It continues to amaze me — not in a good way — how overt the racism and bigotry has become in the Donald Trump campaign. In the latest example, here’s radio talk show screecher Howie Carr doing a juvenile “Indian war whoop” to mock Elizabeth Warren. These people really don’t care who they offend.
(Via TPM.)
Ah, the world of Talk Radio reality. Where Obama has taken everyone’s gun and locked up all Christian conservatives while the UN and Muslim Brotherhood run the country.
Thees clowns probably think blackface is just fine too.
As I just posted below about this very video, the GOP do not even realize how bigoted and racist they are at this point. It’s a huge shit show to see who can be the biggest scum bag. A giant race to the bottom. Sad.
re: #3 HappyWarrior
Thees clowns probably think blackface is just fine too.
It’s only a matter of time before Trump puts out a blackface ad.
They operate on the presumption that they already have hit the floor of support from minorities, so they might as well maximize their support among whites.
What I guess they don’t get is that not all whites are ass-backward cavemen, and there are still probably one or two supporters left that they might be able to peel off if they somehow find a way to be even more disgusting.
They have nothing else to campaign on. And it is now a matter of RWNJ faith that Elizabeth Warren used politically correct reverse racism to advance her career over a better qualified white candidate.
re: #5 Dr. Matt
It’s only a matter of time before Trump puts out a blackface ad.
More like a Muslim-flavored Willie Horton, I think.
re: #4 Dr. Matt
As I just posted below about this very video, the GOP do not even realize how bigoted and racist they are at this point. It’s a huge shit show to see who can be the biggest scum bag. A giant race to the bottom. Sad.
They only know the KKK and Nazis are bad because they’ve been told they’re the bad. That’s the only thing that keeps them from being out and bout Nazi and KKK.
It’s the battle of the D level RWNJ talk radio hosts. Ugly. Sad.
re: #4 Dr. Matt
As I just posted below about this very video, the GOP do not even realize how bigoted and racist they are at this point. It’s a huge shit show to see who can be the biggest scum bag. A giant race to the bottom. Sad.
Nobody in the party had the nerve to call out the racists or at least try distance themselves from the bigotry, that is what set off the race to the bottom of the scum pond, and we are just getting started here…
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have nothing else to campaign on. And it is now a matter of RWNJ faith that Elizabeth Warren used politically correct reverse racism to advance her career over a better qualified white candidate.
As it is that Hillary and Obama refused to send help to our diplomats and staff in Benghazi then lied about it afterward, etc.
re: #13 Dr. Matt
Nate Silver Gives Hillary About An 80% Chance To Win Against Trump
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What was he saying about Obama in 2012 at this point for reference?
re: #13 Dr. Matt
Nate Silver Gives Hillary About An 80% Chance To Win Against Trump
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They have to start it out like this, the only horse race they have is whenever polls indicate Trump closing Hillary’s lead by a few tenths of a percentage point…
re: #10 Skip Intro
It’s the battle of the D level RWNJ talk radio hosts. Ugly. Sad.
Ah RWNJ talk radio hosts, Trump’s base.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
They only know the KKK and Nazis are bad because they’ve been told they’re the bad. That’s the only thing that keeps them from being out and bout Nazi and KKK.
Which puts them one step ahead of the BNP and UKIP I guess…
re: #4 Dr. Matt
As I just posted below about this very video, the GOP do not even realize how bigoted and racist they are at this point. It’s a huge shit show to see who can be the biggest scum bag. A giant race to the bottom. Sad.
And, as has been noted below, and elsewhere, they probably don’t care how they appear. When a political movement has apparently decided to make white aggrievement the mainstay of its campaign appeal, it’s not likely that they’re going to give a flying as to how it “looks”: especially when their “leaders” are working overtime to convince them that the media has it in for them anyway….
re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have to start it out like this, the only horse race they have is whenever polls indicate Trump closing Hillary’s lead by a few tenths of a percentage point…
Are you suggesting Nate Silver and crew are cooking the books to attempt to push a horse-race narrative?
That’s a rather bold and inflammatory statement that I hope would be backed up by something more than gut feel.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
At least now I know what Howie Carr looks like. Big whoop.
re: #17 Testy Toad T
Which puts them one step ahead of the BNP and UKIP I guess…
Yeah I guess so. But in another way, it makes them worse, those bigots know they’re bigots, the American right is filled with people who think American liberals are like the KKK and NAzis.
re: #19 Testy Toad T
Are you suggesting Nate Silver and crew are cooking the books to attempt to push a horse-race narrative?
That’s a rather bold and inflammatory statement that I hope would be backed up by something more than gut feel.
I mean the news media have to take news like this as a basis to at least try to keep the race interesting to their viewers.
re: #18 Jay C
And has been noted below, and elsewhere, they probably don’t care how they appear. When a political movement has apparently decided to make white aggrievement the mainstay of its campaign appeal, it’s not likely that they’re going to give a flying as to how it “looks”: especially when their “leaders” are working overtime to convince them that the media has it in for them anyway….
There’s also the fact that these folks are convinced they’re right, regardless of any contradictory reality, AND they see compromise as an evil. Ask them about minority outreach and they’ll tell you it should be the minorities reaching out to THEM.
I’ve learned that a DNA test can’t determine whether a person has Native American ancestry. Now I wonder if a DNA test can determine whether Trump has human ancestry.
re: #25 InfidelOfFreedom
Wonder how this is playing in Oklahoma.
That’s a good point actually. A lot of Oklahoma residents have Cherokee ancestry. It’s why I didn’t think Warren believing her family lore was that silly.
re: #14 HappyWarrior
What was he saying about Obama in 2012 at this point for reference?
Not sure on percent chances but as a point of reference on June 29th 2012 the Five Thirty Eight model projected Obama to win 298.5 electoral votes. Their current model puts Hillary at 353, which is actually larger than Obamas largest lead in all of 2012.
The short answer is that 20 percent or 25 percent is a pretty reasonable estimate of Trump’s chances based on the polls and other empirical evidence. In fact, that’s quite close to where FiveThirtyEight’s statistical models, which are launching today, have the race. Our polls-only model has Trump with a 19 percent chance of beating Clinton as of early Wednesday afternoon. (The forecasts will continually update as new polls are added.) Our polls-plus model, which considers economic conditions along with the polls, is more optimistic about Trump, giving him a 26 percent chance.
Still, Trump faces longer odds and a bigger polling deficit than John McCain and Mitt Romney did at the same point in their respective races. He needs to look back to 1988 for comfort, when George H.W. Bush overcame a similar deficit against Michael Dukakis to win.
And Clinton is no Dukakis, she’s well known and most of the ammunition Trump can use against her is old and already spent. For that matter Trump is no H.W. Bush, he has no experience, record breaking negatives, no sitting President behind him and is running an abjectly racist campaign in a massively more diverse electoral environment.
re: #27 goddamnedfrank
Not sure on percent chances but as a point of reference on June 29th 2012 the Five Thirty Eight model projected Obama to win 298.5 electoral votes. Their current model puts Hillary at 353, which is actually larger than Obamas larges lead in 2012.
And Clinton is no Dukakis, she’s well known and most of the ammunition Trump can use against her is old and already spent. For that matter Trump is no H.W. Bush, he has no experience, record breaking negatives, no sitting President behind him and is running an abjectly racist campaign in a massively more diverse electoral environment.
Thanks, that’s good enough for me .
Did I miss something? Is Elizabeth Warren running for pres? Or is it because thin skinned little Donny can’t stand being talked back to?
re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s also the fact that these folks are convinced they’re right, regardless of any contradictory reality, AND they see compromise as an evil. Ask them about minority outreach and they’ll tell you it should be the minorities reaching out to THEM.
This is the warped worldview that had 16% of TX conservatives in a recent poll believing that whites face the most discrimination in the US.
That’t the political equivalent of being a flat-earther.
re: #29 Skip Intro
Did I miss something? Is Elizabeth Warren running for pres? Or is it because thin skinned little Donny can’t stand being talked back to?
C. He’s a petulant little child.
re: #29 Skip Intro
Did I miss something? Is Elizabeth Warren running for pres? Or is it because thin skinned little Donny can’t stand being talked back to?
She’s an attack dog AND a load of chaff to distract Trump’s seeker head. Double-acting formula.
On the subject of Trump supporters and rank bigotry…Trump fan Squeeky Fromm: Girl Reporter over at Glibitarian TV talking head law guy Jonathan Turley’s law blawg:
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
1, June 28, 2016 at 3:35 pmI am sooo sick of all this pro-Gay nonsense. My goodness, but gay males are the vilest, filthiest, most murderous group of individuals who ever existed. I wonder if the Pope is going to ask the sodomites to apologize for the millions of “bottoms” they have murdered, just because they didn’t want to wear a condom??? I doubt it. Anyway, I suspect this is just another one of those warm and fuzzy drivel thingies.
Rectumus Maximus???
An Irish Poem by Squeeky FrommThere once was a guy called the Pope,
Who proclaimed out a confusing trope…
He said to the Gays,
“We’re amending our ways,”
But still we ain’t bending for soap!”Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
This alleged girl is a real charmer:
I am also putting some of her comment behind a private screen. Bad stuff.
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
1, June 29, 2016 at 12:38 pmThe problem is that some folks here, and on the net in general, use “civility” as a cudgel to intimidate people into silence on some point. That is why you hear so much about “hate speech.” This is because some people are unable to address the substance of an argument, and therefore resort to complaining about the form of the speech. Witness my above comment, which got called “hate speech”, while the substance of typical dangerous gay behavior went unanswered.
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Her idea of humor: Real bad craziness and very offensive…
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This is what Trump is helping encourage.
“Who’s that, Daddy?” Duke Douchebag, lesser of the Douches, of Douchedom Trump.
re: #27 goddamnedfrank
Not sure on percent chances but as a point of reference on June 29th 2012 the Five Thirty Eight model projected Obama to win 298.5 electoral votes. Their current model puts Hillary at 353, which is actually larger than Obamas larges lead in 2012.
And Clinton is no Dukakis, she’s well known and most of the ammunition Trump can use against her is old and already spent. For that matter Trump is no H.W. Bush, he has no experience, record breaking negatives, no sitting President behind him and is running an abjectly racist campaign in a massively more diverse electoral environment.
The magic sauce that makes Nate Silver’s reputation is his analysis of the likely vote at the state and lower levels. That’s why he did so well in US presidential races and so poorly in overseas elections.
re: #29 Skip Intro
Did I miss something? Is Elizabeth Warren running for pres? Or is it because thin skinned little Donny can’t stand being talked back to?
Nope. Nope. Yep.
: )
re: #19 Testy Toad T
Are you suggesting Nate Silver and crew are cooking the books to attempt to push a horse-race narrative?
That’s a rather bold and inflammatory statement that I hope would be backed up by something more than gut feel.
Nate Silver totally lost me when Rasmussen first appeared and started issuing these polls that they’d obviously pulled straight out of their asses, and he wrote several columns being quite irate that anyone would criticize a fellow pollster like that. That’s when he was co-opted by the establishment. (Yes, I used the word “establishment”—at least I didn’t capitalize it). He thereby proved himself safe for the New York Times, and here we are.
re: #35 Decatur Deb
The magic sauce that makes Nate Silver’s reputation is his analysis of the likely vote at the state and lower levels. That’s why he did so well in US presidential races and so poorly in overseas elections.
Well, it appears that (perhaps due to the length of our polling election cycles?) US polling outfits are simply better-calibrated and more sophisticated than those in other countries. I can’t source this, but I am 95% sure I read from a reputable source that the Brexit polling was conducted thusly: do standard landline poll, do online poll, and then simply average the results.
