Seth takes a closer look at Republicans pushing forward with an insane so-called audit of Arizona’s election results and their plans to pursue similar audits in other states that Joe Biden won.
Joe Walsh says radio show cancelled due to Trump criticism https://t.co/V3JfgJiX83 pic.twitter.com/xYeA0AcHWw
— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2021
Unless he demanded hot- and cold-running hookers, an eight-ball of coke and the red M&Ms picked from his minibar, who gives a good fuck. This is shitbag journalism. https://t.co/Rsdahedr0Z
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 28, 2021
Ignoring a white supremacist domestic terrorist group doesn’t mean they stop attacking. Anyone who knows even a little bit about the history of attacks on activists in the south during the civil rights movement knows it would be foolhardy to let Jan. 6 go without a full inquiry.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 28, 2021
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
Joe Walsh says radio show cancelled due to Trump criticism
Now that’s a real shame. Hopefully he saved enough while he was riding the money train to get him through these hard times.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
He probably didn’t get all that much, I bet.
Remember those cheerfully optimistic scientific predictions back in the 1970s about how the newly emerging Information Age would break down barriers and connect all humankind in a new era of knowledge, understanding, and community?
Sometimes I drink whiskey and think about that pic.twitter.com/gLYNdgd9pw— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 28, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Now that’s a real shame. Hopefully he saved enough while he was riding the money train to get him through these hard times.
His actual national show on Salem Radio Network was already cancelled a while back. His most recent “show” was two hours in the afternoon on a tiny station north of Chicago that can’t even be heard in the Loop, with a simulcast on the #3 talk station in Tucson and on something called the “Gab Radio Network.”
I’d be surprised to find out he was being paid at all for that gig, and may well have been paying for the airtime himself.
I have returned from test driving e-bikes in Grass Valley. I had a blast. They just happened to have the bike I wanted and I bought it. I rode around Nevada City for hours even without the handlebars and controls adjusted right. I also learned this is not like a 10 speed in high school. It’s a beast and I have a lot to learn about riding it. Stop short of the curb and miss your footing, the bike will fall over and take you with it. Miss a gear and stall on a slope, fall over. The bike weighs 70 lbs. and I only weigh 150. It’s going to take some work to master this. After sitting on my ass for years since my disability I have to strengthen what little muscle I have left, and add more.
From downstairs:
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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I just remember the classic Tubes line:
“Hang my self when I get enough rope”
The Dems are paying out the rope, slowly, slowly.
re: #7 ipsos
Yep - Dr. Steve, who does Weird Medicine on SiriusXM basically says that he gets paid a mere pittance from them.
While I was in a hotel the other day I saw on the news California’s snow-pack levels are 0% of normal.
Lake Mead, located 24 miles east of Las Vegas, sunk below a key threshold this week. New projections show continued declines in the reservoir’s supply that could trigger a shortage declaration and water cuts in some states next year. https://t.co/8tVHHz0YXM
— CNN (@CNN) May 27, 2021
Oh, and we’ve had 5.49” of rain. The season ends June 30.
re: #12 Dread Pirate Ron
It all landed here in Texas.
re: #11 Dread Pirate Ron
My usual site for checking Lake Mead stopped updating with new data during the pandemic.
But there are other sources of graphs:
The current level is getting down to where it was in 2016, when there were warnings of a possible rationing of Colorado river water.
1075’ is the level when “Shortage Condition I” is declared.
re: #17 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My usual site for checking Lake Mead stopped updating with new data during the pandemic.
But there are other sources of graphs:
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The current level is getting down to where it was in 2016, when there were warnings of a possible rationing of Colorado river water.
IIRC, the news report put our reservoir levels at ~40% of normal for this time of year.
What many people may not realize is the water level which makes the difference between a good year and bad year is at Lake Powell, which is upstream from Lake Mead. Lake Powell water is released to fill Lake Mead.
Lake Powell is in trouble:
You can see that in 2021 Lake Powell is in much worse condition than it was in 2016, the last time Lake Mead was near the Shortage Condition I level.
re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Lake Shasta is down over 110’ and right now they would normally be releasing water to keep from overflowing. We usually go up for 4th of July but lately (most of the last 20 years) it’s a bitch to get from camp to the water and boats.
re: #8 Dread Pirate Ron
If I still lived in Steamboat I’d buy one of these and ride that sucker everywhere.
re: #22 teleskiguy
If I still lived in Steamboat I’d buy one of these and ride that sucker everywhere.
They are fun no matter where you live. “I’ll go around the block” usually winds up a 10 mile jaunt of about 30-45 minutes..
re: #23 Dread Pirate Ron
What I’m saying is I’d never drive a car in Steamboat with one of those. When I lived there the furthest away I was from work was just under five miles. I rode my bike everywhere, rain or shine and even in snowstorms. Where I live now is 30 miles away from where I work, I’m still using a car for that.
re: #5 Eric The Fruit Bat
He probably didn’t get all that much, I bet.
He wasn’t even laying child support, so… I’d imagine he’s fucked. Hope he thinks it was worth it.
You can’t wake up the person you killed in the car wreck.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 28, 2021
Finally a 4 day weekend…first once since President’s Day!
14 weeks is too long to go without a holiday off.
We need to make Jefferson’s Birthday April 13th a Federal Holiday!
One of the keys to passing the 9/11 Commission Bill was not allowing Al-Qaeda to vote on it.
— Derek DelGaudio (@derek_del) May 28, 2021
Senate is back and whoa.
They just announced *36* amendments to Endless Frontier Act that Senate leaders hope to vote on in one block.
No way to know what these are exactly. Here comes the list of who is sponsoring them.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) May 28, 2021
Johnson asks Senate to recess for 3 hours so senators have time to read amendments to Endless Frontier bill.
Rick Scott asks Senate to recess until June 7th.
Cantwell objects to both requests.— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) May 28, 2021
This is remarkable.
Rather than deliberating, or even reading, these amendments over the past few hours of legislative limbo, the Senate floor was silent as leaders worked out these deals on amendments behind closed doors.— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) May 28, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Now that’s a real shame. Hopefully he saved enough while he was riding the money train to get him through these hard times.
Or at least caught up on his back child support…
re: #26 teleskiguy
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What’s been done and being done to the Colorado River is unsustainable. All I know is I’ll have a front row seat to the coming water wars if I stay put.
That’s enroute to Aral Sea levels of nightmare.
Maybe the three year old was scared of the big bad Naomi Wolf staring at him.
“My, what faraway eyes you have grandma lady” said the child. “The better to Tweet about you” thought Ms. Wolf.— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 28, 2021
I have relatives posting this along with their love letters to this shrew…
My brain has no idea how to even begin to process this. pic.twitter.com/KwGVqrJLq7
— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) May 28, 2021
In Grass Valley we visited the Empire Mine State Historic Park. The blacksmith made us a heart shaped wall hanger.
re: #34 jaunte
One should never watch sausage being made.
PEPPORONI POWER STRUCTURE pic.twitter.com/empEGYdgct
— beeple (@beeple) May 28, 2021
re: #34 jaunte
The guns brought go this gun fight by the Democrats are squirt guns.
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One should never watch sausage being made.
I had that thought, then I clarified it. It’s not that nobody wants to see that going on, it’s that nobody wants to be watched while they are so engaged.
When I finally get a chance at a 3 way…
fml…— CWTFD (@CWTFD2) May 28, 2021
Matt Gaetz said tonight that he will run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t run. “I am certain I can whoop Joe Biden up one side of the country and down the other.” pic.twitter.com/f0vlXG5DSE
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2021
re: #38 gocart mozart
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The mostly 3-year olds (many special needs) at the early childhood center where my niece teaches. They do just fine with their masks. STFU, Naomi.
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re: #46 Belafon
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Another Repub promising to campaign for the presidency from the inside of a prison cell?
Trump might try running from prison, but he band of hate will be hard to share if he can’t get in front of audiences.
@adamcarolla
Everybody laughed when Adam Carolla said he wanted to make a living as a comedian.
Well, nobody’s laughing NOW!— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 28, 2021
re: #50 gocart mozart
YOU MUST LISTEN TO HIM FOR HE IS A COMEDIAN!
re: #50 gocart mozart
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It should be noted that Adam only ever seems to keep a steady job as an actor when he works alongside other, funnier comedians. When he actually has to carry a show himself, it rarely lasts longer than a single season. He’s more famous these days as a voice actor than he is as a comedian.
Becky says she found this pipe in my truck and we need to have a serious talk. I wonder how far I can take this? pic.twitter.com/ZKjHbn6a9S
— jvharris_1965 (@jvharris_1965) May 27, 2021
re: #53 Targetpractice
It should be noted that Adam only ever seems to keep a steady job as an actor when he works alongside other, funnier comedians. When he actually has to carry a show himself, it rarely lasts longer than a single season. He’s more famous these days as a voice actor than he is as a comedian.
a good straight man is hard to find… he should recognize this is his niche.
re: #56 sagehen
a good straight man is hard to find… he should recognize this is his niche.
I see him making the kinds of movies Vince Vaughn does, and we don’t even need as many movies as Vince makes.
Adam Carolla’s like most comedians who are bitching about “cancel culture” these days:
- Former “shock” comedians who got famous for “pushing social norms” (i.e. being racist, bigoted, and/or sexist)
- Can’t find steady work anymore as comedians
- Haven’t been socially relevant in years
- None of them want to admit their shtick is no longer funny (and was never really funny to begin with)
re: #63 Targetpractice
Adam Carolla’s like most comedians who are bitching about “cancel culture” these days:
- Former “shock” comedians who got famous for “pushing social norms” (i.e. being racist, bigoted, and/or sexist)
- Can’t find steady work anymore as comedians
- Haven’t been socially relevant in years
- None of them want to admit their shtick is no longer funny (and was never really funny to begin with)
Also—the only work they can get is a week or two in Branson.
re: #61 Belafon
Pretty sure I got it at a local bike shop.
