Seth takes a closer look at the Justice Department discovering more classified items at President Biden’s home, prompting Republicans to criticize Biden despite dismissing the much larger cache of stolen documents that Trump refused to return.
Pompeo is a Christian nationalist who finds common ground with the Saudi theocracy.
Probably not someone who should have power in the US. https://t.co/nBHHC2Xx0F— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2023
Hiding this because it’s 49% NSFW:
[Can’t find this tweet right now: mobile.twitter.com ]
Des Moines… Half Moon Bay… how many in day can there be?
re: #2 Belafon
Can’t see it because owner limits who can view.
Christian nationalism is probably the most serious threat to US democracy. The far right Christian movement has been home-schooling and indoctrinating generations of children for decades to be “warriors for God” and do whatever is necessary to seize political power.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2023
I can’t help but notice the bot swarm slowing down the website coinciding with the rollout of Mastodon embeds in comments. I know nothing about coding a website, caveat emptor.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Yeah, maybe, who knows? The serious problems began earlier this morning before I started messing with Mastodon embeds, though.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
I’m no computer expert, but I do know what a DDoS is. I hope the ‘bad actor’ factor is minimal, yo.
It’s gotten worse.
7 Dead, 1 Injured in Half Moon Bay Shootings; Suspect in Custody
Suspect looks like a balding white man.
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
It’s gotten worse.
7 Dead, 1 Injured in Half Moon Bay Shootings; Suspect in Custody
Suspect looks like a balding white man.
Scratch that. Suspect is “67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident Zhao Chunli”
Hell and damn.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Antifa are ‘fascists’ because ‘they defend the drag queens targeting our children’https://t.co/HGiJ0hb89D
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 24, 2023
What do words mean?
Just posted a Page. Things went smooth with that. Latest Chrome browser.
CRY MOAR
Andrew Tate describes inhumane living conditions inside Romanian prison as he awaits sex trafficking trial:
“They are trying to break me. Thrown inside a cell without light. Cockroaches, lice, and bed bugs are my only friends at night.” pic.twitter.com/qiGof1vWUg— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 24, 2023
At a farm and a trucking company. Work related?
re: #17 William Lewis
At a farm and a trucking company. Work related?
Appears to be. The report quotes one source that the dead were “Chinese farm workers.”
The usual suspects will be demanding a pogrom against Asians now.
re: #16 The Pie Overlord!
CRY MOAR
Do I have any sympathy for that prick after what he did to those girls and how he’s poisoned the minds of lots of men?
Nope.
Too many spree shootings! FOR FUCK’S SAKE!!! Beyond ridiculous. Other “first” world nations’ denizens have been joking about America for years. We’re Decadent! We’re All Armed To The Teeth! Cheeseburgers and Budweiser! Rah Rah Rah! and this has been internalized in thinking people across the world. And those thinking people, sadly, aren’t wrong. Our society is broken when hundreds of people die by gunfire EVERY DAY, more and more in these fucking spree killings I’ve watched since Columbine.
I was 16 years old when the Columbine High School massacre happened 120 miles to my east.
re: #16 The Pie Overlord!
Maybe his real friends were only ever the cockroaches, lice, and bed bugs he met along the way.
re: #24 teleskiguy
I was 16 years old when the Columbine High School massacre happened 120 miles to my east.
How did your school react? And yourself?
I was 12 when Charles Whitman kicked the whole murderous mess off.
fluff catcher pic.twitter.com/AvYqUPAkPN
— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) January 11, 2023
Meanwhile Il Duce DeSadist continues his attacks on school librarians
‘My heart is broken’: Florida teachers ordered to remove, block class libraries or face felony prosecution
Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being ordered to remove or make inaccessible libraries of books inside their classrooms or face possible felony prosecution, as the district responds to legislation Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law prohibiting any books that have not been thoroughly vetted by a credentialed librarian.
The law, which went into effect at the start of this year, “is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to ‘groom’ students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies,” according to Judd Legum at Popular Information.
He puts it simply: “classroom libraries that are curated by teachers, not librarians, are now illegal.”
Kevin Chapman, the Chief of Staff for the Manatee County School District, “says that school principals in Manatee County were told Wednesday that any staff member violating these rules by providing materials ‘harmful to minors’ could be prosecuted for ‘a felony of the third degree.’”
re: #26 wrenchwench
The school banned guns in vehicles on campus from that day forward. Yes. Students and staff were allowed to carry guns in their vehicles in the parking lots of the school up until Columbine.
Me? It was aa jolt, a sudden realization that humans can be very cruel and violent towards other humans. It affected me greatly. I could never imagine… but it happened.
re: #31 teleskiguy
At the time it was a big story, but even so the deaths seemed to blend in with the nightly news toll reported from Vietnam.
IT’S. THE. GUNS.
It’s too easy for anybody to get guns in this country. That’s a BIG societal problem. We’re witnessing it right now. Daily mass shootings.
re: #2 Belafon
Assuming it’s real, ‘Diamond’ brand Armenian Brandy has apparently put out lot very unusual bottles. Googling Armenian Brandy Diamond and looking at ‘images’ brings up pictures of bottles in the shapes of horses, monkeys, dragons, rabbits, etc.
Reup Liquor (reupliquor (dot) com) is the retailer.
re: #2 Belafon
How did that poor dachshund lose his front legs?
re: #27 jaunte
I was 12 when Charles Whitman kicked the whole murderous mess off.
In the mathematical description of general relativity, the Boyer-Lindquist coordinates are a generalization of the coordinates used for the metric of a Schwarzschild black hole that can be used to express the metric of a Kerr black hole.
The Hamiltonian for test particle motion in Kerr spacetime is separable in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates. Using Hamilton-Jacobi theory one can derive a fourth constant of the motion known as Carter’s constant.
The 1967 paper introducing Boyer-Lindquist coordinates was a posthumous publication for Robert H. Boyer, who was killed in the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting.
Dr. Boyer was 33 years old. He would now be 89 and might very well still be alive (mathematicians are generally a long-lived lot) without this vicious and pointless act of insanity. Imagine the loss, a mind like this destroyed for nothing.
