Jim dissects two recent acts of terrorism – including the attempted mail bombings and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting – and finds conservative rhetoric at the root of both.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving:
Holy moly… Jacob Wohl’s mom (Michelle Wohl) changed her last name on Facebook & appears to have unfriended her son: 👉 https://t.co/R5QmYkiLak
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) October 31, 2018
re: #1 Archangelus
It’s the gift that keeps on giving:
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I see her last name as Wohl.
JFC. These freaking people.
GOP Rep. Mark Sanford: Haitian babies born in US don’t deserve birthrights because they are not ‘former slaves’ https://t.co/oZzTXzBYPM
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 31, 2018
re: #1 Archangelus
It’s the gift that keeps on giving:
Does this mean that Jacob has to get his own lunch?
re: #7 Sir John Barron
Does this mean that Jacob has to get his own lunch?
Maybe his mom will be nice and show him how to heat up the Hot Pockets in the microwave.
/
re: #4 MsJ
JFC. These freaking people.
GOP Rep. Mark Sanford: Haitian babies born in US don’t deserve birthrights because they are not ‘former slaves’ https://t.co/oZzTXzBYPM
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 31, 2018
Happy Halloween. Accordingly, Pocket Constitutions are at the ready for today’s trick-or-treaters. pic.twitter.com/hnQTfeCPHy
— Mark Sanford (@RepSanfordSC) October 31, 2018
Are their 14th Amendments crossed out? https://t.co/vL7nei6gv3
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 31, 2018
re: #4 MsJ
Party of strict constitutionalists…
2nd amendment mean everyone gets a gun.
14th amendment means only former slaves and not everyone (as quite plainly written) born in the US are citizens.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
gee…that would include Mia Love
Maybe Mia needs to reconsider her party affiliation.
And here I thought Sanford was a somewhat reasonable Republican, but then I thought the same of Lindsey before he went full Trumpster.
re: #4 MsJ
JFC. These freaking people.
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This is what leaning on the XIVth Amendment leads to, instead of emphasizing the fact that birthright citizenship has been part of English Common Law for many centuries.
After the Civil War, we had a unique situation where a whole population were born here, yet according to the Dred Scott decision, were not citizens. They could have all been naturalized, but that would have been an administrative nightmare.
The Amendment overturned Dred Scott, and freed slaves became citizens. That was 150 years ago, and no one for whom the XIVth Amendment changed anything is still alive, but the law remains. It applies to everyone as it always has except for that unique group.
Talking about the XIVth Amendment or Wong Kim Ark is just handing the xenophobes what they want, some unique decision that can be repudiated, so that centuries of Common Law will go away. It won’t.
This by @TomTolesToons 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/oYPUWCf42k
— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) October 31, 2018
re: #4 MsJ
Haiti is literally an entire island descended from former slaves. Sanford’s an idiot.
Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana) “open to looking at legislation to end birthright citizenship.”
“I’m the only person on this stage who voted three times for a border wall. I voted against sanctuary cities. I’ve stood for secure borders with John McCain when in 2013, we passed legislation that would have provided an additional 20,000 border agents to the border,” he said when asked about birthright citizenship.
You know, with Democrats like this, who needs the fascist party?
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe Mia needs to reconsider her party affiliation.
And here I thought Sanford was a somewhat reasonable Republican, but then I thought the same of Lindsey before he went full Trumpster.
You mean the guy who went “hiking on the Appalachian Trail” in Argentina with his mistress with state tax money, that reasonable Sanford?
NEW: Trump admin., which already canceled a grant for a group that fights white supremacist terror, now appears unwilling to renew the Obama-era anti-domestic terror program under which it was funded. https://t.co/2fZBE97emO - @strickdc
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2018
It appears DHS has no plans to continue the program past the end of its funding in July 2019. Recipients have been told the funding was a “one-time” funding opportunity. https://t.co/FNlNoouu7p
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2018
There are no coincidences in politics.
Just posted this in the previous thread…in response to Trump getting all military. Of course I CL’d the thread.
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An old Photoshop from the days when Trump was threatening the GOP about whether he would support others if he loses the nomination
re: #12 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
This is what leaning on the XIVth Amendment leads to, instead of emphasizing the fact that birthright citizenship has been part of English Common Law for many centuries.
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Talking about the XIVth Amendment or Wong Kim Ark is just handing the xenophobes what they want, some unique decision that can be repudiated, so that centuries of Common Law will go away. It won’t.
That may be the case, but common law by-and-large is not enforceable. It’s written laws in this country the courts consider. They don’t give a crap about English common law (we’re not England).
A law can be written based on common law.
The most common example in the USA is the common law marriage. A whole lot of people mean a whole lot of things by that, most of which is in fact not recognised as marriage. What matters is how the state defines it in law.
For example:
A common-law marriage is recognized for federal tax purposes if it is recognized by the state or jurisdiction where the taxpayers currently live, or in the state where the common-law marriage began. If the marriage is recognized under the law and customs of the state or jurisdiction in which the marriage takes place (even in a foreign country), the marriage is valid for tax purposes (Rev. Rul. 58-66). Specific state or jurisdiction requirements for a common-law marriage to be recognised must be considered by couples contemplating filing joint returns.
If the state doesn’t recognise the marriage as valid (which would require a legal definition) the IRS doesn’t either. That might not change how you view your relationship, but it does change how the state (and other states, and the Feds) do.
That’s why cases such as Wong Kim Ark matter. If you can overturn them, you can put in something else which would also be lawful.
Happy Halloween. Accordingly, Pocket Constitutions are at the ready for today’s trick-or-treaters. pic.twitter.com/hnQTfeCPHy
— Mark Sanford (@RepSanfordSC) October 31, 2018
Nobody is coming to your house because of the Jack Chick tracts that you gave out last year. https://t.co/lhsaeLGbxm
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 31, 2018
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe Mia needs to reconsider her party affiliation.
And here I thought Sanford was a somewhat reasonable Republican, but then I thought the same of Lindsey before he went full Trumpster.
Simple rule of modern Trumpian politics.
There are no reasonable Republicans.
It is not allowed.
re: #4 MsJ
JFC. These freaking people.
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“Why are you not a fan of it?” Melvin wondered. “You do recognize that it’s in enshrined in the Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment?”
“I happen to be [co-sponsoring] a bill that would say otherwise,” Sanford stuttered. “I think there are a number of folks who have said that particular interpretation is not really what the founding fathers intended.”
Uh, Dude? The 14th Amendment dates to the 1860s. It amends what the Founding Fathers intended, because the FF intended to have a country with slavery, among other things.
re: #18 Citizen K
Another reason to take the House and Senate. I’m pretty sure the renewal isn’t up to him.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹
Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana) “open to looking at legislation to end birthright citizenship.”
You know, with Democrats like this, who needs the fascist party?
he was ahead for a while
now he’s down by 3 or so.
he’s trying to out R the R
Here’s the “small protest” Trump says he didn’t see in Pittsburgh https://t.co/JcOCIxYkF4
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 31, 2018
I’m not the biggest fan of David Frum, but this thread on the feasibility of armed Jewish resistance to the Nazis is pretty good.
Sigh. Ok, I’ll bite once again on this perpetually obtuse point about how the Jews of Germany could have saved themselves if only they had enough Mausers in their basements. Warning: this may turn into a thread.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 31, 2018
Confronted by State, police, and army, the armed militias of the Communists & Social Democrats had no choice. (The non-Nazi conservative militia subordinated itself to the Nazis quite quickly.) pic.twitter.com/4NDKF6TnXc
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 31, 2018
re: #22 ObserverArt
Simple rule of modern
TrumpianGoldwater politics.There are no reasonable Republicans.
It is not allowed.
LOL …
— Jeff D (@JDinALB) October 31, 2018
re: #25 dangerman
he was ahead for a while
now he’s down by 3 or so.
he’s trying to out R the R
When will these guys get it through their head that doesn’t work? The 27% or so of the crazification factor is not going to vote for a Democrat if the opposition candidate is R-Beelzebub. They need to find Democratic votes and non-voters.
Interesting. One of the UK’s major terrestrial TV channels, Channel 4, is moving it’s headquarters from London to Leeds, with two new “creative hubs” in Bristol and Glasgow.
Personally, I think they missed a trick here: if, instead of Bristol (England), they picked Cardiff (Wales), which is just across the river, they would have had a presence in every nation in the mainland UK. Still, it’s very interesting to see how the UK wide channels are regionalising. The BBC already has quite a lot of it’s UK-wide output produced in Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff.
re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White
Uh, Dude? The 14th Amendment dates to the 1860s. It amends what the Founding Fathers intended, because the FF intended to have a country with slavery, among other things.
as to this part:
“I happen to be [co-sponsoring] a bill that would say otherwise,” Sanford stuttered. “I think there are a number of folks who have said that particular interpretation is not really what the founding fathers intended.”
actually though, no.
no constitutional scholar who would last five minutes says this.
further
are you saying you’re taking up this bill because someone ‘folks’ just gave you an idea? and you think gosh darn it we need to ‘fix’ this grievous error in our understanding that up to now virtually everybody got wrong?
or is this something youve been wanting to do for a long time - ie it’s your interpretation? in which case did you just shop till you found “a number of folks who have said….”?
asshat
This is Dog Ross. He never makes mistakes, just happy accidents. Believes there’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a fren. Even with a limited perception of color, he’s still a painting legend. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/w5Mqdg5CTO
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) October 31, 2018
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
When will these guys get it through their head that doesn’t work? The 27% or so of the crazification factor is not going to vote for a Democrat if the opposition candidate is R-Beelzebub. They need to find Democratic votes and non-voters.
some learn faster than others
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
When will these guys get it through their head that doesn’t work? The 27% or so of the crazification factor is not going to vote for a Democrat if the opposition candidate is R-Beelzebub. They need to find Democratic votes and non-voters.
‘mouse, it is Indiana and it is Joe Donnelly.
I know some folks from Indianapolis that are Democrats. They are not fans of Joe Donnelly, in fact they would love to see him gone.
A couple of threads ago someone posted a link to the “Everything is Awful Podcast” interview of Jacob Wohl.(everythingisawfulpodcast.podbean.com) I appreciate the poster and my comments about the podcast do not reflect upon them. I feel I got what I needed out of it.
I half listened to about 40 minutes of the hour+ long podcast while going through posts on this thread. That was enough for me.
