We need to talk about Donald: the cursing & swearing thread

[Hermit]

This post should start a new page.

Edit: And it does. Phew.

[pErvinalia]

Yep, thanks.

[Tero]

Trump now messing with China.

Next: China recalls all US pandas.

[pErvinalia]

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[Forty Two]

Very funny, but I agree with pErvin. A 62.1 megabyte gif should not be embedded in a post. Mobile users in Australia typically pay around $35 per month for their phone connection that includes a one gigabyte up/download allowance per month. Excess usage costs approximately one arm and three legs per megabyte. You get to upload this gif every fucking time you access this page unless it happens to have remained cached since you last looked at it. Please consider merely providing a link for such gigantic productions.

I thought a civilized country would have unlimited data on their mobile devices. Here in the deprived and poverty stricken - due to the capitalist running-dog patriarchy - US of A, we can run youtube on our mobile devices 24-7 for the same monthly data charge.

[Hermit]

Very funny, but I agree with pErvin. A 62.1 megabyte gif should not be embedded in a post. Mobile users in Australia typically pay around $35 per month for their phone connection that includes a one gigabyte up/download allowance per month. Excess usage costs approximately one arm and three legs per megabyte. You get to upload this gif every fucking time you access this page unless it happens to have remained cached since you last looked at it. Please consider merely providing a link for such gigantic productions.

I thought a civilized country would have unlimited data on their mobile devices. Here in the deprived and poverty stricken - due to the capitalist running-dog patriarchy - US of A, we can run youtube on our mobile devices 24-7 for the same monthly data charge.

Australia is more civilised than many other western democracies, but in terms of infrastructure relating to size and population it is handicapped. It has four million fewer inhabitants than Texas, spread over 28 times the area, or to put it another way, population densities are 3.2 and 40.0/km² respectively. With only about four million fewer people than Australia your own state is even more densely populated at 121.0/km². I hope you can appreciate the difference in per capita costs when it comes to construct an adequate amount of transmission towers, fibre-optic cables and so on to provide mobile internet coverage as well as the standard mobile voice network.

[Forty Two]

I was being tongue-in-cheek there. I like Oz a lot. Of course I appreciate the differences. There are many such differences between certain countries in western Europe, and those like Oz, Canada and the US. Often the pragmatic differences are ignored. But, I get it. I was just breaking Ozzie balls.

[L'Emmerdeur]

FFS...

Thanks for the words of advice. I'll keep it in mind. Sorry for any problems that GIF caused to members here.

[Forty Two]

Don't succumb to GIF-shaming, L'Emmerdeur!

[Tero]

From Bizzarro White House today

Acosta, the last reporter called on, recited a portion of “The New Colossus,” the poem engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet “doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer,” Acosta said. “Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them you have to speak English? Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?”

Miller replied that speaking English is part of the U.S. naturalization process, and he said the poem Acosta referenced is “not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty” but was added later.

Miller’s defense, Acosta said, “sounds like some National Park revisionism."

"The Statue of Liberty has always been a beacon of hope to the world for people to send their people to this country, and they’re not always going to speak English, Stephen," said Acosta, who said his own father immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1962. "They’re not always going to be highly skilled.”

“Jim, I appreciate your speech,” Miller shot back. “Tell me what years meet Jim Acosta’s definition of the Statue of Liberty poem law of the land?” Miller demanded, his voice rising.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the “Statue of Liberty poem law of the land” was, but the jab-trading continued. Acosta said Miller's comments seemed to diverge from "what the United States has been about," and Miller said the CNN reporter's ideas were "shockingly a-historical." When Acosta mentioned Trump's proposed wall at the Mexican border, Miller took umbrage.

Surely, Jim, you don’t actually think that a wall affects green card policy? You couldn’t possibly believe that, do you?” Miller asked. “I want to be serious, Jim. Do you really at CNN not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigration? You really don’t know that?”

Acosta returned to the policy's preference for English speakers, saying many immigrants learn the language later in life. "Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?” he asked.

“Jim, I can honestly say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English,” Miller responded. "Actually, it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree."


But he took the strongest offense when Acosta said the proposed policy appeared to be an effort to "engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.”

“Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you’ve ever said ... the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting,” Miller said. (Acosta contended that he never said the legislation was racist.)

“Insinuations like Jim made, trying to ascribe nefarious motives to a compassionate immigration measure designed to help newcomers and current arrivals alike, is wrong,” Miller said.

Finally, things began to wrap up, but the reckoning continued.
“You called me ignorant on national television,” Acosta recalled.

“I apologize, Jim, if things got heated, but you did make some pretty rough insinuations,” Miller said.

He stepped aside for Sanders to take questions on other topics, but he got in one last remark to the assembled reporters: “I think that went exactly as planned.”

“Thank you,” Sanders said when she regained command of the podium. “That was exciting.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/0 ... sta-241260

[Tero]

Not forgetting Trump, but it was the usual. Trump says shit, shit is wrong.
Trump Claims Mexico's President Praised His Border Policy. Mexico Says Nope.

[Svartalf]

Mexico still has a pres? I thought it had cartel leaders now.

[Animavore]

The Vatican criticise the Church in the US for forming an alliance of hate with Evangelicals and supporting Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/worl ... d=fb-share

[Svartalf]

wonder what's worse, supporting frump or making an alliance with heretics.

[Animavore]

Approval rating even lower. Time for Trump supporters to man up and admit their crazy experiment has failed.