Seth takes a closer look at President Trump caving on the signature promise of his campaign and one of his closest advisers getting indicted in the Russia investigation.
The Republican Party has to be Saruman in this extended metaphor. The main enabler of the horror.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2019
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Putin = Sauron and Trump/Republicans = Saruman fits well with the fundamental treachery of Trump and the Republicans.
Defects of this mapping are that Trump is too stupid to be a good Saruman, and the Republicans were never good.
If you’re looking for dramatic winter landscapes, check out @RockyNPS. Pic by Luke Wagner #Colorado #FindYourPark pic.twitter.com/sjF1iAZYr1
— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) January 29, 2019
I’d rather not associate LOTR with the current administration in ANY way.
I am loath to post tweets by these #NeverTrump Republicans. With that said, I’m just going to put this here.
You sure you wanna go down this road? https://t.co/V64WYTYCML
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 29, 2019
re: #7 teleskiguy
I am loath to post tweets by these #NeverTrump Republicans. With that said, I’m just going to put this here.
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It’s a really stupid thing even for Tomi to say.
re: #3 EPR-radar
Putin = Sauron and Trump/Republicans = Saruman fits well with the fundamental treachery of Trump and the Republicans.
Defects of this mapping are that Trump is too stupid to be a good Saruman, and the Republicans were never good.
Putin = Morgoth (Sauron’s superior and bigger Middle Earth evil)
GOP=Sauron
McConnell = Saruman
Trump = Gollum/Wormtongue hybrid
Someday Tomi will say the wrong thing to the wrong person and pay dearly for it.
re: #7 teleskiguy
I am loath to post tweets by these #NeverTrump Republicans. With that said, I’m just going to put this here.
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The replies in the Tomi tweet are awesome.
re: #9 Archangelus
Putin = Morgoth (Sauron’s superior and bigger Middle Earth evil)
GOP=Sauron
McConnell = Saruman
Trump = Gollum/Wormtongue hybrid
Hillary Clinton: Boromir
Nancy Pelosi: Gandalf
Barack Obama: Aragorn
AOC: Frodo
Chuck Shumer: Bilbo
Kamala Harris: Eowyn
re: #5 lawhawk
I’ve never been to Rocky Mountain National Park in the winter. All told, any winter exploration in RMNP is a *serious undertaking*, parties traveling in RMNP in winter need to be well-equipped and prepared for anything from sudden changes in weather and of course avalanches. Only elite mountaineers summit the highest mountain in the park - Longs Peak, elevation 14,259 ft. - in winter. You have to carry your balls around in a wheelbarrow to even ski there.
@esanguez on the west ridge of Mount Cirrus.
Photo @mouttet
#skirmnp #wildernessinherited
What you need to know about this tweet: Trump is exploiting the anti-science ignorance inculcated in his base of voters by Fox News and the right wing noise machine. https://t.co/VkAcpKX7Jm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2019
re: #7 teleskiguy
I am loath to post tweets by these #NeverTrump Republicans. With that said, I’m just going to put this here.
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My favorites:
Hm. I heard you slept your way to the top as well..
Did someone move the top?
How do you explain YOUR success?
She isn’t successful
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) January 29, 2019
re: #17 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe one day we’ll all come together to provide roads to get to our destinations, police to enforce the law, firefighters to respond to emergencies, schools to teach our children, and a way take care of the health of the elderly.
re: #13 teleskiguy
These guys skied RMNP during the shutdown. This was posted to Instagram three weeks ago.
I certainly want our public lands to resume operation as normal….but…there are silver linings for those willing to work hard. Pretty mind blowing to have all of RMNP to ourselves. #zerocarbonadventures
Yeah you tell ‘em John ////
“What she has to do is to kind of capture people’s imagination. That’s what’s really important with the candidate.” - @JohnKasich on @KamalaHarris at the #HarrisTownHall.
She has to “communicate something that kind of stirs people’s hearts,” Kasich adds.https://t.co/2hXg1gMWwc pic.twitter.com/Cgw7yIGWwJ— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) January 29, 2019
re: #6 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I’d rather not associate LOTR with the current administration in ANY way.
I would agree. My greatest wish is to return to a world where Donald Trump is not an important figure, because there is nobody less deserving of even a moment of wasted thought. His has been, as some pundit said, a worthless disgrace of a life.
That said, it took this to get me to post again after 8 months or so, so here we are. I would argue that Donald Trump is in fact the perfect analogy for Gollum here. Gollum is many things - a villain, a pitiable figure, and an agent of change. He is at heart a simple creature, of small consequence and small mind. However, his selfishness leads him to a dark path, where he becomes corrupted by the trappings of evil and an unwitting slave of the forces of darkness. He pities himself constantly, unable to see that he is persecuted as a result of his own actions, but most of all unable to see that he has lost any sense of morality he once had, all as a result of his own howling need.
This is exactly Donald Trump. He is at heart a simple and slow-witted man, but he has a burning need for his own Precious - in his case, a need for praise and self-validation. He pities himself constantly, but is unable to see that his own lack of virtue is what drives others to revile him, and he has lost any sense of morality and decency he might once have had in the pursuit of the one thing that brings him joy. There is nothing in his head other than the need for praise and a vague sense of pleasure when he hurts someone. He is not a master con man, really - his influence with marks says more about their projection of their desires onto him than any ability on his part. In him, they see what they want to be - a stupid man, but rich, and unfettered by any moral or societal constraints, such that he can be as boorish and ugly as he pleases. If he were anything other than a white man born into wealth, his lack of knowledge and ability would have been terminal. As it is, he continues to fail upwards, because that is what happens to rich white men in America.
Just as Gollum’s selfishness and weakness made him a corrupted pawn of evil forces beyond his understanding, this too has happened to Donald Trump. Like a lot of white men, he watched a lot of FOX, and his mind and soul have become entirely replaced by the hatred and ugliness he consumed. It has, in turn, consumed him. He is nothing more than the vessel of this malice, and his selfishness has in turn made him their perfect avatar for now. I don’t pity him - he is a miserable and worthless creature, crippled by his own self-loathing and narcissism, and now completely unable to exist without the evil he consumes.
But I do want the world back where Donald Trump is not a thing.
re: #12 The Vicious Babushka
Hillary Clinton: Boromir
Nancy Pelosi: Gandalf
Barack Obama: Aragorn
AOC: Frodo
Chuck Shumer: Bilbo
Kamala Harris: Eowyn
Hmm. Good but I see AOC as Samwise. Frodo remains unknown.
Sen. Blumenthal: “…behind closed doors, there arose in my mind, very clearly, questions, serious issues, concerning their truthfulness. And that issue pertained particularly to Donald Trump Jr. in a number of his contentions before our committee…” pic.twitter.com/mX9UZdgib5
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 29, 2019
And Corporal Bone Spurs lashes out:
How does Da Nang Dick (Blumenthal) serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee when he defrauded the American people about his so called War Hero status in Vietnam, only to later admit, with tears pouring down his face, that he was never in Vietnam. An embarrassment to our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019
Checks Out….
They moved the White House to Siberia pic.twitter.com/xTnCL89luo
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 29, 2019
re: #23 The Vicious Babushka
Da Nang? Is he mocking Blumenthal for serving in Vietnam? What the fuck am I missing here?
re: #13 teleskiguy
I missed my shot at getting out to RMNP last year. Don’t know when I’ll get another chance. I would have been out there at peak fall color. But it wasn’t meant to be.
I haven’t gotten on skis in more than 20 years (shiiit, I’m getting old).
re: #26 Mattand
Da Nang? Is he mocking Blumenthal for serving in Vietnam? What the fuck am I missing here?
Blumenthal had a bit of a stolen valor scandal years ago. He claimed to have served in vietnam but served in the marine reserves and never actually left the States.
This is the night Donald Trump truly became president*. https://t.co/ZKSrs9SKNd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2019
re: #26 Mattand
Da Nang? Is he mocking Blumenthal for serving in Vietnam? What the fuck am I missing here?
Blumenthal served during the Vietnam War. He never was overseas. Some people thought he claimed to been in Vietnam. As far as I see, he never claimed to be abroad and given Trump’s own history during that era, he should stfu. I have an uncle around both men’s age who was in the Army. He wasn’t in Vietnam but he is a vet as is Blumenthal.
re: #28 danarchy
Blumenthal had a bit of a stolen valor scandal years ago. He claimed to have served in vietnam but served in the marine reserves and never actually left the States.
I’ve read that he never specifically claimed to be in country. Either way, Trump should shut his fucking mouth.
re: #26 Mattand
From Blumenthal’s wikipedia page:
Blumenthal received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War,[13] obtaining first educational deferments, and then deferments based on his occupation.[14] With part-time service in the reserves or National Guard generally regarded as an alternative for those wishing to avoid serving in Vietnam,[15] in April 1970, Blumenthal enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve,[16] and he served in units in Washington, D.C., and Connecticut from 1970 to 1976,[17][18] attaining the rank of sergeant.[19] During his 2010 Senate campaign, news reports that Blumenthal had claimed or implied that he’d served “in Vietnam” during the war created a controversy.[20][21] Blumenthal denied having intentionally misled voters into believing he fought in Vietnam, but acknowledged having occasionally “misspoken” about his service record,[22] and later apologized for remarks about his military service he said had not been “clear or precise”.[23]
President “Venereal disease are my own personal Vietnam” likes to bring this up any time Blumenthal criticizes him.
re: #31 HappyWarrior
I’ve read that he never specifically claimed to be in country. Either way, Trump should shut his fucking mouth.
Trump shutting his fucking mouth is a universal solution for all kinds of problems.
It’s also irrelevant to what’s being discussed too. Just Trump being his usual self showing he’s not entitled to respect.
so proud of everyone truly pic.twitter.com/TSdGFcABmQ
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 29, 2019
Getting ratioed on day 1. Yeah, that’s not a good look. Being a self-important billionaire old white guy who thinks he’s the savior? Yeah, no. No one buys that crap.
re: #25 bd(it’s all true)
We’re back to red = commie sympathizer again, I see.
re: #35 lawhawk
Schultz: Let’s focus on things that can make us better.
Crowd: Getting Trump out of office and making the GOP a minority party.
Schultz: I have some ideas on acc—
Crowd: That means you don’t run.
Schultz: I don’t see how that’s a solution.
re: #16 retired cynic
Who did you sleep with to still be at the bottom?
— Jen Skelly (@Jenlskelly) January 29, 2019
— Jesus Christ (@SonOfGodAndMan) January 29, 2019
re: #37 Belafon
Schultz: Let’s focus on things that can make us better.
Crowd: Getting Trump out of office and making the GOP a minority party.
Schultz: I have some ideas on acc—
Crowd: That means you don’t run.
Schultz: I don’t see how that’s a solution.
Schultz is starting from a very stupid both-siderist position, and I’m pleased to see that this is getting the respect that it deserves (i.e., none).
Nothing good can come out of Democrats cooperating with Republicans.
GLOBAL WAMING IS A WICH HUNT! https://t.co/VkAcpKX7Jm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2019
re: #40 EPR-radar
Schultz is starting from a very stupid both-siderist position, and I’m pleased to see that this is getting the respect that it deserves (i.e., none).
Nothing good can come out of Democrats cooperating with Republicans.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of ignorant people out there who think this is wonderful. I work with some of these people, and I see their FBs. They are all woozy over this guy. I’m just hoping the ratioing into oblivion will force Schultz into realizing he’s not going anywhere.
re: #35 lawhawk
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Getting ratioed on day 1. Yeah, that’s not a good look. Being a self-important billionaire old white guy who thinks he’s the savior? Yeah, no. No one buys that crap.
So you want to be the American version of Macron and be just as ineffective when the Republicans block everything you try to do…
NO THANKS!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 29, 2019
re: #43 Joe Bacon 🌹
Our political system currently reflects the voters in this country. It also reflects the results of an antiquated process - the Electoral College - that elected two presidents the voters rejected with good reason. That’s something you will make worse by running.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 29, 2019
re: #47 Belafon
Should be make better by running?
If only Jerry Garcia had lived to see something like nugs.net …
re: #36 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
We’re back to red = commie sympathizer again, I see.
Who was it a few weeks ago who actually used the word “ComSymp”, like Col. Flagg?
It’s a million degrees in Australia, you gibbering shit-weasel. https://t.co/5PVkb1wl0Q
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) January 29, 2019
re: #41 Charles Johnson
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Add Global Waming to the long list of extreme spelling achievements by this dope, right up there with Counitiry.
re: #53 Myron Falwell
Add Global Waming to the long list of extreme spelling achievements by this dope, right up there with Counitiry.
Covfefe and hamberders.
re: #54 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Which I always laugh about seeing the meme because covfefe was not, in actual fact, a misspelling of coffee… We all just treat it that way because it’s funny.
re: #55 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Which I always laugh about seeing the meme because covfefe was not, in actual fact, a misspelling of coffee… We all just treat it that way because it’s funny.
In actual fact? How do you know? Maybe it is!
re: #52 The Vicious Babushka
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Australia is a hotbed (pun intended) of global warming denialism too, because it will be the first continent to be rendered uninhabitable and they know it.
re: #56 retired cynic
In actual fact? How do you know? Maybe it is!
Because even the tiny fragment of coherence Trump’s tweets tend to display leaves no doubt it’s the world’s most grievous misspelling of coverage. Sorry ;)
re: #57 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Australia is a hotbed (pun intended) of global warming denialism too, because it will be the first continent to be rendered uninhabitable and they know it.
The anti-science movement has to be thrilled at Trump’s illiteracy making them look like a total joke out in the open ////
re: #48 retired cynic
Should be make better by running?
Sorry. Reload. I realized after and replaced it.
The ‘pengci’ pretend-to-be-injured-for-money profession is not what it used to be. Their acting techniques are getting less natural by the day 😂 pic.twitter.com/vz53fbgdV4
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) January 26, 2019
Can he say something so utterly clueless and stupid that it’s operationally indistinguishable from overt racism? Because whether he intended to be racist or not that’s what came out.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 29, 2019
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
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Somebody remind Sally that ol Stenographer Brokaw did utter a bunch or racist bullshit and his fellow Presstitutes gave him the usual pass.
I don’t expect that this will go well.
“The White House announced on Monday the U.S. delegation that will receive Chinese representatives for trade negotiations on Wednesday and Thursday.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will lead the discussions, President Donald Trump’s administration said, with four other officials rounding out the U.S. delegation: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and trade advisor Peter Navarro”
CNBC
re: #65 Skip Intro
I don’t expect that this will go well.
“The White House announced on Monday the U.S. delegation that will receive Chinese representatives for trade negotiations on Wednesday and Thursday.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will lead the discussions, President Donald Trump’s administration said, with four other officials rounding out the U.S. delegation: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and trade advisor Peter Navarro”CNBC
Kudlow, jeezus! Did Reagan empty out all the nuthouses into a wormhole straight to the tRump administration?
re: #57 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Australia is a hotbed (pun intended) of global warming denialism too, because it will be the first continent to be rendered uninhabitable and they know it.
Most of it is uninhabitable now, unless you’re Aboriginal or a croc. If Australia were a planet, all the humans would be living at the poles and the equator would be a scorching hot wasteland.
