Video: You Knew Stephen Colbert Would Get Lots of Material From Rudy Giuliani’s Latest Bizarre Clown Show
Trump’s legal team has come a long way from ‘no collusion!’ to ‘collusion is not a crime!’
Trump’s legal team has come a long way from ‘no collusion!’ to ‘collusion is not a crime!’
The NFL apparently put a gag on Jerruh.
Jerry Jones didn’t want to answer questions about the national anthem in an interview with a Dallas sports anchor…so the anchor cancelled the interviewhttps://t.co/QsRuZ0mGCI
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 30, 2018
Proposed constitutional amendments, recent court cases + the GOP platform have called for apportioning political power among citizens or voters, not everyone.
A citizenship question on the 2020 census would make it much easier to do that: https://t.co/21a2nF5y0f— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) July 31, 2018
This would be an unmitigated disaster for democracy, exacerbating the already disproportionate power our system gives to rural white Republicans at the expense of cities, Dems, & communities of color. GOP could even more frequently win majorities despite losing the popular vote https://t.co/3HpjJYMoGC
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) July 31, 2018
This is fun.
The Sheriff Is A [N-word]!
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 31, 2018
Walter Won’t Roll On Shabbos!
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 31, 2018
It’s Good To Be King!
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 31, 2018
Look On The Bright Side!
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 31, 2018
LOL https://t.co/9oq9HV6kDC pic.twitter.com/DZUeusBtyN
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 31, 2018
We’re basically Hogwarts! ⚡️#HappyBirthdayHarryPotter pic.twitter.com/RU9nbWe6MV
— University of Glasgow (@UofGlasgow) July 31, 2018
re: #1 JordanRules
The NFL apparently put a gag on Jerruh.
I’m surprised Mike Doocey, of Fox 4, would cancel for that reason, being Fox and all. The other day, Dale Hansen (the sports guy who’s not been shy about calling out people on issues of race or gender), called Jerry out on his statement about kneeling, noting that during the anthem, he not only had a hat on, but wouldn’t take it off when it was pointed out to him (Jones also had this lame hand over heart thing).
Three more Russian journalists—including the amazing Orhan Dzhemal—were killed while investigating the Kremlin’s private mercenary group, Wagner. https://t.co/H2SgghV0yN
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 31, 2018
If you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable culture, you need to stop yelling “Racist!” at anyone who doesn’t see the world exactly as you do https://t.co/jZInpvWlUM
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) July 31, 2018
Oh for crying out loud. Not this shit again. https://t.co/I1LhPvr5I9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2018
Everyone following the live blog of the Manafort trial?
Here’s the link: washingtonpost.com
re: #7 Belafon
I’m surprised Mike Doocey, of Fox 4, would cancel for that reason, being Fox and all. The other day, Dale Hansen (the sports guy who’s not been shy about calling out people on issues of race or gender), called Jerry out on his statement about kneeling, noting that during the anthem, he not only had a hat on, but wouldn’t take it off when it was pointed out to him (Jones also had this lame hand over heart thing).
Sounds like Doocey was more annoyed at how it was handled, being extremely last minute.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
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When the fuck did the NYT become the apologia for racism in this country? Damn.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
If you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable culture, you need to stop yelling “Racist!” at anyone who doesn’t see the world exactly as you do https://t.co/jZInpvWlUM
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) July 31, 2018
Spoiler: they actually are racists. https://t.co/Yd3qm6Somb
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 31, 2018
re: #8 JordanRules
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I thought Wagner was the Russians’ front org for mercenaries in Syria, ( as at Deir es-Zor) not Africa? Those guys DO get around…..
re: #9 Charles Johnson
There are lots of people that I disagree with that I don’t yell racist at. On the other hand, racists are racists.
I HAZ A BIG SAD NOW.
Haha jk no I don’t.
Several days ago, I received a life update on neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska from a family friend of his. Things are not going well. pic.twitter.com/zGWC5SdlU2
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) July 31, 2018
re: #12 HappyWarrior
When the fuck did the NYT become the apologia for racism in this country? Damn.
When were they not?
John Brennan on security clearances: “I’m not surprised that this is something that Rand Paul has thought up. Rand Paul is not on the Intelligence Committee. I don’t know anybody in the intelligence, national security realms, who takes what Rand Paul says seriously.” @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 31, 2018
Here is a copy of the Order Judge Otero just issued in our case against Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen. It denies their attempt to silence me and prevent me from commenting as to the truth. So much winning from these two! #Basta https://t.co/doG2JazSq6
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 31, 2018
re: #15 Belafon
There are lots of people that I disagree with that I don’t yell racist at. On the other hand, racists are racists.
Exactly. I don’t think every conservative is a racist. I sure as hell think a lot of racists harbor conservative ideological views though.
re: #18 lawhawk
When were they not?
