Are Trump’s typos secret messages? Are Hillary Clinton, Tom Hanks and Oprah eating children to live longer? Here’s everything you need to know about the QAnon conspiracy theories. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #QAnon
Who is Melania voting for on November 3?
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) August 26, 2020
This must just crush DD’s soul:
First Lady Melania Trump, endorsing the re-election of President Donald Trump: “Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 26, 2020
re: #3 Barefoot Grin
yeah, but we’re damned unlikely to get it from these lying fucks even if we put them on trial….
I will never let the Qers forget that they believed this horseshit.
We do deserve honesty in a President, Melania. That’s why we want your husband to pack his bags and get the fuck out.
Many reports now that militia started shooting at “rioters.”
3 shot now per PD scanner all at the ER, militia vs protesters. PD has two in custody. 1 still outstanding
— David Does News (@leowithblues) August 26, 2020
Reactionary conservatives are hellbent on destroying the Republic if they don’t get what they want. The RNC Has Made a Strong Case for America’s Imminent Collapse https://t.co/RlYEiXIvb3 via @intelligencer
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 26, 2020
re: #9 Dread Pirate Ron
Guarantee you that Kenosha PD will have encryption on their radios as soon as they can after this…
and the media won’t bitch of course.
Earlier, looks like fucking Baghdad, except the shooter is standing right in the street, which nobody in Baghdad was stupid enough to do.
MORE SHOTS FIRED IN #Kenosha its turning into a war zone.pic.twitter.com/ulFVHA4yWk
— Crisis Intel 🚨 (@Crisis_Intel) August 26, 2020
Thread. (Graphic)
BREAKING (THREAD): to put the shooting into context in reverse order from most recent video backwards of each clip that explains the story
CLIP 1: this is the victim who was shot with a wound of what appears out of the head right before he rushed out in a truck#KENOSHA pic.twitter.com/ZsRdzXXbGq— ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) August 26, 2020
Under the Trump Admin, I have every expectation the Black Lives movement will be *officially* declared a TERRORIST organization.
— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) November 11, 2016
Note the date of the tweet. I predict that sometime between now and Election Day this will happen.
re: #205 NetworkKed
Solitaire feeds you ADVERTISING? Holy fuck I hate this world.
You can do two things to avoid adverts:
a) Take the game off-line (then you can only play easy games)
b) $2 a month (but you can select other card backs)
Petri Mäkelä is a Finnish military blogger and former SOF operator.
Interesting, a new type of a Russian exercise. 50 helicopter mobile groups conducting counter insurgency/ SOF ops in Leningrad oblast and Kaliningrad. 1500 men combined.
This sort of a dispersed operation would be very useful in securing a country that isn’t resisting militarily https://t.co/AiSnq5Z2Dd— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) August 26, 2020
re: #13 teleskiguy
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Note the date of the tweet. I predict that sometime between now and Election Day this will happen.
Too bad for DT that there’s no way for him to do it. Now if they were a foreign group…
(And don’t tell us he can do it anyway. He tries, outcry ensues, he backs down and explains how he was never going to do any such thing.)
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You can do two things to avoid adverts:
a) Take the game off-line (then you can only play easy games)
b) $2 a month (but you can select other card backs)
c) Download your preferred solitaire game (often free).
In addition to Hurricane Laura, there are three tropical waves off the coast of Mexico, two of which are predicted to become depressions or storms within 48 hours.
Hurricane season is getting cranked up.
Soviet soldiers uniform? Interesting choice #Melanie Did Ivanka pick that out for you? pic.twitter.com/Q3JImPOiop
— SARA RESISTS (AMERICA OR Trump) (@Darslifemate) August 26, 2020
Agreed.
I hate when my name trends because of autocorrect changing #melania to #melanie
Melania is a birther. She just lied about how she obtained citizenship on national tv. But if you slut-shame her with modeling photos I’ll defend her every time. She’s trash, but not because of that.— Melanie Brooks (@melanie_brooks) August 26, 2020
I posted this post to my Facebook. I avoid politics there. I post mostly music, funny memes, pictures and videos of skiing, and the like. But QAnon is fucking dangerous. I’ll find out in the next day or so how many people in my friends list have brainworms.
Public Service Announcement: Being John Malkovich is streaming on Netflix.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 26, 2020
One of my favorite films.
re: #21 teleskiguy
I posted this post to my Facebook. I avoid politics there. I post mostly music, funny memes, pictures and videos of skiing, and the like. But QAnon is fucking dangerous. I’ll find out in the next day or so how many people in my friends list have brainworms.
Stand by on the block button, Ensign.
Don’t call it welfare though.
USDA announces more eligible commodities for Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, more at the link)
I’ll bet a large portion of these farmers and ranchers around the nation will vote for the same conservatives destroying their farms and ranches though. Plus, if a Democrat did this right before an election, Republicans and the press would be howling to the rafters about “pandering.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that additional commodities are covered by the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in response to public comments and data. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadline to apply for the program to September 11, and producers with approved applications will receive their final payment. After reviewing over 1,700 responses, even more farmers and ranchers will have the opportunity for assistance to help keep operations afloat during these tough times.
and
Specialty Crops - aloe leaves, bananas, batatas, bok choy, carambola (star fruit), cherimoya, chervil (french parsley), citron, curry leaves, daikon, dates, dill, donqua (winter melon), dragon fruit (red pitaya), endive, escarole, filberts, frisee, horseradish, kohlrabi, kumquats, leeks, mamey sapote, maple sap (for maple syrup), mesculin mix, microgreens, nectarines, parsley, persimmons, plantains, pomegranates, pummelos, pumpkins, rutabagas, shallots, tangelos, turnips/celeriac, turmeric, upland/winter cress, water cress, yautia/malanga, and yuca/cassava.
Non-Specialty Crops and Livestock - liquid eggs, frozen eggs and all sheep. Only lambs and yearlings (sheep less than two years old) were previously eligible.
Aquaculture - catfish, crawfish, largemouth bass and carp sold live as foodfish, hybrid striped bass, red drum, salmon, sturgeon, tilapia, trout, ornamental/tropical fish, and recreational sportfish.
Nursery Crops and Flowers - nursery crops and cut flowers.
Other changes to CFAP include:
Seven commodities - onions (green), pistachios, peppermint, spearmint, walnuts and watermelons - are now eligible for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability (CARES) Act funding for sales losses. Originally, these commodities were only eligible for payments on marketing adjustments.
Correcting payment rates for onions (green), pistachios, peppermint, spearmint, walnuts, and watermelons.
Omaha Police Department revises policy on mass arrests of protesters, mayor says (Omaha World-Herald)
They must now detail the specific crime before arresting a person.
The Omaha Police Department has revised its policy on arresting protesters after a controversial mass arrest and detention of more than 100 people during a peaceful protest in July.
“After there was a mass arrest of about 120 on the bridge (on) Farnam Street several weeks ago, I asked (Police) Chief (Todd) Schmaderer and he did really revise their policy for the police on mass arrests,” Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert said Tuesday.
(more)
There’s still time for him to speak at the RNC
— My Bloody Quarantine (@qirenni) August 26, 2020
Wyoming is predicting a $1.5 billion shortfall in revenue for the state, due to depressed travel and falling coal and oil sales due to the pandemic.
Mayors across the state urged lawmakers to consider an array of tax rises to straighten out the state budget.
The supermajority Republican legislature rejected every tax proposal,
I would note my village of 124 has more money in the bank than the Wyoming state capital (60,000).
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mayors across the state [of Wyoming] urged lawmakers to consider an array of tax rises to straighten out the state budget.
The supermajority Republican legislature rejected every tax proposal,
(60,000).
legalize pot and prostitution, it will bring in millions
Who could have predicted? Oh, anyone who isn’t part of the conservative faith.
A Sidney High School student was identified recently as positive with the COVID-19 virus.
The announcement was made in a press release issued by the Sidney School District 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18.
The press release states the Sidney Public Schools received confirmation of high school student positive with COVID-19. The press release says the student was last in the building on Monday, Aug. 17. Jessica Davies, Assistant Health Director and Wellness Coordinator of Panhandle Public Health District, said the student has been instructed to self-isolate for 10 days.
Sidney School Superintendent Jay Ehler this morning (Aug. 19) encouraged everyone to stay positive.
“As we work through this Pandemic and learn to manage the situations that come our way, it is important that we all maintain a caring and understanding attitude,” Ehler said in a written statement.
(more, goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph)
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sidney School Superintendent Jay Ehler this morning (Aug. 19) encouraged everyone to stay positive.
irony is dead, or at least on a respirator…
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
OK, is this like an Easter Egg or something? I’ve never noticed a person’s name turn green on mouse-over before.
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Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs
Flag Observances for September
There are a bunch
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
OK, is this like an Easter Egg or something? I’ve never noticed a person’s name turn green on mouse-over before.
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I never noticed that either, and it’s my name.
On my computer it shows in blue text rather than black text, because it links to one of my wife’s Websites (shameless plug for Cynics for a Better Tomorrow)
the emojis made it stand out more. I remember I’ve seen the green before. Was the good color contrast that caught my attention.
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
irony is dead, or at least on a respirator…
My wife: Irony needs a dose of hydroxychloroquine. That’ll fix it up.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife: Irony needs a dose of hydroxychloroquine. That’ll fix it up.
The Russians have developed a vaccine: Navalnine.
LOL, we’re turning into a house of vampires here. 3 AM and all four of us are awake.
re: #41 Dread Pirate Ron
LOL, we’re turning into a house of vampires here. 3 AM and all four of us are awake.
This is my normal time, but I’m getting ready for bed soon.
Hurricane Laura is becoming a dangerous hurricane.
Satellite data indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased
to near 110 mph (175 km/h) with higher gusts. Laura is forecast to
become a category 4 hurricane today, and is expected to be a major
hurricane at landfall. Rapid weakening is expected after Laura
makes landfall.Laura is becoming a large hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extend
outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center and tropical-storm-
force winds extend outward up to 175 miles (280 km).
