Trump Open to Signing Russia Sanctions Legislation, Schumer Calls Dems 'Namby-Pamby,' Jordan Spieth Wins British Open: A.M. Links

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  President Trump complained on Twitter that Republicans weren't doing enough to "protect" him.

• Trump is reportedly open to signing legislation that would limit his power to ease sanctions against Russia.
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer characterized Democrats as too "namby-pamby" in 2016 and said he'd unveil a new Democratic agenda today.
• An anti-capitalist Museum of Capitalism is opening, temporarily, in Oakland, complete with a gift shop.
• A wildfire in California can be seen from space.
• The feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, has died.
• Michael Phelps "raced" a number of sharks to kick off Shark Week.
• Jordan Spieth won the British Open.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump complained on Twitter that Republicans weren't doing enough to "protect" him.

He would do the same for them!

[Anomalous]

Is he paying them protection money?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Spartacus]

Trump is being a whiny little bitch? I am shocked.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Someone likened that tweet to Livia Soprano. Now it's in that voice I read all his tweets.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump complained on Twitter that Republicans weren't doing enough to "protect" him.

By taking his Twitter account?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Michael Phelps "raced" a number of sharks to kick off Shark Week.

This is who should be president.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

He smoked marijuana. /career

[Citizen X - #6]

The feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, has died.

This is who should have been president.

[Anomalous]

Will Talkeetna experience a dead cat bounce?

[Fist of Etiquette]

You can't swing an Alaskan mayor without hitting a pollster around here.

[Juice]

President Toonces is driving this country off a cliff!

[Necron 99]

What did he know about Hillary?

[Citizen X - #6]

She just rubbed him the wrong way.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

And when he tried to scratch below the surface, well, let's just say it was curiosity that did him in.

[You're not funny]

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jordan Spieth won the British Open.

I can't wait until Reason announces who won the NHL's championship.

[Citizen X - #6]

Nobody cares about Canadian religious practices.

[Rufus The Monocled]

The Stanley Cup replaced the Cross as an official religious symbol here.

[Citizen X - #6]

"While they were eating, Jesus took Timbits, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, saying, 'Take and eat; this is my body...'"

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

"Sorry for eating your body, Jesus, eh?"

[You're not funny]

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Lou Reed

[Citizen X - #6]

A anti-capitalist Museum of Capitalism is opening, temporarily, in Oakland, complete with a gift shop.

Che Guevara t-shirts for $25.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Two copies of Das Kapital for the price of one!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Everything must go!

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I bet they take credit cards.

[You're not funny]

[DJF]

Factory Outlet for the Chinese Communist Party, the largest business owner in the world!

[Citizen X - #6]

Get your own protectionist preoccupations straight, dude. In your universe it's the libertarians who love the ChiComs, remember?

[DJF]

They love making the ChiComs rich.

[Citizen X - #6]

If you don't understand how trade works and why even unilateral free trade is better than blockade, that's fine, but you'd be a better fit in the comments of someplace like Salon or Jacobin.

[DJF]

So its free trade when the workers are repressed and the ownership is the Chinese Communist Party?

[Citizen X - #6]

Are you being deliberately obtuse, or were you dropped as an infant?

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Next time don't use a ten-dollar word like "unilateral."

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Inflation sure has ruined a lot of expressions. Does anyone even know what "two bit" means any more?

[John DeWitt]

Fine, but I get richer, too. Because my shit is cheap.

[Citizen X - #6]

It's better for everybody to be poor than for some people to get rich while believing the wrong things, according to a great many deeply wrong people.

[Zeb]

If they are going to be rich, better that they do it by making the whole country richer rather than by starving the population to death.
The Chinese leadership may be evil tyrants, but it's still a lot better than if they were actually still trying to do communism.

[Rhywun]

They've still got the totalitarianism down pat FWIW

[Citizen X - #6]

So does DJF, so i guess we're even? Even-ish?

[Zeb]

For sure. But unless and until the people of China decide to do something about it I think it's much preferable to have totalitarians engaged with the rest of the world and running things in such a way that people in China can have better lives than the likely alternatives.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

I don't want to give them my money, so you aren't allowed to give them your money.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

But, Crusty, I need new underwear.

[You're not funny]

[BestUsedCarSales]

That's definitely stetching the definition of the word "need."

[Libertarian]

"A wildfire in California can be seen from space."

BFD. Are we supposed to blame global warming? I've seen numerous fires on weather satellites before.

[BYODB]

I hate to tell them, but in todays world you can see everything from space.

/hyperbole /NSA /Air Force

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Schumer's got his pedo-face working overtime in that pic.

[Aloysious]

My reaction to seeing that picture:

*Barf*

[Fist of Etiquette]

The feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, has died.

