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The Deep State: they owe their alliegance to some outdated document and not to the Greatest President who Ever Served.
re: #1 (((Archangel1)))
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re: #6 Dave In Austin
There’s a padded cell in Arkham Asylum waiting for her.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.
They have to block something or they don’t feel like an intestinal polyp.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.
Oh if Newsom appointed Maxine Waters as an interim replacement for Dianne that would be glorious to see Mitch’s head explode…
re: #6 Dave In Austin
Crackers and Cheese are screwed, but prosecutors are giving them a lifeline with plea deal negotiations. So, yeah, they’re still screwed.
AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan
I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.
re: #13 lawhawk
There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.
I’ll make it easier for Gavin.
I’m taking myself out of consideration for that. 😏
The House GOP couldn’t pass the craptastic bill they proffered, that would slash and burn the safety net and make deep cuts to everything from housing to NASA.
It couldn’t get support of enough GOPers - because some GOPers want to burn it all down, and think the cuts aren’t deep enough, while others know that their districts rely on the funds to exist (like Alabama and NASA facilities there).
McCarthy again shows he can’t count, and makes no secret of it.
There are already 223 NO votes.
It’s dead— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 29, 2023
re: #3 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan
I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.
I’m not.
Either the Insurrection Clause means something, or it’s empty words like the Emoluments Clauses.
re: #12 dat_said
AP: Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan
I’m still ambivalent about disqualification but this is the first swing state.
I am not ambivalent, at all. We all know Trump deliberately incited a mob to attack the Capitol and prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory. That absolutely disqualifies him from holding political office.
Want to go to Mars with this sack of hammers?
We’re going into another shutdown thanks to the fascist/obstructionist GOP intent on burning it all down.
That’s the topline here - that’s the headline.
But media outlets will say the House failed. Or Congress failed.
Congress didn’t fail.
House GOP failed. The Senate had a plan. The President had a plan.
McCarthy had an agreement with Biden. He reneged on the deal, and this is entirely on him and the GOP for all the economic damage they’ll do with yet another shutdown caused by GOP intent to end government to deliver tax cuts to billionaires.
re: #8 No Malarkey!
GOP unlikely to filibuster replacement of Senator Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.
Dont know if the Article says
To be clear
This would not be a legislative filibuster/obstruction
Its a rules based
I just received this letter from a U.S. Army Reserve soldier describing how a shutdown will impact her.
It’s just awful.
Nobody should be rooting for a shutdown, people will really get hurt if this happens. pic.twitter.com/7ucLx0GHT7— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) September 29, 2023
re: #16 lawhawk
The House GOP couldn’t pass the craptastic bill they proffered, that would slash and burn the safety net and make deep cuts to everything from housing to NASA.
It couldn’t get support of enough GOPers - because some GOPers want to burn it all down, and think the cuts aren’t deep enough, while others know that their districts rely on the funds to exist (like Alabama and NASA facilities there).
McCarthy again shows he can’t count, and makes no secret of it.
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re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not.
Either the Insurrection Clause means something, or it’s empty words like the Emoluments Clauses.
^^^^^^^^This!
re: #19 No Malarkey!
I am not ambivalent, at all. We all know Trump deliberately incited a mob to attack the Capitol and prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory. That absolutely disqualifies him from holding political office.
Remember also, the insurrection was not just the events of 1/6
It includes all the planning leading up
And the actions lawsuits and rhetoric (lies) after
It was a concerted thought out organized event of which tfg was a central player from conception to, well it’s ongoing, isn’t it?
Mike Davis helped oversee Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Senate staffer and clerked for Justice Gorusch https://t.co/KNJK7z3RDj
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) September 29, 2023
re: #1 (((Archangel1)))
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re: #27 lawhawk
We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious.
DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?!?!? Holy shit!
re: #6 Dave In Austin
March of the Gladiators….
That’s all I got.
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Her hair looks nice in that photo. That’s the only good thing I have to say about Ms. Powell.
Senator Dianne Feinstein was one of the greatest public servants that California and our nation has ever known.
I will never forget how I felt in November 1992 as a 28-year-old prosecutor, driving across the bridge from my home in Oakland into San Francisco to celebrate her… pic.twitter.com/zfcGHbsRyV— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 29, 2023
I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.
There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.
I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.
And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.
So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?
House Republicans have turned their backs on the bipartisan budget deal that two-thirds of them voted for a few months ago.
Now, they’re marching toward an Extreme Republican Shutdown that would cause small businesses to lose out on over $100M in critical financing every day. pic.twitter.com/Evbyl5PqTg— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 29, 2023
Trailer dropped for the upcoming remake of The Toxic Avenger. It’s a red band trailer (for gore) so it’s behind the spoiler tag.
Stars Peter Dinklage as the titular character, with Jacob Trembley, Kevin Bacon, Taylour Paige and Elijah Wood. Written and directed by Macon Blair, based on the 1984 original film from Lloyd Kaufman.
Seems to be getting positive reviews from film critics.
re: #27 lawhawk
Note the grin on that Nazi’s face. Sickening.
good fucking grief
After listening to @RepThomasMassie in spaces with @TRHLofficial I have started reading different articles about transgenic edible vaccines…
Y’all, this is scary. https://t.co/iYoEMMM62B— Ellie Beacon (@EliotBeacon) September 29, 2023
re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅
Note the grin on that Nazi’s face. Sickening.
Now we know how the Nazis felt 90 years ago as they assumed power in Germany.
re: #38 Backwoods Sleuth
good fucking grief
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hahahahahahahahaaaaa
A new conspiracy, as Whiny Trump claims his wife’s new Tom Petty cover song is being shadow-banned, stuck behind the song, “Fake News II.” pic.twitter.com/cHvQuYWV9D
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2023
re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅
Oh if Newsom appointed Maxine Waters as an interim replacement for Dianne that would be glorious to see Mitch’s head explode…
That thought did cross my mind. It made me smile with an evil grin.
re: #27 lawhawk
Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.
re: #33 Mattand
I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.
There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.
I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter if ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.
And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.
So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?
Lots actually.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.
They’re not even ‘Just kidding, LOL! Trolling libs, LOL at you woke snowflakes’ anymore.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.
But I’m ridiculous one when I call this shit out to friends and family.
re: #29 Nerdy Fish
DO YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?!?!? Holy shit!
