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Title: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on June 26, 2018, 03:03:08 AM
Welcome To America

(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/trump-immigration-final.jpg)

The national disgrace caused by Donald Trump and his woefully misled supporters needs to come to an end.

Regardless of where you stand upon immigration, I think every decent, moral person would agree that America should never become known as the nation that terrorizes little children and babies. But that is precisely what has been happening -- thanks to Donald Trump and his insanely racist executive order to separate children from their parents at the US/Mexico border. Trump claims that they are no longer doing this... but as of this posting, the U.S. government has no real and viable plan to reunite these children with their families. Many of them may never be reunited at all... not ever. It's a quagmire and a disgrace.

Do you see the terrified little girl on that Time magazine cover..? She isn't vermin... she isn't "infesting" America... she isn't here to spread crime and she certainly isn't capable of hurting anyone. She's just a little girl... a sweet, innocent and traumatized child, who will quite possibly be psychologically scarred for the rest of her life. I think she's adorable... and the thought of how callously she's being treated makes me want to scream.

Donald Trump is a Nazi. It's as simple as that. So are his most ardent supporters. Nothing but xenophobic, vicious punks... all of them. People like Trump are the same people who were responsible for Kristallnacht. The same people who loaded terrorized human beings onto cattle cars and then shipped them off to Auschwitz. And yes -- it damned well is too a legitimate comparison to make.

When you dehumanize a specific group of people and then use them as scapegoats for all of your own inadequacies and frustrations, it doesn't take long before you then begin to feel justified in brutalizing those people. One mentality almost always leads into the other... which is why we, as Americans, need to put an end to this atrocious policy IMMEDIATELY. Before it escalates to the next tragic and inevitable stage.

Donald Trump is a hateful, inhuman, psychologically disturbed person -- and he is completely unfit to hold public office. Please... everyone... sign petitions and urge your elected officials to move forward on the impeachment of the president. Let's not wait for another horrendous human tragedy to happen, before we act. And when the next elections roll around, be sure to vote against any and all members of Congress who are still openly supporting Donald Trump and his sick policies. Even if you hate the opposing candidate... we absolutely must throw these Nazi bastards out on their asses, in order to show the rest of the world that Americans will not tolerate this kind of horrible, divisive crap any longer.

Or... I guess we should just tear down the Statue of Liberty -- because right now, she's been reduced to being a corroded old copper statue, that no longer stands for anything meaningful in America.

Just think about it -- please. Don't let your emotions interfere with your ability to know right from wrong. That's what happened in Germany in the 1930's and yes, it could happen here, too. Do we really need to repeat that horrifying history..?

- Tessera -
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Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 01, 2018, 04:59:22 AM
In a bit of related trivia...


It is in fact true, according to Newsweek and other sources, that Bernie Sanders is currently the most popular politician in America. More than that -- Sanders happens to be the ONLY politician in America who is approved of by a majority of the voting public (he currently holds a 54% approval rating). As for who the least popular politician in America is... well, whattya know -- it's Donald Trump, of course. If any of you are in doubt (or in denial), then simply Google "most popular American politician" for yourselves.

In a recent California senate race, the Republican candidate received only 9% of the vote. The fucker couldn't even break into the double digits... he was annihilated. California, which is where I live, is a notoriously left-wing state -- but this result surprised even me. Way to go, California... keep fighting the good fight.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that America is finally swinging back to the left. So... the Trumpanzees can run their ignorant and hateful mouths until they're blue in the face, but they happen to be increasingly outnumbered and they WILL go down in the end.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 13, 2018, 08:23:23 PM
Has anyone watched the latest pathetic attempts by the Republicans to attack the Mueller investigation and the FBI..?

One of the GOP congressmen leading the charge inspired me to toss together this photo:

(http://www.tessmage.com/images/freaks/Trey_Gowdy_Deliverance_Mongoloid.jpg)

On the left, the banjo-playing Mongoloid from the classic 1972 film Deliverance.