“I would have never donated without Elise,” said Ken Salamone, who gave $5,800 to Santos’ campaign and more than $20,000 to his joint fundraising committee, after Stefanik’s team reached out on his behalf https://t.co/3m1Ulwb3uy
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 23, 2023
My tweets say “ tweet not sent “ , but then they show up as posted…
— Girl says Ban Guns (@AngelWaterton90) January 24, 2023
And another one on Stefanik
Elise Stefanik’s husband is the public affairs manager for the firearm industry’s top trade association. MAGA Republican gun worship means money in Elise’s pocket and bullet-riddled corpses in the morgue. https://t.co/nc9QPjHXfI
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) January 22, 2023
Now it’s 44. We are so beyond this being a public health crisis. https://t.co/LXEjUjiQ4k
— 𝖠𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 🌊 (@AnIllicitWriter) January 24, 2023
Note that this refers to the NYT coverage the final week before the 2016 election -
This was one of two critical NYT stories in *last week* before 2016 election.
—One was blanket Page One coverage of “but her emails.”
—The other was “no Russian tie to Trump,” fed by FBI agent now arrested for his ties to Russian oligarch. https://t.co/uVEV51VDqK https://t.co/Rxzc5yZBLM— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) January 23, 2023
LOL!!! This explains so much!!! https://t.co/XzRWJBo8x8
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 24, 2023
re: #39 ckkatz
I suspect that the reference background involves this story
12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet.
“Anyone know who owns this?”
“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”
Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”— Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) November 14, 2022
Point being made that reporters no longer have as much access to subjects due to heavy use of ‘publicists’ and ‘pr’ folks.
The Danielle Ohl thread is interesting as well -
Publicists outnumber journalists 6 to one in the USA: https://t.co/RbpJRMh0os https://t.co/js6nSw6vcU
— Gregory Holman 📲📻 (@gregoryholman) January 23, 2023
re: #16 The Pie Overlord!
CRY MOAR
How is that different than how he felt about his past sexual conquests?
Two FBI agents, Charles McGonigal and Sergey Shestakov have been charged with violating US Sanctions on Russia, money laundering, and providing criminal aid to Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska. https://t.co/D8quznQ7vR pic.twitter.com/lWpl4djbhO
— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) January 23, 2023
Charles McGonigal has been released on $500,000 bail. https://t.co/GTC1nN90Hs
— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) January 23, 2023
re: #47 Captain Ron
Seems like he would be a flight risk, or possibly a defenestration risk.
It sounds like there are a many folks who are likeminded with Teleskiguy.
Daily Beast Reporter Zach Petrizzo (known for his reporting on the “DC Truckers Convoys”) has been retweeting a lot of skiing things lately. Such as the one below. I assume that he is somewhere out west right now.
Best day of the year pic.twitter.com/58VTRz6to8
— Weston Shirey (@WestonShirey) January 22, 2023
re: #48 jaunte
Seems like he would be a flight risk, or possibly a defenestration risk.
I agree that it is really strange for a guy who is thought to be a foreign spy being let out on bail.
re: #50 ckkatz
“Promise not to destroy any evidence of your activities while you’re out on bail.”
I guess while I inhabit the same planet, I do not inhabit the same reality as these billionaires.
WashPost article on the ski world of the ultra-wealthy.
Pink snow and private jets: Ski workers spill on rich guests’ requests
The distance from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport to the Yellowstone Club, where billionaires ski and golf across 15,200 exclusive acres, is about 50 miles. For most people, that’s an hour’s drive through a windy Montana canyon. But if you’re a member — along with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg — it can be a much quicker jaunt.
Instead of getting to Bozeman on a commercial flight and grabbing an Uber at the airport, they arrive by jet and hop on a helicopter, “so that it’s only a 10-minute ride to the club instead,” said Adamo Vullo, a former Yellowstone Club employee turned caretaking manager for Outpost, a luxury property management company in Jackson, Wyo.
*snip*
Tolman’s most memorable request came from a Stein Eriksen regular who wanted to have Deer Valley blow pink snow out of snowmakers while he and his wife took a nighttime chairlift ride for a mountaintop dinner and private evening ski session.
*snip*
Gift Link - wapo.st
re: #42 ckkatz
Note that this refers to the NYT coverage the final week before the 2016 election -
No offense, but it’s 2023 and we have other fish to fry. We cannot change the future by beating dead horses. That’s not how activism works.
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re: #52 jaunte
Nice picture and an interesting oak tree!
What type/species is it?
If I saw it up here in Virginia or Pennsylvania, I would expect it to be a White Oak.
re: #56 ckkatz
I’m not an oak expert, but I think it is a white oak.
The sheriff just said that they aren’t mentioning which hospitals the victims were taken to because someone called that hospital and said they wanted to “finish the job.” What is wrong with people? #MontereyPark
— Kristie Hang (@KristieHang) January 22, 2023
I am officially no longer concerned about the disruptive potential of ChatGPT https://t.co/dtvrsrhhSD
— Sam Greene (@samagreene) January 23, 2023
Madness.
A bill has dropped in North Dakota that bans “accommodations for students identifying as animals,” a rehash of the infamous litterbox hoax.
It is being cited to also ban trans students from UNISEX restrooms.
Subscribe to support my work.https://t.co/USjaGXeo9r— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) January 22, 2023
Ok it’s spreading. Arizona too. pic.twitter.com/gljwH3dO9i
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) January 24, 2023
I don’t think that I buy the “shoe-in election” claim. But the question seems interesting.
Comey named McGonigal head of Counterintelligence of the NY FBI Field Office on October 4, 2016. Within weeks, Giuliani was dropping leak bombs on Fox from the NY FBI field office—which turned out to be disinformation—but reopened the Clinton probe & tanked her shoe-in election. pic.twitter.com/mjP2qfwW5g
— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) January 24, 2023
NY FBI office was a notoriously anti-Clinton cesspool. There was some other funky business I have to find again. Wonder if related.
Long thread:
well i read the bad NYT story about trans kids and schools not/disclosing their trans-ness and woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof
— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) January 24, 2023
DeSantis: “Now who wld say that queer theory is an impt part of Black history? Or intersectionality?
Anyone studying the work of Pauli Murray whose legal theories & research influenced both Thurgood Marshall & RBG. She coined the phrase “Jane Crow,” b/c…intersectionality. https://t.co/aPJLJoip9J— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) January 23, 2023
I recall that there was some anonymous yahoo that was supposedly connected to the NY FBI office.