BREAKING: Kenosha Police: 3 people shot, 2 fatally, during protests in Wisconsin over a Black man shot in the back by an officer. https://t.co/9yZm2dAWc8
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2020
re: #44 teleskiguy
Thread, three videos:
Cell phone video shows Kenosha Wisconsin police officers in an military vehicle telling armed White militia members they “appreciate them being there” and giving them bottled water; while in the background cops can be heard ordering protestors to disperse. pic.twitter.com/73SsfCUYWj
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) August 26, 2020
The police have been infiltrated by these people for some time nowhttps://t.co/oY42wIlTjN
— John Andreu (@JohnAndreu) August 26, 2020
“Call the police” was trending earlier on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, it was MAGAts pointing and laughing at dead protesters and jeering that they “should have thought about that” before demanding the police be “defunded.”
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s abundantly clear who the cops are siding with. And it’s sickening.
re: #47 Targetpractice
“Call the police” was trending earlier on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, it was MAGAts pointing and laughing at dead protesters and jeering that they “should have thought about that” before demanding the police be “defunded.”
Protesters are gonna need to start turning up armed to the teeth, just like the Boogaloos or the Proud Boys. It’s self-defense.
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Protesters are gonna need to start turning up armed to the teeth, just like the Boogaloos or the Proud Boys. It’s self-defense.
Lots and lots of rodent copulators in the thread trying to deflect to anything but armed anti-government libertarians.
I am a gun owner/operator. I understand armed self defense but the #KenoshaShooting suspect came into the city as an armed vigilante. His #boogaloo friends offered to defend “sectors” fm blacks. They needed to be disarmed and arrested by SWAT BEFORE an incident. https://t.co/FM7UhR4pkP
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) August 26, 2020
Hurricane #Laura Advisory 26: Laura Expected to Rapidly Strengthen to a Category 4 Hurricane. Forecast to Produce a Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Extreme Winds, and Flash Flooding Over Eastern Texas and Louisiana Later Today. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 26, 2020
Laura has turned into a classic major hurricane look:
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Protesters are gonna need to start turning up armed to the teeth, just like the Boogaloos or the Proud Boys. It’s self-defense.
A real bloodbath — that’s what will happen. The police will be delighted to shoot armed protesters and the public will support them. Police murdered Tamir Rice without consequences and murdered Philando Castile without consequences; they will certainly be able to kill armed protesters, especially those who are black, without any consequences. It won’t be treated as self-defense. The situations are not symmetric. The police are allied with Trump and this is what Trump wants to see. He’s been fomenting riots and is delighted with this distraction from his killing of 180,000 Americans.
The original civil rights movement succeeded in getting the CRA and the VRA because the violence was all on the side of the authorities. To get progress — it’s the police that have to be shown to be the ones clearly violating the law.
re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter
A real bloodbath — that’s what will happen. The police will be delighted to shoot armed protesters and the public will support them. Police murdered Tamir Rice without consequences and murdered Philando Castile without consequences; they will certainly be able to kill armed protesters, especially those who are black, without any consequences. It won’t be treated as self-defense. The situations are not symmetric. The police are allied with Trump and this is what Trump wants to see. He’s been fomenting riots and is delighted with this distraction from his killing of 180,000 Americans.
The original civil rights movement succeeded in getting the CRA and the VRA because the violence was all on the side of the authorities. To get progress — it’s the police that have to be shown to be the ones clearly violating the law.
The most powerful tool in the toolbox is the vote. The second-most powerful is to sue Kenosha, Wisc. into the ground. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Make the taxpayers bleed money for their police riot tonight.
Police departments which are out-of-control are most effectively controlled when the taxpayers get tired of funding multi-million dollar lawsuits.
Voters also need to be educated on never voting to approve general municipal bonds (which can be used to pay out police misconduct suits). All bonds must detail a specific purpose or be rejected.
When you make the taxpayers bleed enough money, they will reform the police by getting rid of spineless city councils which refuse to reform them.
Not a good thing to be in the Lake Charles or Beaumont area:
Incoming hot take from Tiger Beat on the Potomac:
Analysis: First lady Melania Trump restored a sense of normalcy Tuesday night, closing #RNC2020 Night 2 with a speech that was remarkable for its restraint and deliberate adherence to etiquette.
More takeaways from @TimAlberta 👇 https://t.co/VIY747dgB2— POLITICO (@politico) August 26, 2020
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I am a gun owner/operator. I understand armed self defense but the Kenosha Shooting suspect came into the city as an armed vigilante. His boogaloo friends offered to defend “sectors” from blacks. They needed to be disarmed and arrested by SWAT BEFORE an incident.
this has fuck all to do with any “well regulated militia”
re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looks like Laura is going to hit the same places as Rita hit 15 years ago.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
this has fuck all to do with any “well regulated militia”
Well, wingnuts have about a million excuses why the first clause of the II Amendment doesn’t really mean anything, such as:
Well-regulated means keeping a firearm in working order.
The first clause is an introductory clause which has no force (special pleading over all the other amendments)
Militias were traditionally groups of citizens who could muster with firearms (never mind in the early days of the nation militias were actually trained by states or the military)
Arms means firearms (never mind the XVIII Century definition of “arms” was an organised government military force, which is real inconvenient for so-called originalists)
re: #60 teleskiguy
Looks like Laura is going to hit the same places as Rita hit 15 years ago.
That said, the National Hurricane Center advises against focusing on the future track, because error increases the further out you predict.
A wobble of ten or twenty miles now will throw the hurricane well outside the strike cone. A wobble to the west will put it right over Houston.
Interestingly, there was a Black Lives Matter protest in Scottsbluff. There was no police riot, no violence from right-wingers, not even a counter-protest.
The protest organisers worked with both the Scott’s Bluff Sheriff’s Department and the Scottsbluff Police Department to give them the time and route, the aim of the protest, sought a parade permit from the City of Scottsbluff, had parade marshals on hand to ensure people stayed both on-message and on the prescribed protest route, invited the media (the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, local radio and television outlets, &c).
The protest march lasted about three hours with no property damage, violence, or arrests.
Meanwhile over in Omaha, protests over the killing of George Floyd had the police kettle 120 protestors on a bridge and arrest everyone.
I don’t get why some protests go well, with the protestors getting their message out, and others wind up with a police/right-wing/fascist riot.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t get why some protests go well, with the protestors getting their message out, and others wind up with a police/right-wing/fascist riot.
I think it depends heavily on the attitude of the local authorities.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming hot take from Tiger Beat on the Potomac:
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IOW, she read a prepared speech really well.
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it depends heavily on the attitude of the local authorities.
That could be. I don’t ever remember a protest march in Scottsbluff before.
The most unusual thing that ever occurred there since I moved here was the start of the annual Pride Day Picnic in Gering (which also gets police protection).
Despite every local politician in the area denouncing it (except me, I attend every year, though I don’t make a deal of it since Pride events aren’t about me), Gering and Scottsbluff seem pretty calm about it. (The organisers decided that for this area, a welcome-all picnic is a better display than a parade down Broadway in Scottsbluff.)
No wingnuts with guns, no protests from churches, none of that.
I refuse to listen to a word from Melania. I have to say I’m oddly triggered by her military cosplay outfit. I know she’s worn olive and camo stuff before, so it’s part of her regular wardrobe, but I can’t shake the feeling that is was a deliberate choice in the context of rising fascism in America.
The BBC’s take on area weather in Houston (they’re predicting thunderstorms in the next day or so) and area weather for North America in a video (including Hurricane Laura updates, 85 seconds).
One might even think that Melania’s pleasantness, etiquette and demeanor were intended an elbow-jab at all the other coked-up ranting bloviators at the convention
re: #68 Barefoot Grin
I refuse to listen to a word from Melania. I have to say I’m oddly triggered by her military cosplay outfit. I know she’s worn olive and camo stuff before, so it’s part of her regular wardrobe, but I can’t shake the feeling that is was a deliberate choice in the context of rising fascism in America.
It looks very much like a formal KGB uniform from the Soviet Union (minus the epaulets)
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It looks very much like a formal KGB uniform from the Soviet Union (minus the epaulets)
with the blood stains dry-cleaned out…
Another thing I’ve been pondering in my easily triggered mind is how in some ways the Louise Mensch crowd was a kind of version of Qanon (without the anon) for the left in 2016 and early 2017. I got suckered for a couple of weeks. But it wasn’t long before the bizarre stories they told were proven to be mostly fantasy with just enough plausibility to draw people not thinking rationally into the narrative of boxes of sealed indictments and Sergeant-at-Arms about to break down doors and haul people away. While most of us sobered up some and realized the scam it was, it left this fissure in which doubts about Russian involvement could be called a hoax and a lot of people then went to that extreme. We live in a bizarre world of constantly competing claims, some backed by evidence, many fueled by hope or confidence that what we want to be true is indeed true. I hate this world this morning. Getting to work today and focusing on that will be my true respite.
I’ll check back later today. TTFN.
And here in Sweden, the defence forces have increased readiness in response to the Russian Federation activities…
aftonbladet.se
re: #66 Targetpractice
IOW, she read a prepared speech really well.
In broken English really?
— Patti Rod (@pattirod55) August 26, 2020
I object to people dragging Mrs. Trump for her accent for the same reason I object to people dragging her for her modeling: Bigotry from the left is no better than bigotry from the right. I imagine she speaks the Slovene language a whole lot better than I do (I visited Slovenia once on a port visit to Trieste, Italy).
There are plenty of valid reasons to drag her than her accent or her photographs (both of which are legal).
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I object to people dragging Mrs. Trump for her accent for the same reason I object to people dragging her for her modeling: Bigotry from the left is no better than bigotry from the right. I imagine she speaks the Slovene language a whole lot better than I do (I visited Slovenia once on a port visit to Trieste, Italy).
There are plenty of valid reasons to drag her than her accent or her photographs (both of which are legal).
