The Great Neil Finn, Live in the Spotify Studio: “She Will Have Her Way”
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Video directed by Hayden Booth.
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This is funny, dailykos.com. When Trump showed up at Turning Point USA, someone put up the presidential seal, but modified it to give the eagle two heads and a set of golf clubs.
CL’d:
re: #42 Rightwingconspirator
So Sean Hannity has a secret hand puppet and his name is Gohmert.
Gohmert is everyone’s secret hand puppet.
Just tell him what to say and he will regurgitate it. He is incapable of independent thought.
Sadly, he keeps getting re-elected. His District is behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas, which is sadly a region of Jesus Freaks and mouth breathers, many of whom’s last words are “Y’all watch this shit!”.
re: #1 Belafon
This is funny, dailykos.com. When Trump showed up at Turning Point USA, someone put up the presidential seal, but modified it to give the eagle two heads and a set of golf clubs.
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The Double Headed Eagle, in black and gold, was the traditional upper left corner of the Tsarist flag of Russia, with three horizontal bands of red, white, and blue.
He’s talking about all the great things he’s achieved as governor.
re: #5 austin_blue
The Double Headed Eagle, in black and gold, was the traditional upper left corner of the Tsarist flag of Russia, with three horizontal bands of red, white, and blue.
Was that a troll then?
Talking about his great economic successes now… . Guy sounds like a Spanish version of Trump.
🔴#FbLive El gobernador @ricardorossello ofrece un Mensaje al Pueblo. Sintoniza aquí ➡️https://t.co/O4nTj0vIcS pic.twitter.com/3GJi8st67b
— La Fortaleza (@fortalezapr) July 25, 2019
re: #10 austin_blue
5th columnist. It’s not accidental. It’s too specific.
5th column to the Trump Cult, or 5th column to the United States?
Governor Roselló will resign effective August 2 at 5:00.
In the streets, the crowd erupts in cheers.
Governor Roselló becomes the first Governor of Puerto Rico to resign in the middle of a term.
The crowd’s singing is ringing through the streets of San Juan.
The current head of the Department of Justice, Wanda Vázquez Garced, will become the new governor.
wapa.tv (live cheering crowds in the streets)
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
Who will replace him? I hope it’s someone who gives a damn.
re: #11 Teukka
5th column to the Trump Cult, or 5th column to the United States?
Both. It’s the same thing. TPUSA is not a friend of our Republic. They want to tear it all down.
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
Congress is about to go on vacation.I’m telling you, we are fucking losing the game of shaping public opinion - and there is no other game more important between now and 2020.If we do not VASTLY improve, Trump will win.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 24, 2019
If you think there is a secret strategy, you are wrong.If you wish to not see your country burn down, it’s time to stop arguing with those of us telling you there isn’t one and instead join us in our increasingly fevered calls for a more aggressive fight.Fight or lose. Now.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 24, 2019
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
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It probably is time for people to start calling their congresspeople.
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
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He’s not wrong. We have a limited window to stop this shit. And we must address it soon.
re: #18 austin_blue
He’s not wrong. We have a limited window to stop this shit. And we must address it soon.
I hope the “just trust Mueller/Pelosi” types snap out of their silliness and pay attention to how the Puerto Ricans got it done (Hong Kong too…hell, even the anti-Boris-Johnson protests).
re: #14 A Mom Anon
Who will replace him? I hope it’s someone who gives a damn.
In accordance with Puerto Rico’s constitution, the successor is the head of the Department of State. He resigned over the same scandal a few days ago.
Next in line is the head of the Department of Justice, Wanda Vázquez Garced. She will become Puerto Rico’s first woman governor.
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
People need to be in the streets striking for the Republic as they have done in San Juan. Puerto Ricans are showing how it’s done.
People with Democratic representatives and senators need to be burning up the phones to their representatives; if you can’t get through, call their local offices. (My rep and senators have my phone number blocked or something because I get disconnected.)
THIS - this right here is how you counter garbage bothsides media and garbage bad-faith GOPers:
“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?” pic.twitter.com/I3lWBI1bly
— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) July 25, 2019
Jesus, forgive me for ever being a Republican.
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) July 24, 2019
No, Joe. You helped create this. The fact that you have since developed a conscience doesn’t shield you from the consequences. Welcome to life for the rest of us.
— The Ghost Rat 🐀 (a Marginally Stable Genius) (@The_Ghost_Rat) July 24, 2019
re: #1 Belafon
This is funny, dailykos.com. When Trump showed up at Turning Point USA, someone put up the presidential seal, but modified it to give the eagle two heads and a set of golf clubs.
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Oh what an awesome troll.
re: #19 Interesting Times
I hope the “just trust Mueller/Pelosi” types snap out of their silliness and pay attention to how the Puerto Ricans got it done (Hong Kong too…hell, even the anti-Boris-Johnson protests).
Pretty simple isn’t it? Starting an impeachment investigation does not mean that the Drumpf will be impeached. It just means that the Congress is doing it’s duty, based on the Mueller Report, to determine if high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed by this President and referring those results to the Senate.
That is the purview of the House. That is their job. Based on what we know, that is what they should do. The President has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, should be impeached by the House, the case should be referred to the Senate, and should be judged by John Roberts before a vote by the Senate.
Let the Senate decide
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
He has a bit more to atone for than just “being a Republican”. He treated this crap and so much more like entertainment. Because he’s rich and this shit won’t touch him.
— Alisha 🧀✌🌊🤘🌊 (@Cptnrwrpnts) July 24, 2019
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
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I’ve seen more than one pundit tweet that this hearing should have happened months ago, when the Report was still fresh in the minds of the public and national attention was upon its findings. Yet it didn’t happen because senior Dems worried if they were forced to subpoena Mueller, he’d either refuse to show up or he would show up but be totally uncooperative. Well, they finally did subpoena him and (surprise, surprise) the Bob Mueller who showed up seemed to radiate exasperation with the spectacle he was put through. Whatever value there was in this hearing was severely compromised by weeks of dithering and foot-dragging.
re: #24 William Lewis
Oh what an awesome troll.
E pluribus unum in the seal was replaced with “45 ES UN TITERE” (45 is a puppet)
re: #24 William Lewis
From a comment over at Daily Kos:
Notable is that the Secret Service members present- whose very job is to be alert and notice every detail of the surroundings of the president- said nothing. These incredibly dedicated women and men must be chafing at the fact that their charge is such a pathetic human being that routinely defiles the spirit of the office they are sworn to protect.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹
Uh oh, that call came from inside the house, lol.
1:36 AM AST in San Juan.
No police out with tear gas tonight as the party continues in the streets in front of La Fortaleza.
Well, I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Cari Wade Gervin — a longtime political reporter who covers Tennessee news, politics and gossip site The Dog and Pony Show — has accused 59-year-old Tennessee state Rep. Bill Sanderson of “openly soliciting sex” and sending “sexually explicit messages and pictures to men almost 40 years his junior” while voting repeatedly in favor of anti-LGBTQ legislation.
Sanderson resigned today. He says he’s resigning to run his business, White Squirrel Winery, but Gervin claims that his resignation was partly in response to the revealing of his same-sex encounters.
I can see this image is gonna be getting a lot of use.
re: #34 Dr Lizardo
Well, I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
I can see this image is gonna be getting a lot of use.
So would the gif of a projector if I had one to post.
re: #28 Decatur Deb
That should be a real cliffhanger.
It would put them at great threat in purple states.
re: #25 austin_blue
Pretty simple isn’t it? Starting an impeachment investigation does not mean that the Drumpf will be impeached. It just means that the Congress is doing it’s duty, based on the Mueller Report, to determine if high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed by this President and referring those results to the Senate.