Most cyclists are riding on tires with insufficient pressure. Calibrate your thumb to your sidewall’s recommended pressure. Or use a gauge every time.
re: #65 wrenchwench
Most cyclists are riding on tires with insufficient pressure. Calibrate your thumb to your sidewall’s recommended pressure. Or use a gauge every time.
Programmable portable electronic air pumps!
re: #66 Dread Pirate Ron
Programmable portable electronic air pumps!
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I used to joke that inflating tires was the only upper body exercise a cyclist gets. Except I don’t think I was joking.
Man, Charlie is lookin’ rough:
Charlie Kirk looks like he took a fistful of those “male enhancement” pills and only managed to stay awake without an erection for a week straight. https://t.co/51fncsEp4Z
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 28, 2021
re: #68 Targetpractice
Man, Charlie is lookin’ rough:
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He’s scared shitless that he’s going to be indicted for all those busloads of MAGATS he chartered for the coup…
I have to say the filibuster is not the main problem with the Senate; if the filibuster were abolished today, then theoretically 18% of the population could be making decisions for the entire nation, given that is the population represented by the 26 smallest states. Of course, in practice that currently wouldn’t happen because some GOP states are large, but it is a future possibility.
So Jimmy Kimmel either seriously grew up or took “The Man Show” for what it was, comedy and satire. (I think it was a little of both actually in his case)
Adam Corolla either never grew out of it, and/or completely took it seriously.
Then again I could have told you this a decade or longer ago.
re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter
I have to say the filibuster is not the main problem with the Senate; if the filibuster were abolished today, then theoretically 18% of the population could be making decisions for the entire nation, given that is the population represented by the 26 smallest states. Of course, in practice that currently wouldn’t happen because some GOP states are large, but it is a future possibility.
The problem is not necessarily the filibuster but the manner in which it is utilized. Other nations that have representative governments with parliamentary systems have the filibuster as a tool for use by those who oppose actions taken by their upper house. The difference is that they still rely upon the “talking filibuster,” rather than the pseudo-veto that exists in the “two-track system” that has been abused so thoroughly in the past 20+ years.
Is there danger in reverting to a filibuster where the work of the whole of the Senate is brought to a halt while a bill is “debated” for however long the opposition can keep going? Sure, but the alternative that we have now is an artificial 60-vote floor for the passage of any legislation, something that seemed to make sense back before “compromise” was not a four-letter word in the GQP dictionary.
re: #72 Targetpractice
Aside from forcing the “talking filibuster” like we used to… other tweaks can be used to narrow it’s danger.
Ban it in “advice and consent” votes. Allow it in votes where rights or powers are being removed or curtailed from the people, and ban it in votes where rights are being expanded.
Sure the right could filibuster gun control and maybe some environmental legislation, but we’d be fixing the voting rights situation much easier as well as many things we’d otherwise have trouble with.
While I’m at it, for the advice and consent role. If the Senate wont vote on a nominee, after 4 weeks, they should be considered as having forfeited their advice and consent role on that nominee and they should be sworn it. That will stop the Mitch Maneuvers.
re: #71 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
So Jimmy Kimmel either seriously grew up or took “The Man Show” for what it was, comedy and satire. (I think it was a little of both actually in his case)
Adam Corolla either never grew out of it, and/or completely took it seriously.
Then again I could have told you this a decade or longer ago.
Corolla’s still pushing the same shtick since the days playing second-fiddle to “Dr.” Drew: Being a raunchy, unfunny “comedian” who was funny when you were a teen chasing tail, but as an adult all you see him as is immature man-child who wants people to keep laughing at his stale “jokes.”
re: #37 William Lewis
That’s enroute to Aral Sea levels of nightmare.
Apples and oranges. The Aral Sea was not created by damming a river, it was damned by diverting rivers.
re: #46 Belafon
Matt Gaetz said tonight that he will run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t run. “I am certain I can whoop Joe Biden up one side of the country and down the other.”
Karl Rove stated along time ago that if you just maintain an alternate reality long enough, it will get picked up and treated as if it had validity.
And that worked marvelously for them up until recently.
Now all the bloviating and bravado is not holding up and propagating itself at the rate they are used to.
In fact, it is being exposed as totally ludicrous and unfounded.
re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Just Sweet…. Nice!
Court appearance TOMORROW for accused Proud Boy nicknamed “Milkshake”
Feds say Daniel Scott of Florida has Proud Boys tattoo, wears “And Trump” hat
Allegedly yelled “Let’s take the f**ing Capitol” on Jan 6
Feds: Another in mob responded, “Let’s not f**ing yell that, alright? pic.twitter.com/N2wkCivEj4— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 28, 2021
re: #80 Dave In Austin
Allegedly yelled “Let’s take the f**ing Capitol” on Jan 6
Feds: Another in mob responded, “Let’s not f**ing yell that, alright?
Does this not qualify as conspiring to commit an act of treason?
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Matt Gaetz said tonight that he will run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t run. “I am certain I can whoop Joe Biden up one side of the country and down the other.”
Karl Rove stated along time ago that if you just maintain an alternate reality long enough, it will get picked up and treated as if it had validity.
And that worked marvelously for them up until recently.
Now all the bloviating and bravado is not holding up and propagating itself at the rate they are used to.
In fact, it is being exposed as totally ludicrous and unfounded.
If you listen to the winds in the dead of night, you can hear the inebriated cries of GQP staff howling the same words over and over again: “He wasn’t supposed to win!” He was a joke, a sideshow attraction, a carnival barker that was just supposed to whip up the yokels into a froth when Hillary won. He would lose, the party would have a good laugh at his expense, and then they’d get back to the business of screwing over the country while they waited until 2020.
Even if you go back to those early days after Election Night ‘16, you can see that the party was in denial of what their base had served up. They thought that they were getting another Dubya, another dimwitted meat puppet who was there to sign bills and look stupid in front of the cameras. They never thought for a second that they were going to spend 4 years being treated as the underlings of a wannabe mafia don.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (The Onion, May 26, 2021)
SAN JOSE, CA—In the hours following a violent rampage in California in which a lone attacker killed eight individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Wyoming resident Claire Watson, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”
re: #82 Targetpractice
If you listen to the winds in the dead of night, you can hear the inebriated cries of GQP staff howling the same words over and over again: “He wasn’t supposed to win!”
It was assumed that he would flame out before the GOP convention.
Nobody wanted to attack him directly, even to return the insults he heaped on them, because they wanted to be in a position to pick up his supporters.
They were loyal to Trump and Trump alone, to his style and his message. And the fact that he was not a political “outsider”, but the very embodiment of the anti-politician allowed him to get away with saying and doing things that would have derailed the campaign or even the career of most anyone else.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was assumed that he would flame out before the GOP convention.
Nobody wanted to attack him directly, even to return the insults he heaped on them, because they wanted to be in a position to pick up his supporters.
They were loyal to Trump and Trump alone, to his style and his message. And the fact that he was not a political “outsider”, but the very embodiment of the anti-politician allowed him to get away with saying and doing things that would have derailed the campaign or even the career of most anyone else.
Right: because the other candidates in 2016 were Republicans, they couldn’t cooperate to get rid of Trump. Each one figured that someone else would put the knife in, and they themselves would swoop in to pick up Trump’s delegates. And so, of course, then nobody did. So the Fuck You I Got Mine party ended up with a nasty collective action problem, whoodathunkit.
And, I think that there are a significant minority of the GOP voters who have no interest in voting for anyone but Trump or Trump v2. That’s the unexpected surge in Trump votes in 2020 that was missed by polling: these nutjobs have probably never voted before, have no real political views, and no interest in small-d democratic politics, but want a King of the White People to keep everyone else in their places. So the pollers wouldn’t pick this up, since they look like non-voters. These nutjobs would have zero interest in a Cruz or Cotton or anyone else who smells like a politician, no matter what kind of show they put on. I’d be happy to see what research has actually shown about this.
re: #85 ericblair
Right: because the other candidates in 2016 were Republicans, they couldn’t cooperate to get rid of Trump. Each one figured that someone else would put the knife in, and they themselves would swoop in to pick up Trump’s delegates.
The other reality is that the other GOP candidates were such a bunch of unremarkable jerkwads that Trump stood out as the only one among them who seemed to stand a chance against Hillary.
Michael Moore, a gadfly whom I generally ignore, had it nailed months in advance: Trump just had to get all the states that Romney won in 2012 (no big problem there) plus the four Rust Belt states of OH, PA, MI and WI to guarantee an EC win regardless of the popular vote.
And that is where he concentrated his efforts. With success.
re: #54 Belafon
Well, technically, you *are* the cats ‘nip dealer… pic.twitter.com/EeTlpbaCWW
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) May 28, 2021
The Final Episode Of The Topical (The Onion)
(15:28, audio only, Leslie Price returns from a months-long investigation to Martha’s Vineyard to investigate an 8 year-old leading an ISIS cell. Caution for coarse language.)
Mr. Price announces the new show, Two in the Bush, to be hosted by Kate Bush and George W. Bush.
(3:45)
re: #87 Teukka
Lmfao. I Stuck a plastic tube of catnip in a tin in our headboard so the cats couldn’t get to it. My wife was looking for something n found it. Next thing I know I’m being asked about dealing pot. It was a half hour before I could breathe right from laughing
I used to keep my stash in a cough drop box hidden behind the encyclopedia set in the downstairs den. One evening, we were completely dry and just out of boredom, started rolling joints out of oregano, which wound up getting put back in the stash box behind the World Book encyclopedias.
My mom came to discover it, and I was able to convince her that it was just oregano and we were just goofing about and playing silly and would never, ever touch the stuff.
My local newspaper published an article about what I think about my congressmoron Lauren Boebert.
re: #90 teleskiguy
My local newspaper published an article about what I think about my congressmoron Lauren Boebert.
