Trump Thought Presidency 'Would Be Easier,' Gun Sales Down From 2016 Peak, Against Another Korean War: A.M. Links

• "There are few good reasons to welcome North Korea" to "the nuclear club," writes Charlie Campbell at Time. "But there are absolutely no good reasons to start another Korean War."
• "There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea," Donald Trump told Reuters.
• The presidency "is more work than in my previous life," said Trump in the same interview. "I thought it would be easier."
• "Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't been very good for" gun sales, reports The Daily Beast. "Unlike the boom years under President Barack Obama, when gun sales spiked and reached an all-time high in 2016, gun sales have dropped since Trump was elected."
• Could White House Correspondents Dinner weekend in D.C. get any more self-congratulatory and insufferable? Yes! "All signs point to a less lavish, more sober affair Saturday night, with fewer over-the-top parties, less buzz and more recognition of the First Amendment and journalism's watchdog role in American democracy," according to U.S. News.
• Moral panic of the week: "Stealthing."

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

"But there are absolutely no good reasons to start another Korean War."

After After MASH.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Starring (insert your favorite left-wing celebrity cast here).

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

Ben Stiller?

[Citizen X - #6]

Lena Dunham?

[Bob K]

Too unattractive to play Frank Burns.

[$park? leftist poser]

Klinger could not exist in a new MASH.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

What about Klingons?

[$park? leftist poser]

Not if Paramount Pictures Studio has anything to say about it.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

What about cling-ons?

[Zeb]

And Spearchucker Jones is right out.

[Fist of Etiquette]

HE THREW JAVELIN IN COLLEGE.

[Zeb]

I KNOW!

[Vaelyn]

Hell, Hawkeye Pierce couldn't exist on a new M*A*S*H! His rough-and-randy sexual banter with the nurses would have him up on charges toot-sweet!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Even if he voted Democrat?

[Conchfritters]

CHIPS was a sexual assault marathon. I can't think of one episode where Ponch didn't smack the secretary's ass.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea," Donald Trump told Reuters.

Or we could just hand them some more food aid to kick this crazy can down the road.

[Bee Tagger]

gun sales have dropped since Trump was elected."

gun control via electing Republicans

[WakaWaka]

Who would have thought that people wouldn't be buying up so many guns when you have a president who isn't from the political party that openly advocates banning certain guns and opposes the constitutional right to own guns. This was clearly unexpected, said no one ever.

[mad.casual]

This was clearly unexpected, said no one ever.

Your news sources are clearly partisan. Despite decades of gun sales spikes under control-heavy regimes and 8 yrs. of 'Best gun salesman in history.' refrains under Obama, large portions of the left and/or hoplophobes were entirely unaware that you stockpile shit essential to your survival when it's expected to be scarce.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The presidency "is more work than in my previous life," said Trump in the same interview. "I thought it would be easier."

Every president seems to owe the previous ones an apology.

[Bee Tagger]

But Obama was criticized for his apology tour!

[Fist of Etiquette]

If it were to happen, it would be a tour of his Twitter feed.

[Shirley Knott]

"Another" Korean War?
The last one has never ended. No peace agreement has ever been reached. Negotiations have been intermittently ongoing since the cessation of overt large-scale military action.
But there is no peace, Korea is still at war.

[$park? leftist poser]

It's probably because they don't have Jesus in Korea.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

There seems to be an awful lot of Korean churches around. What do they do in there?

[Citizen X - #6]

Fact: of the 53% of the South Korean population that consider themselves religious, over half are one kind of Christian or another.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

The other half are Moonies, who worship the moon.

[Rat on a train]

I thought they were Moonves, who worship TV.

[$park? leftist poser]

I thought those guys were in Ancient Rome.

[Zeb]

And Moonies are Christian-ish.

[$park? leftist poser]

Yeah, well, that's South Korea. I've been reminded a number of times by helpful bumper stickers that No Jesus means No Peace and Know Jesus means Know Peace.

[BearOdinson]

That's the problem. Instead it should be:
No Odin, No victory
Know Odin, know victory (or Valhalla)!

[Rat on a train]

Chocolate Jesus means Chocolate Peace?

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't been very good for" gun sales, reports The Daily Beast.

Buyer's market? I guess it's time to go shopping.

[Conchfritters]

That's what I thought, but the prices haven't come down a whole lot yet. At least there is usually ammo on the shelves now.

[Bee Tagger]

The presidency "is more work than in my previous life," said Trump

Now he's Buddhist?

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

In his previous life, Trump was a toy poodle.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Sure it wasn't a golden lab cross with a toy dobie?

