EBB posted:

This Thursday Trump will personally eat a Mexican child.

DoktorLoken posted:

Scott Walker is no longer governor of Wisconsin.

DoktorLoken posted:

Scott Walker is no longer governor of Wisconsin.

EBB posted:

This Thursday Trump will personally eat a Mexican child.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

https://twitter.com/jordanuhl/status/1082069469982269441?s=21

quote:

President Trump wants to address the nation about the government shutdown on Tuesday night, and later in the week plans to travel to the southern border as part of his effort to persuade Americans of the need for a border wall — the sticking point in negotiations with Democrats who are eager to reopen shuttered agencies.

The White House did not immediately respond to questions about a request to television networks to carve out time for an Oval Office address. A person familiar with the request said the White House had asked to interrupt prime time programming on Tuesday.

facialimpediment posted:

Donnie just tweeted that he's addressing the country tomorrow at 9PM.

There's a problem though: the networks haven't officially given him the time yet! He's being a shitter again.

piL posted:

It's 2018.

piL posted:

It's 2018. While the networks will likely air it, C-SPAN almost definitely will, and if not, internet live streaming is readily available. The Office of the POTUS doesn't and shouldn't need media outlet permission to address the nation.

Tryzzub posted:

piL posted:

It's 2018. While the networks will likely air it, C-SPAN almost definitely will, and if not, internet live streaming is readily available. The Office of the POTUS doesn't and shouldn't need media outlet permission to address the nation.

mlmp08 posted:

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital does not accept private insurance.

It’s the trauma center at the heart of the city. If you get taken there with private insurance, RIP your finances as you get charged tens of thousands, even while unconscious.

facialimpediment posted:

For additional reference, Obama wanted to address the country on immigration and got denied time on the major networks in 2014. The networks generally cede time to the President for apolitical announcements, but generally don't do so for purely political statements.

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1082346402045480971?s=19

mlmp08 posted:

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital does not accept private insurance.

It’s the trauma center at the heart of the city. If you get taken there with private insurance, RIP your finances as you get charged tens of thousands, even while unconscious.

quote:

“I'm a contributor to wikifeet and even I have never seen a second toe like that!” Reddit user jokes_on_you commented on the post. They then linked to a known photo of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet and implied that the feet in the r/drama post couldn’t possibly belong to her.

Fister Roboto posted:

It still feels like 2018.

quote:

An image that’s being passed off as a nude of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was debunked as being fake by a foot fetishist on Reddit—because that’s the future we’re living in now.

On Sunday, someone posted a photo of a woman’s legs and feet in a bathtub on one of Reddit’s most popular forums, r/Drama. The post is titled “MOMMY'S TITTIES ON THE FAUCET,” with a photo of feet in a tub from the photographer’s point of view, holding a vape pen. Overlaid on the photo is the text “alexandria ocasio-cortez.instagram.post.9-3-2016.”

The image and text aren’t new—they’ve been around in this combination since at least last month, posted to Twitter and 4chan’s /pol/ political forums, as well as a handful of other subreddits and forums, including some dedicated to revenge porn and creepshots. The conceit here is that if you zoom in to the faucet reflection, you can see the photographer’s breasts, and if you’re to believe the text on the image, that’s Ocasio-Cortez.

But the person in the photo isn’t her.

We don’t know how many people actually believed it was her in the first place, and in some of the forums where the image was posted, people were already comparing feet and questioning whether it’s really her. But we know for sure thanks to a user on a site called Wikifeet, a site devoted to foot fetish photos of celebrities and public figures. There’s a small collection of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet on the site, from photos of public appearances where she’s wearing sandals or open-toed shoes. That user cross-referenced the r/drama photo with known images of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet posted on Wikifeet and determined that they are from a different person.

“I'm a contributor to wikifeet and even I have never seen a second toe like that!” Reddit user jokes_on_you commented on the post. They then linked to a known photo of Ocasio-Cortez’s feet and implied that the feet in the r/drama post couldn’t possibly belong to her. I asked jokes_on_you how they spotted the difference. "I’ve sucked enough toes in my life to recognize when something doesn’t look right," they told me in a Reddit direct message. "Because we can’t dorsi- or plantarflex our 2nd-5th toes independently I knew it wasn’t a matter of the toe being bent. I thought that maybe she has some form of brachydactyly but her Wikifeet page has clear evidence to the contrary. So it was clear to me that it wasn’t her feet."

The photo, as well as the feet, actually belong to Sydney Leathers, a political activist and cam model who you might recall from Anthony Weiner’s sexting investigation in 2016. Leathers confirmed in a Twitter direct message that the original photograph does, in fact, belong to her and features her feet. “That pic is a few years old and now reaffirms my current stance of no longer posting feet pics unless dudes pay me for it,” Leathers told me.

Last week, a video of Ocasio-Cortez dancing in college gained viral attention after a right-wing account tried to pass off a dubbed-over clip from the incredibly wholesome video as something scandalous. They superimposed it with drums and made it a supercut of Ocasio-Cortez’s appearances in the video—making it seem like she’d been dancing alone, somewhat provocatively. It illustrated how easy it is to make a sloppy cut of something real, and place it in a new context to try to smear someone’s image.

You don’t need advanced machine learning techniques or high-tech psyop campaigns to make people believe a lie—we’re primed to fall for memes like this. At least this time, a trained eye of a foot fetishist revealed the truth.

MA-Horus posted:

Wait, what? How does this work? Even though you have insurance through whatever stupid loving system you guys have, they won't accept it at all?

quote:

The photo, as well as the feet, actually belong to Sydney Leathers, a political activist and cam model who you might recall from Anthony Weiner’s sexting investigation in 2016. Leathers confirmed in a Twitter direct message that the original photograph does, in fact, belong to her and features her feet. “That pic is a few years old and now reaffirms my current stance of no longer posting feet pics unless dudes pay me for it,” Leathers told me.

MA-Horus posted:

Wait, what? How does this work? Even though you have insurance through whatever stupid loving system you guys have, they won't accept it at all?

mlmp08 posted:

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital does not accept private insurance.

It’s the trauma center at the heart of the city. If you get taken there with private insurance, RIP your finances as you get charged tens of thousands, even while unconscious.

facialimpediment posted:

For additional reference, Obama wanted to address the country on immigration and got denied time on the major networks in 2014. The networks generally cede time to the President for apolitical announcements, but generally don't do so for purely political statements.

https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1082346402045480971?s=19

quote:

The Internal Revenue Service will issue refunds to taxpayers even if the U.S. government shutdown extends into the filing season, a decision that may reduce political pressure on Congress and President Donald Trump to reach a deal to re-open the federal government.
“Tax refunds will go out,” the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, told reporters at a briefing on Monday.

quote:

COOPER: One of the criticisms of you is that-- that your math is fuzzy. The Washington Post recently awarded you four Pinocchios --

OCASIO-CORTEZ: Oh my goodness --

COOPER: -- for misstating some statistics about Pentagon spending?

OCASIO-CORTEZ: If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees. I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.

MA-Horus posted:

Wait, what? How does this work? Even though you have insurance through whatever stupid loving system you guys have, they won't accept it at all?