As the Confederate Flag was finally pulled down from the South Carolina State House, neo-Confederates unleashed a firehose of howling rage, while at the same time blaming “Democrats” for the flag’s shameful history.
Right-Wing Mourns CSA.@KidRock sucks at geography, also music. @PoliticalGroove
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 10, 2015
I would be savoring this moment a lot more if I were not reminded of the tragic incident that precipitated this whole affair, and why it had to come to something like that to get people to finally realize what that symbol in that spot really meant.
Are the losers throwing another temper tantrum or is this just a continuation of the one they have been on?
fascinating that someone downdinged this page.
Walter Williams. Black neo-Confederate. All around crazy wack-job.@LeahR77
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 10, 2015
Really, the man is not right in the head.
I can’t imagine who the wingnuts are trying to convince with these weak arguments.
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
Walter Williams. Black neo-Confederate. All around crazy wack-job
Oh yeah, I recall hearing him once filling in for Rush Limbaugh…telling us about the thousands of negro volunteers who fought for the South…
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
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Really, the man is not right in the head.
I’d like to know who these Black people were who fought for the Confederacy, when the Confederate government never gave authorization for black troops.
re: #6 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I can’t imagine who the wingnuts are trying to convince with these weak arguments.
They cannot remain silent and have to fill the airwaves with sounds.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
fascinating that someone downdinged this page.
Maybe one of its Tweets is featured in this collection?
re: #6 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I can’t imagine who the wingnuts are trying to convince with these weak arguments.
Themselves.
re: #3 b.d.
Are the losers throwing another temper tantrum or is this just a continuation of the one they have been on?
They’ve been in frothing rage mode ever since Haley dropped the defense of the flag and called for it to come down.
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe one of its Tweets are featured in this collection?
I don’t recognize this particular lizard.
re: #12 Targetpractice
They’ve been in frothing rage mode ever since
Their froth of rage hath no beginning. It began before time itself. And it hath no end.
They were so smug and self-content about being able to fly their flag over a state capital and claim it was all about “heritage” and “pride” and now they are enraged that they have been caught out cold and can no longer fall back on their old arguments and defenses.
re: #11 #FergusonFireside
Themselves.
Pretty much. Have to get some sort of “win” out of all this, since they failed to shout down the demands for the flag to be removed and they’ve totally lost the argument that the flag is anything but a symbol of slavery and racism. So now they’re trying to convince anybody who will listen that this is a really a “win” for Republicans, when it was Republicans who had to be drug kicking and screaming to this point.
re: #3 b.d.
Are the losers throwing another temper tantrum or is this just a continuation of the one they have been on?
Yes
re: #8 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
I’d like to know who these Black people were who fought for the Confederacy, when the Confederate government never gave authorization for black troops.
Wingnuts have long taken a few scattered incidents of blacks on the confederate side (never officially and never in uniform) as “proof” the CSA wasn’t racist. It’s like saying the NAZIs weren’t anti-Semitic because there where a few Jewish troops fighting for Finland on the Axis side against the Soviets. In both cases, they’re just weird historical footnotes, not really impacting the big picture.
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Oh yeah, I recall hearing him once filling in for Rush Limbaugh…telling us about the thousands of negro volunteers who fought for the South…
*Pointing gun at “volunteers” head*
“You volunteer, right?”
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
fascinating that someone downdinged this page.
Appears to be a race realist lurker with 18 comments and 8 pages to their name in over two-and-a-half years; this is the only comment they’ve made in the past year (responding to b_sharp in a thread about Eric Garner):
Needless to say, their karma got shellacked on that one.
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Press gangs were a time honored military tradition.
re: #17 Targetpractice
Pretty much. Have to get some sort of “win” out of all this, since they failed to shout down the demands for the flag to be removed and they’ve totally lost the argument that the flag is anything but a symbol of slavery and racism. So now they’re trying to convince anybody who will listen that this is a really a “win” for Republicans, when it was Republicans who had to be drug kicking and screaming to this point.
its outrageous and total political correctness that made SC take down the flag and it was heroic GOP that did it.
#StarWars pannel at #SDCC just miles away, and I can't go. #sadness
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 10, 2015
re: #22 Kragar
Press gangs were a time honored military tradition.
It is all a fiction, the Confederates would never trust an armed black. Their only contribution was to work and free up more white men for service.
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is all a fiction, the Confederates would never trust an armed black. Their only contribution was to work and free up more white men for service.
Yup, they served as “engineers” aka ditch diggers
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Oh yeah, I recall hearing him once filling in for Rush Limbaugh…telling us about the thousands of negro volunteers who fought for the South…
There were plenty of “volunteers” from the countries that Germany invaded who fought for the Nazis as well, if by “volunteer” one means “pressed into service as an alternative to execution.”
The “Confederate negro soldiers” bit is a myth and has been for years. Nobody in academia with a modicum of intellectual honesty buys into the idea, because the Confederacy was all about white supremacy, from top to bottom. They barred “volunteers” from serving all the way to March 1865, because to accept negro soldiers would have been to admit that they were equal to white soldiers, something they simply could not accept. And morons like Williams will tell you that the North didn’t pay black soldiers as much as white ones, but at least they paid them. Most “volunteers” had their wages go to their owner, same as if he was renting them out to a factory boss.
re: #3 b.d.
Are the losers throwing another temper tantrum or is this just a continuation of the one they have been on?
It’s a lifelong bender.
re: #21 TedStriker
Appears to be a race realist lurker with 18 comments and 8 pages to their name in over two-and-a-half years; this is the only comment they’ve made in the past year (responding to b_sharp in a thread about Eric Garner):
Needless to say, their karma got shellacked on that one.
It uses non-US spelling.
They are perfectly free to fly the flag at their private residence. Have any of them decided to do so? You know, let the neighbors know about their pride in their Southern Heritage?
No?
Huh.
re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is all a fiction, the Confederates would never trust an armed black. Their only contribution was to work and free up more white men for service.
Exactly. They were afraid of slaves running away and not being returned. Because the slave owners knew the slaves didn’t want to be there. So I am sure they were going to hand 1000 slaves loaded weapons and send them off with one white commander with the faith that they wouldn’t just off that commander and run away, armed this time.
“…while at the same time blaming “Democrats” for the flag’s shameful history”
Why can’t they be happy that this shameful Democrat flag is coming down?