Here are some of my thoughts:
In the interview, Wohl called himself a “performance artist”. And he showed a degree of polish in that particular skill.
But another term for what Wohl does is what Harry Frankfurter calls “Bullshitting”. Basically this is a person untethered to the concepts of truth and falsehood. Or as the wiki describes it:
“Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn’t care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.”
So basically, you cannot believe a word the “performance artist” says without independently verifying it. They happily and readily lie.
And, sadly, the interviewer seems to have been woefully unprepared for this.
It is hard to fault him as a lot of professional journalists are still at a loss on how to handle “performance artists” such as Trump. But I do think that solutions are slowly gelling on the national stage.
Australia announced today that it had ratified the 12-member #CPTPP trade agreement.
It will now come into force at the end of December. https://t.co/HdVqJrSFcV #TPP— CBC News (@CBCNews) October 31, 2018
re: #26 The Vicious Babushka
The picture shows the intersection of Forbes and Murray Avenues. This is the Squirrel Hill business district. The Jewish Community Center would be the next building to the right of the right-hand cropped building.
The photographer is looking east(correction - south) down Murray Avenue. And is standing on the grounds of the 6th Presbyterian Church.
The storefront to the left of Coldstone Dairy is the Squirrel Hill Cafe, known locally as “The Squirrel Cage”.
edit - Sheesh! Got my directions wrong. And spelled Murr(a)y Avenue wrong. I need to get back to the ‘burgh, it’s been too long.
re: #27 Scottish Dragon
I’ll be blunt.
France, Poland, the Low Countries, Czechoslovakia, and Russia were all invaded and occupied by goddamned Nazis despite having entire armies, air forces, and all kinds of sophisticated killing instruments at hands (battleships, planes, tanks, heavy armor, guns, etc.).
Jews with handguns, or even machine guns wasn’t stopping the goddamned Nazis if entire armies didn’t do the trick.
The goddamned Nazis specifically imposed gun confiscation on Jews at same time they deprived them of their civil rights (even before the concentration camps and death camps). Even if the Jews somehow managed to hold on to their guns, they still would have been utterly crushed by the Nazis - in significant part because the anti Semites across Germany and Europe were more than willing to look the other way while Jews were marched to the camps and more than a few willingly helped.
re: #38 lawhawk
I’ll be blunt.
France, Poland, the Low Countries, Czechoslovakia, and Russia were all invaded and occupied by goddamned Nazis despite having entire armies, air forces, and all kinds of sophisticated killing instruments at hands (battleships, planes, tanks, heavy armor, guns, etc.).
Jews with handguns, or even machine guns wasn’t stopping the goddamned Nazis if entire armies didn’t do the trick.
The goddamned Nazis specifically imposed gun confiscation on Jews at same time they deprived them of their civil rights (even before the concentration camps and death camps). Even if the Jews somehow managed to hold on to their guns, they still would have been utterly crushed by the Nazis - in significant part because the anti Semites across Germany and Europe were more than willing to look the other way while Jews were marched to the camps and more than a few willingly helped.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Q.E.D.
re: #38 lawhawk
I’ll be blunt.
France, Poland, the Low Countries, Czechoslovakia, and Russia were all invaded and occupied by goddamned Nazis despite having entire armies, air forces, and all kinds of sophisticated killing instruments at hands (battleships, planes, tanks, heavy armor, guns, etc.).
Jews with handguns, or even machine guns wasn’t stopping the goddamned Nazis if entire armies didn’t do the trick.
The goddamned Nazis specifically imposed gun confiscation on Jews at same time they deprived them of their civil rights (even before the concentration camps and death camps). Even if the Jews somehow managed to hold on to their guns, they still would have been utterly crushed by the Nazis - in significant part because the anti Semites across Germany and Europe were more than willing to look the other way while Jews were marched to the camps and more than a few willingly helped.
While we’re talking strict legality…the war with Germany ended because the German government surrendered and repudiated the Nazis. Nobody ever signed an Armistice with the Nazis, as the Denazification programs in Occupied Germany indicate. So it seems to me if you see an armed Nazi, they’re fair game, no?
re: #39 The Vicious Babushka
How’d that end for the Jews there?
Oh yeah, they were liquidated and sent to the death camps.
I know you know this, but this talking point makes the circles periodically in favor of giving rednecks here unfettered access to all kinds of guns, including the very kinds of arms used in recent mass murders, like Pittsburgh and Las Vegas and Sandy Hook.
Just finished reading that Politico article Trump’s Culture Warriors Go Home.
I love the very last sentence.
(Chuck C.)Johnson is considering moving outside the United States.
He must be in some major mess to go from the guy who was going to take down liberal/progressive politics and help Make America Great Again to Making America Great Again by leaving it for another country.
Can we help him pack?
Link again for those that might have missed it: Politico - Trump’s Culture Warriors Go Home
re: #42 lawhawk
How’d that end for the Jews there?
Oh yeah, they were liquidated and sent to the death camps.
I know you know this, but this talking point makes the circles periodically in favor of giving rednecks here unfettered access to all kinds of guns, including the very kinds of arms used in recent mass murders, like Pittsburgh and Las Vegas and Sandy Hook.
That was kind of my point: that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was utterly crushed in spite of them having some guns.
Peter Boykin (R-NC House 58 candidate) is whinging on Twitter about being suspended from Facebook (four tweets, followed by a lot of commentary).
He’s not playing conservative victim very well.
.@facebook has disabled my account days before #ElectionDay no reason and no recourse?! I’m running for office! Why? Also why do these companies have NO way to reach out to them?!
The response I received from them was just looking.. I have been a member of Facebook since 08 pic.twitter.com/LoS8wenEHA— Peter Boykin 🇺🇸🐘 #Vote #Turn58Red Nov 6th (@peterboykin) October 31, 2018
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Why does this guy hate freedom and unregulated capitalism so much? I thought the GOP was all-in on denial of any service for any reason (and political position is not a protected class).
Waaa.
re: #39 The Vicious Babushka
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Q.E.D.
That was the example I cited. The Warsaw Uprising had trained partisans and Polish Army soldiers with modern military weapons, and the Nazis proceeded to level the city with heavy siege artillery.
it is still only wednesday pace yourself every body pic.twitter.com/thUzcDskWE
— darth™ (@darth) May 25, 2017
Home from Dr.
While sitting in the waiting room a MAGAt comes in wearing a shirt that says Repeal The Gas Tax—No on 6.
For those not in California the Republicans are pushing for a cut in the gas tax ignoring that lots of roads in California are in need of repair and we have a massive Metro Rail expansion project going on.
Anyway, Mr. MAGAt sits down next to me and says, “I hope you vote your race and support your Christian President”
I turned to him and replied, “I am voting my race. I’m Jewish. And any “KKKristian” who has the audacity to tell me that Trump—the blob who is the epitome of all Seven Deadly Sins—is a KKKristian—you are a fucking idiot.”
His response, “I”ll pray for you”
My reply, “As Trump preys on fools like you”.
So folks, how is your day going?????
re: #47 Scottish Dragon
That was the example I cited. The Warsaw Uprising had trained partisans and Polish Army soldiers with modern military weapons, and the Nazis proceeded to level the city with heavy siege artillery.
Which is therefore a great example for why a cache of AR-15s is meaningless against the government.
re: #37 ckkatz
The picture shows the intersection of Forbes and Murray Avenues. This is the Squirrel Hill business district. The Jewish Community Center would be the next building to the right of the right-hand cropped building.
The photographer is looking east(correction - south) down Murray Avenue. And is standing on the grounds of the 6th Presbyterian Church.
The storefront to the left of Coldstone Dairy is the Squirrel Hill Cafe, known locally as “The Squirrel Cage”.
edit - Sheesh! Got my directions wrong. And spelled Murr(a)y Avenue wrong. I need to get back to the ‘burgh, it’s been too long.
It’s been 40 years since I was last on Murray Avenue. Thanks for the pic. My how it has changed!
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹
Yikes. Reading down this wingnut’s thread, he is a supporter of the Proud Boys (banned by Facebook yesterday) and Identiy Evropa.
That guy sounds like he not only needs to be banned from Facebook, but Twitter too (well, we know how Twitter feels about Nazis), and oh, the North Carolina House.
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
Home from Dr.
While sitting in the waiting room a MAGAt comes in wearing a shirt that says Repeal The Gas Tax—No on 6.
For those not in California the Republicans are pushing for a cut in the gas tax ignoring that lots of roads in California are in need of repair and we have a massive Metro Rail expansion project going on.
Anyway, Mr. MAGAt sits down next to me and says, “I hope you vote your race and support your Christian President”
I turned to him and replied, “I am voting my race. I’m Jewish. And any “KKKristian” who has the audacity to tell me that Trump—the blob who is the epitome of all Seven Deadly Sins—is a KKKristian—you are a fucking idiot.”
His response, “I”ll pray for you”
My reply, “As Trump preys on fools like you”.
So folks, how is your day going?????
Good grief..
re: #50 Belafon
Which is therefore a great example for why a cache of AR-15s is meaningless against the government.
Not meaningless, since insurgencies with rifles can do a LOT of damage…but the idea that you were going to save the Jewish people is utterly farcical.
Also, insurgents do depend on the enemy having a sense of proportionality, which is something the Germans absolutely did not have. We were never going to exterminate half the Vietnamese population to stop the VC, and even the Soviets ran into hard limits on just how much bloodshed they were willing to inflict on the Afghan population.
The Nazis had no limits. None.
Same same pic.twitter.com/eJ5PzpJGmU
— sarah Beretta (@sarah_beretta) October 31, 2018
re: #50 Belafon
Which is therefore a great example for why a cache of AR-15s is meaningless against the government.
Yeah. Had a gun nut tell me he had a cache of guns and would be ready if the government came for him. I congratulated him on having a gun that can blow a hole in the sheet metal of a car, and then reminded him that the government had missiles that could blow his fucking house off the face of the planet and I knew who I would put my money on to win that fight. It made the bartender laugh at least.
This is true. It’s why Fox lets Shep say the things he does.
Erik Wemple: “Nothing that Shepard Smith says during his Fox News program — no matter how sick his burns on Trump might be — neutralizes the impact of Dobbs or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or dozens of other Fox talking heads. Nothing.” https://t.co/06JwemuEYB
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) October 31, 2018
re: #43 ObserverArt
Just finished reading that Politico article Trump’s Culture Warriors Go Home.
