a m ole Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 2 hours ago, peterms said: I find this quite amusing. Supposed to be him writing a Presidential address. The setting, the framing, the faked expression, pretending to write by holding the pad in the air making it pretty hard to write...there is literally nothing natural or genuine about this shot, other than "man poses for contrived photo meant to connote traits he doesn't possess, like concentration, focus on public duty...". Arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterms Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said: My wife is going to DC to protest. Proud of her! Well done her. Take some basic protection against pepper spray/cs gas, and carry the number of a lawyer. May get unpleasant. Many of his events have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Awol Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 4 hours ago, peterms said: Well done her. Take some basic protection against pepper spray/cs gas, and carry the number of a lawyer. May get unpleasant. Many of his events have. They have, full credit to the Democrat coordinated agent provocateurs for that - whether paid or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 19 minutes ago, Awol said: They have, full credit to the Democrat coordinated agent provocateurs for that - whether paid or not. If they were agent provocateurs then they'd have been Trump co-ordinated, surely? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 On 17/01/2017 at 22:48, coda said: Assange recently tweeted he'd come out of hiding if Manning was released. Unsurprisingly, Assange's lawyers have said that it doesn't meet his/their conditions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Trump surrounds himself with the best people, just the best people. everyone tells him, they say Donald, the people you surround yourself with are tremendous. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/01/18/trump-meets-with-potential-supreme-court-nominee-who-wants-gays-jailed-for-having-sex/ President-elect Donald Trump has met with an extremely conservative prospective US Supreme Court pick who said he wants gays to be jailed for having consensual sex in their own homes. Despite President-elect Trump saying that same-sex marriage is “settled”, he also said he wanted to appoint justices who would challenge the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v Wade. One of those conservative judges is William H Pryor Jr, who has in the past suggested that same-sex couples should be punished with jail for having sex in their own homes. Mr Pryor has also been forced to deny that he posed nude for gay porn while a student. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals justice met with Trump on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. The pair met in New York, but spoke on the condition of anonymity as the meeting was not made public. Trump has already said he would fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died back in 2016, within his first two weeks in office. Pryor Jr, a former Alabama Attorney General, defended a law in 2003 in Texas which criminalises consensual gay sex, comparing it to “polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery”. Arguing that LGBT people were not protected by the US Constitution, Pryor said in a legal brief about the law that states should be able to criminally charge gay people for having sex. “The Supreme Court has never recognised a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,” wrote Pryor. “Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilisation’.” He also defended straight people’s right to have anal sex, saying straight anal sex was better than same-sex anal sex. “Texas is hardly alone in concluding that homosexual sodomy may have severe physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences, which do not necessarily attend heterosexual sodomy, and from which Texas’s citizens need to be protected,” he wrote. Going on, he said there was “no fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy just because it is done behind closed doors… Because homosexual sodomy has not historically been recognised in this country as a right; to the contrary, it has historically been recognised as a wrong. It is not a fundamental right.” So Trump could appoint a justice who has bee described by Lambda Legal as “the most demonstrably anti-gay judicial nominee in recent memory.” Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal’s executive director adds that Pryor blocked a law which would have allowed same-sex couples in Florida to adopt. “Several judges on the appeals court wanted to hear the case and said the law raised ‘serious and substantial questions,’ but William Pryor kept that from happening,” wrote Cathcart. “As a result, lesbians and gay men in Florida cannot adopt children who need permanent, loving homes.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted January 19, 2017 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2017 15 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: Monday - release Chelsea Manning Tuesday - give half a billion dollars to climate change organisations Anyone got any idea what Obama will be doing wind Trump up today? It's like a strange sort of advent calendar except that the big door on the last day opens to, well, to Donald Trump. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted January 19, 2017 Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2017 16 hours ago, peterms said: I find this quite amusing. Supposed to be him writing a Presidential address. The setting, the framing, the faked expression, pretending to write by holding the pad in the air making it pretty hard to write...there is literally nothing natural or genuine about this shot, other than "man poses for contrived photo meant to connote traits he doesn't possess, like concentration, focus on public duty...". Arse. I'm guessing this desk is in the reception area of the Trumpet-owned Mar a Lago resort (based on all the fliers etc on the desk), as opposed to being in a nice quiet office where you'd normally expect a president to write a speech. So, President Trumpet, what have we learned here? We've learned that if you post bullshit on social media - particularly photographic bullshit - you'll get caught out. You soiled wet wipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 9 hours ago, snowychap said: If they were agent provocateurs then they'd have been Trump co-ordinated, surely? Ha, well spotted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted January 19, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2017 16 hours ago, peterms said: I find this quite amusing. Supposed to be him writing a Presidential address. It's been leaked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 1 minute ago, choffer said: It's been leaked: That's a fake. No spelling mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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snowychap Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 From The Torygraph: Quote More detail on the $10.5 trillion of cuts under consideration According to a report this morning, Mr Trump's team is contemplating proposals for $10.5 trillion in cuts to the federal budget. How would they do that? Here's a summary of the information provided by The Hill - it's really worth reading, to get a sense of his priorities: Justice: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services – scrapped. Violence Against Women Grants – scrapped. Legal Services Corporation – scrapped. Civil Rights division – funding reduced. Environment and Natural Resources divisions – funding cut. State: “significant cuts and programme eliminations.” Overseas Private Investment Corporation – funding stopped. Paris Climate Change Agreement – funding stopped. United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – funding stopped. Arts: Corporation for Public Broadcasting - privatised. National Endowment for the Arts – scrapped. National Endowment for the Humanities – scrapped. Business initiatives seen as “corporate welfare”: Minority Business Development Agency – scrapped. Economic Development Administration – scrapped. International Trade Administration – scrapped. Manufacturing Extension Partnership - scrapped. Energy: Nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research – funding reduced to 2008 levels. Office of Electricity – scrapped. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – scrapped. Office of Fossil Energy - scrapped. The Violence Against Women Grants rather stood out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted January 19, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2017 'Woody Johnson' Best American name since . . . well . . . since Randy Lerner I suppose. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterms Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: 'Woody Johnson' Best American name since . . . well . . . since Randy Lerner I suppose. When Randy met Woody. That's a short story waiting to be written, right there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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