Soooooo, Dylan Roof wasn’t eligible to purchase the gun. The paperwork was on hold. It was up to the dealer to sell without getting the paperwork back & they decided to sell.
The FBI fucked up & the dealer let it go.
Just heard this on CNN, trying to find the story written up.
re: #33 #FergusonFireside
Soooooo, Dylan Roof wasn’t eligible to purchase the gun. The paperwork was on hold. It was up to the dealer to sell without getting the paperwork back & they decided to sell.
The FBI fucked up & the dealer let it go.
Just heard this on CNN, trying to find the story written up.
Wingnuts have found a new Shiney!
By the way - you can now link to a user profile in a comment, and it will pop up the profile dialog. All you have to do is use an “href” of “#”, add the class “lgfuser” to the link, and make the username the link’s text. Example:
<a href=”#” class=”lgfuser”>Charles</a>
re: #33 #FergusonFireside
FBI: Accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof shouldn't have been able to buy a gun; background check system failed. http://t.co/A72tCkyKcb
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 10, 2015
Dear coworker,
When you ask me a question, let me finish my fucking answer, not constantly complete my sentences with what went wrong when you attempted to do something.
They really need to get their talking points in order. Either it’s a Democratic symbol, and they should be happy it’s coming down, or it’s a conservative symbol currently favored by the GOP, and they need to own their shit.
It’s also interesting to me how they’ve tried to spin this into “We’re taking down the flag because it is offensive to certain sensibilities, ergo all offensive things must be removed” vs. “We’re removing a symbol of actual racism, slavery, violence, and oppression.”
re: #36 #FergusonFireside
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Comey said the FBI made a clerical error due in part between a breakdown in paperwork between police departments and counties.
Translation: The local authorities couldn’t be bothered to get their paperwork in order and inform the FBI of Roof’s pending felony charge in a timely manner, so the information never got entered into the FBI database.
re: #37 Kragar
Dear coworker,
When you ask me a question, let me finish my fucking answer, not constantly complete my sentences with what went wrong when you attempted to do something.
You work with Dave too?
re: #33 #FergusonFireside
The seller used his discretion and sold it anyway. That should be changed, as soon as possible, in my opinion. This just proves we need stronger measures, not less. But of course, the right wing will think less.
.@nikkihaley I’ma let you finish but @BreeNewsome had the best Confederate Flag takedown of all-time. pic.twitter.com/i98sgzKVhg
— Justin Carissimo (@JstnMchl) July 10, 2015
re: #41 Jenner7
The seller used his discretion and sold it anyway. That should be changed, as soon as possible, in my opinion. This just proves we need stronger measures, not less. But of course, the right wing will think less.
Thinking less is a chronic problem.
.@morningforfl Why did you delete your tweet about liberals putting Christians in concentration camps like the Nazis did to the Jews?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2015
Breaking the record previously held by Sherman. @JstnMchl @cthulhuchick @nikkihaley @BreeNewsome
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
Looking at all the pictures of Dylan Roof I notice that he never smiles - not once. Always the tough guy pose. I have an ex-colleague who is like that…posts pics of himself with his smiling wife and kids at Warriors games in the NBA finals and he still has that death stare, like he’s too cool to enjoy the moment…I really think that’s odd…I mean you’re with you’re family at a joyful moment and still it’s just :-|
Aw, he blocked me! Just when we were having so much fun. @morningforfl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2015
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Is there a screenshot of it? Post it back to him.
re: #40 Dr. Matt
You work with Dave too?
Candice is mine. I will only interact with her via email. And I work in a very open office environment. She was told by her boss and mine never to speak to me face to face.
I shit you not.
She is very big on administrative red tape and is the most negative, judgemental human I have ever met. I lead agile development for my tech company. It’s best we give each other a very wide berth.
re: #48 darthstar
Is there a screenshot of it? Post it back to him.
I didn’t grab a screenshot of this one.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
I didn’t grab a screenshot of this one.
Twitter disabled the deleted tweets feature because too many conservatives were making themselves look like douchebags and they weren’t able to erase their “mistakes”…
The GOP circular firing squad just got a machine gun:
Due to “overwhelming response,” @realDonaldTrump moves his immigration rally to a larger venue http://t.co/m5uICBMkKx pic.twitter.com/1axOTygrwl
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 10, 2015
re: #53 Lidane
The GOP circular firing squad just got a machine gun:
Due to “overwhelming response,” @realDonaldTrump moves his immigration rally to a larger venue
So the GOP has to put up with him or he can take his 15% of the voting bloc and go play somewhere else.
Deported mom, child flown back to U.S. from Guatemala ….and detained again. (???) http://t.co/GEpjI0YvWJ
— Frontera Fund (@FronteraFund) July 10, 2015
re: #53 Lidane
The GOP circular firing squad just got a machine gun:
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Watch him get more than a Bernie Sanders event and then tout that as him being the greatest candidate ever kind of thing.
Hell, just give him the damn crown…
re: #26 Kragar
Yup, they served as “engineers” aka ditch diggers
They got to bury a lot of shitkickers—so there was that.
re: #6 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I can’t imagine who the wingnuts are trying to convince with these weak arguments.
Anyone that will listen and is dumb enough to believe their BS.
re: #26 Kragar
Yup, they served as “engineers” aka ditch diggers
Motto of the combat engineers: “FIrst we dig’ em and then we die in ‘em!”
Obama will be first sitting president to visit a prison. Thursday in Oklahoma, per @PressSec.
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) July 10, 2015
.@SimonMaloy pic.twitter.com/nyav730kTX
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
The loon who tweeted to John Nolte about liberals putting Christians in concentration camps like the Nazis did to the Jews is actually running for Congress in Florida: morningforflorida.com
Because buying all of your own books to pass out as “swag” is called “gaming the system”
Cruz's biography kept off N.Y. Times bestseller list, http://t.co/HDrOK40mXH #cruz2016 #CruzControl #tcot #pjnet @ChuckNellis @Lrihendry
— Motivation & More (@4Awesometweet) July 9, 2015
No better time than now. Release the id, get me the MBF on line 1.
