A picture is worth a thousand words

[barbara]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14332462/photos-crowd-trump-inauguration-vs-obama?client=safari

[Tom Joad]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14332462/photos-crowd-trump-inauguration-vs-obama?client=safari

http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/Dog_of_the_Earth/Grapefruit-james_cagney-mae_clark21a.jpg (http://s843.photobucket.com/user/Dog_of_the_Earth/media/Grapefruit-james_cagney-mae_clark21a.jpg.html)

[Dondilion]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14332462/photos-crowd-trump-inauguration-vs-obama?client=safari

Obama was the first black president.

[bobabode]

Small hands, small crowds.

Dollars to donuts the crowds tomorrow at the Women's March will exceed today's attendance at the Gropenfurher's inaugurination.

[Tom Joad]

Small hands, small crowds.

Dollars to donuts the crowds tomorrow at the Women's March will exceed today's attendance at the Gropenfurher's inaugurination.

Suck it loser. :)

http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/Dog_of_the_Earth/14937190_1449863811690330_927407961229684447_n.jpg (http://s843.photobucket.com/user/Dog_of_the_Earth/media/14937190_1449863811690330_927407961229684447_n.jpg .html)

[whell]

Glad to see the new peanut gallery - a.k.a. the American left - still has important things to talk about.

[Dondilion]

Trump has officially completed the power grid.

That is almost unbelievable. It is a great shock. So it is a good thing therefore that the society is one which allows the shell shocked to vent their extreme disappointment in a cacophony of anger, bellyaches, crying and whining.

[bobabode]

Glad to see the new peanut gallery - a.k.a. the American left - still has important things to talk about.

I'm stocking up on Orville Redenbacher's, my friend. Trump may well exceed Dick Nixon's record number of indictments and convictions before he's done. ;)

[bobabode]

Obama was the first black president.

Excuses, excuses...:rolleyes:

[whell]

I'm stocking up on Orville Redenbacher's, my friend. Trump may well exceed Dick Nixon's record number of allegations before he's done. ;)

Fixed it for you. I'm sure the Dems will engage in all manner of mischief in an effort to try and stay relevant.

[bobabode]

Fixed it for you. I'm sure the Dems will engage in all manner of mischief in an effort to try and stay relevant.

"Allegations"? Are Detroit schools that bad that they never taught you how corrupt Nixon was or were you just snoozing in class? :rolleyes:

[finnbow]

Fixed it for you. I'm sure the Dems will engage in all manner of mischief in an effort to try and stay relevant.

I have a feeling der Trumpenfuhrer will hand them their relevance on a silver platter.

[whell]

"Allegations"? Are Detroit schools that bad that they never taught you how corrupt Nixon was or were you just snoozing in class? :rolleyes:

The point was that there will be no comparison btw Nixon and Trump. However, I'm sure the Dems will continue doing whatever they can to make it look that way.

[bobabode]

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/01/20/Others/Images/2017-01-20/Untitled-1.JPG

In the immortal words of Herr Twitler, "Sad". :D

[whell]

I have a feeling der Trumpenfuhrer will hand them their relevance on a silver platter.

You had a feeling about the relevance of Kasich as a candidate. See where that got ya?

[Dondilion]

Excuses, excuses...:rolleyes:

No. People came from all over the world to mark that historic occasion.

I personally know people from the Midlands of England who came.

[finnbow]

You had a feeling about the relevance of Kasich as a candidate. See where that got ya?

Though he was my preference, I still don't think he was relevant other than he had the guts to not roll over for der Trumpenfuhrer like the rest of the compliant GOP, notwithstanding Trump's profound lack of dignity, temperament, and competence for the job. Maryland's governor, Larry Hogan, also maintained a respectable distance from your Trumpenfuhrer, to his credit.

[finnbow]

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/01/20/Others/Images/2017-01-20/Untitled-1.JPG

In the immortal words of Herr Twitler, "Sad". :D

Metro ridership for Trump's inauguration was about 193,000 whereas Metroridership for Obama's for the same time span was 513,000 (and a fair number of Trump's riders were protesters).

[bobabode]

'Trump’s America is a rotten place'

"President Trump delivered a campaign speech, not an inaugural address today. That he and his staff do not understand the difference goes to the heart of his insufficiency as a leader. Addressing a shockingly sparse crowd, he painted a picture of a hellish America that can only be restored by turning inward, deciding the world is a burden and our allies are thieves.

The speech was really two separate ones slammed together.
In the first he repeated in different ways, over and over again, that “we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people” because, well, because anyone and everyone in government has turned America into a hellhole. “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.” In other words, the “establishment” that he now sits atop has betrayed the country. He did not say they were shortsighted or mistaken. He did not say they made progress but left work to do. He attributes unvarnished malice to the entire establishment, dividing it from the “people.”