GIGO, as they say.
Ha…speaking for myself. I say, oh yeah! Couldn’t help but notice today as they were all standing on the podium together, what a nice looking group they are.
Deskmate @daveweigel asks: Best looking triad of North American leaders ever, or no? Who tops them? Discuss…— Ed O’Keefe (@edatpost) June 29, 2016
re: #37 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
What a very sophisticated and persuasive argument you present //////
re: #26 HappyWarrior
That’s a good point actually. A lot of Oklahoma residents have Cherokee ancestry. It’s why I didn’t think Warren believing her family lore was that silly.
My mother’s family was from East Texas, but one of my great-grandmothers was a Choctaw straight from the reservation. She reputedly never even learned to speak English very well. So, I’m offended too….
re: #33 Aunty Entity Dragon
She went completely off her nut around two years ago. Used to post at The Fogbow, then just went all Rage Furby there.
re: #40 Testy Toad T
What a very sophisticated and persuasive argument you present //////
Did you mean to use a :-) instead of a // ?
re: #41 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
My mother’s family was from East Texas, but one of my great-grandmothers was a Choctaw straight from the reservation. She reputedly never even learned to speak English very well. So, I’m offended too….
Can’t say I blame you. As for not knowing English, a lot of the immigrant women in my family never did. I located a copy of my third great grandmother’s obituary from 108 years ago where it says she lived in the US nearly 60 years but only spoke Gaelic.
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have nothing else to campaign on. And it is now a matter of RWNJ faith that Elizabeth Warren used politically correct reverse racism to advance her career over a
better qualifiedwhitecandidateman.
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project ….Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I just cain’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
- Woody Guthrie
re: #42 Skip Intro
She went completely off her nut around two years ago. Used to post at The Fogbow, then just went all Rage Furby there.
I always thought she was a strange bird…but she has become completely unhinged and Trump mania is playing into her rants. Turely’s blog is utterly unusable now because of the racists, birthers, neo-confederates, anti GLBT nuts and all around lunatics.
Fromm actually manages to fit into all of the above categories.
re: #40 Testy Toad T
What a very sophisticated and persuasive argument you present //////
So you don’t remember that? Fine. I do.
re: #33 Aunty Entity Dragon
So she chose to name herself after a member of the Manson Family? How nice. en.wikipedia.org
re: #14 HappyWarrior
What was he saying about Obama in 2012 at this point for reference?
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So, about 68% winning for Obama.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
They only know the KKK and Nazis are bad because they’ve been told they’re the bad. That’s the only thing that keeps them from being out and bout Nazi and KKK.
I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS KKK!!! I NEVER HEARD OF THEM AND I HAVE THE WORLD’S ALL TIME GREATEST MEMORY!!!!!
Since I grew up in the South under Jim Crow, I must say that in a way, I’m glad that the racism endemic within the U.S. is coming to the forefront again because it is demonstrating what I and others like me have been dealing with for years, and years, and years. Living as “The Other” in a country you love dearly is hell on earth. I want these tools to keep doing this, and maybe, just maybe, some Americans who think racism in the U.S. is dead and buried [looking at you, SCCJ Roberts, specifically, and others on the Court] will get a frigging clue of the damage it does economically and psychologically to its targets. One never really feels safe anywhere within the borders of one’s country. Never. Never. Why? Because there’s always the possibility that one can become the target of racism, be attacked or killed because of it, and the attacker/murderer can walk free after having committed the assault/crime. Things in America and in other nations in regard to racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, etc. are really, really f*cked up. How do I know this? Because this *sshat feels 100% comfortable and justified in appearing at a campaign rally, letting out a war whoop to denigrate a minority group in America and is rewarded by wild cheers for doing it.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
Can’t say I blame you. As for not knowing English, a lot of the immigrant women in my family never did. I located a copy of my third great grandmother’s obituary from 108 years ago where it says she lived in the US nearly 60 years but only spoke Gaelic.
Speaking of that, idiots complaining that immigrants should speak English before they immigrate is one of the things that pisses me off the most. If that was the case, there would be no Italian, German, and a lot less Irish immigrants. Morons don’t seem to realize that they wouldn’t be in this country if that was the rule in the 1800s/1900s.
Anyone need to borrow a soapbox?
re: #52 majii
Since I grew up in the South under Jim Crow, I must say that in a way, I’m glad that the racism endemic within the U.S. is coming to the forefront again because it is demonstrating what I and others like me have been dealing with for years, and years, and years. Living as “The Other” in a country you love dearly is hell on earth. I want these tools to keep doing this, and maybe, just maybe, some Americans who think racism in the U.S. is dead and buried [looking at you, SCCJ Roberts, specifically, and others on the Court] will get a frigging clue of the damage it does economically and psychologically to its targets. One never really feels safe anywhere within the borders of one’s country. Never. Never. Why? Because there’s always the possibility that one can become the target of racism, be attacked or killed because of it, and the attacker/murderer can walk free after having committed the assault/crime. Things in America and in other nations in regard to racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, etc. are really, really f*cked up. How do I know this? Because this *sshat feels 100% comfortable and justified in appearing at a campaign rally, letting out a war whoop to denigrate a minority group in America and is rewarded by wild cheers for doing it.
It’s easier to clean up dogshit when it’s nice and hard and right in front of you.
re: #47 Aunty Entity Dragon
She does fit in well there.
It continues to amaze me — not in a good way — how overt the racism and bigotry has become in
the Donald Trump campaignevery right wing campaign in the Western world.
re: #53 Timothy Watson
Speaking of that, idiots complaining that immigrants should speak English before they immigrate is one of the things that pisses me off the most. If that was the case, there would be no Italian, German, and a lot less Irish immigrants. Morons don’t seem to realize that they wouldn’t be in this country if that was the rule in the 1800s/1900s.
Anyone need to borrow a soapbox?
Exactly.
re: #50 austin_blue
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So, about 68% winning for Obama.
Oh my, that chart brings back a bit of trauma. See that Obama dip in October? Remember that 1st debate? Disaster.
The first President born after the Declaration of Independence, Martin Van Buren grew up speaking Dutch as his first language.
re: #55 Skip Intro
She does fit in well there.
Another data point in the case for monitoring forum comments and kicking out the nuts. Turley is a free speech kinda guy, which is swell…but the nuts have taken over his blog comment section and they will not give it back. You get judged by the company you keep etc etc.
re: #53 Timothy Watson
Speaking of that, idiots complaining that immigrants should speak English before they immigrate is one of the things that pisses me off the most. If that was the case, there would be no Italian, German, and a lot less Irish immigrants. Morons don’t seem to realize that they wouldn’t be in this country if that was the rule in the 1800s/1900s.
Anyone need to borrow a soapbox?
Only to add Chinese and Japanese immigrants.
White managers would be up the creek without their pet model minorities to take up the slack of some white workers.
re: #52 majii
It’s a double edged situation. Nate Sliver gives the party of racists led by Trump a 20% chance at the moment. That is a shamefully high number.
Hopefully Trump loses big enough to discredit his entire revolting movement. It would be even better if the GOP finds no way to go back to the previous state of affairs where they get their votes by dog whistling to stoke various bigoted resentments.
re: #48 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So you don’t remember that? Fine. I do.
Nate isn’t a big fan of Rasmussen as a polling organization. They get a C+ overall at his site as far as their predictive value:
Zogby gets a C-. So, they aren’t very good, in his model, and carry a lot less weight.
Genius!
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— CaptivatingNews (@CaptivatingNews) June 29, 2016
re: #58 blueraven
Oh my, that chart brings back a bit of trauma. See that Obama dip in October? Remember that 1st debate? Disaster.
That was Romney’s famous Gish gallop. A torrent of lies delivered too rapidly to deal with in a debate format. It seems strange that Romney was unable to repeat that ‘success’.
re: #64 bratwurst
Genius!
Can we shorten Christmas to less than a month? Maybe that’ll reduce Christian violence.
re: #65 EPR-radar
That was Romney’s famous Gish gallop. A torrent of lies delivered too rapidly to deal with in a debate format. It seems strange that Romney was unable to repeat that ‘success’.
Please proceed, Governor…
re: #65 EPR-radar
That was Romney’s famous Gish gallop. A torrent of lies delivered too rapidly to deal with in a debate format. It seems strange that Romney was unable to repeat that ‘success’.
Teh second time Obama was ready for it.
re: #4 Dr. Matt
As I just posted below about this very video, the GOP do not even realize how bigoted and racist they are at this point. It’s a huge shit show to see who can be the biggest scum bag. A giant race to the bottom. Sad.
They were always like this, but lately the social norms are being dragged to the far right. They see Trump and his surrogates spew this shit and no one in the media calls them out for it. Their silence is seen as approval and accepting of the new framing.
re: #54 Decatur Deb
It’s easier to clean up dogshit when it’s nice and hard and right in front of you.
That’s a good analogy and can be further expanded. It’s very difficult to clean up dogshit when a third of the cleanup crew goes to the dog pound every day for fresh loads to be used as spackle in everything they put together.
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have nothing else to campaign on. And it is now a matter of RWNJ faith that Elizabeth Warren used politically correct reverse racism to advance her career over a better qualified white candidate.
Yet Rightwingers are not equally concerned about White wealthy people who benefit from legacies to get into top tier universities. They’re only concerned with affirmative action because it is designed to help racial minorities. Sigh.
re: #72 Patricia Kayden
Yet Rightwingers are not equally concerned about White wealthy people who benefit from legacies to get into top tier universities. They’re only concerned with affirmative action because it is designed to help racial minorities. Sigh.
That’s how I know they’er full of shit when they claim to be in favor of “equality of opportunity.”
re: #73 HappyWarrior
That’s how I know they’er full of shit when they claim to be in favor of “equality of opportunity.”
But, that’s for those who ”deserve” it, dontchaknow…
man, these donald trump email solicitations just keep getting weirder and weirder pic.twitter.com/EO1hYAlbcZ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 29, 2016
Ha!
re: #69 HappyWarrior
Teh second time Obama was ready for it.
Still chuckle about President Obama’s cool “Please proceed, Governor” takedown of Romney. Classic!
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
Still chuckle about President Obama’s cool “Please proceed, Governor” takedown of Romney. Classic!
Yeah that was classic.
Fox News Poll: Clinton up by 6 points, 89 percent say ‘hot-headed’ describes Trump
trying to lull me into complacency are you?? well your evil plot wont work!!!
‘Sup? pic.twitter.com/B823wSkkxT
— Mark Holland (@RiffRaff1971) June 29, 2016
re: #65 EPR-radar
That was Romney’s famous Gish gallop. A torrent of lies delivered too rapidly to deal with in a debate format. It seems strange that Romney was unable to repeat that ‘success’.
Way Back Then:
re: #58 blueraven
And Clinton is STARTING at 79%.
I think we may see a 400 EC breakthrough. Right now, Trump only holds a 41-33 Lead in TX, of all places.
With some effort, TX could be made a battleground, or possibly Blue.
The Octi I had once was exactly the same size. I never touched him though.
re: #53 Timothy Watson
Speaking of that, idiots complaining that immigrants should speak English before they immigrate is one of the things that pisses me off the most. If that was the case, there would be no Italian, German, and a lot less Irish immigrants. Morons don’t seem to realize that they wouldn’t be in this country if that was the rule in the 1800s/1900s.
Anyone need to borrow a soapbox?
Morons don’t realize that odds are they wouldn’t be able to understand the spoken English of the time of the Mayflower, much less the Founders.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Morons don’t realize that odds are they wouldn’t be able to understand the spoken English of the time of the Mayflower, much less the Founders.
