In response to Trump lamenting that the media never followed his predecessor with cameras, Stephen dives into the archives in a search for proof of the mythical Barack Obama.
These ever-mutating talking points are a wonder to behold.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 27, 2018
TODAY is the court-ordered deadline for Trump to reunite families separated at the border and more than a thousand families are STILL separated!#FamiliesBelongTogetherpic.twitter.com/3jdKyTg6NC
— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 26, 2018
This administration seems a lot more interested in reuniting Trump and Putin than in reuniting the families they tore apart. #FamiliesBelongTogther https://t.co/FnRNlK9TNd
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) July 26, 2018
!! Trump now says GDP growth will by 8 or 9% if he can cut the trade deficit in half.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 27, 2018
It works the other way. We could halve the trade deficit with a serious recession.
re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White
It works the other way. We could halve the trade deficit with a serious recession.
he knows the fed would raise interest rates to make sure it didn’t reach 8 or 9 percent, right?
rhetorical question
Two of the reporters Trump has fixated on and privately tried to ban? @Acosta and @AprilDRyan. The latest inside Trump’s war w the media, w @PhilipRucker + @jdawsey1. https://t.co/jiBBhSpOLQ
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 27, 2018
“…In past instances, top advisers, including Sanders and former communications director Hope Hicks, would try to talk Trump out of taking action, according to officials with knowledge of the conversations. They argued that doing so would only give more attention to the questions he did not like and suggested that if he did not want to answer those questions, he should simply ignore them.”
It’s still hard to fathom the depth of Trump’s sheer stupidity about people.
Wait, wouldn’t reducing trade deficits cause a reduction in GDP in the long term?
re: #5 jaunte
It’s still hard to fathom the depth of Trump’s sheer stupidity
about people.
re: #4 Sir John Barron
he knows the fed would raise interest rates to make sure it didn’t reach 8 or 9 percent, right?
rhetorical question
He’ll “let them” raise interest rates.
re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White
He’ll “let them” raise interest rates.
The Fed is the new Deep State, stuffed with Obama cronies including the new Fed Chair that drumpF just appointed.
//
re: #7 Sir John Barron
I mean, for a lifetime con man, you would think he’d have a smidgen of insight into how people react when you punish one of a group of curious people for being curious about A Particular Topic.
#BREAKING: Trump repeatedly asked aides to ban Jim Acosta and April Ryan from press briefings: report https://t.co/5ONRUR5GzL pic.twitter.com/nYEsKro0fI
— The Hill (@thehill) July 27, 2018
re: #10 jaunte
I mean, for a lifetime con man, you would think he’d have a smidgen of insight into how people react when you punish one of a group of curious people for being curious about A Particular Topic.
He has a deep understanding of 1/3 of the population. The rest of us mystify him, with our distrust of mendacity, our dislike of bluster, and our disdain for ignorance.
re: #11 goddamnedfrank
What good is it being King when you can’t ban people you don’t like from the press room?
/
re: #13 Sir John Barron
What good is it being King when you can’t ban people you don’t like from the press room?
/
‘Sgood to be the King.
//
Dubya was a nitwit, but he knew enough to give the press chummy nicknames so they’d treat him nicer.
I disagree on the article title, as his waking time seems split between whining, bragging, and threatening.
re: #17 m0nkeyb0y
I disagree on the article title, as his waking time seems split between whining, bragging, and threatening.
Tweeting, man! Don’t forget the tweeting.
California wildfire threatens lives as scientists warn of extreme weather globally https://t.co/OFsTQJT02a @dansimoncnn reports @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 27, 2018
But, hey - since Global Warming is a hoax invented by CHYnah, all these wildfires must be fake, right?
Sneaky @DineshDSouza won’t tell you he’s called for repealing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. pic.twitter.com/P2vDlC7dcO
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) July 26, 2018
re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White
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My 2018 income will be 8 or 9 million $ if I can teach my dog to tap dance.
— MisterHippity (@MisterHippity) July 27, 2018
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
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I’m also pretty confident that Kruse specifically mentioned that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act just prior to dismantling D’Souza via Twitter thread….
re: #5 jaunte
Fascist. He wants to ban the press because some of them have the guts to ask him challenging questions.
re: #20 Blind Frog Belly White
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But, hey - since Global Warming is a hoax invented by CHYnah, all these wildfires must be fake, right?
The west coast burns the east coast is flooded.
Yeah, this is normal.
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
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Who signed it Dinesh. And who has a sitting Senator say they oppose it. I’m thankful to all the Republicans who supported CRA 1964 but the GOP lost any moral high ground on that when they nominated Goldwater and welcomed Strom Thurmond with open arms into the party.
re: #23 Mike Lamb
I’m also pretty confident that Kruse specifically mentioned that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act just prior to dismantling D’Souza via Twitter thread….
Dinesh is too big of a conservative coward to admit that conservatism was the driving force behind opposition to the law.
re: #13 Sir John Barron
What good is it being King when you can’t ban people you don’t like from the press room?
/
I think what he really wants is to be able to kill people.
//kinda
re: #31 The Vicious Babushka
Or just beat them into silence.
The new anti-Semitism in France
This is depressing.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
We need to be firm that it’s not OK to work against our democracy by conspiring with the enemies of the West.
