Christmas Evening Open Thread
Posted: December 25, 2018 Filed under: Barack Obama, just because, U.S. Politics | Tags: Christmas, Donald Trump, open thread 31 Comments
Good Evening!!
I hope everyone had a lovely day despite the self-absorbed asshole living in the White House and his mountain of grievances. Here’s a bit of his so-called Christmas message to the troops today. CNN reports:
In President Donald Trump’s Christmas Day telling, the drugs are flowing over the border, the Federal Reserve is imperiling the economy and the Democrats are preparing to harass him with oversight requests.
“It’s a disgrace, what’s happening in our country,” Trump fumed, seated behind the Resolute Desk on Tuesday, after decrying Democrats as hypocrites and recalling — unprompted — his firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
“But other than that,” he said, his hands gesturing outward, “I wish everybody a very merry Christmas.”Celebrating the holiday at the White House instead of his Palm Beach estate, Trump used a phone call session with American troops to advance his case for a border wall, his isolationist foreign policy views and his insistence that his campaign did not collude with Russia.
Trump acknowledged the standoff with Democrats over funding for his long-promised border wall has no foreseeable end date.“I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it,” he said.
I’m sure the men and women serving overseas found that very edifying . . . not. Here’s mash-up of his public whining:
Remember when we had a real president? It’s hard to believe it has only been two years since the Obamas sent out their final Christmas message.
I just got home after spending the day with family. I thought I’d share a few stories that have caught my attention tonight.
NBC News: Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime.
Texas Tribune: ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on eve of Christmas without warning shelters.
Post and Courier: Do a ‘marginal’ number of 7-year-olds believe in Santa? That’s what Trump told a SC girl.
Raw Story: Trump bizarrely claims ‘many’ federal workers want to go without paychecks until he gets his wall.
The Washington Post: The sermon Trump heard on Christmas Eve featured a cruel emperor, migrants seeking refuge and ‘the hardest of years’
The New York Times: Trump’s King Minus Touch.
The New Yorker: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Nephew on Winning the Aunt Lottery.
Scientific American: There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought.
Happy Holidays, Sky Dancers!!
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Love them. They were good stewards of our country.
Oh look – normal Christmas trees.
The First Vampiress got out of her coffin, you expect her to give up her blood trees as well.
Sounds like you are feeling better. That us good news.
Thanks, OG. I’m getting there. I hope your day was happy.
BB, your doctor has ruled out whooping cough? Friends from DC wrote that there was an outbreak at their daughter’s high school and she had to miss the last 2 weeks of school, plus take anti-biotics. It’s highly contagious. Sore ribs can be a symptom.
Happy day and may our wishes for aquick end to the reign of Kremlin Caligula come true!
BB, I’m so glad that you were feeling well enough to spend the day with your family.
Thanks, Sue, I’m still coughing a lot, but I’m definitely better. I hope your day was peaceful and happy.
The picture if Trump looks like a thug. A rich thug, but still a thug.
Yes he does – he is one.
He wants to be known as athletic and good at sports but couldn’t serve in Vietnam. Had to fight off venereal disease instead. What a loser.
Happy Boxing Day everyone!
Same to you! One of my favorite days to stay in my pajamas and curl up with a good book.
He’s in Iraq but far away from Baghdad.
I don’t think he’s supposed to use Air Force One when the government is shut down.
The “essential service” waiver could let him use AF1.
What’s the significance of it being under a different call sign?
I don’t know.
This article has some info about how aviation enthusiasts trace flights.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/680057009/trump-and-first-lady-make-secret-trip-to-iraq-to-visit-u-s-troops
Treasonous bastard. Anyone else who did this would be court-martialed and jailed.