There is only one thing on my bucket list. I want to die on the moon looking at earth.
Just my luck it would be the dark side of the earth.
re: #67 Captain Ron
Can’t do that for you, but here’s a temple on the edge of forever… which might be a good place to go out:
re: #68 Captain Ron
Just my luck it would be the dark side of the earth.
I like to say I want to die in another object’s gravitational pull.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That’s the kind of image that does well in NightCafe challenges, and which fills up the AI image streams on Twitter (in between the anime-type images of young women with overly large breasts.)
However, I’m still trying to find meaningful ways to make images that have some, well, meaning to them.
Oh wait, I forgot a daytime visible supernova that also is visible in night skies 6 months later.
re: #67 Captain Ron
There is only one thing on my bucket list. I want to die on the moon looking at earth.
Requiem
Robert Heinlein
Perhaps one of his best early shorts. Especially after he later wrote the novella “The Man Who Sold the Moon” filling in the backstory.
But even dying in orbit would suffice for me. Preferably with this playing on the way out…
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Those kind of images are generated by mashing up a bunch of styles that are prone to ethereal, unearthly kinds of images.
Huh.
Stumbled on this video from David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour.
Exquisite tour. He chose to not do his early stuff (Ziggy, etc) and instead, Low was the earliest, IIRC, album he did material from. The version of Heroes was a showstopper. Insanely excellent. Modern Love was the last song after a cover of White Light White Heat (!) by the Velvet Underground. Had an idiot behind me who whined the whole show for Ziggy and was practically crying when the lights came up. I had no fucking sympathy for him.
But something I didn’t realize then, was that his lead guitar player that night? Peter Frampton. Listening to two legends and only recognized the one. I can only laugh at myself.
So, in honor of what I didn’t recognize at the time…
So this FBI guy who got arrested… is he the counterpart to Stan Beeman (from The Americans)?
re: #9 Belafon
According to Adult Swim, Sony owns a patent that defines a process where you could skip an add if you yell the product or company name at the tv:
Then the trick is to develop an AI Chatbot to say the word for you…
re: #67 Captain Ron
There is only one thing on my bucket list. I want to die on the moon looking at earth.
Tommy Lee Jones in Space Cowboys?
WordHurdle 4/6 also
I would like to hear comment on this story from some of the reporters who were getting leaks from the NYC FBI office in October 2016.
— nothings monstered (@nothingsmonstrd) January 23, 2023
It appears that Elon has now reinstated the account of white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes. pic.twitter.com/T1SeG18oK4
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 24, 2023
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
It appears that Elon has now reinstated the account of white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes.
Any friend of Donald is a friend of Elon
Desantis’s newly appointed Trustee for New College of FL. pic.twitter.com/IZQ3KDts02
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 24, 2023
heh
Justice Dept files new motion asking judge to REJECT request by Jan 6 defendant for court to pay for his lodging/transportation to DC for trial
Feds: It’s unclear “why the government should pay for his lodging in Washington DC now, when he was able to pay his own way on Jan 6” pic.twitter.com/AJa1QahbkR— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 24, 2023
Maybe it’s on my end but LGF is running slow.
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
Justice Dept files new motion asking judge to REJECT request by Jan 6 defendant for court to pay for his lodging/transportation to DC for trial
Feds: It’s unclear “why the government should pay for his lodging in Washington DC now, when he was able to pay his own way on Jan 6”
“Because his trial is an example of unjust Deep-State persecution!”
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I saw a post by Charles a few threads back, where they were wondering why more people weren’t charged with seditious conspiracy, including the Bundy nuts at Malheur NWR.
It’s simple really. Before 1/6, the last time that the feds tried charging some group with seditious conspiracy it didn’t end particularly well. The feds couldn’t make the case, and that led prosecutors to be more gun shy on its use.
1/6 included so many explicit instances of seditious conspiracy, that they’re making the case and getting guilty plea deals for good measure. I’d still argue that the feds are under-charging 1/6 defendants, and that they should be running up the line all the way to Trump himself. He’s always going to claim he’s being persecuted. The facts speak for themselves and he’s guilty as fuck on everything from witness tampering to obstruction of justice to seditious conspiracy by and through Meadows and others in his cabal of cronies. He pardoned people like Flynn and Stone, just so they can commit even more crimes.
Now, we learn that one of the people instrumental in claiming that there were no Trump-Russia connections was himself on the Deripaska payroll and helped cover up Trump crimes while pumping up claims of Hillary malfeasance.
It reeks. The NY FBI office needs to be cleaned out; heck the FBI from top down needs leadership changes, and Democrats needs to clean house there. GOPers will caterwaul, but it was GOPers from Comey to Wray that were in charge of the mess - including 1/6 failures, Trump criminal conduct, and it’s clear the GOP cannot be trusted with power.
re: #93 lawhawk
Now, we learn that one of the people instrumental in claiming that there were no Trump-Russia connections was himself on the Deripaska payroll and helped cover up Trump crimes while pumping up claims of Hillary malfeasance.
It reeks. The NY FBI office needs to be cleaned out; heck the FBI from top down needs leadership changes, and Democrats needs to clean house there. GOPers will caterwaul, but it was GOPers from Comey to Wray that were in charge of the mess - including 1/6 failures, Trump criminal conduct, and it’s clear the GOP cannot be trusted with power.
Well, I thought the GOP wanted to defund and disband the FBI for its Gazpacho raids on Mar-a-Lago…
In a bit of good news, the MTA is finally opening the long delayed East Side Access project - Grand Central Madison. This allows LIRR trains to go to Grand Central instead of Penn Station, and allows more trains to come into the City from all points north and east.
It’s a decade late and billions over original price estimates, but it’s a feat of civil engineering - building miles of new tunnels, new station caverns, and all the related infrastructure, including rebuilding and reorganizing one of the busiest interlockings in the nation (Harold Interlocking at Sunnyside Yards in Queens).
For teleskiguy:
BREAKING: Mikaela Shiffrin breaks women’s World Cup skiing record with 83rd win. She had been tied with Lindsey Vonn. https://t.co/t5xRmkMmec
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2023
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Squirrel occasionally finds its nut:
The FBI agent who led the phony investigation into President Trump and Russia has been arrested for his own ties to the Kremlin.
