Fools Wildin', Volume 2

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

dbl

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

Trump Bashes Maxine Waters: The ‘Low IQ’ Star of the Democratic Party

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-bashes-maxine-waters-the-low-iq-star-of-the-democratic-party/

President Donald Trump spoke at a Wilkes-Barre, PA rally to garner support for GOP Rep. Lou Barletta, praising the midterm candidate hoping to unseat Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and calling him a patriotic man of strength and smarts.

But for the president, the event conveniently doubled as another opportunity to insult Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).

It started out with Trump claiming he didn’t know if he’d ever even encountered Casey, somewhat confusingly alternating between saying he had and then saying he hadn’t.

“I’m not sure I ever met Bob Casey,” Trump told the crowd. “I never met him. And I’m sure I did, I shook his hand. But I’m not sure.”

“Now, his father was a good man,” Trump conceded. “Knew him a little bit. But we’re dealing with a totally different person. I don’t think — I don’t know this man. He’s a senator, there are hundreds of him — I don’t know him! No, he’s not an obstructionist, he’s worse. He will do whatever Schumer, Pelosi, and the new star of the Democrat party tells him to do. You know who the new star — you know that new leader is? Maxine Waters.”

As the audience booed, the president carted out the same insult he’d launched against Waters multiple times before, as she’s been the target of his scrutiny for weeks.

“Very low IQ,” he said. “Low IQ.”

 

[Barbados Slim]

Thread warranted however so is a title change

 

[hand2handking]

Thread warranted

thread warranted

 

[hand2handking]

 

[Fozz]

Not surprised he'd tweet and insult Lemon and LeBron.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

Donald Trump's Tone-Deaf Statement About Aretha Franklin's Death Is Raising Eyebrows

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/donald-trump-apos-tone-deaf-181500513.html

People across the world are paying tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, after the singer passed away on Thursday morning following a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76.

Among the masses mourning her death is President Donald Trump, who both tweeted his condolences and sang her praises ahead of a Thursday morning cabinet meeting.



"I want to begin today by expressing my condolences to the family of a person I knew well,” he began. So far so good, right? Well, things took a turn for the Trumpian with his next sentence: “She worked for me on numerous occasions.” What?

Did Donald Trump, of Apprentice and small-hand fame, just imply that one of the most iconic singers in American history was among those who do his bidding? Yes, yes he did.

He’s likely referring to the 1997 grand opening of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in N.Y.C., at which Franklin gave a private concert.

Of course, regardless of any possible semblance of a business relationship he and Franklin shared, this is hardly the time to bring such matters to the public fore.

Trump went on to call the late singer, “terrific,” telling the crowd, “she brought joy to millions of lives and her extraordinary legacy will thrive and inspire many generations to come. She was given a great gift from God — her voice, and she used to well. People loved Aretha. She was a special woman. So just want to pass on my warmest best wishes and sympathies to her family."

Best wishes? Um, those are usually reserved for a bride on her wedding day, not a grieving family hours after their loved one's death ...

Naturally, the Twitterverse had some thoughts of its own:








Meanwhile, both the Obamas and the Clintons also commented on Franklin's passing. Neither, for the record, implied that she was ever an employee.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[Captain Slappy]

really makes you wonder how people sleep at night

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

‘Felons Welcome Here’: Messages Projected on to Trump International Hotel in D.C.

'Felons welcome here': messages projected on to Trump International Hotel in D.C. - National | Globalnews.ca

https://globalnews.ca/news/4401306/trump-projections-hotel-washington/

In a city with a long tradition of leftist street activism, Robin Bell has become something of a D.C. celebrity.

Every few weeks, Bell puts messages of protest on the side of the Trump International Hotel. He’s called President Donald Trump a pig and a racist, used smiling poop emojis, and taunted the president with images of his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

The very latest saw him project the messages “criminal,” “guilty” and “felons welcome here” on to the hotel, on the day that Cohen pleaded guilty and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight charges.

And it’s all legal. Bell doesn’t use paint or posters, but a projector, so there’s no property damage and no crime. Security guards and police may swing by, but they can’t stop him.



His work has turned into an unexpected business opportunity. Activist groups have paid his crew to travel as far away as Finland to project images on prominent buildings.

“One of the secrets to what we do and how we’ve been able to pull it off is that we’re transparent,” Bell said. “We’re not hiding anything.”

The longtime Washington-based activist and professional projectionist first combined his personal passions and technical skills back in 2010. In the midst of the Occupy Movement, Bell projected messages against the conservative Koch brothers onto the walls of Washington’s convention center.

Over the years, Bell expanded and experimented. He tried projecting messages onto the side of the Capitol and the Supreme Court building. In both cases, security chased him off within minutes.

Many high-level government buildings are off-limits for security reasons. But the Trump hotel — just blocks from the White House — is fair game. Bell learned that as long as his crew members are not blocking traffic, obstructing the sidewalk or shining lights in the hotel windows, they’re fine. Hotel security has called police, but there’s not much police can do and the crew is usually gone within about 30 minutes anyway.

“We know we’re allowed to do it. The police kind of know we’re allowed to do it. But it all kind of depends on the officer and their mood,” he said.

The Metropolitan Police Department said in an email that it “will not engage in any enforcement actions regarding light projections” unless there is an indication that a crime has been committed.

A Trump hotel spokeswoman declined to comment and said they have received no complaints from hotel guests about the projections. The White House referred all questions to the Trump Organization, which oversees Trump’s business interests. Emails to the Trump Organization received no response.

