Other than making every single scandal have to end in “-gate,” what actually was Watergate? And has it been rebooted?
The Trump crime family is way uglier.
However, I’ll point out that leading up to Watergate, the 1960’s, was full of ugliness in the American public sphere.
And there goes @realDonaldTrump again, ranting insanely about the media like a goddamned skipping record.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
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Nah, he’s one of those mini-records that only has like 10 minutes of record time on it. Can’t say much, and it doesn’t sound good to boot.
I would lay money on his ghost writer working on Sundays
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/UI90fFimTE
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) July 29, 2018
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/jMbvahYqMr
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) July 29, 2018
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/XY7F7vS9Ez
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) July 29, 2018
A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/tCbnffqQ58
— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) July 29, 2018
The Obama were spotted dancing to “N***as in Paris” at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s show on Saturday.
“They are living their best life,” one fan tweeted. https://t.co/da0ZNFGvpv— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) July 29, 2018
The Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the 1920s, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/ATqKBx4bq0
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 29, 2018
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
Must be one of those “No Go’ zones we keep hearing about
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Street violence in Sweden.🇸🇪 pic.twitter.com/qMG1hYiMBK
— Dennis D Teach (@Agha_Zadeh) July 28, 2018
Has any leader of a major country cried so much in public like Big Donny Trump?
And that is in public. I can imagine how much he acts like a spoiled rotten two-year throwing a tantrum in The White House.
I guess he is not getting enough nappy time.
He needs to cut back on all those rallies needed to stroke his ego and make sure he gets his time in his little bed with the safety rails until he proves he is a big boy.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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He’s actually upped the rhetoric another notch, saying the media are selling out the country.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
Death is but a door. Time is but a window. Knock-off shoes will be back.
— Dog Dad Bod (@dogdadbod) July 28, 2018
Keep in mind that whilst it’s being said that @IvankaTrump is closing down her tacky company, it was reported last year that some of her merchandise was secretly relabeled under the Adrienne Vittadini. Just something to remember.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 24, 2018
#StayWoke don’t be fooled she relabeled her merchandise under #AdrienneVittadini https://t.co/8C3tLQhiAw
— Mrs. Nikki Todd (@mrsnikkitodd) July 25, 2018
They already arehttps://t.co/B1MXSoeQ8Q👿
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 29, 2018
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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Tapper is probably thinking anyone that loses to Donald Trump is a not a strong party.
I have a feeling many in the media think like that. It gives them some safe space to magic balance in.
Also gives them some excuse room if anyone says the media helped elect Trump.
It sucks. I’m sick of everyone positioning so as to not look responsible. Meanwhile here we are.
re: #11 ObserverArt
Abuse victims, and Trump loves abusing media companies and personalities as well as the general concept of “media”, find ways to rationalize their victimhood.
There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
And now, your presidential fill-in-the-blanks Madlib of the day. https://t.co/5CMgX1C0c9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Come on Jake, you know you want to call them “uppity”, you know you do…
Please tell me someone is calling out his bullshit. Like they aren’t allowed to travel around and *gasp* DANCE?!
re: #11 ObserverArt
Tapper is probably thinking anyone that loses to Donald Trump is a not a strong party.
I have a feeling many in the media think like that. It gives them some safe space to magic balance in.
Also gives them some excuse room if anyone says the media helped elect Trump.
It sucks. I’m sick of everyone positioning so as to not look responsible. Meanwhile here we are.
Yep. Even now we rarely get more than a few seconds of pressers given by Pelosi or Shumer. There’s no such thing as TDS except to the extent that his daily outrages against American democratic norms take attention away from things that truly need fixing like healthcare, prison reform, the infrastructure, cyber-defense, etc. etc.
A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, said he accepted President Trump’s invitation for a July 20 meeting mainly to raise his concerns about his “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.” https://t.co/SeVpHwKrGS pic.twitter.com/OAMhhHKgKw
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) July 29, 2018
It doesn’t seem to be working out as he hoped. [cough] https://t.co/VL9HkG9g7P
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
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I wonder what he learned today? He’s agitated as hell. Someone point him to a tee or a putting green.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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And just a few tweets away from that one:
Former White House Communications Director, @Scaramucci says he sees a certain ‘breach in the relationship’ between Michael Cohen and President Trump on #CNNSOTU. https://t.co/lF7WuSKTQK
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 29, 2018
Wow, an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Scaramucci—quite the get, Jake. How the fuck would Scaramucci know anything that’s going on? Why do they keep having this has-been never-was on all the time when he brings absolutely nothing to the party. And finally, it’s “sees” not “see’s.” For what you’re paying Scaramucci, hire a damn proofreader instead.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Obama will never escape criticism for anything he does…ever.
well, it worked so well for newt when he tried it
Trump threatens another government shutdown — this one, a month before midterms
re: #20 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Trump threatens another government shutdown — this one, a month before midterms
re: #5 Charles Johnson
The Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the 1920s
the democratic party at its weakest since the 20s is much stronger than the republican party has been for long stretches since the 20s
re: #9 Charles Johnson
He’s actually upped the rhetoric another notch, saying the media are selling out the country.
Soon we will get the imagery of the dagger in the back…
re: #5 Charles Johnson
There’s a real stupidity in this when you consider the fact that under normal circumstances, this is exactly what a former president and first lady should be doing… being private citizens. Former presidents, especially those who are barred from running again due to term limits, shouldn’t be at the center of American politics.
If he wants to make the argument that the apparent collapse of the Democratic Party happened under Obama, there’s a fair criticism there. They lost the House, they lost a near filibuster proof majority in the Senate, they lost a ton of governors’ offices and state legislative seats during the Obama years. And as the effective leader of the party, he probably bears some responsibility for that. But that’s is an argument that takes time and effort and research… it’s so much easier to hit the world with an emoticon
I’d lay good odds on another government shutdown, even if only a short one.
“Mr. Trump expressed pride in popularizing the phrase “fake news,”& said other countries had begun banning it. Mr. Sulzberger responded those countries were dictatorships &they weren’t banning”fake news” but rather independent scrutiny of their actions.”
https://t.co/dz9Us5v9Eg— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) July 29, 2018
Billy Graham died earlier this year and this event was the trigger for the Nixon Library to release a long-suppressed (censored) passage of a conversation Graham had with Nixon on February 1, 1972. It is as ugly as you thought it might be.
During “the Latter Days,” Graham is heard to say, Jews will be divided into the “Remnant of God’s People” and “the Synagogue of Satan.” The second group consists of those Jews in league with the devil, Graham says, who “have a strange brilliance about them” and are behind “all your religious deceptions.”
Mike Hertenstein, a writer who helped take down fake warlock Mike Warnke in the early 1990s, is the author of this very long article. He doesn’t just talk about the 1972 conversation. He fits it within the context of Graham’s life, within how Jews were seen during the period, how that view shifted with World War II, the Holocaust and the Catholic Church’s partial walkback of its longtime anti-Semitism with Nostra Aetate.
If you’re evangelical, have an evangelical background, or still have any lingering respect for Billy Graham, this article is just going to torpedo it to bits. Billy Graham was as awful as the guys on Twitter today who claim “the Jews” own all of media.
So, it looks like my 10 year old TV has given out (it was randomly turning on by itself, and now it won’t stay on). Going to have to get a new one, and am wondering if it’s worth bothering with a Smart TV if I already have an Apple TV that I use for all my viewing needs. I’ve heard nightmares where Smart TVs aren’t set up to upgrade software on streaming services and thereby render them useless, and since I’ve cut the cord, that would be a problem for me.
Don’t really see the point in paying double for features I won’t be using.
Any thoughts?
re: #24 KGxvi
There’s a real stupidity in this when you consider the fact that under normal circumstances, this is exactly what a former president and first lady should be doing… being private citizens. Former presidents, especially those who are barred from running again due to term limits, shouldn’t be at the center of American politics.
If he wants to make the argument that the apparent collapse of the Democratic Party happened under Obama, there’s a fair criticism there. They lost the House, they lost a near filibuster proof majority in the Senate, they lost a ton of governors’ offices and state legislative seats during the Obama years. And as the effective leader of the party, he probably bears some responsibility for that. But that’s is an argument that takes time and effort and research… it’s so much easier to hit the world with an emoticon
I’d be interested in your thinking on that sentence in your comment I made bold?
Because that is a simple statement that needs some support instead of letting it hang out there.
To me there is a whole host of things that go into what happened there. And I’m thinking a lot of it didn’t have to do with what Obama did or didn’t do. Sure he had his mistakes. But he also faced crap no president has had to face and that had a lot to do with how “he” lost seats.
re: #28 KGxvi
Two actually. Check Consumer Reports to see how well the new TVs rate. Also go to amazon and see what is on sale.
democratic socialism
trumpykins and other “conservatives” fail to realize that the majority of young people in this country get a real thrill out of somebody daring to run as a socialist - just like the 27% got its trangressive thrill hearing the orange entity run as an out-and-out racist
the more they shout “venezuela, venezuela” the more we get a thrill out of shocking them
re: #32 Danack
What model is your dead/dying tv?
Toshiba flat screen, HD capable, not sure the size, 48” maybe?
At the Reagan. Shit Sean Spicer is here.
re: #24 KGxvi
the apparent collapse of the Democratic Party
more apparent than real. it’s a classic case of how to lie with statistics
the fact is that the republican party has often been far weaker overall since the 20s than the democratic party is now
for starters, look at the huge majorities the democratic party had in congress in the 30s and the 60s
re: #28 KGxvi
So, it looks like my 10 year old TV has given out (it was randomly turning on by itself, and now it won’t stay on). Going to have to get a new one, and am wondering if it’s worth bothering with a Smart TV if I already have an Apple TV that I use for all my viewing needs. I’ve heard nightmares where Smart TVs aren’t set up to upgrade software on streaming services and thereby render them useless, and since I’ve cut the cord, that would be a problem for me.
Don’t really see the point in paying double for features I won’t be using.
Any thoughts?
Pretty much any decent 4K TV is going to come with Smart TV features, so just because you aren’t using them doesn’t mean you’re paying extra for them. What you’re paying for is picture quality.
re: #28 KGxvi
So, it looks like my 10 year old TV has given out (it was randomly turning on by itself, and now it won’t stay on). Going to have to get a new one, and am wondering if it’s worth bothering with a Smart TV if I already have an Apple TV that I use for all my viewing needs. I’ve heard nightmares where Smart TVs aren’t set up to upgrade software on streaming services and thereby render them useless, and since I’ve cut the cord, that would be a problem for me.
Don’t really see the point in paying double for features I won’t be using.
Any thoughts?
You’d not really be paying “double” for a smart TV these days, it’s now the default option; plain old TVs (especially large ones) are going the way of the dodo. TCL (who has sets with Roku functionality built-in) and Vizio (who tends to keep their TV apps updated fairly well) are pretty good and usually very reasonably priced.
Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
President Manbaby is really agitated today. This is tweet #9. https://t.co/4pUQC38LHQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
re: #39 Charles Johnson
Perhaps he’s really constipated today?
re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That is probably why he is tweeting so much.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
Guy with this profile just called me stupid. pic.twitter.com/jVTxE5rYrp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
re: #27 mmmirele
That’s not a problem for me. I had no respect for Billy Graham during his lifetime, and have less for his son now.
re: #31 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
democratic socialism
trumpykins and other “conservatives” fail to realize that the majority of young people in this country get a real thrill out of somebody daring to run as a socialist - just like the 27% got its trangressive thrill hearing the orange entity run as an out-and-out racist
the more they shout “venezuela, venezuela” the more we get a thrill out of shocking them
They would love to convince these idealists that they do not need to support the Democrats.
re: #29 ObserverArt
I’d be interested in your thinking on that sentence in your comment I made bold?
Because that is a simple statement that needs some support instead of letting it hang out there.
To me there is a whole host of things that go into what happened there. And I’m thinking a lot of it didn’t have to do with what Obama did or didn’t do. Sure he had his mistakes. But he also faced crap no president has had to face and that had a lot to do with how “he” lost seats.
I want to be clear, I don’t think he bears the majority of blame for the current state of the party. And based on what we’ve seen since 2016, I think the Democratic Party is not really in the wilderness in the way that it is often portrayed.
But I think Obama probably didn’t pay enough attention to building the party as he could have. The DNC definitely did not do enough to train and recruit candidates. The DNC focused too much on electability, and often ended up with bad candidates. This is one of those things where the head of the party might not have been directly involved, but could have set the direction better.
If that makes any sort of sense.
There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
When my Uncle Ted has a bad day on the golf course, he just throws his putter. https://t.co/yYMy0WQj88
— ((((Peter Sagal)))) (@petersagal) July 29, 2018
re: #38 TedStriker
You’d not really be paying “double” for a “smart” TV these days, it’s now the default option; plain old TVs (especially large ones) are going the way of the dodo. TCL and Vizio are pretty good and usually very reasonably priced.
Ok, I was just looking at the Best Buy website and noticed that “dumb” TVs were much less expensive than the smart ones. Guess I’m going to have to drag myself down to the store and figure out what is what.
re: #49 KGxvi
Ok, I was just looking at the Best Buy website and noticed that “dumb” TVs were much less expensive than the smart ones. Guess I’m going to have to drag myself down to the store and figure out what is what.
Yeah, that’s not to say that plain old TVs aren’t still out there or that you can’t get a good deal on them, but by the time you get one and decide to add a Roku, Apple TV, or other set-top box to give you app capability (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, all of the different broadcast and cable channel apps, etc.), you could have gotten a smart TV to do pretty the same thing in one package. Me, though, I don’t mind having the separate set-top box, because I can upgrade it anytime, as opposed to the whole set; the media setup in my house is complicated.
What size are you looking for?
re: #44 Charles Johnson
So apparently the ❌ emoji in twitter names thing is supposed to denote people who think they’ve been shadowbanned.
There’s a bit of meta narrative going on here because, at least in Safari, when you search for the name of the emoji (cross mark) it doesn’t show up.
Update on a Comgressman John Lewis: Rep. Lewis remains in the hospital today until doctor’s observations are completed. He is resting very comfortably and fully expects to be released very soon. He is grateful for the concerns and well wishes.
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) July 29, 2018
re: #49 KGxvi
Ok, I was just looking at the Best Buy website and noticed that “dumb” TVs were much less expensive than the smart ones. Guess I’m going to have to drag myself down to the store and figure out what is what.
I never, ever use my smart TV. I have Apple TV and find all the smart stuff built into the TV irrelevant and annoying. FWIW & YMMV.
That neo-Nazi prick Sergey wrote about yesterday is no longer “shadow-banned” - he shows up in search results and convos now.
re: #49 KGxvi
Also, get a 4k or better. You will not regret it. The picture is stunning.
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
So apparently the ❌ emoji in twitter names thing is supposed to denote people who think they’ve been shadowbanned.
There’s a bit of meta narrative going on here because, at least in Safari, when you search for the name of the emoji (cross mark) it doesn’t show up.
Also what they call shadowbanning is really just the quality filter kicking in. Uncheck the filter in the notifications setting and then uncheck “hide sensitive content” and “remove blocked and muted accounts from search results” in the Privacy and Safety setting and they should show up.
Basically Twitter’s algorithm has just decided that their content is trash but the Twitter board won’t ban them outright because that would damage the stock price.
President Trump’s 2020 campaign denies reports that it is producing flags in China https://t.co/P5rFSU4LAq pic.twitter.com/llzTLssJXI
— CNN (@CNN) July 29, 2018
Thereby confirming that they are indeed producing flags in China. https://t.co/ENHZ4kARvr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
re: #54 Charles Johnson
That neo-Nazi prick Sergey wrote about yesterday is no longer “shadow-banned” - he shows up in search results and convos now.
I think his tweets were reported and he was in timeout. If that’s what they’re calling shadow banning, I think it’s known since they would get an email.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d lay good odds on another government shutdown, even if only a short one.
Last thing I and my 160 fellow employees at a Social Security Teleservice Center want. We old timers still remember when Tooty Frooty Newty and Ass Hole Dole made us work 5+ weeks without getting paid from Thanksgiving 95 to past New Years 96…
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
Also what they call shadowbanning is really just the quality filter kicking in. Uncheck the filter in the notifications setting and then uncheck “hide sensitive content” and “remove blocked and muted accounts from search results” in the Privacy and Safety setting and they should show up.
Basically Twitter’s algorithm has just decided that their content is trash but the Twitter board won’t ban them outright because that would damage the stock price.
Twitter actually does have some kind of shadow-banning code, though. I’ve never used the quality filter, or any of the other filtering options (they’re all unchecked in my Settings) but that “Jason Kobble” freak was completely missing from searches yesterday, and his tweets weren’t visible in conversations, even though I was not blocking him.
re: #29 ObserverArt
I’d be interested in your thinking on that sentence in your comment I made bold?
Because that is a simple statement that needs some support instead of letting it hang out there.