You can’t make this up.— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 23, 2023
Yeah, GOPers enabled this malfeasance. Wray and Comey were GOPers who helped cover up Trump and GOP criminal conduct. They pushed bogus claims, and excused malfeasance, all while they were on the take from the very Russians who were already on the radar for interfering in our political system.
So Russiagate takes a new turn.
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
After YouTube pulled the plug on Nick, he told his audience that he retained 80% of his audience through Twitter referrals. Then Twitter suspended him too. Musk restoring his account will drive significant traffic to Fuentes’ hate site: https://t.co/HyK8n2vLQX pic.twitter.com/GM0H41Umdr
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) January 24, 2023
Marcy doesn’t think McGonigal has anything to do with NYC field office shenanigans (that Rudy bragged about), but is not 100%.
No, Charles McGonigal Likely Isn’t Responsible for **that** Part of the Russian Investigation You Hatehttps://t.co/s0twsT5ZHS
Though we can be fairly confident Deripaska got visibility while Manafort prosecution still pending.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 24, 2023
“Knowing Trump, he probably only has room for one Black woman in his brain at a time.” @iamwandasykes on Trump’s awkward eulogy for Diamond pic.twitter.com/1gpzFzmUjI
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 24, 2023
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
Grifting and squeezing every dollar out of the system all the way… Same party that worry about people cheating the system…
re: #98 lawhawk
Squirrel occasionally finds its nut:
The FBI agent who led the phony investigation into President Trump and Russia has been arrested for his own ties to the Kremlin.
You can’t make this up.
Yeah, GOPers enabled this malfeasance. Wray and Comey were GOPers who helped cover up Trump and GOP criminal conduct. They pushed bogus claims, and excused malfeasance, all while they were on the take from the very Russians who were already on the radar for interfering in our political system.
Gee Marsha, the thought that it could be because of his ties to the Kremlin that the investigation didn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing hasn’t entered your mind yet, has it?
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) January 24, 2023
re: #104 Teukka
As a side note, Sweden just had major case with two brothers, thought to be “beyond reproach”, turned out to have been working for the GRU. Both our civilian and military intel and security services are affected.
#Sweden
Two brothers, the older one a former employee of Sweden’s security service @SAPOsverige and the Swedish armed forces, convicted of aggravated espionage for #Russia, sentenced to life imprisonment and 9 yrs 10 mo in prison, respectively.
📑 (🇸🇪) https://t.co/gkv2QqG63B
1/2 pic.twitter.com/xrLCZ8zitf— Daniel H. Heinke (@daniel_heinke) January 19, 2023
interesting result
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The latest from the state where the KKK had full political control 100 years ago…
GOP rep calls for ‘stronger laws at state level’ to stop women from leaving Indiana to access abortion care
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is expressing interest in supporting a piece of legislation that would prohibit women from leaving the state to receive abortion treatment.
During a recent appearance on “The Pat Miller Show,” Banks floated desire for stricter federal regulations to further restrict access to abortion care.
Rep. Jim Banks (R) voices support for efforts to prevent women from leaving Indiana to access reproductive care.
MILLER: “If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and… [cross into] Illinois [to] an abortion clinic… the fight is far from over.”
BANKS: “Exactly right.” pic.twitter.com/y1ZQZpMZdj— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) January 23, 2023
re: #107 Joe Bacon
“If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and… [cross into] Illinois [to] an abortion clinic… the fight is far from over.”
BANKS: “Exactly right.”
WE NEED TO GO FULL GILEAD!!!
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and… [cross into] Illinois [to] an abortion clinic… the fight is far from over.”
BANKS: “Exactly right.”
WE NEED TO GO FULL GILEAD!!!
Makes me wonder how many abortions Jim Banks has arranged for his mistresses…
Formerly known as Bracewell & Giuliani. Then Giuliani left in 2016 (in part to go work with Trump), and the firm is now known as Bracewell.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) January 24, 2023
oh
“Five hours is kind of ridiculous,” said Chris Grollnek, an expert on active-shooter tactics and a retired police officer and SWAT team member. “This is going to be a really good case study. Why five hours?” https://t.co/LogP1Txawl
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) January 24, 2023
Kudos to my local sheriff’s department for arresting a non-white mass shooting suspect…alive. You don’t see that every day.
Well, we won’t have to worry about him voting to strip women of their reproductive rights or voting against immigrants for a few more weeks.
re: #107 Joe Bacon
The latest from the state where the KKK had full political control 100 years ago…
GOP rep calls for ‘stronger laws at state level’ to stop women from leaving Indiana to access abortion care
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) is expressing interest in supporting a piece of legislation that would prohibit women from leaving the state to receive abortion treatment.
During a recent appearance on “The Pat Miller Show,” Banks floated desire for stricter federal regulations to further restrict access to abortion care.
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Concealed carry: Guns, OK. Fetus must be declared at the state line.
re: #119 wrenchwench
Concealed carry: Guns, OK. Fetus must be declared at the state line.
The right to bear arms is an individual right. The right to bear children is not.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The right to bear arms is an individual right. The right to bear children is not.
Yes it is. Recognized or not, it’s one of the most basic. Reproductive freedom is anti-genocide.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The right to bear arms is an individual right. The right to bear children is not.
But the Racist Religious Right Decrees that White Women must produce as many White babies as possible.
And another.
Basically Elon Musk has decided that the week marking International Holocaust Memorial Day would be a great time for Twitter to roll out the red carpet for Neo-Nazis.https://t.co/FvDZnfmDaI— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) January 24, 2023
re: #91 Rightwingconspirator
Maybe it’s on my end but LGF is running slow.
i could not connect yesterday at all
today my phone nor tablet would connect (androids, chrome)
desktop just did (linux mint, chrome)
it’s very slow
isitdownrightnow.com is classifying lgf as down
ditto for downforeveryoneorjustme.com
re: #124 Dangerman
The site has been under Bot attacks.
The GOP’s tax plan boils down to this: Cut taxes on the rich & let wealthy tax cheats get away with not paying what they owe—while creating a 30% national sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline that will wallop working families less able to payhttps://t.co/zMHOaIpzji
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 24, 2023
The Douche is trending because of….
