President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Bo Diddley]

Happy Victory II day, for all those who celebrate without celebrating too much or taking a day off, but who look forward to a major celebration in the future.

Trump: "We'll have two victory days, World War I and World War II. In the future we're going to have a major celebration of each day. We're not going to have days off because we don't have enough days in the year. We have too many celebrations already."

I keep waiting for Juneteenth to get cancelled.

[myboynoah]

Yes, PepsiCo discontinued Mtn Dew Mango Lime Kickstart. It's a shock to us all.

[LVAllen]

I keep waiting for Juneteenth to get cancelled.

I'm sure that's next on the agenda, and would have been already had it not been an actual honest-to-goodness law (how many has Trump gotten passed in his first 100 days, again?)

I do think that the end of slavery deserves to be commemmorated, but the anti-Juneteenthers can't really point to a good alternative date. January 1, the date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued? January 31, the date the 13th Amendment was passed? December 6, the date it was finally ratified? None are really good choices, so, despite its Texas origins, I'm okay with June 19th.

[frank ryan]

I'm sure that's next on the agenda, and would have been already had it not been an actual honest-to-goodness law (how many has Trump gotten passed in his first 100 days, again?)

I do think that the end of slavery deserves to be commemmorated, but the anti-Juneteenthers can't really point to a good alternative date. January 1, the date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued? January 31, the date the 13th Amendment was passed? December 6, the date it was finally ratified? None are really good choices, so, despite its Texas origins, I'm okay with June 19th.

They will probably change the name to Southern Heritage day or some shit

[Goatnapper'96]

I took this message to heart last night, especially the part about falafel not wanting to be bored, that really got to me. As such I realized that I had not recently tuned in to NPR and I owed that research, at the very least, to the scintillating discourse happening here. Here is my "return and report:"

Last night, drive home:
NPR All things Considered reporting (15=20 min):

- story on how Trump ban on Transgenders in military is unlikely to be stopped by SCOTUS and how there have been Air Force and or Navy pilots who were trans. The lawyer reporting sounded sad that SCOTUS was likely not going to intervene.
- story on "will a new Pope be nice to LGBT people"
-tuned out during a story on a new study that suggests that the the axolotl might be able to repopulate and get off of endangered lists.

I was disappointed to learn that i missed the stories on "'Weird Al' grapples with the complicated feelings of watching his daughter grow up" and "Four teens and why they like poetry," those seemed interesting and relevant.

NPR this morning, drive to work:
Morning Edition (15-20 min):

- Story on Indian strikes on Pakistan, good content
- Story on Andre 3000, half of hip-hop duo OutKast, releases surprise piano improvisation album - this was hard-hitting
- Story on Port of Los Angeles and how shipping is down because of Tariffs. 30-35% reduction was the number I remember. also, the reporter implied that China was just going to "find other trade partners than the U.S." as if there are just a bunch of untapped trillion-dollar economies to replace America. Surprisingly, there was no coverage of how the Tariffs are affecting China. I had just last night done a little bit of searching into how Tariffs are causing perhaps not-so-insignificant unrest in China where factories are shutting down and people are not being paid and Xi might be facing some economic pressures right now as a result of Tariffs. Or about how for simple manufacturing companies are looking to shift from China to Mexico and Vietnam where wages are lower and factories already exist for scale-up. I am sure that this was a simple oversight or just "outside the scope" of how tariffs affect America, because we only really care about getting our cheap goods.

I tuned out during the ad for Radio West where Doug is interviewing Dan Mclellan on bible stuff. the attention-grabber was a conversation about a lady that was convinced that the Monster Energy logo 3 claw marks are really the Hebrew number 6 and therefore represent the sign of the beast.

All-in-all it was good to hear the familiar jingles and show themes and advertisements. Thank you falafel for bringing me back to NPR.

Sons of Slum and Gravy- will you let the Navy take from us a victory- HELL NO! Sons of Mars and Thunder rip that line asunder-CARRY ON TO VICTORY! ONWARD ONWARD CHARGE AGAINST THE FOE! FORWARD FORWARD THE ARMY BANNERS GO!

[falafel]

Oh brother.

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dammit Stockholm! Do you not understand US executive orders?

[USUC]

Good hell, the "trade deal" with the UK is some of the dumbest nonsense I've seen. At some point I won't be shocked at Trump's trade ideas but I don't think I'm close to that point yet.

[Maximus]

can we get a fake deal with china too.

I dont get how the market ignores the store shelfs being 3 weeks away from empty

[myboynoah]

Good hell, the "trade deal" with the UK is some of the dumbest nonsense I've seen. At some point I won't be shocked at Trump's trade ideas but I don't think I'm close to that point yet.

Lunkheadnick begs to differ.

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[falafel]

Lunkheadnick begs to differ.

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I expected Lutnick to kneel down next to Trump at the end and do the physical equivalent of what he just did verbally.

[myboynoah]

I expected Lutnick to kneel down next to Trump at the end and do the physical equivalent of what he just did verbally.

Trump isn't that easy. He needs to wooed, like with a taco salad or the like.

[Northwestcoug]

I expected Lutnick to kneel down next to Trump at the end and do the physical equivalent of what he just did verbally.

Watching over clips of that conference you could hear Litnick laugh at all of Trump's insults. I hope Trump paid for a nice dinner after all that servicing.

[LVAllen]

Trump isn't that easy. He needs to wooed, like with a taco salad or the like.

Wait until you see how Jeanine Pirro thanks him for nominating her as his replacement DC US Atttorney for Ed Martin.

[falafel]

Watching over clips of that conference you could hear Litnick laugh at all of Trump's insults. I hope Trump paid for a nice dinner after all that servicing.

I don't understand how any man can be that much of a beta to another man. Especially someone like Lutnick, who is a billionaire in his own right. Why would he gesticulate before Trump like that?? The only thing it does is make him look like a bitch (apologies to Soccermom, our sole remaining female member).

[myboynoah]

Wait until you see how Jeanine Pirro thanks him for nominating her as his replacement DC US Atttorney for Ed Martin.

Might as well nominate Judge Judy.

In a related matter, MAGA has Tillis in its sights after he scuttled the Nazi/Commie Ed nomination.

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