To me there is a whole host of things that go into what happened there. And I’m thinking a lot of it didn’t have to do with what Obama did or didn’t do. Sure he had his mistakes. But he also faced crap no president has had to face and that had a lot to do with how “he” lost seats.
Howard Dean was DNC chair from 2005 through 2009. He had HUUUGGE success with his 50-state strategy. That’s why the Dems had so many seats (federal and state) when Obama took office. Then it was Tim Kaine from 2009 to early 2011; the 2010 midterms were a debacle, that’s why he was replaced.
Donna Brazile was briefly chair during 2011 (bad job, needed replacing), then
Debbie Wasserman Schultz from 2011 until just before the 2016 convention. She did a HORRIBLE job. They should have never had a sitting member of congress in that job to begin with, but even besides that handicap she was just bad at it.
The President, if he cares to make an issue of it, gets to choose the party chair. He allowed incompetents to sit in that seat and do nothing useful. That’s on him.
re: #27 mmmirele
I have no love for Billy Graham Cracker.
Harry Truman on Billy Graham Cracker, “He claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he’s no friend of mine—especially after he embraced that SOB Nixon!”
re: #60 Charles Johnson
Twitter actually does have some kind of shadow-banning code, though. I’ve never used the quality filter, or any of the other filtering options (they’re all unchecked in my Settings) but that “Jason Kobble” freak was completely missing from searches yesterday, and his tweets weren’t visible in conversations, even though I was not blocking him.
Okay. Can’t say I’m surprised. I still remember back in May of 2015 I had a bunch of tweets mentioning @ChuckCJohnson that only I could see. I mentioned it here.
I just tested it and it’s still in effect. When I’m logged in I can see the tweet. When I log out it’s “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.”
re: #28 KGxvi
So, it looks like my 10 year old TV has given out (it was randomly turning on by itself, and now it won’t stay on). Going to have to get a new one, and am wondering if it’s worth bothering with a Smart TV if I already have an Apple TV that I use for all my viewing needs. I’ve heard nightmares where Smart TVs aren’t set up to upgrade software on streaming services and thereby render them useless, and since I’ve cut the cord, that would be a problem for me.
Don’t really see the point in paying double for features I won’t be using.
Any thoughts?
I have a Sony Smart TV. It does not have all the options that an Apple TV has. I get Showtime, HBO, Starz and FilmStruck thru the Apple TV. None of those are offered on my TV.
This video from Reddit user carmenlightning with added music by @minxed59 is essential viewing. pic.twitter.com/SP5UdOdXJr
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) July 29, 2018
re: #49 KGxvi
If you are a member of COSTCO, check out their TVs. COSTCO doubles the length of time of the manufactures warranty. Plus they have good prices.
re: #48 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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OTOH it’s good to know that in a real do or die situation Trump would remain ice cold and unflappable.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 29, 2018
fucking truth
re: #63 goddamnedfrank
Okay. Can’t say I’m surprised. I still remember back in May of 2015 I had a bunch of tweets mentioning @ChuckCJohnson that only I could see. I mentioned it here.
I just tested it and it’s still in effect. When I’m logged in I can see the tweet. When I log out it’s “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.”
But here’s the thing, what they did back then to my tweets was a true shadowbanning in that, for a while, nobody but me could see any of my tweets mentioning @ChuckCJohnson even if they used the direct URL. Whatever Twitter did back then was both selective about content and absolute in the way it censored while attempting to keep me in the dark about it. What they’re doing now is limiting search results but it’s not keeping others from going to people’s timelines and seeing the tweets if they want.
re: #39 Charles Johnson
Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..
Wait a sec: “a very nasty and contentious business relationship”?? I’m guessing that this is typical Trump-shit on Twitter, but what sort “business” dealings would Emperor Orangeanus have had with Mueller? It’s might be just Trump’s insane idiosyncratic definition of “business”, but WTF?
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) July 29, 2018
re: #69 Jay C
Wait a sec: “a very nasty and contentious business relationship”?? I’m guessing that this is typical Trump-shit on Twitter, but what sort “business” dealings would Emperor Orangeanus have had with Mueller? It’s might be just Trump’s
insaneidiosyncratic definition of “business”, but WTF?
He quit one of the yam’s golf clubs
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
But here’s the thing, what they did back then to my tweets was a true shadowbanning that, for a while nobody but me could see any of tweets mentioning @ChuckCJohnson even if they used the direct URL. Whatever Twitter did back then was both selective about content and absolute in the way it tried to censor content while keeping me in the dark. What they’re doing now is limiting search results but it’s keeping others from going to people’s timelines and seeing the tweets if they want.
All of this seems like a muddled, confused way to avoid making any value judgments about people’s opinions, ever, even if they’re deranged and dangerous opinions. Instead of stepping up and accepting that responsibility, Twitter increasingly relies on half-baked ill-considered software algorithms and untrained interns that just try to hide the problems instead of doing anything effective.
Kind of ironic that Twitter’s called “social media,” when they have no detectable sense of social responsibility.
re: #71 Stanley Sea
He quit one of the yam’s golf clubs
So nasty and contentious that he didn’t file a lawsuit or even write any letters that Trump can show us to prove his bullshit assertion.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
So nasty and contentious that he didn’t file a lawsuit or even write any letters that Trump can show us to prove his bullshit assertion.
It was Trump. He didn’t want to separate from Meuller’s money.
I prefer “The Trump Horror.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2018
re: #49 KGxvi
Ok, I was just looking at the Best Buy website and noticed that “dumb” TVs were much less expensive than the smart ones. Guess I’m going to have to drag myself down to the store and figure out what is what.
If you slap a Roku, Amazon Fire or Chrome Stick (or others) wifi streaming device on any TV you more or less have a smart TV.
Edit…I should have read a bit longer!
The very normal and stable tweets of someone who totally didn’t collude with Russia. Not even a little. Okay maybe a little but even if he did, is being installed by a hostile foreign government really a crime? I mean I once took an ashtray from a fancy restaurant in Italy. pic.twitter.com/YyAK81QVa5
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 29, 2018
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
Shadowbanning means your tweets will also be hidden in conversations unless you have a direct link.
re: #28 KGxvi
Any thoughts?
If you get a 32” or 40” 1080p NON-smart TV with inputs that include a 15pin VGA port (“PC input”) you can use it also as generic monitor for a PC or laptop, at a bargain price. A vga cable will cost you ~5 to 15usd. I use a 4-way IOGear KVM to use 1kbd, 1mouse, and 1monitor(TV) with up to 4pc’s at 1 location. A 2nd 4-way KVM lets me switch among 7 PCs.
A smart TV is likely to compromise your privacy (ie, viewing habits) and if used as a PC display, may compromise your computer/network security also. (Most will auto-connect to ANY available open wifi.)
re: #75 Charles Johnson
[If people ever start calling this ungodly mess “Trumpgate” I may explode.]
Peegate. Can also be spelled P-gate, with an allusion to Putin, which is a kind of double allusion.
Nothing grinds Jake Tapper’s gears like seeing Barack Obama enjoying life. pic.twitter.com/92ZQ2W3ni7
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2018
re: #80 wrenchwench
The Putin-Pleasin’ Treason Boy of Company P. - Bette Midler
re: #79 unproven innocence
If you get a 32” or 40” 1080p NON-smart TV with inputs that include a 15pin VGA port (“PC input”) you can use it also as generic monitor for a PC or laptop, at a bargain price. A vga cable will cost you ~5 to 15usd. I use a 4-way IOGear KVM to use 1kbd, 1mouse, and 1monitor(TV) with up to 4pc’s at 1 location. A 2nd 4-way KVM lets me switch among 7 PCs.
A smart TV is likely to compromise your privacy (ie, viewing habits) and if used as a PC display, may compromise your computer/network security also. (Most will auto-connect to ANY available open wifi.)
I have my older Mac Mini hooked up to my Sony Smart TV using it as a video monitor via HDMI cable. However it doesn’t transmit sound on the HDMI jack so I have to plug into a Beats speaker when I stream video (mainly Sling TV) on my MacMini.
Frustrating that my old Mini can’t upgrade to OS 12. And it’s been years since Apple “upgraded” the Mini with an inferior chip…
re: #82 Skip Intro
The Putin-Pleasin’ Treason Boy of Company P. - Bette Midler
This thing has legs.
And you have an avatar rivaling Backwoods_Sleuth’s for cuteness.
re: #28 KGxvi
These days finding a non-Smart TV will be like searching for hen’s teeth. Both previous suggestions (Consumer Reports & Amazon) are good bets.
LOL
Only Digital artists will understand this annoyance pic.twitter.com/gbh9wJ5EFi
— Shoto D. Chris (@chrisdlln) July 28, 2018
Floodwaters rushing into the WH, but POTUS is only
up to his knees. Giuliani swims by and says, “We’re all drowning! How come you’re only up to your knees?” Trump smiles and sez, “I’m standing
on Don Jr.!”— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 29, 2018
re: #86 goddamnedfrank
LOL
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gee…I would have thought the prob was the shark in the arm.
Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not - and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote “R”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
You really are an utter shitbag. Using children for their own sinister purposes? Well, you’d be the expert on that - sending yours to meet with Russian vote-riggers. Everything about you is corrupt and cruel and frankly fucked-up, you crusty, dayglo shitwiffle https://t.co/JPYl1MA66n
— Mrs Trellis (@theonlywayisup) July 29, 2018
‘Shitwiffle’ may be our new favourite term of abuse… https://t.co/SdKJSbyVbR
— Tripe Marketing Board (@TripeUK) July 29, 2018
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Immigration policies so dumb they’re why two of his wives are here and his mother. What a whiny shithead.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2018
And speaking of shade—MSNBC is showing “All the President’s Men” tonight. I don’t recall them running movies before. Anybody?
Nazi images, including a swastika, were discovered Saturday morning painted on a structure that is part of a Jewish synagogue in Indiana, the temple says https://t.co/ad3EHxFf7y pic.twitter.com/QYaxXPtdtQ
— CNN (@CNN) July 29, 2018
Thanks all for the TV advice. A friend is letting me have a lightly used Sharp TV with most of the things I need, so I’m going to go with that for the time being. Just cost $20 for a new universal remote, seems like a decent deal.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Which are worse, Illinois Nazis ore Indiana Nazis?
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
The sinister purpose of seeking asylum due to gang or domestic violence?
Something that Congress has recently said is a fucking stupid policy?
re: #94 KGxvi
Thanks all for the TV advice. A friend is letting me have a lightly used Sharp TV with most of the things I need, so I’m going to go with that for the time being. Just cost $20 for a new universal remote, seems like a decent deal.
Avoiding the hard choices. :)
Haha, just shared with my 83 yo mom (Tues = birthday) APESHIT
I roped her in since she’s been to the Louvre.
This ain’t watergate. At least back then there were republicans who cared about the country.
re: #98 Belafon
Avoiding the hard choices. :)
I was actually at Best Buy looking at options and she texted me, when I told her what I was doing she said don’t be stupid. Figure if nothing else it saves me a couple hundred bucks
re: #92 BeachDem
And speaking of shade—MSNBC is showing “All the President’s Men” tonight. I don’t recall them running movies before. Anybody?
It’s not the movie-movie — it’s a 40th-anniversary documentary about the movie. Which includes a certain amount of interviews with Woodward/Bernstein, and archival news footage, but also Redford and Hoffman and so on.
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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For the most part, Carmel, IN isn’t a place of economic insecurity.
Only on twitter… pic.twitter.com/QmueIOJmnt
— Confronting Holocaust Denial (@AgainstDenial) July 29, 2018
re: #104 Barefoot Grin
For the most part, Carmel, IN isn’t a place of economic insecurity.
I didn’t read the article… Carmel? Really? You’re not kidding - it’s one of the more well-off areas, as much as can be said for Indiana. But it is chock full of white Trump voters, and I’m sure that’s no coincidence.
re: #95 KGxvi
Which are worse, Illinois Nazis ore Indiana Nazis?
Well, Indiana was headquarters of the rejuvenated KKK in the 1920s and 1930s, filled with “sundown towns,” and probably has more Confederate flags per capita than anywhere in the south. But, yeah, I’d still say both
re: #103 sagehen
It’s not the movie-movie — it’s a 40th-anniversary documentary about the movie. Which includes a certain amount of interviews with Woodward/Bernstein, and archival news footage, but also Redford and Hoffman and so on.
I sort of remember Rachel talking about MSNBC doing this. She said it was to be educational and because of some of the parallels and the like.
Maybe it is also a way to remind people the president can be removed.
Yeah, I’m a bad person to ask about a TV. I paid wayyy to much for an OLED. While a fine picture, I just don’t watch enough TV.
Nobody is saying that Hitler didn’t kill Jews. What we’re saying is that he didn’t kill enough of them. Does that make sense? In other words, we really wish what you were saying was true.
— ICE (@FashGunsIce) July 29, 2018
re: #103 sagehen
It’s not the movie-movie — it’s a 40th-anniversary documentary about the movie. Which includes a certain amount of interviews with Woodward/Bernstein, and archival news footage, but also Redford and Hoffman and so on.
Ah—that makes more sense—on the TV listing grid, it just shows the movie.
re: #111 Nyet
What we’re saying is that he didn’t kill enough of them
only recently we were under the impression that american society overwhelmingly accepted the proposition that racism and endorsement of genocide are utterly unacceptable
our mistake
Just back from the Ronald Reagan library. Kinda blew through to spend time with Ghengis. I learned something really interesting. The worlds greatest conqueror was in some ways more progressive than our current Tyrant in Chief. All the empires religions were okay. Women could fight in combat. Adultery was penalized by death however. Interesting in a polygamous structure. The steel swords were fascinating. One had parts from Japan, Mongolia, but a true Damascus blade fro the middle east. Indian gemstones in the hilt. It’s original owner is not known but I think had to be someone rich and or powerful.
Two things got me. One was a piece of the WTC iron structure from 9-11. That was hard to see up close. Evert little detail just impressed itself on me, bent rivets, scrapes, patina. I was a bit lightheaded for a minute. Walking away I kept seeing falling man in my mind.
On the way out stopped by the Reagans grave. I realize he is a despised man. But what he represented was so kind compared to what we have now. For all his ideological and policy wrongs, he was a far better man than Donald Trump.
I could not bring myself to get within earshot of Sean Spicer who is there for a book signing. He sullies the place with every freaking step.
Warning—if you’ve recently eaten, do not look—this video and photo could make you toss your cookies.
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re: #117 BeachDem
Warning—if you’ve recently eaten, do not look—this video and photo could make you toss your cookies.
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This is something from the Washington Post that is a very interesting read. Carl Bernstein reflects on Watergate and similarities to DT and what is going on.
washingtonpost.com
I know there are at least two fans of Halestorm here. Anyone else up for a new release?
re: #116 Unshaken Defiance
On the way out stopped by the Reagans grave. I realize he is a despised man. But what he represented was so kind compared to what we have now. For all his ideological and policy wrongs, he was a far better man than Donald Trump.
Sorry, but, no he was worse. No where near as stupid and simply hid his hatreds behind a “gee wiz” & “oh shucks” pretense of geniality. If he wasn’t as blatant about his racism and hate, it was only that he had better script writers and handlers.
Look to his speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi and his reaction to the Black Panthers open carrying for the real Reagan. Look to the horrors he cheerfully inflicted upon Central America, financed by treasonous sales to Iran.
If there is a hell, he is in it as certainly as Thatcher, Pinochet, Franco, Mussolini, Stalin & Hitler.
re: #121 Unshaken Defiance
I know there are at least two fans of Halestorm here. Anyone else up for a new release?
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Already got it. Some interesting stuff but I think I liked the last one a bit better. Still Skulls, Uncomfortable, Vicious, and Do Not Disturb are in their top rank.
Police release surveillance photo of activist who set Betsy DeVos’ yacht adrift in Lake Huron. pic.twitter.com/UHK6fGOXvG
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 29, 2018
re: #123 William Lewis
I have one argument only. Trump has a far higher American dead body count than Reagan, and soon if not already, globally. All the rest I have no argument.
There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
Trump’s alleged knack for branding is slipping as he grows more enfeebled. Imagine if Trump Steaks were actually named “Trump’s Mall Meat Sold in Sharper Image Stores (My Favorite Store!) for People, Not Mallrats, Who Don’t Know Anything About Steaks (BEEF)! Yum!” https://t.co/nWJxaA7YqH
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 29, 2018
re: #122 Dave In Austin
I got permission to set up for steel work at the PMWest shop. 30+ years in non ferrous metallurgy and now I want that next challenge. Great steels.
re: #116 Unshaken Defiance
Sorry but President Pruneface ran a circus of endless corruption for eight years. He destroyed the industrial base of my home in Western PA and just flipped the bird to unemployed millworkers.
He let his pal Millken loot the pension funds of the steel companies and cheat union workers out of their pension and health benefits.
242 Marines killed in Lebanon and Brave Sir Pruneface Cut and run.
He let his pals loot and destroy the Savings and Loans.