On the right, South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy.

Is there a resemblance..? Hmmm.... Well, I don't remember the Mongoloid kid foaming at the mouth the way Gowdy does, but they do kinda remind me of one another. Inbred and all that.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 18, 2018, 04:32:30 PM
Wait a minute... I just thought of something...

(http://www.tessmage.com/images/freaks/Trump_Damien_Omen_II.jpg)

Could it be true..?   :o
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 19, 2018, 10:13:19 PM
In other news...


(http://www.tessmage.com/images/freaks/Trump+Putin_private_meeting.jpg)


Self-explanatory.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Cylnar on July 19, 2018, 10:28:05 PM
And the whole world knows it. America is an international laughingstock thanks to Trump and the Republicans. ::)

And this idiot has the nuclear codes. Unfuckingbelievable. :o
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 20, 2018, 12:46:13 AM
Quote from: Cylnar on July 19, 2018, 10:28:05 PM
And the whole world knows it. America is an international laughingstock thanks to Trump and the Republicans. ::)


Ya know... awhile back, I told you that I wanted to tone down the number of political posts on this board. Remember..? I know you weren't happy about it.

Well, I've changed my mind. I can't keep my mouth shut any longer. Everyone should feel free to post whatever they wish. Hopefully, you'll all agree that Trump and the GOP are a rat pack dominated by evil parasites. But you can post anything you want to... even if you disagree with me. What we need here in the USA is some good old-fashioned and civilized dialogue about the current state of affairs.

America needs to see a blue wave in November and then, we need to impeach and arrest Donald Trump... and lock him up in a mental asylum somewhere. Oh... and take all of his money away, and give it to the immigrant families that he tried to brutalize and destroy.

I've lived a long time and I've seen all sorts of political corruption over the years... but I have never, ever seen anything like this. Enough is enough.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 20, 2018, 08:39:04 PM
Recent front page of the New York Daily News paper...

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.boldprogressives.org/images/Daily_News_cover_re_Trump_Open_Treason_20180717.png)

Yeah, I'd say it's pretty serious at this point. Trump is not only impeachable, but is almost certainly guilty of treason... a crime which used to carry the death penalty in this country.

Back when Trump first took office, I predicted that he wouldn't even make it through his first term. I said that he would either be impeached, or forced to resign in disgrace. The way I see things unfolding right now, my expectation at this point is that Trump will resign if the November elections go against the GOP. After he resigns, VP Mike Pence will pardon him.. a la Nixon and Gerald Ford, way back in 1974. 

Regardless of whether Trump ultimately receives a pardon, I feel that the People of the United States should sue Donald Trump in court, for billions of dollars in damages, on the grounds that he has severely damaged our nation's reputation, our relationships with our allies, our economy and yes, he should also pay restitution to the migrant families who were terrorized by having their children stolen from them at the border. A high-profile lawsuit of that type would go a long way toward reassuring the rest of the world that America hates Trump and that we seek to make him pay for his crimes... one way or another. Taking billionaire Donny's money away would be a very fitting punishment indeed... it's practically poetic.  ;)
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 21, 2018, 01:57:07 AM
Here is a response that I just posted on YouTube, regarding Trump's mental state...


Tessmage Tessera 1 minute ago (edited)

I think Trump is a classic example of what is known as malignant narcissistic personality disorder. This is a person who is desperately trying to maintain the illusion of his own superiority. To that end, he will lie, he will cheat, he will steal, he will plaster himself with an artificial veneer of visually impressive accoutrements (which includes his wife, the former underwear model) and surround himself with "loyal" sycophants. When such people are in danger of being exposed, they typically resort to pathological lying, in order to divert attention away from their own shortcomings and faults. Sometimes, they will even look for a patsy to pin their own failures upon. This obviously describes Trump quite well... and it also indicates that he suffers from a serious mental disorder which could, quite possibly, endanger us all. Donald Trump needs to be forcibly removed from office -- before anything truly terrible happens.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 23, 2018, 04:22:22 AM
Ya know, at this point, it's incredible to me that there are still Americans who support Donald Trump. Whenever I try to picture Trump supporters in my mind, I keep getting this mental image of herds of glassy-eyed zombies, tumbling out of the short bus and then shambling aimlessly about, while chanting "MA-GA... MA-GA" as if they were under some form of sinister mind control. These people are clearly not thinking for themselves anymore. Hell... maybe they never did. It's just very sad to watch.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 24, 2018, 07:49:50 AM
And then there's this obese, revolting twat...