She should concentrate on her inspiring immigration story about how she came and worked here illegally as a nude model on a tourist visa and then had her family come and join her…
re: #73 Barefoot Grin
As soon as I first heard of Louise Mensch, I checked out her history. Being a former member of the UK Parliament as a Conservative Party member told me everything I needed to know; she could not be trusted. No matter what nation or time, a conservative’s goal is to gather power to subvert democracy, ever since Edmond Burke defined conservatism.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As soon as I first heard of Louise Mensch, I checked out her history. Being a former member of the UK Parliament as a Conservative Party member told me everything I needed to know; she could not be trusted. No matter what nation or time, a conservative’s goal is to gather power to subvert democracy, ever since Edmond Burke defined conservatism.
their idea of “democracy” goes back to the Hellenic ideal a democracy of male landowners.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I object to people dragging Mrs. Trump for her accent for the same reason I object to people dragging her for her modeling: Bigotry from the left is no better than bigotry from the right. I imagine she speaks the Slovene language a whole lot better than I do (I visited Slovenia once on a port visit to Trieste, Italy).
There are plenty of valid reasons to drag her than her accent or her photographs (both of which are legal).
Her accent really isn’t that bad, all things considered. Hell, at times she seems to have a better grip on the English language than Donny does. The problem is that she couldn’t be more a walking stereotype of a trophy wife if she tried.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah, I have no love or respect for a woman who married a racist bully while bizarrely claiming to focus on online bullying and who supported her husband’s birtherism. Wearing that “I don’t care, do you?” jacket while visiting separated migrant children was the last straw.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She should concentrate on her inspiring immigration story about how she came and worked here illegally as a nude model on a tourist visa and then had her family come and join her…
I don’t have any problem with the nude model part. It’s the immigration/unlawful work part I have a problem with (and the so-called chain migration of her family whilst the GOP condemns chain migration). Her father being a former Communist Party member in his native country should have invited close scrutiny before admittance.
My sister-in-law as a former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union took over a decade of scrutiny before she was permitted to become a citizen of the USA. (As an immunologist working for the Soviet government, membership in the CPSU was required.)
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
Yeah, I have no love or respect for a woman who married a racist bully while bizarrely claiming to focus on online bullying and who supported her husband’s birtherism. Wearing that “I don’t care, do you?” jacket while visiting separated migrant children was the last straw.
According to her spokeswoman yesterday, it’s not about bullying, it’s about “protecting kids on the Internet.” The difference (of course) is the former implies that giving her husband a pass as a cyber-bully looks bad, but the latter lets her continue to make excuses for why she doesn’t hold his saggy ass to a higher standard.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
their idea of “democracy” goes back to the Hellenic ideal a democracy of male landowners.
I’m good then. /s
A billion dollar lawsuit against the city ought to get the taxpayers’ attention.
What Kenosha police did to Jacob Blake was attempted murder. pic.twitter.com/Ezd49rvE3u
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 26, 2020
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Too bad the police union won’t be responsible for any judgments. It’s tax payers who fund these judgments for the cops’ misconduct.
Why do pandemic truthers think the people behind the whole “conspiracy” are trying to troll them with dozens of puzzles? 🤔 😂 pic.twitter.com/6LyLpDWp9l
— Stephen Punwasi (@StephenPunwasi) August 25, 2020
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming hot take from Tiger Beat on the Potomac:
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here’s a different take
Melania Trump Pushes Civility In Her RNC Speech, Praises Trash-Talking Husband
How can you be cancelled when you never were? This snaggletoothed racist clown only got the spotlight when he was horribly racist and abusive to an elder Native American. https://t.co/0MBFJMtaEq
— Bougier Than Thou (@ScottyBurberry) August 26, 2020
re: #23 GlutenFreeJesus
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This Proud Boy in Kenosha doesn’t even look old enough to be out after dark.
This dude seems to be the shooter. I’m from Milwaukee and they have been showing the shooting(s) video over and over. Same color shirt, backwards hat, etc,
Ezra Klein(vox): “The problem for Republicans is that the main thing Trump has told them to support is himself. There are no detailed policy proposals, much less a coherent ideology or set of governing principles. And so speech after speech followed the same template: How was America going to stop the coronavirus? By reelecting Donald Trump. How was it going to revive its economy? By reelecting Donald Trump. How was it going to ensure domestic harmony? By reelecting Donald Trump.”
“The contradiction at the heart of the convention, of course, is that Donald Trump is currently president. I’m dead serious. How would reelecting Trump resolve these crises that Trump has proven unable to resolve — and has, in many cases, worsened — in office? No one even took a shot at that Rubik’s cube. Instead, the speakers awkwardly talked around the fact of Trump’s incumbency. He was presented, strangely, as both incumbent and challenger; the man who had fixed America’s problems, but also the man needed to fix an America beset by more problems than ever
re: #90 Patricia Kayden
How can you be cancelled when you never were? This snaggletoothed racist clown only got the spotlight when he was horribly racist and abusive to an elder Native American.
They have no trouble with cancelling the abuses that took place under slavery: serial rape, beatings, family separation.
Nor do they have any trouble cancelling treason; seceding from and taking up arms against their own country, or in cancelling any memories of Jim Crow, segregation and lynchings.
Who is the “Cancel Culture” here?
re: #94 jeffreyw
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The cardinals here all look the same. The molt is on.
This is how low the bar is for some people in American political leadership and discourse… https://t.co/8UtLAowe7F
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) August 26, 2020
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Interestingly, there was a Black Lives Matter protest in Scottsbluff. There was no police riot, no violence from right-wingers, not even a counter-protest.
……I don’t get why some protests go well, with the protestors getting their message out, and others wind up with a police/right-wing/fascist riot.
Organization.
re: #90 Patricia Kayden
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re: #90 Patricia Kayden
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David Duke’s heir-apparent it seems.
We’ll be hearing more about this young man and his journey through the far right scam-osphere in the years to come. Lots of fear porn to exploit.
re: #98 Targetpractice
Yeah, yeah, and Brett Kavanaugh’s life has been totally destroyed by rape allegations. It’s amazing what white privilege can do.
They managed to turn that into a he-said-she said “innocent until proven guilty” discussion.
The issue was whether this person should be given a lifetime appointment to the highest judicial body in the country, not necessarily the details of what he did in college.
They won, he is in for life.
re: #99 Florida Panhandler
David Duke’s heir-apparent it seems.
We’ll be hearing more about this young man and his journey through the far right scam-osphere in the years to come. Lots of fear porn to exploit.
He’s angling for Ben’s job.
re: #82 Teukka
that would be a sharting cushion.
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The uprising continues in #Kenosha #Wisconsin, as news has come down that #JacobBlake is now paralyzed from the waist down. Both National Guard and the police have attempted to put down the uprising in the town of 100K, but the revolt continues. pic.twitter.com/2sjt1C4IAW
— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2020
re: #96 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Except, no, it wasn’t.
This is how low the bar is for some people in American political leadership and discourse… https://t.co/8UtLAowe7F
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) August 26, 2020
She may have delivered it quieter and maybe with some smiles
While she said the same thing as the others
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Protesters are gonna need to start turning up armed to the teeth, just like the Boogaloos or the Proud Boys. It’s self-defense.
Exactly the opposite. The protesters need more cameras live streaming to the web. Guns on both sides will lead to the white guys winning.
This is not repelling an invasion. This is defeating a force with the superior firepower. You beat them by showing others that the use of force was unnecessary.
re: #88 Teukka
Wow. That some serious crazy in that sign.
re: #108 Belafon
Exactly the opposite. The protesters need more cameras live streaming to the web. Guns on both sides will lead to the white guys winning.
This is not repelling an invasion. This is defeating a force with the superior firepower. You beat them by showing others that the use of force was unnecessary.
Thee fuckers want an all-out Civil War, that is the wet dream that the boogaloo boys and III%-ers and sundry white trash militia live for
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Even in reddest Alabama, that punk would be illegal as he stands there. We can love our guns, we can freaking marry them, but we can’t take them to the demonstration.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Gloves on but no mask
I wonder why….
Two people were shot + killed + another wounded in #Kenosha after a white militia member opened fire during ongoing protests. Shooter identified himself on video as Kyle; seen earlier being given water by riot police who thanked him for being there. Militia promoted on InfoWars. pic.twitter.com/jKW24k6gUU
— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2020
Truth. https://t.co/neqyK1ZNja
— Stiles (@PeteStiles) August 26, 2020
re: #112 dangerman
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Notice that Kyle is wearing gloves to remove finger prints and keep potential gun powder off his hands after firing his weapon. pic.twitter.com/og58MVcl63
— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2020
re: #108 Belafon
Exactly the opposite. The protesters need more cameras live streaming to the web. Guns on both sides will lead to the white guys winning.
This is not repelling an invasion. This is defeating a force with the superior firepower. You beat them by showing others that the use of force was unnecessary.
Maybe. The idea of not fighting back is, quite frankly, hateful to me. These people want to kill us all. So we’re just supposed to let them? The police aren’t gonna protect us, that’s for damn sure.
re: #111 Decatur Deb
Even in reddest Alabama, that punk would be illegal as he stands there. We can love our guns, we can freaking marry them, but we can’t take them to the demonstration.
He was perfectly within the bounds of the law…till he wasn’t.
Nothing we could do//
How about Fuck you David.
There’s no redeeming quality here.
Plus she’s an Illegal Alien who don’t speak English.
(How does that feel?)— The Wind Cries “Transparency.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 26, 2020
re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Oh I knew that.
We all did
How did the cops not?
That’s your reasonable suspicion right there
Post 9/11, police were getting mostly “anti jihad” intel and training despite FBI statistics showing right wing white nationalists were the greatest threat to the homeland year after year.
So I launched an LE training firm in 2011 and made the discrepancy clear to trainees. https://t.co/23ktmcq9V2— rabia O’chaudry (@rabiasquared) August 26, 2020
re: #116 dangerman
He was perfectly within the bounds of the law…till he wasn’t.
Nothing we could do//
Not here. Our state law specifically says you cannot bring firearms to the demonstration. It’s a reaction to the ’60s images of armed black protestors and a long but muted tradition of armed self-defense.