He opened the red ink floodgates with the Kemp-Roth Deficit Increase.
He looked the other way when Oliver North let Blandon flood South Central LA with crack Contra cocaine.
He broke the union movement in this country starting with firing the air traffic controllers.
His Pulpit Pimp Pals kissed his ass while he NEVER stepped foot in a church while he was President and his wife’s astrologer was calling the shots for him.
Sorry, Pruneface Reagan still gets a F grade from me for being a total fuckup as President.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
Sorry, Pruneface Reagan still gets a F grade from me for being a total fuckup as President.
This simply does not disagree with what I said.
re: #130 Unshaken Defiance
This simply does not disagree with what I said.
I understand. Still hate that SOB for freezing my pay 3 times while he was in office. And he exempted himself from the government pension offset and windfall benefit reduction he forced on everyone else when he signed the 1983 Social Security Amendments.
re: #128 Unshaken Defiance
I got permission to set up for steel work at the PMWest shop. 30+ years in non ferrous metallurgy and now I want that next challenge. Great steels.
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re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹
As much as I can and do cut ties over Trump, I will not argue your points one bit. Not for Reagan, and certainly not among people I consider to be highly respected friends if actually only online friends.
This is Cosmo. He’s showing you how he mentally puppares for a hydrotherapy session. Must find his proper splish splash zone. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday pic.twitter.com/8MiP9tgOEM
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) July 28, 2018
You know what’s great about Dershowitz being on @KasieDC?
Nothing. Not a damn thing. Not one thing.
My lord. I want to buy a place on Martha’s Vineyard just so I can shun him.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 29, 2018
re: #132 William Lewis
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Reagan funded and trained death squads in Central America killed tens of thousands.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Jake Tapper’s wife: Honey, come to bed.
Jake: I can’t, I sense that somewhere Barack Obama is enjoying himself.— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2018
re: #137 Single-handed sailor
Yes he did.
Take a peek at civilian casualties now that Trump loosened up the rules designed to reduce the carnage of innocents. That’s not somebody else, as in foreign death squads. That’s us directly. If we are not there yet, just wait a minute.
Middle East civilian deaths have soared under Trump. And the media mostly shrug.
2017 was the deadliest year for civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, with as many as 6,000 people killed in strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition, according to the watchdog group Airwars.
re: #137 Single-handed sailor
Reagan funded and trained death squads in Central America killed tens of thousands.
Today people are fleeing the ruination that still remains, only to cross our border, have their kids stolen, and get locked up.
OK—we all need a smile. (And I REALLY needed one after the Mooch/Huckabee thing I posted)
Selfie taken in mirror by Jacqueline Kennedy (born 89 years ago yesterday) with Ethel Kennedy and JFK: pic.twitter.com/jPVknWE2if
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 29, 2018
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is horrible.
1) If this account is accurate, Trump was told directly that his attacks on media are prompting some news organizations to post armed guards outside newsrooms.
Trump’s reaction? He suggests that should *already* have been the case:https://t.co/qvPMPcHIjw pic.twitter.com/hnUCUItU6M— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 29, 2018
re: #145 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump and his Normalizing Russian Authority pals just want more blood to feed the Bela Lugosi Tree Of Liberty
re: #135 Dave In Austin
Dershowitz seems awfully agitated. Maybe all this evidence Mueller is collecting makes him nervous.
re: #145 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Everyone Trump knows already has armed guards.
He thinks his voters are their own armed guards.
re: #147 jaunte
Dershowitz seems awfully agitated. Maybe all this evidence Mueller is collecting makes him nervous.
As well as Rudy bouncing off the walls….
Michael Avenatti To Rudy Giuliani: ‘Buckle up buttercup’ Because Trump’s Stupidity Will ‘Catch up to him’
FINALLY!
One of the accounts I reported to Twitter is found in violation of their rules…
re: #155 goddamnedfrank
Yes! I have that page bookmarked!
re: #75 Charles Johnson
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“Trump” really should be the modifier at this point. As in: Watergate was nearly 0.7 Trumps.
2016: Mexico will pay for the wall.
2017: tariffs will reimburse you for the wall.
2018: you will pay for this goddamn wall and if you don’t I will close the government and deny you the public services you pay taxes for until you do.— feminist next door (@emrazz) July 30, 2018
re: #157 I Would Prefer Not To
what’s the long form? How do I use it?
Here’s the link to the Twitter Long Form!
re: #158 LastYearsMan
“Trump” really should be the modifier at this point. As in: Watergate was nearly 0.7 Trumps.
Who are we kidding? At this point, if Watergate is more than half a Trump, I’d be astonished. Inflation is ridiculous these days.
re: #143 BeachDem
OK—we all need a smile. (And I REALLY needed one after the Mooch/Huckabee thing I posted)
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Is it just me, or does Ethel look a lot like Hillary?
re: #161 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Who are we kidding? At this point, if Watergate is more than half a Trump, I’d be astonished. Inflation is ridiculous these days.
Watergate was more like a micro-tRump. To tell the truth, it was only about a milli-Nixon, but like Al Capone, you get them on what you can.
In 1968, there was a popular song that I decided I never needed to hear again. Yesterday, I heard it again, being performed live by a guy who probably had not been born yet in 1968.
50 years. Not bad, but if it’s another 50 before I hear it again, it will be too soon. And I will be too old to hear it, so that will work out.
re: #157 I Would Prefer Not To
what’s the long form? How do I use it?
Click on the link in my post. It’s a more specific form for reporting abusive tweets. It has a broader list of reasons to pick from, allows you to report multiple tweets at once, and gives you a text field to fully describe the problem in context.
re: #147 jaunte
Dershowitz seems awfully agitated. Maybe all this evidence Mueller is collecting makes him nervous.
Because he wrote a book called the Case Against Impeaching Trump and with every day that passes, it seems a more stupid thing to have written?
re: #166 wrenchwench
In 1968, there was a popular song that I decided I never needed to hear again. Yesterday, I heard it again, being performed live by a guy who probably had not been born yet in 1968.
50 years. Not bad, but if it’s another 50 before I hear it again, it will be too soon. And I will be too old to hear it, so that will work out.
Hey no fair. Now terribly curious what song that was. :-)
re: #169 Unshaken Defiance
Hey no fair. Now terribly curious what song that was. :-)
Dylan, from a couple years before ‘68. Never liked his singing, and some of his songs are very long. That’s all I will say.
re: #165 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Watergate was more like a micro-tRump. To tell the truth, it was only about a milli-Nixon, but like Al Capone, you get them on what you can.
And like Al Capone, it just might come down to the tax man to get rid of Trump for good.
re: #171 wrenchwench
Dylan, from a couple years before ‘68. Never liked his singing, and some of his songs are very long. That’s all I will say.
You’re lucky I like riddles. :p
re: #161 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Who are we kidding? At this point, if Watergate is more than half a Trump, I’d be astonished. Inflation is ridiculous these days.
I think 5 bungling burglers and 7 admin members was bad.
But this Trump thing has a freaking foreign country that has been an arch enemy tied to it, plus all the people possibly involved with the caper, and banks, The NRA, religious leaders…etc.
If this is all proven and it is as deep and wide as it appears Watergate will pale in comparison. Percentage wise? 5% to 10%. But let’s see how it turns out.
re: #171 wrenchwench
Dylan, from a couple years before ‘68. Never liked his singing, and some of his songs are very long. That’s all I will say.
My unpopular opinion. Don’t like Dylan’s voice, nor Tom Petty, nor Neil Young. But I can’t get over the songs they wrote.
re: #175 Unshaken Defiance
My unpopular opinion. Don’t like Dylan’s voice, nor Tom Petty, nor Neil Young. But I can’t get over the songs they wrote.
I’ve always liked Tom Petty.
re: #175 Unshaken Defiance
My unpopular opinion. Don’t like Dylan’s voice, nor Tom Petty, nor Neil Young. But I can’t get over the songs they wrote.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!11ty
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re: #179 TedStriker
It’s good to be king…
Okay well that’s at least my weeks ration of unpopular sentiment. I’ll be good now.
re: #181 Unshaken Defiance
Okay well that’s at least my weeks ration of unpopular sentiment. I’ll be good now.
Cutting chocolate cake into square pieces doesn’t magically turn it into brownies. There—I said it. Come at me, Bro!
re: #182 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Cutting chocolate cake into square pieces doesn’t magically turn it into brownies. There—I said it. Come at me, Bro!
I like pineapple on pizza. Especially with ham.
re: #182 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Cutting chocolate cake into square pieces doesn’t magically turn it into brownies. There—I said it. Come at me, Bro!
So I can have yours?
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Funny how tapper didn’t attack President Obama when he was out surfing with Richard Branson (white guy) but doesn’t like him dancing hip hop.
It’s always racism when Obama is attacked - always - and the people doing it would deny it - always.
re: #185 fern01
Funny how tapper didn’t attack President Obama when he was out surfing with Richard Branson (white guy) but doesn’t like him dancing hip hop.
It’s always racism when Obama is attacked - always - and the people doing it would deny it - always.
White privilege….ain’t it grand?
made onion rolls this morning.
then made multi-grain sourdough bread.
then made some plain sourdough bread.
changed up things in the kitchen and made some guacamole.
now there’s banana bread baking in the oven.
and a salmon fillet in the smoker.
busy day of foodie stuff.
sink full of mixing bowls and other stuff waiting to be washed.
i am exhausted.
Anyone following the HBO series “Sharp Objects” or “Succession”?
Brew doesn’t seem to want to install cmake. Been sitting there for an hour. May have to Control-C this bad mamma jamma.
re: #175 Unshaken Defiance
My unpopular opinion. Don’t like Dylan’s voice, nor Tom Petty, nor Neil Young. But I can’t get over the songs they wrote.
I would add Rod Stewart to that list. Some of their songs, though, really couldn’t be done in any other voice.
re: #191 Belafon
I would add Rod Stewart to that list. Some of their songs, though, really couldn’t be done in any other voice.
Early stuff: Good. Middle-to-late stuff: So bad…..Of course, I got older along then, maybe I developed discernment.
re: #189 Dave In Austin
Anyone following the HBO series “Sharp Objects” or “Succession”?
I’ve been following Succession… I hate every single character. These are vile people. All of them. I’m only watching to see which of them (how many of them) have horrible things happen to them.
re: #24 KGxvi
There’s a real stupidity in this when you consider the fact that under normal circumstances, this is exactly what a former president and first lady should be doing… being private citizens. Former presidents, especially those who are barred from running again due to term limits, shouldn’t be at the center of American politics.
If he wants to make the argument that the apparent collapse of the Democratic Party happened under Obama, there’s a fair criticism there. They lost the House, they lost a near filibuster proof majority in the Senate, they lost a ton of governors’ offices and state legislative seats during the Obama years. And as the effective leader of the party, he probably bears some responsibility for that. But that’s is an argument that takes time and effort and research… it’s so much easier to hit the world with an emoticon
The media supporting racism had a massive impact during those years. The way they attacked health care was impossible to believe - if I had not seen it.
The way the GOP obstructed the government, demanded a reduction in expenditure - only to forget the word deficit the minute they gained power - was not unbelievable - it is how the GOP has always behaved. Anyone heard a word in the media about deficits for the past few months? Did anyone see a democrat on any of the Sunday news shows post 2009? John McCain, the loser had a permanent position on those shows, the dems were never asked, and were too busy working to see what was happening via the media.
re: #192 wrenchwench
Early stuff: Good. Middle-to-late stuff: So bad…..Of course, I got older along then, maybe I developed discernment.
“Mandolin Wind” is probably one of my favorite Stewart songs.
re: #194 sagehen
I’ve been following Succession… I hate every single character. These are vile people. All of them. I’m only watching to see which of them (how many of them) have horrible things happen to them.
Yeah, It is somewhat captivating in that regard.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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So, what’s the modern day equivalent to the guys in the Watergate break in having an entry in their address books for someone at the White House? Is it Don Jr’s emails?
re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹
Russian Target #1 Claire McCaskill
Russian Target #2 is…Jeanne Shaheen
I’m going to make a wild eyed guess Russian Target #3 is Debbie Stabenow.
re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹
Russian Target #1 Claire McCaskill
Russian Target #2 is…Jeanne Shaheen
And the vote is still more than 4 months away. Many more shenanigans to come.
BREAKING: We’ve traced $3.5m from the $230m tax rebate fraud that Sergei Magnitsky exposed and was killed over to 11 different accounts in Australian banks. The Australian law enforcement authorities have been alerted. https://t.co/6oJ74Fu7cQ
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) July 29, 2018
BOOM! @AUSTRAC!!! 💪💪💪💪💪 https://t.co/hP6yWD6mAj
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 30, 2018
re: #199 KGxvi
So, what’s the modern day equivalent to the guys in the Watergate break in having an entry in their address books for someone at the White House? Is it Don Jr’s emails?
Jr’s emails, the bogus statement about the meeting crafted aboard Airforce One, the false denial by the White House that Trump was involved in crafting the statement, the second false story that he was obliquely consulted but didn’t actually write it, and the final admission that he dictated the whole damned thing.
Then there’s Cohen’s apparent contention that Trump knew about the meeting in advance. If Hope Hicks or anybody else on Trump’s staff can be pressed to confirm that it’s all over.
re: #174 ObserverArt
I think 5 bungling burglers and 7 admin members was bad.
But this Trump thing has a freaking foreign country that has been an arch enemy tied to it, plus all the people possibly involved with the caper, and banks,
Don’t forget that the crimes are ongoing — the Russians will continue to spy on Trump’s opponents and steal their information, and Trump is harassing the FBI so that they can keep on doing it.
re: #190 Charles Johnson
Brew doesn’t seem to want to install cmake. Been sitting there for an hour. May have to Control-C this bad mamma jamma.
Yeah, that’s a bad sign. And if Ctrl+C doesn’t do the trick, there’s always the good ol’ “ps -ef | grep | xargs kill -9”.
re: #207 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, that’s a bad sign. And if Ctrl+C doesn’t do the trick, there’s always the good ol’ “ps -ef | grep | xargs kill -9”.
This isn’t about coffee, is it. Must be Covfefe.
re: #208 wrenchwench
This isn’t about coffee, is it. Must be Covfefe.
Charles is definitely brewing something, but it’s more along the lines of software development and release process and less along the lines of caffeinated bean-water.
re: #205 goddamnedfrank
Jr’s emails, the bogus statement about the meeting crafted aboard Airforce One, the false denial by the White House that Trump was involved in crafting the statement, the second false story that he was obliquely consulted but didn’t actually write it, and the final admission that he dictated the whole damned thing.
Then there’s Cohen’s apparent contention that Trump knew about the meeting in advance. If Hope Hicks or anybody else on Trump’s staff can be pressed to confirm that it’s all over.
As Trump said, he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave and not lose any voters. His supporters do not care that he is owned by Putin. An acquaintance from college days posts articles from Mark Levin and others testifying to Obama’s weakness and Trump’s strength. They are brainwashed cult members — and the GOP in Washington is owned by Russia and complicit.
Why does anyone ever trust trump to do anything other than feather his own nest.
trump International Golf Links in Scotland partially destroys 4,000-year-old, legally protected sand dunes…
Scottish Natural Heritage, which monitors the country’s sensitive and scientifically important sites, said that construction of Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Balmedie “led to the direct loss” of up to 68 hectares of the 205-hectare Foveran Links site.
…During the original approval process, Mr Trump promised to minimise any environmental damage, saying he was “fully committed to mitigating the effects of the course on the environment”.
re: #211 fern01
Why does anyone ever trust trump to do anything other than feather his own nest.
Why isn’t Scotland doing anything about this?
*Gasp* (Love this little girl!)
This is powerful! pic.twitter.com/uoHlD0xmYe
— Poppy Mathobela (@PopMathobela) July 30, 2018
re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter
Why isn’t Scotland doing anything about this?
I believe they are - trump is trying to get permission for stage 2 - doubtful it will happen.
Hopefully they will just close it all down - but perhaps are wary of the long term legal fight that trump will enter into. Scotland is small & not very wealthy - main reason a majority didn’t want to exit the UK.
Everybody, gear up for infrastructure week. It’s bound to be exhausting. Electrolytes people!!!
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
And the vote is still more than 4 months away. Many more shenanigans to come.
re: #199 KGxvi
So, what’s the modern day equivalent to the guys in the Watergate break in having an entry in their address books for someone at the White House? Is it Don Jr’s emails?
Roger Stone’s DM’s with Guccifer 2.0 and/or Assange.
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
I’m going to make a wild eyed guess Russian Target #3 is Debbie Stabenow.
Or Heidi Heidkamp, Or Joe Manchin.
re: #213 Unshaken Defiance
She also has had about enough of this shit.That face. Damn.
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
I’m going to make a wild eyed guess Russian Target #3 is Debbie Stabenow.