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDjBsURzoz4/WffH1gdiAVI/AAAAAAAAWyY/9plQdXUDAYg89vGUx7zf3FaJS4yKU7_7wCLcBGAs/s1600/sazah.jpg)

What a miserable, amoral piglet this woman is. At this point, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is no longer Trump's press secretary... she has functionally become Trump's paid interpreter. I'm so sick of seeing this fat, sneering, demonic she-cow on TV, deceptively paraphrasing and explaining Trump's insane rants, his ridiculous flip-flops and his self-aggrandizing utterances. She has zero credibility and she is also totally unqualified for her position. If not for her family ties, she never would have landed this job. Not in a million years... not only because she looks terrible on camera, but also because she is openly hostile to the press. I've seen several of her press conferences devolve into shouting matches and honestly, Sarah Sanders is just one more national embarrassment that we're all being forced to put up with.

This bitch needs to be fired, and then forcibly handcuffed and shackled to a StairMaster for a couple of years. You could fit a 6-year-old child into the left side of her ass, fer chrissakes.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 29, 2018, 06:45:30 PM
Prof. Allan Lichtman predicts that Donald Trump will be impeached:

https://youtu.be/yGd7h-Tpy7E

"Professor Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted every US presidential race since 1984. He believes that President Donald Trump will be impeached during his time in office."

Speaking personally, I'm hoping that by this time next year, Trump will no longer be our president. Frankly, I'm hoping that Trump will be imprisoned as well. So when a high-powered political analyst like Allan Lichtman predicts that Trump will indeed be impeached, I feel somewhat reassured. Prof. Lichtman has been correct on just about every political question of the past 35 years, so let's hope he's right this time as well.

As an aside, I'd like to say that all of those titillating news stories about Trump's relationships with porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal don't interest me at all. I didn't care who Bill Clinton was fucking -- and I don't care about who Trump has been fucking, either. I just care about how much Trump has been fucking AMERICA up the ass. His relationships with sleazy gold diggers are completely immaterial to me. Rich guys attract opportunistic whores like flies... that's been true for thousands of years. Trump's current wife is in the same "opportunistic whore" category, fer chrissakes. The man has never experienced real, true, genuine love in his life -- all of his women have been glorified whores, who in all probability secretly detest him. So big deal... the mass media need to stop focusing on lowbrow stories about sex and stay focused on Trump's actual crimes.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Blankspace on July 30, 2018, 06:56:58 AM
Quote from: Tessera on July 29, 2018, 06:45:30 PM
Prof. Allan Lichtman predicts that Donald Trump will be impeached:

https://youtu.be/yGd7h-Tpy7E

"Professor Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted every US presidential race since 1984. He believes that President Donald Trump will be impeached during his time in office."

Speaking personally, I'm hoping that by this time next year, Trump will no longer be our president. Frankly, I'm hoping that Trump will be imprisoned as well. So when a high-powered political analyst like Allan Lichtman predicts that Trump will indeed be impeached, I feel somewhat reassured. Prof. Lichtman has been correct on just about every political question of the past 35 years, so let's hope he's right this time as well.