I guess I haven’t followed them regularly. I know it’s been pretty bad the past two years but I must have missed it in the years before.
More bullshit from the NYTimes, a paper long known for its Nazi/fascist-curious tendencies (literally…see its early coverage on Hitler and Mussolini); you don’t get rid of racism and bigotry for ignoring or softpedaling it, you confront it wherever it is.
— TedStriker (@talon_262) July 31, 2018
I really hate this new world where calling out racism is worse than the actual racism.
re: #24 HappyWarrior
I really hate this new world where calling out racism is worse than the actual racism.
Same as the old world. Whites back during the 50s and 60s did the same thing.
re: #25 Belafon
Same as the old world. Whites back during the 50s and 60s did the same thing.
True, true. Different world than that I grew up in the 90’s and early 00’s though.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
True, true. Different world than that I grew up in the 90’s and early 00’s though.
That was that brief time period after King was killed and before black men could be elected president.
re: #27 Belafon
That was that brief time period after King was killed and before black men could be elected president.
I know. Agh. What the hell is wrong with our society?
re: #28 HappyWarrior
I know. Agh. What the hell is wrong with our society?
Racism is something we refuse to deal with as a society, and like any disease you fail to properly take care of, it’s symptoms show up periodically.
Trump tweet today: “One of the reasons we need Great Border Security is that Mexico’s murder rate in 2017 increased by 27% to 31,174 people killed, a record!”
His *own* 2017 DEA National Threat Assessment: spillover violence “does not represent a significant trend of concern.” pic.twitter.com/thEowPcLi9— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) July 31, 2018
And of course he tweeted that after Fox said Mexico’s violence is spilling over the border into Baja California, which is actually part of Mexico. So our idiot president doesn’t even understand where the border is that he’s so obsessed with. https://t.co/Jn5jFGnibF
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) July 31, 2018
re: #29 Belafon
Racism is something we refuse to deal with as a society, and like any disease you fail to properly take care of, it’s symptoms show up periodically.
Yep.
re: #16 The Vicious Babushka
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A dog walker now is he?
I hope the dogs take a bite of Baked Alaska’s ass.
re: #17 Belafon
Who wrote the article?
I clicked on the opinion writers name to find some background.
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She works for Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as editor of Chapter 16, a daily web publication that documents the literary life of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Guernica, Literary Hub, Shenandoah, The Southern Review and other publications. She lives in Nashville.
re: #32 ObserverArt
No biting, because then the dogs go to doggie jail and all that…pissing on his shoes does not.
Pooping in his shoes doesn’t either.
re: #31 HappyWarrior
Yep.
My comment above was not meant to discourage you. Just the opposite. We’ve dealt with this before, though not optimally. I think, though, in the long run, if all the different groups on the left can stay together, we can do better (yes, I know that’s a tall order), because whites are a smaller group than they were 30 years ago.
re: #36 Belafon
My comment above was not meant to discourage you. Just the opposite. We’ve dealt with this before, though not optimally. I think, though, in the long run, if all the different groups on the left can stay together, we can do better (yes, I know that’s a tall order), because whites are a smaller group than they were 30 years ago.
Nah you’re good. It’s just yeah frustrating. I’ve been reading a Nixon biography and I’m really seeing the roots of what we see now on the right with the kind of underhanded crap Nixon did but at the same time, I’d take Nixon over any Republican today warts adn all.
re: #32 ObserverArt
A dog walker now is he?
I hope the dogs take a bite of Baked Alaska’s ass.
I hope they crap on his shoes.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
If you’re a white liberal whose goal is to foster a more equitable culture, you need to stop yelling “Racist!” at anyone who doesn’t see the world exactly as you do nyti.ms
bullshit
im not trying to teach, train, influence, persuade, or in any other way get anybody to “change their evil ways”
they need to be silenced, marginalized, neutered and crushed.
without mercy
re: #38 The Vicious Babushka
I hope they crap on his shoes.
And he doesn’t find out until he gets home.
re: #30 MsJ
Of course the DEA finds no spillover effect.
We’ve got border towns that have low crime - and aren’t seeing any crime spike because there isn’t one.
It also shows that there isn’t chaos in the US, and there isn’t spillover despite what Trump and his white nationalist advisers want people to think.
People lining up for the Trump rally in Tampa today. A lot of the chan anons might treat Q-Anon like a LARP, but by all appearances there are plenty of people who take it seriously irl. pic.twitter.com/uys7kmnAs1
— Travis View (@travis_view) July 31, 2018
re: #32 ObserverArt
A dog walker now is he?
I hope the dogs take a bite of Baked Alaska’s ass.
You know what they say - ‘Lay down with dogs, wake up as a dog walker in Arizona.’
re: #32 ObserverArt
A dog walker now is he?
I hope the dogs take a bite of Baked Alaska’s ass.