Some long prison sentences would send the appropriate message.— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 27, 2018
re: #33 electrotek
The new anti-Semitism in France
This is depressing.
Christ. Didn’t we just do this, about 75-80 years ago?
Remember a couple of years ago when we had to make an effort to learn who the President’s cabinet members were because they just did their jobs and weren’t total fuck-ups in every way possible?
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) April 25, 2018
re: #31 The Vicious Babushka
I think what he really wants is to be able to kill people.
//kinda
Well yeah. All his good friends can, why can’t he?
re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White
Christ. Didn’t we just do this, about 75-80 years ago?
What I don’t like is how defensive and knee-jerk Muslims in France are getting about this. They need to face the reality that anti-Semitism is an unfortunate reality among certain French Muslims and this needs to be combated. This hostility was never based on centuries, but purely a modern-day consequence and they need to combat this without crying Islamophobia all the time.
Yes, French Muslims are discriminated against in the country and I surely hope the recent World Cup win will turn the tide. But I also wish for the illness of anti-Semitism among them to go away for good. What happened in Israel/Palestine does NOT justify prejudiced views against Jews whatsoever.
re: #39 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Lol. Are they going to guard the star forever if Trump pays for it to be remade? Good luck with that.
Vanilla sounds plain, but it’s gotten very expensive. Blame a cyclone on the other side of the world: https://t.co/hFncEyhKqX pic.twitter.com/PG5FT4v6SC
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 27, 2018
Vanilla is the best ice cream, so much better than chocolate. Fight me. https://t.co/7GVblyyH0J
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 27, 2018
Parody account, or mentally-challenged guy with an unfortunate name, that looks like a parody of another mentally-challenged guy.
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Jack Pubesac
@TPUS4
#PATRIOT#FOLLOWBACK #QANON #TRUMPTRAIN #BLUELIVESMATTER #BUISINESSOWNER
Hidden in the “Democrats Are The Real Racists!” nonsense is the deeply racist corollary that blacks, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, aren’t smart enough to know who the real racists are.
re: #42 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Parody account, or mentally-challenged guy with an unfortunate name, that looks like a parody of another mentally-challenged guy.
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Jack Pubesac
@TPUS4
#PATRIOT#FOLLOWBACK #QANON #TRUMPTRAIN #BLUELIVESMATTER #BUISINESSOWNER
I’d say with a nic like Pube Sac it is parody of that other Jack.
re: #44 ObserverArt
I’d say with a nic like Pube Sac it is parody of that other Jack.
That’s what I think, but he’s playing it straight wingnut for the most part.
re: #44 ObserverArt
I’d say with a nic like Pube Sac it is parody of that other Jack.
Almost certainly.
re: #43 Blind Frog Belly White
Hidden in the “Democrats Are The Real Racists!” nonsense is the deeply racist corollary that blacks, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, aren’t smart enough to know who the real racists are.
Yes…also….Black and other non white folks actually know that Democrats can be racist. So, between two sets of racists, it’s rationale to choose the set where you’re better off under.
This is soo much better than that New York Times map making the rounds. Instead of filling in entire precincts with blue or red, it uses dots to represent each vote, accounting for population density. https://t.co/8m4OmYuk4a pic.twitter.com/CW4pmZlY38
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) July 27, 2018
If you’ve never flown across the US at night, you’ll be astonished just how EMPTY the Big Empty States are. This makes that clear.
re: #47 gwangung
Yes…also….Black and other non white folks actually know that Democrats can be racist. So, between two sets of racists, it’s rationale to choose the set where you’re better off under.
Absolutely. And I suspect white Democrats who are racist may be more irritating than the more overt racist Republicans, because they’re the kind who tell you “I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet” and “I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
re: #49 Blind Frog Belly White
Absolutely. And I suspect white Democrats who are racist may be more irritating than the more overt racist Republicans, because they’re the kind who tell you “I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet” and “I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
Trump has said those things.
re: #50 The Vicious Babushka
Trump has said those things.
He used to be a Democrat who was racist. Now he’s a Republican who is racist.
re: #48 Blind Frog Belly White
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If you’ve never flown across the US at night, you’ll be astonished just how EMPTY the Big Empty States are. This makes that clear.
That open spot in Pennsylvania is interesting. Slides right down into West Virginia. Hmmm.
re: #52 ObserverArt
That open spot in Pennsylvania is interesting. Slides right down into West Virginia. Hmmm.
Appalachia.
re: #53 Blind Frog Belly White
Appalachia.
Yeah…and it also fits into the less densely populated areas being more Red than Blue.
Another way of looking at it. Important to note that the one red guy in Wyoming thinks he should count as much as all the blue guys in SF or LA or NYC. “Why should my voice be drowned out by The Cities?”
Because The Cities are where Americans mostly live.
re: #54 ObserverArt
Yeah…and it also fits into the less densely populated areas being more Red than Blue.
But the densest population votes Red, if you catch my drift….
re: #49 Blind Frog Belly White
Absolutely. And I suspect white Democrats who are racist may be more irritating than the more overt racist Republicans, because they’re the kind who tell you “I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet” and “I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
Yeah. Some exasperating memories there….
Cool map. There’s also something that looks like an I-95 blue line up and down the east coast.
re: #29 BeachDem
Ronan’s article about Moonves is up.