It sounded better in the original German.
re: #27 lawhawk
So they still want to deport me to a country which no longer exists.
Still banging on former Iowa Rep. Steve King’s fascism.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Oh, he’s a good one…..
When are American leaders going to address the violent Black underclass?
These monsters disproportionally harm hard-working, law-abiding Black Americans and other minorities trapped in urban hellholes.
Where are the Black “civil-rights leaders” (grifters)?
Mass incarceration. https://t.co/kDGRtgFY4C— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 29, 2023
This was 20 mins ago
Meanwhile, Abbott is shredding the Constitution and interstate commerce, to deny women access to health care (reproductive care is health care motherfuckers).
Congratulations to the Atlantic magazine, and the New York Times for spending the last five years telling us that the real threat to our liberty is Oberlin college kids rather than elected Republicans. You guys helped to create this. https://t.co/cEyJBI5lGw
— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) September 29, 2023
re: #41 Backwoods Sleuth
hahahahahahahahaaaaa
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Princesse de Dumballe & her dimwitted spouse do not understand “Copyright Infringement”
Love this. It means we are in 2nd and moving up fast.
Bring it! 👊🏽🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/wsE1PkawBh— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) September 29, 2023
These people are lunatics. All of them.
She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.
re: #53 lawhawk
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She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.
RFK Jr. will be the VP candidate.
re: #44 Belafon
Lots actually.
Hope so. This blog excepted and sample size of one, but the few military folks I know aren’t exactly fans of certain parts of the Constitution (right to assemble/protest) and people being atheist. I had one guy unambiguously to me I was what’s wrong with America for not buying into religion anymore.
So when a conservative Republican guy with military training tells me if you don’t believe in God, you”re not an true American, I tend put a pin on that.
re: #53 lawhawk
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She’s angling to be his VP, and everyone knows it.
I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.
*chef’s kiss*
NEWS
Trump’s ex-DOJ loyalist Jeffrey Clark LOSES his bid to transfer his criminal case to federal court.
DEVELOPING, @TheMessenger https://t.co/UW6yCqaIxO pic.twitter.com/bmGytXJaFc— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 29, 2023
Clark loses bid to remove case to federal court.
He gets to face the music in Georgia state courts.
re: #58 Mattand
I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.
Would guarantee AZ for Biden.
Coy, described as a “mullatto”; was tracked down by a posse and burned at the stake. Guess what? Here’s the twist: It was Jewell who set his gas soaked body ablaze. He maintained that they were lovers up until his death.#KeepItWoke#DedicatedToTam ✡️🕊https://t.co/KHaTjh76fR pic.twitter.com/x76Vs2eBGH
— Eddie Smith (@eddsmitty) September 29, 2023
Banned in Red States history classes.
re: #59 lawhawk
*chef’s kiss*
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He gets to face the music in Georgia state courts.
Good. Rot in hell, you treasonweasel bastard.
re: #60 Mike Lamb
Would guarantee AZ for Biden.
LOL, I never said it was smart choice for Trump…
Fingers crossed!
11 people are responsible for majority of school book challenges (and therefore book bans) across the US.
re: #56 Mattand
Hope so. This blog excepted and sample size of one, but the few military folks I know aren’t exactly fans of certain parts of the Constitution (right to assemble/protest) and people being atheist. I had one guy unambiguously to me I was what’s wrong with America for not buying into religion anymore.
So when a conservative Republican guy with military training tells me if you don’t believe in God, you”re not an true American, I tend put a pin on that.
I’ve been told the same thing, by plenty of civilians.
re: #58 Mattand
I’m calling Kari Lake as VP nom now. She’s not running against him, kisses his ass constantly, and is just as bugshit nuts as he is.
I don’t disagree.
I think she’s his preferred extremist.
re: #64 lawhawk
11 people are responsible for majority of school book challenges (and therefore book bans) across the US.
Because they face no consequences for sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. People like that should be shunned at the minimum.
After making solid early gains following good news on the inflation front, markets sharply reverse with news that the Shitdown, er Shutdown, is now all but inevitable.
Facebook is evil.
re: #13 lawhawk
There’s a lot of chatter about the replacement and that calling it interim screwed Barbara Lee who should have gotten the nod before Porter and Schiff jumped in.
Lee is upset that Newsom said he’d appoint a caretaker instead of someone who was already in the primary. That’s a fair position for Newsom to take, appointing someone who is already running is a tacit endorsement. It also gives them the advantages of incumbency because now they get to run as “Senator”.
And I get why Lee is upset she’s not going to get the appointment, she’s been running a distant third behind Porter and Schiff in both polls and donations - an appointment is probably her best chance of making the general election.
re: #49 Dave In Austin
Oh, he’s a good one…..
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So pardon all the violent white people but mass-incarcerate Black people and put Latino children in cages?
These people are dangerous to the world.
re: #51 lawhawk
Meanwhile, Abbott is shredding the Constitution and interstate commerce, to deny women access to health care (reproductive care is health care motherfuckers).
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Meanwhile, I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks the Constitution will stop Trump all on its own, and fear that electing him will be the end of democracy is just “fear porn.”
And Trump has the help of a little organization called the GOP, which will back his termination of the Constitution, which he has stated he will do. Institutions are stable, until they are not. The Civil War was unthinkable until it happened, but it showed the U.S. can break.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) September 29, 2023
It only took 4 years of total war and a million lives lost. If that is your idea of “stable,” I guess I understand why you are sanguine about the prospect of Trump stocking an administration full of loyalists all committed to breaking the country and wrecking vengeance.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) September 29, 2023
re: #51 lawhawk
So if you’re pregnant in Texas, and want to drive to New Mexico with your family for a Christmas ski vacation, Hot Wheels says “Fuck you.”
re: #72 No Malarkey!
Meanwhile, I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks the Constitution will stop Trump all on its own, and fear that electing him will be the end of democracy is just “fear porn.”
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There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.
re: #72 No Malarkey!
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I just can’t with people who insist that being sanguine is the position of the “savvy”
It’s what Jay Rosen laments in our media. It’s not savvy to live blissfully unaware of real danger to people who aren’t white, male, Christian, and cis.
re: #75 Ace Rothstein
There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.
