Newly Released Tom Petty Home Recording: “There Goes Angela (Dream Away)”
Tom Petty’s “There Goes Angela (Dream Away) [Home Recording] from the upcoming ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ available October 16th. Preorder now at tompetty.lnk.to
Tom Petty’s “There Goes Angela (Dream Away) [Home Recording] from the upcoming ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ available October 16th. Preorder now at tompetty.lnk.to
Yes, being able to break the law at will is a real advantage. https://t.co/GCJVggrNuy
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) August 28, 2020
Look at those normalizers go!
So, Trump is against firing people over controversial political statements? pic.twitter.com/LrqNX45UJn
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) August 28, 2020
Monumental shift in the election, I’m feeling it.
— Event Horizon 🇲🇰 🇺🇸 (@Event3Horizon) August 28, 2020
All the CNN journalists paying lip service to the close horserace.
re: #5 NetworkKed
All the CNN journalists paying lip service to the close horserace.
Waiting for the “tonight he became presidential” take. Then the next round of Cletus Safaris.
re: #5 NetworkKed
All the CNN journalists paying lip service to the close horserace.
when reporters say “power of incumbency” this is nonsense. It is the abuse of power to serve his ends in violation of laws he has sworn to uphold. Power of incumbency is neutral and misleading. DO BETTER, media.
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 28, 2020
Yeah I think she was wrong about Romney and Obama but she gets what’s wrong with Trump better then many left wing writers.
— Jefferson Waful (@jeffersonwaful) August 28, 2020
Trump said he “profoundly accepted the nomination”, instead of proudly. Well, Trump is proudly stupid, oops profoundly stupid.
Jim Gaffigan is delivering a string of educational tweets tonight:
“excuse me while I treat myself to confronting some asshole trolls…”
can we stop with this HOLLYWOOD shit. I’m not from Hollywood and Hollywood is just a town. Please say coastal elites (which Trump, Jared and Ivana are) Maybe people on the east and west coasts have different values from yours but they dont like liars and con men like trump. https://t.co/F9A12uG2TI
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
to those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back.
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
You know Trump just creates enemies. You know you can’t trust him. You know he been incompetent during this crisis. You know all those people didn’t need to die. Trump talks about the Space Program and you can’t safely go to a movie. Wake up
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
I dont give a fuck if anyone thinks this is virtue signaling or whatever. We need to wake up. We need to call trump the con man and thief that he is.
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
re: #15 Dave In Austin
Oh what a night pic.twitter.com/95yv5dAxgE
— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) August 28, 2020
re: #16 Dave In Austin
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but…
Hey, is it just me or is he dragging that right foot like it’s a wet bag of sand?
Gorgeous dress pic.twitter.com/JV0Da0RLrU
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 28, 2020
Molly Jong Fast and Rick Wilson, in their latest podcast, were thinking that one of the targets for the RNC was unregistered voters with less than a college degree from the rural and exurbs.
trump giving his convention speech pic.twitter.com/2RejyjCO9Q
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 28, 2020
re: #19 ckkatz
Molly Jong Fast and Rick Wilson, in their latest podcast, were thinking that one of the targets for the RNC was unregistered voters with less than a college degree from the rural and exurbs.
Unregistered doesn’t mean unaware of reality. Trump wants to run as if he’s not in charge yet he wants the backdrop of the White House and his great record.
re: #18 makeitstop
It looked to me that he was swinging his right leg at the hip.
Melania green screen dress#RNCConvention2020 pic.twitter.com/qAidiP25RN
— Vic 💛 (@vicsepulveda) August 28, 2020
re: #20 makeitstop
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He is boring. That’s the truth about him the media doesn’t get. But hey just ask these people in this diner.
re: #19 ckkatz
Molly Jong Fast and Rick Wilson, in their latest podcast, were thinking that one of the targets for the RNC was unregistered voters with less than a college degree from the rural and exurbs.
I would think the GOP would’ve had that demographic sewn up long ago.
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
I would think the GOP would’ve had that demographic sewn up long ago.
Well, one of us with less than a college degree and in a rural area has to be opposed to Team Evil. Y’all are stuck with me.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, one of us with less than a college degree and in a rural area has to be opposed to Team Evil. Y’all are stuck with me.
Hey, I dropped out of college in the middle of my senior year to look after the kid(s) while my wife worked on her doctorate.
re: #19 ckkatz
Molly Jong Fast and Rick Wilson, in their latest podcast, were thinking that one of the targets for the RNC was unregistered voters with less than a college degree from the rural and exurbs.
I would have thought by now people had figured out that Trump never has a plan. This whole half-assed telethon was what could be thrown together at the virtual last minute after the Toddler-in-Chief fucked up all the party’s months of planning with his little pissing match with NC’s Dem governor.
So what does he do? He violates the Hatch Act so he can get the huge crowd of hand-picked goobers he hoped for packed together like spam in a can, and he STILL managed to come sounding like he was doped to the gills on ludes.
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
I would think the GOP would’ve had that demographic sewn up long ago.
If I actually think about it deeply, there are actually two bases that the GOP are trying to address right now.
One is people who are frightened and desperate but scared of change: they’re basically talking to those people like they’re an abusive parent…”Everything else is scarier than me, I’ll protect you, but you never get to point out my errors.” And since they don’t have a framework to understand that something else is possible, the Mephistopholean bargain seems the best option.
The other are the people that we like to pretend don’t exist, who aren’t a demographic in terms of region or economy* but have accepted the inevitability of cruelty and decided that the best possible outcome is to be a mid-level goon who gets to pick who they put the boots to and rob the apartment of. The people who are covert sadists and enjoy the spectacle of breaking the rules because it’s what they wanted to do but are scared of getting caught. The ones for whom a guy who creeps on teenage girls, cheats at everything, and just shamelessly says stupid and cruel things is an aspirational figure.
*but are mostly white, because whiteness is an MLM where you earn the right to abuse power on your own behalf by acting as goons enacting the abuses of power of higher-up members.
Unfortunately there’s a bunch of both where I live…and they’re not perfectly distinct circles.
#BREAKING Japan PM Abe to resign over health: local media pic.twitter.com/y7g8m93t8l
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 28, 2020
re: #31 teleskiguy
I read some article a few days back about him experiencing health issues, but I admit, I’m a bit surprised. I figured he’d hang there for a bit longer to at least finish his term, which is set to expire in October 2021.
re: #31 teleskiguy
Seems that PM Abe suffers from ulcerative colitis and has since he was a young man. He had a major flare-up back in 2007 that forced him to step down as PM at that time.
And while I’ve finally achieved Mithradatism after being told “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” about the LIncoln Project…another reason I’m not going to completely warm to them is that the image of “dumb hick voters” is a misdirection that speaks to the Lincoln Project’s secret…um…project of letting Republican Smart Boys perform their superiority.
Most Trump voters aren’t simply stupid, they’re enjoying themselves because there’s decades of culture that has raised them to believe that rhetoric is validity, and the forms of rhetoric that simply dismiss dissent are the best because they are cruel and final. Many, many educated people sign on for this because they assume that their success in one field makes them generally smart, and absolutely HATE the idea of expertise and formal logic. The guys that wrote ad copy and thinkpieces that made this the cultural mainline are now pretending that all these folks are morons because squids spray ink to escape sharks and culpability.
When all you have is a sword, every problem looks like a Gordian Knot, and at some point many rounds of bisection you begin to further assume that you’re Alexander the Great.
Like, we could meaningfully talk about “the hubris vote” and “the sadist vote” as blocs.
The quiet part…….
