BRENTWOOD, NEW YORK — Trump scored applause Friday while talking to police about the fight against the brutal MS-13 gang by saying he doesn’t mind if suspects get roughed up during arrests.
“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice.’ Like when you guys put somebody in the car, protecting their head, you know, the way you put [your] hand, like don’t hit their head, and they’ve just killed somebody… I said, ‘You can take the hand away, ok?’”
Trump, whose tough talk won him applause from the uniformed officers assembled behind him at Suffolk County Community College, promised to “eradicate” MS-13. Read more (7/28/17 3:30 PM)
Handing military equipment to police departments is a mistake, for one thing, heavy vehicles use up more fuel and rip up public roads, not to mention it gives police a sense that they are soldiers invading foreign territory, not public servants who are supposed to protect and serve the people.
As for not being nice when arresting citizens, everyone is only suspected of a crime until they are convicted of a crime, asking police to brutalize citizens is illegal and immoral - but that’s Trump in a nutshell.
Now he’s overtly inciting police brutality against US Citizens, using heavy military technology.
Can we impeach the douchebag already?
Every cop who cheered and applauded should be fired. They say it’s “a few bad apples” when the entire tree is rotten to the roots.
Anyway so I’m calling Rep. Farenthold later to accept on Sen. Collin’s behalf and I’m choosing Fists. Can take place in Iowa because if two parties agree to mutual combat, under state law it is totally legal here.
And if he accepts yes I will stream that shit live don’t be silly.
And after I beat his ass once for Collins, I will duel him again on Murkowski’s behalf.
Square up, bitch.
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD CSPAN BOUT TO BE LIT
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SO I CALLED HIS DC OFFICE AND SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING I SENT VIA EMAIL.
After about 20 seconds of dead silence, the staffer let out kinda a little laugh and said “Well ma’m, I’ll be happy to pass on your…”
“I’m not joking.”
“Ma’m?”
“You think I’m joking. I am dead serious. You want my address? Or I’ll meet him at the airport. I am absolutely serious about this. Oh, and as the challenged party, I get to pick weapons. I choose fists.”
Another 20 seconds of somehow even deeper silence.
“I…I’ll pass your challenge on to the congressman.”
“No. He issued the challenge. I’m accepting. Unless he’s backing out like the spineless coward he is.”
More silence. “I…I’ll let Congressman Farenthold know, ma’m.”
“You do that.”
ANYWAY SO HOW DID YOU ALL SPEND YOUR LUNCH BREAK TODAY.
Holy SHIT, it got BETTER! YOooo!!! You need somebody to wrap your hands? Hold your mouth guard? Shit, I’ll take towels & water bottle duty
Witnesses say they asked Britney why she shaved her head and her response was, “I’m tired of plugging things into it. I’m tired of people touching me.”
i can never not reblog this
T-Pain: “That was the most beautiful thing in the world. Do you know why she was shaving her head? Because it was so important to other people. She is like, “Listen. Don’t touch my hair anymore. Stop touching my hair.” People were like, “We’ve got to make your hair before you go outside. You can’t leave.” She went … “Now I don’t have hair. What you going to do?”
The older I get the more her breakdown seems less ‘unbalanced’ and more ‘completely understandable’
You keep using this work, "stole." I do not think that you know what it means. The super rich get super rich by the efforts of the people that work for the, the people they sell things to, and the government that keeps them safe to be able to pursue their ambitions. These are the three groups that the super rich are most likely to eviscerate the moment they have the power to do it.
The Party is life. The Party is all. No wonder Republicans are embracing Russia these days. They didn't like the idea of SHARING with other people, but making sure everyone walks in lockstep is RIGHT up their alley.
It's not surprising that former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is defending Donald Trump. What's surprising to me is how she's defending him.
The “I am a piece of shit and nobody will ever love me” factoid is actually a statistical error. You are actually are fantastic and infinitely worthy of people’s company. That person you used to care about, who taught you to hate yourself by abandoning you, is an outlier and should not have been counted
this is the greatest and most positive use of a meme that i have ever seen.
