They cannot win without their base, and those people need Red Meat.
If I watched that I would lose brain cells and I need every one I still have.
AM I TOO LATE? DID I MISS THE 1st “LOCK HER UP” CHANT?
Whomp, whomp:
I noticed that the NRA was missing from the sponsor list last week, asked for a reason why, no answer.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 24, 2021
When you’ve earned the name “Deathsantis,” by trying to kill your way through a pandemic, you’re pretty much locked into covid denial. How often does someone say “I’m sorry I was a homicidal imbecile” outside of a courtroom?
re: #3 b.d. (America is Great Again)
AM I TOO LATE? DID I MISS THE 1st “LOCK HER UP” CHANT?
No, but they already did the FREEDUMB for the convention center and CPAC leaders insisting participants/guests mask up properly.
re: #4 b.d. (America is Great Again)
There was a YouTube ad playing during a video I was watching that had people saying “Dear San Francisco” for 25 seconds before I figured out it was an NRA ad. I skipped the punchline so I dont know what they were saying.
re: #7 Belafon
There was a YouTube ad playing during a video I was watching that had people saying “Dear San Francisco” for 25 seconds before I figured out it was an NRA ad. I skipped the punchline so I dont know what they were saying.
There are so many things you can bonk San Francisco for - starting with the hypocrisy inherent in the building codes.
Wanna watch a pretentious tech leftie start hyperventilating? Tell them there’s going to be a high-density apartment building going up on their block that will house some of the homeless they keep moaning about.
NIMBYism is killing California.
The Arizona legislature has a couple of bills to allow it to appoint presidential electors after election day, regardless of how the voters vote. With Mitch McConnell endorsing the Trump 2024 campaign, there is no doubt we will be facing a major crisis when the GOP tries to make him dictator. This is why Trump must be indicted for his crimes, in as many jurisdictions as possible. If he is in prison, it makes it exponentially harder for him to run for President successfully.
This is an example of just how desperate the GOP is to block voters from deciding elections.https://t.co/sZAM3ApESj
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 26, 2021
re: #9 No Malarkey!
The Arizona legislature has a couple of bills to allow it to appoint presidential electors after election day, regardless of how the voters vote.
I recall reading that the Navajo and Hualapai Reservations voted overwhelmingly for Biden, 80% or more.
So yes, disenfreanchizing minorities…
My feeling is that the Trump name will widely be seen as rotting garbage by 2024, but we’ll need to do something about that Arizona move or we may end up with something like “President Hawley”.
The overriding theme of CPAC this year is frantically hyping non-existent voter fraud, as a pretext for enacting legislation to disenfranchise minority voters.
They’re trying to ride the noxious wave of garbage Donald Trump stirred up into permanent dominion.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 26, 2021
Someone should ask Sinema how she feels about Republicans in her state wanting to be able to overturn an election.
re: #9 No Malarkey!
The Arizona legislature has a couple of bills to allow it to appoint presidential electors after election day, regardless of how the voters vote. With Mitch McConnell endorsing the Trump 2024 campaign, there is no doubt we will be facing a major crisis when the GOP tries to make him dictator. This is why Trump must be indicted for his crimes, in as many jurisdictions as possible. If he is in prison, it makes it exponentially harder for him to run for President successfully.
1. Are these bills even Constitutional?
2. If one were to ever pass, I’m sure the GOP would shit their pants the first time a Democratic legislature were to use this power against them.
re: #11 stpaulbear
My feeling is that the Trump name will widely be seen as rotting garbage by 2024, but we’ll need to do something about that Arizona move or we may end up with something like “President Hawley”.
Trump has a formula of performative cruelty plus lies and promises that addressed his base’s self-satisfaction needs. The question will now be whether anyone else can emulate or elaborate on that style (in the way that Trump is elaborating on Rush Limbaugh).
We’re watching the process of performers trying to adopt the genre, each importing their own spin.
On the topic of this thread, every generation must be taught what conservatism really is.
re: #276 darthstar
It’s a cult.
Needz moar Mooby.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
1. Are these bills even Constitutional?
That’s the problem. Because the Constitution says, “The state legislatures get to decide how electors are appointed,” they could literally pass a law that says, “Only Republican electors will be appointed in this state,” and it would satisfy the requirements of the Constitution. Undoubtedly it would be appealed straight up to the Supreme Court, and with the Court the way it is right now… eeeeeesh. I don’t feel good.
re: #15 The Ghost of a Flea
Trump has a formula of performative cruelty plus lies and promises that addressed his base’s self-satisfaction needs. The question will now be whether anyone else can emulate or elaborate on that style
Josh Hawley seems to be positioning himself well. Even though he is a college-educated politician, he has managed to market himself as a “man of the people”.
re: #17 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That’s the problem. Because the Constitution says, “The state legislatures get to decide how electors are appointed,” they could literally pass a law that says, “Only Republican electors will be appointed in this state,” and it would satisfy the requirements of the Constitution. Undoubtedly it would be appealed straight up to the Supreme Court, and with the Court the way it is right now… eeeeeesh. I don’t feel good.