James Woods, suing the DNC for ruining his career, is peak irony for the party of personal responsibility. Nobody forced him to be an asshole.
— Rick Havoc (@RikHavic) January 24, 2023
…..but I don’t see any proof of this.
re: #107 Joe Bacon
MILLER: “If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and… [cross into] Illinois [to] an abortion clinic… the fight is far from over.”
let the states decide?
re: #123 The Pie Overlord!
I’m really happy I left that site forever.
re: #123 The Pie Overlord!
Absolutely confirms I made the right decision to get off THE BIRD and kill my account.
re: #125 Joe Bacon
The site has been under Bot attacks.
ah.
well i missed being here
reading other sites, the news, etc there was so much to post and i …..couldn’t
a weird kind of frustration
I wonder what sort of dressing TFG uses for his word salads?
Trump on Truth Social on his call asking the Georgia AG to find enough votes for him to beat Biden: “I won Georgia by a lot, but only needed a small number of votes from that total number.” 🤔 pic.twitter.com/xBW2AHqvjf
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 24, 2023
re: #97 lawhawk
Lindsey Vonn was 34 when she won her 82nd World Cup race, she retired from ski racing a year later. Mikaela Shiffrin is 27 and just won her 83rd World Cup race and really shows no signs of stopping. The record is still 86 wins, held by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden.
Mikaela is the GOAT.
re: #126 lawhawk
The GOP’s tax plan boils down to this: Cut taxes on the rich & let wealthy tax cheats get away with not paying what they owe—while creating a 30% national sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline that will wallop working families less able to payhttps://t.co/zMHOaIpzji
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 24, 2023
there’s a third part
ineffective enforcement
oh, you’ll pay the tax but there’s no ensuring vendors report and turn it all over
(hint: they don’t now)
p.s. it’ll never happen
re: #132 Dr. Matt
I wonder what sort of dressing TFG uses for his word salads?
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called for an end to the requirement that juries must reach a unanimous vote to apply the death penalty. Speaking to the Florida Sheriff’s Association on Monday, the Republican presidential hopeful instead advocated for allowing juries to administer capital punishment by “supermajority.” “Maybe eight of 12 have to agree or something,” DeSantis said. “But we can’t be in a situation where one person can just derail this.” His call for supermajorities came as he reportedly discussed his disappointment that the Parkland school shooter was given life in prison instead of the death penalty last October. DeSantis bemoaned a single juror’s “idiosyncratic” view of the trial in stopping the killer from being executed, though in actuality three of the 12 jurors voted against the death penalty.
re: #132 Dr. Matt
I wonder what sort of dressing TFG uses for his word salads?
asinine argument
- where’s this ‘proof’? don’t say they’re hiding it. you called it proof. so you must have seen it.
- if you won, then your argument is you won. that’s the fight - the amount doesnt matter
- suggesting i won by a million but only ‘asked’ for 11k to get me the win is…all kinds of idiotic stupid moronic a totally trumpian justification that i cant even bother…
oh, and it’s great to be here this morning
re: #136 Joe Bacon
“But we can’t be in a situation where one person can just derail this.”.
hey ron,
does that work for 1-11 aquittals too?
re: #126 lawhawk
The GOP’s tax plan boils down to this: Cut taxes on the rich & let wealthy tax cheats get away with not paying what they owe—while creating a 30% national sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline that will wallop working families less able to pay
and use the ensuing deficit as an excuse to cut entitlement spending
The @GOP account tweeted a Ronnie Raygun tweet 20 minutes ago.
He’s only been dead for 19 years. https://t.co/SwxBWaMbCh
— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) January 24, 2023
re: #98 lawhawk
Squirrel occasionally finds its nut:
Yeah, GOPers enabled this malfeasance. Wray and Comey were GOPers who helped cover up Trump and GOP criminal conduct. They pushed bogus claims, and excused malfeasance, all while they were on the take from the very Russians who were already on the radar for interfering in our political system.
The way I read her tweet, though, is that the investigation was fake and it was his fault.
re: #141 teleskiguy
President Ronald Reagan hard at work for the American people.
“According to this report from Nancy’s official White House Astrologer, next week is a good time to bypass Congress in order to offer covert arms sales to fascist juntas!”
Krysten Sinema blames Nancy Pelosi for making @RubenGallego compete against her.
— 🇺🇸🌺Ariana Wells🌺👠💋👙🌺🇺🇸 (@oregon_report) January 24, 2023
re: #145 Belafon
From the West Virginia Republican Party:
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West Virginia wants to close its borders?
Oh, NRSC.
The greatest alpine ski racer of all time and I grew up skiing the same mountains.
re: #145 Belafon
Speaking of Joe Manchin:
Never Trumper Matt Lewis over at the Daily Beast has another steaming hot take tilted “No Country for Moderate Senators” which features a graphic of ol’ Coal Joe and Kristin Sinema.
Have I read it? No. Will I read it? Hell, no. How do I know it’s filled with idiotic word salad that essentially says “The only good Democrats are ones that do what Republicans demand?”
I read one of his pieces once. Never again. It was loaded with so much “I’m a Republican horrified by the current GOP, but BOTH SIDES, PEOPLE!!!” horseshit, it made Chuck Todd look like Walter Cronkite. I’m confident this latest “article” will not disappoint on that front.
I highly recommend going to either his or the Daily Beast’s Twitter feed and read all of the people dunking on him. Think of his article as an eclipse of stupid, and the safest way to read it is by using those feeds as one of those pinhole shoebox viewers.
re: #148 Belafon
Will Correct.
Nothing wrong in the post that I saw. NRSC paid for it. I was just making fun of West Virginia worrying about people getting in.
This is good shit.
Saw a guy with a “God is Pro-Life” sign and I asked him about the whole “God killing everyone on earth” thing. pic.twitter.com/nVM7Yd5gJ7
— Jason Selvig (@jasonselvig) January 24, 2023
🧵
to mourn the loss of Sexy M&M’s™️, here’s a ranking of most fuckable cartoon brand mascots.
1. Jolly Green Giant (10/10) pic.twitter.com/RSwVle8btP— macy (@macygilliam) January 23, 2023
re: #152 teleskiguy
God’s pro life except for all these occasions where he killed every mofo in sight:
Noah and the flood.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Egyptians at the Red Sea
Jericho
etc.