Off to read…
That was gross. Absolutely fucking gross.
— LoriMori (@lori_mori) July 27, 2018
re: #58 Barefoot Grin
Cool map. There’s also something that looks like an I-95 blue line up and down the east coast.
Also shows why high speed rail is best thought of as a regional thing.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait, wouldn’t reducing trade deficits cause a reduction in GDP in the long term?
For a manufacturing economy, reducing trade deficits is very bad, it means you’re selling less of the things you’re making. But we are not a manufacturing economy, we are a service based economy (manufacturing makes up an important part of our economy, but our economy is driven much more by service jobs than by manufacturing jobs). Now, increasing manufacturing (and exporting more manufactured goods) could be a good thing, if we had higher unemployment - it would mean more people working, and that would mean a more robust economy. Unfortunately, we apparently are at a point where we have a jobs surplus - as in we have more jobs than we have workers (at least anecdotally, I’m seeing this in commercial tenant improvement construction where everyone is stretched thin and can’t seem to find new hires). So, in our current economy, reducing trade deficits would be a very bad thing because the only feasible way to do it would be to reduce our imports, thereby reducing supply of goods, which typically leads to inflation, which typically leads to people being pissed the fuck off.
The scene off of 5th Ave where police are responding to reports of suspicious package at Trump Tower pic.twitter.com/ixmFoGKil7
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) July 27, 2018
Source familiar w/ the WH strategy last year (when the Trump Tower news broke): “In a professional operation, you’d never let the candidate know about these kinds of offers because it would preserve plausible deniability. But these guys were all amateurs.” https://t.co/CbP6kiqKxM
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 27, 2018
Amateurs, indeed. And they still haven’t learned a thing.
re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White
Also shows why high speed rail is best thought of as a regional thing.
You’d either need a far more centralized government or a return to earmarks with a vengeance to make it a national reality.
re: #65 Barefoot Grin
You’d either need a far more centralized government or a return to earmarks with a vengeance to make it a national reality.
Makes me wished the Japanese would have took over America in the 1980s.
Only then would high speed rail in this country would have been a reality lol
re: #59 MsJ
That was gross. Absolutely fucking gross.
You mean Moonves (not Ronan’s reporting) right? In that case, I agree totally. What a disgusting pig.
re: #21 Patricia Kayden
You have to be at least 30 to be a US Senator, realistically, you’re going to be in your 40s or 50s when you first become a Senator, so a member of the Senate in 1965 would have been born (at the latest) in 1925. So he’s basically talking about people who would be over 100 years old today. You know, dead people, rather than the people alive today.
Me trying to decide how to react to this Tweet pic.twitter.com/Zb4yZ9n4Cc
— Neoliberal 🌐 (@ne0liberal) July 27, 2018
re: #67 BeachDem
You mean Moonves (not Ronan’s reporting) right? In that case, I agree totally. What a disgusting pig.
Of course. The end was the real kicker; the fox guarding the henhouse.
I need a shower now.
What a business.
Yep, the Venn diagram checks out. (I can’t believe none of your followers did this already.) pic.twitter.com/yrin2pGODB
— Jon (@joncorn8) July 27, 2018
I’m shocked! You?
Ivanka Trump jewelry line embroiled in an alleged money laundering scheme, report says https://t.co/1ECMnoYAlt
— Denny (@DcLincoln761) July 27, 2018
Sort of explains the whole “Ivanka shuts down her clothing business” thing this week, doesn’t it?#TrumpCrimeFamily https://t.co/9j4G6v6s7Q
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 27, 2018
re: #71 MsJ
Of course. The end was the real kicker; the fox guarding the henhouse.
I need a shower now.
What a business.
I was just funnin’ with you. Ronan is so good—so thorough and such a good writer. And he crosses all the t’s and dots all the i’s.
So, before you go to shower, who do you think the child star named Kimberly and the actress who was on the police drama show are?
“Please don’t feel you’re letting me down”
LOL, OK.
Also, jumpsuit? Listen, you dodged a bullet here.— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 27, 2018
re: #66 electrotek
Makes me wished the Japanese would have took over America in the 1980s.
Only then would high speed rail in this country would have been a reality lol
I love Japan’s transportation system, but it came with the kind of costs I was thinking of in the “earmarks with a vengeance” comment. The cost of the Jōetsu shinkansen line probably wasn’t justified considering population and needs, but Tanaka Kakuei was from Niigata, so it got done. And there are a couple of impressive highways in Hokkaido that see little traffic. Projects like these have been part of what keeps the LDP and its remnants in power. Maybe it’s a good thing, I don’t know. On the one hand, it (subsidies and pork barrel investments) keeps rural areas from descending into complete abject poverty; on the other hand, it does nothing to mitigate the flow of young Japanese from rural areas to the big urban areas where jobs are.
So I guess I’m saying that Americans would have to be softened up to accept that losses in some areas would be made up for in the high-traffic corridors.
I hope it happens in some form. We need a more robust rail system that favors human traffic.
(Funny side note: I was just given a “soft” offering of a job teaching Japanese economic history at a university in western Japan in their new English-only International Studies division. I protested that I don’t really do economic history; my Japanese friend said, “I have to teach law in English and I barely speak English; you’ll be ok.” It would be so great as a visiting job, but I can’t bank my career on Japanese university standards.)