He perfectly channels the resentment of the white working class. And in case you didn’t know how rotten a country this is, he described, as he did on the campaign trail, a dystopia bearing little resemblance to the real United States. (“Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.”) You would not know that unemployment stands at 4.7 percent, crime is down and productivity up. He sees only blight. “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he declared.

Carnage. Take that in for a moment. Does he see America as a decimated, destroyed and weak country? Apparently yes — or he would like us to believe so in order to, in a year or so, declare how everything has improved.

The second part of the speech was a dark, ugly tribute to “America First,” the language of nationalism, nativism and protectionism. One cringes to hear the president use the phrase of the Charles Lindbergh, fascist-sympathizing set of the 1930s. He puts forth a demonstrably false narrative that we benefited other countries at the expense of our own. He sees no benefit from markets we have developed, from collective security, from the spread of democratic governments, from the prevention of violence on the scale of the two 20th-century world wars. Just as we are supposed to resent the “establishment,” he is telling America to resent the world. One would never know that we have continued to be the world’s only true superpower, that a couple billion people have been lifted from poverty and age expectancy has soared. He does not care to know. They’re robbing us blind, got it?" WaPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/20/trumps-america-is-a-rotten-place/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6b35fbce956e

The words of some disaffected lefty pundit and Clintonista? Nope. This is an op-ed in today's Post from arch-conservative J. Rubin. Well worth reading the whole thing, Washington Post's paywall is down this weekend.

[MrPots]

The power he's giving back is going to megacorp, not the average worker. We should be absolutely clear about that. Trickle down is our only hope.

[bobabode]

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/01/20/Others/Images/2017-01-20/Untitled-1.JPG

In the immortal words of Herr Twitler, "Sad". :D

On further consideration, maybe der Twizler actually did have a million or so acolytes on the Mall yesterday. It's kinda hard to count all those Klansmen wearing their soiled white sheets on that white background.

[MrPots]

well that explains it then....

[finnbow]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2wLQj6XcAAJ2g0.jpg

[bobabode]

That dude looks decidedly unhealthy.

[donquixote99]

He's a self-parody of a press spokesman. Wait and see what Saturday Night Live does with him.

[MrPots]

I kept expecting his head to explode.....

[Rajoo]

That dude looks decidedly unhealthy.

You would too if you worked for Trump and are ordered to lie your ass off on live TV.

[bobabode]

You would too if you worked for Trump and are ordered to lie your ass off on live TV.

Good thing I'll never be in that situation. :p

[Rajoo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2aEFlwUsAAIvAW.jpg

This one is so profound. :D

[Rajoo]

Trump dilemma.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwzDOWEWIAA5Gmw.jpg

[Tom Joad]

No. People came from all over the world to mark that historic occasion.

I personally know people from the Midlands of England who came.

Number one, that photo on the right is a bald faced lie. They panned the crowd several times while I was watching it and I could see with my own eyes that that middle section, whatever it's called was packed full of people all the way back to the Washington monument.

As for Obama's crowd being bigger, of course it was. 46% of Washington DC's population is black. And over 90% of the total population of DC votes Democrat in every single election. So any Democrat that is being sworn in, especially the first Black President, has hundreds of thousands of fans that don't have to sweat travel arrangement and expenses, parking, lodging, etc. All they have to do is roll out of bed in the morning, throw on some sweats, and stroll over to the inauguration. So of course they are going to have more people there for a Democrat, than for Trump, whose fans have to trek in from flyover country.

[bobabode]

It should be easy for you to find a picture or a screengrab, Joad. So, where is it?

[finnbow]

How about this picture of Trump's limo passing the reviewing stands right between Treasury and the White House? I suppose Joad will say that everybody was waiting in line at the Jiffy Johns at the time.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/01/RTSWLME/lead_960.jpg?1485098552

[sheltiedave]

There is a quicker way to spell alternative facts....lies.

[Tom Joad]

It should be easy for you to find a picture or a screengrab, Joad. So, where is it?

13:15 to 13:23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnua3OIb4Y

[bobabode]

How about this picture of Trump's limo passing the reviewing stands right between Treasury and the White House? I suppose Joad will say that everybody was waiting in line at the Jiffy Johns at the time.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/01/RTSWLME/lead_960.jpg?1485098552

:D Those Jiffy Johns were called Don's Johns. The inaugurination flacks didn't catch their mistake until the day of the Shitshow on the Mall. They had to run around with a roll of masking tape to cover it up. :rolleyes:

[d-ray657]

13:15 to 13:23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnua3OIb4Y

Ever heard of the concept of vantage point? Your 8 seconds of video was a view from close to street level, rather than an aerial view. You are not so stupid to not know that you can get a better view of a large area from high up than from ground level. You are simply channeling Kellyanne with your alternative facts. You're not stupid. You're dishonest.