That is the purview of the House. That is their job. Based on what we know, that is what they should do. The President has committed high crimes and misdemeanors, should be impeached by the House, the case should be referred to the Senate, and should be judged by John Roberts before a vote by the Senate.
Let the Senate decide
Yep, because, as we all know, the media won’t help Trump turn a non-conviction into a vindication. Or Democrats won’t turn on the House for not getting an impeachment.
I still remember Democrats complaining about how Democrats failed to get the Senate last year, when it wasn’t even considered a possibility before the election.
If Democrats really want this, there needs to be constant protests.
re: #36 austin_blue
It would put them at great threat in purple states.
So will getting our shit together and hitting the bricks. These GOP clowns are all on record for their blind support. Their chance to scrape off the Trump is long past.
re: #29 Targetpractice
I’ve seen more than one pundit tweet that this hearing should have happened months ago, when the Report was still fresh in the minds of the public and national attention was upon its findings. Yet it didn’t happen because senior Dems worried if they were forced to subpoena Mueller, he’d either refuse to show up or he would show up but be totally uncooperative. Well, they finally did subpoena him and (surprise, surprise) the Bob Mueller who showed up seemed to radiate exasperation with the spectacle he was put through. Whatever value there was in this hearing was severely compromised by weeks of dithering and foot-dragging.
And that’s it right there. Why do anything when Democrats are going to go after Democrats and Republicans are going to go after Democrats.
It took so long because Mueller didn’t want to do the meeting in public. And dragging the head of the investigation in would have been a disaster.
re: #36 austin_blue
It would put them at great threat in purple states.
Did you see the snap poll WFAA put up? It’s not scientific, just more of an indicator of who is interested enough to respond, but 2/3 of the respondents said it was time to move on vs 1/3 who wanted impeachment.
re: #39 Belafon
And that’s it right there. Why do anything when Democrats are going to go after Democrats and Republicans are going to go after Democrats.
It took so long because Mueller didn’t want to do the meeting in public. And dragging the head of the investigation in would have been a disaster.
So instead we dragged him in months later, and we’re now sitting around trying to argue that even though it was a total shitshow, we at least got a few soundbytes that would have been useful three months ago.
President Donald Trump, his company and three of his children must face a class-action lawsuit in which people claim they were scammed into spending money on fraudulent, multilevel marketing ventures and a dubious live-seminar program.U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan ruled Wednesday that the case can go forward with claims of fraud, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices. The decision likely opens the door for the plaintiffs to start gathering evidence from Trump and his company, including documents and testimony.
Schofield also dismissed federal racketeering claims, eliminating allegations that could have netted triple damages for the plaintiffs.
A group of four people claims the Trumps ripped off thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs by promoting two bogus multilevel marketing ventures and the live-seminar program that promised to teach Trump’s “secrets to success” in real estate.
re: #40 Belafon
Did you see the snap poll WFAA put up? It’s not scientific, just more of an indicator of who is interested enough to respond, but 2/3 of the respondents said it was time to move on vs 1/3 who wanted impeachment.
No wonder, when we all but forfeited months ago when we decided that “He’s not worth it” was a brilliant jab at Donny’s ego rather than Congress forgoing their duty to avoid political fallout.
re: #40 Belafon
Did you see the snap poll WFAA put up? It’s not scientific, just more of an indicator of who is interested enough to respond, but 2/3 of the respondents said it was time to move on vs 1/3 who wanted impeachment.
Because people tuned in expecting Judgement at Nuremberg and they were given Rashomon.
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We in this Government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves. That work begins now pic.twitter.com/Nqd8SdBDAR
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) July 24, 2019
Indeed, Boris Johnson. “The buck stops here” as you say.
You are responsible for Brexit - and will go down with it.— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) July 24, 2019
It really says something of these hearings that one of the biggest moments…was when a Repub fucked up and walked himself into getting Mueller to say aloud that Donny could be charged after he leaves office.
I’m confused… is this an argument for or against intelligent design? https://t.co/s94vmhG1Ai
— Paulogia, Internet Infidel 🎃 (@paulogia0) July 25, 2019
re: #37 Belafon
Yep, because, as we all know, the media won’t help Trump turn a non-conviction into a vindication. Or Democrats won’t turn on the House for not getting an impeachment.
I still remember Democrats complaining about how Democrats failed to get the Senate last year, when it wasn’t even considered a possibility before the election.
If Democrats really want this, there needs to be constant protests.
Pollsters I saw indicated we had less of a chance to flip the House than we did the Senate.
re: #37 Belafon
Yep, because, as we all know, the media won’t help Trump turn a non-conviction into a vindication. Or Democrats won’t turn on the House for not getting an impeachment.
I still remember Democrats complaining about how Democrats failed to get the Senate last year, when it wasn’t even considered a possibility before the election.
If Democrats really want this, there needs to be constant protests.
The media will make just as much money tearing down a President as they can building one up. All they care about is money. If the public tide turns against Trump, they’ll be all-in on skimming from that gravy.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Paulogia suggested to my wife for our Yukon trip we stop at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Dunheller, Alberta, for it’s terrific display of dinosaurs and mammals found in the area.
+1 for the Paulogia tweet.
re: #37 Belafon
Yep, because, as we all know, the media won’t help Trump turn a non-conviction into a vindication. Or Democrats won’t turn on the House for not getting an impeachment.
I still remember Democrats complaining about how Democrats failed to get the Senate last year, when it wasn’t even considered a possibility before the election.
If Democrats really want this, there needs to be constant protests.
I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. If the Democrats vote to impeach, in, say, January, the Senate will have to hold a trial in February or March, based on precedent.
Of course, The Turtle could try to extend that timeline and appeal it to the Supreme Court, but in any case, the Senate will have to vote before the next election.
And I am done for today, dear friends. Tapped out on the News Of The Weird. Which is what we live with every single fucking day.
It’s the new normal, and I need my rest. Let’s revisit the world tomorrow, where an idiot is the new PM in the UK and there will will be a tweet storm in the morning while Drumpf sits on his toilet watching Faux News.
re: #40 Belafon
Did you see the snap poll WFAA put up? It’s not scientific, just more of an indicator of who is interested enough to respond, but 2/3 of the respondents said it was time to move on vs 1/3 who wanted impeachment.
Early days.
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re: #40 Belafon
Did you see the snap poll WFAA put up? It’s not scientific, just more of an indicator of who is interested enough to respond, but 2/3 of the respondents said it was time to move on vs 1/3 who wanted impeachment.
Unless the poll involves a scientifically selected random sample of respondents, it is worthless. If this is one of those polls with self-selected respondents, it’s meaningless.
Responding to a lying eighteen-second video tweet by Donald Trump:
40 million seized. It ran at a profit without scamming anybody or breaking laws. You should try that.
— Lulz4l1f3 (@Lulz4l1f3) July 25, 2019
Agriculture not taking enough of a hit from Trump’s tariffs, Mother Nature weighs in to hammer eastern Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle even further.
Irrigation tunnel collapse in Goshen County puts crops in jeopardy (Goes to the Casper, Wyo. Tribune-Eagle).
TL;DR version:
An irrigation tunnel collapsed in Goshen Co., Wyo. That caused water to back up in the canal, overtopping the banks and flooding eastern Wyoming farmland.
In addition, since no water can get through the tunnel, on the other side of it, 53,000 acres of Wyoming farmland and 55,000 acres of Nebraska farmland can get no water.
