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Rachael Price sings Tom Waits’ “Take it With Me” on our May 25, 2019 show.
The band: Chris Thile, Josh Dion, Chris Eldridge, Alan Hampton, Alex Hargreaves, Gabriel Kahane.
More from this week’s show: https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/05/25/anais-mitchell-st-louis-symphony-orchestra-ian-edwards
Sen. Harris has done a knockout job tonite.
Texas SOS Sh*tcanned After Failed Voter Purge, So That’s Sad We Guess (goes to Wonkette)
David Whitley, who had the job less than twelve months, has stepped down. Texas law requires that the Sec’y of State can assume the job immediately after appointment by the governor, but must be confirmed by 2/3 of the state senate by the end of the legislative session. All twelve Democrats voted against him after his failed attempt to purge over 100,000 voters, so he did not meet the requirement. Good-bye and good riddance.
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and you’re taking a shot at Biden while praising a dictator. This is just plain wrong. https://t.co/2ONOGEmy39
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) May 26, 2019
I guess any other day is fine though for a Republican representative; just not on Memorial Day when you’re in a foreign country.
Fine!
CUOMO: “Deal with the kids [who are dying at the border] right now, Chip.”@RepChipRoy: “No!”
CUOMO: “You know they’re dying.”
REP. ROY: “Fine.” pic.twitter.com/GBjZyTQTli— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2019
Texas legislature accidentally makes every Texan a licensed plumber. https://t.co/wAnmmhoPqQ
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 29, 2019
re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Our (Texas) state legislature only meets every other year for 120 days, and we still find ways to fuck shit up.
More fine!
CUOMO: “Deal with the kids [who are dying at the border] right now, Chip.”@RepChipRoy: “No!”
CUOMO: “You know they’re dying.”
REP. ROY: “Fine.” pic.twitter.com/GBjZyTQTli— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 29, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 29, 2019
Trump just declared war on gamers. LOL
oh my god it’s real
link to reputable source:https://t.co/wvPRNADcRE https://t.co/qWgdOOeIwQ— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) May 29, 2019
re: #5 Ace Rothstein
Fine!
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What could be more Xtian than turning your back on innocent kids locked up because of the color of their skin?
Fuck the Nazi Republican Party
re: #10 gocart mozart
This is the piece of shit that Trump is channeling.
re: #11 gocart mozart
Trump just declared war on gamers. LOL
A tariff is a tax. Trump is boldly usurping Congress’s power to levy taxes.
Justice Thomas has made this 2015 piece by @AngryBlackLady timely again. How False Narratives of Margaret Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women https://t.co/0OzlWtMM1p
— Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray) May 29, 2019
re: #11 gocart mozart
Trump just declared war on gamers. LOL
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Trump got pissed off at Garry Kasparov’s tweets and he is retaliating against chess players.
If Chelsea Clinton’s husband’s family scored about a billion dollars in loans while he was working in the White House, the New York Times would invent new font sizes.https://t.co/JaP1XLuOUY
— Kari Hope (@TyJuanOn) May 28, 2019
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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If this is proven to be true, lock them up. Lock all of these grifters the motherfucking up. This is intolerable.
re: #18 austin_blue
Lock them up. Lock all the grifters the motherfucking up. This is intolerable.
And yet 45% of the country loves this total corruption the Republicans are doing and they want even more corruption.
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This is one of the craziest lightning strikes you’ll ever see. pic.twitter.com/KPjA0U7auq
— Kansas City Media (@KansasCityMedia) May 27, 2019
I’m out. Sweet dreams.
Jeeze.
It just comes at you so hard and so fast, you just get outrage whiplash with these thieves.
This time last year, my chief complaint about our politics was that abortion hardly seemed to get any attention. Today, my chief complaint is the dishonesty of abortion-rights advocates and the media as we debate abortion 24/7. Seems like we’re moving in the right direction.
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) May 28, 2019
Fun fact: This time last year we discussed Kevin Williamson’s proposal to kill women who had abortions.
— Oliver Darko (@oliver_drk) May 28, 2019
Progressives who think they’re working the refs by targeting @maggieNYT AND HER MOTHER fail to grasp that “we know as much as we do about Trump’s authoritarianism and unfitness for office because of her reporting.” https://t.co/eB1kKJp5V1 via @intelligencer
— Elizabeth Williamson (@NYTLiz) May 28, 2019
The woman who baited Neera Tanden’s elderly mother into providing quotes for a sleazeball hit piece is super upset people are talking about Maggie Haberman’s mom…
…because she’s a Vice President at a public relations agency w ties to Kushner.
This is… really something. https://t.co/tOuHUeaDce— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 29, 2019
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
This is the piece of shit that Trump is channeling.
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george corley wallace had the good grace to repent in his old age and apologize for his sins
somehow i think that somebody else we might have been discussing will ever apologize
ever
for anything
Mount Vernon, Texas Independent School District has hired for a high school football coach a disgraced Baylor coach who was fired for mishandling complaints of sexual assault involving football players.
He is currently in Italy, but will take over next year.
[Art] Briles led Baylor football for seven years. But after he was fired, one lawsuit alleged that during four of those years, there were 52 acts of rape, five of them gang rapes, involving at least 31 players.
Brenda Tracy is a sexual assault survivor. In 1998 she was gang-raped by four college football players. She says the Briles hire is sending the wrong message.
He’s a Christian though, so all’s good. After all, he’s forgiven. The school board voted 7-0 to hire him.
The school announced Briles’ hire late Friday, just before the holiday weekend, in a press release.
Fancy that. Almost as if they had to hide it in the weekend news dump.
“We are pleased to welcome Coach Briles back home to Texas. He brings with him a wealth of not only football experience but also life experience. He is passionate about investing in the lives of young people and helping them to succeed both on the field and in life. After a thorough due diligence process and several earnest conversations, we believe our students will benefit greatly from his skills and experience,” [school superintendent Jason] McCullough said.
Due diligence. What gang rapes? He’s a winning coach, that’s what matters.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
Rome must have its’ gladiators.
re: #27 Joe Bacon 🌹
Rome must have its’ gladiators.
He was fired in the same scandal that also saw Ken Starr of the Great Clinton Penis Hunt fame ousted from Baylor for the cover-up.
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹
He was fired in the same scandal that also saw Ken Starr of the Great Clinton Penis Hunt fame ousted from Baylor for the cover-up.
You can’t mess with the National Religion of America.
I freaking love ski museums!
Some old-ass ski boots at the New Mexico Ski Museum. pic.twitter.com/6qYTSnJ2Tv
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 29, 2019
re: #31 teleskiguy
This is at the base of the Sandia Peak Tram in Albuquerque.
Sandia Peak Tram. pic.twitter.com/TGBKTFHrYO
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 28, 2019
I’ve never seen something more human from a robot than this. pic.twitter.com/bDxkBISQA1
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 23, 2019
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
And yet 45% of the country loves this total corruption the Republicans are doing and they want even more corruption.
They don’t want the corruption - they’re actually addicted to being told that these people are screwing over, and will continue to screw over, the brown people and libs.
re: #35 Feline Fearless Leader
They don’t want the corruption - they’re actually addicted to being told that these people are screwing over, and will continue to screw over, the brown people and libs.
The idea that people are voting against their self-interest is belied by the fact their self-interest is racism. That is their self-interest.
Tomorrow we smuggle a bunch of Tab and Moxie soda across the border. Wish us luck.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹
The idea that people are voting against their self-interest is belied by the fact their self-interest is racism. That is their self-interest.
As LBJ said 50 years ago…
Bloomberg writer carrying water for Trump gets taken to the woodshed with data he omitted regarding tariffs and trade deficits with China.
“Trump’s tariffs have brought the bilateral deficit with China down” <— Wait, what?? pic.twitter.com/JftJZDOzyZ
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) May 29, 2019
I heard a lot of good tunes on KTAOS in New Mexico today, that’s a great radio station.
#NowPlaying The Nude Party > Chevrolet Van/Poor Boy Blues > Chevrolet Van https://t.co/wczWNkGTwb
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 29, 2019
So, apparently there is a single hair style for female US Presidents.
For 230 years.— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) May 29, 2019
Apparently GRRM has endorsed Biden for President. And in 2016, he stated that Trump would become the worst President in US history. Though he certainly wasn’t alone in that evaluation.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Stumbled upon this thread and now I can’t unsee these whiskered worthies https://t.co/he7RDs5T0B
— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) May 29, 2019
Seventeen months after it was enacted, the GOP tax bill isn’t remotely paying for itself. It’s not raising wages. It’s not significantly helping the economy.
Yes, it was a tax cut, but the primary effect of this bill was…
—wait for it—
Stock buybacks! https://t.co/iyffUNspS8— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 28, 2019
I honestly believe a classroom of 6th graders could have figured out a way to spend $1.5 trillion that would have generated more growth than this tax legislation.
It’s hard to dream up a more ineffectual way to spend this money than apparently cutting corporate taxes.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 29, 2019
…since the materials necessary to build early industrial works, like a steam engine, will be in forms recoverable only by LATER forms of industry (any left in the ground will be inaccessible without modern combustion- or electric-powered mining machinery!)
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 29, 2019
>>>from future sapient NON-humans. That has to be some sort of RECORD for sin unless you literally believe YHWH will destroy any other species that threatens to gain sapience, because it can’t be permitted as it’s not made in HIS image.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 29, 2019
We grew arrogant in our hubris and left ourselves vulnerable to attack and manipulation from outside, aided and abetted by our own. We did not take necessary steps to make our institutions robust enough to defend themselves.
Our election system is wide open to interference, our media are easily tweaked, and our system of education produces voters and consumers who cannot tell the difference between real and fake.
Plodding along in the right-hand lane, not paying attention to the on-ramp traffic
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) May 29, 2019
I’m a bit conflicted on this one:
North Korea says John Bolton is a “defective human product” https://t.co/H47NIWiQnZ
— Gloria ❤🇺🇸❤ (@GGevirtz) May 28, 2019
re: #51 Barefoot Grin
North Korea says John Bolton is a “defective human product”
They are really yanking Donnie’s chain with this one…
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
And yet 45% of the country loves this total corruption the Republicans are doing and they want even more corruption.
Not 45%, Trump’s disapproval rating is worsening, he’s 13 points underwater now.
re: #25 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
george corley wallace had the good grace to repent in his old age and apologize for his sins
somehow i think that somebody else we might have been discussing will ever apologize
ever
for anything
if it makes you feel any better, when Trump leaves office, there are sealed indictments that will be opened. There’s at least 30 years of shitting on seatless toilets awaiting him.
re: #53 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not 45%, Trump’s disapproval rating is worsening, he’s 13 points underwater now.
And the 41% can’t be described as “love”. More like 10-15% either love or hate him. The rest are stuck in the mushy middle, or have despaired of ever giving a fuck about politics.
re: #55 Decatur Deb
And the 41% can’t be described as “love”. More like 10-15% either love or hate him. The rest are stuck in the mushy middle, or have despaired of ever giving a fuck about politics.
I would say that 30% would stick to him through thick of thin, the other 11% are just too damn stubborn to admit that they have changed their minds.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would say that 30% would stick to him through thick of thin, the other 11% are just too damn stubborn to admit that they have changed their minds.
If the surveys were in-depth conversations, many answers might run: “Do I approve? Guess so. He hasn’t made any changes I can see. The market is doing fine.”
“Disapproval” would mush out in much the same way. Blogs, FB, Twitter are not real life samples.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
Mount Vernon, Texas Independent School District has hired for a high school football coach a disgraced Baylor coach who was fired for mishandling complaints of sexual assault involving football players.
He is currently in Italy, but will take over next year.
He’s a Christian though, so all’s good. After all, he’s forgiven. The school board voted 7-0 to hire him.
Fancy that. Almost as if they had to hide it in the weekend news dump.
Due diligence. What gang rapes? He’s a winning coach, that’s what matters.
To add some more context, Briles has been stumping for gigs at the college level. Even though college football has, uh, a flexible ethics, he has still been considered too toxic to be hired by any university.
re: #33 goddamnedfrank
Laughed so hard I have tears in my eyes.