On the lack of social distancing or face masks at Trump’s #RNC2020 acceptance speech in the middle of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a senior White House official tells @Acosta: “Everybody is going to catch this thing eventually.” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/0T5e6r3BSx
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 28, 2020
Wilbur Ross, sitting in the front row without a mask pic.twitter.com/t5SUJArCwN
— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) August 28, 2020
re: #35 Dave In Austin
The quiet part…….
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In other words, the “war-time president” has decided that the “war” is eventually going to end in a loss, so why worry about keeping civilian casualties down?
re: #35 Dave In Austin
The quiet part…….
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LET ALL THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE MASQUE OF THE RED STATE DEATH TONIGHT SUCCUMB TO IT
re: #37 Targetpractice
Mooo……. They think we can gain herd immunity from this thing. It seems some people are reinfecting in CHYNA!!
re: #37 Targetpractice
In other words, the “war-time president” has decided that the “war” is eventually going to end in a loss, so why worry about keeping civilian casualties down?
Many more will recover than die from covid, only to be facing flu season with seriously depleted immunity, weakened systems, and heart and lung damage. Since there is a big overlap between this mob and antivaxxers, they will die like flies.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) August 28, 2020
re: #38 🌹UOJB!
LET ALL THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE MASQUE OF THE RED STATE DEATH TONIGHT SUCCUMB TO IT
Mind if I steal that?
re: #39 Dave In Austin
Mooo……. They think we can gain herd immunity from this thing. It seems some people are reinfecting in CHYNA!!
It’s more that they believe their own bullshit about how the bulk of those who catch it either are asymptomatic or suffer mild symptoms, that those symptoms are little worse than the flu, and it’s over and done with so quickly that there’s no point in trying to avoid getting sick.
re: #18 makeitstop
My husband is an emergency doc - he described it as a “foot slap”.
It also helps to remember that most of those in attendance either have enough money or influence to afford the best care and face no danger of ending up deep in poverty if they should have to take more than a day off from work to fight off a CV-19 infection.
re: #5 NetworkKed
All the CNN journalists paying lip service to the close horserace.
that is their bread and butter…
re: #45 Targetpractice
It also helps to remember that most of those in attendance either have enough money or influence to afford the best care and face no danger of ending up deep in poverty if they should have to take more than a day off from work to fight off a CV-19 infection.
Yep. Exactly like how somebody had to die a in trench a century ago, and the most egregious cowardice was to ask pointed questions about who, exactly, faced the most danger for what ends.
While they may be overly-casual and put themselves at risk, their calculation—even if it’s erroneous—is that they will be fine, but that any casualty that’s not part of their in-group is inevitable and necessary.
Quite the fact check from @ddale8 of Trump’s speech. pic.twitter.com/8fITOfExta
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) August 28, 2020
Daniel Dale deserves a long vacation after the election.
My fear after watching tonight’s speech is that millions of American’s will see the President in front of a large crowd - with little mask-wearing and no social distancing - and decide the pandemic is behind us.
I fear there will be a marked increase in deaths in a few weeks.— Mick Foley (@RealMickFoley) August 28, 2020
re: #49 DodgerFan1988
My fear after watching tonight’s speech is that millions of American’s will see the President in front of a large crowd - with little mask-wearing and no social distancing - and decide the pandemic is behind us.
I fear there will be a marked increase in deaths in a few weeks.
President has been sending that message from the outset. And cases will increase or continue at high levels.
On a completely different subject, corsets. (Pulling out my bodice-ripper editor hat.)
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (disability activist in the United Kingdom who is deaf, blind in one eye, has POTS, and severe scoliosis) talks about the misinformation which has been promulgated for two hundred years about corsets. She also talks about them as both a foundational piece of clothing and as a correction and relief of pain for scoliosis.
Some fun facts:
The idea that corsets “squished your innards” or caused women to faint that you read from contemporary pieces from the time were all written by men. Women didn’t write about them then for the same reason men don’t write about their boxers or briefs now.
Attacks on corsetry started in first wave feminism, when women sought basic rights. One of the few businesses which earned lots of money run by women were corset-makers, so attacks on corsets were a proxy for attacks on feminism. A properly fitted corset causes none of the problems claimed by writers of the era or now.
Men wore corsets then (and now) as well. They are made by tailors however, so that was an acceptable business.
Women of all classes and stations wore corsets. They support the back during physical labour (and back injuries are one of the most common temporary disablements).
Before brassieres, they supported bewbs by distributing weight down the length of the torso. No band or strap cuts into the skin.
Caution for brief segment of her in Forties style knickers and brassiere, otherwise safe-for-work. (17:03)
Just watched Joe Biden’s acceptance speech again. The diametric opposition is so blatant, so obvious. Cheetolini’s hard core supporters who watch Biden’s speech then their dear leader’s speech tonight and still side with the orange bag of shit proves that a good 40% of voters in the United States are wicked halfwits. The decency and compassion displayed in Biden’s speech…
If Fuckface Von Clownstick wins again this country is irredeemable and I hope its decline happens swiftly.
After tonight, I think all those who worried that the RNC would be a game changer and that it would upset the balance of the race can rest easy. The ratings dropped night after night and I doubt that snoozer of a finishing speech did much to stem the bleeding. After the pundits get past their normalizing routine (“Nobody cares about the Hatch Act! Look at those fireworks!”), the final assessment is likely to be a resounding “Meh.”
re: #53 Targetpractice
After tonight, I think all those who worried that the RNC would be a game changer and that it would upset the balance of the race can rest easy.
I want Trump to go down
in history
as the first and only President to use the White House as a venue for party political events
Damn, who did this? pic.twitter.com/QygdRdsJOo
— J (@thayer_icob) August 27, 2020
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I want Trump to go down
in history
as the first and only President to use the White House as a venue for party political events
Same. Symbols of the nation (the Washington Monument, the White House, the US Flag, &c) represent everyone, not a single political party. Coöpting the symbols of the nation is what an authoritarian régime does.
I want tonight to go down in history as the overt display of the GOP as an authoritarian party which never deserves to be near the lever of a sewage lagoon, much less power, again.
I’ve smoked weed for 50 years this October.
The Hubbard’s Gap fire to my west in Banner County in the Wildcat Hills has grown to ten acres.
Firefighting in the area is difficult because only a one-lane sand road goes through Hubbard’s Gap between NE-88 and US-26, there is no water other than Pumpkin Creek well to the south, and the only town in Banner County is the unincorporated seat Harrisburg many miles away. There are no other roads in the area.
Relative humidity in Banner County right now is 87%, but will drop to 18% by tomorrow afternoon. Winds are 15mph from the north, but will shift and be about 20mph from the south.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not liking the masked bong hit. You end up carrying it around with you for the next 20 min.
re: #60 Dave In Austin
Not liking the masked bong hit. You end up carrying it around with you for the next 20 min.
I did not encounter bongs until much later…
re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron
I’ve smoked weed for 50 years this October.
Let me join in the (early) celebration.
Smells like Processed Vodka and Old Spice.
— The Wind Cries “Transparency.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 28, 2020
re: #64 Dave In Austin
territorial sweatings
re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Y’know, say what you will about Kim’s speech, at least there was energy to it. Granted, it was the manic energy of somebody who’d just hoovered up a rail of coke longer than Route 66, but at least it was something. Tonight was so long, tedious, and dull that I can’t imagine anybody but the faithful sat through the whole wretched thing.
FOUND PURPOSE AS A VIGILANTE pic.twitter.com/4Kuyp1kmEq
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) August 28, 2020
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
a terrorist who killed two people and wounded a third will face justice today
I hate to say it, but I am afraid that this fucker will walk and there will be more riots and that is just what a lot of people want to see
Yeah, yeah, I re-post it because I like this song!