A blogger for the aggregate site Little Green Footballs, Vogel first took notice of Boebert in 2014, when an Associated Press story about her received worldwide attention. Boebert’s restaurant had just opened in Rifle, where the staff was allowed and encouraged to carry guns.
re: #85 ericblair
Right: because the other candidates in 2016 were Republicans, they couldn’t cooperate to get rid of Trump. Each one figured that someone else would put the knife in, and they themselves would swoop in to pick up Trump’s delegates. And so, of course, then nobody did. So the Fuck You I Got Mine party ended up with a nasty collective action problem, whoodathunkit.
And, I think that there are a significant minority of the GOP voters who have no interest in voting for anyone but Trump or Trump v2. That’s the unexpected surge in Trump votes in 2020 that was missed by polling: these nutjobs have probably never voted before, have no real political views, and no interest in small-d democratic politics, but want a King of the White People to keep everyone else in their places. So the pollers wouldn’t pick this up, since they look like non-voters. These nutjobs would have zero interest in a Cruz or Cotton or anyone else who smells like a politician, no matter what kind of show they put on. I’d be happy to see what research has actually shown about this.
Trump and Cruz accounted for 70% of the total delegates won, so obviously the image of his being a politician wasn’t hurting him too much. I even predicted way before Trump announced his candidacy that Cruz was the mark to beat because the party wanted an asshole for their nominee and Cruz best fit the bill. Odds are that had Trump not entered the race, it would have ended up coming down to Cruz and either Bush or Kasich. Without a Trump there to kneecap him with phrases like “low energy,” Jeb might have had more success winning over the suburban white vote. But Cruz was set to win the whole thing…until an even bigger egotistical bastard threw his toupee into the ring.
re: #92 Targetpractice
Without a Trump there to kneecap him with phrases like “low energy,” Jeb might have had more success winning over the suburban white vote. But Cruz was set to win the whole thing…until an even bigger egotistical bastard threw his toupee into the ring.
The GOP were more fixated on the knuckle-dragging Cletus vote.
Jeb! was too associated with the GOP establishment to appeal to the Tea Partiers.
I still recall when Trump came on CNN to talk about how exciting his rallies were and how people were falling asleep at Jeb! rallies.
Fifteen minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! interview. As if he were handing them their scripts…
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP were more fixated on the knuckle-dragging Cletus vote.
Jeb! was too associated with the GOP establishment to appeal to the Tea Partiers.
I still recall when Trump came on CNN to talk about how exciting his rallies were and how people were falling asleep at Jeb! rallies.
Fifteen minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! interview. As if he were handing them their scripts…
Jeb’s whole appeal was to the white suburban vote which usually looks for “normalcy,” i.e. the least threatening candidate in the field that hasn’t yet assumed room temp. The ones who aren’t voting to “stiggit” or grabbing for a tiki torch, but are cool with the people in the party that do so as long as it guarantees them tax cuts and deregulation.
re: #94 Targetpractice
Jeb’s whole appeal was to the white suburban vote which usually looks for “normalcy,” i.e. the least threatening candidate in the field that hasn’t yet assumed room temp. The ones who aren’t voting to “stiggit” or grabbing for a tiki torch, but are cool with the people in the party that do so as long as it guarantees them tax cuts and deregulation.
Even the notion of the wife of a former President running against the brother/son of two former Presidents really seems to have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, cementing their view that American politics had become its own elitist aristocracy that had totally lost touch with the Common People.
And that was part of the appeal of Trump: he was a blank slate, ready for them to project their notion of what an ideal President should be onto him, and one willing to say whatever he thought his audiences needed to hear at the time with no regard to anything else he ever said anywhere or anytime else.
Morning Lizardim from the cold and cloudy wild north country. Just a quick hit-and-run due to some kind of issue on my end with multi-factor authentication that’ll have me away from LGF while I’m at work. Looks like there’s nothing really new under the GQP sun, so I’ll leave y’all to it.
re: #96 Dopamine Fish
Morning Lizardim from the cold and cloudy wild north country. Just a quick hit-and-run due to some kind of issue on my end with multi-factor authentication that’ll have me away from LGF while I’m at work. Looks like there’s nothing really new under the GQP sun, so I’ll leave y’all to it.
The relative quiet does make you wonder what kind of Friday News Dump they have saved up for us today…
its not lazy people
Its shitty jobs and lousy pay
Many businesses in South Florida are struggling to fill low-paying jobs….
Records show nearly half a million jobs are available statewide, but fewer than 150,000 Floridians are still collecting unemployment benefits. The “help wanted” and “now hiring” signs are abundant primarily in the service and hospitality industry
So, in COVID-19 related news out of Czech Republic, everything here will fully reopen on Monday, 31 May. This is in the wake of a Constitutional Court ruling that all closures are illegal under the Czech constitution.
The same Constitutional Court will, most likely, approve a massive class-action lawsuit against the government brought by business owners affected by the closures; that ruling will probably come down sometime late next month. The amount the business owners are seeking has yet to be disclosed, but according to sources familiar with the suit, it’s “staggering”.
Suppose you owned a bakery. And instead of refusing to sell a couple a cake because it’s for a gay wedding, you refuse to sell them a cake because they are potentially carrying a deadly virus into your shop that may infect or kill you, your fellow employees, or your customers. Conservatives say the state can force you to make that transaction anyway. Objecting to their homosexuality is a legitimate basis for excluding them, but objecting to their potential transmission of a deadly virus is not.Why, it’s almost as if the right of individual conscience or freedom of contract was never the basis for the Republican position at all.
Nymag
Vanity fair …love the headline
re: #101 Dangerman
Vanity fair …love the headline
I saw that earlier, and yes, that’s a great headline. Great because it’s almost certainly true - I have little doubt that Trump’s inner circle is probably trying to find some way to either get out of this or, barring that, trying to find a way to flee the country before the hammer drops (only half-joking on the latter, btw).
re: #11 Dread Pirate Ron
While I was in a hotel the other day I saw on the news California’s snow-pack levels are 0% of normal.
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“sank below, you stupid ____!” came a voice from offscreen.
There we go. Got my authentication problems fixed. Phew. Being cut off from LGF is a daunting prospect.
re: #67 wrenchwench
I used to joke that inflating tires was the only upper body exercise a cyclist gets. Except I don’t think I was joking.
i will say that when I was a cyclist many, many long years ago, my upper body was fucking cut. Not in a weightlifter way, but going up hills while standing on the pedals and keeping one’s balance up front will put some lean fucking muscle through the core and the shoulders.
Mr. Decorum, Rahm Emanuel is going to Japan as US Ambassador. He’s missing part of a finger, so he’ll fit right in with at least one element of Japanese society.
Very few guns in Japan, so not many police shootings to cover up https://t.co/oozNzgmbbK
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) May 27, 2021
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Allegedly yelled “Let’s take the f**ing Capitol” on Jan 6
Feds: Another in mob responded, “Let’s not f**ing yell that, alright?
Does this not qualify as conspiring to commit an act of treason?
no. we are not at war. it is therefore definitionally impossible for any of these guys to commit treason. the founders were really careful about treason, for damned good reason. They were careful about ensuring jury trials for much the same reason.
re: #106 Barefoot Grin
Mr. Decorum, Rahm Emanuel is going to Japan as US Ambassador. He’s missing part of a finger, so he’ll fit right in with at least one element of Japanese society.
Kakihara is waiting to greet him.
One of my all-time fave fictional yakuza - well-acted by Tadanobu Asano.
Take heart: The Cheneys, who are evil but far from stupid, obviously expect some disaster to befall the Trump cult. This is the only reason they would give up power, even temporarily, to put as much distance between themselves and the Trumpsters as they can.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) May 28, 2021
re: #111 Dopamine Fish
That one took a moment to register.
Me too
And then I realized it works regardless of which one’s the asshole
😹
re: #112 Dangerman
Me too
And then I realized it works regardless of which one’s the asshole😹
*WHACK!*
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
Kakihara is waiting to greet him.
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One of my all-time fave fictional yakuza - well-acted by Tadanobu Asano.
I still haven’t seen that one. He’s really good as Temujin in Mongol.
re: #110 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Cheneys probably reckon Trump (and maybe some of his family) is going to end up at Club Fed for a five or ten year vacation.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
So, in COVID-19 related news out of Czech Republic, everything here will fully reopen on Monday, 31 May. This is in the wake of a Constitutional Court ruling that all closures are illegal under the Czech constitution.
The same Constitutional Court will, most likely, approve a massive class-action lawsuit against the government brought by business owners affected by the closures; that ruling will probably come down sometime late next month. The amount the business owners are seeking has yet to be disclosed, but according to sources familiar with the suit, it’s “staggering”.
Y’all are celebrating my birthday, obviously. /s
In case you weren’t sufficiently horrified by your fellow Americans, a recent study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute has found that 15 percent of Americans believe that “[t]he government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”Yeah.
That number goes up to 23 percent for Republicans in general, 25 percent for white evangelical Protestants, 26 percent for Hispanic Protestants … and 40 percent for Americans who most trust far-Right news sources such as Newsmax and OANN. And it’s not the only ridiculous QAnon-adjacent conspiracy a fair number of Americans believe in. Twenty percent believe “[t]here is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders” and 15 percent believe that “[b]ecause things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
And 28 percent of Republicans believe both of those things.
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What If You Had A Satanic Panic And 15 Percent Of America Came? (Wonkette)
re: #104 Dopamine Fish
There we go. Got my authentication problems fixed. Phew. Being cut off from LGF is a daunting prospect.
It would also put a damper on my day…
Spain’s postal service introduces skin-tone stamps to fight racism — and makes the whitest one the most valuable (Washington Post)
Spain’s postal service prompted widespread criticism this week after introducing skin-tone stamps — with the lightest ones being the most valuable — and promoting them as part of an anti-racism campaign.
“The darker the stamp, the less value it will have,” the state-owned company, called Correos, said in a news release announcing the launch. “Therefore, when making a shipment, it will be necessary to use more black stamps than white ones. That way, each letter and each shipment will become a reflection of the inequality created by racism.”
A black stamp is worth 70 cents in the company’s online shop, while a stamp in the lightest skin color costs 1.60 euros.
