Donald Trump is president of the United States. Britain has left the European Union. Captain America is the new fascist supreme leader of Hydra. Unfortunately, this isn’t the Twilight Zone, a place where I’d much rather be right now.
do you ever get so annoyed at everything that you start to get pissed off at even little things like a spoon clinking against a bowl or sounds of people talking
I think it’s called sensory overload. It’s really common in people with anxiety
it can also be a result of sleep deprivation, stress, or ever dehydration !!
OK, this pretty much cements my opinion that Putin is chaotic-evil, in the most juvenile sense. He thinks he has plans with plans, and he certainly wants to create a mystique about himself having plans within plans within plans within plans, but ultimately he just throws shit at the wall, and doesn't care what sticks.
Eyebrows were raised when, after Donald Trump banned the American press from his meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, Russian state media released pictures of Trump gripping and grinning with the diplomats. It turns out that Trump wasn’t favoring Russian media over U.S. journalists. No, his White House was too incompetent to realize that the person introduced to them as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s personal photographer also worked for the state-owned Tass news agency.
Trump’s team has been made to look weak, and their response is equally weak:
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WH furious over Russian government photos of Trump meeting with Lavrov/Kislyak. "They tricked us," an official said of Russians "They lie."
How could the Russians possibly know it would be so easy to fool this White House? The real question, though, is whether the release of the photos of Trump with Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak—who centered in Michael Flynn’s downfall as national security adviser and Jeff Sessions’ decision to (supposedly) recuse himself from Russia-related decisions—was the only trickery involved. Was the photographer used just to embarrass Trump, or for something more? Experts have pointed to the possibility that photographic equipment could be used to smuggle a listening device into the Oval Office, something that might not have been detected by the usual White House visitor screening process.
Even without any concern over surveillance devices, though, it’s straight-up embarrassing that the incompetents surrounding the popular-vote-losing buffoon didn’t do enough of a background check on the photographer to whom they offered such close access to realize that he wasn’t just a diplomat’s personal photographer. And then had the nerve to whine about the results of their own incompetence.
In the latest of his blizzard of interviews, Donald Trump told Lester Holt that he was going to fire James Comey no matter what and that the decision was made before he got Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein to trump up some excuses. That’s awkward for Mike Pence, since:
“Let me be very clear that the President’s decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interests of the American people and to ensuring that the FBI has the trust and confidence of the people this nation,” Pence told reporters Wednesday.
Was Pence that far out of the loop? Nope. He was lying!
People close to the White House say that Pence knew the president was thinking about firing Comey before he met with Rosenstein on Monday. Trump, these people said, was frustrated with Comey’s testimony and the growing Russia investigation scrutiny into his campaign. He also disliked Comey’s testimony last week on Capitol Hill, particularly the FBI director’s use of the word “nauseous” to describe the election process. [...]
“Pence knew this wasn’t about Rosenstein writing a memo, the president seeing it and suddenly deciding to fire Comey,” said this person. “He knows better than that.”
The official explanation from Pence’s spokesman is that Pence “was speaking yesterday to the events that led to the president’s decision.” Except he wasn’t. The recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Comey did not lead to Trump’s decision. Trump made the decision and then asked for the recommendation. And Pence knew it and he said otherwise. He’s such a devout Christian—can someone please ask him what the Bible has to say about lying?
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Lana, the canine known as ‘the saddest dog in the world’, is homeless again – and she might be put to sleep if she doesn’t find someone to take her in. Back in 2015, a picture of Lana dejected in her kennel went viral. At that time, the family who adopted the shelter pooch returned her back, making her too sad to go on walks. “It’s almost like her world shut down,” Dahlia Ayoub of Mighty Mutts told in 2015.
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The reason why they surrendered her back to the shelter was that Lana snapped at her human mom. The doggie’s memories of being the runt of the litter may have triggered the urge to protect her food. However, the shelter found someone who give her a second chance, and so Lana was adopted again. Up until recently, that is.
“Lana’s adoption did not work out because people want a dog they can pet and play with,” said Brenda Dobranski, founder of Rescue Dogs Match. “Lana is a silly fun girl but she is not the type of dog that will let you give belly rubs…”.
The doggie only has until May 20 before she might be put to sleep. Are you that someone who can accept Lana for the special dog that she is? Can you make ‘the world’s saddest dog’ happy again?
That squirrel outside the house looks like it could be one of my daily visitors. It's a good thing I'm on the second floor, without the exercise they get making up there, they'd just be little furry balls with tails.
So animals look cute when they stuff their faces… and people say “I look like an animal” when I eat… therefore… [via sadanduseless]
A giant wooden sculpture of a roaring lion now stands proudly in a Central Chinese city square, and the journey it took to get there makes it all the more spectacular.
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The Oriental Lion, as it has been dubbed, was carved from a single redwood tree trunk over the span of 3 years. Established Chinese architect Dengding Rui Yao, reportedly assisted by over 20 people, initiated the project in Myanmar, where the carving was seen through. Finally, when the great beast was finished in December of 2015, it was transported over 3000 miles to reach Wuhan’s Fortune Plaza Times Square. At 47.5 feet long, 16.5 feet high, and 13 feet wide, the Oriental Lion is a force to be reckoned with.
Lions play a significant role in traditional Chinese culture. When Buddhism spread from India to China, so did many of its symbols, including the lion. Seen as protectors, lion statues became a common installation at the gates of imperial palaces, including the legendary Forbidden City in Beijing. Today, they can even be found outside of hotels and restaurants, just in case any evil spirits drifted from the Han dynasty into modern times.
cheddar biscuit is going to be so proud when i tell her how many notes her pictures have
Wait. Wait…
Her name is Cheddar Biscuit????
That is so perfect. I might have to lie down for a week.
every day when my dad comes home from work he feeds her pieces of ham. incidentally, she has a weird squeaky gravelly little meow, so it kind of sounds like she’s shouting “ham?! ham?!” whenever he comes home she runs to the door and shouts “haaaaaam?!” and it’s the best thing
smug thinkpiece writer: “the internet is about the sound bite, the tweet, tiny fragments of information that only take two or three seconds to consume”
me, thinking back to the 5000-word tumblr post i scrolled past yesterday where two classicists, three high schoolers, and a witch all got in a very pointless argument about hades and persephone or shakespeare or something: uh,
I felt that the [TNG] writers and producers could not escape from their own essential rigidity in their attitudes to women. They were continually featured as sexual objects, as softer, weaker, and therefore - it always seemed to me—second-class individuals. And because I believed and still do that the show represents what our underlying philosophies are, it doubly irritated me that in that area I thought we were failing.
There is a kind of boys’ club about Star Trek, do you understand? It’s in the air all around the show, in the producers, in the front office, in the writers’ building. Our actresses were not finding sympathetic ears for the things they had to say, and I think at times they simply got exhausted by the battle.
I know Gates McFadden and Marina Sirtis both found it ridiculous that in episodes with combat scenes they did stupid girly stuff like drop heavy objects on enemy heads while their male colleagues were using weapons. Gates in particular had a whole lot of combat training as an actor. As Stewart says, their protests were not heard by the higher ups. It got better in later seasons, but clearly there was a presumption about gender roles that treated women differently from men.