The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion and battle of Normandy drove thousands of terrified French civilians underground into giant caves. Now archeologists are using 3-D mapping and virtual reality to bring history to life. @johnleicester reports: https://t.co/SeYBJPnzYm
#DDay75 pic.twitter.com/JAFd059Oju— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) May 29, 2019
re: #48 Patricia Kayden
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Canadians are optimists. The answer to this rhetorical question is “Hold mu beer and watch this!”
This is what social media trolls and fake news cause in my family’s life:
“my mother and sister had to take security precautions”.
To mention just ONE of the many sad consequences.
But my work continues!
Big story today in the Times. pic.twitter.com/IYMMKwqJCv— Jessikka Aro (@JessikkaAro) May 29, 2019
ooooh…an anti-endorsement:
…If Alabama does not elect a Republican to the Senate in 2020, many of the incredible gains that we have made during my Presidency may be lost, including our Pro-Life victories. Roy Moore cannot win, and the consequences will be devastating….Judges and Supreme Court Justices!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2019
#TornadoUpdate Tues 12pm: DP&L is dedicated to safe restoration efforts following catastrophic damage caused by tornadoes Monday night. More than 70,000 customers have been impacted, approx 53,000 remain out at noon Tuesday. #DaytonTornado pic.twitter.com/b7zpGXFJbH
— Dayton Power & Light (@DPLToday) May 28, 2019
**FIRST LOOK** Sunlight reveals devastating tornado damage in Linwood, Kansas. This was from a very strong today, likely EF-3/EF-4 (waiting on prelim reports from the local NWS) #kswx
Full video: (link: https://t.co/iDwi0xF6gw) https://t.co/iDwi0xF6gw pic.twitter.com/0WJ0SLyxqW— Meredith Garofalo (@GarofaloWX) May 29, 2019
Debris picked up on the airfield that caused our Operations staff to close the airport because Foreign Object Damage to aircraft can cause catastrophe. Pots, foam, wall panels, plant ID tags over millions of square feet. Presumed from tornado damage 47 miles away in Linwood, KS. pic.twitter.com/oOhYTs7F6H
— Kansas City International Airport (@KCIAirport) May 29, 2019
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m checking on prairie. Not sure her exact location.
Pelosi knows that unless and until there is overwhelming, bipartisan support for such an effort, it will end with Trump’s acquittal in the Senate. And that would only help him win another four years in office. “He wants to be impeached so he can be exonerated by the Senate,” she told top Democrats in a private meeting. “His actions are villainous to the Constitution of the United States.”
The speaker argues for another course: Continuing congressional oversight and relying on the courts to provide air cover as six different House committees seek documents and testimony from a stonewalling administration. While not as gratifying to those who are eager to begin impeachment proceedings, and who argue that anything less is a dereliction of Congress’s duty to hold Trump accountable, it is the more likely path to defeating him in 2020.
The Democratic caucus would be wise to trust her instincts and experience.
What she needs to do is start encouraing her committees to enforce subpoenas.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We had tornado warnings in Northern NJ and Staten Island last night; there are NWS crews out looking at damage and there were several radar identified tornadoes recorded. So, a busy night.
They’re predicting more here today and tonight. Fun times.
But the damage here doesn’t compare to what happened out west with the storms in Kansas and Ohio. And it doesn’t compare to the historic flooding that reports indicate will continue well into the summer.
It’s a good thing the fucking GOP blocked disaster aid (for prior natural disasters), and we’ve got an infrastructure president in the WH who will make stronger building codes a priority. *bitter laugh*
Meanwhile, we’ve got McConnell reminding everyone that Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland can’t be reached for comment as he indicates that he’ll be more than happy to seat another Trump pick to the Supreme Court before 2020.
Elections have consequences, and everyone who warned people to vote as if their lives depended on it were right - the GOP assault on civil and voting rights, women’s rights, and consumer and environmental protections continues, and McConnell is Ground Zero of the rollback of those rights and protections. It will take decades to undo the damage - because just enough people in just enough places decided that the know-nothing Trump should be in the WH and not the qualified woman.
NOTHING against Roy Moore, who
was accused of sex misconduct/child molestation by 9 women
wants homosexuality to be illegal
was fired as AL’s Supreme Ct Chief Justice 2x
says Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to hold ofice
says 9/11 was God’s punishment
talks abt ‘the reds & yellows’ https://t.co/UDLB9U0el4— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 29, 2019
Because, Jay, it is unreasonable to ask why Democrats are not rushing into the trap you’re hoping they’ll spring. I hope they’re going to impeach, but I understand if they’re not willing to do it on your schedule and for your reasons. https://t.co/IXekyJbTRq
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
Everybody’s laughing except Joy, who’s just all “yep.” She knows, y’all.
— wine-stained lens (@winestainedlens) May 25, 2019
We really, really, need Roy Moore to take the GOP primary. Really.
JFC…
It’s amazing how he gets some dumbass idea stuck in his head, and no amount of reason can dislodge it. The moron is still on about changing aircraft carriers back to “steam” catapults.
Trump criticizes aircraft carrier design as ‘wrong’ https://t.co/xR53uGepBT— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 29, 2019
re: #76 Ace-o-aces
The Navy is holding back on doing shock tests and are concerned about the readiness of the EMALS launchers - they also are concerned about the ability repair while underway.
Yeah, it’s called teething problems and new systems have that problem. We had it with the F-117. We had it with the F-22 and F-35. We had it with the B-2 (and B-1) and even the B-52s… every new system had limitations and problems.
But these problems get magnified when you’re talking about $12 billion for a single piece of equipment (a ship).
Trump thinks that switching to steam solves the problem.
It doesn’t. The ship was designed around the EMALS system freeing up space to do other things, and if you put steam back on the agenda, then you’ve got to reallocate space, redesign entire spaces, and that adds.. *back of the envelope calculations* - billions to the costs of each of the ships.
Yeah, this is the same Trump that said that he saved money on the AF1 deal (he didn’t) and that our stealth planes are invisible (they aren’t).
re: #78 lawhawk
The Navy is holding back on doing shock tests and are concerned about the readiness of the EMALS launchers - they also are concerned about the ability repair while underway.
Yeah, it’s called teething problems and new systems have that problem. We had it with the F-117. We had it with the F-22 and F-35. We had it with the B-2 (and B-1) and even the B-52s… every new system had limitations and problems.
But these problems get magnified when you’re talking about $12 billion for a single piece of equipment (a ship).
Trump thinks that switching to steam solves the problem.
It doesn’t. The ship was designed around the EMALS system freeing up space to do other things, and if you put steam back on the agenda, then you’ve got to reallocate space, redesign entire spaces, and that adds.. *back of the envelope calculations* - billions to the costs of each of the ships.
Yeah, this is the same Trump that said that he saved money on the AF1 deal (he didn’t) and that our stealth planes are invisible (they aren’t).
Gotta wonder which crony has stock in the company that makes steam catapults and buggy whips.
Sorry but @SpeakerPelosi had this idea first! https://t.co/BhOcJCAthN
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) May 27, 2019
re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To
We have reached peak Kristol. You have been warned.
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Wow. Live statement from Mueller in a couple hours. Tang will still be jet lagged. Heh.
Special counsel Robert Mueller will make a public statement on the Russia investigation on Wednesday morning, the Justice Department announced.
He will deliver the remarks at the Justice Department at 11 a.m., and will not answer questions, the DOJ advisory announcing the remarks said.
In the online version, the word “existential” has been replaced by “crucial.” https://t.co/Si6wEM38g3
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 29, 2019
heh
The SPC has issued more guidance for today’s storm outbreak. There’s enhanced chances of tornadic activity in PA to NJ as well as from Texas to Illinois and Arkansas.
Flood watches are already up for most of PA. Hazardous outlook watches are also up into the NYC metro area.
It’s setting up to be a replay of yesterday.
re: #83 Ferdinand
Trump must be impeached and removed from office. It’s been clear for his entire term that he was running a crime syndicate from the WH and Trump Tower. Obstruction of justice is just one crime (multiple charges). He engaged in money laundering too.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 29, 2019
McConnell’s exploiting this situation, even as his own caucus bristles over the lack of legislation getting moved through his chamber. McConnell knows packing the courts is more important than any legislation passed right now, because he can shape judicial decisions for decades
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 29, 2019
re: #85 lawhawk
Ohio River Valley is already lit and the system is heading NE to Dayton
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ohio River Valley is already lit and the system is heading NE to Dayton
Queue up the next designated GOP obstructionist to block disaster relief.
BBQ brisket last night. I want to stay in Toronto forever.
Canada has BBQ brisket! I want to stay here forever! pic.twitter.com/djjrxsF8eX
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 29, 2019
re: #88 Decatur Deb
Queue up the next designated GOP obstructionist to block disaster relief.
“Mitigating climate change is too expensive. It will be cheaper to pay for adjustments “.
re: #81 Decatur Deb
If I were assigning seating in Hell, Kristol would be in the mildest circle, blown about in a maelstrom, lip-locked to Sarah Palin.
Ewwwww. Ewwwwww. Ewwwww. Spoiler tags, please.
re: #90 Old Liberal
“Mitigating climate change is too expensive. It will be cheaper to pay for adjustments “.
“The Free Market will sort everything out just fine. And if that fails, God will save us.”
If the DOJ is letting Mueller say stuff than I have my doubts it’s going to be anything anti-Trump or anti-Barr.
re: #93 Feline Fearless Leader
If the DOJ is letting Mueller say stuff than I have my doubts it’s going to be anything anti-Trump or anti-Barr.
Yeah, I am not getting my hopes up.
A person familiar with the matter tells me Special Counsel Mueller will deliver a “substantial” statement at 11 a.m. today, and the statement is NOT a response to reporting about claims in Michael Wolff’s soon-to-be released book. pic.twitter.com/FYulnotgoW
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) May 29, 2019
Well, assuming Mueller says something bland/non-committal this will be used to reinforce more stonewalling by the DOJ plus the media jackals will howl “exoneration” in chorus for the rest of the news cycle this week.
re: #93 Feline Fearless Leader
If the DOJ is letting Mueller say stuff than I have my doubts it’s going to be anything anti-Trump or anti-Barr.
Yep. This is going to be a nothing burger. Laying odds that the “statement” was pre-approved by Barr. https://t.co/CcRlyb66XF
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) May 29, 2019
re: #76 Ace-o-aces
I’m not sure he’s wrong on this and is actually taking some advice from the those who know.
It’s my understanding that the vets onboard really don’t like the EM catapults. Steam cats are a well known and reliable system and were probably best left alone. Time will tell.
so, Mueller is speaking 30 minutes before the moron’s daily intelligence briefing…
re: #93 Feline Fearless Leader
If the DOJ is letting Mueller say stuff than I have my doubts it’s going to be anything anti-Trump or anti-Barr.
After Amash, this is definitely a gut/integrity check for Mueller. I want to believe he’ll buck whatever orders Barr has given him to cloud the issues, but I’m not hopeful.
Re-read special counsel Robert Mueller’s March 27 letter to Attorney General William Barr, saying Barr’s four-page summary of the Russia report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.” https://t.co/GXff3KfIKB
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) May 29, 2019
I’m hoping he’s announcing the attempted arrest and accidental defenestration of Jacob Wohl. pic.twitter.com/6cNl9KwhKk
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 29, 2019
would be hilarious if Mueller just reads from his report for 9 minutes
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) May 29, 2019
re: #98 Dave In Austin
I’m not sure he’s wrong on this and is actually taking some advice from the those who know.
It’s my understanding that the vets onboard really don’t like the EM catapults. Steam cats are a well known and reliable system and were probably best left alone. Time will tell.
Steam catapults pull steam directly from the heating system that propels the ship and powers the generators. When they’re running, it draws significant water from that system, which lowers the pressure for the other parts and requires large desalination units. Most importantly, there is a single layer of metal separating the radiation side of a carriers system from the steam being released into the air.
I also figure the difference between steam catapults and electromagnetic ones would be the same as the difference between gas and electric automobiles. Specifically the starting force/torque is much greater for electromagnetic.
re: #60 Shropshire Slasher
Wingnuts are easily amused.
re: #104 Belafon
I also figure the difference between steam catapults and electromagnetic ones would be the same as the difference between gas and electric automobiles. Specifically the starting force/torque is much greater for electromagnetic.