#Authentic #Indigenous label promotes #BC #Native #Artists: http://t.co/Wkvsy4Ea80” #FirstNations #Art #Canada pic.twitter.com/3Jqk0Chk3b
— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) July 10, 2015
Brewer on Trump's “rapists” remark: He's “telling it like it really, truly is” http://t.co/2cwJZ8a03E pic.twitter.com/AOUtft8y23
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 10, 2015
@KagroX There are some donuts you just don't lick.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2015
“ABANDON ALL HOPE…” #DescribeTwitterIn3Words
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
re: #66 darthstar
He’s doing our work for us. He’s showing the country how racist the GOP really is.
You won’t believe this one from the SMOTI: donotlink.com
Hoft: “Of course, this was only possible because of courageous Republican leadership starting with Governor Nikki Haley.”
re: #66 darthstar
Steve King agrees with Trump: Must be “Mexicans or Central Americans who are doing the raping” http://t.co/5qPOtVMDtd
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 10, 2015
Here’s a link to a write-up on Roof and the NCIS background check.
In short what happened is that the dealer received a “delay” determination on the initial background check. When a dealer doesn’t receive a definite approval or denial on the purchase within 3 business days, they are allowed to sell the gun to the customer at their discretion. In Roof’s case, the gun dealer elected to sell him the gun (many of the larger chain stores won’t sell without a definitive approval).
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Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
re: #36 #FergusonFireside
So let’s scrap it all together!!!! (just wait… it’s coming)
re: #65 wrenchwench
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If an aboriginal woman makes non-traditional non-aboriginal looking jewelry, is it aboriginal jewelry?
re: #68 jaunte
TIME FOR A THIRD PARTY!!!
Maybe not far off the freepers were talking about that today on a thread.
Or should I say talking about that again and again and on and on.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Hoft: “Of course, this was only possible because of courageous Republican leadership starting with Governor Nikki Haley.”
Isn’t that trying to have it both ways?
If it was only a symbol that means nothing except to a bunch of liberals, then how can it be courageous Republican leadership.
Is Hoft on life support? Maybe he needs his oxygen cranked up…///
re: #78 Tigger2
Maybe not far off the freepers were talking about that today on a thread..
I encourage all true conservatives to start their own parties, and if anyone disagrees with them, to form a splinter.
To somewhat counter the derp:
It's a great day in South Carolina!
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 10, 2015
Great day in SC with @bakari_sellers. #takeitdown pic.twitter.com/rmhPngwyBd
— Marguerite Willis (@Marg_Willis) July 10, 2015
re: #75 jaunte
Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
As I mentioned earlier, I would be savoring this moment a lot more if not for the circumstances that led to it.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Haley is so brave. So brave.
re: #77 b_sharp
If an aboriginal woman makes non-traditional non-aboriginal looking jewelry, is it aboriginal jewelry?
What if she’s a San Idelfonso potter making a Mochica jar?
It gets pretty silly pretty fast.
re: #75 jaunte
Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
And only after every loop hole to keep it around in some capacity was explored…
re: #75 jaunte
Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
Nine murders (this time) and 50+ years (actually it’s 54 years since the flag was first flown in protest of desegregation efforts in SC).
The GOP is the party standing in opposition to equal rights and equal protection under law today. What Lincoln did in no way reflects on the current GOP efforts deny rights to minorities (up to and including disinfrachisement efforts, applauding the VRA decision by the Supreme Court, which calls on Congress to re-enact the formula provisions, and which they’ve done nothing so far, etc.).
The Party of Lincoln is the GOP in name only. Their itinerary and agenda has incorporated the conservative secessionists and race-baiters who opposed the CRA and VRA and desegregation and equal rights for all under the law.
re: #63 The Vicious Babushka
Because buying all of your own books to pass out as “swag” is called “gaming the system”
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Mean New York Times Won’t Let Ted Cruz Cheat His Way Onto Bestseller List
re: #81 jaunte
I encourage all true conservatives to start their own parties, and if anyone disagrees with them, to form a splinter.
They ware talking about a third party with Trump if he ran on a third party ticket if he doesn’t get the nomination.
re: #77 b_sharp
If an aboriginal woman makes non-traditional non-aboriginal looking jewelry, is it aboriginal jewelry?
I think that the kind of thing they want to help everyone avoid.
Except I misread your comment. I think it goes in another shop?
re: #84 Amory Blaine
Haley is so brave. So brave.
Ms. Haley…Ms. Haley! What’s that in the corner over there? Are those your quotes from a few years back making fun of a candidate who wanted to take down the flag? Why are they under the rug?
re: #87 lawhawk
Nine murders (this time)
Yes, nine is the bare minimum. The true count since 1865 has been deliberately obscured.
“Democrats are the real racists!” Inside GOP’s pathetic & insulting meme #tcot #UniteBlue http://t.co/GGbTSajhSq pic.twitter.com/7gMtlAiQRq
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 10, 2015
@Green_Footballs @morningforfl pic.twitter.com/xLeY6nmzUv
— Paul Friendmaster Co (@bedsandwich) July 10, 2015
They literally can't govern, because they won't let go of the flag they keep trying to say is a Dem problem. https://t.co/ksANJpPkgH
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 10, 2015
re: #88 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
His publisher sold a bejillion copies of his new book-shaped object,
Heh, indeed
re: #85 Decatur Deb
What if she’s a San Idelfonso potter making a Mochica jar?
It gets pretty silly pretty fast.
A rancher in Mexico figured out how to make the pots he found sherds of, then he taught his whole village how.
Mata Ortiz
Elephant logo should be replaced with a monkey whose hand is stuck in a bottle containing the Confederate Flag. https://t.co/AAuDxaOR9s
— Emily Crockett (@emilycrockett) July 10, 2015
.@FACTlivesMATTER What the fuck are you raving about?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2015
Rash of lynchings of suspected criminals shocks Brazil http://t.co/5GkR1CoZC5
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) July 10, 2015
Greenwald could not be reached for comment.
re: #101 Charles Johnson
If I knew that you were coming I’d have baked a cake…
re: #97 wrenchwench
A rancher in Mexico figured out how to make the pots he found sherds of, then he taught his whole village how.
Mata Ortiz
There was a magic day when a small Maria Martinez bowl was almost inexpensive enough that I could almost afford it.
THE DEMS TAKING DOWN THEIR OWN REBEL FLAG IS A SURE SIGN THAT THEY ARE COMING AFTER US!
Is that about it?
Meanwhile, looks like someone screwed up and the Charleston shooter should never have been able to purchase a gun legally - but for an improper entry in the database.