As an aside, I'd like to say that all of those titillating news stories about Trump's relationships with porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal don't interest me at all. I didn't care who Bill Clinton was fucking -- and I don't care about who Trump has been fucking, either. I just care about how much Trump has been fucking AMERICA up the ass. His relationships with sleazy gold diggers are completely immaterial to me. Rich guys attract opportunistic whores like flies... that's been true for thousands of years. Trump's current wife is in the same "opportunistic whore" category, fer chrissakes. The man has never experienced real, true, genuine love in his life -- all of his women have been glorified whores, who in all probability secretly detest him. So big deal... the mass media need to stop focusing on lowbrow stories about sex and stay focused on Trump's actual crimes.

When that happens watch his supporters really lose it.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Cylnar on July 30, 2018, 06:58:17 AM
Quote from: Tessera on July 29, 2018, 06:45:30 PM
I just care about how much Trump has been fucking AMERICA up the ass.

I just hope Trump gets impeached before he, Bitch McCocksucker and the Geriatric Ophidian Pigfuckers are able to push through the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Once Kavanaugh is seated, Trump's presidency will continuously assrape America for the next 30+ years, regardless of what happens to Trump himself. >:(
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 30, 2018, 08:57:23 AM
Quote from: Blankspace on July 30, 2018, 06:56:58 AM
When that happens watch his supporters really lose it.

Yeah... I swear, Trump's supporters have become akin to some sort of whacked-out, Kool-Aid drinking cult at this point. Trump could probably run naked down 5th Avenue, randomly shooting children with a machine gun and raping every young woman he sees, and his supporters would still be chanting his name like zombies, and licking his asshole clean every time he shits on them. Which, in fact, is exactly what Trump has been doing. To date, Trump has broken each and every promise that he made to his supporters during his campaign... every single one... and has in fact done more to harm them than any other president since Herbert Hoover. I've never seen anything so pathetic and perplexing in my life --  it's fucking surreal. But the good news is that Trump's supporters are such a small minority at this point, that we really don't need to care about them anymore. They're finished.. whether they know it, or not.



Quote from: Cylnar on July 30, 2018, 06:58:17 AM
I just hope Trump gets impeached before he, Bitch McCocksucker and the Geriatric Ophidian Pigfuckers are able to push through the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Once Kavanaugh is seated, Trump's presidency will continuously assrape America for the next 30+ years, regardless of what happens to Trump himself. >:(

Well, unless it can be proven that Trump's presidency was illegitimate (ie: due to collusion with and interference from the Russians).

In which case, all of his appointments would be considered null and void.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: beetle on July 30, 2018, 10:33:43 AM
Buddy of mine said if Trump was impeached Pence would be impeached the week after. What do they have on him?
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 30, 2018, 11:24:13 AM
Quote from: beetle on July 30, 2018, 10:33:43 AM
Buddy of mine said if Trump was impeached Pence would be impeached the week after. What do they have on him?

Nothing, so far as I know. And we wouldn't want Pence to be impeached, anyway. If both the president and the vice president are removed, then the leadership of the country goes to the Speaker of the House... which in this case would be Paul Ryan. And that's the last fucking thing that we need right now.

Besides, if the Dems win big in November and Trump is subsequently impeached, I think we can count on Pence to sheepishly behave himself for the remainder of his term.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on July 31, 2018, 12:22:01 AM
Here is a stirring quote, from a recent editorial which appeared in The New Yorker magazine:

Quote from: The New Yorker (July 2018)
On this occasion, as on many others in recent years, the President has flouted the law. He has not merely broken the law; he has overthrown the law. But this time, since his lawbreaking seems to remove a threat to the very survival of his Administration in office, it is not just this one act but the continuation of the Administration itself that has become lawless. The question of whether the Republic will live or die has now been decisively posed in this form: Will we remove a lawless Administration from office or will we submit to illegitimate rule?

The New Yorker is a very prestigious and highly respected publication, which was founded nearly 100 years ago (in 1925). The last time The New Yorker published anything this strongly worded against a sitting president was during the Nixon/Watergate scandal, way back in the early 1970's. This isn't "fake news," folks --  this is serious.