Governor Mark Gordon (R) of Wyoming met with engineers, water district managers from Ft. Laramie-Gering (Nebr) and Goshen districts, and others dependent on the irrigation system. (It stretches eighty-five miles through Wyoming and forty-five through Nebraska.)
Engineers say it will take two to four weeks to restore irrigation water beyond the collapsed tunnel, but right now is peak irrigation season. The tunnel is 14x14 feet and 100 feet below ground.
re: #52 i(m)p(each)sos
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Once again, the press telling us how the rich are suffering.
They’re Not Middle Class, They’re Well-Off, and That Should Worry You
John Scalzi commenting on a New York Times piece entitled “What Middle Class Families Want Politicians to Know”
First, the NYT skews “middle class” near the top end of the income scale for their interviewees.
The New York Times last week ran a piece called What Middle-Class Families Want Politicians to Know, which featured interviews from a number of Americans, discussing their economic concerns and fears. The thing is, the large majority of the households represented in the piece have a six-figure income; while there is one fellow whose reported household income is $75k - $100k annually, the rest have incomes between $120k and $400k.
And, well. In terms of income, “middle class” has a specific meaning (at least, it does to Pew Research, whose definition I’m using here): It means you earn between 67% and 200% of median household income. In the US nationally, that’s between about $40k and $120k a year — which means that nationally speaking, all but one of the “middle class” households in this piece aren’t middle class at all, they’re above that. In specific cities and areas, that “middle class” range moves, sometimes considerably — for example, in super-expensive San Francisco, “middle class household income” is $67k to $200k, whereas in rural Darke County, Ohio, where I live, that range would be between $33.5K and $100k.
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re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
The internets tell me that less than 10% of households have that income level.
Last year:
Me: “I’m gonna buy this laptop so I have something to play games on during the boring nights at work.”
Now:
Me: “I CAN’T PLAY GAMES BECAUSE SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!”
re: #59 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
The internets tell me that less than 10% of households have that income level.
I don’t have 10% of the $400,000 some people claimed. Everything I own is probably worth less than $40,000.
Millionaire John McAfee arrested in Dominican Republic. https://t.co/lGNnG2PptN pic.twitter.com/xveJVd7bpa
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 24, 2019
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹
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No doubt covered in his own shit and babbling about how Martians are monitoring his thoughts through the fillings in his teeth.
/
A bit of an economic paradox going on here in Czech Republic - consumer confidence is still running fairly high, while simultaneously, business confidence is the weakest it’s been since the middle of 2014; Confidence in industry is pretty much unchanged, but still at a six-year low.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For the same reason your ear hole was not designed to have a penis shoved into it.
It was widely regarded that, in order to preserve her perpetual virginity, The Holy Virgin Mary was impregnated through her ear.
And had a hatch in her belly from which the Christ Child sprang forth.
So God must have been behind those design modifications.
re: #65 Dr Lizardo
A bit of an economic paradox going on here in Czech Republic - consumer confidence is still running fairly high, while simultaneously, business confidence is the weakest it’s been since the middle of 2014; Confidence in industry is pretty much unchanged, but still at a six-year low.
Business is still pondering the effects of Brexit and the upcoming retirement of Angela Merkel. Right now, Germany does not look like it can put together a viable coalition without involving either the right-wing populist AfD or the left-wing populist Die Linken party.
re: #37 Belafon
Yep, because, as we all know, the media won’t help Trump turn a non-conviction into a vindication. Or Democrats won’t turn on the House for not getting an impeachment.
I still remember Democrats complaining about how Democrats failed to get the Senate last year, when it wasn’t even considered a possibility before the election.
If Democrats really want this, there needs to be constant protests.
If they managed to turn the inherently damning Mueller report into “total exoneration”, just imagine how an impeachment without conviction will be spun…
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Business is still pondering the effects of Brexit and the upcoming retirement of Angela Merkel. Right now, Germany does not look like it can put together a viable coalition without involving either the right-wing populist AfD or the left-wing populist Die Linken party.
Yeesh. That’s like hearing, “So, for lunch this afternoon, you have two choices: a shit sandwich with a side of coleslaw or a turd sandwich with a side of fries.”
re: #69 Dr Lizardo
Yeesh. That’s like hearing, “So, for lunch this afternoon, you have two choices: a shit sandwich with a side of coleslaw or a turd sandwich with a side of fries.”
Germany always had the fallback position of a Grand Coalition of the two centrist parties, the Christian Democrats and the Socialists, but now they are not likely to gain a majority. The Liberal Democrats will not work with the Greens and the two fringe parties are still political pariahs, at least at federal level.
Basically the GOP is A OK with their crimes right out in the open.
re: #71 Amory Blaine
Basically the GOP is A OK with their crimes right out in the open.
Murder on 5th Avenue in broad daylight.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they managed to turn the inherently damning Mueller report into “total exoneration”, just imagine how an impeachment without conviction will be spun…
Would that be better or worse than his going out on the stage and declaring that if the Dems had something on him, if Nancy could prove he’d broken the law, then they’d have impeached him by now? That the fact that they haven’t shows that he’s right, they’re wrong, and he’s done nothing criminal?
re: #73 Targetpractice
Would that be better or worse than his going out on the stage and declaring that if the Dems had something on him, if Nancy could prove he’d broken the law, then they’d have impeached him by now? That the fact that they haven’t shows that he’s right, they’re wrong, and he’s done nothing criminal?
again, in a rational world, we would not need a Mueller report, there are enough blatant violations of the Emoluments Clause and obvious conflicts of interest to remove him from office
the political will is lacking
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again, in a rational world, we would not need a Mueller report, there are enough blatant violations of the Emoluments Clause and obvious conflicts of interest to remove him from office
the political will is lacking
I agree the will is lacking, though I imagine I disagree on which side. There’s a strong case to be made for the man’s removal from office and it’s not really being made, it’s being drug along like an unwanted puppy by a party that thinks it doesn’t need the damned thing to begin with. That it can win next year on “the issues,” as though both parties are just disagreeing on how to achieve the same goals when the reality is the other party is trying to clear the way for America’s first dictator.
I, for one, can’t think of a better way to oppose Trump than to whine interminably on the internet about congressional Democrats.
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Can you?
re: #77 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
I, for one, can’t think of a better way to oppose Trump than to whine interminably on the internet about congressional Democrats.
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Can you?
You mean those left-veering totally disarrayed Democrats?
Can’t talk about that enough.
And I hear that AOC sampled some grapes in the produce section and then DID NOT EVEN BUY ANY!!!
What’s up with Epstein? Is this a ploy on his part so he can do an El Chapo and tunnel out of the hospital?
re: #77 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
I, for one, can’t think of a better way to oppose Trump than to whine interminably on the internet about congressional Democrats.
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Can you?
re: #77 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
I, for one, can’t think of a better way to oppose Trump than to whine interminably on the internet about congressional Democrats.
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Can you?
At this point I don’t recall the context or who was involved— it was so long ago — but I remember some talk during Nixon’s time that Agnew was his secret weapon against removal from office because if there was one thing that everyone agreed on — no one wanted Agnew as President. But once Agnew was replaced by Ford, this concern vanished.
re: #81 Hecuba’s daughter
At this point I don’t recall the context or who was involved— it was so long ago — but I remember some talk during Nixon’s time that Agnew was his secret weapon against removal from office because if there was one thing that everyone agreed on — no one wanted Agnew as President. But once Agnew was replaced by Ford, this concern vanished.