No, it’s not, but these states are going to try to sell it as, “these people are traveling to other states to do things that are crimes in our states!” The City of Las Vegas would like a word with you; they have made a literal name for themselves out of allowing people to travel there to do things that are illegal at home.
re: #75 Ace Rothstein
There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.
It is, for now. The Christofascists are patient; they worked for 50 years to reverse Roe v. Wade, and they will keep working until they have turned America into Gilead, no matter how long it takes.
I would be willing to contribute to a fund for brave women who will drive through this county, pretend to be looking for an abortion, and sue their assessment off.
re: #78 No Malarkey!
Maybe these folks should have a lesson from Margaret Atwood of what The Handmaid’s Tale is really about.
re: #78 No Malarkey!
It is, for now. The Christofascists are patient; they worked for 50 years to reverse Roe v. Wade, and they will keep working until they have turned America into Gilead, no matter how long it takes.
It would take infinite time. They’re the most stupid people among us, and want to make life here worse, so outside of the reddest, most-stupid states, they have no chance.
I’ll put the over/under on the shutdown at five days. McCarthy will be under a lot of pressure to make a deal to reopen the government from his members, because they know they will be taking the blame from angry voters, and they have no leverage over the Democrats, who also know the Republicans are taking all the blame. McCarthy has to shut down the government, at least for a short time, to delay the inevitable motion to vacate the chair that is coming.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A last-ditch Republican funding effort collapses in the House, leaving the government on the verge of a shutdown.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 29, 2023
McCarthy, what a donkey. Let me give these maniacs everything they want, including only needing one person to invoke a motion to vacate, therefore giving me no leverage or power whatsoever, just so I can fulfill my wet dream of being Speaker that no one will ever remember me being. Well done, schmuck.
It’s not an Ozempic side-effect. She had surgery to limit her ability to eat, then lost too much weight on the drug.
Sharon Osbourne, 70, reveals devastating side effect of Ozempic weight loss (Metro)
re: #82 No Malarkey!
The tweet makes it look like Republicans tried to keep the government open.
re: #82 No Malarkey!
I’ll put the over/under on the shutdown at five days. McCarthy will be under a lot of pressure to make a deal to reopen the government from his members, because they know they will be taking the blame from angry voters, and they have no leverage over the Democrats, who also know the Republicans are taking all the blame. McCarthy has to shut down the government, at least few a short time, to delay the inevitable motion to vacate the chair that is coming.
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re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow. There are no more quiet parts with these monsters.
Fucker is already doubling down too:
And that’s only the start. https://t.co/IQ9IwYFADo
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 29, 2023
re: #87 Nerdy Fish
Delay, not prevent. He’s going to get a motion to vacate, no matter what happens. I don’t know if he fully understands that yet.
If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.
re: #89 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.
You love to see it.
re: #28 Vicious Babushka
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re: #87 Nerdy Fish
Yep, he’s a political dead man walking. He just doesn’t see it yet.
SO that House measure mandated a 30% cut to Social Security’s operating budget forcing the closure of 1/3 of the offices and terminating at least 12,000 employees.
Yeah that will really play well with AARP.
Also those assholes don’t realize that under Civil Service rules severance pay has to be issued to employees under Reduction In Force rules.
Example I’ve worked 46 years with the agency. Under a RIF if my job is eliminated the severance pay is 1 week of pay for the first 10 years and 2 weeks of pay for all years over that.
They got to cough up 82 weeks of pay if I get RIFed…
re: #94 Backwoods Sleuth
When you watch the Martian, this is what the astronauts actually saw. They just embellished the story a bit. /
(Every story gets one beyond belief idea.)
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is filing for bankruptcy just days before a new law takes effect removing the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases. https://t.co/Yeoo3HUCSc
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 29, 2023
Reminder that you can monitor flooding around NYC in real time at https://t.co/Vuj0EC4NAQ
It’s looking like it’s already a mess to get around Gowanus this morning pic.twitter.com/AmgRtDf8kf— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) September 29, 2023
The list view on FloodNet gives you a look at the sensor stations currently seeing the most flooding in NYC:https://t.co/kfVsAy5uuJ
Luckily things seem to be abating. pic.twitter.com/7fSEwG0UUT— Jer Thorp (@blprnt) September 29, 2023
re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #96 Backwoods Sleuth
Keeping their eyes on the prize.
re: #98 Vicious Babushka
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re: #89 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
If he doesn’t understand that his days are numbered, he’s even dumber than he looks. He grabbed a stupid destructive tiger by the tail.
Unfortunately any other GOP representative is likely to be far worse than McCarthy as Speaker: a devout Trumpster who is truly owned by Putin.
re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅
I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.
I swear, if this asshole manages to get Trump elected again…
re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately any other GOP representative is likely to be far worse than McCarthy as Speaker: a devout Trumpster who is truly owned by Putin.
I don’t know that another Republican can win a vote for the position. The party is extremely dysfunctional, and some of the worst of them are in the House.
re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅
I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.
Cornell West too.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
I swear, if this asshole manages to get Trump elected again…
Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.
re: #105 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I don’t know that another Republican can win a vote for the position. The party is extremely dysfunctional, and some of the worst of them are in the House.
It’s going to be McCarthy again, but with significant concessions to the Democrats this time in exchange for saving his bacon. It’s the only way they avoid continually taking votes for Speaker until 2025.
re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.
RFK Jr.’s primary draw is his significant anti-vaccination record. That’s only going to appeal to a very specific audience, the right-wing anti-vaxx nutjobs. Joe Biden’s campaign manager isn’t going to lose sleep over RFK Jr. running as an independent.
re: #99 Backwoods Sleuth
Since much of NYC’s hydrological features have been paved over or built over, the water has no where to go except to streets and basements. That tool is great for showing it.
Meanwhile, rivers are seeing substantial to major flooding in the Bronx and some flooding in NJ.
It’s only a matter of time before he is hunting tranquilized animals in a fenced in African game preserve with Don Jr for their guide-assisted trophy kill selfies. pic.twitter.com/eROsgrm4Jk
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2023
re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.
Joe never had the far left anyway. They were going to vote for the first clown that showed up.
I have to admit I no longer trust the voters of the US not to fall for someone like RFK Jr. though. This country is off the rails.
re: #110 Backwoods Sleuth
Watch the hearing here: https://t.co/FDwZktE2g2
— Tamar Hallerman (@TamarHallerman) September 29, 2023
Scott was indicted on racketeering and six counts of conspiracy.