I think it's safe to say that the snowball is definitely rolling downhill at this point. Anti-Trump sentiments are becoming stronger and more widespread with each passing day. In fact, Trump's approval ratings are the lowest ever recorded... even lower than Nixon's were back in the days leading up to his resignation in 1974. This is deadly serious, people. Donald Trump simply must be removed from office, before he does irreparable harm to the United States of America. Things are so bad that there are even a number of Republicans who have begun to agree with that assertion: TRUMP MUST GO.

Whether you like it or not... and whether you are in denial or not... the evidence strongly indicates that Trump is a traitor who has colluded with Russia, as well as being a white collar criminal, a mentally unstable borderline psychotic, an abuser of women, a thief, a pathological liar, and an all-around nasty and despicable person. For example, Donald Trump is a man who once bragged on the Howard Stern Show that he used to sneak into the dressing rooms during the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant (a beauty pageant which Trump was producing at the time), merely because he wanted to see the teen-aged girls naked. What a slimeball -- imagine if you were the father of one of those girls and you found out about that. You'd probably want to beat Trump to death with a baseball bat.

Donald Trump is not only unfit to be president, he is quite frankly unfit to be in charge of ANYTHING which has an effect upon other people's lives. In my opinion, Trump should not only be impeached, but he should also face criminal charges as well. I don't just want to see this bastard out of office... I also want to see him in handcuffs.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on August 10, 2018, 11:59:59 AM
By the way, I'd like to make this a little more personal for a moment...

My real last name is Chapman. It's an English name. My ancestors are Celts and Saxons, who first came to North America in 1649. That is our family history. We came to what, at that time, was the Massachusetts Bay Colony, here in the New World. After obtaining a land grant, we first founded a farm in rural Massachusetts, and then one branch of the family moved further north and relocated to the newer colonies that were being established in Maine. In short, I'm a genuine New England Yankee and my family has lived in America for nearly 400 years.

Why am I telling you all of this boring stuff..? Mostly because I want to make it clear that I, as much as anyone else in America, have a perfect right to express my views about immigration. My family has been in America far longer than Trump's family has. Shit, one of my ancestors was an officer during the American Revolutionary War and he was actually decorated by George Washington himself, following the conclusion of that war. He retired a full general in the Continental Army. That is absolutely true and if you contact me privately, then I will tell you his name. I just prefer not to share it publicly.

More trivia: during the American Civil War, several of my New England ancestors contributed funding to the so-called "Underground Railroad," which helped escaped black slaves to safely relocate to the north.

Okay... so all of that sounds very impressive, but it's not meant as a boast. My intention is to show that Trump's apparent belief that America should be the Land Of The WASPs is absolutely not shared by me. And my pedigree is far more WASP-ey than Trump's. Hell... Trump's family didn't emigrate to America from their native Germany until the late 1800's... about 150 years after my family had already been fully established here. In fact, Trump's family were part of a wave of German immigrants who came to America back in those days and ironically, those German immigrants were indeed viewed as "invaders" by a segment of WASP-ey Americans. It was the same sort of mindless bigotry that Trump is now expressing toward Hispanic immigrants. You would think that, given his own family's history, Trump would have a bit more empathy for immigrants in general.

What this all amounts to is simple: Trump is a vicious, sick little man who is trying to get us all to fight amongst ourselves. To some small extent, he has succeeded... but not for much longer. I'm as American as American can be... I am also of 100% white European heritage... and I love immigrants. I love them because I love diversity, and I also know that immigrants are not a threat to America in any way, shape or form.

That's just the big lie told by Trump and other mindless bigots and they are DEAD WRONG. Trump himself wouldn't be here, if not for our open borders. His pretty Slavic wife wouldn't be here, either. Nor would the rest of her family, who recently emigrated to the USA just this past week. Trump's first wife, Ivana (mother of Ivanka), has admitted in her own book that she was here in the USA illegally, prior to marrying Donald Trump, using falsified documents.