Heidi Heitkamp
Why is my Spidey Sense tingling that #3 is Dianne Feinstein?
re: #223 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why is my Spidey Sense tingling that #3 is Dianne Feinstein?
What does that accomplish? She’s going against another Democrat in the general. He’s not going to be any friendlier to Trump.
re: #224 KGxvi
What does that accomplish? She’s going against another Democrat in the general. He’s not going to be any friendlier to Trump.
Dianne is the ranking member on the Intelligence committee. Knocking her off would put a less experienced Senator in her slot.
When George Wallace lost one of his early campaigns to an avowed racist, he promised that he would never be out-n*****ed again.
When George W. Bush lost his first election to Kent “Skeletor” Hance, he vowed that he would never be out-Jesused again.
It more recent times, conservative candidates have apparently committed themselves to not being out-dumbassed.
One of the most annoying behaviors on twitter. Don’t do this.
Jake Tapper’s wife: Honey, come to bed.
Jake: I can’t, I sense that somewhere Barack Obama is enjoying himself.— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2018
@jaketapper https://t.co/GhkoJ7mFYR
— rogerb621 (@rogerb621) July 30, 2018
People, please stop twitter snitching. If I’d wanted to @ the man I would have. https://t.co/SZGDF4c6WU
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2018
An American woman is three times as likely to die from childbirth as a woman in Canada, and six times as likely as a woman in Scandinavia. https://t.co/RfjfFhR13f
— NPR (@NPR) July 29, 2018
According to conservatives though, California is a hellscape of high taxes, power drunk gays, and rapacious gangs and Scandinavia is a terrorist-ridden socialist death camp.
re: #214 fern01
I believe they are - trump is trying to get permission for stage 2 - doubtful it will happen.
Hopefully they will just close it all down - but perhaps are wary of the long term legal fight that trump will enter into. Scotland is small & not very wealthy - main reason a majority didn’t want to exit the UK.
This is how he gets away with ignoring rules and laws — no one holds him account. A few small payoffs and he has gotten away with any infraction he deigns to commit. He must be brought to justice — as well as his entire criminal organization.
re: #222 Belafon
I was working up a little something for us California resistance people. I submit a proposed California Campaign Battle Flag.
Suggestions welcome
Why not put something in Latin on the top like Gens Una Sumus (Tr. We Are One People)?
re: #231 Unshaken Defiance
I was working up a little something for us California resistance people. I submit a proposed California Campaign Battle Flag.
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Suggestions welcome
Can the bear be chewing on a confed flag.
With @katierogers, Kushner and Ivanka Trump have waited out and ground down their critics, and are now as close to the center of Trump power as ever https://t.co/ptpGPv6DDL
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 28, 2018
This is true of the other hard-line anti-immigration ideologues within Administration. Another key example is ex-DHS hand Gene Hamilton, another former Sessions staffer, now at DOJ. Back at DHS, John Kelly deferred to him on consequential policies. 2/
— Jonathan Blitzer (@JonathanBlitzer) July 29, 2018
As more career folks in government have departed and/or have been increasingly marginalized, the problem’s gotten worse. One place (among so many others) to look going forward: refugee policy. Miller, Hamilton, and their allies at State will drive policy w no opposition. /end
— Jonathan Blitzer (@JonathanBlitzer) July 29, 2018
Being shot takes away from the joy of everything.https://t.co/XFjSoT05ya
— JRehling (@JRehling) July 30, 2018
re: #235 Unshaken Defiance
Maybe have the color band expand the spectrum so it doesn’t look like a rainbow flag but all the rainbow colors have a stripe in the scheme.
re: #229 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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According to conservatives though, California is a hellscape of high taxes, power drunk gays, and rapacious gangs and Scandinavia is a terrorist-ridden socialist death camp.
And according to my brother, California residents and businesses are all fleeing to the paradise of Texas with its low taxes. It’s a nightmare out there on the West Coast with homeless wandering the streets of San Francisco. Texas is number one in oil and gas production because if there is one thing this world needs it’s greater use of carbon based fuels!
re: #234 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The primary reason for the disastrous policy in Iraq post invasion is that ideologues were selected to manage Iraq instead of experts who were familiar with its history and culture. Now it is the United States that is the victim of similar ideologues — and the results are equally ugly.
re: #241 BeachDem
Just a reminder—new John Oliver tonight.
And another segment of This Is America! Who will SBC punk tonight?????
re: #242 Joe Bacon 🌹
And another segment of This Is America! Who will SBC punk tonight?????
Has the Sarah Palin segment aired yet?
LOL I know these aren’t massive numbers but for me this tweet is kind of taking off.
Jake Tapper’s wife: Honey, come to bed.Jake: I can’t, I sense that somewhere Barack Obama is enjoying himself.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2018
re: #243 wheat-dogg
Has the Sarah Palin segment aired yet?
Don’t know. I will check the episode when I come home from work tomorrow!
Falling wages are evidence: Trump’s tax cut hasn’t done anything for workers https://t.co/5MLEWr8N6A via @bopinion pic.twitter.com/KI16g7Pgqx
— Bloomberg (@business) July 23, 2018
It doesn’t matter that GDP is up if your wages are going down. And right now, your wages are down. Until we fix that, this is only an economy doing well for people already doing really well. https://t.co/zfrKkm02IX
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 29, 2018
re: #235 Unshaken Defiance
Good idea, maybe in the color band to tie that together.
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This design: amazon.com might give you some ideas. I believe it was originally created for the climax of The Postman.
re: #237 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not sure what you mean, or quite what that would look like
So, I saw this on FB:
“Don’t waste time hoping Trump has a heart attack.
He’s missing the required organ.
For a similar reason, don’t waste time hoping he has an aneurysm.”
Progress
#CarrFire [update] northwest of Anderson (Shasta County) is now 95,368 acres and 17% contained. Evacuations and road closures in place. Unified Command: @CALFIRESHU and Whiskeytown National Park. https://t.co/QmhauhZj9m pic.twitter.com/nEVgqpn6PZ
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 30, 2018
re: #249 Unshaken Defiance
Not sure what you mean, or quite what that would look like
Add a wider spectrum because it looks like it goes from Violet on the right to Orange on the left. I don’t see any yellow or red on the right.
re: #253 Unshaken Defiance
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Yes, that’s probably better.
And while we’re nitpicking/Photoshopping, maybe black-outline the Latin slogan to better stand out against the colors?
re: #253 Unshaken Defiance
Like that revised color band! Makes a statement of full inclusiveness!
Great Work!
re: #255 Joe Bacon 🌹
Now we see if it helps or gets out there past my network. Always fun to take a swing, hit or miss these days.
Just finished “All the President’s Men” on MSNBC. For some reason, I avoided the “Slow Burn” podcast, but I think that’s my next in queue.
re: #258 BeachDem
Whoops.
Just a little something for the mid terms. pic.twitter.com/W54R58OZzt
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 30, 2018
re: #247 jaunte
Seems to me housing prices are increasing, and wages are not. I would think a decline. or slowing of sales would be an expected result
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 25, 2018
I’ve just seen too many people, women of color especially, get stalked online & have their mentions turned into cesspools because someone thought it was cute to tag in people they deliberately chose NOT tag themselves.
Respect boundaries & don’t make these decisions for others.— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2018
We’ve had a lot of “the FBI and our IC are above biases and work for the interest of all Americans” lately with the Peter Strzok hearings, the Comey stuff, etc. But tonight’s refresher on Watergate combined with what we know about how they handled the Russian attacks reminded me of two things tonight: the modern GOP firmly believes that they have a divine right to rule and any and everything—legal and illegal—they can do to preserve power is justified; and many in IC, try as they might to be above politics, are fundamentally aligned with conservative values and will eye progressives with skepticism while giving conservatives the benefit of the doubt. That hasn’t changed since WWII.
I’m grateful for those in the IC who do great work. I’m just noting a general tendency.
re: #259 Barefoot Grin
Just finished “All the President’s Men” on MSNBC. For some reason, I avoided the “Slow Burn” podcast, but I think that’s my next in queue.
I had somehow forgotten since I first saw that movie; it’s 2-1/2 hours of detailed day-to-day storytelling of the six months from the break-in to the inauguration… then the next year and a half is condensed into a 3-minute montage of opening lines of stories of new developments until the resignation.
I love that a key early development that kept the story going was a white house fuck-up…
WOODWARD
According to White House personnel, Hunt definitely works there as a consultant for Colson. But when I called the White House Press office, they said he hadn’t worked there for three months. Then the P.R. guy said the weirdest thing to me.
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“I am convinced that neither Mr. Colson nor anyone else at the White House had any knowledge of, or participation in, this deplorable incident at the Democratic National Committee.”He looks up at them.
SIMONS
Isn’t that what you’d expect them to say?WOODWARD
Absolutely.ROSENFELD
So?WOODWARD
I never asked them about Watergate. I only said what were Hunt’s duties at the White House. They volunteered that he was innocent when nobody asked was he guilty.
re: #260 Unshaken Defiance
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That’s why they pay me the big proofreading/editing bucks!
Looks great.
Confederate monuments report raises idea of changing Texas capital’s name
Stephen F. Austin, known as the “father of Texas,” opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said that if slaves were freed, they would turn into “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.
Reminds me of another new name for Lubbock:
Trumpsylvania, alluding to both its greatest hero and its vampire economy.
re: #266 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Hell, I live in “Jonestown”. What the hell does that say?
re: #262 goddamnedfrank
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On the flip side, I can see how some people might do it because they think a burn that good deserves to be inflicted on the actual target (in other words, you might not have been the target of an intentional twitter snitch, but an overenthusiastic tweet-fan who genuinely didn’t know better. They certainly do now, however…)
re: #261 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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And you would not be alone in thinking that:
Market appears to be headed for its broadest slowdown in years
The U.S. housing market — particularly in cutthroat areas like Seattle, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas — appears to be headed for the broadest slowdown in years. Buyers are getting squeezed by rising mortgage rates and by prices climbing about twice as fast as incomes, and there’s only so far they can stretch.
Housing market showing signs of cracking - cnbc.com
re: #268 Interesting Times
On the flip side, I can see how some people might do it because they think a burn that good deserves to be inflicted on the actual target (in other words, you might not have been the target of an intentional twitter snitch, but an overenthusiastic tweet-fan who genuinely didn’t know better. They certainly do now, however…)
Yes, I understand their motives usually are good but it’s 2018 and there’s no excuse for not knowing this shit. I’ve seen too many people hounded off the platform because someone thought Greenwald or Cernovich needed to see how thoroughly they were made fun of, and the problem with snitch tagging is that even if you’ve blocked those people their fucked up, obsessed followers will still see the mention.
Bigfoot erotica? pic.twitter.com/a21mU8OpHD
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 30, 2018
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Music: Tchaikovsky -Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy pic.twitter.com/Mt3wU0yfkO— RΛMIN NΛSIBOV (@RaminNasibov) July 29, 2018
Raising expectations, Nunes says Americans will be “shocked” by what’s behind 21 redacted pages from the last Carter Page FISA. https://t.co/JAgEi86MgY @dailycaller
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 29, 2018
As of Wednesday he hadn’t even read those pages. It’s just autopilot scam artistry this point. https://t.co/jPJ0qYmSf3
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) July 29, 2018
I’ve read a lot of @Stonekettle over the last few years, many hundreds of thousands of words. This essay stands out as one his most important and well written. Required reading. Stonekettle Station: Quod Erat Demonstrandum https://t.co/dmTvqGMXoM
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 30, 2018
re: #276 teleskiguy
Just read. Absolutely.
And the ones who need to read it and take it to heart will never do so.
re: #272 teleskiguy
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Just yesterday, we had this warning from the AFA:
The American Family Association needs you to know that Bigfoot is not only real, but in fact a “demonic virtual reality” cast by the devil himselfhttps://t.co/tsRMcWnnME
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 23, 2018
For those few cave-dwellers and hermits who may not have heard yet, BIGFOOT EROTICA is a real thing and it has taken on political significance.
(You can shut down the internet now.)
re: #279 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
For those few cave-dwellers and hermits who may not have heard yet, BIGFOOT EROTICA is a real thing and it has taken on political significance.
(You can shut down the internet now.)
Next up: Texas evangelist arrested for hominid trafficking! Dozen Bonobo sex-slaves freed from parsonage! Claims FBI setup! Huckabee, Graham send thoughts and prayers, call for investigation.
We are saddened beyond words to report the death of Captain Brian Hughes of the Arrowhead Hotshots. Hughes’ crew was on the #FergusonFire on @Sierra_NF when he was struck and killed by a tree. We grieve his loss.
Photo courtesy of Brad Torchia pic.twitter.com/Lwy2MyH1jN— Sequoia & Kings Cyn (@SequoiaKingsNPS) July 30, 2018
re: #81 goddamnedfrank
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I hope Tapper is being dragged for filth for his stupid comment. President Obama and Mrs. Obama don’t owe the Democratic Party anything, to be honest. If the Democratic Party is at an all time low, there are literally scores of other folk who can address that problem. President Obama isn’t a Magical Negro and he can’t single handedly rescue Democrats.
re: #276 teleskiguy
I seldom share anti-Trump stuff on Facebook, but I made an exception this time. It’s a subject particularly close to my heart, as the grandson of immigrants.
re: #284 teleskiguy
I saw a T-shirt advertised on Instagram the other day: Go outdoors. The worse that could happen is a bear could eat you.
re: #278 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Just yesterday, we had this warning from the AFA:
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Mefferd went on to ask Dailey why nobody ever takes a picture of Bigfoot “at noon,” when someone could take a well-lit photograph. Dailey said that the devil designs Bigfoot sightings to happen when it is too dark to take clear photographs.
“The vast majority happen in the dead of night and you wonder, ‘Why is this?’ And then if you remember the biblical verse about the powers of darkness that love darkness rather than light,” Dailey told Mefferd.
Huh?
A good-sized chunk of the American population is apparently in serious need of cult deprogramming. How on earth do we do this?
❤🌞❤🌞❤🌞Snacktime❤🌞❤🌞❤🌞 pic.twitter.com/dRqCQ5tmIe
— Bettina Schroeder (@bettinaschroed5) July 28, 2018
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I’ve got ‘at least five more years’ https://t.co/HvNyXeQegB pic.twitter.com/ap5lr8KwPT
— New York Post (@nypost) July 30, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said on Sunday that she hopes to stay on the bench for another 5 years.
Ginsburg was speaking in Manhattan following the performance of a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia when she made the estimate.
“I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.”
Unbelievable. In 117 years of records here in central NL, the hottest day had a 24h average of 27.1°C.
On Thursday, the record leaped to 27.7°C.
And yesterday, it rocketed to 29.8°C, over 2 full degrees warmer than any day before!
Terrifying, even. pic.twitter.com/zaCjZxTs1F— Kees van der Leun (@Sustainable2050) July 28, 2018
re: #290 Teukka
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In one case, DHS argued in court filings that an arrest warrant in Russia was supported by a Red Notice—even though obtaining a Red Notice is as simple as filling out a form, and has no probative value of its own. https://t.co/aW0Q0CCWAE
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 30, 2018
re: #287 Dr Lizardo
Huh?
A good-sized chunk of the American population is apparently in serious need of cult deprogramming. How on earth do we do this?
You can’t undo 40 years of Religious Right brainwashing. They’ve been dumbed down to the point that they will believe anything a Republican Pulpit Pimp says!
re: #145 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #297 Joe Bacon 🌹
Holy CENSORED! SBC has me in hysterics!
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I stopped watching. it was too tough. Like kicking blind people when they’re down.
re: #266 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Confederate monuments report raises idea of changing Texas capital’s name
Reminds me of another new name for Lubbock:
Trumpsylvania, alluding to both its greatest hero and its vampire economy.
We are SOOO not there as a country. If you want to see some more whites in Texas turn against Democrats, make that a thing here.
re: #274 Single-handed sailor
Nunes’ side-job is filling out those web ads “You will be shocked at what Martha Washington looks like now.”
re: #299 Belafon
People today who rally around the CSA symbols are not doing so out of a real connection to the CSA.
It’s a reactionary movement.
Sort of like what children do when they do something they themselves don’t care about but they know it makes their parents angry.
But in this case, adults fantasizing about getting back at the larger part of society that is just different than they are.
It’s been around 60 years since the last Confederate soldier died.
Neo-Confederacy is about justifying other things than the CSA.
re: #301 freetoken
People today who rally around the CSA symbols are not doing so out of a real connection to the CSA.
It’s a reactionary movement.
Sort of like what children do when they do something they themselves don’t care about but they know it makes their parents angry.
But in this case, adults fantasizing about getting back at the larger part of society that is just different than they are.
Imagine arguing that we should change the name of Washington, DC right now because he had slaves.
One of my grandmothers I was around fairly often. Her own grandfather was a Union cavalry soldier during the war, brought his own horse. She had to know him, as they lived only a few miles from her when she was growing up. Though he died when my grandmother was a teenager, still, she knew him during her first 16 years.