RIDDLE OF THE DAY: How do you break Newt Gingrich’s nose? (ANSWER: Kick Donald Trump in the ass.)
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 28, 2019
re: #69 MsJ
Watching her go off on the right-wingers is filling me with glee. Ann Coulter, if you keep going like that, I might temporarily like you.
re: #69 MsJ
Looks like all the mean kids are turning on each other.
Using technology, I turned myself into a blond Dutchman historian, teleported to #Davos, and said what Davos is designed to avoid.
Thank you, @rcbregman, for dropping this truth bomb. https://t.co/q8MYAW8OXx— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 25, 2019
re: #70 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Watching her go off on the right-wingers is filling me with glee. Ann Coulter, if you keep going like that, I might temporarily like you.
I advise you to lie down quietly in a dark place until you recover.
Speaks for itself —but needs to be run to ground by key House Committees NOWhttps://t.co/62KiyxfMn0
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 29, 2019
So to summarize your views on expertise:
-Thousands of scientists and decades of research - Scam
-Anonymous poster on reddit making cryptic pronouncements - 100% reliable.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 29, 2019
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Now I have to read his book. He finally drew attention to the elephant in the room. What do the rich hate more than anything else? Taxes.
Philanthropy is in many jurisdictions a way to reduce taxes. While some philanthropists may have sincere reasons for funding their chosen projects, I would wager most would not even bother giving away money to charities and foundations if there were no tax incentives present. And even generous philanthropists like Bill Gates or George Soros still keep enough money to live like kings, so the wealth inequality persists.
re: #70 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Watching her go off on the right-wingers is filling me with glee. Ann Coulter, if you keep going like that, I might temporarily like you.
Not buying Ann at all. Remember when Glenn Beck, Brent Bozell, Ben Shapiro and the so-called “Reagan Battalion” were Never Trumpers? Not only are they’re on the Trump Train, they’re the conductors.
Canada to convene #LimaGroup and other countries about #Venezuela crisis. https://t.co/b3UQfIk6jR
— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) January 28, 2019
Canada to convene #LimaGroup and other countries about #Venezuela crisis. https://t.co/b3UQfIk6jR
— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) January 28, 2019
Canada to host Lima group Feb. 4 in effort to find solution to Venezuela crisis | CBC News https://t.co/wZXIWcyIDR
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) January 29, 2019
Venezuela has become a use-case for cryptocurrencies. The bolivar is so worthless now that vendors are accepting payment in Dash, Nano and other cryptocurrencies. Venezuelans with connections outside the country receive the digital currencies, and spend them at supermarkets. People are also surreptitiously mining bitcoin and other cryptos to make ends meet. Even 0.0001 bitcoin is enough to buy groceries for several days.
Maduro’s Petro cryptocurrency is a scam, and no one takes it seriously.
The ridiculous but logical conclusion to the fidget spinner fad.
re: #71 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Looks like all the mean kids are turning on each other.
Couldn’t happen to a shittier crowd. I hope they rip each other to shreds. Literally and twitterly.
re: #81 MsJ
Couldn’t happen to a shittier crowd. I hope they rip each other to shreds. Literally and twitterly.
Its hilarious seeing Trumpers turn on Coulter and vice versa. It won’t last but I hope some egos get bruised.
re: #80 goddamnedfrank
The ridiculous but logical conclusion to the fidget spinner fad.
There’s another one listed at $2.4 million. Plus $4.06 shipping.
No, YOU talk to him. We’re not related.
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) January 28, 2019
re: #82 HappyWarrior
Its hilarious seeing Trumpers turn on Coulter and vice versa. It won’t last but I hope some egos get bruised.
As long as we don’t take it seriously and count on it meaning anything, we can definitely root for injuries.
re: #83 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
There’s another one listed at $2.4 million. Plus $4.06 shipping.
You only have to sell one.
re: #83 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
There’s another one listed at $2.4 million. Plus $4.06 shipping.
I sometimes wonder how much money laundering gets done over eBay by people just buying shit at patently ridiculous prices.
In case you missed it, Black Panther won best picture at the SAG awards
re: #80 goddamnedfrank
The ridiculous but logical conclusion to the fidget spinner fad.
You think that’s bad? Check this one out.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
re: #80 goddamnedfrank
Your internet shopping habits intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Home from Colbert. What an incredibly entertaining day. Colbert was straight fire tonight, and Paul Simon’s musical segment was exceptional.
re: #89 MsJ
You think that’s bad? Check this one out.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I saw that one earlier but didn’t post it because it’s an obvious joke, whereas the Steel Flame spinner is just trying so goddamned hard to be badass. Like, some actual adult saw that shit and genuinely thought it was cool enough to buy new, which honestly I kind of respect because as I established earlier today I’ve bought some ridiculous ass bling and actually wear that shit out because fuck it life is short.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
I sometimes wonder how much money laundering gets done over eBay by people just buying shit at patently ridiculous prices.
No estimates of how much money is laundered, but this article explains how it can be done and how PayPal watches for suspicious activities.
One way that unscrupulous people who are trying to transact with dirty money is to set up fake listings on eBay. It looks like a real transaction, but the price is usually astronomically inflated for the type of item, and the sales price does not make sense. Here is how it works:
Let’s say Jim has a customer who wants to buy something illegal, such as drugs, stolen property, or weapons. Rather than create a transaction with cash, Jim tells his customer he will set up a listing on eBay for a particular item at a very inflated price. He will then send a link to the item to the client. This is called a “prearranged sale.”
No one will actually buy the grossly overpriced item, and Jim’s client will purchase it, sending the money through Paypal. Also, eBay gets its fees and Paypal gets its fee of 3 percent. Jim ships a box of rocks or some insignificant item to the client’s address and no one is the wiser.
Once the transaction has taken place on eBay, and the money is in Jim’s account, he meets up with his client to deliver the actual goods which again may be drugs, weapons, or some sort of contraband. The transaction takes place, the money has changed hands, the illegal goods are delivered, and all of this is done under the radar.
re: #27 lawhawk
I missed my shot at getting out to RMNP last year. Don’t know when I’ll get another chance. I would have been out there at peak fall color. But it wasn’t meant to be.
I haven’t gotten on skis in more than 20 years (shiiit, I’m getting old).
I’ve only been on cross country skis. Downhill skiing? Big nope. I think I’ve always been old.
re: #33 EPR-radar
Trump shutting his fucking mouth is a universal solution for all kinds of problems.
It wouldn’t take too many people to hold him down and someone else to stitch his mouth shut. I can sew and would be willing to offer my sewing services.
re: #36 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
We’re back to red = commie sympathizer again, I see.
Well, that’s the color of the GOP.
re: #97 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
Well, that’s the color of the GOP.
No one seems to see the irony there. Conservatives used to say “Better dead than Red.” Now, it’s the liberals and the connotation of red has changed.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
L
We elected a fucking child.
I was telling my 11-year-old that about the severe cold snap that is forecast. She asked me how it could be so incredibly cold with global warming, so I explained to her the difference between global warming and climate, and how global warming affects the climate. She got it.
New picture of Ultima Thule on APOD tonight:
re: #99 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I was telling my 11-year-old that about the severe cold snap that is forecast. She asked me how it could be so incredibly cold with global warming, so I explained to her the difference between global warming and climate, and how global warming affects the climate. She got it.
She’s smarter than Trump’s entire Cabinet combined. Steer her toward STEM careers.
re: #100 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
WOW! Such detail!
Looks like two rocks glued together with Elmer’s. JPL really needs to work on their image fabrication. ////
re: #98 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
No one seems to see the irony there. Conservatives used to say “Better Red than dead.” Now, it’s the liberals and the connotation of red has changed.
You mean “Better dead than Red” was the conservative slogan. And now they wear a shirt: I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat
re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter
You mean “Better dead than Red” was the conservative slogan. And now they wear a shirt: I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat
Yeah, you’re right. That’s what I get for multitasking. I fixed my comment.
re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹
That looks like comet closeups with the two fused bodies.
What’s weird about it is the two component bodies are basically round-ish but somehow after collision they didn’t have enough combined mass for hydrostatic equilibrium to take over. Meaning the cores of the two bodies probably formed independently when mostly molten. Also, I’m guessing the huge dent in the smaller body was the initial impact point when the two collided.
re: #33 EPR-radar
Trump shutting his fucking mouth is a universal solution for all kinds of problems.
Trump shutting up actually does more bad than good. His approval numbers tick up when he shuts his pie hole. Then they can do terrible shit in the dark.
Although, if the poll numbers saying almost 60% of voters won’t vote for him in 2020, loud or quiet, he’s going to be confined to the dustbin of history
That’s how you know she loves you.
— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) January 29, 2019
Better get a cup.
— Darcy Morden (@darcidoe1) January 29, 2019
re: #107 KGxvi
Trump shutting up actually does more bad than good. His approval numbers tick up when he shuts his pie hole.
There’s a lot going on there, but the phenomenon can be explained by reversion-to-mean and the still mostly decent macroeconomic data. I think his greatest obstacles heading into 2020 are that we’re rather inexorably sliding into a recession, which the shutdown only accelerated, and that the GOP lost its monopoly on obstructing investigations & oversight. Point being it that going forward it should be a lot easier for Democrats to goad him into making unforced errors and go on batshit insane, unhinged rants.
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
There’s a lot going on there, but the phenomenon can be explained by reversion-to-mean and the still mostly decent macroeconomic data. I think his greatest obstacles heading into 2020 are that we’re rather inexorably sliding into a recession, which the shutdown only accelerated, and that the GOP lost its monopoly on obstructing investigations & oversight. Point being it that going forward it should be a lot easier for Democrats to goad him into making unforced errors and go on batshit insane, unhinged rants.
Also, I turn on the news these days, and I hear… Democrats. I guess they’re relevant again.
Waming is the national sport of Nambia and involves the passing of a (usually) dead cofeve over a line of hamberders. The sport is trending and spreading with Caravans originating from s%*thole countries. Thus Global Waming
— Jim Box (@undercovpilgrim) January 29, 2019
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
There’s a lot going on there, but the phenomenon can be explained by reversion-to-mean and the still mostly decent macroeconomic data. I think his greatest obstacles heading into 2020 are that we’re rather inexorably sliding into a recession, which the shutdown only accelerated, and that the GOP lost its monopoly on obstructing investigations & oversight. Point being it that going forward it should be a lot easier for Democrats to goad him into making unforced errors and go on batshit insane, unhinged rants.
There is this overriding desire amongst American voters to just assume that if the world isn’t on fire, the utilities are still working, and they’re still getting paid…then things are working as intended and the guy in the White House (at worst) is doing nothing useful.
LOLWUT?
NEWS: With Feb 15 deadline approaching, Trump campaign convinced POTUS has been BOLSTERED by shutdown - and this evening will brief him on new polling making that casehttps://t.co/gG80UYh7zr
— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) January 28, 2019
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
They are delusional. I suspect they are polling only Trump supporters, because the general electorate is pissed at Trump for the shutdown.
re: #114 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
They are delusional. I suspect they are polling only Trump supporters, because the general electorate is pissed at Trump for the shutdown.
Clearly they are over their heads in that famous frikin’ river.
They are deep in denial. Which is a frican river. :)
re: #17 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #115 ckkatz
Clearly they are over their heads in that famous frikin’ river.
They are deep in denial. Which is a frican river. :)
ICYMI
A frickin’ elephanthttps://t.co/EC1la5Q6kw pic.twitter.com/N6cbthRw2Z
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 12, 2017
re: #70 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Watching her go off on the right-wingers is filling me with glee. Ann Coulter, if you keep going like that, I might temporarily like you.
Just keep in mind that she is going off on them because they aren’t fascist enough for her.
China is stealing the sun’s energy!! Call out the Space Force!
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WOW. China’s first 100 MW #Solar CSP #Power Plant Just Started Producing Energy.
We have the solutions, let’s raise our ambition and implement them. #ActOnClimate #Renewables #CleanEnergy #Renewables #GreenNewDeal #PanelsNotPipelines pic.twitter.com/u6Q6M2bfr9— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) January 29, 2019
re: #120 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
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Nice, but solar concentrators and molten salt thermal storage have probably been permanently exceeded in efficiency by recent advances in photovoltaic technology and battery tech, so I doubt we’ll be seeing many more projects like that.
re: #121 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I read that Ultima Thule is also the name of the Aryan’s mythological homeland. We should send all the Nazis there.
When Pytheas of Massalia made his voyage in about 325 B.C. out through the Pillars of Herakles and on to the northern parts of Scotland, he was told of a farther land called “Thule”. We don’t really know if he traveled there himself or not (his work is only known through quotations in other writers), what language the name is in (or really how it was pronounced—the Greeks were terrible at foreign languages), or where it was. Some say Iceland, some say southern Norway, a few think it was Greenland, but that’s pretty far fetched. Since it was the farthest land (semi)-known in Antiquity, later Latin writers prefaced it with “Ultima”. The Thule Society and their concern with an “Aryan” homeland (They obviously didn’t mean that—they only meant a Germanic homeland.) is very much a 20th Century fantasy.
re: #122 goddamnedfrank
Nice, but solar concentrators and molten salt thermal storage have probably been permanently exceeded in efficiency by recent advances in photovoltaic technology and battery tech, so I doubt we’ll be seeing many more projects like that.
One other important factor: If a problem ever does develop in the guts of a solar concentrator / molten salt system it is basically guaranteed to take several months to fix. In other words like nuclear reactors they do NOT have an elegant failure mode, if shit goes bad the entire plant is going offline for a long while.
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
This is probably one of China’s show-off projects, and not really intended for widespread implementation. I’ve seen standard PV solar farms elsewhere. China is planning on building several new nuclear plants in the Pearl River Delta area, if you want to contemplate doomsday scenarios.
re: #125 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This is probably one of China’s show-off projects, and not really intended for widespread implementation. I’ve seen standard PV solar farms elsewhere. China is planning on building several new nuclear plants in the Pearl River Delta area, if you want to contemplate doomsday scenarios.
A bunch of concentrator / molten salt systems got greenlighted over a decade ago (there are at least a couple here in California & Nevada) and because shit being built this large scale has such enormous lead times they’re just coming online now.
re: #18 Belafon
Maybe one day we’ll all come together to provide private toll roads to get to our destinations, private police to selectively enforce the law, paid firefighters to respond to individual emergencies, charter schools to teach our children, and a way take away health care from the elderly.
re: #126 goddamnedfrank
A bunch of concentrator / molten salt systems got greenlighted over a decade ago (there are at least a couple here in California & Nevada) and because shit being built this large scale has such enormous lead times they’re just coming online now.
P.S. Where China really has an advantage over the US in terms of solar energy storage is in domestic lithium production.
Also, they don’t have a head of government who is batshit insane and dumb as a post. I mean sure, Xi is evil (by Western democratic standards at least) but compared to Trump he’s neither crazy nor stupid.
Ex-Trump aide: Stephen Miller said he’d be happy if no refugee ever again set foot in US https://t.co/MfZoAlKT7Q pic.twitter.com/CilgKUbnUd
— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2019
The face of evil.
re: #128 goddamnedfrank
Xi has an engineering background. China likes technocrats in government.