He was seen on security footage at the Coffee County Board of Elections on Jan 7, 2021, when a team of pro-Trump operatives and a forensic data team copied sensitive elections info— Tamar Hallerman (@TamarHallerman) September 29, 2023
re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.
Sadly there are DSA members in Los Angeles who will work for Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. The same folks who embraced Jill Stein in 2016 and the No-Name Green fool who ran in 2020. And there are others behind Cornholio West.
— Paul Leigh-Some Rascal on the Internet 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Pleightx) September 29, 2023
re: #108 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Only idiots will vote for him. Most idiots are Republicans. Joe would just lose the far-left.
The really far left that didn’t vote for him in 2020 and wouldn’t have voted for him if it was just him and Trump that ran.
re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅
Sadly there are DSA members in Los Angeles who will work for Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr. The same folks who embraced Jill Stein in 2016 and the No-Name Green fool who ran in 2020. And there are others behind Cornholio West.
To Charles’s point, though, they never would’ve voted for Biden anyway. If it wasn’t Stein, or West, or RFK Jr., or Bernie, they’d just sit at home and cry about their purity ponies.
2 1/2 years of probation. Can’t talk to the media or other witnesses. Can testify at other trials.
re: #121 darthstar
2 1/2 years of probation. Can’t talk to the media or other witnesses. Can testify at other trials.
Go to trial, go to jail
re: #122 Dangerman
Go to trial, go to jail
They dropped the most serious charge - racketeering - in order to secure his cooperation on the other charges. I always figured that was the strategy: Dangle the big time (Georgia RICO) over the small fish to get them to bite at the lesser charges, use their testimony to nail the big fish.
19 Georgia defendants in the hall
19 Georgia defendants…
Plea one deal
Hear him squeal
18 Georgia defendants in the hall.
It’s people like Jeffrey Clark doj environ aag not obvious outspoken Mike Flynn types that end up being the straw that broke the camel’s (democracy’s) back
A malleable toadie in an opportune place and time
My oven may have been designed by a stoner. The incineration cleaning cycle takes four hours and twenty minutes.
With breakthrough for Georgia DA (@TamarHallerman reporting: “SCOTT HALL has become the first co-defendant in the Fulton election interference case to take a plea deal with prosecutors.”)
That spells bad news for, among others, Sidney Powell.
Example of alleged joint actions.👇 pic.twitter.com/odMM5C7JtX— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 29, 2023
Let the gourd times roll pic.twitter.com/tqRRHvyU5S
— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) September 29, 2023
re: #127 Backwoods Sleuth
Sidney Powell will be lucky if she doesn’t get sentenced and incarcerated in a Georgia state prison before Xmas.
Her trial won’t take long. And she should start looking for a property management company to rent her house out until she gets back from prison.
Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”
Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and Biden
Did you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?
re: #131 Dangerman
Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”
Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and BidenDid you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?
In the meantime, the House D’s and the Biden 18 are working on a discharge petition for the Senate CR, bypassing poor Qevin altogether.
Oops
Breaking: An NLRB judge has ordered Starbucks to compensate thousands of workers represented by @SBWorkersUnited after it illegally raised wages and benefits for all nonunion baristas last year https://t.co/hvuWaEsvMP
— Parker Purifoy (@parker_purifoy) September 28, 2023
re: #123 Nerdy Fish
They dropped the most serious charge - racketeering - in order to secure his cooperation on the other charges. I always figured that was the strategy: Dangle the big time (Georgia RICO) over the small fish to get them to bite at the lesser charges, use their testimony to nail the big fish.
Speaking of the next fish in the food chain…who wore it better?
re: #132 Nerdy Fish
In the meantime, the House D’s and the Biden 18 are working on a discharge petition for the Senate CR, bypassing poor Qevin altogether.
I’m wondering how they get around that it has to be referred to a committee 30 days prior
Unless I’m missing something
re: #110 Backwoods Sleuth
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Had to put that in a toot to get proper side by side alignment.
That smell is the smell of a BURN
So close! The government actually needs to be funded 100% to stay open. Hope this helps. https://t.co/pylAF2vZAj
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 29, 2023
re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅
I expected that ass to do that all along. He’s this year’s Jill Stein.
Because of the electoral college outcome, we pay a lot of attention to Stein’s impact on the 2016 race, but the numbers show that Johnson had a fairly solid impact the other way…
In Nevada, more people voted for Johnson than Clinton’s margin of victory (Clinton won by 2.4%, Johnson got 3.29%).
In Pennsylvania, while more people voted for Stein than Trump’s margin of victory, nearly three times as many people voted for Johnson than for Stein.
New Hampshire is the same story, Clinton won by 0.37%, 4.15% voted for Johnson
Wisconsin, Trump won by 0.77%, 1.04% went for Stein, 3.58% went for Johnson
Michigan looks almost the same as Wisconsin - 0.23% margin of victory, 1.07% for Stein, 3.59% for Johnson.
Clinton won New Mexico by 8%, but over 9% voted for Johnson
In Minnesota, more people voted for Johnson than Clinton’s margin of victory.
But as others have said, RFK Jr is not going to draw much from Biden’s vote totals. It’s unlikely any third party votes are going to make an impact - it’ll be pretty close to the 2% it was in 2020 and what it has been most years (2016 was an outlier).
The general election is ultimately going to come down to turnout. Trump’s ceiling is 46-47% of the vote - that’s what he got in 2016 and 2020. He’s not done anything to convince anyone who didn’t vote for him last time to vote for him this time, so his best case scenario is to match what he did last time (which was about 74m votes nationally). Of course, he doesn’t have the advantages of incumbency, he’s spending more money on legal fees than campaigning, and most of his free press this time around is going to be him on trial. My guess is that he won’t reach 74m votes nationally this time.
Biden, on the other hand, has the advantage of incumbency, a good economy, and not being crazy. If he can turn out the 81m he did last time, he’ll win. If he can grow that number, it’ll be a blow out.
I like Biden’s odds of growing his voter pool more than Trump growing his.
re: #138 darthstar
The camo doesn’t work. We can still see who she is.
re: #131 Dangerman
Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”
Plans A through N have failed.
Yeah O (15th) is gonna be the winner to get past the FC, Senate and BidenDid you save it for last for the nostalgia of #15?