And I hope to land a date with Carmen Electra, but I don’t plan my future around it. https://t.co/nnHkEAKRLW
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) August 25, 2020
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Post 9/11, police were getting mostly “anti jihad” intel and training despite FBI statistics showing right wing white nationalists were the greatest threat to the homeland year after year.
and the right had a complete hissy fit when RW terrorism was reported as a bigger threat than Islamists
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the right had a complete hissy fit when RW terrorism was reported as a bigger threat than Islamists
DHS Sec Napolitano.
“Relatively decent and humane” doesn’t really say much about the speech, other than she didn’t come off sounding like she was coked up or on tranquilizers.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the right had a complete hissy fit when RW terrorism was reported as a bigger threat than Islamists
And what drives the RWNJ’s really nuts is when it’s pointed out that terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Boko Haram, etc., are pretty damn right wing (within the context of their cultures). So terrorist atrocities perpetrated by such groups could well be counted as right wing terrorism.
Here’s a photogallery of the first Czech 3D-printed house. Took about 22 hours to print and it is indeed habitable.
re: #112 dangerman
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taking steps to avoid leaving fingerprints on the weapon + taking steps to keep GSR off his hands = premeditated murder.
re: #127 Dr Lizardo
…and it is indeed Hobbitable.
The notion that last night constituted a shift in tone is stunning. Besides the blatant theater—rewriting history— most of the speeches (like Bondi) were more blistering than night 1. The reporting makes me think that many in the media haven’t learned the lessons from 2016.
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) August 26, 2020
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Thee fuckers want an all-out Civil War, that is the wet dream that the boogaloo boys and III%-ers and sundry white trash militia live for
That was Charles Manson’s plan. They are just reviving it again.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Maybe. The idea of not fighting back is, quite frankly, hateful to me. These people want to kill us all. So we’re just supposed to let them? The police aren’t gonna protect us, that’s for damn sure.
The police didn’t protect people on the Edmund Pettus Bridge either.
But the video cameras ensured the marchers (some died, more were injured) got the Voting Rights Act.
ETA: just imagine the backlash those protesters would have faced, how many more would have died, the increased repression their communities would have faced going forward, how much longer it would have taken for any of their goals to be reached, if they’d been armed and tried to fight back.
re: #130 dangerman
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Why Biden Is Still the Heavy Favorite (roll call)
“It’s hard to identify any state or district where Trump is performing at least as well as he did four years ago, let alone better. And that’s critical considering 2016, when Trump was just the right candidate at just the right time against just the right opponent winning by just enough in just the right states to win.”
If this moment looked odd to you, it’s because you don’t have authoritarian tendencies. Compare ceremonial guards swinging open the Kremlin’s golden doors to reveal Russian President Putin to Donald Trump’s use of Marines in the White House for Naturalization Ceremony. #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/TeCSrVDG1k
— Darlene McDonald (@VoteDarlene) August 26, 2020
Interesting take on the identity of Q (take with a grain of salt etc.)… Jim Watkins, 8chan/8kun owner:
medium.com
re: #95 Dave In Austin
The cardinals here all look the same. The molt is on.
Yeah, I was hoping it’s molting and not afflicted with some sort of creeping horror crud.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Maybe. The idea of not fighting back is, quite frankly, hateful to me. These people want to kill us all. So we’re just supposed to let them? The police aren’t gonna protect us, that’s for damn sure.
Because we cannot win that way. The Civil Rights marchers knew they couldn’t win that way. Indians could not defeat the British that way.
We will not win any type of civil conflict that way because 1/3 of the country wants the fight and another 1/3 wants an excuse to look away.
re: #135 dangerman
Who wants to wager he had a semi-stiffy when this happened?
This is so crazy - Tomi Lahren was offered $85 to call Trump an ‘ullu’, without knowing its other meaning. She apparently accepted it. https://t.co/92ghHiKqqF
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) August 26, 2020
The literal translation of “ullu” is owl, yes. But in colloquial terms, when referring to a person “ullu” means fool.
The common phrase “ullu ka patta” is similar in meaning and emphasis to referring to someone as a dumbass. 🤣
https://t.co/8fuBPZKBZk — Madhura Prasad (@ladyquixotic) August 25, 2020
re: #139 Belafon
Because we cannot win that way. The Civil Rights marchers knew they couldn’t win that way. Indians could not defeat the British that way.
We will not win any type of civil conflict that way because 1/3 of the country wants the fight and another 1/3 wants an excuse to look away.
we need to fight back with cameras and show how the police are cooperating with the Terrorists.
and there is no other word for those bastards
re: #139 Belafon
Because we cannot win that way. The Civil Rights marchers knew they couldn’t win that way. Indians could not defeat the British that way.
We will not win any type of civil conflict that way because 1/3 of the country wants the fight and another 1/3 wants an excuse to look away.
“If he (the enemy) is superior in strength, evade him. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared; appear where you are not expected.”
Oh, good morning!
re: #141 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The literal translation of “ullu” is owl, yes. But in colloquial terms, when referring to a person “ullu” means fool.
If only Kellyanne were here, she would point out that in our culture, owls are associated with wisdom…
Coordinated, premeditated, cold-blooded voter registration drive.
— MALARKEY PATROL 🚨 (@Alex__Katz) August 23, 2020
Kamala Harris is holding a virtual event on Wednesday aimed at increasing support among Black voters in Michigan — featuring speakers from Detroit and live-streamed on https://t.co/euzNBxgZH7. Via @tsspangler: https://t.co/W51VYwKuJt
— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 24, 2020
When they say “the best is yet to come,” that’s a threat. pic.twitter.com/SoKKF9KQYO
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 26, 2020
From Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks to Keurig and Goodyear: the right-wing crybaby hypocrites ranting about “cancel culture” in the present have been totally fine with it for decades so long as THEY’RE the ones doing the cancelling.
— Arch (Soros Antifa Rabbi Commander And Spy Master) (@Arch_LGF) August 26, 2020
If every year it just so happened that we had to sacrifice 200k people so that everyone else could live their life completely undisturbed, how many Americans would take that trade off?
— YesThatShoe (@the_shoe_yes) August 26, 2020
Ursula K LeGuin wrote a story about just such a country,
re: #139 Belafon
Because we cannot win that way. The Civil Rights marchers knew they couldn’t win that way. Indians could not defeat the British that way.
We will not win any type of civil conflict that way because 1/3 of the country wants the fight and another 1/3 wants an excuse to look away.
The core strategy of the Civil Rights era was to demonstrate a willingness to die and an unwillingness to kill. That relied on the moral decency of the nation as a whole.
In 80 days we’ll know if that will still work.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we need to fight back with cameras and show how the police are cooperating with the Terrorists.
and there is no other word for those bastards
What’s infuriating is that that little asshat, after shooting people, should’ve been instantly dropped by the police. No questions asked, no need to ask any questions. He just straight-up murdered people….and the police did nothing.
re: #149 sagehen
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That’s not the trade off. “Completely undisturbed” means around 3 million dead.
re: #152 garzooma
That’s not the trade off. “Completely undisturbed” means around 3 million dead.
We’re waiting for the bar tab from Tuscaloosa and Auburn.
re: #139 Belafon
Because we cannot win that way. The Civil Rights marchers knew they couldn’t win that way. Indians could not defeat the British that way.
We will not win any type of civil conflict that way because 1/3 of the country wants the fight and another 1/3 wants an excuse to look away.
Except it takes both. We need BOTH a modern Malcom X to give a serious threat of violence that will take down the enemy if necessary and a modern MLK to provide the nonviolent escape for society. It’s like having a sword and a shield; one must be able to fight and defend. Without that, you’ll be steamrolled.
Here’s the Kenosha murderer. Well. One of them at least. And it’s exactly as you’d expect.
Coronavirus cases linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally found in 8 states
nbcnews.com
So far.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 26, 2020
re: #154 William Lewis
Except it takes both. We need BOTH a modern Malcom X to give a serious threat of violence that will take down the enemy if necessary and a modern MLK to provide the nonviolent escape for society. It’s like having a sword and a shield; one must be able to fight and defend. Without that, you’ll be steamrolled.
I would argue that while Malcom X provided a lot of needed strength within the African American community, his actions didn’t contribute to bringing about the Civil Rights Act. That had way more to do with progress led by and the assassignation of MLK.
re: #130 dangerman
American journalists haven’t learned from the 1930s, either.
The Moral Failings of American Press Coverage of Nazi Germanyhttps://t.co/1UKxNRpwvB— Dan Vanderboom (@danvanderboom) August 26, 2020
re: #155 GlutenFreeJesus
Here’s the Kenosha murderer. Well. One of them at least. And it’s exactly as you’d expect.
We need the little shit alive and talking.
When they say “the best is yet to come,” that’s a threat. pic.twitter.com/SoKKF9KQYO
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 26, 2020
re: #158 Belafon
I would argue that while Malcom X provided a lot of needed strength within the African American community, his actions didn’t contribute to bringing about the Civil Rights Act. That had way more to do with progress led by and the assassignation of MLK.
CRA happened before MLK’s assassination. (in fact, the two black leaders had their only meeting ever at the hearings for the bill.)Why? Fear of a real, credible, uprising. MLK’s path was more moderate.
The only reason FDR got what he did through congress in the 30s was fear of the whites going Commie. FDR’s path was more moderate.
The reason the British surrendered India was that after WWII there were more trained Indian men who would fight for India than for Britian. Again, they worked with the Face of Moderation.
‘Wolf’ puppy pulls cat around the house in a cardboard sled https://t.co/YXmm2Glg02 pic.twitter.com/WWAkn6eyIR
— New York Post (@nypost) August 26, 2020
re: #162 William Lewis
CRA happened before MLK’s assassination. (in fact, the two black leaders had their only meeting ever at the hearings for the bill.)Why? Fear of a real, credible, uprising. MLK’s path was more moderate.
The only reason FDR got what he did through congress in the 30s was fear of the whites going Commie. FDR’s path was more moderate.
The reason the British surrendered India was that after WWII there were more trained Indian men who would fight for India than for Britian. Again, they worked with the Face of Moderation.