I love the very last sentence.
(Chuck C.)Johnson is considering moving outside the United States
.
Thanks for the warning. Will keep an eye out for the Rage Furby.
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
“Vote your race?”
I thought Democrats were the party of so-called identity politics. I wish these folks would get their talking points straight.
And by the way, don’t call them a racist, that might make them vote for people like Donald Trump. Gaaa.
re: #57 Eventual Carrion
Yeah. Had a gun nut tell me he had a cache of guns and would be ready if the government came for him. I congratulated him on having a gun that can blow a hole in the sheet metal of a car, and then reminded him that the government had missiles that could blow his fucking house off the face of the planet and I knew who I would put my money on to win that fight. It made the bartender laugh at least.
Insurgencies kill the idiots off real quick. The ones who survive the first year are the ones who are going to be the real killers, and they won’t engage in fantasy firefights with SWAT teams with their rifles or some such foolishness.
Deployed border troops are preparing for trouble: militias stealing their gear, protester violence. https://t.co/tBcy9kE9tU pic.twitter.com/7ejNACkMws
— ArmyTimes (@ArmyTimes) October 31, 2018
So the biggest threat to the units deploying down to the border is…
Right wing “militias” stealing their gear.
Because of course it is. https://t.co/xqDn5ktJwF— SPOOOOOKYgrunt 🇺🇸 (@soonergrunt) October 31, 2018
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹
Yikes. Reading down this wingnut’s thread, he is a supporter of the Proud Boys (banned by Facebook yesterday) and Identiy Evropa.
That guy sounds like he not only needs to be banned from Facebook, but Twitter too (well, we know how Twitter feels about Nazis), and oh, the North Carolina House.
And he’s whinging about “conservative censorship” because his personal Facebook account was suspended, when his campaign Facebook account is still active (along with another one). Just the one with all the racist and hateful memes (his personal account) was suspended.
I can hear the whinge halfway across the country.
Carl Reiner approves this message, and so do I. pic.twitter.com/TrbDTyrtk2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2018
America’s disrespect of the INF treaty… gives Russia every right to withdraw from the 1867 Alaska deal - experthttps://t.co/HWd32tcfdX
— RT (@RT_com) October 31, 2018
lol
Where skeletons come from pic.twitter.com/Tv3H2CAUWU
— cyriak harris (@cyriakharris) October 31, 2018
Ha:
The caravan is just a remake of Trump’s inauguration.
Promises of a big crowd. A ton of armed security. No one shows up.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 31, 2018
He’s just making up numbers.
15,000 troops is a full division of the US Army.
This is a huge misallocation of resources and undermines military preparedness all over a phantom threat.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 31, 2018
The better to sow fear among his know nothing base.
The better to keep his base frothing and foaming and claim we’re under attack (we aren’t).
Heidi Cruz told me they have to try and shield the Zodiac Killer stuff from their oldest daughter, because she might get skeptical and start, like, seriously grilling her dad about where he was on different nights in the early 70s.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) October 31, 2018
re: #43 ObserverArt
Just finished reading that Politico article Trump’s Culture Warriors Go Home.
I love the very last sentence.
He must be in some major mess to go from the guy who was going to take down liberal/progressive politics and help Make America Great Again to Making America Great Again by leaving it for another country.
Can we help him pack?
Link again for those that might have missed it: Politico - Trump’s Culture Warriors Go Home
He can leave if he wants. His only problem will be finding a Country (that he would want to live in) that would let him in given his history.
re: #54 Sir John Barron
Good grief..
Sorry, but the thing in our white house has newly defined “good grief.” Spit.
Trump is now using his visit to a mass murder site as the basis for a campaign endorsement and a political potshot: pic.twitter.com/4sWZF7knJT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018
re: #70 lawhawk
The better to sow fear among his know nothing base.
The better to keep his base frothing and foaming and claim we’re under attack (we aren’t).
And even if 15,000 soldiers were deployed, a good chunk of those would be support and administration.
Even taking that number, that’s not nearly enough to “secure” the border. What are they going to do, spread them out one every 400 yards?
Or they could, for the money, I don’t know, hire a bunch of border patrol agents, trained in how to properly manage the border’s flow of people and goods. (Wait, the GOP consistently understaffs border patrol on purpose.)
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹
And then they rush hire a bunch of people who are unqualified and they have to drop standards because not enough people can meet the qualifications, and then there are scandals galore about misuse of force, resources, etc.
SS/DD.
Does this explain a few things of late? He makes a good if wonky case for this.
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?
By NELSON W. CUNNINGHAM
October 31, 2018
re: #30 Alephnaught
Interesting. One of the UK’s major terrestrial TV channels, Channel 4, is moving it’s headquarters from London to Leeds, with two new “creative hubs” in Bristol and Glasgow.
Personally, I think they missed a trick here: if, instead of Bristol (England), they picked Cardiff (Wales), which is just across the river, they would have had a presence in every nation in the mainland UK. Still, it’s very interesting to see how the UK wide channels are regionalising. The BBC already has quite a lot of it’s UK-wide output produced in Manchester, Glasgow, and Cardiff.
Doctor Who is already in Cardiff; aren’t they BBC?
re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What’s going to be interesting is what are they going to do when they (the troops) try to enter onto private property and are told to get the hell off. Do they obey the lawful property owner or enter under force of arms?
re: #76 Unshaken Defiance
I think that’s a good take - I think Mueller has sought a subpeona of Trump, and Trump’s team is fighting it (and losing).
Trump team knows that a subpeona of Trump will not end well for Trump because their public defense is that Trump can’t tell fact from fiction and lies/bulkshits all over the place.
re: #52 Scottish Dragon
This is what the Germans brought up against light infantry with Sten SMGs and various rifles in Warsaw:
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The Prudential building in Warsaw being hit by 2-ton mortar shell from a Karl-Gerät, August 24, 1944
But because Warsaw fought back, it took WEEKS instead of days to kill all the Jews; and they had to destroy a lot of buildings to do it. (which didn’t bother the Germans; it wasn’t their buildings. But I’ll bet it pissed off some Poles.)
Spray painted on my synagogue last night. This is not the America I love. pic.twitter.com/C52BrdIoKQ
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) October 31, 2018
Calls to cancel Steve Bannon’s Toronto debate intensify after the Pittsburgh massacre
thestar.com (Toronto Star)
On Sunday, New Democrat MP Charlie Angus was attending a candlelight vigil in Ottawa for victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre when he was approached by an older Jewish gentleman. Many powerful words were spoken that day but this man’s message particularly resonated.
“He said, ‘How is it that in light of the people killed at the Tree of Life synagogue, Canada is putting out the welcome mat for Steve Bannon?’ ” Angus recalled of their conversation. “It really struck me and I thought, ‘We have to use our voices to speak out.’
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Cue the Freeze Peach glibertarians on why Canada needs to let that rabblerouser (sp?) into their country to gin up hate in Ontario with David Frum.
re: #15 Lidane
Haiti is literally an entire island descended from former slaves. Sanford’s an idiot.
It is a prevalent rightwing talking point: the 14th Amendment was only meant to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
re: #81 lawhawk
I’m afraid that is America, and always has been. That said, we can change that with sufficient national will to do so.
re: #85 Big Beautiful Door
It is a prevalent rightwing talking point: the 14th Amendment was only meant to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
I’ve been hearing it most of my life. It is also a talking point of so-called sovereign citizens (to explain why they don’t have to follow the law and African-Americans do).
re: #85 Big Beautiful Door
It is a prevalent rightwing talking point: the 14th Amendment was only meant to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
And if they can repeal that too, so much the better. /it goes without saying.
The GOP is intent on rolling back 150 years of social progress, and putting minorities in their proper place no matter the consequences.
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
Home from Dr.
While sitting in the waiting room a MAGAt comes in wearing a shirt that says Repeal The Gas Tax—No on 6.
For those not in California the Republicans are pushing for a cut in the gas tax ignoring that lots of roads in California are in need of repair and we have a massive Metro Rail expansion project going on.
Anyway, Mr. MAGAt sits down next to me and says, “I hope you vote your race and support your Christian President”
I turned to him and replied, “I am voting my race. I’m Jewish. And any “KKKristian” who has the audacity to tell me that Trump—the blob who is the epitome of all Seven Deadly Sins—is a KKKristian—you are a fucking idiot.”
His response, “I”ll pray for you”
My reply, “As Trump preys on fools like you”.
So folks, how is your day going?????
Christ, the worst I ever had to deal with here in NJ is some nitwit in front of me whining that we needed voter ID cards.
“Vote your race.” Not even trying to hide it anymore.
Just sent another contact form message to my friend Rob Portman.
I’ll not bother with the content except the opening paragraph. I kinda like it and wanted to share. It’s behind the private box.
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.@SpanbergerVA07 campaign says it just ousted ‘volunteer’ who turned out to be Project Veritas mole. https://t.co/kHxGHw0bLQ
— Laura Vozzella (@LVozzella) October 31, 2018
re: #89 Mattand
Christ, the worst I ever had to deal with here in NJ is some nitwit in front of me whining that we needed voter ID cards.
“Vote your race.” Not even trying to hide it anymore.
And that’s the difference between Goldwater and Trump. From Goldwater to Romney, they all used dog whistles. Trump didn’t. Trump spoke exactly what Movement Conservative has been hearing since I was four, out loud. That’s why they voted for him when they say “he tells it like it is.”
I posted a link to this David Neiwert thread earlier. He finally finished it, and it is epic.
A history of Eliminationism, and how Trump is carrying on the sordid tradition. Disturbing and graphic images are contained therein, but it is well worth the read.
1) “Eliminationism” is a term you need not just to become familiar with, especially in today’s American rush toward authoritarianism. This will be a long, illustrated thread explaining what it means, how it works, and why Donald Trump is now our Eliminationist in Chief. pic.twitter.com/U5ThUUuFl8
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) October 31, 2018
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Peter Boykin (R-NC House 58 candidate) is whinging on Twitter about being suspended from Facebook (four tweets, followed by a lot of commentary).
He’s not playing conservative victim very well.
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Laura Loomer has also been suspended for her virulent tweets.
This morning, the NYT was intent on getting the ratio of the day, but it looks like the head of HHS has decided to hold the Times’ beer.
Delete your twitter and resign, because you have no business in the health care delivery field.
