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Economic anxiety, y'all

[Howl]

Um. Hello out there! Young Women’s Leadership Summit full of MAGA ladies and Kellyanne and Tomi wannabes.  Desperate male WH staffers who are social kryptonite -- well, actually the problem is they are assholes, but let's let that slide for the moment.  Matches made in heaven.   I'm surprised they didn't raffle off a date with Stephen Miller as a fund raiser. 

[Drala]

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/06/23/trumpists-are-suffering-the-free-market-consequences-of-being-deplorable/

[Howl]

A wee bit o' advice to the Trumpentariat from @The Rick Wilson on how to avoid being triggered snowflakes:

 

[Cartmann99]

Holy hell, click through for the pictures!

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WASHINGTON — The North Korean national anthem got plenty of fanfare at the Virginia Women for Trump’s birthday party for the president on Sunday. Corey Stewart, the Republican Senate candidate from Virginia, got the hook.

The Tea for Trump toast to an absent President Trump drew hundreds of women in hats, tats and floral finery to the Trump International Hotel for an afternoon of what Alice Butler-Short, the organization’s president, called “God, fashion and politics or God, politics and fashion, whichever.”

As part of the second annual event, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was receiving, in absentia, an award playing on Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, the MAGA Woman of the Year, Ms. Butler-Short said.

In an interview before the event (and before Ms. Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant whose owner disagreed with Mr. Trump’s policies), Ms. Butler-Short said the award was presented “for grace under fire, because we feel that what happened to her at the correspondents’ dinner was so abusive.” At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April, Ms. Sanders sat feet away from a comedian who took shots at her.

 

Ms. Butler-Short explained her group’s mission as “all about promoting unity — he’s the president for all Americans.”

College students who don’t appreciate Mr. Trump “are spoiled brats,” she said. “They know nothing of life and nothing of respect for anyone. There is no place like the United States that offers opportunities to people.”

Asked about Mr. Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, which have dominated the news recently, she said, “I have a really nice house here and I’m really generous and I invite people in, but I won’t just throw open my door and say come in here and fill every bedroom.”

 

“These people are coming here for economic reasons,” she said. “They’re not coming because they’re afraid they’ll be strung up from a tree by their necks or taken out and shot.”

Mr. Trump “is not only trying to do the best for the country, he has real compassion,” Ms. Butler-Short said. “People need to back off and understand that.”

Mr. Trump, who turned 72 on June 14, was at one of his other properties — his Virginia golf course — on Sunday afternoon, but that hardly dampened the crowd’s enthusiasm.

The event kicked off with a prayer for the president: “We ask God for protection of this man” and “We lift him up, Lord, not that he is perfect.” Then it moved swiftly toward its centerpiece, a runway fashion show of the work of Andre Soriano, the designer shunned by the fashion world after he designed the “Make America Great Again” gown worn by the singer Joy Villa to the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Female pro-Trump organizers and donors modeled some 50 gowns, which, like a fireworks display, grew shinier and more elaborate toward the finales. At one key moment, a woman in a flowing, black and white, Asian-style costume appeared. As martial-sounding music played, she walked the runway with arms outstretched, carrying what looked like a red velvet and gilded Valentine’s Day candy box. The women cheered as she paused, lifting the box to the heavens.

 

Ms. Butler-Short took the stage, her substantial, bejeweled gold lamé millinery bobbing. “That signified our great president and the negotiations he is having with North Korea,” she said. The music, she explained, was the North Korean national anthem.

Some time after that, the Deplorable Choir from Houston, three women in red dresses and fringed red cowboy boots, took the stage, saying, “We’ve been called every name in the book and we know that’s not true.” Their anthem for the women went like this:

“We love God and family, we support our troops through everything.

“We got Trump 2020 on the back of our pickup truck.”

Mr. Stewart found these acts tough to follow.

Bounding to the runway, he presented Ms. Butler-Short with a dripping fresh bouquet, swathed in a plastic umbrella bag. “God bless you,” he told her. Then he asked, “Hello, Virginia, how are you doing tonight?” though it was midafternoon and the event was in Washington. “We have a president of the United States who has kept all of his promises.”E

The Deplorable Choir, three women in red dresses and fringed red cowboy boots, sang, “We got Trump 2020 on the back of our pickup truck.”

Mr. Stewart, who recently secured the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat, has drawn condemnations, including from some Republicans, for his defense of Confederate monuments and praise of white nationalists. But he laid the blame on the news media, which he said “can’t attack me on my record so they attack me with false allegations of racism, and bigotry and anti-Semitism.”