Melania’s fashion choices always send a message pic.twitter.com/FvriwnX0fR
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 28, 2020
re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Melania’s fashion choices always send a message
she must have been aware of what people would do with her green dress
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hate to say it, but I am afraid that this fucker will walk and there will be more riots and that is just what a lot of people want to see
It’s an arraignment, I believe. Whether he makes bail or not is another story.
Also - how can bail even be offered to an individual charged with homicide? Weird.
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
It’s an arraignment, I believe. Whether he makes bail or not is another story.
Also - how can bail even be offered to an individual charged with homicide? Weird.
him being a minor and no previous charges…and white, of course
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
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Yeah, yeah, we know the drill: “He’s a poor, innocent lamb! He never would hurt anyone intentionally! Society is to blame! Why can’t we give him a break?!”
Darken his skin and the tune changes real quick.
re: #74 Targetpractice
Yeah, yeah, we know the drill: “He’s a poor, innocent lamb! He never would hurt anyone intentionally! Society is to blame! Why can’t we give him a break?!”
Darken his skin and the tune changes real quick.
I read reports he was part of a police cadet training program.
Funny how it is starting to look more and more like a gang initiation…
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hate to say it, but this fucker will walk and there will be more riots and that is just what a lot of people want to see
It’s another Zimmerman case, another white guy who got overconfident until shit went sideways, then panicked and is now going to plead to the court that everything he did was in “self-defense” and he was so scared for his life that he never thought of fleeing until a man lay dead.
re: #76 Targetpractice
It’s another Zimmerman case, another white guy who got overconfident until shit went sideways, then panicked and is now going to plead to the court that everything he did was in “self-defense” and he was so scared for his life that he never thought of fleeing until a man lay dead.
But as people here pointed out, he’s going to have a difficult time claiming self-defense. Wisconsin laws are pretty strict on the use of deadly force, there’s no “stand your ground” laws and no “castle doctrine” laws either.
A good prosecutor could put this fool away for a very, very long time.
And I saw the relevant section of Wisconsin law regarding self-defense, but that doesn’t mean that he won’t use that as his defense. It just means that he’s gonna have to work harder than most to BS a jury that he was so “afraid” that he had “no choice” but to fire wildly at an “attacker.”
oops
Politico: “When Trump launched his reelection campaign last year, he rolled out the “Keep America Great” as its official new slogan with great fanfare. But the Biden campaign recently learned the web domain was available and snagged it.”
“The site now lays out a top-to-bottom rebuke to the Trump administration, including his handling of coronavirus.”
re: #45 Targetpractice
It also helps to remember that most of those in attendance either have enough money or influence to afford the best care and face no danger of ending up deep in poverty if they should have to take more than a day off from work to fight off a CV-19 infection.
does that make it worth the possible permanent heart lung and other organ damage?
Is 84 dB at 1 meter too loud at 3 AM?
Asking for a friend.
re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron
I’ve smoked weed for 50 years this October.
you should have a wicked case of the munchies by now
re: #83 dangerman
you should have a wicked case of the munchies by now
one of my favorite German jokes:
“My grandson has been walking for six weeks.”
“Och, he must be halfway to Stuttgart by now!!”
re: #83 dangerman
you should have a wicked case of the munchies by now
I was on the verge of postingabout a munchie moment a few hours ago but munchies were satisfied by some M&Ms.
re: #82 Dread Pirate Ron
Is 84 dB at 1 meter too loud at 3 AM?
Asking for a friend.
depends on whether you’re in the room or in the apartment next door
Looks like Ostrava’s biggest environmental problem, the site of the former Ostramo refinery, is finally gonna get cleaned up thanks to some EU funding.
A photogallery of the place - looks like something out of Robocop or some other dystopian flick.
It’s kinda well-known with our local Urbex types. I wandered around there years ago with a couple of students who showed me the place. It’s a damn nasty mess.
re: #47 The Ghost of a Flea
Yep. Exactly like how somebody had to die a in trench a century ago, and the most egregious cowardice was to ask pointed questions about who, exactly, faced the most danger for what ends.
While they may be overly-casual and put themselves at risk, their calculation—even if it’s erroneous—is that they will be fine, but that any casualty that’s not part of their in-group is inevitable and necessary.
Part of wrapping themselves in the flag of false patriotism is convincing others that they will be dying in good cause; e.g. for the honor of the country. And the fear and loathing side reinforces it since it’s saying that they might need to do so to save everything good - though it pretty much means saving white privilege and the right of the wealthy to stomp over everyone else.
All part of claiming the class war is really a race war. Dividing the enemy by convincing a chunk of the class that their enemy is another part of the same class. (Same playbook that has been in use for a few hundred years. Convince the poor whites that they are superior to everyone else *but* the wealthy whites, and that the artificially created lesser classes are out to get *them*.
re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Part of wrapping themselves in the flag of false patriotism is convincing others that they will be dying in good cause; e.g. for the honor of the country.
asking people to die to defend freedom, liberty or justice is one thing, asking them to die so that the 1% don’t have to give up any of the 40% of America’s wealth they already own to help the remaining 99% is another…
Oooh….an Antonov AN-124-100 is on her way to Ostrava. Should be here in about 15 minutes or so.
re: #53 Targetpractice
huffpo
Two weeks of the major party political conventions delivered 16 hours of prime-time programming, more than 120 individual speakers, dozens of pre-produced glossy videos and zero fundamental change in the race.
This abomination may be the most visible misuse of official position for private gain in America’s history. It is an abuse of the power entrusted to this man, the breach of a sacred trust. It is the civic equivalent of a mortal sin—maybe a religious one too. And it is a harbinger pic.twitter.com/UryxiQTyv0
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 28, 2020
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
asking people to die to defend freedom, liberty or justice is one thing, asking them to die so that the 1% don’t have to give up any of the 40% of America’s wealth they already own to help the remaining 99% is another…
Correct. And they are purposefully blurring the distinction.
Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 28, 2020
re: #93 dangerman
This abomination may be the most visible misuse of official position for private gain in America’s history. It is an abuse of the power entrusted to this man, the breach of a sacred trust. It is the civic equivalent of a mortal sin—maybe a religious one too. And it is a harbinger
No other President would think of using the trappings and regalia of the Presidency to promote a partisan political campaign.
But Trump is clearly in it only for the pomp and circumstance, he sees no distinction.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No other President would think of using the trappings and regalia of the Presidency to promote a partisan political campaign.
But Trump is clearly in it only for the pomp and circumstance, he sees no distinction.
And Trump’s fundamental interest in re-election (aside from being able to continue the gravy train of grift) is to avoid Sing Sing.
re: #98 Dr Lizardo
And Trump’s fundamental interest in re-election (aside from being able to continue the gravy train of grift) is to avoid Sing Sing.
I think what has surprised me the most since 2016 is not Trump being a craven grifter, divider, and showing a complete lack of ethics, empathy, or compassion. That was pretty clear simply from watching him in the past.
It has been the GOP’s complete and utter complicity in all of it. For all their claims of being conservative, traditionalist, and following Christian ethics it got thrown under bus in a second the moment it clashed with maintaining as hard a grip on power and privilege as possible.
re: #99 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
It has been the GOP’s complete and utter complicity in all of it. For all their claims of being conservative, traditionalist, and following Christian ethics it got thrown under bus in a second the moment it clashed with maintaining as hard a grip on power and privilege as possible.
I long ago stopped asking “What would be their reaction if Obama had done/failed to do x, y,or z?”
Gadzooks, what a monster that Antonov is! Landed perfectly.