The Wanker Of The House will keep Plan 9 From Outer Space as a last resort.
re: #139 Dangerman
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“The Senate has done zero.”
Yes, because they can’t FUCKING DO ANYTHING until you idiots do!
re: #131 Dangerman
Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”
Coincidentally, 111 years, 5 months, and 14 days ago, Captain Edward Smith, late of the Titanic, uttered these very same words.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
“The Senate has done zero.”
Yes, because they can’t FUCKING DO ANYTHING until you idiots do!
Wah the Senate hasn’t done my job for me.
Double wah, the Senate won’t pull my ass out of the fire
re: #143 Vicious Babushka
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1. The government shutting down every 5 years or so.
re: #131 Dangerman
Said McCarthy: “It’s not the end yet. I have other ideas.”
What words did Butch Cassidy say to Sundance down in Bolivia when they were surrounded by the Federales?
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Things I never worried about living in Canada:
1. The government shutting down every 5 years or so.
Yes because if your government can’t pass a budget it falls and you have a snap election for a new House of Commons.
This is from the same guy who posted the supermarket clock.
Polling shows RFK Jr. is considerably more popular with Republicans than Democrats. Him running third party is unlikely to hurt Biden at at all, while drawing conservatives who think Trump is too soft on vaccines. https://t.co/8yrAvISH9T
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) September 29, 2023
re: #151 wrenchwench
This is from the same guy who posted the supermarket clock.
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I got an extended warranty notice about my car. By snail mail. I don’t have a car. I like seeing the Post Office getting a little income. They have a handy recycling bin right there.
re: #154 wrenchwench
I got an extended warranty notice about my car. By snail mail. I don’t have a car. I like seeing the Post Office getting a little income. They have a handy recycling bin right there.
What if something goes wrong with the car you do not have. Can you handle that very unexpected expense?
re: #70 KGxvi
Lee is upset that Newsom said he’d appoint a caretaker instead of someone who was already in the primary. That’s a fair position for Newsom to take, appointing someone who is already running is a tacit endorsement. It also gives them the advantages of incumbency because now they get to run as “Senator”.
And I get why Lee is upset she’s not going to get the appointment, she’s been running a distant third behind Porter and Schiff in both polls and donations - an appointment is probably her best chance of making the general election.
She’s my Congresscritter. I like her. But seniority is everything in the Senate, and she is 77. How many terms could she serve?
re: #155 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
What if something goes wrong with the car you do not have. Can you handle that very unexpected expense?
The level attained by the unexpectedness would be so extreme, I’m afraid I could not handle that.
Mark your calendar: Judge Chutkan sets a hearing for 10/16 on prosecutors’ request for a partial gag order for Donald Trump in the federal election obstruction case
DOJ’s request: https://t.co/BjbhOcs4cd
Trump’s oppo: https://t.co/Dm11CYqzIJ pic.twitter.com/WUSfzxgGBy— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) September 29, 2023
Trump in California: “The state is rigged … no way we lose this state in a real election” (Trump lost to Biden by more than 30 points in 2020) pic.twitter.com/3z9qcu18In
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 29, 2023
re: #33 Mattand
I think the thing with military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first is that I worry we’re eventually going to run out of military guys like General Milley unflinchingly stating they’re Constitution-first.
There’s an alternate universe out that where Trump managed to get Mike Flynn appointed military Chief-of-Staff.
I sometimes think that the GOP getting their ducks in a row and electing an “All the evil, none of the obvious crazy” POTUS is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’. And from there, it’s a short step to get a bunch of Mike Flynn-loons behind them to go full SS.
And yeah, he’s mea culpa-ing all over the fucking place now, but Milley initially had no problem marching to that frigging church with Trump and his Bible, while soldiers beat the shit out of protesters. He may have instantly regretted it, but he still did it.
So, yeah, good on Milley for doing the right thing eventually, I guess, but how many more Milleys are left?
From the 1931 Mukden self-bombing in Manchuria and subsequent terror campaign i Tokyo against politicians and business leaders to the 1936 attempted coup, it was a combination of ultra-nationalists with junior officers (informed by radical writings by people like Kita Ikki that pushed the senior corp to come to the conclusion that the running of the government couldn’t be left to the politicians. That’s my concern here—the linking of the ultra-right and Christian ultra-nationalists continuously radicalized joining with lower ranking officers who don’t agree with Milley and senior officers.
re: #75 Ace Rothstein
There is no way in hell (not that it matters) that blocking people from traveling to other states is legal.
It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).
I hate Illinois Nazis.
JUST IN: Donald Trump’s attorney advises @MichaelCohen212’s counsel that Trump intends to attend his civil fraud trial in-person in NYC next week.
Cohen gets to depose Trump on 10/9. https://t.co/47mnDKBwP9— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) September 29, 2023
re: #157 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
She’s my Congresscritter. I like her. But seniority is everything in the Senate, and she is 77. How many terms could she serve?
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re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).
Cannot believe that would be legal in this nation today.
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re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Cannot believe that would be legal in this nation today.
It wasn’t legal then either. They did it anyway.
As our reporting shows, it’s a mistake to think that Hall’s conduct & personal knowledge is limited to the voting system breach.
The allegations against him in the indictment extend beyond Coffee County and connect him to some of Trump’s top allies, including Jeffrey Clark.— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) September 29, 2023
“We’re deliberately stopping the paychecks of thousands who live paycheck to paycheck like many in our military. So here’s some martyrdom performance art to make abject ignoramuses think we’re really selfless patriotic heroes!” https://t.co/G1fajuqxrV
— scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) September 29, 2023
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It wasn’t legal then either. They did it anyway.
We are far more litigious today — that would definitely be going to the court.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).
There’s “legal” and there’s “so what if it’s not, who’s going to enforce that law?”
re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth
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jfc
Trump sneers about Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was assaulted by a deranged MAGA: “How’s her husband doing, anybody know?”
He adds that the wall around her house “didn’t do a very good job.” pic.twitter.com/dnxjXsoNAW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 29, 2023
Trump’s pitch to California voters is completely beyond parody. Please watch this. pic.twitter.com/cvFXTwJJLY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 29, 2023
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s been done in this country before (such as using the National Guard and police to prevent people from fleeing the Dust Bowl at state lines).