FBI: Background check mistake allowed Dylann Roof to purchase gun http://t.co/yA9NXXw30b.
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) July 10, 2015
The white gunman who massacred nine black churchgoers last month in Charleston, South Carolina was only able to purchase the gun he used in the shooting because of an “error” in the background check system, the FBI said Friday.
“This case rips all of our hearts out, but the thought that an error on our part is connected to a gun this person used to slaughter these people is very painful to us,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters, as quoted by The Washington Post.
Comey said that Roof’s admission to narcotics possession in February was not properly entered into the agency’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System due to a record-keeping error, according to the Post.
Contrary reports in the days after the shooting indicated that the shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, purchased the gun legally despite an arrest on drug charges. Current and former officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told NBC News at the time that Roof’s purchase was legal under federal gun laws.
Comey’s comments Friday appeared to remove any doubt that current gun laws should have prevented Roof from purchasing a gun. “We are all sick this happened,” Comey said. “We wish we could turn back time.”
re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
A. P. Hill was a Confederate General. Just sayin’….
Yeah, I just discovered that myself. Lovely. The nuts are out on Twitter today.
Did someone want this? @Green_Footballs @letat_lechat @MattCCurtis pic.twitter.com/1ifOXUCbpn
— GabrielleD (@gabi_sbd) July 10, 2015
re: #101 Charles Johnson
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Just saving this for a possible post.
Well we’ve been trying to set up the FEMA concentration trailer camp parks to put all the wingnuts in for years, but nothing seems to work.
re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
A. P. Hill was a Confederate General. Just sayin’….
And the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was a tactical defeat for Sherman.
re: #104 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
A. P. Hill was a Confederate General. Just sayin’….
Oh, A.P. is on Twitter? Never know who you’ll find on social media these days.
I think I just might have to write a post about John Morning, since he tried to hide his batshit loony tweet.
re: #109 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Well we’ve been trying to set up the FEMA concentration trailer camp parks to put all the wingnuts in for years, but nothing seems to work.
The Death Panels™ worked so well there’s nobody left to put in FEMA camps.
re: #109 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Well we’ve been trying to set up the FEMA concentration trailer camp parks to put all the wingnuts in for years, but nothing seems to work.
Have you tried pork rinds in the commissary?
re: #101 Charles Johnson
Infintely tweetable.
.@morningforil - What kind of uneducated ignoramus tweets this kind of shit? #illinois pic.twitter.com/VZLYfzCwyN
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2015
re: #112 Charles Johnson
I think I just might have to write a post about John Morning, since he tried to hide his batshit loony tweet.
I concur. Sink this prick before his campaign gains an ounce of traction.
re: #103 Decatur Deb
There was a magic day when a small Maria Martinez bowl was almost inexpensive enough that I could almost afford it.
A guy from Mata Ortiz brings truckloads up once in a while. I have some stuff made by the kids and the beginners.
re: #115 darthstar
The kind of calculating politician that knows this kind of shit is a good way to pander to an increasingly deranged GOP base.
Or a swivel-eyed loon.
Since there is no difference in practical effect between these two options, I could not possibly care less which kind of GOPer this jackass is.
re: #75 jaunte
Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
And had Clem not been one of the nine, I doubt it would have happened. Sad, but true.
re: #109 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Well we’ve been trying to set up the FEMA concentration trailer camp parks to put all the wingnuts in for years, but nothing seems to work.
You’re supposed to tell them they are apocalypse survival bunkers, or maybe Designated Rapture Transit Assembly Points. [ed] Oh, and they need to build them by themselves.
re: #91 Mike Lamb
Ms. Haley…Ms. Haley! What’s that in the corner over there? Are those your quotes from a few
yearsmonths back making fun of a candidate who wanted to take down the flag? Why are they under the rug?
FIFY
re: #121 Charles Johnson
Well. Project much?
.@morningforfl Speaking of hyperbole. pic.twitter.com/8o5Gm4NecJ
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) July 10, 2015
re: #35 Charles Johnson
By the way - you can now link to a user profile in a comment, and it will pop up the profile dialog. All you have to do is use an “href” of “#”, add the class “lgfuser” to the link, and make the username the link’s text. Example:
<a href=”#” class=”lgfuser”>Charles</a>
Nice—thanks! Gonna go add it to Breevy (my text expander)…
re: #121 Charles Johnson
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Saving this screenshot too.
Do we know for a fact that is guy isn’t former congresscritter and deadbeat dad, Joe Walsh?
/
re: #90 wrenchwench
I think that the kind of thing they want to help everyone avoid.
Except I misread your comment. I think it goes in another shop?
No, it’s a real question. V is an aboriginal - Cree/Ojibwa and she makes jewelry but it’s more like modern jewelry not traditional aboriginal. I want her to market it as aboriginal jewelry.
re: #122 darthstar
Oops…it’s FL not IL - tweeted a fix.
OK, so he’s probably not Joe deadbeat dad Walsh from Il. Maybe he’s Florida Man running for congress.
re: #115 darthstar
“Forget it Jake it’s Chinatown Florida”
Here’s another fucking idiot using this same fucked-up meme:
Christian persecution at the hands of Commadant @BradAvakian & his BOLI Goon Squad! #SweetCakes #ccot #tcot #pjnet pic.twitter.com/zczPZSTvbU
— Webslinger (@Webslinger64) July 10, 2015
Vicious Babushka,
This is how I feel about their reaction to the stars and bars coming down.
re: #75 jaunte
Courageous Republican leadership doing the right thing after only nine murders.
And hundreds of years of rape, beating, tearing families apart, lynching, racism, segregation, resistance to civil rights, etc.
They must be so proud. //
re: #107 Charles Johnson
Yeah, I just discovered that myself. Lovely. The nuts are out on Twitter today.
I think I remember finding a bug-eyed tea party loon on Twitter who went with the handle “Preston Brooks”. You know, like the South Carolina congressman who beat Charles Sumner half to death.
Idly, I wonder if there are extreme right maniacs in Germany who have “Reinhard Heydrich” or “Jurgen Stroop” twitter handles. Probably. The difference is that no major political party there panders to them.
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) July 10, 2015
This is what some Americans in their 50s now were taught about slavery in high school: http://t.co/588p1Ysz0P pic.twitter.com/p8s2rdnkuj
— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) July 10, 2015
wow
re: #130 b_sharp
No, it’s a real question. V is an aboriginal - Cree/Ojibwa and she makes jewelry but it’s more like modern jewelry not traditional aboriginal. I want her to market it as aboriginal jewelry.