Yeah, the biblical god was so pro life that he killed an awful lot to prove his love of life.
“When the C.I.A. noticed in late 2010 that its spies were disappearing…as fears of a mole grew, the government set up a secret task force….A veteran F.B.I. counterintelligence agent, Charles McGonigal, was assigned to run it,” reported @nytimes in 2018.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 23, 2023
Good Riddance.
Ex-politician and pedophile advocate dies by ‘self-starvation’ in Arizona prison
Nathan Larson, 41, who ran a campaign in Virginia to legalize child pornography, died on September 18, 2022, while he was in an Arizona prison while receiving medical care. He was reportedly an inmate of Fresno County Jail, in California, “when he stopped eating.”
He was being held on felony charges for soliciting child pornography and other offenses.
According to The Star’s report, Larson, who is also a white supremacist, was extradited to Fresno after police learned he traveled from Virginia to California in 2020 to abduct a 12-year-old girl who he had groomed online.
One of my home mountains giving Mikaela respect.
GOAT https://t.co/LiQOYWXO2v pic.twitter.com/Y8G9E6y8Lt
— Arapahoe Basin (@Arapahoe_Basin) January 24, 2023
re: #152 teleskiguy
This is good shit.
The speed at which Banner Man goes from “smug” to “does not compute” is hilarious.
“One of the letter bombs was sent to Instalaza, a weapons maker in Zaragoza, northeastern Spain, that manufactures grenade launchers that Spain is giving to Ukraine, and another went to the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base outside Madrid…” https://t.co/65n5YuGHQc
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) January 23, 2023
Letter bomb attacks in Europe would be a significant escalation by GRU. https://t.co/mHNKtJzPaE
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) January 23, 2023
I recall some anon dude who ran a blog or website and said he was tied to the NY FBI field office. He hated Clinton and was a Trumper but also had a grievance with the FBI. I don’t know why I can’t remember. Not sure if it’s important with this McGonigal situation but my interest is piquantified.
re: #146 Belafon
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Krysten Sinema blames Nancy Pelosi for making @RubenGallego compete against her.
— 🇺🇸🌺Ariana Wells🌺👠💋👙🌺🇺🇸 (@oregon_report) January 24, 2023
Yes. I just made up piquantified. Suspend my account.
re: #154 lawhawk
God’s pro life except for all these occasions where he killed every mofo in sight:
Noah and the flood.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Egyptians at the Red Sea
Jericho
etc.Yeah, the biblical god was so pro life that he killed an awful lot to prove his love of life.
Not to mention his ultimate plan to return with his Holy Host, kill everyone, rapturing the believers up into heaven while tossing all unbelievers into the Lake of Fire.
re: #164 BigPapa
Yes. I just made up piquantified. Suspend my account.
The Father of piquantification! All Hail!
Elon’s business model seems to be to crash accounts into each other who will likely despise each other to drive up engagement by getting them fighting. Being done to both sides. It’s a block party right now all over twitter. pic.twitter.com/0wYYYzpzew
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 22, 2023
re: #164 BigPapa
Yes. I just made up piquantified. Suspend my account.
for excessive piquantification
re: #142 Belafon
The way I read her tweet, though, is that the investigation was fake and it was his fault.
Thats cuz her reading compressions not so gud.
re: #154 lawhawk
God’s pro life except for all these occasions where he killed every mofo in sight:
Noah and the flood.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Egyptians at the Red Sea
Jericho
etc.Yeah, the biblical god was so pro life that he killed an awful lot to prove his love of life.
Plenty of Egyptians even before they got to the Red Sea.
The first-born are the only specifically enumerated, but I’m pretty sure the frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence and locusts must have carried significant body counts.
re: #170 sagehen
Plenty of Egyptians even before they got to the Red Sea.
The first-born are the only specifically enumerated, but I’m pretty sure the frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence and locusts must have carried significant body counts.
And all the enemies of the Israelites killed on the battlefield in HIs Divine Name.
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even if you limit to just the bodies of those slaughtered by God himself, or his angels, and not man acting in God’s name, it’s still quite the butcher’s bill.
re: #91 Rightwingconspirator
Maybe it’s on my end but LGF is running slow.
For me, the response time this morning seems generally better. But a
“tracert littlegreenfootballs.com”
still shows 17 hops including a timeout.
re: #83 Eventual Carrion
And another 4/6
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An eagle!
Wordle 584 2/6
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But only because this was my standard 2nd word. And I was initially considering switching start words today.
re: #157 Joe Bacon
Good Riddance.
Ex-politician and pedophile advocate dies by ‘self-starvation’ in Arizona prison
.
The garbage takes itself out.
Must have been the shots
Thanks Pfizerpic.twitter.com/PFEpWnzxIe
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 23, 2023
re: #154 lawhawk
God’s pro life except for all these occasions where he killed every mofo in sight:
Noah and the flood.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Egyptians at the Red Sea
Jericho
etc.Yeah, the biblical god was so pro life that he killed an awful lot to prove his love of life.
then there’s all that suffering and dying before the red sea. you know as slaves.
but then they werent designated the chosen people quite yet.
maybe that was all a test
I am also hanging up here repeatedly
must be a case of bot-ulism
re: #170 sagehen
Plenty of Egyptians even before they got to the Red Sea.
The first-born are the only specifically enumerated, but I’m pretty sure the frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence and locusts must have carried significant body counts.
gmta
re: #128 Dangerman
let the states decide?
Perfect for that! A state can decide whether women have no rights, whether black citizens can vote, whether management positions can be restricted to white males. Let’s go back to the days when rights were decided on a state by state basis. Except for guns, of course.
re: #156 jeffreyw
Fox and hen house feel to this.
Page froze and went blank. Took a long time to get back in. Damn those bots never let up.
re: #183 Joe Bacon
Page froze and went blank. Took a long time to get back in. Damn those bots never let up.
It’s been erratic this morning. Occasionally a quick response — other times a very long spinner. Hopefully, it is returning to normal but I do have visions of the Musk fanboys working to disable every site that is critical of him and/or Trump.
