Be Excellent To Each Other

Do you have the ability to mute keywords in your Twitter client?

If so, consider adding these to make your mental health significantly better:
EU (with a space before and after, because I can't be doing with regex)
.@
Boris
Brexit
Corbyn
Dawkins
Farage
FOM
Inaug
Nazi
President
Single Market
Tories
Tory
Trump
UKIP

Or... just stop using Twitter.

But... But... But... I like Twitter. I follow a lot of people who talk about video games on there and I like that.

Good idea Russ. I shall definitely start with Farage and Trump.

Have you considered Google+?

Obviously we should all just roll over and let Trump get on with it.

If you've got a plan then I'm all ears. Otherwise I'd also not be hearing about the awful piece of shit and seeing his stupid fucking face a hundred times a day just because I want some distraction using Twitter or whatever. It's not like we're all still not going to be acutely aware of anything that happens.

We're going to overthrow him with a orchestrated campaign of hashtags, online petitions, jokes about his small hands and general self-righteousness. Twitter is clearly the place to start!

What if Mexico built a wall?

And then Canada builds a wall. And then we all chip in and pay for a roof.

Although, right now, Mr Turner's 'Love and Ire and Song' feels more apt.

Russ gave you a solution. How is your bitching on here any different? You're just bitching about bitching.

I was pointing out that muting some stuff on twitter for the sake of your own sanity makes precisely fuck all difference to the extent to which someone is "rolling over and letting Trump get on with it".

I feel like I could reply to this but it would just be me bitching about you bitching about the bitching and we'd go on forever. So I'mma just going to eat a biscuit and sit here feeling badass because I had an awesome session at the gym this afternoon.

No but it helps you see more of the things you do want to see without being bothered by the junk.

Oh, also uninstall all the news apps on your phone, and delete any bookmarks.

Ignorance really is bliss.

At least with the wireless I don't have to look at that ghastly man's face. Also, hearing female newsreaders read out his tweets is mildly amusing.

There was a link of Mark Hamill reading out his tweets in The Joker voice, which just served to make him sound even more unhinged and insane.

Have you seen any of Peter Serafinowicz's Sassy Trump?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi38HM ... J0Tlm1WYdw

I am now! Thanks for these.

The time nears...should start thinking about heading to the pub.

BWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM

Ah, fun and games in DC. Protestors ckashing with police

There were protests at Obama's inauguration, too, but they didn't seem to make the news. Maybe there were a lot less.

I am watching FOX news.

Cool story, bro.

On the edge.

Folks,

Apparently everything's going to be ok because Mr Trump has put a bust of Winston Churchill in his new office.

Is the wall finished yet?

I refuse to believe there aren't sufficient horrible skeletons in the fucker's closet to see him impeached inside of six months.

Decent article here that spells out some of the troubles that lie ahead for him, if you want to try and at least remain vaguely optimistic - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -honeymoon

Thing is, who still believes opinion polls though? It's saying he's as unpopular now as G W Bush was post-Iraq, but I'm sure I wasn't dreaming when he got elected President, having (by definition) overcome all of the many hurdles preceding that election, that the same commentators smugly assured us all he could never prevail against.

No, I'm afraid it's a tad too early to write him off just yet, sadly.

Well, the overall polls were correct within polling errors. He lost the popular vote by slightly less than anticipated. The electoral college worked in his favour.

He was disliked before by a lot of people who also wouldn't vote for Clinton either, and who abstained or went third party. He also won't have picked up any support from outside his base during the last few months, whilst he has alienated a lot of people who believed his claims to Drain The Swamp (remove lobbyists and rich influencers with invested interests) who now feel betrayed that he hasn't pivoted to a more sane direction.

So I think the polls are largely sound on him being very unpopular. Just look at his inauguration and the parade; nobody turned up! That doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people who will still vote Republican; a lot of people held their noses and voted for him on the basis of him getting Supreme Court judges who would be anti-choice, anti-LGBT, etc.

I don't think it will make a bit of difference for him personally; he's not going to change. The important thing is if more Republican senators become wary of the 2018 mid-terms and try to put a brake on him. If the protests are loud and people think they will lose their seats, they will act differently, and for things where Trump needs Senate approval we might see a battleground. They only need 3 defectors on each piece of legislation, and any that needs a 2/3 or 60% threshold is dead in the water.

What he needs is a war! The biggest war, the best war, the greatest war you've ever seen.

Huge!

He's got plans for the best wars. Bigly wars. Yuge wars. You don't need to worry about his plans for wars. Terrific wars! The war industry is coming back. And he'll tell you now, these wars are going to be fantastic!

We're gonna win so many wars, let me tell you, you can ask anyone, so many wars, we're gonna win so many you'll get bored of winning. Sick of winning! Just the best wars, really fantastic. Just great. Make wars great again!

But does he have this sign?

I just don't understand how she doesn't think she's taking a big dump on all the people that actually turned up for a reason.

Unless a) it's fake, or b) there's something I don't get.

It's a dig at Trump and the language he uses in speeches.
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And comedy signs are a fairly well established thing at protest marches.

Also:

This morning I was sharing a carriage on the Tube with people going to the rally, and saw others in the pub in the evening. I felt slightly ashamed of my cynicism.

Cras, that's superb.

That's brilliant!

I am slightly mollified.

I think it was a dig at people who don't get clever jokes, so I wouldn't be if I were you.

"Yes, hello burns unit?"

Superb

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US Press Secretary states in a briefing from the podium that Trump had the largest crowds ever to witness an inauguration. We're getting into Kim Jong Un territory here and it's only day one.

I was thinking more of Ceausescu. Either way it gives a clear indication of the man's character that it's getting to him.
I still think one of the proudest days in the history of Britain was when the serving chancellor was booed at the Olympic Games. Imagine how Mr Trump would have coped.