Punk in Finland

Iltalehti wrote: Trump hyökkäsi kovin sanoin EU:ta vastaan - "Lopettakaa!"

Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trump hyökkäsi tiistaina jyrkin sanoin Euroopan unionia vastaan Twitterissä.

- EU on erittäin protektionistinen Yhdysvaltoja kohtaan. Lopettakaa! Trump kirjoitti.

Trump oli samassa tviitissä myös innoissaan Yhdysvaltain ja Britannian käynnistämistä kauppaneuvotteluista. Britannian kanssa neuvoteltava kauppasopimus voi Trumpin mukaan muodostua "erittäin isoksi" ja voi näin tuoda myös amerikkalaisille lisää työpaikkoja.

Yhdysvaltain sopimusneuvottelijan Robert Lighthizerin mukaan kauppaneuvotteluissa on tarkoitus luoda perusta Yhdysvaltain ja Britannian kauppasuhteille sen jälkeen, kun Britannia on eronnut EU:sta.

suosikkisi kuudessa eri sarjassa wrote:

The boys laughed and then seemed to chant something that sounded like: “We love Trump! We love Trump!” Trump smiled and applauded them, then said: “By the way, just a question, did President Obama ever come to a Jamboree?”

“Nooooo!” the boys roared back in a sound that seemed to turn into booing, apparently not giving Obama credit for sending a video message to the 2010 Jamboree.

Enpä ollu koskaan tullu ajatelleeks että partio on jenkeissä joku republikaanien pseudo-Hitler youth.

Jussin villapaita wrote:Senaatti äänesti 50-50 jatkavatko obamacaren kaatoa vai eivät, kun John McCain saapui syöpineen sankarillisesti paikalle äänestämään obamacarea vastaan. Tasatilanteessa varapresidentti Pence pääsi antamaan ratkaisevan äänen.

e: Nyt se tykittelee puhetta, jossa aika selvästi moittii Trumppia ja senaatin viimeaikaista menoa + älyttömäksi muuttunutta poliittista kulttuuria, jossa haetaan vaan voittoja varsinaisen sisällön sijaan, joka on suht ironista, kun republikaaneilla ei oo oikeesti järjellistä vaihtoehtoa obamacarelle. Ja nyt sanoi itekkin, ettei tuu äänestämään noiden nyt republikaanien ehdottamien terveydenhuoltolakien puolesta.

Jussin villapaita wrote:Senaatti äänesti 50-50 jatkavatko obamacaren kaatoa vai eivät, kun John McCain saapui syöpineen sankarillisesti paikalle äänestämään obamacarea vastaan. Tasatilanteessa varapresidentti Pence pääsi antamaan ratkaisevan äänen.

e: Nyt se tykittelee puhetta, jossa aika selvästi moittii Trumppia ja senaatin viimeaikaista menoa + älyttömäksi muuttunutta poliittista kulttuuria, jossa haetaan vaan voittoja varsinaisen sisällön sijaan, joka on suht ironista, kun republikaaneilla ei oo oikeesti järjellistä vaihtoehtoa obamacarelle. Ja nyt sanoi itekkin, ettei tuu äänestämään noiden nyt republikaanien ehdottamien terveydenhuoltolakien puolesta.

Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa wrote:

Jussin villapaita wrote:Senaatti äänesti 50-50 jatkavatko obamacaren kaatoa vai eivät, kun John McCain saapui syöpineen sankarillisesti paikalle äänestämään obamacarea vastaan. Tasatilanteessa varapresidentti Pence pääsi antamaan ratkaisevan äänen.

e: Nyt se tykittelee puhetta, jossa aika selvästi moittii Trumppia ja senaatin viimeaikaista menoa + älyttömäksi muuttunutta poliittista kulttuuria, jossa haetaan vaan voittoja varsinaisen sisällön sijaan, joka on suht ironista, kun republikaaneilla ei oo oikeesti järjellistä vaihtoehtoa obamacarelle. Ja nyt sanoi itekkin, ettei tuu äänestämään noiden nyt republikaanien ehdottamien terveydenhuoltolakien puolesta.

niin siis ne äänesti ton käsittelyn puolesta että saavat asian käsiteltyä. ei obamacare kaadu kun ei noilla ole ääniä, moni haluaa äänestyttää siksi että voivat sanoa äänestäneensä kaatamista vastaan kun oma perse on pelissä

All of which brings us to an application filed June 30th, 2017, for “The Piss Tape is Real,” seeking to register the mark for hats, hoodies, shirts, even “footwear,” “dresses,” and “non-jewelry wristbands.” The application was filed for $275, plus whatever fees the applicant paid to the third-party online service he used to streamline the process.

The category of goods for which the trademark “The Piss Tape is Real” is being registered.
Is “the piss tape” — a reference to an alleged recording of the sitting president of the United States employing two Russian prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed — a bridge too far for the USPTO?

Scandalousness isn’t the only ground mentioned in section 2(a). The law also bars the registration of marks that might bring a person, living or dead, “into contempt, or disrepute.” But not only is that part of the statute probably invalid in the wake of Tam, but citing it would also require an examining attorney to admit that “the piss tape” of “The Piss Tape is Real” is, well, that piss tape.