The thought of President Mike Pence is also enough to give one pause
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The thought of President Mike Pence is also enough to give one pause
The argument that others have made is that Pence doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, though his policies would probably be worse. Indeed, Trump’s domestic policies are standard Republican policies. Pence would not personally be a dictator or enrich himself at the public expense (probably) but his court appointments would in effect continue supporting new Jim Crow laws that would keep Republicans in office for the indefinite future. The question is whether the suburban Republican women would return to the Republican party if the face of the party is a boring theocrat like Pence instead of a raving misogynist and racist like Trump.
re: #83 Hecuba’s daughter
The argument that others have made is that Pence doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, though his policies would probably be worse. Indeed, Trump’s domestic policies are standard Republican policies. Pence would not personally be a dictator or enrich himself at the public expense (probably) but his court appointments would in effect continue supporting new Jim Crow laws that would keep Republicans in office for the indefinite future. The question is whether the suburban Republican women would return to the Republican party if the face of the party is a boring theocrat like Pence instead of a raving misogynist and racist like Trump.
He would certainly nail down the Fundamentalist “family values” (as in homophobic, patriarchal and anti-abortion/contraception) constituency, but the truly deplorable sick fucks who make up the hard-core of the GOP core supporters would not be as moved to vote for him.
Back during a more idyllic time.
This is both horrifying and amazing pic.twitter.com/ZWtc2P6uIW
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 24, 2019
re: #85 teleskiguy
Every one of the dancers in that skit hate that shit muffin now. They’re also the best part of the skit.
ObserverArt needs a sendoff page, a memorial. I thought of doing it but I don’t know how.
I forgot how good this is. https://t.co/aPGUPt9btV
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 25, 2019
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He would certainly nail down the Fundamentalist “family values” (as in homophobic, patriarchal and anti-abortion/contraception) constituency, but the truly deplorable sick fucks who make up the hard-core of the GOP core supporters would not be as moved to vote for him.
A very large part of the electorate would like to be bored right now.
The valley was getting *crushed* by snow at that time. For the first time since they opened the boundaries (2000) they closed the backcountry due to extreme avalanche danger. They were getting one to two feet of snow every day for almost two weeks.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 25, 2019
It was also crowded. First winter that Jackson Hole was a part of the Ikon Pass. Half hour tram lines were not uncommon.
What am I trying to say here? I don’t know.
Skiing is the most fun.— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 25, 2019
And here’s me standing in one of those half-hour tram lines, working on the snow beard.
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re: #88 teleskiguy
Disturbed: Sounds of Silence
I am happy whenever they cover an old classic tune like that, means i can dust it off and put it back in my repertoire
He’s watching TV.
“Yesterday changed everything, it really did clear the President. He wins.” @ainsleyearhardt “It changed everything in favor of the President, who said all along this investigation is rooted in nothing. Mueller was exposed as being best friends with Comey. Today, you say…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2019
…impeachment, you have a Party of one. It’s over.” @kilmeade “Nancy said, Jerry, please sit down. Very bad idea. We discovered that after putting so much time & energy into the Mueller Report, it turns out Mueller didn’t know what was in his Report.” @SteveDoocy @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2019
re: #92 teleskiguy
We discovered that after putting so much time & energy into the Mueller Report, it turns out Mueller didn’t know what was in his Report.”
You never read his report, nor did most members of your party.
Hey, there are way better sources of information than fucking @FoxNews, like, the entire United States intelligence apparatus and The Pentagon. Instead, you watch fucking TV. You’re dumber than a box of shit.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 25, 2019
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
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We have kids in cages, Trump’s openly racist attacks on 4 Congresswomen and his ongoing criminality and confirmed obstruction of Justice. People are either aware of this or not paying attention. So Trump’s increase in approval doesn’t suggest a problem with Democratic politicians, it suggests a problem with the American people.
It’s denial. Everyone wants to go on pretending that America isn’t full of racist, fascist fuckwits and their allies the “I don’t really care, do you” demographic. All the “if Democratic politicians had only done X at exactly time Y then all those invisible, decent Americans would be demanding Trump’s immediate removal from office” whining is just an exercise in gaslighting ourselves. Decent people who aren’t in self imposed comas would already want Trump removed.
But impeachment proceedings… Apparently, nobody paid attention to yesterday, because that’s exactly what they’d look like. Democrats or their surrogates would be asking serious questions, Republicans would be conspiracy theory firehoses and the media would declare the Republicans winners because facts are boring, but Gym Jordan tearing off his shirt and smearing himself in monkey feces and bear urine is TV gold.
re: #95 Weaselone
But impeachment proceedings… Apparently, nobody paid attention to yesterday, because that’s exactly what they’d look like. Democrats or their surrogates would be asking serious questions, Republicans would be conspiracy theory firehoses and the media would declare the Republicans winners because facts are boring, but Gym Jordan tearing off his shirt and smearing himself in monkey feces and bear urine is TV gold.
That is the level of politics that is appropriate for a former reality TV star and WWF host…
re: #94 teleskiguy
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He watches FNC because they tell him what he wants to hear. It’s a nice scam.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What’s up with Epstein? Is this a ploy on his part so he can do an El Chapo and tunnel out of the hospital?
Hard to say - he could well have been assaulted by another inmate. Kiddie fiddlers aren’t all that popular with the prison population.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
Scarborough and his sidekick also fraternized with Trump during his 2015/16 presidential campaign despite his racism, bullying and obvious lack of qualifications. Never forget that.
A 16 y.o Guatemalan boy died of flu without medical attention while in CPB custody. A U. S. citizen teenager lost 26 lbs in 23 days while in CPB custody because he had brown skin so they hoped without evidence that his papers might be forgerys so they could deport him. The US is now a fascist state.
re: #19 Interesting Times
I hope the “just trust Mueller/Pelosi” types snap out of their silliness and pay attention to how the Puerto Ricans got it done (Hong Kong too…hell, even the anti-Boris-Johnson protests).
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹
People need to be in the streets striking for the Republic as they have done in San Juan. Puerto Ricans are showing how it’s done.
People with Democratic representatives and senators need to be burning up the phones to their representatives; if you can’t get through, call their local offices. (My rep and senators have my phone number blocked or something because I get disconnected.)
Here’s my worry about this all: The number of Puerto Ricans protesting relative to their total population was astronomical, but on top of that, it was a very well self contained demonstration just by the general size of PR itself.
Meanwhile, look at the large scale protests we’ve had in the US, city by city and across the entire country….and look how massively they fizzled despite the numbers. Even with the total numbers both in each city and total nationwide, they couldn’t come close to the amount of participation per capita PR’s did. This is on top of the fact that media did its whole damnedest to ensure that not only the number of protesters was downplayed by factors of at least 100 (turning literal millions of protesters into mere ‘thousands’), but did their best to ensure that whatever message sent was diluted, either through amplifying agent provocateurs, but also through sheer misrepresentation and mockery of the actual message itself.
We’re still at the entire mercy of a media apparatus that will ensure that the rest of the country sees a sideshow, no matter how many hundreds of thousands crush DC with protests repeatedly.
TL;DR - PR’s size and collective shared suffering made these protests much harder to ignore than anything we could do, and the history of our mass protests have been at the whim of adversarial media per always.
re: #101 NO SMOCKING GUN!
A 16 y.o Guatemalan boy died of flu without medical attention while in ICE custody. A U. S. citizen teenager lost 26 lbs in 23 days while in CPB custody because he had brown skin so they hoped without evidence that his papers might be forgerys so they could deport him. The US is now a fascist state.
There needs to be trials for this.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
There needs to be trials for this.
No-one will be held accountable in Trump’s America. I hope there will be prosecutions of these monsters when he is gone.
re: #104 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No-one will be held accountable in Trump’s America. I hope there will be prosecutions of these monsters when he is gone.
