Neil Finn has been uploading some fantastic videos to his YouTube channel recently, and here’s one of the coolest — a video I never knew existed, for one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite records, Neil and Tim’s 2004 album “Everyone Is Here.”
This is a humorous icon for “liking Schrodinger.” pic.twitter.com/IBOH2eqfZv
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) June 25, 2018
.@jimmyfallon is now whimpering to all that he did the famous “hair show” with me (where he seriously messed up my hair), & that he would have now done it differently because it is said to have “humanized” me-he is taking heat. He called & said “monster ratings.” Be a man Jimmy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
Dear America: your president is a thin-skinned, endlessly needy man-baby with no impulse control, emotional age about 6, 7 tops. https://t.co/ApFSbCcSiW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #2 Charles Johnson
He is. He’s owning up to his mistakes, unlike someone else we all know.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 25, 2018
Statement from @LAHouseDems chair Robert Johnson as special session ends: ““Ladies and gentlemen, the ghost of Bobby Jindal has finally left the building.” #lalege #lagov pic.twitter.com/HEygXF7iyG
— Elizabeth Crisp (@elizabethcrisp) June 25, 2018
The video and music on this post is of the highest quality. Very good people stuff. Make sure to watch.
File this under “As bad as you think it is, it’s actually worse”
And, yeah, it’s a thread.
“Thank you president Trump for keeping women and girls safe, by uh…”
*Ignores torture of children at ICE facilities*
“…stopping them nasty transes from serving in the military! What else can we do to help? Thank you in advance sacred protector of women and girls Mr. Trump!”— LGBT Sloth Month (@CaseyExplosion) June 24, 2018
People are used to waiting in line at Starbucks. But waiting for two iguanas to fight in the parking lot? That’s what these two Florida women encountered — and they caught it on camera. https://t.co/8V2EeLcBJf pic.twitter.com/VJRCLjNFTT
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 25, 2018
re: #6 I cannot.
File this under “As bad as you think it is, it’s actually worse”
And, yeah, it’s a thread.
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I know some conservative people around me that would definitely fight these people on this issue.
.@jimmyfallon Trump is challenging you to “be a man.” How about just telling @realDonaldTrump to fuck off? Come on, Jimmy. Fuck that guy. He’s a fake president. Just say, “Fuck off, Don.”
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) June 25, 2018
Some here follow Stonekettle. Even if you never heard of him, now you will.
Read this. You will not regret it.
Was a little late in posting the response to Wrenchwench’s posting of Tor Ekelands tips for the resistance, so here it goes again:
littlegreenfootballs.com
If you had the opportunity to name a tank, what would you name it? pic.twitter.com/pDAMFF8j23
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) June 24, 2018
Tank. https://t.co/3vZmmSaDGg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #12 Charles Johnson
With apologies to Howard Tayler, “Longgunner of the Apocalypse”.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Boom stick.
Seriously though, I’d consider the Marshall (after George Marshall). I know there are those who’d favor Patton since he was a tank guy, Abrams is taken, as is Bradley.
re: #14 lawhawk
Boom stick.
Seriously though, I’d consider the Marshall (after George Marshall). I know there are those who’d favor Patton since he was a tank guy, Abrams is taken, as is Bradley.
Maybe it’s my California roots. Richter Scale
re: #12 Charles Johnson
If you had the opportunity to name a tank, what would you name it? pic.twitter.com/pDAMFF8j23
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) June 24, 2018
Armored destroyer of buildings and human beings. https://t.co/L7jboi928j
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 25, 2018
re: #10 nines09
Some here follow Stonekettle. Even if you never heard of him, now you will.
Read this. You will not regret it.
Thanks, I needed the comic relief :)
Trump Jr.’s moves are raising speculation that the president’s son might run for office himself one day https://t.co/xB8AkfW3sX
— POLITICO (@politico) June 24, 2018
✔️ Zero military service
✔️ Dumped his wife & kids
✔️ Shoots big game so he can pose for pics with the carcass
✔️ Everything in life handed to him on a silver platter
✔️ Retweets white nationalists & nazis
Yep, @DonaldJTrumpJr is checking off all the @GOP values boxes. https://t.co/S6ecQb0lM4— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) June 24, 2018
Oh, shit.
re: #18 Single-handed sailor
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Oh, shit.
Dynasties are only bad when it’s the Clintons.
re: #18 Single-handed sailor
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Oh, shit.
The less intelligent Donald Trump. Ain’t gonna happen.
re: #18 Single-handed sailor
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Oh, shit.
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
re: #21 Cheechako
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
Heh, already running from prison or at least like likelihood of it…
This is uncanny. If I see anybody who looks like this, *I*’m calling the police. #PermitPatty pic.twitter.com/FBevODR1MC
— JRehling (@JRehling) June 24, 2018
My spidey sense is indicating that there may be instructions on how to toe the line of what’s legal in order to make a mess where they seem the victims. The purpose may not be as much to harass as to create a confrontation people notice. 2/2
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #21 Cheechako
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
Or, alternatively, from a foreign country with no extradition treaty with the USA.
Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump administration: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” pic.twitter.com/jMV7wk48wM
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 24, 2018
This is absolutely insane - and extremely dangerous. My father in law works in the administration, does this mean when we go out to dinner we should be ambushed?!? Don’t ever again give me any of the “when they go low, we go high” lip service. https://t.co/UF1feYT0Pm
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 24, 2018
your husband’s website THIS WEEK ran a column about scalping liberals. By cutting their actual scalps off. https://t.co/jBYYn9FPHR
So what were you saying again, ma’am? https://t.co/xwT5rl5xkm— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) June 25, 2018
re: #21 Cheechako
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
Little Trumpy will be running into the Russian Embassy to ask for asylum before Mueller gets to slap the cuffs on him.
re: #24 wheat-dogg
Or, alternatively, from a foreign country with no extradition treaty with the USA.
Putin would support him.
If you can’t beat them here, join them there.
Molson Coors considers getting into marijuana business in Canada https://t.co/dwyEQ8Vlv4
— The Cannabist (@cannabist) June 22, 2018
re: #28 teleskiguy
If you can’t beat them here, join them there.
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That will make Conservative Joe Coors spin a few times in his grave.
All this Beltway finger-wagging about “civility” is only going to cause more centrist liberals to become radical socialists.
That’s how it works, right?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #21 Cheechako
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
Bingo!!!
Tanky McTankface
(I can’t believe I was the first to do that.)
re: #99 teleskiguy
I just got followed by @jaredpolis on Twitter, hopefully our next governor next year.
If you had the opportunity to name a tank, what would you name it? pic.twitter.com/pDAMFF8j23
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) June 24, 2018
Tanky McTankface (I’m sure that’s already been suggested multiple times)
Thomas The Tank
My Little Tankie
Tanklebell
Tanksalot
TankYouVeryMuch #NameATank https://t.co/evQrGGjtfu— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 25, 2018
re: #31 Charles Johnson
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That’s precisely how it works 😉
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #25 Belafon
Meghan is always hyperventilating and then being shown up as a hypocrite. It never fails.
re: #10 nines09
Some here follow Stonekettle. Even if you never heard of him, now you will.
Read this. You will not regret it.
LOL. Sent to veterans (including family) in my E-mail stable.
I’ve run into a few Nurse Rachets in volunteer positions in Navy and VA hospitals.
Unloading on an authoritarian (looking at you Meghan McCain) is precisely the correct response.
Mr. Wright managed to maintain his dignity through all that, and still finds the story funny enough to post in an article (with the hilarious repetition of “Anchors Aweigh”).
Mr. Wright joined the Navy about two years after I did. I once made a post to his blog noting that as an enlisted person myself, his “take no shit” attitude and displayed qualities of leadership were the sorts of things I appreciated in an officer while I was in. I noted to him had I served under him, I would have been willing to storm the gates of Hell in a rowboat.
Their eyes see a really distorted view of reality.
That sort of situation always ends the same, a reality check which is more painful and scarring the longer one has had the distorted view.
It’s only a question of when it happens, not if.— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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Of course Fallon regrets it; of course he would know better now.
Since Trump assumed office in January 2017, Fallon’s show has lost more than one-fifth of its audience and been passed in the ratings by Stephen Colbert. Last year, Colbert and the third 11:30 p.m. host of a late-night network show, Jimmy Kimmel, received Emmy nominations for best variety talk series, but Fallon, for the first time in years, did not.
Some late-night have reacted to Trump in ways the audience appreciates, and one didn’t.
re: #21 Cheechako
It will be interesting to see him run from a Federal or State prison cell.
Eugene Debs did, got almost a million votes.
re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’ve never been more angry at my fellow Americans.
re: #41 sagehen
Of course Fallon regrets it; of course he would know better now.
Some late-night have reacted to Trump in ways the audience appreciates, and one didn’t.
Fallon *still* doesn’t get it. He refuses to speak truth to power, which is the duty of all good comedians with a pulpit.
re: #45 Belafon
I’ve never been more angry at my fellow Americans.
This is what’s been the most devastating realization for me personally since 2016 - that ~62 million US voters stared into the abyss that was trump, saw exactly what they liked, and jumped right in.
Here they go again.
Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump administration: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” pic.twitter.com/jMV7wk48wM
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 24, 2018
In my personal judgment, this is wrong. It degrades the civic space we all will need going forward to repair the American democracy. https://t.co/o4PtCOY89E
— Terry Moran (@TerryMoran) June 25, 2018
Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump administration: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” pic.twitter.com/jMV7wk48wM
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 24, 2018
Not a fan of this mob mentality. Very sad for America. https://t.co/LFY7MTqJ9G
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) June 24, 2018
re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) June 25, 2018
re: #12 Charles Johnson
If you had the opportunity to name a tank, what would you name it? pic.twitter.com/pDAMFF8j23
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) June 24, 2018
Yertle the Turtle
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) June 24, 2018
re: #28 teleskiguy
If you can’t beat them here, join them there.
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They’ll be making a light cannabis that doesn’t taste like anything in particular?
re: #38 Patricia Kayden
Meghan is always hyperventilating and then being shown up as a hypocrite. It never fails.
She’s paid to hyperventilate. As far as I can tell that’s her only skill.
re: #38 Patricia Kayden
Meghan is always hyperventilating and then being shown up as a hypocrite. It never fails.
She would be perfectly safe eating anywhere in public, and no one would have any idea who she was, if she wasn’t trading on her father’s fame.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
So much concern about civility.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
Dear Matt Lewis:
Where were you when Trump was encouraging his mob to physically assault and beat up protesters at his Nazi rallies? Where were you when Trump promised to pay lawyer fees for any rally attendees who beat up protesters? Shut the hell up with that civility nonsense at a time when the President and his imps are stealing children of color away from their parents.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
You know what’s sad for America?
Children getting killed in school.
People dying from lack of health care.
People not having enough to eat in the richest country in the world.
Children getting separated from their parents.
Concern over lack of civility is called privilege.— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 25, 2018
re: #54 jaunte
She would be perfectly safe eating anywhere in public, and no one would have any idea who she was, if she wasn’t trading on her father’s fame.
Meghan hasn’t done anything to deserve to be hounded out of public places. The same can’t be said about Sarah, Kirsten, Stephen, etc.
In all seriousness, in his last State of the Union, President Obama cautioned against growing incivility. It’d be great if he’d speak up now.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 25, 2018
You trashed him for eight years. Was deaf mute when racist caricatures were drawn of him and his wife. Questioned his place of birth and replaced him with a fool.
Shut up Erick. https://t.co/a2tsppTo7r— Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) June 25, 2018
re: #48 Charles Johnson
Here they go again.
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Dear Terry and Matt,
FYF, too.
No love OR respect,
makeitstop
re: #56 Patricia Kayden
Lewis has not been a Trump supporter.
What Matt Lewis is, like many of his contemporaries who started their career as concern trolls about the supposed badness of the left, a man without a political party.
There seems to be a non-trivial fraction of the, dare I say, elites among the conservatives-who-are-actually-literate who really have no where to go.
They seem to have missed some important memo.
re: #59 jaunte
Sorry, Erick, it’s not Obama’s job to make white people like Trump again.
re: #55 freetoken
So much concern about civility.
You call it civility.
I call it demanding we be meek as lambs as we’re led to the slaughterhouse.— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 24, 2018
Trump administration: We’re gonna put the brown kids in cages
Maxine Waters: These abhorrent people merit nonviolent public scorn
Republican politicians: Truly the end of the republic is nigh— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) June 24, 2018
re: #62 Belafon
Sorry, Erick, it’s not Obama’s job to make white people like Trump again.
Ought to tweet that, it’s the perfect reply.
What’s happening in American right now is not a lack of civility but a lack of courage.
All it would take is two Republican Senators to say we aren’t confirming a single judge or passing a single bill until every child is reunited with their parents.— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 25, 2018
Trump’s tariff on steel imports has caused the country’s remaining major nail producer to lose about 50% of its business in two weeks h/t @crampell https://t.co/Yr1iPsAO7D
— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) June 25, 2018
“…Mid Continent is one of the largest employers in Butler County and the second largest manufacturer in Poplar Bluff. If push comes to shove, slicing the remaining 440 jobs that pay an average of $12.50 an hour would add to the Bootheel’s struggling reputation marked by several of the poorest counties in the state.
Mid Continent is owned by Mexico-based Deacero. The parent company produces steel and ships the material to its Poplar Bluff plant. Spokesperson Elizabeth Heaton tells Missourinet Deacero is being hit with the 25% tariff for importing steel to its own company.”
Trump is doing such a good job on the economy, what’s the big deal? Why not let him kidnap a few brown kids?
on the walk today. we stumbled across a playground. i learned that slides only work one way. and the human carried my fren. up to the highest part there. i bet they could see. the whole world
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) June 24, 2018
re: #59 jaunte
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Maxine Waters calls for nonviolent protest towards officials who enable children being stolen from mothers; & ppl who weren’t bothered by racist birther smears, 3,250 lies since 1/20/17, obstruction of justicepraise for KKK/dictators & grabbing women by the pussy are OUTRAGED
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 25, 2018
re: #69 Cheechako
Yep, and that’s what Erickson is hoping for.
re: #57 Belafon
Perhaps he needs to be directed to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
re: #41 sagehen
He’s been dead to me since he normalized Trump. Absolute zero tolerance for that shit.
Could this mass abduction get creepier? Yes it could.
In a converted Walmart each morning, detained children “are required to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in English, to the country that holds them apart from their parents.” https://t.co/qAcdmOV3zT
— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) June 25, 2018
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
Concern trolls gotta concern.