Leoš Janáček Airport has the only runway in Czech Republic capable of accommodating that beast of an airplane; back in the Cold War era, it was a Soviet airbase. Still, quite a sight to see it coming in over Ostrava.
re: #101 Dr Lizardo
Gadzooks, what a monster that Antonov is! Landed perfectly.
Leoš Janáček Airport has the only runway in Czech Republic capable of accommodating that beast of an airplane; back in the Cold War era, it was a Soviet airbase. Still, quite a sight to see it coming in over Ostrava.
They land out at Hahn airport, a reconverted USAF base, now a passenger/freight terminal
re: #30 The Ghost of a Flea
If I actually think about it deeply, there are actually two bases that the GOP are trying to address right now.
…
The other are the people that we like to pretend don’t exist, who aren’t a demographic in terms of region or economy* but have accepted the inevitability of cruelty and decided that the best possible outcome is to be a mid-level goon who gets to pick who they put the boots to and rob the apartment of..
These guys sure existed in 1933. They were the informers who’d tell the authorities that der Juden was living in the big apartment next to them. The Jews would be swept out and someone got a nice apartment upgrade. They exist on my FB for certain.
re: #8 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Rubin has really grown on me.
Be prepared to dismiss that feeling once Biden is in. She’s the scorpion.
re: #105 Sherlock Hound
These guys sure existed in 1933. They were the informers who’d tell the authorities that der Juden was living in the big apartment next to them. The Jews would be swept out and someone got a nice apartment upgrade. They exist on my FB for certain.
They were plentiful and the Gestapo could always rely on them for information about Jews, communists, gays or anyone leading a “non-German” lifestyle.
Updated position and information about Tropical Depression Laura from the Weather Prediction Center:
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LOCATION…35.8N 91.5W
ABOUT 95 MI…155 KM WNW OF MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
ABOUT 175 MI…280 KM WSW OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY
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PRESENT MOVEMENT…NE OR 45 DEGREES AT 13 MPH…20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…998 MB…29.47 INCHES
RNC Video Showing Rioters In “Biden’s America” Is Actually Spain
That is the point: Biden will allow Spaniards to invade our suburban neighborhoods directly and no longer have to use Mexico as a staging area!!!
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They were plentiful and the Gestapo could always rely on them for information about Jews, communists, gays or anyone leading a “non-German” lifestyle.
Or being “work-shy”. Or disabled.
180,000 dead Americans is just icing on the Republican cake!
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 28, 2020
re: #111 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hi from the DNC literally 1 week ago pic.twitter.com/gNbtVeptEh
— Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) August 28, 2020
Got woken up early here by a big thunderstorm. I hadn’t been watching the local news or been near my cell phone yesterday, so I didn’t realize there was a curfew in Mpls. and St. Paul last night starting at 8:00pm because of rioting in Mpls. over a local issue the night before. It looks like things were quiet overnight.
In other StarTrib headlines this morning:
Man charged with threatening to kill Gov. Tim Walz over his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar
“I wasn’t thinking straight when I said those stupid things,” the complaint quoted Simonson as saying. He went on to say he was “feeling sick” about what he said, claimed he was no threat, needs to work on his “anger management” and was just frustrated about government restrictions connected to the coronavirus pandemic and recent urban riots.
He added that he feels that he’s unable to express himself because he is banned from Facebook.
re: #113 stpaulbear
He added that he feels that he’s unable to express himself because he is banned from Facebook.
that is some sick-ass shit.
Remember the 1A “Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech…”
Nothing there about what Jeff Zuckerberg can or cannot restrict.
Best Buy suddenly closed a store in Crossgates Mall in Albany.
This is one of my new favourite Merkel moments. A journalist asks her about Richard Grenell’s claim that Trump “charmed” Merkel. You don’t need to speak German to enjoy her reaction:pic.twitter.com/RSjHSNXXtX
— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) August 28, 2020
Trump got it wrong, again and again. Now it’s time to get it right and vote for Joe Biden: https://t.co/FKyJnIi9Nf pic.twitter.com/QEjCUhE08c
— Chaz Bono (@ChazBono) August 28, 2020
re: #117 Patricia Kayden
This is one of my new favourite Merkel moments. A journalist asks her about Richard Grenell’s claim that Trump “charmed” Merkel. You don’t need to speak German to enjoy her reaction:
“I will not comment on reports about internal conversations”
Cenk will turn if Trump loses. I’m dead certain.
When it’s election season even @realDonaldTrump sounds progressive-bragging about being against wars, doing criminal justice reform, lower prescription drug prices, ending TPP. He has more sense than corporate Democrats who refused to do these obviously popular policies. #rnc2020
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) August 28, 2020
re: #120 Sherlock Hound
Cenk will turn if Trump loses. I’m dead certain.
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No, he just knows there’s a lot of gullible idiots like you, Cenk. He knows you petty assholes will look for any excuse to vote for a Repub when you don’t get catered to.
re: #120 Sherlock Hound
.@JimGaffigan with an epic tweet storm. You should read the whole thing. It took courage to come out so clearly against Trump with his audience. And he gets to the heart of it - Trump is a con man and you know it! https://t.co/evBlTZZFjS
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) August 28, 2020
So, looks like in this part of Czech Republic, we might be in for a wild ride tomorrow. Meteorologists are talking about supercell thunderstorms tomorrow. Big ones.
Yeesh. 😑
Cthulhu help us if we get a tornado….nothing here is built to withstand that kind of natural disaster. It’d be like a modest earthquake - a former student of mine is a geologist and while discussing that subject one day, he noted that no building here could withstand anything over a magnitude 5.
And this is from the People’s Party, those guys who are having a “convention” next Sunday the 30th:
— Jim🌺 #Unity2020 #PeoplesParty #EndWastefulWars (@jmc22000) August 28, 2020
re: #125 Sherlock Hound
Morning. Cenk seems confused.
re: #126 Patricia Kayden
Morning. Cenk seems confused.
Cenk is a purity pony. He wants his Skittles-shitting unicorn and he wants it now, dammit.
Morning Lizards. Happy the RNC is over.
We have an outdoor leak which sent the water bill from 20 dollars to 95. It’s somewhere close to the meter, related to moving the meter when the road was widened at least a decade ago. It’s going to cost a mortgage payment to fix it. Sigh. Once it’s fixed though the water system will refund or credit our account for the extra water “usage”. We have to find a plumber today. Yay.
Lies REPEATED, Graves DUG!#TrumpDeathToll #ResignNow pic.twitter.com/8O3TQcVlwr
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) August 28, 2020
Edit: Incorrect old graphic accidentally UPLOADED, case still MADE… xD
re: #127 Dr Lizardo
Cenk is a purity pony. He wants his Skittles-shitting unicorn and he wants it now, dammit.
I’m thinking of that quote about fandom, about extreme fans eventually hating what they love, often violently. A lot of Berners fit that description. I think Cenk would like RT to give him a contract so he can take their talking points and not have to think. A lapdog job is not bad if the price is right and you can comfortably live the rest of your days without principles.
re: #130 Sherlock Hound
I’m thinking of that quote about fandom, about extreme fans eventually hating what they love, often violently. A lot of Berners fit that description. I think Cenk would like RT to give him a contract so he can take their talking points and not have to think. A lapdog job is not bad if the price is right and you can comfortably live the rest of your days without principles.
Yeah, Cenk would probably be quite content spouting someone else’s propaganda for the rest of his days for a nice paycheck.
And I’ve never understood extreme fandom. That’s hard for me to relate to.