“Our military… gets parts from museums and the plane graveyard.” -Trump #TrumpME
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) June 29, 2016
More ignorance erupts from the empty head.
re: #85 jaunte
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More ignorance erupts from the empty head.
That gets me at another Obama schooling Romney part. Romney was going on about how Obama ruined the military and we have less ships now than a century prior and Obama reminded Mitt that we have considerably less horses now too and pointing out that military might isn’t just about numbers.
re: #85 jaunte
Is that an actual quote? For reals?
re: #86 HappyWarrior
That gets me at another Obama schooling Romney part. Romney was going on about how Obama ruined the military and we have less ships now than a century prior and Obama reminded Mitt that we have considerably less horses now too and pointing out that military might isn’t just about numbers.
We have a horse-drawn howitzer gap vs. the Grand Duchy of Fenwick. All is lost.
re: #49 gocart mozart
So she choice to name herself after a member of the Manson Family? How nice. en.wikipedia.org
No offense, but you didn’t recognize the name right off? For us oldsters, it is hard not to remember Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
re: #85 jaunte
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More ignorance erupts from the empty head.
This must be news to Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
re: #87 Jenner7
From his speech today in Maine, apparently.
I make spare parts for military engines #Trump ..you are a dumbass. The gov’t is not getting spare parts from graveyards.#idiot #fraud
— ((NeverTrump)) (@99tf) June 9, 2016
This article is a sick glimpse into the demented mind of an anti-choicer==>
I will admit I could not read the whole thing.
Liberals, This Girl Is In Jail For Aborting Her Newborn. Why Won’t You Defend Her? https://t.co/K6xDQqBd75
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 29, 2016
re: #87 Jenner7
Is that an actual quote? For reals?
Even a perverted element of truth in it—there’s a good reason for this:
OK, I’ve updated ffmpeg to the latest version on the LGF server, and now the code to convert animated GIFs to MP4 video is working much better. Can everyone see this video, converted from an animated GIF?
re: #94 The Vicious Babushka
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Idiot.
re: #96 Charles Johnson
OK, I’ve updated ffmpeg to the latest version on the LGF server, and now the code to convert animated GIFs to MP4 video is working much better. Can everyone see this video, converted from an animated GIF?
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Looks good.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas told a story…
“I have heard firsthand from service members who have looked me in the eye and told of trying to cannibalize parts from a museum aircraft … getting aircraft that were sent to the boneyard in Arizona back and ready to fly missions, pilots flying well below the minimum number of hours required for minimal proficiency,” Thornberry said.
……………
Thornberry would not identify which Marine air station had the parts shortage, and Marine Corps officials at the locations he visited would not confirm the stories.
militarytimes.com
…but he names no names.
If you click the video, the animation stops.
re: #101 jaunte
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas told a story…
…but he names no names.
Of course not.
That wasn’t even a good war whoop.
Half /
re: #101 jaunte
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas told a story…
…but he names no names.
Depending on the system, and the part, that could be perfectly normal. We are still using 50 year old stuff because it works.
re: #64 bratwurst
Genius!
CaptivatingNews @CaptivatingNews
Fox’s Gutfeld Suggests Shortening Muslim Holiday Of Ramadan To Decrease Terrorism tinyurl.com #p2
5:55 PM - 29 Jun 2016
And lets cut way back on Christmas while we are at it so we don’t have to hear the FOX News idiots cry about how they are greeted.
Fox News Poll: @HillaryClinton vs. @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/f9UVx9yiCb
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 29, 2016
Trump’s poll numbers are in free fall. https://t.co/BMguaGmiGa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2016
So let’s crush Trump twice over, just to be sure.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
So let’s crush Trump twice over, just to be sure.
No doubt, a landslide would be great.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
No doubt, a landslide would be great.
… “Bury his ashes where the Sept once stood.”.
The passage of BREXIT has resulted in a spike in racial/xenophobia-based crimes in the UK. Scary as hell.
re: #119 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Even the liberal Fox News….”
You jest but I have heard variations of this phrase “I used to like Fox but they’ve grown too liberal for me.”
people next to me in cafe are discussing moore’s ‘law’
really, ‘moore’s somewhat tongue in cheek prediction that turned out to be mostly true for the past few decades’ would be more like it dontcha think?
Trump just declared that the United States lost the Vietnam War and every war since. “Since then, we only lose,” he said.
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) June 29, 2016
The Persian Gulf War — huge loss.https://t.co/sx6ltpEi0H
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) June 29, 2016
re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Kevin Sorbo defends Trump’s Muslim ban: ‘I don’t mind if you racially profile me’
Sorry. #NotAllNorwegians.
ok ken you fit the profile of an angry nazi imma take your guns kthxbai!
re: #123 blueraven
Trump just declared that the United States lost the Vietnam War and every war since. “Since then, we only lose,” he said
is there going to be a point where most americans realize he is a really ignorant person?
re: #119 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I can imagine that some Trumpsters were thinking about destroying their TV sets when the graphic was shown on Fox in which HRC is leading Trump. I used to watch Morning Joke as I was getting ready for work in 2008. I had to stop watching the program when Joke went off the rails and started lying about Sen. Obama endlessly. I realized it was time to do so when I found myself wanting to trash the new flat-screen I’d purchased a few months before. Hee hee.
Homeless man reunited with Baby the dog
The strange, mysterious saga of Baby the dog appears to be over. If only dogs could talk.
Mike Heath, a homeless man whose therapy dog helped him with psychological issues, reported that the dog, Baby, was stolen in May. Heath posted fliers all over south Minneapolis, where the dog was believed to have been taken, and showed up at the Star Tribune looking for assistance.
On Wednesday morning, Heath and Baby were reunited with the help of a south Minneapolis shop owner, Toni Johnson and her sister, Andi, who took in the dog and sought out Heath.
“Who’s this dog? Who’s this little guy?” Heath said as Baby jumped up and down on Heath’s leg, barking ecstatically.
If there was any doubt Heath had found his dog, Heath pretended to shoot the dog with his finger.
“Bang!”
Obediently, Baby slumped to the ground.
re: #94 The Vicious Babushka
This article is a sick glimpse into the demented mind of an anti-choicer==>
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@MattWalshBlog Damn, the first sentence reveals the author’s mental illness, and #wingnut media is willing to publish his deranged rant.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) June 29, 2016
re: #25 InfidelOfFreedom
Wonder how this is playing in Oklahoma.
Welp, it was so effective when Scott Brown did it during his Senate campaign against Elizabeth Warren, wasn’t it Senator Bro—oops. Please continue GOPers.
re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Kevin Sorbo defends Trump’s Muslim ban: ‘I don’t mind if you racially profile me’
Sorry. #NotAllNorwegians.
He’s always been a huge ass, as any fan of Andromeda will tell you.
@KathyKatalina @MattWalshBlog No it’s not. The central misunderstanding that drove Conservatives insane was conflating abortion and murder.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) June 29, 2016
@KathyKatalina @MattWalshBlog The rest of us can tell the difference. That’s why normal people aren’t going insane over abortion.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) June 29, 2016
@ConcrndFthrPrep @KathyKatalina @MattWalshBlog You ignorant Conservatives need to stop spreading hate, and stop claiming to be Christian.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) June 29, 2016
re: #131 Timothy Watson
He’s always been a huge ass, as any fan of Andromeda will tell you.
aka The Kevin Sorbo Ego Hour
So, I just turned on Tweety and he is making a big deal about Trump on trade and how it fits in with the Bernie backers. He then says Bernie is holding back on Clinton and still in the race because he is saying to Clinton: you better get right on trade and other popular economic issues or Trump is going to win.
And then I turned it off.
I don’t like horse racing and Tweety is just insufferable when he has to shill. Hell, he was bad enough before…just worse now.
‘Four more years!’: MPs chant they want @BarackObama to serve another term as president https://t.co/E8Y7FUm1MA
re: #135 Charles Johnson
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In response, Trump will promise to invade and annex Canada, starting the First Resource War.
re: #125 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
is there going to be a point where most americans realize he is a really ignorant person?
He is a really, really, very ignorant person! The most ignorant of all, OK!
re: #132 No Country For Old Haters
The only people cheering things like this are lunatic right wingers.
re: #137 The Vicious Babushka
He is a really, really, very ignorant person! The most ignorant of all, OK!
BIGLY!
re: #137 The Vicious Babushka
The best ignorance! Very classy.
re: #117 Patricia Kayden
The passage of BREXIT has resulted in a spike in racial/xenophobia-based crimes in the UK. Scary as hell.
To my great disgust, I see that even Polish residents and immigrants have been targeted. These xenophobes like to talk about heritage and tradition but, like American neo-confederates, they seem quite ignorant about the real past. A case in point:
Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain
In the Battle of Britain, Polish pilots serving in all RAF squadrons achieved a remarkable score of 203.5 destroyed, 35 probables and 36 damaged. Other sources give 131 kills as there is generally variation in figures for claimed ‘kills’ - the entire RAF score was lowered from 2,692 to 1,733 aircraft destroyed due to the discrepancy between British and German official figures.
That’s right, when Britain’s very survival was in the balance, Polish airmen, refugees who had fled Nazi conquest, stood up and inflicted 7-8% of the Luftwaffe’s losses in this most iconic of air battles. A handful of them are still alive.
Canada wants to have us Abolish the 22nd Amendment.
‘Four more years!’: MPs chant they want @BarackObama to serve another term as president https://t.co/E8Y7FUm1MA
re: #139 ObserverArt
BIGLY!
When Trump says BIGLY!! I think he is just saying “Big League” but not pronouncing the final consonant.
re: #125 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
is there going to be a point where most americans realize he is a really ignorant person?
Not if they’re Fox viewers. Ignorant there is the new normal.
re: #135 Charles Johnson
This video clip does not show what it is purported to show. We all know that President Obama has not only ruined the U.S.’s reputation in the international community, isn’t well-liked by other nations’ leaders and their citizens, and has destroyed the entire world because he can’t don a Superman suit and fly around the world stopping every bad thing that happens anywhere on the planet. /s/
If most right-wingers could see this clip, it would make them madder than hell and more determined that ever to prove that this president has “totally destroyed” their lives.
re: #134 ObserverArt
So, I just turned on Tweety and he is making a big deal about Trump on trade and how it fits in with the Bernie backers. He then says Bernie is holding back on Clinton and still in the race because he is saying to Clinton: you better get right on trade and other popular economic issues or Trump is going to win.
And then I turned it off.
I don’t like horse racing and Tweety is just insufferable when he has to shill. Hell, he was bad enough before…just worse now.
Is Tweety still suggesting that Hillary pick a GOP governor as her running mate? Yeah, he’s such a genius prognosticator.
re: #142 Ziggy_TARDIS
Canada wants to have us Abolish the 22nd Amendment.
That is too sweet!! Tears.
re: #141 Shiplord Kirel
To my great disgust, I see that even Polish residents and immigrants have been targeted. These xenophobes like to talk about heritage and tradition but, like American neo-confederates, they seem quite ignorant about the past. A case in point:
Polish pilots in the Battle of BritainThat’s right, when Britain’s very survival was in the balance, Polish airmen, refugees who had fled Nazi conquest, stood up and inflicted 7-8% of the Luftwaffe’s losses in this most iconic of air battles. A handful of them are still alive.
Awww shoot. That kills the whole joke.
How many Polish pilots does it take to fly a Hawker Hurricane?