And in this climate, they’re nothing less than complicit enablers:
I would normally agree, but it’s the children getting separated from their parents that don’t deserve the treatment they are receiving, not those that enable that treatment.
If they’re going to go outside, then they deserve to find out what their bosses think of theml— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 25, 2018
Right? The founders did a kickass job, but couldn’t include everything. They thought citizens would just know not to elect an idiot, hence no ‘I’m not an idiot’ test in the constitution.
Kinda like airlines don’t include ‘validate that the captain knows how to fly’ on tickets.— NotSure (@YThisHappened) June 25, 2018
Glad to see all this pushback on the “civility” fuckwittery:
We’re really having a debate on whether we have to be civil to people who tear babies & children away from their parents, leading to incalculable trauma? Fuck civility.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 24, 2018
“Decorum” is mostly a tool designed to keep the ppl w the power from losing power. You have the leverage, you fuck people over, then clutch your pearls & dismiss them when they object. As if the only way this administration will stop being corrupt is if we ask nicely.
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 24, 2018
I love the argument “But if we start ostracizing people who cage babies & children, then we might go down a slippery slope & start ostracizing people who launch unnecessary wars & commit other war crimes.”
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 25, 2018
re: #51 jaunte
They’ll be making a light cannabis that doesn’t taste like anything in particular?
Drinking Coors Light is like having sex in a canoe. It’s fucking next to water. I wouldn’t be surprised if they made Marlboro Green Ultra Lights.
Pruitt faces another probe, adding to roughly 12 others that are already ongoing https://t.co/l0MoHadIvj
— POLITICO (@politico) June 25, 2018
they’ve lost count…
re: #76 jaunte
Could this mass abduction get creepier? Yes it could.
Conservatism is a religion.
Forcing anyone to say the “Pledge of Allegiance” is a violation of the law. The Supreme Court heard that case in the middle of WW2.
re: #83 Single-handed sailor
The actual number doesn’t mean much unless Congress is willing to do something about it.
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹
Conservatism is a
religioncult.Forcing anyone to say the “Pledge of Allegiance” is a violation of the law. The Supreme Court heard that case in the middle of WW2.
FTFY
Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump administration: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” pic.twitter.com/jMV7wk48wM
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) June 24, 2018
This is absolutely insane - and extremely dangerous. My father in law works in the administration, does this mean when we go out to dinner we should be ambushed?!? Don’t ever again give me any of the “when they go low, we go high” lip service. https://t.co/UF1feYT0Pm
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 24, 2018
your husband’s website THIS WEEK ran a column about scalping liberals. By cutting their actual scalps off. https://t.co/jBYYn9FPHR
So what were you saying again, ma’am? https://t.co/xwT5rl5xkm— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) June 25, 2018
Wonkette, or where the bitter millennial girls who got cut from the high school softball team ended up. https://t.co/KwZ6ox3BLh
— The Irreverent (@gunboss68) June 25, 2018
like anybody would ever kick me off any team https://t.co/BSKqIEU0iG
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) June 25, 2018
re: #75 freetoken
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
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George Romney paid the price for standing up for Civil Rights and saying that he had been lied to about Vietnam.
It’s a shame his son has absolutely NONE of his integrity, decency or morality.
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3. At every stage, it gets worse. Norms & values we thought inviolate are crapped on, lawlessness becomes more brazen, ugly prejudices we thought buried, or at least suppressed, roar back to the surface. And with every increment, the question re-presents itself:
— David Roberts (@drvox) June 24, 2018
5. For years, lefties have been warning about this devolution of the GOP, going back to Reagan. They have bene dismissed as crazy partisan hippies, condemned as “uncivil,” told they are part of the problem, because being mad about illiberalism is just like illiberalism.
— David Roberts (@drvox) June 24, 2018
re: #81 jaunte
The people making these arguments against ostracizing officials are conflating heckling with mob violence.
re: #90 Belafon
And they are conflating women ending their pregnancies in the first trimester to child killers.
re: #90 Belafon
The people making these arguments against ostracizing officials are conflating heckling with mob violence.
They want the left (and others) who are opposed to such policies to be quiet. Protest (if you must) in ways that don’t offend us.
This is not the Soviet Union (yet). We have a right to bawl out public officials in this country. If you do not use your rights, you will surely lose them.
re: #35 The Vicious Babushka
Did anybody go for Don’t Tread On Me?
Meet the winner of the 2018 World’s Ugliest Dog contest: Zsa Zsa the English Bulldog. https://t.co/TgHXHB0T6c pic.twitter.com/0hdX7o9wPa
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) June 24, 2018
She’s beautiful. https://t.co/8C2Vgi9Oww
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) June 25, 2018
re: #90 Belafon
re: #91 teleskiguy
Such false equivalencies are the stock-in-trade of those who would criminalise or kill others.
If you equate an abortion with killing a baby, then you are justified (if enough people agree) in killing a person performing one “in defence of another.”
If you equate “protest” with “violence,” then you are justified in ending protests to prevent violence.
Are there actually people in the left who would rather imagine themselves in the shoes of those who perpetuate these crimes against humanity than in the shoes of the children separated from their parents, and believe these people will change if we are civil?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 25, 2018
Tucson Update: About that sex camp… I always thought it was weird that Lewis Arthur set up a Facebook page on 5/28, posted the following picture on it on 5/29, and then just happened to find the “sex camp” later that on that very same night. pic.twitter.com/Qdcra1uxmi
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) June 25, 2018
Thread.
JJ does some of the very, very best work on SovCit issues.
If you’re not following her, you damned well should be. She’s one of the best investigative journalists around today. https://t.co/OpwuwGr3h8— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 25, 2018
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
Such false equivalencies are the stock-in-trade of those who would criminalise or kill others.
If you equate an abortion with killing a baby, then you are justified (if enough people agree) in killing a person performing one “in defence of another.”
If you equate “protest” with “violence,” then you are justified in ending protests to prevent violence.
Or respond with violence in the name of self defense.
Majestic South Dakota tornadic supercell caught on camera by Marko Korosec pic.twitter.com/h7utQp0Bvk
— Nature is Amazing 🌴 (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 24, 2018
re: #100 Single-handed sailor
https://t.co/0He9w21IKM Yup it was a pretty famous fake when people were take in by it live.
— ʎɐʍollɐפ ʇʇoɔS (@scottgal) June 24, 2018
A couple of things.
(1)
I was listening to the BBC World Service earlier this evening and one of the topics was the upcoming Mexican election (one week to go, July 1). The reporter pointed out that things have gotten very unpleasant over the last 12 years, since Felipe Calderon came to office and tried to crack down on the cartels. Now the cartels are everywhere, including the tourist locations like Guadalajara and Acapulco, but have also taken up residence in Mexico City itself. I was astonished to hear a discussion that one way forward for the Mexican government might be a “truce” where the cartels do their thing, but stop attacking “civilians.” Yikes.
(2)
I’m completely unimpressed with all the cries of civility coming out of the Washington Post, McCain and others. *Completely.* I’ve been told I was wrong to picket Scientology, wrong to picket churches because of child abuse tolerated and covered up within their walls. But sometimes you have to get into people’s faces to get change going. And I bet NONE of these people have ever had anyone picket their homes (I have) or had the entire neighborhood plastered with signs saying “Religious Bigot” and my ugly mug on them. Did that stop me from picketing? Nope. If anything, it confirmed the rightness of what I was doing. The fact that people are getting bent out of shape about so-called civility not being shown to racists and people who have no problem separating children from parents…well, f*ck ‘em. I’m tired of it.
I’m especially tired by the Post’s tone-deaf statement that pro-lifers have been nice to pro-choice people. That is complete and utter bullshit. Doctors have been assassinated, people have been gunned down in clinic waiting rooms. That’s not nice. Not in the least. That was just so stupid and anti-factual I have to wonder who wrote that drivel.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
They want the left (and others) who are opposed to such policies to be quiet. Protest (if you must) in ways that don’t offend us.
This is not the Soviet Union (yet). We have a right to bawl out public officials in this country. If you do not use your rights, you will surely lose them.
They don’t care if protesters are quiet. That’s today’s claim, but… football players tried that, didn’t they? They were totally quiet. Dropped to one knee, didn’t make a sound. Then a couple of minutes later stood up again, played the game ticket buyers were there for.
And the right went apeshit over it.
Protesting quietly won’t satisfy them. There is literally no form of protest that won’t upset them. The only possible way to get them to stop whining about it is to not protest. Anything. Ever. By any means.
re: #102 mmmirele
One of the tragedies of the US making drug addiction illegal is that we outsourced our illicit drug production and distribution.
Before WWII, America had drug problems too. Indeed, in some parts of the country doctors had so over-recommended opiates and such that it became a real problem.
This was long, long before the current “opiate crisis” which Trump likes to exploit.
Anyway, the problem with creating (through zealous prohibition) an industry of illegal substances is that the criminality of the industry beckons the worst in society to become party to the activities.
So the US became an importer of billions of dollars of illegal drugs.
It doesn’t surprise me that Mexico as a nation has such a hard time trying to control these now billionaire-cartels. As long as there is that much money to be made, there will be people to do the beckoning of the mob leaders.
Thread (four tweets):
Outside Trump/Palin rallies they had stuffed monkeys to represent Obama. So fuck your civility lament. This has been building up for a long time. pic.twitter.com/rcRNTkC00D
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 25, 2018
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
A lot of the press view this as that old cartoon where the sheepdog and the wolf go to their day ‘jobs’, and then punch-out and are best of friends.
This isn’t that.— Peter ‘My Favorite Obscure Issue’ Kaufman (@inklake) June 25, 2018
Buyers connected to Russia or former Soviet republics made 86 all-cash sales — totaling nearly $109,000,000 — at 10 Trump-branded properties over the years, according to an analysis shared with McClatchy.
Many of them made purchases using shell companies. https://t.co/2XRILRd4bq— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 25, 2018
These are either coincidences 1100 to 1186 in the Russia investigation, or something really bad happened in 2016 and before. https://t.co/SRewwhckag
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 25, 2018
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
People need to understand that the GOP’s approach to what Democrats do is not contingent upon Democratic civility. President Obama was arguably an exemplar of civility. Republicans still treated him like absolute garbage, lied about his agenda, and they even lied about his birth.
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) June 24, 2018
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
The crazies were limited to their mimeographed newsletters and occasional local meetings back then. If there was a national organization (John Birch Society, for ex), they might have been able to read a monthly newsletter, but the communication was one-way only. Now, they have the Internet to stay in constant contact to reinforce their cockeyed world views, and with the right wing media amplifying that craziness 24/7, it’s even worse.
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
MM, as somebody who lived through the 60s there was a lot of unrest over Civil Rights. Before the 1964 law was passed there were plenty of places in my hometown that were segregated or “restricted”. There was a lot of white backlash against Dr. King and it was gladly incubated by the Birchers.
People forget that George Wallace initially ran for President against LBJ in 1964 and he got a high percentage of the vote in Maryland, Wisconsin and Indiana. He also got a lot of write-in votes in Pennsylvania’s non-binding preference primary. I remember the day after the primary. Mom was the judge of elections in our precinct and she was FURIOUS about all the Wallace write-ins.
But for me the major shift appeared in the churches. Back in the early 60s most churches were welcoming and open places. Now there were a couple Birch Churches but they were marginalized. But starting in the 70s, the Hunt Brothers put up the seed money for Falwell’s Moral Majority and they also underwrote Pat Robertson’s 700 Club. Anita Bryant was groomed to be the leader of the gay haters and she hit her stride in Florida when gay civil rights ordinances were repealed. All of a sudden churches that used to say God Loves You flipped to God Hates Gays and Lesbians. More and more churches became Bircher Churches. You saw Catholics abandoning the Democratic Party over the race issue plus abortion. It was encouraged by Billy Graham Cracker and his Pulpit Pimping Pals.
Now they were using the “dog whistles” of busing, affirmative action and intolerance to peel the Reagan Democrats out of the Democratic Party and it showed as you saw George Wallace winning Democratic primaries in 1972.
But now you don’t have the dog whistles anymore. Racism is now out in the open and Trump plays that shit with every tweet.
Every time Maxine Waters makes news, Russian-linked accounts jump on it. As of about 11:45 pm EST, she was occupying the top 3 trending topics in the network tracked by @SecureDemocracy’s Hamilton 68 dashboard (& has been among the top 10 topics & hashtags for at least 5 hours). pic.twitter.com/tV96R4FNRb
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 25, 2018
Trump voters have become a resilient force for the midterms. They leap to his defense, they say, because criticism has gotten out of control. https://t.co/X8xHXC81KB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2018
The New York Times doesn’t know it but they are describing Stockholm Syndrome-the unconscious defensive reaction of being a hostage who emotionally adores & defends their abductor. #WeAreInTrouble https://t.co/9Yv9jt4RTv
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 24, 2018
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
It was as badly divided, but without the Internet to amplify it.
The Sixties had anti-Vietnam protests, and the right claiming the left was commies or anti-American. The Sixties also had the Civil Rights Movement, with the attendant murders by conservatives of those standing up for their own rights (or those standing up for the rights of others), and conservatives claiming civil rights activists were commies or anti-American. Various cities burned in race riots.
The Seventies had of course the Nixon scandals and more anti-Vietnam War protests, and the right claiming the left was commies or anti-American.
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
Gotta be that lunatic Liz Crokin—she’s been spreadin’ shit about Chrissy and John for quite some time. She is BONKERS.
Roseanne breaks down in first interview since being fired from ABC show: “I lost everything” https://t.co/cRNAtzBEwE pic.twitter.com/KYVFBVypAm
— The Hill (@thehill) June 25, 2018
So she’s homeless and living on the streets now without a penny to her name?
No?
Well then, she can fuck right off with her “poor little me” horseshit. https://t.co/dCiOF2c4dn— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 25, 2018
If you promote someone who contemptuously defies every norm of civility, and argue that civility doesn’t matter and that its absence is refreshing and honest, and build an ideology around upsetting people …. folks might start to take you at your word, and you may not like it.
— ThisIsNotNormalHat (@Popehat) June 24, 2018
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
Like most of the other respondents, I ‘d say it was at least as divided, but social media amplifies it. Oh, and the Soviets weren’t able to have the effect they’re having now because Cold War time. Contrarians and custard-heads said they were our friends, but most people didn’t buy it.
re: #113 jaunte
The NYT conveniently forgets in all these stories that the number of people who admit to being Republican continues to shrink. Which affect total numbers (who’d’a thought it?).