Violin babe Esther Abrami:
As you will be able to tell from my 10 Years Challenge violin video, I was not the kind of kid who performed Mendelssohn Concerto with orchestra when they were 12. I was never a child prodigy, far from it.
I did not start playing the violin until I was 10 and I did not get a high level music education until I was much older.
When I finally got it, the amount of things I had to catch up to in order to be on the same level as others was absolutely huge.When I looked at this video from 10 years ago again I honestly thought: “how on earth did I possibly think I could become a professional violinist?” (My posture is dreadful, its out of tune, I am missing shifts, I don’t know how to vibrate properly.. and the list goes on).
But the truth is, no matter what my level is, my love for the violin and for music was always very strong.
From the start I have always wanted to be a violinist and despite all the difficult moments, the ton of rejections, I kept going. When I failed, I tried to understand why, corrected what I thought I might have done wrong and I tried again, and again and again.
Today 10 years later, I am graduating from one of the best music institution in the world, I have been offered a full scholarship to do a master degree, I am giving concerts worldwide, I get loaned some of the most beautiful violins to perform on, I am the first ever classical musician to have been nominated for the Global Awards in the category « Social Media Super star » and I have over 200,000 wonderful people following my musical journey every day on my social media accounts!
Of course I still have an extremely long way to go with my playing still and with my goals in life in general but sometimes it is good to look back at your life and realise how much you have already achieved.
Hmmm… Chris Christie’s book seems to be rather heavy on the score-settling…
Let Me Finish review: Everybody hates Chris Christie – and he hates Jared Kushner https://t.co/rgcESv57NS
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 29, 2019
Kremlin denies sending 400 military contractors to Venezuela to protect Maduro. “These types of reports are absolutely from the department of conspiracy,” says Putin spokesman. https://t.co/80Z33Y5rv3
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 28, 2019
re: #133 Alephnaught
Hmmm… Chris Christie’s book seems to be rather heavy on the score-settling…
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The Venn diagram of “People Who Think Howard Schultz Should Be President” and “Howard Schultz” is a circle.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 28, 2019
re: #135 Single-handed sailor
Kremlin denies sending 400 military contractors to Venezuela to protect Maduro. “These types of reports are absolutely from the department of conspiracy,” says Putin spokesman.
They just sent 400 heavily armed tourists who know martial arts and are skilled in counter-insurgency measures…
re: #129 DodgerFan1988
Ex-Trump aide: Stephen Miller said he’d be happy if no refugee ever again set foot in US
Yunno, it would be one thing to say that he would be happy if no immigrant came to the US. That is a matter of policy.
But to want to turn away all refugees is absolutely inhumane..
NEW: Nevada regulators confirm WSJ’s bombshell reports that ex RNC finance chair Steve Wynn was accused of raping, assaulting & harassing Wynn Resorts employees for years while company execs turned a blind eye https://t.co/CdhyZwQMI6 @AlexandraBerzon @EBernsteinWSJ @c_kirkham pic.twitter.com/u4wXFni5tF
— Kate O’Keeffe (@Kate_OKeeffe) January 29, 2019
Fact check: True. pic.twitter.com/HMP7weH7an
— ✊🏻 LilMzResistanista ✊🏻 (@bruntofitall) January 29, 2019
The Beijing censors have decided that dramas depicting imperial palace intrigue are unsuitable for a harmonious society, and have forced TV networks to stop broadcasting them.
Some of China’s most popular historical dramas have been taken down from television channels after state media launched an unusual attack on the genre for its extravagance and “negative influence on society”.
The extravagant series Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace about a girl strategically climbing above her rank to become empress of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) was scheduled for Monday afternoon on Dragon TV, but was replaced by a reality show, Joyful Comedians.
Some online commentators also claimed Shandong TV had replaced its regular evening showing of the hit series Story of Yanxi Palace with Ode to Joy, a contemporary drama series about five women seeking love and career success in Shanghai.
The change in programming schedules followed an article in Friday’s edition of the Beijing Daily magazine Theory Weekly which called out the “sins” of imperial dramas, claiming they encouraged viewers to pursue the glamorous lifestyles of China’s past monarchs and promoted pleasure and luxury above the “virtues of frugality and hard work”.
Ode to Joy, incidentally, has been compared to Sex and the City, except without the sex. en.wikipedia.org
There are several period dramas on Chinese TV set in imperial times. One, whose English title is Palace, has a modern-day woman who is somehow transported back to the Qing Dynasty where she is accepted as part of the nobility living in the Imperial Palace. It was actually well done, despite the premise. I watched a few episodes, but without English subtitles I was missed most of the dialogue. Now it seems the government wants to scrub the airwaves of such imperial decadence.
It’s too bad, as otherwise, Chinese broadcast TV is frightfully dull and repetitive.
re: #142 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The Beijing censors have decided that dramas depicting imperial palace intrigue are unsuitable for a harmonious society, and have forced TV networks to stop broadcasting them.
My girlfriends likes to watch them, guys in hats with wings sticking out of them like drones…
re: #140 Single-handed sailor
He should be booted out of that role, but IOKIYAR, so of course resume enhancement.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My girlfriends likes to watch them, guys in hats with wings sticking out of them like drones…
It’s the Chinese equivalent of watching Victoria or The Crown.
re: #145 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s the Chinese equivalent of watching Victoria or The Crown.
Yes, I gathered.
I started watching The Crown and found parts of it entertaining but just could not develop any sympathy or sense of identification with the protagonists.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I gathered.
I started watching The Crown and found parts of it entertaining but just could not develop any sympathy or sense of identification with the protagonists.
The Crown has to work around the fact that some of its protagonists are still alive and one is still the Queen. Victoria is not around to quibble with character portrayals or historical inconsistencies.
Miller believes that. Then he’s not worth taking seriously on any subject.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They just sent 400 heavily armed tourists who know martial arts and are skilled in counter-insurgency measures…
They really need the tropical sun after their vacation to Ukraine.
re: #147 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The Crown has to work around the fact that some of its protagonists are still alive and one is still the Queen. Victoria is not around to quibble with character portrayals or historical inconsistencies.
Yes, and the fact that I could never develop any sense of empathy for them.
Easier to look through a glass darkly at events that were not captured extensively on film.
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, and the fact that I could never develop any sense of empathy for them.
Easier to look through a glass darkly at events that were not captured extensively on film.
True. The story of Elizabeth II and her family are too well documented, and quite frankly the only person in that family who was at all interesting was Margaret, either in real life or in the show. The rest of them are just too buttoned-down and so terribly British. Even Phillip’s extramarital dalliance barely ignited a candle.
Diana was another bright spark, but she comes much later.
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
LOLWUT?
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re: #151 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
True. The story of Elizabeth II and her family are too well documented, and quite frankly the only person in that family who was at all interesting was Margaret, either in real life or in the show. The rest of them are just too buttoned-down and so terribly British. Even Phillip’s extramarital dalliance barely ignited a candle.
Diana was another bright spark, but she comes much later.
Whenever these people seem put upon by the “burdens” imposed by their rank and royalty, I have to remind myself out loud that they can always just quit and go get a day job…Britain will be happy as long as there is some slob out there to take up the title, and there are plenty of candidates, each as poncy and inbred as the next.
(This is my American side coming out)
I’ve been avoiding Twitter these last few hours. Has the Great Orange Menace tweeted any nonsense yet? I saw a report alleging Roger Stone was willing to cooperate with the Mueller investigation. That alone would make the G.O.M. more batty than usual.
re: #152 Belafon
What was the name for the group Hitler believed would save Germany?
Eighth US Army Air Force, for differing values of “save”.
re: #154 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’ve been avoiding Twitter these last few hours. Has the Great Orange Menace tweeted any nonsense yet? I saw a report alleging Roger Stone was willing to cooperate with the Mueller investigation. That alone would make the G.O.M. more batty than usual.
The FBI threatened that if he did not talk, they would surgically remove his Nixon tattoo…
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whenever these people seem put upon by the “burdens” imposed by their rank and royalty, I have to remind myself out loud that they can always just quit and go get a day job…Britain will be happy as long as there is some slob out there to take up the title, and there are plenty of candidates, each as poncy and inbred as the next.
(This is my American side coming out)
They’re just another version of Twitter’s @jack, musing about how interesting and enlightening it is to go without food for a whole day.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
With a spoon.
re: #158 Decatur Deb
With a spoon.
Preferably a coke spoon, because Stone probably knows something about those.
re: #159 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Preferably a coke spoon, because Stone probably knows something about those.
suck it off his back with a McDonald’s straw
re: #157 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
They’re just another version of Twitter’s @jack, musing about how interesting and enlightening it is to go without food for a whole day.
If I were a Brit, I would support privatising the Royal Family: British Royal plc. Let them earn their keep by endorsing products, opening shopping malls and greeting tourists at Balmoral.
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If I were a Brit, I would support privatising the Royal Family: British Royal plc. Let them earn their keep by endorsing products, opening shopping malls and greeting tourists at Balmoral.
Might be a reasonable compromise between abolishing the monarchy and losing the tourist revenue. TBH the royals of today have never interested me. The Plantanglets, Tudors, & Stuarts I find more so.
re: #162 HappyWarrior
Might be a reasonable compromise between abolishing the monarchy and losing the tourist revenue. TBH the royals of today have never interested me. The Plantanglets, Tudors, & Stuarts I find more so.
That is the point, they are an historical anachronism and have no place in the 21st century.
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the point, they are an historical anachronism and have no place in the 21st century.
Right. I don’t see it changing while Elizabeth is alive tho. She’s much admired there. Might change if one of her sons or grandsons took over.
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the point, they are an historical anachronism and have no place in the 21st century.
Think of them as Kardashians for the over-60 set.
re: #166 Decatur Deb
Think of them as Kardashians for the over-60 set.
With Nazi sympathizers in the family.
re: #154 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’ve been avoiding Twitter these last few hours. Has the Great Orange Menace tweeted any nonsense yet? I saw a report alleging Roger Stone was willing to cooperate with the Mueller investigation. That alone would make the G.O.M. more batty than usual.
As soon as Foax & Fiends has aired their usual love offering, I’m sure the Great Orange Menace* will have something enlightening to say.
*I happen to like this term, may use it more frequently
re: #169 Sir John Barron
As soon as Foax & Fiends has aired their usual love offering, I’m sure the Great Orange Menace* will have something enlightening to say.
*I happen to like this term, may use it more frequently
It’s in the public domain now, but I lay claim to its invention.
It’s pushing 8AM in CST. We are near today’s high temp, and the day is darkening. We will be south of the snow line, but wind and cold will require more dancing around with the grow tunnel cover. Better than Michigan at that.
From a friend in govt: “So during the furlough our network passwords expired so now *the entire agency* is in the IT queue.” #trumpshutdown
— Jeff Carlson (@jeffcarlson) January 28, 2019
written extensively about this specific behaviour pattern you are presently the target of. The trolls are using #learn2code as an “Outer Narrative” (a collectively agreed upon bad-faith argument that is internally understood as such) to provide cover 2/ https://t.co/tZ4gUvLgsS
— Prester Jane (@Prester_Jane) January 29, 2019
You are a target of this campaign in part because your reporting had been a source of “Narrative Dysphoria” (information that either disagrees with or challenged their personal narratives) https://t.co/0LcYUrJsQg and also in part because they have recieved
— Prester Jane (@Prester_Jane) January 29, 2019
permission/encouragement for their campaign from what they accept as an important authority figure. This is directly a consequence of Trumps war on the press.If you allow yourselves to be silenced here, this will only be the start. The next time will be worse.
— Prester Jane (@Prester_Jane) January 29, 2019
This bullshit is just getting disgusting, but it also seems like the hate is absolutely and utterly universal. That 90 percent of the entire fucking world has rallied against these journos and treating them like traitors to humanity, thus deserving to be treated like subhuman garbage.
Which I assume is exactly the point: to make it feel like no one is on their side, even if it’s not true. But god help me I find myself depressed how much it feels like the bastards are winning.
EDIT: It especially pisses me off that the preferred ‘outer narrative’ is the retraining programs which apparently are such a massive insult to all Americans that we must rise up against the media reporting on these and prove how much we must hate them.
Because, you know, coal is for-fucking-ever. Right?
re: #155 Decatur Deb
Eighth US Army Air Force, for differing values of “save”.
From what I understand, Hitler, in his final days, believed that some group of Germans would rise up and repel the armies attacking Germany. Trump’s poll thing reminds me of that.
re: #176 Citizen K
Because, you know, coal is for-fucking-ever. Right?
Trump promised them a return to coal, and more than that, to a world where poorly educated white men could make $80K per year working hard down in the mines and afford a house and a boat and to send their kids to college.
All they had to do was get rid of pesky government health and safety regulations and those jobs would come roaring back without unions to fight for benefits, right?
Me too.
As someone with #cancer, I’m ecstatic that all the Democratic frontrunners support #Medicare4All.
Let’s get on it. https://t.co/s06IFt9BVj— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) January 29, 2019
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’ll make a stupid coal comment. I’ve been delving into blacksmithing and I find it interesting that bituminous coal is extremely expensive and hard to come by in smaller amounts.
re: #99 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I was telling my 11-year-old that about the severe cold snap that is forecast. She asked me how it could be so incredibly cold with global warming, so I explained to her the difference between global warming and climate, and how global warming affects the climate. She got it.
“They” get it too
It just doesn’t work for their narrative
re: #180 Patricia Kayden
Me too.
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re: #177 Belafon
From what I understand, Hitler, in his final days, believed that some group of Germans would rise up and repel the armies attacking Germany. Trump’s poll thing reminds me of that.
He had the Werewolf program, an attempt to turn senior Hitler Youth types into an armed underground. It fizzled, but it was a concern for a year or two of the occupation.
re: #113 goddamnedfrank
LOLWUT?
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I mean, the dope tweeted last week that his support among Hispanics rose from 19% to 50%, granted, that was obviously a poll of five or six Trump supporters…
re: #99 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I was telling my 11-year-old that about the severe cold snap that is forecast. She asked me how it could be so incredibly cold with global warming, so I explained to her the difference between global warming and climate, and how global warming affects the climate. She got it.
It’s really not that hard to figure out. Most denialists ignore the weather patterns elsewhere when it doesn’t fit the narrative. That’s why they’ve always gone apeshit whenever the phrase “settled science” is said.
From one anonymous Democrat quoted by the Hill:
“What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson,” the Democratic lawmaker, who requested anonymity, told The Hill. “You’ve got numerous council people and state legislators who’ve been waiting 20 years for that seat. I’m sure they can find numerous people who want that seat in that district.”
I agree with this assessment from mistermix:
If AOC has a superpower, it is pissing off old school politicians who apparently are scared of popular ideas like restoring a 70% marginal tax rate. I’d love to see a person like the back bencher quoted in this article take a run at AOC - it would be almost as fun as watching a rich wanker like Howard Schultz smear poop all over himself by calling her ideas “un American”.
re: #181 Dave In Austin
I’ll make a stupid coal comment. I’ve been delving into blacksmithing and I find it interesting that bituminous coal is extremely expensive and hard to come by in smaller amounts.
then just order en entire freight car load and you will be set for life
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
then just order en entire freight car load and you will be set for life
I’m sure the neighbors won’t mind.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump promised them a return to coal, and more than that, to a world where poorly educated white men could make $80K per year working hard down in the mines and afford a house and a boat and to send their kids to college.