Joking aside…that is a fact that I did not know. Good to see being I am half Slovak and grew up around a lot of Polish, Hungarian, other Slavs and Russians in my old northern Ohio mixed neighborhood. Heard all the old Polish jokes sadly all through the 60s, etc. I bet a ton of people had no idea the Polish pilots were aces.
re: #141 Shiplord Kirel
Along the same line, here’s some really good anti-immigrant buffoonery from Wikipedia.
During campaigning for the 2009 elections for the European Parliament, the far-right British Nationalist Party (BNP) used an image of a Spitfire, with the caption “Battle for Britain”, in publicity to attempt to win support for the party’s anti-immigration stance. The picture chosen, however, depicted a Spitfire flown by a Polish pilot from No. 303 (Polish) Squadron and the party was mocked in the British media as “absurd”.
Cheeto Hitler really is a needy little cockmonster, isn’t he?
Trump: “Sore loser” rivals who don’t back me shouldn’t be allowed to run for office https://t.co/013iYWxkqs pic.twitter.com/krR0UJlBpA
— The Hill (@thehill) June 29, 2016
re: #143 The Vicious Babushka
When Trump says BIGLY!! I think he is just saying “Big League” but not pronouncing the final consonant.
There is that argument. I think someone did a TV poll during a program and it was basically tied.
It’s not that damn hard to slow down and pronounce a hard ‘g’ so I am going to keep harping on it.
re: #134 ObserverArt
So, I just turned on Tweety and he is making a big deal about Trump on trade and how it fits in with the Bernie backers. He then says Bernie is holding back on Clinton and still in the race because he is saying to Clinton: you better get right on trade and other popular economic issues or Trump is going to win.
And then I turned it off.
I don’t like horse racing and Tweety is just insufferable when he has to shill. Hell, he was bad enough before…just worse now.
Too bad Trump and Bernie are demonstrably WRONG on trade. But I guess since they are angry white men and angry white men like them, that’s all it takes to be “right on trade.”
Make every song streamed count for musicians and songwriters. Ask @HouseJudiciary to #StopTheValueGrabhttps://t.co/9JuE1IL8xC
— RIAA (@RIAA) June 28, 2016
re: #150 The Vicious Babushka
What’s he bitching about? He’s got most of the clowns on board the Trump Dumpster.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are among the former presidential candidates who have enthusiastically backed Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry have also endorsed Trump.
And you know little Marco will be jumping on board too.
The spread of the Scots talent for invective to American political rhetoric is an idea whose time has come. I probably wouldn’t have called Mitt Romney a “scrotum headed jizz-drip,” (though he was a jerk and a draft dodger) but his current successors deserve all the scorn that can be heaped on their anus tinged heads.
re: #150 The Vicious Babushka
Cheeto Hitler really is a needy little cockmonster, isn’t he?
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Stole that.
@thehill Cheeto-Hitler needs to be kept far from power. Republicans have dropped the mask, shown their fascist face, and must be rejected.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) June 29, 2016
re: #156 Skip Intro
Rubio has already promised to back Trump. reason.com
re: #156 Skip Intro
What’s he bitching about? He’s got most of the clowns on board the Trump Dumpster.
Cue up some Barbra Streisand…
re: #152 InfidelOfFreedom
Too bad Trump and Bernie are demonstrably WRONG on trade. But I guess since they are angry white men and angry white men like them, that’s all it takes to be “right on trade.”
I’m not sure of your thinking, but I often feel people forget the other side of trade, the politics. I am sure some of the thinking is spread the trade all around the world and invite everyone in. It opens markets, dialogue and builds economic relationships. In other words trading keeps war and other strife between countries down.
The stands of Bernie and especially Trump might undue that and feed other bad stuff.
re: #151 ObserverArt
There is that argument. I think someone did a TV poll during a program and it was basically tied.
It’s not that damn hard to slow down and pronounce a hard ‘g’ so I am going to keep harping on it.
It seems to be a feature of a New York accent that the second element of set phrases like “big league” have much less stress. I’s spreading everywhere now, though. When I was a kid, “ice cream” for example, was pronounced with pretty even stress. Now all I hear is “ICE cream”
re: #161 ObserverArt
I’m not sure of your thinking, but I often feel people forget the other side of trade, the politics. I am sure some of the thinking is spread the trade all around the world and invite everyone in. It opens markets, dialogue and builds economic relationships. In other words trading keeps war and other strife between countries down.
The stands of Bernie and especially Trump might undue that and feed other bad stuff.
Right. That’s what protectionism doesn’t understand.
Mary, Mother of God, I can’t imagine the hubris of this flaming piece of shit:
The office of the Architect of the Capitol informed lawmakers Tuesday that lead levels in the drinking water of the historic Cannon Building “are slightly above the (Environmental Protection Agency) standard.”
Republican Rep. Dennis Ross dashed off an irate letter to House officials on Wednesday demanding to know how much lead is in the water and asking for free tests to measure lead in the people who’ve been drinking the water.
The architect’s office turned off the water at drinking fountains and other sources Tuesday night.
Lead can be especially harmful to unborn children and Ross noted that there are pregnant women who have been drinking the water in the Cannon Building for years.
“I have been drinking this water for years. My staff has been drinking this water for years,” Ross wrote. “Most alarmingly, there are pregnant women and women of child-bearing age who have been drinking this water for years.”
The House is on recess this week but the problem is likely to attract wider notice from lawmakers when they return to their offices in the building.
re: #152 InfidelOfFreedom
“Too bad Trump and Bernie are demonstrably WRONG on trade. But I guess since they are angry white men and angry white men like them, that’s all it takes to be “right on trade.”“
THIS. Fox talkers were wondering out loud why Jesse Williams sounded so “angry” in his BET speech, but we won’t hear a peep out of them about Trump’s fake anger or that of any of his campaign reps. Only certain Americans are permitted to show emotions in public, doncha know?
Isn’t it rich?
Isn’t it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clownsDon’t bother
They’re here
re: #157 Shiplord Kirel
The spread of the Scots talent for invective to American political rhetoric is an idea whose time has come. I probably wouldn’t have called Mitt Romney a “scrotum headed jizz-drip,” (though he was a jerk and a draft dodger) but his current successors deserve all the scorn that can be heaped on their anus tinged heads.
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and for some reason, “Yak-haired, quasi-sentient anal wart” popped into my head. The things only Trump can inspire…
re: #165 Timothy Watson
Some of the chickens have come home to roost and are sh*tt*ng all over the place, and Ross doesn’t like it. He and his buddies aren’t as concerned about helping Flint citizens. No, siree, ‘cause that’ s their problem. I hate this aspect of right-wing politics in which something isn’t important to them until it becomes personal.
Here’s a little preview of the 2106 election. pic.twitter.com/lKIgPRoba1
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) June 29, 2016
re: #170 majii
Some of the chickens have come home to roost and are sh*tt*ng all over the place, and Ross doesn’t like it. He and his buddies aren’t as concerned about helping Flint citizens. No, siree, ‘cause that’ s their problem. I hate this aspect of right-wing politics in which something isn’t important to them until it becomes personal.
And if you’re concerned about a problem that doesn’t affect you (Yet) you’re a “hypocrite”.
I wonder if the snowbillies are whining about the loss of their welfare?
Alaska Governor Limits Annual Oil-Wealth Checks to $1,000
Facing a multibillion-dollar deficit, Alaska’s governor on Wednesday cut in half the annual checks that give all residents a share of the state’s oil wealth, but he kept enough money in place to award everyone a $1,000 payout.
re: #134 ObserverArt
So, I just turned on Tweety and he is making a big deal about Trump on trade and how it fits in with the Bernie backers. He then says Bernie is holding back on Clinton and still in the race because he is saying to Clinton: you better get right on trade and other popular economic issues or Trump is going to win.
And then I turned it off.
I don’t like horse racing and Tweety is just insufferable when he has to shill. Hell, he was bad enough before…just worse now.
The main plus of dumping the cable box and keeping SiriusXM is when Tweety goes off the rails you can switch to Siriusly Sinatra and decompress!
re: #170 majii
Some of the chickens have come home to roost and are sh*tt*ng all over the place, and Ross doesn’t like it. He and his buddies aren’t as concerned about helping Flint citizens. No, siree, ‘cause that’ s their problem. I hate this aspect of right-wing politics in which something isn’t important to them until it becomes personal.
Just like Ohio Senator Rob Portman who was dead set against gay rights like marriage equality etc. until his own son came out. Then he turned on a dime. I emailed him and asked why was his kid so special when for years he was perfectly happy to deny other parents sons and daughters.
I then got a bit dirty and asked him if he would change his stand on guns when one of his family gets shot?
Hey, I didn’t use any bad words. I never do. I like my emails to get to the point without noticeable anger and words that shut the reader down. Grrrr.
re: #165 Timothy Watson
They need to reconvene immediately and allocate eleventy billion dollars to fix this problem in the Cannon building. To cut costs, they could fix only the Republican water fountains, and post armed security to prevent Democrats from drinking from them.
I think all of those old WHITE/COLORED signs the GOP has in storage could be re-purposed for this.
Hey lizards!
I just found a really interesting article from 2002:
Complex was troubled from beginning
Almost from the beginning, the Bond Hill apartment complex now known as Huntington Meadows was unmanageable - at least to the out-of-town owners who have held the complex for half a century.
Completed in 1953 by New York developer Jonathan Woodner, the $10 million Swifton Village was immediately plagued by high vacancy rates, with about half of its 1,154 units occupied.
By 1962, the owners were unable to make mortgage payments, and the New York State Employees Retirement System, which had invested a one-fifth share of the property, foreclosed. The Federal Housing Administration took over control.
That’s when New York developer Fred Trump flew into town, plunked down $5.7 million at a sheriff’s sale and bought the property. He sent his son, 25-year-old business school whiz Donald Trump, to Cincinnati to manage the property.
The elder Mr. Trump was the only bidder on the property, and that made his bankers nervous.
He told the Cincinnati Post Times-Star in 1964 that when he told his mother of the purchase, she replied, “That’s the worst news I’ve heard all day.”
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Bond Hill was a predominantly white neighborhood as late as 1970, and so was Huntington Meadows.
In 1969, a black stock clerk at General Electric Aircraft Engines applied for an apartment and was told there were no vacancies. A white couple sent in by Housing Opportunities Made Equal did find a vacancy, and the stock clerk sued and won.
The Trumps put $500,000 into the property and sold it for $6.75 million in 1972. Donald Trump boasted in his 1987 memoir, The Art of the Deal, that Swifton Village was his first multimillion-dollar deal. But Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire, wrote that Mr. Trump’s account was loaded with “energetic exaggerations” - it was his father, and not Donald, who was the force behind the Swifton Village deal.
Please note, also, that this was all happening during desegregation.
re: #177 Skip Intro
They need to reconvene immediately and allocate eleventy billion dollars to fix this problem in the Cannon building. To cut costs, they could fix only the Republican water fountains, and post armed security to prevent Democrats from drinking from them.
I think all of those old WHITE/COLORED signs the GOP has in storage could be re-purposed for this.
Sizzle!
So I was reading about how Jonathan Weisman, the NY Times’ Washington bureau deputy editor, said earlier this month that he was quitting Twitter because of Twitter’s refusal to do anything about the harassment & hate speech being directed at him. His tweets still seemed to be alive, so out of curiosity I visited his Twitter page. Apparently he only went on hiatus because he tweeted again on June 21.
I clicked on the tweet to see the responses and immediately tumbled down the rabbit hole, where I spent approximately 90 minutes blocking white supremacists, Islamophobes, antisemites (both right & left), and sundry other bigots & trolls. Once I get started it’s kinda hard to stop because one leads to another, then another, and yet more at which point you realize you could pretty much go on indefinitely—or at least until you dropped dead from exhaustion. I stopped after blocking around 60.