I reached out to the applicant for “The Piss Tape is Real,” and he wasn’t in the least bit cagey about which piss tape he was referring to. The trademark application is filed in the name of a Delaware public benefit corporation he’s formed with two friends, with the aim of making Donald Trump’s presidency “as short and as politically painful as possible.”

The applicant was aware of Matal v. Tam, and confirmed that the Supreme Court ruling had prompted him to file an application for “The Piss Tape is Real.” Now that restrictions on offensive trademark registrations had been removed, why not aim offensive speech at the president?

But does he think the piss tape is real? That’s beside the point, he says. The trademark is a vituperative attack on a president who himself engages in vituperative attacks and hate speech, and has — he says — brought the general level of our political discourse to a new low.

Besides, he added, there’s always the chance that someone might see the T-shirt who doesn’t know about the Christopher Steele dossier and will go out of their way to look it up and thereby become enlightened, so to speak. He thinks that, regardless of whether the piss tape actually ever materializes, people should know that it might be out there.

In the face of that, wearing “The Piss Tape is Real” on T-shirts, hoodies, and hats is a form of direct action and political protest.

As I was researching for this story, I found a megathread titled “The Piss Tape is Real” deep inside the recesses of the political subsections of Something Awful forums. At some point last week, a user posted, “So guys I filed a trademark application for the phrase ‘the piss tape is real’ and I got a call from some reporter from the verge yesterday. how should I respond.”

“The piss tape is real,” a few users respond, predictably. “Pee on him,” advises another, more creatively.

There’s nothing new about internet shitposting, but there’s something emblematic about finally getting to federally register “The Piss Tape is Real” just as the decency of mainstream political discourse hits absolute bottom — then sinks even further. It’s a path that will inevitably take all of us, mostly figuratively, right into the toilet.

Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa wrote:ehdotus lakkauttaa obamacare ja korvata se republikaanien ehdotuksella kaatui ja tänään äänestetään että lakkautetaanko obamacare mutta ei korvata sitä millään. sekään ei mene läpi ja trumpille jää käteen kasa paskaa

Normomimsy wrote:

Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa wrote:ehdotus lakkauttaa obamacare ja korvata se republikaanien ehdotuksella kaatui ja tänään äänestetään että lakkautetaanko obamacare mutta ei korvata sitä millään. sekään ei mene läpi ja trumpille jää käteen kasa paskaa

No eikö ne nyt pysty uusia vekslaamisia tosta järjestämään silti? Toivottavasti äänestäjä tajuaa jossain vaiheessa, että Trump on nyt vääntämässä jopa kunnon tortut naamalle.

‘I think he’s crazy’: U.S. senators caught on hot mic say they’re ‘worried’ about Trump

“I think — I think he’s crazy,” Sen. Jack Reed was caught on microphone saying in conversation with Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday, apparently referring to the president. Collins had neglected to turn off her microphone at the end of a hearing.

WASHINGTON—At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, Republican Chairman Susan Collins didn’t switch off her microphone. Apparently speaking to Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat of the committee, Collins discussed the federal budget — and U.S. President Donald Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing.

After Reed praises Collins’ handling of the hearing, held by the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she laments the administration’s handling of spending.

“I swear, (the Office of Management and Budget) just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins says. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”

“Yes,” Reed replies. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” apparently referring to the president. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”

“I’m worried,” Collins replies.

“Oof,” Reed continues. “You know, this thing — if we don’t get a budget deal, we’re going to be paralyzed.”

“I know,” Collins replies.

“(Department of Defense) is going to be paralyzed, everybody is going to be paralyzed,” Reed says.

“I don’t think he knows there is a (Budget Control Act) or anything,” Collins says, referring to a 2011 law that defines the budget process.

“He was down at the Ford commissioning,” Reed says, referring to President Trump’s weekend event launching a new aircraft carrier, “saying, ‘I want them to pass my budget.’ OK, so we give him $54 billion (U.S.) and then we take it away across the board which would cause chaos.”

“Right,” Collins replies.

“It’s just — and he hasn’t — not one word about the budget. Not one word about the debt ceiling,” Reed says.

“Good point,” Collins replies.

“You’ve got (Budget Director Mick) Mulvaney saying we’re going to put in all sorts of stuff like a border wall. Then you’ve got (Treasury Secretary Steve) Mnuchin saying it’s got to be clean,” Reed continues. “We’re going to be back in September, and, you know, you’re going to have crazy people in the House.”

In a more salacious part of what was recorded, Collins then addressed a radio interview in which Rep. Blake Farenthold suggested that if Collins were a man, he’d have challenged her to a duel for opposing the Senate Republicans’ Obamacare overhaul bill.

“Did you see the one who challenged me to a duel?” Collins asks.

“I know,” Reed replies. “Trust me. Do you know why he challenged you to a duel? ‘Cause you could beat the s--- out of him.”

“Well, he’s huge,” Collins replies. “And he — I don’t mean to be unkind, but he’s so unattractive it’s unbelievable.”

“Did you see the picture of him in his pyjamas next to this Playboy bunny?” she continues, referring to an infamous photo of Farenthold.

At that point, the mic went dead.