A “tender age” six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother. https://t.co/5besh6AOzI pic.twitter.com/LBMF4fboEU
— The Nation (@thenation) July 27, 2018
TFW the parody account does it exactly 5 minutes *before* the account it’s supposed to be parodying. pic.twitter.com/PzJ1duNKU3
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) July 27, 2018
Long live Glem!
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Greenwald’s best days are behind him, I hope he had fun.
re: #72 electrotek
LOL really?
Well a book would be a “suspicious package” to people who don’t read.
re: #81 The Vicious Babushka
Well a book would be a “suspicious package” to people who don’t read.
How do you turn it on? Where’s the USB connection?
JUST IN —> Mueller’s office files its list of potential witnesses in Paul Manafort’s Virginia trial: pic.twitter.com/DE4hDcxxuo
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 27, 2018
Tomorrow’s Federalist: “The Witnesses In The Manafort Trial JUST HAPPEN To Be In Alphabetical Order? Nice Try, Deep State!”https://t.co/NAG0fPxOjS
— WouldOrWouldn’tHat (@Popehat) July 27, 2018
Manafort witness list
documentcloud.org
Pre-printed ticket for House of Representatives consideration of Richard Nixon’s impeachment, August 1974—never used because Nixon resigned: pic.twitter.com/7bLcp2Xh0f
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 27, 2018
LOL.
Trump claims he won Women’s vote. One more lie. He won 51% of white women. But Black women & their Latina sisters never lost their their minds. Maya Angelou taught us: “When someone shows u who they are, believe them the first time”. He’d shown us plenty. https://t.co/FUi6c1XEyk
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) July 26, 2018
To be honest, he’s not the only one who thinks this way. Is he @theharryshearer? https://t.co/omT1HFGI8B
— Neera Tanden 🌊 (@neeratanden) July 27, 2018
Beautiful!
tacos forever, and Jonathan too. His funeral songs were The Germs “Forming” and Dr. Dre’s “Nothing but a G Thang,” and he served Kogi, Mariscos Jalisco, Guerrilla Tacos and Zacatecas-style burritos (La Palma) after his service. We truly did lose a great one. #oldpunksneverdie pic.twitter.com/P9UKRbUMOg
— Javier Cabral (@theglutster) July 27, 2018
moron stamping his tiny feet…
Democrats, who want Open Borders and care little about Crime, are incompetent, but they have the Fake News Media almost totally on their side!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
I recently got a speeding ticket, but my lawyer Rudy Giuliani got the charges changed to Second Degree Murder. Call 1-800-GET RUDY. #RudyGiuliani pic.twitter.com/66XxXL9gWt
— Nostra-Tomas (@No_Jimbo) May 8, 2018
New: Why didn’t FBI tell court about Christopher Steele bias? https://t.co/nkTZtJAp2s
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 27, 2018
Predictable character assassination from a partisan hack. Forget this forgettable hit piece. If you really want to educate yourself about Steele and his memo, read @JaneMayerNYer’s excellent piece in the New Yorker https://t.co/SMa8UTRKod https://t.co/ErhZ52r1v0
— Charles Cooper (@coopeydoop) July 27, 2018
Steele’s opposition to Trump was based on his investigation, which unearthed alarming, and myriad ties between America’s future president and Russia’s corrupt rulers. Calling that a bias is like saying the FBI is biased against crime. https://t.co/eOVvOeC8ab
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) July 27, 2018
This is their actual argument:
Conspiring against the United States of America’s free and fair elections is not a crime. It’s *investigating* a conspiracy against America’s elections that’s the actual crime!— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 28, 2018
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
I wish there was a god. I wish there was a hell.
Bill Loud, the Father on American Television’s First Reality Series ‘An American Family,’ Dies at 97 https://t.co/WsEHKPo3TC pic.twitter.com/e1Wls8T2hO
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) July 27, 2018
Premiering in 1973 on PBS, ‘An American Family’ chronicled the daily life of the Louds, an upper middle class family in Santa Barbara, California pic.twitter.com/D6ZESv54lo
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) July 28, 2018
Fires on Earth, monitored from space. One of our @NASAEarth-observing satellites captured this image of the west coast of the United States showing the breadth of the fire issues plaguing that are of the country. Take a closer look: https://t.co/2b31c8jXPe pic.twitter.com/ILEvrslRSp
— NASA (@NASA) July 28, 2018
— The Sports Whisperer🏀🏈⚾️🏒 (@MonteAJP23) July 27, 2018
well, ok then….
Fox host downplays Cohen revelation that Trump lied about Trump Tower meeting: “So what?” https://t.co/uiHWdZSsLU pic.twitter.com/ZZ2GNwkQEH
— The Hill (@thehill) July 27, 2018
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
Democrats, who want Open Borders and care little about Crime, are incompetent, but they have the Fake News Media almost totally on their side!
I’m thinking Conway wrote that one.
Damn.