I also picked up some new vocabulary words to identify them with apart from the ones I’ve learned here. BTW—WTF is it with these creeps and anime (which they call aryanime)? I also saw that black sun symbol all over the place (in addition to crosses/Crusaders, Viking stuff, etc.)
Below are two of the stupidest (but far from most offensive) tweets. Some of the other stuff I saw was so horrible that I wouldn’t repeat it to anyone anywhere, not even here behind private tags. The pathology confounds me.
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re: #135 Charles Johnson
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LOL, OMG—Alex Jones’ head just exploded, I’m sure of it.
re: #176 ObserverArt
Just like Ohio Senator Rob Portman who was dead set against gay rights like marriage equality etc. until his own son came out. Then he turned on a dime. I emailed him and asked why was his kid so special when for years he was perfectly happy to deny other parents sons and daughters.
I then got a bit dirty and asked him if he would change his stand on guns when one of his family gets shot?
Hey, I didn’t use any bad words. I never do. I like my emails to get to the point without noticeable anger and words that shut the reader down. Grrrr.
No, you were pretty much right to point that out. I am glad that Portman’s not a total dick but I have little doubt he’d still be opposed to SSM if his own son hadn’t come out. This is very typical of conservatism in my observations. IIRC former Senator Dominici was a big proponent of helping those with mental illness because of his daughter. And you know what, I am glad these peopel aren’t totally heartless but I wonder why they cant’ extend the same to other people’s loved ones.
b“Under a modeled electorate, Trump loses every swing state by 6-12 points. Governor Kasich wins 6 out of 7 swing states. Speaker Ryan wins 2 out of 7 swing states,” the email reads.
The email makes no mention of efforts to stop Trump from claiming the nomination but points to Kasich’s importance as a popular Republican leader.
“This data is further proof that Governor Kasich is the most popular Republican politician in the nation today and it underlines why his efforts to help our U.S. Senate and House candidates are so very important,” the email concludes, with a link to the full poll results.
When asked by CNN why the campaign sent out the email, Chris Schrimpf, a Kasich spokesman, echoed the letter, saying the poll shows how important Kasich’s role is in the GOP.
ha! now i think even more that the gop leadership is angling to dump the trump at the convention
re: #181 CuriousLurker
LOL, OMG—Alex Jones’ head just exploded, I’m sure of it.
The Canadian military will be supporting Obama’s coup. As well as the Mexicans! Better buy plenty of guns and ammo.
///
re: #181 CuriousLurker
LOL, OMG—Alex Jones’ head just exploded, I’m sure of it.
This footage will appear all over the wingnuttosphere as some Democrat Party conclave—Canadian flags be damned.
re: #183 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
b“Under a modeled electorate, Trump loses every swing state by 6-12 points. Governor Kasich wins 6 out of 7 swing states. Speaker Ryan wins 2 out of 7 swing states,” the email reads.
The email makes no mention of efforts to stop Trump from claiming the nomination but points to Kasich’s importance as a popular Republican leader.
“This data is further proof that Governor Kasich is the most popular Republican politician in the nation today and it underlines why his efforts to help our U.S. Senate and House candidates are so very important,” the email concludes, with a link to the full poll results.
When asked by CNN why the campaign sent out the email, Chris Schrimpf, a Kasich spokesman, echoed the letter, saying the poll shows how important Kasich’s role is in the GOP.ha! now i think even more that the gop leadership is angling to dump the trump at the convention
I think no doubt they want to dump him but i wonder if they can dump him at this rate without it blowing pu in their face.
re: #180 CuriousLurker
What confounds me about persons like these is that they don’t seem to realize how hateful they really are. OTOH, they’ll talk up a blue streak about how much they “love” Jesus, and in the very next sentence, they’re spewing racism, bigotry, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc. I’m no psychologist/psychiatrist, but I think the person they hate most are themselves. Someone who is comfortable in his/her own skin has no need to disparage others.
re: #185 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
This footage will appear all over the wingnuttosphere as some Democrat Party conclave—Canadian flags be damned.
And ignoring that Reagan actually wanted to do away with the term limit amendment.
re: #13 Dr. Matt
That’s 20 points too high. Trump is most unqualified candidate to be major party nominee in decades. https://t.co/rvyOFSYTMi
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 29, 2016
re: #186 HappyWarrior
“I think no doubt they want to dump him but i wonder if they can dump him at this rate without it blowing pu in their face.”
Not unless they want a sh*tstorm of a major GOP civil war after the convention. I think if Trump is denied the nomination, all hell will break out in the GOP.
re: #190 majii
“I think no doubt they want to dump him but i wonder if they can dump him at this rate without it blowing pu in their face.”
Not unless they want a sh*tstorm of a major GOP civil war after the convention. I think if Trump is denied the nomination, all hell will break out in the GOP.
Exactly.
They’d love to dump him but Prince Rebus hasn’t got the balls for it. It would make for some great television though.
Someone should start an email warning stating all fundraising efforts supposedly from Trump are scams
After all, he “self funding”, right?— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 30, 2016
re: #180 CuriousLurker
So I was reading about how Jonathan Weisman, the NY Times’ Washington bureau deputy editor, said earlier this month that he was quitting Twitter because of Twitter’s refusal to do anything about the harassment & hate speech being directed at him. His tweets still seemed to be alive, so out of curiosity I visited his Twitter page. Apparently he only went on hiatus because he tweeted again on June 21.
I clicked on the tweet to see the responses and immediately tumbled down the rabbit hole, where I spent approximately 90 minutes blocking white supremacists, Islamophobes, antisemites (both right & left), and sundry other bigots & trolls. Once I get started it’s kinda hard to stop because one leads to another, then another, and yet more at which point you realize you could pretty much go on indefinitely—or at least until you dropped dead from exhaustion. I stopped after blocking around 60.
I also picked up some new vocabulary words to identify them with apart from the ones I’ve learned here. BTW—WTF is it with these creeps and anime (which they call aryanime)? I also saw that black sun symbol all over the place (in addition to crosses/Crusaders, Viking stuff, etc.)
Below are two of the stupidest (but far from most offensive) tweets. Some of the other stuff I saw was so horrible that I wouldn’t repeat it to anyone anywhere, not even here behind private tags. The pathology confounds me.
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Every time one of these nazi Trumporrhoids tweets at me I run Twitter Block Chain. Highly recommended.
re: #183 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
b“Under a modeled electorate, Trump loses every swing state by 6-12 points. Governor Kasich wins 6 out of 7 swing states. Speaker Ryan wins 2 out of 7 swing states,” the email reads.
The email makes no mention of efforts to stop Trump from claiming the nomination but points to Kasich’s importance as a popular Republican leader.
“This data is further proof that Governor Kasich is the most popular Republican politician in the nation today and it underlines why his efforts to help our U.S. Senate and House candidates are so very important,” the email concludes, with a link to the full poll results.
When asked by CNN why the campaign sent out the email, Chris Schrimpf, a Kasich spokesman, echoed the letter, saying the poll shows how important Kasich’s role is in the GOP.ha! now i think even more that the gop leadership is angling to dump the trump at the convention
It sounds like the Berners’ “electability” argument, to which I say, if both Bernie and Kasich were so fucking electable, why didn’t they win their parties’ primaries? Kasich won one state.
And Kasich, like Bernie, never had any shit thrown at him in the primary because he wasn’t all that important. I call it the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” argument after the fact.
re: #184 A Cranky One
The Canadian military will be supporting Obama’s coup. As well as the Mexicans! Better buy plenty of guns and ammo.
///
This CT stuff is just TOO easy to make up. From an exchange with Canadian a follower the other night:
@3lilbirdss Prolly POTUS teaming up w/Trudeau (international Jade Helm type operation to make all of N. America one big NWO UN-run country).
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) June 28, 2016
@CuriousLurker Haha! Don’t get them started again.
— Three Little Birds (@3lilbirdss) June 28, 2016
I told her not to worry as long as the helicopters weren’t black and she didn’t see any FEMA trailers. //
What a great choice for the Olympics.
Body Parts Wash Up On The Shore Of Rio’s Olympic Volleyball Beach
re: #155 Teukka
Ugh. Doesn’t look good.
Everyone, watch the vid in #128. Not good. Not good at all.
*5-minute harangue of cusses*
re: #187 majii
I’m no psychologist/psychiatrist, but I think the person they hate most are themselves. Someone who is comfortable in his/her own skin has no need to disparage others.
THIS.
re: #195 BeachDem
It sounds like the Berners’ “electability” argument, to which I say, if both Bernie and Kasich were so fucking electable, why didn’t they win their parties’ primaries? Kasich won one state.
And Kasich, like Bernie, never had any shit thrown at him in the primary because he wasn’t all that important. I call it the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” argument after the fact.
Agreed.
Trump opener mocks Warren with stereotypical Native American war cry
manafort may be managing trump but he cant shut pandora’s box
re: #198 Teukka
Everyone, watch the vid in #128. Not good. Not good at all.
*5-minute harangue of cusses*
I did. Now I’m even more depressed.
re: #202 Skip Intro
I did. Now I’m even more depressed.
As am I. Bad news is humanity is going to get an almighty kick in the family jewels. The good news is that we know the kick is coming…
re: #187 majii
What confounds me about persons like these is that they don’t seem to realize how hateful they really are. OTOH, they’ll talk up a blue streak about how much they “love” Jesus, and in the very next sentence, they’re spewing racism, bigotry, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc. I’m no psychologist/psychiatrist, but I think the person they hate most are themselves. Someone who is comfortable in his/her own skin has no need to disparage others.
When someone who proclaims their Christianity and love for Jesus doesn’t treat a stranger like Jesus in disguise, their lies and hypocrisy are revealed.
I’ve been lucky to know some truly amazing people who devoted their lives helping others, a sacrifice made for religious reasons. From many different faiths. My respect for them reminds me that while there are many who use religion for evil ends, it’s wrong to generalize to all people of that (or no) faith.
Having said that, my experience has been that some of the most despicable, selfish and slap worthy folks I’ve met were also the ones most loudly proclaiming faith in their chosen deity.
re: #166 majii
“Too bad Trump and Bernie are demonstrably WRONG on trade. But I guess since they are angry white men and angry white men like them, that’s all it takes to be “right on trade.”“
THIS. Fox talkers were wondering out loud why Jesse Williams sounded so “angry” in his BET speech, but we won’t hear a peep out of them about Trump’s fake anger or that of any of his campaign reps. Only certain Americans are permitted to show emotions in public, doncha know?
The extra depressing/infuriating thing to me this election cycle is that I have come to expect this crap from the racist Republican party. However I am sadly disappointed in the “neutral” media’s treatment of the “angry white guy”. Unabashed racist Trump supporters are constantly and instantly legitimized, their motives never questioned, despite the fact that “trade and economics” are so obviously a cover for a racial backlash that has been building for years. News anchors are so loath to even hint that these folks may be driven by race, not economics, it’s painful to watch. But when young men and women of color are killed by the police or a white supremacist, the anger in their communities is delegitimized, questioned, and dismissed. They are asked to “forgive the killer” and “let the system work” and make all kinds of concessions about police and how they are mostly good and yada yada yada. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a Trump supporter asked to “forgive” anyone, and I’ll eat my hat the day I do.
(Rant off)
Evening Lizardim.
*collapses on the floor*
That is all.
re: #146 BeachDem
Is Tweety still suggesting that Hillary pick a GOP governor as her running mate? Yeah, he’s such a genius prognosticator.