Living rent free in mommy and daddy’s vacation home.
re: #24 HappyWarrior
I really hate this new world where calling out racism is worse than the actual racism.
it isnt
we cant let them keep trying to spin it as if it were
re: #1 JordanRules
The NFL apparently put a gag on Jerruh.
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Jones reportedly told by NFL to stop discussing anthem https://t.co/VQyUFTNGQw pic.twitter.com/dY6xtUYDy8
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 30, 2018
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Does anyone read those opinions anymore? (I know how to talk to racists, starting with GFY and moving on from there.)
Thought I passed Paul Manafort on the street. Then I remembered he’s in jail. And I laughed.
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 30, 2018
re: #29 Belafon
Racism is something we refuse to deal with as a society, and like any disease you fail to properly take care of, it’s symptoms show up periodically.
because just enough of a critical mass wants “the disease”
Floridians line up for Trump rally 24 hours in advance, say dumb shit like: “President Trump is the man of the people. He’s our messenger and we listen to him, that’s all we do. If he says he’s going to turn the moon purple I believe him.” Because Florida. https://t.co/DiGKYJKfnJ pic.twitter.com/BGruv5r2PP
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) July 31, 2018
Floridians line up for Trump rally 24 hours in advance, say dumb shit like: “President Trump is the man of the people. He’s our messenger and we listen to him, that’s all we do. If he says he’s going to turn the moon purple I believe him.” Because Florida. https://t.co/DiGKYJKfnJ pic.twitter.com/BGruv5r2PP
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) July 31, 2018
But really, don’t we just need to open up a positive, constructive discourse with these fine folks? https://t.co/5YE4PIEron
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2018
re: #33 ObserverArt
I clicked on the opinion writers name to find some background.
She ain’t no goddamned anthropologist nor paleontologist nor does she have any expertise that enables her to put this statement in her opinion piece:
Here’s what’s also true: Prejudice is endemic to humanity itself. Human beings are tribal creatures — we trust the familiar and are drawn to it; we distrust the unfamiliar and keep our distance. White people, liberal and conservative, often claim not to notice another person’s race — “I don’t even see color,” they argue — but it’s just not true.
We are hard-wired to recognize difference and to view it as an aberration. Noticing difference is not the same thing as hating difference, of course, but I’m not talking about vicious white supremacists here. I’m talking only about garden-variety prejudice, the kind that operates at an unconscious level in everyone. And the difference between an unconscious liberal racist and an unconscious conservative racist is only a matter of degree, not a matter of kind.
Sure, we have senses that pick up differences. That makes us good hunter-gatherers and good bird-watchers. It doesn’t force us into racism. This is what allowing ‘citizen scientists’ to talk like experts will get you. Bullshit with a certain shine.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
The reason con-men have always been successful is that their marks want to be marks.
I’m waiting for Rudy to run around in circles with no pants yelling, “Indictment is not a conviction!!!” And the chyron says “Exclusive Fox News ALERT” pic.twitter.com/bgK9ZmoUOA
— Frances Langum (@bluegal) July 31, 2018
re: #51 Charles Johnson
Idolizing an absolutely horrible human being is really not a good look.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
“As long as keeps hating the same people we hate, we’ll follow him to the ends of the earth and back.”
prob
Manafort’s defense, from the WaPo live blog: blame Rick Gates.
For months we have heard pieces of the government’s case against Paul Manafort. Now we know his defense: Blame Richard Gates, his former business partner and deputy.
“This case is about taxes and trust,” defense attorney Thomas Zehnle told the jury. “Mr. Manafort placed his trust in the wrong person … Rick Gates.”
Gates, Zehnle noted, has already pleaded guilty to lying to the U.S. government, yet prosecutors are now telling a jury to believe his testimony.
Party of Personal Responsibility, y’all.
re: #54 freetoken
The reason con-men have always been successful is that their marks want to be marks.
A significant portion of them will never admit they were conned. They’d rather sacrifice a child than own up.
“There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.”
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 31, 2018
re: #32 ObserverArt
A dog walker now is he?
I hope the dogs take a bite of Baked Alaska’s ass.
I kind of feel sorry for him. Kind of. But not a whole lot. If he’s doing his dog walking during waking hours, today was the first day in a couple of weeks when it wasn’t 90+ degrees at 5:30 am. (It was a chilly 85.) It’s got to suck.
re: #59 Belafon
A significant portion of them will never admit they were conned. They’d rather sacrifice
asomebody else’s child than own up.
How well does my enormous block list work I hear you not asking?
This was the only derp that got through. Dude has since been blocked.
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
I’m glad our generation has come to the realization that whatever obama did or didn’t do he’s a god-like figure. That will surely help advance socially progressive causes! But also let’s bag on the reporter for trying to tell us something factual! https://t.co/Vg6Bcxmasb
— Brandon Adams (@B_RandonADams) July 31, 2018
ABB people, always be blocking.
re: #56 plansbandc
Idolizing an absolutely horrible human being is really not a good look.