Police held Ving Rhames at gunpoint in his own home after a neighbor told 911 that ‘a large black man’ had broken in https://t.co/jSEHjeO3I5 pic.twitter.com/vJHuKU7iQk
— Blavity News (@Blavity) July 28, 2018
I cannot fucking believe that in 2018 a delusional ranting conman like Alex Jones has a large following. This is not my beautiful future.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 28, 2018
For reference: Facebook has given 30-day suspensions to Holocaust-denying white supremacist dirtbag Chuck C. Johnson at least TWELVE times, and they keep letting him come back. A 30-day suspension for Alex Jones is nothing more than a pathetic wrist slap.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 28, 2018
And Alex Jones’s sycophantic creepazoids can still continue to post rancid garbage on his pages even though he’s suspended, because it’s only for his personal account. This is some kind of weird PR move, nothing more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 28, 2018
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, ok then….
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FFS
CAPTION THIS RAPPER’S NAME PLEASE! pic.twitter.com/QUn96WX9kp
— Ron Joseph (@questar1959_ron) July 27, 2018
At LGF I’ve been calling out Alex Jones and his weird anti-rational cult for 12 years, watching in horror as he became increasingly popular and legitimized in right wing media. It was like watching a train approach while standing frozen on the track, screaming, nobody listening.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 28, 2018
re: #94 Stanley Sea
Trying to watch this. Anyone know how?
Hmmm, can’t find it. I only found exerpts on PBS site.
re: #100 Charles Johnson
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This nation is so f*cked.
Public education’s purpose (I guess) is to make an educated, marketable, thinking and reasonably patriotic populace, that has been gutted and now we have blithering morons quoting other blithering morons and those blithering morons are being accepted as normal, non-crazy, sources.
People are getting and are proud to proclaim that they got their “real” education from YouTube. These people that I have run into typically have jobs that are on the lower level of the pay scale but they vote and they will happily vote against anything that will help them out if their echo chamber tells them too.
A nation of morons doesn’t help anyone but the 1% and the arc history of that doesn’t bode well.
This thread is infuriating. They were told and told and told.
Major media companies are beginning to panic. To hedge bets, some are starting publicize a smattering of details on the greatest political scandal in US history, the capture of the US government by organized crime and a foreign power.
Here’s a sample of what’s coming. pic.twitter.com/oZilQDe5gD— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 27, 2018
re: #94 Stanley Sea
Trying to watch this. Anyone know how?
Looks like all the episodes.
I watched it the first time around. Riveting. In spots, extremely uncomfortable.
re: #110 makeitstop
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Looks like all the episodes.
I watched it the first time around. Riveting. In spots, extremely uncomfortable.
Nice! I didn’t even think about checking YT.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
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What is the historical context for dealing with the crazy ass Alex Jones types?
The internet really has changed everything? In the past they would send out mimeographed flyers?
How would nutcases like Jones get a foothold in American discourse without starting a religion? Buckley, Heritage Foundation? John Birch Society was the looniest that got somewhat accepted and the NRA was the sanest that got hijacked?
How do we deal with the InfoWars types who used to get laughed at when their audience was the general populous as opposed to the segregated internets?
re: #114 Single-handed sailor
Carr fire increased from 20,000 acres and 10% contained yesterday to 44,450 acres with 3% containment today.
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Also, thoughts and prayers for Sweden for the weekend and next week, that the expected rainfall (and T-storms) don’t exacerbate the fires but actually helps to dampen them down to manageable. Head of Rescue services at the Älvdalen fire says it’s a fateful weekend :(
re: #114 Single-handed sailor
Carr fire increased from 20,000 acres and 10% contained yesterday to 44,450 acres with 3% containment today.
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44,450 acres is 70 square miles.
aka 3 Manhattans or almost a Brooklyn.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
At LGF I’ve been calling out Alex Jones and his weird anti-rational cult for 12 years, watching in horror as he became increasingly popular and legitimized in right wing media. It was like watching a train approach while standing frozen on the track, screaming, nobody listening.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 28, 2018
Like slavery, this will only be settled by force. In a massive and appalling example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the right wing is hell-bent on such a solution. They have stopped even pretending to seek any other outcome. The Russians and other enemies are glad to incite them every step of the way, not because they have any respect for the idiot/theocrat agenda, but to weaken the United States.
A quick check in to LGF, then out again.
We’re in Kamloops, BC. A friend of my wife’s from Vancouver has arrived to visit, so we’re going to do Kamloops things.
re: #111 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t ask for much, but can someone change the wording to the much more accurate “A traitor lives here.”
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LOL, stamp ordered via the LGF Amazon Associate link:
Custom Text Line 1 : Impeach Gangster Trump
Custom Text Line 2 : the Russian Stooge.
Custom Text Line 3 : Educated, sane Americans
Custom Text Line 4 : should take back America!
Not limited to the $20 bill like that other one is.
What the hell?!
No Friday news dump?
* Kelly quitting?
* Assange due to be kicked out at any minute?
* Rosenstein Fired?
How boring.
So tired of all this winning.
re: #121 b.d.
No Friday news dump?
* Kelly quitting?
* Assange due to be kicked out at any minute?
* Rosenstein Fired?How boring.
So tired of all this winning.
The news week is now six days long. Friday news dump was yesterday.
re: #121 b.d.
No Friday news dump?
* Kelly quitting?
* Assange due to be kicked out at any minute?
* Rosenstein Fired?How boring.
So tired of all this winning.