Police manual for forbidden symbols during World Cup pic.twitter.com/MkHNR4LLCi
— English Russia (@EnglishRussia1) June 24, 2018
Well shit, Russian police know more about white supremacists than Twitter’s useless support. https://t.co/M9GxUrdWoF
— the grugq (@thegrugq) June 24, 2018
Trump Administration report shows refugees added $63 billion to US economy over the past decade. Trump White House then killed the report they ordered and demanded it be manipulated to only show costs and not profits. https://t.co/9F3i3DCC7c
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 24, 2018
This is what @realDonaldTrump doesn’t want you to read because if he doesn’t have the immigration issue to run on he loses his big wedge issue. So he will harass immigrants just for political gain. What’s more evil than that? https://t.co/aKKZ6Dm5qx
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) June 24, 2018
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chairman couldn’t resist mentioning the Russia probe.
“If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know,” Warner joked to party-goers. “If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
re: #122 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chairman couldn’t resist mentioning the Russia probe.
“If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know,” Warner joked to party-goers. “If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
Not sure it’s a joke. Mueller’s still warming up for a no-hitter.
re: #123 wheat-dogg
Not sure it’s a joke. Mueller’s still warming up for a no-hitter.
?? you mean mueller’s going to be pitching a no hitter and shutting the trump team out or the other way around?
You have a very interesting definition of ‘false’, considering it’s been *confirmed* that Cohen got to Prague and is missing a Czech entry visa because he took advantage of entering the Schengen Area through Germany…
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
…or no, wait, for both of us, that was Manafort.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #124 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
?? you mean mueller’s going to be pitching a no hitter and shutting the trump team out or the other way around?
Mueller’s the pitcher. Says Who is at bat.
Great. I just got a call that the village shop is flooding (something is wrong with the well).
I don’t get paid to be the water operator, why am I on twenty-four hour call?
I’ll be back in a bit, you poor devils.
We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
#DonaldTrump DOES NOT BELIEVE IN, understand or care about our beloved Constitution. RISE-UP AND DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY!! #ThisIWillDefend https://t.co/iIRZ6itdum
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 24, 2018
Oh, yeah, mister Constitutional Scholar? What’s he doing that’s contrary to the Constitution? I’ll wait. https://t.co/U3X3vyonk5
— T.S. O’Neil (@tselliot3) June 24, 2018
Well, he’s advocating for a denial of due process, to which everyone who comes into the United States, legally or not, is entitled under the 5th and 14th amendments to the Constitution.
Which makes it…unconstitutional (say it slowly and it might sink in). https://t.co/rccEaAidg2— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 24, 2018
HUGE: Detained migrants tell @TexasTribune they’ve been promised their kids in exchange for deportation https://t.co/NIGQtegt3a via @byjayroot
— Emily Ramshaw (@eramshaw) June 24, 2018
Trump could sacrifice every 10th immigrant child to Moloch and all his cult would say is “Very Biblical!”https://t.co/DiEPwRNW2S
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) June 24, 2018
re: #88 Joe Bacon 🌹
George Romney paid the price for standing up for Civil Rights and saying that he had been lied to about Vietnam.
It’s a shame his son has absolutely NONE of his integrity, decency or morality.
George Romney was a good man; but he was a Republican in an era where having decent values was not incompatible with being a Republican. His son certainly abandoned any values he may have had when he ran in 2012; he is not the man his father was. In the age of Trump, he has shown himself to be the same coward or traitor (except perhaps McCain) that every other Washington Republican has proved themselves to be.
re: #122 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chairman couldn’t resist mentioning the Russia probe.
“If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know,” Warner joked to party-goers. “If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
Gee, what could it be?
la plus ça change…
This physical explanation of the source of change, like Anaxagoras’s analysis of the nature of the sun, seemed to deny the validity of the entire superstructure of traditional religion, which explained events as the outcome of divine forces. Many people feared that the teachings of the sophists and philosophers could offend the gods and therefore erode the divine favor that they believed Athens to enjoy. Just like a murderer, a teacher spouting doctrines offensive to the gods could bring pollution and therefore divine punishment on the whole community. So deeply felt was this anxiety that Pericles’ friendship with Protagoras, Anaxagoras, and other controversial intellectuals gave his rivals a weapon to use against him when political tensions came to a head in the 430s B.c. as a result of the threat of war with Sparta. Pericles’ opponents criticized him as sympathetic to dangerous new ideas
I’m confused that some people think civility is comparable to humanity.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) June 25, 2018
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
It was divided, but over actual real-life measurable things. Did you support or oppose civil rights and desegregation, did you support or oppose the Vietnam War, did you support or oppose long hair or pot-smoking or rock music or premarital sex, or… any number of things that actually existed in the measurable physical world.
People on both sides of every issue lived in the real world.
There’s been an escape:
15 year-old migrant boy runs away from Texas child care facility
The boy ran from Casa Padre, run by Southwest Key, and is now in Mexico, according to a source with direct knowledge.
Cheetolini will probably order a purge of camp commandants when he wakes up.
re: #128 Single-handed sailor
I quoted TSO’Neill chapter and verse from the Constitution he appears not be so familiar with.
re: #135 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There’s been an escape:
15 year-old migrant boy runs away from Texas child care facilityCheetolini will probably order a purge of camp commandants when he wakes up.
He will send them to the Eastern Front.
Oh, wait …
re: #124 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
?? you mean mueller’s going to be pitching a no hitter and shutting the trump team out or the other way around?
re: #131 austin_blue
Gee, what could it be?
Has anyone cartooned Trump as the Hindenburg going up in flames? It’s already a good fit and will probably get much better.
That’s it. I’m for the rack. Please read the links in in my #131. It’s illuminating how deep the Drumpf organization is into laundering Russian money.
Plain as day and it’s been going on for years.
These are high crimes and misdemeanors, dead bang.
The whole Family is set up as a money laundering organization. They’ve got a RICO case glued to them like a cheap tattoo.
re: #108 mmmirele
Oh, and speaking of civility. I noted that John Legend was trending tonight (BET awards). So I clicked on it. The second tweet was from some numnutz who said that Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are into “spirit cooking” and are pedophiles (you know that whole Pizzagate thing). That’s the kind of bullshit out there.
I was a child and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s, but I’m not old enough to remember. Was it just as divided then, or is it worse now?
It was different. But we had assassinations of a President, his brother, and a great Civil Rights Leader. There were riots in the streets, tens of thousands of Americans were dying in a meaningless war in VietNam, 4 students were murdered by the National Guard in Kent State, Ohio, civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, and many feared a nuclear conflagration. Of course, we didn’t then elect George Wallace as President nor was our president treasonous trash who praises dictators. But the country survived those times and we will survive this too. Politics can turn on a dime, and just because we appear to be in the darkest of times, doesn’t mean that we won’t emerge stronger from having learned the worst about ourselves and our neighbors.
— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) June 25, 2018
IDEA: Post a sign in your business saying “Ask about our Special Deal for ICE Employees and their families.”
Anyone who asks to take advantage of it, you throw out. https://t.co/u0Jgi4acEJ— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 25, 2018
A quote I saw on FB answers the question on civility:
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
It’s 83 degrees at 1:30 AM here in the wilderness west of Fort Worth. It’s worse in Lubbock, though. They have 87 degrees, wind at 30mph and blowing dust. Hell must be like that: Hot, dark and full of conservatives.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It’s 83 degrees at 1:30 AM here in the wilderness west of Fort Worth. It’s worse in Lubbock, though. They have 87 degrees, wind at 30mph and blowing dust. Hell must be like that: Hot, dark and full of conservatives.
… but no beer.
I laughed at this one.
Interviewer: Do you think Brazil’s 1970 team can beat today’s Argentina?
Pelé: Yes.
Interviewer: By how much?
Pelé: 1:0
Interviewer: That’s it?
Pelé: Well, most of us are over 75 now.— Mr. Drinks On Me #FRA🇫🇷 (@Mr_DrinksOnMe) June 24, 2018
This is the future liberals want. pic.twitter.com/pvJXjBr50s
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 24, 2018
Stonekettle really nailed it with this tweet:
Republicans: BUSINESS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE BASED ON SINCERELY HELD BELIEFS!
Business: Get out.
Republicans: No. See. Ha ha. Not ME. You can’t discriminate against ME. You can’t refuse ME. No, no, I meant, um, those OTHER people.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 23, 2018
re: #143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So…it’s just me, right?
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God rolls 1D6.
Well (pun intended), I’m back.
The well is not leaking. My wife and I spent an hour or so running and inspecting the well and chlorine pump. Nada.
Discovered the water in the shop is from the roof leaking (apparently damaged by the tornado last month). Roof repair is not in my job description.
Went over to the chairwoman’s house at midnight to inform her of what’s up, as she will need to get a roof inspector over.
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Trump Administration report shows refugees added $63 billion to US economy over the past decade. Trump White House then killed the report they ordered and demanded it be manipulated to only show costs and not profits. nytimes.com
— Joe Scarborough
Man who gave Trump endless airtime, even after Trump insulted his wife, and never apologised says what? Besides, that piece of news is not new.
Waiting for your apology Mr. Scarborough. Oh, you’re a party before country guy.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It’s 83 degrees at 1:30 AM here in the wilderness west of Fort Worth. It’s worse in Lubbock, though. They have 87 degrees, wind at 30mph and blowing dust. Hell must be like that: Hot, dark and full of conservatives.
We have conservatives, but it is 57 here at Chez Tumbleweed now.
We’re scheduled for high 90s and low 100s in the next couple days though. Ugh. I’ll be checking on my elderly neighbours to make sure everyone is okay (many people here don’t have air conditioners - for that matter, mine hasn’t been replaced yet after tornado damage).
Mike Huckabee appears to have gotten his picture from the website of Richard Spencer’s Nazi think-tank (National Policy Institute). pic.twitter.com/Ov4vBl0mDE
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 23, 2018
Terrorism cell linked to crimes in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana (Goes to the Southern Policy Law Center)
New federal charges shed light on a cell of suspected domestic terrorists known as the “White Rabbits” who allegedly were involved in assorted crimes, including firearms violations and fire-bombings of an Islamic Center and a women’s health clinic.
Additionally, the suspects have been linked by federal investigators to robbing Walmart stores and drug dealers to fund their campaign of domestic terrorism, bombing Canadian National railroad tracks and extortion of the railway company.
Michael Hari, 47, Michael McWhorter, 29 and Joe Morris, 22, all of Clarence, Illinois, were named in a superseding indictment returned Thursday in Minnesota, charging them with federal civil rights and hate crime violations related to an explosion at the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center (DAF) in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 5, 2017.
The three men, along with Ellis Mack, 18, also of Clarence, Illinois, were arrested on March 13 and currently are in custody in Urbana, Illinois, on federal charges of illegally possessing a machine gun and conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats and violence. Hari is also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.
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“I was having serious second thoughts about Trump because he’s separating children from families, and I find that horrifying. But now I’m totally behind Trump and have no doubts about that policy at all because liberals described it in strong language.”
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 24, 2018
White woman who threatened to call cops on 8-year-old black girl for selling water says she’s feels “discriminated against” https://t.co/UhGV6iGZhd
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 24, 2018
Reporters and photographers watch Nevada nuclear test, today 1957: #LVNB pic.twitter.com/b9hze3dtfS
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 24, 2018
re: #158 teleskiguy
I had a history teacher in 1970 that was a soldier in the late 50s. He crouched in a trench as they detonated a nuclear bomb and then marched into the blast zone minutes later during Nevada testing. He had some stories.
On a side note one of the girls in that class went on to become a porn star. Trivia can be weird.
Do keep up. It’s not the parents they’re forcing to swear allegiance to the US on the grounds that ‘then they might not bomb the place’, it’s the 4- or 6-year-old who was dragged across the border and is going to be adopted into a #Dominionist family in 7 months.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
A quote I saw on FB answers the question on civility:
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
— Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
re: #162 Chrysicat
Non-citizen = foreign invader?
By that logic, anyone traveling here, regardless of country of origin, would be a foreign invader. Hell, he’d be considered a foreign invader if he traveled abroad.
These people make me grind my teeth.
re: #162 Chrysicat
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Not that it should matter much one way or the other, but I’m trying to influence any of his followers who might be sitting on the fence, feel that ‘illegal means illegal’, but still draw the line at genocide and filling Quiverfulls’—well—quivers.
re: #164 SteelPH
Non-citizen = foreign invader?
By that logic, anyone traveling here, regardless of country of origin, would be a foreign invader. Hell, he’d be considered a foreign invader if he traveled abroad.
These people make me grind my teeth.
Invaders generally come uninvited, in force and carrying weapons with the intent to do harm. They don’t generally come with wife and children in tow with the intent to settle in and make a new home. Those people are called immigrants.
Xenophobia sucks.
Evil can only prevail when good men do nothing.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #168 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That’s re-volting! Watt are you talking about?
re: #168 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Watt?
Note to self.
Always refresh before posting.
re: #168 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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I’m positive that Sparky just needed an outlet but his parents were so negative that he had to show resistance and give them a lot of static.
I heard he got short with them and blew a fuse. Had to open the window to let the smoke out. To much high tension on the line.
re: #172 Dave In Austin
I heard he got short with them and blew a fuse. Had to open the window to let the smoke out. To much high tension on the line.
They needed to keep an ‘appy ohm.
RT if you agree “fuck off, kek-boi” and “the right side won the Cold War” don’t have to be mutually-exclusive concepts. I don’t plan to #reclaimtheRed anytime soon, but, y’know, fascism doesn’t have a place for my life…
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
Lubbock logic:
Such a waste
“This is my first time driving a Ferrari. It is truly the most incredible feeling,” she said in a video recorded at the wheel prior to the crash. https://t.co/art4ys87rV
No one was injured, fortunately. But the car …
While the combination of Trump’s narcissism with latent bigotry in America is inherently bad in itself, one of the side effects is that we in the US have been in large part drawn in Trump’s narcissism by spending our time trying to combat it.
And that means a lot of things around this world are going on without much of a notice at all by us here in the US.
Among those things is what is happening in Yemen:
Fighting moves closer to centre of Yemen’s main port city
Yemen’s Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as a Saudi-led military coalition moved closer to the city centre in the largest offensive of the war, raising U.N. fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.
The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched its assault on the heavily defended Red Sea city on June 12 to try to weaken the Iran-aligned Houthi movement by cutting off a key supply line for the group, which controls the capital Sanaa and most populated areas.
[…]
I guess for many of us in America, those people over there are, well, over there, and whatever happens to them is no concern to us (even though we are involved.)
However, over in the peninsula which for Trump only exists as a stage on which to parade his outsized ego, there is this:
S. Korean island begins refugee process for Yemeni asylum seekers
South Korea’s resort island of Jeju started on Monday refugee status reviews for Yemeni asylum seekers fleeing from civil war.