When I was in BC earlier this year, it seems to me that I saw some labeled jewelry that didn’t look “traditional.” In the Victoria Museum gift shop, I think.
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Here’s another fucking idiot using this same fucked-up meme:
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Memes like that make me furious—I can’t even begin to imagine how it makes you feel. It’s beyond disgusting when they do that.
@Only4RM #Donutghazi - I swear, we deserve to live in a reality TV world when this is news. https://t.co/SsbVaDPM5m
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2015
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
I’m really losing patience for the persecution complex these twits have.
You want to be a martyr for Christianity? Go join the Kurdish Peshmerga and fight ISIS as they try to wipe out ancient Christian communities in Iraq and Syria. Or just piss and moan on twitter about the gay, I guess.
re: #146 Ian G.
Dare I simply say, as a follower of Christ and as a veteran, amen?
re: #145 darthstar
Hillary made Ariana lick those donuts and denounce America!!!
re: #144 CuriousLurker
Memes like that make me furious—I can’t even begin to imagine how it makes you feel. It’s beyond disgusting when they do that.
This meme makes gun-fuckers heads explode==>
They really think they own the Holocaust
A bunch of random people with guns could not have stopped The Holocaust #tcot #UniteBlue #gunsense #2A #MolonLabe pic.twitter.com/cAXPhdhmkR
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 10, 2015
re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They were so smug and self-content about being able to fly their flag over a state capital and claim it was all about “heritage” and “pride” and now they are enraged that they have been caught out cold and can no longer fall back on their old arguments and defenses.
John McCain said it should come down back in 2000 and he lost the primary to W because of it. And the nomination. Fuck South Carolina and their worship of treasonous slave owners.
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Here’s another fucking idiot using this same fucked-up meme:
He sounds nice…
Another fine example of the ridiculous “Obama causes racism” meme!
#VETERAN #CONSTITUTION #PATRIOT #tcot #tgdn #PJNET #ccot #teaparty #LNYHBT #RedNationRising #SGP pic.twitter.com/pUhqlUsclv
— marc haig (@marchaig) July 10, 2015
@marchaig Yes because of course no one would be a racist if not for Obama. Liberals are the “real” racists! https://t.co/uuKLIddo9d
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 10, 2015
re: #150 funky chicken
John McCain said it should come down back in 2000 and he lost the primary to W because of it. And the nomination. Fuck South Carolina and their worship of treasonous slave owners.
That and push-polling calls implying that McCain had an illegitimate black child…
Every last one of these nonsensical comparisons demeans actual victims of Holocaust; which is why so many try coopting Holocaust language
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 10, 2015
re: #1 Ace-o-aces
I remember the monuments to the soldiers from Michigan who fought at Gettysburg. One regiment, the 16th Michigan, was at the center of Little Round Top while the 20th Maine famously held the left.
Someone please kick Kid Rock in the nuts on behalf of those sons of Michigan who fought for the Union?
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
What the fuck is wrong with these people.
re: #152 CriticalDragon1177
#VETERAN #CONSTITUTION #PATRIOT #tcot #tgdn #PJNET #ccot #teaparty #LNYHBT #RedNationRising #SGP pic.twitter.com
— marc haig (@marchaig) July 10, 2015
The Troubled Heart needs more hashtags.
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Here’s another fucking idiot using this same fucked-up meme:
Christian persecution at the hands of Commadant @BradAvakian & his BOLI Goon Squad! #SweetCakes #ccot #tcot #pjnet pic.twitter.com/zczPZSTvbU
— Webslinger (@Webslinger64) July 10, 2015
I just told off that jerk.
@Webslinger64 That's not even funny. Are you trying to be funny? Just think of how offensive that is to people who survived the Holocaust.
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 10, 2015
re: #155 Ian G.
I remember the monuments to the soldiers from Michigan who fought at Gettysburg. One regiment, the 16th Michigan, was at the center of Little Round Top while the 20th Maine famously held the left.
Someone please kick Kid Rock in the nuts on behalf of those sons of Michigan who fought for the Union?
Or thank him for providing a timely demonstration that the confederate flag is a symbol of white trash pride anywhere it’s flown.
re: #152 CriticalDragon1177
Another fine example of the ridiculous “Obama causes racism” meme!
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This is always from the same assholes who started insisting before the final votes were tallied Election Night ‘08 that he’d only been elected because he’s black and are still convinced that black folks only vote Democrat to get “free stuff.”
And if your dad had pulled out, we would never have seen such a stupid tweet. C'est la vie. @jonhartmannjazz @viciousbabushka
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
re: #160 Targetpractice
This is always from the same assholes who started insisting before the final votes were tallied Election Night ‘08 that he’d only been elected because he’s black and are still convinced that black folks only vote Democrat to get “free stuff.”
I know, totally “not racist” huh?
Rubio just tried to secure Florida for the primary while forfeiting it in the general.
Marco #Rubio: I will absolutely roll back Obama Cuba policy http://t.co/DQtiF2zYlM
— Irenie (@Irenie_M) July 10, 2015
Also, just noticed the “land of the free, home of the brave” deep tweet. First, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is a vocal Republican. You can’t just assign her to the left because you find her “icky”.
Second, in reference to Mt. Rushmore, Jefferson was responsible for the separation of church and state, TR was the greatest environmentalist the presidency ever saw, and Lincoln crushed your bloody treason that the flag you’re howling about symbolizes. You can’t claim any of them either.
re: #164 The Vicious Babushka
What does that idiot have a #UniteBlue twibbon on his avi?
sleeper agent
re: #106 lawhawk
Meanwhile, looks like someone screwed up and the Charleston shooter should never have been able to purchase a gun legally - but for an improper entry in the database.
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Practice your second amendment rights! Get the illegal and soon to be illegal guns! Arm yourself before its too late!
Texas, be afraid. Be very afraid. It's #JadeHelm, yo. pic.twitter.com/XYeqJ4SXEl
— Jade Helm Commander (@Anomaly100) July 10, 2015
re: #163 darthstar
Rubio just tried to secure Florida for the primary while forfeiting it in the general.
