1/ Andrew Sullivan with the absurdity of Trump.....
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“Absurd,” it turns out, is a trigger word for Trump, as it well should be. When the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, was asked to respond to the idea that Donald Trump wanted to “buy” Greenland, she found the mot juste. The proposal was “absurd.” Perhaps at one point at the beginning of the Cold War, some kind of strategic presence in Greenland would have been worth considering briefly. Now? Yes, absurd. The only thing more absurd is canceling a planned state visit to Denmark at the last moment in response to the prime minister pointing out the bleeding obvious, and adding the insult “nasty” to yet another independent woman for good measure. But this too is predictable: “We know that a humiliated narcissist must release his narcissistic rage somehow, best on those who caused his psychic injury.” Bad luck for Denmark.
2/ Bill Maher with "New Rules"....this one is unusual, clever and very funny....five minutes....
3/ Umair with a column on why he thinks Elizabeth Warren and only she can save America.....most interesting, almost gives one hope....
4/ Tom Tomorrow with Sherlock Trump....
5/ Bernie is being constantly bashed by the media, and Matt Taibbi in a scathing article explains why - the billionaires who own all of the media hate Bernie, we all sense the corruption too.....
Excellent story, well worth reading....
Bernie Sanders Monday gave a speech in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. He took shots at the press, mentioning coverage of his campaign against Amazon:
I talk about (Amazon’s taxes) all of the time… And then I wonder why The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn’t write particularly good articles about me. I don’t know why.
Employees of the Post were put out by Sanders’s comments. They insisted they hold no ill will against him for regularly bashing the man who writes their checks as one of earth’s most obnoxious plutocrats, and moreover that Sanders is wrong to make the media a “boogeyman” the way he’s turned “billionaires and corporations” into boogeymen. This “doesn’t add up,” noted the Post, going so far as to put the term “corporate media” in quotation marks, as if it were a mythical creature.
6/ Wow....a "me too" Gillette ad....2 powerful minutes....
7/ Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It's when you are too ignorant to know you're ignorant, and Trump is this syndrome personified....
Interesting story from Medium.....
From time to time, each of us has the tendency to overestimate our competence, to think we’re better at something than we actually are. This manifests in everyday moments that can often be chalked up to pride. Like, when you struggle to assemble, say, an IKEA bunk bed, but also refuse to look at the instructions for assembly because you’re positive you don’t need them. Or when we can’t objectively discern at work — office politics aside — why someone else got the promotion we just knew we deserved.
When we aren’t overestimating ourselves and our abilities, most of us can also be prone to bouts of uncertainty. The majority of us have no shortage of self-doubt or regrets, and at times, it’s overwhelming how much we can be our own worst critics. The negative self-talk rears its ugly head when we least need it to. Yet somehow, this all balances out in the complex yin and yang of the human psyche.
But what happens when a person isn’t balanced in this way, when a person can’t (or won’t) admit they don’t have all the answers?
8/ Bill Maher with his opening monologue.....he touches on David Koch's death, and I wholeheartedly
agree with his sentiments....five good minutes....
9/ David Wallace-Wells on Jay Inslee dropping out of the 2020 race and the ongoing disaster
in Brazil....not good news folks....
Is hope for tackling climate change going up in smoke? Photo: Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images
There are foreboding climate coincidences every few days now — that is what happens when there is so much bad news emerging, so regularly, that the horrors stack one on top of the next.
Sometimes the horrors are natural disasters, one after the other — as when 500 tornadoes in 30 spring days swept through the Midwest, a region already devastated by months of flooding, or when heat waves were compounded by droughts and water shortages and cyclones in India, each successive event a reminder that, by the end of the century, parts of the planet could be hit by six climate-driven natural disasters at once.
10/ Umair with what the Greenland fiasco really means.....most interesting.....
11/ Car and Driver with cheap luxury cars.....
So, don't plunk down payments on a $50,000-plus luxury car. Simply consult this list of the 15 least-expensive cars and SUVs available from luxury automakers. You'll make sacrifices in size and actual luxuriousness—in brief, many are small and not as nice inside as their larger, pricier siblings. Hey, nobody said the idea of "affordable luxury" isn't oxymoronic. Click through to see the options, ranked from most to least expensive:
Todays married guys joke
My wife was screaming at me: "Leave!! Get out of this house!" she ordered.As I was walking out the door she yelled, "I hope you die a slow and painful death!"So I turned around and replied, "So now you want me to stay?"
Todays kids joke
Should children witness childbirth?
Due to a power cut, only one paramedic responded to the call that Heidi was about to give birth.
Due to a power cut, only one paramedic responded to the call that Heidi was about to give birth.
The house was very dark so the paramedic asked Kathleen, a 3-yr old girl, to hold a torch high over her mummy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby.
Very diligently, Kathleen did as she was asked.
Heidi pushed and pushed and after a little while, Connor was born.
The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom.
Connor began to cry.
The paramedic then thanked Kathleen for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-yr old what she thought about what she had just witnessed ....
Kathleen quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place .... Smack him again!"
Very diligently, Kathleen did as she was asked.
Heidi pushed and pushed and after a little while, Connor was born.
The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on his bottom.
Connor began to cry.
The paramedic then thanked Kathleen for her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-yr old what she thought about what she had just witnessed ....
Kathleen quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place .... Smack him again!"
Todays Irish drunk joke
Todays married guys joke
Ellen and her husband Bob went for counseling after 25
years of marriage. When asked what the problem was,
Ellen went into a passionate, painful tirade listing
every problem they had ever had in the 25 years they
had been married.
She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of
intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable,
an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured
over the course of their marriage.
Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient
length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the
desk and after asking Ellen to stand, embraced her,
unbuttoned her blouse and bra, put his hands on her
breasts and massaged them thoroughly, while kissing
her passionately as her husband Bob watched with a
raised eyebrow!
Ellen shut up, buttoned up her blouse, and quietly
sat down while basking in the glow of being highly
aroused.
The therapist turned to Bob and said, 'This is what
your wife needs at least three times a week...
Can you do this?'
Bob thought for a moment and replied, 'Well, I can
drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on
Friday, I play golf.
years of marriage. When asked what the problem was,
Ellen went into a passionate, painful tirade listing
every problem they had ever had in the 25 years they
had been married.
She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of
intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable,
an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured
over the course of their marriage.
Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient
length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the
desk and after asking Ellen to stand, embraced her,
unbuttoned her blouse and bra, put his hands on her
breasts and massaged them thoroughly, while kissing
her passionately as her husband Bob watched with a
raised eyebrow!
Ellen shut up, buttoned up her blouse, and quietly
sat down while basking in the glow of being highly
aroused.
The therapist turned to Bob and said, 'This is what
your wife needs at least three times a week...
Can you do this?'
Bob thought for a moment and replied, 'Well, I can
drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on
Friday, I play golf.