I’m confident that a law that literally said that would be unconstitutional, even with this Court, because it denies equal protection to Democrats. However, what the Arizona legislature is doing is shifting certification of the election results from state officials to itself, and they would refuse to certify a Democrat winning due to “election fraud.”
re: #19 No Malarkey!
I’m confident that a law that literally said that would be unconstitutional, even with this Court, because it denies equal protection to Democrats. However, what the Arizona legislature is doing is shifting certification of the election results from state officials to itself, and they would refuse to certify a Democrat winning due to “election fraud.”
They simply had the problem that a handful of GOP state officials had some shreds of decency remaining. GOP State Legislators do not seem to have that problem…
TFW you realize our whole system of government has been run on good faith.
re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Josh Hawley seems to be positioning himself well. Even though he is a college-educated politician, he has managed to market himself as a “man of the people”.
I think, however, that a big part of Trump’s appeal to his cult is because he is so authentically crude. Hawley can’t recreate that, which makes me hopeful that he can’t inspire the Trump base to get out and vote. Remember in 2016 when Rubio tried to swap insults with Trump? He just came off as pathetic.
re: #21 IngisKahn
TFW you realize our whole system of government has been run on good faith.
The only types of governments that don’t run on that are authoritarian ones.
re: #21 IngisKahn
TFW you realize our whole system of government has been run on good faith.
Especially our electoral system. Good faith with a minimum of mutual oversight and control. But good faith no longer exists and the controls are not sufficient to prevent the GOP from being able to make believable (although not necessarily credible) charges of fraud and irregularities.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes. The way states allocate electors is up to them. There would probably be a wholesale nationwide screaming fit that makes the…problems we had over the summer look like a friendly game of cards.
And of course, if you’re denied the ballot box and the jury box, and the soapbox…then you’re quickly running out of boxes that can be used to effect change in the government that do not contain large amounts of brass and lead
re: #13 Belafon
Someone should ask Sinema how she feels about Republicans in her state wanting to be able to overturn an election.
ask her how she feels about Republicans opposing the equality act
re: #23 Belafon
The only types of governments that don’t run on that are authoritarian ones.
So what you are saying is that this is why we will no no longer be able to have nice things…
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They simply had the problem that a handful of GOP state officials had some shreds of decency remaining. GOP State Legislators do not seem to have that problem…
People who worked hard to run a fair election aren’t inclined to say they completely botched it. GOP Legislators will have no qualms about refusing to accept any result other than a Trump victory.
re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So what you are saying is that this is why we will no no longer be able to have nice things…
We have to get back to people of good character being in government, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get there.
That is what happens when your only agenda is plundering the nation for oligarchs. That doesn’t have much appeal to 99.9% of voters, so you have to lie to them to get them to the polls. Unfortunately, they have Fox News and other propaganda organs to lie incessantly for them.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 26, 2021
Those of you responding to this by saying you only recognize Hercules are ONLY PROVING THEM RIGHT!
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 26, 2021
I don’t watch Kevin Sorbo movies because they are horrible movies. I have no idea who the other two fuckers are.
re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg
1. Are these bills even Constitutional?
2. If one were to ever pass, I’m sure the GOP would shit their pants the first time a Democratic legislature were to use this power against them.
They’d nullify it on their way out the door
re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron
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I don’t watch Kevin Sorbo movies because they are horrible movies. I have no idea who the other two fuckers are.
“Punished”=didn’t give me job i didn’t deserve because I’m a meh actor
To the outside world, it seems strange that Republicans would not only tolerate this but in many cases actively encourage it. Trump’s appeal to his party was rooted in his reality-television-corroborated claim to be a lifelong winner. Come to Trump’s side, he promised incessantly, and you will win so much you’ll get tired of it. What value does he still have now? When previous defeated presidents were discarded, why cling to the one whose value proposition was based on never being a loser?”“An important part of the answer is that, seen through Republican eyes, Trump didn’t lose at all.”
Nymag
That last sentence!
re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron
I don’t watch Kevin Sorbo movies because they are horrible movies. I have no idea who the other two fuckers are.
Reminds me of R. Lee Ermey whining about being blackballed, not bringing up the fact that there aren’t many parts for a 70 year old drill sergeant.
re: #35 b.d. (America is Great Again)
Reminds me of R. Lee Ermey whining about being blackballed, not bringing up the fact that there aren’t many parts for a 70 year old drill sergeant.
some people are just so identified with one particular role that they stand little chance of being cast anywhere else.
I ain’t watching no CPAC. Fuck those assholes.
Friday pic.twitter.com/4RkmSmM3QE
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 26, 2021
Kevin Sorbo has a net worth of around $10 million. Boo fucking hoo.
re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg
Kevin Sorbo has a net worth of around $10 million. Boo fucking hoo.
But he gave it all to the “Stop the Steal” folks, after buying some pillows.
