Here’s the live stream of the President’s speech at the NRA Leadership Forum. If someone put’s a transcript up later, I’ll update the post.
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Open thread!
by Adam L Silverman| 98 Comments
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Here’s the live stream of the President’s speech at the NRA Leadership Forum. If someone put’s a transcript up later, I’ll update the post.
Stay alert, stay alive!
Open thread!
Comments are closed.
Adam L Silverman
Phony Russian witch hunt! Drink!!!!
lamh36
Nnnooopee….
I’ll wait for a transcript
SFAW
I don’t want to Godwin this thread at the start, but looking at that still/frame of Shitgibbon gesticulating, it reminded me of some Austrian painter who used to gesticulate similarly (if I’m remembering correctly) when trying to incite fascists.
Mary G
I hope whoever’s doing the transcription gets triple pay. That’s gotta be be one tough job.
jharp
I’d be surprised if more than one out of 100 BJ visitors watch that fucking dick.
I’d rather have a sharp stick in the eye.
Frankensteinbeck
@SFAW:
He looks like he’s screaming in fury. What a horrible man he is.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
OK, so does that mean Liar-in-Chief is saying the purported “witch hunt” is not really a witch hunt after all? That there’s actually something there?
rikyrah
The young Black ladies in the NASA contest who got hacked WON.
hedgehog mobile
I’m with lamh. Nope. I’ll read jackal commentary.
RandomMonster
@SFAW: I fully expect him to announce his intention to annex the Sudetenland.
SFAW
@jharp:
FORGET the bleedin’ pointed stick!
hedgehog mobile
@rikyrah: Yay!
Corner Stone
@SFAW: It’s a party foul to use the word “gesticulate” or variations twice in one sentence.
WereBear
@rikyrah: Awesome!
John Revolta
Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
SFAW
@RandomMonster:
Naturlich! Die Russen brauchen Lebensraum!
In other words, because Vladi told him to.
mai naem mobile
@Adam L Silverman: phony Putin’s bitch hunt. Or in Barbara Bush’s memory I should say phony Putin’s – Rhymes with Witch – Hunt
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
YAY!! You GO, girls!
Betty Cracker
I’m an atheist, but a well-timed meteor strike in Dallas right about now could change that. Your move, God!
Roger Moore
Sorry, those mangoes do not look tasty enough to justify leaving the boat.
HeleninEire
I cannot express how much I do not give a shit (but thank you Adam, this blog would not be the same without you). But I just cannot listen to his lying bullshit spewing voice.
Also, too. How is Lily, Cole? And where are we paying for her Chemo?
And it is a bank holiday here in Ireland Monday. WOO HOO. They are planning for a heat wave. 19 degrees. That’s in the States 66. LOL I love it here.
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
Hey, it’s my party and I’ll gesticulate if I want to
Gesticulate if I want to
Gesticulate if I want to
You would gesticulate two if it happened to you.
[Insert Bronx cheer sound]
Jeffro
@rikyrah: that’s awesome!
Now let’s hope the Ill Douche goes for a long drive around Dallas in a convertible…
sigaba
@Adam L Silverman:
There’s a Baba Yaga joke in this.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
Nonsense.
Mary G
“We’re decimating Obamacare.”
“We’re really doing well.”
Big boos for John Kerry.
If you want to keep your guns, gotta get out and vote – dead silence, that’s encouraging.
Adam, the feed has “WH.gov,” on the top right, but the chyron is for something called “Golden State Times,” donate to us, follow us on Gab.AI and Twitter. Ick.
ETA: and with submitting the comment, it cuts off the speech and I can’t do any more.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
I have Asshole bingo!
What do I win?
Spanky
Simultaneously, there’s a Change of Command ceremony going on with Paul Nakasone becoming head of NSA and gaining a 4th star. Yet here’s Twittler yelling at a bunch of gun nuts.
TenguPhule
@SFAW:
Oh good, it wasn’t just me then.
Josie
That picture is so repulsive. He is ugly – inside and out.
TenguPhule
Today’s Giuliani:
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
The asshole takes a dump on you. What did you expect?
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@HeleninEire: In honor of my Irish ancestors, I too have the day off. It’s a sick day, but it’ll do.
66 degrees is just right. 82 where I am. I’m enjoying it before the temperature skyrockets, as I’m sure it will very soon because freakin’ Georgia.
(Yes, I’ve completely avoided the subject of Trump and the NRA. I’m trying not to want to knife myself in the neck for just one afternoon.)