A look that they are proud of.
In a letter to @benjaminwittes, the Justice Department formally acknowledged that the President of the United States lied in a speech to Congress. https://t.co/DyU4WOYeUK
— Lawfare (@lawfareblog) July 31, 2018
It isn’t every day the Justice Department sends you a letter acknowledging, even implicitly, that the President of the United States lied in an address to Congress. https://t.co/05jDwLdNaq
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) July 31, 2018
Trump is a serial liar, we already knew this. But this is bigger. It’s:
* A material lie to Congress
* That was premediated (was in a speech)
* Unambiguously in his capacity as president
* That DOJ is now on record under oath saying was totally falsehttps://t.co/55m2OUVY1p— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) July 31, 2018
“According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.”
Donald Trump, speech before a joint session of Congress, February 28, 2017
“On June 12, 2018, you reached an agreement with [the Justice Department] to resolve certain issues in dispute in this litigation, whereby [Justice] would conduct a search for records containing data of (i) all individuals convicted of all terrorism-related offenses (domestic and international) between 2001 and the date of the initial search, or (ii) all individuals convicted of all domestic terrorism-related offenses between 2001 and the date of the initial search… . [N]o responsive records were located.”
Justice Department letter to Benjamin Wittes, July 24, 2018
re: #58 makeitstop
Manafort’s defense, from the WaPo live blog: blame Rick Gates.
Party of Personal Responsibility, y’all.
That live blog is fascinating.
From the defense:
Zehnle said Manafort built “one of the most successful political consulting and government relations shops in Washington,” while also working on “the global stage.”
That work was not partisan, Zehnle said, pointing out that former Bernie Sanders strategist Tad Devine will also testify about working in Ukraine.
Manafort’s work for Yanukovych was to “bring the country closer to Western democracies after decades of Soviet rule” — toward the European Union and away from Russia. That comment was met with audible sneers from a few of those seated in the courtroom.
I’ve switched to a net streaming service for all my family’s abortion needs. Fuck Comcast!
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 31, 2018
re: #63 goddamnedfrank
How well does my enormous block list work I hear you not asking?
This was the only derp that got through. Dude has since been blocked.
ABB people, always be blocking.
Sometimes people just want to be blocked, it is the goal of their day. Oblige them.
re: #66 MsJ
That live blog is fascinating.
From the defense:
Having worked for Bernie AND Trump does not make one bipartisan.
re: #69 wrenchwench
Having worked for Bernie AND Trump does not make one bipartisan.
What comes out of THAT is going to be fascinating.
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The Hypocrisy of Racist Logos:
Last weekend I decided to wear this shirt, I figured it would catch some by surprise but I didn’t expect people to be as trash as they were. pic.twitter.com/DW5n6QEmOl— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018
Toward the end, how to acquire your own. And, a word of advice in doing so
A very important point for those who plan on purchasing and wearing the shirt or others like it: I’m a larger person who lives in NYC, so my ability to safely wear this shirt is higher than some. Please be safe out there.
Thank you for bring this to my attention @AdamantxYves— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) July 31, 2018
re: #40 Belafon
And he doesn’t find out until he gets home.
And puts his feet up on his mother’s couch without removing his shoes.
I have very serious thoughts and you should take them seriously.
If you’re a non-cannibal whose goal is to foster a more equitable cuisine, you need to stop yelling “Cannibal!” at anyone who craves the taste of human flesh.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2018
re: #73 The Vicious Babushka
And puts his feet up on his mother’s white fabric couch without removing his shoes.
re: #76 goddamnedfrank
Hey if those kids didn’t want to be eaten, they should have kept their parents from committing a misdemeanor.
I just left the Alexandria courthouse, where the prosecution and defense gave their opening statements in Paul Manafort’s trial on financial charges.
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) July 31, 2018
Prosecutors are already being asked to call their first witness. The judge is pushing this case forward.
Prosecutors intend to show that Manafort engaged in financial crimes to profit and defraud the government and surrounded himself with like minded people.
Manafort’s defense is: Gates did it all; he’s the one to blame for the problems. Manafort is an upstanding citizen who likes to make a lot of money advising people.
re: #3 The Vicious Babushka
This is fun.
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I hate snakes and Nazis!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 31, 2018
Todd Henderson is the University of Chicago law professor who got internet-famous in the depths of the quasi-depression in 2010 for complaining about how difficult life was for him and his wife on ~$450,000/year https://t.co/7xBIrPnyPd @delong @mikethemadbiol pic.twitter.com/Hy6SmRYZDl
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) July 31, 2018
I remember Todd Henderson because he made me reconsider my position on whether we need to kill and eat the rich https://t.co/1Fk9YYruEK pic.twitter.com/OphXBthY4v
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) July 31, 2018
He also wrote a book https://t.co/aNv3b6AkXC pic.twitter.com/Ho0Kfq50Sn
— whirl of organism (@chickenpaprika) July 31, 2018
re: #79 lawhawk
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Prosecutors are already being asked to call their first witness. The judge is pushing this case forward.