I have here a fine steak. What would you like to season it with —- steak sauce or ground glass?
re: #190 majii
“I think no doubt they want to dump him but i wonder if they can dump him at this rate without it blowing pu in their face.”
Not unless they want a sh*tstorm of a major GOP civil war after the convention. I think if Trump is denied the nomination, all hell will break out in the GOP.
heh
hehehe
BWAHAHAHA!
re: #180 CuriousLurker
The anime thing is extremely creepy. Neo-nazis seem to really love images of big-eyed cartoon children. So very creeeepy.
What I love is conservatives and Republicans insist that liberals are the hateful and mean spirited ones. I am sorry but your ideology cannot have a person like Limbaugh as a spokesman for it for over 2 decades and not be anything but assholish. And I get that Limbaugh is a talk show host and not an elected official but Rush was important enough that Boehner talked to him about Republican strategy and was repeatedly considered an influential conservative.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
Well, their perception of reality is cartoonish, so it kind of makes sense.
re: #204 A Cranky One
Having said that, my experience has been that some of the most despicable, selfish and slap worthy folks I’ve met were also the ones most loudly proclaiming faith in their chosen deity.
QFT—same here.
Check out this congressman from Kentucky, he’ll restore your faith in humanity.
#Kudos: @RepJohnYarmuth (D-Louisville) donates congressional salary to charity for 10th year in a row https://t.co/FHhlFcwJ3n #p2 #tiot
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) June 29, 2016
re: #194 The Vicious Babushka
Every time one of these nazi Trumporrhoids tweets at me I run Twitter Block Chain. Highly recommended.
Only problem with this extension is that it can inadvertently block people you don’t really want to block, if they’re following some creep just to keep track of them, for example.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
The anime thing is extremely creepy. Neo-nazis seem to really love images of big-eyed cartoon children. So very creeeepy.
Does some of it come from the gamer crowd and especially the Japanese and other Asian American players and then it spread?
Quick question. Am I the only one having problems with my space bar not working when replying to posts?
re: #210 Charles Johnson
The anime thing is extremely creepy. Neo-nazis seem to really love images of big-eyed cartoon children. So very creeeepy.
It’s a bit ironic, really, in that anime is Japanese, which is hardly “aryan”. I get that there’s a fetish for that kind of art style, but since anime is generally intended to portray teenage or pre-teen characters, it can get into creepy territory real quick.
re: #213 CuriousLurker
QFT—same here.
Check out this congressman from Kentucky, he’ll restore your faith in humanity.
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Wow that’s very admirable. What a breath of fresh air compared to some of the Congressional Republicans who get elected opposing government health care and then request it.
re: #210 Charles Johnson
The anime thing is extremely creepy. Neo-nazis seem to really love images of big-eyed cartoon children. So very creeeepy.
Also Pepe the Frog.
re: #214 Charles Johnson
Only problem with this extension is that it can inadvertently block people you don’t really want to block, if they’re following some creep just to keep track of them, for example.
This—it’s the only reason I don’t use it. I installed it, but then disabled it.
re: #211 HappyWarrior
What I love is conservatives and Republicans insist that liberals are the hateful and mean spirited ones. I am sorry but your ideology cannot have a person like Limbaugh as a spokesman for it for over 2 decades and not be anything but assholish. And I get that Limbaugh is a talk show host and not an elected official but Rush was important enough that Boehner talked to him about Republican strategy and was repeatedly considered an influential conservative.
There was also that instructive series of events where several elected Republican officials needed to publicly kiss Limbaugh’s ring after daring to criticize the spiritual leader of the US conservative movement.
The only Republican in the past 20 years with more real power than Rush Limbaugh was W Bush while he was POTUS.
re: #215 ObserverArt
The new chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party loves anime. His specialty is big boobed ones.
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Also Pepe the Frog.
Ah yes, I see that one used by trolls everywhere, but I never knew his name.
re: #221 EPR-radar
There was also that instructive series of events where several elected Republican officials needed to kiss Limbaugh’s ring after daring to criticize the spiritual leader of the US conservative movement.
The only Republican in the past 20 years with more real power than Rush Limbaugh was W Bush while he was POTUS.
I still remember one Republican Congressman apologizing to Limbaugh for “misspeaking” after he in a rare moment of itnegrity called out Rush for bitching at the Republicans for being too nice to Obama after Obama got elected. And then there was the silence by the GOP candidates after Rush called Sandra Fluke a slut.
re: #223 CuriousLurker
Ah yes, I see that one used by trolls everywhere, but I never knew his name.
Yeah, I think Charles was the one that pointed out to me that it had been co-opted by the alt-right fucktards.
The Rage Furby’s latest video is so totally batshit insane I’m very tempted to do a post about it. I haven’t written about him in a while, but the craziness is so extreme in this one I’m already mapping it out in my head.
re: #197 Skip Intro
What a great choice for the Olympics.
Body Parts Wash Up On The Shore Of Rio’s Olympic Volleyball Beach
Don’t bother clicking the link. No pics.
re: #222 Skip Intro
The new chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party loves anime. His specialty is big boobed ones.
I think you are thinking of the Clown God of Travis County….
re: #141 Shiplord Kirel
To my great disgust, I see that even Polish residents and immigrants have been targeted. These xenophobes like to talk about heritage and tradition but, like American neo-confederates, they seem quite ignorant about the real past. A case in point:
Polish pilots in the Battle of BritainThat’s right, when Britain’s very survival was in the balance, Polish airmen, refugees who had fled Nazi conquest, stood up and inflicted 7-8% of the Luftwaffe’s losses in this most iconic of air battles. A handful of them are still alive.
One of the best writers in modern British literature: Joseph Conrad (Konrad Korzeniowski).
re: #213 CuriousLurker
QFT—same here.
Check out this congressman from Kentucky, he’ll restore your faith in humanity.
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Don’t know if you ever saw this reply to you a while back, so a link:
re: #214 Charles Johnson
Only problem with this extension is that it can inadvertently block people you don’t really want to block, if they’re following some creep just to keep track of them, for example.
I only run it on accounts with <500 followers after I have browsed the followers list. Today I saw a white supremacist account with 14,000 followers and I’m like OH SHIT can’t run Block Chain.
It doesn’t block people you are already following.
re: #217 thedopefishlives
It’s a bit ironic, really, in that anime is Japanese, which is hardly “aryan”. I get that there’s a fetish for that kind of art style, but since anime is generally intended to portray teenage or pre-teen characters, it can get into creepy territory real quick.
It gets even stranger when young Japanese girls dress up as anime characters.
re: #141 Shiplord Kirel
To my great disgust, I see that even Polish residents and immigrants have been targeted. These xenophobes like to talk about heritage and tradition but, like American neo-confederates, they seem quite ignorant about the real past. A case in point:
Polish pilots in the Battle of BritainThat’s right, when Britain’s very survival was in the balance, Polish airmen, refugees who had fled Nazi conquest, stood up and inflicted 7-8% of the Luftwaffe’s losses in this most iconic of air battles. A handful of them are still alive.
I cannot believe I hadn’t thought about that. That’s a very good point.
re: #226 Charles Johnson
The Rage Furby’s latest video is so totally batshit insane I’m very tempted to do a post about it. I haven’t written about him in a while, but the craziness is so extreme in this one I’m already mapping it out in my head.
At some point it will be better to not cover CCJ’s nonsense than to cover it, since nothing could be better suited to CCJ than him having no visibility at all, despite his stupid antics.
Perhaps that time is now, give than he’s apparently not gaining any traction in Greater Wingnuttia.
re: #228 Dave In Austin
Yeah, I keep getting confused between this and Tarrant Open Carry.
Mea culpa.
re: #234 EPR-radar
At some point it will be better to not cover CCJ’s nonsense than to cover it, since nothing could be better suited to CCJ than him having no visibility at all, despite his stupid antics.
Perhaps that time is now, give than he’s apparently not gaining any traction in Greater Wingnuttia.
Sadly Our Host has to keep tabs on the Rage Furby because of the mistaken identity thing that happens because they have the same name.
re: #226 Charles Johnson
The Rage Furby’s latest video is so totally batshit insane I’m very tempted to do a post about it. I haven’t written about him in a while, but the craziness is so extreme in this one I’m already mapping it out in my head.
Have you posted it yet? I saw you had some images up from it, but I don’t think I saw an active video.
I hate the sum n’ gun, but he is a strange study when he gets in video mode.
Broke down and compiled the latest version of ffmpeg from source. None of the yum repos are current - they install an ffmpeg from 2011.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 30, 2016
re: #234 EPR-radar
At some point it will be better to not cover CCJ’s nonsense than to cover it, since nothing could be better suited to CCJ than him having no visibility at all, despite his stupid antics.
Perhaps that time is now, give than he’s apparently not gaining any traction in Greater Wingnuttia.
On the other hand, he’s such a nasty piece of work that watching and documenting his descent into the personal hell he’s creating can be amusing.
OK, now this is weird. When my space bar stops working in a comment, if I bang on it enough LGF goes to a full screen image of the GIF converted to video in comment #96.
Hitting the escape key makes that go away and my space bar works again.
re: #236 The Vicious Babushka
lk61vMsm94U84G3oKVDmY6uorC5K40k2TbPJzg+2BZgTY1V3plkDQuz8iKY0nYmlgD9XuMN24a4+xxi2hEL2cp64BhH3zxdehfKdnVqGmk0s8A/UQA2kekE5K7+Q623nduqEieP9MJIQhCds2hJfB3hRC/0Wgb/ZR24b/Hwbf5/pGlbNOYGm4n7oP1bGvfcvtDQ5JYlF47GpexhFnRmErQ==
OT:
Assuming a different audience than this morning
my last shameless plug (promise)
A national database of registered guns will never come to pass.
Government issued titles won’t fly either.
There must be an accessible list of those who lost their 2A rights or are otherwise “no-fly”.
margherita pizza on the counter…
re: #240 Skip Intro
OK, now this is weird. When my space bar stops working in a comment, if I bang on it enough LGF goes to a full screen image of the GIF converted to video in comment #96.
Hitting the escape key makes that go away and my space bar works again.
That is odd. I momentarily had only the space bar not working when I was typing in an LGF comment earlier today, but nothing that bizarre.
re: #218 HappyWarrior
Wow that’s very admirable. What a breath of fresh air compared to some of the Congressional Republicans who get elected opposing government health care and then request it.
Yep, he puts his money where his mouth is. Some Christians, not to mention politicians, could take lessons from him (he’s Jewish). Since there are antisemites, racists & bigots everywhere, it made me briefly wonder if it ever occurs to any of the ones who live in Kentucky that maybe they or their children benefit from charity given by this man who’s not only a Democrat, but also a Jew. Likewise, if one of them (or their family members) gets sick or injured and goes to the hospital, would they stick to their “principles” and refuse treatment by a black or Muslim doctor? Somehow I doubt it.
re: #226 Charles Johnson
The Rage Furby’s latest video is so totally batshit insane I’m very tempted to do a post about it. I haven’t written about him in a while, but the craziness is so extreme in this one I’m already mapping it out in my head.
Please do it, Charles! And play the Benny Hill music in the background!!!!!!
re: #240 Skip Intro
OK, now this is weird. When my space bar stops working in a comment, if I bang on it enough LGF goes to a full screen image of the GIF converted to video in comment #96.
Hitting the escape key makes that go away and my space bar works again.