It is going to be such a mess to clean up.
re: #104 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No-one will be held accountable in Trump’s America. I hope there will be prosecutions of these monsters when he is gone.
The Dems need to hang this around the GOP’s neck…the separations, the cages, the adopted kids who will never see their natural parents again…
re: #102 Citizen K
Here’s my worry about this all: The number of Puerto Ricans protesting relative to their total population was astronomical, but on top of that, it was a very well self contained demonstration just by the general size of PR itself.
Meanwhile, look at the large scale protests we’ve had in the US, city by city and across the entire country….and look how massively they fizzled despite the numbers. Even with the total numbers both in each city and total nationwide, they couldn’t come close to the amount of participation per capita PR’s did. This is on top of the fact that media did its whole damnedest to ensure that not only the number of protesters was downplayed by factors of at least 100 (turning literal millions of protesters into mere ‘thousands’), but did their best to ensure that whatever message sent was diluted, either through amplifying agent provocateurs, but also through sheer misrepresentation and mockery of the actual message itself.
We’re still at the entire mercy of a media apparatus that will ensure that the rest of the country sees a sideshow, no matter how many hundreds of thousands crush DC with protests repeatedly.
TL;DR - PR’s size and collective shared suffering made these protests much harder to ignore than anything we could do, and the history of our mass protests have been at the whim of adversarial media per always.
It takes years to develop a culture of effective demonstration, and even then an action can be turned. The civil rights and anti-war movements worked, but they had a lot of missteps until they got it right. This generation is at Year Zero, not even able to keep Black Bloc/Antifa ratfuckers from hijacking a peaceful demo. If that’s the way to go, it’s past time to find competent leaders and a coherent message.
Pelosi basically told Democrats to use the recess to get a feel if their constituents support impeachment, so now’s the time to make yourself heard on that. It’s actually you who can DO SOMETHING now.
— DSA DNC Caucus (@agraybee) July 24, 2019
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
The media punditry has weighed in on yesterday’s hearings, and they have given their judgment.
The NYT headline about a “halting delivery,” Chuck Todd’s thoughts on “optics,” reporters bemoaning the lack of fireworks, WaPo’s movie review of the hearing—this is how the media gave us Trump. It is *not* how they’d have covered this hearing if it happened in a foreign country. https://t.co/PRlOjNtPHz
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 25, 2019
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 25, 2019
Image… is everything.
Forget the substantive content and that Mueller indicated that Trump can be indicted for federal felonies Mueller identified in his report after leaving office.
Forget that Mueller indicated that but for the DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president that Trump could have been indicted.
It’s that Mueller wasn’t a compelling witness, which wasn’t true either.
Epstein taken to hospital after being found in cell unconscious. There’s no word on whether this was an assault or a suicide attempt.
Either way, the MCF oversight of Epstein was lacking - he should not have been allowed to be put in this position.
Of course, the conspiracy nuts are out - claiming that this was another Clinton hit (all of them uniformly ignoring that Trump has close ties to Epstein).
A longstanding conspiracy theory that Clinton is all powerful and can kill at will but yet she couldn’t use her deep state connections to stop Trump.
Or something like that.
Yeah, it’s as dumb as it sounds, which is why it has currency with right wing loons.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 25, 2019
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
I don’t necessarily think it’d happen, but what I’d like to see is something akin to the Nuremberg Trials combined with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Yeah I don’t either. Either way this is a dark chapter in our country’s history.
re: #109 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
The media punditry has weighed in on yesterday’s hearings, and they have given their judgment.
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Image… is everything.
Forget the substantive content and that Mueller indicated that Trump can be indicted for federal felonies Mueller identified in his report after leaving office.
Forget that Mueller indicated that but for the DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president that Trump could have been indicted.
It’s that Mueller wasn’t a compelling witness, which wasn’t true either.
The media wanted Mueller to be bombastic comic book cut out but they instead got an actual person.
It’s 55deg on the deck outside Austin, TX.
What fresh hell is this.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
Yeah I don’t either. Either way this is a dark chapter in our country’s history.
It could happen - if there’s the political will to carry it out.
With those many children who’ve been separated from their biological parents, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m seeing decades of lawsuits against the US government as a result of this bullshit. Judgements for the plaintiffs to the tune of billions of dollars.
re: #114 Dave In Austin
It’s warmer in Anchorage Alaska than where you are?! 56 v. 55.
Not that anyone in Trump’s team noticed before he took the photo?
That speaks volumes.
They are that dangerously inept.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 25, 2019
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
It could happen - if there’s the political will to carry it out.
With those many children who’ve been separated from their biological parents, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m seeing decades of lawsuits against the US government as a result of this bullshit. Judgements for the plaintiffs to the tune of billions of dollars.
And you know what, those lawsuits will be with merit
re: #117 lawhawk
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NBC News: Epstein may have staged attack or suicide attempt to get moved to different facility - source.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest that he was trying to manipulate the system to avoid consequences of his heinous conduct. I still think MCF needed to be watching him closer and have him in protective custody to prevent that kind of conduct. If he’s returned to MCF, he’ll need to be on suicide watch and handled accordingly. No contact with any other prisoners and make sure he doesn’t have anything that might allow him to attempt suicide.
re: #121 lawhawk
Like everything else about this fellow, it is all kind of hinky and suspicious and strewn with ulterior motives and machinations…
re: #111 lawhawk
Epstein taken to hospital after being found in cell unconscious. There’s no word on whether this was an assault or a suicide attempt.
Of course, the conspiracy nuts are out - claiming that this was another Clinton hit (all of them uniformly ignoring that Trump has close ties to Epstein).
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Yes Q is pushing that shit and the brainwashed Xtians are just spending it like wildfire
The engineers at the government contractor company I work for - who, btw, also don’t believe in climate change - still think most of the stuff Democrats are doing is just retribution for the way that acted about Obama. Far too many of them don’t care what Trump is doing because they don’t think it affects them. This not only goes for his emoluments violations but the concentration camps. John Ratcliffe won’t have to go home worrying about how impeachment polls.
re: #121 lawhawk
NBC News: Epstein may have staged attack or suicide attempt to get moved to different facility - source.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest that he was trying to manipulate the system to avoid consequences of his heinous conduct. I still think MCF needed to be watching him closer and have him in protective custody to prevent that kind of conduct. If he’s returned to MCF, he’ll need to be on suicide watch and handled accordingly. No contact with any other prisoners and make sure he doesn’t have anything that might allow him to attempt suicide.
He needs to be forced to wear one of those suicide outfits, basically a long padded tube with holes for the head and limbs.
re: #124 Belafon
The engineers at the government contractor company I work for - who, btw, also don’t believe in climate change - still think most of the stuff Democrats are doing is just retribution for the way that acted about Obama. Far too many of them don’t care what Trump is doing because they don’t think it affects them. This not only goes for his emoluments violations but the concentration camps. John Ratcliffe won’t have to go home worrying about how impeachment polls.
Half of the folks in my Social Security office are the same way. Pulpit Pimps recite Republican talking points every Sunday and sure enough I hear the same talking points on Monday. They worship the ground Trump walks on and really believe he’s God’s Anointed King.
Meanwhile positions are being eliminated in the region.
But we done got Jesus.
re: #124 Belafon
The engineers at the government contractor company I work for - who, btw, also don’t believe in climate change - still think most of the stuff Democrats are doing is just retribution for the way that acted about Obama. Far too many of them don’t care what Trump is doing because they don’t think it affects them. This not only goes for his emoluments violations but the concentration camps. John Ratcliffe won’t have to go home worrying about how impeachment polls.
