Month: May 2019

 
From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

Why are the Clinton supporters mad at the Electoral College if they knew beforehand it would decide the winner? Why didn’t they say something before the election?

Does anybody really believe that, had Trump won the national popular vote but lost the election, or if Kerry had squeaked by in Ohio, that these same folks would be screaming their heads off about how “unfair” it all is or refusing to attend the inaugurations of the “illegitimate” President Kerry or President Hillary Clinton? Don’t make me laugh.

Trump and Clinton both went in and played by the same electoral rules, as established by the U.S. Constitution. Both campaigned for an Electoral Vote majority, not a popular vote majority. Trump won the election fair and square. Trump is the legitimately elected president of the United States.

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From The Journal of Improbable Research:

The F note, a harmonious accompaniment to the F word

The Bibliolore blog tells some history about the supposed significance of the musical note F:

The F note, one could say, has a musing-and-fraudulent aura that makes it a good musical accompaniment to the F word.

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From Tommy Christopher:

Rep. Tlaib Warns Mnuchin To ‘Seek Out Legal Advice’: Trump DOJ ‘Not Protecting You, It’s Protecting The President’

“As somebody that has practiced law and is an attorney, I would revise you, secretary, to get personal legal advice,” Tlaib said, “because the coverup by this administration, it goes just beyond just providing the taxes.”

Tlaib was referring to Mnuchin’s defiance of a congressional subpoena to provide President Donald Trump‘s tax returns. Mnuchin sat motionless as Tlaib continued.

“You can consult the Department of Justice, but you, personally, making decisions, not on the best part of the American people, but to cover up the occupant of the White House, I think you need to be very very clear about what your role is, and what your responsibility is to the American people,” Tlaib said.

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From The Borowitz Report:

Greg Reed, the Senate Majority Leader, said that, if signed into law, the measure would achieve his fellow Republican senators’ long-standing goal of making tourism to Alabama “so rare as to be essentially nonexistent.”

“This is a great day for everyone in the state of Alabama who has worked so hard to wipe out the evil scourge of tourism,” he said.

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

One need only watch what is happening on the abortion issue to see what happens when Christian beliefs are treated as the equivalent of federal and state law. The abortion issue hinges on constitutional rights, not Biblical commands. What God says on the matter has no part to play in the abortion debate. All that matters is whether a woman has a fundamental right to control her own body. Science, not Bronze Age theology, should determine the medical and social parameters for abortion.

That Evangelicals stubbornly and ignorantly refuse to understand this, leads them to wrongly conclude that they are being persecuted by secularists. While certainly there are individual instances of persecution, such unjust treatment is rare and certainly is not the result of some sort of systemic, organized assault against people of faith.

I was an Evangelical pastor for 25 years. And I wasn’t just any old Evangelical preacher. I was an outspoken, in-your-face, meddler in the private lives of others and in the daily machinations of government and public education. I was, in every way, a Grade A, pain in the ass. When my preaching, beliefs, and behavior were challenged, I thought I was being persecuted for my faith. Was that really the case?

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From The Onion:

Cory Booker Tries To Relate To Rural Voters By Mangling Hand In Grain Auger

OSCEOLA, IA—In an attempt to show how much he had in common with the audience at a campaign event on an Iowa farm, Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker tried to connect with rural voters Friday by deliberately mangling his hand in a grain auger.

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From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

Take a good look, America.

This is your “lesser of two evils.”
This is the result of your third party, middle finger protest vote.
This is the fruit of you checking out and opting out altogether back in 2016.

I hope it was worth it, though I can’t imagine how it could be.

I think you’re beginning to see you made a mistake, I sense your silent regret, and I hear you carefully walking back your decision.

I even see you responding with apparent shock—but for the life of me I can’t imagine you’re surprised right now, even though you claim to be.

More disturbing than you voting for him out of supposed necessity, or choosing an independent candidate that ensured his ascension, or abstaining from voting at all—is you acting like this wasn’t the logical outcome, that this unmitigated global disaster wasn’t all but inevitable.

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From Infidel753:

Some more revised word definitions, based on what the words visibly should mean…..

Adverse: A poetic advertisement

Bellowing: You’re in debt in the amount of one clanging instrument

Brokerage: Anger at running out of money

Cobalt: A fellow resident of Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania

Collusion: The illusion of a collision

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From News Corpse:

Big Baby Trump Resorts to Whining and Lying When Fellow Republican Says He’s Impeachable

The pattern of Trump’s attack is typified by first maligning his foe as an inferior with ulterior motives. Thus, Amash is a “lightweight” who is just looking for attention. But then Trump made the laughable charge that Amash had not read the Mueller report, which Trump absolutely didn’t read. At best he had one of his nannies summarize it with a few charts and pictures that made him look like a superhero.

In what might ordinarily be considered a hysterical satire, Trump dismissed the Mueller report as the “biased” product of “18 Angry Dems who hated Trump.” (For the record, there are more like 65 million angry Democrats who hate Trump). However, he also said that it found “NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION.” But if the report that allegedly exonerated him was biased, doesn’t that mean that it DID find collusion and obstruction?

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From Scotties Toy Box:

I admire the selfless action of Mr. Keanon Lowe especially since just recently a young man who did the same thing to a gunman in a college class lost his life saving the others. However I think Mr. Lowe did not get the recognition he richly deserves. The shooters name was mentioned more than the one who stopped him, held him for police, and possibly saved lives.

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