Prosecutors intend to show that Manafort engaged in financial crimes to profit and defraud the government and surrounded himself with like minded people.
Manafort’s defense is: Gates did it all; he’s the one to blame for the problems. Manafort is an upstanding citizen who likes to make a lot of money advising people.
What do you think of the defense?
Sure, that totally explains why he went to such extreme lengths to launder the money through foreign shell corporations and fraudulent real estate loans.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2018
re: #71 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Liberals and minorities are such delicate PC snowflakes that’s what’s wrong with American today and why we love Trump he’s not PC and OMG WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT RACIST ANTI-AMERICAN SHIRT TAKE IT OFF RIGHT NOW OR ELSE!!!!
Sorry, but to me, if you grab someone and refuse to show either ID or a warrant, any citizen can shoot you to prevent a kidnapping.
These ICE officers need to lose their jobs. Permanently. TODAY.
Got some unsettling video from Minneapolis-area activists, showing a pair of plainclothes ICE agents snatching up a father who’s lived in the US for 25 years at a courthouse, refusing to show ID or a warrant, and threatening his alarmed family & friends: https://t.co/lnRcgi7cxr
— E. K. Hornbeck (@PykeA) July 31, 2018
Three more Russian journalists—including the amazing Orhan Dzhemal—were killed while investigating the Kremlin’s private mercenary group, Wagner. https://t.co/H2SgghV0yN
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 31, 2018
Please read this thread: https://t.co/CCNbgnuHGJ
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) July 31, 2018
re: #89 Blind Frog Belly White
Sorry, but to me, if you grab someone and refuse to show either ID or a warrant, any citizen can shoot you to prevent a kidnapping.
These ICE officers need to lose their jobs. Permanently. TODAY.
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American Gestapo.
Federal investigators have reportedly traced a number of suspicious financial transactions involving Maria Butina, an NRA-linked alleged Russian agent; a Republican operative, and several obscure companies.https://t.co/GQ0JM8pbbN
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 31, 2018
re: #86 MsJ
Defense strategy is pretty weak - trying to blame it all on Gates, but it’s all they have short of going with the Chewbacca defense.
Can’t blame everything on Gates. And I’m sure Mueller’s got receipts showing Manafort directly engaged in criminal acts - Gates will corroborate, as will the other 34 witnesses.
My understanding is that a number of UN allies have already sent over medical records and DNA samples from relatives of their missing service member,s whose remains may be included in those delivered.
When North Korea handed over 55 boxes of bones that it said are remains of American war dead, it provided a single military dog tag but no other information that could help U.S. forensics experts determine their individual identities. https://t.co/esfRKV2SJK
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) July 31, 2018
re: #93 lawhawk
Defense strategy is pretty weak - trying to blame it all on Gates, but it’s all they have short of going with the Chewbacca defense.
Can’t blame everything on Gates. And I’m sure Mueller’s got receipts showing Manafort directly engaged in criminal acts - Gates will corroborate, as will the other 34 witnesses.
If that’s all Manafort has got as a defense, he must be banking on a presidential pardon for his loyalty in not flipping.
Sure, that totally explains why he went to such extreme lengths to launder the money through foreign shell corporations and fraudulent real estate loans.
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2018
Manafort’s defense attorney laid out his side of the case, shifting much of the blame to the Ukrainian oligarchs Manafort worked for.
“This is the way that they required it to be done,” his attorney said, explaining why oligarchs paid Manafort through secret foreign accounts.— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) July 31, 2018
I love this self own by the Koch funded Mercatus Center, which attempted to show that Medicare for all is too stupendously expensive to enact, but showed in its tables that the bill would save over $2 trillion in healthcare expenses over the first decade.
Pence is here in NYC at a cybersecurity gathering, and he’s busy lying his ass off.
Russia laughs at your “superior” intellect.
Russia owns you and Trump. You’re Putin’s puppets.
They already attacked us. They helped you win in 2016. They’re working to undermine the election in 2018 and then in 2020.
All you’ve done is help Russia succeed.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 31, 2018
Trump already indicated that he trusts Putin when he said he didn’t hack. Nothing Trumpworld says on the matter can be trusted. Pence and Trump benefited from Russian involvement.
Trump personally called on Russia to hack Clinton.
Russian hackers responded within hours with a renewed effort to try and hack Democrats.
Mueller’s got those receipts too.
And a reminder: Manafort is the one who told Trump to pick Pence for VP. Pence was Trump’s transition chair, along with Flynn.
Flynn took a guilty plea.