How do we admit these everyday American, salt of the earth, diner loving white people are, in fact, bad?
The question that vexes the press.— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 18, 2019
(though I would quibble and say it’s the question the press gleefully, willfully ignores).
re: #127 Interesting Times
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(though I would quibble and say it’s the question the press gleefully, willfully ignores).
The problem is the media thinks those people are the default American. There is no default American.
Meanwhile the Cult Of The Fetus will stop at nothing to interfere with a woman’s right to choose.
A doctor who has said he invented a procedure to “reverse” abortion has for years falsely claimed an affiliation to a prestigious US medical school, the Guardian can reveal.
Dr George Delgado, the medical director of Culture of Life Family Services in San Diego, claims to have invented a “reversal”, in which women are given a large dose of progesterone following the first dose of a medicated abortion.
Delgado’s assertions about the “reversal” procedure have been denounced as “unproven and unethical” in a statement from America’s largest association of women’s doctors, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. His work has been described as an “unmonitored research experiment” in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Despite condemnation from the medical community, Delgado’s claims have been adopted by some Republican state legislators as part of a wider campaign to undermine women’s reproductive rights. North Dakota legislators recently passed a law forcing doctors to tell patients medication abortions are reversible, the fifth state to do so in 2019.
You have to go to the UK Guardian to read this since the Screw York Times is too busy kissing Trump’s ass.
re: #117 lawhawk
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re: #127 Interesting Times
I’m not sure it honestly even vexes them. They seem to take it at face value that these are the Americans who matter and the only Americans who matter.
— I Stand With Ilhan, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 25, 2019
re: #131 Citizen K
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Doesn’t vex the press at all since Presstitutes exploit and whip up racism for the RepubliKKKlans.
re: #127 Interesting Times
(though I would quibble and say it’s the question the press gleefully, willfully ignores).
Because a lot of them are part of the category they are defining.
I totally endorse this diary, angry at the press for how they covered the hearings: dailykos.com.
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
Here’s a closer look at that POTUS seal that someone trolled Trump with.
Brilliant.
Notice the little hammer and sickle emblems. The wad of money in the eagle’s claws.
Whomever did this is gonna be on someone’s shit list…..but that’s some godlike trolling and totally worth it.
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where was this seal used again?
re: #135 Belafon
I totally endorse this diary, angry at the press for how they covered the hearings: dailykos.com.
they covered it in a manner entirely fitting for the investigation of a reality show TV star and WWF host…a reminder that we have entered the New Media Reality
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
The motto is “45 is a puppet” :D
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
45 es un titere - 45 is a Yuge.
golf clubs and a wad of cash
double headed eagle
hammer and sickle on the shield.
That’s master-class trolling, and no one in Trumpworld noticed, let alone anyone at that event. It also appears to have more stars in the field than it should (but I could have miscounted).
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
where was this seal used again?
At a Turning Point USA shindig Trump went to speak out.
Here he is in front of the “seal”.
LOL
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
At a Turning Point USA shindig Trump went to speak out.
Here he is in front of the “seal”.
LOL
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It was specifically their Youth wing. And apparently Trump would have 100% approval rating if not for the media and the little cultists agreed with Dear Leader’s accessment.
re: #140 lawhawk
45 es un titere - 45 is a Yuge.
golf clubs and a wad of cash
double headed eagle
hammer and sickle on the shield.That’s master-class trolling, and no one in Trumpworld noticed, let alone anyone at that event. It also appears to have more stars in the field than it should (but I could have miscounted).
That’s the surprising thing - no one at all noticed this.
Imbeciles, the lot of them.
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
At a Turning Point USA shindig Trump went to speak out.
Here he is in front of the “seal”.
LOL
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And we know it’s not ‘shopped in afterward?
Who is marcusgorillius and why is he down-dinging Lawhawk? (see #117)
You were probably affected by the Equifax breach
👇
Get yourself $125https://t.co/bliEswAbqJ— Prof Dynarski (@dynarski) July 24, 2019
There’s a link to check to see if you’re affected by the settlement and whether you can claim either 4 years of credit monitoring or a one-time payment of $125. There’s a place to submit additional claims if you had your identity/information stolen and used.
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Watch the video: washingtonpost.com
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
And we know it’s not ‘shopped in afterward?
This article includes an actual photo taken at the event - the photo is credited to Jonathan Ernst of Reuters.
JUST IN: The Justice Dept. has instructed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reinstate the death penalty https://t.co/1SZwMQrS3s
— Axios (@axios) July 25, 2019
re: #149 lawhawk
JUST IN: The Justice Dept. has instructed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reinstate the death penalty
a pre-emptive move as they expect to run out of prison space when they crack down…
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Carousel was not available.
re: #149 lawhawk
How much more orgasmic does Trump feel he needs to make his base?
re: #153 Ming5000
How much more orgasmic does Trump feel he needs to make his base?
I think Trump would have public executions if he thought it would give him good ratings.
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
Here’s a closer look at that POTUS seal that someone trolled Trump with.
Brilliant.
Notice the little hammer and sickle emblems. The wad of money in the eagle’s claws.
Whomever did this is gonna be on someone’s shit list…..but that’s some godlike trolling and totally worth it.
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I think the motto on the scroll says “45 is a puppet.”
re: #146 lawhawk
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There’s a link to check to see if you’re affected by the settlement and whether you can claim either 4 years of credit monitoring or a one-time payment of $125. There’s a place to submit additional claims if you had your identity/information stolen and used.
I just did it. I also billed them for 2 hrs spent researching any fraud.
He’s also ordering the immediate execution of 5 inmates although I don’t know who.
Where is this lobby coming from?
re: #155 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I think the motto on the scroll says “45 is a puppet.”
Yep, in Spanish.
Someone put some serious effort into that prank. Kudos.
re: #149 lawhawk
The Cruelty Is The Point. Make America Cruel Again.
re: #160 Citizen K
The Cruelty Is The Point. Make America Cruel Again.
I can at least see the argument for “deterrence” when applied to adults (even though I do not agree with that approach) but it is totally unconscionable to subject children to such methods and conditions
The press spent years telling us that Mueller was a humble, serious, drama-free man who speaks carefully and always crosses his Ts and dots his Is. They then spent months telling us to expect no sparks from his testimony. Now, they’re ‘shocked’ that he was so boring.
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) July 25, 2019
re: #160 Citizen K
The Cruelty Is The Point. Make America Cruel Again.
Gotta get the populous acclimated to the killing of “undesirables”. That way when it is started on a massive scale it is not such a shock.
re: #146 lawhawk
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cool! I took the money. I’ve got two credit cards that are happy to tell me what my score is and whether anything fraudulent is happening. And sometimes they’re even right!
DOJ announced that the federal government is going to resume capital punishment, and AG Bill Bar has directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for five death-row inmates pic.twitter.com/7usR1jX2IG
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 25, 2019
re: #167 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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After a 20 year freeze.
It’s always a good look for us to go ‘Hey, about that deal about not killing people before? Forget it, we want blood’.
The long Nation Regression may have been decades in the making, but it’s amazing how fast the backslide in just 2 years has been.
re: #169 Citizen K
After a 20 year freeze.
It’s always a good look for us to go ‘Hey, about that deal about not killing people before? Forget it, we want blood’.
The long Nation Regression may have been decades in the making, but it’s amazing how fast the backslide in just 2 years has been.
They have to do as much damage as they can in the time allotted…
Well they all seem worthy of life without parole. These five aren’t going to get any sympathy from most people but I hear way too often “We can’t afford that” but we can this?
re: #16 Interesting Times
Finding it very, very hard to see evidence that he’s wrong :/
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Here’s what I tweeted to Nancy Pelosi:
You realize that Trump will be re-elected if you don’t impeach him, yes?