Contact Sharyl Attkisson, stat! She knows what’s up.
re: #240 Skip Intro
I experimented with the HTML5 video tag for that one. It’s still not very well-supported and has some weird quirks - like that one.
re: #230 A Cranky One
Don’t know if you ever saw this reply to you a while back, so a link:
Yes, I did see it, but until it was too late to reply. {{{A Cranky One}}}
“…These emails are genuinely bewildering. For one thing, they seem in violation of campaign finance laws against collecting money from non-Americans. But beyond legality, they raise some disturbing questions about Trump’s campaign. It’s known that Trump is having trouble fundraising and is reluctant to spend much more of his purported billions on the campaign. But is he really in so much trouble that he needs to turn to Icelandic nationalists?
The other possibility is that this is just a screw-up. It’s easy to imagine that the Trump campaign bought or acquired an email list of possible donors and didn’t make any effort to scrub out the names of foreign donors. Given the fact that Trump’s leading campaign adviser Paul Manafort has been involved in political campaigns around the globe, this scenario makes some sense…”
Trump baffles politicians around the globe by hitting them up for cash. https://t.co/TN9N9RTi9N pic.twitter.com/KYeqEPAhRZ
— New Republic (@NewRepublic) June 29, 2016
So, apparently, the Isle of Manx is now thinking of stopping being a Crown Dependency, and leave England and Wales too. Join with Ireland, Scotland, or also join into a Celtic Union with Gibraltar?
And what about the Channel Islands?
re: #249 FormerDirtDart
BREAKING: Donald Trump Campaign Floored By Launch Of Immediate FEC Investigation (DETAILS) https://t.co/doR0ajuGuX pic.twitter.com/APq9GzIdyq
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) June 29, 2016
re: #249 FormerDirtDart
I’m sure Trump just intended to let them in on a fabulous deal on some prime Condos he’s building down in Mexico.
The latest version of ffmpeg is pretty freaking amazing software. Converts animated GIFs to MP4 video and gets the frame rate conversions correct, even if they’re not all the same. And the converted MP4 file is much smaller - usually about half the size of the animated GIF.
re: #252 Skip Intro
And if you believe that I have some prime real estate I want to show you… //
Yay for Gabe!
Quarterly CT scan just came back all clear. CANCER-FREE SINCE 1/14/2016, BABY pic.twitter.com/ZrbQ8RK2xP
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) June 30, 2016
re: #251 lawhawk
I would think that with Trump’s “excellent brain,” he’d know it is illegal to solicit campaign donations from foreign persons, politicians, and entities. I’ve noticed that some in the American MSM are looking for reasons, besides incompetence, to explain this. It appears to me they’re too afraid to say that this is an example of Trump’s inability to run a decent campaign and a poor reflection of his ability to lead well.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is good news for anyone. :)
re: #174 freetoken
I wonder if the snowbillies are whining about the loss of their welfare?
No, we’re pissed off! The reductions in the PFD ($700 million total) exactly match the tax credits given to the oil cartel. And the oil tax credits can be held and used years in the future to offset future taxes if/when oil prices rise.
re: #257 majii
I would think that with Trump’s “excellent brain,” he’d know it is illegal to solicit campaign donations from foreign persons, politicians, and entities. I’ve noticed that some in the American MSM are looking for reasons, besides incompetence, to explain this. It appears to me they’re too afraid to say that this is an example of Trump’s inability to run a decent campaign and a poor reflection of his ability to lead well.
Trump has confused (for the thousandth time in this campaign) being the richest person in the room with being the most competent person in the room. He has probably managed to make this work his entire adult life only because life really is easy for rich people.
heh
The movement is not happy with Fluffy Unicorn. pic.twitter.com/5Z6PhkE752
— (((JJ MacNab))) (@jjmacnab) June 30, 2016
re: #259 Cheechako
I hope you know that by “snowbillies” I was referring to one family in particular.
Thank you, Barack, for your steadfast & inspiring address tonight. It was our honour to host you in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/1tB6Q8chrl
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 29, 2016
Brutal fight. Not for softhearted pic.twitter.com/9PWLllD57K
— JuliE (@1Julie92) June 28, 2016
re: #260 EPR-radar
Trump has confused (for the thousandth time in this campaign) being the richest person in the room with being the most competent person in the room. He has probably managed to make this work his entire adult life only because life really is easy for rich people.
And also, probably, most often the guy in the room who signs the other peoples’ paychecks. Not the position that gives you good experience in having to actually deal with other humans, or situations where you aren’t in control of the agenda.
Chris Mooney writes yet another article that is a magnet for deniers, deniers well practiced in their language skills by now but still divorced from reality:
The world has the right climate goals — but the wrong ambition levels to achieve them
BTW, that’s the old creationist gig - write long retorts that sound all English-y but in the end contain lies.
Anyway, the subject is this article in Nature:
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
But that headline is all too political to begin with.
Bottom line is that the Paris agreement is just whitewash - an exercise for politicians to get feel-good moments, and photo-ops and soundbites for their constituency (or subjects, whichever is the case.)
The Reuters article I linked a couple of days ago had a better feel for the future, I think. Sad though it is, we are going to continue to consume fossil fuels, moderated only by economic activity and resource depletion.
re: #266 Stanley Sea
It was nice of the cat not to use the sand as litter.
Alvin Toffler, author of million-selling “Future Shock,” dies at 87. https://t.co/q8H5OmWI88
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 30, 2016
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Buddha folded like a cheap dollar when he was in front of the judge, which is not surprising to me since I knew most of the Bundy and Malheur “patriots” were just preening wussies. Dude started talking and admitted to what he’s been charged with. I am also not surprised that when the rubber meets the road, these fake patriots forget all about defying the feds and begin thinking of ways they can cut short the amount of time they know they’ll probably be spending behind bars. This DK Woods person doesn’t seem to know that Bruce Doucette is a self-appointed judge with no power to help Buddha, himself, or anyone else.
today in questionable optics https://t.co/nN6EXqr9lJ
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) June 30, 2016
re: #273 Jenner7
The “left wing media” really wants to make the Hillary email controversy happen.
Governor Matt Bevin wants to make the poor perform to get dental insurance through Medicaid, and is threatening to end Medicaid expansion for 400k Kentuckians if he doesn’t get his way, even though he knows the Feds won’t approve work requirements.
Hey, media? Stop trying to make the Hillary Clinton email controversy happen. It’s not going to happen.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 30, 2016
re: #196 CuriousLurker
This CT stuff is just TOO easy to make up. From an exchange with Canadian a follower the other night:
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I told her not to worry as long as the helicopters weren’t black and she didn’t see any FEMA trailers. //
Don’t be too quick with the CT explanation. It is highly likely that one of these UH60M flying emergency rooms travels with/before the president when possible.
re: #274 Charles Johnson
The “left wing media” really wants to make the Hillary email controversy happen.
Of course. That’s the way to sell ads. Who is going to pay for ad time to air during coverage of a presidential campaign between a perfectly reasonable politician and a vulgar talking yam?
re: #275 Big Beautiful Door
Governor Matt Bevin wants to make the poor perform to get dental insurance through Medicaid, and is threatening to end Medicaid expansion for 400k Kentuckians if he doesn’t get his way, even though he knows the Feds won’t approve work requirements.
Bevin also wants to do away with opticians, ophthalmologists and allergists.
re: #275 Big Beautiful Door
Governor Matt Bevin wants to make the poor perform to get dental insurance through Medicaid, and is threatening to end Medicaid expansion for 400k Kentuckians if he doesn’t get his way, even though he knows the Feds won’t approve work requirements.
Contrast his assholery with the Kentucky congressman we were talking about earlier in the thread: #213 *smh*
re: #272 majii
I was robbed at knifepoint by a couple of guys while I was working at a convenience store a long time ago. The thieves were caught after a string of robberies that night and I got to read the police report later. The cops were asking one of the guys if he’d robbed a particular store and the thief would say no. Then the cops would tell him that they had video of him robbing the store, to which he’d say that, well, he had robbed that one but not any of those other ones, to which the cops would provide video of him robbing the other store too. He finally confessed to all of the robberies they’d committed because they were also getting blamed for another series of robberies that was happening the same night.
I’m sure it was the same for Buddha. He’d deny it and the prosecutors would say “well, we have this Facebook post that says you did”. They documented themselves breaking the law so thoroughly that he didn’t have any choice at all.
re: #275 Big Beautiful Door
The strangest thing thing for me to understand is that those who had health insurance under Obamacare voted for Bevin even though he told them he planned to end KynectCare under Obamacare while he was campaigning. These tools voted to lose their healthcare coverage all while knowing that, for some of them, this was the first time they had health insurance in their lives. Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog noted today that these same individuals voted for Bevin because he shared their hate for SSM and abortion. For the life of me, I cannot understand the way people like this think. I just can’t. It appears to me that they either thought Bevin would give them a waiver to keep their insurance in exchange for their votes, or they didn’t mind sacrificing their healthcare coverage for having an opportunity to elect someone who would “destroy” those “evil gays” and would keep “those loose wimmen folk” from “murdering” their unborn babies.
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bevin also wants to do away with opticians, ophthalmologists and allergists.
What on earth is the purported justification for this ripe nugget of bad crazy?
Page Six: “‘Morning Joe’ hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough could soon go public as a couple.” https://t.co/BrG4ZTGjb1
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) June 29, 2016
I hope Miss Brzezinski is insured.
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 30, 2016
re: #283 EPR-radar
What on earth is the purported justification for this ripe nugget of bad crazy?
Poor people shouldn’t get free stuff.
Rep. Jim Himes: Donald Trump Has The Policy Knowledge “Of A Second Or Third Grader”: “I don’t even know how t… https://t.co/0ElCL7DqCu
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) June 29, 2016
Upon further consideration, I’d like to apologize to the nation’s 2nd and 3rd graders. https://t.co/XwlWj7YEI3
— Jim Himes (@jahimes) June 30, 2016
re: #283 EPR-radar
What on earth is the purported justification for this ripe nugget of bad crazy?
“fiscal responsibility”
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I’ll be in the right place this weekend anyhoo, Umphrey’s McGee and Dweezil Zappa and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead at Red Rocks! WOOT WOOT!
re: #273 Jenner7
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re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
“fiscal responsibility”
So the context here is denying these services to poor people, as opposed to completely eliminating these professions.
re: #291 EPR-radar
So the context here is denying these services to poor people, as opposed to completely eliminating these professions.
yes
re: #253 Charles Johnson
The latest version of ffmpeg is pretty freaking amazing software. Converts animated GIFs to MP4 video and gets the frame rate conversions correct, even if they’re not all the same. And the converted MP4 file is much smaller - usually about half the size of the animated GIF.
I’m always downloading GIFs only to find they’re too large to post. How does stacking three or four 33K jpegs into a GIF add up to 6.5 MB? Grr….
Well, Golly Gosh! We got ourselves yet another Fox News Hypocrite here! Stacy Dash got cash from her Sugar Daddy!
Believe it or not, the GOP Zika bill reverses the ban on flying the confederate flag at military cemeteries. Really! Idiotic.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 28, 2016
re: #282 majii
The strangest thing thing for me to understand is that those who had health insurance under Obamacare voted for Bevin even though he told them he planned to end KynectCare under Obamacare while he was campaigning. These tools voted to lose their healthcare coverage all while knowing that, for some of them, this was the first time they had health insurance in their lives. Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog noted today that these same individuals voted for Bevin because he shared their hate for SSM and abortion. For the life of me, I cannot understand they way people like this think. I just can’t. It appears to me that they either thought Bevin would give them a waiver to keep their insurance in exchange for their votes, or they didn’t mind sacrificing their healthcare coverage for having an opportunity to elect someone who would “destroy” those “evil gays” and would keep “those loose wimmen folk” from “murdering” their unborn babies.