“Let me tell you something, folks,” he said. “I completely disavow all of those ideologies, 100 percent.”

Cheers erupted. Mr. Stewart said he is “an Eagle Scout who loves his country.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, we will end the scourge of illegal immigration in America,” he said. “We will build the wall.”

But by then, Mr. Stewart had already been given the “wrap it up” signal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/politics/trump-women-north-korea.html

[Cartmann99]

This tweet has two pictures from the story I just posted:

 

[Cartmann99]

19 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Turns out no one in DC wants to fornicate Herr Orange staffers.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/trump-staffers-dating.html

There's always Ms. Palm if they can't find anyone who wants to roll in the hay with them even though they're Fornicate Face supporters.

Why don't they just date other Trump administration employees? From what we saw of Hope Hick's personal life, there doesn't seem to be any rules against it. 

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[Botkinetti]

17 hours ago, Howl said:

A wee bit o' advice to the Trumpentariat from @The Rick Wilson on how to avoid being triggered snowflakes:

 

Speaking of giant hissy fits

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/06/25/why-did-the-red-hen-cross-the-road-to-escape-the-ire-of-republican-voters.html

It shouldn’t amaze me but it does that BTs didn’t check the location before responding. They just look so stupid.

[47of74]

History repeats

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CUNY professor and historian Angus Johnston pulled up some 1934 NYTimes stories wherein a Quaker calls for Jews to be civil to Hitler and Nazis. Johnston then includes responses from individual Rabbis and Rabbinical society.

We all know how well these calls for civility against Nazis worked in the past. 

The 47of74 neurons are starting to fire in sequence now and are about to fire off another letter to the editor to beat them to the punch because I know they'll be out in a day or two with a finger wagging post about how liberals need to be civil.

[Howl]

A very simple question for the Trumpentariat: 

 

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[AmazonGrace]

I'm not sure these people are cultists anymore, they could be just bots.

 

Harley-Davidson workers back Trump despite jobs shift

Most blame only the EU as motorcycle maker moves some production away from US

https://www.ft.com/content/29f24644-78f1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d

 Patti Waldmeir in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
  
     yesterday
   
 

Spoiler

 

    It is time for a smoke break at the Harley-Davidson power-train facility in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and the talk is all about tariffs.

The men and women who build these famous American motorcycles are weighing the latest unintended consequence of Donald Trump’s presidency: the possibility they could lose their jobs because of a tit-for-tat trade war that has caught the Harley in its crossfire.

The century-old Wisconsin company that Mr Trump has called “an American icon” — and which he has praised as a symbol of stubborn survival against the decline of the American Rust Belt — said on Monday that it would have to move some US production overseas to avoid EU tariffs.

The motorcycle maker was the first US manufacturer to scale down domestic production in response to the levies, which were imposed as retaliation for US steel and aluminium duties.

The workers gathered outside the factory gate could end up as collateral damage, but most are sticking by their man regardless. Wearing earphones draped around their necks and safety blinders on their glasses, most happily volunteer that they voted for Mr Trump and would do so again — tariffs or no tariffs.

 “He wouldn’t do it unless it needed to be done, he’s a very smart businessman,” said one Harley employee whose name is embroidered on his work shirt — though he asks not to be quoted by name.

“I think he’s playing poker: I’ll hit you with this, you’ll hit us with that, I think this will bring them to the table — unless he’s completely crazy,” chimed in another, who also declined to be quoted on the grounds that he could get into trouble with the company for speaking out.

 Asked whether they blame the president or the EU for causing Harley’s offshoring decision, most say emphatically that they blame only the Europeans. “The president was just trying to save the US aluminium and steel industry,” said one approvingly.

Harley-Davidson said on Monday that it maintained a “strong commitment to US-based manufacturing”, but that its facilities in India, Brazil and Thailand would increase production to avoid paying the EU tariffs that would have cost it as much as $100m.

When asked whether the latest news could make him vote against Mr Trump if he runs for a second term in 2020, one worker, who gave his name only as Tod, replied: “No, I don’t think so. It’s going to take a little bit more than that. He’s doing good things. We’ll just have to see who runs on the other side, that might change my vote.”

Mark, another Harley worker sitting astride his motorbike during the afternoon shift change at this plant that employs about 1,000 workers, said: “I think Harley is just using it as an excuse” to move more production overseas, after a recent decision to close the company’s Kansas City plant. “They will just blame it on Trump.”

