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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."
Using a trusted mass reference to detrimentally affect a multimillion dollar brand like.. "Trump Towers" is to invite a civil lawsuit that will be devastating. He can afford to out-lawer the idiot that pulled this. Google will not fall on their sword to protect an employee who puts their petty political activism above their brand as a trusted, reliable, and accurate reference.
Someone who is feeling all warm, fuzzy, and smug needs to polish up their resume and find a good attorney.
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
He did warn you. And you called him a "Pants on Fire" liar for it. Suck it up, cupcakes...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
If there are that many illegal immigrants voting, shouldn't we have a nationwide recount to weed them out?
(For the record, I don't think there are that many illegal immigrants voting and I'm not really in favor of the recount. If Jill Stein can fund it with donations, fine, but otherwise I don't think things were close enough. As much as I hate Trump, I've accepted that he's going to be President and I'm moving forward to help mitigate the damage I think he'll do. I just think that the argument that "we shouldn't have a recount" doesn't jive with the "millions voted illegally so Trump really won the popular vote" story - which has no actual evidence backing it.)
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Yes I do, and yes they vote. I don't blame him for trying to escape mexico , but illegals shouldn't be voting.
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Ok explain to me why this is okay, but this isn't?
Why is this okay but this isn't?
If you say because one is black and the other is white then you are the textbook definition of a racist.
Hillary lost. Get over it.
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking tight races.
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And so much for accepting the results of the election.
I can't wait to hear Tim Kaine squeal like a pig when a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court is rammed through using the nuclear option, after he stated he was looking forward to using the nuclear option to ram President HIllary!'s nominations through the newly Democrat-controlled Senate. Ooops. You reap what you sow...
Gotta love that double standard.
Never Happens
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/09/22/cbs4-investigation-finds-dead-voters-casting-ballots-in-colorado/
That's clearly a right-wing, biased publication, no?
Broerman said after their deaths, the Sosas remained on active voter rolls and mail ballots were still sent to their home because they did not meet the criteria to have their names deleted from eligible voter rolls.
Notice how mail-in ballots, the one voting method where voter fraud is actually very easy to commit, is never a target of GOP efforts to combat voter fraud?
I wonder why?
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Compared to Trump, George W Bush was a regular Pericles.
You're going to see mockery on a level never before seen in human history. And the Orange Daddy earned every bit of it.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Voting for a racist was a great way to make your point.
And Trump's trying the old 'stir shit up redirect' because of the NYT coming out with comprehensive article describing Trump's world wide conflicts of interest.
http://boingboing.net/2016/11/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
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Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
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.
No, she's selling $353,400 dinners:
http://www.politico.com/story/...
Everything that the left gets to riled up about Trump doing pales in comparison to similar actions on the other side.
Do you have ESP?
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
Mocking Obama was always fine.
Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist. Just like mocking Hillary with obviously sexist insults was sexist.
Just because it's possible to mock Obama or Hillary without being racist or sexist doesn't mean that any offensive thing you say magically becomes not racist or sexist.
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she's a progressive. Not necessarily a great one, but she is at least trying. You're massively underestimating the height of the bar she was trying to leap, the amount of effort needed and the compromises required to get even close to what she was trying to do. For one thing, she was poised to put single payer back on the table (Mr Clinton was going around talking about it).
Well, America just pissed that all away for good 'ole fashion apathy. Trump got the Republican base out just like Rhomey did. Clinton couldn't get the Blacks and Latinos out. She couldn't get them excited with vague promises... Meanwhile Trump promised them the world. Lies, all lies of course. But it _felt_ good.
Sad thing is those Blacks and Latinos are really going to regret staying home. Trump's cabinet isn't going to do them any favors, and somebody's got to fill all those private prisons...
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Because of the long history of black people being likened to apes, originally out of ignorance but now out of malice (which is still often combined with ignorance) but you knew that.
Your racist argument boils down to Obama is black and Bush is white.
You're right. Hillary sells $353,400 dinners to Wall street bankers who can afford it, while Trump sells Chinese trinkets to his ignorant American consumers.
Hillary takes money from the rich... Trump takes money from the poor...
It's going to be a long 4 years watching some people who aren't rich figure out how bad they've got it.
Since when has anyone who is not an Obama critic been concerned with a Constitutional crisis?
For crying out loud, our current President negotiated a treaty with a hostile foreign power with no consent from the Senate! He just created it out of thin air, and worse, the Senate just rolled over and let him do it!
If a President negotiates a treaty with a foreign power, that is not a Constitutional crisis. Quite the contrary: under the constitution, that's his job. And it's the job of the Senate to ratify such a treaty with a supermajority. I'm not sure where you get the idea that the Senate is not in the picture.
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The Russian Jews sent my still living uncle to a gulag back before WW2....
That's the strangest spelling for 'communist'[*] I've ever seen.
...we don't hate the jews, we just wish stupid people like you learned a bit more about history.
Why, because it would save you the trouble of learning actual history?
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[*] Oh, OK, if I must: YES, there were Jews among the party apparatchiks at a couple of points in the Leninist/Stalinist period. They were trusted to varying degrees, but were subject to purges, too, depending on a number of factors, not the least of which was endemic anti-semitism among the Russian populace in general. But yes, some of them actually prospered under Stalin when millions of others were dying. This was not typically because of their Jewishness, but because they had other survival skills, some of which were less than admirable, this being Stalin's Russia and all. The Baltic states suffered terribly under the Soviets, but not because of The Jews.
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Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Well I do care. I don't care for Trump, but I do care that apparently it is okay to be racist against white people, but everything a white person says can be considered racism.
It's not OK to be racist against white people.
Thankfully it's also relatively rare (at least compared to racism against non-whites).
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>There is nothing that would convince you that the man has a racist bone in his body.
If a picture surfaced tomorrow of Trump slobbering David Duke's knob under his old grand wizard robes - they STILL wouldn't believe he's had a racist's bone in his mouth !
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And the Orange Daddy earned every bit of it.
Why? Seriously, how is he even a patch on life long politicians who have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world like Bush and Hillary?
People that have added massive debt to the U.S. that has our kids names on the bills and forced crap like ObamaCare on us. Oh, he MIGHT be as bad at some point? Perhaps, but he hasn't done anything yet.
The hatred is astounding.
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