Jeju Office of Immigration chief Kim Do-gyun said a total of 486 Yemeni asylum seekers have applied for refugee status and the office will be reviewing two to three per day, Yonhap reported.
[…]
While albeit small in number of refugees, still, here is a country with not a lot of land, with a world-hot-button border, who nevertheless are aware of the problem and willing to help.
I realize there are not many news briefings anymore coming from the WH, but whenever the next one occurs, I wonder if any media rep there will inquire how many refugees the US is planning on taking?
Please tell me re: #176 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Lubbock logic:
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re: #176 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Lubbock logic:
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She banned a Donald Trump employee dumbass and both you and SHS have called it “liberty” to deny someone a service because they’re gay. Karma is a bitch.
Depends on the date. We libs are all gonna disappear after November unless there’s a #BlueTsunami, because this is PRE-fucking-Reichstag-and-Krystallnacht. But keep calm and heil on.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #181 Chrysicat
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Somehow I don’t think he was saying this to wingnuts who called Obama, Hitler over urging empathy.
Please. Try to tell a TRANSPERSON that only Jews died in the camps. Roma, dissidents and even military traitors died there as well, as did LGBT.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #182 HappyWarrior
Somehow I don’t think he was saying this to wingnuts who called Obama, Hitler over urging empathy.
Yeah, that post right there pretty much confirms that.
re: #181 Chrysicat
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And PRE-fucking-Nacht-der-langen-Messer… Don’t forget about that event.
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
Nazis actually went after political opponents before Jews.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
Nazis actually went after political opponents before Jews.
And their own. What little could even remotely be considered the left wing of the Nazi party, the Strasserites, were eliminated during the night of the long knives as well as the leadership strata of the Sturmabteilung.
re: #186 Teukka
And their own. What little could even remotely be considered the left wing of the Nazi party, the Strasserites, were eliminated during the night of the long knives as well as the leadership strata of the Sturmabteilung.
Oy. Who would’ve thought that when the History Channel turned into the All-Hitler-All-the-Time channel, we should have been watching until everything was a rerun, so that we could see the threats of the future?
re: #186 Teukka
And their own. What little could even remotely be considered the left wing of the Nazi party, the Strasserites, were eliminated during the night of the long knives as well as the leadership strata of the Sturmabteilung.
Yep.
Is John Kelly even going to bother with the #DoNotCongratulate memo for Trump this time around re: #Erdogan?
— GOP is now the ANP (American Nazi Party) (@PlankySmith) June 24, 2018
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
WTH?
Not like we didn’t already know not one of them would be given back to their parents or permitted their Maya heritage, right? As soon as it became clear they were running an orphan machine, I expected they’d try to turn them all into ‘good Americans’.
re: #187 Chrysicat
Oy. Who would’ve thought that when the History Channel turned into the All-Hitler-All-the-Time channel, we should have been watching until everything was a rerun, so that we could see the threats of the future?
That’s part of why I can see the parrellels. There are other groups too. Trump has a bit of Mussolini in him too.
re: #186 Teukka
The fucking Nazis also went after people with autism, people with physical disabilities and mental illnesses too. They were among the first subjected to medical experiments and other shit.
re: #193 A Mom Anon
The fucking Nazis also went after people with autism, people with physical disabilities and mental illnesses too. They were among the first subjected to medical experiments and other shit.
This person-on-the-spectrum thanks you ever so for reminding her of that. I have told my parents repeatedly that there wasn’t enough SSI even last year let alone now to make it worth being diagnosed officially.
re: #193 A Mom Anon
The fucking Nazis also went after people with autism, people with physical disabilities and mental illnesses too. They were among the first subjected to medical experiments and other shit.
Yep. Aktion T4. Aktion T4 is often forgotten, as are the Vehrmachts field brothels in occupied Poland.
Trump and Sessions were running an #OrphanMachine for over a month. The proof is this #PledgeOfAllegiance stuff. That’s “trying to turn them into ‘good Americans’ and erasing their Maya heritage”. Genocide. Let’s see if we have enough Rs in Congress to #impeachnow.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
(Sorry to be so redundant about this one. Getting extra-angry while watching Morning Joe claim this will finally be the step that brings Congress to life.)
re: #187 Chrysicat
Oy. Who would’ve thought that when the History Channel turned into the All-Hitler-All-the-Time channel, we should have been watching until everything was a rerun, so that we could see the threats of the future?
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
— Mark Twain (I think)
re: #197 Chrysicat
Then again, I don’t know why I’m hoping for an impeachment on this; that would bring us at least 4 months of Pence, and he’s just as fascist as the *rezident, just not quite as eager to start with the Mayan Genocide.
re: #199 Chrysicat
Then again, I don’t know why I’m hoping for an impeachment on this; that would bring us at least 4 months of Pence, and he’s just as fascist as the *rezident, just not quite as eager to start with the Mayan Genocide.
*whispers “God Emperor Trump”*
re: #116 Kragar
She chose to engage in racism and anti-Semitism. She can puss off with that “woe is me” crap.
I know it’s popular to compare Trump and his Trumpers to Nazis, and even Godwin has weighed in on this matter, but I want to go back to what I was trying to communicate back in 2016.
That is, comparing Trump to the literal Nazi party is not the best way to think of what is going on. The term I was trying to propagate is fascistic.
Trump and his followers exhibit a form of a fascistic social movement.
Why did/does Trump have the followers that we see?
In my way of thinking, there are three fundamental elements coming into play here:
1) the loss of independence;
2) the loss-of-God problem;
3) the cultural differences of the other.
Here and in many forums, number 3) is being emphasized but I think for the US that is not the most important (which is why I put it third.)
My contention before is that Trumpism is much more similar to Italian fascism and also the Brazilian fascist movement, than to Nazi Germany.
Trump does what he does for reasons. He is not some giant random number generator.
The reason before and after the election that Trump spends so much time on trade, now on tariffs and trade wars, is because of the first issue I listed above.
Globalization of “the economy” has meant that Americans can lose their jobs very easily, or, end up working for a foreign corporation with an operation here in the US. In either case, globalization in combination with automation has meant that job security is lost for a great many American workers.
Yes, our own domestic policies of favoring the rich over the poor contributes to this, but underlying even that is the truth that a rich person can move around their wealth from nation to nation (see Trump’s friends, for example.)
The second big problem, which Trump loves to acknowledge through all this shoulder-rubbing with fundamentalists, is the loss-of-God problem.
Religion has been very important in American history. Americans on the whole are among the most religious people in the “first world”.
Modernity has ceaselessly attacked the idea of “God” in general, and in particular the specific God-of-the-Book of fundamentalist Christianity.
To lose their job security (through globalization) and eternal security (through loss of God) has made many Americans easy to manipulate by expert hucksters.
And Trump is, if anything, and maybe only this, an expert huckster.
re: #136 wheat-dogg
I quoted TSO’Neill chapter and verse from the Constitution he appears not be so familiar with.
Methinks ol’ TS is a Russian troll.
Reported and blocked but I know Jack won’t do anything.
re: #202 freetoken
No, it’s not Trumpism that’s fascistic. It’s about any form of (R) these days. Trumpism may or may not be ‘merely’ fascistic, but blaming fascism on Trump is letting a whole lot of psychos off the hook. The difference is “strongman-controlled’ vs ‘committee-controlled’, not ‘totalitarian vs free’. Especially with the vast majority of Rs who had emailed through the RNC being totally compromised by the Putinists.
— i-Hum (@Lexzicon) June 25, 2018
Why does Trump keep his diehards?
Loss of job security (through globalization) and eternal security (modernity’s loss-of-God) has made many Americans easy to manipulate by expert hucksters.
And @realDonaldTrump is, if anything, and maybe only this, an expert huckster.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 25, 2018
It’s already casting aspersions of “dirty”:
The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
re: #205 Chrysicat
…Trumpism may or may not be ‘merely’ fascistic, but blaming fascism on Trump is letting a whole lot of psychos off the hook. .
I didn’t do that. Clearly I have said that the fascistic qualities we are seeing are endemic to American society.
On the topic of civility:
I’d rather be told “fuck you” in an honest moment of anger than told I was less worthy of basic humanity just b/c of my status, color, gender, etc., but told so “with civility”
Intent > Tone
Impact > Intent#fuckcivility— Citizen K Cares, Do U? (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 24, 2018
Especially when Trump & friends use their privileged positions precisely to attack people, not only large swaths of dehumanizing language but using the power of their office for personal attacks that lead to very real consequences. Being denied dinner service is f’n minor to that
— Citizen K Cares, Do U? (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 25, 2018
It’s consistently amazing how this civility trap only gets applied one way. It’s almost like it’s fucking disingenuous or something. And yet the media is more fucking shocked about Sarah Sanders being refused service for who she is (you know, rather than WHAT she is, like a certain store owner refusing to serve customers solely because they’re gay, rather than anything personal about them) than any of the abuse, eliminationist rhetoric, etc. that comes from Trump literally daily.
Meanwhile, we still have a crisis where our administration seems set on laying the foundation of purging all the brown people from the country through any means necessary.
Roses are red,
Your Tweet is so crass
The whole world sees
That YOU are an ASS!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) June 25, 2018
Agreeing with Jennifer Rubin and not Soledad O’Brien:
Listen, I get it. The notion of shunning or excluding or heckling can devolve into philosophical hair-splitting as to whether someone has engaged in normal public service or whether they’ve strayed outside the bounds of decent behavior. Each to his own method of expressing disdain and fury, I suppose.
Nevertheless, it is not altogether a bad thing to show those who think they’re exempt from personal responsibility that their actions bring scorn, exclusion and rejection. If you don’t want to provoke wrath, don’t continue to work for someone whose cruel and inhumane treatment of others rivals the internment of U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II. And yes, I’d have hollered at then-California Attorney General Earl Warren, who pushed for the roundup of people of Japanese ancestry, even American citizens.
re: #208 freetoken
When his own freaking golf club restaurant got sited for unsanitary conditions. I loathe this bullshit. I hate liars. Gah.
re: #214 A Mom Anon
When his own freaking golf club restaurant got sited for unsanitary conditions. I loathe this bullshit. I hate liars. Gah.
It feels like it should be treated a lot more seriously that the POTUS is consistently, almost daily, making personal attacks on people and businesses in a public forum. How is this shit treated as normal? How have those very models of the guardians of civility, our political press, letting this shit go while constantly hectoring anyone against Trump that their supposed rudeness is why Trump Voters forever Love Trump?
According to a 1991 Associated Press report, Kathleen and Thomas Purgatorio, then in their sixties, ate the “salmonella-tainted mousse” at a restaurant called Buffet by the Sea in Trump’s Castle Hotel and Casino on Oct. 16, 1989. Kathleen felt sick afterwards, Purgatorio-Howard recalls, but nowhere near as ill as her father who she told The Daily Beast “went from walking into the hospital to being in intensive care on a ventilator in a coma.”
A Las Vegas Strip restaurant bearing the initials of celebrity financier Donald Trump was briefly shut down after health inspectors found violations including month-old caviar and expired yogurt.
Donald Trump usually loves to be in the headlines - but his latest moment in the spotlight is less positive than he might like.
The outspoken tycoon’s Las Vegas restaurant was shut down by health inspectors this week after racking up dozens of violations.
The insanitary conditions at the upscale eatery included meat and fish that was weeks old, as well as racks of cooked food kept at dangerous temperatures.
re: #216 Joe Bacon 🌹
People on Twitter need to smack this shit down with that information.
re: #208 freetoken
It’s already casting aspersions of “dirty”:
Trump might want to look at photos of himself next to other world leaders.
re: #208 freetoken
It’s already casting aspersions of “dirty”:
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Knew this was coming gah.
Senator Wexton event went well. We’re fired up here in VA-10
One fine morning the president of a 330 million person country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal decided the matter most needing his attention was the vengeful destruction of a rural eatery. Stealing babies and children made him hurt less, but the little things helped too.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 25, 2018
Morning everyone. Haven’t posted in a while, but appreciate everyone and what you post here. Keeps me mentally sharp here.
re: #220 HappyWarrior
Knew this was coming gah.
He is such a petty POS. Plus a liar. He’s never been to that place, so he’s probably been reading the fake Yelp reviews posted by his minions.
re: #219 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
That needs sound so you can hear them flitting around.
re: #223 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Morning everyone. Haven’t posted in a while, but appreciate everyone and what you post here. Keeps me mentally sharp here.
Been wondering where you have been. You never visit, never call …
:-)
re: #215 Citizen K
It feels like it should be treated a lot more seriously that the POTUS is consistently, almost daily, making personal attacks on people and businesses in a public forum. How is this shit treated as normal? How have those very models of the guardians of civility, our political press, letting this shit go while constantly hectoring anyone against Trump that their supposed rudeness is why Trump Voters forever Love Trump?
There was a time when due process, and President staying out of things that were below his pay grade, was taken so seriously, when the concept of “impartial jury” was so important, that a defense attorney was able to delay a trial and get extra juror challenges in void dire because President Nixon publicly expressed an opinion about the presumed guilt of CHARLES MANSON!
re: #219 jeffreyw
Have you experimented with the fancier feeders? They seem less popular with the birds as compared to that one you have a few of there. I put out a nice glass art feeder and it stays full. Reminds me of the cat playing with the bag the ignored new toy came in.
re: #224 wheat-dogg
He is such a petty POS. Plus a liar. He’s never been to that place, so he’s probably been reading the fake Yelp reviews posted by his minions.
He uses the Presidency to go after private citizens and then I have to see his supporters cry about how hard everyone is on him.
re: #225 ObserverArt
That needs sound so you can hear them flitting around.
I took that through the glass of a kitchen window so there was no hummer sound in the original clip. Also, the Imgur GIF maker does not add a sound track. I guess it would be possible to add a closed caption that reads: [sound of hummingbirds flitting about].
Just bought a slow cooker. pic.twitter.com/68rbW8qpVT
— Krista (@krimarmic) June 25, 2018
re: #231 jeffreyw
You have done a really cool thing with the webcams. Thanks, that’s some work and money to make that happen.
The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen by 160 points, or 0.65%, to 24,420.
Technology shares are dropping, following reports that the Trump administration will block Chinese companies from investing in the US, and also restrict US tech exports to China.
Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is down by 1.7%, semiconductor maker nVidia is down 2.1% and aircraft maker Boeing is down 2%.
Harley Davidson is also dropping, down 2% after outlining its response to Europe’s new tariffs on US goods.