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I’m not so sure. The younger generation is not so in to the embargo. Some people want to travel to Cuba. It could help him win Florida, but it’s not a guarantee.
re: #164 The Vicious Babushka
What does that idiot have a #UniteBlue twibbon on his avi?
actually, there a more than a few tweeters that pretend to be UniteBlue just so they can post offensive tweets that can be used as proof that UniteBlue is racist or whatever is the ebil thing of the day.
re: #121 Charles Johnson
And ask Muslims who wanted a place of worship in Manhattan.
re: #150 funky chicken
John McCain said it should come down back in 2000 and he lost the primary to W because of it. And the nomination. Fuck South Carolina and their worship of treasonous slave owners.
He did end up caving on that.
Though he has been a lot better than most republicans on the issue.
When Sen. McCain (Ariz.) first ran for president in 2000, he said the flag “was a symbol of racism,” then reversed course, releasing a statement saying he actually thought the flag was “a symbol of heritage.”
“I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary,” McCain said back then.
He later regretted defending the flag. Since then, McCain is perhaps the most vocal Republican critic of the Confederate flag — and he paid for that, too.
@morningforfl @FishAlexander @Montanariccook1 this is what passes for “reasoned dialogue.” pic.twitter.com/zU8o1g5uoM
— Eric C. Smith (@ECStexasECS) July 10, 2015
re: #163 darthstar
I still don’t understand the support for isolation of Cuba. We have full diplomatic and economic relationships with Vietnam and Cambodia but have to try to starve out Cuba? Why?
Why would people who had to flee Cuba because of Fidel want the folks who still live there to suffer? Make a million poor Cubans suffer because the Castro family pisses you off? I’ve never understood it.
@morningforfl What the fuck is with Florida and these assholes like you?
— Eric C. Smith (@ECStexasECS) July 10, 2015
re: #165 Ian G.
Also, just noticed the “land of the free, home of the brave” deep tweet. First, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is a vocal Republican. You can’t just assign her to the left because you find her “icky”.
Second, in reference to Mt. Rushmore, Jefferson was responsible for the separation of church and state, TR was the greatest environmentalist the presidency ever saw, and Lincoln crushed your bloody treason that the flag you’re howling about symbolizes. You can’t claim any of them either.
Plus, it is now owned and maintained (with our tax dollars) by the federal government. Are the RWNJs now supporting that sort of socialism?
Ha! Ed Brayton just called Trump “Scrooge McDick”! I gotta write that down.
Lets be honest: Do you expect any better from libertarians? @ECStexasECS @morningforfl @FishAlexander @Montanariccook1
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
So why does it have the highest murder rate in the US? http://t.co/zWCLHpRgtI @allanbrauer @TPM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
Good question!
So why does it have the highest murder rate in the US? http://t.co/zWCLHpRgtI @allanbrauer @TPM
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
re: #175 funky chicken
Pandering to a vocal, hysterical minority of Cuban exiles in Miami. It’s like the NRA and their one issue monomania. Normal diplomacy with Cuba is not worth the wrath of the Cuban exiles.
Or at least that used to be true, but I’m guessing that younger generations will have a far less hard line view towards Cuba. And as the older generation passes away, you’ll eventually see sanity on this issue. Hell, we’re seeing sanity now, thanks to the adult in the White House.
re: #176 Kid A
@morningforfl @FishAlexander @Montanariccook1 Do you agree that falsely accusing others of religious persecution (as you did) is also wrong?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2015
re: #163 darthstar
Rubio just tried to secure Florida for the primary while forfeiting it in the general.
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He’s lost the Carnival Cruise vote for sure.
This shit that I’m seeing on Twitter makes me glad that going to college “turned me into a liberal”. I used to spout off similar nonsense in high school, but then I learned how to think critically and changed my views to reflect reality’s liberal bias. I’m glad I abandoned all the constant outrage, moronic “logic” and thoughtless narcissism that plague modern right-wing politics.
re: #159 funky chicken
Or thank him for providing a timely demonstration that the confederate flag is a symbol of white trash pride anywhere it’s flown.
this
re: #172 blueraven
His first answer was his honest opinion, and was the correct answer. He did cave after the locals howled, but it was already too late. He should have stuck by his first response, since it was the truth.
re: #176 Kid A
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I wonder if he’d still say it was wrong if asked about the “Ground Zero” mosque…
Make a point, or pander to deranged wingnuts who fear anyone who's smarter than they are? @morningforfl @FishAlexander @Montanariccook1
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 10, 2015
re: #165 Ian G.
Also, just noticed the “land of the free, home of the brave” deep tweet. First, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is a vocal Republican. You can’t just assign her to the left because you find her “icky”.
Second, in reference to Mt. Rushmore, Jefferson was responsible for the separation of church and state, TR was the greatest environmentalist the presidency ever saw, and Lincoln crushed your bloody treason that the flag you’re howling about symbolizes. You can’t claim any of them either.
Amazing level of stupidity. TR would have ripped the confederate flag down with his own hands if they had dared to raise it during his presidency.
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
actually, there a more than a few tweeters that pretend to be UniteBlue just so they can post offensive tweets that can be used as proof that UniteBlue is racist or whatever is the ebil thing of the day.
And to get unsuspecting followers.
Uccch found out I was following that dumbass. Blocked now.
re: #192 Kragar
@morningforfl @darthstar99 Grow a penis and answer Sean's question.
— Eric C. Smith (@ECStexasECS) July 10, 2015
Rule #327 of the internet - don’t engage people who mock you.
@morningforfl Frustration, yes. Anger, sure. Hatred and “persecution”? Hardly. You're being hyperbolic. We need stable representatives.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2015
Louisiana - so pro life, that they’ve got a prosecutor who thinks that Death Row should be even busier. So pro life, that they’re willing to kill for it.
re: #194 darthstar
Unfortunately @darthstar99 stable representatives and the GOP are mutually exclusive these days. #SadButTrue @morningforfl
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 10, 2015
re: #182 Ian G.
Yes but why? I get that they hate Fidel, but the embargo has hurt millions of people.
Senate Republicans: Firing hacked federal agency head “not enough” http://t.co/8icR3gUC0G pic.twitter.com/mbmEi3rwd0
— The Hill (@thehill) July 10, 2015
What would be enough? Head on a pike?
Oh wait - they want hearings. Because nothing does Congress better than hearings where the honorable members get to speechify before cameras and listen to themselves pontificate while the person brought before the hearing has no time to respond to the claims.