Computers can modulate the torque/force so that the launch is smoother and therefore induces less stress on airframes and the catapult systems itself.
re: #106 lawhawk
Computers can modulate the torque/force so that the launch is smoother and therefore induces less stress on airframes and the catapult systems itself.
Correct. I was implying that it’s a good thing rather than a bad thing to have more starting torque.
I wonder if Mueller would consider going off script a little bit?
re: #106 lawhawk
Computers can modulate the torque/force so that the launch is smoother and therefore induces less stress on airframes and the catapult systems itself.
It’s essentially the next tech step towards handling a wider variety of aircraft from a catapult system. There were a lot of teething problems and foot-dragging going from hydraulic catapults to steam back in the 50s.
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
BBQ brisket last night. I want to stay in Toronto forever.
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Mueller coming up. NPR live stream
re: #109 Feline Fearless Leader
There were huge issues when they built the first slanted decks too. But the safety from the slanted deck meant that launch and landings could occur simultaneously, instead of having to devote time to one or the other.
Another big issue was placement of the various elevators in the center of the deck (kamikazi attacks could render the deck inoperable if the elevators were hit) before/during WWII. Edge elevators became the norm after WWII because of the hard won lessons.
The Enterprise had huge issues with its radar systems and the size/placement of the bridge also limited operations in some respects. When launched, the Enterprise had 8 nuclear reactors; that’s now reduced to 2 in the Nimitz and Ford class. Lessons learned…
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
BBQ brisket last night. I want to stay in Toronto forever.
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A Pellegrino woman! My heart!
re: #112 lawhawk
There were huge issues when they built the first slanted decks too. But the safety from the slanted deck meant that launch and landings could occur simultaneously, instead of having to devote time to one or the other.
Another big issue was placement of the various elevators in the center of the deck (kamikazi attacks could render the deck inoperable if the elevators were hit) before/during WWII. Edge elevators became the norm after WWII because of the hard won lessons.
The Enterprise had huge issues with its radar systems and the size/placement of the bridge also limited operations in some respects. When launched, the Enterprise had 8 nuclear reactors; that’s now reduced to 2 in the Nimitz and Ford class. Lessons learned…
Angled deck was safety in terms of the forward deck park during landing ops (barriers only helped so much) as well as allowing jets the chance to bounce and go around again if there was a last minute wave-off or they did not catch a wire in the arresting system. (My father served on a straight-deck carrier in the mid-50s in a squadron that flew F-2H Banshees.)
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
That looks absolutely delish!
And there’s Trump’s first blown fuse: “insufficient evidence” is not “no evidence.”
And the second: Mueller making clear DOJ policy kept him from indicting Trump.
This is sounding pretty good! Mueller sounds very unused to public speaking.
Robert Mueller: “If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” #Mueller pic.twitter.com/K9kYrReaXg
— PFAW (@peoplefor) May 29, 2019
AH! Lost my radio feed, but it sounded like he said he would not testify….
As he did in the report, Mueller says it would also be “unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime” when Trump, as president, would not have a court hearing to clear himself.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 29, 2019
re: #117 Targetpractice
And the second: Mueller making clear DOJ policy kept him from indicting Trump.
Remember when AG Lynch met Bill Clinton at the airport? SCANDAL!
“NO EXONERATION????” pic.twitter.com/oHLDBhO3sY
— darth™ (@darth) May 29, 2019
1. Medvedev, not Putin
2. An obvious comment about less partisanship after elections is the opposite of the same thing.
3. They were talking about an arms control deal that ended up not panning out.
4. MAGAts are ALWAYS full of shit.https://t.co/lBL7YIbTRx— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 29, 2019
re: #120 retired cynic
AH! Lost my radio feed, but it sounded like he said he would not testify….
Won’t testify before congress, says the report is his testimony.
but of course, the report is redacted by AG Barr.— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 29, 2019
So, is that classified as a nothingburger presser?
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s being nice. And maybe someone should have told him that he might be feeding into an impeachment and trial, which would have given him the ability to accuse.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who’s gonna head over to the freeper hive-o-stupidity to tell us what the morons are saying over there?
Mueller offered this brief line on Barr: https://t.co/MAcDST9wiW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 29, 2019
10 minutes with two powerful take-aways: 1) there were multiple systematic attempts to mess with elections 2) if they had evidence Trump had NOT committed a crime they would have said so #MuellerSpeaks
— LauraBabcock (@LauraBabcock) May 29, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he’s closing the special counsel’s office and resigning from the Justice Department to return to private life. https://t.co/CXGlww49OJ
— WCPO (@WCPO) May 29, 2019
Special Counsel Robert Mueller just said that “charging the president with a crime was not an option we could consider” under DOJ policy.
It wasn’t lack of evidence. It was DOJ policy.
He said that this “deserves the attention of every American.” He’s right. Congress must act.— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 29, 2019
re: #126 Dr. Matt
So, is that classified as a nothingburger presser?
IMHO, yes. Basically said, read the report.
Mueller saying that if he could have exonerated Trump he would have is legalese for “Yes, he broke the law.”
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) May 29, 2019
On NPR, they are saying that the implication was that he didn’t WANT to testify, not that he REFUSED to testify.
“I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further” per Special Counsel Mueller, concluding his remarks by saying: “There were multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our election. That allegation deserves the attention of every American”
re #Russia Investigation pic.twitter.com/f3G5vuaqsU— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) May 29, 2019
re: #135 retired cynic
On NPR, they are saying that the implication was that he didn’t WANT to testify, not that he REFUSED to testify.
In other words, he would still have testified if compelled, rather than saying he would never testify even if demanded?
re: #137 Citizen K
In other words, he would still have testified if compelled, rather than saying he would never testify even if demanded?
Way I read it, he’s saying that there’s not much more he could offer than what is in his Report. That Congress has what it needs in such, that dragging him before them would make no difference.
I don’t care it he doesn’t want to testify or not. It’s not his choice.
I also call BS on his if he testifies he can’t answer anything besides what’s in the report. That’s not how it works. People have questions.
re: #137 Citizen K
In other words, he would still have testified if compelled, rather than saying he would never testify even if demanded?
That’s how I read it. Mueller is by the book. If his ass got subpoenaed, he’d show up. But basically he’s calling on Congress to do it’s fucking job which, if they actually did, would mean his testimony would not be needed.
He said that if were to testify he would not go beyond the scope of the report in his testimony.
I think he said “would not” instead of “could not” charge the Dolt?
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s how I read it. Mueller is by the book. If his ass got subpoenaed, he’d show up. But basically he’s calling on Congress to do it’s fucking job which, if they actually did, would mean his testimony would not be needed.
They could call him to read chapter and verse… because that reading would be far more newsworthy than Trump tweets and his attempts to obstruct justice by and through Barr.
Mueller can testify as to how he conducted the investigation. He can testify as to the professionalism of those working in the OSC. He can specifically rebut the GOP smear campaign.
The report is the guide Democrats need to impeach Trump. Now they have to do it.
This quote should be tweeted, emailed, facebooked, verbalized, texted, etc on a daily basis up to the 2020 elections.
Robert Mueller: “As set forth in the report, after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
Via ABC— John Melendez (@stutteringjohnm) May 29, 2019
Someone liked my comment from December that Kathy Griffin applauded so here it is again.
👏👏👏
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) December 15, 2018
re: #144 Dr. Matt
Fox News: Look, Mueller says “the president clearly did not commit a crime” right in the middle of the statement!
Girls who were 16 in 2017 are now eligible to vote, he will hyper focus on their vote.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 29, 2019
Mueller’s adherence to his professional standards allows Trump’s supporters to spin the report however they like. His professionalism is their victory.
I’m not criticizing Mueller, only lamenting that such adherence to integrity may win the battle, but lose the war.
2/2— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s how I read it. Mueller is by the book. If his ass got subpoenaed, he’d show up. But basically he’s calling on Congress to do it’s fucking job which, if they actually did, would mean his testimony would not be needed.
It would absolutely be needed. Go read Nixon’s impeachment. Mueller would be the difference in keeping this from being turned into a he-said-she-said event.
We don’t agree on much, Twitter. But I think we’re all on the same page at the moment.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
“Judge, I don’t care if God bought you a sapphire friendship bracelet from Zales, you’re not getting within 500 yards of this arcade.” https://t.co/bZVTwKa5dM
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) May 29, 2019
NEW from @HouseJudiciary pic.twitter.com/Bh8dVoDz6h
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) May 29, 2019
BEFORE STATEMENT: Here’s maybe perhaps kinda what Mueller is really saying (because we really don’t know for sure).
AFTER STATEMENT: Here’s maybe perhaps kinda what Mueller is really saying (because we really don’t know for sure).— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 29, 2019
He said there was insufficient evidence to *clear* you, dum-dum. https://t.co/U8rtOupH6D
— Danielle Blake🔶️ (@abradacabla) May 29, 2019
The report found you should be impeached.
The report explicitly states that but for you being in the WH, you would have been indicted. DOJ policy prevented your indictment.
You are also an unindicted coconspirator on federal felonies.
The case isn’t closed. It’s just starting— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 29, 2019
I do agree with John Cole’s take: “He’s guilty AF but you know DOJ rules that we just made up in 1973 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” - balloon-juice.com
Mueller report didn’t clear you dumb shit. Clearly stated the only reason you WERE NOT charged is because you are a sitting @POTUS. Mueller just passed the ball to @HouseDemocrats to finish the investigation & bring charges. You ARE going down. https://t.co/s9oqSABj1f
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) May 29, 2019
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone needs to explain to him why scientists no longer use the term “global warming.” Trying to be legally exact doesn’t explain things to most of the public.
Mueller: I feel like I need to make a statement to clear things up.
Barr: OK, but just be you.
Shorter Robert Mueller: HOLY CRAP PEOPLE I BOUGHT THE WEED, PICKED OUT THE SEEDS AND STEMS, GROUND UP THE WEED, AND I ROLLED THE JOINT! DO I HAVE TO SMOKE IT FOR YOU TOO?!
— The Phuníon (@thephunion) May 29, 2019
re: #158 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Robert Mueller’s statement makes it clear: Congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) May 29, 2019
Mueller’s statement makes clear what those who have read his report know: It is an impeachment referral, and it’s up to Congress to act. They should.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 29, 2019
Congrats @charliekirk11!
Your tweet aged the worst in the fastest amount of time in the history of Twitter. #Mueller pic.twitter.com/BOxAjwTbka— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) May 29, 2019
— Mangle (@Manglehaft) May 29, 2019
re: #165 lawhawk
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“THE COPS AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’!” says the dude with the bloody knife in his hand. https://t.co/sWB8V38vr1
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 29, 2019
Mueller’s also asking the American people to look into it. As much of an optimist as I am, the one thing I don’t trust most Americans to do is to take the time to look into it.
It is good to see everyone though. Glad I got a nice break away from Trump.
This is surprisingly… muted? And inaccurate, but that is less surprising. https://t.co/o67akdd0OD
— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) May 29, 2019
“The constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.” —Robert Mueller
Make no mistake: Mueller’s report is an impeachment referral to Congress. pic.twitter.com/jWQjrnxC4U— CAP Action (@CAPAction) May 29, 2019
Democrats are going to continue to sit on their hands because they are mealy-mouthed pussies.
Bob Mueller: “Could I have not been clearer that the fucker broke the law and needs to be impeached because I can’t do anything about him?!”
Dem leadership: “Now now, let’s not be hasty…”
It’s a catchy re-election pitch. pic.twitter.com/286MzRXJzc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 29, 2019
Didn’t Mueller affirm that Trump is innocent of collusion the same way as O.J. is innocent of murder: insufficient evidence available to prove beyond a reasonable doubt? Maybe Mueller should have investigated Trump’s finances.
Guy who promotes treating dead tissue with “respect,” supports a president who is considering pardoning war criminals who posed with dead bodies for social media selfies. Respect. Heh. https://t.co/ipYvcOt0VR
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
Absolutely. We’re all rocked by hearing him talk for 10 minutes about what we already read in his report. Imagine a day-long hearing — even if he merely says EXACTLY what’s in the report! https://t.co/EprYyIz7hu
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) May 29, 2019
re: #175 Targetpractice
Bob Mueller: “Could I have not been clearer that the fucker broke the law and needs to be impeached because I can’t do anything about him?!”