Manafort’s on trial (and in jail currently).
Gates took a plea deal (and will be testifying against Manafort in this trial).
Pence is up to his eyeballs in wrongdoing.
re: #77 wheat-dogg
Have you landed somewhere or are you joining us from mid-air?
re: #89 Blind Frog Belly White
Sorry, but to me, if you grab someone and refuse to show either ID or a warrant, any citizen can shoot you to prevent a kidnapping.
These ICE officers need to lose their jobs. Permanently. TODAY.
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the most fucked up thing I learned in my crim law class this semester is that it’s almost impossible to use self defense on a cop. even if the arrest is unlawful, you’re expected to submit to it and file a complaint later. I think about it all the time and I’m still so pissed.
— chava (@notyrlawyer) July 30, 2018
re: #99 Big Beautiful Door
I love this self own by the Koch funded Mercatus Center, which attempted to show that Medicare for all is too stupendously expensive to enact, but showed in its tables that the bill would save over $2 trillion in healthcare expenses over the first decade.
They want people to be scared off by the topline figure - but the reality is that MFA would be a cost saver to the nation when you factor all the costs.
Yes, govt spending would go up, but the overall spending would decline significantly and this would benefit all Americans.
Mercatus should be lauded for giving an honest report on the matter. They didn’t bury the report.
re: #100 lawhawk
Pence is here in NYC at a cybersecurity gathering, and he’s busy lying his ass off.
Trump already indicated that he trusts Putin when he said he didn’t hack. Nothing Trumpworld says on the matter can be trusted. Pence and Trump benefited from Russian involvement.
Trump personally called on Russia to hack Clinton.
Russian hackers responded within hours with a renewed effort to try and hack Democrats.
Mueller’s got those receipts too.
And a reminder: Manafort is the one who told Trump to pick Pence for VP. Pence was Trump’s transition chair, along with Flynn.
Flynn took a guilty plea.
Manafort’s on trial (and in jail currently).
Gates took a plea deal (and will be testifying against Manafort in this trial).Pence is up to his eyeballs in wrongdoing.
What’s Pence doing at a cybersecurity gathering?
Oh, right, to get info for his Kremlin handlers.
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
Have you landed somewhere or are you joining us from mid-air?
I took a break from flapping my arms to tweet before.
No, seriously, now I’m on the ground, waiting for my connecting flight.
re: #99 Big Beautiful Door
I love this self own by the Koch funded Mercatus Center, which attempted to show that Medicare for all is too stupendously expensive to enact, but showed in its tables that the bill would save over $2 trillion in healthcare expenses over the first decade.
I had to point out the second part in a reply yesterday. Someone just put up “Medicare for All will cost $32 Trillion.” Most people will see that and think that’s for one year, not ten. Most people will also think that it means that they’ll be paying for that IN ADDITION to what they are currently paying. Most people will also not see that it covered everyone. And lots of people are programmed to think “government bad.” Telling them to pay that in taxes rather than to their insurance company will cause them to freak out.
Owner Story: “Every time I get home from work I see my baby girl like this” pic.twitter.com/QXmiE7sMKR
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) July 31, 2018
United charges $5 an hour in economy for WiFi.
Trump administration officials stammered and refused to answer U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono’s question about whether they would send their own children to the migrant family jails that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Matthew Albence tried to claim during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday are like “summer camps.”
“You would send your child to these centers?” the bad-ass from Hawaii asked Trump officials who were testifying about the administration’s barbaric “zero tolerance” policy kidnapping children from parents at the border. “Yes? No?”
“I—I—it’s—that’s a—that’s a difficult question to answer,” stammered Jennifer Higgins of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), who instead tried to blame parents for their children getting kidnapped, saying that “it’s difficult to put myself in the position of an individual who takes a dangerous journey in which their children would be harmed.”
“Mr. Albence,” Hirono said, moving on to Mr. Summer Camp himself, “would you send your child to [family residential centers]?”
“Again, I think we’re—we’re missing the point,” he replied, taking the baton from Higgins to accuse families fleeing violence of putting themselves into this position.
We get it, guys. Despite the fact that you won’t answer the question, we know that the truth is that not for 10 minutes would you incarcerate your family in these hellholes your administration is trying to pass off as “summer camps,” nor would any other decent human being. And, in carrying out these orders, you’re as guilty as the top officials who created them.
The latest Manafort update:
5:04 p.m.: Devine describes how he came to work with Manafort in Ukraine
Tad Devine, who was Bernie Sanders’ chief strategist in the 2016 election, explained to jurors how he came to work with Paul Manafort in Ukraine. He said his then-partner, Mike Donilon, was contacted by Manafort’s then-partner, Richard Gates, in 2005 about working for the Party of Regions, a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.
Devine said he has done work in nine countries, and at the time was coming off an international campaign. Donilon, Devine said, was busy with a domestic project, so Devine took the lead and went to Kiev.