[Bee Tagger]

"Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't been very good for" gun sales, reports The Daily Beast.

Even bitter clingers can't imagine a day when their man isn't in charge.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Moral panic of the week: "Stealthing."

"Sometimes I like to treat myself."

[Cyto]

Hmmmm.... isn't this the charge against Julian Assange? Coincidence that we are supposedly making moves to bring him to justice as this becomes a news story?

[Zeb]

Coincidence that we are supposedly making moves to bring him to justice as this becomes a news story?

Haven't we been supposedly making moves to bring him to "justice" for years now?

[Memory Hole]

From what I understand the Justice Department under Obama didn't seek an indictment against Assange because they believed his activities though close to the line were nonetheless protected by the 1st Amendment whereas Sessions and Trump don't feel as restrained by constitutional norms.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The cynic in me highly doubts that line being sold to us.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

Get with it, Fist. Stealthing is so last week.

[jack sprat]

You have to admit this would be a really douchey thing to do.
Not sure what it would be legal wise though.

Dave Chappelle was so ahead of his time with a great skit on this years ago. He had a detailed contract to be signed for consent. Fun fact...actress in it was Rashida Jones! ( at least I'm pretty sure it was)

[Domestic Dissident]

No Friday Funny this week? Damn.

[Citizen X - #6]

Fact: Simple Mikey's forehead is permanently bruised because he constantly attacks his own reflection on shiny surfaces.

[WakaWaka]

The more you comment the more I think you're a sad and lonely sixteen year-old girl. Do you have a crush on Mikey?

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

It happened! Mikey has a defender!

[WakaWaka]

Alright. Now all you guys need is for DanO to come up and the trifecta of bitchy girls is complete!

[$park? leftist poser]

So edgy!

[Citizen X - #6]

Whoa, that's CRAZY. Congratulations, Mikey! Tell your caseworker to call off the suicide!

[WakaWaka]

You're even more clever when you respond to your sock account.

[Citizen X - #6]

Wait, now i'm the same person as Chipper? Is ANYONE here not me? Jesus Christ, you're stupid.

[Citizen X - #6]

No, i'm a Crusty Juggler sock puppet. Get your retarded low-stakes conspiracy theories straight, dummy.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Right, but I am a teenager, so he is on the right track.

[Citizen X - #6]

Only in terms of your acne problem, though.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

For $14 you can have my virginity.

[Citizen X - #6]

I would have paid you $20 to never type that sentence.

[Not a True MJG]

The more you comment the more I think you're a sad and lonely sixteen year-old girl.

Bo?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Wait, I thought Bo was someone else. The absence *narrowed gazes* is making the plot too hard to follow.
Tulpa save us from these 3rd string hacks.

[$park? leftist poser]

These new people couldn't carry White Indian's jockstrap.

[Domestic Dissident]

The leftists on this site really are some pathetic, stalky obsessives, aren't they?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Picture, if you will, a wispy caricature of Barack Obama standing in front of a group of Wall Street fatcats, auctioning to them effigial parts of his wife's ear, each with a certificate of authenticity, a presidential seal and the number 46. In walks a brownshirted Sean Spicer, telling everyone there that even Hitler didn't do what Obama is doing, while NPR points out that it's mostly the Jews who ever buy access, so... Then Ivanka Trump enters and the entire press corps boos until she tells them she's going to sell her father on Cash for Clunkers II: The Wrath of Mexican Imports, and then everyone applauds.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

The celebrity we need.

The Rock, however, has followed a different path. Rather than self-seriously viewing his career as secondary to his activism, Johnson clearly aims to entertain. He understands a core truth: that there is nothing wrong ? and a lot right ? with sheer, unmitigated fun. Not everything has to have a Message. Not everything needs to reveal Larger Truth. Sometimes a man has to shoot down an attack helicopter with a minigun. Not for social justice and not for individual liberty ? but because it's a cool thing to do.

These jabroni's are going to make The Rock - who a superhero!!! - into a TEAM football.

[Shirley Knott]

I like Laurie Anderson's take on the whole 'message' thing. "I think if I had a message I'd just write it down and email it to people. I'm more interested in a reaction, in engagement with the material." [heavily paraphrased in the second sentence]

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

That's some deep subtext right there.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

... or just leave an appropriate answering machine outgoing message ...

O Superman

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

... or just leave an appropriate answering machine outgoing message ...

O Superman

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

... or just leave an appropriate answering machine outgoing message ...

O Superman

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

... or just leave an appropriate answering machine outgoing message ...

O Superman

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Jeazus.

The squirrelz are busy this morning ...