Critics say the campaign reflects tone-deafness and the lack of diversity in major Spanish companies.
“Accidentally racist,” one social media user commented. Another user wrote, “Accidentally VOX,” referring to Spain’s far-right Vox party.
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re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Spain’s postal service introduces skin-tone stamps to fight racism — and makes the whitest one the most valuable (Washington Post)
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Remember when stamp collecting as a hobby died out in the Soviet Union because it was considered unpatriotic for a stamp with Stalin’s picture on it to be less valuable than one without even though they were the most common?
re: #104 Dopamine Fish
There we go. Got my authentication problems fixed. Phew. Being cut off from LGF is a daunting prospect.
Charles had to disable it for me. Text were taking 5-10 minutes to show up and by then were expired. Haven’t tried setting it up again.
re: #123 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Charles had to disable it for me. Text were taking 5-10 minutes to show up and by then were expired. Haven’t tried setting it up again.
I switched to an authenticator app, which should be more reliable. I managed to get lucky this morning and got two texts in a row to go through. I PM’d him yesterday about it.
Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway (Ars Technica)
TL;DR, the Texas Public Utility Commissioner knew days in advance that there was going to be a natural gas shortage when the winter storm was predicted.
Knowing that, she logged scores of calls trying to get Gov. Abbott, other politicians, and utility companies to pay attention and do something about it. Every one of them blew her off, right up to the day the storm began.
Abbott’s office first learned of the likely shortfall in a phone call from then-chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas DeAnne Walker. In the days leading up to the power outages that began on February 15, Walker and the governor’s office spoke 31 more times.
Walker also spoke with regulators, politicians, and utilities dozens of times about the gas curtailments that threatened the state’s electrical grid. The PUC chair’s diary for the days before the outage shows her schedule dominated by concerns over gas curtailments and the impact they would have on electricity generation. Before and during the disaster, she was on more than 100 phone calls with various agencies and utilities regarding gas shortages.
After the blackouts began, Abbott appeared on Fox News to falsely assert that wind turbines were the driving force behind the outages.
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re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway (Ars Technica)
They will not let the “windmills give you cancer” talking point die, it is their last line of defense for the absolute failure of their deregulated energy market.
The Tulsa Race Massacre, when 500 Black people were murdered and their Greenwood neighborhood was destroyed and burned to the ground by a racist white mob, started because a Karen lied and said a Black man sexually assaulted her.
Here’s another Karen mocking the massacre. https://t.co/EOWOlwbVF8 pic.twitter.com/skJrqoDLRG— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 28, 2021
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will not let the “windmills give you cancer” talking point die, it is their last line of defense for the absolute failure of their deregulated energy market.
I don’t know what sort of chances the Democratic Party has in the next election in Texas, but it would be a wasted opportunity if they fail to point out in every advert they can, “Republicans lied, Texans died.”
Ahem.
The last time the Cheneys used their genius brains to make a big political gamble they accidentally collapsed Iraq while trying to empty it of capital in a completely shameless and blatant manner. And to do so they built the deception apparatus that’s feeding Trumpism, so they’re the “let’s make sharks smarter and more aggressive” scientists of this scenario.
They’re pretty close to devoid of empathy even for calculating reasons, so their basic view of the world is that their political base are fuckable meat that occasionally has emotional reactions, and their one savvy move—9/11 bad, ‘Murica, do what we say or you’re with the terrorists—they lost control of to deeper nativists and racists almost instantly…which was fine because what they had in mind was a very conventional kind of corruption that had been done before, just not on as big a scale. They didn’t have a fallback plan for the War on Terror reignited a bunch of Christian Nationalism, or nativism, or what to do when Iraq didn’t magically become a vehicle for neoliberal public-private capital harvesting.
But…more importantly…stop imagining that this is a function of intelligence. Plenty of Trump supporters have skills and faculties that make them “smart” in some ways, but their basic position is emotional to a degree that they don’t have the same epistemology as you. A rube is not the same thing as being stupid. Rubes are incredibly dangerous because they can’t see the hole in their own assumptions about how the world works, but can otherwise function. They say things that sound stupid, but then they put in the work to force their stupid-sounding thing into reality because that’s what “truth” is to them: a power struggle where they can make things true by force majeure.
This is why rubes are capable of organizing very efficient genocides and mass-casualty events and the occasion terror state, given enough running room.
The Cheneys are conventional con men who worked the rubes for cash, and Liz Cheney kind of believes in conservative inherent hierarchy because that justifies working the rubes. The assumption that they’re doing tactics, or have a plan…no, they don’t have to have one: they’re insanely rich in a way that they can look at the current situation and do nothing and still benefit.
Also—they may aesthetically dislike Trumpism but Trumpism is getting them a lot of what they want, so their estimate may be that the best move at this point is to let the fascists destroy democracy and chew on liberals for a bit. This is a wager that other oligarchs have made…and wagered wrong because fascism then just ran over them roughshod…and there’s no reason to assume they’re better than that. They’ve always had one move—blur the line between governance and self-service—and that’s the only framework in which they’re “smart.”
Finally, if this sound off base…consider that this is exactly what Americans have done to other countries for nearly a century: incite and supply forces of reaction that destroy leftist positions, resulting in a status quo where only a tiny number of oligarchs reap steady profit and everyone else is caught is a cycle of corruption and violence. All the ideas that the free market nutters and the anti-Communists (who were actually against all leftism) applied to other people in other nations, they’re now applying to all the Americans they don’t view as “real” Americans.
re: #127 DodgerFan1988
The Tulsa Race Massacre, when 500 Black people were murdered and their Greenwood neighborhood was destroyed and burned to the ground by a racist white mob, started because a Karen lied and said a Black man sexually assaulted her.
Seems like a good opportunity to declare the anniversary “Critical Race Theory Day”.
Anne C is another irrelevant, bitter, washed-up old harridan. The She-Milo. The blonde Chucky C.
The GOP has abandoned her for turning on Trump (long ago) and liberals don’t want to talk to her since she wrote her snarky tome on how to talk to one…
re: #73 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Aside from forcing the “talking filibuster” like we used to… other tweaks can be used to narrow it’s danger.
Ban it in “advice and consent” votes. Allow it in votes where rights or powers are being removed or curtailed from the people, and ban it in votes where rights are being expanded.
Sure the right could filibuster gun control and maybe some environmental legislation, but we’d be fixing the voting rights situation much easier as well as many things we’d otherwise have trouble with.
While I’m at it, for the advice and consent role. If the Senate wont vote on a nominee, after 4 weeks, they should be considered as having forfeited their advice and consent role on that nominee and they should be sworn it. That will stop the Mitch Maneuvers.
“We are voting on the right for people physically detain people from going into abortion clinics.”
re: #131 Belafon
If the Senate wont vote on a nominee, after 4 weeks, they should be considered as having forfeited their advice and consent role on that nominee and they should be sworn it. That will stop the Mitch Maneuvers.
So relying on the Filibuster would turn the Senate into the US analog of the House of Lords?
re: #127 DodgerFan1988
And lots of people are in that thread lying about both the massacre and Swan.
My grandad came to settle in Gary, Indiana as a result of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
The story I had related to me is that he just up and left, heading East along the railroad tracks. The following morning found him in the budding steel town of Gary the next morning where he found work and lived for the rest of his life.
re: #92 Targetpractice
Trump and Cruz accounted for 70% of the total delegates won, so obviously the image of his being a politician wasn’t hurting him too much. I even predicted way before Trump announced his candidacy that Cruz was the mark to beat because the party wanted an asshole for their nominee and Cruz best fit the bill. Odds are that had Trump not entered the race, it would have ended up coming down to Cruz and either Bush or Kasich. Without a Trump there to kneecap him with phrases like “low energy,” Jeb might have had more success winning over the suburban white vote. But Cruz was set to win the whole thing…until an even bigger egotistical bastard threw his toupee into the ring.
Not what I was getting at, though. A Cruz would get the delegates, because the delegates are loyal party members. I don’t think he’d get the “dark matter” voters, who surprised the pollsters to pop out of the woodwork and vote for the White Bigot Rat King.
Name tags are as important on your pet as the microchip. This one’s great. cc:@darth pic.twitter.com/SoHIM1yy8s
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 28, 2021
re: #105 steve_davis
i will say that when I was a cyclist many, many long years ago, my upper body was fucking cut. Not in a weightlifter way, but going up hills while standing on the pedals and keeping one’s balance up front will put some lean fucking muscle through the core and the shoulders.
When I was mountain biking regularly more than a decade ago now, that rough terrain could give you a hell of an upper body workout.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the Senate wont vote on a nominee, after 4 weeks, they should be considered as having forfeited their advice and consent role on that nominee and they should be sworn it. That will stop the Mitch Maneuvers.
So relying on the Filibuster would turn the Senate into the US analog of the House of Lords?
That also absolves the Senate of having to confirm an odious nominee: just ignore them. A president should be required to submit all nominees withing 2 weeks of an announcement, and I would require that there can be no acting nominees unless they have been submitted. You must temporarily move up a career employee.
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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What If You Had A Satanic Panic And 15 Percent Of America Came? (Wonkette)
It’s actually encouraging that so many of the enemy have reached this level of drooling idiocy, and they appear to be getting more stupid every day. The Republicans have reached the saturation level in their exploitation of ignorance and fear. There aren’t enough sufficiently stupid people left to keep them in power. Unfortunately, it also means that the coming showdown will be extremely violent and traumatic.
The GQP appeals to people who live in a world of violent and delusional power fantasies. The leadership is right against the wall now. A violent outburst is their only hope. Their initial uprising will be a bloody failure and they will be shocked and confused at their losses. This will drive the survivors right over the edge into massacre and torture when they have the opportunity.
The outcome is not in doubt though.
the timeframe for working out the exact path of SARS in 2003 from horseshoe bats to Asian palm civets to humans was *fourteen years*.
we might work out the course of this one quicker, but there’s no guarantees.— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) May 27, 2021
It’s Kabuki for Manchin and Sinema. Everyone knows it’s BS, but the ritual must be performed.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 28, 2021
re: #140 Belafon
the timeframe for working out the exact path of SARS in 2003 from horseshoe bats to Asian palm civets to humans was *fourteen years*.