And hearings give the GOP plenty of time to bash the Administration, which also forms a fundraising reason for holding the hearings.
Figures.
Former Rep. John Dingell bored at airport, wins internet all over again http://t.co/jNNckR9lS3 pic.twitter.com/lFMz5fakFV
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 10, 2015
Looking like it’s gonna be one of these days:
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) July 10, 2015
OFFS, so he tweets something comparing supposed Christian “persecution” to the Holocaust around 7:30 am, then a few hours later, in the afternoon, he’s complaining about hyperbole? Seriously?
@pjwang2015 where? Seriously, I really do want a clean environment and wish people could get past hyperbole.
— Morning for Congress (@morningforfl) July 10, 2015
re: #198 lawhawk
Maybe all those reps that voted to reduce her budget should resign too
re: #202 piratedan
Maybe all those reps that voted to reduce her budget should resign too
Or we could just have a tax cut for the rich and build the fence, that would solve it.
John be trolling:
Hey Confederate Flag defenders - call us right now at 877.9.SIRIUS - be part of the conversation on SXM Insight. #tcot
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 10, 2015
Oregon bakers weren’t fined over cake — they were punished for sharing lesbian couple’s home address http://t.co/CiqzNAxZgy
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
The ruling shows the Kleins “brought the case to the media’s attention and kept it there by repeatedly appearing in public to make statements deriding” the couple who filed the complaint.
“It was foreseeable that this attention would negatively impact (the Bowman-Cryers), making (the Kleins) liable for any resultant emotional suffering experienced by (them),” the agency found.
Not only that, as the blog explains, the bakery owners shared the couple’s personal contact information - which led to death threats that nearly caused them to lose custody of their foster children.
Laurel Bowman-Cryer filed the complaint in January 2013, after she and her mother had met with Aaron Klein - who refused them service and quoted an anti-LGBT verse from Leviticus.
She filed her complaint by smartphone, which prevented her from seeing a disclaimer notifying her that her full name and address would be sent to the bakery owners - and Aaron Klein shared that information, along with the complaint, on his personal Facebook page.
re: #202 piratedan
Maybe all those reps that voted to reduce her budget should resign too
Tough finding IT engineers that will work for free. They always want to be able to buy worthless shit like food, shelter, clothing, etc.
Where is their work ethic?
re: #202 piratedan
That’d be anyone who voted for the sequester (which was cheered by the GOP btw because it meant cutting government spending, even if it meant cutting military spending).
BTW, anyone notice that there are reports that the US Army will be cutting 40,000 troops and that it will hit a number of southern states particularly hard? Well, that’s also the result of the sequester. Reduce government spending across the board, and it will hit the military too. By 2017, the troop levels will be below pre 9/11 figures. That’s even as the military ties itself to the faulty F-35 program that will cost over $1 trillion and still isn’t able to do any of its primary missions well (let alone dogfight, use guns, certain missiles, or do air to ground - which are critical missions in the real world). That’s money that could go to programs that actually work, or to other parts of the budget that make sense - like infrastructure (which includes everything from roads, rails, to electric network, sewer/water, and cybersecurity).
I ENDORSE THIS 10 MILLION PERCENT! https://t.co/sMg4LWJqIO
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2015
@AlanColmes Alan, a Trump/Palin ticket would be far better for this country than any candidate the democrats are offering.
— Ray McCaslin (@Raymc3) July 10, 2015
re: #208 Kragar
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HEY IT'S ME your facebook friend from high school who never left our hometown & thinks Olive Garden is fancy. Anyway here's a racist article
— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) December 8, 2014
re: #175 funky chicken
Because teh azuns arent teh rapists!
Don’t open the window!
SWARM! ??? https://t.co/ZN83XEQJTG
— Gwen Pearson (@bug_gwen) July 10, 2015
shame. shame. shame. shame. shame. https://t.co/WN9sk4smSm
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 10, 2015
Ha!
re: #208 Kragar
Anyone who makes a claim that insane has clearly been poisoned beyond all hope of recovery by #wingnut propaganda. @Raymc3 @AlanColmes
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 10, 2015
re: #208 Kragar
Once again, our plan is racing to fulfillment more quickly than anyone expected.
re: #197 funky chicken
Yes but why? I get that they hate Fidel, but the embargo has hurt millions of people.
I dunno. I’m just guessing. But there are probably policy sci professors at the University of Miami who have written volumes on this, though.
Appeals court slaps down former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s attempt to stay out of jail. http://t.co/atZ80QCe7h pic.twitter.com/88aJlDBTNg
— Slate (@Slate) July 10, 2015
re: #216 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Also I’m just asking questions….
Just trying to start a conversation!!11!
re: #197 funky chicken
Yes but why? I get that they hate Fidel, but the embargo has hurt millions of people.
Some of them lost fortunes, all of them lost an “aristocratic” position in the old regime. They think if the peons suffer, they deserve to and they miss their unearned glory.
(This is my best guess, and I might be wrong.)
jeebus…
Allahu Akbar: What the lowering of the Confederate flag is REALLY about http://t.co/UrceqbAHgN pic.twitter.com/MqsXMpgCK0
— Allen West (@AllenWest) July 10, 2015
re: #222 Snarknado!
Some of them lost fortunes, all of them lost an “aristocratic” position in the old regime. They think if the peons suffer, they deserve to and they miss their unearned glory.
(This is my best guess, and I might be wrong.)
nope, you’re pretty much spot on there.
re: #222 Snarknado!
Some of them lost fortunes, all of them lost an “aristocratic” position in the old regime. They think if the peons suffer, they deserve to and they miss their unearned glory.
(This is my best guess, and I might be wrong.)
The Cubans I’ve talked to say this about their parents/Grandparents. “They lost everything.” True, but not that relevant 50 years latter.
re: #30 BlueGrl21
They are perfectly free to fly the flag at their private residence. Have any of them decided to do so? You know, let the neighbors know about their pride in their Southern Heritage?
No?
Huh.
I expect many of them do fly it at home and have it on their trucks. I was a newlywed Yankee military wife who moved to the area and one of the first things that caught my eye was the many vehicles with confederate flag crap all over it. I was born in TX and used to spend lots of time there with my grandmother up until college (granted, in civilized Dallas but we used to drive around shopping and dining etc) and didn’t see the stars and bars flying. My grandmother was quite the liberal and was a transplanted Michigander who would have made sure to educate me had we seen the confederate flag. She was a sociology prof so may have even made me write a paper about it, no joke. So it wasn’t widely or proudly displayed back in the 80s in civilized areas.