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: I’ve just replaced it with the proper White House feed. Sorry.
schrodingers_cat
Not going to watch even if you pay me to do it.
Adam L Silverman
Diversity lottery! Drink!!!
Sorry Chaplain Abgere…
Brachiator
Yeah. I will also wait for a transcript, and “highlights” from the speech.
After his faux concern for the Parkland students and their families, I will not be surprised if he reverts to full metal jackass in his support of gun fetishism.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Please see Anne Laurie on the mezzanine level to claim your prize.
Adam L Silverman
They’re not sending their finest! Drink!
Amir Khalid
During the little bit I watched (I can’t take Trump in long stretches without wanting to throw something) he was talking about 2016, again. That election is over. Trump hasn’t done anything right since then. The world has given up expecting America to pull its weight, and is losing respect for America. A lot of people who voted for him now wish they hadn’t. His administration is mired in scandal and beset by investigations into what potentially criminal/treasonous behaviour. Trump has become a serious drag on the Republican party’s electoral chances this year. So instead of doing something about these very serious problems, there he is clinging to his security blanket: his Electoral College victory against the far better candidate. It seems to be all he has.
Cheryl Rofer
@rikyrah:
Excellent news.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: @TenguPhule: He has very clearly patterned gestures, body posture and movement, and facial expressions on Hitler and Mussolini.
Adam L Silverman
This is clearly a Stephen Miller drafted speech.
SFAW
@TenguPhule:
I don’t know which is worse: you’re starting to think like me, or vice versa.
RedDirtGirl
@HeleninEire: So glad you are enjoying yourself over there! Hope I can make it over for a visit some time!
Frankensteinbeck
@Amir Khalid:
I think ‘a lot’ is stretching it. Mostly people who didn’t vote for him are furious and determined to vote Democrat.
EDIT – @Adam L Silverman:
The NRA is a white supremacist organization. It is as central to their purpose as making money for gun manufacturers.
Adam L Silverman
He’s on the Stoneman Douglas school shooting now.
mai naem mobile
I made the mistake of turning on a few minutes of Maria Antoinette Baritiromo on Fox Bidness this morning. After decrying NBC’s fake news she let everybody know how upset she was that Cohen’s phone was tapped. It just wasn’t right and she had Bud Cummins on whose title was former US Atty who was equally upset. I looked up Cummins and he was part of the Dolt45 transition and chair of the Dolt45 campaign in Arkansas but Fox Bidness didn’t think that their viewers needed to know that. Anyhoo,my new nick for Unmanned Missile Maria is Moscow Maria. Lou Dobbs is Lenin grad Lou and Sean Hannity is Stalingrad Sean. The president has been a very good influence on me.
Amir Khalid
@HeleninEire:
A few years ago temperatures in parts of Peninsular Malaysia somehow dropped into the 60-something degrees Fahenheit range. People here were complaining about the bitter cold.
TenguPhule
@Amir Khalid:
He didn’t do anything right before or during either.
Adam L Silverman
Highly trained teachers carrying concealed weapons! Shoot your shootin arns in the air like you just don’t care!
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
OK, now I know you’re a troll/bot, because CLEARLY Hitlary ran the worst political campaign since the Big Bang. And she didn’t even go to some state where it wouldn’t have made any difference because of voter suppression, so there.
ETA: Consider yourself chastised.
Adam L Silverman
Gun free zones! Drink!
TenguPhule
@SFAW:
The sense of wrongness you feel at the beginning is normal and will pass.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
First draft at that.
Raoul
@Frankensteinbeck:
You’d scream in fury, too, if the pyramid of schemes, lies, corruption and grift was all about to collapse around you (not you, personally, of course). Decades of consequence-free shysterism, a paper empire built on Russian mob money laundering, etc, to now have all the walls closing in. It’d make Howard Dean’s scream seem like a tiny throat-clearing.
schrodingers_cat
ICE is using dental scans to redetermine the age of minors seeking asylum and then putting them in adult detention.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: Do you have snuff fantasy tourettes? If not, then you’re okay. But proactively seeking help might be a good idea.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Which side did he take?
Adam L Silverman
@Frankensteinbeck: I’m aware.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Double Bonus for his actually being in the only gun-free zone at the NRA meeting because the Secret Service insisted on it.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
Trump family values.
Adam L Silverman
@mai naem mobile:
They have their own twitter feed too.
https://twitter.com/mariascleavage
Mary G
Interesting about an earlier speech:
zetaReserve
“We have to do the right thing.”