To sum up, we have to bomb targets in Syria without authorization to protect the troops that are in Iraq without authorization in order to pursue an unauthorized anti-ISIS mission that is really just an excuse to keep troops in the country for anti-Iranian reasons.
— Daniel Larison (@DanielLarison) February 26, 2021
Short thread.
re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron
I don’t watch Kevin Sorbo movies because they are horrible movies. I have no idea who the other two fuckers are.
I watched Andromeda when it was first on, but called it the “Kevin Sorbo ego hour.” It was pretty ridiculous, and this was long before I knew he was a poor persecuted bigot.
re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg
Kevin Sorbo has a net worth of around $10 million. Boo fucking hoo.
That’s a lot of money for someone as low-skilled as Sorbo.
This nazi sure lies a lot. https://t.co/66ulDflyGO
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) February 26, 2021
re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron
they want a weak government that is not able to defend your liberties…
re: #35 b.d. (America is Great Again)
Reminds me of R. Lee Ermey whining about being blackballed, not bringing up the fact that there aren’t many parts for a 70 year old drill sergeant.
Type casting a guy who got a job as a drill sergeant because Kubrick saw him prepping his actors and gave Ermey a job over the actor who was going to be the Gunnery Sergeant Hartman role.
Gee, who’da thunk that? He had a nice career in those kinds of roles. Heck, there are guys like Clancy Brown who not only get typecast as the “bad guy” or voice actor or niche roles. Not everyone can be a star, but not everyone agrees that they can do so.
re: #45 lawhawk
We haven’t seen Elijah Wood or Daniel Radcliffe in any major roles: it is still hard not to see them as Frodo or Harry Potter.
Jim “Sheldon” Parsons had one role in Hidden Figures where he plays a rocket scientist with limited social skills…
Although he just released a Netflix film, a remake of The Boys in the Band, which is very much a personal-interest niche project
You almost hate to see it…nah…you fuckin’ love to see it.
Sucks when your wife’s daddy loses his job and can’t protect you anymore from paying your bills. https://t.co/1I5tXJGXAl via @business
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 26, 2021
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m not a big fan of Parsons, but his character portrayal in Hidden Figures was spot on. I know he’s done a couple of Broadway shows too.
He’s going to get opportunities.
He’s a fascist. We need to stop tiptoeing around the sensitive feelings of fascists.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 26, 2021
So how long until Jared gets indicted for the murder of Khashoggi?
re: #47 darthstar
You almost hate to see it…nah…you fuckin’ love to see it.
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Jesus - Jared’s a fuck up.
The property was running into trouble even before the pandemic turned Times Square into a ghost town. Rent income was falling short of interest payments on the debt back in November 2019.
A month later, the loan was transferred to special servicing “due to imminent monetary default,” according to Wells Fargo
re: #50 🌹UOJB!
So how long until Jared gets indicted for the murder of Khashoggi?
Give it a month or two. Trump will turn him in in a plea deal with New York.
re: #48 lawhawk
I’m not a big fan of Parsons, but his character portrayal in Hidden Figures was spot on. I know he’s done a couple of Broadway shows too.
He’s going to get opportunities.
I’m getting ready to drop Hulu and add Broadway HD, to broaden my entertainment options.
re: #49 Punish Domestic Terrorists
[Tom Cotton is] a fascist. We need to stop tiptoeing around the sensitive feelings of fascists.
We just Heard Cancun Ted brag about how there were no BLM protests in Texas because of all the 2nd Amendment supporters there…
re: #50 🌹UOJB!
So how long until Jared gets indicted for the murder of Khashoggi?
I would at least like to see him called as a material witness
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
[Tom Cotton is] a fascist. We need to stop tiptoeing around the sensitive feelings of fascists.
We just Heard Cancun Ted brag about how there were no BLM protests in Texas because of all the 2nd Amendment supporters there…
Which is a lie. There was a BLM demonstration in Rockwall after Floyd’s murder.
Edit: And if it happened in Rockwall, it was happening everywhere.
re: #56 Belafon
Which is a lie. There was a BLM demonstration in Rockwall after Floyd’s murder.
It came out of Ted Gruz’ churro hole. What do you expect?
This is from 2018.
More likely he knew of it from Kushner b4 it happened.-Then US Intel said it was coming.-Then US Intel told Haley, bc Kush, Trump, Pompeo wouldn’t stop it.-Haley told to back off, Jared will handle it.-Khashoggi killed Oct 2-Haley resigns Oct 3-US & Turk Intel let story out
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) October 17, 2018
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ted should read his home town paper.
houstonchronicle.com
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
[Tom Cotton is] a fascist. We need to stop tiptoeing around the sensitive feelings of fascists.
We just Heard Cancun Ted brag about how there were no BLM protests in Texas because of all the 2nd Amendment supporters there…
Yep. He feels so comfortable there that he can talk about murdering uppity black people. This is what CPAC is, and someone should drop an asteroid on the conference. Has Varek been around lately?