The Mann Act.
re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth
Luna has a net worth of around $6 million.
re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth
Performative bulkshit.
re: #176 Backwoods Sleuth
California is such a horrible place to live you can buy a house in LA for a dollar.
re: #27 lawhawk
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re: #152 gocart mozart
Polling shows RFK Jr. is considerably more popular with Republicans than Democrats. Him running third party is unlikely to hurt Biden at at all, while drawing conservatives who think Trump is too soft on vaccines. https://t.co/8yrAvISH9T
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) September 29, 2023
RFin’K has broad appeal across the whole spectrum of batshit beliefs. He has Trump dead to rights on a lot of it, too: His “warp speed” promotion of vaccines, his failure to expose the UFO cover-up, the faked Moon landing, secret underground child prisons, etc. I think he could take half the repug vote and only a tiny percentage of mostly elderly Democrats.
The jump.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/EnR2ixA1rE
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 29, 2023
re: #180 wrenchwench
So the Mann Act only applies to women. Sneaky.
Mann Act applies to women & Black people. It was created to stop interracial couples from cross state lines to elope.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
Luna has a net worth of around $6 million.
And a backstory almost as full of holes as Santos’.
Trump smells like rancid Filet-O-Fishes and fumunda cheese.
But, seriously, what is it with this guy and bathroom fixtures? https://t.co/UX7cL7y5fn— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 29, 2023
re: #193 Vicious Babushka
That looks delicious.
re: #195 Backwoods Sleuth
It continues to be annoying that this Hitler wannabe is free to travel all over the country inciting his present-day Nazis.
O_o
Trump claims he will fill the canals to irrigate the bathrooms and dampen the forests to prevent fires pic.twitter.com/3J3oYMacqS
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 29, 2023
On topic of loyalty in the military:
After 30 years of working with the last and current generation of Army officers, I have some worries.
+I worry that some of our officers aren’t as bright as they need to be.
+I worry that too many of our officers believe their own bullshit.
+I worry that the OER evaluation system is a powderpuff.
I do not worry at all that any significant number of soldiers, officer or EM, are disloyal or a threat to the country. It ain’t there.
re: #195 Backwoods Sleuth
The troubling thing is his marks believe him.
They can be convinced that the beautiful people in Beverly Hills, one of the coveted locations on this planet in which to live, somehow smell worse than the the marks themselves.
It’s telling about the nature of H. sapiens , that such things as words from Trump’s mouth can be believed simply because he repeats them often enough.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
Luna is one of the worse GOP congresscritters. Her hypocricasy is way up there.
re: #193 Vicious Babushka
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re: #127 Backwoods Sleuth
SCOTT HALL has become the first co-defendant in the Fulton election interference case to take a plea deal with prosecutors.
If not me - who will be next?
(is what his co-defendants are thinking)
re: #185 Backwoods Sleuth
That kitty looks like my late Minuet - had her for 16 years before I sent her across the Rainbow Bridge and moved to Minnesota for my job.
How much did it rain in Central Park, you ask? Enough so that some of the Zoo’s sea lions were able to leave their enclosure and swim around the zoo! pic.twitter.com/vHNmZRN9Si
— Above_96th (@Above96th) September 29, 2023
This is funny. A pro-DeSantis “journalist” got ejected from the Reagan Library for harassing Kari Lake, with questions like, “when Mar-a-Lago is repossessed, where are you going to live.”
re: #210 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Black women bringing the fire again.
Carville on The Weaker Of The House—when you elect a bowl of Jello you get a bowl of Jello
OMB director Shalanda Young is asked about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy not taking a paycheck during the shut down — and says members of congress must get paid constitutionally. “That is theater. The guy who picks up the trash in my office won’t get a paycheck. That’s real”
— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 29, 2023
re: #200 Decatur Deb
On topic of loyalty in the military:
After 30 years of working with the last and current generation of Army officers, I have some worries.
+I worry that some of our officers aren’t as bright as they need to be.
+I worry that too many of our officers believe their own bullshit.
+I worry that the OER evaluation system is a powderpuff.I do not worry at all that any significant number of soldiers, officer or EM, are disloyal or a threat to the country. It ain’t there.
As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).
Has this threat abated?
re: #217 EPR-radar
As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).
Has this threat abated?
Only worked with USAF during a 2-year DoD stint in Israel. The threat is real enough to cause day-to-day problems (besides being plain wrong). The structure and culture of the services won’t let it rise to the point of subversion.
Trump said today that when he is President, he will allow shoplifters to be shot on sight as they are trying to leave a store. https://t.co/8bOE4YzVns
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2023
re: #219 No Malarkey!
Let’s turn every Tom, Dick, and Harry into a one-man judge, jury, and executioner. Let anyone shoot anyone any time they suspect someone of committing a crime. Full stop, no justification necessary beyond, “I thought they were criming.” What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!
re: #219 No Malarkey!
For the sake of god and country, keep him talking.
OK, this has been a weird ass news day.
Feinstein passed.
Two are arrested in England - a 16 year old and a man in his 60’s - over cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree.
They finally arrested someone for 2Pac’s killing.
And the least surprising bit is that the Weaker of the House, blew it again.
If I didn’t have to work at 11, I’d go buy some Guinness…
re: #219 No Malarkey!
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re: #223 wrenchwench
It’d getting more difficult to insist that the media cover him seriously.
He has a lock on the all-important “Old Man Yells At Clouds” demographic.
re: #219 No Malarkey!
Then what do we do with people who attempt a coup? It’ll have to be much worse than being shot. I’ve read some things about punishments in the brutal past that you can’t unread, and have some ideas.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 29, 2023
re: #207 Vicious Babushka
Three Dog Fight
EDIT: Three Dog Shiite
Hey, wait a minute. Are you implying that MTG is a bitch?
Oh wait. Never mind.
This is so insane, I don’t even know where to start. It’s at the exact same level of dumbfuckery as nuking hurricanes. https://t.co/hG0pqD7Udw
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 29, 2023
re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth
Maybe a court can sentence him to six to ten years of forest dampening.
re: #228 jaunte
Maybe a court can sentence him to six to ten years of forest dampening.
According to an expert professional witness, he lacks the equipment.
re: #231 No Malarkey!
Does raking forests not work any more?
Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.
BREAKING: Louisiana voters file an emergency petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a 5th Circuit decision that is delaying the creation of a congressional map with a second majority-Black district.https://t.co/7W86BlSdZg
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) September 29, 2023
re: #232 Nerdy Fish
Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.