Thanks for the history correction on MLK’s death. I should always check the dates. It was JFK’s death that gave Johnson the ability to get it through.
re: #148 (((Archangel1)))
From Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks to Keurig and Goodyear: the right-wing crybaby hypocrites ranting about “cancel culture” in the present have been totally fine with it for decades so long as THEY’RE the ones doing the cancelling.
again, they are fine with cancelling Jim Crow, segregation, sundown laws, lynching, etc…
re: #160 Decatur Deb
We need the little shit alive and talking.
When the cops do pick him up, he needs to remember to get his free hamburger on the way to the station.
re: #164 William Lewis
Or put another way, carrot/stick.
Hammer/anvil.
Exactly. Both are needed. Sometimes, it’s necessary to instill fear. Like you said, hammer and anvil.
We have about one more chance to vote our way out of this. Then Mr. Policeman can do his policing in an environment dictated by a wholly different Department of Justice.
re: #154 William Lewis
Except it takes both. We need BOTH a modern Malcom X to give a serious threat of violence that will take down the enemy if necessary and a modern MLK to provide the nonviolent escape for society. It’s like having a sword and a shield; one must be able to fight and defend. Without that, you’ll be steamrolled.
or a sword and a pen (eta: or these days, phone/camera)
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
She should concentrate on her inspiring immigration story about how she came and worked here illegally
as a nude modelon a tourist visa and then had her family come and join her…
See, that is the irrelevant slut-shaming bit.
And, by the way, since loads of members my family have also worked illegally on tourist visas, had members of their family come over and join them, and are now “productive” members of society I can’t get worked up about what she did. Now, the hypocrisy and racism, that is annoying.
re: #171 John Hughes
See, that is the irrelevant slut-shaming bit.
that is more directed at the religious right and the people who had vapors over Michelle Obama’s bare arms…
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who could have predicted? Oh, anyone who isn’t part of the conservative faith.
(more, goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph)
“Sidney School Superintendent Jay Ehler this morning (Aug. 19) encouraged everyone to stay positive.” which many of them probably are, without even knowing it.
re: #173 steve_davis
“Sidney School Superintendent Jay Ehler this morning (Aug. 19) encouraged everyone to stay positive.” which many of them probably are, without even knowing it.
irony is dead
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
irony is dead, or at least on a respirator…
LOL! You too, Brutus? I should always remember to glance down a bit before posting my snarky rejoinders.
re: #175 steve_davis
LOL! You too, Brutus? I should always remember to glance down a bit before posting my snarky rejoinders.
I pity the folks at the onion these days
re: #155 GlutenFreeJesus
Well. Guess they… or he… took the page down. It was full of Blue Lives Matter bullshit and him playing cosplay with friends. Cops even let him walk past them after he just committed murder, and even have him water.
re: #177 GlutenFreeJesus
Well. Guess they… or he… took the page down. It was full of Blue Lives Matter bullshit and him playing cosplay with friends. Cops even let him walk past them after he just committed murder, and even gave him water.
“can’t say that the police did nothing”
re: #149 sagehen
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Yes, but never forget that you (and I) live in Omelas.
re: #23 GlutenFreeJesus
No mask, but gloves… as if he doesn’t want his fingerprints to be found at a crime scene? Weird how that works.
So the Kenosha shooter KILLED somebody and was allowed to just walk away? No arrest, no nothing?
Former Alaska AG Kevin Clarkson (R-Repulsive) resigned yesterday after it came out that he’d sent inappropriate text messages to a subordinate.
Now we find out that it was 558 text messages in 27 days, plus physical contact (eg hugs and a kiss) towards a woman who is so junior to him that she made half his salary.
Why isn’t this considered criminal harassment and stalking? Why is this righteous conservative Christian allowed to just resign?
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
So the Kenosha shooter KILLED somebody and was allowed to just walk away? No arrest, no nothing?
That’s what’s so infuriating.
How come this assclown wasn’t shot seven times? I mean, c’mon.
re: #181 Eclectic Cyborg
So the Kenosha shooter KILLED somebody and was allowed to just walk away? No arrest, no nothing?
he’s white (no ‘//’ necessary)
re: #156 Decatur Deb
Coronavirus cases linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally found in 8 states
nbcnews.comSo far.
Trump’s CDC is now calling for less testing of asymptomatic persons. They’re going to make the pandemic worse because people aren’t testing. Sturgis was a superspreader event. Trump will fixate on fewer cases (20% down from peak), all while the death toll keeps churning out 1,000+ a day. Trump’s stooge Kudlow, who isn’t a health expert (or an expert), is acting like this crisis is something in the past, but the reality is that this isn’t going away and we’re going to continue seeing massive ongoing death toll from Trump’s refusal to treat this as a crisis.
The economy is bouncing back as states reopen, but we are down significantly from before February. The economy bouncing back is despite Trump, not because of him. The economy collapsed because of Trump, not despite him. It fell further, the crisis was worse, and the damage done was more severe because of Trump. His failures are manifest.
The rebound from Trump’s collapse continues. It’s despite Trump, not because of him. We would not have fallen so far, so fast, and would have recovered faster had Trump instituted mandatory masking/social distancing. Trump made all of this so much worse. https://t.co/idiSylLSpb
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 26, 2020
re: #182 mmmirele
Former Alaska AG Kevin Clarkson (R-Repulsive) resigned yesterday after it came out that he’d sent inappropriate text messages to a subordinate.
Now we find out that it was 558 text messages in 27 days, plus physical contact (eg hugs and a kiss) towards a woman who is so junior to him that she made half his salary.
Why isn’t this considered criminal harassment and stalking? Why is this righteous conservative Christian allowed to just resign?
why does falwell get to milk another $10m under his contract?…
Wonder if Trump has been pushing to nuke the Gulf of Mexico?
re: #186 dangerman
Now we find out that it was 558 text messages in 27 days, plus physical contact (eg hugs and a kiss) towards a woman who is so junior to him that she made half his salary.
That works out to over 20 messages a day for almost a month. Not a crazy amount for two folks in a committed relationship or good friends, but when you’re talking about unwanted contact holy shit that’s aggressive.
here is the GOP position out loud
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Hatch Act violations:
“Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares.”— Travis Akers (@travisakers) August 26, 2020
re: #187 TarHellion
Wonder if Trump has been pushing to nuke the Gulf of Mexico?
Either that or trying to figure out if underwater raking is a thing.
//
re: #189 dangerman
here is the GOP position out loud
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I have never been IN the beltway and *I* care, you arrogant fuckwad.
re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg
Now we find out that it was 558 text messages in 27 days, plus physical contact (eg hugs and a kiss) towards a woman who is so junior to him that she made half his salary.That works out to over 20 messages a day for almost a month. Not a crazy amount for two folks in a committed relationship or good friends, but when you’re talking about unwanted contact holy shit that’s aggressive.
20 a day
i’d be pissed off after receiving the second one
re: #189 dangerman
here is the GOP position out loud
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Says the guy who is part of a campaign that made its mark freaking out about emails. Law and order my ass with these fraudulent fucks.
re: #191 Eclectic Cyborg
I have never been IN the beltway and *I* care, you arrogant fuckwad.
The whole you’re not a real Merkian if you’re in the beltway crap. Why don’t they just leave Washington if they hate it so fucking much? No one forced Meadows to run for office.
2028: First Lady Lara Trump strikes a thoughtful new tone while addressing atheist prisoners at Atlanta Re-education Camp
— Thanks For Distancing Jerk (@Thx4SharingJerk) August 26, 2020
Trump’s building a wall around the WH. This doesn’t count against the miles of new wall built on the border, does it?
They’ve done this a couple times now, and they’re restricting access to the nation’s home; it isn’t his. Where is pushback against this militarization of WH? https://t.co/DyUy0cUplb— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 26, 2020
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“can’t say that the police did nothing”
First it was Burger King…
re: #186 dangerman
why does falwell get to milk another $10m under his contract?…
Easy. Jesus forgives him. Now he can buy 5 more Pool Boy Studs and play to his heart’s content!
I’ve been exercising my science-fiction trained imagination to try to think up some circumstance that would result in a 50 state sweep. The only possibility I can think of that doesn’t involve total catastrophe is a viral conspiracy theory that backfires and causes large numbers of MAGAts not to vote.
I have no idea what it might be, but the law of unintended consequences applies even to the GRU and its various accomplices, especially given that many of the latter are sociopaths and unstable personalities who cannot really handle the power that Russian help and the gullibility of the base give them.
I got an email today from my evil, too big to fail financial employer, telling me and everyone else who carries a financial institution-issued cell phone that as soon as our contracts end for those devices. we will have to Bring Your Own Device. Why? Because our ratio of company issued devices is too high and 81 percent of American adults own a personal smartphone.
To say that I am steamed is not an understatement. I thought I worked for a bank, not Uber. I’m on call as part of my job. I thought that provding a bank-issued cellphone was part of the deal. I don’t want my cellphone cluttered up with a bank-owned container and software, I don’t want to have to use my data plan to do bank work.
This, on top of the title change (I went from tech relationship manager to “Tech Bus Services Associate,” when people further down the food chain get called “Systems Operations Engineer”) is pissing me off mightily.
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”-Lando Calrissian
Watch to the end. Sound on.
Challenge met! #Guilfoylechallenge pic.twitter.com/XQJbuoDCZB
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 25, 2020
re: #132 sagehen
The police didn’t protect people on the Edmund Pettus Bridge either.
But the video cameras ensured the marchers (some died, more were injured) got the Voting Rights Act.
ETA: just imagine the backlash those protesters would have faced, how many more would have died, the increased repression their communities would have faced going forward, how much longer it would have taken for any of their goals to be reached, if they’d been armed and tried to fight back.
I’d say zero, actually. Repression was already at max.
I’ve said all along that the side that shoots first loses. Here we are.
Please welcome hatchling geekmom, who’s also mrs. ipsos in real(-ish) life. Anymouse has met her and can vouch for her general good nature and political sensibilities. :)
I have notified her of her obligation to provide pizza and beer.