Studies find that Medicare for All would be cheaper as compared to the current state of affairs across the entire economy, even if it means more USG spending.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 31, 2018
re: #66 Single-handed sailor
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That means Bible Spice and her White Trash KKKrew can REALLY see Russia from their porch!
re: #76 Unshaken Defiance
Does this explain a few things of late?
Very interesting article.
Saw re-tweeted by
This very interesting piece of analysis might just be a very quiet #BabyCannon boom. It’s quite persuasive… https://t.co/VtnqFHNeYJ
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) October 31, 2018
I found the tweet by searching for #babycannon - it’s his thing
re: #85 Big Beautiful Door
It is a prevalent rightwing talking point: the 14th Amendment was only meant to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
Strike the ‘only’ and this actually becomes reasonable.
Birthright citizenship pretty much was the only way to grant citizenship to freed slaves, and any language broad enough to do that job would also give citizenship to children born in the US, independent of their parents’ legal status.
The reason birthright citizenship had to be used for freed slaves is that the only other way to define citizenship is by the status of the parents, which obviously wouldn’t work.
re: #98 EPR-radar
Strike the ‘only’ and this actually becomes reasonable.
Birthright citizenship pretty much was the only way to grant citizenship to freed slaves, and any language broad enough to do that job would also give citizenship to children born in the US, independent of their parents’ legal status.
The reason birthright citizenship had to be used for freed slaves is that the only other way to define citizenship is by the status of the parents, which obviously wouldn’t work.
And to reiterate, the authors of the 14th Amendment knew that, acknowledged it and were perfectly fine with it. Even name checked the Chinese.
re: #66 Single-handed sailor
Well, there are some economists who say the federal government has lost money on the Alaskan purchase
2. Out of no where, Donald Trump starts talking about how we need to build a Space Force, pronto. https://t.co/3dfdEj4434
— Andrew Potter (@jandrewpotter) October 31, 2018
re: #101 gocart mozart
So, what they’re saying is… that’s no moon?
Rep. Matt Shea takes credit, criticism for document titled ‘Biblical Basis for War’ (Spokane Spokesman-Review, more at the link):
More agitprop. “I was taken out of context.”
Lots of people claim that about the Bible too. What context of “if they do not yield, kill all the males” justifies that statement? Never heard anyone explain that to my satisfaction.
The document is organized in 14 sections with multiple tiers of bullet points and a smattering of biblical citations. Under one heading, “Rules of War,” it makes a chilling prescription for enemies who flout “biblical law.” It states, “If they do not yield - kill all males.”
After the document was leaked online Tuesday, the Spokane Valley Republican insisted he was not promoting violence and that the message had been taken out of context.
re: #98 EPR-radar
Strike the ‘only’ and this actually becomes reasonable.
Birthright citizenship pretty much was the only way to grant citizenship to freed slaves, and any language broad enough to do that job would also give citizenship to children born in the US, independent of their parents’ legal status.
The reason birthright citizenship had to be used for freed slaves is that the only other way to define citizenship is by the status of the parents, which obviously wouldn’t work.
They could have tracked the language of the 13th Amendment and said something along the lines of “all persons previously held in slavery or involuntary servitude within the jurisdiction of the United States shall, upon ratification of this amendment be natural born citizens of the United States.”
Instead, they chose to ratify the common law understanding of natural born citizen. (And I can hear so many judges and law professors shout in unison: there is no federal common law. To which I say, “bullshit, y’all know there is.”)
Let’s Liveblog Steve Bannon’s Life And See If It Sends Us Into A Tailspin … Of LOLs!
As Wonkette notes, Sherman Smith was at the event and counted fourteen people. According to them, that number swelled to eleven before Bannon got there.
re: #101 gocart mozart
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Klaatu and Gort checked in again and informed the rest of the Universe that we need to be avoided at all costs!
If I was your mother I’d dime you out too.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 31, 2018
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Peter Boykin (R-NC House 58 candidate) is whinging on Twitter about being suspended from Facebook (four tweets, followed by a lot of commentary).
He’s not playing conservative victim very well.
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for “no reason”…apparently he has difficulties with reading comprehension.
re: #104 KGxvi
They could have tracked the language of the 13th Amendment and said something along the lines of “all persons previously held in slavery or involuntary servitude within the jurisdiction of the United States shall, upon ratification of this amendment be natural born citizens of the United States.”
Instead, they chose to ratify the common law understanding of natural born citizen. (And I can hear so many judges and law professors shout in unison: there is no federal common law. To which I say, “bullshit, y’all know there is.”)
To which I already noted (as a non-lawyer) there is no such understanding, citing the example of common-law marriage above.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
Common law understandings have no force in US law, unless they are written into law.
That is why many states do not recognise common law marriages unless defined into law by other states.
re: #104 KGxvi
They could have tracked the language of the 13th Amendment and said something along the lines of “all persons previously held in slavery or involuntary servitude within the jurisdiction of the United States shall, upon ratification of this amendment be natural born citizens of the United States.”
Instead, they chose to ratify the common law understanding of natural born citizen. (And I can hear so many judges and law professors shout in unison: there is no federal common law. To which I say, “bullshit, y’all know there is.”)
One flaw with something like this is that it doesn’t secure the citizenship of free blacks. Another issue would be that citizenship of black people, if challenged back then, would be secured by proving (with great difficulty, naturally) prior enslavement.
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Peter Boykin (R-NC House 58 candidate) is whinging on Twitter about being suspended from Facebook (four tweets, followed by a lot of commentary).
He’s not playing conservative victim very well.
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facebook is not a utility. dont assume it’s always gonna be there. or even in 5 minutes.
if you’re gonna rely on an online service for political or any other purpose, have a back up plan if you lose access or control of it
it doesnt matter why you lost access. facebooks fault, your isp, the local phone lines, or anything else.
if it matters, have a plan B
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
Home from Dr.
While sitting in the waiting room a MAGAt comes in wearing a shirt that says Repeal The Gas Tax—No on 6.
For those not in California the Republicans are pushing for a cut in the gas tax ignoring that lots of roads in California are in need of repair and we have a massive Metro Rail expansion project going on.
Anyway, Mr. MAGAt sits down next to me and says, “I hope you vote your race and support your Christian President”
I turned to him and replied, “I am voting my race. I’m Jewish. And any “KKKristian” who has the audacity to tell me that Trump—the blob who is the epitome of all Seven Deadly Sins—is a KKKristian—you are a fucking idiot.”
His response, “I”ll pray for you”
My reply, “As Trump preys on fools like you”.
So folks, how is your day going?????
you get an upding for the direct approach
im known as a pain in the ass here at home
i might have asked “what race do you think i am and what’s religion got to do with race?”
re: #107 The Vicious Babushka
All based on a source they don’t know is real? You guys contacted the media.
They don’t even lie well, though that’s probably good enough for their followers.
re: #57 Eventual Carrion
Yeah. Had a gun nut tell me he had a cache of guns and would be ready if the government came for him. I congratulated him on having a gun that can blow a hole in the sheet metal of a car, and then reminded him that the government had missiles that could blow his fucking house off the face of the planet and I knew who I would put my money on to win that fight. It made the bartender laugh at least.
fired at you from the next county (or more)
re: #107 The Vicious Babushka
all based on an anonymous source that they aren’t even sure is real…..
but I know is fake, because I created it in order to run this con…. and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for the fact that I was stupid enough to try and pants real journalists…..
re: #68 Interesting Times
Ha:
The caravan is just a remake of Trump’s inauguration.
Promises of a big crowd. A ton of armed security. No one shows up.
wouldnt it be grand if they could just stop for a while where they are
the troops go home
they start walking again
the troops come back…..
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
To which I already noted (as a non-lawyer) there is no such understanding, citing the example of common-law marriage above.
Common law understandings have no force in US law, unless they are written into law.
That is why many states do not recognise common law marriages unless defined into law by other states.
Judges and law professors are always very quick to point out that there is no federal common law. And that’s true to a point. But federal judges are prone to rely on common law understanding in constitutional law cases, and it’s really fairly easy to draw a line between traditional English common law (pre-1776) and Equal Protection jurisprudence (especially post 14th Amendment).
I’d go so far as to argue that the 9th Amendment was intended to give courts the power to continue the common law tradition, which more than anything was a historical practice by the courts of recognizing/declaring pre-existing natural rights.
So, yes, there’s no federal common law - and most of the States have taken to ratifying common law traditions to varying degrees. But, also, the courts have continued to recognize and protect natural rights.
re: #111 dangerman
facebook is not a utility. dont assume it’s always gonna be there. or even in 5 minutes.
if you’re gonna rely on an online service for political or any other purpose, have a back up plan if you lose access or control of it
it doesnt matter why you lost access. facebooks fault, your isp, the local phone lines, or anything else.
if it matters, have a plan B
That doesn’t give you the excuse to complain about being a conservative victim of evil liberal speech suppression though.
On that issue of common law, my own marriage would be considered common law (and over half the US states would not recognise it), because my wife and I simply exchanged vows (sort of) in a ghost town in Colorado with no witnesses or officiants. Just us and aspen trees (and a chipmunk).
What makes it recognized across the country (and the world) is the piece of paper that Saguache County, Colorado issued, not our word for it.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
You mean the guy who went “hiking on the Appalachian Trail” in Argentina with his mistress with state tax money, that reasonable Sanford?
I didn’t say he was honest or faithful; just that he was more reasonable. Wasn’t he primaried by a Trump fanatic for being insufficiently attentive to the master’s whims?
re: #117 KGxvi
We’re not allowed to do nuance. /s
Whoa, this ad is just gross.
It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/2crea9HF7G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 31, 2018
‘Our people.’ Fuck you.
re: #119 Hecuba’s daughter
I didn’t say he was honest or faithful; just that he was more reasonable. Wasn’t he primaried by a Trump fanatic for being insufficiently attentive to the master’s whims?
He was ousted as governor for the misuse of tax money. He then ran for the US House and was elected (stay classy South Carolina.)
He is currently in office.
re: #121 makeitstop
Whoa, this ad is just gross.
‘Our people.’ Fuck you.
Not watching. Already voted against the fascist party.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
He was ousted as governor for the misuse of tax money. He then ran for the US House and was elected (stay classy South Carolina.)
He is currently in office.
But not for long. He’s out in 2019.
re: #121 makeitstop
Whoa, this ad is just gross.
