Lion of the Blogosphere

Trump to win Nobel Peace Prize for ending war in Afghanistan

Just kidding.

Written by Lion of the Blogosphere

January 29, 2019 at 10:54 AM

Posted in International

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  1. Why not? If Kissinger could win it for ending the war in Vietnam, this isn’t going to end very differently.

    Yakov

    January 29, 2019 at 11:04 AM

  2. Trump won the shutdown-showdown and his prole constituency is now happy.

    Just kidding!

    Ok, what's who's this again?

    January 29, 2019 at 11:23 AM

  3. RuPaul to win Nobel Prize in Physics for being RuPaul.

    The media is truth

    January 29, 2019 at 11:28 AM

  4. But seriously folks, what’s going on with RBG?

    I had a whacko thought last night. All this geshrei about the shutdown is really a Deep State charade to distract attention from the fact that she’s either dead or dying. Trump is in on the charade. There is a furious behind the scenes battle and the public has to be carefully prepped. Trump offered to nominate a relative liberal. He’s a deal-maker. And so on.

    Nah, that’s crazy.

    But what’s with her?

    gothamette

    January 29, 2019 at 12:21 PM

    • She’s dying. I never had any doubts. When they found the cancer on her lungs, it seemed obvious that it had moved over from the pancreas, where she had cancer before. Unfortunately, that’s how cancer works.

      amused observer

      January 29, 2019 at 1:04 PM

      • I would not be surprised if a woman her age dies, but it’s mean-spirited to act like you can’t wait for it to happen. If it happens it happens, but conservatives are only hurting their cause by publicly gloating about it.

        Lion of the Blogosphere

        January 29, 2019 at 1:15 PM

      • I didn’t see anything mean spirited in Amused observers remark. However here’s a direct quote from Ruthy herself and tell me it’s not mean spirited to white America, by which I mean rural, non-Jewish white America.

        “Just as buildings in California have a greater need to be earthquake proofed, places where there is greater racial polarization in voting have a greater need for prophylactic measures to prevent purposeful race discrimination.”

        Armando

        January 29, 2019 at 1:52 PM

      • Prophylactic measures? Is that an obfuscatory way to describe not asking black voters for an ID? Makes it sound like you’re taking precautions, when really you’re removing them.

        Lowe

        January 29, 2019 at 3:22 PM

      • That RBG quote has nothing to do with rural White America. rural White America is white, she was speaking about places that are racially polarized. I don’t necessarily have to agree with her to figure out that logic.

        gothamette

        January 29, 2019 at 3:56 PM

      • She probably meant the South.

        Lowe

        January 29, 2019 at 5:01 PM

      • When I first got on PredictIt, I bought a few shares in the ‘Next Supreme Court Justice to Vacate’ market but got a little squeamish when I realized it was basically a death market.

        Jokah Macpherson

        January 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM

      • “However here’s a direct quote from Ruthy herself and tell me it’s not mean spirited to white America, by which I mean rural, non-Jewish white America.”

        Your quote is from Ruth Bader-Ginsburg’s dissent in Shelby County v. Holder, which overturned Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act mandating disparate treatment of state and local governments. As a result of this law, Justice Department approval had been necessary to make changes to the election laws and district maps of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia in their entirety as well as parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and South Dakota.

        Not sure how you interpret her comment as being particularly aimed at rural, white areas. Enforcement of Section 4 was focused disproportionately on the South, and that was the intent of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

        D.

        January 29, 2019 at 7:36 PM

  5. You got me

    plantpicker

    January 29, 2019 at 1:56 PM

  6. I don’t believe Trump has control of either the Department of Defense or the State Department. It is likely that no President after Eisenhower had such control. Bolton and Pompeo, in particular, pretty much squashed Trump’s plans for Syria and Afghanistan and nullified his agreement with Kim.

    The older I get, the less I believe the official stories about the killings of JFK, MLK and RFK. Nor the Bay of Pigs, nor Vietnam, nor any other war since Korea.

    bob sykes

    January 30, 2019 at 8:19 AM


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