The rest is up to her… but expect doggy pictures and some good Jewish cooking, though far from VB’s lofty standards!
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
What’s infuriating is that that little asshat, after shooting people, should’ve been instantly dropped by the police. No questions asked, no need to ask any questions. He just straight-up murdered people….and the police did nothing.
He was white, after all. Let’s not forget that Trump in public supported police brutality.
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” Trump said, miming the physical motion of an officer shielding a suspect’s head to keep it from bumping against the squad car.
“Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” Trump continued. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”
re: #203 mmmirele
I got an email today from my evil, too big to fail financial employer, telling me and everyone else who carries a financial institution-issued cell phone that as soon as our contracts end for those devices. we will have to Bring Your Own Device. Why? Because our ratio of company issued devices is too high and 81 percent of American adults own a personal smartphone.
To say that I am steamed is not an understatement. I thought I worked for a bank, not Uber. I’m on call as part of my job. I thought that provding a bank-issued cellphone was part of the deal. I don’t want my cellphone cluttered up with a bank-owned container and software, I don’t want to have to use my data plan to do bank work.
This, on top of the title change (I went from tech relationship manager to “Tech Bus Services Associate,” when people further down the food chain get called “Systems Operations Engineer”) is pissing me off mightily.
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”-Lando Calrissian
Stockholders demand bigger dividend payments…
re: #203 mmmirele
I got an email today from my evil, too big to fail financial employer, telling me and everyone else who carries a financial institution-issued cell phone that as soon as our contracts end for those devices. we will have to Bring Your Own Device. Why? Because our ratio of company issued devices is too high and 81 percent of American adults own a personal smartphone.
To say that I am steamed is not an understatement. I thought I worked for a bank, not Uber. I’m on call as part of my job. I thought that provding a bank-issued cellphone was part of the deal. I don’t want my cellphone cluttered up with a bank-owned container and software, I don’t want to have to use my data plan to do bank work.
This, on top of the title change (I went from tech relationship manager to “Tech Bus Services Associate,” when people further down the food chain get called “Systems Operations Engineer”) is pissing me off mightily.
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”-Lando Calrissian
Daughter works for an insurance jobber owned by a bank. They gave her a phone because the banking regs there won’t let her use her own phone.
re: #149 sagehen
Ursula K LeGuin wrote a story about just such a country,
Interestingly, there is a series of articles on Le Guin’s writing at tor.com right now and the book of shorts with Omelas came up today. I commented (and am not sure it won’t be nuked) this:
Omelas is especially resonant right now if you are white in this culture of ours where POC are demanding that before all lives matter, black lives must actually matter. The sound of gunfire on a daily basis tells the price of Omelas in the here and now … “whoever has ears, let them hear.”
re: #149 sagehen
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Ursula K LeGuin wrote a story about just such a country,
Omelas was a pretty parable. We live in the reality.
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
What’s infuriating is that that little asshat, after shooting people, should’ve been instantly dropped by the police. No questions asked, no need to ask any questions. He just straight-up murdered people….and the police did nothing.
Of course not. HE IS THEIR ALLY. Doing exactly what they want to do - kill everyone who protests or even wants them held accountable. That’s the origin of my feeling that a new Malcom X is needed more than even a new MLK.
re: #158 Belafon
I would argue that while Malcom X provided a lot of needed strength within the African American community, his actions didn’t contribute to bringing about the Civil Rights Act. That had way more to do with progress led by and the assassignation of MLK.
Actually, it’s pretty clear that MLK and other civil rights workers used Malcolm as the threat waiting in the wings. “Deal with us or you get him.”
re: #137 Teukka
Interesting take on the identity of Q (take with a grain of salt etc.)… Jim Watkins, 8chan/8kun owner:
medium.com
I’m waiting for confirmation from the Gambino family. They are known to take their time.
It needs to be said that 4 white Politico reporters are currently at war with the American information consumer in defense of their bad coverage.
It’s totally inappropriate. pic.twitter.com/1TvvJ7TlIl— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) August 26, 2020
re: #206 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’ve said all along that the side that shoots first loses. Here we are.
I am not so sure. Once you’ve gone past the point where violence to achieve an end is appropriate, the longer you wait to start, the greater the amount of violence that will be needed to succeed.
Rapidly approaching Long Past Time To Leave
Unsurvivable storm surge with large, destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, TX, to Intracoastal City, LA. Surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland.
If you need to evacuate, do so NOW. Surge will begin today, well ahead of the strongest winds pic.twitter.com/H6ZgRAiJ14— National Weather Service (@NWS) August 26, 2020
re: #217 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Actually, it’s pretty clear that MLK and other civil rights workers used Malcolm as the threat waiting in the wings. “Deal with us or you get him.”
THIS.
re: #189 dangerman
here is the GOP position out loud
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Here’s my position: when DT leaves office, the statute of limitations will not have expired.
When repugs talk about law’n order and upholding social norms, remind them of this.
re: #221 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Fucking hell….
Just caught up with the overnight thread and have this to add to the dragging of Tiffany.
A friend knows someone who was on the admissions committee at an Ivy when Tiffany Trump was applying to law school. They got a stack of applications with hers on top. There was a post-it note on her application that said “admitted”.
re: #202 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’ve been exercising my science-fiction trained imagination to try to think up some circumstance that would result in a 50 state sweep. The only possibility I can think of that doesn’t involve total catastrophe is a viral conspiracy theory that backfires and causes large numbers of MAGAts not to vote.
I have no idea what it might be, but the law of unintended consequences applies even to the GRU and its various accomplices, especially given that many of the latter are sociopaths and unstable personalities who cannot really handle the power that Russian help and the gullibility of the base give them.
Three months of dead livestock, rotten food, late checks and missing meds might provide a simpler path to the goal. Although I’m not really expecting the clean sweep.
re: #221 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hurricane Laura is quickly intensifying into another monster storm and is expected to make landfall as a cat4. Models are coming into agreement that the track will put landfall at the TX/LA border.
Storm surge is expected to be catastrophic. If you’re in that area, your time to bug out to higher ground is now (as in, you need to get to high ground ASAP).
And knowing Trumpworld, he’ll botch the relief/recovery effort, politicize it, and otherwise try to personally benefit from it.
re: #221 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Rapidly approaching Long Past Time To Leave
Here’s Trump’s next botch job waiting in the wings.
Also - happy National Dog Day from Scout! He’s very excited about it, as you can see.
re: #221 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Rapidly approaching Long Past Time To Leave
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I’m sure there are a whole bunch of Christian Anti-Maskers who will stay in their homes and pray for Jay-Zuss to shield them from the storm.
Right now the folks at the Darwin Awards are saying “We need that TPP cash NOW or we’re gonna go bankrupt producing awards!”
Hey Lindsay, the question is, why did the officers shoot Mr. Blake seven times in the back?
— Eface23 (@Eface231) August 26, 2020
Institutionalized racism and discrimination.
Institutionalized redlining and screwing POC. All of this diminishes their purchasing power and net worth too.
This is pervasive and *wrong*. https://t.co/231mIulSaI— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 26, 2020
re: #230 Patricia Kayden
Hey Mrs. Lincoln, why did your husband put his head in front of the path of the bullets?
re: #227 lawhawk
And knowing Trumpworld, he’ll botch the relief/recovery effort, politicize it, and otherwise try to personally benefit from it.
This times infinity. Of course he will. It’s almost guaranteed he’ll fuck this up six ways from Sunday.
If there’s anyone who possesses the unique talent to take a catastrophic situation and turn it into an apocalyptic situation…..it’s Trump.
re: #216 William Lewis
Of course not. HE IS THEIR ALLY. Doing exactly what they want to do - kill everyone who protests or even wants them held accountable. That’s the origin of my feeling that a new Malcom X is needed more than even a new MLK.
When it comes to the police, we pay them to do what they do. This is an overwhelming weapon if we can figure out how to use it.
re: #233 Dr Lizardo
This times infinity. Of course he will. It’s almost guaranteed he’ll fuck this up six ways from Sunday.
If there’s anyone who possesses the unique talent to take a catastrophic situation and turn it into an apocalyptic situation…..it’s Trump.
The grifters are surely already mobilizing, connecting with Jared (safe bet)….
When athletes knelt, the whole RW exploded in outrage and applauded Kaepernick being canceled. Trump wants to silence(cancel) all protest, unless he can use it to terrify the middle class into supporting his fascism. Unfortunately those rioting don’t see or understand that they are furthering Trump’s goals.
A few months before Floyd, I got into a dispute in the Women’s March Chicago FB group with someone who was attacking Biden; he eventually admitted to being a Communist. I dropped the discussion but now he is one of the leading proponents in the group for looting and encouraging BLM members into this behavior; I am certain he thinks that this will lead to a revolution that will overthrow capitalism and bring about utopia, instead of realizing that this will only bring about the hard fist of fascism and white supremacy. Of course, it’s also possible his group is getting its orders from Putin and wants the US to descend into chaos to further Putin’s plans..
re: #230 Patricia Kayden
Lindsey Graham asks why Jacob Blake didn’t “yield” to officers.
Because he’s not crazy?
re: #234 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
When it comes to the police, we pay them to do what they do. This is an overwhelming weapon if we can figure out how to use it.
What should be done is that the governor should call up the NG and have them replace every police officer in the state until new officers can be hired - including psych evals and TS level background checks - and trained. And yes, then pay the new cops appropriately.
We need to get back to the ideas that Robert Peel had in 1829 coming out of as bad a period of law enforcement as has ever happened:
re: #203 mmmirele
To say that I am steamed is not an understatement. I thought I worked for a bank, not Uber. I’m on call as part of my job. I thought that providing a bank-issued cellphone was part of the deal. I don’t want my cellphone cluttered up with a bank-owned container and software, I don’t want to have to use my data plan to do bank work.
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re: #238 William Lewis
What should be done is that the governor should call up the NG and have them replace every police officer in the state until new officers can be hired - including psych evals and TS level background checks - and trained. And yes, then pay the new cops appropriately.