Dem leadership: “Now now, let’s not be hasty…”
Mueller doesn’t talk like that. It would be more like “Have I not made it clear that I would have done some things had there been things I would have been able to do.”
I can’t wait for when books are outlawed under Trump’s second term.
watch out, Lindsey
I may not be a superhero, but I am a proud South Carolinian, and I’m ready to fight for a better future for our state and our country. I hope you are, too. Find out how you can #JoinJaime and get involved: https://t.co/2jIqtqbKAB pic.twitter.com/zTjktJ1RpA
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) May 29, 2019
Where is Jill Stein to remind us that it would have be worse under HRC?
I can’t help but imagine an appearance before Congress by Mueller, where the Republicans on whichever committee he appears before take turns pushing him to say “exonerated” and bashing him for not having Strzok and Page crucified for having personal opinions.
I am mentally preparing for Fuckface Von Clownstick’s second term. And third. And fourth.
re: #187 teleskiguy
I am mentally preparing for Fuckface Von Clownstick’s second term. And third. And fourth.
Look at the bright side…..heart disease and/or a stroke will likely intervene by the 3rd term (give or take a term).
What Robert Mueller basically did was return an impeachment referral. Now it is up to Congress to hold this president accountable.
We need to start impeachment proceedings. It’s our constitutional obligation.— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 29, 2019
I betcha a million dollars that if Congress began impeachment hearings Mueller would testify. That’s because, on principle (which is how he operates), he would then be a witness providing info relevant to an official, quasi-judicial proceeding, not a political prop.
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 29, 2019
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
Starts with “I” and has a “-ment” at the end of it.
re: #188 Dr. Matt
Look at the bright side…..heart disease and/or a stroke will likely intervene by the 3rd term (give or take a term).
Then Don Jr. or Ivanka will take the reins. We’re totally in banana republic territory.
re: #192 Sir John Barron
Starts with “I” and has a “-ment” at the end of it.
And a type of fruit in the middle.
Nadler announced a press conference for 2pm. If it’s to announce the opening of an impeachment inquiry, I take back some of my Mueller criticism today. Some, not all.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 29, 2019
Democrats are going to fuck this whole thing up.
House Judiciary Cmte. Chairman Nadler announces he will hold a news conference on Special Counsel Mueller’s remarks today at 2 p.m. ET.
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 29, 2019
Mueller found that but for DOJ policy he would have indicted Trump.
You refuse to read/listen/comprehend plain language.
Trump should be impeached. That’s inescapable and it will happen. Trump will be impeached for federal felonies. He isn’t innocent or exonerated.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 29, 2019
Take one guess at Glenn’s only takeaway from Mueller’s statements…..
If you guessed, singularly focused on defending Bill Barr’s honor, congrats you win nothing b/c it’s predictable as hell. pic.twitter.com/UulufWrZD7— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) May 29, 2019
NEW: 2020 Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke: “There must be consequences, accountability, and justice. The only way to ensure that is to begin impeachment proceedings.” https://t.co/YoNbMr3ovH pic.twitter.com/q0WsDInq9E
— ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2019
re: #201 jaunte
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Oh good, now we can re-boot “Democrats in disarray” headline…over impeachment.
Democrats are always disarrayed, even when they eventually move.
JUST IN: Sen. Booker: “Robert Mueller’s statement makes it clear: Congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately.”
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 29, 2019
Robert Mueller just made it crystal clear: Russia interfered in our elections in 2016 in a “systematic” way. So why won’t @senatemajldr let us vote on any election security bills to prevent foreign adversaries from doing it again?! pic.twitter.com/7AIGkjnx78
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) May 29, 2019
We need to impeach as I’ve said from the get go because future Presidents need to know that if they do what Trump has done, it will get them removed. And Trump needs to go to prison for the rest of his miserable life too. I really hope Pelosi and the leadership see the writing on the wall. This President needs to go.
re: #205 jaunte
Democrats are always disarrayed, even when they eventually move.
“I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”
- Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
There’s no rule about how long the House Judiciary Committee can hold an investigation and public hearings prior to a House vote on impeachment, is there?
Then why bother with an investigation at all?
Since the Senate, as you say, won’t do its duty, why even bother to criticize Trump. Why not just knuckle under? https://t.co/IcZla9zMgo— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
One clear message from Mueller: Putin attacked an American election and the Russia probe was completely legitimate. So no hoax. No Deep State conspiracy. Yet Barr is focusing on the origins of the investigation to satisfy the paranoid conspiracy theorists of the right.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 29, 2019
Just let Russia attack our elections, say the GOP.
re: #212 jaunte
One clear message from Mueller: Putin attacked an American election and the Russia probe was completely legitimate. So no hoax. No Deep State conspiracy. Yet Barr is focusing on the origins of the investigation to satisfy the paranoid conspiracy theorists of the right.
And to intimidate any who would act against Trump
re: #212 jaunte
Just let Russia attack our elections, say the GOP.
They were our allies from 1941-45, why not again?
re: #212 jaunte
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Barr will go down in history as one of the greatest scoundrels this country has ever had. Asshole.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Oh good, now we can re-boot “Democrats in disarray” headline…over impeachment.
*Checks notes*
2020 candidates: Booker, Castro, Warren, Harris, O’Rourke, and Moulton all call for impeachment to start. Booker just came out for impeachment after waffling on the issue.
The chorus is turning into a full fledged unified demand to impeach the fucker.
Nancy has to be hearing this, and if she was 3d chessing this situation into getting the support to impeach Trump, it’s worked.
Nadler’s holding a 2pm presser, and the only thing people will want to hear is that Nadler is beginning the process of impeachment, which guarantees that the entire summer will be public hearings highlighting Trump committed federal felonies - and not just obstruction.
We’ll be talking the money laundering and consorting with foreign nationals to undermine US national security all to advance Trump’s personal financial interests.
If Nadler doesn’t announce impeachment will commence, you’ll hear an even bigger cry from rank and file Democrats to take action in light of Mueller’s statement clearly identifying that but for DOJ policy, he would have indicted.
Somehow I doubt Nadler has the stones to announce an impeachment inquiry today.
This pisses me off, for real!!! Every time it’s confirmed it’s like election night all over again. So when folks as me, YES IM STILL PISSED AND WE DON’T HAVE TO GET OVER IT!!!
— HRC conversation. “B”ernie your way out of it! (@coacheswyfe) May 29, 2019
If impeachment makes it easier to protect the 2020 election(s), it should be commenced at once. If not, protecting and winning said election(s) is job #1.
Weather update:
Flood watches/warnings up for PA in to NJ and NYC metro. T-storm watches/warnings not up yet, but hazardous weather statement indicates that will be changing as the afternoon progresses.
Severe weather alerts are up in West Virginia. Another band of storms is lighting up across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri - watches/warnings are already up and more will come as the afternoon heats up. Flash flood warnings for parts of OK.
re: #218 jaunte
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re: #220 lawhawk
Weather update:
Flood watches/warnings up for PA in to NJ and NYC metro. T-storm watches/warnings not up yet, but hazardous weather statement indicates that will be changing as the afternoon progresses.Severe weather alerts are up in West Virginia. Another band of storms is lighting up across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri - watches/warnings are already up and more will come as the afternoon heats up. Flash flood warnings for parts of OK.
Political alert: GOP legislators are gearing up to block relief bills for any districts but their own citing budget concerns.
re: #219 wrenchwench
If impeachment makes it easier to protect the 2020 election(s), it should be commenced at once. If not, protecting and winning said election(s) is job #1.
What I took from the Amash town hall was that a lot of people are eager to be inspired by someone telling the truth about even the most obvious thing.
re: #224 jaunte
What I took from the Amash town hall was that a lot of people are eager to be inspired by someone telling the truth about even the most obvious thing.
Mayor Pete has been making a name for himself for doing much the same.
A military vet calling Trump out on his bone spurs.
re: #224 jaunte
What I took from the Amash town hall was that a lot of people are eager to be inspired by someone telling the truth about even the most obvious thing.
Except if it’s a woman who’s being honest.
Clinton was honest and warned that this would happen. Not enough people listened.
Many still refuse to listen to women who are leading the charge against Trump.
re: #219 wrenchwench
If impeachment makes it easier to protect the 2020 election(s), it should be commenced at once. If not, protecting and winning said election(s) is job #1.
trump isn’t going to protect the election.
He still needs to come off the fucking mountain and testify. 99% of the public will never read the report. They need to hear it from him.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 29, 2019
re: #225 wrenchwench
How are you and yours?
Thanks for asking!
Already hot as Hades here. Fam ok.
Going to San Diego for 15 days 6/3. Very excited.
Read next tweet in thread as well. It reads as Mueller directly contradicting this Barr quote.
Bill Barr on
April 18: “Well, special counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress. I hope that was not his view, since we don’t convene grand juries and conduct criminal investigations for that purpose.”
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 29, 2019
re: #231 Barefoot Grin
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re: #232 HappyWarrior
I really hope after this Barr will never be able to practice law again. He’s a disgrace.
He’s not practicing law. He’s obstructing justice and interfering in ongoing federal investigations on behalf of his boss Trump.
He’s politicizing the DOJ to further Trump’s actions and admin goals of remaining in power to thwart the investigations into Trump’s corrupt and criminal practices.
re: #228 I Would Prefer Not To
trump isn’t going to protect the election.
Nope. That’s not a winning game plan for him. So it can’t be left up to him. If that means he needs to be removed before an election is held, let’s get to work. If it is just as easy to vote him out, and does less damage to the country, there will be plenty of time to serve up some justice when he’s out.
re: #233 lawhawk
He’s not practicing law. He’s obstructing justice and interfering in ongoing federal investigations on behalf of his boss Trump.
He’s politicizing the DOJ to further Trump’s actions and admin goals of remaining in power to thwart the investigations into Trump’s corrupt and criminal practices.
True, true. I am just saying. There needs to be severe punishment for what he’s done and that includes striping his law license and I think a jail term.
Trump is the Hindenburg of being not guilty pic.twitter.com/TB6iEEnQH2
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) May 29, 2019
To the silver spoon classists saying they’re going to “make AOC bartend again”:
You’re in luck! I’ll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage.
So there you have it, ya bunch of milk drinkers🍼😉 Let’s see if my margarita+mocktail game is still on point https://t.co/zO7YBA0LCL— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 29, 2019
This is lying. There is no other word for it.
Headline should be, “Trump Campaign Lies About Mueller Statement.” pic.twitter.com/1I8RFLUC3l— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 29, 2019
re: #237 DodgerFan1988
I’ll admit, I don’t really favor her brand of socialism, but the girl has some serious balls. Much respect.
Also out today. https://t.co/QblRDQ1L3a pic.twitter.com/xAquKfr8hl
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 29, 2019
re: #228 I Would Prefer Not To
trump isn’t going to protect the election.
McConnell even shot down an effort to do so.
Here is a nice little cheat sheet for you! pic.twitter.com/no8pr64bXw
— Ryan Hill (@RyanHillMI) May 29, 2019
re: #166 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Your tweets are subtleties that a supporter of shit-for-brains will not be able to parse.
But the intended audience are Democrats who can and should begin impeaching Trump in Congress.
No one will be able to reach the know-nothing GOPers who blindly support Trump and ignore all facts, logic, or rational thought. They are a cult. They believe Trump and that’s all that matters to them.
God bless and protect the US Consumer Product Safety Commission pic.twitter.com/s1xar57LGa
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 28, 2019
And now, more equivocation. https://t.co/VpgQEANtLx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 29, 2019
re: #228 I Would Prefer Not To
trump isn’t going to protect the election.
This is on the entire Republican party. The GOP members of Congress know the truth and don’t care; they are all owned by Russia (with the exception of Amash) and support
Russian interference because it guarantees their long term survival as the majority party in this country. McConnell made this clear in 2016 when he refused to support Obama’s efforts to reveal the Russian attack. We are under attack by a hostile power and the GOP works for this enemy.
re: #246 Charles Johnson
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— Eric Demamp (@ericdemamp) May 29, 2019
Looking at the responses from GOP pols and Donnie’s cultists, it’s almost like they watched a different presser than the rest of the planet. I’m going to search for a shocked face. BRB.