“Even though I’m not familiar with the culture or other things in a country, I’m very familiar with campaigns,” Devine said, adding that he specialized in television ads.
Devine said he worked in Ukraine from 2005 to 2010 and returned briefly for a project in 2014. “It was an incredible operation,” he said of his first campaign there. Manafort had hired great people, he said, and had “substantial resources … I was really impressed by him.”
On the importance of financial backing, he said, “If you don’t have a lot of resources, how can you win?”
Devine said he learned from talking to people on his first trip that there had been “a lot of controversy” in Ukraine, including a revolution that forced Viktor Yanukovych, who was part of the Party of Regions, from power.
But he said people “believed Yanukovych had moved on and lost a lot of the people with him” who were controversial, that it was “a new election and a new time.” Yanukovych’s “standing was low,” Devine said, and he was seen as “part of the past.”
Yanukovych became “part of the future” — he was elected Prime Minister in 2006 — because of the “excellent campaign that Paul ran,” Devine said.
Devine described his relationship with Manafort as “friendly” and said he handed over many documents earlier this year in response to a subpoena.
By the way - the right wing tendency to publicly accuse their political opponents of pedophilia has gotten a lot of press lately, but it didn’t just start recently. Six years ago, Dana Loesch did it to me. https://t.co/Rie4B55UML
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2018
There is no cannibalism in the Trump Administration, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean not amongst the top 4 or 5 people, that I am aware of.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 31, 2018
Watch top Trump officials refuse to raise their hands to defend family separation https://t.co/W0I8rIScqQ pic.twitter.com/AFG82D2gy6
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 31, 2018
re: #106 Belafon
I had to point out the second part in a reply yesterday. Someone just put up “Medicare for All will cost $32 Trillion.” Most people will see that and think that’s for one year, not ten. Most people will also think that it means that they’ll be paying for that IN ADDITION to what they are currently paying. Most people will also not see that it covered everyone. And lots of people are programmed to think “government bad.” Telling them to pay that in taxes rather than to their insurance company will cause them to freak out.
They should also be told their income will go up because a big hunk of their compensation is tied up in pre-tax health insurance premiums (if their employer provides health insurance) and they won’t have deductibles or co-pays to meet, so for the vast majority of people Medicare-for-all is like found money, on top of the piece of mind of not having to worry about losing health insurance.
re: #108 wheat-dogg
United charges $5 an hour in economy for WiFi.
I can read a book or the in-flight magazine until the flight’s over.
It might be interesting for this white boy to wear that shirt here in Cowboys land.
re: #113 jaunte
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Oscar is a grouch, but he’s still my friend (even if he doesn’t know it).
— Big Bird (@BigBird) July 31, 2018
nope. https://t.co/73Dg0sjlCI
— Oscar the Grouch (@OscarTheGrouch) July 31, 2018
This is the future liberals want pic.twitter.com/7VGBemgo6F
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2018
British IT manager & ex-hacker Tim Leonard has been ID’d as the person behind a massive pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign who helped manufacture “evidence” to deny that Russia carried out the DNC hack.
If you’re familiar w/ “Adam Carter,” this is him. https://t.co/sP3rbnTon4— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 31, 2018
I just tried to pass our bill that would prevent the release of these 3D-printed gun blueprints – but the GOP blocked it. If President Trump doesn’t reverse this dangerous decision before midnight tonight, our national security will be irreversibly harmed. pic.twitter.com/9awEscnbsh
— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) July 31, 2018
re: #120 MsJ
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Fuck these people. Every last one of em who undermined our democracy for Putin.
This is what’s happening at the Trump rally in Tampa as @Acosta does a live shot. Folks booing, shouting “traitor,” and “you’re a liar.” pic.twitter.com/aUoUF4cwcB
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) July 31, 2018
Yes, we can definitely calmly reason with the people yelling at @Acosta here. https://t.co/uXyBNKnNzG
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) July 31, 2018
re: #122 HappyWarrior
Fuck these people. Every last one of em who undermined our democracy for Putin.
That’s really quite a fascinating article.
re: #115 Big Beautiful Door
I can read a book or the in-flight magazine until the flight’s over.
I was on a 14-hour flight. I watched A Wrinkle in Time and all three parts of The Hobbit.
Gil Scott-Heron
“Is That Jazz?”
Album: Reflections (1981)
This song pays beautiful homage to earlier jazz figures like Duke Ellington, Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and more pic.twitter.com/KlwplbBOBn— kyle (@lbn_kg) July 31, 2018
re: #104 Sir John Barron
What’s Pence doing at a cybersecurity gathering?
Oh, right, to get info for his Kremlin handlers.
don’t know why he’d bother…Kremlin already has the meeting bugged.
OMFG. People are absolutely fucking insane.