We need to get back to the ideas that Robert Peel had in 1829 coming out of as bad a period of law enforcement as has ever happened:
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Nice idea, but not practical, I think. NG people have regular jobs, mostly, and you can’t call them up for years. Plus they’re really not trained for police work either.
Finding the specific people who welcomed the killer and firing them would be a better start.
re: #179 John Hughes
Yes, but never forget that you (and I) live in Omelas.
does that make my daughter an Omelette?
re: #182 mmmirele
Former Alaska AG Kevin Clarkson (R-Repulsive) resigned yesterday after it came out that he’d sent inappropriate text messages to a subordinate.
another symptom of excessive white male privilege is the inability to recognize or respect boundaries
“Fuck your rights. Just do what the cops tell you no matter what and you won’t get shot.”
re: #238 William Lewis
What’s your source on that one?
It gives point 7 as:
The police at all times should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police are the only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the intent of the community welfare.
Where other versions have:
To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence
Which is quite different. The official UK Home office version, “the police being only members of the public…” versus your source’s “the police are the only members of the public…”
The Daily Sourdough @kingarthurflour pic.twitter.com/BreogPuoIA
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) August 26, 2020
re: #246 The Pie Overlord!
I’d love to have a thick slice of that loaf with a salad!
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
another symptom of excessive white male privilege is the inability to recognize or respect boundaries
It’s not confined to GOP officials or pastors of various religions. Happens everywhere: in businesses large and small, in the entertainment industry, in the news room. And it’s not only white men — black men of influence are similar. Think R. Kelly and Bill Cosby.
Trump will personally call the Russian troops to thank them, probably. https://t.co/m8KL8AKC52
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 26, 2020
re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s not confined to GOP officials or pastors of various religions. Happens everywhere: in businesses large and small, in the entertainment industry, in the news room. And it’s not only white men — black men of influence are similar. Think R. Kelly and Bill Cosby.
Yep. The name of that disease is affluenza.
In the next few weeks, you’re going to see a bunch of media figures hunting down interviews with random voters who say they are switching to Trump over the Kenosha violence. It’s a good horserace narrative.
Ignore them. Watch the live-caller polls next week after the RNC. https://t.co/0S9cReHzzc— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 26, 2020
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
Too bad the police union won’t be responsible for any judgments. It’s tax payers who fund these judgments for the cops’ misconduct.
That’s precisely the idea. If the voters put in craven politicians who will not stand up for the citizens of the community, then the community pays.
That’s what ultimately got rid of Sheriff Asshat in Phoenix. The voters got tired of payouts and criminality from their sheriff.
Towns can also sue police unions. Neither the towns nor its voters are helpless here. The people being murdered are.
Make the town bleed money. Bankrupt it.
re: #240 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Nice idea, but not practical, I think. NG people have regular jobs, mostly, and you can’t call them up for years. Plus they’re really not trained for police work either.
Finding the specific people who welcomed the killer and firing them would be a better start.
That’s excising one cell and calling it a successful cancer operation. There are very very few cops worth keeping - they burn out quickly when faced with the inherent corruption.
To be sure it’s better than nothing in a sense but the reality is that they will never be held accountable. The only possible good to come out of this will be if the kid is sent to Waupun for life. The cops will laugh at the ‘n-words’ that got wacked and go on oppressing them every day in everyway possible. Yeah, I’ve known (and even trained MPs) a fair number of cops. Of the civilian ones, less than one hand’s fingers could be trusted.
re: #227 lawhawk
… And knowing Trumpworld, he’ll botch the relief/recovery effort, politicize it, and otherwise try to personally benefit from it.
Didn’t he already transfer a bunch of FEMA money to waste on the wall?
re: #245 John Hughes
What’s your source on that one?
It gives point 7 as:
Where other versions have:
Which is quite different. The official UK Home office version, “the police being only members of the public…” versus your source’s “the police are the only members of the public…”
durham.police.uk. It was first the way I googled for it.
It says it’s the version of 1829. Could there have been a change in wording over the years? Also, the Queens English handles some of these constructs differently than US English (see “going to hospital” vs “going to the hospital”)/
Memories of being a kid in Ambridge PA setting up the voting booths in the Borough building and hearing the cops talk about how they loved to kill them N-CLANGS…and Mom the election judge told me I had to keep my mouth shut…
re: #255 retired cynic
Didn’t he already transfer a bunch of FEMA money to waste on the wall?
and money earmarked for the military - not weapons, but housing and/or social services
re: #258 🌹UOJB!
Memories of being a kid in Ambridge PA setting up the voting booths in the Borough building and hearing the cops talk about how they loved to kill them N-CLANGS…and Mom the election judge told me I had to keep my mouth shut…
I grew up in the industrial Midwest in the 60’s, the Golden Era of the White Working Man. There were lots and lots of serious racists in our neighborhood and “economic anxiety” did not really factor into it…
re: #203 mmmirele
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”-Lando Calrissian
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” — Darth Vader
re: #252 jaunte
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Cops play grabass with militia members on site.
Militia member kills 2 people protesting police violence.
This yahoo: “I was a Dem, definitely voting Trump now.”
Sure thing sweet cheeks. Very believable.
re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in the industrial Midwest in the 60’s, the Golden Era of the White Working Man. There were lots and lots of serious racists in our neighborhood and “economic anxiety” did not really factor into it…
Well, except for the anxiety that could come from there being Other People who might work for less if they were allowed in.
re: #263 William Lewis
Well, except for the anxiety that could come from there being Other People who might work for less if they were allowed in.
This was at a time when they lived on their own side of the tracks (or in our case, the Interstate and the Calumet River) and were simply not hired to do the better-paid jobs.
re: #203 mmmirele
I got an email today from my evil, too big to fail financial employer, telling me and everyone else who carries a financial institution-issued cell phone that as soon as our contracts end for those devices. we will have to Bring Your Own Device. Why? Because our ratio of company issued devices is too high and 81 percent of American adults own a personal smartphone.
To say that I am steamed is not an understatement. I thought I worked for a bank, not Uber. I’m on call as part of my job. I thought that provding a bank-issued cellphone was part of the deal. I don’t want my cellphone cluttered up with a bank-owned container and software, I don’t want to have to use my data plan to do bank work.
This, on top of the title change (I went from tech relationship manager to “Tech Bus Services Associate,” when people further down the food chain get called “Systems Operations Engineer”) is pissing me off mightily.
“This deal is getting worse all the time.”-Lando Calrissian
I’m of the 19%. My phone flips. The world around me expects an internet connection in my pocket. At some point, I will need to advance.
One can pay the washer and dryer in a laundromat with a phone. I was reminded of this when I tried to buy a roll of quarters at my local branch of you tbtf employer. The machines in my building take quarters. (When I reported one out of order, the machine servicers sent me a check for my losses. I wanted it in quarters.) The bank has resumed selling a roll at a time.
I hope you get satisfaction on the title, if not everything. Words are inexpensive.
NBC News Tally: U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 180,000
(via @NBCNews)— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) August 26, 2020
re: #265 wrenchwench
I’m of the 19%. My phone flips. The world around me expects an internet connection in my pocket. At some point, I will need to advance.
One can pay the washer and dryer in a laundromat with a phone. I was reminded of this when I tried to buy a roll of quarters at my local branch of you tbtf employer. The machines in my building takes quarters. (When I reported one out of order, the machines servicers sent me a check for my losses. I wanted it in quarters.) The bank has resumed selling a roll at a time.
I hope you get satisfaction on the title, if not everything. Words are inexpensive.
They just installed a new set of washers and dryers in my apartment building that have NO COIN SLOTS. You have to use the phone app. Several folks are really pissed off…
“This plane is not going to land in Cairo.” Saudi prince boarded a flight in Paris. Then, he disappeared. By Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck, Vanity Fair, adapted from their book, Blood and Oil, ©2020.
Prince Sultan bin Turki II was cut off from the Saudi royal family’s cash flow after criticizing the regime. So he appealed to Prince Mohammed bin Salman for help—and was never seen again.
re: #268 retired cynic
Damn, MBS is an evil motherfucker.
So…yeah, I see last night was a shitshow.
And I see cops really are picking a side here. Fuck this all.
re: #268 retired cynic
“This plane is not going to land in Cairo.” Saudi prince boarded a flight in Paris. Then, he disappeared. By Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck, Vanity Fair, adapted from their book, Blood and Oil, ©2020.
He’ll turn up here and there.
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
Damn, MBS is an evil motherfucker.
Won’t stop Lord Privy STEAL Jared from conspiring with him to kill people.
This is astonishing video. Officers in Kenosha in military vehicles stopped to engage with armed white men, told them they were appreciated and offered them bottles of water. pic.twitter.com/O5lJxwgf3M
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) August 26, 2020
Well, the plot thickens. The goobers who posted this page can be charged with incitement (but only after January 20). The shooter did EXACTLY what the page asked him to do.
Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha
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‘Any patriots willing to take up arms and defend our city tonight from the evil thugs?’ asked the Facebook group.
The killing of two protestors in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday night may have emerged in response to a Facebook event posted by a self-described militia, which referred to the event as a “call to arms.”The event was also promoted by Infowars, which posted a screenshot of the Facebook event listing. The listing is no longer publicly accessible but, reached on Facebook, the Kenosha Guard account confirmed to The Verge that the screenshots were authentic. The group’s Facebook page has also been taken down, but it boasted more than 3,000 members as of this morning.
re: #267 🌹UOJB!
They just installed a new set of washers and dryers in my apartment building that have NO COIN SLOTS. You have to use the phone app. Several folks are really pissed off…
They should install a little vending machine where you can put in the quarters and have a little smart phone pop out.
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Well, the plot thickens. The goobers who posted this page can be charged with incitement (but only after January 20). The shooter did EXACTLY what the page asked him to do.
Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha
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They won’t be. No more than they treated the Brady thugs appropriately in Idaho the other day.
The white power structure in this country will NOT be brought down easily, I’m sorry to say.
They have too much power, money and influence. They’ll never go quietly.