Yeah, dampening forests is just the ticket for being taken seriously
Another banger:
“Austria, you look at so many countries, they live in the forest, they’re considered ‘forest cities,’ so many of them,” Trump told Fox News. “And they don’t have fires like this. And they have more explosive trees.”
But the reason that Austria and Germany haven’t had megafires recently is part luck. Those countries tend to be cooler and rainier. But climate change is causing hotter, drier summers in central Europe, and the region could see bigger wildfires as the trend continues. Close-to-nature forest management may hold some solutions.
theworld.org
re: #234 No Malarkey!
Yeah, dampening forests is just the ticket for being taken seriously
Butbutbut Very Serious People (tm) told him that it was the best idea, of course it would work, big serious people, tears in their eyes, “Sir, sir, it’s the best idea for preventing forest fires we’ve ever seen!”
re: #237 jaunte
It’s key to weed out the most explosive trees.
Get ‘em with a rake when they’re small.
re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #232 Nerdy Fish
Nonono, they made fun of him too much for that one. He’s got to come up with a new grift that they won’t laugh out loud at him for.
And after Finland corrected him, Austria also pointed out his folly.
“There have been both serious and humorous conversations on social media about the `exploding trees’ (Trump) mentioned, as well as the fact that he claimed we live within `forest cities’ which never catch fire,” Elisabeth Koestinger, Austria’s agriculture minister, wrote. “As Austrians, fortunately blessed with a healthy sense of humour, we normally take such cliches about our country in our stride.”
“However, the gravity of current events make Trump’s words much more worrying — after all, right at this moment, thousands of people are fighting horrendous wildfires in life-or-death situations,” she said.
“In reality, Austria is a country situated in the heart of Europe, where people do not live in the forest, but rather with the forest and in a close, sustainable relationship with the natural environment,” Koestinger wrote.
re: #231 No Malarkey!
Does raking forests not work any more?
PEOPLE OF NEW YORK, DO NOT PANIC. Donald Trump has a plan to dig canals and drain your city into the forests of Southern California. https://t.co/U231h0bgt0
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 29, 2023
re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth
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Ivanka, Cokehead, and the Idiot, it’s time for y’all to come together an’ put Daddy in a home, now.
re: #216 Backwoods Sleuth
And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.
re: #235 jaunte
Another banger:
In this clip he claims he learned this from an expert in Austria and tells a long story about Austria. But every time he told this story before it took place in Finland. https://t.co/Oz1P62fiBq
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2023
Same fake story, but this time it was Finland. https://t.co/5olowN3eC6
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 29, 2023
Can we just, like… stop taking this man seriously? I wish the media would collectively start treating him like the crackpot he is. “Florida Man Claims Raking Forests Will Solve Forest Fires.” “Florida Man Volunteers to Shoot Shoplifters on Sight.” “Florida Man Wants to Water California Forests.” Instead, they cover him like he’s a serious candidate for office.
The speech he gave today was beyond meandering. It was deranged, vicious, out of control, bizarre, and sick. And they all laughed. And it was on a teleprompter. So someone wrote that shit? Seriously scary. And they all laughed. https://t.co/L0Kxan2aBc
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 29, 2023
re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The troubling thing is his marks believe him.
They can be convinced that the beautiful people in Beverly Hills, one of the coveted locations on this planet in which to live, somehow smell worse than the the marks themselves.
It’s telling about the nature of H. sapiens , that such things as words from Trump’s mouth can be believed simply because he repeats them often enough.
That would be the sub-species H. sapiens optimatium
re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth
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Joe Scarborough: Who are these people?
Me: Republicans, Joe. They’re YOUR people. They’re REPUBLICANS. You’ve been heading this way since Newt, buddy.
re: #242 A Three Hour Tour
Ivanka, Cokehead, and the Idiot, it’s time for y’all to come together an’ put Daddy in a home, now.
Trump is trying out the Vincent “the Chin” Gigante shuffle in an effort to avoid prosecution.
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re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth
“Imagine being the type of person that would laugh about an 82 year old man being assaulted with a hammer to his head. Who are these people?” — Joe Scarborough
Dear Joe, You got your start in politics as a Republican in the mid-90s. Everything in the GOP that has led to Trump was well underway back then, with Gingrich’s declaration of a scorched-earth partisan forever war by the GOP that has continued without interruption ever since then. Since you do not yet seem to realize that Trump is merely movement conservatism perfected in every way, you still need remedial political education.
re: #252 EPR-radar
He’s still trying to paper over the fascist monster and pretend the “reasonable” Republicans can control things.
re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth
It would not surprise me at all if Trump wrote his own stuff and then has some poor bastard type it in to the teleprompter for him.
Best rando response to Rs have no plan to avoid a shutdown
There is a much bigger story than this, and the near universal refusal of the media to even acknowledge the story is frightening.
Joe Biden, the POTUS, has made two incredible speeches the last two days. Both speeches have been beautiful but frightening. He is warning the American people of approaching fascism and the forces pushing that fascism on us. It’s beyond political. It’s an existential crisis centered around misinformation and disinformation that could very well topple our democracy. And Joe Biden laid it out there better than most POTUSs could.
Yet, the media’s reaction is horrid. Both sides. Burying the headline. Implicitly supporting the disinformation and misinformation.
American political journalism is an abject failure. A complete failure
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So how long before some kid stealing a baseball cap at a Cabella’s gets shot in the back by another customer doing his ‘patriotic duty’?
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.
Congress will *never* vote their own not getting paid
re: #217 EPR-radar
As I recall, Christofascist wingnuts had a particular focus on the Air Force, perhaps in part because the Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs, which for a long time was Jesus Freak Central (maybe less so these days).
Has this threat abated?
It has not. Focus on the Family moved there to be next to the Air Force Academy.
The Air Force Academy frequently gets rebuked for things like allowing their people on the base to proselytise. The Freedom from Religion Foundation was initially founded to go after their threat, but has expanded nationwide because military personnel are not safe from all Christian denominations trying to impose their will on officers, enlisted, and veterans. (I’ve made two complains to MRFF: One about FE Warren AFB displaying church challenge coins in a cross-shaped box at the security office, and the VA in Cheyenne about the “missing man” table in the cafeteria being hijacked by a local church to include Christian symbology. Both were corrected.)