Bell’s first projection onto the hotel was a callback to insider-Washington activist history: “Experts agree: Trump is a Pig.” Identical phrasing was used to describe President Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, Edwin Meese, on posters that mysteriously appeared around Washington in 1987 and were later revealed to be the work of Jeff Nelson, drummer for the D.C. punk band Minor Threat.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return from Bedminster, New Jersey, to Washington, U.S., Aug. 19, 2018.
Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Bell doesn’t react to every Trump-related controversy, but some do compel him to act. In January, when Trump reportedly complained about immigrants coming from “****hole countries,” Bell projected that word onto the hotel facade, along with smiling poop emojis.

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to a question during an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S. Aug. 20, 2018.
Leah Millis/Reuters

The work with activist groups has turned into an unexpected moneymaker for Bell and his crew. When Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July, the Human Rights Campaign paid to have messages about Chechnya projected on the presidential palace.

On a recent rainy Monday night, the environmental group Defend Our Future hired Bell for a projection onto the front of the Environmental Protection Agency. That would also give him an opportunity to do a projection on his own at the hotel, conveniently located across the street.

Adrienne Cooper, the environmental group’s director, has hired Bell twice to do projections on the EPA building.

“It’s a way to stand out and do something a little bit different,” she said.

“The staff of the EPA can ignore some billboard, but it’s harder to ignore a projection on the side of their own building.”

Just before 9 p.m., the four-person crew waited in a parked van on 14th Street with the EPA on one side and the hotel on the other.

When Bell gave the word, the team moved quickly with practiced, almost synchronized, movements. They unloaded a custom-built projection rack — basically shelves welded onto a dolly with two car batteries providing power. The rain picked up as they started, and umbrellas came out. Bell’s crew was accustomed to working through anything but lightning.

They did the EPA projection first. It showed smokestacks spewing pollution along with rotating messages — some cheering the ouster of EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Bell tinkered with the laptop to get the smokestacks to line up with the building’s columns.

Then it was Trump time. The crew turned the projection rig around and moved it across from the hotel’s unused side entrance.

That night’s image was a reference to the 1989 John Cusack movie Say Anything with Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, holding a boom box over his head, along with the tagline “Says Everything.”

Bell had fretted earlier that the image wouldn’t work, but he hooted and applauded at seeing the finished product on the hotel wall. Within minutes, a security guard approached. Crew member Nadine Bloch intercepted the guard and tried to start up a friendly chat. He didn’t engage at all, but filmed the scene with his phone and talked into his wrist.

Bloch described her role as akin to an offensive lineman in football. “I’m the person who gets in the way so my team has time to complete the pass,” she said while laughing.

The projector cycled through the new image and a few of Bell’s older slogans: “Pay Trump bribes here,” ″Resist” and “This is not OK.”

By 10:20 p.m. they were packed and gone. Bell tracked how the images and video they uploaded were resonating on social media.

“The ones that work best are the ones that give people some sort of relief from all this political stress,” Bell said. “It’s a way of grieving and venting publicly.”

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

President Donald Trump Says He Gets His Legal Advice From Watching TV

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fox-...eachment-tv-shows-1087243?utm_source=engageim

President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that he receives his legal advice from a number of television shows.

Fox News aired an exclusive interview with Trump where the president attempted to do damage control on a number of controversial topics including Paul Manafort’s trial, Michael Cohen’s plea deal, and possible impeachment. But the president made a number of bizarre and non-factual statements during his discussion with Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt.

When asked about former Trump Organization attorney Cohen’s legal problems, the president responded that the counts that his long-time friend pleaded guilty to weren’t actually crimes. “By the way, he pled to two counts which aren’t a crime which nobody understands,” he said. The president then claimed that he knew these weren’t crimes because “I watched a number of shows, sometimes you get good information by watching shows, those two counts aren’t a crime.”

The president has been criticized for his excessive dependence on TV programs like Fox News. Some reports say the president of screen time each day.

On Wednesday evening the president Tweeted that “Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime,” and added that, “President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!”

Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight criminal charges, which included two campaign finance violations. During the presidential campaign the lawyer said that in an attempt to influence the election, he worked with the president to arrange for the payment of two women to keep silent about possible affairs with then-candidate Trump. In order to make the payment, Cohen arranged for a corporation to make an illegal payment to the campaign and donated in excess of legal contribution limits.

AMI, The National Enquirer's parent company, bought the rights to Playboy model Karen McDougal's story about Trump for $150,000 and then shelved it. Cohen admitted to working with the company to make this happen.

Cohen later paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in return for not sharing details of her alleged affair with President Trump.

Alan Dershowitz, a long-time Trump supporter and friend and legal scholar, penned an opinion piece saying that the president should not be implicated in Cohen's crimes.

"I have been teaching and practicing criminal law for more than a half century, and yet, I have to acknowledge that I am having difficulty understanding the laws as they relate to the allegations made by Cohen against President Trump," he wrote, saying there was no clear evidence that the president ordered Cohen to pay the hush money. Dershowitz then went on Fox News to reiterate his claims.

The courts ruled that both of these were excessive in-kind contributions and violated campaign law. Under FCC rule and Federal law, Cohen was only allowed to donate a maximum of $5,400 to the Trump campaign.

In 2008, the Obama campaign was fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to report the identities of 1,312 last-minute donors who contributed around $2 million to the campaign. The issue was considered a civil infraction and resulted in a penalty fine.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[max powers]

Trump Administration Wildin thread?

***** where u been?