[BlueStreak]

How about this picture of Trump's limo passing the reviewing stands right between Treasury and the White House? I suppose Joad will say that everybody was waiting in line at the Jiffy Johns at the time.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/01/RTSWLME/lead_960.jpg?1485098552

They had to pee.

[bobabode]

13:15 to 13:23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnua3OIb4Y

Read it and weep.
http://www.snopes.com/trump-inauguration-viewership/

[Tom Joad]

You're dishonest.

Go fuck yourself.

[bobabode]

Here's a picture for you. :D

https://gdb.voanews.com/D790BA31-4C42-4B85-8DD7-409ED5F7AAD6_w610_r0_s.jpg

[bobabode]

"President Trump’s team set a combative tone with the press on his first full day in office when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the media of reporting incorrect information about****the size of the crowds at Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
“These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong,” Spicer said. But Spicer himself went on to make multiple false claims while defending the turnout for Trump’s inauguration. Here’s a look at three of his statements and how they compare with the facts.
1. Protective white coverings on the Mall
“This was the first time in our nation's history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the Mall.**** That had the effect of highlighting any areas where people were not standing, while in years past, the grass eliminated this visual.”
2017 was not the first year that floor coverings were used. They were put in place to cover parts of the National Mall during President Obama’s second inauguration four years ago. News photographs taken in 2013****show the protective white square panels being installed and attendees standing on the coverings before Obama’s swearing-in.

Crews lay down mats to protect the lawn on the National Mall before President Obama's second inauguration in 2013. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)


The floor coverings exposed empty areas of the Mall at Trump’s inauguration.
Their color****helped create****a contrast in comparison with the crowd at****Obama’s first inauguration.
Below: Views from the top of the Washington Monument, both shot shortly before noon, at the first inauguration of President Obama in 2009, left, and President Trump, right.





2. Magnetometers
“This was also the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the Mall, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to access the Mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past.”
Magnetometers were not used at access points to the National Mall for Trump’s inauguration, a****spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service told CNN.

3. Transit ridership totals
“We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama's last inaugural.”
The figures Spicer cited are incorrect, according to Washington’s transit authority, which runs the Metro subway system. Ridership statistics show that people rode Washington’s underground Metro 571,000 times on Inauguration Day. That’s about half the****1.1 million trips taken on the day of Obama’s first swearing-in in 2009, a Metro record for a single day, and fewer than the****782,000 trips on the day Obama was inaugurated a second time****in 2013.

On the day after Trump’s inauguration, for the Women’s March on Washington, the Metro saw its second-highest ridership day ever, with a little more than 1 million trips." LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-inauguration-crowd-claims-20170122-htmlstory.html


I guess if it isn't reported by Faux News and Breitbarts, it's fake news, eh Joad and Zero?

[Rajoo]

Trump's oath of office is invalid. :D

https://thumbs.mic.com/ZDI4ZDgwNjQ0YyMvMlNSa1VBWTh4UHBEN0g4WFduWVU1bW53dW o4PS8xMDd4OToxMDkzeDcxNS82MjF4NDQ1L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVh bGl0eSg3MCkvaHR0cDovL3MzLmFtYXpvbmF3cy5jb20vcG9saW N5bWljLWltYWdlcy9zbDViZXhzamtqajBqa29wbmcweHg5dnN0 bWxxN21tdXlvZW1wa3Jhenptdng4YnVkN21zZjdxd2kyZnZzcz NsLmpwZw.jpg

[merrylander]

I did learn summat, the J stands for John and not what I thought.

[icenine]

This makes me miss America more than anything. I have been fortunate not to have traveler's diarrhea.

[bobabode]

This makes me miss America more than anything. I have been fortunate not to have traveler's diarrhea.

Is that a pic of Sean Spicer? :D

[icenine]

Is that a pic of Sean Spicer? :D

That is the comfort room of an auto repair shop in Central Luzon.
We had new headlamps, blinkers and a shotgun oil change all for $12.
You bring the oil and supplies. Luckily I just had to number one lol.

[JBS...]

Heres one worth thousands of votes...

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz171/jbstemp/gettyimages-632511250_zpszzleub5p.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/jbstemp/media/gettyimages-632511250_zpszzleub5p.jpg.html)

[MrPots]

Is that a pic of Sean Spicer? :D

It's too spotlessly clean to be that....