It’s so weird to see Jim Gaffigan go off on twitter against Trump. I’ve listened to several interviews and he is extremely careful to avoid politics. But as he said, paraphrasing, ‘if people think I’m going to ruin my career by doing this, if Trump is re-elected the economy will never come back’ (i.e. who will even have a career to worry about?)
I found the tweet (among many), but I’ll leave my paraphrase up:
to those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back.
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020
re: #101 Dr Lizardo
Gadzooks, what a monster that Antonov is! Landed perfectly.
Leoš Janáček Airport has the only runway in Czech Republic capable of accommodating that beast of an airplane; back in the Cold War era, it was a Soviet airbase. Still, quite a sight to see it coming in over Ostrava.
totally underutilized
The irony of course is more than 10,000 people have died of coronavirus in Florida so that seems like more of an imminent danger. I guess what I’m saying is I hope Fred has a mask and some wipes in there. pic.twitter.com/2QGHWLYIvo
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 28, 2020
This week changed nothing for Trump, except to further expose his lust for autocracy and his party’s descent into monarchism. Now we carry on trying to salvage our democracy. https://t.co/QfTIlrtWWA
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 28, 2020
re: #135 jeffreyw
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In grim statistics, on coronavirus.jhu.edu, the death toll in Brazil and Mexico finally edged slightly higher than the US, with a combined total of 181k, a couple of hundred more than here. The US is the only “advanced” nation where the pandemic is still raging out of control due to our banana republic government. It is staggering that so many Americans are so stupid or racist that Trump still has any chance at all of being reelected.
“But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate we want to get done.”— President Trump, in an interview with the New York Times, when asked about his second term agenda if re-elected
So it’s a good thing:
- USC Dornslife tracking poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally by 13 percentage points, 53% to 40%.
- and a new Navigator Research poll has a similar finding with Biden ahead, 54% to 41%.
Morning all!
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Trumps speech totally panned
Wapo “a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims and revisionist history.”
Politico: “It wasn’t a terribly effective address.
And electoral-vote.com
With Trump, there are two distinct speaking styles. The first is “rally Trump” style, where he’s much more engaged and up-tempo, but he also tends to meander. The second is “teleprompter Trump” style, where he’s more focused and more structured, but his delivery is flat and he adopts an odd cadence where he trails off after every fourth word or so. Somehow, the campaign managed to secure the worst of both worldsWith Trump, there are two distinct speaking styles. The first is “rally Trump” style, where he’s much more engaged and up-tempo, but he also tends to meander. The second is “teleprompter Trump” style, where he’s more focused and more structured, but his delivery is flat and he adopts an odd cadence where he trails off after every fourth word or so. Somehow, the campaign managed to secure the worst of both worlds
re: #57 Dread Pirate Ron
I’ve smoked weed for 50 years this October.
Made me think back to when I first took it up. Has been about 46 years for me.
re: #76 Targetpractice
It’s another Zimmerman case, another white guy who got overconfident until shit went sideways, then panicked and is now going to plead to the court that everything he did was in “self-defense” and he was so scared for his life that he never thought of fleeing until a man lay dead.
The shooter at Kenosha has witnesses. Zimmerman’s was more of a case “He said, other guy couldn’t say because he was murdered”
re: #143 BlueSpotinAL
The shooter at Kenosha has witnesses. Zimmerman’s was more of a case “He said, other guy couldn’t say because he was murdered”
Open carrying a loaded rifle at a protest/demonsrtation/public gathering saddles you with more responsibility to exercise caution and restraint…not less
re: #143 BlueSpotinAL
The shooter at Kenosha has witnesses. Zimmerman’s was more of a case “He said, other guy couldn’t say because he was murdered”
re: #144 dangerman
Open carrying a loaded rifle at a protest/demonsrtation/public gathering saddles you with more responsibility to exercise caution and restraint…not less
My concern is that some of those witnesses will no doubt be Kenosha cops who will absolutely come to his defense and act like he was fighting down a goddamn DOOM horde.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hate to say it, but I am afraid that this fucker will walk and there will be more riots and that is just what a lot of people want to see
He shot white people. Remember that.
re: #137 (((Archangel1)))
Good morning/afternoon to you!
Also, that looks GOOOOD! What seasoning do you use, and what recipe/how do you get the potatoes like that?* This post brought to you by Americans Abroad With Abysmal Access to Quality Ham and Terrible Tater Skills (AAWAAQHTTS) *
Thanks! If I have time I soak the diced potatoes in cold water for a while. When you go to cook them first drain well and air dry or use a kitchen towel to get the wet off. Saute the veggies in a little olive oil over medium heat. It takes some time to get them properly browned - don’t get impatient. Add a pat of butter as it will help the browning process. Don’t add the ham (or corned beef or ?) until the potatoes are the color you want. In this video a fellow explains his method:
re: #146 Belafon
He shot white people. Remember that.
They also indicted him quickly. I doubt he’s acquitted. Mistrial at worst,
re: #82 Dread Pirate Ron
Is 84 dB at 1 meter too loud at 3 AM?
Asking for a friend.
That’s not even triple digits. It’s too quiet!
Many people are asking Where’s Joe? Bastard moves so fast it’s hard to keep up with him. But apparently he’ll be all over your TV tonight with this ad. pic.twitter.com/3e5sdKwhSk
— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) August 27, 2020
re: #120 Sherlock Hound
Cenk will turn if Trump loses. I’m dead certain.
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Fuck Carpetbagger Cenk and his GOP Sugar Daddy Buddy Roemer.
Some big news out of the University of Arizona (@uarizona):
UA scientists & staff found a coronavirus outbreak on campus *before it happened* — and seem to have snuffed it out.
How in the world do you do that?
You use wastewater testing.— (((Charles Fishman))) (@cfishman) August 27, 2020
The short version is that people who are infected with COVID begin to defecate COVID virus traces very quickly after they become infected. This fact plus a very good understanding by the University of Arizona’s staff about their sewage system allowed for the installation of a partial campus disease surveillance and early warning network. Roughly 20 buildings including all occupied dorms’ outflow pipers are monitored. Before students came on campus, all of these dorms had no COVID in their outflow.
Earlier this week, one dorm had a detected spike in COVID virus traces in the sewage. This is a surveillance signal. It was a signal that was good enough to say “PROBLEM IN HOUSE X”.
Soon to be first Second Dude, also known as Mr. Harris:
My only thought watching this nonsense: I’m going to run through walls for @JoeBiden to help him and Kamala get elected. Join me. Enough is enough.
— Doug Emhoff (@DouglasEmhoff) August 28, 2020
re: #152 Belafon
Whole new meaning to Bear Down.
I like it, as I used to live in one of those dorms in the 1980s
Strong infrastructure and information technology to quickly monitor and fight disease, a perfect mission for a land grant college like Arizona
re: #140 Jebediah, RBG
Morning all!
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I’m noticing that wingnuts are melting down on Twitter because someone mentioned that Barron Trump is tall.
Snowflakes.
Plague rats.
“Two attendees and two support staff at the Republican National Convention tested positive for COVID-19, Mecklenburg County officials announced Friday morning.” https://t.co/5s0wljFwwx
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 28, 2020
Here’s the Flood Warning zone: pic.twitter.com/b8oT26T01A
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) August 28, 2020
re: #157 makeitstop
Plague rats.
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Here we go with THE MASQUE OF THE RED STATE DEATH AND THERE’S MORE TO COME!!!!!
re: #140 Jebediah, RBG What kind of dog was Chucky? She looks like my Libby..she is coon hound/english pointer mix
re: #30 The Ghost of a Flea
Whiteness is an MLM where you earn the right to abuse power on your own behalf by acting as goons enacting the abuses of power of higher-up members.