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‘Our people.’ Fuck you.
That single word, base, hits multiple notes. Very efficient.
That Politico article on possible subpoena of Trump is awfully self congratulatory. The author in particular likes the phrase “…thanks to Politico’s reporting”.
re: #125 lizardofid
That single word, base, hits multiple notes. Very efficient.
Yeah, Harwood’s a pretty good follow.
Sebastian Gorka: “There is an industry, in baby factories, people coming here to have babies, and then they get citizenship … It’s wrong that you are stamping US citizens out like a factory” pic.twitter.com/ru1Qn4sDRi
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) October 30, 2018
Gorka is literally on his 3rd country.
He collects citizenships the way Trump collects wives. https://t.co/NWGXzSInQo— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 31, 2018
re: #117 KGxvi
Judges and law professors are always very quick to point out that there is no federal common law. And that’s true to a point. But federal judges are prone to rely on common law understanding in constitutional law cases, and it’s really fairly easy to draw a line between traditional English common law (pre-1776) and Equal Protection jurisprudence (especially post 14th Amendment).
I’d go so far as to argue that the 9th Amendment was intended to give courts the power to continue the common law tradition, which more than anything was a historical practice by the courts of recognizing/declaring pre-existing natural rights.
So, yes, there’s no federal common law - and most of the States have taken to ratifying common law traditions to varying degrees. But, also, the courts have continued to recognize and protect natural rights.
US v. Wong Kim Ark says very explicitly that US jus soli citizenship is based on the English common law definition of natural born subject. Since there is no definition of “natural born” citizen in the US Constitution, the concept has to be based in common law.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #129 Big Beautiful Door
US v. Wong Kim Ark says very explicitly that US jus soli citizenship is based on the English common law definition of natural born subject. Since there is no definition of “natural born” citizen in the US Constitution, the concept has to be based in common law.
I was born by Cesarean. Where will they deport me to? Rome?
/
Well, my wife was supposed to do a radio interview for a station in Orlando tomorrow. I probably screwed that up.
Phone rings. My wife is asleep. I answer. Hello?
Hi, I’m (blank).
I’m sorry, who is (blank) and who do you represent?
I’m (blank), I just told you.
[click]
My wife is awake now, and trying to do damage control on-line. She is not mad at me though, because we get all sorts of crank calls, telemarketers, &c. (Blank) is lucky I picked up the phone at all, not recognising the number.
re: #131 wrenchwench
I was born by Cesarean. Where will they deport me to? Rome?
/
That raises an interesting question; if you use an immigrant as a surrogate mother, do the nativists think your child is a non-citizen?
I’m predicting a few fist fights at the polls next week.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
Definitely not in the mood to be lectured by a Hungarian fascist spewing out crap on a network owned by an Australian fascist about what US citizenship means.
Yeah, especially when it is known Trump is part of that industry attracting Russians to come to America, live in one his building and have their child here.
Too bad Gorka wasn’t asked about that. I would love to hear his bullshit response.
Replacing the New York Times Needle of Doom, Alexa will tell you where to vote and give you real-time electoral updates.
Good thing I don’t have this “Alexa” thingamabob listening into my house like a common wiretap from Amazon.
REPORTER: Do think somebody is funding the caravan?
TRUMP: “I wouldn’t be surprised, yeah. I wouldn’t be surprised.”
R: George Soros?
T: “I don’t know who, but I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people say yes.” pic.twitter.com/U1w9EYHcw6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2018
Cool that reporters are push polling a conspiracy theory that just got 11 people killed. https://t.co/vPOvciNVgN
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 31, 2018
re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter
But not for long. He’s out in 2019.
As you said - he lost his primary due to not falling on the ground to support dear leader.
re: #133 Big Beautiful Door
That raises an interesting question; if you use an immigrant as a surrogate mother, do the nativists think your child is a non-citizen?
DNA of the father will be required.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹
The Holy See.
Rome-adjacent. They got some pretty nice accommodations there, for the men at least.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹
He was ousted as governor for the misuse of tax money. He then ran for the US House and was elected (stay classy South Carolina.)
He is currently in office.
He was not ousted as governor. He completed his term.
He ran for his old US House seat, and won (defeating Stephen Colbert’s sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch), in a special election after Nikki named Tim Scott to Jim DeMint’s senate seat. He ran unopposed in 2014 and won again in 2016, but was ousted in this year’s primary by a Trump fanatic.
re: #141 BeachDem
He was not ousted as governor. He completed his term.
He ran for his old US House seat, and won (defeating Stephen Colbert’s sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch), in a special election after Nikki named Tim Scott to Jim DeMint’s senate seat. He ran unopposed in 2014 and won again in 2016, but was ousted in this year’s primary by a Trump fanatic.
You are correct, I was mistaken.
Speaking on immigration, Pres. Trump says, “We’re not doing any releases anymore…We’ll build tent cities, we’ll build whatever we have to build in terms of housing. But we’re not doing releases.” https://t.co/rPrKDmV6f0 pic.twitter.com/VTELmKoMYY
— ABC News (@ABC) October 31, 2018
Camps. He’s talking about arresting refugees seeking asylum — and concentrating them in camps. https://t.co/QGM2t01zUZ
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) October 31, 2018
Perhaps a Jewish person who belongs to the Sierra Club?
Well, Jewish people, what say you? Is this valid?
Also, what’s a “practicing conservation jew [sic]?” Anybody? pic.twitter.com/znvuiJ4jAb— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 31, 2018
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹
[.We’ll build tent cities, we’ll build whatever we have to build in terms of housing. But we’re not doing releases.” ]
The additional cost of housing people instead of releasing them should come out of his own pocket. Or make him put them up at Mar A Lago.
So, has anyone seen the “America’s Back” propaganda ad that’s airing? Holy Shit! It’s pretty good for what it is. The colors are turned up to max HD.
re: #129 Big Beautiful Door
US v. Wong Kim Ark says very explicitly that US jus soli citizenship is based on the English common law definition of natural born subject. Since there is no definition of “natural born” citizen in the US Constitution, the concept has to be based in common law.
Yeah, and that’s mostly my point. The bit about there being no federal common law is from a Supreme Court case called Erie RR v Pennsylvania. The Court ruled that in diversity jurisdiction cases (cases between parties from different states) the lower federal courts had to apply state common law and couldn’t create there own. But there were still areas of federal law that relied on common law or at least common law practices.
As the country and the law has modernized in the last 100 years or so, there’s less and less need for common law because we have mostly codified everything. And even the common law was written down, just usually by judges to resolve issues - even common law marriage was originally conceived by a judge and later codified in statue by the jurisdictions who allow it. Where the practice is most important now, as I’ve mentioned are cases involving the Equal Protection Clause.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹
Base on that twitter timeline, he’s one of those conservatives who supports Israel for the end times opportunity.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹
Well, my wife was supposed to do a radio interview for a station in Orlando tomorrow. I probably screwed that up.
Phone rings. My wife is asleep. I answer. Hello?
Hi, I’m (blank).
I’m sorry, who is (blank) and who do you represent?
I’m (blank), I just told you.
[click]
My wife is awake now, and trying to do damage control on-line. She is not mad at me though, because we get all sorts of crank calls, telemarketers, &c. (Blank) is lucky I picked up the phone at all, not recognising the number.
I don’t have a land line, but I do have a rule for people calling me: if you’re not important enough for your name and number to be in my contacts, you’re not important enough for me to answer, please leave a message.
Go, Sully.
“Miracle on the Hudson” pilot “Sully” Sullenberger, an Air Force veteran and lifelong Republican, is urging Americans to vote against the GOP - calling them “cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States”. https://t.co/TCkSmQ40vu
— VoteVets (@votevets) October 31, 2018
I wish we had a press that would ask Trump, “Do you think you’d be wasting hundreds of millions on an election stunt involving troops if you and your son-in-law actually paid any taxes?”
— LOLGOP🔜 (@LOLGOP) October 31, 2018
re: #150 makeitstop
Go, Sully.
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Oprah Winfrey endorses and campaigns for Stacey Abrams in Georgia. I hope it results in the same outcome she helped achieve last time she did an endorsement.
The Atlanta Voice - # ELECTION2018: Oprah endorses Stacey Abrams, will make campaign stops
This morning, media magnate Oprah Winfrey has formally endorsed Democrat Stacey Abrams in the race for Georgia governor.
The endorsement alone was not enough for the self-made billionaire: She will canvass for Abrams, knock on doors and host two town halls in metro Atlanta alongside the Democratic candidate.
“Oprah Winfrey has inspired so many of us though the years with her unparalleled ability to form real connections and strengthen the bonds of family and community,” Abrams said. “I am honored to have Oprah join me for uplifting and honest conversations with voters about the clear choice before us in this election and the boundless potential of Georgians.”
The last time Oprah fully endorsed and campaigned for a candidate was September 25, 2006 when she endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. In May 2007, Winfrey endorsed candidate Obama and made her first appearance in his campaign in December of that year.
- more at link -
re: #150 makeitstop
Go, Sully.
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re: #118 Anymouse 🌹
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because my wife and I simply exchanged vows (sort of) in a ghost town in Colorado with no witnesses or officiants. Just us and aspen trees (and a chipmunk).What makes it recognized across the country (and the world) is the piece of paper that Saguache County, Colorado issued, not our word for it.
Find that chipmunk and make him talk squeak.
re: #150 makeitstop
Go, Sully.
“Miracle on the Hudson” pilot “Sully” Sullenberger, an Air Force veteran and lifelong Republican, is urging Americans to vote against the GOP - calling them “cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States”. realclearlife.com
— VoteVets (@votevets) October 31, 2018
Trump treats the U.S. military like his toy soldiers - The Washington Post#DemForce https://t.co/6TEmA0FQG1… pic.twitter.com/kMHKLQAmSF
— Pat is now Enraged Fuller Ω 📢 #Unite4Victory (@bannerite) October 31, 2018
re: #152 ObserverArt
That is awesome but I still expect Kemp to ratfuck his way to victory.
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
That is awesome but I still expect Kemp to ratfuck his way to victory.
He is and will continue to try. And many will be watching him as they already are. I expect suits and courts.
Not sure if anyone heard the news, but Pakistani Christian Aasia Bibi has finally been acquitted after languishing in jail for 8 fucking years!