Even the Black journos are peddling mindless poison. https://t.co/xntnWsnQ0Z
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 26, 2020
re: #278 Patricia Kayden
Abby is getting dragged pretty hard on that tweet.
re: #277 Eclectic Cyborg
The white power structure in this country will NOT be brought down easily, I’m sorry to say.
They have too much power, money and influence. They’ll never go quietly.
They are whining like babies because their privileges are no long being taken as merely given and for them to determine.
One unique thing about Trumpism compared to previous scandals is the number of culpable accomplices. Teapot Dome involved maybe a dozen, Watergate less than fifty. Trump’s malfeasance and corruption involve thousands, and they are all sweating bullets just now.
Trying to disgust you is the only move the Republican convention’s antiabortion speakers have left, by Monica Hesse, WaPo
Hesse ordinarily covers women’s issues, and she smites them hip and thigh here. Not long, but every syllable is disgusted.
[Graham Lynch’s] entire speech was a coy way of saying, I want to have the freedom to discriminate against you.
…
But Abby Johnson and Cissy Graham Lynch made their positions perfectly clear: Their way of life is to police other people’s lives and call it freedom. Their way of life is to claim they are being oppressed if they are not allowed to oppress others. That is the way of life they’re trying to protect.
Abortion doesn’t have a smell. But my God, something at Tuesday night’s convention sure did.
re: #277 Eclectic Cyborg
The white power structure in this country will NOT be brought down easily, I’m sorry to say.
They have too much power, money and influence. They’ll never go quietly.
You are correct, but my hope is that they don’t have to ‘go’. We can make such a big cultural change that their bad behavior is no longer profitable. If we can do that without shooting back, we win.
re: #282 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
One unique thing about Trumpism compared to previous scandals is the number of culpable accomplices. Teapot Dome involved maybe a dozen, Watergate less than fifty. Trump’s malfeasance and corruption involve thousands, and they are all sweating bullets just now.
It’s going to turn the pre-inauguration pardonfest into a paperwork nightmare. Will no one think of the White House secretaries?
re: #268 retired cynic
Trump is busy taking notes. /half
re: #256 William Lewis
durham.police.uk. It was first the way I googled for it.
It says it’s the version of 1829. Could there have been a change in wording over the years?
Ok, found their version:
It’s clearly not the original, (though it’s mocked up to look old) and it’s the only version I can find that says “the only” instead of “only”. Well, apart from the bastardised version the LAPD use and I wouldn’t exactly accept them as experts on the subject of policing by consent!
Looking around on the web it actually seems clear that almost all of this stuff has been made up in the 20th century:
Beyond noting the importance of the Act for Improving the Police in and near the Metropolis (1829) (hereafter referred to as the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829) to the origins of modern policing, law enforcement and policing textbooks commonly include a list identified as Peel’s principles. In researching the origins of such lists and their principles, this study found that they are largely the invention of twentieth century textbook authors. From this understanding emerge several considerations for the future of textbook history and of Peel’s principles. These include the ongoing importance of incorporating new scholarship and changing historical interpretation into texts. In such an endeavor, however, care should be taken not to impose twentieth or twenty-first century concepts on the past.
re: #282 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
One unique thing about Trumpism compared to previous scandals is the number of culpable accomplices. Teapot Dome involved maybe a dozen, Watergate less than fifty. Trump’s malfeasance and corruption involve thousands, and they are all sweating bullets just now.
The entire GOP Senate majority…
re: #275 wrenchwench
They should install a little vending machine where you can put in the quarters and have a little smart phone pop out.
And the smart phone should have a coin slot so you can pay for data.
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re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The entire GOP Senate majority…
Outside the family circle, the prosecutors at the new DoJ will hang a couple corporals, maybe a lieutenant or two.
re: #287 John Hughes
Interesting. They very likely are more modern creations. In the end I’d say, so? If the principles are good (and I do believe that they are) then they remain good regardless of their origin.
re: #291 Decatur Deb
Outside the family circle, the prosecutors at the new DoJ will hang a couple corporals, maybe a lieutenant or two.
Yes while the Trump Family and their main henchmen fly off with Air Force One to Moscow.
re: #291 Decatur Deb
Outside the family circle, the prosecutors at the new DoJ will hang a couple corporals, maybe a lieutenant or two.
Depends on who they “need” to fight the “communists” as were the various criminals that were rehabilitated out of the German Reich and into the German Bundesrepublik.
re: #294 William Lewis
Depends on who they “need” to fight the “communists” as were the various criminals that were rehabilitated out of the German Reich and into the German Bundesrepublik.
It’s still easy to find good schnitzel around Huntsville.
re: #155 GlutenFreeJesus
Here’s the Kenosha murderer. Well. One of them at least. And it’s exactly as you’d expect.
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DId you take a screenshot? It appears to have been deleted …
re: #289 GlutenFreeJesus
And the smart phone should have a coin slot so you can pay for data.
If I can get Data with a smart phone, I’m there!
re: #267 🌹UOJB!
They just installed a new set of washers and dryers in my apartment building that have NO COIN SLOTS. You have to use the phone app. Several folks are really pissed off…
At least when they replaced the coin boxes in my building’s W/Ds they did so with card readers: so now, instead of losing money to jammed slots, you can lose it to untraceable electronic mystery glitches.
Progress!
re: #299 Jay C
At least when they replaced the coin boxes in my building’s W/Ds they did so with card readers: so now, instead of losing money to jammed slots, you can lose it to untraceable electronic mystery glitches.
Progress!
My nearest ‘mat has those. You can put the card in a slot in a machine on the wall to add more quarters, except it has to be paper bills. Or you can use a phone at the washer.
re: #301 🌹UOJB!
This is what we are up against.
Racists who feel secure that Trump kicks down colored people and queers.
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Trump makes assholes feel better about themselves.
That’s pretty much it.
Dog Days of August pic.twitter.com/QTQwPQceNj
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) August 26, 2020
re: #247 🌹UOJB!
I’d love to have a thick slice of that loaf with a salad!
Exactly what I had for lunch! Tomato, avocado & feta cheese salad. OH NOM NOM.
This is Kyle. https://t.co/tVwteF5YIT pic.twitter.com/WaHy6YNKUl
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 26, 2020
Jack booted thugs Incoming…
…TODAY, I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2020
Somebody is getting what he wants:
Federal Law Enforcement Will Be Sent to Kenosha Amid Unrest After Police Shooting, Trump Tweets
nbcchicago.com
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois arrested in Illinois related to the Kenosha shooting.
He will be charged with 1st Degree intentional homicide.— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) August 26, 2020
re: #308 Eclectic Cyborg
Jack booted thugs Incoming…
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‘Portland’ is not the governor of the state. Governor Kate Brown will not take his call.
re: #226 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Three months of dead livestock, rotten food, late checks and missing meds might provide a simpler path to the goal. Although I’m not really expecting the clean sweep.
That would certainly work with rational people, but we are talking about the Trump base here. NOTHING will change their vote.
They were in it together. The cops herded the protesters towards the white supremacist militia members so they could kill them. This guy is a little cop wannabe
— Diane Kelly (@DianeKelly) August 26, 2020
17 year old kid. Had a military style weapon and has surely fantasized about shooting a “bad guy”.
And now he’s a murderer and the “bad guy”.
Why the fuck do we allow kids to own weapons designed specifically to kill people in large numbers?
Fuck the Republicans and the NRA.
And Trump.
re: #310 The Pie Overlord!
Automatic life without parole if convicted.
re: #314 A Cranky One
17 year old kid. Had a military style weapon and has surely fantasized about shooting a “bad guy”.
And now he’s a murderer and the “bad guy”.
re: #315 William Lewis
Automatic life without parole if convicted.
In this case he ought to face the death penalty to send a message to every other wannabe Proud Boy thug.
How is it that an unarmed black man gets shot multiple times in the back, while a heavily armed white guy murders people with cops looking on and is able to get away and cross state lines? And is taken into custody without shots fired. I wonder (no, I’m not: it’s systemic racism)
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 26, 2020
I am afraid of this critical moment for our country.
A man went to Kenosha for Boogaloo tourism, and actually did the thing - shooting protestors.
This is a major escalation. The boogs have been talking big but none of them have ever carried it out. Yes, they’ve (VERY BELATEDLY, and apparently after he got back home so it’s not the Kenosha authorities doing it) arrested him, but there are people out there seeing this and saying “duh, he should have worn a mask”. “I could do that, and do it better.”
If the governor allowed for the Guard deployment with reasonable rules of engagement, I’m actually kinda in favor of it. The local cops are out of control, the wingers are using this for as much incitement as they can get away with, and I really don’t trust that the protestors aren’t getting infiltrated already, so shutting everything down hard may be the best play.
But if these are DHS goon squads sent in to incite and provoke, and the boogs are left to do their thing, then this will get fully out of control.
re: #318 lawhawk
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By the way, did the police take Little Proud Boy Thug Kyle to a Burger King, Hardees or McDonald’s to get a burger before going to jail?
And did the police tell Kyle they were proud of what he did?
re: #314 A Cranky One
17 year old kid. Had a military style weapon and has surely fantasized about shooting a “bad guy”.
And now he’s a murderer and the “bad guy”.
Why the fuck do we allow kids to own weapons designed specifically to kill people in large numbers?
Fuck the Republicans and the NRA.
And Trump.
And also his parents/guardians. What were they thinking even allowing him to have a military style weapon, and TAKE IT TO A PROTEST (or keeping it in such a place that he was able to take it without their knowing).
re: #317 🌹UOJB!
In this case he ought to face the death penalty to send a message to every other wannabe Proud Boy thug.
Wisconsin has never had the death penalty as a state, despite the GOP hard on for it. We did have one execution as a territory, IIRC.
re: #321 aatharuv
And also his parents/guardians. What were they thinking even allowing him to have a military style weapon, and TAKE IT TO A PROTEST (or keeping it in such a place that he was able to take it without their knowing).
It was probably THEIR gun.
re: #312 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
That would certainly work with rational people, but we are talking about the Trump base here. NOTHING will change their vote.
I am thinking it will keep them home. As to how many are unchangeable votes, we will have to wait and see (and in the meantime, agree to differ).
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