[MrPots]

Heres one worth thousands of votes...

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz171/jbstemp/gettyimages-632511250_zpszzleub5p.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/jbstemp/media/gettyimages-632511250_zpszzleub5p.jpg.html)

What's that woman doing in the picture? She doesn't belong there......

[donquixote99]

Some local labor leader, I guess. That's Trump's meeting with labor leaders--those interested in meeting, construction trades. Can't find here among the named attendees.

[JBS...]

This one is worh 149 words from Hoffa to his 1.4 million members.

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz171/jbstemp/Hoffa_zpsamfax3iq.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/jbstemp/media/Hoffa_zpsamfax3iq.jpg.html)

“Today, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. With this decision, the president has taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies that have cost working Americans millions of good-paying jobs.

“The Teamsters Union has been on the frontline of the fight to stop destructive trade deals like the TPP, China PNTR, CAFTA and NAFTA for decades. Millions of working men and women saw their jobs leave the country as free trade policies undermined our manufacturing industry. We hope that President Trump’s meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Jan. 31 opens a real dialogue about fixing the flawed NAFTA.

“We take this development as a positive sign that President Trump will continue to fulfill his campaign promises in regard to trade policy reform and instruct the USTR to negotiate future agreements that protect American workers and industry.”

https://teamster.org/news/2017/01/hoffa-withdrawal-tpp-right-choice-us-trade-policy

[bobabode]

This one is worh 149 words by Hoffa to his 1.4 million members.

http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz171/jbstemp/Hoffa_zpsamfax3iq.jpg (http://s825.photobucket.com/user/jbstemp/media/Hoffa_zpsamfax3iq.jpg.html)

“Today, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. With this decision, the president has taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies that have cost working Americans millions of good-paying jobs.

“The Teamsters Union has been on the frontline of the fight to stop destructive trade deals like the TPP, China PNTR, CAFTA and NAFTA for decades. Millions of working men and women saw their jobs leave the country as free trade policies undermined our manufacturing industry. We hope that President Trump’s meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Jan. 31 opens a real dialogue about fixing the flawed NAFTA.

“We take this development as a positive sign that President Trump will continue to fulfill his campaign promises in regard to trade policy reform and instruct the USTR to negotiate future agreements that protect American workers and industry.”

https://teamster.org/news/2017/01/hoffa-withdrawal-tpp-right-choice-us-trade-policy

Sounds like Jimmy Hoffa's kid is holding der Gropenfurher's feet to the fire. ;)

[Tom Joad]

Sounds like Jimmy Hoffa's kid is holding der Gropenfurher's feet to the fire. ;)

Dude, Trump promised to unass the TPP from the very beginning of his campaign.

All of you Hillarybots have gone batshit crazy since the night of Nov. 8th.:rolleyes:

[bobabode]

Dude, Trump promised to unass the TPP from the very beginning of his campaign.

All of you Hillarybots have gone batshit crazy since the night of Nov. 8th.:rolleyes:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSoFbiwX5EAG1GdAmd1qre5-B9gA2vUJ4-hx6-6K2K4DR6xzO0r-g

Alla y'all whiney lil' Trumpkins are in for a rough four years, Joad. ;)

Your precious Gropenfurher started a movement alright. Just not the one you imagined. :)

[bobabode]

Here's another picture that's worth 500,000 - 750,000 words and they all have names.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFV6CyAFUaYElO1jNWy9mo5LvFA-pglIxT8X2hkQLQVbtXEuR3aw

[JBS...]

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSoFbiwX5EAG1GdAmd1qre5-B9gA2vUJ4-hx6-6K2K4DR6xzO0r-g

Alla y'all whiney lil' Trumpkins are in for a rough four years, Joad. ;)

Your precious Gropenfurher started a movement alright. Just not the one you imagined. :)

look at all those snowflakes.

I say give them a megaphone and let them spill there inclusive liberal bull shit there still room under our extremely beautful yuge tent.

[Rajoo]

Is this the tent? :D

http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/46/2013/03/20/128997_600.jpg

[Dondilion]

Snowflake:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowflake

[bobabode]

look at all those snowflakes.

I say give them a megaphone and let them spill there inclusive liberal bull shit there still room under our extremely beautful yuge tent.

I got your "snowflake" sweet ums. :D

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7-QlVM2T_EJs_Zj7x4VY_H8YEE82LqVQ5KISk7ASQ8uvOeMPgrQ

[JBS...]

LOL dude... that shit might work in California but I'm from Michigan... we have snow tires.

bringing It on!