Justice has finally been served by the Supreme Court in Pakistan, and this was done using Qu’ranic evidence so the mullahs can’t ever try to argue.
re: #133 Big Beautiful Door
That raises an interesting question; if you use an immigrant as a surrogate mother, do the nativists think your child is a non-citizen?
as an originalist, here’s what the founding fathers intended…
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
That is awesome but I still expect Kemp to ratfuck his way to victory.
Yep. It’s a challenge to win when Kemp illegitimately purges 340,000 voter registrations. rollingstone.com
This Supreme Court is rotten to its core in supporting this practice.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹
Perhaps a Jewish person who belongs to the Sierra Club?
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it is neither racist nor anti-semitic
Dangerman,
You still watching every music video that is posted here? Just wondering.
If you are, times have been easier for you. We haven’t gotten into a big string of music vids…times for stuff like that have been tough due to all the craziness in the main topic of politics.
Maybe after the elections some of the mojo will come back to this blog and we can all have a bit more fun commenting about music, art, movies, cooking, sports and some of the other stuff that went on prior to Trump.
Remember when Charles had “open threads” with no topic and they would be filled with chatter of all kinds of things?
I miss some of that…and I imagine others do too.
Though, it is easy to see why the mood changed in November if 2016.
re: #163 makeitstop
I could never figure out how
that song became a hit.
….donald trump became president
different horde. same phenomenon (do do do-do-do)
re: #165 ObserverArt
Dangerman,
You still watching every music video that is posted here? Just wondering.
If you are, times have been easier for you. We haven’t gotten into a big string of music vids…times for stuff like that have been tough due to all the craziness in the main topic of politics.
Maybe after the elections some of the mojo will come back to this blog and we can all have a bit more fun commenting about music, art, movies, cooking, sports and some of the other stuff that went on prior to Trump.
Remember when Charles had “open threads” with no topic and they would be filled with chatter of all kinds of things?
I miss some of that…and I imagine others do too.
Though, it is easy to see why the mood changed in November if 2016.
The music threads have been happening at night, I’ve noticed.
But, yeah - these midterms are, umm, distracting. Over soon, hopefully with the outcome we want.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m predicting a few fist fights at the polls next week.
I’ll be satisfied if there are no firefights.
re: #162 Hecuba’s daughter
Yep. It’s a challenge to win when Kemp illegitimately purges 340,000 voter registrations. rollingstone.com
This Supreme Court is rotten to its core in supporting this practice.
You’d think that there would be rules in place that if the person overseeing elections is also running in a particular election, that he/she would have to recuse him/herself from policy making as it relates to said election…
re: #166 dangerman
….donald trump became president
different horde. same phenomenon (do do do-do-do)
I don’t Do Do Do…I Da Da Da.
re: #165 ObserverArt
Dangerman,
You still watching every music video that is posted here? Just wondering.
If you are, times have been easier for you. We haven’t gotten into a big string of music vids…times for stuff like that have been tough due to all the craziness in the main topic of politics.
Maybe after the elections some of the mojo will come back to this blog and we can all have a bit more fun commenting about music, art, movies, cooking, sports and some of the other stuff that went on prior to Trump.
Remember when Charles had “open threads” with no topic and they would be filled with chatter of all kinds of things?
I miss some of that…and I imagine others do too.
Though, it is easy to see why the mood changed in November if 2016.
it has been difficult to follow through on that particular resolution
we had some issues here at home that pretty much derailed my year
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i’ve been taking periodic internet breaks to protect my sanity. i dont tend to go back and read all the threads i missed (is that blasphemy?)
i probably get about half of them and am really thankful to have been exposed to lots of stuff i never would have heard of otherwise
we are definitely in an ebb. like the tide, things will come back
re: #167 makeitstop
The music threads have been happening at night, I’ve noticed.
But, yeah - these midterms are, umm, distracting. Over soon, hopefully with the outcome we want.
Skidude keeps it going on.
I happen to think you can never have too much music…or art like images and paintings/drawings.
re: #169 Mike Lamb
You’d think that there would be rules in place that if the person overseeing elections is also running in a particular election, that he/she would have to recuse him/herself from policy making as it relates to said election…
who makes the rules?
/s 1/2
re: #169 Mike Lamb
You’d think that there would be rules in place that if the person overseeing elections is also running in a particular election, that he/she would have to recuse him/herself from policy making as it relates to said election…
In a sense, it really doesn’t matter whether or not they are running: the modern GOP is deliberating and maliciously purging voters they think might vote D.
My friends are playing with fire again…
— Eric Ghoul-las (@JustErics) October 31, 2018
re: #178 DodgerFan1988
Will Sommer
✔
@willsommer
* 58m
Kanye has set off some internal drama in MAGA world — including reigniting the long-running Tomi Lahren vs Candace Owens feud
There’s a feud? Based on ????
re: #121 makeitstop
Whoa, this ad is just gross.
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‘Our people.’ Fuck you.
Willie Horton deja vu
Wow.
From the Center for Responsive Politics: women have donated $308 million to Democratic congressional candidates this cycle, up from $93 million in 2014 and $142 million in 2016. https://t.co/5Va7KgqLAz pic.twitter.com/4us9Wa42DT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018
re: #178 DodgerFan1988
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Just the thought of Stone Cold Steve Austin as the referee in the Candy Vs. Tomi fight…
re: #177 Unshaken Defiance
My friends are playing with fire again…
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What are they casting?
Artists, jewelers, craftsmen???
Oh, if they revived GLOW with right wing gasbags!
re: #184 ObserverArt
Hahaha. I’ve never seen that Muppet Phenomenon song segment with Sandra. She got into it.
Based on one of The Muppets early and long going bits.
i go off anytime someone mentions travolta and the move “Phenomenon”…..
re: #186 VegasGolfer
The racist capital of Southern California never disappoints.
oh no, Irvine isn’t the racist capital of Southern California.
That would be Hemet.
Florida woman.. Not getting Halloween
wfla.com
In the yard - skeleton after skeleton, saluting Hitler with concentration camp identification numbers on their arms and a Star of David on their chests.
Then there was the sign that read, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which translated in German means, “Work sets you free.”
re: #191 sagehen
oh no, Irvine isn’t the racist capital of Southern California.
That would be Hemet.
Add Glendale to the list.
Also the San Diego suburbs where Klan leader Tom Metzger got the Democratic nomination against Clair Burgener in 1980.
Based on the evidence at hand, it seems more likely that Trump himself paid for the migrant caravan, so he could have an issue to rile up his idiot base before the midterms.
Conspiracy theories are fun!— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 31, 2018
Oh come on! That is so far fetched. EVERYBODY knows tRump is to cheap to pay for anything. It’s the Koch brothers and Adelson footing the bill on this one. Lets get it right. https://t.co/ytBPL3dO8l
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) October 31, 2018
Trump just prompted a CNN SUCKS chant out of his comments on the Pittsburgh massacre.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018
Wow he sure quickly forgot about the victims, he’s making himself TEH REAAAL VIKTIME!!!!
Trump is complaining at length about the coverage of his Pittsburgh visit. Some of this appears to be in his prepared text. “It was fake and it was make-believe, what they said…it was sad,” he says of the coverage.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018
Is anyone really falling for this ridiculously overblown fear-mongering about an invasion of brown people, apart from Trump’s delusional cult members?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2018
candace owens and tomi lahren are fighting on twitter. if the other gun girl jumps in i think we officially have a devil’s triangle on halloween.
— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) October 31, 2018
re: #198 Charles Johnson
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@ddale8
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One silly thing about Trump rallies is that, after he started lying that he is already building the wall and saying that the crowd should chant “finish the wall” rather than “build that wall,” his campaign started handing out printed signs that say FINISH THE WALL.
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At least we’re finding out what the presidency looks like when it’s usurped by a crime family with a narcissistic, mentally deteriorating septuagenarian boss who shouts at the TV, parrots Fox News and loves bigoted conspiracy theories. I always wanted to know that.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2018
Burkman is still trying to sell this pathetic hoax.
Let’s set the story straight. There are 2 women who the press suggests somehow we offered to pay. All of it false. Lorraine Parsons, a person who does not exist & Jen Taub, who does exist, but received an email from a person who does not exist. Thursday we unveil the real accuser
— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 31, 2018
re: #204 The Vicious Babushka
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The first trick-or-treaters at the door. My wife playing ghost stories on her computer, and the parents asked me when the next board meeting is. (Tuesday, November 12, at which I find out whether I take the affirmation for another term, or I yield my seat to my neighbour down the street.)
Right - that “Not Secure” warning is because not every page at LGF is served with HTTPS. There’s no security issue — all pages that expose any private data (passwords, etc) are HTTPS already. Chrome recently started issuing this scary warning for every page that isn’t HTTPS.
I’ve started working on revamping the whole site to use HTTPS but it’s not simple because reasons. Eventually it will be, though.
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) October 31, 2018
I have heard of fewer than 90% of these units. https://t.co/UC63cYQ0Tt
— 🎃Crispin Burke🎃 (@CrispinBurke) October 31, 2018
The “armed” soldiers being sent to the Mexican border are almost EXCLUSIVELY 1) Helicopters 2) Camp Logistics (food & tents) 3) Food Supply 4) Construction Engineers 5) Military Journalists & photographers. #ItsAStunt https://t.co/5deLK6HhgZ
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) October 31, 2018
Construction crews for our new gulag.
re: #149 KGxvi
I don’t have a land line, but I do have a rule for people calling me: if you’re not important enough for your name and number to be in my contacts, you’re not important enough for me to answer, please leave a message.
Unless I recognise the telephone number, I let my answering machine get it.
I felt the need to be crabby for some reason, and wound up being crabby to the wrong person.
My wife is supposed to be interviewed tomorrow on an Orlando radio station regarding certain types of medical procedures given to people without their consent; she had that done (and is in a group which discusses those).
Long story short, from the E-mail going back-and-forth between the group, the radio host (named Cindy) and my wife, Cindy apparently thought everyone should know who she is, even people who live in Nebraska. Hence her snippy response and me hanging up on her.
Assuming this still happens tomorrow, she’s supposed to call us at 12:30 MT tomorrow to put my wife on the air (2:30 ET).
re: #206 goddamnedfrank
Burkman is still trying to sell this pathetic hoax.