Because you’ve turned your back on all the people who gave Dems the majority in the hope that you’ll hold Trump accountable when the GOP won’t.
All those Dems who were excited to vote for U will stay home.— Hal Perry (@halperry) July 25, 2019
I am afraid that Trump’s re-election has been sealed. No matter who the Dem nominee is.
Even if Biden wins the nomination, who many think is the best chance to woo back those white working class voters who defected from Obama to Trump, because the base will abandon the Dems because Pelosi refuses to impeach Trump.
Pelosi is of that wing of moderate Democrats who came of political age in the 70’s and 80’s, when Democrats were being wiped out and to believe that Democrats had their best chance to be relevant by moving to the right (or appearing not to be too left wing). It’s almost a knee jerk reaction of hers to think that anything the progressive base wants it too radical and is going to alienate moderate or right leaning voters. In the past when Democrats have won the White House, enough of the base holds their nose and votes for Clinton or Obama, but then stays far away from the polls during the midterms to allow the “Republican Revolution” in 1994, or the Tea Party waves of 2010 and 2014, the latter two of which set the stage for Trumpism. In those midterms, the base was ignored on crucial issues like health care (Obama ditching the public option without ever really promoting it), and they’re being ignored now, and I fear this avoidance of impeaching Trump will have the same result.
re: #167 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
More deflection from Trump criminal misconduct.
Claim to be the law and order guy, while you’re breaking law and order daily.
Never mind that death penalty cases are far more costly than life incarceration without parole. We’ve repeatedly seen that defendants in death penalty cases have been exonerated of the crimes for which they were convicted. Racial discrimination also means that minorities are disproportionately convicted on death penalty cases. In a well known study out of PA, the odds of receiving the death penalty in Philadelphia increased by 38% when the accused was black.
re: #169 Citizen K
The federal lawsuits over not being able to get the necessary drugs are going to take a while.
re: #175 Belafon
The federal lawsuits over not being able to get the necessary drugs are going to take a while.
Bring back firing squads
re: #172 thecommodore
Did you also tweet this at the other hundred plus that didn’t vote for the impeachment resolution the other day?
There were only about a half-a-dozen Democrats that actually ran on impeaching Trump. The rest ran on local issues, such as health care. I can tell you Colin Allred never brought up impeachment because I’m in the viewing area he advertised in.
One down. How many more to go?
It’s very important to clarify that with Ricky’s resignation or impeachment protests won’t end. The corruption scheme involves a lot of government officials such as Wanda Vazquez, who’s next in line of succession. #WandaResign #WandaRenuncia
— Cole. Feminista Interseccional (@ColectivaUPR) July 24, 2019
re: #149 lawhawk
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Of course. State mandated murder is a joy to the GOP. They’ll even tell you so at the same time that they pretend to be “Pro-Life”. I have lots of issues with the Bishop of Rome, but this is not one of them.
re: #181 William Lewis
Of course. State mandated murder is a joy to the GOP. They’ll even tell you so at the same time that they pretend to be “Pro-Life”. I have lots of issues with the Bishop of Rome, but this is not one of them.
That is one thing I do appreciate Rome for too. Even Pope Benedict who was reactionary minded saw the DP for what it is.
re: #175 Belafon
The federal lawsuits over not being able to get the necessary drugs are going to take a while.
This presumes they’re not going to just cut out the middle man and do something like the return of Firing Squads.
Oh FFS….
NYT now just straight-up printing Trump tweets on the front page pic.twitter.com/Gp5K3ufzyM
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 25, 2019
Words cannot express my contempt for the New York Times.
re: #185 plansbandc
Words cannot express my contempt for the New York Times.
All the words that fit—can’t be printed.
re: #184 Citizen K
Oh FFS….
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Remember when this paper exposed the Pentagon Papers?
This morning, the Department of Justice announced they would resume capital punishment. Let me be clear: capital punishment is immoral and deeply flawed. Too many innocent people have been put to death. We need a national moratorium on the death penalty, not a resurrection.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 25, 2019
re: #189 The Pie Overlord!
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I’d love to see Trump who hasn’t tried a case in his life tell a former prosecutor she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
VB was banned from Twitter but this is trending:
The #ClintonBodyCount conspiracy was cooked up 25 years ago by an Indianapolis conspiracy peddler. An anti-LGBT Republican Rep (who died last week) spread her newsletter ravings through Congress. https://t.co/T4gAb5lQuc pic.twitter.com/sqF8leJffJ
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) July 25, 2019
re: #188 HappyWarrior
Remember when this paper exposed the Pentagon Papers?
I thought that was the Washington Post.
re: #183 Citizen K
This presumes they’re not going to just cut out the middle man and do something like the return of Firing Squads.
Hell, they will generate revenue by having people pay to take part in the firing squads (bring your own gun and ammo, naturally), and as audience…
re: #193 garzooma
I thought that was the Washington Post.
I thought it was a joint effort. Since wasn’t the Times sued by the Nixon administration?
re: #187 Teukka
Also, Re: Storming of Area 51, and why it is an exceedingly inexpedient idea:
This is a case where I would not be upset if a number of people got shot trying…
re: #191 plansbandc
Look at this gorgeous Buckeye butterfly!
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I saw the Curve-billed Thrasher chicks yesterday. There are still 3. Two have cute little feathers on their cute little wings, so they’re officially fledglings now. The third one, I could only see its beak, open, poking out from under the fledglings. Looked comfy, ready for lunch.
re: #199 wrenchwench
So cool! My birdie’s nest is in a neighbor’s cactus. I see him often. The kids are grown now. Never did see them, but I watched the parents bring some nice bugs to them.
re: #192 The Pie Overlord!
Lots of people talking about going after Clinton now that “Muller is done”. All on cue. And all talking about the “body count”.
Someone in a meeting I’m online with just used the phrase “out of our purview”. Wonder if they were listening yesterday.
re: #201 GlutenFreeJesus
Lots of people talking about going after Clinton now that “Muller is done”. All on cue. And all talking about the “body count”.
Done by people who praise Pinochet and the Argentine junta killing dissidents.
re: #202 Eventual Carrion
Someone in a meeting I’m online with just used the phrase “out of our purview”. Wonder if they were listening yesterday.
they probably mean that a certain program is out of their “pay purview” package
Robert Mueller was questioned for 7 hours yesterday, or about 6 hours longer than Trump has ever “worked” in a day.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 25, 2019
Daily example of how it always projection with Republicans.
A bitterly divided House Oversight Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to give Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) the authority to subpoena all White House work communications sent via email and personal cellphone.
…
Cummings had asked the administration about reports that some top White House officials — including President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — used personal email and encrypted applications to communicate. … Source: WaPo
re: #154 HappyWarrior
I think Trump would have public executions if he thought it would give him good ratings.
Wait until we’re closer to November 2020. He has to save something for the big close.
re: #188 HappyWarrior
Remember when this paper exposed the Pentagon Papers?
And remember when Judith Miller served as the cheerleader for the Iraq war? The NY Times has a very checkered history when it comes to promoting the truth.
re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter
And remember when Judith Miller served as the cheerleader for the Iraq war? The NY Times has a very checkered history when it comes to promoting the truth.
True, true.
re: #207 Skip Intro
Wait until we’re closer to November 2020. He has to save something for the big close.
Nothing would shock me with him.
re: #207 Skip Intro
Wait until we’re closer to November 2020. He has to save something for the big close.
He will shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue.