Yet, my grandmother never told me any war stories, though she was surrounded by veterans growing up.
The Civil War just had no meaning to her, as far as I can tell. It’s not as if she ignored politics - I remember my mother helping her fill out a mail-ballot when she was older.l
Symbols are important to us humans. Yet, at some point, the past simply has to lay in the grave.
In doing genealogy it is a strange thing I come across, people who still want to hide what their ancestors (not parents, but people long dead) did.
As if shame is passed down through the generations.
re: #189 Dave In Austin
Anyone following the HBO series “Sharp Objects” or “Succession”?
Sharp Objects.
It’s good stuff but grim. I’ve read the book. Amy Adams is of course fantastic.
re: #266 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Confederate monuments report raises idea of changing Texas capital’s name
Reminds me of another new name for Lubbock:
Trumpsylvania, alluding to both its greatest hero and its vampire economy.
Sounds like Fox News is trying to distract us from something.
re: #302 freetoken
It’s been around 60 years since the last Confederate soldier died.
Neo-Confederacy is about justifying other things than the CSA.
They’re not neo Confederates.
They’re white supremacists. They’re white nationalists.
They’re goddamned Nazis.
Start identifying them as such because the romanticism associated with the Confederacy is sickening and obscures the intentions/goals.
They aren’t for states rights or romanticize the side that lost the War of Southern Insurrection (which they love to call the war of Northern Aggression).
They’re for making sure that minorities are put back in their place.
Trump gave them the green light at the highest level. That signaling included equating goddamned Nazis with the people protesting them at Charlottesville - even after a goddamned Nazi drove his car through a crowd and murdered a protester.
So, when someone like Pence says that Nazi graffiti found in Indiana is reprehensible, it’s hard to take him seriously - because he was part of the admin that condoned violence by Nazis operating here in the US.
An interesting question from @YouGovUS. Democrats want a candidate for Congress who is more like Obama than Bernie by 54-29 (I’m not sure that’s surprising, or if it is, in which direction). pic.twitter.com/zwOoIKFb7x
— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) July 29, 2018
re: #302 freetoken
It’s been around 60 years since the last Confederate soldier died.
Neo-Confederacy is about justifying other things than the CSA.
Second claim quite true.
And as far as verified Confederate vets go, Wikipedia sez the last one died in 1951: the last known Union veteran (an underage drummer boy) hung on til 1956 (died aged 106).
Weird though, even though I was quite young, to think there were still Civil War veterans alive in my own lifetime (even if extraordinarily few of them).
re: #171 wrenchwench
Dylan, from a couple years before ‘68. Never liked his singing, and some of his songs are very long. That’s all I will say.
Sad.
re: #308 lawhawk
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Not surprising to me. But I like to believe that, as people have learned more about who Bernie is and what he’s pushing, the whole “He’s an unknown quantity” mystique around him has faded badly.
re: #309 Jay C
Second claim quite true.
And as far as verified Confederate vets go, Wikipedia sez the last one died in 1951: the last known Union veteran (an underage drummer boy) hung on til 1956 (died aged 106).
Weird though, even though I was quite young, to think there were still Civil War veterans alive in my own lifetime (even if extraordinarily few of them).
There used to be a TV game show called “I’ve Got a Secret”. The special guest on this 1956 episode was an eyewitness to Lincoln’s assassination.
re: #308 lawhawk
Obama got stuff done. Sanders just bloviates.
re: #192 wrenchwench
Early stuff: Good. Middle-to-late stuff: So bad…..Of course, I got older along then, maybe I developed discernment.
His smoking gravel voice got more so. His poetry is what he is and why he won the Nobel in Literature.
re: #313 wheat-dogg
Obama got stuff done. Sanders just bloviates.
Exactly. Can someone name me what groundbreaking legislation Sanders has gotten passed? Sanders having grand ideas won’t mean shit if he gets caught in legislative gridlock because he’s unwilling to learn how to pass legislation.
re: #316 HappyWarrior
Exactly. Can someone name me what groundbreaking legislation Sanders has gotten passed? Sanders having grand ideas won’t mean shit if he gets caught in legislative gridlock because he’s unwilling to learn how to pass legislation.
Sanders as a senator has been a cipher.
re: #319 wheat-dogg
Sanders as a senator has been a cipher.
I mean I’m honestly sympathetic to a good amount where he comes from but he’s ineffective, short sighted, & an egomaniac.
re: #319 wheat-dogg
Sanders as a senator has been a cipher.
Sanders as a politician in general has been a continuation of the man he was before he went into politics: An opportunist. He’s jumps on popular causes as a means to advance his own career, but he never leads because being a leader means taking risks.
re: #321 Targetpractice
Sanders as a politician in general has been a continuation of the man he was before he went into politics: An opportunist. He’s jumps on popular causes as a means to advance his own career, but he never leads because being a leader means taking risks.
And it baffles me how he has managed to acquire such a cult following with such a thin resume.
A number of Republicans glumly agree that the Democrats’ tidal wave looks big enough right now to wash over the seawall they’ve built with gerrymandered districts https://t.co/28kGM11amx
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 27, 2018
re: #322 wheat-dogg
And it baffles me how he has managed to acquire such a cult following with such a thin resume.
Big promises. And he’s willing to call himself a Dem socialist.
re: #324 HappyWarrior
Big promises. And he’s willing to call himself a Dem socialist.
All while not actually being a Dem and following the party around with a big ass gavel.
re: #326 SteelPH
All while not actually being a Dem and following the party around with a big ass gavel.
I still think a big way to get rid of his mystique is to go at him from the left. I always go after him for his immigration record that won Steve King’s praise no less and him voting to allow guns on Amtrak and his two face bullshit about how gun manufacturers shouldn’t be accountable while holding other businesses to a different standard.
That’s a bit like asking how Donald Trump has managed to become the leader of a cult that seems that it would slavishly die to protect his power. Both men are appealing to a very real force in American politics, which is white resentment that manifests in different ways up and down the political spectrum. In the far-left, it’s a growing perception that policies and ideas that appeal to them (“free” healthcare and college) have taken a backseat to “identity politics.” That the DNC as a party moderated its beliefs and moved away from candidates like McCarthy, McGovern, and Mondale in order to appeal to minority voters rather than the “working class” that they (somehow) believe the party was built around rather than adopted.
It’s the same selfish attitude that drives a lot of support for men like Trump, just with a different set of excuses.
re: #322 wheat-dogg
And it baffles me how he has managed to acquire such a cult following with such a thin resume.
A lot of them sincerely believe in what he called for in his campaign. My wife worked for his campaign early on helping with canvassing so I got to visit local headquarters and attend an after-rally event just for campaign workers where BS and Brother Cornell showed up for a few minutes. His supporters ranged from stereotypical Bernie-bros to many retirees. My wife’s “handler,” if you will, was a young Hispanic woman from AZ getting a law degree—first legal American in her family. Her issue was education/fairness. Seeing them in action and their fervor, it’s easy to understand how they felt abused by Clinton campaign, even if not grounded in reality. His resume never came up. Just the hope for “socialist” causes like affordable (free) university education and single-payer health care. That was about it. No questions ever asked about foreign policy or BLM or those kinds of things. I think Cornell and Killer Mike helped to obfuscate his lack of interest there.
re: #323 MsJ
I remember reading a pretty well-written post on Reddit (of all places!) on how wave elections can overcome even the most hardcore gerrymandering. The thrust of the post was that in a wave election, gerrymandering is actually a serious disadvantage.
I guess we’ll see if that theory holds true (hopefully).
A searchable database of Trump’s deleted tweets.
re: #329 Barefoot Grin
A lot of them sincerely believe in what he called for in his campaign. My wife worked for his campaign early on helping with canvassing so I got to visit local headquarters and attend an after-rally event just for campaign workers where BS and Brother Cornell showed up for a few minutes. His supporters ranged from stereotypical Bernie-bros to many retirees. My wife’s “handler,” if you will, was a young Hispanic woman from AZ getting a law degree—first legal American in her family. Her issue was education/fairness. Seeing them in action and their fervor, it’s easy to understand how they felt abused by Clinton campaign, even if not grounded in reality. His resume never came up. Just the hope for “socialist” causes like affordable (free) university education and single-payer health care. That was about it. No questions ever asked about foreign policy or BLM or those kinds of things. I think Cornell and Killer Mike helped to obfuscate his lack of interest there.
I think a lot of them are sincere and want good policies. I just think they attached themselves to an ineffective jerk. Some of them tho are awful and I include Bernie’s own son in that. I normally wouldn’t go after a candidate’s child but Levi Sanders has political ambitions of his own and his Twitter feed is troubling.
re: #320 HappyWarrior
I mean I’m honestly sympathetic to a good amount where he comes from but he’s ineffective, short sighted, & an egomaniac.
I don’t know about others, but I sure as hell would like to know how much he was influenced by Russians, either directly and knowingly, or unknowingly but willing to use it to his advantage.
And in local news…Trump’s Shadow Mike Pence is landing in a little while in Columbus and then being driven to Newark Ohio for a rally for Troy Balderson to endorse him for the Ohio District 12 Congressional special race to fill the seat of resigning Republican Pat Tiberi.
Newark can be just a bit “red” if you know what I mean…so it is safe territory for Mikey to spew some hate toward Democrats.
I hope there is some resistance there, but knowing Newark, they will do everything to keep them quiet. But since it is only a 40 minute drive from Columbus, there might be a decent turnout of protesters.
Some parts of Ohio D12 come into the Columbus city boundaries and takes up a lot of the northern suburbs in the metro area.
re: #333 ObserverArt
I don’t know about others, but I sure as hell would like to know how much he was influenced by Russians, either directly and knowingly, or unknowingly but willing to use it to his advantage.
And in local news…Trump’s Shadow Mike Pence is landing in a little while in Columbus and then being driven to Newark Ohio for a rally for Troy Balderson to endorse him for the Ohio District 12 Congressional special race to fill the seat of resigning Republican Pat Tiberi.
Newark can be just a bit “red” if you know what I mean…so it is safe territory for Mikey to spew some hate toward Democrats.
I hope there is some resistance there, but knowing Newark, they will do everything to keep them quiet. But since it is only a 40 minute drive from Columbus, there might be a decent turnout of protesters.
Some parts of Ohio D12 come into the Columbus city boundaries and takes up a lot of the northern suburbs in the metro area.
I would too. That Pence needs to be campaigning in CD-12 tho, bodes well.
I must admit, part of my negative opinion of Bernie comes from the more militant of his supporters, who also tended to be the loudest and were making the most noise during the campaign. They seemed to be universally white, universally middle to upper middle class, either too young to shave or old enough to have seen Armstrong land on the Moon, and carry massive chips on their shoulders for the perceived “betrayal” of the DNC.
re: #335 Targetpractice
I must admit, part of my negative opinion of Bernie comes from the more militant of his supporters, who also tended to be the loudest and were making the most noise during the campaign. They seemed to be universally white, universally middle to upper middle class, either too young to shave or old enough to have seen Armstrong land on the Moon, and carry massive chips on their shoulders for the perceived “betrayal” of the DNC.
What I don’t like about his supporters and him is how they dismissed Obama’s accomplishments and I imagine the DNC felt the same.
re: #335 Targetpractice
I must admit, part of my negative opinion of Bernie comes from the more militant of his supporters, who also tended to be the loudest and were making the most noise during the campaign. They seemed to be universally white, universally middle to upper middle class, either too young to shave or old enough to have seen Armstrong land on the Moon, and carry massive chips on their shoulders for the perceived “betrayal” of the DNC.
He certainly did not help his case by not even giving a token effort to at the very least steer them in the right direction.
This series should be awesome:
Netflix announces new series on Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first black beauty mogul, starring Octavia Spencer: https://t.co/XDb75PIBjx pic.twitter.com/0t6vXDJiKH
— The Root (@TheRoot) July 30, 2018
Sanders also doesn’t know or seem to care about FP. Not a reason I dislike him but a reason why I don’t see him or Warren as presidential material.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
What I don’t like about his supporters and him is how they dismissed Obama’s accomplishments and I imagine the DNC felt the same.
Their usual explanation for that was that they were “disappointed” in him. It was a variant of the “Green Lantern effect” BS, the idea that Obama “could have done what he wanted,” but didn’t because he wasn’t really a “true progressive” and that it showed by how he had gone for things he could actually accomplish rather than turning the US into a socialist utopia. The ur example being that he hadn’t pushed for a single-payer healthcare system when even the more liberal of Dems were on the fence about such and Joe “The Senator from Aetna” Lieberman made it clear he’d scuttle the whole deal if the public option wasn’t nixed from the draft proposal.
re: #334 HappyWarrior
I would too. That Pence needs to be campaigning in CD-12 tho, bodes well.
One week to go, election is next Tuesday. The commercials got to the mud slinging stage a couple of weeks ago and they are now being shown all the time.
Here is how Balderson started out…
Here is where he is now…
re: #341 ObserverArt
One week to go, election is next Tuesday. The commercials got to the mud slinging stage a couple of weeks ago and they are now being shown
Here is how Balderson started out…
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“Ridiculous name-calling worked for Trump, surely it will work for me!”
FFS
re: #340 Targetpractice
Their usual explanation for that was that they were “disappointed” in him. It was a variant of the “Green Lantern effect” BS, the idea that Obama “could have done what he wanted,” but didn’t because he wasn’t really a “true progressive” and that it showed by how he had gone for things he could actually accomplish rather than turning the US into a socialist utopia. The ur example being that he hadn’t pushed for a single-payer healthcare system when even the more liberal of Dems were on the fence about such and Joe “The Senator from Aetna” Lieberman made it clear he’d scuttle the whole deal if the public option wasn’t nixed from the draft proposal.
They just don’t appreciate what Obama did accomplish and it pisses me off. And while I appreciate young people getting involved, there is a certain arrogance and dismissiveness to people who have been playing the game a long time.
re: #343 HappyWarrior
They just don’t appreciate what Obama did accomplish and it pisses me off. And while I appreciate young people getting involved, there is a certain arrogance and dismissiveness to people who have been playing the game a long time.
It’s a level of maturity and pragmatism that Bros generally tend to lack, an idea that you take the victories you can actually achieve rather than keep pushing for the unattainable and then cursing everyone around for constant failure. For the younger crowd, it’s a lack of practical experience that leads them to believe that sudden change is totally possible. And for the older crowd, it’s the refusal to accept that the rapid social progress of their youth (Civil Rights Era) was a unique set of circumstances and America is not the pressure-cooker necessary to lead to spontaneous and radical changes.
Looking for those commercials I posted just above I saw this at YouTube. I just had to check it out and found this is a whole lot of fun.
Nothing like some Black Brown Sabbath on a Monday morning.
I love when a band can do some send-ups of classic music and do it well.
re: #345 ObserverArt
Looking for those commercials I posted just above I saw this at YouTube. I just had to check it out and found this is a whole lot of fun.
Nothing like some
BlackBrown Sabbath on a Monday morning.I love when a band can do some send-ups of classic music and do it well.
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I got to the beginning of the guitar part and had to bail. I don’t know if it was his playing or the delay he had on the guitar, but he sounded so far behind the beat to me that it sounded like a mistake.
I realize that playing behind is a thing nowadays, but I can’t stand it.
My lawn, etc.
re: #346 makeitstop
I got to the beginning of the guitar part and had to bail. I don’t know if it was his playing or the delay he had on the guitar, but he sounded so far behind the beat to me that it sounded like a mistake.
I realize that playing behind is a thing nowadays, but I can’t stand it.
My lawn, etc.
It is supposed to be fun, so I can get by stuff like that.
re: #347 MsJ
Pretty much.
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Ayep. If it’s revealed that Trump forced a mistress to have an abortion, the “moral majority” will go quiet for a bit…and then find some way to twist Christ’s teachings to say that the “terrible sin” they constantly rail against is permissible because Donny is “doing the Lord’s work.”
re: #348 ObserverArt
It is supposed to be fun, so I can get by stuff like that.
I went and saw Slayer last night, so I’ve already gotten my week’s worth of fun. :)
re: #347 MsJ
Pretty much.
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Evangelical “thinking” on this subject is not even complicated - as long as Cheeto Benito stuffs SCOTUS and the federal courts with Roe-hating extremists, he can personally pay for as many abortions as he likes.
re: #328 Targetpractice
That’s a bit like asking how Donald Trump has managed to become the leader of a cult that seems that it would slavishly die to protect his power. Both men are appealing to a very real force in American politics, which is white resentment that manifests in different ways up and down the political spectrum. In the far-left, it’s a growing perception that policies and ideas that appeal to them (“free” healthcare and college) have taken a backseat to “identity politics.” That the DNC as a party moderated its beliefs and moved away from candidates like McCarthy, McGovern, and Mondale in order to appeal to minority voters rather than the “working class” that they (somehow) believe the party was built around rather than adopted.