We don’t yet know how many US jobs will be affected by Harley-Davidson’s decision to move some production from America to Europe. But it’s possible that the company’s base in Milwaukee, Wisconsin could be hit badly.
Anyhow Senator Wexton says regarding keeping our humanity to just keep on standing for what’s right. Another participant told me to just hang tough and keep pushing. I plan to email her campaign manager sometime today about volunteering in the western part of the district.
re: #229 Unshaken Defiance
Have you experimented with the fancier feeders? They seem less popular with the birds as compared to that one you have a few of there. I put out a nice glass art feeder and it stays full. Reminds me of the cat playing with the bag the ignored new toy came in.
We have had differently styled, but similar, feeders in the past. I require that they all be alike to suit my quirks. The birds are happy with these.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area.
Trump’s busy giving yelp reviews to restaurants and ragging on Jimmy Fallon.
Yeah, can’t wait for Mueller to eventually give his yelp review on Trumpworld. It’ll take more than 280 characters to fully encompass the criminality Trump surrounded himself with before, during, and after the campaign.
Reminder: Two of Trump’s campaign managers were indicted - Gates and Manafort. One entered a plea deal. The other was thrown in jail for violating bail by engaging in witness tampering and intimidating witnesses. Manafort faces 100s of years in prison if convicted on all the charges. Manafort was the guy who got Trump to the RNC and selected Pence as Trump’s VP.
Manafort was also instrumental in the June 2016 meeting with the Russians, along with Kushner, Junior, and each has lied about his involvement every step of the way.
Trump’s foreign/military policy guru, Mike Flynn, entered a plea deal. Flynn was Trump’s NSA.
Majority of US Population is fucking stupid, survey says.
re: #238 I cannot.
Many Americans would not care if Trump committed genocide, as long as their retirement accounts keep going up and they can flip their house for a profit.
No, it doesn’t. Ppl who voted for Trump voted for his policies—not his personality. They want the country back in order—protection of OUR citizens first—including black, brown, white, Asian—ALL. Reps don’t always say colors, bc it doesn’t matter, as long as laws R followed.
— LisaPisa (@lcummins579) June 24, 2018
From the dark side of the Moon?
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #238 I cannot.
I’ve ranted plenty about these surveys.
All they are showing is how the population have been programmed to respond to magic words.
Over and over again, by simply changing the words of a question which otherwise have the same denotation, responses will vary by word choice.
These surveys exist for only one reason: to generate heat (to get eyes on articles/broadcasts.)
Real economic data comes from the departments of Commerce and Treasury, and from the Fed.
re: #75 freetoken
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
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George Romney did not march with MLK but he DID march arm-in-arm with John Conyers and John Dingell. They don’t build Republicans like that any more.
re: #33 allegro
Tanky McTankface
(I can’t believe I was the first to do that.)
As usual I didn’t read down first…
Maybe boaty mcboatface for irony
re: #245 The Vicious Babushka
George Romney did not march with MLK but he DID march arm-in-arm with John Conyers and John Dingell. They don’t build Republicans like that any more.
He- Romney Sr was a bigger man than his coward son.
re: #245 The Vicious Babushka
George Romney did not march with MLK but he DID march arm-in-arm with John Conyers and John Dingell. They don’t build Republicans like that any more.
Prior to Reagan, the place you were from told people more about your views than your party affiliation. The line between liberal and conservative didn’t correspond to the party dividing line. George Romney, if he were a rep, would more than likely be a Democrat if he were to stick with his views.
Edited slightly.
re: #236 jeffreyw
We have had differently styled, but similar, feeders in the past. I require that they all be alike to suit my quirks. The birds are happy with these.
One things for sure, with the population you have, keeping the solution in the feeders “fresh” is not a problem!
Oh, and good morning!
re: #211 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Trump would know about dirt since he’s filthy on the outside and inside. Projection.
re: #250 Belafon
Prior to Reagan, the place you were from told people more about your views than your party affiliation. The line between liberal and conservative and liberal didn’t correspond to the party dividing line. George Romney, if he were a rep, would more than likely be a Democrat if he were to stick with his views.
Yep. In fact, my grandfather whose views are probably my biggest influence had a Republican father.
The decline of the Rockefeller Republicans and rise of Dixiecrats turned R’s within the GOP was the worst thing to happen. I’d rather have Jerry Ford’s ideological soulmates then Strom Thurmond’s.
Trump team sees this and is like DAYUM WE GOTTA UP OUR GAME!
Thousands of #migrants have been expelled from Algeria into the Sahara desert… some at gunpoint, forced to walk 15km to the nearest town.
Read this and more stories here: https://t.co/lYjZizWn72 pic.twitter.com/hg975BHDdF— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 25, 2018
re: #216 Joe Bacon 🌹
You should tweet those stories at him.
re: #251 lizardofid
One things for sure, with the population you have, keeping the solution in the feeders “fresh” is not a problem!
Oh, and good morning!
I used to fill them completely, even early in the season, but I learned to be inefficient in order to gain more efficiency.
ONE reason why this public shaming will have some legs, for a while is that this current batch of republicans have loudly and clearly written off the rest of us
they wont answer calls
they wont meet in person
they dont do town halls
many like trump himself have said that unless you are an “R” you arent their constituent and they dont care about you
they have vilified and targeted democrats as vile, nasty, traitorous, evil, contemptible etc
if you cut off the people’s voice, if you stop representing them, the public square is all they got left
re: #260 dangerman
ONE reason why this public shaming will have some legs, for a while is that this current batch of republicans have loudly and clearly written off the rest of us
they wont answer calls
they wont meet in person
they dont do town hallsmany like trump himself have said that unless you are an “R” you arent their constituent and they dont care about you
they have vilified and targeted democrats as vile, nasty, traitorous, evil, contemptible etc
if you cut off the people’s voice, if you stop representing them, the public square is all they got left
The main problem being is that it isn’t just the Republicans doing so. The political media has been right there alongside them, downplaying how abnormal this shit is and reinforcing the constant double standards that have locked Dems and general anti-Trump voices out of the discourse outside of the points where they’re savage for proving ‘this is why Trump voters love Trump’ and that kind of bullshit.
Not an attorney here but do any lawyers know whether the Supreme Court non-decision today opens the door to discrimination based on race, religion, and gender as long as you can claim that a deeply held religious view promotes this discrimination?
Supreme Court wipes away lower court opinion that went against florist who refused to make an arrangement for a same-sex marriage https://t.co/gr2bwshHLC pic.twitter.com/EN7QM0om0V
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 25, 2018
I warned you. I told you this would happen.
The problem with burning it all down is in thinking that everyone else will have to suffer for YOUR principles while you yourself will remain untouched.
When you create an inferno, EVERYBODY gets burned. https://t.co/kk4XocKi8w— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 25, 2018
Fan-fucking-tastic….
re: #263 Citizen K
As if that wasn’t enough of a shit sundae:
#SCOTUS just held all but one of Texas’s legislative districts were lawfully drawn. Opinion below. https://t.co/iYLtOMbRmF
— Connor Mighell (@cmigbear) June 25, 2018
re: #263 Citizen K
Oh, but make sure Sarah Sanders has a seat in a restaurant. //
re: #264 Citizen K
As if that wasn’t enough of a shit sundae:
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Thank you Bernie Bros and Susan Sarandon. These are decisions we cannot overcome until we have a Democratic Supreme Court, which may not be in our lifetime.
Time to use my deeply held religious beliefs to deny wingnuts jobs.:/
re: #264 Citizen K
As if that wasn’t enough of a shit sundae:
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In dissent, Sotomayor accuses the majority of running interference for Texas’ racist mapmakers. Strong stuff. pic.twitter.com/cLgLgTNovq
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 25, 2018
re: #267 Hecuba’s daughter
Thank you Bernie Bros and Susan Sarandon. These are decisions we cannot overcome until we have a Democratic Supreme Court, which may not be in our lifetime.
We may be irreparably fucked. And I fucking hate that I can think that, but I can’t see any other way out of this, not with the constant Kennedy retirement rumors and RBG’s age remaining a factor too. We may be facing an institutional lock out that no amount of elections will fix.
The civil protests/shunning of administration officials weakens their certainty that the majority of Americans side with them. Sure, they know that liberal pundits and Democratic politicians are against child separation, but Real America (which to their minds is most of America—look at the red on the map!) wants the border secure, and are willing to tolerate some family torture to get it.
When they go to eat or shop somewhere outside the urban hellholes, and are still driven out, then they have to rethink their assumptions. And learn to cook.
And that is real torture. What is the point of having money and power if you can’t flaunt it in front of the less fortunate?
re: #264 Citizen K
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I’ve often reminded people that the Chilean Supreme Court rubberstamped all of Pinochet’s decisions, even the most abominable ones. The law is a ass, etc.
When you have 60 million nazis or nazi-symps in a country, there are consequences.
To reclaim your country against all this is a challenge of herculean proportions.
I realize they’re still making Planet of the Apes movies, but a reboot should focus on the apes revolting because the SCOTUS ruled they weren’t citizens even though they’re fully intelligent and are otherwise required to participate as citizens, such as paying taxes.
re: #270 Citizen K
We may be irreparably fucked. And I fucking hate that I can think that, but I can’t see any other way out of this, not with the constant Kennedy retirement rumors and RBG’s age remaining a factor too. We may be facing an institutional lock out that no amount of elections will fix.
We have a lot of work to do, but we’re in a far better position than the 1910s.
re: #263 Citizen K
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Fan-fucking-tastic….
Dunno which Kosh Naranek quote to throw at y’all, either
- “And so it begins…”
or
- “How will this end?”
- “In fire.”
This will not end well 😟— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
so looks like it took just 24 hrs for the Red Hen to get Pizzagate’d. jesus. pic.twitter.com/doJfh0mPTi
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) June 25, 2018
The first two decades of the 20th century saw the end of the great colonial empires of Europe; the average British of French citizen from 1900-10 wouldn’t have believed you if you had described to him what Britain, France, and the world, would be like in the 1930s, 1950s, etc.
I think it is clear that the same thing is occurring now with respect to the American “empire” which is collapsing as we live through it, and I doubt we can even imagine what the geopolitical situation will be like in, say, 2050.
re: #276 The Vicious Babushka
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders own brother is an animal abuser and her father defended Josh Duggar.
re: #277 Lupin
The first two decades of the 20th century saw the end of the great colonial empires of Europe; the average British of French citizen from 1900-10 wouldn’t have believed you if you had described to him what Britain, France, and the world, would be like in the 1930s, 1950s, etc.
I think it is clear that the same thing is occurring now with respect to the American “empire” which is collapsing as we live through it, and I doubt we can even imagine what the geopolitical situation will be like in, say, 2050.
What we’re experiencing imo reminds me of Spain of the 30’s. One side embracing the new present and reality and the other clinging to the past.
re: #276 The Vicious Babushka
Why can’t they be civil?
Hang this in the Louvre. CNN’s “both sides” montage perfectly encapsulating the fallacy of mainstream media equivalence: all the conservatives examples are bald racism and all the liberal examples are…being rude pic.twitter.com/B6mOARNEv6
— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) June 25, 2018
re: #276 The Vicious Babushka
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Not at all, it’s a classic schtick. You wouldn’t believe where it came from… Against the left instead of the Jews this time… 😟
“Here, kids, I have some candy for you. But you both
have to come with me.”
Source: “Der Giftpilz” / “The Poisonous Mushroom” by Ernst Hiemer (1938) pic.twitter.com/DN7FCAOCzC— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
Only took me a few minutes to Godwin. *ducks*
re: #279 HappyWarrior
What we’re experiencing imo reminds me of Spain of the 30’s. One side embracing the new present and reality and the other clinging to the past.
I think this could have been said of the whole of Europe, but Franco “froze” Spain as if it were in amber. I remember going there in the early 70ies (coming from France) and it looked like I’d time traveled back to the late 30s/early 40s, well, my parent’s era, anyway.
Like Vir Cotto, I wish to someday wave at Trump’s head on a pike (figuratively). It won’t restore the US (no more than it did Centauri) but it’ll make me feel good.
re: #282 HappyWarrior
Yep. Honestly why shouldn’t we be fucking pissed.
Because it hurts their fee-fees. And we know that only ‘Real Americans’ feelings and anger are valid.
— 💉realfarmacist💊💎 (@real_farmacist) June 25, 2018
Winning
Harley-Davidson will shift some U.S. production abroad to avoid European Union tariffs imposed in retaliation to President Trump’s trade policy https://t.co/2HWRsDR3lR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 25, 2018
re: #281 Citizen K
Hang this in the Louvre. CNN’s “both sides” montage perfectly encapsulating the fallacy of mainstream media equivalence: all the conservatives examples are bald racism and all the liberal examples are…being rude
For sure the French Maquisards were extremely rude to the German tourists of the times. Smelling salts, please.
re: #277 Lupin
The first two decades of the 20th century saw the end of the great colonial empires of Europe; the average British of French citizen from 1900-10 wouldn’t have believed you if you had described to him what Britain, France, and the world, would be like in the 1930s, 1950s, etc.
I think it is clear that the same thing is occurring now with respect to the American “empire” which is collapsing as we live through it, and I doubt we can even imagine what the geopolitical situation will be like in, say, 2050.
And our collapse is due to the fact that we haven’t played the typical Empire - we don’t require other countries to pay for our military nor are they required to treat us as first among equals (that doesn’t mean countries don’t for obvious reasons) - and Trump has been trying to change the arrangement to an extortion racket.
re: #284 Lupin
I think this could have been said of the whole of Europe, but Franco “froze” Spain as if it were in amber. I remember going there in the early 70ies (coming from France) and it looked like I’d time traveled back to the late 30s/early 40s, well, my parent’s era, anyway.
Like Vir Cotto, I wish to someday wave at Trump’s head on a pike (figuratively). It won’t restore the US (no more than it did Centauri) but it’ll make me feel good.
Oh for sure. That really was I think the heart of what the 20th century conflicts were about. Modernity vs the Past.
re: #287 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Winning
And, more winning
The yield curve is perilously close to predicting a recession — something it has done before with surprising accuracy — and it’s become a big topic on Wall Street.
Here’s what the fuss is all about: https://t.co/OzF7ntDdBP— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 25, 2018
re: #289 Belafon
And our collapse is due to the fact that we haven’t played the typical Empire - we don’t require other countries to pay for our military nor are they required to treat us as first among equals (that doesn’t mean countries don’t for obvious reasons) - and Trump has been trying to change the arrangement to an extortion racket.
