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HOLD THE DATE is trending on twitter (Original Post) DesertRat Feb 2019 OP
Thanks for the laughs. sheshe2 Feb 2019 #1
It's comedy gold DesertRat Feb 2019 #7
You cannot make this shit up, can you ? Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #71
hahaha fantastic, i won't bother making that Christmas joke then....... Takket Feb 2019 #2
It will be called "A Salute to the Easter Bunny" DesertRat Feb 2019 #5
. Takket Feb 2019 #23
Yikes! DesertRat Feb 2019 #68
My God. skypilot Feb 2019 #90
Flying in bunnies from all over the country? jmowreader Feb 2019 #44
that one deserves a Pelosi-clap treestar Feb 2019 #3
Spanky had damn not try to invent my birthday next! greatauntoftriplets Feb 2019 #4
It will be one of the biggest birthdays in the history of the world DesertRat Feb 2019 #6
LOVE!!: Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #8
HOLD THE DATE next Feb. 14 DesertRat Feb 2019 #13
You're too late. Grovelbot invented "accounts receivable day" ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #15
Duzy! nt littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #40
underpants Feb 2019 #42
Ah,the hand-slap GIF! Thanks! Beartracks Feb 2019 #48
Is that like True Blue American Feb 2019 #81
I'll never forget that one. Oppaloopa Feb 2019 #86
Apparently True Blue American Feb 2019 #87
These are gold, and at least there's some humor to be found in the manure pile. VOX Feb 2019 #9
I hear ya. Especially the veterans DesertRat Feb 2019 #10
Nice to read that, and to be reminded that good, sane folks are pushing back. VOX Feb 2019 #12
You have basically said everything that I was going to say. smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #35
It's completely surreal. Nothing in our experience has prepared us for what's happening. VOX Feb 2019 #55
Thank you also for getting it! smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #56
+ Infinity! n/t VOX Feb 2019 #58
Whatever gave you the idea we were not living in a HubertHeaver Feb 2019 #63
Donny can't get over people not showing for his inauguration. rgbecker Feb 2019 #11
This may be a scam to spend some of that hidden $107 he grifted DesertRat Feb 2019 #14
IMHO, it's more a scam Retrograde Feb 2019 #24
+1 demigoddess Feb 2019 #77
Why did one True Blue American Feb 2019 #88
Good question DesertRat Feb 2019 #93
DumDumDumDumDumDum ailsagirl Feb 2019 #16
"Salute to America" is tRump's back door way of getting his big military parade he was denied. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2019 #17
Trump is having nightly visions, Bernardo.... KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2019 #38
Ideally, all three. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2019 #62
NB: He did not call it Independence Day because he is so dependent on Putin. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2019 #18
HOLD THE DATE LW1977 Feb 2019 #19
I think the pubs will be over-flowing this year. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #72
Orange is NOT welcome! robbob Feb 2019 #92
"Trump thinks he invented the 4th of July" - yet he's not smart enough to call it Independence Day. George II Feb 2019 #20
Beware, a "Communist Plot" is in the offing!: Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #21
Im confused about this. johnnyfins Feb 2019 #22
johnnyfins, you're overthinking this, my friend Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #28
I think it's just further proof that he's suffering from some kind of dementia n/t TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #65
Another stupid MAGA rally with a captive audience? SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #69
twitter plus rawstory...the daily double for bottom of the pile. nt msongs Feb 2019 #25
Oh ... BOOOO! mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #30
I am flabbergasted at the support Raw Story gets on DU. As soon as I see it's from that awful DontBooVote Feb 2019 #39
I think it's a fantastic re-coup site underpants Feb 2019 #43
It never stops loading shit in my browser and my phone. They hijack other people's work and DontBooVote Feb 2019 #49
It's great for us cheapskates that don't have paid subs to real news sites like NYT, WaPo, etc mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #64
This is a campaign stop! ... aggiesal Feb 2019 #26
The twitter feed is a riot. Here's one: "And I'll get the British to pay for it." yonder Feb 2019 #27
... happybird Feb 2019 #34
THAT's funny underpants Feb 2019 #46
ROFLMAO Beartracks Feb 2019 #50
HA! SammyWinstonJack Feb 2019 #70
Not one shilling. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #73
Nary a ha'penny!!! ZZenith Feb 2019 #79
Nor a tanner... bluecollar2 Feb 2019 #91
I say we boycott it! Mr.Bill Feb 2019 #29
New Freeptard thread going up right now over at FR ... mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #32
Oh I can see that coming underpants Feb 2019 #45
fuck rim job land 47of74 Feb 2019 #83
+1000 littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #41
HOLD THE DATE! On April 15th each year, we will hold a national celebration.... KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2019 #31
"...and an address by your favorite president, me!". BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #33
It never ceases to amaze me what a self-absorbed moron he is. smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #36
My wife's birthday is June 14th, Flag Day. Mr.Bill Feb 2019 #37
So is my True Blue American Feb 2019 #89
Ridicule is good for the soul, if only he had one of those... littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #47
Hold the date... itsrobert Feb 2019 #51
Just another reason apkhgp Feb 2019 #52
LOL! The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #53
Trump is such an IDIOT. iluvtennis Feb 2019 #54
LOL! Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #57
I say we throw tea into MFM008 Feb 2019 #59
I say we throw tea into MFM008 Feb 2019 #60
What happens when you snort expired adderall and SNL takes a week off rurallib Feb 2019 #61
HOLD THE DATE. Every 4TH Thursday in November we'll have an "Appreciation Day" maxrandb Feb 2019 #66
Actually, it was Carlson and Tarlek. House of Roberts Feb 2019 #78
Incontinence Day Blue Owl Feb 2019 #67
HOLD THE DATE !!1! Nov 3, 2020 dweller Feb 2019 #74
Hope so! And someone should tell him the phrase is "SAVE THE DATE" DesertRat Feb 2019 #75
HOLD THE DATE!!! Some day between today and January 20, 2021 Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2019 #76
He said we are getting an address by our favorite President Dem2theMax Feb 2019 #80
My thought exactly! rickyhall Feb 2019 #85
If he gets his way, IQ45 will use his "celebration" as a taxpayer-paid rally LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2019 #82
My response generated a lot of likes NewJeffCT Feb 2019 #84

