US Politics

why not make fun of his cashew cock? it seems to to be all he has in common with the majority of his supporters.

They keep calling but I'm not answering the phone.

Seems fair - if the forum rang me, I probably wouldn't answer either

the above was followed by this:

"Things to DO:
—Criticise his misogyny, racism, homo/transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, rampant capitalism, populism.
—Create allyships with groups affected, incl,
—amplifying their voices, and sharing the content & advocacy they produce from within their groups.
—Scrutinise his policies, and expose them.
Organise
Organise
Organise
X"

TBH I quite enjoy mocking his tiny hands, can't say I'm going to change. Soz.

His team are claiming they presented "alternative facts."

Alternatives to facts.

Also, the thing that makes his tiny hands funny is how childishly angry he gets about it because he's so mortified about being insufficiently manly. It's a cheap laugh, but still a laugh.

I'm still stuck on the huge inauguration crowds:

^ More Zygooriddy than crowd.

allyships

I can't say I've heard this one before.

Melania looked terrified on Friday, really nervous and trembly. I think she's the FIRST first generation first lady.

Edit - I can just wiki.

John Adam's wife was born in London. Maybe others.

do try to keep up

http://www.aluminium-boats.com/

Actually submitted to congress by the new lot, and on the official congressional website. I'm not really sure how the US system works, and this may be something like a UK private members bill which has virtually zero chance of getting through, but still. It's a pretty bold statement of intent.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193/all-info

Not loading for me, goes to a Microcosm link that hangs.

It's a bill to withdraw from the UN.

"All Bill Information (Except Text) for H.R.193 - American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017"

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193

Fuck me, you see more people at a Fulham match

WTAFIGO

If anything is eerily reminiscent of Hitler here, this is. One of the things the Nazis did in their first year in power was to hold a referendum on exiting the League of Nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1933

Obviously, the League of Nations was not nearly the same body as the UN, but the echoes are there.

I do hope it's just a crazy no-hoper's bill, but I'm not really expecting hopes to come true right now.

The same bill is introduced year after year, and obviously gets ignored by Congress year after year.

Thanks, with any luck the same holds true this year.

So, with so few people and such b-grade acts performing how did Trump spend the $90+million dollars he 'raised' for the inauguration festivities, bearing in mind Obama's record breaking events replete with Beyonce etc cost $30 million less?

I'm betting there's a lot of invoice-writing going on at the moment for consumables and consultants...

All very virtuous but this is exactly the kind of liberal thought policing that has paralysed the left. It's to do with maintaining the moral high ground yes? To avoid being called a hypocrit? I will mock him however I see fit using my own standards and if it has more impact because it's uncensored then all the better. His appearance is absolutely up for grabs. His ludicrous combover and spray tan are signs of vain and deluded man. I wouldn't call him fat but I might say bloated because that also hints at his appalling bloviating bullshit artistry.

Melania deserves derision too, she is a fully grown adult. Her grasp of English is pathetic given the many years she has lived in the U.S., and her image comes into play (only) in as much as she has trophy wife written all over her. I pity her, but she's either stupid or an arsehole. She and Ivanka have obviously had tons of plastic surgery and that says something about Trump and his world. To notice the evident superficially is not unfair.

Part of the problem with the criticism I've seen and heard of Trump over the last year or whatever has been that it gets way to hung up on detail. Yes, he's said some diabolical shit but that's because he is a very nasty and possible mentally unhealthy individual. He doesn't seem to give much thought to the offensive crap he utters, so I'm not going to get hung up on the detail of it. To constantly refer back to the Mexican rapist comment, the pussy grabbing comment, the disabled person mocking is in a way to take what he says too seriously. It's not even worthy of analysis.

His vacuous, vindictive, narcissistic, bigoted, lying, self-contradicting character is evident in almost everything he says, even just his manner. He exposes himself at every turn, it's uncanny. As many have already observed, any one of his comments might have been enough to disqualify anyone else's candidacy, but it's come so thick and fast that it's been impossible to keep up let alone hold him accountable. Shock and awe. Criticisms of him should focus on his fundamental impulses, not the wording of some throwaway nonsense he said over a year ago, gross as it may have been. It's just not effective.

Not a fan, then?

the kind of liberal thought policing that has paralysed the left.

I'd argue that the left is also paralysed by it's snobbery. For example the criticisms of Melania's lack of eloquence plays up to the Trump voters' view of the left as elitist snobs. And the penis size stuff, well, you're at the level of Ted Cruz on that, not good company.

While I think this list I reposted made some good points, however, I've no intention of trying to police anyone. I posted because it raises something worth discussing, not because I'm trying to tell anyone what to do. Alot of the Trump cartoons I've enjoyed focus on all of these things; they're funny.