Band of Bullshitters

[Aroura]

That's what the chief bullshitter says.

Of course, he's too busy to learn his new job.  What a fucking catastrophe this is going to be.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-tu...y-threats/

Trump turns away intelligence briefings that must update him on global security threats

The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that President-Elect Donald Trump has been denying the analysts tasked with giving him the top secret intelligence briefing every day. The briefings are to give the president and president-elect an update on global security threats and developments. The document is designed to give a summary of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies to update the president on covert programs being run overseas by the CIA.

Trump hasn’t been updated more than twice since he won the election over two weeks ago. Pence has received a briefing almost every day.

Because sucking Putin's cock is far more important.

So, we really do have President Pence. Much like with Bush the dumber, it appears the vp will be the brains, while the president is just the face. But at 100 times the magnitude, since Bush made attempts to fulfill his responsibilities.

Who wants to take bets that the orange sphincter spends most of his time making youtube videos, going to rallies, special dinners, etc, and running his private business, and roughly 1% of his time attempting to give an appearance of governing?

I'm just baffled that less than 100k people's voices are more important that over 2 million. I'm also pretty pissed that the uneducated votes are worth more than the educated. This isnt going to end in 2 years either, or in 4, I fear.

[Minimalist]

No.  The uneducated will remain uneducated...in 4 years or 40.  As pointed out in the "Good Article" thread they would have to want to change and they don't.

The only question is whether or not the educated can motivate themselves to get off their fucking asses.  I suspect the jury is still out on this one.

[abaris]

The only question is whether or not the educated can motivate themselves to get off their fucking asses.  I suspect the jury is still out on this one.

No, it isn't. If the only lesson learned from the crash of 2008 and the ensuing crisis is the rise of fascism everywhere, people are unable to learn.

[Minimalist]

See, that's what I'm uncertain of, Abs.

We got a lot of this shit this time, also, as Bill Maher mocks here in 2005.

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Progressives generally had a pretty good run under Obama.  And if he wasn't always leading the charge then his agency heads and court picks were.  I find it hard to believe that "progressives" forgot that when you vote for a president you aren't just voting for one person.  You are electing an entire team.  The president is one person and can't be everywhere.  So when some prissy little shit whines "Hillary gave speeches to Wall St. - I don't like her" the net result is a racist in the justice department, warmongers in the pentagon, jesus freaks in the Education Department, and climate deniers in the EPA.  And it will only get worse because there is no control on the dumb tea bagging fucks in the congress.

I almost can't wait to hear them whine when Drumpf's nazi klowns start rolling back everything they think they won.

[Aroura]

No.  The uneducated will remain uneducated...in 4 years or 40.  As pointed out in the "Good Article" thread they would have to want to change and they don't.

The only question is whether or not the educated can motivate themselves to get off their fucking asses.  I suspect the jury is still out on this one.

I know.  I constantly see full blown anti-intellectualism.
Comments I've recently seen in places like 538 include people bashing the "over-educated", youtube rants about "coddled college kids", and the struggles of the "working" poor.
As if most people didn't have to work their way through college, amassing huge amounts of debt.  As if college graduates are lazy elitists who never work.

You cannot motivate them to gain more education, they despise the very notion!  It appears they are raised to hate learning, and resent those who embrace it.  I don't know how to even talk to someone who is a devout Christian but thinks "bleeding heart liberal" is an insult.  Do they not realize that term is a direct positive comparison to Jesus? There is so much contradiction in everything they believe, and they have no interest in looking outside that box.

So, they will willingly put chains around their own ankles, and force them around ours while they are at it.

Look, I grew up in a conservative town.  I remember my mom flipping out when my grade school teachers sent us home with "vote for Reagan" buttons.  My family was unusually liberal for the area.  But all of my old friends from my home town now, I see what they post, I see how they think.  The ones who left and went to college or the cities and explored life ALL became more liberal, the ones who stayed on their farms and clung to the old ways remained conservative.

It seems to me it isn't about education, per say, but the exposure to the "others" that education and city life forces on you.  It makes you realize they are people just like you, since you see them, get to know them, so the fear is reduced.  The city is the same way.  City poor people work just as hard as country poor people, the difference is that city poor people are more likely to be exposed to many colors and cultures, and so become more open to them, and less easily coerced by blind fear and hatred.

If we could just force this exposure on the isolated people in the rural red areas, I honestly think that would be enough, no education required but the education of living your life outside of your comfort zone.  But they don't want to leave their safe spaces (so ironic that they pick o liberals for this term, when they live their whole lives in one), and it's pretty hard to bring the exposure TO them.

[Minimalist]

They have to blame "the other" for their lot in life.  Far preferable to taking stock of themselves and realizing that in this country a high school diploma gets you a job flipping burgers, now.

[Mystical]

Quote:In interviews and written pieces, he has pointed to Iran as the primary source of conflict in the Middle East since Tehran's 1979 revolution.

Actually I think we are the primary source of conflict in the middle east.

Exactly. This is.. literally all the media needed to say. They shroud it in "this and that" but this
six minute video is all there needed to be said. I believe the military aren't "Protecting our Freedom"
but more being used as disposable pawns for corporate interests, just like the police force at Standing Rock.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoIbgmGxdmE

[Minimalist]

The only people attacking our freedom are conservatard shitheads.

Let's see what Drumpf's new Education Secretary thinks about child welfare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bets...af95edf12e

Group Funded By Trump’s Education Secretary Pick: ‘Bring Back Child Labor’

This raises serious questions about the woman who would potentially be in charge of U.S. public schools.

Sleazebag, corporate cocksuckers.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Put their lazy asses to work, I say. Goddamned moochers.

[Minimalist]

The republicunts won't be happy until they've turned this fucking country into Bangladesh.

If there were any justice at all they would turn it into France.... in 1789.