It’s the same selfish attitude that drives a lot of support for men like Trump, just with a different set of excuses.
I don’t think that really explains it, mainly because Bernie supporters skew so young. They don’t remember those earlier days, and what they resent is the rough deal they’re getting now.
re: #333 ObserverArt
I don’t know about others, but I sure as hell would like to know how much he was influenced by Russians, either directly and knowingly, or unknowingly but willing to use it to his advantage.
And in local news…Trump’s Shadow Mike Pence is landing in a little while in Columbus and then being driven to Newark Ohio for a rally for Troy Balderson to endorse him for the Ohio District 12 Congressional special race to fill the seat of resigning Republican Pat Tiberi.
Newark can be just a bit “red” if you know what I mean…so it is safe territory for Mikey to spew some hate toward Democrats.
I hope there is some resistance there, but knowing Newark, they will do everything to keep them quiet. But since it is only a 40 minute drive from Columbus, there might be a decent turnout of protesters.
Some parts of Ohio D12 come into the Columbus city boundaries and takes up a lot of the northern suburbs in the metro area.
From a kos diary yesterday:
And why is VP Pence making an appearance in the GOP stronghold of Licking County tomorrow (Monday) on behalf of Balderson?…Why not send him to vote rich Delaware or Franklin counties where early voting has GOP returned ballot returns at only 34% in Delaware and a measly 16.6% in Franklin. So why Licking? The GOP return rate there is just 40% (the DEM return rate is 46.8%). So the GOP is still having to shore up what should be a comfortable GOP county. Rumor has it Balderson doesn’t want Trump in the district so Pence will come instead…
If only I’d stayed in Ohio…(that was my district)
In other news, yesterday I posted that if we had been willing to kill 25 percent of Afghanistan’s population (like Genghis and Tamarlane), we might have had it easier. That should have been SEVENTY-FIVE percent.
Good morning.
re: #354 BeachDem
From a kos diary yesterday:
If only I’d stayed in Ohio…(that was my district)
What gets me is not that they’re trying to shore up otherwise “safe” counties, it’s that they’re sending in Mikey. This must be looking for the party like 2006 all over again, when candidates were actually asking Dubya not to show up to stump for them. About the only thing that seems to give them any cold comfort at all is the Senate math remains in their favor with too many seats for Dems to defend in purple/red states.
NEW: Giuliani just moved the goal posts in 2 big ways on Fox & CNN :
1. He’s no longer claiming Trump didn’t collude with Russia. He’s claiming “collusion is not a crime.”
2. He’s not saying Trump did not know abt 2016 Russia mtg in advance. He’s saying Trump did not ATTEND it.— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 30, 2018
flying hummer, lurking kitteh pic.twitter.com/ilQDiLqvYp
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) July 30, 2018
Trump wants to sabotage actual NATO, while creating a new “Arab” NATO to counter Iran.
Trump wants to create an “Arab NATO” of Sunni Muslim allies (six Gulf Arab states, Egypt & Jordan) to counter Iran. https://t.co/grzdB4SnZr
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) July 30, 2018
Trump couldn’t find any of these countries on a map, unless he had a business interest in one of them.
re: #357 MsJ
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And we’re now again reminded why Donny was advised against bringing this nitwit to the White House with him. If this was a genuine court of law rather than the court of public opinion, the judge would be reading Rudy the Riot Act back in his office.
re: #359 lawhawk
Trump wants to sabotage actual NATO, while creating a new “Arab” NATO to counter Iran.
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Trump couldn’t find any of these countries on a map, unless he had a business interest in one of them.
He is selling all those states to Saudi Arabia?
re: #357 MsJ
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Eventually it will be that the conspiracy was necessary to prevent HRC from being elected and a lot will accept that.
A tape is about to drop that proves Trump actually did, in fact, agree to pay for the hacking.
GIULIANI argues ***collusion is not a crime***: “I don’t even know if that’s a crime — colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn’t hack! He didn’t pay for the hacking.” pic.twitter.com/QMenE1qzxx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2018
Amazon picked up The Expanse. I’m pleased.
re: #363 The Vicious Babushka
Giuliani is lying.
Manafort was with Trump longer than four months.
He continued advising Trump all through the transition. He picked Trump’s running mate of Pence.
His fingerprints are all over the campaign, transition, and admin.
Plus, Trump and Manafort go back 30+ years.
Trump-supporting soybean farmers say they’ll gladly suffer “to the death” for his trade war https://t.co/cBrcRFJ2A0 pic.twitter.com/rg08J9YZgT
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 29, 2018
re: #346 makeitstop
I got to the beginning of the guitar part and had to bail. I don’t know if it was his playing or the delay he had on the guitar, but he sounded so far behind the beat to me that it sounded like a mistake.
I realize that playing behind is a thing nowadays, but I can’t stand it.
My lawn, etc.
I HATE that. The beat should carry the music, not drag it down.
re: #366 The Vicious Babushka
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That headline should read “Four farmers say….” Good going, Newsweek.
re: #366 The Vicious Babushka
Trump-supporting soybean farmers say they’ll gladly suffer “to the death” for his trade war
Your proposal is acceptable.
re: #369 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
That headline should read “Four farmers say….” Good going, Newsweek.
SRSLY: My first thought on reading this was “how hard did they have to search to find four nutjob farmers?”; but then, the answer occured to me that it probably (and tragically) wasn’t hard at all.
So: when do we think Newsweek (or any other MSM publication) is likely to spotlight some Midwestern farmers who think Trump is ruining their markets, and are going to vote for the first Democrat who pledges to improve farmers’ exports?
(HINT: holding breath is nor recommended)
The NASA image posted yesterday is a minute+ long digital zoom going back to the center of our galaxy, ending with the black hole swallowing up matter.
Just amazing!
This is a most fascinating law blog I have seen. What an ingenious way to explain law.
Calling all legal bloggers: This is what your site should look like https://t.co/nVUey06Ti3 @VolokhC @instapundit @Popehat @SeinfeldLaw @JerrySeinfeld
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) July 30, 2018
re: #372 Jay C
For the same reason that the NY Times runs puff pieces about the poor downtrodden white conservative in a majority white town whose conservative views are ridiculed as being unsympathetic to anyone suffering from racism and bias.
Because the media continues to push a narrative that whites are the ones suffering, not the minorities whose decades/centuries of subjugation and systemic racism/discrimination continues to be pervasive and whose civil and voting rights are under assault thanks to Trump and the GOP that wants to shift more power to the angry whites who have always had dominion.
re: #357 MsJ
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By the end of the week Rudy may just admit it all and then just challenge Democrats to do something about it…because the Republicans won’t.
I’d ask what their strategy is…but it is obvious they don’t have one.
re: #372 Jay C
SRSLY: My first thought on reading this was “how hard did they have to search to find four nutjob farmers?”; but then, the answer occured to me that it probably (and tragically) wasn’t hard at all.
So: when do we think Newsweek (or any other MSM publication) is likely to spotlight some Midwestern farmers who think Trump is ruining their markets, and are going to vote for the first Democrat who pledges to improve farmers’ exports?
(HINT: holding breath is nor recommended)
There is a reason Fox and right wing radio targeted rural areas. They are an exclusive group, many whom have never left their county, let alone state or country. And if you turn those people against democrats, they vote GOP with their dying breaths.
That is starting to change. But you have hardcore hate-loving rural people who can only die off because nothing can be said to bring them back. And many of their offspring may or may not be redeemable.
re: #362 HappyWarrior
Eventually it will be that the conspiracy was necessary to prevent HRC from being elected and a lot will accept that.
I’ve already heard that said by one of those “revisited Trump country” voters.
re: #376 ObserverArt
By the end of the week Rudy may just admit it all and then just challenge Democrats to do something about…because the Republicans won’t.
I’d ask what their strategy is…but it is obvious they don’t have one.
They are working on swaying public opinion. Whether it works remains to be seen.
Republicans only care about public opinion (and their own hides) so they will not do anything until republican voters make them…hence, public opinion is all that matters. Even if Republican voters are a fraction of the voter population, they are whom elected Republicans care about because they keep them going.
I don’t think they can see past a primary to any general.
It is honestly baffling.
re: #380 MsJ
They are working on swaying public opinion. Whether it works remains to be seen.
Republicans only care about public opinion (and their own hides) so they will not do anything until republican voters make them…hence, public opinion is all that matters. Even if Republican voters are a fraction of the voter population, they are whom elected Republicans care about because they keep them going.
I don’t think they can see past a primary to any general.
It is honestly baffling.
The hated Haberman said a month or two ago that the reason you don’t see any strategy from Trump is that he’s always focused on surviving the next 10 minutes.
But I’m sure it was meant as a compliment.
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“Collusion is not a crime!”
Also:
“WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE THE STEELE DOSSIER TO FIND OUT IF THE RUSSIANS COLLUDED WITH HILLARY!!!”
re: #365 lawhawk
Giuliani is lying.
Manafort was with Trump longer than four months.
He continued advising Trump all through the transition. He picked Trump’s running mate of Pence.
His fingerprints are all over the campaign, transition, and admin.
Plus, Trump and Manafort go back 30+ years.
4 months is way more time than needed to act as a go-between to coordinate Russian meddling in the election, convince the RNC to change the platform and pick up some of that good Russian money.
Plus you wouldn’t want someone with that much stink around too long anyway. The longer he was there the more attention he would draw.
re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White
“These are often very tasty, young Dory, and the humans leave them where we can easily get to them.”
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re: #377 MsJ
There is a reason Fox and right wing radio targeted rural areas. They are an exclusive group, many whom have never left their county, let alone state or country. And if you turn those people against democrats, they vote GOP with their dying breaths.
That is starting to change. But you have hardcore hate-loving rural people who can only die off because nothing can be said to bring them back. And many of their offspring may or may not be redeemable.
Some of these folks hate minorities with a passion - hate illegal aliens with a passion and are the strongest supporter for Trump’s boondoggle wall.
They’re also the ones least likely to travel outside their state, encounter minorities of any kind (LGBT, blacks, Jews (non Christians generally), and are in states with no border with a foreign country but who think we’re overrun with foreigners.
Welp, as someone who’s flying overseas in a couple of weeks, this fills me with a vague sense of dread.
Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency.
The previously undisclosed program, called “Quiet Skies,” specifically targets travelers who “are not under investigation by any agency and are not in the Terrorist Screening Data Base,” according to a Transportation Security Administration bulletin in March.
The internal bulletin describes the program’s goal as thwarting threats to commercial aircraft “posed by unknown or partially known terrorists,” and gives the agency broad discretion over which air travelers to focus on and how closely they are tracked.
But some air marshals, in interviews and internal communications shared with the Globe, say the program has them tasked with shadowing travelers who appear to pose no real threat — a businesswoman who happened to have traveled through a Mideast hot spot, in one case; a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, in another; a fellow federal law enforcement officer, in a third.
It is a time-consuming and costly assignment, they say, which saps their ability to do more vital law enforcement work.
TSA officials, in a written statement to the Globe, broadly defended the agency’s efforts to deter potential acts of terror. But the agency declined to discuss whether Quiet Skies has intercepted any threats, or even to confirm that the program exists.
Release of such information “would make passengers less safe,” spokesman James Gregory said in the statement.
And this paragraph is particularly ridiculous, given that the goddamn government has encouraged people to be jumpy and nervous in airports by telling them ‘If you see something, say something’ for years.
Already under Quiet Skies, thousands of unsuspecting Americans have been subjected to targeted airport and inflight surveillance, carried out by small teams of armed, undercover air marshals, government documents show. The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a “jump” in their Adam’s apple or a “cold penetrating stare,” among other behaviors, according to the records.
Those criteria could include just about anybody. Or everybody.
And while I’m complaining…
My wife and I decided to apply for Global Entry in order to make our flight to Belgium a little less complicated. We applied on the same day, plunked down a hundred bucks each. My wife got her conditional approval a week ago and is going in for her interview this afternoon.
I’m still waiting for conditional approval. If I was a little more paranoid, I might start to think my opposition to a certain presidential administration, and my expression of such online, might have something to do with it.
I’d like to see Rudy asked if conspiracy is a crime (it is), if a conspiracy has to be successful in order to prosecute it (it doesn’t), and how making an agreement with a foreign national to exchange policy changes for damaging information about a political opponent is not conspiracy (it totally is).
re: #386 makeitstop
As somebody who used to fly all the damned time, but hate flying with a passion and spent around 1/2 of my flights in some form of terror (between discomfort to downright abject terror with one of them having the flight attendant handing me free vodka as soon as the seat belt sign went off at 10k feet), I am certain I would have met all that criteria.
“Investigators at the Treasury Department received a number of Suspicious Activity Reports “relating to entities tied to Butina and Erickson and funds that were transferred to them,” including some that appear to have come from Russia”https://t.co/qkCsmbvw5s pic.twitter.com/w9eddJerq5
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) July 30, 2018
But they are going to tie it back to his foreign interference, right? I hope so.
Manafort trial to focus on lavish lifestyle, not collusion https://t.co/DyXxUIfNAk
— The_News_DIVA🎀 (@The_News_DIVA) July 30, 2018
re: #123 William Lewis
Sorry, but, no he was worse. No where near as stupid and simply hid his hatreds behind a “gee wiz” & “oh shucks” pretense of geniality. If he wasn’t as blatant about his racism and hate, it was only that he had better script writers and handlers.
Look to his speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi and his reaction to the Black Panthers open carrying for the real Reagan. Look to the horrors he cheerfully inflicted upon Central America, financed by treasonous sales to Iran.
If there is a hell, he is in it as certainly as Thatcher, Pinochet, Franco, Mussolini, Stalin & Hitler.
Another great thing about Reagan is that if you think about him for 2 or 3 seconds you start remembering more and more of his terribleness. What happened to pop into my mind right now is his breaking of PATCO.
re: #314 Colère Tueur de Lapin
His smoking gravel voice got more so. His poetry is what he is and why he won the Nobel in Literature.
Wait, Rod Stewart got a Nobel Prize in literature? Have they no standards?
Or did we lose something in the translation?
Sure, whatever.
BREAKING: Koch-funded libertarian think tank analysis finds that Medicare for all would save $300 billion over 10 years https://t.co/9cCyqfPe1f
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) July 30, 2018
Hubs told me yesterday that the Kochs and their ultra rich friends are so pissed off at Republicans they are no longer funding them, and, GASP, are going to funnel money to democrats.
The tariffs are making them very unhappy.
It was the CoC just last week.
I suppose this is the result of having too damned much greed. Because, cutting taxes was everything to them…until it wasn’t any longer.
re: #386 makeitstop
I would bet any amount of money most people being targeted by this ridiculous program happen to have a darker complexion.
re: #393 MsJ
Sure, whatever.
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Hubs told me yesterday that the Kochs and their ultra rich friends are so pissed off at Republicans they are no longer funding them, and, GASP, are going to funnel money to democrats.
The tariffs are making them very unhappy.
It was the CoC just last week.
I suppose this is the result of having too damned much greed. Because, cutting taxes was everything to them…until it wasn’t any longer.
I’ll believe it when I see it…without ratfucking.
re: #372 Jay C
SRSLY: My first thought on reading this was “how hard did they have to search to find four nutjob farmers?”; but then, the answer occured to me that it probably (and tragically) wasn’t hard at all.
So: when do we think Newsweek (or any other MSM publication) is likely to spotlight some Midwestern farmers who think Trump is ruining their markets, and are going to vote for the first Democrat who pledges to improve farmers’ exports?
(HINT: holding breath is nor recommended)
I posted this local Columbus news story last week. This Delaware (Oh) farmer seemed pretty realistic about it all.
And he is in Ohio District 12, the special election race I mentioned up thread.
Spread the word to your Floridian friends and relatives….TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterms.
Also, I’d love to see Rudy trying to defend Trump in court and get smacked around by a judge.
re: #390 MsJ
But they are going to tie it back to his foreign interference, right? I hope so.
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I’m wondering if they tag on the financial crimes to exert pressure on him to cooperate on electoral shenanigans.
re: #389 lawhawk
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It’s remarkable that Butina had her fingerprints on so many GOPers and was more-or-less off most everyone’s RADAR. If she was successful at hiding in plain sight, just imagine what else is going on with GOP/NRA/Klan.
#Resist #DementiaDonnie #PutinsApprentice🇷🇺 #TheResistance 😎🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ri7lZIZQ7i
— Chappie the cat 🐱 (@chappie_cat) July 30, 2018
Moar Winning…..
Caterpillar to raise construction equipment prices due to Trump tariffs https://t.co/MJ19rRyk3W pic.twitter.com/hY3OQHiy4t
— The Hill (@thehill) July 30, 2018
re: #400 Dr. Matt
It’s remarkable that Butina had her fingerprints on so many GOPers and was more-or-less off most everyone’s RADAR. If she was successful at hiding in plain sight, just imagine what else is going on with GOP/NRA/Klan.
They’re easy to exploit as Sasha Baron Cohen is showing.