Like all analogies mine fail in the details; history only stutters; but I’m firmly convinced that the world of, say, 2050 will be “bigly” different from what we see today.
re: #292 Lupin
Like all analogies mine fail in the details; history only stutters; but I’m firmly convinced that the world of, say, 2050 will be “bigly” different from what we see today.
I agree. 30 years from now will look different. The US was not going to remain at the top anyway, in my opinion. What Trump, though, is doing is damaging the ability for Democratic nations to respond to the growing Chinese influence. What should have become a European-American-Pacific Rim alliance is now fractured. We might be able to fix it after he’s gone, but it will be weaker against China than it should have been.
Trump is justifying his immigration policy on the notion that citizens are being killed by immigrants. By that measure we should ban police departments.
The thing is we’re always fighting with people who have a past that never existed. The 1950’s that mani of Trump’s key demo grew up in? A time period with a much more lefty economy. And while it was by no means socially liberal, we weren’t doing Trump’s policy on immigrants then either.
re: #294 Barefoot Grin
Trump is justifying his immigration policy on the notion that citizens are being killed by immigrants. By that measure we should ban police departments.
And white males.
re: #283 Teukka
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Only took me a few minutes to Godwin. *ducks*
This could be a potential way to answer the pedophile and other accusations, using litterature from the era to answer questions like that…
re: #270 Citizen K
We may be irreparably fucked. And I fucking hate that I can think that, but I can’t see any other way out of this, not with the constant Kennedy retirement rumors and RBG’s age remaining a factor too. We may be facing an institutional lock out that no amount of elections will fix.
Yep. We told the voters repeatedly that the Great Society and even the New Effing Deal would be taken away and locked behind a door that could only be reopened via Constitutional amendment.
Kennedy’s quote about what-happens-when-you-make-peaceful-revolution-impossible comes to mind. And there should still be enough #ProudRaceTraitors to overthrow white rule before the bastards can ethnically cleanse the place. At least in theory.
p. sure that with THIS group of fascists it’s both the Nazi canard AND projection, though.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #299 Chrysicat
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— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
LOfuckingL
I have tried to stay uninvolved with the Department of Justice and FBI (although I do not legally have to), because of the now totally discredited and very expensive Witch Hunt currently going on. But you do have to ask why the DOJ & FBI aren’t giving over requested documents?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
lying moron
🐞 this way… Lady bug…💬.. 🍒🌸 pic.twitter.com/yptWqVeik0
— Wina (@wawinaApr) June 23, 2018
While the America media was busy debating “civility,” Trump just accused them of “treason.”
And nary a blip in their coverage.
But we’re mean. pic.twitter.com/eUjb5d0fbl— John Aravosis (@aravosis) June 25, 2018
Just keep giving Trump that benefit of the doubt guys. I’m sure you’ll win him and the GOP over someday….
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
Is Sarah fired?
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Trump’s America….
This racist woman calls this hard working Mexican man a “rapist.” She’s using the same rhetoric used by the bigot currently residing in the White House. This is the kind of people that Donald Trump has embolden. Identify her Twitter. pic.twitter.com/rcqjZgiy57
— Simar (@sahluwal) June 25, 2018
Trump haters still haven’t realized how much they help him with their condescension of those who either voted for him or don’t share their hatred of him. And how much they help him with their irrational hostility towards those who work for him.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 25, 2018
The same Marco Rubio who implied Trump has a small penis lectures America about Trump etiquette. https://t.co/koNwfiNOgH
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) June 25, 2018
My favorite kind of fake news is false fake news! pic.twitter.com/lTERGEleMD
— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) June 25, 2018
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t care about helping them. I care about stopping them.
If it’s helping them, then I dare SHS to go back to the restaurant.
What Marco (and a lot of Conservatives/Republicans) don’t get, is that people who are fighting against white supremacy are fighting it in all forms. If Donald Trump wants to act as the white supremacist in chief, and his voters/supporters want to act as white supremacists; we will push back against them. If those people don’t want push-back, don’t be white supremacists, or act on its behalf.
Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince’s phones, computer, @abcnews reports https://t.co/7vmNrKlg7M @meekwire pic.twitter.com/utMie57DTx
— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) June 25, 2018
“I’m riding the Trump wave. He’s Christopher Columbus,” says a Nevada pimp running for office https://t.co/53e2uQfoTK pic.twitter.com/TjVN8XEI67
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 25, 2018
there is too much going on in this one tweet for a monday it is just my opinion https://t.co/UkAMqC5rrZ
— darth™ (@darth) June 25, 2018
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A racist incompetent slaver who died broke? Yeah, I can see the comparison to pumpkin Pinochet.
Parkour trash panda climbs around the baffle, hangs from the birdfeeder, then unscrews the bottom with her hind feet to dump out the seeds 🐾 pic.twitter.com/Y8RXz6g0xH
— 🦝 Kurt Kohlstedt 🦝 (@KurtKohlstedt) June 25, 2018
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t Dennis Hof and Trump’s Cabana Boy, sean hannity, BFFs?
Yeah, I’ll just start at the ‘Columbus’ part. You have to admit he’s right about that; he’s planning his own genocide of a First American nation—the Maya— to match Colón’s of the Taino.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 25, 2018
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ok, I just let out a whoo-hooo! And did a happy dance. That slimy war profiteering asshole is long overdue to live in a cell.
re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOfuckingL
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lying moron
This has been the main item of news on Fox all morning: the 5PM deadline established by Nunes and co. They’re teeing up the total degradation of DoJ/FBI.
The #WorldCup is unlikely to produce a better soccer highlight than this
(🎥: @BarTVsports)pic.twitter.com/o4xhmeO2tg— SB Nation (@SBNation) June 25, 2018
re: #10 nines09
Some here follow Stonekettle. Even if you never heard of him, now you will.
Read this. You will not regret it.
I’m at the dentist’s office, laughing so hard I’m crying. And I couldn’t stop laughing.
They’re all looking at me. I couldn’t even get up to leave I was losing it so bad.
I had to turn the phone off and read the rest after I left.
Holy cow that was funny.
P.S. Dow is shitting the bed right now. -342.97 (-1.40%) as of 11:54AM EDT.
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Dude you got nominated using an ad showing Charlie Crist being nice to Obama. STFU you feckless wanker.
Today’s presser is on. For now.
No White House news briefing today.
— WHCA (@whca) June 25, 2018
Just added to schedule: Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will hold a briefing at 3:30 PM EDT. https://t.co/cM65zxhGoq
— WHCA (@whca) June 25, 2018
Update: they just added one.
This one might be worth watching. If Huckabee goes full Spicer and rages with indignity, she knows her stock is falling. If she is sedate, she’s checking out.
My money is on the former.https://t.co/vJD544zpE1— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 25, 2018
Saddened by how quickly people have forgotten the words of Mahatma Gandhi: pic.twitter.com/rpPbc9d9xI
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) June 24, 2018
re: #327 Dr. Matt
The market is around the same level it was back in mid-November.
So, in Trump-speak, it’s higher than it’s ever been.
re: #328 Belafon
So, in Trump-speak, it’s higher than it’s ever been.
“Setting huge beautiful records. No one would have thought it.”
re: #329 Dr. Matt
“Setting huge beautiful records. No one would have thought it.”
“I invented the Dow Jones 500. A lot of people don’t know that.”
re: #281 Citizen K
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Does someone need to remind the media that Trump already puts them in enclosures at his rallies and directs his followers to get their hate on at them? Do they not realize how precarious their position is? If separating children from their parents and locking them in cages doesn’t merit incivility, certainly locking up stenographers would not.
It’s Monday morning. Otter would like to say a few words… pic.twitter.com/7qvGS0ifwE
— In Otter News (@Otter_News) June 25, 2018
Missed this one. And learned a new hashtag #NeverAgainIsNow
BREAKING: Border Patrol @CBP just gave us this video of the detention facility we toured yesterday in McAllen, Texas. We weren’t allowed to bring in cameras, or interview anyone. To be clear: this is government handout video. pic.twitter.com/Zjy80qIZFZ
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) June 18, 2018
This is official U.S. government footage of the Not Cages at the border. https://t.co/5viKlzL00v
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) June 19, 2018
I’ve seen several tweets comparing this to Nazis / The Holocaust and saying things like “this is how it begins”. I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear - this ISN’T how it began. This is already several stages along the way.#NeverAgainIsNow https://t.co/HaYTrVyOGr
— Aviva Dautch (@AvivaDautch) June 19, 2018
re: #323 Dr. Matt
P.S. Dow is shitting the bed right now. -342.97 (-1.40%) as of 11:54AM EDT.
Intraday movements of this magnitude are usually pretty meaningless. I was there when the market dropped 22.6% in one day, courtesy of a new computerized trading algorithm portfolio insurance . 1.4% is nothing. Of course in 1987 the market recovered its losses by the end of the year. I wouldn’t pay any attention to such a modest drop.
re: #327 Dr. Matt
The market is around the same level it was back in mid-November.
OK: not to want to appear like Technical Market Guy again, but even at the current trading level, the equity markets haven’t even dropped to the last “trough” level of March’s major dip - though should they, things might get really dicey.
While the US economy is still, all things considered, reasonably strong (or at least “not weak”), moves on what Bloomberg calls the “Fear Gauge” are starting to sink in: mainly apprehensions about Trump’s trade-war insanity, and the realization that the low interest rates which have eased economic tensions for years are going to have to start creeping up sooner or later.
As of right now, the DJIA is heading towards the 24,000 level (down 442, 1.8%)if it busts through that, then WTFO……
ADD: what HD said @ #334 Hecuba’s daughter
re: #307 Dr. Matt
Trump’s America….
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This is what I’m always bracing for as a brown-skinned man in the West.
CNN anchor: “I just did an entire segment about civility here, I don’t know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist” pic.twitter.com/iXAhpBBynX
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) June 25, 2018
this is a perfect example of the inability to understand “white nationalist” or “racist” as a analysis of an ideology and not some insult. https://t.co/6dRxaxzSPE
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 25, 2018
just had a nice little power failure
battery backups rock
anybody miss me?
anybody notice?
sigh
For nearly 30 years conservatives have accused the Clintons of killing their political adversaries. Not metaphorically. Literally. Now you want to lecture on civility? Fuck politeness. https://t.co/PzXy3KXG7u
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 25, 2018
Hmmm pic.twitter.com/d7lIrXBQIa
— David Finnerty (@davidfinnerty) June 25, 2018
re: #335 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
DOW bouncing around the -400s
Winning
HOW DARE YOU MAKE AN OBSERVATION ABOUT THE DOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!!! FUCKING OUTRAGE!
FFS. No really, FFS.
New LGF rule: Don’t post about the Dow until the markets close.
*rolling my eyes*
#NeverAgainIsNow
The signs are everywhere:
▪️Discrediting the Free Press/Justice Dept.
▪️Holding Brown Shirt Rallies.
▪️ Creating/promoting propaganda.
🔴 Imprisoning Children.
🔴 If he’ll do this to ANY Child - He won’t hesitate to do it to yours.https://t.co/OKYPx5eijP— W Smith Ω 😎 Fire The GOP-Impeach Trump (@WesSmith123) June 21, 2018
“If Democrats won’t be civil in the face of fascism, then who will be?”
Alarming parallels of history escalate. pic.twitter.com/5P708XVa5h
— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) August 8, 2017
re: #344 Dr. Matt
New LGF rule: Don’t post about the Dow until the markets close.
*rolling my eyes*
New rule: Don’t post anything about the historical performance of the DOW because it might freak some people out.
re: #337 electrotek
This is what I’m always bracing for as a brown-skinned man in the West.
I wish we could say that things will get better soon. But, this country hasn’t hit rock bottom yet to make the upswing. Hang in there…
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No one in Trumpworld has any counter for facts and logic. Intelligence goes over their heads.
And Trumpworld and Fox both substitute their opinions for actual facts and the law. It’s impossible to argue with BS.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2018
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
David Lynch: Trump could be remembered among great presidents
he will be remembered among them as not being one of them
and if you “dont know” who you voted for 2 years ago, you’re a liar
re: #342 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What’s in the picture?
re: #344 Dr. Matt
New LGF rule: Don’t post about the Dow until the markets close.
*rolling my eyes*
while i woudl assume most of us are not ‘active’ every day traders and so are not too concerned with this kind of volatility, intraday ups and downs do matter and are an indiciation of something
re: #353 Belafon
What’s in the picture?
David Lynch saying Trump will go down as one of the greatest Presidents.
re: #353 Belafon
“Lynch claimed he doesn’t remember who he voted for in the 2016 election, but notes he voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.”
re: #356 SteelPH
“Lynch claimed he doesn’t remember who he voted for in the 2016 election, but notes he voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.”
Ah yeah that too.
re: #352 dangerman
he will be remembered among them as not being one of them
and if you “dont know” who you voted for 2 years ago, you’re a liar
The next few presidents are going to have to fix a lot of stuff, and will be remembered by history for it. As they’re sitting around, talking about the new president, they’ll reminisce about Trump, wondering how he survived his final years in the cold Siberian tundra.
re: #349 Dr. Matt
I wish we could say that things will get better soon. But, this country hasn’t hit rock bottom yet to make the upswing. Hang in there…
Not just in America, but also in Europe and Australia.
Because evidently only brown-skinned men are culpable of rape.
re: #358 Belafon
The next few presidents are going to have to fix a lot of stuff, and will be remembered by history for it. As they’re sitting around, talking about the new president, they’ll reminisce about Trump, wondering how he survived his final years in the cold Siberian tundra.
yeah, and ps
“”because he has disrupted the thing so much. No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way”
there is nothing “great” about chaos
re: #359 electrotek
Not just in America, but also in Europe and Australia.
Because evidently only brown-skinned men are culpable of rape.
and accaording to that nut woman above, every single one of them
The Virginia Republican Party has yet to respond to comment requests about their Senate nominee Corey Stewart endorsing a pro-white nationalist in November but is organizing a boycott of Red Hen. pic.twitter.com/ph6VvU7Z1V
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 25, 2018
This sums up the whole silly debate over civility. Trump debases the national discourse with bigotry, malice, and lies. GOP cozies up to and protects birthers, extremists, and white nationalists. Yet when Sanders, an enabler of much of this, is denied service, the Rs go wild. https://t.co/xEC1sKweA7
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 25, 2018
Once again, the GOP gets away with gerrymandering districts. Minority rights are at stake, and Gorsuch gets to put his thumbs on the scales to depress minority representation. He, along with the rest of the conservatives on the Court are intent on killing the VRA (what remains of it after Roberts eviscerated the enforcement provision).