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would at least like to see him called as a material witness
That’ll be Ivanka trying to save her own ass by testifying against her husband.
re: #53 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m getting ready to drop Hulu and add Broadway HD, to broaden my entertainment options.
The Mrs. and I did an “advent” calendar of sorts leading up to inauguration day.
Giving each other a Broadway show on dvd a night.
re: #60 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yep. He feels so comfortable there that he can talk about murdering uppity black people. This is what CPAC is, and someone should drop an asteroid on the conference. Has Varek been around lately?
THIS - he fantasized openly about murdering black people for applause at CPAC.
The McInerney account appears to be just another QAnon promoter using McInerney’s name to win more followers to the conspiracy theory. On Thursday, the account’s owner claimed that Trump’s upcoming speech Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference qualifies as a State of the Union address, meaning that Trump is still the president.
Still, the bogus accounts have proved to be more successful at attracting Telegram followers than genuine Trump allies on the platform.
The fake McInerney page has nearly 160,000 subscribers, with each post viewed more than 100,000 times. By comparison, former Trump adviser Roger Stone has less than 30,000 followers on his real Telegram page, while InfoWars figure Paul Joseph Watson has 43,000 followers. Former overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, who met with Trump and his advisers in a heated meeting in the final days of the Trump administration and has since emerged as a leading election fraud conspiracy theorist, has 65,000 followers.
re: #50 🌹UOJB!
So how long until Jared gets indicted for the murder of Khashoggi?
There’s no evidence that he actually committed it, so don’t hold your breath. Accessory, maybe.
re: #65 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
There’s no evidence that he actually committed it, so don’t hold your breath. Accessory, maybe.
I’d be happy if he was charged with selling state secrets.
Teh Stoopid is a feature, not a bug, with these people:
Many of the Telegram newcomers found that some of MAGAworld’s biggest stars had joined them. Donald Trump himself was on the app, amassing more than 200,000 followers within a few days. So was Melania Trump, posting herself to Telegram as “Lady Melania Trump.” Air Force General John Hyten joined the app and began issuing cryptic, QAnon-style pronouncements that thrilled believers eager to see President Joe Biden arrested and Trump returned to power.
Except all of the accounts, including the accounts representing both Trumps and Hyten, were fake. Many of them were later removed, or marked as scams on the app. Despite that, QAnon believers soon started taking the fake accounts’ pronouncements as genuine, as though they really were coming from the Trumps or Hyten.
Makes it to easy to exploit & fleece them.
Ken Paxton is scheduled for CPAC. Someone give Fetterman a heads-up.
re: #66 darthstar
I’d be happy if he was charged with selling state secrets.
I’d be happy to see him poor and ostracized, but I clearly settle for too little.
re: #67 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Teh Stoopid is a feature, not a bug, with these people:
Makes it to easy to exploit & fleece them.
That is what Conservatives are for. Conservative media has been selling idiots to grifters selling them garbage for my entire lifetime. There’s no reason not to move up into worse and worse scams.
re: #40 retired cynic
Is the complete non-mention of AUMF deliberate?
Along with this:
Civilian contractor killed, U.S. service member wounded in Iraq attack https://t.co/JJHtaasIbD
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 15, 2021
re: #65 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
There’s no evidence that he actually committed it, so don’t hold your breath. Accessory, maybe.
In Texas, the getaway driver is as guilty as the triggerman.
How are US-China relations going, you ask? pic.twitter.com/gRq6pyt8Hq
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 26, 2021
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
In Texas, the getaway driver is as guilty as the triggerman.
Hard to be a getaway driver when you’re in a different country.
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
To be fair, they do that to everyone.
Six years goes by fast!!
so it’s been 6 years since this happenedhttps://t.co/mF0rwbWIgX pic.twitter.com/VGLV0mIR26
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) February 26, 2021
re: #74 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Hard to be a getaway driver when you’re in a different country.
I was speaking figuratively. If Jared helped them get away with it, just as a low class getaway driver does for bank robbers, he would be guilty under the same doctrine. And I am aware that the doctrine does not apply to international crimes. It should though.
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I was speaking figuratively. If Jared helped them get away with it, just as a low class getaway driver does for bank robbers, he would be guilty under the same doctrine. And I am aware that the doctrine does not apply to international crimes. It should though.
Well, that’s the thing. I don’t see how he could have done anything significant — Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey, by Saudis. The worst JK could have done (plenty bad, I agree) was to say the US wasn’t getting involved in the matter. So accessory maybe, nothing more.
Let’s not forget the fact that SA and MBS are the ones who did the deed.
This looks like the famously hideous Nathan Bedford statue in Nashville. The guy who designed that monstrosity, segregationist throwback Jack Kershaw, died in 2010 but I wonder if he might have had disciples or an understudy?
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #79 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The golden jackass at CPAC is probably made of plastic. It’s a gathering of phonies.
Hawley gets a standing ovation after he brings up his January 6 vote to overthrow a free and fair election and Joe Biden won pic.twitter.com/55rsSGBZNs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 26, 2021
re: #325 lawhawk
And a modern interpretation of the Adam’s rib story would actually suggest a more fluid gender identity than a binary male/female since the “female Eve” was created out of the male “Adam’s rib”.