THIS IS NOT A PARODY.
Good lord. If I were a Florida Republican, even an adamantly pro-Trump voter, I’d find this insulting. Any other issues facing the state beyond how #MAGA you can be? https://t.co/IxQmPhDLjH
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) July 30, 2018
I found myself just realizing that the GOP’s eventual position, which Rudy seems to be working around to, is not going to be “Yeah, so we cheated, what of it?”
Instead, the final position will be “We only cheated to counter Dem cheating!”. If you look at their actions before and after the election, it begins to make a strange sort of sense. Their obsession with the Steele Dossier, their repeated demands for even more documents from the DOJ (and pinning the refusal on Rosenstein), their efforts to stymie investigations into the conspiracy, and their insistence on avoiding any real talk about securing future elections.
In their minds, it was a given that the Clintons would engage in “dirty tricks” to win because she was so unpopular. To them, the Dossier is “proof” of that, even if they can’t prove it had any effect on the race. And that the DNC was so desperate to keep power that they would go along with this, killing the FBI investigation into her emails and even coordinating efforts to spy on the Trump campaign to get an “unfair” advantage. So while they are focused on ending investigation into Trump, it is not so much protection of him as it is protection of the party itself by “proving” that it did nothing worse than what the DNC was already doing.
re: #403 HappyWarrior
They’re easy to exploit as Sasha Baron Cohen is showing.
Was just thinking the other day that O’Queef is like the sad, pathetic poor man’s version of Sacha Baron Cohen. Thankfully right-wingers are too fucking stupid to successfully pull of what Sacha Baron Cohen can do.
re: #405 Targetpractice
I found myself just realizing that the GOP’s eventual position, which Rudy seems to be working around to, is not going to be “Yeah, so we cheated, what of it?”
Instead, the final position will be “We only cheated to counter Dem cheating!”. If you look at their actions before and after the election, it begins to make a strange sort of sense. Their obsession with the Steele Dossier, their repeated demands for even more documents from the DOJ (and pinning the refusal on Rosenstein), their efforts to stymie investigations into the conspiracy, and their insistence on avoiding any real talk about securing future elections.
In their minds, it was a given that the Clintons would engage in “dirty tricks” to win because she was so unpopular. To them, the Dossier is “proof” of that, even if they can’t prove it had any effect on the race. And that the DNC was so desperate to keep power that they would go along with this, killing the FBI investigation into her emails and even coordinating efforts to spy on the Trump campaign to get an “unfair” advantage. So while they are focused on ending investigation into Trump, it is not so much protection of him as it is protection of the party itself by “proving” that it did nothing worse than what the DNC was already doing.
And you know what, a lot on the right will accept that. They may be annoyed by Trump but they hate the Clintons even more.
re: #401 The Vicious Babushka
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“White skin!”
re: #404 The Vicious Babushka
THIS IS NOT A PARODY.
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GOP Fucktards doing what they do best: Using infants as political props. Disgusting.
re: #406 Dr. Matt
Was just thinking the other day that O’Queef is like the sad, pathetic poor man’s version of Sacha Baron Cohen. Thankfully right-wingers are too fucking stupid to successfully pull of what Sacha Baron Cohen can do.
Cohen is actually clever. O’Keefe is a douchebag.
re: #405 Targetpractice
I found myself just realizing that the GOP’s eventual position, which Rudy seems to be working around to, is not going to be “Yeah, so we cheated, what of it?”
Instead, the final position will be “We only cheated to counter Dem cheating!”. If you look at their actions before and after the election, it begins to make a strange sort of sense. Their obsession with the Steele Dossier, their repeated demands for even more documents from the DOJ (and pinning the refusal on Rosenstein), their efforts to stymie investigations into the conspiracy, and their insistence on avoiding any real talk about securing future elections.
In their minds, it was a given that the Clintons would engage in “dirty tricks” to win because she was so unpopular. To them, the Dossier is “proof” of that, even if they can’t prove it had any effect on the race. And that the DNC was so desperate to keep power that they would go along with this, killing the FBI investigation into her emails and even coordinating efforts to spy on the Trump campaign to get an “unfair” advantage. So while they are focused on ending investigation into Trump, it is not so much protection of him as it is protection of the party itself by “proving” that it did nothing worse than what the DNC was already doing.
‘Mom, he hit me!’
‘No I didn’t. I hit you back!’
re: #407 HappyWarrior
And you know what, a lot on the right will accept that. They may be annoyed by Trump but they hate the Clintons even more.
They’re already pretty much on that wavelength, the “So what if he did it? Hillary did too!”, hence the efforts to spin the whole conspiracy as “opposition research” in order to say that it’s “no different” than what Christopher Steele was doing. Even if it turns out that the Trump campaign (and possibly the GOP leadership) were promising changes on US/Russia policy to secure that “dirt,” they’ll argue that we make such deals “all the time.”
re: #405 Targetpractice
Every day Rudy, Donnie, and et al. move the goalposts to a new zip code regarding Russia. It’s only a matter time before they just resort to: Yeah, so we cheated and colluded. So what? There’s nothing in the Consitution about not being able to collude with Russia!
If not for Gus and a couple others twitter would REALLY suck
I’m not sure why Republicans are so opposed to Medicare for All because this will allow congress to control health care for all Americans through additional legislation and future budget constraints.
— 𝔾𝕦𝕤 (@Gus_802) July 30, 2018
It’s always been a little weird that way. Republican doctrine-Government sucks at everything. But they sure want to be most of the guys in the two big rooms precisely where government sucks so bad. https://t.co/3QkppZtyyt
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 30, 2018
re: #400 Dr. Matt
It’s remarkable that Butina had her fingerprints on so many GOPers and was more-or-less off most everyone’s RADAR. If she was successful at hiding in plain sight, just imagine what else is going on with GOP/NRA/Klan.
Someone in the media was watching and paying attention. Micheal Isikoff and David Corn.
He even mentioned her in his and David Corn’s book Russian Roulette.
Check this interview out with him…I’ll put up the meaty portion.
NPR - Michael Isikoff On Maria Butina And Russia
KING: So I cannot get over this detail. You wrote a book last spring. Maria Butina was in your book. How is it that she was on your radar so long ago, but we’re all just learning about her now?
ISIKOFF: Well, first of all, the book was out this spring - in March of this year. But she had been on my radar and other journalists’ for quite some time, starting in the 2016 campaign, where people noticed that she had been sort of popping up at political events - conservative political events. Actually, she’d been doing so for some time - Conservative Political Action Conferences, NRA conventions, National Prayer Breakfasts.
And she said - she described to people how she was - had founded a Russian gun rights group.
KING: OK.
ISIKOFF: There wasn’t much of a gun rights movement in Russia, so that seemed odd. But she seemed totally focused on forging these relationships with conservative political activists.
KING: Were people actively suspicious of her? Did you find her suspicious at all?
ISIKOFF: Well, I - actually, as we reported in the book - David Corn and I - there’s a Republican lobbyist who remembers being approached by her at a CPAC conference - Conservative Political Action Conference - and just being struck by how solicitous she was, how she wanted to stay in touch with him and become his Facebook friend. And this is a somewhat elderly gentleman, balding, wasn’t used to this kind of attention from a young, attractive Russian woman. And he, you know, began asking, like, why - what’s going on here? And this kept happening time and again.
And, you know, by the time of the presidential campaign, which really begins when Donald Trump announces in June of 2015. Just a few weeks later, Trump goes to a conservative event in Las Vegas - FreedomFest. Maria Butina is there. There’s a Q&A session. Trump calls on her. She asks about sanctions - what would he do about sanctions against Russia? Hardly a top-level issue at the time. And Trump gives a five-minute answer saying, you know, if I’m elected, you won’t need sanctions. I know Putin. Putin knows me. We’ll get along. And there, the Russians had Trump on record saying he’d ease sanctions if he was elected president.
This is what happens when you search for Cemex, a Mexican cement company, on Youtube.
Qanon people have decided this company, which is an $18 billion business, is really just a child sex trafficking operation. If you went to YouTube, you’d believe it. pic.twitter.com/ofl7XEs3BH— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 30, 2018
And This….
This is what happens when you search Tom Hanks on YouTube today.
Last week, Qanon folks decided he was a pedophile. If you were to search YouTube today, you’d believe it. pic.twitter.com/OQfL97YOWz— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 30, 2018
re: #406 Dr. Matt
Was just thinking the other day that O’Queef is like the sad, pathetic poor man’s version of Sacha Baron Cohen. Thankfully right-wingers are too fucking stupid to successfully pull of what Sacha Baron Cohen can do.
Or, alternately, Democratic elected officials and most wannabes don’t have the same shit to hide or repudiate.
re: #405 Targetpractice
I found myself just realizing that the GOP’s eventual position, which Rudy seems to be working around to, is not going to be “Yeah, so we cheated, what of it?”
Instead, the final position will be “We only cheated to counter Dem cheating!”. If you look at their actions before and after the election, it begins to make a strange sort of sense. Their obsession with the Steele Dossier, their repeated demands for even more documents from the DOJ (and pinning the refusal on Rosenstein), their efforts to stymie investigations into the conspiracy, and their insistence on avoiding any real talk about securing future elections.
In their minds, it was a given that the Clintons would engage in “dirty tricks” to win because she was so unpopular. To them, the Dossier is “proof” of that, even if they can’t prove it had any effect on the race. And that the DNC was so desperate to keep power that they would go along with this, killing the FBI investigation into her emails and even coordinating efforts to spy on the Trump campaign to get an “unfair” advantage. So while they are focused on ending investigation into Trump, it is not so much protection of him as it is protection of the party itself by “proving” that it did nothing worse than what the DNC was already doing.
Yeah, they’ve already basically said this, that collusion was fine, not illegal, anybody would have taken that meeting, but of course they didn’t collude with Russia, Hillary did! But collusion not illegal, except-for-Hillary’s-collusion, and on and on.
re: #412 Targetpractice
They’re already pretty much on that wavelength, the “So what if he did it? Hillary did too!”, hence the efforts to spin the whole conspiracy as “opposition research” in order to say that it’s “no different” than what Christopher Steele was doing. Even if it turns out that the Trump campaign (and possibly the GOP leadership) were promising changes on US/Russia policy to secure that “dirt,” they’ll argue that we make such deals “all the time.”
Yeah, they take it as an article of faith that Democrats cheat all the time. They point to Soros et al, never mind that the Mercers, Kochs and Aldersons do it more and did it longer.
re: #413 Dr. Matt
Every day Rudy, Donnie, and et al. move the goalposts to a new zip code regarding Russia. It’s only a matter time before they just resort to: Yeah, so we cheated and colluded. So what? There’s nothing in the Consitution about not being able to collude with Russia!
See, the reason why I think they insist on dubbing it “opposition research” and such strident denial is not because Donny is trying to cover up that he cheated to win. The man is so easily bruised that the idea he could only win by cheating is abhorrent to him. It would be an admission that he’s such a shit sandwich that he could only win by putting a thumb on the scale.
No, it makes much more sense if you view his beliefs as those of a man who is trying to justify his actions. He didn’t cheat, he simply “leveled the playing field,” using outside information sources to counter DNC “dirty tricks.” It’s why he obsesses with the electoral map while stridently refusing to accept the popular vote results. He can only square the circle by saying that he won despite efforts by the DNC to “rig” the election, that he was such an awesome candidate that there were enough Americans who voted for him to defeat the “millions of illegal votes.” And the “wiretapping” of Trump Tower, as well as investigations into campaign staff, merely reinforce that belief that the DNC was actively trying to sabotage him but he prevailed by being such an amazing candidate.
re: #405 Targetpractice
I found myself just realizing that the GOP’s eventual position, which Rudy seems to be working around to, is not going to be “Yeah, so we cheated, what of it?”
Instead, the final position will be “We only cheated to counter Dem cheating!”. If you look at their actions before and after the election, it begins to make a strange sort of sense. Their obsession with the Steele Dossier, their repeated demands for even more documents from the DOJ (and pinning the refusal on Rosenstein), their efforts to stymie investigations into the conspiracy, and their insistence on avoiding any real talk about securing future elections.
In their minds, it was a given that the Clintons would engage in “dirty tricks” to win because she was so unpopular. To them, the Dossier is “proof” of that, even if they can’t prove it had any effect on the race. And that the DNC was so desperate to keep power that they would go along with this, killing the FBI investigation into her emails and even coordinating efforts to spy on the Trump campaign to get an “unfair” advantage. So while they are focused on ending investigation into Trump, it is not so much protection of him as it is protection of the party itself by “proving” that it did nothing worse than what the DNC was already doing.
The goalposts get moved, taken apart, new goalposts brought in to stand against the other goalposts, the goalposts are turned upside down and set up on their sides, etc.
re: #421 Targetpractice
Well, if the collusion was just oppo research, they can point to THE INFAMOUS AND DEBUNKED HILLARY DOSSIER TOTALLY ILLEGAL!!!!
Make of this what you will:
Gay Porn Consumption by State pic.twitter.com/xntNNg2Nlh
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) July 30, 2018
re: #404 The Vicious Babushka
Oh, Noah, the only thing insulting for a Republican these days is to be insufficiently pro-MAGA, or be called ‘deplorable’.
Hey, let’s hope…
July 20: Trump meets w NY Times
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July 29: Trump discloses mtg; viciously attacks NYT
why the delay? maybe the NYT is close to something big— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) July 29, 2018
re: #427 makeitstop
Hey, let’s hope…
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My guess? The Times was about to publish something unflattering and sent an early draft to the White House to see if they had any clarifications/revisements they wished to see, but Don decided the way to deal with it was to blow his top instead.
re: #416 Dr. Matt
It’s time to watch Alphabet tank, isn’t it?
Because I don’t make monkeys, I just trade them.https://t.co/KqqJN0wsqJ
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 30, 2018
Prepare to be totally unsurprised:
How many more times does Rand Paul get to play this game with trump nominees before it stops getting written up as news? pic.twitter.com/kYTxUgNNLb
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) July 30, 2018
re: #432 Targetpractice
Prepare to be totally unsurprised:
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Rand Paul: Concern Troll. No shock there. He’s a party man through and through.
The question now is which damp squibs in the DNC ranks will totally ignore that the GOP paid no price for stealing a SCOTUS seat and “cross the aisle” to vote for Kavanaugh in the belief that it will save their own seat in November. My money’s on Manchin.
It’s Rohrabacher, who’s ties to Russia are under increasing scrutiny because of his actual connections to Russians. It’s an open joke among GOPers like Ryan that Rohrabacher is a Russian potted plant. Russia’s Butina also thought so.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 30, 2018
— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) July 30, 2018
re: #436 lawhawk
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Like I said upthread, we’re moving towards an open acknowledgment that Trump worked with the Russians, but it’s totally “okay” because “THEY DID IT FIRST!!!”
This my jam. https://t.co/DHB8n3yeCP
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 30, 2018
re: #436 lawhawk
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So Dana what dirt do they have on your sorry ass or are you that pathetic?
re: #439 HappyWarrior
So Dana what dirt do they have on your sorry ass or are you that pathetic?
Yes.
re: #439 HappyWarrior
So Dana what dirt do they have on your sorry ass or are you that pathetic?
You are assuming they have something on him and he’s not an autocrat who wants republican rule through any measure…you know, free and fair elections just like Mother Russia.
The Cult of Trump is strong in the derp:
NEW CBS POLL: nearly all strong supporters of President Trump say they trust him for accurate information, while only 11 percent trust the mainstream media https://t.co/GK8aNOm3Op pic.twitter.com/B2tgZySo5Z
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 29, 2018
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
Next you’ll tell me Bryan Fischer was caught in a bear outfit soliciting gay sex in a mosque.
These fuckers need to be disbanded. No ifs, ands or buts.
Many parents in NM have stopped taking their kids (who are typically citizens) to specialists in Albuquerque because ICE has now stationed checkpoints.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) July 30, 2018
re: #446 MsJ
These fuckers need to be disbanded. No ifs, ands or buts.
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FFS. Yes disband ICE.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
Ok, that left me speechless. This guy is a danger to society. He almost killed his wife last year and now this? Damn.
re: #448 MsJ
Ok, that left me speechless. This guy is a danger to society. He almost killed his wife last year and now this? Damn.
A person like that definitely shouldn’t have guns.
Trump supporters are a propaganda-driven cult. Their dear-leader told them to not believe their own eyes and ears, and to believe only the leader. This madness needs to end.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 30, 2018
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
You’re not kidding on the bizarre scale.
Sounds like the guy has an undiagnosed mental health condition and needs constant care, and no access to any weapons of any kind.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
Dude has lost it completely. He should be committed before he does that to a human.
re: #450 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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They trust Trump more than their friends and family. This is a cult of political personality unique in American history.
re: #432 Targetpractice
Prepare to be totally unsurprised:
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Shocked, shocked I say
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 30, 2018
Whiplash!
