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BackInTex wrote:I hope whomever did this is caught (and they will be).

According to a source familiar with the event, the incident was just a terrible Google search mistake. TPUSA had event branding on the screens, but during a run through ahead of Trump's remarks a few hours before the event, the team was told they had to change the branding to a presidential seal, prompting a search for a high quality image. "One of our video team members did a Google Image search for a high-res png (file) presidential seal," a source familiar with the incident said, adding that the individual "did the search and with the pressure of the event, didn't notice that it is a doctored seal."

According to a source familiar with the event, the incident was just a terrible Google search mistake. TPUSA had event branding on the screens, but during a run through ahead of Trump's remarks a few hours before the event, the team was told they had to change the branding to a presidential seal, prompting a search for a high quality image. "One of our video team members did a Google Image search for a high-res png (file) presidential seal," a source familiar with the incident said, adding that the individual "did the search and with the pressure of the event, didn't notice that it is a doctored seal."

Estonut wrote:

According to a source familiar with the event, the incident was just a terrible Google search mistake. TPUSA had event branding on the screens, but during a run through ahead of Trump's remarks a few hours before the event, the team was told they had to change the branding to a presidential seal, prompting a search for a high quality image. "One of our video team members did a Google Image search for a high-res png (file) presidential seal," a source familiar with the incident said, adding that the individual "did the search and with the pressure of the event, didn't notice that it is a doctored seal."

What a load of crap. If you do a Google image search for <"presidential seal" .png>, you have to bypass a few hundred images before this doctored one shows up. Any of the first 10 would have been exactly what they wanted. If this was an innocent mistake, why was the team member terminated?

Bob Juch wrote:Not anymore. It's in 12 of the first 15 images.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:Not anymore. It's in 12 of the first 15 images.

That's after the fact. This is sort of like when Steve Perry was on Millionaire and the question came up about Carol Brady's maiden name (Nelson). It wasn't easy to find with a Google search in 30 seconds when he taped the show, but after it aired it was at the top of search lists.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:Not anymore. It's in 12 of the first 15 images.

That's after the fact. This is sort of like when Steve Perry was on Millionaire and the question came up about Carol Brady's maiden name (Nelson). It wasn't easy to find with a Google search in 30 seconds when he taped the show, but after it aired it was at the top of search lists.

GOP National Chair Ronna McDaniel wrote:In recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that the proper respect and handling for the United States flag is an issue for the Democrat Party. The American flag is a powerful symbol of freedom and independence that many have died to protect. It deserves to be treated as such.

Hey, @GOP thank you for mailing me the flag and a copy of the flag code. Next time, show some respect and fold it properly.

Bob Juch wrote:

Estonut wrote:

According to a source familiar with the event, the incident was just a terrible Google search mistake. TPUSA had event branding on the screens, but during a run through ahead of Trump's remarks a few hours before the event, the team was told they had to change the branding to a presidential seal, prompting a search for a high quality image. "One of our video team members did a Google Image search for a high-res png (file) presidential seal," a source familiar with the incident said, adding that the individual "did the search and with the pressure of the event, didn't notice that it is a doctored seal."

What a load of crap. If you do a Google image search for <"presidential seal" .png>, you have to bypass a few hundred images before this doctored one shows up. Any of the first 10 would have been exactly what they wanted. If this was an innocent mistake, why was the team member terminated?

Not anymore. It's in 12 of the first 15 images.

Bob Juch wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:Not anymore. It's in 12 of the first 15 images.

That's after the fact. This is sort of like when Steve Perry was on Millionaire and the question came up about Carol Brady's maiden name (Nelson). It wasn't easy to find with a Google search in 30 seconds when he taped the show, but after it aired it was at the top of search lists.

That's my point: I can't verify where it was before.

Donald Trump 7/27/19 wrote:Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA. As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place. Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

silverscreenselect wrote:

Donald Trump 7/27/19 wrote:Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA. As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place. Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

Gee, what do Elijah Cummings and the Squad have in common? Hmm, I wonder.

Some facts about Cummings' district (the second wealthiest majority black district in the country) from the Baltimore Sun:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/b ... story.html

Spock wrote:

I know that granularity is beyond you (as you have demonstrated time and again over the years) but I suspect Cummings has some really bad parts of Baltimore, plus some wealthy areas.

Trump's not wrong to point out that parts of Cummings district are really bad.

Spock wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

Donald Trump 7/27/19 wrote:Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA. As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place. Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

Gee, what do Elijah Cummings and the Squad have in common? Hmm, I wonder.

Some facts about Cummings' district (the second wealthiest majority black district in the country) from the Baltimore Sun:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/b ... story.html

I know that granularity is beyond you (as you have demonstrated time and again over the years) but I suspect Cummings has some really bad parts of Baltimore, plus some wealthy areas.

Trump's not wrong to point out that parts of Cummings district are really bad.