The 8 Genders of the Talmud (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
re: #78 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Well, that’s the thing. I don’t see how he could have done anything significant — Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey, by Saudis. The worst JK could have done (plenty bad, I agree) was to say the US wasn’t getting involved in the matter. So accessory maybe, nothing more.
Let’s not forget the fact that SA and MBS are the ones who did the deed.
As you say, the worst crime is likely accessory before the fact. Neither Jared nor Trump could be prosecuted under the law, but they could be banished permanently from polite society and subject to constant excoriation by the media. Of course, it would not affect the GOP base at all. If the death of 500,000 American citizens is dismissed by the GOP and its base, the death of a single foreign resident would be dismissed out of hand.
So it’s traitor day at CPAC? pic.twitter.com/OVlYmeMBxG
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 26, 2021
Hawley urges the breaking up all of the huge multinational corporations, not just Big Tech: “In the name of the good of the people.”
“That’s what it means when the people rule.”— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) February 26, 2021
Explains everything……
He’s dead wrong for that pic.twitter.com/fKuIS5IJ4U
— Best Videos 🎬🍿 (@30SECVlDEOS) February 26, 2021
re: #373 darthstar
google your birthday #1 movie and follow the wikipedia link for your year
Or change the year in the URL below
en.wikipedia.org
#3 Psycho
#2 South Pacific
#1 Ben-Hur
The members include Rep. Matt Gaetz — as well as some of Trump’s staunchest defenders who are listed as speakers, like Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Ted Budd of North Carolina. https://t.co/mKHI2X00fu
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 26, 2021
The letters say: “I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency.”
The House has had several votes on Friday and is scheduled to take up the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill in the evening— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 26, 2021
re: #88 jaunte
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Does that mean Exxon, Koch Industries, Bank of America, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola?
re: #88 jaunte
We’re going to miss the days when Republicans at least pretended to be small-government Conservatives.
re: #91 Belafon
re: #88 jaunte
This makes me laugh so hard.
And with that statement, he just doomed whatever Presidential aspirations he was holding on to.
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
So, can these “excuse” letters be challenged in the House and be declared null and void?
re: #95 Eric The Fruit Bat
And with that statement, he just doomed whatever Presidential aspirations he was holding on to.
It’s not like he said he’s coming for their guns. He’d be doomed if more than 20% of the Republican party was still Conservative, rather than fascist, but those days are over.
re: #97 steve_davis
My cat. “I can see that you’re busy in the kitchen, so to stay out of your way, I’ll wait until you start to move and then I’ll try to guess where you are going so I can be there before you arrive.”
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Hehehheheheh. Yep. Or in the middle of the night when I’m trying to get to the bathroom and she runs ahead of me and flops on the floor in the narrowest part of the hallway…
re: #87 🌹UOJB!
Remember the 2008 collapse when Christians prayed AND laid their hands on this?
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One of my favorite pictures of these false prophets and cons. That’s “profit” Cindy Jacobs in the red coat in the center of the picture.
Ted Cruz’s colleagues mocked him by putting memes of his Cancun trip in the Senate gym locker room: ‘Bienvenido de Nuevo, Ted!’ https://t.co/49B9MtEt1B
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) February 26, 2021
re: #102 Belafon
As you flew off to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun with your family and close friends on a last minute trip to escape TX power outages, lack of water, and resources, you showed that you’re such a man of the people.
Liar.
You’re a corrupt elitist who scams the misinformed GOP base.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) February 26, 2021
re: #98 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s not like he said he’s coming for their guns. He’d be doomed if more than 20% of the Republican party was still Conservative, rather than fascist, but those days are over.
Note: Fascism is conservatism.
Wind back to Joe McCarthy. He was a fascist. J. Edger Hoover was too. The John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan (before the term fascist existed) was fascist.
There has never been a time in my sixty years the GOP wasn’t fascist; they’re just more open about it now.
re: #99 William Lewis
Hehehheheheh. Yep. Or in the middle of the night when I’m trying to get to the bathroom and she runs ahead of me and flops on the floor in the narrowest part of the hallway…
Mine guards me when I’m in there, but only if I’m seated. She’ll come and require me to bend down to pet her a few times, and then she goes back out to the hallway and lies down facing away, but looking over her shoulder at me from time to time. “No pressure. Don’t mind my continually looking back to see if you’ve finally managed to do what you’re in there doing.”
John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of the Russia probe, announces he is resigning effective at midnight tomorrow. https://t.co/eF3tZSGpx9
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 26, 2021
Local computer stuff. My wife is the software guru (as she has the computer science degree), and I’m the hardware guru (a lifetime of electronics work).
She says “honey, the sound on my computer isn’t working” (she’s trying to watch a YouTube video).
Me: “Do you have your speakers turned all the way down?”
“No,” she says, “I checked.”