After a disease called IAAN, kills 98% of America’s children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in “rehabilitation camp”. The series follows Ruby Daly, a 16-year-old girl who escapes her camp and joins up with a rag-tag group of fellow camp escapees on the run from the government. [x]
Based on the YA book series of the same name, it’s due in theaters September 14th 2018. It’s yet another inclusive genre movie coming to theaters the same year as Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time.
KEEP IT ON YOUR RADAR!
P.S.
It’s directed by Korean-American Jennifer Yuh Nelson:
that feel when you scroll down thinking something is a fan cast and then find out jt’s a real cast.
I had the same reaction. I hit the text and was like “wait, for reals??” :D
These people are not left with "nothing." They are left with a $10,000 slush fund and a free and clear $7,000. In addition, they are left with a year's worth of probably pretty high quality nutrition, shelter, education, medical treatment, entertainment, clothing, and other creature comfort. They exchanged their money voluntarily for these things. These things are not nothing. They ware what we have money FOR. Being sad that they have these things, and no longer have their money, is the reason why most Americans don't understand why you can't have your cake AND eat it too. ONCE YOU EAT YOUR CAKE, IT'S NOT THERE TO HAVE ANYMORE, BUT THAT'S OK, BECAUSE CAKE IS FOR EATING.
Oh, well when you put it that way, you’re right! It sure is hard to live on half a million a year!
Every apologia for the rich sounds like a call for revolution.
The more I look at this, the more enraged I become. These assholes live SO WELL and still have over $7k left at the end of the year but it’s “feeling average”? Bitch, the average person has never had $7k left over.
$10,000 for “miscellaneous, something always comes up.”
Look, I have a “something always comes up” cushion now (it’s certainly not that much, but it exists), and am grateful because I didn’t always have that, but “something always comes up” for EVERYONE and that usually means miss work or ride the bus because you can’t afford to get your car fixed or beg and borrow money from family/friends if you’re lucky enough to have that.
Your slush money budget alone is 20% the national median income, and you still end up with seven grand left over at the end of the year, shut the fuck up.
3 vacations a year, at $6,000 a piece.
I love the “no fancy bags, shoes, or threads” while they’re driving a land rover and a bmw & living in a $1.5 million dollar home.
I’m just….their weekly food budget is $442 a week.
This budget is also allowing them to sock away mad money for their retirement savings. Do they even know how fuckin’ luxurious that is? Like, so many of us know we should be trying to save for the future, but we just can’t manage it while keeping ahead of our bills today. I’ve had multiple years where I lived entirely on the amount of money they are putting into their 401ks alone.
Every time I read something like this, I wanna throw a brick through someone’s mansion window.
They can give their kids 3 vacations a year, multiple instrumental lessons, and live in a 1.5 million dollar home and still have money left over to spend on literally whatever they might want. Christmas gifts or fucking anything else. A fourth vacation.
So unfortunate. If only they could afford to eat out instead of at home every week instead of every two weeks!
They spend more going on vacations than I make at my managerial job in an entire year of working 30+ hours a week.
If you live like this and complain I hope you choke!
Bruh. They got a separate budget for clothes. Clothes don’t fall into the “emergency” section. Like they just buy clothes cus they feel like it. They don’t buy clothes cus they only had 2 pairs of pants and one just fell apart.
No I’m reblogging this again cus it just hit me that they live in NYC. Who THE FUCK needs 2 cars in NYC???
“My mother-in-law was baking one of her awesome Black Forest cakes for my sister-in-law’s birthday. She left the cake cooling and when she went to look…”
You have to remind men that they don’t have power over you and you don’t owe them attention, emotional investment, love, time, or consideration just because they like you or because he’s a “nice guy”.
There are a lot of white women relogging this.
You have to remind white people that they don’t have power over you and you don’t owe them attention, emotional investment, free teaching, love, time, or consideration just because they like you/your culture or because they’re an “ally”.
