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May 20, 2018

Jared Kushner's Harvard graduating class just publicly trashed him in 15-year anniversary

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/997910004010311686

The public disappointment in Jared and his enabling of Trump was heavily featured in the Harvard Class of 2003’s fifteen-year anniversary report. While Jared himself failed to submit any content for the document, his peers didn’t pass up the opportunity to trash their former classmate.


[link:https://washingtonpress.com/2018/05/19/jared-kushners-harvard-graduating-class-just-publicly-trashed-him-in-15-year-anniversary/|

Burn..
May 20, 2018

Texas Republican Unsure How Demanding His Children Marry White People Makes Him A Bigot



Vic Cunningham is not denying that the clause exists, but is not really sure how it makes him a bigot. He explained to reporters that this clause was simply one of many “milestones” in which his children can get a distribution of their trust. Which, of course, makes it all very normal and not bigoted. He also says that his views have never affected any of his decisions as a judge.
“I strongly support traditional family values,” Cunningham explained to the Dallas Morning News. “If you marry a person of the opposite sex that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution.”

He also said that his views on this have “evolved” since he set up the trust in 2010, owing to his son’s relationship with a Vietnamese woman, but that he couldn’t do anything about the trust now.


[link:https://wonkette.com/634132/texas-republican-unsure-how-demanding-his-children-marry-white-people-makes-him-a-bigot|

I know it is texas but fucking hell
May 20, 2018

Hehehehe

May 19, 2018

Graffiti in Central London about 20 minutes ago. Could not say it better myself.



Saw this on a telephone exchange box at the end of my street.

Short and to the point.

Trump. Despised the world over!
May 18, 2018

Before Obama Leaves Office He Is Going To Enact 4000 New Laws And Kim Davis Is A Political Prisoner.

I wrote this in 2015. I am going to guess the chap in the article has a HARD ON 4 Trump

We should have known.....

Obama, too many laws to count and political prisoners. It is all going to hell in a bad basket. Call for the revolutionaries. I was on the train home and had the amusement of sitting next to a right wing southern gentleman of late middle age. Obviously in the UK on business he was accompanied by a middle aged chap from somewhere in the north of England and they were chatting away about some fossil fuels business when all of a sudden the American chap launched into a rant of epic right wing paranoid proportions. Hehehehehe. Little bit of heaven right there.

'Did you know that America has turned on its head? Some poor woman who had not stolen anything, or killed anyone has been IMPRISONED. IMPRISONED for her personal beliefs. She is a political prisoner of the state. We. Now. Have. Political. Prisoners. In. America. It is crazy.’ Then he shakes his head for dramatic effect.

Well of course my ears pricked up and I awaited with baited breath for the response from his traveling partner. Poor chap, he just looked really bewildered and said nothing. American man was not finished, not by a long shot. Interestingly this stout defender of the homophobic baggage that is Kim Davis was careful not to rant about why she was jailed. That would not sit well on a commuter train in one of the most cosmopolitan capital cities in the world. It seems his principled stand about the tyranny of government left him some wiggle room based on the community that surrounded him in that instance.

Leaving the topic of the 'political prisoner' he launched into an attack on the President. Oh my!!!! 'Did you know that Obama plans to enact FOUR THOUSAND new laws between now and when he leaves office to restrict FREEDOM? In fact it is not four thousand, it is OVER FOUR THOUSAND new laws. America is not America anymore. What do you think of that?'

Oh how I was itching to reply on behalf of the English chap who was staring at him like he was an alien, but train protocol is too well ingrained in my psyche. English chap stared uncomfortably at his feet for a moment, the silence stretched between them and then he asked a question about fossil fuel. Haha. But think about it. Obama is going to be terrifically busy. Even if we take the conservative (no pun intended) estimate of FOUR THOUSAND new laws that means Obama will have to pass eight laws restricting American freedoms every single day between now and when he leaves office to meet his target. I know he is good, but surely he is not that good????? Well at least he didn't say Obama is going to steal a third term. That is something.

Political prisoners and restricting freedoms?!?! Oh my!!! Call for the revolutionaries, Yeehaw.

As an aside that has to be the most entertaining commute home I have had in quite some time.


Does not seem quite as funny anymore.
May 18, 2018

'At least EIGHT people' are killed after gunman storms Texas high school before being taken alive by

police

A gunman was taken into custody after opening fire and killing at least eight people inside Santa Fe High School this morning.

The Santa Fe Independent School District said in a Facebook post just after 9am local time that the situation has been 'contained' and 'there have been confirmed injuries.'

The station KHOU reported, citing a federal official and a county official close to the investigation that at least eight people were fatally shot and a law enforcement officer was injured.

Law enforcement officials were sweeping the campus for possible explosives after students reported seeing the gunman toss something into a classroom.


But ...But... Guns don't kill people... Those poor children



May 18, 2018

Found on a pro-Trump page....



Hehe ------ Good Grief ------- In equal measure!

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I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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