Go over, check the volume setting in Windows, in Firefox, in YouTube. Nada. Check the audio plug at the back of her bass speakers, and in the back of the computer. All good.
“Well, I put my computer in sleep last night, it was working then.”
She tries shutting it all the way down and starts again. Still nada.
I go over to the manual volume control and turn it up. Fixed.
oops
Deleted a thread because Durham’s apparently not retiring from DOJ altogether. He may blow this case wide open yet! https://t.co/K7WPF5Z97x
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 26, 2021
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Note: Fascism is conservatism.
Wind back to Joe McCarthy. He was a fascist. J. Edger Hoover was too. The John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan (before the term fascist existed) was fascist.
There has never been a time in my sixty years the GOP wasn’t fascist; they’re just more open about it now.
Indeed.
Apply Eco’s Ur-fascist checklist to the slaveholding South—antebellum and postbellum Redemption—and you can make a pretty good argument it was a fascist state inside the US state.
I continue to be amazed that it is not universally understood that Donald Trump is a domestic terror leader
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 26, 2021
re: #29 Belafon
We have to get back to people of good character being in government, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get there.
Especially since that means we need to get rid of the Republicans from government.
Tl;dr - The shape of the stage looks a lot like a symbol used by Nazi Germany, and by neo-Nazi groups after World War II.
When you stage is an actual?? WTAF
look closer. this is not an accident. pic.twitter.com/ShhcfBDNNi— Reesus Patriot™ (@ReesusP) February 26, 2021
The theory that the concrete benefits to Americans of the alliance with Saudi Arabia outweighs the moral scandalousness of the Saudi regime founders on the reality that there are no such benefits.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 26, 2021
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They cannot win without their base, and those people need Red Meat.
They can’t win without suppressing the votes of POCs.
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
[Tom Cotton is] a fascist. We need to stop tiptoeing around the sensitive feelings of fascists.
We just Heard Cancun Ted brag about how there were no BLM protests in Texas because of all the 2nd Amendment supporters there…
All conservatives lie. The burden of proof is on a conservative to present evidence they are not.
George Floyd Protests in Texas (huge list and descriptions from Wikipedia)
hawley, by contrast, has hapless substitute teacher energy
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 26, 2021
re: #118 No Malarkey!
i’m just going to keep saying it whenever a clip of this guy speaking makes the rounds: he just does not have the juice https://t.co/TQUNA2prXF
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 26, 2021
re: #113 thecommodore
Tl;dr - The shape of the stage looks a lot like a symbol used by Nazi Germany, and by neo-Nazi groups after World War II.
Doing it (deniably) in plain sight seems to be basic to the shtick.
Othala Rune
This kid hugging his little brother during the soccer match is just what I needed today… pic.twitter.com/49zpybaVUN
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 26, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — US expert panel endorses Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine; FDA will make final decision soon.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 26, 2021
There are now 13 Republicans we have counted who signed letter saying they can’t attend votes today because of pandemic - but are listed as CPAC speakers. Many of them critics of voting by proxy. (GOP points to House Dems who’ve done similar in the past.) https://t.co/mKHI2X00fu
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 26, 2021
re: #78 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Well, that’s the thing. I don’t see how he could have done anything significant — Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey, by Saudis. The worst JK could have done (plenty bad, I agree) was to say the US wasn’t getting involved in the matter. So accessory maybe, nothing more.
Let’s not forget the fact that SA and MBS are the ones who did the deed.
Felony murder rule. If Kushner gave Saudi Arabia the information they needed to intercept Kashoggi to kill him, and Kushner knew they were going to do that, he could be charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
re: #121 Decatur Deb
I suppose I can’t rule out that the set designer is a Pepe playing a prank. That CPAC organizers themselves are in on it is a bit far-fetched without further evidence.
re: #126 Nyet
I suppose I can’t rule out that the set designer is a Pepe playing a prank. That CPAC organizers themselves are in on it is a bit far-fetched without further evidence.
Nonetheless, it is there.
Here it is on a SS uniform. Again, am sure it is a coincidence. https://t.co/g4oFjQgz2Y
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) February 26, 2021
re: #130 Decatur Deb
Or morale call to the faithful.
It’s an Easter egg to make the Nazis feel clever.
Judge just ruled the leader of the Oath Keepers must stay in jail while awaiting trial for role in Jan 6 Capitol attack.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 26, 2021
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Felony murder rule. If Kushner gave Saudi Arabia the information they needed to intercept Kashoggi to kill him, and Kushner knew they were going to do that, he could be charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
If.
Khashoggi needed to go to the embassy for a marriage license, that’s how they got him. By his own appointment.
re: #131 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s an Easter egg to make the Nazis feel clever.
The equivalent of the OK sign that fooled the ADL.
re: #130 Decatur Deb
Or morale call to the faithful.
Most of CPAC’s faithful are not literal WWII-minded neo-Nazis, most of those actually hate such orgs and events.
But as a matter of sheer possibility, sure, why not. Or it could be a signal to the Reptilians from Venus.
re: #135 Nyet
Most of CPAC’s faithful are not literal WWII-minded neo-Nazis, most of those actually hate such orgs and events.