Takket

(21,639 posts)
2. hahaha fantastic, i won't bother making that Christmas joke then.......
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:47 PM
Feb 2019

HOLD THE DATE!!!!!!

This April we'll be celebrating the resurrection of our lord. I'll be bringing hard boiled eggs with cool colors and a bunch of chocolate. We're also flying in bunnies from all over the country, except stupid California. Melania will be handing out baskets of goodies to the kiddies! It won't be creepy!!!!!

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
5. It will be called "A Salute to the Easter Bunny"
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:52 PM
Feb 2019

Trump eggs will be available for purchase! Your favorite bunny will make an appearance!

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
6. It will be one of the biggest birthdays in the history of the world
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:55 PM
Feb 2019

It will be called "A Salute To greatauntoftriplets"

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
8. LOVE!!:
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:58 PM
Feb 2019

“...please hear me out ... what if instead of calling it "July 4th"
we called it "the Fourth of July"?”


DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
13. HOLD THE DATE next Feb. 14
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:14 PM
Feb 2019

We'll call it "A Salute to Romance". It will be the biggest love-focused gathering in history! People will buy chocolate hearts (available at your local trump tower gift shop) and order overpriced trump steaks and wine. No one knows more about love and romance than me!

VOX

(22,976 posts)
9. These are gold, and at least there's some humor to be found in the manure pile.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 02:58 PM
Feb 2019

I will never, ever fully understand the astonishing blindness and tone-deafness of 45’s supporters.

For most of my life, I naively trusted in the common sense of most Americans, excluding the historically deranged right-wing fringe, who were a major laughingstock for decades.

My biggest disappointment comes from those fellow-citizens who now would apparently be quite content to live in a fascist state, ruled by a dictator. These are the same people who scream about “liberty,” “patriots,” “freedom,” etc. Meanwhile, the store is being robbed blind.

I’ve shaken my head so much in the past two-plus years, it’s a wonder that it’s still attached to my neck.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
35. You have basically said everything that I was going to say.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:16 PM
Feb 2019

I am continually astonished that this shit-show is still going on and there are so many people who see it as normal, while I and most others I know feel like we are living in a never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone.