All they had to do was get rid of pesky government health and safety regulations and those jobs would come roaring back without unions to fight for benefits, right?
Don’t make coal mining a “white” thing. A few hours in the mine, and it was hard to tell. Several W Virginia coal towns were black-majority.
The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to southern West Virginia found new lives in coal company towns. These mining camps were favored by black migrants because jobs were there. Camps also provided available and affordable housing. The 1900 U.S. census shows that a majority of residents in many of the coal camps were African American. Black miners living and working in mining camps like Nuttallburg, Hawks Nest, and Stonecliff made up over 55 percent of the population.
Found ourselves near Nuttallburg last Summer.
re: #187 Belafon
From one anonymous Democrat quoted by the Hill:
I agree with this assessment from mistermix:
Lol less than a month in and they’re already scared.
It’s no secret that Bernie wants to have his name floated around in the news right now for this same reason: AOC has the potential to do far more than he ever has in his entire career. Even the Overton Window discussions are far and away more of an accomplishment Bernie could have ever dreamed of.
Which is hilarious as she entered politics by campaigning for Bernie, but wised up and didn’t go the path most others did.
re: #191 Myron Falwell
Which is hilarious as she entered politics by campaigning for Bernie, but wised up and didn’t go the path most others did.
She’s smarter than that.
re: #192 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
She’s smarter than that.
Yup. Very much so. And it impresses me a helluva lot.
re: #191 Myron Falwell
I wonder when Bernie will figure out he was campaigning for her.
re: #189 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’m sure the neighbors won’t mind.
offer to let them play in it
we used to play hide-and-seek among the slag heaps of chemical tailings out behind the Purex Bleach Plant in Gary, Indiana.
re: #190 Decatur Deb
Don’t make coal mining a “white” thing. A few hours in the mine, and it was hard to tell. Several W Virginia coal towns were black-majority.
The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to southern West Virginia found new lives in coal company towns. These mining camps were favored by black migrants because jobs were there. Camps also provided available and affordable housing. The 1900 U.S. census shows that a majority of residents in many of the coal camps were African American. Black miners living and working in mining camps like Nuttallburg, Hawks Nest, and Stonecliff made up over 55 percent of the population.
Found ourselves near Nuttallburg last Summer.
The thing is that the mining nostalgia, especially the version Trump sold, was almost explicitly aimed at the white working class, because non-white working class is all but invisible to politicians.
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— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 29, 2019
re: #197 Citizen K
The thing is that the mining nostalgia, especially the version Trump sold, was almost explicitly aimed at the white working class, because non-white working class is all but invisible to politicians.
Thanks for clearing that up, it is more about the rose-tinted image they were selling than about the gritty reality of it.
re: #191 Myron Falwell
Lol less than a month in and they’re already scared.
It’s no secret that Bernie wants to have his name floated around in the news right now for this same reason: AOC has the potential to do far more than he ever has in his entire career. Even the Overton Window discussions are far and away more of an accomplishment Bernie could have ever dreamed of.
Which is hilarious as she entered politics by campaigning for Bernie, but wised up and didn’t go the path most others did.
re: #192 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
She’s smarter than that.
She’s the right amount of idealistic and pragmatic for the times I feel like. She’s shooting for the moon, but not to the point of cutting off her nose to spite her face like a lot of the Berner crowd seems dead set on.
re: #200 Citizen K
AOC is going to be Bernie’s running mate…..
Nancy saw the results of the 2018 midterms and came out swinging, AOC is her left hook. They really have the GOP reeling and I hope they do not let up until we get the GOP out of power in 2020.
re: #197 Citizen K
The thing is that the mining nostalgia, especially the version Trump sold, was almost explicitly aimed at the white working class, because non-white working class is all but invisible to GOP politicians.
Y’all aren’t from around here, are ya?
Good thread on Harley…… And they deserve everything they get.
Harley-Davidson reported Trump’s trade tariffs wiped out all of its profits in the most recent quarter https://t.co/ZA621QvVKD
— Bloomberg (@business) January 29, 2019
re: #205 Dave In Austin
Good thread on Harley…… And they deserve everything they get.
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Yeah, sorry not sorry, Harley.
re: #203 Decatur Deb
Y’all aren’t from around here, are ya?
I meant what I said. It’s not a GOP-only phenomenon, as shown by Bernie and Co., and their fetishism for White Working Class.
[6:50 AM] That moment when the garage door of the weather balloon inflation shelter flash froze solid to the ground and won’t open, so you force a very big balloon through a small doorway that clearly wasn’t designed for a very big weather balloon. pic.twitter.com/ZesosCZwgV
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) January 29, 2019
The balloon just burst at 110,000 feet. That was a resilient balloon.
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) January 29, 2019
hahahahahahahaaa
A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2019
moron
re: #204 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
wft is this bullshit?
“You’ve got councilpeople who’ve been waiting 20 yrs for that seat.”
That broken mentality, that public office is something you wait in line for, instead of earning through hard organizing, is exactly what voters want to change.
Shows you how disconnected some folks here are. https://t.co/TMWYkboB7i— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 29, 2019
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahahahahaaa
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moron
So, Cliff Sims was another “coffee boy”?
🤣🤣🤣 Okay, pal.#tuesdaythoughts #tuesdaymotivation #tuesdaymorning https://t.co/SjGTpfs9Qu— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) January 29, 2019
Good God, they drank a lot of coffee around there https://t.co/4aktmAteji
— Paula Dockery (@Paula_Dockery) January 29, 2019
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahahahahaaa
moron
Having been in numerious organizations where there’s nothing you can do about the boss, I know that some of his supporters laugh every time he tries to claim it’s someone he hardly knew.
re: #210 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
“You’ve got councilpeople who’ve been waiting 20 yrs for that seat.”That broken mentality, that public office is something you wait in line for, instead of earning through hard organizing, is exactly what voters want to change.
Shows you how disconnected some folks here are.
re: #207 Citizen K
I meant what I said. It’s not a GOP-only phenomenon, as shown by Bernie and Co., and their fetishism for White Working Class.
I don’t remember Bernie explicitly separating the working class interest into shades. WWC is a meme that is about the Berniacs, not from the Berniacs. It will be somewhat comforting to the Republicans to see us going into 2020 waving a hundred competing manifestos.
Bernie’s sin is that he tends to ignore race issues, not that he has come down on the wrong side of them.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s impressive the number of coffee boys that were in the dump’s campaign…
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!
Trump should open a coffee chain with all those coffee servers and let the Starbuck’s boss run the White House
and NA’s do not apply to government service unless they are disclosing confidential material.
re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It’s impressive the number of coffee boys that were in the dump’s campaign…
We have it on good authority that the coffee service industry is a preferred path to the WH.
re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It seems I wasn’t the only person to note that interesting factoid.
re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It’s impressive the number of coffee boys that were in the dump’s campaign…
And all Hope Hicks got to do was iron Trump’s pants…
re: #218 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It seems I wasn’t the only person to note that interesting factoid.
It’s Casey’s Long Distance Dedication Time!
re: #214 Decatur Deb
Bernie’s sin is that he tends to ignore race issues, not that he has come down on the wrong side of them.
Not just ignore….it’s stronger than that. He actively dismisses them, which pisses people off a lot more than just not giving them enough weight.
Also, the whole turning a blind eye to sexual assault inside his own campaign last time is another sin that is going to prevent him from being able to run a successful campaign.
re: #204 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
wft is this bullshit?
If they’re stupid enough to be “waiting” - their turn as determined by some old man in the machine - then they deserve getting stomped on by hungry young democrats like AOC.
re: #221 Danack
Not just ignore….it’s stronger than that. He actively dismisses them, which pisses people off a lot more than just not giving them enough weight.
Also, the whole turning a blind eye to sexual assault inside his own campaign last time is another sin that is going to prevent him from being able to run a successful campaign.
I put forth my theory again that the only reason he seemed as popular as he did in 2016 was the number of Russian bots and GOP ratfuckers who used him to stick spokes in Hillary’s wheels.
he fact that so many of his real supporters were such air-headed idealists made it all the easier to exploit them, too
“Gofer” pic.twitter.com/CVPRxqnYJz
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 29, 2019
re: #210 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
@scottwongDC I see from your Twitter banner you still pine for the good ‘ol days…….
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 29, 2019
JFC
Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich https://t.co/OyWnMKDZGn
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019
A Brief History of US Presidents:
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re: #226 HappyWarrior
She can’t be. She’s 29.
That adds a new level of delight to people who panic at the sight and sound of her…she is not eligible until the 2028 election
re: #229 Dr. Matt
A Brief History of US Presidents:
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The poop emoji is more accurate than the clown, imo
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FAKE NEWS!!!!1!
If you saw the portion of that newspaper that was carefully cropped away from his signature, you would see the sharpied text is: “Skinny venti latte, no caramel”.
re: #228 The Vicious Babushka
Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich
A good tactical move, he is running to save our millionaires from being plundered by AOC…
re: #228 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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OFFS. Cry me a river asshole. You’ve got enough money for several lifetimes and a proposal by a freshman that won’t impact your bottom line. You want all the benefits of social liberalism Howie but you don’t want to pay for it.
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A good tactical move, he is running to save our millionaires from being plundered by AOC…
Won’t someone think of the poor multi millionaires.
re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It’s impressive the number of coffee boys that were in the dump’s campaign…
Thing is that Trump drinks Cokes. I’m not buying all the coffee fetchers.
re: #237 HappyWarrior
Won’t someone think of the poor multi millionaires.
First they came for the multi-millionaires but I did nothing as I was only worth a million…
I like AOC but people talking about her for POTUS need to take a breath. Let her legislate.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump. I had never heard of Cliff Sims. But based on your official statement below, I’m going to go buy his book.#TuesdayMotivation https://t.co/BZLSI0Jb4Z
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 29, 2019
re: #238 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
Thing is that Trump drinks Cokes. I’m not buying all the coffee fetchers.
“Coke Connection” played poorly in the focus groups.
re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It’s impressive the number of coffee boys that were in the dump’s campaign…
It appears Donnie doesn’t know anyone that has ever worked for him.
Mostly, it appears, he is offering what Paul Ryan offered. Oy. https://t.co/utU7361538
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 29, 2019
re: #243 Dr. Matt
It appears Donnie doesn’t know anyone that has ever worked for him.
He really does not care and probably has to be reminded of his son’s names.
re: #243 Dr. Matt
It appears Donnie doesn’t know anyone that has ever worked for him.
It’s because he can’t remember their names.
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@HowardSchultz’s big idea?
“To unite the country, for us to come together, to do everything we can to realize that the promise of America is for everyone.”
“But every politician’s going to say that.” — @JDickerson pic.twitter.com/VPCAvlecW2— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 29, 2019
Except a good 30% of the country, Howard, doesn’t want the American dream to be for everyone.
re: #221 Danack
Not just ignore….it’s stronger than that. He actively dismisses them, which pisses people off a lot more than just not giving them enough weight.
Also, the whole turning a blind eye to sexual assault inside his own campaign last time is another sin that is going to prevent him from being able to run a successful campaign.
One pol’s “dismiss” is another pol’s “perspective”. He grew up on the Marxist interpretation of race exploitation. When it comes to the people who are getting screwed working hard-assed jobs for low pay, the WC ain’t particularly W.
re: #185 Myron Falwell
I mean, the dope tweeted last week that his support among Hispanics rose from 19% to 50%, granted, that was obviously a poll of five or six Trump supporters…
Recently my Texas brother asserted that Hispanics were white. We quickly challenged that — like Americans, they are all races but probably include more native American ancestry than we do. However, it made me think about how many other immigrants, who were initially viewed with contempt and fear, eventually were reclassified as white and joined the privileged class, looking down on African-Americans. This same attitude infects Hispanics —after all, think of Cruz and Rubio and the George Zimmerman. They want to be treated as superior and are fine with treating their darker skinned brethren as inferior.
re: #214 Decatur Deb
I don’t remember Bernie explicitly separating the working class interest into shades. WWC is a meme that is about the Berniacs not from the Berniacs. It will be somewhat comforting to the Republicans to see us going into 2020 waving a hundred competing manifestos.
Bernie’s sin is that he tends to ignore race issues, not that he has come down on the wrong side of them.
I’m pretty sure Bernie especially specifically soapboxed for the white working class, especially in the wake of the ‘16 election. He almost always prefaced his appeals to the working class with ‘White’, enough to the point it became a bit memetic. Case in point:
“I think that there needs to be a profound change in the way the Democratic Party does business,” Sanders said. “It is not good enough to have a liberal elite. I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to where I came from.”
Yes, Bernie said that he was from the White Working Class, but it was always couched in the idea that the Dems didn’t appeal specifically to that demo, his demo. This wasn’t exactly an outlier far as his rhetoric too.
EDIT: Additionally, from our own GoddamnedFrank:
And this NPR interview from Nov 2014 where he dismissed minority voting block concerns as “not important.” pic.twitter.com/avYWhdVgOR
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) May 9, 2016
re: #221 Danack
Not just ignore….it’s stronger than that. He actively dismisses them, which pisses people off a lot more than just not giving them enough weight.
Also, the whole turning a blind eye to sexual assault inside his own campaign last time is another sin that is going to prevent him from being able to run a successful campaign.
That’s the worst thing about him imo. The gun record I can accept but I cannot accept his excuses for racism and dismissing those who correctly point out that not everything is an issue of wealth disparities.
re: #247 Belafon
“I think Republicans are looking for a home. If Republicans have a choice between a far left liberal progressive candidate on the Democratic side or President Trump, President Trump is going to get reelected.” — Howard Schultz on 2020
“Democrats veer hard left” is being leaned on in the media narrative a lot more heavily now that “Dems in disarray” has fallen by the wayside.
This is the most perfect Jeff Flake move that ever Jeff Flaked. He’s going to be paid to say mean things about Donald Trump but do nothing about it. https://t.co/e2hCRJ5SjS
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 29, 2019
Left: Trump tweet quoting Matt Schlapp
Right: What Schlapp actually said on Fox News pic.twitter.com/iHKVQ75DLt— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
The odds were such that no intelligent life form would have ever placed a microscopic wager on it.
re: #222 William Lewis
If they’re stupid enough to be “waiting” - their turn as determined by some old man in the machine - then they deserve getting stomped on by hungry young democrats like AOC.
exactly
you run you may win
you dont run, tough shit
without channeling star wars too much, the failure is not in losing, it’s in not trying
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ian Millhiser
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@imillhiser
This is the most perfect Jeff Flake move that ever Jeff Flaked. He’s going to be paid to say mean things about Donald Trump but do nothing about it.JoeMyGod
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@JoeMyGod
Jeff Flake Joins CBS News, Won’t Run In 2020 [VIDEO] - is.gd
Jeff Flake is not wealthy and does not have an adoring base; there is no way he could mount any real challenge to Trump within the party. The only power he has is to continue his public statements against the President.
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
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the caption to the first three had to be “get me coffee”
the fourth is self explanatory - thanks for getting the coffee
oh wait, trump saying ‘thanks’? yeah sure
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re: #258 Hecuba’s daughter
Jeff Flake is not wealthy and does not have an adoring base; there is no way he could mount any real challenge to Trump within the party. The only power he has is to continue his public statements against the President.
