White House poker. Biden trumps Trump. (Trump thread #115)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Here it is.
Thanks @BruceandNosh for the title.

And still we persist.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4084369-Figures-Don-t-Lie-But-Liars-Do-Figure-Trump-thread-114?msgid=102240605#102240605

chomalungma
Fox opinion piece www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-biden-electoral-college-richard-fowler

So Fox News has two "modes": one for people who can read, and another for people who can't?

Have the talking heads on their telly shows stopped saying that Trump is wonderful? Because the video with that piece was pretty-much slagging Biden off and saying he ought to be nice to Trump. (Where have I come across #benice before? oh yes, I remember...)

Yeah, I think going for gun control at the moment will go even worse than usual. Even though the NRA has been in financial trouble for a few years now.

Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/nra-financial-crisis-layoffs-furloughs

I know gun control is a long term project to deal with horrors like school shootings and the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, as well as ridiculously high rate of deaths from accidents and petty incidents.

But at the moment, attempts to control weapons will be spun as a direct attack on the headbangers. It will be unsuccessful, as most other attempts have been, while feeding their frenzy.

@PerkingFaintly

Yeah, I think going for gun control at the moment will go even worse than usual. Even though the NRA has been in financial trouble for a few years now.

Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/29/nra-financial-crisis-layoffs-furloughs

I know gun control is a long term project to deal with horrors like school shootings and the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, as well as ridiculously high rate of deaths from accidents and petty incidents.

But at the moment, attempts to control weapons will be spun as a direct attack on the headbangers. It will be unsuccessful, as most other attempts have been, while feeding their frenzy.

Until the second amendment is at least modified - if not repealed - there is very little anyone can do. Any attempt to restrict access to guns is going to fail. And that is that.

Constitutional amendments aren't impossible - after all prohibition was created and destroyed by such (with some in between). However the fact that we are no closer today than in 2010, or 2000, or way back to the 1960s when Charles Whitman shot up a university tells you that for the US as a whole, it's really not a big deal.

So rather than wibbling on about "thoughts and prayers" people need to be realist and honest, and admit that this is the situation they are happy with and own it.

Of course there's also the "Bowling for Columbine" problem. Because it is demonstrably not access to guns that makes Americans shoot each other.

If they are able to ignore 300,000 deaths from Covid this year, the deaths of a mere 20 small children ten years ago certainly won't have any effect on the headbangers.

Quis ipsos custodes custodiet ?

americanconsequences.com/buck-sexton-social-media/

Twitter blocked President Trump’s 88.6 million followers from liking or replying to his tweets over the weekend. The company claims this was simply a mistake, but there’s very little willingness on the Right to believe that any major social media platform operates in good faith anymore.

When Twitter blocked the controversial New York Post story about Hunter Biden right before the presidential election, it was the last straw. Nobody believes Dorsey, Zuckerberg, or Pichai (CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google, respectively) when they say these decisions aren’t political. And now that the dam has broken, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube (which is owned by Google) aren’t hiding their intentions anymore.

The social media giants of Silicon Valley are going all out to shut down ideas they don’t like from Trump, the GOP, and anyone who defies their online consensus.

(contd)

Mike Pompeo will go into quarantine after coming in close contact with someone who has tested positive. He tested negative

CNN
A mayor received so many threats after supporting a mask mandate that she resigned t.co/2PN37YRgdX

Rep mayor from Dodge City, Kansas

Lone Ranger 2020 update: "Who was that unmasked man?"

thehill.com/homenews/administration/530417-neighbors-stress-trump-cant-live-at-mar-a-lago-after-leaving-white

www.politico.com/news/2020/12/16/trump-appointee-demanded-herd-immunity-strategy-446408

www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/16/louis-dejoy-meetings-still-shrouded-in-secrecy-as-postal-service-releases-heavily-redacted-calendar/?sh=71e5dbf51b15

I struggle to believe that POTUS account security was less than mine

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55337192

Twitter made the same mistake that MN did when people got hacked.

You can login with username, phone or email
Really it should be email or phone.

Unless the account is [email protected]

You'd have thought they would change that way of logging in.

MAGA2020 is not exactly a 'strong' password

@DuncinToffee

MAGA2020 is not exactly a 'strong' password

He could have used a pass phrase. Then again, they could have been guessed butheremails lockherup chinavirus buildthewall

(I bet some of those are real pass phrases)

[quote DGRossetti]I struggle to believe that POTUS account security was less than mine

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55337192[/quote]
That is funny as hell!

Of course, my password has been Scrotuscansuckafuckstick for the last 5 years. I shall be changing it on 6 Jan.

@AcrossthePond55 now THAT is hilarious! I might have to steal it 😂

Sad but true..

@DuncinToffee

Very childish but the name Buttigieg made me laugh. It's probably pronounced completely different to how I think it is.

On a serious note, it is 2020 and he is the first openly gay person for a Cabinet position.

I often have a childish giggle at "Buttigieg" too .

Completely off the main topic, but equally childish name sniggering - did you see the stuff on Twitter about Jack Nicklaus' (the golfer) granddaughter and her new husband - he has the quite incredible name of Todger Strunk...

Interesting timing

www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-expected-to-unseal-charges-against-new-suspect-in-1988-lockerbie-bombing-11608143709

Lockerbie is one of my generations "Kennedy moments". I was in a student union bar in the Imperial College Southside building - just finished band rehearsal and was having a drink with some friends. There was a little TV on a shelf, and all of a sudden the place went quiet and all eyes turned as someone put the sound up.

I guess Princess Di and 9/11 are comparable.

Todger Strunk

@DuncinToffee

Todger Strunk

I don't think that's going to make MM upcoming baby names

@DuncinToffee

Todger Strunk

It's quite the doozy isn't it!

Obviously his parents are not familiar with UK/AUS/NZ slang! I dread to think of the nicknames he'd have been given had he grown up here!

Obviously his parents are not familiar with UK/AUS/NZ slang! I dread to think of the nicknames he'd have been given had he grown up here!

Posted on a thread about President Trump ....

@DGRossetti

Obviously his parents are not familiar with UK/AUS/NZ slang! I dread to think of the nicknames he'd have been given had he grown up here!

Posted on a thread about President Trump ....