[mad.casual]

These jabroni's are going to make The Rock - who a superhero!!! - into a TEAM football.

Nah, back to you CJ, is that what you think? IT DOESN"T MATTER!

Seriously, I kinda like the idea of using that when the discussion drifts to "What team are you on?" or "You're a libertarian? What about [ROADZ]?"

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Kasich: Trump needs to act like 'father of America'

"When you're running a big job like that, you have to not only use your head and your heart, and they have to work together," Kasich said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "And what he needs to know is he's the father of America, and that carries a heavy responsibility."

Trump was probably a better choice than this jabroni.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Our dad and our boss!

[Anomalous]

Who is your daddy, and what does he do?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris Rock, ironically.

[WakaWaka]

Can't we just agree that they were both awful in their own unique ways?

[chemjeff]

"And what he needs to know is he's the father of America, and that carries a heavy responsibility."

Okay that's some retarded shit right there.

I already have one father, I don't really need a second one.

[jack sprat]

Sugar Daddy for the win!

[$park? leftist poser]

Someone is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds in the US, according to RAINN. But only six out of every 1,000 perpetrators wind up in jail.

I have a hunch that the real problem may not be what you think it is.

[GILMORE?]

Someone is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds in the US,

(shouts down to basement)

"Hey! You're famous now!"

[colorblindkid]

The way the press covers of the White House Correspondents Dinner could very well save Republicans from losing the House next year.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Want to lose weight? Use a RED plate: Scientists reveal how the colour of your crockery changes your appetite

Dr Charles Spence, professor of experimental psychology, University of Oxford, said: 'Snack foods - unhealthy stuff on a red plate - you end up eating a little bit less because it's that red colour on a plate where it seems to trigger some sort of danger or avoidance signal.

There fatties, it's that simple.

[Citizen X - #6]

Colorblind chubbies hardest hit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's make your own joke time once again:

I guess I shouldn't have bought that red _________________.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

Belly corsage?

[Citizen X - #6]

Yarlap?

[$park? leftist poser]

French tickler?

[Aloysious]

Rider?

[Anomalous]

Blue plates make your food seem special.

[Citizen X - #6]

White plates make your food seem kinda racist.

[$park? leftist poser]

China plates make your food more filling but then you're hungry again thirty minutes later.

Porcelain plates make your food taste like shit.

[MarkLastname]

Black plates make your food seem bigger and make you gag on it.

[Zeb]

Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't been very good for" gun sales

Yeah. I picked the wrong time to get into some gun maker stocks, thinking Hillary was likely to be elected. Oh, well. I think Ruger and S&W are still solid companies.

On the up side, lots of good deals to be had lately.

[Memory Hole]

Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't done much for our economic growth either -- U.S. Economy Expands at Slowest Pace in Three Years.

[WakaWaka]

Yeah, no significant change in the economy. Still as stagnant as before. But, people are more optimistic about the economy, according to polls, for what that's worth. Stock market is still at all time highs, too. Again, for what that's worth

[chemjeff]

"Having a President Trump in the White House hasn't done much for our economic growth either"

Okay that's about as retarded as the whole "President is the Father of America" derp.

[Fist of Etiquette]

All signs point to a less lavish, more sober affair Saturday night, with fewer over-the-top parties, less buzz and more recognition of the First Amendment and journalism's watchdog role in American democracy...

Snooze. Why bother?

[Jerryskids]

"There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea," Donald Trump told Reuters.

Major, major conflict, big league. Just the yugest, classiest war like you wouldn't believe. The greatest, bigger than WWII or the Civil War or any war ever in the history. I mean, look, the news media, I call them the fake news media, and, not all of them, but some of them, some of them - they know who they are - some of them will say it's not a great war, they'll say "oh, Trump's just talking" and and and sometimes, you know, sometimes, when they say stuff like this and it's not true and they make stuff up and it's all bad. Just sad, really. But not like, you know, it's not like with the thing with Mexico or China or where they've got the things with the stuff where it's like you don't know what it is and that's really not a great deal. A very bad deal. Just terrible. And it's got to stop and we've got some good people working on that and you'll see, we'll get that taken care of and you'll be pleased with it I think. I think. It's gonna be great.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Moral panic of the week: "Stealthing."

Back in my day we at least looked each other in the eye during our rainbow parties. The kids these days have no class!

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

You must have a really flexible neck.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Gwyneth Paltrow and Anna Wintour Are Making a Goop Magazine

Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle site, which sells the idea of "wellth," ceremonial lingerie burning, and jade vagina eggs, is expanding rapidly. A week after the In Goop Health conference was announced, Cond? Nast revealed it is producing a physical edition of the site, dubbed Goop.