Which are toothless, given his lapdog behavior in Congress.
re: #233 Decatur Deb
FAKE NEWS!!!!1!
If you saw the portion of that newspaper that was carefully cropped away from his signature, you would see the sharpied text is: “Skinny venti latte, no caramel”.
gmta
re: #190 Decatur Deb
Don’t make coal mining a “white” thing. A few hours in the mine, and it was hard to tell. Several W Virginia coal towns were black-majority.
The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to southern West Virginia found new lives in coal company towns. These mining camps were favored by black migrants because jobs were there. Camps also provided available and affordable housing. The 1900 U.S. census shows that a majority of residents in many of the coal camps were African American. Black miners living and working in mining camps like Nuttallburg, Hawks Nest, and Stonecliff made up over 55 percent of the population.
Found ourselves near Nuttallburg last Summer.
In Birmingham many of the coal and iron ore miners were immigrants from Greece and Lebanon. Of course, them being Christian and not black enabled them to open businesses in the white community. Many restaurants in the area were established by them, mostly not Greek or Lebanese cuisine.
re: #63 Joe Bacon 🌹
Somebody remind Sally that ol Stenographer Brokaw did utter a bunch or racist bullshit and his fellow Presstitutes gave him the usual pass.
I wish Brokaw had retracted his statement as being untrue and wrong instead of apologizing for hurting feelings
re: #264 Old Liberal
I wish Brokaw had retracted his statement as being untrue and wrong instead of apologizing for hurting feelings
Another reason why I wish Media Whores Online was still up and running…
re: #260 gwangung
Which are toothless, given his lapdog behavior in Congress.
In Congress, he could have done something — and didn’t until the last month. But now he really has no power to do anything except voice objections. But again, his only objections were to Trump’s style and not substance.
re: #249 Decatur Deb
One pol’s “dismiss” is another pol’s “perspective”. He grew up on the Marxist interpretation of race exploitation. When it comes to the people who are getting screwed working hard-assed jobs for low pay, the WC ain’t particularly W.
I started off thinking it was the whole classic Marxist thing, but the closer I look at him (doing the minimum possible in the Civil Rights movement, moving to lily white New England from diverse NYC, dismissal of anything to do with the concerns of people of color or women (worst case - a woman of color) & etc ) and I have slowly come to the conclusion that on issues of race and women’s rights there is effectively no difference between Bernie and Trump.
I am encouraged by the rise of AOC because she understands the hard work needed and the need to keep on working. Her policy prescriptions are within the realm of possible if the Democratic party gains the senate as well and I can see her doing everything she can to make that happen.
.@RepJohnYarmuth torches GOP in opening @ 1st BudgetCo hearing as chair: “We’re facing this bleak fiscal reality because this president + the so-called fiscal conservatives in his party chose to squander our nation’s wealth and solvency” for tax cuts for wealthy pic.twitter.com/Gkw48b6Khy
— lesley clark (@lesleyclark) January 29, 2019
re: #190 Decatur Deb
Don’t make coal mining a “white” thing. A few hours in the mine, and it was hard to tell. Several W Virginia coal towns were black-majority.
The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to southern West Virginia found new lives in coal company towns. These mining camps were favored by black migrants because jobs were there. Camps also provided available and affordable housing. The 1900 U.S. census shows that a majority of residents in many of the coal camps were African American. Black miners living and working in mining camps like Nuttallburg, Hawks Nest, and Stonecliff made up over 55 percent of the population.
Found ourselves near Nuttallburg last Summer.
Anthony Bourdain did a show about West Virginia and featured the diversity of the mining communities. I had no idea.
re: #258 Hecuba’s daughter
Jeff Flake is not wealthy and does not have an adoring base; there is no way he could mount any real challenge to Trump within the party. The only power he has is to continue his public statements against the President.
To be blunt, he’s better off laying low and not saying anything while his party implodes from within than just show up and make mealy-mouthed complaints.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
That’s the worst thing about him imo. The gun record I can accept but I cannot accept his excuses for racism and dismissing those who correctly point out that not everything is an issue of wealth disparities.
During the primaries, Bernie dismissed Hillary’s wins in the South — wins propelled by her support in the African-American community. Has he ever said anything about the black female legislator in Vermont who resigned due to racist harassment?
re: #267 William Lewis
So if an evil fate made Bernie and Trump the two candidates, you’d flip a coin?
re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter
During the primaries, Bernie dismissed Hillary’s wins in the South — wins propelled by her support in the African-American community. Has he ever said anything about the black female legislator in Vermont who resigned due to racist harassment?
Yes, but only after she was hounded from office.
Way too little, way too late.
POC see that; they naturally think, “No way in hell will he address our issues effectively.”
re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter
During the primaries, Bernie dismissed Hillary’s wins in the South — wins propelled by her support in the African-American community. Has he ever said anything about the black female legislator in Vermont who resigned due to racist harassment?
Yeah, he made a comment. I can’t go find it right now.
COOS!!!
OK then, here goes…
These are all from ‘Portraits of Highland Society prize cattle, and others of distinguished merit’ (1832) by the way.#Coosday— National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot) January 29, 2019
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Check out the horns on this bad boy - an Arran Ox coming right ATCHA#Coosday pic.twitter.com/0aItDHFk3U
— National Library of Scotland (@natlibscot) January 29, 2019
loads more coos fun in the thread
re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter
During the primaries, Bernie dismissed Hillary’s wins in the South — wins propelled by her support in the African-American community. Has he ever said anything about the black female legislator in Vermont who resigned due to racist harassment?
He made a twitter statement about it after the prosecutor announced that they’d decline to prosecute, but that seems like it’s about the extent of it.
Racism and white supremacy have no place in Vermont. Kiah Morris was an excellent representative and our state is worse off without her in office. We must root out racism in Vermont and ensure that no one fears for their safety because of the color of their skin. https://t.co/3UsnUxTVqE
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 15, 2019
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
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overall a good statement except “we” didnt create an emergency
he did shift to specifically pointing at the president and his so called fiscal conservatives….
re: #273 gwangung
Yes, but only after she was hounded from office.
Way too little, way too late.
POC see that; they naturally think, “No way in hell will he address our issues effectively.”
This seems rather relevant, considering who’s saying it:
And…how many white folks gave up their seats to be there to ensure that POC were represented at this gathering? Just imagine the difference it would have made. I know some of the folks attending are willing but probably never thought about ceding power in that way. #equality
— Kiah Morris (@KiahMorrisVT) November 30, 2018
re: #129 DodgerFan1988
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The face of evil.
Does that include “white” Christian refugees? Bet not. Which reminds me of the large influx of Russian Baptists that came here in the 90’s and 00’s.
My perception of Bernie’s issue with race is that he was still in the mindset that if you just fix economics, everything else will fall in place. His dismissal of race was that it was really a consequence of economic anxiety. He can care about individual race instances, but not see them as part of a larger picture. Like my parents.
re: #278 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
overall a good statement except “we” didnt create an emergency
he did shift to specifically pointing at the president and his so called fiscal conservatives….
Just reading the tweet, he says “we’re facing” not “we created.”
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Hardly knew him!” pic.twitter.com/WhVk8LTJCe
— Tree Trunks (@efuseakay) January 29, 2019
If it came down to Trump vs. Bernie, I’d seriously consider moving back to Canada.
So Roger pleads Not Guilty…
re: #283 GlutenFreeJesus
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Amazing: Trump’s organization seems to have had more coffee boys than Howard Schultz’s…..
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
If it came down to Trump vs. Bernie, I’d seriously consider moving back to Canada.
I would bust my hump for Bernie, and then we’d lose.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!
If the stories are fiction, how does the non-disclosure agreement apply?
The dope basically verified that the stories are true!
Warren fires back at Howard Schultz: “What’s ridiculous is billionaires who think they can buy the presidency” https://t.co/DeSvdT8LVm pic.twitter.com/lTJ3CgLHT4
— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2019
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
More like Foreign actors, multinational corporations and special interests think they can buy a billionaire and make him President.
Rachel said that Trump’s fantasy about duct-taped women and amazing vehicles seemed to be inspired by the new Sicario film. Sounds like the great Republican President Reagan, who often mistook events portrayed in films with reality.
“Christians Support Roger”
Jesus would chase you out of the temple with a fucking whip and kick the piss out of you in the street while the Disciples live-streamed it with their cell phones. https://t.co/mTQ7NDy1gX— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 29, 2019
re: #291 Hecuba’s daughter
Rachel said that Trump’s fantasy about duct-taped women and amazing vehicles seemed to be inspired by the new Sicario film. Sounds like the great Republican President Reagan, who often mistook events portrayed in films with reality.
He was a Method president.
re: #288 garzooma
If the stories are fiction, how does the non-disclosure agreement apply?
The dope basically verified that the stories are true!
JUST IN: Trump campaign to sue ex-White House aide Cliff Sims for violating NDA, despite president claiming book is “fiction” https://t.co/xDa7lFzdxh pic.twitter.com/ywJeQKd57C
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 29, 2019
re: #281 Belafon
My perception of Bernie’s issue with race is that he was still in the mindset that if you just fix economics, everything else will fall in place. His dismissal of race was that it was really a consequence of economic anxiety. He can care about individual race instances, but not see them as part of a larger picture. Like my parents.
And he’ll ignore POC when they say it ain’t economics, it’s racism plain and simple.
Oh, yeah, he’ll acknowledge a specific individual, but then he forgets his “apology” and goes back to doing the same damn thing.
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
Warren fires back at Howard Schultz: “What’s ridiculous is billionaires who think they can buy the presidency”
It’s not. He knows that his notoriety can guarantee him free advertising and that his statements will get picked up and spread and discussed as if he were a serious candidate.
The only thing we ever learn is solidarity, and the only thing we always forget is solidarity.
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
JUST IN: Trump campaign to sue ex-White House aide Cliff Sims for violating NDA, despite president claiming book is “fiction”
again; can an NDA apply to a government position as long as that person is not revealing classified information?
Reminded of an old joke from the Brezhnev era about a fellow who got ten years’ hard labor for calling the Party Secretary an idiot; one year for defaming Soviet authorities and nine years for revealing a state secret.
re: #288 garzooma
If the stories are fiction, how does the non-disclosure agreement apply?
The dope basically verified that the stories are true!
Wait, I thought Federal Employees could not even have NDAs?
A judge ordered the driver accused of causing a fatal accident that left an off-duty officer dead held on one million dollars bond. https://t.co/jD3ERN2CiF pic.twitter.com/qCJaUTboFd
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 29, 2019
BATAVAIA, Ohio (WKRC) - The man who police say crashed into an off-duty Clearcreek Township officer Monday night in Batavia Township, killing him, is locked up on a one million dollar bond. Justin Watts, 31, is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide.
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The assistant prosecutor cited a lengthy criminal history. They also said he was on probation at the time of the crash for a felonious assault in Warren County.
The prosecution also said Watts overdosed in 2018 and was charged with possessing fentanyl. He also has a past drug trafficking conviction, according to the assistant prosecutor.
drug trafficker who killed a cop.
and the moron’s Wall wouldn’t have stopped it
re: #228 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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Dear Howard,
It is called the popular vote. Right now it is popular in America to get the income tax system fixed.
You and your comments are not popular. Therefore you are just an obstruction most likely planned to muck up the votes to get Trump elected again.
Please fuck off and go away.
Signed,
The no-longer silent majority sick of your super-rich bullshit.
re: #279 Citizen K
This seems rather relevant, considering who’s saying it:
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Absolutely. It’s a huge problem he has and it’s why he has no business being the leader of a party he won’t even join. The comments prove Kiah’s point including one that implied she was a shill for the 1%.
re: #288 garzooma
If the stories are fiction, how does the non-disclosure agreement apply?
The dope basically verified that the stories are true!
considering what we’ve been led to believe wrt to that awfully small mushroom, he manages to step on it quite a lot
re: #240 HappyWarrior
I like AOC but people talking about her for POTUS need to take a breath. Let her legislate.
Just another example of people in this country not understanding politics. The bigger problem is they also do not seem to want to learn.
“The 35-day partial government shutdown helped triggered a sharp drop in consumer confidence in January and signaled growing worries about the future, a fresh survey shows, though optimism has typically rebounded after similar episodes in the past.
The consumer confidence index fell to 120.2 in this month from 126.6 in December, the privately run Conference Board said Tuesday. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a reading of 124.0.”
re: #304 ObserverArt
Just another example of people in this country not understanding politics. The bigger problem is they also do not seem to want to learn.
Come back in ten years. Then we’ll see her track record as a legislator. THAT is the time to talk about her for the presidency.
re: #295 gwangung
And he’ll ignore POC when they say it ain’t economics, it’s racism plain and simple.
Oh, yeah, he’ll acknowledge a specific individual, but then he forgets his “apology” and goes back to doing the same damn thing.
Bernie did boast of his association with the civil rights movement in the 60’s. His supporters contrasted his actions with those of Hillary, who was a Goldwater teenager. Is it possible that Bernie’s behavior then was in service to the old Soviet Union, which tried to recruit and promote its ideology by taking advantage of a movement that was combating the racist evil that has permeated our nation since its inception?
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again; can an NDA apply to a government position as long as that person is not revealing classified information?
I think so far the “lawsuits” have focused on revealing things that took place during the campaign, before they were public employees. Phillips is Omorosa’s lawyer and Trump’s campaign has attempted to force her into an arbitration proceeding in New York.
Is there a publicly available copy of the NDA that your client signed while in government or, perhaps, are you able to release one now? There as been much speculation about what ridiculous language might be contained in the agreements the White House made its staff sign.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 29, 2019
re: #306 gwangung
Come back in ten years. Then we’ll see her track record as a legislator. THAT is the time to talk about her for the presidency.
Maybe she’ll decide that she prefers being Speaker!! That is one of the most powerful positions in our government when in capable hands. And she is learning at the feet of the master.
re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe she’ll decide that she prefers being Speaker!! That is one of the most powerful positions in our government when in capable hands. And she is learning at the feet of the master.
And she’s smart enough to figure that out. Even if Pelosi isn’t progressive enough for her, she realizes that Nancy has stuff she can learn that’ll help down the line…and, more importantly, NANCY IS JUST FINE WITH THAT.
‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett hospitalized after possible homophobic attack https://t.co/D4KrPkJREi
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 29, 2019
This is the second time in 24 hours that Tall Flat White Howard Schultz has called a woman of color’s ideas un-American. https://t.co/ftw6LnxMNC
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 29, 2019
re: #308 Hecuba’s daughter
Bernie did boast of his association with the civil rights movement in the 60’s. His supporters contrasted his actions with those of Hillary, who was a Goldwater teenager. Is it possible that Bernie’s behavior then was in service to the old Soviet Union, which tried to recruit and promote its ideology by taking advantage of a movement that was combating the racist evil that has permeated our nation since its inception?