Mueller appears to be uncomfortable speaking in public. Perhaps his reluctance to testify in open session is that his presentation needs to be carefully thought out and written, that extemporaneous speech is not his forte.
Given the leadership’s response, I suspect Nadler’s presser is gonna be the live version of what Nancy just said: “Thanks for your service, we’ll call you when we need you. Now back to the legislative equivalent of watching grass grow.”
re: #249 Dr. Matt
Looking at the responses from GOP pols and Donnie’s cultists, it’s almost like they watched a different presser than the rest of the planet. I’m going to search for a shocked face. BRB.
Here you go.
So Bradley Byrne is outraged about how much it cost to run an investigation that actually *made* the government money, and his proposed solution is to open another investigation into the investigation, which would cost money.
Alabama, please stop electing idiots. https://t.co/M2KAEvrO0c— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) May 29, 2019
re: #249 Dr. Matt
Looking at the responses from GOP pols and Donnie’s cultists, it’s almost like they watched a different presser than the rest of the planet. I’m going to search for a shocked face. BRB.
re: #250 Hecuba’s daughter
Mueller appears to be uncomfortable speaking in public. Perhaps his reluctance to testify in open session is that his presentation needs to be carefully thought out and written, that extemporaneous speech is not his forte.
He’s worried about saying something that is not 100% legally accurate. Which is why he sounds like he’s waffling when he says “If we could have cleared the president, we would have.” That’s why we have to be careful of him testifying. He’s going to hand Democrats a block of iron and say “If this were made into handcuffs, you could arrest the president.” Does that mean Democrats should, or not? His legalieze is a bit too rigid for politics.
JUST IN: The Secret Service says they are rendering aid to a man who set himself on fire near the White House. #breaking https://t.co/PRqSj79JvM
— WCBS Newsradio 880 (@wcbs880) May 29, 2019
None of this is true. But double-negatives, a lack of urgency, and nuanced language (not to mention omissions like “to help Trump win”) make it possible for Junior to lie so flagrantly. The truth is a hammer, but you have to bend your elbow and swing hard for it to pound a nail. https://t.co/UUlRn8txHW
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 29, 2019
Wait a minute here. Mueller said it’s “unconstitutional” to charge a sitting president with a federal crime.
That’s not true, folks. It’s a DOJ guideline, not a constitutional mandate. What’s up with this? pic.twitter.com/gxsEVUhh4V— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 29, 2019
re: #255 Belafon
He’s worried about saying something that is not 100% legally accurate. Which is why he sounds like he’s waffling when he says “If we could have cleared the president, we would have.” That’s why we have to be careful of him testifying. He’s going to hand Democrats a block of iron and say “If this were made into handcuffs, you could arrest the president.” Does that mean Democrats should, or not? His legalieze is a bit too rigid for politics.
Reminds me of the Oracle at Delphi whose prophecies were too cryptic to decipher.
Mueller did say there was not sufficient evidence to charge collusion (i.e. not enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt), but he did not make the same statement concerning obstruction. So he does believe there is sufficient evidence to prove those charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
says the eejit who refuses to read the report
Today’s statement by Mr. Mueller reinforces the findings of his report.
And as for me, the case is over.
Mr. Mueller has decided to move on and let the report speak for itself.
Congress should follow his lead.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 29, 2019
Repubs: “MUELLER WAS CLEAR THAT TRUMP WAS EXONERATED! WE NEED TO MOVE ON!”
Dem candidates: “HE WAS CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO BEGIN IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS!”
Dem leadership: “Er…well, we salute his service, but…”
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
says the eejit who refuses to read the report
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— SteelPH (@SteelPH) May 29, 2019
Yes, I’m aware that the guideline is based on an interpretation of the constitution. That’s not the same thing as “unconstitutional,” and saying this implies that a guideline has the same weight of law as a SCOTUS decision. That seems really wrong to me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 29, 2019
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 29, 2019
This is wrong on its face.
2. There was “insufficient evidence” to charge conspiracy. He found evidence, just not enough to charge (in significant part, wrt Manafort, bc of Trump’s obstruction). https://t.co/z7uAWd7VU1— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2019
Say that again:
“in significant part, wrt Manafort, bc of Trump’s obstruction”
Weather update (1:45pm EDT): Nearly all of PA is under tornado watch. Western and Southern NJ now under tornado watch. A huge chunk of Arkansas and part of Texas now under tornado watch as well.
Batten down the hatches.
I’ve been informed that Maggie Haberman says my tweet thread includes only one true criticism (that Rosenstein, not Sessions, appointed Mueller). https://t.co/aGoOt5d7yh
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2019
She thinks it is NOT true that by “cooperation” Trump meant for them to give false testimony edited by his personal lawyer.
She thinks it is NOT true that Hope didn’t testify fully to HPSCI.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2019
re: #261 Targetpractice
Repubs: “MUELLER WAS CLEAR THAT TRUMP WAS EXONERATED! WE NEED TO MOVE ON!”
Dem candidates: “HE WAS CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO BEGIN IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS!”
Dem leadership: “Er…well, we salute his service, but…”
So when the hell are you going to open impeachment hearings? Time is running out @SpeakerPelosi. https://t.co/zI9U9zmVoB
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) May 29, 2019
Mueller’s praise of those who worked with him was a powerful refutation of Trump and Barr’s outrageous attacks against the investigators. Mueller has to come to the realization that the old rules of decorum no longer apply; when an autocratic wannabe is President of the United States, one needs to be blunt and unambiguous in their assertions of truth. Being too coy has never been successful in our nation: we are not philosophers accustomed to reading Hegel. One of the main lessons taught in writing essays in English is that clear and simple language is the most effective medium for conveying information. Mueller needs to learn that lesson.
re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter
Mueller’s praise of those who worked with him was a powerful refutation of Trump and Barr’s outrageous attacks against the investigators. Mueller has to come to the realization that the old rules of decorum no longer apply; when an autocratic wannabe is President of the United States, one needs to be blunt and unambiguous in their assertions of truth. Being too coy has never been successful in our nation: we are not philosophers accustomed to reading Hegel. One of the main lessons taught in writing essays in English is that clear and simple language is the most effective medium for conveying information. Mueller needs to learn that lesson.
Part of the problem is that Mueller thinks his target audience is Congress, while Congress (and I) thinks his his target audience needs to be the American people.
Nadler is waffling on impeachment. What a surprise. ///
NADLER REACTS TO MUELLER: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is holding a news conference in response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s statement Wednesday
https://t.co/i7BSOzjC37— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 29, 2019
re: #271 Belafon
Part of the problem is that Mueller thinks his target audience is Congress, while Congress (and I) thinks his his target audience needs to be the American people.
Except the Republicans in Congress also need to hear blunt unambiguous language. They will seize on any lack of clarity in a statement to promote their lies on exoneration.
re: #272 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Nadler is waffling on impeachment. What a surprise. ///
Repeating the “all options on the table” talking point, despite acknowledging that Mueller made it as clear as he can that Trump broke the law and only DOJ policy prevented his indictment. So they believe Trump broke the law…but they’re not going to do anything about it because doing such wouldn’t be politically advantageous.
The case is over? I’ll get over it when you, and your followers, get over the Civil War.
— yntbe (@yntbe) May 29, 2019
re: #274 Targetpractice
Repeating the “all options on the table” talking point, despite acknowledging that Mueller made it as clear as he can that Trump broke the law and only DOJ policy prevented his indictment. So they believe Trump broke the law…but they’re not going to do anything about it because doing such wouldn’t be politically advantageous.
They want to line up their ducks before proceeding. My guess is that they want the financial statements first and then take the necessary steps.
I’m getting the impression that the real purpose of this news conference was to announce that the Special Counsel’s Office will be closing and Mueller will return to private practice.
re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter
They want to line up their ducks before proceeding. My guess is that they want the financial statements first and then take the necessary steps.
While my personal guess is they think an election can substitute for impeachment. That’s a very dangerous precedent to set for the future of our democracy, as well as a massive gamble that public sentiment will remain where it is for the next 18 months.
re: #274 Targetpractice
Repeating the “all options on the table” talking point, despite acknowledging that Mueller made it as clear as he can that Trump broke the law and only DOJ policy prevented his indictment. So they believe Trump broke the law…but they’re not going to do anything about it because doing such wouldn’t be politically advantageous.
Yep. The only way the Dem leadership is going to get the American people on their side is to open impeachment hearings and calling them that. Quit this we’ll be holding GENERIC hearings on this administration. Make it clear from the get go that these hearings are for IMPEACHMENT purposes. Nothing more, nothing less.
Mueller is playing a game of Taboo with Congress.
His word is “impeach.” https://t.co/mS4K8faLCw— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 29, 2019
I seriously hate these people.
.@PressSec: “I don’t think Congressman Amash is worth the time of the White House.” pic.twitter.com/rNlcCuz0Yo
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 29, 2019
Why does the media put up with these bullshit “standing in the driveway” fake press conferences? It’s just maddening to watch them grovel for scraps from these lying shits.
re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter
They want to line up their ducks before proceeding. My guess is that they want the financial statements first and then take the necessary steps.
I think that once people have a look at Trump’s finances, impeachment will start to look much more imperative.
That part ⬇️ https://t.co/XYsukFu0kJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 29, 2019
re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that once people have a look at Trump’s finances, impeachment will start to look much more imperative.
Could well be - if there’s truly damning evidence of major felonies Trump’s committed, than some of the fence-sitters may finally start to say, “Enough”. Rep. Amash has said more than once that behind closed doors, GOP members have told him that Trump’s deserving of impeachment, and while I certainly wouldn’t agree with Amash politically, I see no real reason to doubt him on that.
Exposing Trump’s financial shenanigans would give the GOP cover to start openly saying Trump’s gotta go ASAP.
re: #285 Dr Lizardo
We already have evidence of financial crimes.
We have the Trump foundation shut down over financial chicanery and failing to follow state law.
We have the Trump golf resorts hiring undocumented persons in a systemic fashion.
We have Trump named as an unindicted coconspirator on money laundering in the Cohen case.
SDNY and EDNY and EDVA are still looking at Trump’s financial crimes.
NYS is still looking at Trump’s financial activities and could pursue tax fraud charges (civil and criminal).
So are we still thinking Nancy Pelosi is waiting for the right moment to drop impeachment hearings or do the Democrats just not have the balls to do what is right?
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
So are we still thinking Nancy Pelosi is waiting for the right moment to drop impeachment hearings or do the Democrats just not have the balls to do what is right?
I personally believe the latter and have seen nothing to really change that conclusion. We certainly have plenty of excuses for why we can’t impeach him, but all of them seem to boil down to the same mistaken belief: That impeaching Bill Clinton actually benefited him and thus doing so to Donald Trump would lead to the same result.
re: #286 lawhawk
We already have evidence of financial crimes.
We have the Trump foundation shut down over financial chicanery and failing to follow state law.
We have the Trump golf resorts hiring undocumented persons in a systemic fashion.
We have Trump named as an unindicted coconspirator on money laundering in the Cohen case.
SDNY and EDNY and EDVA are still looking at Trump’s financial crimes.
NYS is still looking at Trump’s financial activities and could pursue tax fraud charges (civil and criminal).
I think what they’d need is clear and unambiguous evidence of money laundering, and by that, we’re talking Pablo Escobar levels of money laundering (which I’m pretty sure Trump’s been up to for a long time).
It’s gotta be something simple and clear - something that even a total red-hat sportin’ lunkhead can understand is obviously and glaringly illegal.
I miss the simpler times when the GOP wanted to impeach President Obama because of the color of his suit, his choice of mustard, for [not] taking away our guns, and for the totally illegal Jade Helm 15 exercises.
re: #288 Targetpractice
I personally believe the latter and have seen nothing to really change that conclusion. We certainly have plenty of excuses for why we can’t impeach him, but all of them seem to boil down to the same mistaken belief: That impeaching Bill Clinton actually benefited him and thus doing so to Donald Trump would lead to the same result.
Bill Clinton wasn’t up for re-election when he was impeached. Who knows how that would have impacted him with voters?
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
So are we still thinking Nancy Pelosi is waiting for the right moment to drop impeachment hearings or do the Democrats just not have the balls to do what is right?