Welcome to 2018, where shit spews out at such a furious rate that there’s not much left when Friday comes around. What used to be dropped late on Fridays to cause a stir over the weekend now seems to drop whenever the fuck it likes. Our political system seems to be suffering from incontinence.
The calm before the storm?
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 28, 2018
My sister: *watching shows on living off-grid in Alaska* “I’m gonna do that!”
Me: *knowing she spends hours online daily* “Good luck with that.”
re: #124 Teukka
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Maybe Rudy told them that the Friday news dump was better dropped on Monday morning?
Let’s also not forget that most of what goes on daily without comment would have caused days or weeks of controversy under a Democrat, but under a Republican is treated as “business as usual.”
Can you imagine how much airtime Faux alone would devote to the hundreds of children separated from their parents if Hillary was in office?
re: #127 Targetpractice
Let’s also not forget that most of what goes on daily without comment would have caused days or weeks of controversy under a Democrat, but under a Republican is treated as “business as usual.”
Can you imagine how much airtime Faux alone would devote to the hundreds of children separated from their parents if Hillary was in office?
$12 Billion to US agribusiness because of a ego-driven, failed trade war?
If Obama spent $12 at 5 Guys it would have been an outrage!
re: #128 b.d.
$12 Billion to US agribusiness because of a ego-driven, failed trade war?
If Obama spent $12 at 5 Guys it would have been an outrage!
There was outrage when Obama put mustard on a burger and when he wore a tan suit. His mere existence is a scandal to these cretins.
re: #128 b.d.
$12 Billion to US agribusiness because of a ego-driven, failed trade war?
If Obama spent $12 at 5 Guys it would have been an outrage!
“This trade war is a planned and dedicated attack against rural voters for refusing to support the DNC! Obama is violating the Constitutional restraints placed upon his office by setting tariffs when that is supposed to be the job of Congress! WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT FOR THESE CRIMES!!!”
moron
The only things the Democrats do well is “Resist,” which is their campaign slogan, and “Obstruct.” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer has almost 400 great American people that are waiting “forever” to serve our Country! A total disgrace. Mitch M should not let them go home until all approved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2018
Join me in Tampa, Florida next Tuesday, July 31st at 7:00pmE for a #MAGA Rally! Tickets: https://t.co/Q2PMyTACl8 pic.twitter.com/URjvN8Owoe
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2018
You have only your own compulsive lying to blame for your inevitable downfall. No one outside your cult will accept your bizarre claims.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 28, 2018
The indictment file of the 12 Russian hackers states that they were in long enough that they were able to copy the entire server system.
Let me repeat that, they were able to copy all of the servers and bring up copies in a separate area to examine at their leisure. pic.twitter.com/AmZ8swzHgM— Porpentina (Tina) (@porpentina2017) July 28, 2018
If they could copy all the DNC & DCCC servers why couldn’t they do that with the state voter registration servers?
Last year at DEF CON (@defcon) the voter village was able to hack into voting machines with ease, too easy for my taste.https://t.co/QfwgLwpuMV— Porpentina (Tina) (@porpentina2017) July 28, 2018
Of all the states that were hacked, GA was the one that had not only their voter registration & voter rolls, but the votes as well
A person checking for vulnerabilities & found 15 Gb of unsecured files. One w/passwords for the central election server.https://t.co/xr6Nfo8GOM— Porpentina (Tina) (@porpentina2017) July 28, 2018
re: #121 b.d.
No Friday news dump?
* Kelly quitting?
* Assange due to be kicked out at any minute?
* Rosenstein Fired?How boring.
So tired of all this winning.
the children have not been returned to their parents yet.
We are still going LIVE 🔴 from the State Operations Center and supporting the devastating fires and extreme heat events across CA. 🎥 https://t.co/O4xWC2QV15 pic.twitter.com/AHl8S69oeB
— Cal OES (@Cal_OES) July 27, 2018
Our thoughts are with the loved ones of the 2 firefighters we lost fighting the #CarrFire & with the many Californians who have lost their homes. We are with you.
The @Cal_OES State Operations Center is activated to its highest level. Please follow all evacuation orders. https://t.co/cZIYG0qHQA— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) July 27, 2018
re: #130 Targetpractice
“This trade war is a planned and dedicated attack against rural voters for refusing to support the DNC! Obama is violating the Constitutional restraints placed upon his office by setting tariffs when that is supposed to be the job of Congress! WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT FOR THESE CRIMES!!!”
We really don’t want the $12 Billion handout.
As a matter of fact, nobody wants it less than we do.
We really, really, really, really don’t want this $12,000,000,000.00 gift at all!
Really!!!
PLEASE QUIT THROWING THESE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT US, WE REALLY DON’T WANT THEM, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHO ASKED FOR THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
re: #137 b.d.
The local fish processors up here in Alaska are already getting in line for their share of the 12 billion dollar handout.
It just seems so strange for us to be using beau-coup of our taxpayers dollars to pay our citizens for our shooting them in both feet. Dumb is just not enough to describe it.
re: #136 Single-handed sailor
Look at that. A functioning government. I almost forgot what that looked like.
Why not a full ban on Russian vodka?
Nothing could be more ceremonial and the other premium vodkas from Europe certainly will fill the void but I can’t think of a better symbolic gesture.