I wouldn’t say that he was a Soviet agent. A lot of socialists USSR fans or not supported the Civil Rifhts movement. Anyhow I always hated HRC being criticized for what she was in high school ignoring her civil rights record in college and beyond.
re: #311 gwangung
And she’s smart enough to figure that out. Even if Pelosi isn’t progressive enough for her, she realizes that Nancy has stuff she can learn that’ll help down the line…and, more importantly, NANCY IS JUST FINE WITH THAT.
Nancy is very progressive; it’s just that she has a conservative demeanor. That is often a more successful approach to accomplishing radical change. Cloak progressive ideas in moderate language.
re: #281 Belafon
My perception of Bernie’s issue with race is that he was still in the mindset that if you just fix economics, everything else will fall in place. His dismissal of race was that it was really a consequence of economic anxiety. He can care about individual race instances, but not see them as part of a larger picture. Like my parents.
Economic anxiety is really a consequence of racism.
re: #315 Hecuba’s daughter
Nancy is very progressive; it’s just that she has a conservative demeanor. That is often a more successful approach to accomplishing radical change. Cloak progressive ideas in moderate language.
I think she cloaks her ideas in the pragmatism of what can be accomplished right now. Which sounds exactly like what AOC has been saying.
re: #281 Belafon
My perception of Bernie’s issue with race is that he was still in the mindset that if you just fix economics, everything else will fall in place. His dismissal of race was that it was really a consequence of economic anxiety. He can care about individual race instances, but not see them as part of a larger picture. Like my parents.
And if Bernie was the hot shit he and his backers think he is, he would know that what he is doing is dismissing the reality of it all.
Everything else never falls in place. It never has in the past, it won’t in the future. Those people that are behind will still remain behind if they are not given the help to rise out of the situation they are in. You still have social strata based on bigotry and economics, not just economics. Give everyone a raise in income and the strata remain the bigotry remains.
And in some cases it gives the bigot the “out” in saying, see we gave them money and they are still where they are because they are not like us.
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— Erica D. Smith (@EricaForNC) January 26, 2019
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— Erica D. Smith (@EricaForNC) January 26, 2019
She’s running for Thom Tillis’ seat
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s going to be great when the Court rules that the NDAs Trump forced everyone to sign are not enforceable as against public policy.
You destructive, ass-ignorant, hollowed-out incompetent. This isn’t how atmospheric physics works. This isn’t how anything works. That the future of humanity itself is balanced delicately against your pratfalling stupidity is now the signal failure of the species. https://t.co/3vNfdDTvYi
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 29, 2019
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s not. He knows that his notoriety can guarantee him free advertising and that his statements will get picked up and spread and discussed as if he were a serious candidate.
And the money gave him the notoriety. He still buys the office because his money gave him access others can not get.
Chaotic scene outside the courthouse as protesters temporarily blocked Roger Stone’s SUV. pic.twitter.com/MqCrYvodRQ
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) January 29, 2019
Howard Shultz is sounding more and more like Trump Lite
“In order to run as a Democrat today, you have to fall in line with free Medicare for everybody—free—free college for everybody, a free job for everybody,” Howard Schultz tells @TheView. “We can’t afford to do it free” https://t.co/nnt4ZMFDKx pic.twitter.com/gvfsvV4I0K
— ABC News (@ABC) January 29, 2019
people who complain about “identity politics” are comfortable knowing things like this won’t happen to them https://t.co/AkjoH8mvem
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 29, 2019
re: #322 The Vicious Babushka
The only saving grace is that the denialists are being totally attached to his outright stupidity and illiteracy on the subject matter, and it couldn’t be a better fate for them.
doppelganger?
Police: Murder suspect spent $200K on Bulgarian ‘cam girl’ https://t.co/TDAvq8qQGv pic.twitter.com/cCuConxWFo
— SFGate (@SFGate) January 29, 2019
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
Howard Shultz is sounding more and more like Trump Lite
I’m hoping some of the women on there are going after him on those statements.
re: #323 ObserverArt
And the money gave him the notoriety. He still buys the office because his money gave him access others can not get.
The last thing America needs is another billionaire businessman buying his way into the Oval Office.
As to Starbucks, the last time I was at one would’ve been three years ago. When it comes to coffee, I usually go to Coffeeshop Company (an Austrian chain), or two local chains (local to Ostrava, that is): Laura Coffee or Ostravanka. Better coffee that Starbucks, quite frankly, and about half the price to boot.
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
Howard Shultz is sounding more and more like Trump Lite
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re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
“In order to run as a Democrat today, you have to fall in line with free Medicare for everybody—free—free college for everybody, a free job for everybody,” Howard Schultz tells TheView. “We can’t afford to do it free”
He is being sent forth to tell us that Democrats want to turn us into Venezuela (our soon-to-be arch enemy)
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is the second time in 24 hours that Tall Flat White Howard Schultz has called a woman of color’s ideas un-American.
and he dismissed it by saying “that’s not correct”
as if he’s got some monopoly on truth
It is dangerous for the rest of us when any powerful person thinks he has the ultimate ideology
Fourteen hours in the U.S. government, 2019 pic.twitter.com/1Q8rCBo33P
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
re: #333 HappyWarrior
Holy shit.
Yeah, that’s definitely an uncanny resemblance; put him in a suit and tie instead of an orange jumpsuit and it’d be one of those “separated at birth” things.
re: #331 Dr Lizardo
The last thing America needs is another billionaire businessman buying his way into the Oval Office.
As to Starbucks, the last time I was at one would’ve been three years ago. When it comes to coffee, I usually go to Coffeeshop Company (an Austrian chain), or two local chains (local to Ostrava, that is): Laura Coffee or Ostravanka. Better coffee that Starbucks, quite frankly, and about half the price to boot.
At least Howard Schultz and Bloomberg both made their riches themselves, and not by inheriting Daddy’s money or Daddy’s business. That doesn’t make Howard qualified at all (as I always state, Bloomberg does have government experience). I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if Pritzker actually succeeds as governor (spoiler alert: he won’t) , that Pritzker will join the merry band of billionaires seeking the Presidency the next time around when a Republican is in office.
re: #336 The Vicious Babushka
Dumbass know nothing confuses weather with climate, and thinks that the US is equivalent to the globe.
Fucking morons. Global temps are up. Global sea temps are up. Global warming also means more extreme weather because there’s more energy in the environment (water and air). Warm air holds more moisture and energy, which means more extreme weather over time. Warmer water means more severe storms occurring over water (aka cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, etc.)
Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t know. Fox isn’t going to fact check ‘em, because they’re still pushing this nonsense.
re: #331 Dr Lizardo
As to Starbucks, the last time I was at one would’ve been three years ago.
I have to date never been to a Starbucks. (There are around 150 of them in Germany)
I have been to Costa Coffee, a UK knockoff. But in general, there are enough cafés here where you can find a decent cup at a reasonable price and I am not a connoisseur of fancy lattes or cappucinos with shots of flavored goo in them
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
Howard Shultz is sounding more and more like Trump Lite
“In order to run as a Democrat today, you have to fall in line with free Medicare for everybody—free—free college for everybody, a free job for everybody,” Howard Schultz tells @TheView. “We can’t afford to do it free”
this is a display of wilfull stupidity pretending to not know what ‘free’ in this context means
or is he really that stupid?
re: #341 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
this is a display of wilfull stupidity pretending to not know what ‘free’ in this context means
or is he really that stupid?
no, this is willful malice
he has a task, again, to save us from the Democrats who will turn us into a Socialist hellhole if we elect them
F You, Shultz.
It’s time to knock these arrogant pricks down to size. Impose a MAXIMUM WAGE that nobody can net more income than 80% of the salary of the President.
If they cannot live on $320,000 then they need to dump their second and third mansions and Rolls Royces.
re: #342 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
no, this is willful malice
he has a task, again, to save us from the Democrats who will turn us into a Socialist hellhole if we elect them
He’s definitely going after they “Well, THEY don’t deserve it” vote.
re: #341 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
this is a display of wilfull stupidity pretending to not know what ‘free’ in this context means
or is he really that stupid?
He’s really that stupid. Why isn’t he trying out the Libertarian Party? That seems like a legitimate vehicle for someone with his views. Socially liberal, economically regressive.
re: #331 Dr Lizardo
The last thing America needs is another billionaire businessman buying his way into the Oval Office.
As to Starbucks, the last time I was at one would’ve been three years ago. When it comes to coffee, I usually go to Coffeeshop Company (an Austrian chain), or two local chains (local to Ostrava, that is): Laura Coffee or Ostravanka. Better coffee that Starbucks, quite frankly, and about half the price to boot.
i’ll repeat from yesterday on this whole notion of the businessman(person) president
no one who’s built and run a company that big, no one, has the temperament to be president.
they are used to being obeyed. to, in a sense, being a dictator.
they are not used to things like:
- co-equal branches of government
- governing documents that apply to them
- systems, policies, rules they cannot change or break
- foreigners (ie heads of other states (companies)), etc who simply wont do whatever it is they want when they want
they think, when faced with momentous decisions that they are great decision makers.
that is not how politics works; not how any of this works
they are not politicians and, no i dont have time for another one to try and get trained on the job (or even pretend)
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
Howard Shultz is sounding more and more like Trump Lite
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WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT DOING IT FOR FREE???
It won’t be free, we’ll have to raise taxes and find new revenue streams (marijuana legalization, etc) to fund it.
re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT DOING IT FOR FREE???
It won’t be free, we’ll have to raise taxes and find new revenue streams (marijuana legalization, etc) to fund it.
This. Anyhow I don’t care how much Schultz makes but I’m tired of wealthy assholes saying we shouldn’t invest in our own people while they’re fine with DOD waste and corporate gimmes. That’s the problem.
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
How dare people want health coverage for more people at lower cost counting all sources. Other countries do it and have better outcomes.
Schultz is disqualifying himself.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 29, 2019
re: #346 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
….
they are used to being obeyed. to, in a sense, being a dictator.
they are not used to things like:
…..
- foreigners (ie heads of other states (companies)), etc who simply wont do whatever it is they want when they wantthey think, when faced with momentous decisions that they are great decision makers.
that is not how politics works; not how any of this worksthey are not politicians and, no i dont have time for another one to try and get trained on the job (or even pretend)
One disagreement: CEO’s of large legitimate organizations are accustomed to dealing with other large companies that don’t automatically kowtow to them. They are facile at negotiating and coming to agreements that benefit their organizations.
re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT DOING IT FOR FREE???
It won’t be free, we’ll have to raise taxes and find new revenue streams (marijuana legalization, etc) to fund it.
I know I know!! A tax on wealth in excess of 50 million dollars!! And an increase in marginal tax rates!!
re: #349 lawhawk
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It’s a good thing he’s showing his ass so thoroughly this early on. Who does this schtick appeal to? He might actually hurt Trump more.
re: #351 Hecuba’s daughter
I know I know!! A tax on wealth in excess of 50 million dollars!! And an increase in marginal tax rates!!
legalization. of marijuana
and getting undocumented aliens to pay taxes and SS contributions
closing tax loopholes and simply collecting the money that is owed the IRS
Schultz wants to be the American version of Macron.
And he would be just as inept.
re: #350 Hecuba’s daughter
One disagreement: CEO’s of large legitimate organizations are accustomed to dealing with other large companies that don’t automatically kowtow to them. They are facile at negotiating and coming to agreements that benefit their organizations.
They have teams of lawyers and experts who negotiate to an outcome that both sides can approve of.
With Trump, we’ve long seen that he’s an extortionist who screws anyone he deals with. He fucks over lawyers who work for him, contractors who build stuff for him, and everyone else.
re: #354 Joe Bacon 🌹
Schultz wants to be the American version of Macron.
And he would be just as inept.
Macron at least has a vision on climate change.
re: #338 Hecuba’s daughter
At least Howard Schultz and Bloomberg both made their riches themselves, and not by inheriting Daddy’s money or Daddy’s business. That doesn’t make Howard qualified at all (as I always state, Bloomberg does have government experience). I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if Pritzker actually succeeds as governor (spoiler alert: he won’t) , that Pritzker will join the merry band of billionaires seeking the Presidency the next time around when a Republican is in office.
I sure as heck hope JB is successful; we’ve been yanked around enough! (No, I didn’t vote for him in the primary, as I thought another billionaire was not on the list of things we needed.)
Schultz whole thing is I’m a businessman and I don’t like this mean lefties saying that our government should benefit the people. It’s not going to work especially if the economy isn’t doing well.
re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have to date never been to a Starbucks. (There are around 150 of them in Germany)
I have been to Costa Coffee, a UK knockoff. But in general, there are enough cafés here where you can find a decent cup at a reasonable price and I am not a connoisseur of fancy lattes or cappucinos with shots of flavored goo in them
Yeah, been to Costa a couple of times; the local one here has a 40% off discount when you go there before the mall it’s located in opens, which is a pretty good incentive.
re: #355 lawhawk
They have teams of lawyers and experts who negotiate to an outcome that both sides can approve of.
With Trump, we’ve long seen that he’s an extortionist who screws anyone he deals with. He fucks over lawyers who work for him, contractors who build stuff for him, and everyone else.
That’s because Trump was not the CEO of a legitimate organization; it was a family-owned real estate firm that engaged in criminal activities during its entire existence, including dealings with the mob (traditional and Russian). It is tiresome that the wealthy can engage in such behavior without repercussions; there should be a special division of the Justice Department devoted to investigating and bringing to justice those who engage in this widespread flouting of the law.
#SecureOurBorders pic.twitter.com/4Cp8QNpNnE
— Roger Williams (@RogerWilliamsTX) January 29, 2019
re: #304 ObserverArt
Just another example of people in this country not understanding politics. The bigger problem is they also do not seem to want to learn.
I think the bigger problem is what they think they know is not true.
re: #39 teleskiguy
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Why do I always join too late?
The response to this tweet, that slam dunk? My husband coached #5 in that video. I just got to see him a week ago. That’s my third son right there. :)
re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT DOING IT FOR FREE???
It won’t be free, we’ll have to raise taxes and find new revenue streams (marijuana legalization, etc) to fund it.
That is exactly what I just wrote to Schultz.
We pay big bucks for insurance now. Throw all of that money in a huge pool with one payee to the medical systems and tell me we couldn’t have better coverage for everyone.
I told him he is using the word “free” as a scare tactic to other rich people and he is nothing but a vote taker that will bring us Trump again.
And you all can too!
Here is his contact page. Let him have it! We need to discourage this guy big time. Now is the time. You get 1000 characters to comment so get to the point.
re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg
Elon Musk 2020.
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Elon Musk is the man we need on the rockets when the moon breaks apart.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 29, 2019
re: #357 retired cynic
I sure as heck hope JB is successful; we’ve been yanked around enough! (No, I didn’t vote for him in the primary, as I thought another billionaire was not on the list of things we needed.)
I didn’t vote for anyone in the primary; was disappointed with all the main candidates. But maybe JB will succeed — which will certainly make him a serious prospect for the Presidency. After all, managing to save our state is a task of Herculean proportions.
Also, our healthcare system needs a real overhaul. So much stuff is ridiculously overpriced.
re: #367 Belafon
Elon Musk is the man we need on the rockets when the moon breaks apart.
Elon Musk 2020: Kim Jong Un is a pedo!
re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, our healthcare system needs a real overhaul. So much stuff is ridiculously overpriced.