If y’all aren’t following the WaPo live blog of the Manafort trial…why not?https://t.co/VMiPW0WXx4
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 31, 2018
Uhm…what?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 31, 2018
Oooooo-kay. https://t.co/VjEWalpybV
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 31, 2018
re: #123 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah but we need to understand these people.// Trump cult.
re: #128 MsJ
OMFG. People are absolutely fucking insane.
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These people are deranged and I blame Trump and RW propaganda for that.
I see a lot of hypocrites out here pretending like they’ve never dropped a grip of cash on an ostrich jacket. Sad!
— Ostrich Jacket Fan Account (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2018
Taking a break from cookies today because it’s #NationalAvocadoDay! 🥑 pic.twitter.com/rX6qwyieYR
— Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) July 31, 2018
Who are you and what have you done with Cookie Monster? https://t.co/TtfQW81iHe
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2018
re: #131 goddamnedfrank
Manafort’s wardrobe is another manifestation of that weird hoarder impulse taking over someone’s life that gets excused every time because “rich people are eccentric.”
A judge ruled that the Trump admin must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without their consent.
The fact that a judge had to rule this is insane. It needs to be said again and again, the Republican Party is not pro-life, it is anti-child.— Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) July 31, 2018
re: #125 wheat-dogg
I was on a 14-hour flight. I watched A Wrinkle in Time and all three parts of The Hobbit.
I have been on those kind of flights when I went to China, though its been a decade since the last time I went.
re: #123 The Vicious Babushka
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Staff members at Shiloh admitted to signing off on medications in lieu of a parent, relative or legal guardian, according to Gee’s ruling. Government officials defended this practice, saying they provided these drugs only on “an emergency basis” when a child’s “extreme psychiatric symptoms” became dangerous.
The judge didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to testimony from children who said they were given pills “every morning and every night.” Officials “could not have possibly” administered medications to children on an emergency basis every day, Gee wrote.
washingtonpost.com
Children testified in court filings that staff with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement would sometimes not tell them what drugs they were being given or why. They recalled feeling side effects such as nausea, dizziness, depression and weight gain. Some reported being forcibly injected with drugs, and others said they felt that refusing medications would cause them to be detained longer.
“I witnessed staff members forcefully give medication four times,” one child held at Shiloh, identified as Isabella M., said. “. . . Two staff members pinned down the girl . . . and a doctor gave her one or two injections.”
“…The judge ordered Shiloh to stop using any unessential security measures, such as denying children drinking water, and demanded officials allow children at Shiloh to speak privately over the phone.”
re: #143 jaunte
“…The judge ordered Shiloh to stop using any unessential security measures, such as denying children drinking water, and demanded officials allow children at Shiloh to speak privately over the phone.”
Crimes against humanity; committed by our government.
re: #139 Big Beautiful Door
I have been on those kind of flights when I went to China, though its been a decade since the last time I went.
It felt like a decade to me. //
In fact, it was a very nice flight. Economy was completely booked, so I got seated in Economy Plus at new extra charge. My seat mates were a mid-30s woman prepping for an exam and her 6-year-old daughter. I got to play tall helpful gentlemen fetching bags from the overhead bin for the two shorter people.
I got.snacks.
5 out of 5 admin officials testifying today had not heard of the zero tolerance policy until it was announced: https://t.co/751o5rhVKR
— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) July 31, 2018
“Universities are the last places that should lift up and glorify those who have enabled this president’s attack on truth. History should not be written by those who have shown no regard for reality.” https://t.co/gvRXcQqhRu via @slate
— Joshua D. Rothman (@rothmanistan) July 31, 2018
40% of GOPs says it would either be “appropriate” or “not a big deal” if Russia helped Republicans hold Congress in 2018 https://t.co/eD4Rzs0byj via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 31, 2018
Obviously we need to have more positive, constructive discourse with these fine people, to gently help them see the errors in their logic. [cough] https://t.co/kEnWrXbN8w
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2018
re: #113 jaunte
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says a lot that the second person from the right, at the end of the clip, thinks it’s appropriate to laugh when the Senator asks “nobody knows???”
re: #146 jaunte
Huh. So, I’m gonna hazard a guess that planning was also zero.
re: #85 The Vicious Babushka
I can’t stand PETA and their stupid ass shenanigans but I really like their idea for rebranding the Redskins logo.
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You ‘ll be happy to know it’s not original with them. I first heard it around 1990. It seemed like a good idea.
re: #5 JordanRules
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We were there in April. It DOES look like Hogwarts. And they have a really really great Charles Rennie Mackintosh retrospective right now.
re: #152 austin_blue
We were there in April. It DOES look like Hogwarts. And they have a really really great Charles Rennie Mackintosh retrospective right now.
Parts of St. John’s College in Oxford looks like Hogwarts, too.
re: #119 goddamnedfrank
Love your new Twitter nic.