Stoli is from Latvia?
If Cuban cigars + the devil then Russian vodka should have some stigma.
So this just happened outside the White House at Day 12 of our never-ending anti-Trump protests:
Secret Service agent: “So how long are you guys going to keep protesting?”
One of our organizers, pointing to the White House: “Until he leaves.”#KremlinAnnex— John Aravosis (@aravosis) July 28, 2018
.@RuthMarcus: “Trump’s lies simply reflect the primitive instinct of the cornered toddler with chocolate smeared on his face, insisting that he had not just raided the cookie jar.” https://t.co/7LYnk9EfYl
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 28, 2018
Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. (cf. Matt 25:31-46)
‘nuff said…— Teo (@Teukka72) July 28, 2018
It’s too damn hot.
Go away summer!
Our AC died on Tuesday. Tech saved us Wednesday but we had to go stay at my sister’s house for the night. House got to 98 degrees before the fix. It was 116 Tuesday and Wednesday. I’m so GD grateful for air conditioning!!!
A “tender age” six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother. https://t.co/5besh6AOzI pic.twitter.com/LBMF4fboEU
— The Nation (@thenation) July 27, 2018
“I understand it’s my responsibility as a six year old to maintain appropriate boundaries with peers/workers.”#Kafka https://t.co/lOkLJUKJS7
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) July 28, 2018
US Defence Secretary James Mattis has described reports that America is preparing to strike Iran as “fiction”.
Senior figures in the Turnbull Government told the ABC they believe the United States is prepared to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, perhaps as early as next month, and that Australia was poised to help identify possible targets.
Mr Mattis dismissed the reports at a press conference on Friday.
“I have no idea where the Australian news people got that information,” he said.
(my bold)
Well most people got the information/idea from the president* of the United States. Is Mattis telling us to ignore anything trump says? It’s weird, but some people take the president* at his word & believe what he says - same as they do with other world leaders.
As for Australia helping out - hopefully that would mean a change of government very quickly. trump has little, if any support from most Australians.
re: #145 jaunte
Dear Heavens - they have no shame - none of them.
Washington Post asks public for help identifying Trump’s golf partners https://t.co/xDyAkcdLeF pic.twitter.com/GhfT2UZvum
— The Hill (@thehill) July 28, 2018
re: #147 fern01
Dear Heavens - they have no shame - none of them.
Is it too early to tell y’all to check out the paperwork the Nazis had the “Untermensch” sign?
re: #148 De Kolta Chair
I saw Tom Petty at Red Rocks in the mid aughts. He played Blue Suede Shoes that night. I’ll never forget it.
This Trump thug is solely responsible for keeping 100s of children locked up for much longer. He’s the same “pro-life” evangelical fanatic who blocked a teenage migrant who’d been raped from getting an abortion. Meet Office of Refugee “Resettlement” chief E Scott Lloyd. pic.twitter.com/zB6dZqP6Wt
— Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) July 26, 2018
How To Control The Cult (45) pic.twitter.com/Hv4lrNuu6e
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) July 28, 2018
re: #143 Teukka
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Am I going way over-the-top here?
Also, historically accurate Jesus. Over/under on him not getting in the country, or getting shot by cops or your random GOP admin fanboy? pic.twitter.com/B5wJpuORWI
— Teo (@Teukka72) July 28, 2018
Bill Maher brave and live from Oklahoma City…HBO.
How Brave!
Of course his audience is Okies who are on his side, he’s not doing this in Fallujah.
re: #152 jaunte
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I’m surprised the Federal Judge hasn’t had this asshole hauled into his courtroom to ask “what fuck’s going on?”.
re: #149 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That’s obviously a trick question, since Trump is a lot fatter now than when that photo was taken.
For instance, Trump is so fat that his cereal bowl comes with a lifeguard. Trump is so fat he has to put his belt on with a boomerang. Trump is so fat his staff ran around him once and got hopelessly lost. (Though in their defense they were hopelessly lost anyway.)
re: #155 b.d.
Bill Maher brave and live from Oklahoma City…HBO.
How Brave!
Of course his audience is Okies who are on his side, he’s not doing this in Fallujah.
I read a review of one of his recent shows. Lots of Magic Balance Fairy, with dashes of Old Comedian Not Getting That Maybe He’s Out of Touch.
On the plus side, he didn’t pull out the ol’ People Who Vaccinate are Morons shtick.
With his new show, Gordon Ramsay wants to parachute into foreign food cultures and show the locals he can cook their cuisines better than they can https://t.co/nXcxnEXtkZ pic.twitter.com/JB1VTl9eqL
— Eater (@Eater) July 27, 2018
This is the very thing Bourdain was against. https://t.co/8L4nEIrhOe
— Xavier D’Leau (@XavierDLeau) July 27, 2018
This is such a bad idea. I’ve never been a fan of Ramsey. The only show I would watch a bit was Master Chef Jr. because the kids were amazing and he smartly tucked his bully schtick away.
This idea is so damn annoying tho! The only way I would think about watching is if he repeatedly gets dunked on by the local talent like in this old classic clip.