We really don’t get bang for our buck. We could have better health care and could potentially cut spending but guys like Schultz are too short sighted to see that.
re: #272 Decatur Deb
So if an evil fate made Bernie and Trump the two candidates, you’d flip a coin?
If fate were that evil, I’d be in the woods with a copy of Che’s book…
re: #350 Hecuba’s daughter
One disagreement: CEO’s of large legitimate organizations are accustomed to dealing with other large companies that don’t automatically kowtow to them. They are facile at negotiating and coming to agreements that benefit their organizations.
Fair point
re: #348 HappyWarrior
This. Anyhow I don’t care how much Schultz makes but I’m tired of wealthy assholes saying we shouldn’t invest in our own people while they’re fine with DOD waste and corporate gimmes. That’s the problem.
he’s also implying the “why should i ‘pay’ for something i dont get personal benefit from” argument
at the highest level
(no we dont need to go into taxes are the cost of society etc…)
re: #373 William Lewis
If fate were that evil, I’d be in the woods with a copy of Che’s book…
If Trump and Bernie were the candidates, that would mean that whoever won, Putin would be President.
re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, our healthcare system needs a real overhaul. So much stuff is ridiculously overpriced.
Cutting out the middle man profit takers in the big insurance industry will reduce costs. And no, it will not eliminate insurance companies, they can still offer insurance for all the other things that we insure. A lot of the people in the health insurance industry can move into government implementation or into related medical fields.
re: #267 William Lewis
I started off thinking it was the whole classic Marxist thing, but the closer I look at him (doing the minimum possible in the Civil Rights movement, moving to lily white New England from diverse NYC, dismissal of anything to do with the concerns of people of color or women (worst case - a woman of color) & etc ) and I have slowly come to the conclusion that on issues of race and women’s rights there is effectively no difference between Bernie and Trump.
I am encouraged by the rise of AOC because she understands the hard work needed and the need to keep on working. Her policy prescriptions are within the realm of possible if the Democratic party gains the senate as well and I can see her doing everything she can to make that happen.
I wouldn’t go quite that far. I could see Sanders reestablishing the civil rights division of the DOJ. I just don’t see an policy initiatives that would address matters of race and women’s rights independent of economic policy.
Oh, joy, Dan Bongino has a new “book” out, something about the Deep State “sabotaging” DJT. Which will make it about the eleventieth wingnut book about the new found horrors of the Deep State.
re: #378 Belafon
I wouldn’t go quite that far. I could see Sanders reestablishing the civil rights division of the DOJ. I just don’t see an policy initiatives that would address matters of race and women’s rights independent of economic policy.
Agreed.
re: #367 Belafon
Elon Musk is the man we need on the rockets when the moon breaks apart.
Will there be a contest to fill the cadre of Eves that he will need?
re: #379 Sir John Barron
Oh, joy, Dan Bongino has a new “book” out, something about the Deep State “sabotaging” DJT. Which will make it about the eleventieth wingnut book about the new found horrors of the Deep State.
I can get toilet paper for cheaper. I’m sure Bongino will have a “reader” tho.
re: #378 Belafon
I wouldn’t go quite that far. I could see Sanders reestablishing the civil rights division of the DOJ. I just don’t see an policy initiatives that would address matters of race and women’s rights independent of economic policy.
I agree with you that, unlike Trump, Sanders isn’t hostile to the rights of minorities or women; he is just indifferent.
re: #383 Hecuba’s daughter
I agree with you that, unlike Trump, Sanders isn’t hostile to the rights of minorities or women; he is just indifferent.
Which is just as bad in itself. If Roe or Obergefell we’re overturned, I think he would be critical but wouldn’t push for federal abortion rights or SSM in Congress.
re: #366 ObserverArt
I told him [Schultz] is using the word “free” as a scare tactic to other rich people and he is nothing but a vote taker that will bring us Trump again.
A scare word to convince us that Democrats are just Socialists in wolf’s clothing out to take away your hard-earned profits and redistribute them to the undeserving.
WaPo says that the Koch brothers have set up a new organization to redo education in the US “to find a better way.”
The Koch team is modeling its amped-up education efforts on its successful overhaul of the criminal justice system, which began in friendly states before moving to the federal level. In that case, Koch World sought out unlikely allies and played the long game for years before any big legislation passed.
Why am I nervous?
re: #384 HappyWarrior
Which is just as bad in itself. If Roe or Obergefell we’re overturned, I think he would be critical but wouldn’t push for federal abortion rights or SSM in Congress.
It would definitely be up to Congress to get it done.
re: #385 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A scare word to convince us that Democrats are just Socialists in wolf’s clothing out to take away your hard-earned profits and redistribute them to the
undeservingblack/brown/red/yellow people.
FTFY.
re: #387 Belafon
It would definitely be up to Congress to get it done.
It would but we would need executive leadership on that too.
re: #378 Belafon
I wouldn’t go quite that far. I could see Sanders reestablishing the civil rights division of the DOJ. I just don’t see an policy initiatives that would address matters of race and women’s rights independent of economic policy.
Because they are not. Every part of a system is dependant on every part of the system.
re: #321 Mike Lamb
Who knew Brian J was a congressperson?
Hardy har har. So I take it you were in support of extending the shutdown, as Ocasio repeatedly voted to do, unlike every other House Democrat?
There are a lot of Democrats who are proceeding under the belief that the internet left is a majority or near-majority of the party. They’re going to be really disappointed, as nearly all of them were in 2018, to find that the Democrats need moderate suburbanites for a majority at any level, and scaring them off is politically suicidal.
re: #390 Decatur Deb
Because they are not. Every part of a system is dependant on every part of the system.
Yes, but Bernie tends to see those social issues as dependent on economic policy alone and not as issues to be addressed outright, at least with any great emphasis.
re: #386 retired cynic
WaPo says that the Koch brothers have set up a new organization to redo education in the US “to find a better way.”
Why am I nervous?
re: #367 Belafon
Elon Musk is the man we need on the rockets when the moon breaks apart.
Elon’s run out of tricks. Tesla’s a Chapter 7 waiting to happen because of Musk’s corner-cutting and financial chicanery, and his stunts are crippling SpaceX (you have been following the strange, sad saga of the Water Tower Hopper in Texas, right?)
re: #392 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, but Bernie tends to see those social issues as dependent on economic policy alone and not as issues to be addressed outright, at least with any great emphasis.
Then he would make a very poor anthropologist, as well as a poor president.
re: #395 Decatur Deb
Then he would make a very poor anthropologist, as well as a poor president.
You sum it up well. Economics are important, all other things being equal, things would sort themselves out
but they are not equal and that is the point
Economics matter but they don’t explain everything.
The problem with Bernie and many I see with his economic vision is they think you’ll get rid of socioeconomic problems through their programs and I don’t see any evidence of that.
re: #360 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s because Trump was not the CEO of a legitimate organization; it was a family-owned real estate firm that engaged in criminal activities during its entire existence, including dealings with the mob (traditional and Russian). It is tiresome that the wealthy can engage in such behavior without repercussions; there should be a special division of the Justice Department devoted to investigating and bringing to justice those who engage in this widespread flouting of the law.
The DOJ does have a white collar crime division though. It’s the Fraud Division. As with most things, it’s underfunded compared with other crime areas.
Under Trump, the DOJ has shifted focus away from right wing domestic terrorism, civil rights enforcement, etc., to focus on undocumented persons.
re: #394 Brian J.
(you have been following the strange, sad saga of the Water Tower Hopper in Texas, right?)
Wut?
Link, please?
re: #397 HappyWarrior
Economics matter but they don’t explain everything.
Nothing explains everything, and nothing has one explanation.
re: #399 lawhawk
The DOJ does have a white collar crime division though. It’s the Fraud Division. As with most things, it’s underfunded compared with other crime areas.
Under Trump, the DOJ has shifted focus away from right wing domestic terrorism, civil rights enforcement, etc., to focus on undocumented persons.
Speaking of domestic terrorism, more MAGAs attacked an actor for having the wrong skin color and sexual orientation.
re: #402 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Speaking of domestic terrorism, more MAGAs attacked an actor for having the wrong skin color and sexual orientation.
Hmmm, he must have done something to provoke them to defend themselves
/
re: #391 Brian J.
Hardy har har. So I take it you were in support of extending the shutdown, as Ocasio repeatedly voted to do, unlike every other House Democrat?
There are a lot of Democrats who are proceeding under the belief that the internet left is a majority or near-majority of the party. They’re going to be really disappointed, as nearly all of them were in 2018, to find that the Democrats need moderate suburbanites for a majority at any level, and scaring them off is politically suicidal.
Too many of those on the left think that the 2018 victory was attributable solely to very progressive Dems and ignored the moderates who contributed to the victory. We need all sides — progressives and moderates — to work together to defeat the GOP. It was really annoying today to read another FB poster calling Kamala a Clintonite corporate shill.
re: #405 Hecuba’s daughter
Too many of those on the left think that the 2018 victory was attributable solely to very progressive Dems and ignored the moderates who contributed to the victory. We need all sides — progressives and moderates — to work together to defeat the GOP. It was really annoying today to read another FB poster calling Kamala a Clintonite corporate shill.
It was attributable to a strong turnout, which involves everybody.
re: #405 Hecuba’s daughter
Too many of those on the left think that the 2018 victory was attributable solely to very progressive Dems and ignored the moderates who contributed to the victory. We need all sides — progressives and moderates — to work together to defeat the GOP. It was really annoying today to read another FB poster calling Kamala a Clintonite corporate shill.
What is nice though is these moderates are different than the Blue Dogs.
re: #402 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Speaking of domestic terrorism, more MAGAs attacked an actor for having the wrong skin color and sexual orientation.
I really hate the way Trump has emboldened these people.
re: #406 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was attributable to a strong turnout, which involves everybody.
Unfortunately, courtesy of Republican led voter disenfranchisement — it doesn’t involve everybody.
re: #407 HappyWarrior
What is nice though is these moderates are different than the Blue Dogs.
Insomuch as they’re actual moderate Democrats. Blue Dogs and the DLC types were the actual ‘Republican Lite’ types that lefter-than-thou types want to tar liberal Dems as, and those haven’t existed as an actual influence in the Dem party since they were all but wiped in ‘10 after the brilliant idea to run the fuck away from Obama post ACA.
re: #408 Eclectic Cyborg
I really hate the way Trump has emboldened these people.
It’s the worst thing about his rise. They know they have a champion in the WH. If not Trump himself, certainly Miller.
re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hmmm, he must have done something to provoke them to defend themselves
/
He aggressively existed while being black and gay.//
re: #391 Brian J.
Hardy har har. So I take it you were in support of extending the shutdown, as Ocasio repeatedly voted to do, unlike every other House Democrat?
There are a lot of Democrats who are proceeding under the belief that the internet left is a majority or near-majority of the party. They’re going to be really disappointed, as nearly all of them were in 2018, to find that the Democrats need moderate suburbanites for a majority at any level, and scaring them off is politically suicidal.
All that really matters is what her constituents think. I personally believe having some voices like hers is absolutely critical for the party.
re: #410 Citizen K
Insomuch as they’re actual moderate Democrats. Blue Dogs and the DLC types were the actual ‘Republican Lite’ types that lefter-than-thou types want to tar liberal Dems as, and those haven’t existed as an actual influence in the Dem party since they were all but wiped in ‘10 after the brilliant idea to run the fuck away from Obama post ACA.
Right. My Congresswoman will be to AOC’s center no doubt but she’s not going to actively sabotage progressive legislation either.
Once again, Trump’s foreign policy missteps and actions inure benefits to…
Wait for it…
Wait for it…
Russia.
We lost leverage for a photo op. Putin gets an in to further its own agenda at expense of our national security and that of our allies and partners.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 29, 2019
re: #411 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
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Sure, if you like being part of an intergalactic off-ramp.
re: #414 Mike Lamb
All that really matters is what her constituents think. I personally believe having some voices like hers is absolutely critical for the party.
Joe Crowley was a perfectly fine representative but it is AOC who personally is moving the Overton window to the left and that is invaluable to our nation.
re: #418 Hecuba’s daughter
I wonder how many future AOCs are in our high schools and colleges right now?
re: #416 lawhawk
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re: #414 Mike Lamb
All that really matters is what her constituents think. I personally believe having some voices like hers is absolutely critical for the party.
It’s important to know why she voted as she did as well, which was as a protest against ICE/CBP funding. In the context of why the shutdown was occurring to begin with, it makes some sense, and didn’t impact the total tally much as it was.
re: #418 Hecuba’s daughter
Joe Crowley was a perfectly fine representative but it is AOC who personally is moving the Overton window to the left and that is invaluable to our nation.
Which means that when the Democrats pass a 50% tax rate, it will be seen as a reasonable and moderate approach (which it is)
re: #391 Brian J.
Hardy har har. So I take it you were in support of extending the shutdown, as Ocasio repeatedly voted to do, unlike every other House Democrat?
There are a lot of Democrats who are proceeding under the belief that the internet left is a majority or near-majority of the party. They’re going to be really disappointed, as nearly all of them were in 2018, to find that the Democrats need moderate suburbanites for a majority at any level, and scaring them off is politically suicidal.
Politically calculated vote. The Dems already had the votes necessary to pass the bill, so some dissent can be allowed for pet issues. AOC had voted previously with the rest of the Dems, until the last vote. It’s no different to what Obama did while he was a Senator.
re: #419 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder how many future AOCs are in our high schools and colleges right now?
There are others in the Dem class of 2018 who will be making similar impacts.
re: #402 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Speaking of domestic terrorism, more MAGAs attacked an actor for having the wrong skin color and sexual orientation.
Just waiting for Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren, and company to say it’s a hoax; Jussie Smollett faked it for sympathy and “the liberal media jumped the gun again.”
re: #423 Sea Mexican
Politically calculated vote. The Dems already had the votes necessary to pass the bill, so some dissent can be allowed for pet issues. AOC had voted previously with the rest of the Dems, until the last vote. It’s no different to what Obama did while he was a Senator.
She is going to have her every vote and speech picked apart from the very beginning, which Obama was spared…
re: #425 DodgerFan1988
Just waiting for Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren, and company to say it’s a hoax; Jussie Smollett faked it for sympathy and “the liberal media jumped the gun again.”
false flag emboldened by the Covington kids videos
re: #391 Brian J.
Hardy har har. So I take it you were in support of extending the shutdown, as Ocasio repeatedly voted to do, unlike every other House Democrat?
There are a lot of Democrats who are proceeding under the belief that the internet left is a majority or near-majority of the party. They’re going to be really disappointed, as nearly all of them were in 2018, to find that the Democrats need moderate suburbanites for a majority at any level, and scaring them off is politically suicidal.
We need them all. Period.
The Democratic party has long had people of all political stripes in it. From centrist moderate to Democratic socialists. That is what made the party strong.
Do you give any credit to her for her already shaking up talk about the income tax systems? That is important work and we need someone to take up that flag and take the static that comes with it.
I like the use of “nearly” in your comment. I guess that covers Alexandria. Apparently she struck a pretty good note with the people in her district.
Another thing, are you going to let her grow or are you going to continue to pigeon hole her?
re: #428 ObserverArt
Another thing, are you going to let her grow or are you going to continue to pigeon hole her?