I felt the same way when Pennsylvania Steelworkers lost their jobs in 1984 yet they turned around and voted overwhelmingly for Reagan because he opposed abortion…
re: #291 EPR-radar
So the context here is denying these services to poor people, as opposed to completely eliminating these professions.
Blind Grandma doesn’t need glasses to light her pilot light.
re: #282 majii
The strangest thing thing for me to understand is that those who had health insurance under Obamacare voted for Bevin even though he told them he planned to end KynectCare under Obamacare while he was campaigning. These tools voted to lose their healthcare coverage all while knowing that, for some of them, this was the first time they had health insurance in their lives. Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog noted today that these same individuals voted for Bevin because he shared their hate for SSM and abortion. For the life of me, I cannot understand the way people like this think. I just can’t. It appears to me that they either thought Bevin would give them a waiver to keep their insurance in exchange for their votes, or they didn’t mind sacrificing their healthcare coverage for having an opportunity to elect someone who would “destroy” those “evil gays” and would keep “those loose wimmen folk” from “murdering” their unborn babies.
What happened was that the vast majority of people on Medicaid simply didn’t vote; Kentucky turnout last year was only about 30% of registered voters. Their neighbors who did vote voted for Bevin.
re: #286 CuriousLurker
The entire speech, for whoever’s interested:
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Dammit, they made me cry. I think Trudeau made POTUS cry too—starts talking about their special friendship and how what inspires them is not each other, but the people they serve. Starts around 6:15, then at 7:00 the camera cuts to POTUS and you can clearly see he’s all choked up. Trudeau gets a standing ovation before he can even finish what he was saying.
re: #296 Joe Bacon
I felt the same way when Pennsylvania Steelworkers lost their jobs in 1984 yet they turned around and voted overwhelmingly for Reagan because he opposed abortion…
That’s the irony isn’t it? White working class voters embraced the Republican Party when it was perhaps the most opposed to them.
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Trump on specifics to O’Reilly: I don’t want to give them out because I have a good chance of becoming president. pic.twitter.com/ya8VlPQySk
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 30, 2016
re: #302 Stanley Sea
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God he’s an idiot. Even O’Reilly may be seeing it a little.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
re: #301 HappyWarrior
That’s the irony isn’t it? White working class voters embraced the Republican Party when it was perhaps the most opposed to them.
Yeah. The entire steel industry in Pennsylvania collapsed in 1984. Mills closed like falling dominoes, by October only a couple remained. Thousands of good union jobs disappeared and never came back.Yet the Religious Right and the Catholic Church were pushing Reagan from the pulpits and these unemployed folks bought into the pie in the sky when you die as long as you vote Republican bullshit.
re: #305 Joe Bacon
Yeah. The entire steel industry in Pennsylvania collapsed in 1984. Mills closed like falling dominoes, by October only a couple remained. Thousands of good union jobs disappeared and never came back.Yet the Religious Right and the Catholic Church were pushing Reagan from the pulpits and these unemployed folks bought into the pie in the sky when you die as long as you vote Republican bullshit.
There’s a special place for Reagan for all the fucking of the American worker that he did with a smile on his face.
re: #302 Stanley Sea
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I see Roger Stone pulled out the 1968 Nixon Playbook and coached Cheeto Jesus about the secret plan to end the war shtick!
1905 medicine = the best medicine pic.twitter.com/zF0RfZfR1w
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) June 30, 2016
re: #302 Stanley Sea
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TrumpAdder: I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel. A yooge weasel. A weasel like you’ve never seen before. People will love my weasel, trust me, you will love the yuuge giant AMERICAN weasel.
RBS
re: #306 HappyWarrior
There’s a special place for Reagan for all the fucking of the American worker that he did with a smile on his face.
Karma bit President Pruneface in the ass. I always believed that his Alzheimers was karmic retribution for all the people’s lives he destroyed.
This is GOLD. If you are an idjit.
Trump to O’Reilly responding to Clinton: “All of the phobias that nobody even knows what she is talking about…” pic.twitter.com/FIHFPY4jTX
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 30, 2016
I know it’s stating the obvious to say conservatives live in their own little bubble, but I was taken aback by this. I mean, even by their standards this is shockingly stupid:
re: #311 Joe Bacon
Karma bit President Pruneface in the ass. I always believed that his Alzheimers was karmic retribution for all the people’s lives he destroyed.
I remember a story my Dad told me. I guess it was from the first time Reagan ran for President back in ‘76 but my Dad, gosh he would have been even younger than I am now but he saw a Reagan for President sticker on the road. He laughed. Reagan for President? My grandfather, lifelong NLRB man who despite his well to do background always had his eye out for the little guy warned him that it could help. He died in the winter of ‘79. I think he would have been saddened to see Reagan, a former Union President no less destroy a lot of the protections earned for working men and women just like that. I’ve never liked Reagan and I hate the cult behind him.
re: #314 HappyWarrior
I remember a story my Dad told me. I guess it was from the first time he ran for President back in ‘76 but my Dad, gosh he would have been even younger than I am now but he saw a Reagan for President sticker on the road. He laughed. Reagan for President? My grandfather, lifelong NLRB man who despite his well to do background always had his eye out for the little guy warned him that it could help. He died in the winter of ‘79. I think he would have been saddened to see Reagan, a former Union President no less destroy a lot of the protections earned for working men and women just like that. I’ve never liked Reagan and I hate the cult behind him.
Grandpa and Grandma Bacon put thier lives on the line to organize the United Steelworkers in Ambridge and Aliquippa PA. I still remember taking the New York Times to Grandma and seeing her read their front page article of the Jones & Laughlin closure in Aliquippa. I’ll never forget Grandma weeping as she read it…
re: #312 Stanley Sea
This is GOLD. If you are an idjit.
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Here is an interesting tidbit I found, to counter all of those who say that all of our manufacturing is going away, that we don’t make things here any more. Truth is that manufacturing in the US as at an almost all time high, that we do fall behind China, but do more than the next 3 countries on the list combined (Germany, Japan, South Korea)
What has decreased is the number of people involved in manufacturing due to automation in large part. Also, there are some industries like the textile and paper industries that really have gone away in large part, and aren’t coming back.
Highly encourage reading the article. marketwatch.com
RBS
re: #316 Joe Bacon
Grandpa and Grandma Bacon put thier lives on the line to organize the United Steelworkers in Ambridge and Aliquippa PA. I still remember taking the New York Times to Grandma and semeing her read their front page article of the Jones & Laughlin closure in Aliquippa. I’ll never forget Grandma weeping as she read it…
It had to be like 2001, five years after my great uncle died but I remember reading that Bethelem cut the pension that it had promised its workers. I just felt so sick. Thousands of hard-working men and women who gave their life to that company and died younger because of it. I’m still very skeptical about corporate power still to this day and it’s why I have a big problem with people acting like the free market is somehow morally superior to the government.
re: #314 HappyWarrior
I remember a story my Dad told me. I guess it was from the first time Reagan ran for President back in ‘76 but my Dad, gosh he would have been even younger than I am now but he saw a Reagan for President sticker on the road. He laughed. Reagan for President? My grandfather, lifelong NLRB man who despite his well to do background always had his eye out for the little guy warned him that it could help. He died in the winter of ‘79. I think he would have been saddened to see Reagan, a former Union President no less destroy a lot of the protections earned for working men and women just like that. I’ve never liked Reagan and I hate the cult behind him.
there is one thing that makes reagan worse than trump
reagan was a nice guy and a gentleman who was hard to dislike and so he sold all those lies so smoothly and plausibly
re: #313 Scout
I know it’s stating the obvious to say conservatives live in their own little bubble, but I was taken aback by this. I mean, even by their standards this is shockingly stupid:
Hillary is Mary Poppins compared to Trump but you will not hear our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press say or print that.
re: #319 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
there is one thing that makes reagan worse than trump
reagan was a nice guy and a gentleman who was hard to dislike and so he sold all those lies so smoothly and plausibly
I agree with you.
re: #257 majii
I would think that with Trump’s “excellent brain,” he’d know it is illegal to solicit campaign donations from foreign persons, politicians, and entities. I’ve noticed that some in the American MSM are looking for reasons, besides incompetence, to explain this. It appears to me they’re too afraid to say that this is an example of Trump’s inability to run a decent campaign and a poor reflection of his ability to lead well.
Add in his desire to cut corners, do things his way and generally shirk known practices for his own benefit. Cheating? It’s not if your not caught or made to pay!
re: #318 HappyWarrior
It had to be like 2001, five years after my great uncle died but I remember reading that Bethelem cut the pension that it had promised its workers. I just felt so sick. Thousands of hard-working men and women who gave their life to that company and died younger because of it. I’m still very skeptical about corporate power still to this day and it’s why I have a big problem with people acting like the free market is somehow morally superior to the government.
Yeah, because I remember how strong the Steelworkers Union was. After you put 40 years in the mills, you got a pension that was 80% of your salary and you had lifetime health coverage. Then Michael Millken and his fellow pimps from Wall Street looted those pension funds and those people who busted their asses for 40 years got pennies on the dollar if they were lucky and their health care was yanked from them until they got on Medicare.
Fuck Millken. I actually cheered when that son of a bitch came down with prostate cancer because I remember so many of my neighbors in my home town who committed suicide so their spouses could collect on their union life insurance policies. Then Millken and his fellow pimps took that away too!
re: #323 Joe Bacon
Yeah, because I remember how strong the Steelworkers Union was. After you put 40 years in the mills, you got a pension that was 80% of your salary and you had lifetime health coverage. Then Michael Millken and his fellow pimps from Wall Street looted those pension funds and those people who busted their asses for 40 years got pennies on the dollar if they were lucky and their health care was yanked from them until they got on Medicare.
Fuck Millken. I actually cheered when that son of a bitch came down with prostate cancer because I remember so many of my neighbors in my home town who committed suicide so their spouses could collect on their union life insurance policies. Then Millken and his fellow pimps took that away too!
I remember what my other grandfather always told me, he said it was always all about green (money), I’ve never forgotten that. We didn’t always agree on every political issue but we both hated seeing hard working people exploited that way. Just awful stuff. And of course as you know many of these steelworkers were veterans too.
Nate Silver Defends Torture Methods Used To Make Election Projections https://t.co/hWYeh7qvAo pic.twitter.com/q4EPVeP1wV
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 30, 2016
re: #323 Joe Bacon
Yeah, because I remember how strong the Steelworkers Union was. After you put 40 years in the mills, you got a pension that was 80% of your salary and you had lifetime health coverage. Then Michael Millken and his fellow pimps from Wall Street looted those pension funds and those people who busted their asses for 40 years got pennies on the dollar if they were lucky and their health care was yanked from them until they got on Medicare.
Fuck Millken. I actually cheered when that son of a bitch came down with prostate cancer because I remember so many of my neighbors in my home town who committed suicide so their spouses could collect on their union life insurance policies. Then Millken and his fellow pimps took that away too!
Damn. Free market thievery.
re: #326 Stanley Sea
Damn. Free market thievery.
I also know the point when the Steelworkers Union went downhill and it was when Nixon supporter I W Abel got in the Union Presidency and surrendered the union’s right to strike in exchange for a “promise” that the millowners would never lock out the workers. Of course the mill owners reneged on that promise.
Grandpa and Grandma HATED Abel with a passion for selling out what they fought for.
re: #284 bratwurst
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@PatrickSvitek So Mika’s thinking about going full wingnut.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) June 30, 2016
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