Slight annoyance — wish that the terminology within an hospital network was consistent. If the automated e-mail message directs you to “NM”, why does the sign in the building say “Radiology” instead of “Nuclear Medicine”?
So Biden successfully lowered gas prices by using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and even turned a profit for taxpayers by later refilling it at the lower prices— and now Republicans are trying to restrict his ability to use the reserve to lower prices.
Because of course.— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) January 24, 2023
NEW: At least three people are dead following an overnight shooting at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington. The armed suspect has not been apprehended. https://t.co/hTwB57Male
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 24, 2023
THIS is the Republican party’s response to a mass shooting that killed 10 people and wounded 10 more. Can we please stop pretending they care about gun violence or crime? https://t.co/f0krFDa7JP
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 22, 2023
Helluva statement you’re making when you think drag shows are a bigger threat to your community than swastika carrying white supremacists. https://t.co/7vtH79lIXM
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 24, 2023
Any reporter who used this traitor as a source has an obligation to disclose that right now. https://t.co/4xMoK3qn6R
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 23, 2023
.
Deripaska had gophers in top ranks of the Trump campaign and the FBI. The NRA and Christian nationalists were infiltrated by a Russian agent who was a GOP consultant’s gf. The most MAGA GOP and FOX voices are openly pro-Russian. Everything’s fine. https://t.co/SiiJP1sByA
— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) January 24, 2023
U.S. sending “Stryker” armored vehicles to Ukraine as part of $2.5 billion aid package:
I had a bad feeling we were going to do this. They retired these pieces of shit APVs as fast as they could after their performance in Iraq and Afghanistan. To call them “suboptimal” would be way too kind.
They were flat awful. The 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum called them “zits” because they were so easy to pop.
That’s Mr. Bean in the upper left, and Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry on the bottom row. Who is in the upper right?
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) January 24, 2023
BREAKING: Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to his attorney. Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week. https://t.co/R3TkJsOix0
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2023
re: #163 Dangerman
so, not your policies, positions, or actions?
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— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 24, 2023
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
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Librul MSM: “But he didn’t keep them next to a Corvette, so we can’t be outraged.”
So basically any old spy plumber can walk into our officials homes and just gather what they need. How convenient.
All the money we waste on performance security makes us look stupid.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
Three victims being the minimum to qualify as a mass shooting in the USofA. All the other individual and pair shootings generally go unmentioned outside local news…
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
BREAKING: Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to his attorney. Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week.
So things might die down a bit for Biden but DT still keeps his Get out of Jail Free card.
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
Mike Pence found classified docs and alerted the FBI. Joe Biden found classified docs and alerted the DOJ. Donald Trump stole classified docs, hid them and refused to return them. if you’re still pretending there’s no difference, you’re just being an obstinate tribal asshole
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) January 24, 2023
NEW: The FBI seized about a dozen classified documents from former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana, despite him saying he possessed no classified documents. Will Republicans be outraged at this like they were for Biden?
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) January 24, 2023
FLASHBACK — November 14, 2022:
ABC News: “Did you take any classified documents with you from the White House?”
Mike Pence: “I did not.” https://t.co/cAFpHy1Zlc— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 24, 2023
Another big roundup in West Texas:
30 arrested in Lubbock, Operation Blue Rain, LPD said
The following is a statement from LPD.
30 Arrested in Three-Day Human Trafficking Operation Blue Rain
30 people are facing charges stemming from a three-day human trafficking operation across Lubbock.
Operation Blue Rain, which was conducted by The Lubbock Police Department’s Special Operations Division, The Texas Department of Public Safety, The Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security and Lubbock Fire Rescue, occurred on January 19, 20, and 21st.
22 individuals were arrested on felony charges for solicitation of prostitution, five were arrested for misdemeanor prostitution, while one was made on a warrant charge. Additional charges included delivery of a dangerous drug and child endangerment.
The operation resulted in the contact of two females who were identified as possible victims of human trafficking.
Once again, not a drag queen in the whole mob.
re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter
outstanding!!
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seriously, this probably has always happened a lot
though spy45 was the first to back up a truck to the WH and load it with boxes.
oh, and then lie and fight returning them
re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
BREAKING: Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to his attorney. Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week.
So things will die down for Biden but DT still keeps his Get out of Jail Free card.
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
BREAKING: Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to his attorney. Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week. https://t.co/R3TkJsOix0
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2023
WHOA WAIT!!!!!
they informed the archives last week
that’s like, seven days.
they let a whole week go by.
they didnt hold an immediate press conference announcing this?
like the WH was supposed to do?
// (<—- just in case)
re: #205 Targetpractice
Things might die down for Biden with regard to the documents thing, but for that, they will intensify elsewhere
re: #206 Dangerman
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It’s like I’ve been saying, the “liberal media” are only pushing the “COVER-UP!!!” BS because they were denied the opportunity to spin the “scandal” into a last minute October Surprise.
re: #78 William Lewis
Isn’t that Charlie Sexton on guitar as well? I saw him or possibly his brother when he played with Bob Welch circa 1979 (he was 16 at the time). I think the thing that the guy was 16 at the time is what I remember most about the show. So talented these musicians are!
Gayle King interviewed mike pompeo (R-Nazi) this morning. At 7:30 in the clip below she asked him point blank whether he has classified documents his house, gym, garage, etc., and if he was worried that “they” would find such documents.
His response at 7:43: “I don’t think they will.”
Very reassuring response.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 23, 2023
re: #204 Dangerman
outstanding!!
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seriously, this probably has always happened a lotthough spy45 was the first to back up a truck to the WH and load it with boxes.
oh, and then lie and fight returning them
It’s not as though any top government officials personally packed their belongings when they left office; they all had staff to handle the task. And they may never have looked at the contents when they returned home but just left the boxes in some storage compartment or closet. The main issue with Trump was that he refused to return documents, claimed they were all his, was well aware that some were classified, and claimed he used his Jedi mind force to declassify them.