But as a matter of sheer possibility, sure, why not. Or it could be a signal to the Reptilians from Venus.
When they march with little torches, I’ll add Venusians to my worry list.
No way was this accidental.
Why is an right-wing organization using distinct Nazi iconography?Why, that’s probably because those in charge of it are either pandering to motherf*cking Neo-Nazis, or they ARE motherf*cking Neo-Nazis. https://t.co/mdUhmuXquK
— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) February 26, 2021
re: #136 Decatur Deb
When they march with little torches, I’ll add Venusians to my worry list.
When CPAC faithful march with little torches and Matt Schlapp is shown to have neo-Nazi leanings, then I’ll accept such inference as reasonable.
re: #378 SerialUpDinger
anyone familiar with clubhouse? I admit I was lazy when I first heard about it the other day- the car radio was playing AM radio because the phone was at home and it was probably some far away right wing station. The host talked about how it was this place where the left hated it because there was no transcript of what was said and FREEDOM and all the rest of the usual stuff. In any case, now that I heard that snipped of audio, clubhouse has achieved some relevance in my brain and I see articles about how it is dying and the next great thing. Can both things be true at the same time?
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Clubhouse is an invitation-only audio-chat iPhone app launched in April 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth of Alpha Exploration Co. In May 2020, the social networking app was valued at nearly $100 million. On January 21, 2021, the valuation reached $1 billion.
(more)
Clubhouse (App) (goes to Wikipedia, that font of all human ken—citation needed)
re: #137 (((Archangel1)))
No way was this accidental.
The CPAC stage design was NOT an accident! The American Nazi Party is moving to this symbol. pic.twitter.com/ILZKhKGxW6
— John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 (@JohnRMoffitt) February 26, 2021
On the ground in Texas with @POTUS who is getting an update at the Harris County Emergency Operations Center on storm response pic.twitter.com/8D9TgSVjhm
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) February 26, 2021
Thanking some incredible volunteers at the Houston Food Bank @POTUS @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/Dg4heEdzWM
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) February 26, 2021
re: #138 Nyet
When CPAC faithful march with little torches and Matt Schlapp is shown to have neo-Nazi leanings, then I’ll accept such inference as reasonable.
Going to assume CPAC is to Proud Boys as Sinn Fein is to IRA.
We all thought it was an accident when trump used nazi soldiers in one of his advertisements for a rally. They problem is these people are too stupid to care. they feel no shame. They cheered an insurrection that was deadly. There opinion means nothing to me.
When Donald Trump gets a standing O at CPAC, remember they’re applauding a man who fomented a riot in the US Capital and who, thanks to stupidity, ineptitude, and callous disregard, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. That is who they are applauding.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 26, 2021
re: #142 Decatur Deb
Going to assume CPAC is to Proud Boys as Sinn Fein is to IRA.
Not gonna stop you, but it’s neither here, nor there.
So my fellow members of @OPIGlasgow participated tonight in a virtual event hosted by @ObanPride. Here’s the video of the event. It involves members of @OPIGlasgow, including
Novice Sauchie Ball-Street and
Novice Ann… …Amahna Do Doo Do Do Do
They feature at 3:09 and 1:03:55.
Virtual Purple Party https://t.co/yBQzf4Cyru
— ObanPride (@ObanPride) February 26, 2021
.@tedcruz thinks abandoning freezing, starving Texans is hi-larious. https://t.co/n0DDsD4GWS
— Real Fake P0TUS (@RF_P0TUS) February 26, 2021
Worst one until the next time he opens his trap…
You did it @TedCruz! You created the world’s shittiest Ted Talk.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) February 26, 2021
The more dangerous the Republicans become, the more and more attractive getting the fuck out of here for good and living on a beach in Portugal is becoming.
New talking point via the 80 meter ham radio band: “Biden got 80 million votes and Trump got 77 million votes. That’s more than the number of registered voters. The election is FAKE.”
We have to accept that the propaganda will NEVER stop.
re: #145 Nyet
So far CPAC has mostly preferred to distance themselves from the more loud alt-right. From last year:
At a private event Wednesday night titled “Emergency Save the First Amendment Summit” held at a hotel in Washington, DC, several “cancelled” conservatives spoke before a group of about 80 attendees. Most of the speakers had either been kicked off of major tech platforms, and some were explicitly banned from attending CPAC.
Emceed by InfoWars’ conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the speakers included white nationalist “Groyper” leader Nick Fuentes, Vice and “Proud Boys” co-founder Gavin McInnes, and current Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio. Ex-Breitbart writer Lee Stranahan also spoke at the event, giving a call-and-response speech where he repeatedly exhorted the audience to shout the name of the alleged Ukraine whistleblower.
When/if things change, I’ll consider reweighing the probabilities.
re: #151 Sherlock Hound
I guess they never heard of same-day registration.
re: #150 Ace Rothstein
The more dangerous the Republicans become, the more and more attractive getting the fuck out of here for good and living on a beach in Portugal is becoming.