The hypocrisy of Donald Trump knows no bounds and it's high time that we, The American People, ejected this hateful bastard from office. He does not represent what America has always stood for.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on August 11, 2018, 10:40:18 AM
Donald Trump's vision of a "more secure" America:

(http://treblinkaproject.weebly.com/uploads/5/5/5/3/5553327/6369717.jpg?340)

That photo, incidentally, was taken at the Treblinka death camp in 1944.
Don't those children look happy..? Just like being at a summer camp, eh..?

"History never repeats itself -- but it often echoes." ~ Mark Twain
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on August 19, 2018, 09:29:43 PM
And then there's the leader of Trump's legal team...

(https://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/giuliani%20hannity%20main.jpg)

...

Umm... hmmm.

There were all sorts of things that I wanted to say about Giuliani... but I've decided that the photo above needs no words.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on August 21, 2018, 10:13:16 PM
What a fun day for Baby Donald..!!!

Today, Paul Manafort (Trump's former campaign manager) was found guilty and convicted of several very serious crimes. Manafort is going to prison.

Also today, Michael Cohen (Trump's personal lawyer) testified in court that Donald Trump ordered him to pay hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playmate Karen McDougal, prior to the 2016 election.

The noose is tightening around Trump's neck at this point. Somebody better put him on suicide watch, because this has been a devastating day for Trump and his supporters. We haven't seen anything this damning against a sitting president since Watergate... and it appears as though it is going to get even worse for Donald Trump.

Man, I love being a liberal. Liberal... progressive... whatever you wanna call it. It definitely helps me to sleep at night.

PS --

Okay so, where are the Congressional Republicans after all of this..? Knock, knock... hello..? Is this on..? Republicans..? Are you there..? THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES. Now do your fucking jobs and impeach Trump immediately.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Cylnar on September 06, 2018, 08:20:06 AM
And the latest chapter in the Trump circus is the hearings surrounding the possible confirmation of Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

Except in the exceedingly unlikely event that Trump's presidency is entirely annulled (something the Repigfucker party, which Trump has brought firmly into power, will fight until the bitter end) either this putrid, far-right-wing nutjob, or in the case the hearings go against him, maybe a slightly less far-right-wing nutjob, will ensure a far-right-wing nutjob majority on the court for a generation (15-30 years). This is the way that Trump rapes America long after his abortion of a Presidency has come crumbling down and the whole Trump family except maybe Tiffany and Barron are forced to depend on the inevitable round of pardons from Mike Pence. :-X

Speaking of abortion...yeah, you can kiss Roe v. Wade goodbye within a year of Kavanaugh's seating, if he is seated. Give it another year and up to 22 red states will have banned it (some actually have "trigger" laws that will ban the procedure immediately upon the repeal of Roe v. Wade). Not to mention his career of consistently upholding corporate and wealthy privilege, ruling against workers, unions, and workplace and environmental regulations. The *very best* this nation can reasonably hope for is that this particular judge fail confirmation and the Democrats get their "blue wave" and take control of at least the House. Then they can force a "compromise" giving us a justice who is maybe slightly less reactionary than Kavanaugh. Most likely though, the Democratic "leadership" will cave and Kavanaugh will be confirmed with the votes of several red-state Democrats and a scattering of permitted (by the majority whip) "protest" votes from retiring and/or blue-state Republicans. ::)

The pic below says all you need to know about Brett Kavanaugh's character. You may have seen this elsewhere; this incident has deservedly "gone viral" as the kids say these days. Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland High shooting victim Jaime Guttenberg, tried to shake Kavanaugh's hand and exchange a word or two with him as the hearing was breaking for recess. Nothing disruptive or anything. Kavanaugh coldly turned away and had security remove Guttenberg from the floor. Look at the expression on Kavanaugh's face. It reminds me of nothing so much as an 18th century French aristocrat turning away from a near encounter with the hoi polloi, perhaps about to pull out his nosegay (a perfumed packet of spices) to ward off the dreadful smell. And we know what happened to those French aristocrats, don't we? :P