The quarterly publication, Goop, will be released this September. According to Women's Wear Daily, it's "conceptualized as a collectible," which hopefully translates to "filled with specific, expensive gift guides." Vogue editor Anna Wintour told WWD, "Goop and Cond? Nast are natural partners."

Wellth.

[$park? leftist poser]

The quarterly publication, Goop, will be released this September.

Each magazine will cost $500. The good news is, you can get an annual subscription for $3,000.

[mad.casual]

Each magazine physical instantiation of the site will cost $500.

FIFY.

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

Indeedth.

[Rat on a train]

Are they wearing the lingerie during the ceremony?

[Azathoth!!]

it just screams 'Antoinette'

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Jake Butt, Forrest Lamp literally score the best endorsement deals ever before NFL draft

Butt landed a sweet, sweet deal with Charmin (#EnjoytheGo!) because his last name is, you know, Butt. (And, yes, he is a tight end. Happened to play for Michigan.) This fits perfectly with his Twitter user name, @J_Booty88, and he couldn't help but laugh a little when a "dump truck" plopped about 1,000 rolls of TP in front of him earlier this week.

[Meh.]

I used to know a guy whose last name was Balczak, and that was how he introduced himself too, by his last name. Most people with unfortunate names are pretty good sports about it.

[Agammamon]

That's because the ones who aren't are dead - killed by the police during a multi-state murder spree.

[WakaWaka]

"more recognition of the First Amendment"

This from the same outlets, like the NYT, that basically excused away censorship because Coulter is 'icky'. These people are a parody onto themselves

[Citizen X - #6]

parody onto themselves

John?

[Chipper Mourning LackOfSerifs]

Where has John been anyway? Did he finally join the Yokexit? Hey, DanO, is John posting at that other site now?

[Troy muy grande boner]

What is a yokexit? A new meme?

[WakaWaka]

Get in here DanO. Team douche assemble!

[WakaWaka]

Little girl?

[chemjeff]

Hey, has anyone seen John and WakaWaka in a room at the same time together?

Hmmm..............

[Citizen X - #6]

Actually, he's gone full Mikey upthread. I won't start hypothesizing that they're the same person, but they've definitely got a similar number of extra chromosomes.

[WakaWaka]

Really makes you think.

[Drave Robber]

I use that word, too. My excuse is that I'm a non-native speaker who's been taught BrE at school.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Roger Goodell: Marijuana is addictive and unhealthy

Listen, you're ingesting smoke, so that's not usually a very positive thing that people would say. It does have addictive nature. There are a lot of compounds in marijuana that may not be healthy for the players long-term. All of those things have to be considered. And it's not as simple as someone just wants to feel better after a game. We really want to help our players in that circumstance but I want to make sure that the negative consequences aren't something that is something that we'll be held accountable for some years down the road."

Goodell did acknowledge, however, the growing body of evidence that marijuana can be used for medical reasons."We look at it from a medical standpoint,"

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Goodell said. "So if people feel that it has a medical benefit, the medical advisers have to tell you that. We have joint advisers, we also have independent advisers, both the NFLPA and the NFL, and we'll sit down and talk about that. But we've been studying that through our advisers. To date, they haven't said this is a change we think you should make that's in the best interests of the health and safety of our players. If they do, we're certainly going to consider that. But to date, they haven't really said that."

Massive quantities of opiod pain medications, cortisone shots, and half-assed concussion treatment, however, are just fine.

[jack sprat]

At least they have "joint advisers."
Ok, I think this one should be bigger.....

[Conchfritters]

I've found that taking four percocet at once takes care of just about any pain that I have.

[Juice]

The presidency "is more work than in my previous life," said Trump in the same interview. "I thought it would be easier."

Should have just asked Dubya.

[Not a True MJG]

Crusty keeps using the word 'jabroni,' and it's awesome!

[Drave Robber]

So if having a gun grabber in WH improves gun sales...

...sales of pussy should be skyrocketing right now.

[MarkLastname]

Gotta get as much as you can before the pussy controllers take it off the market.

[MarkLastname]

Unfortunately it doesn't store well, unless you freeze it, and the defrosting process is a little awkward.... I won't go into details.

[GILMORE?]

re: the Korean woman with sign =

would.

Hoping her sign says, "Party @ My Place, Free Beer"

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Leave it to ENB to leave a used condom in my morning links.

[Citizen X - #6]

You just found out that you're technically a sexual predator, huh?

[Darnell123]

If it happened, it could only be like this router login