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Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps:
At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower.
Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes:
Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."
Hillary lost. Get over it.
Yup. Guess who we learned it from? Only the best. Newt Gingrich, Jeff Beck. Rush Limbaugh. Steve Bannon. Chris Christie. Rudy Guiliani. Etc., etc.
Ah, the sweet display of irrational fear. Civics question: Which branch of government passes laws?
Are you trying to be oxymoronic? You simply cannot quote the parts of the constitution and ignore the specific parts pertaining to the election of the president to claim someone who failed those parts is the legit elected. Furthermore, you are basing this stupidity on the preamble to the constitution which describes the purpose for which is laid out within the constitution that you are actively ignoring.
Do they not teach simple civics and government in high school any more?
The electoral college was specifically set in place to allow "states" to elect the president of the united "states" instead of the people. The federal government has a president of the United States not the United "People". The congress and senate is the people's house and originally the senate represented the states (which is still does to a certain extent even after the constitution was amended to allow direct elections of the senators). The house of representatives was supposed to represent the people which is why all laws implementing taxes are supposed to originate there. The senate represented the states and the president is and was a figurehead to enact the sovereignty given up by the states. You have to remember, after the revolution, the thirteen colonies became 13 countries which eventually joined a confederation which ended up forming a constitutional republic that ceded only portions of their sovereignty. This is the entire purpose of the 9th and 10th amendments and article 1 section 8 that defines the original powers of the federal government.
I don't know if you actually understand this and are simply trying to convince the ignorant to be useful idiots or if you seriously never bothered reading past the preamble and skipped school during your civics classes or something. Either way, this isn't hard to find out which you probably should have already done if you actually care about the issue as much as your post pretends to. It is not like this isn't the first time that a president has won the electoral college but not the popular vote in your life time if you are actually old enough to vote. God help us if you actually claim to be educated higher than a high school level too.
One of the reviews was very insightful in that it pointed out that this $149 ornament was MADE IN CHINA. Trump supporters are suckers. He doesn't give a flying fuck about you. Neither does Hillary, but she isn't selling $149 ornaments. What a joke.
Let's ask Donald Trump what he thinks of the electoral college:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
And let's ask him about how people should just suck it up and accept the results of the election:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
So let's apply what you said to Donald Trump, first and foremost, huh?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Dude, this is the internet age. It doesn't take much of a google search to know you're either drinking the kool aid or full of shit.
One search. That's all you need to do to educate yourself. But its too much to ask. Typical Trumpy. You want everything handed to you. You can't compete on your merits, so you cry "Its Racism. Its all the blacks and mexicans getting an unfair advantage and taking all our jobs."
Here's your search: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=racist+shit+trump+has+said
But since that's probably too much for you to click here's a summary
- He tweets racist quotes.
- He operated apartment building that didn't rent to blacks.
- His closest advisers are white supremacists.
- Blacks were not allowed to work the floor in his casinos when he was at the casino.
- He wants a ban on immigration, for Muslims.
- He thinks Mexicans are rapists and thieves.
- He thinks blacks are lazy.
- He hates it that there are blacks in his accounting department. He rather they were jews.
I could go on, but you already made up your mind weeks ago. This is wasted on you.
GOP votes by blacks were up 8%, and by hispanics were up 9%. They both turned out more for Trump than they did for Romney or McCain.
It's true that Trump did better than Romney did in 2012 with both of those groups. But your numbers are way off.
Black vote for Romney: 6%
Black vote for Trump: 8%
Latino vote for Romney: 27%
Latino vote for Trump: 29%
So, Trump added 2% to each group, not 8% and 9% respectively. And that 2% is likely within the margin of error of the exit polls.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
I wish Obama WAS the guy Republicans kept saying he was... that guy would use his constitutional right to appoint Garland in the recess period and give the senate a last major fuck you.
The actual Obama is too damn nice to you idiots.
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I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
I disagree. I shared that image on social media, sadly it failed to take, probably because I didn't add any snappy text caption. I thought the bottles did the job, but I guess not. I got zero accusations of racism. Absolutely zero, and I have some pretty PC types in my feed. I come from Santa Cruz, see? Only the racism was necessarily called racism.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"