Early @CookPolitical Senate ratings
TOSS UP
Arizona (Sinema)
Ohio (Brown)
West Virginia (Manchin)
LEAN DEM
Michigan (open)
Montana (Tester)
Nevada (Rosen)
Pennsylvania (Casey)
Wisconsin (Baldwin)
LIKELY REPUBLICAN
Florida (Scott)
SOLID R
Texas (Cruz)https://t.co/UhANt0CcC1— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 24, 2023
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Things might die down for Biden with regard to the documents thing, but for that, they will intensify elsewhere
Not a chance in Hell, not when you see shit like this floating around:
Biden ‘completely wrong’ to deny ‘obvious reality’ in classified docs case: columnist https://t.co/vIe0qK2rQx
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 24, 2023
The media is dedicated to this idea that Biden owes them a “mea culpa” moment, that he’s supposed to walk up to the podium and beg them for forgiveness. Because BSAB if the media says so.
re: #214 ckkatz
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Last week at Ramstein Airbase there was a meeting of Western countries to coordinate aid to Ukraine. A significant amount of aid was promised. The area of major contention, tanks, looks like it will be resolved this or next week.
(The Germans may, or may not agree to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The Poles and others may, or may not donate tanks regardless of what the Germans say. The US may unilaterally donate M1 tanks to Ukraine. The US may exchange US tanks to allies in return for them donating Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.)
The next Ukraine Aid Conference at Ramstein is scheduled for the end of February. The topic there will be sending aircraft to Ukraine.
This was announced today by the Ukrainians -
US aircraft for Ukraine:According to the Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, training has already started for 🇺🇦 pilots in the U.S. and the type/number of A/C might be released during the Ramstein Meeting in February (Ramstein 9).https://t.co/kvUbDwh6vD
— CJ (@CasualArtyFan) January 24, 2023
This sounds like a lead-in for a Rom-Com.
Sinema, though, has been a tragedy for Arizona and the United States -
He’s loyal and dependable; she’s out for herself. He is offering grit and hard work in contrast to Sinema’s flakiness and penchant for self-promotion.https://t.co/S3EzlWjjiT
— Jennifer “Pro-privacy” Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 24, 2023
re: #192 austin_blue
U.S. sending “Stryker” armored vehicles to Ukraine as part of $2.5 billion aid package:
I had a bad feeling we were going to do this. They retired these pieces of shit APVs as fast as they could after their performance in Iraq and Afghanistan. To call them “suboptimal” would be way too kind.
They were flat awful. The 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum called them “zits” because they were so easy to pop.
Use them way to the rear to free up decent vehicles for the front?
re: #215 Targetpractice
Not a chance in Hell, not when you see shit like this floating around:
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The media is dedicated to this idea that Biden owes them a “mea culpa” moment, that he’s supposed to walk up to the podium and beg them for forgiveness. Because BSAB if the media says so.
Most Bulwark Republicans are still Republicans at heart, even though they universally detest Trump.
re: #219 William Lewis
Use them way to the rear to free up decent vehicles for the front?
I suspect that the Strykers will replace the assault vehicles that a lot of the Ukrainian units are currently using, civilian cars and unarmored supply trucks.
re: #216 Targetpractice
Because when you already made fools of yourselves by predicting a “Red Wave” that never materialized once, it only makes sense to do it again because eventually you gotta be right…right?
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Very true, the pollsters did not cover themselves in glory this past election.
One big concern is that there are 23 Democratic held seats versus only 11 Republican held seats up this go around.
re: #217 ckkatz
Last week at Ramstein Airbase there was a meeting of Western countries to coordinate aid to Ukraine. A significant amount of aid was promised. The area of major contention, tanks looks like it will be resolved this or next week.
(The Germans may, or may not agree to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The Poles and others may, or may not donate tanks regardless of what the Germans say. The US may unilaterally donate M1 tanks to Ukraine. The US may exchange US tanks to allies in return for them donating Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.)
The next Ukraine Aid Conference at Ramstein is scheduled for the end of February. The topic there will be sending aircraft to Ukraine.
This was announced today by the Ukrainians -
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Germany has been a reluctant partner in this whole affair from the word “Go,” pretty clearly in the “Just give Putin what he wants” camp at the beginning when it looked like a Russian thunder run into Kiev was going to end the whole mess in a matter of days. The reasons are almost all purely political ones, largely centered around the fallout domestically if gas and fuel supplies ran low in the middle of a bitterly cold winter. Yeah, gas stockpiles were topped up and the winter hasn’t been as cold as feared, but German leadership still wants to avoid pissing off Russia too much in the hopes that they can return to something resembling status quo ante bellum once the shooting stops.
re: #213 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s not as though any top government officials personally packed their belongings when they left office; they all had staff to handle the task. And they may never have looked at the contents when they returned home but just left the boxes in some storage compartment or closet. The main issue with Trump was that he refused to return documents, claimed they were all his, was well aware that some were classified, and claimed he used his Jedi mind force to declassify them.
there is a long list of people tasked with bringing sensitive dox to the prez.
part of their job is taking them when they leave and returning the dox to where they belong, or handing that responsibilty off to someone else.
a page or twenty in a few sheafs of papers is not the issue (imo)
the sheer volume of dox that trump retained while still in the WH (that eventually made it into these boxes) means his admin broke the system and nobody knew or did anything about hundreds of pages and files that were never returned.
beause of the quantity and their obvious markings, anybody who packed trump’s boxes had to see at least some things with markings. they knew what they were packing.
Our host tells me they’re working with the Network Operations people to try to figure out what’s going on. They’re not saying it’s definitely a DDOS yet, but it could be.
re: #222 ckkatz
Very true, the pollsters did not cover themselves in glory this past election.
One big concern is that there are 23 Democratic held seats versus only 11 Republican held seats up this go around.
There was the same scenario this past elections, with the Dems on the backfoot in both the House and Senate, hence all the confident predictions that the Repubs would exploit public anger over inflation/immigration/crime/etc to carry both.
re: #221 ckkatz
I suspect that the Strykers will replace the assault vehicles that a lot of the Ukrainian units are currently using, civilian cars and unarmored supply trucks.
They can use anything they get their hands on at this point
Tory Twit Andy Sullivan says only Il Duce DeSadist can bring young people back into the GOP fold. He gets smacked down…
re: #223 Targetpractice
…German leadership still wants to avoid pissing off Russia too much in the hopes that they can return to something resembling status quo ante bellum once the shooting stops.
Which is pointless as there will no going back unless Putin is overthrown and replaced by someone more rational and amenable, which I do not see happening at all.
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ... Cheechako
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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