“They were just harmless tourists! Let’s put this behind us and move on!
Oh sorry, wrong investigation…”
Never declare success. Not with the newer variants!
Last year, I had moderated a webinar on how well Malaysia was doing with Covid. This year 👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/iGK1VSxe0S— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) May 27, 2021
re: #141 No Malarkey!
And we like to pick on Manchin and Sinema because they’re the most vocal, but there are others that are keeping quiet but still reluctant to change.
Will soldiers be allowed to keep captured AR-15s as war trophies?
Asking for a friend.
A DNA vaccine has induced protective immunity against SARSCoV2 in animal models, namely mice & hamsters. The vax encodes a part of the virus to elicit an immune response. A DNA vax can be produced quicker than mRNA vaccines & at lower cost https://t.co/UtNr4XaiNC pic.twitter.com/LiA3EzeT88
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) May 27, 2021
Antivaxxers are misusing a government database for information to scare the public about vaccines. The VAERS database contains unvetted information. Antivaxxers are using it to fuel conspiracy theories https://t.co/CZid3KdZBF
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) May 28, 2021
re: #146 Belafon
I can already hear Alex Jones’ red-faced screaming.
A wide-ranging and well-resourced effort to contest vaccine requirements in workplaces and other settings intimidates them with litigation, despite the Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson, 1905, that states can force residents to be inoculated against smallpoxhttps://t.co/z6YipRooPg
— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) May 26, 2021
re: #147 Belafon
Antivaxxers are misusing a government database for information to scare the public about vaccines. The VAERS database contains unvetted information. Antivaxxers are using it to fuel conspiracy theories “do their own independent research”
Wrong Kissinger dies:
Kissinger dead.
Ah,https://t.co/cTjj98l9ed— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 27, 2021
re: #144 Belafon
And we like to pick on Manchin and Sinema because they’re the most vocal, but there are others that are keeping quiet but still reluctant to change.
Yep, there will be no voting rights act passed. The Democrats will have to scare voters to the polls next year, and hope that the GQP self destructs in its insanity.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Will soldiers be allowed to keep captured AR-15s as war trophies?
Asking for a friend.
If any armed Qpublicans break into my place on the mistaken belief I’m an unarmed libtard, I’m absolutely keeping their weapons.
re: #152 No Malarkey!
Yep, there will be no voting rights act passed. The Democrats will have to scare voters to the polls next year, and hope that the GQP self destructs in its insanity.
The GOP wants to destroy our electoral system with its endless recount/audit insanity.
re: #152 No Malarkey!
Yep, there will be no voting rights act passed. The Democrats will have to scare voters to the polls next year, and hope that the GQP self destructs in its insanity.
I’m not sure that helps if GQP legislatures throw out Dem votes and pick winners, which is where this seems to be going. The writing is on the wall that they are going for a one party state.
“A person who could actually feel genuine rage over a bloody siege of a place he claimed to love, could not, three months later, look at the mother of the deceased and tell her to pound sand because there’s a midterm election to consider.”https://t.co/tBBLLYu7V1
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) May 27, 2021
re: #155 Scottish Dragon
I’m not sure that helps if GQP legislatures throw out Dem votes and pick winners, which is where this seems to be going. The writing is on the wall that they are going for a one party state.
They are not going to repeat the same “mistakes” they made in 2020: If they are not satisfied with the vote counts in GOP states, they will simply disqualify the election results for whatever reason they find the most convenient and turn it over to the states, which means that Wyoming and North Dakota will have the same number of votes as New York and California.
One of the keys to passing the 9/11 Commission Bill was not allowing Al-Qaeda to vote on it.
— Derek DelGaudio (@derek_del) May 28, 2021
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
I can already hear Alex Jones’ red-faced screaming.
A talking point amongst “vaccine skeptics” is that the Moderna vaccine is “gene therapy”.
No fraud found in audit of Windham, NH race for state senate. And even though it confirmed the victory of the Republican candidate, the usual suspects who really, really are counting on fraud are claiming that the widely respected auditor was biased somehow. (Windham, coincidentally, is Corey Lewendowski’s hometown.)
Saw this go by yesterday without listening to it.
Deputy Sheriff who posted this video mocking people for getting the covid vaccine, just died of covid. https://t.co/A02YSlxpQt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2021
SMDH.
re: #161 jaunte
Darwin didn’t foresee a species that actively accelerated natural selection…
The path to the insurrection was made clear here - six weeks before the November general election. If you oppose the commission you support tyranny. @LeaderMcConnell https://t.co/MExkj4SSTm
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 28, 2021
re: #163 jaunte
The path to the insurrection was made clear here - six weeks before the November general election. If you oppose the commission you support tyranny.
He laid the first groundwork by charging (without any shred of evidence) that he would have won the 2016 popular vote except for massive voter fraud.
And again: despite a massive, record Democratic turnout, it was way too much of a close-run thing. A few ten thousands votes here and there or a few more unscrupulous GOP state electoral officials, and the outcome could have been very different.
And unlike other elections, where everything after the states certifying the vote counts is just a bureaucratic process that gets little media attention, the GOP made a major circus out of every step along the way, up to asking Mike Pence not to certify the final EC votes.
re: #161 jaunte
Saw this go by yesterday without listening to it.
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Deputy Sheriff who posted this video mocking people for getting the covid vaccine, just died of covid. https://t.co/A02YSlxpQt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 28, 2021
SMDH.
A tsunami of “no fucks left to give” in the comments.
re: #153 Scottish Dragon
If any armed Qpublicans break into my place on the mistaken belief I’m an unarmed libtard, I’m absolutely keeping their weapons.
If they’re a decent quality AK I might, but just another AR? I’ll heat the barrels and wrap them around a stop sign like a Sherman necktie. Otherwise, my Krag is a better service rifle…
re: #129 The Ghost of a Flea
Fuck the Cheneys.
THE DICK lied us into a war that brainwashed my son and killed him.
Hell is too good for either of those motherfathers.
re: #151 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Wrong Kissinger dies:
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Wish Henry a fast family reunion with his brother.
re: #169 🌹UOJB!
Fuck the Cheneys.
THE DICK lied us into a war that brainwashed my son and killed him.
Hell is too good for either of those motherfathers.
He was one of the ugliest men to rule America (in both the physical and moral sense).
Who will die first (that is, if they will die)?
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) May 28, 2021
re: #172 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) May 28, 2021
re: #175 EstebanTornado1963
Just mount a Darwin Award on that asshole’s tombstone.
re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A tsunami of “no fucks left to give” in the comments.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Matt Gaetz said tonight that he will run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t run. “I am certain I can whoop Joe Biden up one side of the country and down the other.”
Karl Rove stated along time ago that if you just maintain an alternate reality long enough, it will get picked up and treated as if it had validity.
And that worked marvelously for them up until recently.
Now all the bloviating and bravado is not holding up and propagating itself at the rate they are used to.
In fact, it is being exposed as totally ludicrous and unfounded.
Ludicrous and ridiculous, it may be. But it has complete hold over the GOP and is poisoning them throughout the nation — and harming the rest of us too. Back in 2016, before I joined this site, PLL was expressing his concern about Trump’s prospects, while others here mocked him for his gloomy prognosis. Where are we actually now? we are stuck with a system where (1) a minority of voters can select the President (e.g. technically the candidate who wins 60% of the vote can lose), (2) for President, the legislature can ignore voters , (3) a powerful RW media echo chamber promotes fanaticism and racism, brainwashing millions including highly educated professionals, and (4) the entire GOP is on board with litigating the results of the last election (or at least not stopping such litigation) and stripping minority citizens of the right to vote.
The Democratic Party is in a bind because it’s stuck with a 50-50 Senate and an opposition party that votes in unison against any Democratic proposals. It cannot afford to lose a single Democrat to get anything done. In 2008, I felt overwhelming joy at the election of Obama and the large majority he enjoyed in both the House and the Senate. But McConnell’s obstruction succeeded and within 2 years that majority had vanished. Biden learned lessons from that, but he doesn’t have that majority and unfortunately has to contend with the same McConnell, whose evil hasn’t abated over the years. So far, a majority of Republican voters are all in on ludicrous and ridiculous.
This is one of the best yet, and that is saying a lot.
Journey with me to Egypt 101 years ago. I’ve collected together 4 of my Egyptian enhancements, all taken in 1920. The pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx, a fez seller in Cairo and an Egyptian cobbler. All original colour, two years before Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb pic.twitter.com/8LgveujOuh
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) May 27, 2021
Cairo and the Delta is one of those places to which I have always felt drawn. It is crowded, noisy, sometimes squalid, usually (but not always) hot, but it has a mysterious appeal, like it is, has always been, and will always be the center of the world.
re: #173 🌹UOJB!
I’ve had Kissinger on my Office Dead Pool for years. So far I scored with Prince Philip this year.
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re: #174 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
That is an impressive mango tree!
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was assumed that he would flame out before the GOP convention.
Nobody wanted to attack him directly, even to return the insults he heaped on them, because they wanted to be in a position to pick up his supporters.
They were loyal to Trump and Trump alone, to his style and his message. And the fact that he was not a political “outsider”, but the very embodiment of the anti-politician allowed him to get away with saying and doing things that would have derailed the campaign or even the career of most anyone else.
It wasn’t just that he was an anti-politician: it was because, thank to NBC and “The Apprentice”, he was marketed as a highly successful businessman, playing into the Reagan/GOP mythology that to flourish, the nation needed to be ruled according to business practices, rather than standard government policies. “Business good, government regulations bad” was the traditional mantra as espoused by Grover Norquist, Ayn Rand, and others of the GOP intellectual elite. If Reagan had not been a reputed billionaire, he would never have gained this traction.
re: #181 ckkatz
That is an impressive mango tree!