How about resigning, you … fart cloud.
Listening to this man talking in these tones and to this audience is pissing me right off.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: The gun’s side.
TenguPhule
Trump-Russia: judge in Manafort case rebukes Mueller for exceeding authority
Splinters. Logs. Assholes.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: Ugh!
bjacques
It sounded better in the original German.
(raises glass to the late Molly Ivins)
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Whenever anyone tells me that the courts can fix this shit, I am reminded of that old quote “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”
HeleninEire
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): Keep avoiding those topics.
How is my dogboyfriend? The fabulous Iggy, and of course his friend Muppet?
Kelly
According to Buzzfeed News twitter Trump said “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.”
Um if it’s under siege now isn’t it under siege while he’s president?
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Given where he is, I assume he took the gun’s side.
efgoldman
@sigaba:
Baba Yaga was a real Russian witch.
Or maybe not
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
ICE will continue to ignore the law until they pay a penalty for flouting it.
Adam L Silverman
@TenguPhule: Judges are notoriously not too forgiving when their orders are ignored. Unfortunately it can take a while for them to compel action. This will be brought back to the court by the people acting on behalf of this young man. Then the judge will determine which sanctions to implement. Our system is iterative. Slagging the judges because of the system they have to work within isn’t going to solve the issue.
bjacques
@efgoldman: THIS is a real Russian witch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wpEpfx5dQ
Adam L Silverman
@Kelly: Don’t confuse him, he’s on a roll!
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman:
Impressive work, Mr. Silverman!
Adam L Silverman
@Roger Moore: Yep.
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
ICE needs to be disbanded. Monsters.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: That makes me very happy!
efgoldman
@Brachiator:
If someone handed him a loaded weapon, he would either shoot his foot off or cry like a baby and fall down. Or both. Before or after he fired randomly and shot some conventioneer.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman: I’m not slagging them, I’m pointing out that its one thing to make the decision, but every single one of these rat fuckers are going to keep right on going because their contempt for rules and laws is total. And that attitude is corrosive and contagious.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: He’s not really that stupid, is he? Never mind.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: Their boss in the WH sets the tone.
WaterGirl
@MomSense:
That must be an alternate spelling of nuked that I have never seen before.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
Just one? You disappoint me.
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: Homeland had a funny scene [possible spoiler alert of minor scene that makes a small political point rather than advancing the plot] where the Alex Jones-style character visits some of his fans out in the country and it turns out that Mr. Gun Nut Rights doesn’t actually know how to fire one
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Do I really need to answer this?
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: Like when Sarah Palin tried to shoot that rifle on her TV show and almost broke her jaw because she didn’t shoulder it correctly.
joel hanes
@Jeffro:
let’s hope the Ill Douche goes for a long drive around Dallas in a convertible…
I know how you feel, but assassination of The Donald would be just about the worst thing possible to happen to America, short of nuclear war.
The Republicans would go mad with aggrieved jingoism and lust for vengeance, and some of their voters would adopt “second amendment remedies”. it would be like the week after 9/11 except explicitly partisan. I think that many innocent people would be killed in the resulting violence.
joel hanes
@Amir Khalid:
he was talking about 2016, again.
I think it’s a tell.
I suspect that The Donald knows that there exists information that, if disclosed, would reveal that the election process was so compromised that he’s not legitimately President. So he compulsively revisits the event, trying to shore up his damaged claim to the office.
Jeffro
@joel hanes: eh, disagree…and they’re not the only ones who are armed.
I’d rather he face justice and die in prison of course – it’s a much more suitable punishment
joel hanes
@SFAW:
it reminded me of some Austrian painter
I’ve got bad news for you, SFAW: The President of the United States *is* named Schicklgruber.
And don’t worrry about Godwinning until the current unpleasantness is over:
we’re officially Allowed
Frankensteinbeck
@joel hanes:
Alas, that’s unnecessarily complicated. He’s insecure and petty to an extent non-narcissists have trouble grasping. He lost the election by three million votes. A woman humiliated him twice in the debates. Since he won, he’s had nonstop shit reviews of his every action. He won the actual presidency of the United States of America, and instead of praise for his win, he’s faced nonstop public venom and mockery. He has lots of reasons to dwell on it and constantly beg for validation.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@HeleninEire: Spoiled rotten. They’d thank you for asking, but they just assumed you would — they’re aware of their importance.
Good thing I don’t have kids — they’d end up horribly warped.
Ken B
@TenguPhule:
The next open seat in Trump’s cabinet?