?v=1

VOX

(22,976 posts)
55. It's completely surreal. Nothing in our experience has prepared us for what's happening.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 05:21 PM
Feb 2019

We have lives to lead, responsibilities, etc., and we continue on, but several times a day it hits: America is going full-fascist? Donald Trump, a smug, preening, dangerous buffoon is actually PRESIDENT? The meetings with high-level Russians behind closed doors with no witnesses? A significant number of Americans are okay with this? Don’t they recognize the avalanche of warnings that all point to dictatorship? Can’t they see that 45 is destroying everything he touches?

On the heels of that cascade of sickening thoughts comes an even darker reality: there are many U.S. citizens with whom I cannot exist, now and forever more. Their views run utterly contrary and destructive to everything I was taught by my (Republican!) parents, in school, church, Scouts, college, and colleagues working in higher education. You watch a documentary or read a book on the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, and grasp the identical pattern unfolding today, here, in one of the countries that went to great lengths to defeat tyranny, blind hatred and lawlessness a mere 75 years ago.

As you so well put it: “living in a never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone.” And if/when it does end, will we survive our collective close-call? All I can say for sure is THANK YOU and the others here and in my life who do get it, and are as deeply disturbed and concerned as we are.

Hang in there, friend.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
56. Thank you also for getting it!
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 05:25 PM
Feb 2019

It makes me feel less alone in this dystopia! Hang in there too!

HubertHeaver

(2,522 posts)
63. Whatever gave you the idea we were not living in a
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 07:19 PM
Feb 2019

never-ending episode of The Twilight Zone?

Trump is the kid who is sending everyone he doesn't like out to the cornfield.

rgbecker

(4,834 posts)
11. Donny can't get over people not showing for his inauguration.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:09 PM
Feb 2019

And Obama holding record for largest crowd ever.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
14. This may be a scam to spend some of that hidden $107 he grifted
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:17 PM
Feb 2019

at the HUGE inaugural bash that didn't happen.

Retrograde

(10,163 posts)
24. IMHO, it's more a scam
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:47 PM
Feb 2019

to get more $$$ into his and his family's pockets. Grifters gotta grift, ya know.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,496 posts)
38. Trump is having nightly visions, Bernardo....
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:29 PM
Feb 2019

of millions of MAGA hat minions doing the Prussian goose step down Constitution Avenue, ending a massive torch-lit celebration of his life and accomplishments on the National Mall. Donations to Trump Foundation gladly accepted in cash or Bitcoin.



Meanwhile, we're daily celebrating the fact that he may soon be either impeached, disgraced into oblivion, or locked up in jail....

LW1977

(1,237 posts)
19. HOLD THE DATE
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:33 PM
Feb 2019

In the middle of March there’s this holiday where people try to forget about the orange baffoon in office by drinking a lot. Some say it’s about some guy who rid Ireland of snakes, but nah, it about the the idiot in chief. Anyways everyone wears green to remind the orange dotard that the planet is in danger.

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
21. Beware, a "Communist Plot" is in the offing!:
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:37 PM
Feb 2019

HOLD THE DATE! on sundaey Appril 21rd there be a time of reckonin
call "The Evil Bunny Rabbit Communist Plot to Redistirbute Eggs" and
me (birb) your flavorite future presdident will be stage a coop to
RECLAM the egg by take them out of childerns baskeet also i take some jellyben”





johnnyfins

(839 posts)
22. Im confused about this.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 03:38 PM
Feb 2019

He has to know about the current 4th celebrations in D.C.
Is he trying to bait people? Or is it another stupid MAGA rally?

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
30. Oh ... BOOOO!
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:06 PM
Feb 2019

Sometimes twitter is awesome ... as is the case here.

BTW, I think it's hilarious IQ45 doesn't know that the expression is 'SAVE the Date', not 'Hold the Date'.

He's such a freakin' MORON.

 

DontBooVote

(901 posts)
39. I am flabbergasted at the support Raw Story gets on DU. As soon as I see it's from that awful
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:29 PM
Feb 2019

website, I hit the back button.

I cannot for the life of me understand some of the sources that are allowed as legitimate here on DU.

underpants

(182,925 posts)
43. I think it's a fantastic re-coup site
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:45 PM
Feb 2019

TPM too.

PoliticsUSA and the Palmer Report are my backbuttons.