Loquats, actually. It’s too cold for mangoes (but check back next decade).
Remember, “Blue Lives Matter” to Republican senators until they don’t, say if any inconvenient officers get in the way of a seditious coup launched by Trump. https://t.co/mNObBCbqDY
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 28, 2021
re: #161 jaunte
Saw this go by yesterday without listening to it.
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SMDH.
Have to say that he was actually not an anti-vaxxer; he may have been more vocal, but he shared the concern of many who were hesitant because they felt that the vaccines were rushed to market before sufficient testing. And it is certainly true that many devastating side effects of medications are not discovered until they are released to a broader public.
Lunch today was a welcome change. Having finished the leftover Domino’s yesterday, I decided to have spicy ramen enhanced with Momofuku. It was delicious.
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP were more fixated on the knuckle-dragging Cletus vote.
Jeb! was too associated with the GOP establishment to appeal to the Tea Partiers.
I still recall when Trump came on CNN to talk about how exciting his rallies were and how people were falling asleep at Jeb! rallies.
Fifteen minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! interview. As if he were handing them their scripts…
This is not the only political race Jeb lost to a populist candidate.
Jeb’s first FL gubernatorial race lost to Lawton Childs, after Lawton pulled his “the ole he-coon walks just before the light of day” speech.
That speech won Lawton the FL panhandle and central FL vote, and Jeb lost.
Unfortunately, Jeb’s loss mpved Texas governor W to the front of the Bush-family-next-president queue.
re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter
Have to say that he was actually not an anti-vaxxer; he may have been more vocal, but he shared the concern of many who were hesitant because they felt that the vaccines were rushed to market before sufficient testing. And it is certainly true that many devastating side effects of medications are not discovered until they are released to a broader public.
Indeed; the thalidomide scandal comes to mind, though that was largely averted in the US thanks to Frances Oldham Kelsey. Then again, I don’t know really how well-known that story is to younger people today - though I’m sure older Americans remember that pretty well (or those of us who are fascinated by such grim things).
re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter
Have to say that he was actually not an anti-vaxxer; he may have been more vocal, but he shared the concern of many who were hesitant because they felt that the vaccines were rushed to market before sufficient testing. And it is certainly true that many devastating side effects of medications are not discovered until they are released to a broader public.
He was an anti-covid-vaxxer, and the quotes I see from him are the same stupid ones I hear from people around me: My immune system is just fine, but you’re going to get mutant limbs. I bet he talked about how many vitamins he took and that was going to protect him, and that he never got a flu shot either.
I find the argument that it hasn’t been properly tested to no longer have any credibility considering how many people have received them now.
GOOD MORNING LIZARDIA!
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Life’s more dangerous when you’re stupid.
True story: Denver Sheriff Deputy “Duke”, a former Marine, posted anti-vaccine videos/pictures on Facebook.
➡️Outcome: He dies of #COVID19. He was just 33-years old.
He’s the 2nd Denver Sheriff to die in 2 weeks. Please #vaccinate
(ht @RzstProgramming)pic.twitter.com/BhGtyRVcsh— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 28, 2021
re: #188 BeenHereAwhile
This is not the only political race Jeb lost to a populist candidate.
Jeb’s first FL gubernatorial race lost to Lawton Childs, after Lawton pulled his “the ole he-coon walks just before the light of day” speech.
That speech won Lawton the FL panhandle and central FL vote, and Jeb lost.
Unfortunately, Jeb’s loss mpved Texas governor W to the front of the Bush-family-next-president queue.
TBF Lawton Childs was an experienced politician with “good ol’ boy qualities with moderate-to-liberal aspirations that do not strike fear into the hearts of conservatives” (from wiki). So a populism of the left rather than the right, amiable and not vicious.
re: #163 jaunte
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the simplest fucking followup question at that moment: “why? why would we have to ‘see what happens’?”
The path to the insurrection was made clear here - six weeks before the November general election. If you oppose the commission you support tyranny. @LeaderMcConnell https://t.co/MExkj4SSTm
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 28, 2021
Sacramento woman is fucked. I’m okay with this.
Hey lady - you’re probably sorry you overreacted. Good.
Assaulting a crewmember is punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, and a fine of up to $250,000. If a dangerous weapon is used, the defendant can be imprisoned for life. (18 U.S.C. § 3571, 49 U.S. https://t.co/wE435sQ87N— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 28, 2021
re: #166 wrenchwench
That is really good.
I was going to make a joke about your mom posting it on the fridge, but it’s too good to be made light of that way. It’s really good. Nice photo, too.
i thought he was taller
(obligatory)
re: #196 darthstar
hope she enjoys travelling by bus, its a great way to see the country.
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #198 piratedan
hope she enjoys travelling by bus, its a great way to see the country.
Karen will have to wait a long time before doing that since she will have an extended stay at Uncle Sam’s B&B.
re: #198 piratedan
She’s probably too “independent” to sit in a vehicle with other people.
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #178 Hecuba’s daughter
Ludicrous and ridiculous, it may be. But it has complete hold over the GOP and is poisoning them throughout the nation — and harming the rest of us too. Back in 2016, before I joined this site, PLL was expressing his concern about Trump’s prospects, while others here mocked him for his gloomy prognosis. Where are we actually now? we are stuck with a system where (1) a minority of voters can select the President (e.g. technically the candidate who wins 60% of the vote can lose), (2) for President, the legislature can ignore voters , (3) a powerful RW media echo chamber promotes fanaticism and racism, brainwashing millions including highly educated professionals, and (4) the entire GOP is on board with litigating the results of the last election (or at least not stopping such litigation) and stripping minority citizens of the right to vote.
The Democratic Party is in a bind because it’s stuck with a 50-50 Senate and an opposition party that votes in unison against any Democratic proposals. It cannot afford to lose a single Democrat to get anything done. In 2008, I felt overwhelming joy at the election of Obama and the large majority he enjoyed in both the House and the Senate. But McConnell’s obstruction succeeded and within 2 years that majority had vanished. Biden learned lessons from that, but he doesn’t have that majority and unfortunately has to contend with the same McConnell, whose evil hasn’t abated over the years. So far, a majority of Republican voters are all in on ludicrous and ridiculous.
if any substantial numbers actually supported gaetz for prez it would mean
- TFG is truly badly damaged already
and/or
- they dont read the news
both of these stand up citizens will either be running their campaign from a jail cell, or during a trial, or at the very least, under indictment.
assuming there’s no SCOD (sweet coronary of death) waiting in the wings
Senator Cassidy has voted ‘yes’ on a commission to look deeper into the Jan. 6 insurrection. https://t.co/zswwV2d0QF
— Shannon Heckt (@ShannonHeckt) May 28, 2021
I think that’s 6 goopers for the commission, and not done yet. Didn’t expect that one.
The real reason for Facebook. Too bad it’s been rendered toxic by Trumpster and other bad actors.
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re: #204 ericblair
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I think that’s 6 goopers for the commission, and not done yet. Didn’t expect that one.
Cassidy did vote for impeachment.
re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A tsunami of “no fucks left to give” in the comments.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
re: #198 piratedan
hope she enjoys travelling by bus, its a great way to see the country.
The bus ride to the state penitentiary is quite scenic, I’m told.
re: #204 ericblair
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I think that’s 6 goopers for the commission, and not done yet. Didn’t expect that one.
Talk about a dilemma for Republicans: Either get the ten votes and show Democrats that Republicans can be bipartisan, or show themselves as completely controlled by McConnell.
An update from Arizona… pic.twitter.com/CtXo81dYZf
— Michael Muscato (@michael_muscato) May 28, 2021
re: #204 ericblair
I think that’s 6 goopers for the commission, and not done yet. Didn’t expect that one.
I’d love to hear one say, “As a favor to McConnell, I’m going to vote for the commission because he can later say he was for it then…so long as he is innocent of participating in the insurrection.”
re: #192 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Life’s more dangerous when you’re stupid.
His entire understanding of COVID was:
1. I am strong and other people are weak.
2. It’s wrong for me to care about weak people.
What I see in this is not stupidity, it’s the transformation of something indifferent to human qualia into a ego-affirming power struggle, which falls closer to hubris and cruelty than to mere lack of intelligence.
re: #196 darthstar
Sacramento woman is fucked. I’m okay with this.
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you’re in a plane
there’s no escape
there’s 100+ witnesses, let alone there’s video everywhere these days
lose your financial future to lawyers
smart move
she needs to be used as an example
with draconian enforcement and punishment
while leaving the rest of the flying public alone
if they dont nip this in the bud it will get worse
(exactly the same as how to deal with demonstrably reckless and dangerous gun owners - cull them out and leave the rest of us alone)
Hey lady - you’re probably sorry you overreacted. Good.
Assaulting a crewmember is punishable by up to 20 years’ imprisonment, and a fine of up to $250,000. If a dangerous weapon is used, the defendant can be imprisoned for life. (18 U.S.C. § 3571, 49 U.S. https://t.co/wE435sQ87N— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 28, 2021
re: #198 piratedan
hope she enjoys travelling by bus,
its a great way to see the country.
all the way to prison
eta: ok, so virtually everyone has beat me to this observation
re: #212 The Ghost of a Flea
His entire understanding of COVID was:
1. I am strong and other people are weak.
2. It’s wrong for me to care about weak people.What I see in this is not stupidity, it’s the transformation of something indifferent to human qualia into a ego-affirming power struggle, which falls closer to hubris and cruelty than to mere lack of intelligence.
It’s the steroids. I’ve seen too many cops in my gym juiced up preening at themselves in the mirror thinking they are Mr. Olympia.
re: #213 Dangerman
you’re in a plane
there’s no escape
there’s 100+ witnesses, let alone there’s video everywhere these dayslose your financial future to lawyers
smart moveshe needs to be used as an example
with draconian enforcement and punishment
while leaving the rest of the flying public alone
if they dont nip this in the bud it will get worse(exactly the same as how to deal with demonstrably reckless and dangerous gun owners - cull them out and leave the rest of us alone)
Agree 100% - prosecute her to the maximum, and publicize the living crap out of it. Put posters in airports saying, “Strike a crew member, go to jail.” with her picture on it.
re: #216 darthstar
Agree 100% - prosecute her to the maximum, and publicize the living crap out of it. Put posters in airports saying, “Strike a crew member, go to jail.” with her picture on it.