That should always be an option, with or without the Rethugs ;)
re: #152 Nyet
Not sure why this mask tyrant “CPAC” thing needs to hold its event in the same town as the America First Political Action Conference with Nick Fuentes and Michelle Malkin smh
— Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) February 26, 2021
re: #150 Ace Rothstein
The more dangerous the Republicans become, the more and more attractive getting the fuck out of here for good and living on a beach in Portugal is becoming.
Old Aces never die, they just fado away.
Those have their own PAC, with blackjack and Malkin.
re: #157 Nyet
Those have their own PAC, with blackjack and Malkin.
Light on working girls, but then, they are incels.
re: #153 Ace Rothstein
I guess they never heard of same-day registration.
I listened for a bit longer, and apparently, according to this guy, people are escaping California for Texas, but still voting Democrat and being stupid. I turned the dial at that point. I would be a bad deprogrammer.
It’s becoming less the Party of Lincoln and more like the Party of Adolf.
Your party’s key national event is openly using Nazi symbols for all to see.
On behalf of my family, some of whom fought & died bringing the Third Reich down, fuck you & fuck your Nazi-pandering pitiful excuse of a political party.
The flames of eternal damnation await you. pic.twitter.com/QOkJVfbl6q— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) February 26, 2021
re: #153 Ace Rothstein
I guess they never heard of same-day registration.
Of course, too, they want to outlaw it for Democrats.
In case you need some decency to get the CPAC taste out of your mouth https://t.co/yZRzX2TayY
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) February 26, 2021
For those interested in keeping an eye on the neo-Nazis, here’s a link to a live stream from AFPAC (currently not active): americafirst.live
Concern Glenn.
It took only two years to go from disappearing Milo and Alex Jones to banning content said to “amplify narratives that undermine faith in NATO.”
Imagine where the line will be two years from now.
Censorship is an intoxicating power that endlessly expands until it’s smashed. https://t.co/ShrHhTqxGY— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 24, 2021
re: #168 Nyet
Concern Glenn.
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appx 330,000,000 active Twitter accounts
100 accounts with russian ties were targeted
Did you know any of them personally glen?
me, I’m not worried
It took only two years to go from disappearing Milo and Alex Jones to banning content said to “amplify narratives that undermine faith in NATO.”
Imagine where the line will be two years from now.
Censorship is an intoxicating power that endlessly expands until it’s smashed. https://t.co/ShrHhTqxGY— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 24, 2021
Abraham Lincoln.
— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) February 26, 2021
re: #138 Nyet
When CPAC faithful march with little torches and Matt Schlapp is shown to have neo-Nazi leanings, then I’ll accept such inference as reasonable.
At “Million MAGA March,” GOP Politicians Rally with Neo-Nazis, White Nationalists, Hate Groups (How to Fight Antisemitism, caution for blue text on yellow background)
Despite the overwhelming involvement and presence of these far-right groups and figures at the Million MAGA March, numerous Republican officials also promoted, attended, and spoke at the rally. The rally website, trumpmarch.com, provided a list event speakers, including: Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX); Congresswoman-elect and antisemitic conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA); Nazi-affiliated White House staffer Sebastian Gorka; Paris Dennard, the Republican Party’s Senior Communications Advisor for Black Media Affairs; and Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC.
Good enough?
From world wildlife Federation
We need to start looking into peanut butter and drones for covid vaccine distribution
In the Northern Great Plains, the black-footed ferret—North America’s rarest mammal—feeds almost exclusively on prairie dogs and depends on their burrows for shelter. But both species are susceptible to sylvatic plague, a fast-spreading bacterial disease that can decimate entire prairie dog colonies in just weeks.
To inoculate prairie dogs against the disease and ensure that black-footed ferrets have a reliable prey base, the University of Wisconsin and the United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center developed a peanut butter-flavored oral vaccine bait. The vaccine helps prairie dogs build immunity against the disease, which could significantly improve survival rates during plague outbreaks
Now WWF, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and drone product manufacturer Model Avionics have developed innovative ways to quickly and efficiently disseminate the bait. Using all-terrain vehicles, a multi-rotor drone, and a remote-controlled helicopter, the team is testing ways to drop bait across thousands of acres of prairie dog colonies.
Off to march a couple miles on the hamster machine. Goose-step verboten.
re: #169 Dangerman
appx 330,000,000 active Twitter accounts
100 accounts with russian ties were targeted
Did you know any of them personally glen?
me, I’m not worried
Also, they were deleted because they were fake and it’s against the rules, not because of NATO.
re: #174 Nyet
Also, they were deleted because they were fake and it’s against the rules, not because of NATO.
Well if you’re gonna be all logical and stuff
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At “Million MAGA March,” GOP Politicians Rally with Neo-Nazis, White Nationalists, Hate Groups (How to Fight Antisemitism, caution for blue text on yellow background)
Good enough?
No, neither of the two things I asked for are demonstrated by this.