Bruce Wayne: Jason, don't say a word.
Jason Todd: ...
Jason Todd: Fergalicious.
Bruce Wayne: I said no words.
Jason Todd: Oh, I see. Two weeks ago playing Scrabble, it's not a word and now suddenly it is a word because it's convenient for you.
When celebrating birthdays, blowing out a cake full of candles and singing a public domain song is a time-honored tradition. Yet has it ever occurred to you that this ritual means that the birthday celebrant is just blasting spit over the candles and the top layer of the cake? Well, now it has.
The Journal of Food Research in Canada recently published a study, which we learned about from The Atlantic, that will make every celebration that you’re part of seem just a little more gross. Logically, some saliva must end up on cakes when you blow out candles, but the daughter of Paul Dawson, a professor at Clemson University, wondered how much more.
The answer: It can be a lot, and varies from person to person, but cake germs are not going to kill you. Probably. Maybe skip the cake if someone looks sick?
The study
To find out, students at Clemson spread foil on a Styrofoam base, then spread frosting on the foil. To make sure everyone’s saliva was going and to simulate a party environment, the test subjects ate pizza before proceeding to the fake cakes.
For each of the eleven test subjects, they lit the candles and blew them out, then took samples from the frosted area and grew them in agar.
Wide variation in spit germ levels
On average, blowing out candles on a sample meant fifteen times more bacteria (1,500%) was present. There was a lot of variation from person to person in the amount of saliva they emitted, the bacteria hanging out in their mouths, or both. The biggest difference compared to the control cake was between three times greater (300%) and 140 times greater (14,000%).
Here’s the thing, though: Unless the person celebrating his or her birthday is obviously sick, these mouth bacteria are the same ones that we come in contact with every day. Do you kiss people? Have you stood near a person who coughed or sneezed? Do you venture out in public at all?
If so, you’ve come in contact with the same spit bacteria that people emit when blowing out candles. It’s just that now we all know that they’re there. On the cake.
Now THIS is the coke-addled retro 80s we were expecting from a Trump appointee
Anthony Scaramucci, a finance guy or something who doesn’t seem to understand anything about being a press flack, called the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza last night and ethered every one of his White House enemies in one of the greatest and most surreal interviews in American political history. Here are his best lines,…
The thing about using Captain Holt as a reaction image is you don’t know if he’s saying “I’m so disappointed in you for making that joke” or “This is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, I can barely contain the laughter.”
When a high-kill shelter received this pit bull, nobody expected the emotional roller coaster he took them on. When one person offered Blue King (Blue for short) a treat, he sniffed it, but didn’t eat it. The only thing Blue did was cry behind the bars of his kennel door. Additionally, tears were dripping from his eyes, and some speculate that it was due to allergies.
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Blue King’s family surrendered him to Carson Shelter in California because they decided to move and not take the dog to the new home. Since Carson Shelter is a high-kill facility, the longer Blue stayed there, the higher the chances of his euthanasia got. Eventually, a few volunteers noticed Blue’s more-than-sad face and decided to help the pooch. They shot a video of him and uploaded it to Facebook, hoping someone would adopt him.
Shortly after, a woman named Jennifer McKay came over to meet Blue. “He looked very sad and depressed,” McKay told The Dodo. “He wouldn’t even acknowledge me at all. All the other dogs were making eye contact and wagging their tails, but he wouldn’t stand up, wouldn’t come see me.”
“You could tell that every time someone walked by, it was like he was looking for [his family],” she said. “It’s like he knew he had been left there.” McKay had made up her mind to adopt Blue, and after the dog passed the temperament test, she took him home. After he left the shelter, Blue King became a new dog. His new owner says that Blue loves sleeping, belly rubs, cuddles, and gazing into the mirrors. “He’s obsessed with looking at himself in the mirror,” McKay said. Blue still has a lot of learning to do (including the basic commands and walking on a leash) but McKay says that the once-shelter dog is going to be fine.