Damn this is on point. Great analogy.
I had missed this little detail: Those robocalls in Michican that were spewing out disinformation about voting there were being done by Jacob Wohl.
re: #117 Patricia Kayden
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re: #150 Belafon
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— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) August 27, 2020
and
Joe Biden told Bloomberg that he will begin traveling to battlegrounds after Labor Day, listing Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona and Pennsylvania as among the states on his itinerary.
Biden said he will “get out safely without jeopardizing peoples’ health.”
A powerful image.
What are YOU doing to change this? To fix this? To make up for this? pic.twitter.com/k3GBDEcntc— Spry Guy (@SpryGuy) August 28, 2020
The #MilwaukeeBucks and five other basketball teams decided to not play their scheduled @NBA playoff games in protest of police shooting Jacob Blake earlier this week. Do Americans support or oppose this decision?
Support - 57%
Oppose - 28%https://t.co/fodndy8OwO pic.twitter.com/IKEj08or7H— YouGov America (@YouGovAmerica) August 28, 2020
re: #158 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #35 Dave In Austin
The quiet part…….
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Of course, they may be reacting this way because they have observed that it’s people of color who are disproportionately dying from this disease, and therefore they don’t really care. Among Republicans who have reported having the disease, only Cain died.
In general though, there are two varieties of Trumpsters: (1) those who believe it’s a hoax and not serious (or only harms “those” people) and (2) those who believe in getting herd immunity by having the disease race through the population and any deaths are an inevitable sacrifice.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Of course, they may be reacting this way because they have observed that it’s people of color who are disproportionately dying from this disease, and therefore they don’t really care. Among Republicans who have reported having the disease, only Cain died.
In general though, there are two varieties of Trumpsters: (1) those who believe it’s a hoax and not serious (or only harms “those” people) and (2) those who believe in getting herd immunity by having the disease race through the population and any deaths are an inevitable sacrifice.
And 3) Religious nuts who believe Jesus will heal them.
I have plenty of #3 in my brainwashed family who insist that COVID is sent from the Devil to undermine Trump.
re: #166 Patricia Kayden
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re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
asking people to die to defend freedom, liberty or justice is one thing, asking them to die so that the 1% don’t have to give up any of the 40% of America’s wealth they already own to help the remaining 99% is another…
But it’s also many small business owners and their employees who view this as a life and death struggle for their businesses — and who are willing to risk their lives to preserve their livelihoods, given the massive government failure (due to the GOP and their corruption) to provide sufficient and a continuing lifeline to support these people. The Democrats have to do more advertising to make the average voter realize that this failure is on the GOP.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
But it’s also many small business owners and their employees who view this as a life and death struggle for their businesses — and who are willing to risk their lives to preserve their livelihoods, given the massive government failure (due to the GOP and their corruption) to provide sufficient and a continuing lifeline to support these people. The Democrats have to do more advertising to make the average voter realize that this failure is on the GOP.
IMO opinion the Democrats need to focus on THREE key issues for the campaign (The Post Office and Pandemic/Stimulus should be two of them, not sure about the third) and just beat the hell out of these issues until November.
Yes, there are other matters for Democrats to deal with and Biden and Harris can tackle them after they get elected but we’re living in a short attention span/sound bite society. That’s why you pick three things most people can easily remember (and are most affected by) and make them the centerpiece of your messaging.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
IMO opinion the Democrats need to focus on THREE key issues for the campaign (The Post Office and Pandemic/Stimulus should be two of them, not sure about the third) and just beat the hell out of these issues until November.
Yes, there are other matters for Democrats to deal with and Biden and Harris can tackle them after they get elected but we’re living in a short attention span/sound bite society. That’s why you pick three things most people can easily remember (and are most affected by) and make them the centerpiece of your messaging.
The third is White Supremacy, or, to put it in more favorable terms, BLM.
re: #173 Belafon
The third is White Supremacy, or, to put it in more favorable terms, BLM.
4th issue—SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE since Trump is hell bent on pulling the plug!
Thread 👇
There is so much we don’t know. If you’re an inquisitive soul interested in facts/truth, COVID is exposing all the fault lines. A virus doesn’t care about owning the Libs or giving tax breaks to billionaires.
Yet, that is how one political party approaches a pandemic https://t.co/YE0O318p65— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) August 28, 2020
re: #169 🌹UOJB!
And 3) Religious nuts who believe Jesus will heal them.
I have plenty of #3 in my brainwashed family who insist that COVID is sent from the Devil to undermine Trump.
that is a horribly 21st century, privileged and self centered / selfish world view
re: #176 dangerman
that is a horribly 21st century, privileged and self centered / selfish world view
I know what’s coming down the road next—they will say Soros is behind COVID. That’s what the racist asshole Pulpit Pimps will recite en bloc…
NYT stares into the maw of kleptocratic fascism and then prints the most banal, out-of-touch headline ever. https://t.co/17jozZGnBw
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 28, 2020
re: #178 jaunte
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re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
IMO opinion the Democrats need to focus on THREE key issues for the campaign (The Post Office and Pandemic/Stimulus should be two of them, not sure about the third) and just beat the hell out of these issues until November.
Yes, there are other matters for Democrats to deal with and Biden and Harris can tackle them after they get elected but we’re living in a short attention span/sound bite society. That’s why you pick three things most people can easily remember (and are most affected by) and make them the centerpiece of your messaging.
For #3 (two possibilities):
—Health Care, especially given GOP efforts to strip it away and the millions who have lost their insurance due to the pandemic.
—Dealing with the racial divide — and emphasizing that the discord and riots are happening in Trump’s America because he refuses to unite us
“Biden, then, should go immediately to Wisconsin, the crucial state that Hillary Clinton infamously ignored. He should meet the Blake family and give them his support and comfort. He should also meet Kenoshans like the small-business owners quoted in the Times piece, who doubt that Democrats care about the wreckage of their dreams. Then, on the burned-out streets, without a script, from the heart, Biden should speak to the city and the country.”
re: #182 dangerman
Seems like a great idea except we are in the middle of a Pandemic so there are safety issues that have to be considered.
“this president is a serial liar”
Quite the fact check from @ddale8 of Trump’s speech. pic.twitter.com/8fITOfExta
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) August 28, 2020
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems like a great idea except we are in the middle of a Pandemic so there are safety issues that have to be considered.
sure
i posted this above in 164
Joe Biden told Bloomberg that he will begin traveling to battlegrounds after Labor Day, listing Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona and Pennsylvania as among the states on his itinerary.
Biden said he will “get out safely without jeopardizing peoples’ health.”
Are we all on the same page now? Are we all in agreement that the President of the United States is a fascist running a fascist party?
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) August 28, 2020
Just in: House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel announces that the committee “will begin work on a resolution holding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt” over his defiance of subpoenas issued by the panel pic.twitter.com/4ZTGxWJwBB
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 28, 2020
re: #187 dangerman
I hope it doesn’t take too long to draft.
re: #187 dangerman
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re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
IMO opinion the Democrats need to focus on THREE key issues for the campaign (The Post Office and Pandemic/Stimulus should be two of them, not sure about the third) and just beat the hell out of these issues until November.
3. Strengthening anti-corruption law enforcement.
re: #187 dangerman
Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
Just in: House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel announces that the committee “will begin work on a resolution holding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt” over his defiance of subpoenas issued by the panel
Given the Department of Injustice is a complicit arm of the Trump crime family, how does this actually mean anything? There is no way to enforce the subpoena, except by going through the courts and by the time there is any decision, it will be well after the election.
