrated in cities with substantial Black populations
such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta robbed Trump of his
rightful presidential perch.
Sure enough, far too many
Republicans who know better are following Trump’s toxic lead, and trying
to cynically use his delusions to further limit the franchise. Florida
Sen. Rick Scott says the 2020 election, with “fraud” that lives only in Trump’s head, is cause for new legislation.
“We need standards nationwide to ensure voters decide the outcomes of
elections — not the courts,” Scott said of his VOTER Act.
We’ve
been down this road before, after President Barack Obama’s election and
after a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated key provisions of the
Voting Rights Act. States rushed to enact laws restricting the vote —
and we know whose. A federal court ruled North Carolina’s bill targeted
African American voters with “almost surgical precision.”
Trump
won’t be turned into a winner as his single-minded quest sputters, no
more than officers Lee or Bragg or Benning triumphed in their
disastrous, damaging and ill-fated war. But the legacy of this new Lost
Cause — a country where a substantial minority doubts duly elected
leaders as legitimate and blames Black and brown voters for the
imaginary injustice — means that democracy is in danger of losing as
well.
Mary C. Curtis has worked at The New York Times, The
Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte Observer, as national correspondent for
Politics Daily, and is a senior facilitator with The OpEd
Project. Follow her on Twitter @mcurtisnc3.
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How are dems supposed to work with these folks? They’re too far gone. Elimination of the white race is real to them and despite being heavily armed, they’re scared and living in fear, propagated by delusion. There’s no reasoning with that. SAD!
I think he does. The only time I saw him move fast was to outpace Adam Schiff to the podium for closing statements on the impeachment. Not wanting to make fun of anyone if a medical condition. I can't find the sidewalk interview were Jerry dismissed antifa and riots were happening. He was leaning on a wall desperately and wobbled to his ride 6 feet as he shit his pants. Some of these old decrepit politicians need to know when to shut it down and enjoy their later years on this spinning rock.
I think he does. The only time I saw him move fast was to outpace Adam Schiff to the podium for closing statements on the impeachment. Not wanting to make fun of anyone if a medical condition. I can't find the sidewalk interview were Jerry dismissed antifa and riots were happening. He was leaning on a wall desperately and wobbled to his ride 6 feet as he shit his pants. Some of these old decrepit politicians need to know when to shut it down and enjoy their later years on this spinning rock.
yeah, i'll never understand how people on the left reconcile making fun of old men shitting themselves just because they don't like them.
people go nuts over the right making fun of joe for his stutter, yet it's ok to post video after video of trump losing control of his bowels. not sure how that works, but ok.
They don't give a f**k about wildlife or the impact this will have on the environment refuge
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NOUN
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This makes me sick. I worked at NRDC for four years in the 90s, and we were working on preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back then. Nothing has changed. It is shameful!!
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They don't give a f**k about wildlife or the impact this will have on the environment refuge
[ˈrefˌyo͞oj, ˈrefˌyo͞oZH]
NOUN
a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.
This makes me sick. I worked at NRDC for four years in the 90s, and we were working on preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back then. Nothing has changed. It is shameful!!
I have much love and endless respect for NRDC. We have been supporters for many years. Thank you for your work with them!
But yes, it is so hard working all these years to protect the planet that sustains all life and then to see what progress we are able to eke out be hampered by the greedy hands that only see the short-term gain of wealth through the plundering of the planets resources.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
They don't give a f**k about wildlife or the impact this will have on the environment refuge
[ˈrefˌyo͞oj, ˈrefˌyo͞oZH]
NOUN
a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.
This makes me sick. I worked at NRDC for four years in the 90s, and we were working on preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back then. Nothing has changed. It is shameful!!
On the plus side, I'm hoping to one day buy a townhouse on Pike's Peak. I feel like it could happen...
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I think he does. The only time I saw him move fast was to outpace Adam Schiff to the podium for closing statements on the impeachment. Not wanting to make fun of anyone if a medical condition. I can't find the sidewalk interview were Jerry dismissed antifa and riots were happening. He was leaning on a wall desperately and wobbled to his ride 6 feet as he shit his pants. Some of these old decrepit politicians need to know when to shut it down and enjoy their later years on this spinning rock.
That was a pant shitting moment if there ever was one. I thought AS's head was going to explode.
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Can we please refrain from mocking people who may or may not have a bowel disease. It's not nice. Please don't do it here. Thank you
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So if he really engages in all of this pre-emptive pardoning, are his supporters still going to believe he's clean?
Spoiler Alert: Yes. "The Deep State is going to manufacture fake crimes so he's just defending himself against certain persecution."
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What the hell is wrong with the people that believe/enable/follow/support him?
So many millions of people spurred on by fear, hate, ignorance, jealousy, and lies
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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...it wasn't a fart...
Donald Trump, Confederates and the GOP — brethren in the new Lost Cause
Don’t dismiss the folly of president seeing himself as the election winner
You can tell a lot about people by studying their priorities.
President Donald Trump is not spending too much time worrying about coronavirus surges and more than 270,000 Americans dead, as Dr. Anthony Fauci offers warnings about being vigilant while waiting for vaccine distribution. You did not hear the president express sympathy for those waiting in long lines for food over the holidays.