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
He will shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue.
Nah he wouldn’t get his hands dirty himself.
WTFITS
“lawmarkers” — Trump is having some trouble today pic.twitter.com/1DbImKL4RO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 25, 2019
A few hours after Mueller said this, Senate Republicans again blocked election security bills from passing. https://t.co/FfZHb4h4il https://t.co/Bx0ch2zv5l
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 25, 2019
re: #187 Teukka
Also, Re: Storming of Area 51, and why it is an exceedingly inexpedient.
Plz share.
I don’t suppose anyone has proposed storming a secret Russian facility.
re: #213 The Pie Overlord!
Another worship service for his military?
re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I don’t suppose anyone has proposed storming a secret Russian facility.
In USSR, Secret Russian Facility storm you!
re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I don’t suppose anyone has proposed storming a secret Russian facility.
No spoiling Stranger Things. :)
Lawhawk,
Thanks for the heads up on the Equifax thing. Much appreciated.
Today, @NAACP voted to move forward with a resolution to initiate @realDonaldTrump’s impeachment at the 110th #NAACPConvention. Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country. #WhenWeFightWeWin pic.twitter.com/LFg7Z8JDYO
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) July 23, 2019
One comment on the questioning of Mueller: When Mike Mansfield was Senate Majority Leader, the anchors on the Sunday morning talk shows always had to prepare many questions because he was infamous for confining his answers to “yes” and “no”. He did not elaborate when a single word response was available. Mueller seems to be cut from the same cloth.
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
One comment on the questioning of Mueller: When Mike Mansfield was Senate Majority Leader, the anchors on the Sunday morning talk shows always had to prepare many questions because he was infamous for confining his answers to “yes” and “no”. He did not elaborate when a single word response was available. Mueller seems to be cut from the same cloth.
That may as well have been 2 centuries ago. We’re in the reality show age of Trump now, and the media wants to be entertained.
re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I don’t suppose anyone has proposed storming a secret Russian facility.
Of course there was Mathias Rust who flew a Cessna 172 to Moscow from Helsinki… :D
re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter
One comment on the questioning of Mueller: When Mike Mansfield was Senate Majority Leader, the anchors on the Sunday morning talk shows always had to prepare many questions because he was infamous for confining his answers to “yes” and “no”. He did not elaborate when a single word response was available. Mueller seems to be cut from the same cloth.
The only thing I remember about Mike Mansfield is, on a test in jr. high, in the multiple choice under his name, I picked ‘baseball player’.
re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg
Lawhawk,
Thanks for the heads up on the Equifax thing. Much appreciated.
Agreed. Filed for myself and made my son file too. Might even have to tell the ex < whistles innocently >
Lre: #224 wrenchwench
The only thing I remember about Mike Mansfield is, on a test in jr. high, in the multiple choice under his name, I picked ‘baseball player’.
He was a good leader. Got the CRA 1964 passed.
At the end of the day, Muller is just another a Republican: willingly putting party and power before country.
His legacy is going to be that of the guy who had the best chance of preventing the US from becoming a dictatorship, but refused because he knows he’ll be safe from the damage Trump and the GOP are wreaking.
Seriously, eff him. He knows what Trump is doing and has basically become a human shruggie emoticon.
JFC I drive by the place where these were found at least several times a week.
Anti-semitic flyers posted in Birmingham, Royal Oak by neo-Nazi hate group https://t.co/j2k17Abs9M
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) July 25, 2019
re: #229 The Pie Overlord!
JFC I drive by the place where these were found at least several times a week.
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re: #228 Mattand
He’ll be right there with Comey who sandbagged Hillary’s campaign 13 days from the election.
There’s really no other explanation at this point.
Trump and his ilk enjoy watching others suffer and enjoy coming up with ever more fucked up ways to MAKE them suffer.
re: #164 HappyWarrior
Belated birthday present? So glad to hear this, Happy!
re: #233 CleverToad
Belated birthday present? So glad to hear this, Happy!
Yeah appears so. I’m so relieved.
re: #228 Mattand
At the end of the day, Muller is just another a Republican: willingly putting party and power before country.
His legacy is going to be that of the guy who had the best chance of preventing the US from becoming a dictatorship, but refused because he knows he’ll be safe from the damage Trump and the GOP are wreaking.
Seriously, eff him. He knows what Trump is doing and has basically become a human shruggie emoticon.
I take it you, like many, haven’t read his report.
Schumer calls for Senate to pass election security bill
McConnell objects: “Partisan legislation from the Democratic House of Representatives”
See you same time next week— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) July 25, 2019
re: #235 lawhawk
Zombieland 2 trailer dropped:
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NSFW for language and zombie guts flying….
According to imdb, Dan Ackroyd will play himself.
I could tell you yes, or no, but you’re already here questioning my integrity. Maybe look up the news for your own damn self? https://t.co/zd6FWJx9Jo
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 25, 2019
Why?
Why would Republicans block legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate lower drugs prices?
Particularly when the Republican President says that lowering drug prices is his priority?
I mean, unless they’re lying about their intentions. Again. https://t.co/fH47NXitrR— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 25, 2019
As a former poor kid I just wanted to share this.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #238 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
I take it you, like many, haven’t read his report.
I’ve picked through it.
Doesn’t change my view, though. Still amounts to be basically “Yeah, Trump’s doing all sorts of crazy shit, but whaddya want me to do about it?”
re: #245 Mattand
I’ve picked through it.
Doesn’t change my view, though. Still amounts to be basically “Yeah, Trump’s doing all sorts of crazy shit, but whaddya me to do about it?”
You mean besides the convictions and indictments he’s already gotten?
I’m still waffly on calling for impeachment because so many Democrats in the House aren’t committed, but Mueller did quite a bit, and has left the things to Congress that he had to leave. It is not his fault that he was operating under the control of the people who he was investigating. It’s not his fault that McConnell keeps blocking security bills.
Conservative group says it has no idea how a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol ended up behind Trump during his speech https://t.co/0fqx7jkawv
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 25, 2019
They know. Turning Point USA has always been Putin apologists.
re: #247 DodgerFan1988
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They know. Turning Point USA has always been Putin apologists.
Nah - this was some serious, god-tier trolling, possibly by the A/V crew TPUSA hired.
Here’s a better close-up:
re: #196 makeitstop
Post = Watergate, Pentagon Papers = NYT
Pentagon Papers was both; Ellsberg wasn’t sure if either paper could be intimidated out of publishing so he wanted to hedge his bets (also, if the administration caught wind of it and rushed into court for an injunction, maybe they’d be so busy with one they wouldn’t have noticed the other)
This is abominable.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 25, 2019
You’re no doubt going to say something to the Washington Post?
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 25, 2019
You’re literally a reporter who reports on stuff involving the President.
And you’re basically saying you’re not going to report on this because you personally don’t think it’s a big deal.— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) July 24, 2019
The sheer amount of blind self-assurance and superiority from her is galling, and sadly all too representative of the current culture of the NYT newsdesk. It’s just….holy fucking shit.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chuck Schumer
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@SenSchumer
Democrats on the Finance Committee just voted to let Medicare negotiate for better drug prices.But Republican opposition forced the amendment to fail.
I won’t stop fighting for this. 95% of Americans support this.
It’s time to side with patients, not
big pharmathe Republicans in the senate.
re: #202 Eventual Carrion
Someone in a meeting I’m online with just used the phrase “out of our purview”. Wonder if they were listening yesterday.
We will just keep it inside the four corners today.
Here is the full unedited clip with the context that Empty Shell Marco hates.https://t.co/QAq4EqTWUY
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 25, 2019