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
IMO opinion the Democrats need to focus on THREE key issues for the campaign (The Post Office and Pandemic/Stimulus should be two of them, not sure about the third) and just beat the hell out of these issues until November.
Yes, there are other matters for Democrats to deal with and Biden and Harris can tackle them after they get elected but we’re living in a short attention span/sound bite society. That’s why you pick three things most people can easily remember (and are most affected by) and make them the centerpiece of your messaging.
I’ll put in a vote for the Russian bounties and attacks on our troops. It strikes at the heart of Trump’s tough guy image, and it’s hard to call it Fake News when Russia puts out videos of the attacks just to mock us.
re: #186 dangerman
All except for the 35 or so percent of us that SUPPORT said Fascist party.
Love that the Biden team scarfed up the KeepAmericaGreat domain name.
Inserting this website in MAGA twitter comments is delicious:
keepamericagreat.com
re: #194 dangerman
One of the few things I can begrudgingly give Trump credit for is his ability to be a pretty effective con man. It just fucking sucks when a decent percentage of our population are now marks.
re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter
Given the Department of Injustice is a complicit arm of the Trump crime family, how does this actually mean anything? There is no way to enforce the subpoena, except by going through the courts and by the time there is any decision, it will be well after the election.
To get it on the record for next year, when the new AG starts prosecuting these clowns.
Brazenly flouting the law is a declaration that having a fair, trustworthy government doesn’t matter https://t.co/AMZKbFaPuX
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) August 28, 2020
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the few things I can begrudgingly give Trump credit for is his ability to be a pretty effective con man. It just fucking sucks when a decent percentage of our population are now marks.
as PT Barnum observed, that decent percentage always was
“The Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver, which closed its doors in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has shut down permanently.”https://t.co/5nKp7nAQWT
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) August 28, 2020
re: #198 makeitstop
To get it on the record for next year, when the new AG starts prosecuting these clowns.
Yep. Gotta get the wheels going. DOJ is gonna he busy next year.
re: #201 The Pie Overlord!
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I hope this is just the start of the domino line falling.
re: #203 Eventual Carrion
I hope this is just the start of the domino line falling.
It’s a nice blow to their ego, but I’m not sure how much that hurts the Crime Org financially — they just get paid for use of the name, and I (Edit: wonder) what the expected revenue streams were…
Don’t forget for a moment what they are. pic.twitter.com/kI1OoPz83z
— EnoughWithTheTestingHat (@Popehat) August 28, 2020
A bat? Kid’s got a gun, he can just shoot them.
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems like a great idea except we are in the middle of a Pandemic so there are safety issues that have to be considered.
There are ways to do it safely.
Why Republicans Can Get Away With Violating Laws Democrats Have to Obey
- The Trump administration has effectively turned the law into a dead letter, in following its basic principle that any law that lacks an effective and immediate enforcement mechanism essentially does not exist
- One reason, particular to this administration, is that Trump violates so many norms so flagrantly that he shatters the scale.
- But another, more long-standing, reason is that the two parties operate in structurally different news environments.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
One of the few things I can begrudgingly give Trump credit for is his ability to be a pretty effective con man. It just fucking sucks when a decent percentage of our population are now marks.
Being an effective con artist is perhaps Trump’s one and only strength. He’s like the ultimate used car salesman.
Party of con men.
Notable thing on the right today is that Nicholas Sandman’s lawyers have bamboozled people into thinking he’s gotten big judgments from news orgs defaming him when his lawyers appear in all cases to have settled for small nuisance fees when their cases fell apart.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 28, 2020
re: #206 makeitstop
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A bat? Kid’s got a gun, he can just shoot them.
Kelly is batting a Trump on the number of things wrong in that tweet.
About that clip of Melania fake-smiling at Vanky last night…
is she rebooting pic.twitter.com/YlFhxM7tyb
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) August 28, 2020
Look at her eyes. She’s as jumped up on something as the old man is.
I believe one of these days, we’re going to find out that their was a shit-ton of drug abuse going on in this White House.
re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg
Whiteness is an MLM where you earn the right to abuse power on your own behalf by acting as goons enacting the abuses of power of higher-up members.
Damn this is on point. Great analogy.
Scalzi had a really good analogy for it too… putting it in gamer terms
whatever.scalzi.com
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.
And in other health news:
Alabama man indicted for whipping up suppositories in kitchen; sold them as cancer treatments
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This is what I’m talking about. This should happen in every city that has an NBA team. https://t.co/P8Sz7uGvfT
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) August 28, 2020
This asshole…
Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 28, 2020
Better get used to it, Randy. And tell all your pals on your side of the aisle to learn to live with it, too.
Speaking for me - if I happen to run into any Republican members of this Congress, House or Senate, they’ll be lucky if I don’t spit in their enabling faces.
re: #205 aatharuv
But if the hotel closes, that particular revenue stream closes. Add the nastiness of the Trump name, and they will collapse completely.
re: #216 makeitstop
The footage of the attack looks terrifying. pic.twitter.com/FNqCu3t7X1
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 28, 2020
re: #190 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
What a pretty little girl.
Mr. Jones says a killer mob went after Rand Paul
Roll tape, shot from a distance
Bike cops were shoving people away with their bikes so Paul could go ahead of other people. One got shoved back
The “mob” was primarily police & people w cameras pic.twitter.com/RCAyyuQE5z https://t.co/6Uwr6h0xH8— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) August 28, 2020
re: #216 makeitstop
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Better get used to it, Randy. And tell all your pals on your side of the aisle to learn to live with it, too.
Speaking for me - if I happen to run into any Republican members of this Congress, House or Senate, they’ll be lucky if I don’t spit in their enabling faces.
he was not attacked
nobody touched him
there’s lots of video
at most he was ‘confronted’, and not even that.
(though for some reason he did have a mask on. curious that)
Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to @DCPoliceDept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 28, 2020
re: #206 makeitstop
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re: #216 makeitstop
The attack wasn’t. There’s video: dailykos.com.
Yes, a United States Senator leaving a major political event hosted at the White House, and walking to the president’s private business where he, the president, still profits, is absolutely a shocking scene. https://t.co/dXA3dZMBRV
— burning texas (@ToniinTexas1) August 28, 2020
Lawhawk posted this the other day and Jesus God in heaven, it is turning into the truth at the evil too big to fail employer.
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“Ole Miss football players march to The Square in protest against police brutality.” (via @clarionledger) https://t.co/tlkhd68w4M
— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) August 28, 2020
#BREAKING Ole Miss football team walked out of practice today to protest for racial justice and an end to police brutality. Team is chanting “no justice no peace” at town square pic.twitter.com/t2B3JVJadA
— Jalyn Souchek (@Local24Jalyn) August 28, 2020
re: #216 makeitstop
This asshole…
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Better get used to it, Randy. And tell all your pals on your side of the aisle to learn to live with it, too.
Speaking for me - if I happen to run into any Republican members of this Congress, House or Senate, they’ll be lucky if I don’t spit in their enabling faces.
So Rand hates getting stopped and intimated by people he knows hates him just because of who he is?
There are two bronze plaques on the square those Ole Miss players are standing on; one to commemorate the local white veterans of WW2, and a separate, less expensive one, with the names of the black veterans.
She tied the Mooch for shortest time in the Trump Admin.
On Friday, the F.D.A. commissioner, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, removed Emily Miller, the agency’s chief spokeswoman. The White House had installed Ms. Miller, who had previously worked in communications for the re-election campaign of Senator Ted Cruz and as a journalist for One America News, the conservative cable network, in this post just 11 days ago. Source: NYT
re: #216 makeitstop
This asshole…
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Better get used to it, Randy. And tell all your pals on your side of the aisle to learn to live with it, too.