It used all nine lies to get elected.

[Zeb]

I met that cat once. The finest politician I've ever encountered.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I thought he was a pussy.

[Roger Wilco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9KqigbdJw

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

+ rainbow hair. She was ahead of her time!

[Citizen X - #6]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer characterized Democrats as too "namby-pamby" in 2016 and said he'd unveil a new Democratic agenda today.

Analysts noted that, while Schumer's agenda did lower the pamby, it nearly doubled the amount of namby.

[DJF]

So Trump is not just acting like Hitler, he is Hitler.

Putin does not just sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom, he sleeps in Trumps bed!

[Citizen X - #6]

I... what?

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Peanut butter isn't a fruit.

[Citizen X - #6]

My mother knew that i would die one day!

[Rhywun]

If by "namby" you mean "delusional leftist fantasy".

[Citizen X - #6]

I don't know what i mean anymore.

[Rhywun]

In any event I'm looking forward to Moobs taking his party over a cliff.

[Citizen X - #6]

Unfortunately, his fantastic breasts will cushion the landing.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

We are still talking about Chuck Schumer?

[Fist of Etiquette]

A wildfire in California can be seen from space.

But can space be seen from the wildfire?

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

The feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, has died.

Meow. Meowmeowmeow. Mkgnao! Mrkgnao!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer characterized Democrats as too "namby-pamby" in 2016 and said he'd unveil a new Democratic agenda today.

SHOW US YOUR TITS

[Mickey Rat]

Good Lord, man. How much did you drink last weekend that you would want that?

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Mickey Rat is the one guy that drives by a car accident and does not look.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A anti-capitalist Museum of Capitalism is opening, temporarily, in Oakland, complete with a gift shop.

The Museum of Irony is on the second floor.

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

Maybe they sell all items at a loss.

[gaoxiaen]

They only carry one brand of anything.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, has died.

Looks like this politician...

[dons toque]

...got too curious.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Jared Kushner sealed real estate deal with oligarch's firm cited in money-laundering case

The most interesting section:

The ties between Trump family real estate deals and Russian money interests are attracting growing interest from the justice department's special counsel, Robert Mueller, as he seeks to determine whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia to distort the outcome of the 2016 race. Mueller has reportedly expanded his inquiry to look at real estate deals involving the Trump Organization, as well as Kushner's financing.

An investigation into their real estate deals? Nice work, Donnie.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Bronx Hotline Helps People Make the Right Call After an Arrest

Most people who are arrested wind up in court, where more than 40 percent of the defendants cannot provide the name and number of a friend or relative, according to the New York City Criminal Justice Agency. The agency interviews almost all defendants before they are formally charged at an arraignment and provides release recommendations to the presiding judges.

Aubrey Fox, the executive director of the agency, said people who cannot provide an emergency contact, which helps prove ties to the community, are less likely to be recommended for release without bail, and they are ineligible for alternatives like supervised release.

"So there is this debate about, how do you get defendants access to phone numbers in the cellphone era, when nobody remembers phone numbers anymore?" Mr. Fox said.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

To address this problem, a 24-hour hotline started in the Bronx last fall offers one easy-to-remember number, 1-833-3-GOODCALL (1-833-346-6322), for people who are arrested. It is similar to one operating in Chicago. The hotline workers can connect a caller with lawyers from the Bronx Defenders and the Legal Aid Society and can notify relatives. The free service also allows people to store contact information. Good Call is available citywide, but the public defenders it uses are available only in the Bronx

[Libertarian]

Michael Phelps "raced" a number of sharks to kick off Shark Week.

And that number was "none."

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Bizarre street signs go up in the wake of Justine Damond's shooting death in US

The sign features a silhouette of a police officer holding a gun in his hands, shooting in both directions.

It states: "WARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED". Social media users have begun posting sightings of the signs in Minnieapolis and neighbouring city Saint Paul on platforms including Reddit.

The sign, which I am pretty sure is a hate crime.

Blue Lives Matter, people.

[Rich]

"Minnieapolis"? Is that how how our Aussie neighbours spell it?

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Oy!

[Zeb]

That is awesome.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The police officer was black? What's all the hubbub, shouldn't this be filed under 'just-desserts'?

[Rhywun]

They're saying 8 months of training and 2 years on the job made the killer cop "inexperienced". I'm not sure I buy that.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

"I am so startled."

[Rich]

Lana Del Rey confirms attempt to use witchcraft against Donald Trump

"I really do believe that words are one of the last forms of magic ...."

Apparently she's using witchcraft to influence her publicity.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

The sad part is that she isn't practicing any form of witchcraft, she's just echoing the modern leftists sentiment that language can be manipulated to create whatever reality you wish. She isn't doing anything much different than what's in George Lakoff's propaganda tracts.