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Right, so the media just magically manufactured two fake women, a fake website with numerous fake employees, and have such awesome hackers that they were able to make all of it appear authentically dated in a matter of hours after Wohl and Hoft posted their “bombshell.”
Finally, Timón de Jade is in effect. Been waiting for a long time.
re: #211 jaunte
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Construction crews for our new gulag.
Mobile Public Affairs?
Press Camp Headquarters?
Combat Camera Squadron?
It’s a fucking reality show
I early-voted in person this afternoon. The location wasn’t crowded but there was a steady stream of people coming through. I voted straight ticket, but that’s nothing new to me. I’ve voted for at most a dozen republican candidates since I started voting in 1972.
I came home from work today to find that someone had raked all of my boulevard leaves into the street. The city is sweeping the streets tomorrow and a lot of neighbors have raked their leaves into the street. The city’s website says they’ll ticket people who do that, but the neighbors told me that they never do it. I guess I’ll take the chance and hope that my unknown raking neighbor doesn’t cost me a lot of money.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’re going to have to bring in the Simulated Combat Camera Squadron.
re: #198 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
Is anyone really falling for this ridiculously overblown fear-mongering about an invasion of brown people, apart from Trump’s delusional cult members?7:45 PM - Oct 31, 2018
Sadly about his cult members.
This from my old hometown area, also hometown of Sherrod Brown. Mike Pence was there trying to drum up support for DeWine (Governor race against Cordray), Renacci (Senate race against Brown) and Bladerson (Ohio D-12 race#2 for full term House against O’Rourke)
Watch for the idiot around the one minute mark. I’m embarrassed by these people. I feel sorry for relatives that have to live around them.
We all know that it doesn’t really matter who he sends. All he has to say is “I’m sending 15,000 armed troops to protect the border!” and the wingnuts think he’s got combat-hardened combat veterans fresh from the wilds of Afghanistan to fight off those “invaders.” The reality that he’s basically sending a bunch of REMFs to support the CBP for an “invasion” that is likely to fall apart way before the US/Mexico border as an election-year stunt will never grace their ears because the echo chambers they get their “news” from will repeat his lies without the least bit of criticism.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mobile Public Affairs?
Press Camp Headquarters?
Combat Camera Squadron?It’s a fucking reality show
Psyops.. propaganda by any other name
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
or “if any member of your family was enlisted”…
Every person in my family was (except my wife and son). All of them think this is a stunt and resent it. That’s not what the military is for.
re: #218 ObserverArt
You’d think that all these illegals being imported by Democrats would have been caught on video by now.
re: #222 Ace Rothstein
They’ve been quietly welding trailers for Republican factory owners.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
Right - that “Not Secure” warning is because not every page at LGF is served with HTTPS. There’s no security issue — all pages that expose any private data (passwords, etc) are HTTPS already. Chrome recently started issuing this scary warning for every page that isn’t HTTPS.
I’ve started working on revamping the whole site to use HTTPS but it’s not simple because reasons. Eventually it will be, though.
Firefox used to do it, (the whole address bar turned pink) but in an update some time ago they quit doing it. Now you get a tiny lock in the left-hand side of the address bar with a red slash through it. If you click on it you get a message saying the connexion is not secure.
Former Apprentice contestant suing Trump just forced his legal team to hand over evidence https://t.co/KXG05ahDvk
— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) November 1, 2018
re: #219 Targetpractice
We all know that it doesn’t really matter who he sends. All he has to say is “I’m sending 15,000 armed troops to protect the border!” and the wingnuts think he’s got combat-hardened combat veterans fresh from the wilds of Afghanistan to fight off those “invaders.” The reality that he’s basically sending a bunch of REMFs to support the CBP for an “invasion” that is likely to fall apart way before the US/Mexico border as an election-year stunt will never grace their ears because the echo chambers they get their “news” from will repeat his lies without the least bit of criticism.
What’s really funny is they are marching to Tijuana to present themselves at the port of entry and request asylum. They aren’t crossing the border where there are no fences. This ‘annual’ march has been going on for 10 years.
re: #213 Targetpractice
Right, so the media just magically manufactured two fake women, a fake website with numerous fake employees, and have such awesome hackers that they were able to make all of it appear authentically dated in a matter of hours after Wohl and Hoft posted their “bombshell.”
Don’t forget the journalists must have leaked it to Mueller and then Mueller asked the FBI to investigate…last week, before anything came out publicly.
re: #198 Charles Johnson
This is DT’s way of drawing attention to another place because he or his staff thinks that Mueller will be releasing information and DT wants to look like a hero and not the criminal he is.
Wow.. so what it looks like it the heliborne unit will be the only combat arms unit.
The rest are REMFs (rear echelon ….)
Oh and Monkey Patrol… just remember you can’t spell wimp without MP.
re: #229 PhillyPretzel
This is DT’s way of drawing attention to another place because he or his staff thinks that Mueller will be releasing information and DT wants to look like a hero and not the criminal he is.
I’m personally expecting that, on or near Monday, he’s suddenly going to make an appearance amongst “the troops” in the hopes of appearing as a “war-time president.”
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mobile Public Affairs?
Press Camp Headquarters?
Combat Camera Squadron?It’s a fucking reality show
Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham at The Southern Border this weekend and Monday night on Fox - they will be fighting the swarms for America and interviewing Donald Trump.
The Trump administration is less “Triumph of the Will” and more “Triumph of Really Stupid Bullshit.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2018
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! NO YOU CAN’T DO IT ON FACEBOOK. #BlueWave #VoteBlue #TheResistance #Resist #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/j3lhCm5EeB
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 1, 2018
heh
In which a vapid, petulant brat tries to come for an educated black woman and gets her ass eloquently handed to her.#TheView#StaceyAbrams#MeghanMcCain pic.twitter.com/hFMYMu73e1
— Chris Evans (@notcapnamerica) October 30, 2018
re: #231 Targetpractice
I’m personally expecting that, on or near Monday, he’s suddenly going to make an appearance amongst “the troops” in the hopes of appearing as a “war-time president.”
Just in time for the evening news broadcasts the day before the elections, with the bonus of having Fox News available to run it on a loop through late Tuesday night.
In the spirit of the night and being a lover of good zombie fiction, this whole thing brings to mind three words: “Battle of Yonkers.”
Giving out a box of full size candy bars. If we give all of them out, we have a big-ass bag of quality fun size bars. If the kids come to our house, they will NOT be disappointed.
Troops at the border, waiting for the Great Invasion. pic.twitter.com/DYCJ0kH4y3
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 31, 2018
HEH
Here is the scene outside Hertz Arena. Trump still addressing the crowd inside @ndn pic.twitter.com/AtnJ3eb7Cz
— Jake Allen (@Jake_Allen19) November 1, 2018
Trump said there were even more people outside the arena than inside. Here is a video from outside the arena. https://t.co/t5KS3Dmxjt
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2018
Trump ends rally in FL telling crowd “we are all one family” as he uses the most divisive rhetoric from a president in our lifetime describing the press as the enemy of the people and repeatedly demonizing immigrants. When he says “one family” he means his supporters.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 1, 2018
I’m not sure what we can do in the future, as so many conservatives have been trained to be adverse to facts.
Snopes, like any Website, should not be taken as evidence on its own. What they do is source everything they have.
The Comically Flawed Attempt to Smear Robert Mueller, Explained (goes to Snopes)
Snopes??? Really??? #LOL
— PFMGAFT (@RiggedSys) November 1, 2018
I’m guessing this commentator has neither read the Snopes article, or anything else which might challenge the right-wing propaganda machine.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump ends rally in FL telling crowd “we are all one family” as he uses the most divisive rhetoric from a president in our lifetime describing the press as the enemy of the people and repeatedly demonizing immigrants. When he says “one family” he means his supporters.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 1, 2018
When he says “one family” he means himself, Ivanka, Don Jr. & Eric but probably not Barron or Tiffany. https://t.co/MI1TIr7LJ2
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 1, 2018
Calling it night Lizards. Dinner is started and I need to keep a 1/2 an eye on it. For those of interested, a family favorite.
Pan (cast iron) fried pork chops and fried potatoes with onion (using olive oil) and buttered green peas. Quick, easy and very tasty.
As usual, sleep well and may the Deity of you choice smile down upon you and yours.
smdh…
How many talking heads in media will take the time look up the Congressional Record of 1866 to see what the authors of the 14th Amendment actually said it means?
Posobiec did: pic.twitter.com/7q1BWZK8NF— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 30, 2018
yeah, I’m gonna take a history lesson from an asshat
re: #241 The Vicious Babushka
HEH
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In the video, it looks like everyone has their own personal port-a-potty.
re: #219 Targetpractice
We all know that it doesn’t really matter who he sends. All he has to say is “I’m sending 15,000 armed troops to protect the border!” and the wingnuts think he’s got combat-hardened combat veterans fresh from the wilds of Afghanistan to fight off those “invaders.” The reality that he’s basically sending a bunch of REMFs to support the CBP for an “invasion” that is likely to fall apart way before the US/Mexico border as an election-year stunt will never grace their ears because the echo chambers they get their “news” from will repeat his lies without the least bit of criticism.
For which he will still take total credit…
“I scared them off”
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe Mia needs to reconsider her party affiliation.
And here I thought Sanford was a somewhat reasonable Republican, but then I thought the same of Lindsey before he went full Trumpster.
Mia should have left when Trump specifically referred to Haiti as a sh*thole country and asked why Haitians were here.
Or better yet, she should have left when Trump won the primaries after starting his campaign with racist statements against Mexicans,
re: #247 Teddy’s Person
In the video, it looks like everyone has their own personal port-a-potty.
Barf boxes for when you’ve had enough Trump.
re: #239 plansbandc
Giving out a box of full size candy bars. If we give all of them out, we have a big-ass bag of quality fun size bars. If the kids come to our house, they will NOT be disappointed.
My wife ordered a box of stuff like Skittles, SweeTarts and other kinda sour candies, and then we picked up a big bag of Tootsie Roll variants last night. We went through just about the whole bag, and about 3/4 of the Amazon box. So when we get the urge for candy, we’ll each have a type of candy we like (I pilfered a handful of Tootsie Rolls and stashed them in my desk).
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
smdh…
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yeah, I’m gonna take a history lesson from an asshat
Kevin Kruse hands this asshat his ass
How many talking heads in media will take the time look up the Congressional Record of 1866 to see what the authors of the 14th Amendment actually said it means?