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 Mr Trump later appeared to echo that argument, castigating the company for using the tariffs as a pretext. “Surprised that Harley-Davidson, of all companies, would be the first to wave the White Flag,” he tweeted, highlighting the irony that such a symbol of made-in-the-USA greatness would be one of the first casualties in his trade battle.

Several workers said they thought they could find other employment if they lost their Harley jobs — partly because the US economy is booming.

Still, they are the last people that Mr Trump would want to hurt with his trade manoeuvring. He won the presidency in 2016 largely by winning swing states such as Wisconsin, which had not voted Republican in a presidential election in more than 30 years. And that was largely because blue-collar voters like them chose him and his promise to revive American manufacturing.

Mr Trump and his party cannot afford to lose their support just ahead of midterm congressional elections that are likely to see the Democratic party working hard to get more voters to the polls.

 Scott Dunn, president of ACV, a hydraulic repair company located just outside the Harley plant, probably speaks for many Trump supporters in this area when he said: “I think he’s right to confront the issue” of unfair trade. Mr Trump’s backing, especially in the Midwest, has so far proved remarkably resilient.

Even those who might be directly hurt by his policies are not rushing to abandon him.

“He’s making changes, trying to get the country back where it needs to be,” said one Harley worker, grinding a cigarette butt into the pavement before returning to work.

The details of how he does so may matter less than the mere idea that Mr Trump is trying to “make America great again”.

 

 

[Howl]

Epic face palm.  These people truly believe that Trump has their backs. 

[Drala]

The cult of Trump goes cross-cultural. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-is-worshipped-as-a-god-by-this-man/ar-AAzeyys?ocid=ientp

https://youtu.be/vAEP-FhFGmA

[Cartmann99]

Meanwhile, at the Family Values Brothel:

If Trump starts tweeting favorably about Hof, Daddy Huckabee will ask TBN for permission to do a live edition of his show from Hof's brothel.

[47of74]

Meanwhile, at the Family Values Brothel:
If Trump starts tweeting favorably about Hof, Daddy Huckabee will ask TBN for permission to do a live edition of his show from Hof's brothel.

And will start spouting off horse shit about how fucking prostitutes for money is biblical.

[AmericanRose]

From my own BT [who was born in the early '60s]:

After telling me I should boycott Netflix because of child porn, she suddenly began sending me:

"My personal position is that society must keep children safe. Vladimir Putin"

"Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos... But they were mistaken. Vladimir Putin"

"You know growing up in the Cold War never thought I would say this.... but I like Putin"

"I think happiness is love Vladimir Putin"

I didn't respond because I was napping, so she sent a text asking "Geez what did I do now" and I'm just like "YOU'RE QUOTING PUTIN."

I didn't say that because there's no point, but WTF?! Russia's propaganda machine is working quite well... in the States.

Can I immigrate to Canada? 

[JMarie]

On 6/25/2018 at 5:15 PM, Cartmann99 said:

Why don't they just date other Trump administration employees? From what we saw of Hope Hick's personal life, there doesn't seem to be any rules against it. 

Can't they just date famous conservatives and/or Fox News folks?  You know, like Junior and Kimberly Guilfoyle (a former Victoria's Secret model - who knew?).  Let's see, single conservatives... there's Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Kayleigh McEneny, Katrina Pierson, Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens.  At least a few of them have to be single.  Bristol Palin could be on the list, if she's still going through with her divorce.  There's gotta be more.

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[47of74]

From my own BT [who was born in the early '60s]:

After telling me I should boycott Netflix because of child porn, she suddenly began sending me:

"My personal position is that society must keep children safe. Vladimir Putin"

"Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos... But they were mistaken. Vladimir Putin"

"You know growing up in the Cold War never thought I would say this.... but I like Putin"

"I think happiness is love Vladimir Putin"

I didn't respond because I was napping, so she sent a text asking "Geez what did I do now" and I'm just like "YOU'RE QUOTING PUTIN."

I didn't say that because there's no point, but WTF?! Russia's propaganda machine is working quite well... in the States.

Can I immigrate to Canada? 

I’d tell that BT to fuck off and that if she ever contacted me again I’d file a harassment complaint against her. Not necessarily in that order.

[AmericanRose]

Unfortunately, that BT is my mother :\

[AmazonGrace]

Can't confirm the cops were called by racist Trumpsters but wouldn't bet the farm they weren't 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Don't tread on meh :  

 

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