I am leaning towards the latter. But it’s not the rank and file Democrats. It’s a Leadership problem and @SpeakerPelosi needs to open IMPEACHMENT proceedings/hearings. Lets get everything out there. If in the end, there is enough (and there will be) evidence, then move for a vote to impeach.
Remember, during Watergate the Republicans didn’t support impeachment either. But as more and more dirt came to light, even they had to finally admit Nixon had to go.
Damn, after seeing the attention to detail in Chernobyl I’m just minutes into first episode of The Hot Zone and I’m already disappointed by simple errors.
Member of the US Army did not normally wear US flags on their BDUs.
At that time the only standard wearing of a US flag was by units designated to Allied Command Europe Mobile Force(Land) [AMF(L)]. And, those were smaller flags, worn on left arm, below the unit patch
So, what’s impeachment talk like among your coworkers?
re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg
Bill Clinton wasn’t up for re-election when he was impeached. Who knows how that would have impacted him with voters?
Not much. His personal approval numbers took a dive and never really recovered, but his job approval numbers remained fairly consistent throughout the impeachment process. He benefited strongly from having overseen an economic recovery, getting the actual credit for such unlike Trump whose numbers continue to drag the ocean floor because even on his best day he can barely crack 50% on polls asking if he deserves credit for the economy.
re: #295 Targetpractice
Not much. His personal approval numbers took a dive and never really recovered, but his job approval numbers remained fairly consistent throughout the impeachment process. He benefited strongly from having overseen an economic recovery, getting the actual credit for such unlike Trump whose numbers continue to drag the ocean floor because even on his best day he can barely crack 50% on polls asking if he deserves credit for the economy.
Lets not forget that Al Gore was dogged just by proxy during his campaign and had to deal with the calculus of distancing himself from Clinton because of that whole taint. Which, of course, didn’t work because the media was intent to get him one way or another, but it had its affect on the presidential race for sure.
Secret Service personnel were reportedly helping the National Park Service and the U.S. Park Police provide first aid to the man when he set himself on fire south of the White House.https://t.co/a44wclxA9r
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 29, 2019
re: #296 Citizen K
Lets not forget that Al Gore was dogged just by proxy during his campaign and had to deal with the calculus of distancing himself from Clinton because of that whole taint. Which, of course, didn’t work because the media was intent to get him one way or another, but it had its affect on the presidential race for sure.
I often wonder if Al Gore was elected and 9/11 still occurs if the GOP to this day would be campaigning on “9/11 is what happens when you elect Democrats”.
We are living in the straight-to-video sequel to Idiocracy. https://t.co/GuWfnMjvVb
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
We are living in the straight-to-video sequel to Idiocracy.
We are in an age where satire and parody are almost powerless…
re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Don’t you want to be free of the sun? //
There are people stupid enough to take it seriously, and other people just contrarian enough to go along because it pisses off the libtards and another, smaller but more influential group, who go along because it advances their interests.
re: #302 Belafon
Don’t you want to be free of the sun? //
THE SUN IS EVIL AND IT MUST BE DESTROYED!!
re: #294 Belafon
Most I know want it. But they don’t expect it to happen. Then again I am in Cali
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like windmills, it causes cancer!!!
The first mission of Trump’s SPACE FORCE! will be to destroy the Sun.
Hey….after all, it’s been proven that too much Sun causes skin cancer. And it makes people’s skin darker, too. And let’s not forget that in a few billion more years, not only will the Sun’s transition into a red giant make Earth an uninhabitable rock, it’ll probably ultimately consume our planet entirely!
There you go…..the evidence is all too clear. We must destroy the Sun before it destroys us all!
(of course, I’m being facetious)
re: #308 Dr Lizardo
The first mission of Trump’s SPACE FORCE! will be to destroy the Sun.
Hey….after all, it’s been proven that too much Sun causes skin cancer. And it makes people’s skin darker, too. And let’s not forget that in a few billion more years, not only will the Sun’s transition into a red giant make Earth an uninhabitable rock, it’ll probably ultimately consume our planet entirely!
There you go…..the evidence is all too clear. We must destroy the Sun before it destroys us all!
(of course, I’m being facetious)
You would say that. You must be… A VAMPIRE.
Freedom gas…it has what plants crave!
Seriously though, most of Trumps people are doing stupid shit just because they can. What does it matter when you’ll never face consequences anyway??
re: #308 Dr Lizardo
There you go…..the evidence is all too clear. We must destroy the Sun before it destroys us all!
Reporter: How do we get close enough to the Sun to attack it without getting fried?
President: We will attack it at night!!!
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
Freedom gas…it has what plants crave!
Seriously though, most of Trumps people are doing stupid shit just because they can. What does it matter when you’ll never face consequences anyway??
Trump has let a generally consequence-free existence until now.
I am hoping that it will catch up with him.
In spades.
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Reporter: How do we get close enough to the Sun to attack it without getting fried?
President: We will attack it at night!!!
LOL sounds like LGF could get together and write a screenplay for Idiocracy 2: Idiocracy 40,000.
Make it a parody of Warhammer 40K, but with everyone Idiocracy-levels of stupid.
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
Freedom gas…it has what plants crave!
Seriously though, most of Trumps people are doing stupid shit just because they can. What does it matter when you’ll never face consequences anyway??
Which is why McConnell is the worst one of the group.
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like windmills, it causes cancer!!!
You also forgot to add blindness.
re: #289 Dr Lizardo
I think what they’d need is clear and unambiguous evidence of money laundering, and by that, we’re talking Pablo Escobar levels of money laundering (which I’m pretty sure Trump’s been up to for a long time).
It’s gotta be something simple and clear - something that even a total red-hat sportin’ lunkhead can understand is obviously and glaringly illegal.
Like Trump shooting somebody on 5th Avenue in broad daylight. Although I don’t think he would ever do that, because he’s too much of a chicken shit.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
phone just rang and caller ID says “TRUMP WALL” and a Montana phone number
“Let me just be clear: these were short range missiles. Those are a violation of the UNSCR,” Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan told reporters. Two of the president’s top national security officials have now broken with him on this. https://t.co/JTWFMdnZwq
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 29, 2019
re: #317 The Vicious Babushka
Like Trump shooting somebody on 5th Avenue in broad daylight. Although I don’t think he would ever do that, because he’s too much of a chicken shit.
If the person were unarmed and had their back to turned toward him, perhaps.
*pours a drink* #kysen https://t.co/gGJKLBy6xD
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 29, 2019
C. Wesley Morgan…he owns a liquor store…
Ammo to deal with the “Rapei immuhgrantz” alt-right talking point, at least when it comes to Sweden. BRÅ (bra.se) is the National Crime Prevention Council, and I deem The Local Sweden as overall trustworthy.
New crime study: Rise in Sweden’s rape stats can’t be tied to refugee influx
Trump is damaged goods. He’s a crook, and Mueller found that he obstructed justice. SDNY found that he engaged in money laundering as an unindicted coconspirator.
He must be removed from office. If the GOP doesn’t comply, they’re complicit.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 29, 2019
Wounded warrior? So, he’s going with stolen valor too? Ayup. And his base wont give a shit either.
re: #323 lawhawk
He must be removed from office. If the GOP doesn’t comply, they’re complicit.
and that was the ultimate goal of the Mueller Report and the other investigations related or parallel to it: to force the GOP to either act or be complicit in his crimes.
there is still a good chance they will choose the latter course
oh
#Jared Kushner has led the effort for reform and didn’t know about the @USOPM proposal. Unclear whether @USOPM knew it was dead. The agency didn’t have a statement when we went to press https://t.co/eKmrPCEZZ1
— Lisa Rein (@Reinlwapo) May 29, 2019
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
The GOP are ALREADY complicit.
which is why they might just shrug it all off
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
The GOP are ALREADY complicit.
And using that in 2019 and 2020 elections to remind voters that every vote for a GOPer is a vote to enable Trump crimes.
That’s where it has to start. That’s where people will notice.
There are elections this year. There are state elections. The GOP needs to be held accountable at all levels of govt for their actions re: Trump. They back him? Then roll out the ads showing that their actions enable corruption and criminality. Make it personal and explicit. Don’t hold back on what Trump and the GOP are doing.
Remind them that Trump is rolling back civil and voting rights.
Remind them that Trump is rolling back consumer and environmental protection.
The GOP is cheering all this on. That means the GOP are the ones who support depriving people of their rights and access to clean water/air. The GOP are the ones who continue to seek to deprive people of their access to health coverage too.
Hold the GOP accountable for all that.
And impeach Trump. Hold Barr and the rest of those who defy the subpoenas in contempt and fine them to the maximum extent under the law.
Pelosi and Congressional Democrats need to treat this as the existential threat that it is. They have tools at their disposal. Use all of them.
It’s unprecedented that the GOP and the WH are this thoroughly compromised, complicit, and criminally engaged in a coverup. That means you need to use an unprecedented amount of power and tools at your disposal to untangle the mess and hold all those responsible accountable for their criminal conduct.
And if that includes members of Congress, then do that as well.
Good evening and we’re now at T minus 20 minutes, give or take, to utter political insanity in Israel.
For those not up to speed, after multiple delays and attempts, PM-elect Netanyahu has - with less than an hour to a final midnight deadline - completely failed to assemble a coalition to form a new government.
The reason? Internal bickering among his political allies has resulted in chaos - incoming PMs need at minimum 61 out of 120 total Knesset representatives from all parties to support the new government. As it stands, Bibi under 60 due to a confrontation between the Ultra-Orthodox parties and the Secular-Right-Wing party Yisrael Beitenu - he needs both and they won’t sit with one another at this time.
At midnight, he can’t continue and the Israeli President will have no choice but to task another with forming a government instead. To avoid this, the Likud has tabled a no-confidence vote at 23:30. If it passes, then the parliament is considered “scattered” and new elections will be underway, just two months after the previous elections.
There’s been endless debates, deals and betrayals that would keep your average TV show with enough material for about 5 seasons - and all of it in the past 24 hours.
re: #329 Archangelus
Good evening and we’re now at T minus 20 minutes, give or take, to utter political insanity in Israel.
For those not up to speed, after multiple delays and attempts, PM-elect Netanyahu has - with less than an hour to a final midnight deadline - completely failed to assemble a coalition to form a new government.
Who would think that the spirit of the Weimar Republic lingers on in Israel…
My latest: the rock-bottom-line of the Trump-Russia scandal. Please read and share: https://t.co/bfdDDg2OLc
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 29, 2019
“…Mueller’s nine-and-half-minute-long statement likely had a different, possibly greater, impact than the release of that report. Here was a credible source telling the story, even if only in an abbreviated manner. This illustrated what House Democrats need to do, whether or not they proceed with impeachment: Bring witnesses to public hearings to convey the full narrative of the Russiagate. House committees are tussling with the Trump administration over potential witnesses, such as former White House counsel Don McGahn, but there are others the Democrats could showcase. (How about former Trump business associate Felix Sater, who negotiated the Trump project in Moscow?) The Dems ought to move past the procedural squabbling and present a clear depiction of Trump’s misconduct in this matter—and others.
Mueller did not advocate any course of action. His job is done, his mission accomplished. He announced his resignation and passed the case for obstruction to Congress. But he has told a slice of the story—a slice that is damning for Trump. It fixes a spotlight on the momentous lies Trump and his crew have told, lies that aided Putin’s war on American democracy, and lies that continue to flow from Trump and his henchmen. Mueller has served the truth. In doing so, he has indicted Trump—not in a legal sense, but for betraying his country.”
re: #298 Dr. Matt
I often wonder if Al Gore was elected and 9/11 still occurs if the GOP to this day would be campaigning on “9/11 is what happens when you elect Democrats”.
If Al Gore was elected, his national security team would have paid attention when Richard Clarke and John O’Neill tried to raise the alarms. Or when the Minneapolis SAC had a flight student in custody but didn’t want to get a warrant to look in his laptop, or when other FBI field offices had flight schools reporting suspicious students.
They’d have done something about it. Photos would have been distributed, and at least some of the terrorists would have been caught before getting on the planes.
re: #329 Archangelus
With 2 minutes to the start of the vote, a last minute deal for getting the Religious and Secular parties to join a new government has just failed.