Anyway, we moved after I got married and I’m surrounded by vehicles with the actual SC flag next to the stars and bars. At first I was thinking I’d been dumped into a land of racist ? Turks or something? Then I realized the crescent moon thing was the actual SC flag lol.
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus…
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— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 10, 2015
re: #212 wrenchwench
Don’t open the window!
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I once saw a swarm of bees come down the street and fly right into my neighbor’s chimney. Fortunately, it was disused and blocked off…they were able to get a beekeeper over to remove the colony.
Caller: if they treat Confederate flag with such respect when they take it down, why take it down at all? https://t.co/yjQngVHKzm
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) July 10, 2015
@BryanJFischer Question from the audience: Brian, if you were a homosexual, would you be bottom/top/Vers? A friend is asking. @tedcruz
— Focus On Your Fam (@UnFocusedFamily) July 10, 2015
@BryanJFischer If the 1st amendment's free exorcize of religion only applied Christians how would that be protecting “religious Freedom?”
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 10, 2015
For those of you who actually don’t know enough about Bryan Fischer to know why I tweeted that….
Fundamentalist: When founders said ‘religion,’ they meant Christianity
politifact.com
re: #198 lawhawk
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What would be enough? Head on a pike?
Oh wait - they want hearings. Because nothing does Congress better than hearings where the honorable members get to speechify before cameras and listen to themselves pontificate while the person brought before the hearing has no time to respond to the claims.
And hearings give the GOP plenty of time to bash the Administration, which also forms a fundraising reason for holding the hearings.
Figures.
You know what would be enough? Fully fund these agencies and bring all their activities back into the actual government instead of relying on a bizarre patchwork of public and privatized agencies. That would seriously piss off a whole lot of folks who have made millions (maybe billions) since the late 90s.
The GOP obviously isn’t the party to do that.
I want a fuckin’ dinosaur so I can ride around like Jesus.
#DescribeTwitterIn3Words pic.twitter.com/dM4Hue3aP4
— Abel Undercity (@AbelUndercity) July 10, 2015
re: #179 Kragar
Lets be honest: Do you expect any better from
libertariansanarchists?
Because really, they are anarchists.
Ray McCaslin @Raymc3
@AlanColmes Alan, a Trump/Palin ticket would be far better for this country than any candidate the democrats are offering.
Oh please, oh please, oh please let this be the GOP ticket this year.
Or let them run as independents.
re: #192 Kragar
I’m carrying on a minor debate with a “As a business owner I can discriminate against any one I want,” wingnut. His was in response to a picture of a nurse saying she had treat everybody the same and there was no reason for others to do so.
When I asked him “What’s the difference between a public servant and a business owner” he immediately pulled out the “If you have to ask that question you’re too stupid to understand” card. That sorry ploy took much less time to occur than I expected.
The RWNJs really don’t put much thought into their stances, do they?
re: #197 funky chicken
Yes but why? I get that they hate Fidel, but the embargo has hurt millions of people.
Because when your cause is pure no price is too high for other people to pay!
re: #209 Iwouldprefernotto
Yes a Trump/Palin would be great for America (and President Hillary Clinton).
It would be the political version of a powerful emetic. RWNJs would spout their crap so energetically that we’d be hard pressed to tell which end it was coming from.
re: #222 Snarknado!
Some of them lost fortunes, all of them lost an “aristocratic” position in the old regime. They think if the peons suffer, they deserve to and they miss their unearned glory.
(This is my best guess, and I might be wrong.)
Nope: spot on, even if a tad unfair. The Cuban Revolution in 1960-61 pretty much dispossessed most of the Cuban middle and professional class along with the “aristocrats”: most of the “exiles” who settled in the US (mainly but not exclusively in Florida) were robbed of most or all of what they owned by Castro and his cohorts, and haven’t forgotten it in over 50 years. Yes, the intransigent attitudes Marco Rubio is pandering to get less and less relevant with each passing year, but there is still a core constituency there for whom the validation of the Revolution (no matter how long ago) by official US recognition is a bitter pill to swallow. Oh, and they are or were a solid Republican voting bloc: mainly out of spite for John Kennedy, and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of April, 1961.
re: #207 lawhawk
That’d be anyone who voted for the sequester (which was cheered by the GOP btw because it meant cutting government spending, even if it meant cutting military spending).
BTW, anyone notice that there are reports that the US Army will be cutting 40,000 troops and that it will hit a number of southern states particularly hard? Well, that’s also the result of the sequester. Reduce government spending across the board, and it will hit the military too. By 2017, the troop levels will be below pre 9/11 figures. That’s even as the military ties itself to the faulty F-35 program that will cost over $1 trillion and still isn’t able to do any of its primary missions well (let alone dogfight, use guns, certain missiles, or do air to ground - which are critical missions in the real world). That’s money that could go to programs that actually work, or to other parts of the budget that make sense - like infrastructure (which includes everything from roads, rails, to electric network, sewer/water, and cybersecurity).
QFT. They shut down the F22 for the F35. And look at the age of the AWACS and JSTARS and the KC135 fleets. No plan to do anything with the AWACS and JSTARS for another 20 years.
Nobody “supports the troops” by providing them with what they really need. Nobody.
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #227 No Country For Old Haters
Alan West is as idiotic as he is bigoted against Muslims.
@AllenWest So Opposing the confederate flag & the racism, slavery & segregation it represents makes you a Muslim Jihadist now?
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 10, 2015
@AllenWest I guess anti racists like me are getting ready to bomb America with our ISIS buddies now? Huh?
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) July 10, 2015
re: #229 CriticalDragon1177
Good call, Bryan. They should have set the flag on fire and put out the fire by pissing on it.
re: #136 The Vicious Babushka
Here’s another fucking idiot using this same fucked-up meme:
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re: #195 lawhawk
Louisiana - so pro life, that they’ve got a prosecutor who thinks that Death Row should be even busier. So pro life, that they’re willing to kill for it.
Yeah, I posted that NYT story and the New Yorker story that preceded it (by a few days) yesterday or that day before.
It’s enough to simultaneously make you want to cry and want to go break some shit real bad.
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ...
Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