Congress, while in GOP hands, refuses to lift a finger to restore the VRA and put new considerations in place to pass muster, and gives the bigot GOP the right to continue skewing the makeup of Congress and localities’ districts.
This is bad stuff.
[Now I’m late, but I’ve always wanted to say this] If they’re doing nothing, they are not good men.
— wench with wrench (@wenchwrench) June 25, 2018
As many will find out the hard way, when it’s too late.
And my gut feeling is that they will think that the Germans who had to tour the KZ’s after the liberation had it easy.— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
“Puppy + Mirror = !!!” pic.twitter.com/jrofuAwJYh
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) June 25, 2018
re: #362 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump the misogynist, sex predator, and white nationalist, gets a pass, but a restaurant takes a stand against Trump’s spokeshack and that’s a bridge too far?
Fuck the snowflakes’ feelings.
re: #362 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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It would be kind of awesome if people too far away to dine at @RedHenLex banded together to buy gift certs for use by worthy groups like veterans, teachers, social workers, etc..
Red Hen would get business. People making America a better place would get a night out.
Win-win.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 23, 2018
FBI agent for Mueller asked a longtime Prince associate: “Are you aware of any falsehoods in the testimony that Erik Prince gave to the House Intelligence Committee?” Associate tells @ABCinvestigates he answered yes & gave details of alleged falsehoods. https://t.co/aOGcWpa1Fj
— James Gordon Meek (@meekwire) June 25, 2018
re: #369 stpaulbear
They should sell t-shirts.
I hope they don’t get vandalized (or worse).
Cluck your feelings?
re: #352 dangerman
he will be remembered among them as not being one of them
and if you “dont know” who you voted for 2 years ago, you’re a liar
To be fair, Gary Johnson is pretty damn forgettable…
re: #372 freetoken
Doesn’t look particularly happy at being disturbed:
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re: #371 danarchy
To be fair, Gary Johnson is pretty damn forgettable…
Even I can’t remember what state he used to be governor of. Or at least, I try to forget.
They’re free to do what they’re doing against the restaurant but man if the irony isn’t a bitch.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
They’re free to do what they’re doing against the restaurant but man if the irony isn’t a bitch.
The problem they have is that their boycotts haven’t been nearly as effective as the left’s.
When I see anything about Donny Trump’s trade policy I imagine an ‘i’ being added so that it becomes: tirade policy.
Because that is how it was created, mentioned and carried out.
All of his policy is formed by his tirades.
re: #377 Belafon
The problem they have is that their boycotts haven’t been nearly as effective as the left’s.
Yep.
re: #377 Belafon
The problem they have is that their boycotts haven’t been nearly as effective as the left’s.
Boycotts are to be used by winners of the popular vote. Funny how that works. Almost like democracy.
re: #376 HappyWarrior
They’re free to do what they’re doing against the restaurant but man if the irony isn’t a bitch.
They are free to do so…however, Trump and government officials shouldn’t be using official accounts to attack businesses.
re: #378 ObserverArt
When I see anything about Donny Trump’s trade policy I imagine an ‘i’ being added so that it becomes: tirade policy.
Because that is how it was created, mentioned and carried out.
All of his policy is formed by his tirades.
His whole political career is a senile old asshole thinking he knows best.
re: #381 Weaselone
They are free to do so…however, Trump and government officials shouldn’t be using official accounts to attack businesses.
Absolutely.
Why are the proudly self-labelling “deplorables” now complaining about being deplored?
DC’s Red Hen was egged and is getting death threats. It’s totally unaffiliated with the Virginia Red Hen that kicked out Sarah Sanders https://t.co/3OA63XNkRc
— Jessica Sidman (@jsidman) June 25, 2018
This is why I pointed out that her use of a govt account was a violation & that POTUS’s tweet failed to live up to the standard of his predecessors who tried to act as if ethics rules applied to them. This is the mobilization of govt influence. One day it will get someone killed. https://t.co/FVLb95zmVd
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 25, 2018
THE DEMOCRAT LIBTARDS HAVE TO BE CIVIL!!!
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
re: #385 jaunte
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re: #386 b.d.
THE DEMOCRAT LIBTARDS HAVE TO BE CIVIL!!!
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re: #384 freetoken
Why are the proudly self-labelling “deplorables” now complaining about being deplored?
They were joking, it was sarcasm, and a couple more reasons…
The government compiled mugshots of thousands of immigrant children, taken just after they were separated from their parents. In many of them, the children are crying. https://t.co/oeF726BVqm
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 25, 2018
re: #385 jaunte
Egged and death threats. TOTALLY CIVIL
re: #392 wrenchwench
They were joking, it was sarcasm, and a couple more reasons…
They talk a tough game but they’re cowards.
Red Hen DC’s social media team needs a raise pic.twitter.com/BfITmjB9nn
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 25, 2018
Boy, the opposition can’t even find the right restaurant to egg and send death threats…
“Idiots. Idiots everywhere”
re: #394 SteelPH
Egged and death threats. TOTALLY CIVIL
[fainting couch media] IF THE DEMS AREN’T NICE AND CIVIL TO THE NAZIS RUNNING AMERICA THEN WHO WILL BE!?!? [/fainting couch media]
re: #377 Belafon
The problem they have is that their boycotts haven’t been nearly as effective as the left’s.
aw, c’mon.
There used to be an 14-month waiting list for Hamilton tickets, now it’s only 8 months. Winning!
My guess is the real reason Beltway editors flipped out on the Red Hen owner is her noble action makes them look bad. Their willingness to rub elbows with baby jailers at D.C. parties is looking even more complicit.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) June 25, 2018
re: #397 Teukka
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Boy, the opposition can’t even find the right restaurant to egg and send death threats…
“Idiots. Idiots everywhere”
That’s the only thing keeping us from total madness, incompetence.
re: #400 JordanRules
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re: #380 wrenchwench
Boycotts are to be used by winners of the popular vote. Funny how that works. Almost like democracy.
The point always is to cause Trump supporters to commit violence against all perceived enemies. That’s what a right wing “boycott” as all about.
Houston Police Chief responds to Texas Senator/troll
This is a watershed moment for our Nation, for our faith and for our humanity. We are a Nation that honors families, women, children and the elderly. We are a generous Nation & a God fearing Nation. If we don’t stand up for our long-held values and our faith now, then when? WWJD
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) June 20, 2018
re: #401 HappyWarrior
That’s the only thing keeping us from total madness, incompetence.
You haven’t seen total incompetent madness.
*goes for tyvek suit, gas mask, visor, boots and helmet*
re: #359 electrotek
Not just in America, but also in Europe and Australia.
Because evidently only brown-skinned men are culpable of rape.
Keep pointing that out. I think too many Americans think all of it is happening here only. We still tend to think only of ourselves.
I have a client that is Australian and he tells me how nuts it is there as far as politics, etc.
re: #407 ObserverArt
Keep pointing that out. I think too many Americans think all of it is happening here only. We still tend to think only of ourselves.
I have a client that is Australian and he tells me how nuts it is there as far as politics, etc.
We’re definitely not alone. See Brexit and Italy’s election.
re: #405 Teukka
You haven’t seen total incompetent madness.
*goes for tyvek suit, gas mask, visor, boots and helmet*
True true.
Me with my big sister in communist Cuba in the 60s. God blessed us with a kinder & gentler & God fearing America which led to our political asylum in this great Nation. Today, my heart aches at the thought families similarly situated to ours being treated like hardcore criminals. pic.twitter.com/20APyG7kDC
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) June 25, 2018
compared to what’s going on today at the highest levels of leadership. Enough said, speak up, lift up your voice. Our values and ideals and families are being torn apart one ugly tweet, statement, policy & day at a time, & only our voices can turn the tide. WWJD
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) June 25, 2018
This is a watershed moment for our Nation, for our faith and for our humanity. We are a Nation that honors families, women, children and the elderly. We are a generous Nation & a God fearing Nation. If we don’t stand up for our long-held values and our faith now, then when? WWJD
— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) June 20, 2018
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.— Proverbs 3:27
— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
— Ezekiel 16:49-50— Teo (@Teukka72) June 25, 2018
re: #403 Winston_Smith
The point always is to cause Trump supporters to commit violence against all perceived enemies. That’s what a right wing “boycott” as all about.
And a left wing boycott is all about speaking the language the rwnjs understand: $$$$$$.
re: #382 HappyWarrior
His whole political career is a senile old asshole thinking he knows best.
And his backers in a large part are senile old cranky white assholes that think they know best.
Like the woman in the video being confronted by the Mexican guy asking her if he has raped or sold drugs.
And once again, I bet she thinks she is some great God-fearing Christian. Here she is judging a man because of innuendo mouthed by our fat-ass hater president.
That is evil.
re: #414 ObserverArt
And his backers in a large part are senile old cranky white assholes that think they know best.
Like the woman in the video being confronted by the Mexican guy asking her if he has raped or sold drugs.
And once again, I bet she thinks she is some great God-fearing Christian. Here she is judging a man because of innuendo mouthed by our fat-ass hater president.
That is evil.
Absolutely. Or the lawyer who threatened ICE on the employees speaking Spanish.
re: #405 Teukka
You haven’t seen total incompetent madness.
*goes for tyvek suit, gas mask, visor, boots and helmet*
Imagine Inspector Clouseau on a week-long meth binge (X).
That simple equation would look like this:
X * ∞ = the Trump Administration
So what will the civility scolds have to say about the current President of United States seemingly threatening harm upon a sitting US Congresswoman?
I have a suspicion how this will go down since the congresswoman in question is black.
We’ve been here before.— Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) June 25, 2018
I’ve always said that fascism and communism’s different flavors were my favorite parts of studying them. American fascism’s combination of Ayn Rand values with Christian nationalism is certainly unique.
re: #418 jaunte
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That prick Kelly still won’t admit he lied about Fredericka Wilson.
I respond: “The immigrants don’t want to kill you. They want to marry you and have kids with you.”
And the data, of course, strongly bear that out.https://t.co/8Csbc8UeCK— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) June 25, 2018
re: #421 wrenchwench
..Steve King muttering the 14 words into the pillow over his head…
re: #388 Eventual Carrion
What a worthless POS
Don’t forget lying. There is no way that Waters’ comments could be interpreted as calling for harm. The implied threat in Trump’s tweets on the other hand…
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
GOPers calling for Democrats to show civility ought to take your leader to task for incivility. He’s the sex predator who grabs women by the genitals and you elected him for it. He’s the one degrading social interactions.
He’s the one under investigation for complicity w/Russia. https://t.co/Sfwwpju1xF— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2018
These are indisputable facts, and the GOP loves him for espousing his bigotry and hate. He fixates on women particularly. He hates being shown up by women, which is why he goes after @RepMaxineWaters .
Trump’s a bitter bigoted white guy.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2018
re: #421 wrenchwench
The problem, of course, is that these nutjobs think that rising rates of interracial marriages is all part of their “white genocide” conspiracy. In fact, they’d most likely tout such statistical evidence as some kind of proof that their apocalyptic fears are coming true.
re: #418 jaunte
The WP will insist that Maxine apologize for making Trump threaten her.
re: #428 Winston_Smith
The WP will insist that Maxine apologize for making Trump threaten her.
*cough* DARVO *cough*
re: #421 wrenchwench
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We’ve gone from being pretty much the same national background a century ago to inter religious and now inter ethnic in the 21st.
re: #425 Mike Lamb
Don’t forget lying. There is no way that Waters’ comments could be interpreted as calling for harm. The implied threat in Trump’s tweets on the other hand…
What did she say in case I encounter this?
re: #423 jaunte
..Steve King muttering the 14 words into the pillow over his head…
Steve King needs to be reborn as a stink bug.
In 2012, a bakery owner named Chris McMurray, refused to serve Joe Biden because he disagreed with something Obama said.Later that year, the Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan Presidential campaign asked McMurray to introduce Paul Ryan during a campaign speech.STOP BEING HYPOCRITES!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) June 25, 2018
“…Chris McMurray did decline to host former Vice President Joe Biden at his bakery, Crumb & Get It Cookie Co., during a 2012 campaign tour. A Biden staffer asked the business owner if the visit would be OK ahead of time, and McMurray said he declined, citing political disagreements.
The decision launched McMurray into the national spotlight. He appeared on Fox News, was featured in countless news articles and was invited to introduce then Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan at a Roanoke County rally.”
newsadvance.com
re: #427 Dr Lizardo
The problem, of course, is that these nutjobs think that rising rates of interracial marriages is all part of their “white genocide” conspiracy. In fact, they’d most likely tout such statistical evidence as some kind of proof that their apocalyptic fears are coming true.
They do not have the weapons to fight demographics. Which is different from democracy, and more persistent.
re: #432 HappyWarrior
Steve King needs to be reborn as a stink bug.
He thinks if he doesn’t believe in reincarnation, it can’t happen to him.
re: #433 jaunte
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And Obama/Biden didn’t encourage attacks on him either like Trump and SHS and old Papa Huckelberry.
re: #434 wrenchwench
They do not have the weapons to fight demographics. Which is different from democracy, and more persistent.
They’re afraid to death of change and you know what, good.
re: #436 HappyWarrior
Not being a Fox News viewer, this is the first I’ve heard of that incident.
Trump tariff sends Harley-Davidson production overseas https://t.co/mhuA0ATjQN
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 25, 2018
They will still blame the job losses on the
“illegals.”
re: #438 jaunte
Not being a Fox News viewer, this is the first I’ve heard of that incident.
Same. Just like Romney and FNC to make him a hero.
re: #439 DodgerFan1988
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They will still blame the job losses on the
“illegals.”
Of course, they will. Trump never takes responsibility for his fuck ups and his cult is too bigoted to care.
WH is spewing a series of tweets about people who died due to illegal aliens/undocumented persons.
They were silent about all those killed in mass shootings and refuse to lift a finger to stop gun violence.
Parkland and Las Vegas victims were killed in no less horrific actions.
And you do nothing except enable more gun sales.
Undocumented persons are not engaging in a crime wave. Border crossings are at multidecade lows. You’re showing your white nationalist bigotry.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2018
They’re using the families of those killed by undocumented persons to further their white nationalist agenda.
re: #439 DodgerFan1988
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They will still blame the job losses on the
“illegals.”
Of course they will.
THEY TOOK MUH JOB!!
re: #442 lawhawk
WH is spewing a series of tweets about people who died due to illegal aliens/undocumented persons.
They were silent about all those killed in mass shootings and refuse to lift a finger to stop gun violence.
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They’re using the families of those killed by undocumented persons to further their white nationalist agenda.
This is going to incite violence against all immigrants regardless of status. Trump wants pogroms against immigrants. That’s exactly why I don’t care about Scowlabee getting denied a meal.