Granularize the district if you will.

It is meaningless to lump wealthy suburbs with inner-city Baltimore for analysis purposes.

The take in the linked story seems to be that there is wealth in the district so there are no problems in Baltimore.

Baltimore Sun 7/28/19 wrote:It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. [Congressman Cummings] has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient & well run," which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently called “a ticking time bomb."

In pointing to the 7th, the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.
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[W]e would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to effect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.

Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Spock wrote:

I know that granularity is beyond you (as you have demonstrated time and again over the years) but I suspect Cummings has some really bad parts of Baltimore, plus some wealthy areas.

Trump's not wrong to point out that parts of Cummings district are really bad.

Except that Trump has offered no evidence to back up his claims other than playing to the preconceived notions of his base about what life in the largely black inner city is like. He has made similar comments in the past about John Lewis' Fifth District here in Georgia. And your statement about what you "suspect" indicates you may have some preconceived notions about Cummings' district as well.

Donald J. Trump wrote:“If the Democrats would have closed the Loopholes two years ago when President Trump asked them to do so, none of this stuff would have happened.” @ThomasHomanICE

Bob78164 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

Spock wrote:

I know that granularity is beyond you (as you have demonstrated time and again over the years) but I suspect Cummings has some really bad parts of Baltimore, plus some wealthy areas.

Trump's not wrong to point out that parts of Cummings district are really bad.

Except that Trump has offered no evidence to back up his claims other than playing to the preconceived notions of his base about what life in the largely black inner city is like. He has made similar comments in the past about John Lewis' Fifth District here in Georgia. And your statement about what you "suspect" indicates you may have some preconceived notions about Cummings' district as well.

It turns out that Donny confused Rep. Cummings’s district in Baltimore City with the rodent-infested apartments in Baltimore County owned by Jared Kushner. —Bob

Violations at the President’s crown jewel and Manhattan residence — Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue — are perhaps the most gag-inducing. City Department of Health inspectors visited the tower’s cafe and grill on July 11, 2018 and found “evidence of mice or live mice” in and around the kitchen, according to records that haven’t previously been reported. The inspectors categorized the violation as “critical.”

The inspectors also deemed the restaurant “not vermin proof” and said its “conditions” are “conducive to attracting vermin” and “allowing vermin to exist.” Moreover, the eatery’s “food contact surfaces” had not been properly maintained and “unacceptable” material had been used to build some “non-food contact” stations, making them practically impossible to clean. The Trump Tower eatery has been written up for various health code violations every year since 2014, including sightings of “live roaches” in 2016 and “filth flies” in 2017. But inspectors have not — until now — found mice tracks at the posh establishment.

jarnon wrote:Trump jokes to an audience that includes many World Trade Center survivors: "I don't know if this stage will hold it, but if it doesn't, we're not falling very far."

BackInTex wrote:

jarnon wrote:Trump jokes to an audience that includes many World Trade Center survivors: "I don't know if this stage will hold it, but if it doesn't, we're not falling very far."

Shocked? Really? Are you that easily offended? So no one can comment on falling or a mention height to WTC survivors?

I hope you have a nice supply of bubble wrap.

it's sad that any comment made by Trump is dissected and cross referenced with every written word or event over the past 50 years to try and find some thread that can be made as a direct offense to some group. It's sad that seemingly intelligent people want/hope/relish these things, and that they choose to post and re-post them here and elsewhere.

Grow a pair or stay in your basement.

jarnon wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

jarnon wrote:Trump jokes to an audience that includes many World Trade Center survivors: "I don't know if this stage will hold it, but if it doesn't, we're not falling very far."

Shocked? Really? Are you that easily offended? So no one can comment on falling or a mention height to WTC survivors?

I hope you have a nice supply of bubble wrap.

it's sad that any comment made by Trump is dissected and cross referenced with every written word or event over the past 50 years to try and find some thread that can be made as a direct offense to some group. It's sad that seemingly intelligent people want/hope/relish these things, and that they choose to post and re-post them here and elsewhere.

Grow a pair or stay in your basement.

The survivors were sitting right in front of him so my reaction isn't such a big stretch. It's just a tasteless joke, not an impeachable offense.

The purpose of this thread is to collect faux pas like this that aren't worthy of an individual topic. I created one for Sleepy Joe too.

Since the trump haters like to post at least one complaint or stupid meme every day just to remind us how he's threatening our democracy, I thought we could make one thread for it. I think it will soon become the longest one we have ever had, because they all seem to jump on the newest one and pile on the inane insults or moralize to the rest of us for their own entertainment.

flockofseagulls104 wrote: they all seem to jump on the newest one and pile on the inane insults or moralize to the rest of us for their own entertainment.

It has long ago surpassed the epitath thread and is still growing thanks to the TDS sufferers among us.

Ronald Reagan 1971 wrote:To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.