“This is Susie. Susie is no longer flying because we don’t have flights out of prisons.”
my autopay just renewed my LGF subscription.
so this is an anniversary of some kind
guess i’ll stick around another year
well fuck
JAN. 6 COMMISSION FAILS — 54-35 on cloture on motion to proceed.
Dems fail to break filibuster— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 28, 2021
re: #183 Hecuba’s daughter
It wasn’t just that he was an anti-politician: it was because, thank to NBC and “The Apprentice”, he was marketed as a highly successful businessman, playing into the Reagan/GOP mythology that to flourish, the nation needed to be ruled according to business practices, rather than standard government policies. “Business good, government regulations bad” was the traditional mantra as espoused by Grover Norquist, Ayn Rand, and others of the GOP intellectual elite. If
ReaganTrump had not been a reputed billionaire, he would never have gained this traction.
Oops — meant Trump, not Reagan, and editing time had expired!
Bunch of traitors. If there are no repercussions for this, we are fucked as a nation.
re: #220 The Pie Overlord!
JAN. 6 COMMISSION FAILS — 54-35 on cloture on motion to proceed.
Dems fail to break filibuster
Might as well just stamp an expiration date on US Democracy: January 2025, at which point the GOP will have seized power in the US in a perfectly Constitutional coup.
They can now spread their version of events all they want and make whatever claims suit their ends regarding the events following their previous attempt to undermine the outcome of the election.
re: #220 The Pie Overlord!
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McConnell is going to regret doing this because this vote is going to come back and bite Republicans in the ass.
re: #223 GlutenFreeJesus
Bunch of traitors. If there are no repercussions for this, we are fucked as a nation.
there won’t be and we are
re: #147 Belafon
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Antivaxxers are misusing a government database for information to scare the public about vaccines. The VAERS database contains unvetted information. Antivaxxers are using it to
fuel conspiracy theories“do their own independent research”
Not only that, but I seem to recall that when this VAERS abuse began, there were at least concerns about false reports being submitted to VAERS. Yeah, you read that right. Potentially filing fake adverse or side effect reports to a database in order to weaponize them for propaganda…
And people still think I’m overreacting when I often warn that we are dealing with a brand of fanatics that are not above forging evidence, incidents, etc. in order to prove that they are right…
I’m just waiting for Manchin and Sinema to double down on their complicity…
re: #225 JOE 🥓
McConnell is going to regret doing this because this vote is going to come back and bite Republicans in the ass.
Look, forgive me for going Debbie Downer, but no, he won’t, and no, it won’t. I mean, the country was finished even before the 1/6 Commission failed, but now there’s not even a pretense of accountability. They literally just got away with an attempted coup scot-free, because the guilty parties are in charge of allowing the commission to go forward.
re: #230 Belafon
So, Manchin, what’s next?
Manchin fails again just like he failed with his compromise on gun control…
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
GOOD MORNING LIZARDIA!
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re: #227 Teukka
Ditto, le twittér:
concerns that false reports of adverse or side-effects had been filed, if memory serves me right, a fatality.
Be warned.
We are dealing with a brand of fanatics that are not above forging evidence, incidents, etc. in order to prove that they are right…
/END— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) May 28, 2021
Today would be a good day for @SpeakerPelosi to announce that the House will be forming a select committee to investigate the Jan 6 insurrection.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 28, 2021
re: #229 Dopamine Fish
Look, forgive me for going Debbie Downer, but no, he won’t, and no, it won’t. I mean, the country was finished even before the 1/6 Commission failed, but now there’s not even a pretense of accountability. They literally just got away with an attempted coup scot-free, because the guilty parties are in charge of allowing the commission to go forward.
Nope. Now we get the House Select Committee, without all those repug rules to impede it.
re: #220 The Pie Overlord!
well fuck
Sadly, we all knew it was going to happen. What now? Select Committee?
re: #232 sagehen
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re: #236 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Sadly, we all knew it was going to happen. What now? Select Committee?
It will be in the House and Nancy is going to flip the bird on McCarthy. It’s going to go full reverse Benghazi on the traitors.
re: #236 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Sadly, we all knew it was going to happen. What now? Select Committee?
Yep. And it will be partisan as fuck and I’m okay with that. I want televised hearings every fucking week. Bring Mo Brooks in to testify. Bring MTG in to testify. Bring Boebert in to testify. Also Hawley, Cruz from the Senate - make them testify before the fuckin’ House.
Then bring in the Trump spawn and grill them for hours on end. Make it hurt.
re: #235 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Nope. Now we get the House Select Committee, without all those repug rules to impede it.
There will also be all the individual trials, many of which will shed a negative light on the GOP and its role in and relationship to the Capitol Riots
re: #239 darthstar
Yep. And it will be partisan as fuck and I’m okay with that. I want televised hearings every fucking week. Bring Mo Brooks in to testify. Bring MTG in to testify. Bring Boebert in to testify. Also Hawley, Cruz from the Senate - make them testify before the fuckin’ House.
Then bring in the Trump spawn and grill them for hours on end. Make it hurt.
Bring in Trump and grill him for 11 hours. Let’s see how he holds up.
re: #239 darthstar
Yep. And it will be partisan as fuck and I’m okay with that. I want televised hearings every fucking week. Bring Mo Brooks in to testify. Bring MTG in to testify. Bring Boebert in to testify. Also Hawley, Cruz from the Senate - make them testify before the fuckin’ House.
Then bring in the Trump spawn and grill them for hours on end. Make it hurt.
Put The Orange Anus before the committee and grill him for 11 hours.
re: #242 JOE 🥓
Put The Orange Anus before the committee and grill him for 11 hours.
I thought meat with lots of fat was supposed to be smoked low and slow.
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re: #238 JOE 🥓
It will be in the House and Nancy is going to flip the bird on McCarthy. It’s going to go full reverse Benghazi on the traitors.
It’s going to be brutal, and people like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwel, and AOC are going to rip the GOP a new asshole.
re: #243 Dopamine Fish
I thought meat with lots of fat was supposed to be smoked low and slow.
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I don’t want it edible at the end. I don’t want it recognizable.
re: #238 JOE 🥓
It will be in the House and Nancy is going to flip the bird on McCarthy. It’s going to go full reverse Benghazi on the traitors.
From your lips to the Goddesses ear.
Trump Appointee On West Point Board Spreads Conspiracy Theory
A retired Army colonel who was appointed to the West Point Board of Visitors by Donald Trump at the end of his term in office is spreading a conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden’s administration is bringing non-White immigrants into the United States as part of a “grand plan” to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry.
Douglas Macgregor also has attacked women serving in military combat roles. He comments in April and May were uncovered by CNN’s KFile. Before Trump appointed him to the military academy post, Macgregor was a senior official in the Department of Defense, where he was tasked with the job of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Previously he had been nominated to be Trump’s ambassador to Germany but his nomination did not get a hearing after KFile unearthed controversial comments about minorities, Islam and Germany’s remembrance of the Holocaust. After leaving his Pentagon post he became a frequent radio and television commentator on Fox News and Russia Today (RT).
He’s a fucking mole! Get him out of there now!
Hee hee. RWNJs are still suggesting the video is evidence of a false flag. Their evidence: The bomber is relatively slender and agile and therefore has to be a lefty.
As the Senate was voting to block creation of a Jan. 6 commission to investigate the attack on the Capitol, the FBI was putting this request for help: https://t.co/pmghNE1C2s
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) May 28, 2021
re: #155 Scottish Dragon
I’m not sure that helps if GQP legislatures throw out Dem votes and pick winners, which is where this seems to be going. The writing is on the wall that they are going for a one party state.
And if the courts let them do that, it becomes absolute chaos. People aren’t going to just shrug their shoulders when Republicans just refuse to count black votes.
11 Senators who missed this Jan 6 Commission procedural vote:
Blackburn
Blunt
Braun
Burr
Inhofe
Murray
Risch
Rounds
Shelby
Sinema
Toomey— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) May 28, 2021
Sinema was getting her nails done, or something? Murray and Toomey said they would have voted yes but had some sort of family commitments.
re: #248 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Hee hee. RWNJs are still suggesting the video is evidence of a false flag. Their evidence: The bomber is relatively slender and agile and therefore has to be a lefty.
I think it’s a woman.
re: #252 austin_blue
That’s very rude. 😠
re: #250 ericblair
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Sinema was getting her nails done, or something? Murray and Toomey said they would have voted yes but had some sort of family commitments.
The 60 rule definitely needs to be a ratio of the quorum present,
re: #250 ericblair
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Sinema was getting her nails done, or something? Murray and Toomey said they would have voted yes but had some sort of family commitments.
Does Sinema think Democrats are going to forget this when she has to run for reelection?
re: #249 No Malarkey!
And if the courts let them do that, it becomes absolute chaos. People aren’t going to just shrug their shoulders when Republicans just refuse to count black votes.
- biden vs trump will not be close* - definitely not as close as 2020, and im pretty sure it wont be that close with anyone else either (hawley, cruz? desantis, outside of florida?)
- if the house doesnt act accordingly on 1/6, biden is still president. based on how prepared they were and how fast they moved sans a transition, he’s probably got a plan already.
*this morning’s electoral-vote.com
…Although nearly two-thirds of Republican voters want to see him run again, only 30% of Americans in general want that, while 66% do not. His approval rating right now is even worse than it was during most of his presidency, with 37% having a favorable view and 57% having an unfavorable one. …
Anyhow, with the overwhelming majority of Americans preferring to move on from Trump, putting together a winning electoral coalition is going to be a very tall order, even with voter suppression laws and the Electoral College. And that’s before we consider that Trump may be indicted, possibly convicted, and maybe even in prison by 2024…
re: #250 ericblair
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profiles in courage one and all
yeah this turkey could be president, sure
U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida has sailed into a new controversy, claiming money wired to close the sale on a St. Petersburg yacht his fiancée had agreed to buy “went missing.”