[Citizen X - #6]

She's just making clear the underlying assumptions, which most leftists don't question because they're transparently stupid and doing so would undermine a great deal of modern Progressivism.

God bless empty-headed celebrities who drink a lot.

[Zeb]

Trump is reportedly open to signing legislation that would limit his power to ease sanctions against Russia.

Man, now even Trump is suffering from TDS and fever dreams.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Justin Bieber banned from China for 'bad behaviour'

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been banned from performing in China, according to Beijing's Culture Bureau.

In a statement, the ministry said it was not appropriate to allow in entertainers who have engaged in "bad behaviour."

"Justin Bieber is a gifted singer, but he is also a controversial young foreign singer," it added.

The statement was issued in response to a question recently submitted by a user of the bureau's website.

"We hope that as Justin Bieber matures, he can continue to improve his own words and actions, and truly become a singer beloved by the public," the statement said.

That's it - send in the Seventh Fleet.

[Juice]

The Canadian Navy only has 1.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

It's called Article 5, bro - when one member of NATO is attacked, every member of NATO is attacked.

[Mickey Rat]

I dunno, we have put with Canada attacking us with weaponized Bieber for years now.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I always suspected Bieber would cause the next world war.

[Rhywun]

as Justin Bieber matures

lolwut

[Eek Barba Durkle]

When Biebers don't cross borders, armies will.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

How Fake Cops Got $1.2 Million in Real Weapons

This year, the agency went a little more cowboy. The GAO created a fictitious law enforcement agency ? complete with a fake website and a bogus address that traced back to an empty lot ? and applied for military-grade equipment from the Department of Defense.

And in less than a week, they got it

[BYODB]

Well at least we know the GAO is serious. Serious, and now well armed. That's some serious well armed accountability, right?

[Rufus The Monocled]

"A anti-capitalist Museum of Capitalism is opening, temporarily, in Oakland, complete with a gift shop."

Everything must go....at a loss!

Please tell me it wasn't funded by taxpayers.

[CatoTheChipper]

Please tell me that the pricing of items in the gift shop is based upon the labor theory of value.

It would really be educational for museum-goers if the gift shop would how to calculate socialist prices of the items that they sell.

Since most of the crap is probably made in China, and a socially just minimum wage is $15/hour, the gift shop's procurement policy should insist that all of the workers in communist Chinese factories be paid $15/hour.

[Rhywun]

The next section, featuring TV's with looped commentary from people describing alternate economic systems from "anarchist feminism to caring economics to indigenous Polynesian communism."

I'm not convinced the whole thing isn't some sort of performance art/trolling.

[Stormy Dragon]

By Scaramucci in the Trump twitter article:

Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters

If he seriously thinks deleting old tweets reduces the likelihood of their being commented on, he has no business being in charge of communications, because he clearly has no clue what he's doing.

[Citizen X - #6]

Yeah, the article i saw about it yesterday directly quoted a bunch of those tweets.

It's nice that political animals keep forgetting that the Internet never forgets anything.

[Stormy Dragon]

There's also programs you can get to monitor Twitter feeds and notify you whenever a twitter gets deleted. So deleting old tweets just specifically notifies journalists which ones to scrutinize.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction.

I wonder if any liberals snarking about this feel that this little gem should define the current discourse.

[Spartacus]

Yes, but will he do the Fandango?

[Dillinger]

thunderbolts and lightning...

[Dillinger]

>>>Chuck Schumer...said he'd unveil a new Democratic agenda today...

any chance it doesn't include him?

[Dillinger]

>>>anti-capitalist Museum of Capitalism

who the fuck funds *that*?

[BestUsedCarSales]

The workers.

[Dillinger]

good plan.

[Domestic Dissident]

Jordan Spieth won the British Open.

Also, Tiger Woods has dropped out of the top 1,000 in the world rankings (though there are still a few dopes out there who believe the old nearly invincible in his prime Tiger is coming back any day now).

[creech]

He'll still bring out large crowds even if he never makes the cut in any tournament again. I went out to see legends Jack and Arnie in a few senior events when they could hardly get the ball past the ladies' tee.

[Domestic Dissident]

Unless he kills someone driving while he's all hopped up on Ambien and goes to prison or something.

[Sevo]

"Trump son-in-law Kushner at Capitol, denies Russia collusion"
http://www.sfgate.com/news/pol.....328495.php

But he didn't deny canoodling with them!

[Necron 99]

John McAfee attacked. Wife tweets, "My husband is still breathing bitches!"

http://www.zdnet.com/article/j.....er-attack/

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