Air Force staff are frequently found promoting religion in classrooms at the Academy.
re: #251 BeenHereAwhile
Trump is trying out the Vincent “the Chin” Gigante shuffle in an effort to avoid prosecution.
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Oh then he shouldn’t oughta be president, right?
re: #229 Decatur Deb
According to an expert professional witness, he lacks the equipment.
We can supply him with a water hose.
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
It would not surprise me at all if Trump wrote his own stuff and then has some poor bastard type it in to the teleprompter for him.
There are no poor bastards anymore.
At this point, you know. Everyone does.
So if you work for him, its eyes wide open
re: #252 EPR-radar
“Imagine being the type of person that would laugh about an 82 year old man being assaulted with a hammer to his head. Who are these people?” — Joe Scarborough
Dear Joe, You got your start in politics as a Republican in the mid-90s. Everything in the GOP that has led to Trump was well underway back then, with Gingrich’s declaration of a scorched-earth partisan forever war by the GOP that has continued without interruption ever since then. Since you do not yet seem to realize that Trump is merely movement conservatism perfected in every way, you still need remedial political education.
Plus all that time Joe Scarborough gave him in 2016 calling into his show to interview him repeatedly. Scarborough helped elect him.
re: #247 Backwoods Sleuth
Who are these people?
They are barbarians. Civilization, its benefits and restraints, are something they do not understand and wouldn’t like it if they did.
All they understand and want is power. Power to do what they want, to who they want, when they want.
That we aren’t slapping them down, hard, every time they raise their heads will destroy us,
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.
The Constitution requires Congress to be paid. It does not prohibit Congress from being fined every day for not doing their jobs.
re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg
And that’s really the crux of it. I feel like the GOP would be a little more motivated to keep the government open if a shutdown meant THEY would not get paid.
Maybe I have an overzealous imagination but somehow I think they may consider the gov’t payday not that significant to their livelihood.
Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.
“Penny ante?”
Rolling Stone, yesterday
NFL Ad Ran on Zombie Twitter Account Calling for Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce’s Deaths
“The social platform continues to place brand spots alongside the dangerous extremists it refuses to rein in”
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been at pains to lure back advertisers who deserted the platform in droves after Elon Musk’s takeover, slashing the site’s revenue in the process. Last month, the company even rolled out expanded features for brands, including tools to help keep their ads away from undesirable content like hate speech.
But those measures have proven wildly ineffective so far, at least where one major ad partner — the NFL — is concerned. Reports from Media Matters reveal that X has been serving the league’s promoted content on a number of verified and openly white nationalist accounts with a million followers between them. These include profiles for white supremacist Richard Spencer and VDare, an anti-immigrant organization (and Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group) that has specifically attacked the NFL and encouraged a boycott of the league over players supporting Black Lives Matter, denouncing the movement as “anti-white blood libel.”
NFL ads were also served on the account of Andrew Torba, CEO of the Nazi-infested rival website Gab, himself a notorious antisemite. When he retweeted a racist meme depicting a boat full of non-white migrants that warned “You’re being conquered,” an NFL clip from Sept. 14 game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles appeared right below it.
X did not reply to a request for comment on the ad placements.
Media Matters noted that NFL spots — which are supposed to generate revenue for verified users whose timelines they appear on — likewise turned up in Rumble streaming host Stew Peters’ feed. Peters is a far-right conspiracy theorist who has regularly demonized Jews and LGBTQ people but is perhaps best known for his extreme anti-vax positions and spreading other falsehoods about Covid-19. He pushed the conspiracy theory that Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who collapsed on the field in January due to cardiac arrest but went on to make a complete recovery, actually died because he was vaccinated and has been replaced by an actor.
(more)
The NFL only met last week with Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, praising her for making the platform better for fans and partners.
Yesterday the NFL said it denounces racism and hate speech and says it has no relationship with the people mentioned by Media Matters. They say they’ve expressed their concerns to Twitter.
They did not say they were pulling their advertising from Twitter.
re: #264 Romantic Heretic
Who are these people?
They are barbarians. Civilization, its benefits and restraints, are something they do not understand and wouldn’t like it if they did.
All they understand and want is power. Power to do what they want, to who they want, when they want.
That we aren’t slapping them down, hard, every time they raise their heads will destroy us,
That bolded part is the crux. Rich sociopaths in the US back in the New Deal era decided they didn’t want to pay the taxes necessary for civilization. Later on, they formed common cause with bigots leaving the Democrats because the party was finally making progress on civil rights. That’s the foundation of movement conservatism in the US.
Everything since then — Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, W Bush, and finally Trump — has merely been the consequences of this unholy alliance playing out. Movement conservatism is destroyed or civilization is. There is no middle ground, no compromise, no both-sides.
re: #267 Unabogie
Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.
“Penny ante?”
Fuck bmaz.
re: #268 So Cal Greek Hippie
Short SC.7 Skyvan
en.wikipedia.org
re: #267 Unabogie
Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
Scott Hall participated in a break in of our voting machines in furtherance of a plot to overthrow the government.
“Penny ante?”
I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).
One does tend to wonder.
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).
It always was. Same with Tish.
re: #267 Unabogie
Bmaz over at Emptywheel is saying the fact that Fani Willis got the first conspirator to flip with a probation deal is just proof that it’s all “penny ante bullshit”
“Penny ante?”
Seems a little early to rush in to judge the entire prosecution, but I’m no legal expert.
RFK jr is a disgusting, self-centered, hallucinating simpleton.
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@JamesWGarrett1) September 30, 2023
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m beginning to think this is about more than DA Willis’s case (cough skin colour).
I’m anxious for the trial(s).
Special counsel Jack Smith includes Trump’s recent Truth Social attack on Mark Milley in a filing today arguing to restrict Trump’s extrajudicial statements. (Judge Chutkan today scheduled a hearing on this question for Oct. 16.)
Hip-firing my Barrett 50 cal pic.twitter.com/OkNnjWid0r
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2023
A day after cosplaying as border patrol, he is now dog whistling to all the anti-immigrant militias with his “2nd Amendment solution.”
re: #282 DodgerFan1988
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A day after cosplaying as border patrol, he is now dog whistling to all the anti-immigrant militias with his “2nd Amendment solution.”
The Barrett is a sniper system. Snipers always fire from the hip. Fuckn’ clown.
re: #1 (((Archangel1)))
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