People let their view of events be guided by their own narrative and prejudices.
So she will continue to be seen as that Woman Coming to Take Away your Hard-Earned Millions…
re: #418 Hecuba’s daughter
Joe Crowley was a perfectly fine representative but it is AOC who personally is moving the Overton window to the left and that is invaluable to our nation.
Crowley took his renomination for granted. I’m not familiar with him and I’m sure he’s a fine guy but this happens. I think AOC adds a lot to the party. And I think she is far more pragmatic than people want to give her credit for. She dreams big yes but she’s more big picture than given credit for.
re: #425 DodgerFan1988
Just waiting for Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Tomi Lahren, and company to say it’s a hoax; Jussie Smollett faked it for sympathy and “the liberal media jumped the gun again.”
Now there’s a name I’m thankful to not have heard from in low these many months.
You don’t get to call me un-American, you smug jackass. Ever worn the uniform for this country? Ever carried a rifle on a hill in Korea? Fuck off and keep fucking off, and then fuck off some more and don’t come back.
Your coffee sucks, too.— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) January 29, 2019
re: #419 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder how many future AOCs are in our high schools and colleges right now?
Well, a lot of them are on the internet.
So…
re: #430 HappyWarrior
Crowley took his renomination for granted. I’m not familiar with him and I’m sure he’s a fine guy but this happens. I think AOC adds a lot to the party. And I think she is far more pragmatic than people want to give her credit for. She dreams big yes but she’s more big picture than given credit for.
She gets a lot of people really worked up without having to say a word: she is ethnic, urban, educated and rather attractive, and nothing gets those sad MRA wankers more up set than a young woman who gives them a boner, but one that they cannot dominate by physical force, social status or offers of money.
re: #373 William Lewis
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re: #431 Sir John Barron
Now there’s a name I’m thankful to not have heard from in low these many months.
Let’s hope it stays that way. But yeah I haven’t either. Mostly because my one friend realized that the wingnut propaganda he posted wasn’t getting through to anyone.
re: #432 Scottish Dragon
I’ll bet Howard Schultz $10,000 right now that he can’t succeed. What’s more American than betting?
re: #434 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She gets a lot of people really worked up without having to say a word: she is ethnic, urban, educated and rather attractive, and nothing gets those sad MRA wankers more up set than a young woman who gives them a boner, but one that they cannot dominate by physical force,
social status or offers of money.
Oh absolutely. But I’m talking about what she brings to the table. With all respect to Crowley, there are a bunch of guys like him in our party elected officials already but there weren’t a lot of AOCs and we need more people like her.
And let’s make that bet pay off proportionally to our relative wealth.
re: #440 Decatur Deb
I got the stuff right here
His name is Paul Revere
re: #435 Decatur Deb
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re: #442 William Lewis
He’ll inspire more songs than Trump.
re: #438 HappyWarrior
Oh absolutely. But I’m talking about what she brings to the table. With all respect to Crowley, there are a bunch of guys like him in our party elected officials already but there weren’t a lot of AOCs and we need more people like her.
The GOP supporters were far move effective than Dems in their Internet voices, which have overwhelmed more traditional forms of communication/propaganda. At least now finally, there is someone on our side who can match them and very effectively!
We should all stop pretending that this person isn’t representative of Trump cultists. This is who they are. pic.twitter.com/pgfGeJPKE7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2019
Someone over at DK made an interesting point about the “anonymous source” that said Democrats should find a primary challenger for AOC: One of the people that came out against Pelosi as Speaker is from one of AOC’s neighboring districts. I can’t think of her name, but I do remember calls for her to get a primary challenger in 2020.
Make sure to look at the full image in the above tweet. I wasn’t writing about Ed Markey.
re: #421 Citizen K
It’s important to know why she voted as she did as well, which was as a protest against ICE/CBP funding. In the context of why the shutdown was occurring to begin with, it makes some sense, and didn’t impact the total tally much as it was.
and she has not been “repeatedly” voting against ending the shutdown.
It was just that one vote because it included ICE funding, which her constituency is against.
re: #449 Backwoods_Sleuth
and she has not been “repeatedly” voting against ending the shutdown.
It was just that one vote because it included ICE funding, which her constituency is against.
Yes, that too.
U.S. Voters Trust #NancyPelosi More Than #PresidentTrump on Big Issues, Poll Finds; 2-1 Support for No-Wall Border Solution https://t.co/gXwVX7bhqC
— Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) January 29, 2019
I believe we need to ask ourselves. Why not President Pelosi?
She’d be in my top tier, easily.
re: #450 Eclectic Cyborg
GREAT band name!
My wife and I keep a shared list in our phones for all the great random phrases we come across that would make great band names. I figure someday one of us can use them in a fiction project or something.
Just added “Plasmatic Alcatraz” this morning, while watching an episode of Dirty Jobs about locomotive factories.
re: #452 CongoJack
I believe we need to ask ourselves. Why not President Pelosi?
She’d be in my top tier, easily.
Because Speaker Pelosi is where she needs to be.
re: #454 Belafon
Because Speaker Pelosi is where she needs to be.
It was mentioned upthread that might be the optimum spot for AOC when Nancy retires…
It always amazes me when the “Billionaires against fair Taxes” runs their candidates (Perot then or Schults now) that they seem genuinely amazed when people don’t bow down to their saviors.
Deficit! “Can’t afford that” (why do I imagine “wouldn’t be prudent” after that?) Bull! But he’s more terrified of real taxes than all the other damage Trump is doing.
Raise taxes, decrease military spending (6 carriers instead of 11 and it’s still more than any several nations combined) and it’ll be amazing what we can afford again.
re: #451 Citizen K
Yes, that too.
Brian just likes to stop by now and again to drop turdbombs about AOC, even if he has to make things up (like the “repeatedly voted” thing).
re: #456 William Lewis
Raise taxes, decrease military spending (6 carriers instead of 11 and it’s still more than any several nations combined) and it’ll be amazing what we can afford again.
close loopholes and round up the money that is owed
re: #455 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was mentioned upthread that might be the optimum spot for AOC when Nancy retires…
We saw what happened when Qui-Gon Jinn died before he properly trained Obiwan (yep, I partially blame him for Darth Vader). Let’s not make that mistake.
Speaking of taxes, just now realizing I can’t deduct my home equity loan interest. I took out the loan this year.
It appears that the interest, or a portion, can only be deducted if some rebuilding or upgrade of the house has been initiated. I haven’t looked into all the rules yet.
Oh well.
re: #456 William Lewis
It always amazes me when the “Billionaires against fair Taxes” runs their candidates (Perot then or Schults now) that they seem genuinely amazed when people don’t bow down to their saviors.
Deficit! “Can’t afford that” (why do I imagine “wouldn’t be prudent” after that?) Bull! But he’s more terrified of real taxes than all the other damage Trump is doing.
Raise taxes, decrease military spending (6 carriers instead of 11 and it’s still more than any several nations combined) and it’ll be amazing what we can afford again.
Prepare for the possible future wars rather than the last one.
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re: #459 Belafon
We saw what happened when Qui-Gon Jinn died before he properly trained Obiwan (yep, I partially blame him for Darth Vader). Let’s not make that mistake.
I gave up on that franchise after the original, so the analogy is lost on me
re: #461 Belafon
Fight the possible future wars rather than the last one.
many leaders in the military are aware of the need for alternate sources of energy and of the threat of climate change but are not allowed to act on it
JFC
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re: #461 Belafon
Fight the possible future wars rather than the last one.
It would be amazing if we ever did that but I do not know of a single time in our history where we were ready for anything but the previous war. Occasionally we get lucky (the Spanish in 1898 and Iraq were both unprepared as well) but usually it’s more like Bull Run or Task Force Smith.
re: #463 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
many leaders in the military are aware of the need for alternate sources of energy and of the threat of climate change but are not allowed to act on it
USAF flew a bomber on biofuel about 15 years ago.
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my congresscritter sounds worried…inquiring minds wonder why?
re: #467 Decatur Deb
USAF flew a bomber on biofuel about 15 years ago.
And Congress passed a law banning further use of biofuel because it was “too expensive” or some claptrap.
re: #462 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I gave up on that franchise after the original, so the analogy is lost on me
Obiwan, in those movies, was very impatient, and got onto Anakin for a lot of things where he should have taught him. And that was because he was made a Jedi master after Qui-Gon Jinn died, who was his master. Qui-Gon was still working on teaching patience to his pupil.
re: #402 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Barbarian dirtbags.
re: #445 Charles Johnson
I COULDN’T RESIST….
YOUR SKULL WILL ADD TO THE GLORY OF KHORNE! pic.twitter.com/jJnINVVc62
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) January 29, 2019
WHY VOTE FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS? VOTE FOR KHORNE! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! pic.twitter.com/os2s6hDq6L
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) January 29, 2019
SACRIFICE YOURSELF TO THE BLOOD GOD! KHORNE CARES NOT FROM WHENCE THE BLOOD FLOWS! pic.twitter.com/XMBKGv659N
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) January 29, 2019
KHORNE WILL ACCEPT YOUR SKULL AND BLOOD AS TRIBUTE, PITIFUL MORTAL! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! pic.twitter.com/1ovAiMuAsh
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) January 29, 2019
re: #408 Eclectic Cyborg
That was his implicit promise from the very beginning of his campaign.
re: #470 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And Congress passed a law banning further use of biofuel because it was “too expensive” or some claptrap.
It was too expensive, but it was a demonstration effort. At about the same time Aberdeen Proving Ground demonstrated an electric HMMWV to a congressional delegation by sneaking up behind them.
re: #471 Belafon
Obiwan, in those movies, was very impatient, and got onto Anakin for a lot of things where he should have taught him. And that was because he was made a Jedi master after Qui-Gon Jinn died, who was his master. Qui-Gon was still working on teaching patience to his pupil.
He was Luke’s father, right?
(duck)
re: #475 Decatur Deb
It was to expensive, but it was a demonstration effort. At about the same time Aberdeen Proving Ground demonstrated an electric HMMWV to a congressional delegation by sneaking up behind them.
That would be a great place - the HMMWV - for hybrid tech. A Prius in place of every Hummer!
re: #476 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was Luke’s father, right?
(duck)
Would have made MUCH more sense.
re: #474 Romantic Heretic
That was his implicit promise from the very beginning of his campaign.
Not terribly ‘implicit’. He was encouraging violence at his rallies after all, and seemed to be especially vicious when the people being attacked (verbally AND physically) were brown.
re: #455 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #454 Belafon
Because Speaker Pelosi is where she needs to be.
It was mentioned upthread that might be the optimum spot for AOC when Nancy retires…
Not really. Nancy Pelosi has said that she will retire, presumably not running for reelection, after the 2022 elections; so even assuming (a good bet, IMO) that AOC will also be back in Congress, she will still only be starting her third term in the House (and still not be eligible for the Presidency!) And like it or not, the seniority system still holds sway in Congress: vaulting from “sophomore” status to the Speakership seems like a fairly unreasonable goal. For now. However, some other leadership position (like Dem Whip, say)? Quite doable…
re: #477 William Lewis
That would be a great place - the HMMWV - for hybrid tech. A Prius in place of every Hummer!
Memory is fuzzy, but I think it was pure battery, hybridized by towing a generator trailer (at least on the drawing board).
re: #334 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is being sent forth to tell us that Democrats want to turn us into Venezuela (our soon-to-be arch enemy)
I’m interested to learn what “free jobs” are
re: #473 Scottish Dragon
I COULDN’T RESIST….
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re: #469 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rep. Massey? This is a problem, why?
re: #483 Old Liberal
I’m interested to learn what “free jobs” are
All the CEO, CFO, etc positions that will be available after Mme Guillotine gets done with her haircuts? < whistles innocently >
re: #452 CongoJack
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She’d be in my top tier, easily.
it’s a dream but only that
‘san francisco liberal’ she’s probably the second best hated dem woman (by the right) that there is. the target on her would be as big as hillary’s. also
- she’s way too old
- she doesn’t do retail politics well - not a great public speaker, not a great debater, doesnt connect well in smaller groups or in person
- she’s exactly where she ought to be - mistress parliamentarian
(observations, not accusations)
In line with the government alternative fuel reminiscing
The US Navy’s Great Green Fleet
And a little more from the US Navy (in 2016): The Great Green Fleet Explained
re: #459 Belafon
We saw what happened when Qui-Gon Jinn died before he properly trained Obiwan (yep, I partially blame him for Darth Vader). Let’s not make that mistake.
Ah, but Qui-Gon told Yoda about Kenobi: “He has much to learn of the living force but there is little more he can learn from me” implying that Kenobi did indeed need more training, but someone besides Qui-Gon would have to give it to him.
re: #480 Jay C
Not really. Nancy Pelosi has said that she will retire, presumably not running for reelection, after the 2022 elections; so even assuming (a good bet, IMO) that AOC will also be back in Congress, she will still only be starting her third term in the House (and still not be eligible for the Presidency!) And like it or not, the seniority system still holds sway in Congress: vaulting from “sophomore” status to the Speakership seems like a fairly unreasonable goal. For now. However, some other leadership position (like Dem Whip, say)? Quite doable…
AOC should at least head a committee before she gets talked about for Speaker. She could be speaker but it won’t be for another 10-20 years. I like her a lot but let’s not get carried away. She’s a legit rising star but we shouldn’t rush her when she’s still fresh.
re: #489 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
it’s a dream but only that
‘san francisco liberal’ she’s probably the second best hated dem woman (by the right) that there is. the target on her would be as big as hillary’s. also
- she’s way too old
- she doesn’t do retail politics well - not a great public speaker, not a great debater, doesnt connect well in smaller groups or in person- she’s exactly where she ought to be - mistress parliamentarian
(observations, not accusations)
Her strengths are perfect for where she is at the moment.
re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
In line with the government alternative fuel reminiscing
The US Navy’s Great Green FleetAnd a little more from the US Navy (in 2016): The Great Green Fleet Explained
They could have afforded a better acronym than “ECM”(Energy Conservation Measure).
It’s taken.
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What Result Will There Be From the Trump Trial?I did my best to boil this down. What say you?
Rightwingconspirator
An Appeal to Heaven An ancient political phrase and a historic flag of the United States has entered the discourse as a flag of Christian Nationalism, insurrection, and the question of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito's objectivity to rule on cases. So ...
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Grocers Are Finally Lowering Prices as Consumers Pull Back Consumers have been grumbling about the soaring cost of groceries for nearly two years. Now, some of the biggest names in retail appear to be listening. In recent weeks, Target and Aldi have broadcast price cuts on thousands of ...
Cheechako
A Water War Is Brewing Between the U.S. And Mexico. Here’s Why A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely on the Rio Grande. Their leaders are now demanding the Mexican government either share water or face ... Cheechako
Harper’s Magazine: Slippery Slope - How Private Equity Shapes a Ski Town …Big Sky stands apart for other reasons. The obvious distinction is the Yellowstone Club, a private resort hidden in the mountains above the community that Justin Farrell, a professor of sociology at Yale and the author of Billionaire Wilderness, ... teleskiguy
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ... Cheechako
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
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Ranked-Choice Voting Has Challenged the Status Quo. Its Popularity Will Be Tested in November. JUNEAU — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ... Cheechako
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