That disdainful moue shows the true heart of the man. Any human being with a minimum amount of empathy would have shook the man's hand, offered empty condolences (thoughts and prayers and such), smiled and excused himself. Brett Kavanaugh simply couldn't be bothered to treat someone with a different political opinion as if they were human, worthy of eye contact or basic human consideration. And this is a man who will likely soon be entrusted with decisions that will directly and indirectly impact the lives of millions of Americans. No folks, this ride is not over yet. Hopefully things will work out as nicely as Tessera thinks they will. I am not so optimistic. And even in the best case scenario, remember...Trump is the symptom, not the disease. >:(
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on September 06, 2018, 02:55:37 PM
Quote from: Cylnar on September 06, 2018, 08:20:06 AMAnd we know what happened to those French aristocrats, don't we? :P


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If it happened before, then it can happen again.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on September 07, 2018, 12:25:09 AM
Just a little reminder for everyone...

(https://pixfeeds.com/images/usa-travel/1280-589451788-statue-of-liberty-full-base.jpg)


"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

~ Inscription on The Statue of Liberty, from a poem by Emma Lazarus



If those words no longer have any meaning to most Americans, then let's tear the fucking statue down and build condos in New York harbor instead. Or maybe a toxic waste dump. Or another Trump Casino.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Cylnar on September 07, 2018, 05:43:59 AM
This entire fucking nation has been one big Trump Casino for the last 2 1/2 years. >:(
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on September 07, 2018, 10:19:01 PM
Another thing to keep in mind is that we don't actually need to impeach Donald Trump.

All we need to do is begin the impeachment process in the House. Once that ball is rolling, the Dems can subpoena Trump's financial records, his tax returns and investigate every single shady deal that he's made during the past 30 years. When all of that information goes public, Trump is finished. He will be effectively shut down until 2020, at which time he will be voted out of office. And once he's out of office, he'll get nailed on charges of federal tax evasion, a slew of illegal business dealings and possibly Russian collusion as well. Trump's future will almost certainly be spent behind bars... and his kids will probably join him there.

I'm looking forward to seeing pretty little Ivanka in handcuffs, crying with smears of mascara running down her face and wailing "WHY, Daddy..? WHY..?!"

8)
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on September 12, 2018, 05:45:00 AM

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Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Blankspace on September 12, 2018, 08:24:48 AM
Quote from: Tessera on September 12, 2018, 05:45:00 AM

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;D
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on September 12, 2018, 12:12:07 PM
So I had this really weird dream last night...


I dreamed that me and my girlfriend were going to Sea World, to see Shamu the killer whale. So we arrived at Sea World and bought our tickets and then headed over to the bleachers surrounding the big outdoor tank, where Shamu performs for cheering crowds.

Except that when we got to our seats, I noticed that the big sign above the tank didn't say "Shamu." It said:

"SEE SARAH -- THE AMAZING KILLER WHALE..!!!"

And there she was, down there in the huge tank... a big, fat, naked Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She was swimming to and fro, with what appeared to be a cloud of urine and feces trailing behind her in the water.

Suddenly, from out of a strange mist at the other end of the tank, a small boat emerged. Standing on the deck of the boat were Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They all shouted "THAR SHE BLOWS..!!!" and then they started throwing harpoons at big fat Sarah. Finally, Bernie Sanders screamed "SMILE, YOU SON OF A BITCH..!!!" and threw a perfectly aimed harpoon right into Sarah's head. Her head then instantly exploded and she stopped moving... her brains and blood all over the water.

Right then, I woke up.

I wonder what it means..?  :o


(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5bFRqwqksieWAT8SwuMlktAH9D-SUAtrZd7pidD5w4KO_2Xg)
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on October 11, 2018, 02:11:48 AM
History Repeats Itself...