Posobiec did: pic.twitter.com/7q1BWZK8NF— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 30, 2018
No, that’s completely wrong.
Let’s dig in.https://t.co/7mT73IL5gT— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 31, 2018
I think I’ll pass on the ice-cream today. pic.twitter.com/9ibgK2D6Y0
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) October 26, 2018
re: #198 Charles Johnson
My brother-in-law and longest friend did, and neither is in the Trump cult.
The real name is the Democratic Party—
—aw fuck it. https://t.co/z9sqszuRqr— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 1, 2018
Trump: “Birthright citizenship, you know all about it, we will keep the criminals, the drug dealers, we will keep them all out of our country. We will get rid of all of this. We will end, finally, birthright citizenship.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) November 1, 2018
Trump’s talking points are turning into a sort of jumbled word salad of awfulness. https://t.co/xF9t72JSLk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2018
re: #241 The Vicious Babushka
HEH
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Trump said there were even more people outside the arena than inside. Here is a video from outside the arena
Well yes. Actually there are.
Check out Freddie’s Halloween costume! She wants to make sure you don’t forget to #vote! #dogsincostumes #dogsatpollingstations #Halloween #DogsofTwittter #blacklab @darth @Elfreth4Senate pic.twitter.com/Jq8NEvFEWX
— Sam Zwerling (@zwerlz) November 1, 2018
re: #232 ObserverArt
The swarms of what? Ants? Misquitoes?
When a Republican tells you they believe in America, they mean just for THEMSELVES. https://t.co/9Egzt64w9V
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 1, 2018
re: #253 The Vicious Babushka
I replied to someone on twitter who had previously posted that image (of Senator Howard’s remarks) and challenged her.
Her (a Trumper) response? She simply typed in the number of followers I had on Twitter. (As if I care about the number of followers I have on twitter.) The implication being that since I had so fewer followers than her that my answer to her was not worth her time.
re: #258 Charles Johnson
So he’s conflating the children of immigrants born in this country with criminals? Good to know. Two of his foreign-born wives have had his children.
Nuff said.
re: #259 dangerman
True. We’re all outside.
re: #265 Patricia Kayden
So he’s conflating the children of immigrants born in this country with criminals? Good to know. Two of his foreign-born wives have had his children.
Nuff said.
he is a child of an immigrant himself, as is his own father
Heh
First of all, there’s no way you really looked up “the Congressional Record for 1866” because the Congressional Record didn’t start until 1873.
What you’ve got there — which somebody else apparently looked up — is from the *precursor* to the Record, the Congressional Globe.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 31, 2018
re: #248 dangerman
For which he will still take total credit…
“I scared them off”
Trump doesn’t benefit from anything other than an actual invasion.
re: #253 The Vicious Babushka
Kevin Kruse hands this asshat his ass
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As with all of these, I’m not trying to persuade the original author. I’m trying to explain to bystanders that he’s being willfully ignorant or worse
#BREAKING: #SFGiants great and baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey died this afternoon, according to a team official. He was 80. https://t.co/dUqbiysr1E pic.twitter.com/lyIynppz1j
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) October 31, 2018
Most photographed costume in #Dorchester tonight is the caged Trump wandering Lower Mills begging Melania to let him out. Nope, you stay there. pic.twitter.com/tJm7k98YxE
— Bill Forry (@BillForry) October 31, 2018
91% of those who view my videos are male. Why? Why so few women?
— Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 3, 2017
Pro tip: it’s not the women. It’s you. https://t.co/ACNIcOiFd6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2018
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
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McCovey was a slugger. I remember him taking it to the Phillies often when I was a kid. RIP, Willie.
If someone left their house in South Dakota today and started walking, they’d get to the border before the caravan.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 31, 2018
This girl spent two months making her own Ghostbusters proton pack using circuits, hot glue, a soldering iron, and a utility knife 👻 pic.twitter.com/Ge4YLOz7N1
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 31, 2018
WELL THAT OFFICIALLY MAKES HER A GHOSTBUSTER!! Just saying we need the tech!! #whoyagonecall #apparentlythisgirllol https://t.co/3YWPjVoXue
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) November 1, 2018
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) October 31, 2018
Sweet dreams…ladies.https://t.co/a0nfahn68o
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) October 31, 2018
re: #279 gocart mozart
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Keep practicing that look, Jake. They’re gonna love it in Cell Block B.
I know this video was posted hours ago, I am finally watching it. As a fellow facial hair dude I have to say Jim Jefferies’ mustache game is on point.
Yes, the president can end birthright citizenship https://t.co/TKxxoGcGVY
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 31, 2018
President Trump claims he can defy the US Constitution and end birthright citizenship https://t.co/Ii5OyuFhGL pic.twitter.com/cHOIDpvhYT
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 30, 2018
Another misleading headline: the Supreme Court has never ruled on the meaning of 14th Am clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” It should. https://t.co/8jO3CwUUSK
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) October 30, 2018
TRUMP: “We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S.”… https://t.co/sBV7aclQF7
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 31, 2018
Bottom feeders gonna bottom feed.
re: #279 gocart mozart
Even if he broke no laws his face should go to jail.
re: #278 The Vicious Babushka
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Fantastic! As a former model builder and tinkerer of all things it’s great to see her making that proton pack.
Girl power. Keep it up future engineer of some kind.
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance https://t.co/5a1UUDrOn3 my major new investigation via @VICE @motherboard #Midterms2018
— Dr Nafeez Ahmed (@NafeezAhmed) October 30, 2018
I’ll save them the trouble - there will be demonstrations everywhere Trump goes.
re: #211 jaunte
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Construction crews for our new gulag.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Panama City is begging for housing aid after Hurricane Michael. From NYT:
Last week, the mayor of Panama City, Greg Brudnicki, made an impassioned plea to federal officials to fast-track a comprehensive housing plan. He implored them to consider a range of options, including renting modular units and trailers, converting a school into a medium-term residential center, and leasing local condominium and hotel space.
re: #282 DodgerFan1988
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Bottom feeders gonna bottom feed.
So what’s the next step? Assuming Donny succeeds in getting the courts to accept that birthright citizenship is no more, what then? Stripping millions of Americans of their citizenship based upon the nationality of their parents? Or is he expecting to argue (and win) in the courts that the ruling should be retroactive and any child born in the US to non-white parents is not a citizen?
re: #286 makeitstop
The first concept it learns is Trump.
re: #291 teleskiguy
The latest numbers of ballots returned in Colorado:
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What does UAF stand for?
re: #286 makeitstop
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I’ll save them the trouble - there will be demonstrations everywhere Trump goes.
Big Brother is reading your Twitter timeline.
re: #295 teleskiguy
Unaffiliated.
Oh OK. I thought maybe it was a 3rd party “United American Fascists” or something and I’m like WTF.
Voted by mail here in CA, but there are only a few Republicans to vote against on my ballot, unfortunately.
— Charred Goblinspawn (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2018
Steve Kornacki doing some recent poles in rust belt state governor’s races. Richard Cordray leads Mike DeWine by 4.7% here in Ohio. That is good. He had been trailing, though it has been close all along.
It’s bad when your kids say don’t vote for you…
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — The son and daughter of a Missouri House candidate are urging people not to vote for him because he regularly espouses racial and homophobic views and dislikes Jews and Muslims.https://t.co/pUPQAbBaNh
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 31, 2018
“My dad’s a fanatic. He must be stopped,” said Andy West, the middle of Steve West’s three children. “His ideology is pure hatred. It’s totally insane.” https://t.co/34JCsXuZdy https://t.co/v4Ai1MV19B
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) October 31, 2018
Meanwhile, the mayor of Panama City is begging for housing aid after Hurricane Michael. From NYT:
Some more from the NYT on the aftermath of Michael:
He was in a working-class neighborhood called Millville, where many residents said they were becoming desperate for even basic necessities. Mr. Foster, 60, and his 99-year-old mother had no car, no electricity. The food had spoiled in his refrigerator. The storm had ripped off large sections of his roof. He had no working plumbing to flush with. No water to drink. And as of Friday afternoon, he had seen no sign of government help.
As it happens, the caravan includes construction workers:
Inside the sweltering hut, I came upon five bedraggled men ranging in age from 17 to 60. The oldest, construction worker Juan Ramon Andino, said they left violence-torn San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the previous Saturday in a caravan of more than 1,000 people after hearing about a planned “mass exit” on the radio. They said another one was forming right behind them.
Maybe they can fix roofs in Panama City, since Trump is too busy building camps on the border to worry about Mr. Foster’s 99 year old mother.
re: #286 makeitstop
I’ll save them the trouble - there will be demonstrations everywhere Trump goes.
Why is that the Pentagon’s business? The Army isn’t his personal security force, and protest (for now) is (still) legal.
The Secret Service is his bodyguard service, and the police are the ones who keep order.
re: #307 Anymouse 🌹
Why is that the Pentagon’s business? The Army isn’t his personal security force, and protest (for now) is (still) legal.
The Secret Service is his bodyguard service, and the police are the ones who keep order.
Because being against Dear Leader is now a jailable offense.
re: #291 teleskiguy
The latest numbers of ballots returned in Colorado:
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Our graphics are still behind yours. Latest numbers of ballots returned (and requested) in Nebraska. (Mail and absentee ballots are by request in the three largest cities, mail ballots are the only ballot in rural areas)
Hello everyone,
The SOS has released early vote data for those whom have requested vote by mail ballots up to this point. I am also including all early vote requests to date for reference. Today’s list also includes all returned ballots up until this point.
All Early Vote Requests:
Democrats: 67,774
Nonpartisan: 21,746
Republican: 77,137
Unknown: 886
Total People: 167,543
Early Vote Ballots Returned for 10/30
Democrats: 3,377
Nonpartisan: 1,189
Republicans: 4,215
Unknown: 46
Total People: 8,827
Early Vote Ballots Returned to date:
Democrats: 46,292
Nonpartisan: 14,397
Republicans: 56,077
Unknown: 510
Total People: 117,266
re: #239 plansbandc
Giving out a box of full size candy bars. If we give all of them out, we have a big-ass bag of quality fun size bars. If the kids come to our house, they will NOT be disappointed.
re: #241 The Vicious Babushka
HEH
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So there’s not many people inside it seems by that reckoning.
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
he is a child of an immigrant himself, as is his own father
His in-laws got here by chain migration.
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