YALL IM CRYINGGGGGGGGGG pic.twitter.com/SzTb0kkZYz
— Sydnee Juan Soto Williams (@sydneeW_) April 2, 2018
It still gives me so much life! ROFL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/7DenCKAuA8
— Jenny Yang 👲🏼👲🏼👲🏼 (@jennyyangtv) April 7, 2018
INBOX: Philly is cancelling its contract with ICE, will no longer share PARS data https://t.co/aNdzVYJpI3 pic.twitter.com/Swpm9FZGXw
— Billy Penn (@billy_penn) July 27, 2018
Wow. “rather than allay these concerns, ICE officials in fact confirmed many of them” https://t.co/xnWhsZ01IQ
— Danya Henninger (@phillydesign) July 27, 2018
OccupyICE in Philly was instrumental in this! Been following them. This is an exciting step!
Context: Philly had a data-sharing contract b/t ICE & PARS ( Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System, or literally arrest report system) that was up for renewal on 8/31/18. Juntos + others dedicated a lot of time to ending this. It was also 1 of 3 demands for OccupyICE Phl.
— tina (@babyvietcong) July 27, 2018
Shaky but rockin’ amateur video of @JasonIsbell and @thedavidcrosby playing “Wooden Ships” at Newport tonight. https://t.co/8OxHutGWTo
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 28, 2018
Yup.
Nothing but schadenfreude for Les Moonves after he said this in February of 2016. pic.twitter.com/sEjoN137tg
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 27, 2018
re: #163 MsJ
Yup.
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He’s a monster and CBS should have already stripped all his power and told his ass to go sit down while their independent (we’ll see) investigation continues.
We translate things into Russian at the Kremlin Annex so Trump understands what protestors are saying. pic.twitter.com/XN0DJ4eY8P
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 28, 2018
re: #160 MsJ
Her family owns the biggest booze distributor in the southwest. Just shattup and swill, hippie/indie/teabagger/Trumpite!! Drink!!!
re: #148 De Kolta Chair
Btw, that’s the killer Welsh pianist Geraint Meurig Vaughan Watkins pounding the majors and minors on that session. Just thought I’d mention that before the world comes to an end and nobody gives a fig or forth about rock & roll session piano players. Except of course for Nicky Hopkins. Gawd, now I’m really depressed.
Besides, what do figs or forks have to do with anything?!!
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#CarrFire [update] off Hwy 299 and Carr Powerhouse Rd, Whiskeytown (Shasta County) is now 48,312 acres and 5% contained. NEW MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDERS IN PLACE. Unified Command: @CALFIRESHU and Whiskeytown National Park. https://t.co/QmhauhZj9m pic.twitter.com/rxi4K0yemq
— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 28, 2018
For everyone out there who is still operating by the old rules, and keeping their powder dry: This is the fight. You’re missing it.
You won’t be remembered as wise for conserving your position later on; it won’t matter. None of it will. The fight is now.— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 28, 2018
re: #155 b.d.
I would like for Maher to shut up and go away forever.
re: #170 plansbandc
I would like for Maher to shut up and go away forever.
I would like to co-sign this!
re: #170 plansbandc
I would like for Maher to shut up and go away forever.
His writing staff is pretty funny, but yes.
re: #159 JordanRules
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cooking competition shows are pointless. Even if the judges aren’t just lying for the camera, we can’t possibly learn anything from them. The contestants are critiqued for how their entry smells, how it tastes, how it feels. But the audience can’t smell it or taste it or feel it.
That’s what I love about Project Runway. They’re judged for how it looks, and we can play along. When Zach or Nina or Heidi points to a part of it and says why we should love or hate this element… we can see exactly what they’re talking about.
re: #173 sagehen
cooking competition shows are pointless. Even if the judges aren’t just lying for the camera, we can’t possibly learn anything from them. The contestants are critiqued for how their entry smells, how it tastes, how it feels. But the audience can’t smell it or taste it or feel it.
That’s what I love about Project Runway. They’re judged for how it looks, and we can play along. When Zach or Nina or Heidi points to a part of it and says why we should love or hate this element… we can see exactly what they’re talking about.
I still love cooking competition shows. I love food and cooking as art and process and social thingy. I learn a lot and the shows can be hella entertaining just like PR.
I don’t know that I’d suggest food judges are playing to the tele and maybe lying without submitting that PR judges could be doing the same. It’s all heavily curated for their “reality” TV genre.
re: #159 JordanRules
I enjoy The Great British Baking Show, because a) it’s entertaining, b) the more I learn about rising dough the better, and c) it’s not a contest, it’s about people who bake.
re: #4 Sir John Barron
he knows the fed would raise interest rates to make sure it didn’t reach 8 or 9 percent, right?
rhetorical question
He’s already started complaining about the Fed raising interest rates.
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
oin me in Tampa, Florida next Tuesday, July 31st at 7:00pmE for a #MAGA Rally! Tickets
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No president* has time for this sh!t - when will the media make that the headline every day. He does nothing to benefit the US, his life is golf and rallies to lie about himself
re: #144 JordanRules
It’s too damn hot.
Go away summer!
Our AC died on Tuesday. Tech saved us Wednesday but we had to go stay at my sister’s house for the night. House got to 98 degrees before the fix. It was 116 Tuesday and Wednesday. I’m so GD grateful for air conditioning!!!
It’s clear we need to arm these children so they can protect themselves from these predators.
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