1991

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnV9O8WUUAERAe7.jpg)

2018

(https://images.dailykos.com/images/596028/story_image/Sexual_Allegations_Bonfire.jpg?1538614950)
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on October 16, 2018, 06:23:54 PM
Dig this... just now, YouTube has been knocked offline.  :o

I have no idea what's going on, but it's suspicious... mainly because a lot of people were logging in to see the new rapper T.I. video that features a Melania look-alike, wearing that "I DON'T CARE, DO U?" jacket and stripping in the oval office. It's hilarious. Apparently, the Trumps are furious about it. Bwaa haa haa haa ha..!!!!!!

The feds do indeed have the power to block a particular web site and prevent anyone from accessing it (the internet is, after all, unofficially owned by the federal government). Or YouTube may have been hacked. Or, it could simply be a server (or database) crash... which I doubt, because YouTube has numerous servers all over the world... and redundant backup servers as well. Right now, YouTube is offline worldwide. Very weird.

If you try to log into YouTube right this minute, you'll get this instead:

500 Internal Server Error

Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

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The Trump circus just keeps getting better and better. I wonder how much more of this vile shit it will take, before Trump's base finally throws in the towel.  :D
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Blankspace on October 19, 2018, 07:53:54 AM
I felt something odd about that YouTube crash too, never seen anything like that before.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on October 19, 2018, 10:47:34 AM
Quote from: Blankspace on October 19, 2018, 07:53:54 AM
I felt something odd about that YouTube crash too, never seen anything like that before.

I've never seen anything like it before, either. I know server crashes can happen for all sorts of reasons... and I certainly don't want to be accused of wearing a tinfoil hat...

But the timing of it all is really interesting. Melania's office puts out a statement asking everyone to boycott rapper T.I. and then a few hours later, BOOM... YouTube is knocked offline for several hours.
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on October 20, 2018, 08:54:10 AM
Well, it's good to know that Donald Trump is making America great again. Tax cuts for billionaires that are jacking up the deficit, ripping little children from their mother's arms and locking them in cages like dogs, forcing a serial rapist onto the Supreme Court who wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade, openly expressing a sexual interest in his own daughter, regularly attacking strong women with misogynistic comments in public, participating in the cover-up of Jamal Khashoggi's murder, his various other criminal activities (collusion; emoluments) and soon, widespread violence in the streets. I'm not sure how tearing this country apart is making us great... but then, I'm not a vicious, tribal, self-loathing Neanderthal, who feels that all of our self-made problems will be solved by hating and brutalizing minorities. Adolph Hitler tried that same tactic... and we all know how well that turned out. It definitely wasn't "great." I'm just surprised by the gullibility of the typical Trump supporter. I thought most of us were more intelligent and perceptive than this... but obviously, I was wrong. Never underestimate the power of the cult of personality, eh..?
Title: Re: Welcome To America
Post by: Tessera on February 05, 2019, 01:57:52 AM
The Trump administration has just admitted that reuniting the families who were separated at the border will not be possible.

Apparently, it's too expensive... mainly because nobody bothered to adequately document who was who, when innocent little children were being torn from the loving arms of their parents.

Kinda sounds like Auschwitz, huh..?

I know how we can raise money for this cause. Abduct sleazy Melania, strip her naked, chain her over a barrel and then force her to be raped, over and over again, by a gang of horny wild chimpanzees wearing MAGA hats. Every time she screams, they should flash a big neon sign above her that says "I REALLY DON'T CARE -- DO YOU?" Make the entire spectacle into a pay-per-view event on cable TV, and then use the proceeds to pay for family reunification. And before anyone tells me that this is too harsh or crazy.... take a look at what they've done on the border, and then tell me what harsh and crazy is.

(https://video.newsserve.net/700/v/20180621/1806210510-Children-Separated-From-Parents-Placed-In-Foster-Agencies.jpg)