 

DontBooVote

(901 posts)
49. It never stops loading shit in my browser and my phone. They hijack other people's work and
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:50 PM
Feb 2019

they make money from click-bait headlines.

It has actually crashed my laptop and my phone from all the crap it loads on them.

At least they link to the original story they stole. I just don't understand why it's not the actual source link that's posted nor do I understand why we have to find out that source by first getting dumped on by Raw Story's website.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
64. It's great for us cheapskates that don't have paid subs to real news sites like NYT, WaPo, etc
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 07:22 PM
Feb 2019

They rarely add anything original, but I appreciate their free synopses ...

However, they can be EXTREMELY click-baiting. So I take their every headline with the proverbial grain ...

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
32. New Freeptard thread going up right now over at FR ...
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:08 PM
Feb 2019

"ZOMG TDS ALERT - LIBTARDS TO BOYCOTT FOURTH OF JULY BECAUSE THEY HATE TRUMP/AMERICA!"

With a screenshot of your post ...

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,496 posts)
31. HOLD THE DATE! On April 15th each year, we will hold a national celebration....
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:08 PM
Feb 2019

at your local post office called "Send All Your Money to Starving Billionaires Day".

You will receive a commemorative letter suitable for framing a month or two later with notice of interest and penalties due.

You're also perfectly free to celebrate early with no penalty, trust me........

BigmanPigman

(51,638 posts)
33. "...and an address by your favorite president, me!".
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:10 PM
Feb 2019

I thought this was the onoion. What a sick, fucking narcissist! Everything is always about HIM!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
36. It never ceases to amaze me what a self-absorbed moron he is.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:18 PM
Feb 2019

Yet, the responses are hilarious.

I really hope he reads them and realizes what an idiot he is.

Mr.Bill

(24,334 posts)
37. My wife's birthday is June 14th, Flag Day.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:20 PM
Feb 2019

So is Trump's. We will not fly our flag on flag day until he is in jail or dead. My wife readily agreed to this.

littlemissmartypants

(22,837 posts)
47. Ridicule is good for the soul, if only he had one of those...
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:48 PM
Feb 2019

Without fools there would be no wisdom. This we can say definitely applies.

Public shaming is the only thing that could possibly get him to blow a gasket and I'm all for that.


Next best thing...strapping him to a rocket and shooting him like a firework into space. Hold the date, indeed.

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)
51. Hold the date...
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:52 PM
Feb 2019

HOLD THE DATE! We be having one of the biggest election turnouts in the history of humankind on November 3, 2020. It will be called, “Election Day”, and will be held all over the country. Only entertainment needed is watching the news and seeing Trump having a meltdown.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,878 posts)
53. LOL!
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 05:02 PM
Feb 2019

But now I'm wondering how he got that July 4 celebration on my iPhone calendar long before he announced it.

maxrandb

(15,362 posts)
66. HOLD THE DATE. Every 4TH Thursday in November we'll have an "Appreciation Day"
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 08:44 PM
Feb 2019

We'll eat massive amounts of roast pouty and custard pies made from squash. We'll express our Appreciations on this day.

Les Nessman will be conducting a "Turkey Drop" at the Mall.

dweller

(23,674 posts)
74. HOLD THE DATE !!1! Nov 3, 2020
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 12:32 AM
Feb 2019

send his ass and his lackies packing... tarred and feathered, jailed and broke hopefully...

✌🏼️

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,209 posts)
76. HOLD THE DATE!!! Some day between today and January 20, 2021
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 01:03 AM
Feb 2019

We will be having a celebration to celebrate the impeachment and removal from office/forced resignation/humiliating electoral defeat/fast food induced aortic event surrounding everyone’s least favorite president. Festivities include drinking one’s favorite alcoholic drink to excess while loudly cheering and hollering. It will be called, “Thank God That Asshole is No Longer Our President!”

82. If he gets his way, IQ45 will use his "celebration" as a taxpayer-paid rally
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 08:02 AM
Feb 2019

and the "speech" he'll give will be an hour-and-a-half celebration of himself.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
84. My response generated a lot of likes
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 09:48 AM
Feb 2019

rare for me, but I guess I had good timing.


?s=19

text of my response:
LOL - maybe next we can have a Thursday in late November where people give thanks and eat turkey? How about people gather in Times Square on New Year's Eve to send out the current year and welcome the next year?

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