Page 16 - Absurdities News Today

>> anthony: author of the internationally successful mario conde detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> leonardo: more or less. more or less. >> anthony: happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> leonardo: yeah, yeah. i was totally free. >> anthony: i notice a lot of people just ha...

This is a profitable industry. in the military we used to call absurdities, a self-licking ice cream. im in a relatively cheap media market and campaigns cost $3 million. its getting out of hand. steve: that feels like arms race. anything we can do about that? when you talk about campaign spending, you get into the territory of the constitutional objections to that. whats your view on what we can do about that? >> i dont take pac and lobbyist money. steve: this all sounds great, is anything goin...

This is a profitable industry. in the military we used to call absurdities, a self-licking ice cream. im in a relatively cheap media market and campaigns cost $3 million. its getting out of hand. steve: that feels like arms race. anything we can do about that? when you talk about campaign spending, you get into the territory of the constitutional objections to that. whats your view on what we can do about that? >> i dont take pac and lobbyist money. steve: this all sounds great, is anything goin...

Youll have a lot of republicans who wish they had a time machine a few years from now to show more courage now. its not like were asking these guys to land on the beach. just to stand up for the principles of the party and whats right for the country when we clearly have an unfit person in the white house. >> off of that last reference that you made, let me ask you this. we are all familiar with the littany of incompetence and moral absurdities uttered by the president. people feel theres a char...

The president tweeted at the end of the day, i guess he wanted to sort of put an exclamation point on the day saying it was a great day at the white house. ivanka trump tweeted that she looks forward to serving alongside john kelly. is there anything wrong with this picture? >> yes. shes not serving alongside john kelly. shes working for the white house chief of staff. this is the problem of having presidential kids around. it was inappropriate for her to be seated with heads of state at a g-20 ...

They have a right to be mad, meaning his audience. if i let anyone down it hurt feelings that they didnt like it. i got it i didnt do it to humanize trump. i didnt think it would be a compliment. he did the thing we all want him to do. he had fun with him. he let him touch his hair. it was great appearance. he is apologizing for that. >> leno, the grea greats, they mocked politics. dana carvy could make fun of republicans and democrats, make fun of the absurdities of politics, there was never th...

Leonardo: this is a typical street of this neighborhood. houses of wood, houses of concrete. the street is not in good condition. here was the bus station. its not a bus station anymore. now its a building. its a monument of the past. >> anthony: mantilla is a suburb of havana, home to one of cubas most celebrated writers. >> leonardo: [ speaking spanish ] internationally successful mario conde detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba...

Orlando, fort hood, san bernardino, fort hood. how does america root this out? its like okay where is it coming from? some people are inspired online and we have sympathizers. some people might try to get into the country and lie their way in. how do you possibly judge when youre taking in people from countries that have values that directly contradict our constitutional values? how do you ever know or can you ever know? >> absolutely. how do we win this war withh incredibly serious individuals ...

That we could talk, about orlando, fort hood, san bernardino, fort hood. how does america root this out? its like okay where is it coming from? some people are inspired online and we have sympathizers. some people might try to get into the country and lie their way in. how do you possibly judge when youre taking in people from countries that have values that directly contradict our constitutional values? how do you ever know or can you ever know? >> absolutely. how do we win this war with incred...

Rather such compassion and sympathy about the blue-collar everyday american worker like they did about these illegal criminal aliens that are getting deported back to their home country. there were so many absurdities in this article, it was hard to wrap my mind around what the narrative has been versus how they went to spend this for the illegal aliens. that may just read you a graph in the article appeared more returnees back to mexico means lower wages for everybody in blue-collar industries ...