Instead, he has played a lot of golf and wailed on Twitter and television, refusing to accept his loss last month to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Oh, yes, and the Justice Department found time to amend protocols to allow firing squads and electrocutions as a means to execute as many federal prisoners as possible before a new administration takes over.
Trump is also forging ahead with his campaign promise to veto the annual National Defense Authorization Act if changes are not made. There are several items in both House and Senate versions, including on troop movement and, most recently, liability protection for social media companies, over which legislators themselves and the president are still haggling. However, a bipartisan provision that has set Trump off for quite awhile is one that would rename bases and remove symbols from military installations that honor Confederate generals and leaders. This is despite consensus not only from both parties but also from members of the military that it’s time to move on and stop fighting this last battle of the Confederacy.
On the one hand, Trump’s stubbornness doesn’t seem logical. As someone who likes to avoid the loser label — reportedly even hesitating about naming his son after him for fear of how the boy would turn out — why would Trump want to stand up for the losing side in the Civil War?
But then, as the president racks up loss after loss in his futile attempts to overturn the results of a fair election process — in Georgia, in Arizona, in Wisconsin, where a recount he shelled out $3 million for only increased Biden’s lead — he has nowhere to go except to his faithful followers, many of whom are still fighting that long-ago war.
Remember how the president defended those marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting plans to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from the public square? He showed more emotion toward the tiki torch-carrying mob than he ever did for Americans who dared vote for a candidate not named Trump.
It was not about erasing history, then or now, despite the halfhearted arguments to make that reasoning make sense. The war that divided the country and defended an institution that enslaved men, women and children is well-documented; and there are certainly many who fought for the Union and in wars since who deserve the honor of having their names and sacrifice immortalized.
With Trump, it’s more about grudges and spite than the history lessons I doubt he ever paid much attention to. It’s to please the Proud Boys he instructed to stand by, and the supporters who made a detour during a recent Washington march supporting the president to tear down signs and posters bearing the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Trump’s actions now would seem to confirm reports of him calling those who sign up to serve, fight and sometimes die for their country “losers” and “suckers.” Does he care less for veterans and military members of today, of every race and gender, than for the traitors of yesterday? It certainly looks that way. The only question is whether Republicans in the Senate will acquiesce once again and try to compromise on something about which there is no shade of gray.
Repeating history
What does it matter, though, especially since Biden has said his administration would surely favor bringing the bases into the 21st century?
Well, history tells us it matters a lot. The South may have lost the Civil War, but it won the post-war narrative, painting its Lost Cause as just and its plantation life —built on torture, rape and cruel exploitation — as the height of genteel living. After an all-too-brief period of Reconstruction that attempted to provide a semblance of equality to the country’s citizens, Jim Crow crushed all-American freedoms for African Americans for the greater part of the last century.
In just one example, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, an elected, integrated city government was overturned in a planned, murderous coup, an event, as described by David Zucchino in “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy,” that was shocking for its brutality and for how long it remained distorted and justified in the retelling.
Preserving the myth is far from harmless.
Yet Trump is among many who prefer the lie, naming “Gone with the Wind,” with its rosy depictions of plantation life and enslaved humans, one of his favorite films. That he disliked the thought of the South Korean film “Parasite,” with its critique of class inequality, winning top Oscar honors this year is almost too on brand for The Donald.
Long-term harm
But it would be wrong to laugh at the folly of Trump trying to turn back the clock to an alternate vision of reality, which this time ends with the South, and his own presidential run, emerging as winners.
As the post-Civil War myth of the South as victim rather than aggressor stunted the country’s progress, and prevented it from developing the potential of all its citizens, so too does the Lost Cause of Trump hobble a country whose strength comes from embracing an inclusive reality. He and other GOP officials, though blessedly not the ones certifying vote totals in most states doing the counting, have convinced millions that voter fraud, concentrated in cities with substantial Black populations such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta robbed Trump of his rightful presidential perch.
Sure enough, far too many Republicans who know better are following Trump’s toxic lead, and trying to cynically use his delusions to further limit the franchise. Florida Sen. Rick Scott says the 2020 election, with “fraud” that lives only in Trump’s head, is cause for new legislation. “We need standards nationwide to ensure voters decide the outcomes of elections — not the courts,” Scott said of his VOTER Act.
We’ve been down this road before, after President Barack Obama’s election and after a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. States rushed to enact laws restricting the vote — and we know whose. A federal court ruled North Carolina’s bill targeted African American voters with “almost surgical precision.”
Trump won’t be turned into a winner as his single-minded quest sputters, no more than officers Lee or Bragg or Benning triumphed in their disastrous, damaging and ill-fated war. But the legacy of this new Lost Cause — a country where a substantial minority doubts duly elected leaders as legitimate and blames Black and brown voters for the imaginary injustice — means that democracy is in danger of losing as well.
Mary C. Curtis has worked at The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte Observer, as national correspondent for Politics Daily, and is a senior facilitator with The OpEd Project. Follow her on Twitter @mcurtisnc3.
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people go nuts over the right making fun of joe for his stutter, yet it's ok to post video after video of trump losing control of his bowels. not sure how that works, but ok.
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On the plus side, I'm hoping to one day buy a townhouse on Pike's Peak. I feel like it could happen...
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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hahahah!
MILLIONS.
Pathetic.