According to a spokesperson for the Republican, he and his fiancée Ginger Luckey were “targeted by malicious actors” during the purchase process of a St. Petersburg yacht. Follow-up questions about the transaction and clarification of the statement have not been answered.
wire transfers don’t ‘go missing’
there is a trail
if you’re a buyer, and there isn’t, you’re an idiot
re: #253 The Pie Overlord!
That’s very rude. 😠
I also have a rude Jewish wedding joke.
At a Conservative wedding, the bride is pregnant.
At an Orthodox wedding, the bride’s mother is pregnant.
At a Reform wedding, the Rabbi is pregnant.
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Now that Republicans killed the Jan. 6 commission, I’m reupping this.
Time for a select committee.
“A select committee would bring a singular focus to the task,” @RepRaskin tells me, adding that it’s time to “examine every option very quickly, and move forward.” https://t.co/TSOdkFz0Oh— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 28, 2021
Nuke the filibuster. Saving a foolish procedural bugbear to sacrifice the democracy around it is nonsense and political theater. “We lost the body but saved three fingers! Huge success!” Our democracy is falling apart. They need to vote to save it. JFC. https://t.co/89o8w82pYx
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) May 28, 2021
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
A foolish procedural bugbear that, as has been pointed out upthread, isn’t even a construct of the original Founding Fathers. Some shitheads made that up out of whole cloth decades later to justify stuffing up the works in the run-up to the American Civil War. Gee, now what does that sound like…
Four months of the Democrats’ rare and precious time with a trifecta in government has already gone by. They just sought to get a non-reconciliation bill passed by caving to every one of the Republicans’ demands and saw it get filibustered by Republicans anyway.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 28, 2021
Should Republicans’ bad faith be rewarded with a successful shutdown of important regular order legislation? Or should the congressional Dems band together to wield the power that voters and campaign staff and volunteers worked so hard to put in their hands?
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 28, 2021
re: #260 sagehen
I also have a rude Jewish wedding joke.
At a Conservative wedding, the bride is pregnant.
At an Orthodox wedding, the bride’s mother is pregnant.
At a Reform wedding, the Rabbi is pregnant.//
At a Reconstructionist wedding, the Rabbi’s husband is pregnant.
huffpo
The idea that the filibuster encourages bipartisan compromise, however, is false. The filibuster of the bipartisan Jan. 6 commission proves it.
The commission bill was written in a bipartisan fashion by Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.) in the House. The commission would be split evenly between members of both parties and all actions, including the hiring of staff, would need to be approved by commission members of both parties ― the same structure as the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
Thirty-five House Republicans and six Republican senators voted to move forward to debate on a commission. But none of this bipartisanship matters because the filibuster allows a partisan minority to quash bipartisan compromise.
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
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I keep looking for updates on the guy in the Maserati who shot the woman in DC, but nothing yet. How many silver Maserati’s can there be in the area?
re: #260 sagehen
I also have a rude Jewish wedding joke.
At a Conservative wedding, the bride is pregnant.
At an Orthodox wedding, the bride’s mother is pregnant.
At a Reform wedding, the Rabbi is pregnant.//
At a Celtic Wedding the kids have already come along 3 years back and the bride has a sword.
Lead witness in Trump inaugural investigation @SWinstonWolkoff: “5 years ago […] I was calling out the inconsistencies, the irregularities. I had a big issue with them and because of that they threw me under the bus.” pic.twitter.com/rfOAz3n6Y2
— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2021
Ohio House Bill 248 (their antivax Covid-19 bill which was touted as ending Ohio’s lottery prizes for getting the vaccine) is now filed.
It doesn’t end just that. It ends requirements for all vaccines, and prohibits free speech to boot.
Presuming this passes, the Party of Fiscal Responsibility would then spend countless dollars in defending a patently unconstitutional law, in the thousands-years long attempt by conservatives to drag every society they rule back to the Dark Ages. Via Wonkette:
Just how comprehensive would this sucker be?
The legislation would ban vaccine requirements on customers, employees or students from businesses, hospitals, nursing homes, K-12 schools, colleges, daycares, or others. It would also prevent governments, insurers, or businesses from offering incentives for people to get vaccinated, or even requesting that people get vaccinated. […]
Under the bill, a small business owned by asthmatics or cancer survivors — both of whom are at higher risk of serious COVID-19 complications — would have no legal right to require or even request that employees or customers who come inside be vaccinated. That’s according to Dorit Reiss, a professor with a focus on vaccine policy from the UC Hastings College of Law.
“It’s against business rights, it’s against the individual rights of private businesses, it’s against safety, and it’s in support of the virus,” she said.
(Our bold.)
re: #271 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They really do want to kill people. There’s no other logical explanation.
So one of my Republican senators (Sasse) voted for the January 6 Commission bill, and the other (Fischer) voted against it.
Crapo was a no vote & Risch didn’t vote. Both are of course Idaho Treason Weasels .
A baby food company in Hokkaido, Japan purchased the first two “yubari” melons at auction (from Yubari in Hokkaido) for around $24K for the pair. This, according to the article is 22x the price of last year. Not clear why they were so expensive. The company plans to hold a lottery and give melons away to families with children to “cheer them up.”
re: #271 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ohio House Bill 248 (their antivax Covid-19 bill which was touted as ending Ohio’s lottery prizes for getting the vaccine) is now filed.
It doesn’t end just that. It ends requirements for all vaccines, and prohibits free speech to boot.
Presuming this passes, the Party of Fiscal Responsibility would then spend countless dollars in defending a patently unconstitutional law, in the thousands-years long attempt by conservatives to drag every society they rule back to the Dark Ages. Via Wonkette:
Republicans are afraid of the power of water and donuts
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Drunks, liars and whoremongers cuts out virtually every elected republican.
Amazon is installing Futurama suicide booths “Amazen” “mindfulness” booths, so employees who are stressed can be grounded or something with New Age BS.
Amazon promoted it on Twitter with a video (embedded in the article), and they were dragged so hard they pulled down the tweet within a day.
I presume Amazon installed the suicide booths because that is cheaper than providing meaningful bathroom breaks to their employees. I would also guess they have cameras in them so you can’t use them as an on-the-floor outhouse.
Folks at Wonkette are wondering if there will be an actual suicide in one.
Amazon Welcomes Workers To ‘Mental Health’ Booths Of Mindfulness And Terror
Also, since they sit out in the open of the floor, every person you work with knows you are going into one, so that would be comforting to an anxious employee.
The thing doesn’t look much bigger than a phone booth with no windows. Good for claustrophobia as well.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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That is such a goofy list. I think the only ones Jesus would have cared about are Liars, and So Called Christians, and the sign holder would be dismayed to find out they are one.
My statement on today’s vote on the January 6th commission. pic.twitter.com/KPXfXeiMkI
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) May 28, 2021
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
“Jews who disobey Jesus”? FFS. As expected, classical anti-semitism is coming back in the US right.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Surprised the didn’t give Lil Nas X a call out.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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Please tell me that is a Poe.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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Unruly children, on their way to hellfire.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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Same as rug-rat
Chris Daughtry and Lajon Witherspoon with a Chris Cornell classic. Daughtry has some pipes.
re: #282 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
She is getting dragged over “personal matter” conveniently on the Friday of a long weekend.
Opinion | @KevinMKruse: Sen. Manchin has it exactly backwards; it is the filibuster that is destroying our government, not the other way around. - @MSNBCDaily https://t.co/nHZZmDyK4z
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 28, 2021
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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But I thought all dogs got to go to heaven?
re: #290 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She is getting dragged over “personal matter” conveniently on the Friday of a long weekend.
Most of America doesn’t get to choose for themselves to take a day for a “personal matter”
Especially when something as consequential as this is coming and you know it
This fucking guy could have stopped it!
Choosing to put politics and political elections above the health of our Democracy is unconscionable. And the betrayal of the oath we each take is something they will have to live with. My statement on the January 6th Commission vote: pic.twitter.com/tlPme9LMIo
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 28, 2021
re: #290 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She is getting dragged over “personal matter” conveniently on the Friday of a long weekend.
Today is Friday???
No, really
re: #282 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Ankle-biters?
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Female MMA fighters?
4 Americans died in the assault at the embassy in Benghazi and Republicans conducted 10 investigations over 3 1/2 years. 6 Americans died (countless more wounded) in the assault on our own goddamn Capitol Building, and Republicans filibustered the very idea of looking into it.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) May 28, 2021
re: #290 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She is getting dragged over “personal matter” conveniently on the Friday of a long weekend.
Yep. Doesn’t matter is she knew/believed the Rs would vote it down, she should have stayed & voted*
* If it comes to light that it was indeed an actual family emergency & not just an excuse to slip out of town early, I will stand corrected.
re: #294 Dangerman
Most of America doesn’t get to choose for themselves to take a day for a “personal matter”
Especially when something as consequential as this is coming and you know it
When we lived in Oklahoma, our neighbour worked the night shift at Wal*Mart. Her father lived with her but was dying. She also had a six year-old daughter.
Her father died in the middle of the night, and her daughter came over to our house to ask to call her mother (they did not have a telephone).
I called Wal*Mart, which refused to let her off work (that had to be approved by the Bentonville, Ark. office). I called them. They refused as well.
The local Wal*Mart manager also said he would not pass the message about her dead father until the end of her shift, in the morning.
I called the police on her daughter’s behalf and relayed the story. Wal*Mart fired her and banned me from their store (since the police showed up to interview the manager).
I have never set foot in a Wal*Mart again. I will not give that heartless company a single dime.
re: #295 The GOP is a terrorist organization
This fucking guy could have stopped it!
At this point I’d rather have a Republican in that seat than Sen. Manchin. At least you know where you stand with a Republican.
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