Observations from a tour of the Tornillo detention facility, where minors ages 13-17 are being held after their apprehension by DHS and initial sheltering by ICE:
— Nigel Ashok Duara, Sr. (@nigelduara) June 25, 2018
They are surrounded by a chain-link fence. We were not permitted to shoot video or take audio. I talked to one kid briefly, “como estas?” He held my gaze for three seconds, laughed and said in Spanish, “You can’t be serious.” Fair enough.
— Nigel Ashok Duara, Sr. (@nigelduara) June 25, 2018
re: #446 jaunte
I already want that kid as a citizen.
re: #447 Belafon
A more honest response than a whole day of cable news panels.
I’m very confused. Why are more conservatives appalled by Maxine Waters’ comments than by Congressman Greg Gianforte who literally body slammed a reporter and then went on to win the election in Montana?
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 25, 2018
Donald Trump knows EXACTLY what his cultish followers will do when he calls them out to attack a small business like this. The president of the US is using the power of his office to incite hatred and possible violence.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #449 jaunte
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Because conservatives have different rules for liberals than themselves. It’s how they’ve justified Trump while crying Anthony Weiner and Bill Clinton.
re: #450 Charles Johnson
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I assume they already have gotten threats. He knows what his cult can do.
The people who were fine when Sarah Palin put pictures of legislators who voted for Obama’s healthcare bill in crosshairs, including Gabby Giffords who was later shot and nearly killed, are clutching their pearls over Maxine Waters suggesting people not be nice to fascists.
— OhNoSheTwitnt 🌈 (@OhNoSheTwitnt) June 25, 2018
Saw Waters comments. Pretty damn tame and the lock her up crowd complains? Snowflake wingnuts gonna snowflake I guess.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
And now the president of the US is explicitly threatening a member of Congress, with barely hidden racist language. https://t.co/Ce0daEho9C
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #458 thecommodore
Glenn Beck’s freakout.
He does that every couple of years or so. That’s how he reboots his brand.
re: #458 thecommodore
Glenn Beck’s freakout.
He’s not insane enough in devotion to Der Trumper. His protege, Tomi is doing her part to be America’s Next Coulter but Coulter isn’t stupid, bigoted yes but not stupid as Tomi.
re: #457 Interesting Times
Um…er…so this just happened o_O
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I checked - verified, not parody account. This happened to anyone else? Debating whether I should leave it be, or block (esp. if he retweets people for harassment purposes…)
RUN!
THIS GUY
After inquiries, White House abruptly canceled plans for a challenge coin featuring the president’s signature Trump Tower in Manhattan and his golf course in Bedminster, N.J. @kenvogel https://t.co/8hrEloSlvm
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 25, 2018
I’m so sick and tired of this bullshit right wing talking point that criticizing them only makes them stronger. This is utter crap, a childishly transparent effort to shut people up. Do not fall for it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2018
re: #457 Interesting Times
Um…er…so this just happened o_O
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I checked - verified, not parody account. This happened to anyone else? Debating whether I should leave it be, or block (esp. if he retweets people for harassment purposes…)
Yeah, he’s one of those that tries to follow everyone. There’s a few celebs, brands and notable people who do it. He followed me at some point months ago and I never really paid attention or think about it.
re: #459 freetoken
He does that every couple of years or so. That’s how he reboots his brand.
Looks to me like he is trying to get one of those KFC commercial roles as Colonel Sanders.
re: #464 Charles Johnson
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Funny how no one did this with Obama. Sick of snowflake wingers.
re: #464 Charles Johnson
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But Charles, don’t you remember Ted Nugent costing the Republicans votes because of the vile stuff he spewed?
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It’s time to stop voting against our own interests. Asian Americans need to wise up and end our blind loyalty to the Democratic Party https://t.co/99lmuB2Fpa pic.twitter.com/ZeThr4KX5g
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 25, 2018
Fuck John Yoo and his torture advocacy, and fuck the LA Times for giving this monster a platform and legitimizing him, let alone for letting him condescend to Asian Americans. He is not for us, by us, or with us. https://t.co/kQwuCRM0eB
— Anil Dash (@anildash) June 25, 2018
re: #468 b.d.
But Charles, don’t you remember Ted Nugent costing the Republicans votes because of the vile stuff he spewed?
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Yeah funny how DeNiro is just awful but Ted Nugent gets his ass smooched by Chickenshits like Romney.
re: #432 HappyWarrior
Steve King needs to be reborn as a stink bug.
Pinworm might be a more appropriate reincarnation for Rep. Steve King.
Two months ago, a Trump supporter pled guilty for threatening to kill Waters over her criticism of the president. https://t.co/kQMSHpVByp
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 25, 2018
re: #469 JordanRules
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Asian Americans don’t have a blind loyalty to the Dems, dumbass. If they prefer the Dems, there’s a reason.
re: #471 EPR-radar
Pinworm might be a more appropriate reincarnation for Rep. Steve King.
Anything goes.
re: #469 JordanRules
This is what happens when you don’t have War Crimes Trials for war criminals — they become normalized, and more importantly, so do the war crimes.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
Donald Trump has an app that swaps in “low IQ person” every time he types “uppity N-word”.
Oh, its true. https://t.co/PgapJVXEM1— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 25, 2018
on civility:
“the democrats” should be nice to us as we fuck them left and right, fuck up the system - health care, immigration, the cabinet, foreign police etc., lie to their faces and in general ignore them
I’d take Waters’ life of self betterment over Golden Spoon in his Ass Donnie.
re: #464 Charles Johnson
The problem is that it doesn’t seem to matter much if we don’t fall for it. The most important folks far as November goes, that squishy middle and/or no-shows from ‘16 and the media we rely on to actually hold Trump accountable, seem to believe it whole heartedly, the former mostly because the latter has become so complicit in normalizing Trump and persisting in treating anyone against him in the most delegitimizing of ways. There seems to be no criticism of him that can’t be shut down for the news cycle without the incessant tone policing. The kind that rewards perfectly bad faith from the GOP and punishes good faith from the Dems over and over again. There is seemingly no way to break through when they persist in ‘both sides same thing’ at best.
re: #477 dangerman
on civility:
“the democrats” should be nice to us as we fuck them left and right, fuck up the system - health care, immigration, the cabinet, foreign police etc., lie to their faces and in general ignore them
Be nice to us say the people who hang out with pastors who call LGBT people demonic.
re: #449 jaunte
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The big question is why are reporters more upset about Maxine Waters?
around the ‘net people are asking “where’s obama” in all this
- aside from the ex-president’s code
- aside from anything he would do or say would turn the discussion onto him (see samantha bee and the c-word)
consider this:
when trump finally is an ex-president (for whatever reason), you think he will do the ex-president’s code thing? not for a second.
and further - if he doesnt actually serve two terms (again for whatever reason) do dont doubt that he will constantly hint and ‘threaten’ that he’s gonna run again
re: #481 Weaselone
The big question is why are reporters more upset about Maxine Waters?
Because Dem outrage and anger is inherently invalid to them. Black outrage and anger is inherently invalid to them. And Black Dem outrage with a double-dash of Misogyny? That’s even more doubleplusinvalid to the point it needs to be smashed down immediately.
re: #481 Weaselone
The big question is why are reporters more upset about Maxine Waters?
“Both sides!”
I didn’t like Cynthia McKinney but her criticisms of Bush were always more harshly scruntized then white and male ones.
If a hateful person makes you hate, they win. If a bully makes you bully, they win. If a vulgar person makes you vulgar, they win. Let us meet hate with love. Let us meet bullying with an embrace. Let us meet vulgarity with civility. This is how our country and world win.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) June 25, 2018
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” -Zora Neale Hurston https://t.co/ClkNtLirNK
— Deborah Roseman (@roseperson) June 25, 2018
Meet Eric Erickson, who CNN booked TODAY to comment on civility. What a dumpster fire that network has become. pic.twitter.com/th810bdJwA
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 25, 2018
Fact is fucking Reagan always made “jokes” implying Dem voters were too stupid or dependent but the media ignored it because they loved the Grandpa Ronnie narrative.
re: #489 HappyWarrior
We fucking tried that Matt.
They went low. We went high. We got savaged for ‘going low’ anyway. It’s almost like we get no credit for trying to rise above the fray while the other side gets credit for not going full nazi regalia on us when they march for fascism.
They want the left to be weak and refuse to stand up for ourselves.
re: #483 Citizen K
Because Dem outrage and anger is inherently invalid to them. Black outrage and anger is inherently invalid to them. And Black Dem outrage with a double-dash of Misogyny? That’s even more doubleplusinvalid to the point it needs to be smashed down immediately.
this whole thing is just another aspect of ignore and dismiss
your opinions and outrage are wrong/not real/not worthy of consideration/misplaced
so just stop it.
re: #491 Citizen K
They went low. We went high. We got savaged for ‘going low’ anyway. It’s almost like we get no credit for trying to rise above the fray while the other side gets credit for not going full nazi regalia on us when they march for fascism.
Nugent gets invited to the WH after telling Obama and Clinton to suck his dick. Romney who said nothing about that cries like a sniveling baby when Jay-Z raps that he’s got 99 problems but a Mitt ain’t one.
re: #486 jaunte
WWJD? Use a whip and toss tables.
ATTACK ON FREEDOM: HATE-MONGERING HILLARYITES Just Shooed Stephen Miller Away From The Bird Feeder Where He Was PEACEFULLY ENJOYING BREAKFAST https://t.co/DXNCsIvAFm pic.twitter.com/GvcJMYCRfG
— PatriotHole (@PatriotHole) June 25, 2018
re: #496 Barefoot Grin
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Lies, Miller doesn’t eat from the bird feeder, he eats from a soul repository.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
I would like to see Maxine Waters & Donald Trump take an IQ test together, in the same room, and see who gets the higher score. I will bet that it’s not Donald. #resist https://t.co/5vTJ0RyF8I
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 25, 2018
re: #482 dangerman
President Obama was in my neck of the woods.
adirondackdailyenterprise.com
SARANAC LAKE — Former President Barack Obama visited the local area for some fly fishing Thursday and Friday.
His guide was Vince Wilcox of Wiley’s Flies, who has a fly fishing shop, guide service and motel in Ray Brook. Wilcox posted about the experience on Instagram and talked to the Times Union of Albany. The Enterprise could not reach Wilcox.
Wilcox told the Albany paper Obama had only fly fished once before, in 2009 in Montana.
“Apparently, when you are the president, you don’t have a lot of time,” Wilcox said. “But he did great. He’s a natural athlete.”
Wilcox posted that Obama caught “a couple brookies.” The guide wouldn’t tell the TU how many fish the former president caught or where, but he said Obama released all the brook trout except one, because he wanted to know what it tasted like.
Remember, black flies don’t bite, they suck.
Biggest single-week jump up in disapproval of Trump’s presidency. https://t.co/FUge750jan pic.twitter.com/l2njYgawli
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 25, 2018
re: #486 jaunte
Matthew Dowd ✔
@matthewjdowd
If a hateful person makes you hate, they win. If a bully makes you bully, they win. If a vulgar person makes you vulgar, they win. Let us meet hate with love. Let us meet bullying with an embrace. Let us meet vulgarity with civility. This is how our country and world win.8:50 AM - Jun 25, 2018
I have a question for Dowd.
How did Donald Trump win*?
Was Hillary and her backers hateful, vulgar bullies?
*The Presidency.
All the pearl clutching about civility in the age of Trump is full of hypocrisy.
That said…I don’t believe some of these tactics are effective. That is my problem with the “go after Trumpers in public” strategy and the nasty twitter shit postings.
To win in Nov, we will need centrist democrats, independents and disillusioned Republicans who have come to see Democrats as the only sane party. I want to win dammit. I don’t want to give them weapons to use to a) boost the R turnout and b) suppress our own.
And while it may not be fair, it is true; Maxine Waters will be a big story today and not just on Fox.
Separately, as for SHS…that was a privately owned restaurant that acted on their own, not the result of public demonstrations. Totally acceptable. But of course they will use it as a case of liberal intolerance.
Vulgarity with civility. Funny how no one lectured Trump supporters about that because the media was too busy coddling them.
re: #503 HappyWarrior
Needs to continue.
At same time, GOP approval of Trump remains at or above 80%. They are completely impervious to facts and logic at this point, and they are quite content with the white nationalist policies Trump’s exhorting. They’re fine with the fascist policies Trump’s leaning towards. They’re fine with abrogating the rule of law.
They’re fine with an authoritarian in Trump. They’re fine being in a cult.
re: #486 jaunte
If your neighbor is battering his wife and abusing his children, you snuggles yours.
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This is turning into a really shitty 64th b-day. I feel like this needs to be another ‘postcards to republicans’ day. I’m feeling overwhelmed by all of this Trumper crap today.
re: #505 blueraven
All the pearl clutching about civility in the age of Trump is full of hypocrisy.
That said…I don’t believe some of these tactics are effective. That is my problem with the “go after Trumpers in public” strategy and the nasty twitter shit postings.
To win in Nov, we will need centrist democrats, independents and disillusioned Republicans who have come to see Democrats as the only sane party. I want to win dammit. I don’t want to give them weapons to use to a) boost the R turnout and b) suppress our own.
And while it may not be fair, it is true; Maxine Waters will be a big story today and not just on Fox.
Separately, as for SHS…that was a privately owned restaurant that acted on their own, not the result of public demonstrations. Totally acceptable. But of course they will use it as a case of liberal intolerance.
That’s fair. I think my objection anyhow is the double standards.
Pelosi rebukes Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters for urging supporters to confront Trump administration officials
Hang it up Nancy. Why don’t you and Diane both retire and hang out at the nice girls club.
re: #508 stpaulbear
If your neighbor is battering his wife and abusing his children, you snuggles yours.
//This is turning into a really shitty 64th b-day. I feel like this needs to be another ‘postcards to republicans’ day. I’m feeling overwhelmed by all of this Trumper crap today.
Happy Birthday! Go for a nice bike ride around the lake or something.
re: #481 Weaselone
The big question is why are reporters more upset about Maxine Waters?
If you ask me it’s a big answer, not a question for quite some time now.
re: #508 stpaulbear
If your neighbor is battering his wife and abusing his children, you snuggles yours.
//This is turning into a really shitty 64th b-day. I feel like this needs to be another ‘postcards to republicans’ day. I’m feeling overwhelmed by all of this Trumper crap today.
Happy birthday!
My 64th is coming up.
re: #500 Shropshire Slasher
that’s around my place of origin. Nice area to fish for brookies for sure.
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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