Speaking for me - if I happen to run into any Republican members of this Congress, House or Senate, they’ll be lucky if I don’t spit in their enabling faces.
70% were reporters.
re: #216 makeitstop
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Better get used to it, Randy. And tell all your pals on your side of the aisle to learn to live with it, too.
Speaking for me - if I happen to run into any Republican members of this Congress, House or Senate, they’ll be lucky if I don’t spit in their enabling faces.
he shouldn’t have been out after curfew
The Ron Paul who was surrounded by a police escort?
Libertarian surrounded by government protections.
re: #155 Barefoot Grin
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re: #160 Broad With Sass
What kind of dog was Chucky? She looks like my Libby..she is coon hound/english pointer mix
Catahoula, which I think isn’t too far from coon hound and other hounds and curs.
NEW: Biden digital ad targets sports fans, showing footage of empty stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The campaign has taken over the YouTube masthead nationwide w/ a 30-second version, as well as CBS Sports
Targeted versions running in AZ, PA, MI, and WI pic.twitter.com/uJQFcHL9uR— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) August 28, 2020
It goes without saying white Democrats will be important to this election.
They’ll have an easier time voting than minorities so even more reason to get out and do it. Use your power to help those that don’t have it.
BREAKING: The House announces contempt proceedings against Sec. State Pompeo.
— A Worried Citizen (@ThePubliusUSA) August 28, 2020
re: #240 dangerman
Say it with me, Sam L Jackson style: It’s ABOUT MOTHERFUCKING TIME!
re: #221 dangerman
at most he was ‘confronted’, and not even that.
(though for some reason he did have a mask on. curious that)
Probably because he didn’t want to be recognized?
(only 1/2 ///)
Overnight ratings for the fourth and final night of the conventions.
Six networks combined (FNC/CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC). Ratings are for the duration of each nominee’s speech only:
Democratic / Biden - 17.5
Republican / Trump - 14.1— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) August 28, 2020
More Americans have died the past four months — in Donald Trump’s America — than any four month period in US history. https://t.co/CDPj7oDnil
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) August 27, 2020
re: #212 makeitstop
About that clip of Melania fake-smiling at Vanky last night…
Look at her eyes. She’s as jumped up on something as the old man is.
I believe one of these days, we’re going to find out that their was a shit-ton of drug abuse going on in this White House.
You mean like Norman Ohler’s book “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany”?
amazon.com it won’t be 70 years before it’s all documented.
re: #244 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Oh, Donnie won’t be happy about that.
re: #186 dangerman
Are we all on the same page now? Are we all in agreement that the President of the United States is a fascist running a fascist party?
Y’all make that sound like it’s a bad thing…
re: #244 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
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re: #249 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So Trump will next be bragging about how the ratings are lies and fake news.
or that 14 > 17
re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh, Donnie won’t be happy about that.
I suspect the TV ratings system is something he’ll have a hard time really convincing himself is fake news. He’ll scream and bluster, but he’s spent a couple of decades propping up his ego with “I’m king of the ratings!!”
sports teams are gonna save our democracy
Full release from the NBA and NBPA: Social justice coalition being formed; team governors working to convert all arenas into location for 2020 general election; advertisement spots to promote civic engagement and awareness. pic.twitter.com/piU3gmOxgh
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 28, 2020
From the BBC
Jacob Blake handcuffed to his hospital bed, family say
“Lt Eric Klinkhammer, of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, told the BBC: “Mr Blake is in custody for previous felony warrants. Our policy indicates that all people in custody outside of our jail facility shall be secured with restraints.”
He could crawl away on his elbows!
re: #253 dangerman
Full release from the NBA and NBPA: Social justice coalition being formed; team governors working to convert all arenas into location for 2020 general election; advertisement spots to promote civic engagement and awareness.
Imagine that, a private organization becoming politically active…
Ohio’s Democratic mayors flip the script on ‘defund the police’ claims by Donald Trump, saying the president is the one holding up funding for local law enforcement agencieshttps://t.co/GBYfi1VCNM
— Darrel Rowland (@darreldrowland) August 28, 2020
re: #245 dangerman
Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
More Americans have died the past four months — in Donald Trump’s America — than any four month period in US history.
Let’s be fair — that is deceptive because there are more people living here than any time in American history. Deaths as a percentage of population would be more apples-to-apples comparison (sort of) but can still be misleading because it ignores the age distribution of population. I wonder what the statistics were like during the last great epidemic, which appeared to be a far more lethal disease.
re: #249 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So Trump will next be bragging about how the ratings are lies and fake news.
Everything you know is wrong!
//
re: #251 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
I suspect the TV ratings system is something he’ll have a hard time really convincing himself is fake news. He’ll scream and bluster, but he’s spent a couple of decades propping up his ego with “I’m king of the ratings!!”
Streaming!! He’ll make up streaming statistics and add them in. If he wanted a larger audience, maybe he should have scheduled his speech for an earlier time?
Joe Biden campaign convention pushback:
“In Donald Trump’s America, safety is pitted against justice, Americans are pitted against one another, and the violence that Trump warns of plays out on the streets of communities across our country — stoked by his own words and actions”— Darrel Rowland (@darreldrowland) August 28, 2020
re: #244 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Democratic / Biden - 17.5
Republican / Trump - 14.1
Dad’s gonna be mad.
re: #233 jaunte
The Ron Paul who was surrounded by a police escort?
Nowhere in the Constitution does it establish a civilian police force. So much for “original Constitutionalists.” Private security firms exist that would love to be employed by Rand Paul and pocket his money.
Phony.
re: #260 Hecuba’s daughter
Streaming!! He’ll make up streaming statistics and add them in. If he wanted a larger audience, maybe he should have scheduled his speech for an earlier time?
I can hear it now.
Baron … you know Baron is good with the cyber … Baron told me that I have profound streaming numbers. Numbers so beautiful that the generals … you know I have the best generals … couldn’t stop crying about my beautiful numbers. Not even Abraham Lincoln or George Washington had streaming numbers like this. Best numbers in history.
re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s be fair — that is deceptive because there are more people living here than any time in American history. Deaths as a percentage of population would be more apples-to-apples comparison (sort of) but can still be misleading because it ignores the age distribution of population. I wonder what the statistics were like during the last great epidemic, which appeared to be a far more lethal disease.
In 1918, the US population was 103 million.
In 1940, the US population was 132 million
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine that, a private organization becoming politically active…
Can’t let just any org get the power and influence of say … the NRA
re: #219 plansbandc
What a pretty little girl.
Just FYI, there’s no real difference from the males in size, just a shorter tail.
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine that, a private organization becoming politically active…
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Imagine that, a private organization becoming politically active…
“Get out the vote” is considered nonpolitical, as iit should be.
re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s be fair — that is deceptive because there are more people living here than any time in American history. Deaths as a percentage of population would be more apples-to-apples comparison (sort of) but can still be misleading because it ignores the age distribution of population. I wonder what the statistics were like during the last great epidemic, which appeared to be a far more lethal disease.
No, let’s not be “honest.” For one thing, the statement is accurate. For another, we’re not talking about piles of potatoes here, we’re talking about human souls.
Anyway, in past massive epidemics, there were no antibiotics (secondary infections) no ventilators, no intensive care nurses, etc. There should be far fewer casualties. I don’t need to remind anyone here that we’re talking about criminal neglect.
re: #192 Hecuba’s daughter
it shuts up those that use the repeated refrain, “what are the Democrats doing about it?” Sometimes symbolic gestures are better than no gestures at all and its for damn sure that if it comes to a vote, then you have the GOP endorsing the violation of established law, for what exactly?