This joins other developments today that include:
- At least 3 previous “OK, they just signed a deal, it’s over” moments since the morning.
- The leaking of Netanyahu’s efforts to get the Labor opposition party to join in a unity government (and offered them LOTS despite their crushing loss in the elections - and they rejected him altogether).
- The official and insanely unexpected announcement that a right-wing party headed by one of Netanyahu’s opponents will be absorbed into the Likud, only for that to start falling apart when the Labor shenanigans became public. [Said party, Kulanu, ran on a platform of “keeping politics clean” and swore to not support a Netanyahu agreement if it were to turn out that he’s under investigation (he is). If they’re absorbed, it’ll almost surely cost the Likud votes, and if not, they’re 1000% toast in the potentially-imminent elections].
If you’re still on the fence about how horrible the Trump administration is to migrant women, maybe knowing that its allowing pregnant women to be separated from their newborns shortly after birth will sway you. https://t.co/3BcZF7HmmL
— Rewire.News (@Rewire_News) May 29, 2019
re: #334 Eclectic Cyborg
:D
Britain: Our politics are so messed up these days.
Israel: Hold my Manischewitz…#IsraElex19v2— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) May 29, 2019
BREAKING: Yesterday’s tornado near Linwood, Kansas has been rated an EF-4 with 170mph peak winds.
This marks the 2nd violent tornado of 2019. https://t.co/qDvb0NGrlr pic.twitter.com/rjdLCCIy5x— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 29, 2019
re: #335 The Vicious Babushka
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Unfortunately, again, for far too many in this country, this only makes them like more. The kind of folks that want to undo Birthright Citizenship wholesale and hold the baby as just as criminal and evil as their parents for not being citizens.
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Yeah, but if you outlaw tornadoes, then only outlaws will have tornadoes.”
re: #338 Citizen K
Unfortunately, again, for far too many in this country, this only makes them like more. The kind of folks that want to undo Birthright Citizenship wholesale and hold the baby as just as criminal and evil as their parents for not being citizens.
So you’re saying no-one should mention any of this because DT’s base might like hearing it?
re: #333 Archangelus
And into this breach, Trump sent Jared and his band of “negotiators” to work out a peace plan.
Who is Trump thinking he’s negotiating with? Israel doesn’t have a functioning government and if he thinks this is a lifeline to Bibi, he is even dumber than the bag of hammers son in law that he entrusts to do all of Trump’s heavy lifting.
This is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, and it’s bad even for Israeli politics, which has had its share of coalition governments and unity governments and shenanigans to avoid new elections. Bibi’s run out the string and the inability to form a new government means new elections will occur. Will it change the outcome/composition of the Knesset? I don’t have a clue. I don’t think anyone does. It just gives Bibi more time.
Prosecutors in Israel should stop hesitating to act (sound familiar?). Bibi’s precarious criminal jeopardy is putting Israeli security at risk even as Bibi frames his govt as the only thing protecting Israel from its enemies.
And boom goes the dynamite:
Lieberman (head of Yisrael Beitenu, the Secular right-wing party) just announced in no uncertain terms that it’s over and “we’re heading to elections. Netanyahu has failed, it’s over”.
No-Confidence vote hasn’t started yet, but the current Netanyahu government is dead in the water one way or another.
re: #334 Eclectic Cyborg
Britain: Our politics are so fucked up these days.
Israel: Hold my beer.
USA/Donnie: We/I can sink lower than both of you.
Belafon, are your phone alerts blowing up?
Tornado Warning for Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall County in TX until 4:30pm CDT.
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) May 29, 2019
re: #341 lawhawk
And into this breach, Trump sent Jared and his band of “negotiators” to work out a peace plan.
Who is Trump thinking he’s negotiating with? .
Actually that was supposed to have been straightforward; Since Netanyahu won the reelection and was the person tasked with building the new government coalition after the elections, then the previous Netanyahu government remained in power until the new one was to be sworn in. So he was 199% sure that the people he was negotiating with in Israel so far would be the same ones he’d still work with - and were it not for last minute shenanigans, he’d have been right.
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
Belafon, are your phone alerts blowing up?
My wife alerts are.
There has has been at least one funnel, though it’s unclear if it made it all the way to the ground. I’m currently at work in Greenville, which is the direction some of this is heading.
re: #345 Archangelus
But sending them knowing that the entire government was on the verge of collapse shows just how tone deaf Trumpworld is (or how keen they are in keeping Bibi around since that’s the one thing Trump thinks will keep his support among the evangelicals back in the States - pushing for the End Times and all). They saw that Bibi couldn’t get a government formed, and that new elections would be imminent. They were going anyways.
#Breaking: White House announces trilateral meeting of National Security Advisors from the United States, Israel, and Russia to be held in Jerusalem in June. “To discuss regional security.” pic.twitter.com/apdbaVklBN
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) May 29, 2019
re: #347 lawhawk
Oh, Trumpworld is 1000% tone-deaf. That’s nothing new really.
But here’s the thing - they couldn’t have predicted this.
They really couldn’t.
Because just about nobody in Israel saw this coming. And that’s including the guys who just MADE IT HAPPEN.
Less than 40 days ago, the very head of the party that’s effectively killed Netanyahu’s current government today went before the Israeli president in accordance with local election tradition, and gave him his recommendation as the head of his party for Bibi’s establishment of a new government.
Bibi had more than 65 representatives guaranteed. A narrow government at the worst-case scenario, with room for expansion later on, and with parties headed by close allies no less.
Hell’s bells, Avigdor Lieberman himself was his right-hand man since the 1990s!
Until maybe a couple of days ago, no one even remotely considered the possibility that this would happen. Last-minute political deals are common and everyone assumed that the latest developments were the ordinary theater. Even today - most assumed that they’ll sign an agreement at the last minute after Lieberman would get more of his demands. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard folks say “זה כולה הצגה, לא להתרגש” - “it’s just a show, calm down” in the past 24 hours.
Those folks definitely aren’t calm down now, that’s for sure.
In short: This sh*t on display now is LITERALLY unprecedented.
re: #314 Dr Lizardo
LOL sounds like LGF could get together and write a screenplay for Idiocracy 2: Idiocracy 40,000.
Make it a parody of Warhammer 40K, but with everyone Idiocracy-levels of stupid.
Doesn’t WH40K already sort of have that? It’s pretty much a parody, a dark one mind you.
(The Emperor Protects!)
re: #346 Belafon
My wife alerts are.
There has has been at least one funnel, though it’s unclear if it made it all the way to the ground. I’m currently at work in Greenville, which is the direction some of this is heading.
Didn’t the religious freaks tells us over and over again that weather disasters of all kinds were God’s way of expressing disapproval for certain cities and/or states?
‘Cause it seems like this endless string of tornados and floods are all hitting the reddest of red states.
re: #352 sagehen
Didn’t the religious freaks tells us over and over again that weather disasters of all kinds were God’s way of expressing disapproval for certain cities and/or states?
‘Cause it seems like this endless string of tornados and floods are all hitting the reddest of red states.
Everybody knows tornadoes are the devil’s work.
Second Knesset vote for scattering passed 74 in favor, 45 in opposition.
Third vote ongoing now, but it’s merely technical at this stage - Israel is headed for elections in September.
Unprecedented as it is unreal.
Optics are BRUTAL all over the place - “Netanyahu has FAILED”, all over Israeli media.
re: #329 Archangelus
Good evening and we’re now at T minus 20 minutes, give or take, to utter political insanity in Israel.
For those not up to speed, after multiple delays and attempts, PM-elect Netanyahu has - with less than an hour to a final midnight deadline - completely failed to assemble a coalition to form a new government.
The reason? Internal bickering among his political allies has resulted in chaos - incoming PMs need at minimum 61 out of 120 total Knesset representatives from all parties to support the new government. As it stands, Bibi under 60 due to a confrontation between the Ultra-Orthodox parties and the Secular-Right-Wing party Yisrael Beitenu - he needs both and they won’t sit with one another at this time.
At midnight, he can’t continue and the Israeli President will have no choice but to task another with forming a government instead. To avoid this, the Likud has tabled a no-confidence vote at 23:30. If it passes, then the parliament is considered “scattered” and new elections will be underway, just two months after the previous elections.
There’s been endless debates, deals and betrayals that would keep your average TV show with enough material for about 5 seasons - and all of it in the past 24 hours.
So the late 2010’s is when democracy suffered a sudden heart attack and just keeled over?
Between this, Trump/GOP, and Brexit it is starting to seem that way.
Final vote 75 yay, 45 nay.
It’s done and done.
Shortest parliament assembly in history.
Likud in chaos, Bibi in terrible state, Kulanu facing nonexistence one way or another, Yisrael Beitenu probably getting a significant election boost, the fringe right-wing “unity” party in major trouble (their BS contributed to this as much as anything else, it’ll be personal between their leadership and Netanyahu).
The infighting on the political right will be INSANE in the next few months.
re: #357 Archangelus
Final vote 75 yay, 45 nay.
It’s done and done.
Shortest parliament assembly in history.
Likud in chaos, Bibi in terrible state, Kulanu in existential nonexistence, Yisrael Beitenu probably getting a huge election boost. The infighting on the political right will be INSANE in the next few months.
Is this a “grab the popcorn” moment or a “start building a bunker into the hillside” moment?
Woah!
Just looked at weather radar. NYC has at least 3 waves of bright red storms head straight for it!
re: #358 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Is this a “grab the popcorn” moment or a “start building a bunker into the hillside” moment?
Put the popcorn popper in the bunker perhaps?
re: #358 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Is this a “grab the popcorn” moment or a “start building a bunker into the hillside” moment?
I’d say it’s 50% “bang your head against the wall” (especially if you’re a local), and 50% “invest in popcorn futures and secure stockpiles until October”…
re: #355 Archangelus
Optics are BRUTAL all over the place - “Netanyahu has FAILED”, all over Israeli media.
I’m okay with this.
re: #352 sagehen
Didn’t the religious freaks tells us over and over again that weather disasters of all kinds were God’s way of expressing disapproval for certain cities and/or states?
‘Cause it seems like this endless string of tornados and floods are all hitting the reddest of red states.
When tornadoes struck Alabama, someone there declared that is was the enemies of God that sent them.
re: #360 Feline Fearless Leader
Put the popcorn popper in the bunker perhaps?
I like the cut of your jib.
re: #367 Archangelus
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re: #368 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I would upding more if I could for a valid Doctor Who reference. Well played.
;)
re: #351 Feline Fearless Leader
Doesn’t WH40K already sort of have that? It’s pretty much a parody, a dark one mind you.
(The Emperor Protects!)
Yeah, there’s definitely elements of parody and social satire/critique in WH40k.
re: #349 jaunte
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Axis Powers, 21st Century style.
I always suspected that this was the endgame - 3 nuclear powers teaming up to rule the world.
re: #370 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, there’s definitely elements of parody and social satire/critique in WH40k.
Breaking: Israel’s government (also sanity).#IsraElex19v2 is now officially a thing…
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) May 29, 2019
Mueller also said he wants denialist shitholes to pay attention to the multiple efforts Russia made to steal the election. https://t.co/4h6uW826qg
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 29, 2019
re: #277 Belafon
I’m getting the impression that the real purpose of this news conference was to announce that the Special Counsel’s Office will be closing and Mueller will return to private practice.
This was the interesting part of it for me. When he becomes a private citizen again, does that not mean he’s no longer bound by DOJ rules? So, say, if he was subpoenaed by the House Dems at this point….
re: #351 Feline Fearless Leader
Doesn’t WH40K already sort of have that? It’s pretty much a parody, a dark one mind you.
(The Emperor Protects!)
thoughts and prayers, motherfuckers. Thoughts and prayers. https://t.co/M6PIOuVtco
— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 (@soonergrunt) May 29, 2019
re: #374 jaunte
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re: #380 Targetpractice
He’s an inspiration to us all, coming back from the dead like that.
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— Kaeli Swift, PhD (@corvidresearch) May 29, 2019
I had a secondary duty in the army to set up and run chemical warfare decontamination for my unit., So I guess I should call Sarin/VX “Funny twitching dance gas”?
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 29, 2019
what the utter fuck? He should be doing this openly and willingly in the first place.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 29, 2019
re: #381 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait, what did I miss?