Giuliani makes clear that he denies *both* that a meeting occurred where Trump was informed by Don Jr. about the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, *and* that a previous meeting happened where Trump campaign officials planned for the meeting with the Russian lawyer. pic.twitter.com/D7SyVD8N8K
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2018
he already walked that back https://t.co/3G5Yg2tg03
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2018
re: #442 lawhawk
The Cult of Trump is strong in the derp:
The “11 percent” sounds rather high. More indoctrination needed for these magabots.
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re: #427 makeitstop
re: #428 Targetpractice
Well, the “official” NY Times’ rejoinder to Trump’s imbecilic tweet was finally published in the dead-tree edition today (Mon. - I had read it online already), and the level of point-missing and subject-changing was astonishing. In the Times’ headline, it was painted as a “clash”: but reading the account as described in the body of the piece, it sounded as anodyne a bland recitation of platitudes as possible: and as if Sulzberger and Trump were attending different meetings. And also that Pinch may have been pissed (though how it would be a surprise is beyond me) that Trump met with him, then proceeded to dump all over the Times (and MSM) regardless.
I hope the “clarification” really IS a harbinger of some major scoop in the pipeline. We could use one.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
I haven’t, but I must say he’s going all out for a GOP nomination for something.
re: #456 Sir John Barron
The “11 percent” sounds rather high. More indoctrination needed for these magabots.
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They’re the ones who are so dumb they didn’t understand the question.
re: #448 MsJ
Ok, that left me speechless. This guy is a danger to society. He almost killed his wife last year and now this? Damn.
He has always been “off.” Remember, he’s the guy who started the TGDN—and called for the execution of anyone with ebola, and on and on. His wiki page doesn’t even begin to describe much of the crap he’s advanced. fitsnews.com has long kept track of him.
And his mother, Roxie, is another braintrust. (This article has my go-to photo of mother/son.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
That seems like an article from a “satire” site, but it seems to be a real right-wing biased news site.
The right opposes gun control because they’re why new laws are needed.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
From there:
I’m about to get crucified in the media.
Dude, if that’s what it takes to be Jesus, Obama got there first.
re: #453 HappyWarrior
They trust Trump more than their friends and family. This is a cult of political personality unique in American history.
I’d say it’s similar to the cult of Lyndon LaRouche - only the scale and national impact is bigger in Trump’s cult of personality.
re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
I actually thought he was going by the name Kris Kobach these days. I can’t tell these lunkhead wingnuts apart.
On a genealogy note. My Dad’s oldest sister took the test. More Irish and Western European than Dad but less Scandinavian and UK than him.
re: #465 Dr Lizardo
I’d say it’s similar to the cult of Lyndon LaRouche - only the scale and national impact is bigger in Trump’s cult of personality.
Yes.
re: #457 Jay C
Well, the “official” NY Times’ rejoinder to Trump’s imbecilic tweet was finally published in the dead-tree edition today (Mon. - I had read it online already), and the level of point-missing and subject-changing was astonishing. In the Times’ headline, it was painted as a “clash”: but reading the account as described in the body of the piece, it sounded as anodyne a bland recitation of platitudes as possible: and as if Sulzberger and Trump were attending different meetings. And also that Pinch may have been pissed (though how it would be a surprise is beyond me) that Trump met with him, then proceeded to dump all over the Times (and MSM) regardless.
I hope the “clarification” really IS a harbinger of some major scoop in the pipeline. We could use one.
Perhaps the basis of the report trump et al will be writing to refute anything Mueller. If the NYT went to trump with the allegations, trump now has what the message will be to refute.
re: #462 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That seems like an article from a “satire” site, but it seems to be a real right-wing biased news site.
I’m skeptical until I see this from a more trustworthy news source, like an actual newspaper.
Todd Starnes is another old name but he was more pundit type than party big wig iirc. I remember him because f his crying about gays using the rainbow.
re: #462 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That seems like an article from a “satire” site, but it seems to be a real right-wing biased news site.
Oh, it’s definitely not satire. Some of their stuff is loony, but it’s legit. This is the site where the owner, Will Folks, broke all the news about Nikki Haley’s affairs and other antics during her campaign governor, complete with text messages (about his own affair with Nikki), ranted on against her, then endorsed her.
NRA, Republicans refute GOP sheriff’s stand-your-ground claims (Politico)
A Florida sheriff claimed “stand your ground” essentially prohibited him from making an arrest in a politically charged and racially tinged shooting death, but his fellow Republicans who wrote the law, criminal-court attorneys and even the National Rifle Association are accusing him of misapplying Florida’s self-defense statutes.
In explaining why he didn’t arrest the shooter, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters on July 20 that his hands were tied because the stand-your-ground law “created a standard, that is a largely subjective standard” for the use of deadly force by a shooter.
Gualtieri also suggested his office could be civilly liable simply for arresting the shooter, and he stressed how Florida lawmakers last year changed the 2005 law concerning immunity from prosecution.
But on each of those three counts — immunity, civil liability and subjectivity — experts say Gualtieri is just wrong.
“Nothing in either the 2005 law or the 2017 law prohibits a Sheriff from making an arrest in a case where a person claims self-defense if there is probable cause that the use of force was unlawful,” said Marion Hammer, Tallahassee’s NRA lobbyist who helped shepherd “stand your ground” through the GOP-led Florida Legislature.
re: #471 HappyWarrior
Todd Starnes is another old name but he was more pundit type than party big wig iirc. I remember him because f his crying about gays using the rainbow.
I remember him, because I’ve never seen a person who’s more square than Todd Starnes.
re: #445 HappyWarrior
Please tell me this is a parody site!
All of my 6 sons are visiting Chez Babushka. The pie is all eated, we had waffles for breakfast. It was son #4’s birthday so his brothers got him a 23andme DNA kit “to prove if you are actually related to us”.
re: #465 Dr Lizardo
I’d say it’s similar to the cult of Lyndon LaRouche - only the scale and national impact is bigger in Trump’s cult of personality.
I would lay odds on many trump cultists being LaRouchians.
re: #475 Joe Bacon 🌹
Please tell me this is a parody site!
Apparently not. I think I’m having a stroke. Nothing seems real anymore.
re: #476 The Vicious Babushka
All of my 6 sons are visiting Chez Babushka. The pie is all eated, we had waffles for breakfast. It was son #4’s birthday so his brothers got him a 23andme DNA kit “to prove if you are actually related to us”.
Haha. I want to see how my brothers differ from me. I mean I think I by far am more Eastern European than they are. They’re very fair especially my one brother whose daughter is my niece.
re: #477 MsJ
I would lay odds on many trump cultists being LaRouchians.
I honestly have no idea where on the political spectrum LaRouchites are to be found - I tried reading up on him one time, but it just struck me as insane conspiracy theories and outlandish notions. I admit, I just gave up.
re: #474 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I remember him, because I’ve never seen a person who’s more square than Todd Starnes.
Seriously uptight even for a RWNJ.
re: #475 Joe Bacon 🌹
Please tell me this is a parody site!
Nope—here’s the Ballotpedia page on the founder, Will Folks.
They definitely lean toward the nutty, but have actually broken some big stories on state politicos.
re: #480 Dr Lizardo
I honestly have no idea where on the political spectrum LaRouchites are to be found - I tried reading up on him one time, but it just struck me as insane conspiracy theories and outlandish notions. I admit, I just gave up.
They’re somewhere between Alex Jones and an elephant eating caviar.
re: #480 Dr Lizardo
I honestly have no idea where on the political spectrum LaRouchites are to be found - I tried reading up on him one time, but it just struck me as insane conspiracy theories and outlandish notions. I admit, I just gave up.
We met one in Chicagoland when we were visiting. I had to do a U turn because I needed to know what was on the “billboard” he was wearing. It was nutso andi-Obama stuff. He gave us a handout that we laughed about for days, because, well, we’re sane.
It’s funny in a “this isn’t funny at all” way.
re: #473 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
There’s a reason SYG sucks - and it’s because you’ve got so many people misapplying the law.
And there’s an even larger number of people who think they can shoot others and use it as a defense should they be caught.
Go check out the story at Balloon Juice (there’s some blood on the face of the cop in the picture in case you have trouble with the site of it).
re: #480 Dr Lizardo
I honestly have no idea where on the political spectrum LaRouchites are to be found - I tried reading up on him one time, but it just struck me as insane conspiracy theories and outlandish notions. I admit, I just gave up.
So, like the Republicans in 2018?
Trump still threatening a government shutdown, just a couple minutes ago, in live coverage with new prime minister of Italy.
Youtube Video
Still bloviating.
re: #487 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
So, like the Republicans in 2018?
I maintain that with the GOP, the Birchers had their revenge after Bill Buckley effectively purged them from the Republican Party back in the day.
The GOP today is essentially the John Birch Society.
Well, this sums it up nicely.
Apparently the Republican Party stands for..
Putin
Child Molesters
Pedophiles
Bigfoot Erotika
Playboy models @realDonaldTrump
Porn stars @realDonaldTrump
Kidnapping children and losing them
Abortions and covering it up
Nazis
But they love God and guns!— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) July 30, 2018
re: #476 The Vicious Babushka
All of my 6 sons are visiting Chez Babushka. The pie is all eated, we had waffles for breakfast. It was son #4’s birthday so his brothers got him a 23andme DNA kit “to prove if you are actually related to us”.
If they ask you to spit in a tube, make sure it’s long enough after breakfast that they don’t just isolate wheat DNA or maybe maple tree…..
re: #489 Dr Lizardo
I maintain that with the GOP, the Birchers had their revenge after Bill Buckley effectively purged them from the Republican Party back in the day.
The GOP today is essentially the John Birch Society.
Agree. And I still think Buckley wanted the Birchers out because Buckley was all about appearances. In an interesting part now of the Farrell Nixon bio, Nixon really alienated them when he ran for governor in 1962.
What I notice Roger is the price of groceries. I also notice the price of gas on a 65 mi. commute. And my wages? well aside from the usual 1.5% yrly raise, not so much. So….. What have you done for me lately Roger? @JulieForTX25 has my attention. You seem to be under a rock…
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 30, 2018
re: #490 MsJ
Well, this sums it up nicely.
They’re only for bunnies and porn stars if they stay quiet.
re: #490 MsJ
Well, this sums it up nicely.
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I’d make that “paying off playboy models and porn stars.”
Sex-workers don’t deserve to get lumped in with that crowd.
re: #474 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I remember him, because I’ve never seen a person who’s more square than Todd Starnes.
And yet, he supports the thrice-married, multi-timed bankruptcy-declaring, gambling casino-owner, record-breaking lying liar because
re: #477 MsJ
I would lay odds on many trump cultists being LaRouchians.
Well, they’re generally the ones setting up those ‘Support President Trump’ tables in front of post offices. We get them at our local every so often, and they’re definitely LaRouchies.
I just learned Twitter has shadow banned @DevinNunes for spreading fake news and Russian propaganda. You can’t make this stuff up. -AJ https://t.co/Dz1TAmaVKM
— Andrew Janz (@JanzforCongress) July 30, 2018
re: #496 Sir John Barron
And yet, he supports the thrice-married, multi-timed bankruptcy-declaring, gambling casino-owner, record-breaking lying liar because
Stupid white man with more money than brains, just like Todd.
re: #496 Sir John Barron
And yet, he supports the thrice-married, multi-timed bankruptcy-declaring, gambling casino-owner because
Because they hate the same people. The conservative movement has always been united by shared hatreds. It’s a movement where fuckboys like Trump and guys like Todd who can’t even say vagina can be simpatico.
re: #500 HappyWarrior
Because they hate the same people. The conservative movement has always been united by shared hatreds. It’s a movement where fuckboys like Trump and guys like Todd who can’t even say vagina can be simpatico.
You just mentioned the naughty-place, so to a Republican, you’re much worse than people who steal children from refugees.
Hello, here is a new one of the news. @somemorenewshttps://t.co/PzolMo7ONK
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) July 30, 2018
re: #501 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You just mentioned the naughty-place, so to a Republican, you’re much worse than people who steal children from refugees.
You jest but that’s really how conservatives think. Where cursing at Trump who isn’t exactly Ned Flanders with his own vocabulary is worse than the policy being protested.
re: #479 HappyWarrior
Haha. I want to see how my brothers differ from me. I mean I think I by far am more Eastern European than they are. They’re very fair especially my one brother whose daughter is my niece.
3 of my sons inherited the baldness gene from my father through me, and 3 have Z’s full head of hair.
re: #497 makeitstop
Well, they’re generally the ones setting up those ‘Support President Trump’ tables in front of post offices. We get them at our local every so often, and they’re definitely LaRouchies.
My God, they are still around?
re: #504 The Vicious Babushka
3 of my sons inherited the baldness gene from my father through me, and 3 have Z’s full head of hair.
Crazy how it works. Both of our parents are blue eyed so we all are but Dad’s side was much lighter haired but wavy and curly haired while Mom’s is darker and straight. I got the dark hair and the waves while my one brother got the opposite.
re: #488 unproven innocence
Speaking of NK, the moron-in-chief just bragged “We got our prisoners back.”
JFC Teh Stupids
Trump on NATO meeting: “I went to NATO, NATO was essentially going out of business because people were not paying and it was going down.” https://t.co/ILVmoXBlJW pic.twitter.com/wgW3sSIidP
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 30, 2018
re: #512 Big Beautiful Door
I just checked; Larouche is still alive at age 95.
That’s just cruel fate. Both my grandfather’s never made it to 80.
re: #507 Big Beautiful Door
My God, they are still around?
Yep.
The giveaways are the tables with signs with a thousand words on them, reams and reams of printed materials alleging 50 different kinds of nonsense, and graphic design so absolutely horrible that it hurts your eyes just to look.
The ‘Support President Trump’ guys check off every one of those boxes.
re: #513 The Vicious Babushka
JFC Teh Stupids
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re: #443 BeachDem
And for anyone who’s been wondering, “Whatever happened to Todd Kincannon?” here’s the latest bizarre story. (And when I say bizarre, I am NOT exaggerating.)
Todd Kincannon Proclaims Himself As Jesus Christ, Slaughters Dog
Holy shit, what a wackaloon
re: #508 HappyWarrior
Crazy how it works. Both of our parents are blue eyed so we all are but Dad’s side was much lighter haired but wavy and curly haired while Mom’s is darker and straight. I got the dark hair and the waves while my one brother got the opposite.
I am left handed with green-brown eyes. My wife is right handed with blue eyes. Our oldest two boys are right handed with my eyes. Our youngest boy is left handed with blue eyes.
Trump is speaking at a press conference with the Italian PM. He just went on a rant about America’s immigration laws, saying they’re the “worst in the world” and that “we’re the laughingstock of the world” as a result. He also (again) threatened to shut down the government.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 30, 2018
re: #512 Big Beautiful Door
I just checked; Larouche is still alive at age 95.
He’s the Abe Vigoda of politics, LOL.
re: #519 JordanRules
Some foreign leader needs to bring up that we’re being led by our senile grandfather to finally burst the bubble.
re: #515 makeitstop
Yep.
The giveaways are the tables with signs with a thousand words on them, reams and reams of printed materials alleging 50 different kinds of nonsense, and graphic design so absolutely horrible that it hurts your eyes just to look.
The ‘Support President Trump’ guys check off every one of those boxes.
It can’t be any worse than this: universe-people.com
That’s from a local wacko, Ivo Benda.
re: #518 Belafon
I am left handed with green-brown eyes. My wife is right handed with blue eyes. Our oldest two boys are right handed with my eyes. Our youngest boy is left handed with blue eyes.
Z and I are both right-handed. 3 of our kids are left handed. We are brown-eyed and all our kids are brown-eyed, but we have some photos of ancestors who had light eyes. I have a bunch of blue-eyed grandkids.
Zedushka is a descendant of the Cohanim but I don’t know if 23andme tests for it.
re: #518 Belafon
I am left handed with green-brown eyes. My wife is right handed with blue eyes. Our oldest two boys are right handed with my eyes. Our youngest boy is left handed with blue eyes.
Both my grandfathers were lefties with one lefty child- not my parents. I’m a lefty as is my niece whose maternal grandfather is one. It’s crazy to think how inheritance is. I could just as easily be blonde.
re: #520 Eventual Carrion
Can laced Kool-aid be far behind?
Also castration and matching Nike shoes. I hear the shoes are nice, but I’m not a fan of the castration.
Giuliani is calling into Fox News right now to clarify his collusion comments from this morning: “My client didn’t do it, and even if he did it, it’s not a crime.” pic.twitter.com/4Lem500Wuj
— Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) July 30, 2018
Never let Giuliani stop talking. https://t.co/nkKyewFxqM
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) July 30, 2018
—->>>Trump willing to meet Iranian leaders: “I’m ready to meet anytime they want to…no preconditions” #IranDeal
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 30, 2018
Trump one week ago: “To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE” https://t.co/p9w1zWqnRy
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 30, 2018
re: #527 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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