It’s just more of the ongoing implosion of the NRA. part of the back and forth legal quagmire surrounding the NRA’s finances and spending.
This should be clear as mud … lol (from Wikipedia)
In April 2019 the group unexpectedly sued its longtime public relations firm Ackerman McQueen, which was responsible for two decades of aggressive gun-rights advertising on behalf of the NRA. The lawsuit alleges that the firm refused to turn over financial records to support its billings to the NRA, which amounted to $40 million in 2017. The lawsuit questioned recent programming on NRATV, an online channel operated by Ackerman, which has taken political positions unrelated to the NRA’s traditional focus on gun-related issues. There were also concerns about possible conflicts of interest, such as the $1 million Ackerman pays annually to NRA president Oliver North.[45] Leading up to the NRA’s 2019 national convention in April, there were reports that North and LaPierre were at odds, with North demanding that LaPierre resign and LaPierre accusing North of extortion.[46] At the convention a letter was read from North, saying he had been told he would not be granted a second term as NRA president and adding that he intended to create a committee to investigate allegations of financial mismanagement.[47] A subsequent resolution to oust LaPierre over “highly suspect” financial practices was hotly debated for an hour before members voted not to discuss financial issues in public and to refer the resolution to the NRA board.[48]
re: #233 lawhawk
He’s not practicing law. He’s obstructing justice and interfering in ongoing federal investigations on behalf of his boss Trump.
He’s politicizing the DOJ to further Trump’s actions and admin goals of remaining in power to thwart the investigations into Trump’s corrupt and criminal practices.
Who has the authority to ask the appropriate Bar Association disbar Barr for his dishonesty and disgraceful conduct?
BOOM
Dotard’s hackery didn’t help
BREAKING AND UNPRECEDENTED: 50 days after winning elections Netanyahu fails in forming new coalition. The Knesset has just voted in favor of going for new round of elections on September 17th
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) May 29, 2019
This guy. Under the merit based program proposed by Trump, Ted’s dad—who still did not have a degree in math when he immigrated here— would have been denied entry.
Ted, like most of America, exists because the US did NOT have a merit based admission program. https://t.co/GhaXZRkEip— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) May 29, 2019
This wasn’t a court. It was an investigation. If an investigation doesn’t clear a suspect, they’re still a suspect. As Attorney General of Louisiana, you should probably know this. Now, if you want to bring it court and see what a jury says, let’s do it. https://t.co/yxXaCj1ioW
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 29, 2019
So much about the pro-Trump movement starts to come into focus the more you look at incels. They were the force behind Gamergate, which then morphed into 4chan, took over Reddit, infests the comment threads of Breitbart, and is now fed into America’s info-stream via Fox News & Limbaugh.
This is pure poison. It is ugly, but we can no longer look away. The insecurity, rage, sense of wounded narcissism - this is the core of Trumpism.
And it’s winning.
re: #388 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
It’s just more of the ongoing implosion of the NRA. part of the back and forth legal quagmire surrounding the NRA’s finances and spending.
This should be clear as mud … lol (from Wikipedia)
Oh, that’s good entertainment. Also, fuck Wayne LaPierre with a rusty spork.
re: #393 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
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Just an extra letter: Trying for “Chad,” landing on “choad.”
re: #349 jaunte
Noga Tarnopolsky
#Breaking: White House announces trilateral meeting of National Security Advisors from the United States, Israel, and Russia to be held in Jerusalem in June. “To discuss regional security.”
Why is Russia involved in this at all? Or is it that both Netanyahu and Trump report to Putin? Let’s see what happens with the September elections.
my brother lives outside Philly
im in south florida
he just calls me and says go to your computer and tell me what im driving into. it’s all black up ahead
i tell him there’s a pretty large storm that’s just hugging the north side of route 76, lots of red and leaning towards pre-purple
we spend 10 minutes getting him re-directed onto some back roads so he can feel his way home
nasty stuff
re: #184 Dr. Matt
Where is Jill Stein to remind us that it would have be worse under HRC?
Or Susan Sarandon.
Another one
Louisiana lawmakers pass “heartbeat” abortion ban — the latest in a wave of US states that are restricting abolition options. https://t.co/zRExlelKtX
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) May 29, 2019
Man Charged After Impregnating Girl, 13
- yes it’s florida man
- you can click the link for yourself to see what this 70 year old man looks like
- i dont know what ethnicity the 13 year old girl is
Q: you sure you don’t want any exceptions to that law y’all just passed?
re: #393 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
A gym membership would probably be cheaper/safer than plastic surgery. It would also give them an opportunity to interact with real live human women. Of course, if they did do that, then they’d probably not be whiny little shits anymore
I just … how much of an angry loser do you have to be for this to make sense? In what world is all this not just an elaborate hoax?
And yet. There is a body count associated with these loons.
In forum posts, incels classify Chads by phenotype (“Keltic Nordid,” “Gracile Mediterranid”) and style (jock, lumberjack, vampire, pretty boy). They repost scientific research on the importance of symmetry and harmony in universal standards of beauty. They discuss the Golden Mask, a Platonic ideal of a face designed by a California surgeon using the ratio of phi.
Truth4lie’s preferred Chad was a common incel favorite: David Gandy, the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Light Blue cologne ads, in which the British model has a bronzed six-pack, a plump Speedo, and crystal-blue eyes. (That Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce are gay designers best known for an aesthetic of homoerotic high camp was an irony most incels missed.)
re: #392 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Actually, a court doesn’t find you “innocent” the court (or more likely jury) finds you “not guilty”.
re: #396 Mescalero
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Loved that band. I remember seeing them in Fairmount Park a few times.
Nicky Jameson later went on to play in Foghat for a while.
re: #405 KGxvi
Actually, a court doesn’t find you “innocent” the court (or more likely jury) finds you “not guilty”.
Which merely means “not enough evidence to convict”, not “you didn’t do it”. You can do the thing and still get a not guilty verdict.
re: #403 KGxvi
A gym membership would probably be cheaper/safer than plastic surgery. It would also give them an opportunity to interact with real live human women. Of course, if they did do that, then they’d probably not be whiny little shits anymore
Apparently, they do go to the gym (they call it “gymceling”) although who knows with these freaks.
Trying to wrap my head around this. Maybe it’s that they’ve lived so much of their lives online that they have no ability to interact in the real world? Are they all just aspies or on the spectrum? I know aspies & have family members on the spectrum, and they may be awkward in some social situations, but they’re not total assholes because of that.
Is it the absurd expectations set up by endlessly available online pr0n?
re: #404 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I just … how much of an angry loser do you have to be for this to make sense? In what world is all this not just an elaborate hoax?
And yet. There is a body count associated with these loons.
Where do these morons find the time to do all of this stuff?
re: #405 KGxvi
Actually, a court doesn’t find you “innocent” the court (or more likely jury) finds you “not guilty”.
Yep, ask O.J. Simpson about that one.
And speaking of OJ, I just realized we are coming up on the 25th Anniversary of the infamous Bronco chase…
re: #408 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Apparently, they do go to the gym (they call it “gymceling”) although who knows with these freaks.
Trying to wrap my head around this. Maybe it’s that they’ve lived so much of their lives online that they have no ability to interact in the real world? Are they all just aspies or on the spectrum? I know aspies & have family members on the spectrum, and they may be awkward in some social situations, but they’re not total assholes because of that.
Is it the absurd expectations set up by endlessly available online pr0n?
What it comes down to is a combination of factors. It’s an inability to be introspective, either willfully (“I don’t want to know/admit what’s wrong with me”) or otherwise. It’s a lack of understanding of how human interactions work - and yes, many of them are or would be on the spectrum, though by no means all. (And being on the spectrum myself, I may add that the inverse relationship is also not a correlation - by far not all autistic men are incels.) It’s insecurities boiling up inside them from the extreme pressure put on men to Go Out And Get Laid as part of being a successful male, coming largely from popular media where the good guy always gets to do the hot chick in the end.
re: #408 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Apparently, they do go to the gym (they call it “gymceling”) although who knows with these freaks.
Trying to wrap my head around this. Maybe it’s that they’ve lived so much of their lives online that they have no ability to interact in the real world? Are they all just aspies or on the spectrum? I know aspies & have family members on the spectrum, and they may be awkward in some social situations, but they’re not total assholes because of that.
Is it the absurd expectations set up by endlessly available online pr0n?
I wonder if there’s a psychological profile that’s been developed for these guys. I’m guessing there’s a lot of different things that get someone to this particular island.
re: #411 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The one part I didn’t really cover was your last question. I think the concept of “Chad” is a combination of male porn star and male movie/TV action hero. I don’t think it’s necessarily overexposure to these media that are the problem, but lack of proper guidance of how to view oneself contrasted against those particular archetypes. In short - lack of a father figure with strong character to show them that they aren’t weak or inadequate just because they don’t fulfill the stereotypes.
re: #413 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Whenever I hear Chad I still of think of the infamous “Hanging Chad” from the 2000 election.
JUST NOW: A former White House official tells me that Trump will welcome impeachment because the Senate won’t convict and he can run a re-election based on being “a wounded warrior.” @realDonaldTrump
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 29, 2019
Cantin, Tx, which got hit by a big tornado back in 2017, got hit again, but hy a smaller one.
I finally got a chance to listen to Rachel Price singing Tom Wait’s “Take it with Me” from the top of the thread.
This old guy really liked it.
Don’t call it sea levels rising from climate change, call it FREEDOM FLOODING
(joking because I’m screaming with terror on the inside)— Jumbo Machinder Discotheque (@runcibilities) May 29, 2019
re: #415 Belafon
And there it is. Trump getting the narrative out ahead of time, thus making Dems look stupid if they impeach after this point. I swear this “kid gloves” crap is going to get him re-elected.
re: #415 Belafon
Steve Bannon needs to learn how to talk like an anonymous source. https://t.co/LvIwBofjZu
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) May 29, 2019
re: #398 Hecuba’s daughter
Why is Russia involved in this at all? Or is it that both Netanyahu and Trump report to Putin? Let’s see what happens with the September elections.
Because Russia owns Syria.
re: #418 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
How about solar? We can sell it as “Photons of Phreedom”.
re: #419 Eclectic Cyborg
And there it is. Trump getting the narrative out ahead of time, thus making Dems look stupid if they impeach after this point. I swear this “kid gloves” crap is going to get him re-elected.
That’s not getting ahead of the narrative unless you discount all of the people who are actually worried about rushing into impeachment without convincing more Americans it is needed.
re: #423 Belafon
That’s not getting ahead of the narrative unless you discount all of the people who are actually worried about rushing into impeachment without convincing more Americans it is needed.
And before they’ve finished building the case.
re: #423 Belafon
That’s not getting ahead of the narrative unless you discount all of the people who are actually worried about rushing into impeachment without convincing more Americans it is needed.
They’ve been trying to get ahead of the narrative since before the report dropped.
People still think he’s a lying bag o’crap.
skills 🙌
Twitter is a multi-billion dollar company. Why the board of directors hasn’t put Dorsey out to pasture with his college freshman philosophy major bullshit and his stock options and found themselves an actual CEO is utterly beyond me. https://t.co/AnyvSkQZ1Q
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 29, 2019
I believe there are many questions that it would be appropriate for Mr. Mueller to answer. He does not get to ride off into the sunset just yet.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) May 29, 2019
re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth
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DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec and Mueller spokesman Peter Carr insist “there is no conflict between” Barr and Mueller statements on the role DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president played in Mueller’s decision re: obstruction. pic.twitter.com/YMMyeSf6sc
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 29, 2019
good fucking grief…
NEW: The White House wanted the USS John McCain “out of sight” for Trump’s visit to Japan. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the trip, and sailors—who wear caps bearing the ship’s name—were given the day off for Trump’s visit. w/@gluboldhttps://t.co/6ugPceCOre pic.twitter.com/KuIoWJK5Kt
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 29, 2019
re: #430 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
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Because whiny petulance = strength now.
(stares at tweet until I burn holes in my laptop screen) https://t.co/pCodgdmTC8
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 29, 2019
re: #416 Belafon
Cantin, Tx, which got hit by a big tornado back in 2017, got hit again, but hy a smaller one.
That hit the edge of the property of a friend of mine in 2017. Just sent her an email to see if she’s ok!
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